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1. The Vatican post office issues passports 2. Italians can donate 8% of their annual taxes directly towards the Vatican instead of paying the tax to the government 3. There are secret tunnels and passageways underneath the Vatican In 1527 the tunnels helped save Pope Clement VII’s life during an attack on Rome. […]
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President Donald J. Trump made a historic first foreign trip overseas with visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican – seats of the three major monotheistic religions of the world. The deliberate stops in the three locations should not be lost. Clearly, the president is looking to form some sort of coalition of major religious
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Did you know that if you aren’t a practicing catholic, you aren’t to take communion until you have gone to confession? Did you know that being raised catholic does not make you a practicing catholic? Are you friends with someone who is taking communion unworthily but aren’t sure what to do? Father Mike Schmitz and
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DOWNEY, CALIFORNIA – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that he wants Facebook to be an “inclusive community.” But Father John Higgins, a Catholic priest, discovered that there was no room in the so-called “inclusive community” for his historical posts on Europe and Islam. On May 23, 2017, Father Higgins found himself in Facebook jail.
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Northern California – Three Planned Parenthood clinics will be shutting their doors by the end of June. Californians for Life confirmed the closings of Planned Parenthood clinics in Vacaville, Pittsburg and central Richmond. California Planned Parenthood officials blame a lack of health reimbursements for California’s poor as the reason for the shutdown. They also site
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In case you didn’t hear, Netflix has a new documentary series called The Keepers that investigates the murder of Sr. Cathy Cesnik in 1969 in Baltimore, MD and ends up uncovering stories of abuse at the hands of a priest, Fr. A . Joseph Maskell. This is a hard series to watch, filled with pain,
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Saint Jerome (A.D. 347-420) is “one of those saints.” He is the saintly equivalent of your crazy uncle, who causes you to ask “Did he just say that!?” However, unlike your crazy uncle, he is actually on-target. Admittedly, Saint Jerome is not renowned for having had the warmest personality, and he has been regarded as irascible. However,
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Big names like Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo are go-tos if you want to do some spiritual and theological reading. But why not add some variety to your spiritual diet by turning to some heavy-hitters from the East? These Church Fathers haven’t quite made as big an impact in the Latin world as
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After the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would conceive and carry the Savior of the World in her womb, Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth. Their visit is what the Catholic Church celebrates on May 31st as the Feast of the Visitation. Here are eight facts you may not know about the
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100 years ago, on May 13, 1917, the Blessed Mother began appearing to three small shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. Mary taught the children how to pray and how to make reparations for the sins of others, but with such intense visions like the one of hell or the miracle of the dancing sun, the
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In 1862, The Vienne Post said that there was a book that “deserves a distinguished place in all Christian libraries, and should be on the table of every pious family that faithfully preserves and celebrates the memory of its deceased members.” The book they were talking about is In Heaven We’ll Meet Again: The Saints and Scripture
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Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future. The Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey released the first episode of their film series “City of Saints” on Easter Sunday. The unprecedented seven part film series explores seven true stories of people striving for sainthood. The Norbertine order consists of fifty priests and thirty
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I don’t know if it is because of a certain article I wrote or some random selection process marketing executives devised, but I was recently followed on Twitter by @CKissApp which is the Twitter handle of a new dating app for Catholics. In Everything Wrong with the Catholic Dating Scene, I expressed my disappointment in
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Rome – Venerable Itala Mela’s parents were both atheist college professors and she herself left the Catholic Church after the death of her brother. But after an incredible re-conversion when she was eighteen years old, Itala dedicated her life to the study of theology and the Trinity. Her writings and mysticism have encouraged the Catholic Church
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The Popes want us to read poetry? Oh yes—and lots of it. You can probably rattle off the big-name poets the pontiffs often mention. Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy have been recommended for centuries. The temperamental master often appears in Vatican documents as “the supreme poet” or, as Pope Pius XI put it, the
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Adoption is the chance and ability to give children life, but it is also so much more than that: it is a community act and an act of mercy, according to the Bible, but it is hard work on the part of all people involved. It is not easy to open heart and home to
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PHILIPPINES—A group aligned with ISIS is currently attacking Malawi City in the southern region of the Philippines, burned the Cathedral, and taken Father Chito Saganob as a hostage along withat least 12 parishioners and church workers. The militant group as seized the local hospital, jail, city hall, fire trucks, set up blockades, burned Catholic school, and are recruiting
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The month of May is Mary’s month and we appropriately honor all mothers for who they are and what they have done for us during Mary’s month. As the mother of God, she deserves the greatest honor and thanks for her “yes” to God and his plan of salvation. Her “yes” allowed the Incarnation to
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You may have heard the latest buzz about the so called “sex bots” that will be available to the public in the not-so-distant future. These robots are made to look extremely life-like, replacing the need for people to seek real human companionship, particularly sexual relationships. In case you are wondering, the Catholic Church teaching forbids
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