Daily Archives: August 17, 2012

Author: Tradical “… Breaking through all resistance the new Pope steers his ship safely between the two columns and moors it to the two columns; first, to the one surmounted by the Host, and then to the other, topped by the statue of the Virgin. At this point, something unexpected happens. The enemy ships panic and disperse, colliding with and scuttling each other.  … A great calm now covers the sea“ (Salesian society 1986) Don Bosco’s dream of the Two Pillars foretells of the next Read more [...]

Martyrology-August 19th Roman Martyrology-August 19th- on this date in various years- At Caen in France, St. John Eudes, apostolic missionary, founder of the Congregation of Priests of Jesus and Mary and of the Order of Nuns of our Lady of Charity, and the promoter of the liturgical cult towards the most sacred Hearts of Christ and his Mother. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI. At Rome, St. Julius, senator and martyr, who was delivered up to the judge Vitellius, and thrown into prison by Read more [...]

[If the Big Cheesehead can invite the Big PopCon-Artist to his shindig, why can't the Jesuits at Gonzaga invite some little ones to their bash?] What Is It with Gonzaga and Population Control Advocates? blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/08/17/what-is-it-with-gonzaga-and-population-control-advocates/ What is it with Gonzaga University and population control advocates? For their 2011-2012 commencement speaker, the Jesuit university hosted population control advocate Archbishop Read more [...]

Bishop criticizes Democratic, Republican parties, calls upon Catholics to transform them CWN – August 17, 2012 Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, writes that the political “parties’ retreat from the ideological center has left Catholics with the understandable, but unfortunate impression that their only political option is to choose a side and join in to win the culture war. Read more [...]

Vietnamese officials hang Ho Chi Minh portrait in Catholic chapel CWN – August 17, 2012 Communist officials compelled Catholics in a south-central Vietnamese village to remove the altar, tabernacle, cross, and Marian image from a Catholic chapel. The objects were taken to a lay Catholic leader’s home. Stating that the chapel would henceforth be used “for village activities, not for worship,” officials placed a portrait of Communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) where the Read more [...]

Former Romanian intelligence leader says Pius XII victim of Soviet smear campaign CWN – August 17, 2012 Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former Romanian intelligence leader who defected to the United States, has coauthored a forthcoming book with Ronald Rychlak on the Soviet Union’s framing of Pope Pius XII as “Hitler’s pope.” James Woolsey, the former CIA director, has written the book’s introduction. “The Kremlin’s attempt to frame Pius XII as Hitler’s Pope was rejected by that contemporary Read more [...]