Free Republic

Obstacles to being Apostles of the New Evangelization Fr. Gobbi spoke in his 2006 Circular Letter of the need to be “Apostles of the New Evangelization.” He further added in his talk to us at the International Retreat in Italy on June 30 th , 2006 , that Our Lady wants to form “Apostles of the Last Times.” He said, that at La Salette Our Lady had a “rule” to form these “Apostles” in the new Missionaries of La Salette but it was not adhered to. So, Fr. Gobbi said, in the Marian Movement of Priests (MMP) she forms the...

My father is scheduled for surgery at University of Pennsylvania Friday morning for a thoracic aortic aneurysm. At 6cm it has a 70% chance of rupturing which ordinarily means death. His is at 9cm. If I could request a Hail Mary, or any other short prayer from each of you, I would be grateful. Thank you and God bless, Maryellen

A priest writes to Nancy Pelosi: “If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it?” Fr. John Malloy, pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, penned this “Open letter to Nancy Pelosi,” which was recently published in the parish bulletin. We reprint it here with Fr. Malloy’s permission. Nancy, you are fooling yourself and I fear fooling many good Catholics. You are simply not in sync with the Catholic Church. Until you change your non-Catholic positions, you should stop calling yourself Catholic. Your record shows that you support embryonic stem cell...

Editor's note: At this link: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53859 WND has documented an alarming list of female teachers who have assaulted male students, part of the problem of teacher-on-student assaults estimated to include millions of victims. By Bob Unruh © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com An estimated five million students in United States schools have been assaulted sexually by teachers, according to a congressional report. But no one is calling for investigations or law enforcement crackdowns, there have been no campaigns to ban the offenders from schools, and in many states there aren't even any requirements such predator attacks be reported to education licensing agencies. "We...

Pro-Life Loses in Pennsylvania How did Catholics vote in the race for Senate pitting pro-life leader Rick Santorum vs. Senator-elect Bob Casey Jr.? Why did they vote that way? November 19-25, 2006 Issue National Catholic Register Pennsylvania is a rare state that votes Democrat in presidential elections but is more solidly pro-life than any state in the northeast. On Tuesday, however, pro-lifers in Pennsylvania took a beating, and so did the Culture of Life. One of the top pro-life Catholics in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Melissa Hart, was defeated, as were pro-life Congressmen Curt Weldon and Don Sherwood....

First: Elections Conservative and values voters were stung on Tuesday, and as far as I am concerned we deserved it. I am not dispirited about the elections or pessimistic about the future though. My reaction to the whole mess was quite beyond all that. The infamous 2006 mid-term elections will have taught us a lesson that we should already know: namely, that politics will never be a solution to our spiritual problems. This election was an "all about me" election in a sense. Voters in all key referendum states roundly blew off the key values issues in favor of the...

Many months ago I listed a young man, Jason, a nephew of one of our pro life people, who was in need of prayers to combat cancer. Through your generosity, Our Lord answered your prayers and Jason has been cancer free for for several months. He will be monitored every 6 months. Prayer does work. Let us continue to pray for God's Help in all our undertakings. Thank you and God be with you.

One of the plagues of the Catholic Church in modern America is the barely-disguised faith abuse of many of our so-called Catholic universities. The actions of some of these universities are just intolerable from the viewpoint of authentic Catholicism, and they should be exposed and rebuked for the heresy, apostasy or the just plain pathetic Catholicism that they advocate. This week saw one of the most egregious slaps in the face to the Catholic Church that has been seen in a long time: an award for an abortion-advocating priest. The culprit? Georgetown - again.This fallen-away Catholic school in DC has...

Some of you may have received the following email this AM: “MY SISTER, MARY ELIZABETH ROTH DIED THIS MORNING, OCTOBER 21ST. SHE WILL BE BURIED FROM SAINT MICHAEL'S CHURCH , WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 TH AT 10:00 A.M. THE VIEWING WILL BE MONDAY, OCTOBER 23RD 4:00 - 8:0O AT ALTMEYER'S FUNERAL HOME, 154 KRUGER STREET, ELM GROVE, WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA. MAY SHE REST IN PEACE. PEACE! FATHER ANGELUS” Let us all offer up our prayers for Fr. Angelus M Shaughnessy Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and his sister. padre@lb.bcentral.com

A pdf file of a homily on the shooting of the 5 Amish children. Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish is in Amish country. I currently have a father and his son who come over in the AM in buggy and are working on my front porch. God bless them. Web page - click on Fr. Bateman's homily on Amish shooting http://www.sacredheartlewistown.com/

KALONA, October 6 (UPI) — It's Tuesday morning. Sunny. Calm. Box elder bugs are lazily exploring the front window. I've been thinking that somehow I need to write something insightful about yesterday — about the murder and wounding of Amish schoolgirls near Paradise, Pennsylvania. I don't even want to think about it, frankly. But I live in an Amish-Mennonite town. I have Amish neighbors just across the street — Ada and her sisters. I use their horse's manure in my compost; I chat with them about the weather; I have two of their white pear trees growing tall in my...

Lewistown, Pennsylvanai Life Chain. Sentinel photo by MATT STRICKER Pastor Ron Neff of Grace Covenant Church in Lewistown voices a pro-life prayer at the Life Chain rally held in front of the Historic Mifflin County Courthouse Sunday afternoon. Sorry, other picture will not post. Fr. Jason, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish/St. Jude's Parish. Pastor Ron Neff of Grace Covenant Church in Lewistown. Assorted parishoners. Missing from picture are Fr. Bateman, Pastor of Sacred Heart/St. Judes and Fr. Lease, who left this morning for Rome to continue his studies. Other participants were from local churches.

The Corporal Works of Mercy Feed the hungry. Shelter the homeless. Give drink to the thirsty. Visit the sick. Clothe the naked. Visit the imprisoned. Bury the dead. The Spirtual Works of Mercy Help the Sinner. Bear wrongs patiently. Teach the ignorant. Forgive injuries. Counsel the doubtful. Comfort the sorrowful. Pray for the living and the dead.

National Life Chain Sunday 2006 October 1 (2:30 – 3:30 in Each Time Zone) Contact: Royce Dunn, Director of Life Chain 3209 Colusa Highway Yuba City, CA 95993 www.NationalLifeChain.org www.LifeChain.net With the word “terrorism” embedded today in America’s psyche, National Life Chain will line sidewalks in over 1150 North American cities and towns Sunday afternoon, October 1 (2:30 – 3:30 PM in each time zone). Committed to the sanctity of human life, participants will stand silently and pray, while holding signs that include Abortion Kills Children; Adoption: The Loving Option; Lord, Forgive Us and Our Nation; and Abortion Hurts Women....

It was there in a statement made by the Pope. Speaking during his visit to Germany, Benedict XVI lamented how, if an African bishop goes to Germany, presenting a plea for a social program, he receives enormous help. Every door opens. But, said the Pope, when an African bishop goes to that same country (or, one might add, any Western nation) with a plan for evangelization, he meets with "reservations." "Clearly some people have the idea that social projects should be urgently undertaken, while anything dealing with God or even the Catholic faith is of limited and lesser importance," said...

Where is our nation headed? This is of course a very relevant point at this time and it starts with war. What are we to think of Iraq? It was Pope John Paul II who, in urging that the U.S. stay away from Iraq, said that "war is always a defeat for humanity," going so far as to send an envoy to plead with President Bush personally. At the same time, a famous Catholic mystic associated with a Church-sanctioned site of apparitions, Maria Esperanza, of Caracas, Venezuela, repeatedly warned (even before September 11) that two foreign powers -- one small,...

In the mid 1990s, I attended a clergy meeting in the diocese where I was employed as the newspaper editor. The meeting was to discuss ideas to increase vocations to the priesthood, because the diocese was facing a crisis. Predictably, the discussion was going nowhere until the retired archbishop raised his hand, stood up and said, “Why don’t we study those dioceses which are attracting vocations, like Lincoln, Nebraska, and Arlington, Virginia, and see what they are doing and what we can learn from that.” I smiled to myself, eager to see the response to his suggestion, because I knew...

Brian Tittmann of Our Lady of Victory, State College, PA was accepted as an Novitiate to the Friars of the Eternal Word in Hanceville, Alabama. He and his family are parishioners of Our Lady of Victory, a neighboring parish of mine. He was accepted at a Mass celebrated yesterday. August 2, 2006. The Mass was televised on EWTN. Several others renewed their vows. Let us pray for him. all Friars, Priests, Bishops, Holy Father and all religious.

Did anyone one see Bishop George on EWTN last night? Why the weakness on "Catholic" abortion politicians? Why the hemming and hawing when it comes to the Canons of the Church on abortion?

I post the following because yesterday's Bulletin at my Church had a notice about a "Women's Weekend Retreat, A Fool for Christ" The notice had a Rev. Timothy Armbruster, CPPS of St. Joseph Missouri as the director of the Retreat. What caught my eye in the blurb was the following: "He began "clowning around" as a result of a dare from his mother...and still continues his ministry today." I proceeded to search Fr. Armbruster but found nothing listed. I also searched the Web site of www.pbspiritualcenter.org the location of where the Retreat would be. I found the following: Rose Mary...