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[Catholic Caucus] Polish Police Disrupt Mass, Kidnap Priest (Video) Polish police removed Salesian Father Michał Woźnicki, 54, from his room while he was celebrating an October 19 Traditional Latin Mass. Woźnicki was suspended for alleged “disobedience” in 2016, and expelled from his order in 2018. Nevertheless, he kept living in the Salesian house in Poznan where he built an altar in his room in order to say Mass for some faithful. The priest doesn't comply with coronavirus restrictions and doesn't use masks. Therefore, in a spirit of mercy, the Salesians called police. When the officers entered, Woźnicki told them to...

The Pantin mosque has apologized for broadcasting the video of the father angry with the beheaded professor on Friday. Gérald Darmanin wants it closed. Since the broadcast of a video of the father of the family who wanted the exclusion of Samuel Paty, this professor of history and geography beheaded for showing caricatures of Mohammed in class in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the mosque of Pantin is under the critics fire. Indeed, the latter posted on her Facebook page the video of the angry student's parent who targets the teacher. She has since expressed regret. This Monday evening, Gérald Darmanin announced that he...

Reverend John claimed to have caught the vandal and held him until police arrived A suspect who tried to tear a huge cross off the roof of a church in east London was tackled by the reverend before police arrived at the scene. Footage on social media appears to show the man ripping at the large wooden crucifix after scaling the roof of Chadwell Heath Baptist Church in east London. He is seen hanging his parka jacket on the cross as he repeatedly attempts to pull the cross from its base. Reverend John, who had just held his regular Sunday...

A minute of silence will be observed to remember the victims of wars and of the coronavirus pandemic.VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will attend an ecumenical prayer service and an interreligious ceremony for peace in Rome next week, the Vatican announced Friday. The prayer service will be held at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in the afternoon on Tuesday, Oct. 20, and will include participants from other Christian traditions. Following the prayer, Pope Francis will also join in a ceremony with representatives of the world’s major religions, to take place in Campidoglio Square. The square, which sits on...

Spotlights Mexican government's anti-clerical historyMEXICO CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Mexican bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz has asked the president of his country to issue an apology for murders and persecution of the Catholic Church committed by the Mexican government in the 1920s. Bishop Alba Díaz, who presides over the diocese of La Paz in Baja California, was responding to repeated demands by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the Catholic Church and the government of Spain beg forgiveness for the evangelization and conquest of Mexico in 1521. Most recently, the president's wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, visited Pope Francis Oct. 10 to...

FSSP: Catholics voting for Biden ‘would commit a grave sin’ The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) pointed out that 'any Catholic who supports' pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden 'would be in proximate cooperation with evil.' Update October 19, 2020 at 4:28 p.m. Eastern time: This article has been updated to make clear that although the article was published by the Fraternity of St. Peter, it does not necessarily reflect the view of the FSSP in general. The article the FSSP published was an opinion piece written by an anonymous FSSP priest. October 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — An article published by...

The left believes Christians should be free to worship whatever sky-fairies they want, providing it’s a part-time commitment behind closed doors.While interviewing Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, last week, CNN’s Chris Cuomo expressed concern that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s faith appears “more central to her value system and her behavior and thoughts than it would be for just an ordinary Catholic.” Cuomo went on to suggest in an interview with former 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg that people’s faith “doesn’t matter,” but their policy positions affected by it do. What on earth does this mean? “It doesn’t matter if you have...

In South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, (SD CA, Oct. 15, 2020), a California federal district court refused to grant a preliminary injunction to a church that challenged California's current COVID-19 restrictions on worship services. The state limits plaintiffs’ indoor worship services to the lesser of 25% of building capacity or 100 people. The church had earlier unsuccessfully appealed a challenge to an earlier version of state restrictions all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. (See prior posting.) According to the district court: Plaintiffs now argue ... that California’s “scientific pronouncements” are “largely baseless,” and that by “all...

See, I set before you today life and good, death, and evil. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will have life and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But, if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will...

HOLLAND — Keith Mannes has given his life to the Christian Reformed Church, serving as a pastor for more than 30 years. He’s done so happily and thankfully. But on Oct. 11, Mannes gave his last sermon and walked away from ministry among increasing political tension and divisiveness. Put simply, he stepped away due to the church’s broad support of President Donald Trump.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities..." The laws of the United States are now positively anti-Bible. The U.S. joins the other "advanced" wealthy nations in being anti-Biblical and anti-Christian. Even with the slowing effects in some ways of the Trump presidency, the nation's laws still, in so many ways, require Christians to compromise on if not simply abandon God's Word, or else face...

“Concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-2). Paul described to the disciples what would take place when Christ returns: “The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the...

A sign of changing times from Claire Murashima, writing in the student newspaper of Calvin University (formerly Calvin College) in Grand Rapids, Michigan: "In the 102 years that Student Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay student body president. It’s beyond time that the LGBTQ community is represented in the highest student leadership position at Calvin. I’m proud to be the first. A few years ago, I never thought that I would be coming out to the world through my school newspaper at my Christian university. I wanted to be known as the girl who started Dance Marathon...

According to recent survey, nearly a third of self-described evangelicals do not believe that Jesus Christ is truly God. Arianism, as it turns out, is a heresy that plagues multiple generations of the Church, not just the one of the fourth century.Well, over and over the Church has, in various times and ways, ruled that some beliefs are not acceptable alternatives within Christianity. Adherents are, in fact, outsiders to the faith. For example, nearly 100 years ago, in a book entitled Christianity and Liberalism, Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen argued, in an extensive scholarly treatment, that liberal Christianity was not...

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[Catholic Caucus] ‘There is no nuance’: Bishops spar over endorsement of pro-abortion Joe Biden Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Wash. spoke out against Bishop Robert McElroy’s recent downplaying of the importance of abortion in a virtual meeting. October 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Wash. has spoken out against Bishop Robert McElroy’s recent downplaying of the importance of abortion in a virtual meeting on October 13. During the meeting, McElroy, the bishop of San Diego, Calif., questioned the claim that “candidates who seek laws opposing intrinsically evil actions automatically have a primary claim to political support in...

“House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD” (Proverbs 19:14).

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Lambs, Sheep, and Shepherds. Exodus 4 Moses Returns to Egypt 18 Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.” Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.” 19 Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.” 20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff...

. . DAVID SPARES SAUL’S LIFE – TWICE! . .. . 1st. . S A M U E L . . 2 4 . .& . .2 6 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd – the complete text is in your BibleORTO READ 1ST SAMUEL 24 IN FULL, Click HereTO HEAR MAX McLEAN READING IT, Click HereTO HEAR A DRAMATIZATION OF IT, Click HereTO WATCH AN OVERVIEW OF 1ST SAMUEL , Click Here . .1 0 1 1 . . B. C. . . 2 Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look...

The apostle Paul, writer of most of the New Testament, made an extraordinary admission in Romans: “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans” (Romans 8:26). Notice the key phrases: • “We do not know what we ought to pray for.” That is written in first person plural — Paul included himself! The mightiest apostle in history didn’t know how to properly pray? • “The Spirit helps us in our weakness.” Are we all really so spiritually...