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Exclusive The technology behind the Catholic Church’s latest innovation, an electronic rosary, is so insecure, it can be trivially hacked to siphon off worshipers' personal information. The eRosary, which went on sale this week at just $109 (£85) a pop, consists of ten metallic beads, and a metal cross that’s Bluetooth enabled, has wireless charging, and is motion sensitive. When the wearer makes the sign of the cross with the rosary, the accompanying Click to Pray app on their paired phone or tablet activates: this software suggests which rosary movements to make, and which prayers to mumble. It can also...

Final day of the novena (Monday October 7, 2019). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for this special favor which I earnestly request in my Rosary Novena: To protect and strengthen President Trump and his family, as our...

Beginning September 29th and concluding on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7th. Join us in prayer for our Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Victory (for President Trump). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for...

Beginning September 29th and concluding on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7th. Join us in prayer for our Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Victory (for President Trump). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for...

Beginning September 29th and concluding on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7th. Join us in prayer for our Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Victory (for President Trump). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for...

Former Scientologist and King of Queens star Leah Remini said she has found “amazing” comfort in returning to the Catholic Church after leaving Scientology two years ago, contrasting Scientology’s abusive policies with Christianity. During an interview with Howard Stern Tuesday morning, the 45-year-old actress said she was so happy to be “reconnecting” to the faith of her childhood.Initially, Stern tried to lump all religions together as equally fanatical, but Remini jumped in, telling the shock jock he was making a big mistake.“I’ve come to the conclusion in my life that all religions are sorta nutty,” Stern said. “And, you know,...

Beginning September 29th and concluding on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7th. Join us in prayer for our Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Victory (for President Trump). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for...

Beginning September 29th and concluding on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7th. Join us in prayer for our Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Victory (for President Trump). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for...

Beginning September 29th and concluding on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7th. Join us in prayer for our Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Victory (for President Trump). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for...

Beginning September 29th and concluding on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7th. Join us in prayer for our Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Victory (for President Trump). This novena is to be said along with a daily rosary. "My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for...

LGBT issues boil over in Poland ahead of October electionsPŁOCK, Poland (ChurchMilitant.com) - A 15-year-old Polish boy is being hailed as a Catholic "hero" after daring to block an LGBT pride march with a raised crucifix and Rosary in his hand. Jakub Baryła, who describes himself as "Catholic, traditionalist, conservative and patriotic" on Twitter, has become a social media sensation after standing in the path of a 1,000-strong LGBT equality march in the city of Płock on Saturday. Baryła, who is a councilor at Płock Youth Council, said that he decided to block the march with a crucifix after he...

An Encounter Today: Dr. Robert Moynihan with Archbishop ViganoMonday, July 29, 2019“Here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.” —Hebrews 13:14Today after a long journey I met Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano in a quiet place.We greeted each other with joy and I asked him how he has been during the past year.“Better than I deserve,” Vigano replied, laughing, adding with a smile, “Cardinal Deskur used to answer that way.”He looks very good.“So you have been well?” I asked.“I have been well, yes, thanks be to God,” Vigano said. “I have been visiting with...

[Catholic Caucus] Hundreds of Polish Catholics protect children’s pilgrimage from LGBT marchers CZĘSTOCHOWA, Poland, June 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Hundreds of Polish Catholics blocked the street to their nation’s holiest shrine as an LGBT march approached a children’s rosary procession.    The 20th Pilgrimage of the Children’s Backyard Rosary Circles (“XX Pielgrzymka Podwórkowych Kół Różańcowych Dzieci”) to the Shrine of Jasna Góra in Częstochowa took place without incident, thanks to police and hundreds of adults who separated the devotional event from the famous city’s second LGBT “Pride March.” According to Polish website Polonia Christiana, there were fears that the pro-homosexual...

November 2018 Pope Francis and the Sacrilegious Use of the Rosary t has been integral to the vision which inspired the Rosary to the Interior: For the Purification of the Church (CO, Jan. 2018) that the entire Church is in need of purification, and that the most visible aspects of the current crisis of the Church are like cancerous excrescences on the surface of the body, which point to a much deeper malady within. We see this sickness as stemming from two primary sources: the surrender of the intellectual foundations of our Faith (theology and philosophy) to reductive science;...

Father James Martin's new rosary-meditate on LBGTQ couples and Mother Earth Nothing Fr. James Martin shares on social media surprises me anymore.  Here is Martin promoting social justice Rosary beads for "modern sorrows" telling Catholics to meditate on LBGTQ couples, immigration, Mother Earth and other social justice topics with NO mention of Jesus at all. I'm not kidding...this is what Father James Martin is now promoting on social media. Description of the "Rosary of Modern Sorrows":  The Rosary of Modern Sorrows invites us into guided meditation on the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters in the U.S....

Did Pope Francis call us to pray the Rosary to silence Archbishop Carlo Vigano? In this latest Sunday Sermon from South St. Paul, Father explains the history of the Holy Rosary and then stresses the necessity of praying the Rosary for the intention of a heavenly intervention in the ongoing crisis in the Church under Francis of Rome. “Let Heaven hear the sound of your rosaries so that the voices here on earth trying to expose the wickedness in the Church might be heard and this help bring an end to this wickedness.” Please Share this video: V is...

White Double of the Second Class IT IS CUSTOMARY with men of the world to balance their accounts at the end of the year, and ascertain their profits. The Church is now preparing to do the same. We shall soon see her solemnly numbering her elect, taking an inventory of their holy relics, visiting the tombs of those who sleep in the Lord, and counting the sanctuaries, both old and new, that have been consecrated to her divine Spouse. But today’s reckoning is a more solemn one, the profits more considerable: she opens her balance sheet with the gain...

LEPANTO! "The highest moment that the centuries ever witnessed." Lepanto"The highest moment that the centuries ever witnessed." (Cervantes) We cannot but recall that four great Roman Pontiffs came from the Dominican ranks. Of these, the last, St. Pius V, won undying gratitude from Christianity and civil society. He joined together, after unceasing efforts, the arms of the Catholic princes, and under the patronage of the Virgin Mother of God, whom, therefore, he ordered to be saluted in future as Help to Christians, destroyed forever at Lepanto the power of the Turks. In this is amply shown the third quality...

The Clarion Call to Arms We are at war. A war without borders, where no man is exempt but where most haven’t recognized, let alone been trained, to fight. Casualties often go unseen, but very few are left unwounded. The Enemies encamped against us seek to rob us of our Dignity–the essential Dignity of the Human Person, being made in the Image and Likeness of God. ... In 2017, the Church in Poland [Link to NY Times Article: Polish Catholics Gather at Border for Vast Rosary Prayer Event By JOANNA BERENDT and MEGAN SPECIA -- OCT. 7, 2017 ] gathered...

NOVENA IN HONOR OF THE ANNUNCIATION TO OUR LADY (Beginning September 28) May be said in public or in private.i. 300 Days, each day. ii. Plenary on the Feast or during the Octave, I, II, IV (See Instructions, p. 1., 1910 Raccolta.) 1. LITANY OF LORETO Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Pater de cælis Deus, miserere nobis. Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, Spiritus Sancte Deus, Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis. Sancta Dei Genetrix, Mater Virgo virginum, Mater Christi, Mater Ecclesiæ, Mater Divinæ gratiæ, Mater purissima, Mater castissima, Mater inviolata,...