O almighty and eternal God, have mercy on your servant our Holy Father, the Pope, and direct him according to your clemency into the way of everlasting salvation: that he may desire by your grace those things that are agreeable to you, and perform them with all his strength (1/2)
The Catholic Church in the West should be investing a lot more time in creating men's prayer groups. We hear a lot about women, yet where the Church really fails is with attracting men
Read the bottom. That will mean both no fault divorce AND the changing of the definition of marriage was brought in under a 'Conservative' government. If your priority when voting is strong families, there is no worse party than the Tories
Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all. // St Teresa of Avila
Reinstating the canonical prohibition on unveiled women entering churches would go a long way towards reestablishing traditional gender norms among Catholics.
The real threat to Christianity, and also to Western culture,...is not the rational hostility of a minority, but the existence of a great mass of opinion which is not anti-religious but sub-religious, so it is no longer conscious of any spiritual need for Christianity to fulfill.
@Englishpapist “Judeo-Christian” is an oxymoronic redundancy. It’s the same as saying “Christian-Christian”, coined only by those who do not understand what Christianity is
Do not imitate those who deceive themselves by saying: "I will sin and then go to confession." How do you know that you will have time to make your confession? Is it not madness to wound oneself, in the hioe that a doctor will be found who will heal the wound? // St John Bosco
The sexual revolution is inseparable from the Culture of Death, in which children are seen as disposable inconveniences. The natural progression has been from contraception to abortion to infanticide and euthanasia, fulfilling the darkest warnings in a startlingly short time.