JMJ

Catholic, Business Owner/Entrepreneur, Detroit Red Wings fan, Pro-Life Conservative wife.

[That Trad Gal @thattradgal]

The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial was a Catholic Black man.

This keeps getting better and better.

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, Catholic juror Michael Desronvil, has come forward alleging that eight of his fellow jurors acted like activists, attempting to persuade the jury to find Clancy not guilty from day one.

Desronvil said he ultimately concluded that Clancy was guilty based on the evidence.

[Isabel Brown @theisabelb]

Friendly Catholic reminder it was the legendary St. Thomas Aquinas who said “if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.”

idk just seems worth repeating today...

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

To every pro lifer in Virginia:
Please, listen to the Bishop.
In Michigan, Planned Parenthood spent millions of dollars and flooded the airways to ensure we would enshrine in our constitution the most radical pro-abortion position possible.
Catholics lined right up and voted for it.
I’m not exaggerating when I say I have never recovered from it and I don’t know if I ever will.
You can’t know how horrible it feels to wake up one morning and watch the news and know that legalized murder is now the normative part of the life of your state.
I beg you, vote against this horror.
Do not let anything keep you away from the Booth.
Put it in your calendar, show up and vote.
The pro-life movement does not have the backing of any political party, they don’t have a government funded multibillion dollar industry like Planned Parenthood: their blood soaked hands are filled with money.
You won’t be able to use the media to tell the truth, it’s on you.
Share your heart and tell people that at some point, we have to draw the line.
If that’s not a human in the womb, then what is it? When does it become a human? What scientific criteria do people use to make that determination?
These are the only questions that matter.
Everything else is a distraction and a diversion.
Pray. Fast. Lovingly tell people the truth. Vote.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

God does not love you because you prayed correctly.
He does not love you because you were able to focus in your prayer.
Your excellent theology does not compel Him to love you better.
He just loves you.
He loves your helplessness.
Your brokenness is a magnet for Him; it attracts, it doesn’t repulse.
Don’t despise your spiritual poverty, it’s the truth about you.
The Father gave us a savior. Don’t be surprised you need one.

[James Leonard 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @jimleonardbklyn]

Right before they read my uncle's name, there was a shot of Zohran Mamdani laughing with AOC at Ground Zero. That makes my blood boil, and it underscores the point of why this jihadist Islamist mayor had no fucking business being at Ground Zero in the first place #NeverForget...

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

How many oil refineries were there in Calif when you were sworn into office? (18)

How many are there today? (11)

How many gallons of gas did Calif produce when you were sworn into office? (14.5 billion gallons)

How many gallons of gas does Calif produce today? (11.5 billion).

Gavin Newsom -- closed 7 refineries and reduced production of gasoline in Calif by more than 20%

Trump didn't do that -- gasoline refining is a state level business.

Newsom did it.

[Fr. Jeff Fasching @JefferyFasching]

Do you know what you are? You are nothingness and misery. Do you know what I am? I am ALL, and I am Holiness itself…yet it is on your nothingness that I wish to rest My greatness…

The more you realize your nothingness, the more you will be glorified…

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

"The primary role of the Church today remains the salvation of souls. The Church’s mission is not to solve all the social problems of the world; she must repeat tirelessly the words of Christ: “God's kingdom is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.”

- Cardinal Robert Sarah

[Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ @sscjusa]

As I begin my second term as provincial, I want to really focus on making our congregation better known.

The needs are so great, and we really desperately need new candidates. I hate telling pastors that I don't have any more teachers to send them, or turning away people who need nurses, or seeing even our older Sisters doing the job of younger women, simply because of a lack of vocations.

I truly love our congregation's charism of spreading the Kingdom of Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in prayer and works of mercy.

I love our rich history, being founded by two saints, St. Joseph Sebastian Pelczar and Blessed Klara Szczesna.

Our humble, hidden, Franciscan attitude has kept us in obscurity for the most part in the United States. People have no idea about our beautiful life of prayer and work, community life that is designed to be like a family home, and franciscan joy and simplicity.

I told our Lord that I will prepare the rooms for more postulants at our provincialate, in preparation for his goodness in sending them sometime soon.

We have two good postulants right now, and two wonderful Junior professed, but I would love to see many more come our way.

If you, my friends, would say a prayer that our Lord would mercifully hear our prayer for vocations, I will be eternally grateful.

www https://t.co/ao61swGMzn

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

Several U.S. Catholic bishops have recently strengthened diocesan funeral guidelines to ensure stricter fidelity to the Church’s Order of Christian Funerals.

The move comes in response to growing departures from traditional norms, especially regarding the handling of cremated remains, the timing and content of words of remembrance, and the proper place for visitation.

One of the most detailed responses comes from Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. In a recent pastoral letter and video message, he outlined new policies now in effect:

✅ Visitation will no longer be permitted in the church on the day of the Funeral Mass. The Vigil belongs the night before.

✅ Eulogies are not allowed during any of the official funeral rites. Only brief “words of remembrance” focused on the deceased’s faith may be offered and these must be submitted for approval in advance and read only by a priest or deacon.

✅ Cremated remains must be kept intact and interred as soon as possible (ordinarily within 30 days). Scattering ashes, dividing them among relatives, keeping them at home, or placing them in jewelry is strictly prohibited.

Bishop Paprocki emphasized that these norms are not meant to burden families, but to protect the dignity of the funeral rites and the Church’s belief in the resurrection of the body.

Other dioceses across the United States are implementing similar clarifications as irregular practices continue to increase.

The Church’s funeral liturgy is not primarily about celebrating a person’s life on earth. It is a prayer for the deceased, an act of hope in the resurrection, and a proclamation of faith in eternal life.

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

Vincent Capodanno did not carry a rifle. He carried a Bible and a box of St. Christopher medals. He was a Catholic priest, a Maryknoll missionary from Staten Island, and when he joined the Navy as a chaplain in 1965 he asked for the one assignment most men would have run from. He wanted to be with the Marines in the field. They called men like him the Grunt Padre, and he earned it. He lived the way his Marines lived, ate what they ate, slept in the same mud, and spent his hours hearing confessions, writing letters home for scared kids, and sitting with the grieving and the dying.

On September 4, 1967, during Operation Swift in the Que Son Valley, the same mountains where Marines would still be fighting years later, a company of the 5th Marines was hit by a massive North Vietnamese force, around 2,500 men. When Father Capodanno heard that a platoon was about to be overrun, he did not stay in any safe place, because there was no safe place and he would not have gone to it anyway. He ran across open ground under fire to reach the Marines who were being cut apart.

Then he just moved through the battle doing his work. He went from man to man, giving last rites to the dying and pulling the wounded to cover, praying over kids as they bled out, telling terrified Marines that God was with them right there in that field. A mortar round shredded his arms and legs and tore off part of his right hand. He refused medical aid and kept going, one hand mangled, still crawling to the next wounded man.

He saw a wounded corpsman lying out in the open, close to an enemy machine gun, and went to him. As Father Capodanno knelt over that Marine to comfort him and give him last rites, the machine gun found them both. The priest was shot more than 27 times. He died there in the field with his Marines, doing exactly what he had come to do.

He received the Medal of Honor in 1969. The Catholic Church later opened his cause for sainthood, and he now carries the title Servant of God. To the men of the 5th Marines he was already something close to a saint long before any of that, the padre who ran toward the fire empty handed so that no man in that valley would have to die alone.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

Hosea is a prophet who loves a bride that despised him.
She hurts Him, uses Him and runs away from him, returning only when she has no options left.
Hosea knows he is being used but he finds he can’t refuse his beloved.
God visits Hosea and comforts him with the truth: Hosea shares Gods heart.
God loves a people that use Him.
God loves a people that run away from Him the moment He rebuilds them.
For all of this, God simply cannot refuse His beloved, even while His beloved despises Him.
Hosea’s pain reveals the heart of God in such a painful, beautiful and clear way.
God loves you so very deeply, so completely.
He loves us knowing we will never be able to love Him back with equal intensity.
Accept that love.
Embrace it and give your all in trying to give it back.
You are so deeply, completely, painfully loved.

#talkedtotheboss

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron has urged Christians to organize and vote against radical socialists and communists, saying their success in recent elections is a real threat.

[Billy Hallowell 🙏 @BillyHallowell]

Science and faith aren’t enemies — they’re revealing the same Creator from different angles. From astronomy to genetics, discoveries keep pointing back to the order, design, and wisdom already described in Scripture.

We shouldn’t be shocked when truth aligns with truth — we should be in awe of the God behind it all.

Stay curious. Stay grounded in His Word.

Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/1TlNoYklr3

#FaithAndScience #BiblicalTruth #Creation #ChristianFaith #GodTheCreator #Apologetics #JesusIsLord

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

“Grant us, O Lord, a quiet mind and a peaceful heart.”

St. Dymphna 🕊️☘️

[T.E. Jentzen @Faithful2Pray]

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."

- St. Teresa of Avila

[Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ @sscjusa]

Repost of excellent insight by Debra Gagnon Kelly via Facebook

Pope Leo XIV may have just fulfilled a 100-year-old prophecy.

And almost nobody is connecting the dots.

To understand why this matters, you have to go back to October 13, 1884.

After celebrating Mass that morning, Pope Leo XIII suddenly collapsed at the foot of the altar. His face turned ashen white. For about ten minutes, he stood frozen in what witnesses described as a trance.

When he finally came to, he revealed what he had seen.

A vision of Satan, boasting before the throne of God:

“I can destroy your Church.”

And the Lord replied:

“You have the time. You have the power. Do with them what you will.”

Most accounts say Satan was granted somewhere between 75 and 100 years.

Leo XIII walked straight from the chapel to his office and composed the Prayer to St. Michael — and ordered it prayed at the end of every Low Mass throughout the world.

He knew what was coming.

Now look at the last hundred years.
Two world wars. Mass apostasy.

The collapse of the family. Catholic divorce rates matching the secular world. Liturgical abuse. Scandal at every level of the hierarchy. Atheistic communism sweeping nations.

Exactly what Satan had threatened.

But here’s where it gets interesting.

Exactly 33 years to the day after Leo XIII’s vision — October 13, 1917 — roughly 70,000 people gathered in a field in Fatima, Portugal, and witnessed the Miracle of the Sun.

Our Lady had appeared to three shepherd children months earlier. She warned that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world.

She told them the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family.

Russia became the first nation to legalize ab*rtion. The first to legalize no-fault divorce. The birthplace of modern atheism and communism.
She was right about everything.

But she also made a promise:

“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

Now watch the dates closer:

→ October 13, 1884 — Leo XIII’s vision

→ May 13, 1917 — Our Lady appears at Fatima

→ October 13, 1917 — the Miracle of the Sun

→ May 13, 1981 — an assassin shoots John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. He survives, the bullets narrowly missing his vital organs, and credits Our Lady of Fatima with saving his life.

→ March 25, 1984 — John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

And now, in our own time:

On May 8, 2025, a new Pope steps onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

He chooses the name Leo XIV — explicitly stating he chose it in part to honor Leo XIII.

The same Pope who started this whole story.
Five days later, on May 13, 2025 — the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima — the world reflects on his election as the bookend to a century-long battle.

The bookend has arrived. And the data is staggering.

In 2025, nearly 160,000 adults entered the Catholic Church in the United States — the highest level in twenty years. By 2026, the average U.S. diocese reported a 38% increase in converts over the previous year.

Los Angeles received 8,598 people into the Church.

The Archdiocese of Paris welcomed its largest group of converts ever.

France’s adult baptisms have tripled in a decade.
England. Norway.

Australia. Belgium. Ireland.
Everywhere, the same story.

The 100 years are closing. The triumph is beginning. And you are alive to see it.

Our Lady didn’t perform the greatest public miracle since the parting of the Red Sea for nothing. She came with two requests:

1. Pray the Rosary daily.
2. Pray St Michael's Prayer often.

That’s it. That’s how you join the winning side of the greatest spiritual victory in centuries.

50 to 100 years from now, I believe most of the first world will be Catholic again.

The question isn’t whether the triumph is coming.

The question is whether you’ll be one of the souls who helped bring it about — or one who watched from the sidelines.