A Catholic Bishop was murdered in cold blood in his home. 😱💔
🚨 BREAKING: Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of the Catholic Diocese of Quelimane has died after a gunshot attack at his residence in the early hours of June 6. He was just 54 years old.
Authorities say unknown assailants entered the bishop's residence and shot him in the chest. An investigation is now underway as Church leaders call for prayers and seek answers surrounding the shocking incident.
Bishop Afonso was known for his calls for peace, unity, and solidarity with communities suffering from violence in Mozambique. Only weeks ago, he publicly condemned terrorist attacks and urged Catholics to remain united in faith.
Please join us in praying for the repose of his soul and for the Catholic faithful of Mozambique during this painful time.
🙏 Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
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News source: Catholic Gospel Media.
Archaeologists found the oldest evidence of Christianity in Northern Europe.
A silver amulet, buried with a man between 230 and 270 AD, worn around his neck.
In 2024, scientists used CT scanning to digitally unroll the tiny scroll inside it.
The inscription reads: “Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God.”
It is the oldest known proof that Christianity had reached Northern Europe✝️
🇵🇹 | Milhares de adeptos portugueses pedem que a seleção portuguesa de futebol faça uma camisola cristã.
O pedido vem na tendência de vários países europeus exaltarem o cristianismo no futebol.
Maronite Catholics organized a huge Corpus Christi procession through the streets of Australia, carrying Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Video: Patrick Semaan
The One True Faith conquered and annexed Rome, not the other way around.
And this level of historical ignorance is astounding. Never mind that it flies in the face of Christ’s promise that the Gates of Hades will never prevail against His Church, never mind that one of Saint Paul’s Epistles was addressed to the Roman Church, never mind that Saint Peter writes his Epistles from “Babylon,” and never mind that Our Lord commands Saint Paul to go to Rome after he is persecuted in Jerusalem.
Early Fathers and historians all place the Holy Seat in Rome long before Constantine (as do contemporaneous accounts).
(1) Saint Ignatius of Antioch
“Ignatius . . . to the church also which holds the presidency, in the location of the country of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of blessing, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy of sanctification, and, because you hold the presidency in love, named after Christ and named after the Father” (Letter to the Romans 1:1 [A.D. 110]).
“You [the church at Rome] have envied no one, but others you have taught. I desire only that what you have enjoined in your instructions may remain in force” (ibid., 3:1).
(2) Saint Irenaeus
“But since it would be too long to enumerate in such a volume as this the succession of all the churches, we shall confound all those who, in whatever manner, whether through self-satisfaction or vainglory, or through blindness and wicked opinion, assemble other than where it is proper, by pointing out here the successions of the bishops of the greatest and most ancient church known to all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul, that church which has the tradition and the faith which comes down to us after having been announced to men by the apostles. With that church, because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree, that is, all the faithful in the whole world, and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition” (Against Heresies 3:3:2 [A.D. 189]).
(3) Eusebius of Caesarea
“A question of no small importance arose at that time [A.D. 190]. For the parishes of all Asia [Minor], as from an older tradition held that the fourteenth day of the moon, on which the Jews were commanded to sacrifice the lamb, should be observed as the feast of the Savior’s Passover. . . . But it was not the custom of the churches in the rest of the world . . . as they observed the practice which, from apostolic tradition, has prevailed to the present time, of terminating the fast [of Lent] on no other day than on that of the resurrection of the Savior [Sunday]. Synods and assemblies of bishops were held on this account, and all, with one consent, through mutual correspondence drew up an ecclesiastical decree that the mystery of the resurrection of the Lord should be celebrated on no other but the Lord’s day and that we should observe the close of the paschal fast on this day only. . . . Thereupon [Pope] Victor, who presided over the church at Rome, immediately attempted to cut off from the community the parishes of all Asia [Minor], with the churches that agreed with them, as heterodox. And he wrote letters and declared all the brethren there wholly excommunicate. But this did not please all the bishops, and they besought him to consider the things of peace and of neighborly unity and love” (Church History 5:23:1–24:11).
(4) Saint Cyprian of Carthage
“With a false bishop appointed for themselves by heretics, they dare even to set sail and carry letters from schismatics and blasphemers to the chair of Peter and to the principal church [at Rome], in which sacerdotal unity has its source” (Letters 48:1, 3 [A.D. 253]).
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Remember to fly your Sacred Heart flag this June, and use car magnets, pendants, stickers, lapel pins, etc. Do whatever it takes to take back June for Jesus Christ. This is a holy crusade.👇🏻