Andrew Cusack: THE CATHOLIC COLONY of Maryland was first planted in 1634 at St. Mary’s, which became the first capital city of the Calvert family’s palatinate. The attempt to run Terra Mariae as a Catholic feudal state was continually frustrated by a number of fiery Protestant settlers, who eventually broke out into open rebellion in … Continue reading
St. John’s Valdosta Blog posts a report from the LA Times. Excerpt: The nuns have four months to move out, according to a letter from the archdiocese. The notice, which was dated June 28 but not received until the end of August, asked the women to vacate the property no later than Dec. 31 — … Continue reading
Barbara Nicolosi writing in her blog Church of the Masses: The altarpiece in Capistrano gets its unearthly gleam from the fact that it is plated with 24.5 carat gold. We saw a lot of this kind of thing in Spain, but they were all covered with 500 years of soot and darkened candle wax. This … Continue reading
Hugh Fitzgerald / Dhimmi Watch: [...] in the free and still non-Muslim West, Christians, including “Palestinian” Christians, should try to think through — if they can — the real nature of the war on Israel, and the real nature of the war on them, the Christian Arabs. They may consider why [...] the only future … Continue reading
Dhimmi Watch posts this report, “Bishop suggests closer monitoring of mosques,” from swissinfo. An excerpt: One of the Catholic Church’s leading experts on Islam says the Swiss authorities need to keep a closer eye on the country’s mosques. Pierre Bürcher, assistant bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, tells swissinfo it is what goes on inside … Continue reading
From the post: “Heart speaks to heart” – John Henry Cardinal Newman Reflections on the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 and Lesser-Known Byzantine Atrocities: “With reluctance, sadness, and regret, Catholics must forthrightly address the issue of the sacking of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire (hence the center of Orthodoxy), in 1204 by the … Continue reading
