+St. Henry II+ In treating the recent rash of papal bashing by the anti-Fatima crowd, the seriousness of appreciating what the Roman Pontiffs teach and how these various teachings must not be taken as isolated and disjointed proclamations was once more brought to the...

+God Have Mercy on Our Nation+ Prayer Society Intention for July “Eternal Father, I offer thee the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, the merits, love and sufferings of the Sacred Heart, the tears and Sorrows of His Immaculate Mother, for the return of those now...

+Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus+ Gossip and insane conspiracy theories regarding the “demonic” nature of Fatima are still abounding on the Internet, especially among those posting on social media. Not content with defaming the Fatima apparitions, and in order to...

St. Aloysius Gonzaga+ Because those posting on social media simply refuse to obey the teachings of the Roman Pontiffs that private apparitions and revelations must not be treated with derision and/or contempt once they have been approved by the Church, we are forced...

+Feast of Corpus Christi+ It will be 18 years ago June 25 since my mother passed away, God rest her dear soul. The year she died, my siblings, my husband and I spent most of that summer emptying out her home of 38 years and doing some minor repairs before it was put...

+Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary+ In last month’s blog on living in the spirit, Fr. Hagspiel’s work on devotion to the Holy Ghost and the realization of ourselves as His temple was emphasized. And of necessity of course, in this humble and unworthy temple dwells...

+St. Bernardine of Siena+ Over the past several years, the majority of questions posed by readers have involved how one is to conduct oneself among the Novus Ordo and Traditionalist sects regarding prayer in common with non-Catholics, attendance at and participation...

+ St. Robert Bellarmine+ Having laid aside various distractions and phantoms, it is time to regroup and start paying attention to our day-to-day spiritual life. This was the purpose of creating the prayer society — and it needs to be supplemented with material that...

+Third Sunday after Easter+ The following was sent to me by my daughter, Aimee, mother of five and a fervent pro-life activist. Like me she loved being pregnant and always felt there was a special, mysterious symbiosis between mother and child that she could never...

© Copyright 2023, T. Stanfill Benns (All emphasis within quotes added by the author) Introduction I thought the controversy regarding the need for bishops to exist in order to fulfill Christ’s promises to be with His Church “unto the consummation” had been resolved,...