Feb

1

Or this.

February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment

“We are not greater than our Fathers” … not, that is, at Le Barroux, near Avignon, where the Benedictine community founded forty years ago has flourished in strict observance of the Rule and in love of the ancient liturgical tradition of the Roman Church

Except for the gaff about “schism” and a few other unexplained or mischaracterized events — to be expected in telling decades of history in a few hundred words or less — it is a very moving and informative story.

Jan

12

Bet you’ve never seen anything like it, either.

January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment


For God and King!

Watch it and weep, for The Only Joy worthy of all your love.

For God King and Man Kin(d)!

May They live on, long!

War of the Vendee trailer, Navis Pictures

Dec

31

How not to lose sight of the goal

December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment

As the year commences, let us look back a moment in order to look ahead together in Christian hope. Read more

Dec

28

Mercy for the convicted?

December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Here follows an e-exchange with a Deacon and a Doctor over the treatment of a prisoner with ALS (so-called ‘Lou Gehrig Disease’).
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Dec

19

Pope to prisoners: “I was in prison and you visited me.”

December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Christ identifies Himself with prisoners. He was not only once a prisoner, at his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemani. He is a prisoner to this day: imprisoned sacramentally by a Divine Love that yearns to be visited in the Most Blessed Sacrament, and spiritually also, in the souls of those who suffer, especially unjustly or needlessly, in prisons of various sorts: not least the prison of sin in the heart.

Here is what the Holy Father has to say about justice and mercy.
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Dec

12

On the anniversary of Dr. William Marra’s transitus

December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment

It was a fitting day to die for one so devoted to the Lady of the Americas whom this Apostle of Life loved with an undying love.

On December 12 in 1998, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Empress of the Americas, she called this loyal son to her Son.
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Dec

9

Downs Syndrome curable after all?

December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Very likely yes.

Thanks to the vision, truly illumined by grace, and the fidelity to it of Randy Engel of Export, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Engel, a former NCCL Director, is the inspirational colleague (on the development & fund-raising side) of the late Dr. Jerome Lejuene, world-renowned French geneticist with the heart of a Catholic saint.

Here, below, follows a positively stunning admission of Dr. Lejuene’s successor in research about curing Downs Syndrome.

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Dec

3

Doctor compassionates the imprisoned

December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Here follows the latest exchange with the doctor [J.C.] who is writing to the prisoner’s main-care physician. Read more

Dec

1

Letters to a captive

December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Here follows a recent missive from the Executive Director to an old friend serving out the last months of a 20 year sentence. Read more

Nov

30

The “‘Christmas novena’ of St. Andrew”

November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment

This ‘novena’ of prayers traditionally commences November 30, the feast (East & West) of St. Andrew the Apostle, and concludes on Christmas Eve. Read more