'Real love does not mean to have and to own and posses, it means to be had, to be owned, to be possessed. Cupid had an arrow because love wounds'
Fulton Sheen on true love and modern life
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Pope Leo XIV met Cardinal Ernest Simoni Troshani this morning
The Albanian was tortured, imprisoned and forced into labour for 28 years by Communist authorities after offering Mass for the soul of JFK in 1963
In Saint Peter's Basilica at the Latin Mass Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage last month, the 97 year old prayed the Saint Michael prayer at the end of Mass
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"Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light, and without You, I am in darkness"
Saint Padre Pio
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The US Bishops Conference has elected a conservative as their president
Archbishop Paul Coakley is known for his strong record on opposing abortion and gender ideology
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Pope Leo XIV arriving at Sant'Anselmo at the Aventine Hill for Mass this evening.
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Ireland will inaugurate its new President, Catherine Connolly, today
She is the second Irish president in a row to have been a member of the Legion of Mary, the lay Catholic organisation that is the most successful Irish organisation ever, bigger than the GAA
Connolly credits the Legion with teaching her valuable lessons on life as she delivered meals to older people in need with them when she was younger
Her predecessor, Michael D Higgins, was also involved with the Legion
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The Orange Order has released the text of the angry letter that they wrote to King Charles III in response to him praying with Pope Leo XIV
They refer to the pope as 'Robert Francis Prevost, current Pope Leo and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church' and go on to slam Charles for 'appeasement of Islam' and for entertaining Rome and its 'heretical priests' and say that his actions resemble those of a 'weak king'
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Did you know?
Dublin, Ireland has two Protestant cathedrals but no Catholic ones
In fact, it has not had a Catholic cathedral for half a millennium, highlighting the church's lack of power in Irish society over the past 500 years
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Cardinal Sarah blessing young people in Rome
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'We don't want anymore of this'
Irish priest Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne has spoken out strongly after a 10 year old girl was assaulted by a man who was given an unenforced deportation order
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'We must see life in its true light,
It is an instant between two eternities.
Time is but a mirage,
A dream,
Already God sees us in glory,
He rejoices in our everlasting bliss.
Heaven does exist,
A Heaven peopled with those who cherish me'
St. Therese of Lisieux
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US politician Lindsey Graham has threatened to make Irish people 'pay a heavy price' due to a motion seeking to have Israel's football team removed from FIFA competitions
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The Irish government is trying to DESTROY the Legion of Mary
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The Vatican has said that the alleged apparitions in Dozule in France are 'to be considered, definitively, as not supernatural'
Between 1972 and 1978, Madeleine Aumont claimed to have visions of Jesus telling her to build a large cross so that 'in this life Satan will no longer have power over them'
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'Happy the old people who after long experience and many trials reach this superior simplicity of true wisdom, which they had glimpsed from a distance in their childhood! With this meaning it can be said that a beautiful life is a thought of youth realized in maturity'
Reginald Garrigou Lagrange
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The crisis of anti Catholic violence in France has now spread into the heart of Lourdes
The Sacred Heart Church has been vandalised and graffiti 'insulting to the Catholic religion' written on it according to Le Figaro
What will it take for the French government to act?
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The United States of America will be consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in June 2026
The Catholic Bishops approved it at this week's USCCB meeting, stating that it will 'recognize the Kingship of Christ'
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Pope Leo XIV leads the Pater Noster during Mass at the Church of Sant'Anselmo on the Aventine Hill this evening
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On Veterans Day, we remember the most decorated chaplain in US history
An Irishman named Father Francis Duffy, the statue of whom stands proudly in the middle of Times Square in New York
Duffy was born in Ontario, Canada in 1871 to Patrick and Mary Duffy
His grandparents had hailed from Monaghan and Roscommon and had left Ireland during the mass starvation of the 1840s and 1850s
Duffy studied at Saint Joseph's Seminary in New York
He was an accomplished student, teacher and priest, earning a doctorate from the Catholic University of America and founding a parish in the Bronx
His later involvement in the armed forces would define his priesthood
When World War I broke out, Duffy was chaplain for the Irish American Fighting 69th Brigade, composed of men from the Bronx
Duffy was revered by the men, he accompanied them with hearing confessions and administering Last Rites
Fr. Duffy was more than just a chaplain
He was beside them in the trenches with the men and was amongst them as they fought and in many cases, died
General Douglas McArthur once said that Duffy was considered for the role of commander
Fr. Duffy was known for hosting long confession lines at the trenches and for recovering bodies from No Man's Land
Following his military career, Duffy helped politician Al Smith
Al Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for President and was subjected to horrific anti Catholicism and anti Irish racism
Smith pointed out Duffy's patriotism to critics of Catholicism
25,000 people attended his funeral in 1932
He was described as 'a priest, a scholar, a soldier. His name had become a household word, because of the nobility of his life and the valor of his deeds. Thousands looked up to him and he was venerated by many'
In 1937, a statue of Father Francis Duffy was unveiled in Times Square in New York
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The Dominican Rite on Mount Kilimanjaro
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Barstool Sports is well able to dish it out when they feel like it but cry when it comes back at them
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Cardinal Sarah blessing young people in Rome
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Anne de Gaulle was the youngest daughter of General Charles de Gaulle.
She was born in Trier, Germany, where her father was stationed with the Army of Occupation in the Rhineland.
She was born with Down Syndrome and in a time where disabled children were sent to institutions, she lived with her family until her death.There was one sacred rule in the de Gaulle household: Anne was never to be made to feel different or less than anyone else. Charles de Gaulle was noted for his reserve and even with family members he was usually not very demonstrative. Not so with his daughter Anne, who received a warmth that he had seemed to be storing for his entire life just for her. He would entertain her with songs, dances, and pantomimes, he would often act as a child himself for her joy. One Colombey resident recalled how he used to walk with her hand-in-hand around the property, caressing her and talking quietly about the things she understood. She was, he said simply, "My joy. She helped me overcome the failings in all men, and to look beyond them".
In 1948, Anne succumbed to pneumonia, a month after her 20th birthday and died in her father's arms. Upon her death, weeping, her father said: "Now, she's like the others."
On 22 August 1962, Charles de Gaulle was the victim of an attempted assassination at Petit-Clamart. He later said that the potentially fatal bullet had been stopped by the frame of the photograph of Anne that he always carried with him, placed this particular day on the rear shelf of his car.
When he died on November 9th 1970, he was buried in the cemetery of Colombey beside his beloved daughter.
She could only utter one word clearly in her entire life: "Papa"
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Today the church celebrates the mother and head of all churches
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The Florentine Diamond belonging to the Habsburg family has resurfaced after a century
It had been kept in secret for over 100 years and was placed in a bank vault in Quebec when the family was forced to flee there during World War II
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The Christian children of Gaza have resumed attending school
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Pope Leo XIV meets Robert DeNiro at the Vatican and gifts him Rosary beads.
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