Just arrived back from a visit to Ireland last Friday (18 days). We stayed in Co Leitrim up north and were able to receive the BBC that is broadcast into the Six Counties. The bitter, vitrioloc, hateful and slanderous coverage was repulsive. There was no news of the beatification of JHN, just lots of face/screen time for anti-Catholic diatribe against the Holy Father.

JHN was right in the Apologia: it is always the Catholic Church that is being opposed.

Prayed for all at Knock. EJG Catholic … [Más]

"Cardinal Ratzinger: ... And my idea is that really the springtime of the Church will not say that we will have in a near time bus loads of conversions, that all peoples of the world will be converted to Catholicism. This is not the normal way of God. The essential things in history begin always with the small, more convinced faithful communities. So, the Church begins with the 12 Apostles. And even the Church of St. Paul diffused in the Mediterranean are little communities, but this community i … [Más]

yahoo! yippee! Amen! praise the Lord!

"Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness'sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11Blessed are ye when men'shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. 12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it … [Más]