Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

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Maundy Thursday: What is Christ's love we are called to imitate?
St. John admonishes that we must “not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.”
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Michael Haynes
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Pope Francis’ shock untidy appearance in Vatican: Was it intentional?
The timing and manner of his guest-starring appearance in the Vatican today will have reminded the Roman Curia just how hard to pin down, or predict…
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Michael Haynes
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Theodore McCarrick dies at 94. What damage did he cause?
Catholics are now urged to pray for his soul, and also for the souls of all those who may have turned their back on the Church due to McCarrick’s…
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Michael Haynes
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March 2025

Pope Francis in hospital: the truth, the half-truths and the future
With at least two months of isolated recovery, Pope Francis faces a completely new era of his pontificate after emerging from a 38-day hospitalization.
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Michael Haynes
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St. Joseph: Patron of the house at Nazareth and the Church today
St. Matthew’s Gospel records how St. Joseph “did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him” – a phrase not just applicable to his decision to take the…
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Michael Haynes
Cardinal Pell, Bishop Álvarez point to the power of prayer
“God writes straight with crooked lines, and given that I was sentenced to jail, I do regard it as a gift and a grace” said Cardinal Pell
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Michael Haynes
St. Joseph: Patron of the Church, guardian of God's ‘choicest treasures’
God chose Joseph as lord and chief of His household and possessions, the guardian of His choicest treasures, wrote Pope Pius IX.
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Michael Haynes
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February 2025

The Church's Latin Mass as the 'vast river of Tradition'
A “new generation of children of the Church” are indeed nourished by “the vast river of Tradition” which is found in the traditional Mass.
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Michael Haynes
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Pius XII: Our Lady of Lourdes calls world to heed the truths of Faith
'The Virgin invites us to the blessed grotto in her Divine Son's name for the conversion of our hearts and in the hope of forgiveness. Will we heed…
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Michael Haynes
Leo XIII: Holy Family is model for every Christian family
Every Christian ‘might easily, if he would but give heed to it, have before him a motive and a pattern for the good life,’ wrote Pope Leo XIII.
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Michael Haynes

January 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Burke on Latin Mass ‘persecution’ & need for ‘profound reform’ in Church
'Fundamental to the true reform of the Church will be a return to sound catechesis and also the discipline of persons who are teaching things that are…
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Michael Haynes
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The espousal of Mary and Joseph - a most perfect union
“All the treasures of God and of the Saints were in Mary,” says the Seraphic Doctor St. Bonaventure of the holy union between Mary and Joseph.
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Michael Haynes
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