"woe to me if I do not preach it" (2/4, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

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• World Day of the Sick: A Reflection (Catholic Stand, 1/29/24)

• Catholics and Cremation - Not too fast! (Catholic365, 1/28/24)

• Can We Be Frank About the Catholic School Crisis? (Cardinal Newman Society, 1/26/24)

• Address to the Roman Rota (Pope Francis, 1/25/24)
• From Pope Leo’s Arcanum to 2013 – Part 1, 2 (Catholic Stand, 10/2022)

• Catholics request security after Hindu radicals assault churches in central India (Crux, 1/25/24)

• How Security Forces’ “cow humanization” Code Led to Massive Christian Deaths in Nigeria (aciafrica, 1/23/24)
• "Nigeria security forces responded more swiftly to the killing of cows owned by Muslim jihadists than they did when Christians and other non-Muslims were killed, a current report by a Human Rights group in the West African country has revealed."

• Cardinal Zen calls for resignation of doctrinal prefect (Our Sunday Visitor, 1/23/24)

• Is war “in itself” immoral? (Catholic World Report, 1/19/24)
• Just War & Who Declares War (Catholic365, 1/27/24)
• Are there "well founded prospects of success" for Ukraine against Russia? (Catholic365, 1/1/24)

• A Clerical Abuse Survivor's Response to Cardinal Fernández's Book, "The Mystical Passion" (Ruth Institute, 1/17/24)

• A Princeton humanities project shares a vast digital 'Miracles of Mary’ collection of centuries-old African stories and art (Princeton University, 12/20/23)

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CatholicVote Campaigns

Truth is Unchanging, Available, & More Accessible than Ever! God Has NOT Forgotten Us (Catholic Stand, 1/2/24) Let us all pray that this year's World Marriage Day (2/14), National Marriage Week (2/7 - 14), & NFP Awareness Week are each enthusiastically embraced by the Church in Pa & NJ. (Catholic365, 1/12/23)

2/21, St Peter Damien 2/14, Ash Wednesday 2/3, St Blaise 2/2, The Presen-tation 1/31, Saint John Bosco

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"If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts"(1/28, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time).

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• Betrayed Without a Kiss: A Closer Look at the Divorce Mandate (National Catholic Register, 1/18/24)

• EXCLUSIVE: Religious Freedom Advocates Demand Answers on State Department’s Exclusion of Nigeria, India From Persecution List (DailySignal, 1/17/24)

• Quebec man pleads guilty to setting 14 forest fires—Trudeau claimed it was climate change (The Post Millennial, 1/16/24)  

• More Confusion About Same-Sex Blessings (First Things, 1/15/24)

• Tell your bishop to prohibit the “blessing” of sinful unions in your diocese

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CatholicVote Campaigns

Truth is Unchanging, Available, & More Accessible than Ever! God Has NOT Forgotten Us (Catholic Stand, 1/2/24) Let us all pray that this year's World Marriage Day (2/14), National Marriage Week (2/7 - 14), & NFP Awareness Week are each enthusiastically embraced by the Church in Pa & NJ. (Catholic365, 1/12/23)

221, St Peter Damien 2/14, Ash Wednesday 2/3, St Blaise 2/2, The Presen-tation 1/31, Saint John Bosco 1/24, St. Francis de Sales & My Favorite Male Saints

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"Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed" (1/21, 3rd Sunday)

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Jonah's journey started from about here in Israel, near Joppa/Tel Aviv.  As God also calls us to repent, let's do so while we have time!

• National March for Life in DC, 1/19
• Catholics for Catholics to attend March for Life and the National Prayer Service (Catholics for Catholics, 1/10/24)

• USCCB President’s Statement in Observance of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2024 

• The Conductor: Lessons from Dietrich von Hildebrand’s battle against Hitler (Catholic World Report, 1/13/24)
• "Dietrich von Hildebrand published The Devastated Vineyard in 1973, a pointed analysis of the troubled state of the Church fifty years ago" (Rev Gerald Murray, 8/9/2023). 
• Von Hildebrand was a Fabulous Defender of the Faith! (Amazon review, 11/25/2007)
  

• Vatican’s Doctrinal Office Preparing ‘Very Important Document on Human Dignity,’ Cardinal Fernández Says (National Catholic Register, 1/13/24)

• Antisemitic incidents in U.S. up by more than 350% since start of Israel-Hamas war  (Catholic News Agency, 1/12/24)

• Tinkering around the edges of fragile neighborhoods (Catholic World Report, 1/12/24)

• A Doctor Blew The Whistle On His Hospital’s Transgender Clinic. Now The Feds Are Trying To Ruin His Life (The Daily Wire, 1/10/24)

• Tell your bishop to prohibit the “blessing” of sinful unions in your diocese

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• Thousands of Christians in Nigeria rally to demand action after Christmas massacres (Catholic World Report, 1/9/24)

• Horror in Nigeria: Christians stoned, slaughtered as world looks the other way (Washington Times, 1/3/24)
• Biden Admin Ignores Calls to Add Nigeria to Religious Persecution Watchlist (CatholicVote org, 1/5/24)

• Are there "well founded prospects of success" for Ukraine against Russia? (Catholic365, 1/1/24)

Truth is Unchanging, Available, & More Accessible than Ever! God Has NOT Forgotten Us (Catholic Stand, 1/2/24) Let us all pray that this year's National March for Life (Jan 19), World Marriage Day (2/14), National Marriage Week (2/7 - 14), & NFP Awareness Week are each enthusiastically embraced by the Church in Pa & NJ. (Catholic365, 1/12/23)

2/21, St Peter Damien 2/14, Ash Wednesday 2/3, St Blaise 2/2, The Presen-tation 1/31, Saint John Bosco 1/24, St. Francis de Sales & My Favorite Male Saints

 

P.S. Don't turn away from slaughter!

• Thousands of Christians in Nigeria rally to demand action after Christmas massacres (Catholic World Report, 1/9/24)

• Horror in Nigeria: Christians stoned, slaughtered as world looks the other way (Washington Times, 1/3/24)
• Biden Admin Ignores Calls to Add Nigeria to Religious Persecution Watchlist (CatholicVote org, 1/5/24)

"your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1/14, 2nd Sunday)

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Jesus’ Baptism – Part of His Epiphany to Us!

Cana – Part of His Epiphany to Us

• Biden Admin Ignores Calls to Add Nigeria to Religious Persecution Watchlist (CatholicVote org, 1/5/24)

Truth is Unchanging, Available, & More Accessible than Ever! God Has NOT Forgotten Us (Catholic Stand, 1/2/24) Let us all pray that this year's National March for Life (Jan 19), World Marriage Day (2/14), National Marriage Week (2/7 - 14), & NFP Awareness Week are each enthusiastically embraced by the Church in Pa & NJ. (Catholic365, 1/12/23)

2/21, St Peter Damien 2/14, Ash Wednesday 2/3, St Blaise 2/2, The Presen-tation 1/31, Saint John Bosco 1/24, St. Francis de Sales & My Favorite Male Saints

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1/7, The Epiphany

Cana – Part of His Epiphany to Us

Jesus’ Baptism – Part of His Epiphany to Us!

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"The...Epiphany in the Roman church also acknowledges the baptism and the wedding at Cana: 'Three mysteries mark this holy day: today the star leads the magi to the infant Christ; today water is changed into wine for the wedding feast; today Christ wills to be baptized by John in the river Jordan to bring us salvation' (Liturgy of the Hours, Evening Prayer II, Epiphany)" 

(The Epiphany: Christ revealed, 

Our Sunday Visitor, 1/2/19).

• Truth is Unchanging, Available, & More Accessible than Ever! God Has NOT Forgotten Us (Catholic Stand, 1/2/24)
• Let us all pray that this year's National March for Life (Jan 19), World Marriage Day (2/14), National Marriage Week (2/7 - 14), & NFP Awareness Week are each enthusiastically embraced by the Church in Pa & NJ.

• Are there "well founded prospects of success" for Ukraine against Russia? (Catholic365, 1/1/24) 

• January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month

• Here’s where Christians continued to face persecution in 2023 (Catholic World Report, 12/30/23)

• Pope Francis Under Fire from Black Christians for Allowing Gay Blessings (Thomas Williams, PhD, 12/30/2023)

• If Dioceses Can Opt-Out of Fiducia Supplians, Why Hasn’t Your Bishop? (ComplicitClergy, 12/29/23)

• ‘Benedict trusted Francis. But he was bitterly disappointed,’ biographer says in new interview (CNA, 12/29/2023)
• Some memories of the magnificent Benedict XVI...
• Jesus of Nazareth, Volume 3 (8/7/2014, Amazon) 
• Jesus of Nazareth, Volume 2 (5/8/2016, Amazon)
• Jesus of Nazsreth, Volume 1 (4/20/13, Amazon)
• The Spirit of the Liturgy (8/8/2015, Amazon)
• excerpts from "Spe Salvi" (encyclical on Christian Hope)
• excerpts from Deus Caritas Est (encyclical on Christian Love)
• excerpts from Caritas in Veritate (9/6/10, Amazon)
• The New Pagans and the Church (Father Joseph Ratzinger, 1958)