Jeanie Hannaman

By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register - The connections between Akita and Fatima are striking, beginning with Akita’s major message and Fatima’s “Miracle of the Sun” both taking place on Oct. 13. The day of the week was also the same — a Saturday, our Blessed Mother’s special day. Our Lady’s apparitions ended at Fatima with the Miracle of the Sun on this date in 1917; and on this same date and same day of the week in 1973, she gave her third in a series of four messages to Sister Agnes... Our Lady through Sister Agnes: “Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary. I alone am able still to save you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their confidence in me will be saved.”

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - When Milwaukee’s Archbishop Jerome Listecki delivered the invocation for the Republican National Convention last month, he began with an appropriate challenge to all American politicians, reminding them: “Our Founding Fathers held the truth self-evident that all are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Thus, subtly but unmistakably, he put the right to life in the first paragraph of his prayer. ...

By Charles A. Coulombe, OnePeterFive - The arrival of St. Junípero Serra and the Spanish in 1769 changed this picture considerably.  With additional meats, vegetables, and grain, the standard of living of the Mission Indians rose considerably. By 1821, twenty missions were founded, in a mostly coastal chain from San Diego to San Rafael, with a 21st being founded under Mexican rule at Sonoma two years later.  Two cities were founded – Los Angeles and San Jose – and four presidios or forts at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco.