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By Br. Stephen, MIC, Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception - When the name of Teresa of Avila comes to mind, many people think first of her great spiritual work, The Interior Castle. Teresa herself, with her high degree of mental prayer, seems like a kind of interior castle: She is hidden, concealed from the average Catholic by high and fortified walls which are (more obscurely still) spiritual walls. Even St. Therese of Lisieux, her fellow Carmelite, was initially put off by the grand portrayal she was given of Teresa of Avila, choosing instead her well-known “little way.”

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - In the last 50 or 60 years in the United States we too have had a revolution – not a political revolution (though it has had a great impact on our politics), but a cultural or moral revolution: the so-called Sexual Revolution.  Beginning sometime in the 1960s, that decade when there was a generalized rebellion of young persons against the authority of older persons, sexual taboos that had been generally accepted for decades, if not centuries, were suddenly tossed out the window and replaced with a spirit of sexual permissiveness.

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - Lúcia, the eldest of the visionaries, reported this about the apparition that day in relation to St. Joseph, who had not been part of the earlier apparitions: "Then opening her hands, she (Our Lady) made them reflect on the sun, and as she ascended, the reflection of her light continued to be projected on the sun itself. ... When a little later, this apparition disappeared I saw Our Lord and Our Lady. ... Our Lord appeared to bless the world in the same manner as St. Joseph had done."

By  Michael J. Matt, Editor, The Remnant - Today, as what's left of Christendom faces another kind of annihilation, where is the pope? Not only will Francis not call a crusade against the evil of atheistic globalism, but -- incredibly -- he's joined forces with them. What's the solution? The same as it was 450 years ago. The men and women and Christendom must form a new Holy League, take rosary in hand, and stand against the enemies of the Cross...whether Francis likes it or not.