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December 14, 2017

Is Political Islam Worse Than Nazi or Communist Totalitarianism? Ask St. John Paul II.

By John Zmirak, The Stream - Don’t Listen to Britain First, But to St. John Paul II A few days ago, I cited a credible report that in 1993 St. John Paul II shared with a priest friend a vision received in prayer. Just three short years after the collapse of Communist totalitarianism, John Paul saw a horrible future: An almost childless Europe overwhelmed by the mass influx of intolerant Muslims. Its churches were turned to mosques, its believers persecuted.

December 14, 2017

Father Andrew Apostoli Remembered as a ‘Bright Beacon of Light’

By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News - Father Apostoli was known to EWTN viewers who welcomed him into their homes for almost 25 years. This year marked his golden anniversary as a priest. He was ordained a priest to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin March 16, 1967, at St. Francis de Sales Church in Geneva, New York, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

December 13, 2017

Evangelical Mega-Church Leads Congregation in Consecration to Sacred Heart of Jesus Prayer

By ChurchPOP Editor - This is certainly surprising! During a recent Friday night service, a pastor at New Life Church, an evangelical Protestant megachurch in Colorado Springs, CO, reportedly led the congregation in something you wouldn’t normally expect: the Sign of the Cross and a prayer of a consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

December 13, 2017

Advent and Melancholy

By Dr. Glenn C. Arbery, The Imaginative Conservative - Nothing breaks through melancholy like a baby... Advent, from one point of view, is all about breaking open a text that has gone dead; it’s about the promise lying all along beneath all the words, words, words of the Scripture that for many had become cold and dry and legalistic over two thousand years ago.