Catholic Church

Fr. Richard Heilman, Roman Catholic Man - On September 23, 2017, we will see the constellation Virgo with the sun rise directly behind it (the woman clothed with the sun). These events transpire during the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of “the woman clothed in the sun,” Our Lady at Fatima in 1917. What does it mean?

By Pete Baklinski, LifeSiteNews - Seifert’s removal was not simply “discrimination,” but an “official persecution based on a papal document.”… “By officially punishing a Catholic thinker for the sole crime of being orthodox, (Professor Claudio Pierantoni) unwittingly confirms, and throws into clear relief, the practical schism we are suffering from in the Catholic Church, because of grave errors that have managed to creep into a papal document”…

By Gary Zimak, Catholic Exchange - Every day we are bombarded with news about terrorism, natural disasters, war and many other threats. While it’s not necessarily a bad thing, advanced technology now makes it possible for weather forecasters to alert us to the possibility of tornadoes and hurricanes weeks in advance. In the same way, the popularity of the Internet makes it difficult to escape from “bad news”. It often seems like there is no place to hide…

By Keiji Murayama, The Asahi Shimbun - Foreign pilgrims are flocking in their thousands to a remote Catholic convent chapel here in far northern Japan to see a statue of the Madonna that once shed tears... “We are often asked how to reach the Handmaids of the Eucharist,” said a staff member at the tourist information center in JR Akita Station... The wooden statue is said to have shed tears on 101 occasions, the last time being in 1981.