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May 29, 2019

Our Lady Tells America: ‘Do Whatever He Tells You’, by Justin McClain

By Justin McClain, National Catholic Register - Why does humanity need Mary's intercession now more than ever?Humanity needs Mary now more than ever, because despite the numerous Marian apparitions over hundreds of years, we continue to ignore her urgent messages of penance and conversion. Again and again, she has pleaded for us to turn to her Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart of her Son, and instead we turn away. Add to that the increasing and alarming devaluation of women and motherhood, and the desecration of marriage and family as a sacred institution.

May 28, 2019

Msgr. Charles Pope: Four Gifts of Grace – A Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter

Msgr. Charles Pope - Here is a fundamental theology of grace: keeping the commandments and mandates of the Lord’s Word is the fruit of His love, not the cause of it. The Lord says that if you love Him, the keeping of the commandments is sure to follow. Note that we do not initiate this love, God does. Scripture says, “We love because he first Loved us”… No one can give what he does not have, and no one can possess what he has not received. God is the author and initiator of love. Love always starts with Him. The Lord is not setting up some sort of loyalty test here, as if He were saying, “If you love me, prove it by keeping my commandments.”

May 28, 2019

Fr. Paul D. Scalia: An Inheritance of Peace

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, First Things - A man facing death sets his affairs in order. He makes arrangements so that his heirs will be well provided for upon his death. This is what our Lord does at the Last Supper. Making the final preparations before His Crucifixion, He leaves an inheritance to the Apostles and through them to the entire Church. Thus He gives us the Eucharist, the new commandment of love (the mandatum), the priesthood, etc.

May 28, 2019

Radical Islamist Compounds in New Mexico, Alabama Were Training Children to Carry Out Terrorist Attacks, by Rachel Alexander

By Rachel Alexander, The Stream - No one’s paying much attention. Not enough attention, that is, for places in this country dedicated to training people to attack Americans. Radical Islamic training camps are popping up around the country… Earlier this month, the FBI discovered a jihadist compound in Macon County, Alabama. It was led by Siraj Wahhaj, who ran a similar camp in Taos County, New Mexico last year. The occupants of both engaged in terrorist training.