Nepotism Yet Again? Today, Pope Leo XIV named his long-time Spanish friend, the 64-year-old Augustinian bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, as the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity. The two men lived in the same Augustinian community in Rome for five years, during which time the future pope was serving as prior general of the order. In 2008, Father Prevost asked Father Marín to come to Rome to manage the order’s general archives. When Bishop Prevost later served as bishop of Chiclayo, Father Marín visited him in Peru on several occasions.
In addition to approximately 1,400 Iranian casualties, the aggression against Iran has already claimed more than 560 US military casualties. According to the IRGC, 560 US soldiers have been killed and wounded in strikes on US bases in the region, and the attacks continue. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced the deaths and injuries of at least 560 US soldiers as a result of a series of Iranian attacks on US bases in the Middle East. The IRGC statement, published by the Fars news agency, said that US forces in Bahrain were attacked with two ballistic missiles, while other bases were repeatedly attacked, resulting in numerous casualties among US soldiers, RIA Novosti reports. Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, in turn, stressed that Iran has no intention of attacking countries in the region, but is attacking exclusively US bases, which it considers US territory. He also assured that the attacks would continue as long as these facilities …More
Laura Trott, a Tory MP, has written to Education Secretary Brigette Phillipson DEMANDING she retract the advice given to schools claiming children should not draw Jesus for fear of offending Muslims
Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes Absolutely INSANE : Senator Josh Hawley says US Government “loses” $115 million dollars EVERY HOUR “$1 TRILLION in taxpayer money is lost to fraud every year — That’s $115 million an hour” “Where's this money going — It went to NGO fronts — California gave away billions of dollars to a pro-Hamas NGO. A trillion dollars, naturally. Where's this money going to? — It goes to drugs, it goes to terrorism, and then it's used to purchase luxury items, cars, purses, homes. That's all funded by people like me that pay taxes” “There is so much fraud right now in the benefit programs all across the country”
DOGE showed us how the government wastes our money. I believe there should be a Catholic Church version of DOGE to see how the church wastes our donations.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, confirmed the Holy See is promoting a negotiated solution for Cuba following meetings with Cuban and United States officials.
EWTN Bombshell: the Vatican’s former financial auditor reveals new details about the financial irregularities he and Cardinal George Pell uncovered while working at the Vatican in 2016.
“Chapter XVIII ~ Pains of Purgatory — St. Perpetua — St. Gertrude — St. Catherine of Genoa — Brother John de Via. As we have already said, the pain of sense has different degrees of intensity. It is less terrible for those souls that have no grievous sins to atone for, or who, having already completed the most rigorous part of their expiation, approach the moment of their deliverance. Many of those souls suffer then no more than the pain of loss, and even begin to perceive the first rays of heavenly glory, and to have a foretaste of beatitude. When St. Perpetua saw her young brother Dinocrates in Purgatory, the child did not seem to be subjected to any cruel torture. The illustrious martyr herself writes the account of this vision in her prison at Carthage, where she was confined for the faith of Christ during the persecution under Septimus Severus in the year 205. Purgatory appeared to her under the figure of an arid desert, where she saw her brother Dinocrates who had died at the …More
"Know that, thanks to the Divine mercy, I am in the place of salvation, among those predestined for Heaven — the light which surrounds me is a proof of this. Yet I am not worthy to see the face of God on account of an omission which remains to be expiated. During my mortal life I omitted, through my own fault, and that several times, to recite the Office for the Dead, when it was prescribed by the Rule. I beseech you, my dear brother, for the love you bear Jesus Christ, to say those offices in such a manner that my debt may be paid, and I may go to enjoy the vision of my God."
The Church in Mexico offered a solemn Mass of reparation on March 11 after the desecration of the Metropolitan Tabernacle of San Luis Potosí during demonstrations marking International Women’s Day.
Venerable Concetta Bertoli - March 11 She developed a form of arthritis that began to deform her body. She was referred to as the living crucifix of Mereto di Tomba.
11 marzo Venerabile Concetta Bertoli, Terziaria Francescana. by irapuato on Mar 11, 2014
Home of the Brave - Trump: "Kamala would get us into World War III…All of your sons and d... Trump: "Kamala would get us into World War III…All of your sons and daughters will end up getting a draft notice, a thing called the draft. 'Dad, what's this?' 'Oh, congratulations, you've been drafted into the military. You're going to fight a war.'" …
[Father Dom Lorenzo Scupoli – XVI-XVII Century AD; Otranto, Kingdom of Naples/Naples, Kingdom of Naples; (aged 79-80); Priest; Spiritual Writer] “Chapter X ~ Of the Exercise of the Will, and the end to which all our actions, whether Interior or Exterior, should tend. Besides this necessary exercise of the understanding, you must so regulate your will that it may not be left to follow its own desires, but may be in all things conformed to the Divine pleasure. And remember, that it is not enough only to strive after those things which are most pleasing to God; but you must so will them, and so do them, as moved thereto by Him, and with a view to please Him alone. In this exercise of the will, even more than in that of the understanding, we shall meet with strong opposition from nature, which seeks itself and its own ease and pleasure in all things; but especially in such as are holy and spiritual. It delights itself in these, feeding greedily upon them as upon wholesome food. As soon, …More
"Thus, when we choose or refuse anything for our own interest and satisfaction, we often imagine that we are choosing or refusing it in the hope of pleasing, or in the fear of displeasing, God. The true and effectual remedy for this delusion is purity of heart, which consists in this - which is indeed the aim and object of all this spiritual warfare - the putting othe old man, and the putting on the new. And to this end, seeing you are full of self, take care in the beginning of every action to free yourself as much as possible from all admixture of anything which seems to be your own. Choose nothing, do nothing, refuse nothing, unless you first feel yourself moved and drawn thereto by the pure and simple will of God."