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Instead of having made a three (3) minute video advertisement entitled, “ Pope urges people to receive COVID-19 vaccines ” wouldn’t it have been truly an evangelization effort by the Pope along with several members of the Catholic hierarchy to have produced instead a video entitled, “Pope urges Catholics to receive the Sacraments and for all people to accept Our Lord Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Catholic Church”. Instead of a video being sponsored by “Get Vaccine Answers”, why not “Get Catholic Answers”? Instead of  a video being sponsored by “It’s Up to You”, why not “It’s Up to God”? Instead of  a video being sponsored by “Ad Council”, why not “Catechism of the Catholic Church”? The following is what we would have liked for them to have said instead of what they did say: POPE FRANCIS : Thanks to God’s grace and to the work of His Only Begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ who protects us from eternal damnation. He alone brings hope to end the scourge of sin, b...

On August 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption. One of the most popular tourist attractions in Vatican City, it is known for its magnificently frescoed ceilings, but it also serves an important function as the place where the cardinals meet to elect a new pope.  The chapel derives its name from the man who consecrated it: Pope Sixtus IV, who served as the Roman Pontiff from 1471 to 1484. He commissioned the restoration of the Cappella Magna, the chapel that stood where the Sistine Chapel stands today.  The artist most famously connected with the Sistine Chapel is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. However, it wasn’t until several years after a team of artists began work on the chapel, that Pope Julius II commissioned work from Michelangelo.  Between 1481 and 1482, four artists, Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli, worked on the chapel's frescoes. These artists were assisted ...

  God bless the Sisters of Life!

  The prayer was, she revealed in a 2021 interview, the Lord’s Prayer. She began reciting it daily after she became pregnant with her only child, Chloe, she said on the podcast “A Life of Greatness.” “I was close to losing her at one point,” she recalled. “I asked God to please save Chloe and, if he did, I would say the Lord’s Prayer every night for the rest of my life.” “So I have,” she said. “I think it’s a beautiful prayer. It’s a powerful prayer. I believe in prayer, I think prayer is very powerful.” Chloe was born in 1986. Newton-John learned the Lord’s Prayer as a child, she said, adding that her family attended church while her father served as the head of a Presbyterian college — Ormond College at the University of Melbourne in Australia. “I believe all the beliefs have validity and meaning to a lot of people,” she added, “but I find  that  prayer a very powerful one.” In response to her death, which came after a decades-long struggle with breast cancer, Capuchin ...

  This is unbelievable!! After Trump announced for the presidency in 2015, the FBI immediately, most likely at the Obama administrations request, bugged his Trump Towers campaign office. They knew his every move, under constant surveillance to find some violation of law for a novice candidate with thousands of pages of federal law to comply with to the absolute T. I can see them now, listening to his campaign with a federal register in hand, and they couldn’t find the first violation in thousands of pages of tricky laws. They heard all his campaign talk, just knowing they would find illegal payments, and dirty deals so common in Chicago and Democrat cities and found absolutely nothing but honest transactions to their great dismay. So, they called in Chicago raised Hillary Clinton, to set up a fool proof scheme to make Trump a crook just like them, and came up with Russian collusion to win.  A urine-soaked bed of Trump and prostitutes in Moscow, alleged by a former British spy,...

Today is the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.  Saint Clare is the founder of the Poor Clares and followed Saint Francis' example by giving up her worldly possessions to devote her life to Christ.  Today, there are over 20,000 sisters in the Order of Poor Clares worldwide.  EWTN Employee Chaplain, Father John Paul Mary, joins to talk more about Saint Clare, her life, and how and why she began following Saint Francis.  Saint Clare had a strong love of the Eucharist and is often depicted holding a Monstrance.  Father John Paul tells us the story behind that and also whether he thinks we should seek her intercession during the Eucharistic revival in the Church.  Saint Clare is considered the patron saint of television.  He explains more about why a religious sister from the 13th century is linked to a 20th century invention.  The Poor Clares are known to be contemplative.  The EWTN Employee Chaplain discusses the importance of contemplative pr...

  Over the course of the past few years, Michael Matt has been calling on mainstream conservative voices to finally admit that every crisis we face today -- culturally and politically -- is a consequence of our society's declared war against God. The Left is at war on us because the Left is at war with God. The Left is at war with the unborn because the Left is at war with the Author of Life. The Left is at war with law and order because the Left is at war with the Ten Commandments of God. And the sooner we "get real" about this, the sooner we will come up with the tools needed to defeat the agents of chaos who are at war with us, the family, and God Himself. Michael Matt has called on men such as Tucker Carlson, for example, to use their considerable influence to wake the masses to the fact that until Christ's kingship is proclaimed, the world will continue to languish in war and chaos. The good news?  Tucker Carlson declared that spiritual war on the Godless Left. I...