A question recently posed to The Fatima Center asked whether Catholics may swear an oath on a Protestant Bible. For instance, in a court of law, would a Catholic have to refuse the Protestant Bible and insist on swearing the oath only on the Vulgate or the Douay-Rheims or another approved Catholic Bible? What does [...]
The Fatima Center wishes you a blessed and happy Thanksgiving. An Autumn Festival Have you ever wondered why it’s traditional to eat turkey at Thanksgiving? It may surprise you to learn that its origins, like many other cultural customs, are found in Catholicism. Most Americans know the story about the Puritan Pilgrims who came aboard [...]
An unfortunate slander sometimes hurled against Traditional Roman Catholics who keep the 1962 Liturgical Calendar (or the ones previous) is that they are not keeping the same calendar which Christ’s Church on earth keeps. The claim that the Novus Ordo’s 1969 Calendar (with subsequent modifications since then) is the only calendar which all Catholics must follow [...]
Written By Miriam Gruner Co-Sponsoring an International Catholic Conference The Fatima Center was a sponsor of the Rome Life Forum Conference organized by LifeSiteNews. This conference was a 2-day strategy session held immediately after the Vatican’s “Synod on Synodality,” which, among other evils, threatens to formalize heretical teachings on the family and on the Church. [...]
Editor’s Note: Readers are also encouraged to view an episode of Ask Father with Fr. Albert Kalio which addressed this same question. Also, Crucifixion to Creation, a book by Father James Mawdsley, is an excellent resource for understanding the Old and New Testament roots of the Mass. What Is the Mass? “If we really understood [...]
A Question Recently Received Q: I was recently talking about the evils of the Ouija board and had a flashback to when I was young. I remember my sister and I were at a friend’s house and they were playing with a Ouija board. We did not play with it, but we were there. Is [...]
J.M.J. Taken from Special Report Winter 2023 (LF462) It was shortly after the onset of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union – Russia being its largest nation state, and the instrument of chastisement chosen by God to punish mankind for its crimes – that Father Harold V. Colgan, pastor of [...]
J.M.J. Taken from Special Report Winter 2023 (LF462) On May 13, 1967, the 50th anniversary of Our Lady’s first apparition at Fatima, 25 Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima statues were blessed by Pope Paul VI. Each of the statues, hand carved from wood, was assigned to a different country for the purpose of being used as [...]
The holy souls in Purgatory are especially dear to God since their love for Him is rapidly being brought to its perfection, being purified day and night, hour by hour. Their prayers for our needs are thus very powerful, though these Poor Souls are helpless in regard to their own sufferings. The Church’s Liturgy of [...]
“I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and in sight of the Lamb.” The Church places some saints before us for our consideration and devotion on every day of the year, that we may give them particular honor and [...]
J.M.J. November is the month dedicated to remembering the Poor Souls in Purgatory. A whole month specifically set aside for this one purpose should tell us just how important it is for the members of the Church Militant to help the members of the Church Suffering. The souls in Purgatory are very dear to our [...]
A crucial but forgotten part of living a liturgical life as a Catholic is living the vigils of the liturgical year. What Are Vigils? Some feasts have vigils associated with them. The term “vigil” is used in several ways. It most properly refers to an entire day before a major feast day (e.g., the Vigil [...]