A BLESSED FEAST OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA TO YOU! On this 106th anniversary of Her first apparition, May 13, 1917, The Fatima Center staff wishes you, dear devotee of Our Lady of Fatima, a blessed feast day! Appearing “more brilliant than the sun,” Our Lady announced to Lucia dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta [...]
Who Was Jan Hus? Jan Hus (also known as John Huss) was a Czech religious philosopher, university professor, and theologian who lived in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. He was born in Husinec, Bohemia (which is part of the modern-day Czech Republic) around 1369 AD and he died on July 6, 1415, in [...]
On Thursday, May 11, join thousands of pro-life champions, along with Fatima Center staff and volunteers and the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Canada, to STAND FIRM for life and unite in procession at Canada’s annual National March for Life in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, Ontario. 10 A.M.: The Pilgrim Virgin Statue will be at the Traditional Mass [...]
Like their American, Mexican, and Spanish peers, Catholics in modern-day Italy were not immune from the growing anti-Catholicism of the 1800s. The Papacy of Pope Pius IX Amid Growing Anti-Catholicism Pope Pius IX led the Church from 1846 to 1878, an eventful 32-year papacy. This was a time of wars among the countries of Europe,[1] [...]
Today is the eighth anniversary of Father Gruner’s passing, on April 29, 2015. Our hearts are still filled with warm affection for this most zealous priest of Jesus Christ, as well as with gratitude and admiration for his tireless labors in the Fatima Apostolate which was his life’s work. So profoundly like his Divine Master [...]
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered: and let them that hate Him flee from before His Face. Psalm 67:2 Over the past few decades, we have seen a dramatic rise in occult and satanic activity. As the Enemy grows ever more brazen and bold, he emerges from the shadows in which he [...]
Witches Night in New England On the weekend of April 28th to April 30th, The Satanic Temple—one of the two principal manifestations of organized Satanism in the United States today—will hold its second annual national conference in that major American city most identified, historically, with the Catholic Faith. The sold-out event, marketed as “the largest Satanic [...]
Who Was Father Lamennais? Simply put, Father Lamennais is most recognized today by the epithet ‘Father of Modernism.’ Father Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais was a Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, and political theorist. He lived from 1782 to 1854 in France. This was a turbulent time. France had suffered terribly from the French Revolution, the ideas [...]
Read Part One: A Guide to Mexican Anti-Catholicism in the 1800s G.K. Chesterton famously said “Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died.” This reflects the 20th century history of Mexico. Chesterton continues that quote with “Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had [...]
One very controversial eschatological topic today is the identity of the “Katechon” (Greek for “Restrainer”) of 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7. The Restrainer is the one holding back the Antichrist. “And now you know what withholds, that he [Antichrist] may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already works; only that he who now [...]
“In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). A History of Bloodshed and Revolution Often untaught to children today, Catholics were extremely persecuted in Mexico during the early 1900s because of the rise of the atheistic government in Mexico, which was seeking to secularize the country [...]
The 1903 Conclave that elected Pope St. Pius X was the scene of an almost-entirely undiscussed historical event – the near election of Cardinal Rampolla as the Vicar of Christ. This forgotten episode of Catholic history should not be lost to history. It contains many valuable lessons. Who Was Cardinal Rampolla? Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro [...]