Rapping Catholic Priest hits Brisbane

From Brisbane Times:
A rapping Catholic priest from New York will be “wording it up” to the converted in Brisbane tonight and Sydney on Sunday.
Father Stan Fortuna, from New York’s South Bronx district, brings his Activ8 concerts to warm up Australia prior to the World Youth Day event in Sydney in July next year.
Father Stan is [...]

Vatican Treasures Found In Illinois House?

From CBS Channel 2 in Chicago:
There’s something strange going on in a west suburban neighborhood. As CBS 2’s Rafael Romo reports, rumors are flying that priceless art from the Vatican may be inside a Berwyn home.“By the time I came home from work the place was just swarming with police inside and out and they’ve [...]

Search Inside My Novena Book

I would recommend taking a look inside my novena prayer book and reading the history behind some of these prayers…
Go to…
The Church’s Most Powerful Novenas
Then do a search of:
St. Gaspar
Rosary Novena
Mother Teresa’s Quick Novena
I think you’ll be impressed and see that this isn’t your normal prayer book.

"I was ill and now I am cured"

The irony that the miracle would be a cure from Parkinsons, from which the pope suffered himself, horribly.
From Monsters and Critics:
‘I was ill and now I am cured,’ French Catholic nun Sister Marie Simon-Pierre said Friday as she recounted how praying to the late Pope John Paul II helped cure her of Parkinson’s disease in [...]

The Way of the Cross from Brooklyn to Manhattan

From The Brooklyn Paper:
Walking from Brooklyn to Manhattan is always an experience. On April 6, however, a procession over the bridge will be a religious one.
The Catholic lay group Communion and Liberation will, for the 12th year, bring the “Good Friday Way of the Cross Procession” from St. James Cathedral to St. Peter’s in Lower [...]

Hearing Confessions

From Zenit:
The Holy Father presented the penitential service as “an encounter around the cross, a celebration of the mercy of God that each of us can experience personally in the sacrament of confession.” “In the heart of every person,” there is “thirst for love,” the Pope said in the homily. “The Christian cannot live without [...]

Mystery nun the key to Pope John Paul II’s case for sainthood

From the Guardian Unlimited:
The nun’s identity is supposed to be a closely guarded secret, but a French newspaper named her last night as Marie-Simon-Pierre. On its website, Le Figaro said she was from a congregation near Aix-en-Provence, and worked in a maternity clinic in Paris. Slawomir Oder, a Polish cleric living in Rome who is [...]

Schiavo Brother Denounces Bishop

From the North Country Gazzette:
“Speaking on behalf of my family, my intention was to write you a letter subsequent to my sister Terri Schiavo’s death in order to explain to you why I hold you more accountable for her horrific death than Michael Schiavo, his attorney, and even the judge that ordered her to die.
“In [...]

Latest Rumor on Motu Proprio

From a friend in Rome, who says that a respected female professor who had an audience with the pope, and asked specifically about the release of the Motu Proprio, reports to me that she was told by Pope Benedict XVI that it was coming “in May.”

Catholic Nuns Murdered in Iraq

From Breitbart

Words of Benedict Anger Left

Do a blog search of “hell” and you’ll find those who claim that the Pope has put us back into the dark ages because he uttered this truth of the Christian faith:
Jesus came to say that he wishes all [to be] in Heaven and that hell, which is barely spoken of in our age, exists [...]

Of Churches Closing

Sad to see that such fine churches as this:can’t be saved.
Places: St. Nicholas is spared, but what about its windows?

Solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord

Patronal Feast of this blog…
ANGELUS (Latin)
V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae.R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.
Ave Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus. * Sancta Maria, Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
V. Ecce ancilla Domini,R. Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum.
Ave Maria, [...]

In Michigan, Disappearing Parishioners–Deported Ones

Hundreds of parishioners are gone; Albanian immigrants deported

Open Book/ Annunciations Bestseller’s List

Our Bestseller’s List
What Books People who Read Amy’s Open Book blog and Michael’s Annunciation blog are buying this month.
March 2007 (3/25/07)
1. A Pocket Guide to the Meaning of Life (Peter Kreeft)
2. The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History
3 (tie) Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths
3. (tie)A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction
3. [...]