Diocese of Crookston Ends Sunday Mass in 11% of Parishes

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Diocese of Crookston Ends Sunday Mass in 11% of Parishes

The Diocese of Crookston in Minnesota announced that seven parishes will cease celebrating Sunday Mass in the coming months due to factors including a shortage of priests, lack of young people in religious formation, and trouble finding parish volunteers. “The decision to stop having Sunday Mass at a church is amongst the most difficult decisions that have to be made,” said Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston in a video announcement. “The parish church, as we know, is the center of life — the center of our faith life for so many people, often for generations,” he said. “Itʼs the place where we most frequently live our relationship with God. Itʼs the place where the Mass is celebrated, especially on Sundays.” Four parishes in the Northeast Deanery of the diocese, including St. Francis Xavier in Oklee, St. Ann in Goodridge, St. Philip in Falun, and St. Mary in Badger, will celebrate their final Sunday Masses in August and September. Continue reading at National Catholic Register Post …

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Shielding Against EMP - The Complete Guide to Protecting Your Electronics - Ask a Prepper

An EMP does not care how prepared you think you are. It does not knock politely, it does not give warning, and it does not discriminate between a hundred-dollar radio and a ten-thousand-dollar solar setup. If your gear is not shielded when it hits, you are running on whatever survives, and that number could be close to zero. This guide breaks down every real shielding method that works, from a metal trash can in your garage to a whole-house protection device wired into your panel. No filler, no theory for theory’s sake. The Congressional EMP Commission has spent years documenting how exposed the grid and civilian electronics really are, and the short version is simple: shielding is not optional if you want anything electronic to work after the event. What an EMP Actually Does to Your Gear A nuclear-generated EMP produces three distinct pulses, and each one attacks differently. E1 is the fast component, a sharp spike that hits in nanoseconds and fries unprotected circuit boards, chips,…

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How to Build a Faraday Cage in a Mobile Home

Taken from livestream of Christ the King-St. Stephen Parish in diocese of Oakland, California, on July 22, 2026

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JULY 24, 2026: 78% OF U.S. BISHOPS DON'T WANT TO ORDAIN GAY PRIESTS? REALLY?

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Blessed Charbel Makhlouf and Catholic Lebanon’s Medieval Charm

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Saint of the Day, Monday, January 31, 1972
Saint Charbel Makhlouf (1828-1898) was beatified 5 December 1965 and canonized 9 October 1977.
I noticed that Blessed Charbel Makhlouf’s biography is relatively poor because — I seem to glimpse — his story is one of the fully normal developments. Imagine someone writing the history of a country that developed perfectly in all its stages and reached its fullness normally, without any hindrance or trouble. However brilliant and magnificent, that story would fit into a little space.
We can see that Blessed Charbel Makhlouf never faltered nor had any problem. As his countenance indicates, his sanctification was exceptional, powerful, and continual. If you can use this expression, he was a bulldozer of holiness. As his face shows, he faced the cross head on and corresponded until he dropped dead. I want to project his picture, so you understand that well.
We realize that his sanctification must have occurred amid storms and …More

Why God Sometimes Allows Spiritual Darkness
During times of spiritual difficulty and purification, it may feel like God has abandoned us, but this is not the case. God allows us to experience these feelings to purify us of selfishness and strengthen our virtues. Like Mother Teresa, we should focus on loving and serving others, even when we don’t feel God’s presence, because He is always with us, guiding us towards sainthood.
The journey to holiness involves four stages: the active and passive nights of the senses, and the active and passive nights of the spirit. While we can actively pursue virtues like humility, true perfection requires God’s transformative work through trials and darkness. These experiences, though painful, are ultimately rewards that purify us and deepen our charity, the foundation of all virtues.
Fr. Altier is a Priest at Holy Trinity Parish in South St. Paul: Home | Holy Trinity Parish
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satan’s Attack On Sister Lucia – A Story Few Catholics Know | The Fatima Center

How was the Third Secret of Fatima actually written? Why did Sister Lucia struggle for months to put it on paper? And why do historical documents indicate that the Third Secret was written as two distinct texts, not one? In this episode, David Rodríguez examines unpublished research based on Fr. Nicholas Gruner’s notes, the writings of Sister Lucia, and the testimony of those closest to the events. Discover the extraordinary spiritual battle surrounding the writing of the Third Secret, the intervention of Our Lady, and the evidence pointing to two separately written and sealed documents. If you want to better understand the historical record surrounding the Third Secret of Fatima, this presentation provides a detailed look at the events of January 1944 and their lasting significance. Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction & Opening Prayer 00:59 – Fr. Gruner’s unpublished manuscript and historical background 01:24 – Why Bishop da Silva ordered Sister Lucia to write the Third Secret 02:09 – …

Long before the allegations against him became public, Marko Rupnik had become the Catholic Church’s most recognisable living sacred artist, raising questions about taste, patronage and institutional culture.

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How did Marko Rupnik become the Church’s house artist?

You may never have heard of Marko Rupnik until the allegations against him became public, but you have almost certainly seen his work. The same enormous eyes, crooked mouths and flattened faces appear at Lourdes, Fatima, Padre Pio’s shrine, Ta’ Pinu in Gozo and churches across the world. They appear inside the Vatican itself, most prominently in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Apostolic Palace. By the beginning of this century, Rupnik’s pseudo-iconography had become something close to the official visual language of institutional Catholicism. His mosaics can reportedly be found in around 200 churches and sacred spaces. The question is not merely how a man now accused by numerous women of grave abuse received so many prestigious commissions: his canonical trial is ongoing, and its outcome should not be prejudged. The prior question is simpler: how did an artist whose work is, at the very best, mediocre become so omnipresent throughout the Church?

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Sex ist das Mantra der modernen Kirche.
Kunst das ihrer spätmodernern Dekadenz.

We must learn to "dig"...
Liturgy of Sunday, July 26 - XVII of Ordinary Time
Dear brothers and sisters, the fear that hovers in the cultural, social, and political atmosphere of this confused and turbulent beginning of the third millennium could push many of our brothers and sisters to live superficially and disengagedly; it could push them to carve out their own small, protected space in which to take refuge and survive... In the passage from the Gospel of Matthew that we’re going to listen to on Sunday, July 26, Jesus reveals to us that there is a precious treasure hidden in the "field" of the world. That's why it is worth “getting out" of our “confort zone" to find it, for it is capable of making the hearts of those who possess it explode with joy for the new, surprising opportunities it offers and for the undisappointing hope it shows on the horizon.
In fact, since God became incarnate in His Word made Man, the world no longer instills fear in us because it hides the treasure of His …More

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New Jersey church under 'Cardinal' Tobin celebrates ‘Pride Mass’ for eighth straight year

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New Jersey church under Cardinal Tobin celebrates ‘Pride Mass’ for eighth straight year - LifeSite

Mon Jun 8, 2026 - 11:32 am EDTMon Jun 8, 2026 - 4:43 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic parish in New Jersey will once again hold a blasphemous “Pride Mass” for the eighth year in a row. Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken, New Jersey, has announced that it will hold a sacrilegious, pro-LGBT “Pride Mass” on Sunday, June 14, 2026. This is the eighth year that the parish, under the jurisdiction of Cardinal Joseph Tobin, has hosted the blasphemous event. In other years, the “Pride Mass” included rainbow flags hung in the church, women sitting in the sanctuary wearing pro-LGBT “love is love” shirts, and a gender-confused woman sharing her reflections from the pulpit. The American TFP (Tradition, Family, Property) organization has started a petition asking the parish priest, Fr. Alexander Santora, to call off the sacrilegious event. By the time of the writing of this article, almost 17,000 people had signed it already. While Our Lady of Grace parish boasts that is it one of the “most deeply …

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So eine Messe gibt es gar nicht, dafür gibt es kein Messformular.

The author also attacks Fernández's concept of "infinite dignity," claiming it creates philosophical and theological contradictions by attributing an "infinite" dignity to every human person, which he argues undermines Christ's unique role as Redeemer. He concludes that Fernández's methodology makes him unsuited to lead the Vatican's doctrinal office and predicts similar flaws in future documents.

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Cardinal Fernández’s Opera Omnia (dissertationibus haud repertis): An Initial Report

A guest article by Fr. Romano Tommasi. Cardinal Fernández has been pierced from time to time by my stylus on One Peter Five, as he will be again in a forthcoming study on the history and sources for infinite dignity. To be fair, Fernández was tasked with officially defending what I have considered the theologically and philosophically indefensible “infinite dignity,” whether viewed from loci theologici, or higher principles of any perennial school of philosophy within the Church of the first millennium, just as the Scholastic period of the second. I underline now that Fernández is not my target. He is a bureaucrat sanitizing his magister, Papa Francesco.[1] My opposition to their work is based upon its feeble, if non-existent, architecture (Fernández represents no school, nor genealogy of approved theology, but a pastoral approach to theology). There is absolutely merit and sanctity in practicing pastoral theology to the exclusion of any higher science, of which the canonization of …

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UK Meat Supply 'Poisoned' By African Bushmeat Including Monkey, Alligator and Lizard — Authorities Tell Citizens It's 'Racist' to Complain

An explosive new investigation has uncovered a thriving underground trade in illegal bushmeat across London, with vendors importing exotic animals from Africa—including monkey, alligator, porcupine, and lizard—and selling them to unsuspecting customers as everyday beef, chicken, and lamb. Authorities warn the meat poses a “serious health risk,” with potential contamination from deadly diseases including Ebola, anthrax, and TB. Yet officials are turning a blind eye, telling citizen it’s “racist” to complain about the illegal bushmeat, and ordering social media to remove posts featuring investigations into the criminal gangs operating with impunity. BYPASS THE CENSORS Sign up to get unfiltered news delivered straight to your inbox. You can unsubscribe any time. By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use In a series of coordinated raids over the past year, the Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) and the Metropolitan Police have seized staggering quantities of illegal …

Bishop Derio Olivero at the "Mass in the Valley" on July 19, 2026

La tradizionale "Messa in Valle" si è svolta il 19 luglio 2026 alla diga del Chisonetto (Sestriere), riunendo circa 300 fedeli. La Messa è stata celebrata dal vescovo di Pinerolo, Derio Olivero. VitaDiocesanaPinerolese.it

Did you know that there were Catholic Samurais?
Meet Justo Ukon Takayama. He was a feudal lord and samurai in 16th-century Japan. When the Shogun banned Christianity, Takayama refused to renounce his faith.
He abandoned his status, wealth, and samurai position, choosing exile and poverty over apostasy.
He is now a Blessed in the Catholic Church, on the path to being declared a saint.

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Catholicism enhances cultures. Perfects them. This is the only reason our Lord would allow "colonization". And as our Lady of Guadalupe reminds us, she keeps colonization on the right track.

Southport Child Killer Rudakubana Transferred to Psychiatric Hospital As Attack’s Second Anniversary Looms – Allah's Willing Executioners

Victims’ families have accused the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana of manipulating the system after it was revealed the child murderer had been transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital. The murderer of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar Axel Rudakubana has been transferred from Belmarsh Prison, a high-security facility that holds some of Britain’s most notorious terrorists, to Broadmoor hospital. Today called a ‘secure psychiatric unit’, the Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane in west London keeps criminals under lock and key while treating them for mental health issues that can’t be accommodated in prison. The Guardian, which originally reported Rudakubana’s transfer, stated the decision to move the killer was based on an assessment that “he could not be managed safely in a prison environment” and “People in psychiatric units such as Broadmoor are treated as patients rather than prisoners”. There is a cost associated …

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"appeal to the Holy See" huh? Oh, you mean this guy?

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Remember this guy said Martini famously declared that the Catholic Church was "200 years behind the times" How in the heck did this guy get pass the great JPII . All this present crisis under the watch of Saints JPXXIII Paul VI great saint JPII. Now I have swamp land in Florida for sale
No state of emergency nothing to see move on

For 47 years the Iranian regime has hunted, mutilated, and murdered our troops while we looked away.

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Woman who called child racist slurs at Rochester park found guilty of disorderly conduct

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"Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able."
- Jesus