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Militant Muslims Issue a Fatwa to Kill the Pope
Pope Benedict
XVI said that dialogue is especially urgent so that Christians and
Muslims are able to work together to promote “peace, liberty, social
justice and moral values for the
benefit of all humanity.” The response of Militant Muslims was to issue
a Fatwa to kill him.
The
position of the Pope concerning Islam is ...
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Catholic Principles for Criminal Sentences
Dan Lynch
We are still a long way from the time
when our conscience can be certain of having done everything possible to
prevent crime and to control it effectively so that it no longer does
harm and, at the same time, to offer to those who commit crimes a way of
redeeming themselves and making a positive return to society. If all
those in some way involved in the problem tried to . . . develop this
line of thought, perhaps humanity as a whole could take a great step
forward in creating a more serene and peaceful society.
Pope John Paul II, July 9, 2000 ...
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The Issue: Should the U.S. Immigration Policy for
Mexico Be More Liberal?
The News: National Migration Week January 8-14
Diplomats from Mexico and Central America on Monday demanded guest
worker programs and the legalization of undocumented migrants in the
United States, while criticizing a U.S. proposal for tougher border
enforcement.
Meeting in Mexico's capital, the regional officials pledged to do more
to fight migrant trafficking, but indirectly condemned a U.S. bill that
would make illegal entry a felony and extend border walls.
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Dan Lynch and Mercy for Terri Schiavo!
Terri Schiavo’s husband, Michael, lives with another woman with whom he has
fathered two children. Michael has spent almost a ½ million dollars of Terri’s
money on legal fees to try to kill her by pulling Terri’s feeding tube. The
judge sentenced her to death and ordered that she be starved and thirsted to a
very painful death beginning on March 18 at 1:00 PM..
Terri is not dying. She is dependent on a . . .
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Pilgrimage with Pope to Pompeii
for Peace
Dan Lynch
Pope John Paul II went as a pilgrim to
Pompeii,
Italy to the
Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary on October 7, 2003, her feast day to
pray for world peace. He proclaimed the year 2003 as the Year of the
Rosary. He prayed, “May Mary's maternal intercession obtain justice
and peace for the entire world. How important it is that during this
Year of the Rosary we persevere in praying the Rosary to implore
peace! I ask that you continue to do so, especially in Marian shrines.
Let us raise our prayers to God that love may conquer hatred, that
peace, justice and solidarity may grow in every corner of the earth,
in the spirit of the Gospel."
This article will explain the Feast of Our Lady of the
Rosary, the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Blessed Bartolo
Longo, the founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary and New
Pompeii, and the importance of praying the Rosary for peace,
especially the new mysteries composed by the Holy Father, the Luminous
Mysteries.
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Pope Improves the Rosary
Dan Lynch
The
Pope has enhanced the power of the Rosary, our great spiritual weapon.
He named this the Year of the Rosary to pray for peace and the stability
of the family. He added to the Rosary the Mysteries of Light (the
Luminous Mysteries) that focus on the public ministry of Jesus and he
gave us an improved method to pray it. This will bring Our Savior more
directly into our midst at a time when Satan seems to prevail.
Our Lady asked St.
Dominic to preach her Rosary at a time when the Church was in a critical
battle against the Albigensian heresy. It was at Prouille in France in
1208 that Dominic suddenly experienced an apparition of the Blessed
Mother, who said,
"Wonder not that you
have obtained so little fruit by your labors.
You have spent them on
barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of Divine grace. When God
willed to renew the face of the earth, He began by sending down on it
fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation (the Hail Mary). Therefore
preach my Psalter composed of
150 Angelic Salutations and fifteen Our Fathers
and you will obtain an abundant harvest."
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Gods and President Bush
Dan Lynch
The movie Gods and Generals was providentially released just as the movie
Gods and President Bush seems to be playing out before our very eyes. In the
book Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara, Confederate General Stonewall
Jackson’s thinking is,
I find it difficult to follow the authority of the papacy. I’ll follow my own
god who is with me and follow his Path and wage war. I don’t have to follow the
reasoning of others. ...
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Irish
Mystic Prophesied Destruction of Twin Towers
Dan Lynch
Exactly two years before The Attack on America,
on September 11, 1999, I stood with Irish mystic Christina Gallagher in Battery
Park, New York City at the tip of Manhattan Island in the shadows of the World
Trade Center. I remarked on the enormity of the twin World Trade Towers as a
symbol of America’s economic might and our reliance on the priority of power
over prayer. As I said this, Christina waved her arm towards the Twin Towers and
prophesied, “Dan, if Americans don’t turn back to God, all of this will be
destroyed!”...
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Pope Calls
World to Pray and Fast for Peace
Dan Lynch
In
his encyclical, The Gospel of Life, Pope John Paul II said, (No 100)
“… a great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise
up throughout the world…. Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that
prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces
of evil (cf Mt 4:1-11). As he taught his disciples, some demons cannot
be driven out except in this way (cf Mk 9:23). Let us therefore discover anew
the humility and the courage to pray and fast.”...
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Jesus King of All Nations and His Basilica
Dan Lynch
Jesus appeared to a young American woman in the late 1980s as the King of All
Nations. He said, “This image is a sign that
I rule Heaven and earth, and My Kingdom, My reign, is near at hand . . . Give
this image to mankind as a source of graces and of peace. . . . I have
come to entrust to you a message of great importance for the world. I tell you
the days are coming when all Mankind will cry out to me for mercy. I tell you,
My child, only one thing will be given as a remedy. I Myself AM
that remedy! Let souls give to
devotion to Me through My Most Holy Mother, who mediates to Me on their behalf,
as 'Jesus King of All Nations'”...
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Dorothy Day’s Pro-Life Memories
By Dorothy Day, as edited by Dan Lynch
“I wish every woman who has ever suffered an abortion would come to know Dorothy
Day. Her story was so typical. Made pregnant by a man who insisted she have an
abortion, who then abandoned her anyway, she suffered terribly for what she had
done, and later pleaded with others not to do the same. But later, too, after
becoming a Catholic, she learned the love and mercy of the Lord, and knew she
never had to worry about His forgiveness. [This is why I have never condemned a
woman who has had an abortion; I weep with her and ask her to remember Dorothy
Day's sorrow but to know always God's loving mercy and forgiveness.] She had
died before I became Archbishop of New York, or I would have called on her
immediately upon my arrival. Few people have had such an impact on my life, even
though we never met.” Cardinal John
O’Connor.
This article
substantially contains her actual words as edited and sometimes paraphrased by
Dan Lynch. The information concerning her abortion was obtained from her
biographers and her autobiographical novel,
The Eleventh Virgin. Dorothy never publicly wrote or spoke about her
abortion....
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“He was an Indian who lived an honest and secluded life, and who was a very
good Christian, fearful of God and his conscience, a man of very good habits and
behavior.”
Marcos Pacheco, Elder of the village of Cuautitlan, Juan Diego’s birthplace, in
Canonical Process 1666...
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Mary’s House
Dan Lynch
The early morning sun beat down on
me as I prayed at St. John the Evangelist’s tomb located on a hill in the ruins
of the Basilica devoted to him outside the city of Ephesus, Turkey. (See
photo1). John wrote his Gospel and his letters in Ephesus and he often
walked through the ancient city and up the mountain to Mary’s House where she
lived for the last nine years of her life, died, was buried and from where she
was assumed into heaven...
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Points on Sexually Abusive Priests
Dan Lynch
Pedophilia by priests is
an abomination because it is wrong in itself and because it is betrayal by a
person who was called by God to serve him and others.
Scandal from pedophiliac priests is also an abomination. Jesus said, “It would
be better to have a millstone placed around your head and be thrown into the sea
than to scandalize even one of my little ones.”
Pedophiliac priests are not entitled to any immunity in civil or criminal law
from the consequences of their conduct...
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The Gospel of Life
Edited by Dan Lynch
Pope John Paul II’s Encyclical the
Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae)
is a reflection on the Gospel of Life, which has its source and goal in Jesus
Christ, the Beginning and the End. Life is a gift and should be defended
as part of the truth about man and God.
The Encyclical is an appeal to all individuals and
peoples, believers and non-believers, to promote the culture of life against the
culture of death.
It is a summons to hearts and releases the forces of good in defense of
human life.
It is a call to a deep and courageous conversion that challenges the persons and
institutions that promote the culture of death....
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Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Gospel of Life
Dan Lynch
In his Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life),
the Holy Father refers to the “Great Sign” of the “woman clothed with the sun”
from chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation as representing “the mutual
relationship between the mystery of the Church and Mary.”...
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The Church in America
Pope John Paul II Names Our Lady of Guadalupe as the Mother of Hope and
Mother and Evangelizer of America
Holy Father announces a new mission in America under her patronage
Dan Lynch
In contrast to the
culture of death with its loss of hope, Pope John Paul II called Our Lady of
Guadalupe the Mother of Hope and the Mother and Evangelizer of America. He
did this at the historical First Synod of all of the Bishops of America in Rome
in December 1998 that closed on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe and in
his Apostolic Exhortation, The Church in America, his summary of the
Synod. He delivered this at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on January 23,
1999....
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St. Joseph and His Oratory
The Feast of St. Joseph is
celebrated on March 19
From Scripture we know that the great virtue of St. Joseph was his
obedient faith. “He did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took
Mary as his wife.” Mt 1:24. He did this in spite of the fact that Mary’s
pregnancy was apparently visible to everyone. He took her in the mystery
of her motherhood and acted in obedient faith, as did Mary when she
said, “Let it be done to me according to your word.” Lk 1:38. “Blessed
are they who have not seen, yet have believed.” Jn 20:29.
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At the Beginning of the New
Millennium
POPE JOHN PAUL II’s
APOSTOLIC LETTER
NOVO MILLENNIO INEUNTE
(At the Beginning of the New Millennium)
1.
At the beginning of the new millennium, and at the close of the
Great Jubilee during which we celebrated the two thousandth
anniversary of the birth of Jesus and a new stage of the
Church's journey begins, our hearts ring out with the words of
Jesus when one day, after speaking to the crowds from Simon's
boat, he invited the Apostle to "put out into the deep" for a
catch: "Duc in altum" (Lk 5:4). Peter and his first
companions
trusted Christ's words, and cast the nets. "When they had done
this, they caught a great number of fish" (Lk 5:6).
Duc in
altum!
These
words ring out for us today, and
they invite us to remember the past with gratitude, to
live the present with enthusiasm and to look forward to
the future with confidence: "Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today and for ever"
(Heb 13:8). . . .
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Choose
America: The Arch of God's Justice
or His Arch of Mercy
On September
1, 2002 several hundred faithful assembled in Buffalo’s LaSalle Park on
the Niagara River, for what was announced as a “Celebration of the
Culture of Life and Civilization of Love,” to support the Arch of
Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the International Shrine of
the Holy Innocents. Those gathered enjoyed a sunny Sunday afternoon,
beautiful Christian music by two local groups, and compelling addresses
by two speakers who stressed the role of sin in producing wars and
devastations but also offered hope for the future in words of comfort
from the Mother of God herself, the Blessed Virgin Mary. ....
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Cloud of Fire over
Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
Ark of the New Covenant
The
photograph below the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in a
darkened church at night, covered by an apparent phenomenal cloud of
fire. Our Lady of Guadalupe brings the light that shines in the people
who walk in darkness. (See Is 9:1). Our Lady mediates to us the light
and grace of the Holy Trinity and brings us her greatest gift, her son
Jesus, as the Ark of the New Covenant. ...
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Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini M.S.C.
Patroness of Immigrants
She was not a humanitarian; she was a heroic lover of God. In her missions of
charity, in her achievement of the impossible, it was not genius; her secret was
Divine Love. This is the wonderful story, a romance that is gripping and
striking. It is the story of a woman who lived among us, who saw the things
which we see, a woman in whose soul Divine Love had consumed the last remnant of
self, who came to love only God, and who saw God in every poor man, woman and
child. . .
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St. Rose
Philippine Duchesne
"Woman Who Prays Always"
You have come, you say,
seeking the Cross. Well, you have taken exactly the right road to find
it. A thousand unforeseen difficulties may arise. Your establishment may
grow slowly at first. Physical privations may be added, and those more
keenly felt such as lack of spiritual help under particular
circumstances. Be ready for all. . . .You and I shall spend our lives in
this thankless task; our successors will reap the harvest in this world,
let us be content to reap it in the next.
Letter from Louisiana Bishop William Du Bourg, January 1817.
“This is my pleasure,” explained the young Rose
Duchesne to her father. He was criticizing her for giving some of her
toys and coins to poor children that he had given her for her own
pleasure. The tension between Rose’s vocation and her father’s
anti-Catholicism had begun.
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The
Call to Total Consecration from St. Louis de Montfort
“They will know the grandeurs of that Queen, and will consecrate themselves
entirely to her service as subjects and slaves of love. They shall be the true
apostles of the latter times.”
St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, now that’s a strange sounding name - de
Montfort - what’s it mean? Well, it’s not as strange as it sounds. St. John
the Baptist said, “ He must increase while I must decrease” (Jn. 3:30). St. John
meant that God must become more in him as he became less. As we empty ourselves,
God fills us. And so it was that St. Louis emptied himself - even of his name.
His middle name was Marie and his surname was Grignion. He dropped them both and
preferred to be called simply le Pere de Montfort (the Father of
Montfort) after his birthplace. “De” means “of” in French and that’s why we call
him St. Louis de Montfort. His name is like “Joe from Kalamazoo.” He’s a nobody,
so he preferred the name of a nobody.
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St. Katharine Drexel
“Why
not, my child, yourself become a missionary?”
Pope Leo XIII to Saint Katharine Drexel
The mass migrations of peoples who immigrated to the United States
in the 19th and early 20th centuries dramatically
changed American life and the Catholic Church in the United States.
These millions of peoples, principally from Ireland, Germany, Italy and
Poland, flocked to urban parishes where they preserved their native
languages and cultures as they began the process of entering into the
American melting pot and fulfilling the American Dream of a better life.
They were ministered to by many priests, sisters and brothers, notably
saints John Neumann and Mother Cabrini.
They started at the bottom of the economic
work ladder, worked hard and left greater opportunities for their
children. Eventually, they were amalgamated into American society. While
all of this was happening to the immigrants, many United States citizens
were left behind. Among them were the most neglected, the Indians and
the People of Color, those later called Native Americans and
African-Americans. God responded to their needs by calling to their aid
a young woman with no formal education or natural talent for business
administration. He called Katharine Drexel of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
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Saint Mother Elizabeth Seton
Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born on
August 28,
1774,
in New York City. She was the second daughter of Richard and
Catherine Bayley. Betty bridged an English colony to a new country. She
was one week old when the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia
to form independence and she became a charter citizen of the new nation
at the age of two.
Betty’s father was a nominal Episcopalian who exhibited no faith but in
later life practiced the corporal works of mercy to a heroic degree. He
ministered to the sick and investigated a cure for yellow fever, the
terror of New York.
He became New York City’s first Health Officer in a very unhealthy city.
He had a running battle with merchants and artisans to stop them from
their many unsanitary work habits that included throwing slops in the
streets that helped to create the conditions for yellow fever. Betty
loved her father very much, but ...
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St. John NepomuceneNeumann
John was born on March 28, 1811 in Prachatitz, Bohemia (now
Czechoslovakia) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire . He was named after
Bohemia’s patron saint and martyr, Saint John Nepomucene. He was the
third of six children of Philip and Agnes Neumann, both of whom were
faithful Catholics. His father ran a small knitting business. The family
spoke German and said daily morning and evening prayers together with
the Rosary. His mother attended daily Mass and gave alms of food and
clothing to her poorer neighbors. John later imitated her compassion
when he saw a poor boy going from door to door with a bag on his back.
His heart was touched and he exclaimed, “Oh, if I only had a bag, I
would go about begging with the poor boy, and then he would get more!”
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Jesus’ Prophecy: “A Yet More Terrible Catastrophe Will Befall Mankind,”
if we don’t wake from our “Sleep in Sin.”
On
August 25th, Jesus King of All Nations prophesied a chastisement soon to come.
It was Jesus' first public message in 11 years! Jesus said,
Pray, pray, pray! Prayer offered to Me through My Holy Mother. Only she can
avert the chastisement that now swiftly approaches. I cry out My little one to
all mankind and in particular to My faithful ones! You MUST. . . .
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Saints Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and Jean de la Londe
Four canoes paddled slowly
and cautiously along the marshy shore of the St. Lawrence River on August 3,
1642. The eyes of the paddlers swept the waist-high marsh grass. They were Huron
Indians led by their great Chief Eustace together with some Frenchmen including
Fr. Isaac Jogues and Rene Goupil. They were on their way to bring missionaries
and supplies to nourish the lives and Christian faith of the Huron Mission in
New France.
Suddenly,. . . .
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Blessed Pierre Toussaint
A slave who served and supported his
owner!
Dan Lynch
Copyright 2006
Blessed
Pierre Toussaint was an African-American Catholic slave born in Haiti in 1766.
His parents raised him as a Catholic and his master, Jean Berard, taught him to
read and write. In 1787 his master moved to New York City to escape the social
unrest among the Haitian slaves after the French Revolution. He thought that
Pierre should have a profession in New York so he apprenticed him to a
hairdresser. Pierre was a contemporary of Mother Seton in the early 19th century
and a very successful hairdresser for New York socialites.
At
that time, ...
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Blessed Junipero Serra
Founder of the California Missions
Dan Lynch Copyright 2006
In 1750 at the age of 36, Franciscan
Father Junipero Serra gave up his comfortable teaching services in Spain and
volunteered to serve the Franciscan missions in the New World. He left Cadiz,
Spain and sailed for Vera Cruz, Mexico. From there he walked for 24 days by foot
to Mexico City and dedicated his mission vocation to Our Lady of Guadalupe at
her shrine. He spent nine years preaching and ministering in
Mexico.
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