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The Reign of Mary, Issue No. 179, Winter 2021
Strengthening One’s Spiritual Immune System
The Value of Temptations for the Spiritual Life
By Fr. Eugen Rissling, translation from Beiträge
When the good God created the first man and woman, He did not put them in a spiritually-sterilized room, where they would never be exposed to or encounter any kind of evil or injustice. Naturally, it’s very clear that at that time there was no iniquity and injustice in Paradise. Nevertheless, God deliberately subjected them to a test in which
there was a real possibility of failure...
Discordant Rhythms
The Dangers of Modern Music
By Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI
We all know how music affects us. We get a particular tune in our head and it stays with us, perhaps even for hours. We often hum or sing during the day. According to the particular type and occasion, music can calm and comfort us, uplift us, etc. Especially today, with modern technology allowing for the recording and playing of music, the sounds of music are all around us...
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Can We Reject Magisterial Teaching if it Wasn’t Believed Always, Everywhere and by All?
Reprinted with permission from NovusOrdoWatch.org, February 1, 2021
"Cafeteria Catholicism” is a fitting label often used to describe the position taken by overt Modernists and other pseudo-Catholic liberals (especially politicians) who like to pick and choose which Church teachings to accept and which ones to reject. Usually what is accepted is those things perceived as politically correct, expedient, or simply non-offensive...
Early American Bishops: Part I
Bishop John England
By Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI
In the last few installments of this series we have explored the spread of the Faith in the far west. Let us now return to the eastern seaboard to study the growth of the Church
in the early years of the new country. The first bishops deserve particular attention, given the difficulties they faced in propagating the Faith in the United States...
Behold Thy Mother
Excerpts from The Cross-Annunciation by A.M. Mayer, OSM
What a story unfolds as we look into the dying moments of our Crucified Savior. Entirely unmindful of Himself, He is thinking only of us. He raises His thorncrowned head, His countenance is bedewed with blood, and His eyes sunken in agony, His love lighting up the cold, dulled gaze of a dying man, and He looks tenderly upon His Mother. He looks upon her who gave Him birth, who fondled Him in His infancy, who nurtured and cared for Him every moment, whose attention and whose love were ever for Him in warmest affection:..
Christ Jesus Emptied Himself
A Sermon Preached by Fr. Casimir Puskorius, CMRI
on Palm Sunday, April 14, 2019
Venerable religious, dear parishioners, you have probably wondered what the meaning of that expression is — that He emptied Himself — and I would like to explain it to you today. Before I do so, I would like to point out that this is an excerpt from St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians. It is a short epistle; it has only four chapters...
The Greatness of St. Joseph
By Rev. Fr. Dominic Radecki, CMRI
It would be nearly impossible for us to exaggerate the spiritual gifts of St. Joseph. “In an old Greek hymn he is addressed as ‘More than Saint.’ Father Segneri says, ‘No man on earth was ever holier than St. Joseph’” (Rev. Hugh F. Blunt, L.L.D., Give This Man Place, p. 7). St. Joseph was an instrument in our Redemption since it was necessary according to God’s plan that Jesus have a provider. Suarez and many other theologians hold that St. Joseph “is superior to all other saints, except our Blessed Lady herself, and is also superior to the angels...
Spiritual Aids for Confraternity Members for the months of April, May and June
World Watch:
Historian Claims “New Morality” Came from V-II
Remains of WWII-Era Murdered Nuns Discovered in Poland
Francis Again Condemns Catholic “Fundamentalists”
Vaticanist Declares “Rome is Without a Pope.”
US Bishops Fund Again Supporting Abortion and LGBT Activism
Highly-Touted Vaccines Bring Death to Many
Francis Repeats “Ecumenical Martyrdom” Heresy
Francis Addresses the Rota
The New Deaf and Blind
Famous Pilgrimage Shrine Under Attack by Communist Party
New Vatican Stamps to Highlight Ecumenism
Anti-Suicide Campaigner’s Video Goes Viral
Irish “Catholic” Schools Promote Abortion and Gender “Theory”
Elderly Nun Survives COVID
New Appointees to Academy for Life Include a Pro-Abortionist
Francis Has New List of Seven Deadly Sins
False Pope Speaks to LA Religious Ed Conference
Canadian Priest Promotes Veganism from Pulpit
Police Investigate Catholic Father in Canada