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"I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise, or wealth to the brilliant, or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all." —Ecclesiastes, 9:11 "We are not talking about a mere [...]
Letter #34, 2023 Thursday, January 26: Top Ten 2022, #4: Archbishop Timothy Broglio For our #4 "Person of the Year" we chose American Archbishop Timothy Broglio, 71, who in November was elected by his brother bishops the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). We chose Broglio in part because of the [...]
"Gorbachev spent his career trying to save Soviet Communism and the Soviet Empire, but ended up presiding over the demise of both." —British journalist Owen Matthews in the London Telegraph on August 31, speaking about Mikhail Gorbachev, the last premier of the Soviet Union, who died two days ago on August 30, 2022, at the [...]
Above, the late Italian Jesuit cardinal, Carlo Maria Martini, who some called, during the early 2000s, "the ante-pope." He died in 2012 *** "The Shepherd of the Lord's whole flock is the Bishop of the Church of Rome, where the Blessed Apostle Peter, by sovereign disposition of divine Providence, offered to Christ the supreme [...]
"The teachings of the fathers are despised, the apostolic traditions are ignored, and the churches are filled with the inventions of innovators. The shepherds have been driven out, and in their place they bring in ravening wolves to tear apart the flock of Christ."—St. Basil of Caesarea, in 372. A.D. "Thus the paradoxical situation arises: [...]
Fernando Karadima, the prominent Chilean priest who was defrocked in 2018 after a Church trial found he had abused young people sexually, has died. He was 90. Karadima was a highly influential Santiago-area priest who for decades led a vibrant lay Catholic movement from his parish in El Bosque. He is said to have personally [...]
Above, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, 60, Auxiliary Bishop of Astana in Khazakhstan in central Asia, formerly one of the republics making up the Soviet Union. (link to his own website). Schneider is one of the more tradition-minded members of the Church's episcopate, known for championing the pre-Vatican II liturgical traditions and practices of the Church. (link [...]
From the heart of Russia Today I write to tell you about Dmitry Khafizov. Dmitry was a man with a large heart, and a larger soul. A mighty bear of a man... a good and noble man... from the very heart of Russia, from Kazan in Tartarstan... a Christian believer of Russian Orthodox faith... a [...]
