After being closed for three months, tourists are now able once again to visit the Vatican Museums “safely” for the first time since June 1, 2020. Sanitary measures for the safety of visitors and staff, and new hours of operation have been established. All those who have access to museums are therefore subject to body temperature control, and visitors are ... Lire la suite »
On June 29, 2020, at the Saint Pius X International Seminary in Ecône, Switzerland, six French men will be ordained priests for eternity: but, more generally, what about priestly ordinations in France this year? “The love for the Heart of Jesus is the priesthood,” said St. John Marie Vianney. The month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord is ... Lire la suite »
In the United States, the protests over racial injustice are turning their sights on statues of alleged oppressors, including a celebrated Spanish Franciscan missionary that a hundred rioters attacked on June 19, 2020, in San Francisco. The statue of Junipero Serra carrying the cross erected in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was overthrown and trampled on by the vandals. ... Lire la suite »
Blessing and groundbreaking See a video presentation of the groundbreaking > Father Rutledge began the ceremony at 11:00 a.m. noting that 40 years ago, on the same day, the Queenship of Mary 1980, all that remained of the walls of the old Immaculata fell in a storm. He went on to explain the significance of the number forty: both Moses ... Lire la suite »
He is the son of the priest Zacharias and Elizabeth, the cousin of the Blessed Virgin. His birth is solemnly celebrated every year by the Church on June 24th. The solstices were the occasion for pagan feasts where fires were lit to honour the star that gives us light. The Church christianized these rites by seeing in them a symbol ... Lire la suite »
A l’occasion du 76ème anniversaire du D-Day libérateur, le nom d’un valeureux Béret vert, engagé dans le célèbre commando Kieffer – le très sélectif commando de Fusiliers marins créé en 1942 en Grande-Bretagne par la France libre et placé sous la houlette du capitaine Philippe Kieffer – mérite d’être exhumé des oubliettes de l’histoire.Un nom, à la consonance venue d’ailleurs, ... Lire la suite »
Depuis 1926, sur ordre du roi Abdulaziz Al Saoud, la Kiswah, la sublime étoffe de soie noire qui recouvre la Kaaba à La Mecque, ornée de calligraphies en fil d’or de la Shahada (la profession de foi musulmane) et de versets coraniques, est fabriquée dans le royaume saoudien, dans les ateliers de l’usine Umm Al-loud construite spécifiquement à cet effet.L’ ... Lire la suite »
Depuis près d’une décennie, dans un Portugal où les traces de la présence et de l’influence arabo-musulmanes, longues de cinq siècles, ont été effacées, et pas seulement sous l’effet de la lente érosion du temps, des historiens, écrivains et autres archéologues s’emploient à faire renaître de leurs cendres les vestiges de ce riche passé. Un passé encore si prégnant, malgré ... Lire la suite »
The Church is at the forefront of the fight for the life of the unborn child, especially in the medical field: a few weeks ago, a surgical feat was accomplished by several hospitals linked to the Holy See, although little reported by the media. When the diagnosis falls, the mother weeps: the child she is carrying has a congenital diaphragmatic ... Lire la suite »
The former sovereign pontiff Benedict XVI visited Regensburg, Germany, on June 18, 2020 to be at the bedside of his gravely ill, 96-year-old brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger. The first time that we are aware of for the pope emeritus, suffering from the weight of the years, to have left his retirement to return to Bavaria since his resignation. The entourage ... Lire la suite »
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