Like everyone who lived through September 11, 2001, we remember the shock, the fear and the uncertainty of that day. But for our family, 9/11 became very personal. At the time, my wife Patty was a flight attendant for United Airlines. With only a few years of seniority, she often served as a fill-in crew…
Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent people, including 438 firefighters, we remember in prayer those who lost their lives, those who lived through the hell of those days in New York City, and those fighting on the front lines to defend the…
On September 10, 2001, First Officer Steve Scheibner packed his suitcase and waited for the call confirming his assignment to fly American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles. The call never came…. Only much later did he realize the fate of that first plane to reach the World Trade Center would have been…
Now approaching midyear, it is time to focus on an even greater challenge than getting through the eye of the needle and that is where we find the situation of the “family” in American society and to a certain extent around the world. As I have healed from my two hip replacements it has presented…
July 3, 2025
At the outbreak of fighting in April 1775, few colonists wanted complete independence from Great Britain. Those who did were thought to be radical. By the middle of the following year, however, sentiments had shifted and many more colonists now favored independence. Then, in August 1775, a royal proclamation from Great Britain declared that the…
Vatican News (VN)–The Laocoön group is a defining piece of the Vatican Museums that was found nearly intact underground in a vineyard in 1506. Its right arm was discovered just meters from that spot, 400 years later. The discoveryis credited to the Jewish art dealer Ludwig Pollak, who was targeted by the Nazis but refused…
ACI Prensa./CNA—History notes how much the Freemasons hated St. John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians — whose feast the Catholic Church celebrates on Jan. 31 — but less known are their attempts to kill him. Freemasons tried to kill Don Bosco Twice! The two assassination attempts ordered by Freemasons against Bosco can be found…
Here’s a short list of a few, off-the-mainstream, insider stories from the horrific — truly horrific — fires that even now continue to burn in Los Angeles and southern California. Singing in the Ashes Peter and Jackie Halpin, a Catholic couple who lost their Altadena home of more than 30 years to the Eaton Fire,…
And just like that, Israel and Hamas agree on a ceasefire agreement…a week before a new U.S. President is sworn in. The SAME ceasefire agreement that was rejected just a few months earlier! It is interesting what can be achieved when there is clear leadership, and when other countries know clearly what they can (and…
VM/CNA—Pope Francis kicked off the first Saturday jubilee audience of 2025 by urging pilgrims to embrace hope as a divine strength that enables new beginnings, drawing inspiration from St. John the Baptist. Speaking to pilgrims gathered in the Vatican’s audience hall on Jan. 11, the pontiff emphasized that hope is not merely a character trait…
The B.C. Catholic/CNA—If the faithful can’t go to the shrine, bring the shrine to the faithful. So it will be with the relics of the Canadian Martyrs, usually housed in their Midland, Ontario, shrine, which will make their first tour of western Canada as part of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. Innovative solution for…
CNA—Author and Catholic convert Lee Edwards, one of the foremost historians of the conservative movement in America, died Thursday. He was 92. Edwards co-founded the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C., authorized by Congress in 1993 and completed in 2007. He was a distinguished fellow of conservative thought at the Heritage Foundation for about…
Crisis—Our Lady of Guadalupe was there at Lepanto, hearkening to the Rosary recited by the soldiers processing round the decks, her quiet, pregnant power blazing at that apocalyptic battle with all the splendor of the star-crowned Woman of Revelation. Most Catholics wouldn’t consider the motherly image of Our Lady of Guadalupe a martial image. The…
December 11, 2024
CNA—updated 12/12/24—Researcher and physicist Dr. Aldofo Orozco told participants at the International Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe, held August 7, 2009, that there is no scientific explanation for the then-478 years of high quality-preservation of the Tilma or for the miracles that have occurred to ensure its preservation. Today, in 2024, the miraculous…
Monastery Icons—In the winter of 1531 the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Juan Diego, a humble Mexican Indian peasant, instructing him to tell the local bishop of her desire for the construction of a new basilica dedicated to her. Begging for a sign to convince the Bishop, Saint Juan Diego was told to climb to…
VN, CNA—For the first time in more than a century, the historic Chair of St. Peter, a wooden throne symbolizing the pope’s magisterial authority, has been removed from its gilded bronze reliquary in St. Peter’s Basilica to be displayed for public veneration. Pilgrims and visitors can now behold this storied relic directly in front of…
CNA—The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris rang for the first time since April 2019, when a devastating fire broke out in the spire and roof of the historic French church. Notre-Dame of Paris passed the major milestone today at about 10:30 a.m., just one month away from its highly anticipated reopening on Dec.…
OK, I might get some heat for this one, but it seems to me that—before all the secularist, anti-Christian, anti-Judeo-Christian history revisionists rooted themselves in the re-writing of school history textbooks, in mainstream newsrooms and as college professors and Google algorythm coders—Christopher Columbus was a good guy, a respected leader and early discoverer of America.…
VN—Amid the recent escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, Maronite Catholic Bishops discuss how the violence has led to thousands of people being forced to leave their homes. The Maronite bishops have expressed their “sorrow in the face of the horror of the disaster” in Lebanon following Israel’s recent attacks on the country, which have caused…
CNA—A two-page letter from 1776 written by St. Junípero Serra failed to sell at a New York auction on Thursday after the auction house declined a $70,000 offer, having expected to fetch around $100,000. Fascination was there, “but it takes bidders with the means and inclination to make the auction sale happen,” said Scott Trepel,…
