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| Padre Pio’s relics, including habit and glove, to tour US for first time |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 08:43 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Padre Pio’s relics, including habit and glove, to tour US for first time
In October, the robe and stigmata glove of Padre Pio will come to the US, accompanied by Capuchins from his friary, and make stops in Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
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Padre Pio
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Jun 4, 2025
(LifeSiteNews ) — Relics of Padre Pio will be touring the United States for the first time this October.
This October, the robe of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, known as Padre Pio, will tour the United States accompanied by the Our Lady of Grace Capuchin Friars from his home friary in San Giovanni Rotondo.
“This sacred relic, brought by the friars of Our Lady of Grace Capuchin Friary, offers the faithful a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to venerate an extraordinary sign of Padre Pio’s life of prayer, humility, and sacrifice,” the Padre Pio Foundation of America announced in a tour press release.
“Together, we invite you to join us for a time of prayer, reflection, and devotion as we welcome Padre Francesco Dileo, OFM Cap., Provincial Minister of the Capuchin Friars in San Giovanni Rotondo, along with a second sacred relic,” the release continued.
The relic tour is being co-organized by the Padre Pio Foundation of America and the National Centre for Padre Pio. As the relics travel through America, they will be accompanied by the Capuchin friars from San Giovanni Rotondo.
Until now, the full-size habit worn by Padre Pio has been kept in Italy. Relics touring America include Padre Pio’s robe and a glove that he wore to cover his stigmata. Both relics are authentic second-class relics, meaning items that belonged to a saint.
Catholics who come to venerate the relics will also be given the opportunity to be blessed with Padre Pio’s glove.
Padre Pio, born Francesco Forgione in 1887 in Pietrelcina, Italy, was a Capuchin friar and priest renowned for his piety, mystical experiences, and stigmata, which he bore for 50 years.
The stigma is a miraculous condition wherein the bodily wounds, scars, or pain corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ are experienced by certain saints as a sign of deep spiritual union with Christ’s suffering.
Padre Pio dedicated his life to prayer, Confession, and helping others, attracting millions to his ministry in San Giovanni Rotondo.
Despite enduring physical suffering, including the stigmata, he remained steadfast in his faith, founding a hospital, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, to serve the sick. Padre Pio was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.
The relics will be making stops in Connecticut and Pennsylvania from October 11 to 18. A schedule of the relic tour can be found here.
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| St. Thérèse’s relics are visiting the US in 2025: Here are the details |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 08:35 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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St. Thérèse’s relics are visiting the US in 2025: Here are the details
The tour runs from her feast day, October 1, to the Immaculate Conception, December 8, and will stop in more than
30 sites across 10 states and Washington, D.C.
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Statue of St. Therese of Lisieux in France
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Wed Jun 4, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) – The relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux will return to the United States this fall for a two-month national tour aimed at reigniting Catholic faith and fostering vocations.
The tour runs from her feast day (October 1) to the Immaculate Conception (December 8). Stops include more than 30 sites across 10 states and Washington, D.C., with processions, confessions, and Masses planned throughout.
“We want to build up the Church in America and promote vocations,” Father Donald Kinney, the Carmelite priest coordinating the tour, told OSV News – describing it as “something that’s totally positive” aimed at lifting up the country and bringing people back to Church.
Kinney called St. Thérèse a “timely witness,” and added: “There really is something inside the reliquary: the merciful love of God, the peace of Christ… That’s what people experience.”
A tour of St. Thérèse’s relics across the US from 1999-2000 drew more than a million faithful, OSV reported, and organizers expect even greater crowds this time.
“Our biggest hope for the people who venerate the relics of St. Thérèse is for them to desire to learn more about her, read her writings, and practice her ‘Little Way’ of spirituality,” said Mother Marie Bernardina of the Carmel of Port Tobacco, one of the tour stops.
St Thérèse’s “Little Way” – rooted in trust, humility, and total abandonment to God – was praised by multiple popes. Pope Benedict XV, who reigned from 1914 until 1922, called it “the secret of holiness.”
Benedict’s successor, Pope Pius XI, declared St. Thérèse patroness of the missions, and said – in the sermon read at her canonization Mass in 1925 – that, if her “way of spiritual childhood” was adopted by Catholics, “the reform of human society” would “easily” follow.
The US tour coincides with the 100th anniversary of her canonization. This year also marks the centenaries of two other landmark events: Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, instituting the Feast of Christ the King; and Our Lady of Fatima’s first request for the Five First Saturdays devotion of reparation, through Sister Lucia.
For more information and the full schedule of the tour, click here.
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| Catholic Resistance: Build Now, or Be Swept Away |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 08:03 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Catholic Resistance: Build Now, or Be Swept Away
The Catholic Trumpet {slightly adapted and reformatted] | June 4, 2025
“Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.”
Our Lady of La Salette, 1846
While Rome sinks deeper into apostasy, the true Catholics must build.
This is not a metaphor. It is a literal call: to buy land, unite in prayer, form strong families, and construct a parallel Catholic economy rooted in Tradition. In northern British Columbia, we have begun our feeble attempt. A few faithful souls, gathered in prayer, standing outside a sodomy parade, holding the line. We know it is not enough. But it is a start.
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A small stand for Christ the King. Public Rosary rally outside a sodomy parade in northern British Columbia. Few in number. Firm in Faith. “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph.” —Our Lady of Fatima
The crisis is no longer hidden. The betrayal is no longer gradual. The mask is off.
Vatican II was not a renewal. It was a revolution. A hijacking. A council poisoned by Judeo-Modernism, where eternal truth was traded for religious liberty, ecumenism, and the rights of man.
Our Lady warned us. She came to Quito and La Salette. She came to Fatima. She gave Heaven’s plan: penance, the Rosary, and the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart by the Pope in union with all the bishops of the world.
To this day, not a single pope has obeyed—including Pope Leo XIV, elected within the structures of Modernist Rome, who continues the disobedience of his predecessors.
Not a single bishop has publicly demanded the consecration either, including those of the Neo-SSPX and the so-called Fake “Resistance,” who remain silent in the face of apostasy.
In 2012, the leadership of the SSPX placed themselves under a Doctrinal Declaration that abandoned the fight. It accepted Vatican II “in the light of Tradition.” It welcomed the New Code of Canon Law. It praised the supposed legitimacy of the New Mass.
This was the moment +Archbishop Lefebvre warned us about:
“It is a strict duty for every priest wanting to remain Catholic to separate himself from this conciliar Church, as long as she does not return to the tradition of the Magisterium of the Church and of the Catholic Faith.”
— Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Address to Priests, September 1986, Retraite Sacerdotale à Ecône (Priestly Retreat at Écône)
Today, the Neo-SSPX continues along this path:- They operate with the silent permission of Modernist Rome, under the illusion of resistance while walking the path of reconciliation.
- They remain silent on Rome’s heresies.
- They treat modernist bishops as legitimate spiritual authorities.
- They prepare for full reconciliation with a hierarchy that has not returned to Tradition.
And the false resistance bishops? They do not condemn Neo-SSPX Masses. They remain silent on Bishop Williamson’s fall into error since approx. 2013—2025 his defense of the Novus Ordo, his rejection of Catholic action, and his tolerance of doctrinal compromise.
Their silence is betrayal. Their neutrality is complicity.
We are no longer scattered. Led by uncompromising priests like Father Ruiz and Father Hewko, and guided by the true line of +Archbishop Lefebvre, the real Catholic Resistance is rising.
It is time to build.
We must:- Unite across nations with one Faith, one fight, and one clear standard.
- Buy land, form Catholic communities, and prepare spiritually and materially.
- Establish a parallel Catholic economy that rejects the Beast system and proclaims Christ as King.
- Expose every compromise, especially within so-called traditional groups that feign neutrality while guiding souls into the conciliar Church.
We are not waiting for permission from Modernist Rome. We are not taking counsel from traitorous bishops. We are holding the line by the grace of God, all through the Blessed Virgin Mary, as +Archbishop Lefebvre did, until Rome returns to Tradition.
The world is collapsing. The Church is in eclipse. But grace is not absent. The Immaculate Heart will triumph. Until then, we stand.
No compromise. No retreat. No silence.
The fight is now.
Join us. Build with us. Hold fast.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for Us.
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| Holy Mass in New York - June 8, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2025, 06:27 PM - Forum: June 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Pentecost Sunday
Date: Sunday, June 8, 2025
Time: Confessions - 4:45 PM
Holy Mass - 5:30 PM
Location: 498 Louie Dickinson Rd.
Edmeston, NY 13335
Contact: Perry (212) 991-8319
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| Satanists who held Kansas ‘black mass’ planning ‘witches hour protest’ in August |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2025, 09:57 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Satanists who held Kansas ‘black mass’ planning ‘witches hour protest’ in August
The Satanic Grotto group plans to invite Wiccans, pagans, and 'any kind of witchy inclined hippie we can find' to the sacrilegious event on the Kansas capitol grounds.
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Kansas State Capitol
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Jun 3, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted]) — The Kansas-based “Satanic Grotto” group that was allowed to hold a “black mass” on Kansas state capitol grounds earlier this year is planning to hold a “witches hour protest” event outside the capitol.
The satanic group is planning the event in early August outside the Kansas statehouse, inviting Wiccans and pagans to attend, according to the Kansas Reflector. The Satanic Grotto had previously been allowed to say a “black mass” on the state capitol grounds in March.
Michael Stewart, the group’s leader, told the Kansas Reflector that he plans to extend the invitation for the satanic event to Wiccans, pagans, and “any kind of witchy inclined hippie we can find.”
LifeSiteNews reached out to the Kansas State Capitol’s Office of Facilities and Property Management (OFPM) staff to confirm whether they had approved the group’s planned “witches hour protest” event but did not receive a response as of publication time.
In March, the Grotto had initially been permitted to hold the “black mass” inside the Kansas statehouse to dedicate the Kansas legislature to the glory of Satan.” After considerable backlash, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly ordered that the sacrilegious event take place outside state property but allowed the event to proceed, citing the group’s “constitutional rights.”
Archbishop Joseph Naumann, the then-archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, strongly condemned the “black mass,” which he decried as “hate speech.”
“They’re simply trying to mock Christianity,” Naumann said at the time. “If they were trying to do this to an Islamic group or they were trying to do this to a Jewish group, I think it wouldn’t be allowed.”
The archbishop also reconsecrated the state of Kansas to Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary and led a Eucharistic Holy Hour and celebrated a packed Mass at Assumption Church north of the Capitol Building, the day of the satanic event. Additionally, hundreds of faithful Catholics gathered outside the state capitol, praying a rosary of reparation to counter the sacrilege.
As the satanists were performing their “black mass,” one courageous Catholic man stopped the desecration of the Blessed Sacrament by consuming the Host after Stewart tossed it on the ground. Stewart proceeded to violently attack the man, repeatedly punching him while he was on the ground, covering his head. Another satanist then began to drag the brave man away before police intervened.
Stewart and two other members of the Grotto were later arrested after entering the Kansas Capitol and punching a much younger, smaller man in the face twice after he tried to take his booklet while Stewart attempted to dedicate the building to the devil that police had forbidden him from doing.
Prosecutors have chosen not to pursue charges against Stewart or other members of the Grotto, though the statute of limitations is five years, per the Reflector.
To respectfully voice your concerns:
Governor Laura Kelly
Main office phone: 785-296-3232
Constituent services: 785-368-8500
Email: correspondence@ks.gov
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| Another Latin Mass Abolished: St. Joseph Parish in Missouri |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2025, 09:49 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Another Roman Mass Abolished: St. Joseph Parish in Missouri
gloria.tv | June 4, 2025
The parish St Joseph in Westphalia, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will stop celebrating the Roman Rite on 29 June. Rev Dylan Schrader announced this in a letter dated 29 May (below), published on wdtprs.com.
Following Traditionis Custodes (2021), the then Bishop of Jefferson City, Monsignor William McKnight, requested a two-year "dispensation" from the Vatican twice to continue with the Roman Rite in St Joseph. "That dispensation expires at the end of June and because it it has not been renewed that the bishop directed me to end the celebrations here", writes Rev Schrader.
Monsignor McKnight was advanced to Kansas City in April. The Jefferson City diocese is currently vacant.
Rev Schrader notes his personal connection to the Roman Rite, recalling that he celebrated his second Mass as a priest in this rite in 2010. He has offered the Mass weekly for the past seven years. St Joseph Parish has celebrated the Roman Rite since his appointment as pastor three years ago.
He also acknowledged the significant efforts made by the faithful to support the Mass, including altar servers, preparing materials, and learning chants.
Finally, he mentioned the challenges he has faced, such as managing multiple responsibilities outside the parish, for example at school, and encountering resistance from those opposed to the Roman Rite.
[see here for letter from Fr. Shrader]
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily on the Ascension of the Lord |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-03-2025, 06:57 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Modicum et jam non videbitis me,
et iterum modicum et videbitis me,
quia vado ad Patrem.
John 16:16
During the singing of the Gospel we have just witnessed the Paschal Candle being extinguished, symbolizing the Ascension of Christ to the Father, Forty Days after the Resurrection. Some paintings represent the scene of the Ascension showing us the Apostles looking upwards, where sometimes we see the entire figure of the Lord and sometimes only His feet; in others, it is as if we saw what the Lord saw as He ascended, that is, his own feet and further down the absorbed faces of the Apostles. They are two different perspectives of the same scene, and it is precisely on this different perspective that I would like to pause with you as we meditate about the Mystery of the Ascension.
The reason why I believe that a meditation on this theme can be spiritually useful is that all reality, in the Immutable Eternity of God and in the frenetic becoming of time, reveals the Divine Order that unites the Creator Father to creatures, the Redeemer Son to those redeemed, and the Sanctifying Spirit to sanctified believers. And this wonderful intertwining between supernatural and earthly things, between spirit and body, has been definitively established by the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, who in Our Lord Jesus Christ sees the human nature and the divine nature united in the fulfillment of the Redemption. Christ the Man intercedes for sinful men, Christ God offers Himself to the Father to infinitely repair the infinite offenses against the infinite Majesty of God. We cannot conceive of Redemption without Incarnation, nor Incarnation without Charity towards God and towards our neighbor. And it is this perfection of our Holy Religion that shows it indubitably to be divine: only a God who is Love (1 John 4:16) can conceive of the folly of incarnating Himself to redeem the very creature that has rebelled against Him. Only an incarnate God can deign to remain among His own, forty days after being resurrected, postponing His corporeal return to the glory of Heaven.
We ponder the Ascension from below like the disciples, and we see the Lord departing after having promised the Apostles the sending of the Holy Spirit, who will burst into the Cenacle ten days hence. We see His feet, the cloths of the robe, and the clouds that open up to reveal the heavenly Court. We consider the Ascension as a moment of separation and deprivation, because we see the Lord ascend and leave this world in a sort of long parenthesis between His departure and His glorious return at the end of time. We see ourselves as fighters in a long and exhausting war, in which we have been left without a King and with weak or even traitorous generals. We are like the Jews left at the foot of Sinai by Moses, tempted to build a golden calf.
Instead, we ought to know how to look at the Ascension from above, as the Lord saw it: the Apostles becoming smaller and smaller, their features becoming more and more indistinct, while the dazzling light of Paradise approaches above us, and the praises of the angelic Choirs become clearer; while the doors of the heavenly Jerusalem open not only for the King of kings, but also for the holy souls of the Old Law, freed from Limbo on Easter Eve. We should consider the Ascension as the necessary premise of Pentecost, and Pentecost as the indispensable vehicle of Grace that prepares us to fight, to conquer, and to deserve the palm of victory. The absence of our King and Lord gives us the opportunity to testify to Him of our fidelity: not when He conquers and triumphs over His enemies; but when everyone, even His generals, betray Him and go over to the adversary. And just as among the Jews there were those who knew how to await the return of Moses with the tablets of the Law without building reassuring idols, so – and even more so – in the Church there have been, there still are and there always will be those who keep in mind the words of the Savior: A little while and you will no longer see me; a little while and you will see me again, because I am going to the Father (Jn 16:16). A little while and you will see me again: you will not know the day or the hour, because the master will come like a thief in the night, like the Bridegroom awaited by the wise virgins.
We should, dear faithful, understand that we are the ones who must reach the Lord in Heaven, because that is our true Homeland: Quæ sursum sunt quærite, the Divine Master told us: If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth (Col 3:1-2). In this light, human contingencies acquire their just weight, because they are brought back to that κόσμος of which Our Lord is the true and absolute Pantocrator, Lord of all things, Master of time and history. Instaurare omnia in Christo (Eph 1:10) means precisely this: to recapitulate, to bring back to the very first principle, to recognize the Lordship of Christ. And therefore, to be able to read the Divine promise of Non prævalebunt (Mt 16, 18) in the awareness of both the Cross and the Resurrection, of the necessary battle as well as of the indefectible victory.
If we understand that the earthly events that involve all of humanity and each of us individually are indefectibly intertwined with the eternity of God; if we understand that our Faith is not the human and immanent response to the need to believe, but the trusting and conscious adhesion to the perfect work of a God who wants us saved and holy; if we contemplate the Ascension as a mirror of the glorious return of the Rex tremendæ majestatis of the Last Judgement, then we also realize that it is truly a modicum, a short time. And with the theological Hope of the help of God, we can face this parenthesis, this modicum, with renewed vigor.
Dear faithful, we know that these are difficult days: the recent events, the death of Jorge Bergoglio, the convocation of the Conclave, the election of Pope Leo come at a time when we are worn out by decades of crisis, with the last few terrible years of usurpation, heresies, scandals, and the apostasy of almost the entire Catholic Hierarchy. Added to these events is the globalist coup, the increasingly evident hostility of world rulers towards those who are ruled, and the looming establishment of the tyranny of the New World Order with its diabolical agenda. We are all tired and worn out. Tired of fighting against blatant lies passed off as truth. Tired of having to justify the obvious, when the entire system propagates the absurd. Tired of having to defend ourselves from those who instead ought help us. Tired of having to protect ourselves from doctors who want to poison us, from judges who want to imprison honest people while freeing criminals, from teachers who teach errors, from priests and bishops who spread heresy and immorality. We are not made for this: it is not up to the flock to command the shepherds, the student to teach the teacher, the patient to give lessons to the doctor. This is the reason why authority exists: so that as a vicarious expression of the sole Authority of Jesus Christ, King and Pontiff, it may govern to bring about the Good, and not in order to destroy the institution within which it is exercised and to disperse the members.
Our weariness, our bitterness at seeing the opportunities that Providence offers us so often frustrated, the wear and tear of a nerve-wracking battle with a treacherous enemy without valid allies: all this is part of the time of trial. It is our cross, a cross that the Lord has wisely calibrated so that with His Grace we may be able to carry it to the end, an individual and collective cross that no earthly power will ever be able to change or erase. It is the cross that the Church must embrace, because it is the only hope – spes unica – to emerge victorious from this epochal battle: without the passio Ecclesiæ it is impossible for the Mystical Body to triumph with Her Divine Head. And neither peace, nor harmony, nor prosperity will ever be possible where human hopes are not based on the observance of the Holy Law of God and do not recognize the Universal Lordship of Jesus Christ.
It is not up to us – to any of us – to provide ordinary solutions in completely unique and extraordinary circumstances. We are required – and here the wisdom of the regula Fidei comes to our aid – not to change anything that the Lord has taught the Church and that the Church has faithfully transmitted to us. Continuing to believe what our fathers believed will not deprive us of eternal glory, just because we reject the novelties introduced by false shepherds and mercenaries. On the day of the particular Judgment at the moment of our death and on the day of the Universal Judgment at the end of time we will not be judged on the basis of Amoris Lætitia or Nostra Ætate, but on the basis of the Gospel.
Let us therefore live every moment of our life knowing that this is the time of trial; and that the more the battle rages, the more Our Lord will multiply the Graces He grants us to fight and conquer. And if it is true that the Lord is now physically in Heaven, it is equally true that He wanted to grant His Ministers the power to make Him still present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Every tabernacle, however abandoned and neglected by the foolishness of men, brings back to this valley of tears the glory of Heaven, the adoration of the Angels and Saints, the Real Presence of the incarnate God. It is true: the flame of the Paschal Candle may be extinguished, but the flame of the red sanctuary lamp that honors the Eucharistic King remains alive and burning. May the flame of Charity that burns in each of us also shine, so that our soul may be less unworthy of becoming the dwelling place of the Most Holy Trinity. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
29 May MMXXV
in Ascensione Domini
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