Iranian missile strikes US troop bunker in Gulf — soldiers scramble for cover Footage reportedly shows the moment a ballistic missile strikes close to a bunker housing American troops. Soldiers, some partially dressed, dive for cover. They started the war. Now they're running from it. US-Israel-Iran war | @geopolitics_prime
The battle of the Great War |(WW1 documentary) DW on Nov 4, 2018 Verdun was one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. The documentary looks at the daily life of the soldiers on the front. [Online until 11.11.2018] Today, the hellish Battle of Verdun is a symbol of the industrialization of warfare and of the horrors, futility and inhumanity of the First World War. There are now 40 French and 30 German military cemeteries on the former battlefield and a total of 170,000 dead are buried there - killed in one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War. On February 21, 1916, the German 5th Army launched an attack on the French positions at Verdun. By the end of the year, the Germans had been forced back to their starting position. The ten-month struggle for Fort Douaumont was one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War. Without the support of their allies, France and Germany clashed head-on at Verdun and paid a heavy price. More than 300,000 soldiers lost their lives in the …More
SAINT HUGH - April 1 Bishop (1053-1132) St. Hugh was born in Chateau-neuf, Valence, Dauphiné. His father, Odilo, was an army officer who promoted Christianity and restrained vice through regulations and punishment. He took St. Hugh's advice, became a Carthusian monk and lived to be 100. He and his wife received Extreme Unction and Viaticum from St. Hugh in their last moments. St. Hugh's relied on God's and received many graces during his canonry at the cathedral of Valence. When he was consecrated bishop of Grenoble, he implemented reforms and restrained vice. After two years, he resigned, received the habit of St. Bennet and began a novitiate at the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. He resumed serving as bishop after one year because of Pope Gregory VII. St. Hugh was purified with a lingering illness before passing away on April 1, 1132, two months before his eightieth birthday. He had spent the last 52 years serving as bishop. Miracles attested the sanctity of his happy death. He was canonized …More
April 1 Saint Hugh of Grenoble. by CCTNtv on Mar 29, 2012
There is nothing left. Burnout, an empty vessel, like empty churches. We have become what was worst within us. Casting out God, we kill ourselves. Murdering children, we crucify Christ. The whips tearing His body apart are like pincers tearing the unborn. How far have we come? What have we become? We are not human, we are not animals — we have become beasts.
I reach out my hand to another being — hatred, mockery… It all hurts so much. I don't know if that's how you really feel. But if it is... GOD is all that matters. What He thinks of us. If we are good Christians, who cares what others think about us. It's GOD we must worry about. Pray for those who "try" to be hurtful and turn people against us. Lie and hate us. Name calling and ignoring our out reached hand in friendship. Who cares? They only hurt themselves. I get torn (but not so much now) asking GOD to take me from this evil world with so much evil and hateful people in it. Then I realize that GOD is not done with me. Or He would have taken me already. So I accept it and I am ok staying in this wicked evil world filled with all sorts of evil and bad people. I pray for those who come after me. Those who reject me and my out stretched hand. I don't pray enough for them. But I do when I can. GOD is all that matters. When we are hurt by others, that is a sign of pride. We think we are …More
A Clapham security guard has described the moment he was forced to lock customers inside the store as mobs of feral youths ran wild. The Metropolitan Police warned of more Easter holiday 'linkups' as teens tore through south London once again on Tuesday evening with terrified families barricaded inside high street stores in the latest wave of chaos. Clips circulating on social media showed crowds of children gathering in the neighbourhood, terrorising locals and forcing shops to close. Police vehicles could be seen desperately trying to move through the throng of rioters who took to the streets in broad daylight on Tuesday afternoon, responding to a social media trend encouraging teens to 'linkup' en masse. The force confirmed two teenage girls were arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker, and a dispersal order has been put in place. Marks and Spencer on the high street - which was looted by a similar flash mob over the weekend leading to two arrests - shut early amid …
In Great Britain, they’re banned from marching out with their own flag because it’s considered racism - - - En Gran Bretaña tienen prohibido salir a marchar con su propia bandera porque es considerado racismo
[Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori – XVII – XVIII Century AD: Marianella, Kingdom of Naples/Pagani, Kingdom of Naples; (aged 90); spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian, Founder, Bishop, Doctor of the Church] “18. A woman of Cologne who had criminal intercourse with an ecclesiastic, found him one day hanging in her room dead. After this she entered into a monastery, where the devil assailed her in a bodily form, so that she knew not what to do in order to be delivered from him. A companion suggested to her to say the "Hail Mary;" and when she did so the demon said: "Accursed may she be who has taught you this," and appeared no more. 19. A certain baron who led a very sinful life was accidentally visited in his castle by a religious, who, enlightened by God, begged him to assemble together all his servants. They all came except the chamberlain. He at last was forced to come in, and the Father said to him: "Now, I command you in …More
"20. The blessed Francis Patrizii, who greatly loved the devotion of the "Hail Marys," recited five hundred every day. Mary made known to him the hour of his death. He died as a saint; and after forty years a most beautiful lily sprung from his mouth, which was then transported into France, and on the leaves of it was written the "Hail Mary," in letters of gold."
Conservative Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, published a “counter-view” to the teaching that Judas has earned his place in hell on FoxNews.com on Palm Sunday. Monsignor Barron's main arguments for having hope for Judas' salvation - Judas shows repentance: "Judas, the betrayer, deeply regretted what he had done: 'I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.'" "This is not callous indifference or self-justification. This is a clear and honest admission of guilt." - The Church has never declared that Judas is in hell: "St. Pope John Paul II insisted that the Church has never made a definitive statement regarding whether any particular person is in hell." "Pope Benedict said that we should suspend judgement regarding Judas and commit him to the mercy and justice of God." - Suicide does not guarantee damnation: "We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives.' 'By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary …More
HEY BISHOP BARRON, Don't worry about a thing. Just think - in a few days, after having spent all this time during lent thinking about Judas, you too will have perfection as a Traitor! The 40 days in the dessert - the devil tried to unsuccessfully bring down Christ in Temptations. He was most successful with Judas during this same period. By contemplating and becoming one with Judas, you will certainly miss out on the Resurrection - just like Judas. There will be NO redemption for you - you DUMB ASS. Time to think about Yahweh, his Justice and infinite Mercy to those how repent, to make you a better Saint.
Queens Parish Brings Stations of the Cross to the Streets A Queens parish brought the Passion of Christ into the streets on March 27, as dozens of faithful took part in a Via Crucis, or Stations of the Cross, procession from St. Leo Church to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The walk became a symbolic road to Calvary, drawing parishioners together in prayer and reflection. The tradition began just last year and mirrors similar “Friday of Sorrows” processions held in many countries. currentsnews
"Fun Church" in Holy Week: Fr. Simon Teller, O.P., published a video on March 29 about the different ways people use palms on Palm Sunday. The examples include the deconstructionist, the artist, the hoarder, the tickler, the sword fighter, and the panda mode. Fr. Teller is a chaplain at Providence College in the United States.
I agree that this video is in very bad taste because they are mocking/ridiculing a sacramental whether they realize it or not. I wouldn't consider making a cross out of the palms "artistic" but it was probably the only correct or pious way to use the palm.
MAR 31 2026 - U.S. CITIZENS PHYSICALLY ABUSED AND SHOT AS KRISTI NOEM ALLOWS RACIAL PROFILING Kristi Noem asked the senator if he knows of an illegal alien who killed a U.S. citizen. The devil using the tangent line to make a point "hate", "kill", "divide", bring me more and more catholics and others who are non catholic. It's not the job of the senator to know how many illegal have committed crimes, which by the way is way far less than citizens who are even serial killers. But it is his duty to question the kind of work the DHS is doing and the way they are treating U.S. CITIZENS AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE NOT BEING RACIALLY PROFILE, PHYSICALLY ABUSED, OR SHOT as a lady in this video who was shot and almost bled to death just because she looked "Mexican" or "Latina" and thus was shot multiple times as Nicole was and almost got killed. BOYCOTT THE FIFA IN THE U.S., THE U.S. IS NO LONGER A SAFE PLACE TO COME VISIT. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS KILLING THEIR OWN CITIZENS, REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY …More
Leo XIV will carry the Cross himself throughout the whole Via Crucis, the Stations of the Cross, in Rome's Colosseum, in what will be his first Good Friday as Pope.
**The Patristic and Scholastic Consensus Against the Modern Idolatry of the Marriage Bed: Marriage Is the Indissoluble Bond of Wills, Not the Operations of the Flesh** The Church Fathers and the great Scholastic theologians present a unified, sober, and supernatural vision of holy matrimony that stands in radical opposition to much contemporary Catholic teaching and pastoral rhetoric. In the tradition from **St. Augustine** through the Scholastics (including **Peter Lombard** and preeminently **St. Thomas Aquinas**), the **essence** of the sacrament of marriage resides in the **mutual consent** that forms the indissoluble bond (*vinculum*) of fidelity between husband and wife. This covenant of wills is the primal reality: it images the union of Christ and the Church, confers sacramental grace, and sanctifies the spouses independently of any carnal act. The three goods of marriage—**offspring** (*proles*), **fidelity** (*fides*), and the **sacramental bond** (*sacramentum*)—flow from …More