Why Catholics Don’t Fit Left or Right: The Truth About Politics & Faith Are Catholics supposed to be Republican or Democrat? Conservative or liberal? This video exposes a deeper truth: **the Catholic Church transcends modern political categories entirely**. At first glance, Catholic teaching may appear “conservative” because it fiercely defends the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family. The Church calls the family the **“original cell of social life”**, emphasizing that society itself is built upon the stable union of man and woman. But this is not political conservatism in the modern sense—it’s something far deeper: the preservation of what thinkers like G.K. Chesterton called the “Permanent Things.” At the same time, the Church strongly critiques unchecked capitalism and economic systems that reduce human beings to mere instruments of profit. She insists that **the economy must serve the human person—not the other way around**. This places her at odds with both libertarian …More
Warum Katholiken weder links noch rechts einzuordnen sind: Die Wahrheit über Politik und Glauben Sollen Katholiken Republikaner oder Demokraten sein? Konservativ oder liberal? Dieses Video enthüllt eine tiefere Wahrheit: **Die katholische Kirche transzendiert die modernen politischen Kategorien vollständig.** Auf den ersten Blick mag die katholische Lehre „konservativ“ erscheinen, da sie die Heiligkeit des Lebens, der Ehe und der Familie vehement verteidigt. Die Kirche bezeichnet die Familie als die **„Urzelle des sozialen Lebens“** und betont, dass die Gesellschaft selbst auf der stabilen Verbindung von Mann und Frau gründet. Doch dies ist kein politischer Konservatismus im modernen Sinne – es ist etwas viel Tieferes: die Bewahrung dessen, was Denker wie G.K. Chesterton die „Ewigen Dinge“ nannten. Gleichzeitig kritisiert die Kirche den ungezügelten Kapitalismus und Wirtschaftssysteme, die den Menschen zu einem bloßen Instrument des Profits degradieren, aufs Schärfste. Sie besteht …More
May 19th - Saint of the Day: Pope Saint Urban I A pope almost hidden by history… but not forgotten by Heaven. Pope Saint Urban I led the early Church in Rome while Christians were still gathering near the catacombs, carrying the faith in silence, courage, and unity. He is tied to the legendary story of Saint Cecilia, the conversion of Valerian, and one of the boldest Catholic ideas ever attached to a pope: the Church’s treasures are the “patrimony of the poor.” No viral fame. No surviving sermons. No dramatic autobiography. Just hidden holiness, quiet leadership, care for the poor, and a name the Church still remembers almost 1,800 years later. His story also comes with mystery: Was he truly martyred? Was his tomb in the Catacomb of Praetextatus or elsewhere? And why does a town in Italy still celebrate him with an ancient festival? Read the full story of Pope Saint Urban I at HolyManna.blog, and explore more Catholic saints, feast days, daily Mass reflections …More
Hl. Papst Urban I. - Gedenktag katholisch: 19. Mai Übertragung der Gebeine nach Magdeburg: 22. Januar * in Rom † 19. Mai 230 oder 25. Mai 230 daselbst Fresko, in der Sixtinischen Kapelle in Rom Urban war den Papstlisten und dem Zeugnis des Eusebius von Cäsarea zufolge Bischof von Rom als Nachfolger von Callistus I., wohl ab 222 - die Daten in der Bischofsliste von 354 sind widersprüchlich. Zu seiner Amtszeit gab es unter Kaiser Alexander Severus keine weiteren Christenverfolgungen; die Kirchenspaltung mit Gegenpapst Hippolyt dauerte aber fort. Der Überlieferung zufolge soll Urban eine Verordnung erlassen haben, dass der Kelch beim Abendmahl stets aus Silber oder Gold sein müsse; er soll Valerianus, den Bräutigam der Cäcilia, bekehrt haben und er soll schließlich unter Kaiser Severus Alexander verfolgt, mit Bleikugeln gegeißelt, dann enthauptet worden sein. Urban wurde der Überlieferung zufolge an der Via Appia bestattet, über seinem Grab wurde eine - heute geschlossene - …More
Del Bigtree @delbigtree Robert Kennedy Jr. wants to do the most basic thing science can do - compare the health outcomes of vaccinated children to unvaccinated children using the largest medical database in America. That's it. That's the study. That's the scientific method. And the American Academy of Pediatrics is suing him to stop it. Think about what that means. Not content with blocking changes to the vaccine schedule, they are now going to court to prevent an investigation into whether the schedule is actually producing healthy children. The one question the entire program should have been answering for fifty years, and the people who run that program are fighting in federal court to make sure it never gets asked. This is an industry protecting itself from its own data. I am not accusing anyone in medicine of malice. I am saying that the long-term health investigation has never been done with the seriousness it deserves, and now that someone is finally trying to do it, there is a …More
A Quebec physician says parents should be able to euthanize disabled newborn babies. He says parents “should have the opportunity” to have their newborn killed under Canada’s MAiD euthanasia regime. This is absolutely insane.
One needs to ask if this Mamdani is the monster so many New Yorkers say he is why is he still alive? Does not letting him live increase the likelihood of New Yorkers being irremissible harmed?
In Hamburg, the "migrant share in some schools is so high that German children are increasingly being bullied because they do not participate in Ramadan or because girls wear short skirts." German schoolchildren are now targeted in their own country. "Again and again, small groups of strictly religious migrant children are here to harass their non-Muslim classmates."
Parishioners work to buy back historic Catholic church in Baltimore Former parishioners of St. Ann Catholic Church on Greenmount Avenue are working to buy back the building after the Archdiocese of Baltimore ordered it closed two years ago. FULL ARTICLE: Parishioners working to buy back historic …
Nota to Readers: Given the recent release of the classified files on the UFOs by the U.S. government, I believe it is very timely to reproduce here the Vatican's position on the Aliens. Knowing it, our readers may have some idea about what Pope Leo XIV may do on the topic. The content of this article is the correspondence of myself with a good Brazilian friend – may his soul rest in peace – in January 2014, followed by some news reports he sent me. On that occasion TIA posted those documents on our What People Are Commenting page. Since in the 12 years that have passed, some of the original sources in our correspondence are no long available on the Internet, I replaced them with similar ones. - Atila Guimarães, editor ______________________ Dear Atila, Salve Maria! I believe you and the TIA readers will be interested to know that the Vatican is now supporting the UFOs, according to the news reports below. I did a little research on the Internet and found these documents, whose value …
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned. “Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.” Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s. So, what happened? Screens. Dr. Jared Horvath explained: “Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to EVEN GENERAL IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.” “So why? … The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning (screens).” “If you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly, to the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation LESS …More
My Friend is the Pope: Father Art Purcaro on Pope Leo XIV & "Building a Better World" "The Pope looked at the cover art and told the publisher: Go with the young one." Pope Leo's longtime friend and fellow Augustinian, Father Art Purcaro, joins us to discuss his historic new book. What happened just weeks before the Conclave? Father Art Purcaro was celebrating his 50th ordination anniversary alongside his close friend, Cardinal Robert Prévost, with no idea the man would soon step out onto the balcony of St. Peter's as Pope Leo XIV. Now, Father Art is out with his new book, Building a Better World: A Contemporary Augustinian Perspective—featuring an exclusive foreword written by the Holy Father himself. In this deep and engaging interview, Father Art unpacks the true meaning of the Pope’s declaration that he is a "Son of Augustine." Drawing from his 40 years of missionary work living at a subsistence level in the deserts and mountains of Peru, Father Art challenges our individualistic …More