Defend Family Life and They Will Try to Get Your Head on a Silver Platter

Today is the Memorial of the Passion of St John the Baptist, or the Beheading of St John the Baptist

"John had said to Herod,

'It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.'"

Readings for the day

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Blessed Pope John Paul II said in Familiaris Consortio:

The Church is called upon to manifest anew to everyone, with clear and stronger conviction, her will to promote human life by every means and to defend it against all attacks, in whatever condition or state of development it is found.

Mother's Tears for her Children Open Heaven and Wash her own Heart

Today is the Feast of St Monica, who prayed for the conversion of her son for 19 years.  He became one of the greatest doctors of the Church, St Augustine of Hippo, whose feast we celebrate tomorrow.  Read more about her life here.

Mass Readings for today

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In the Eyes of God Coins Are Rocks and Money is Just Paper - You Can't Bring Rocks to Heaven

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!

Listen to my homily for the 18th Sunday of the Church's Year:

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Mass Readings for the 18th Sunday of the Year

Pope Francis told ambassadors to the Holy See:

"One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society. Consequently the financial crisis which we are experiencing makes us forget that its ultimate origin is to be found in a profound human crisis. In the denial of the primacy of human beings! We have created new idols. The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal. 

"A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established, one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules.  

"Concealed behind this attitude is a rejection of ethics, a rejection of God. Ethics, like solidarity, is a nuisance! 

"Money has to serve, not to rule!"

God Too Close? Can't be the Carpenter's Boy, through the Appearance of Bread and Wine, or at Copacabana Beach?

Pope celebrates Mass with 3.7 million at Copacaban Beach, Brazil

Here is my homily for today:

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Mass Readings for the day