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Five decades after his death, the arrest of the Bishop of Leitmeritz by the Communist regime in the 1950s has now also been legally erased - Prague Archbishop Pribyl: Five decades after his death, Cardinal Stepan Trochta (1905-1974), persecuted by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, has been fully rehabilitated by the courts.

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In the 16th century, the enemy of Christian civilization was a reality in the Ottoman Empire. Today the enemy is more watered-down and is even rendered present inside the Church. Today the attacks are not localized in a specific territory but have penetrated inside souls. Ours is a situation in which God is out of the picture and the “de-structuring” of the human being, the family, education and the Christian sense of social and political life is sought. Today we are facing a cultural battle which has been shaping principles and dogma for centuries. This is how the Spanish Bishop of Alcalá de Henares, Juan Antonio Reig Pla, described it in a pastoral letter from 2020.

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223 Consecrated Hosts, Intact Since 1730

In Siena, in the Basilica of San Francesco, 223 Hosts have been guarded for 286 years, miraculously remaining intact ever since, against all physical and biological laws. What exactly happened?

Note: Catholic teaching on the Holy Eucharist: At the moment when Jesus Christ, using the ordained priest says: This is My Body; This is the chalice of My Blood.

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Actual Sin Involves Consenting to the Occasion of Sin

In Catholic moral teaching, avoiding the proximate/near occasion of sin is considered a grave duty. This is because it's not enough to avoid sin itself, but rather what most likely leads to it.

The occasion of sin can be a situation, a person, a place or a circumstance that can facilitate or induce the commission of a sin.

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One may not do evil so that good may result from it. Both the goal and the means to get there must be good.

IVF is not an easy subject to talk about – and that’s hardly surprising. Behind every conversation about fertility treatment there’s a story. A husband-and-wife longing for a child. Months becoming years. Hope followed by disappointment. Prayers that seem to go unanswered. Infertility isn’t simply a medical problem to be fixed. For many couples, it’s a profound sorrow. Any conversation about IVF that does not begin by acknowledging that suffering has begun in the wrong place.

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Let us pray to the Holy Infant of Prague.

It was once very popular to give a statue of the Infant of Prague surrounding weddings, new homes, and for special intentions. There is a statue of the Infant of Prague in our parish church. How did devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague originate? In 16th-century Spain, devotion to the royalty of the Infant Jesus began to spread. Out of great love for the humanity of Christ, St. Teresa of Avila developed the Carmelite devotion to the Infant Jesus.

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