Science? Yes. Green Ideology? It’s Not Part of the Catholic Faith
07-27-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. VillaIs Pope Leo XIV a supporter of this ideology? The harmony to which the Pope and Saint Augustine refer is antithetical to that of the green ideology. Right reason and divine Revelation teach us that man, created in the image of God, stands at the top of the hierarchical scale of creation. Nature is a means given by God to man to achieve his supernatural end. Man must respect nature and its laws, which are not only physical and chemical, but also religious and moral.
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Our Lady of Good Counsel of Genazzano
07-20-2025Weekly ReflectionNelson Ribeiro FragelliAt the borders of Europe, people awaken: Albanians return to the Church! (Edited)
It should be remembered that Albanians are direct descendants of the Illyrians, an Indo-European people evangelized in the early centuries. In his Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul writes: "From Jerusalem to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ" (Rom. 15:19). This is one of the first testimonies of the Christian presence on the European continent.
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Saint Junipero Serra and Those Who Attack him
07-13-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. VillaThe feast of St. Junipero Serra was on July 1st. This saint has been attacked by anti-Catholics with a false narrative. Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights reported about one such attack: NEW YORK TIMES SMEAR OF ST. SERRA STANDS On September 30, (2020) the New York Times ran a front-page story that smeared St. Junipero Serra. Repeated attempts to have the paper correct the record have failed.
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Beleaguered Christians Have No One to Defend Them…. And Their Enemies Know it
07-06-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. VillaA prayer chamber destroyed at St Mary Tahira in Qaraqosh, Iraq, where Islamic State militants took over it and used the courtyard as a firing range.
Today, persecution of Christians is as brutal and vicious as that experienced by Christians in the early church. “If one member suffers, all suffer together” 1 Corinthians 12:26 St. Paul tells us. On May 24, 2025, Fulani militants attacked the villages of Tse-Ubiam and Tyolaha in Benue State, killing ten people.
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