The journal of UK pharmacists, The Pharmaceutical Journal, ran an article by RoseMary Baker, a pharmacist from the Wirral, showing the d...
Padre Pio is canonised a saint, nine years ago this month
From the Homily of John Paul II on the occasion of the canonisation of Padre Pio: 1. "For my yoke is easy and my burden light"...
The steps taken in canonising Padre Pio
God thus showed the Church his desire to glorify on earth his faithful servant. In a short time the Capuchin Order took the steps prescrib...
Paul VI said of Padre Pio that he “bore the wounds of our Lord”
From his youth, his health was not very robust, and especially in the last years of his life it declined rapidly. Sister Death took him well...
Ah, but might Ann Widdecombe give a speech at the protest march?
Possibly just my wishful thinking…? But on the timetable for the Protest March against Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws (July 2nd), there is a s...
Will your name be on the petition handed to Downing Street, calling for Pakistani Christians to be protected?
You may sign the petition, organised by Aid to the Church in Need here. On 2 nd July this petition will be submitted to the UK High Co...
Vatican: Artists to honor Pope's 60th ordination anniversary with 60 works
The Vatican will celebrate Pope Benedict’s 60th anniversary of priestly ordination with a month-long exhibition featuring 60 artists from ar...
The enemy is from PEeP? And who can be Christian enough for Westminster Central Hall?
According to The Jewish Chronicle , ‘a concerned member of Pro Ecclesia’, Robert Williams, got in touch with Westminster Central Hall and wa...
The Cancelled PEeP talk – the Cork connection
Daphne McLeod described Cardinal Burke’s abrupt pulling-out of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice conference as ‘a blow’. Cardinal Burke had pl...
Is it a good idea to publish comments from someone who believes they may be the ‘Second Coming’?
On this post about Padre Pio standing at the gates of heaven waiting for all his spiritual children, someone posting as ‘anonymous’ sent me...
Padre Pio's cured the son of a Vatican ambassador...
Fernando Sanchez is the ambassador of Costa Rica to the Vatican, but his story has nothing to do with his job. He says, his son is alive t...
St Anthony's Story
St Anthony finds tea in Spain…
There’s nothing quite as soothing as a cup of ‘black’ tea, which nowadays is much maligned because of its caffeine content and teeth-stainin...
St Anthony, patron of lost things...
What I like about this video is that the narrator speaks very much from the heart, weaving in the factual events of St Anthony’s life in a s...
St Anthony Exhibition…
1:01 minutes into the video, the statue is quite like that in The London Oratory.
Camping in front of Santiago de Compostela's Cathedral….
I’m holidaying here in Spain where the weather is abnormally bracing, blustery and cold for this time of year. I’m borrowing jumpers and c...
Over eleven times the population of Ireland has been lost in abortion in the US, in the last 38 years
The populace of the 18 states in black symbolises the 50,000,000 reported abortions, which have been done in the US, since 1973. There are j...
A new documentary on saintly Fr John Lee, with an appearance of my ugly mug to be on Korean TV
Korean Broadcasting Station contacted me and Luke Coppen in the past week and invited us to participate in a follow-up documentary to Do...
Humanae Vitae...
In the last 43 years, millions have read critiques of the encyclical and the satires of Humanae Vitae in glossy magazines. Whenever I get in...
Padre Pio's letter supporting Humanae Vitae, perhaps the most controversial encyclical ever, released 43 years ago this summer
Pope Paul VI had this letter published in L'Osservatore Romano. Your Holiness: Availing myself of Your Holiness' meeting with the ...
Cardinal Burke and Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice's invisible ‘enemies’: are Pro Ecclesia their own worst enemy?
Three tickets for Cardinal Burke’s talk collect dust on my shelf. And they will stay there for a long time, and become artefacts of our p...