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INCREDIBLE scenes today at the Sacré-Cœur Basilica at Montmartre as THOUSANDS of Catholics gathered to pray overlooking the city of Paris
Shocking 🙏
BREAKING: Taybeh, the last entirely Palestinian Christian village in the West Bank, is under a complete blockade by Israeli forces: no one allowed in or out.
I spoke with a resident of Taybeh who described the impact of the movement restrictions:
"You can’t plan your day. Checkpoints close suddenly and you get stuck and delayed and your day gets messed up. It’s frustrating, it wastes you time, you get emotionally and physically drained.
What bothers me the most is you’re no longer in control of your life becasue you’re no longer in control of your time, your route or your plans.
You start working out your day according to the closures, change appointments, cancel and postpone things you have to get done.
They control your movement, so they control you."
FRANCE 🚨 🇫🇷
INCREDIBLE scenes today at the Sacré-Cœur Basilica at Montmartre as THOUSANDS of Catholics gathered to pray overlooking the city of Paris
The global reaction to the Irish State's anti grandparents ad showed that the woke regime in Ireland is laughable, the world thinks that it is a joke
The reaction from the woke establishment since has been to double down, because they cannot afford to lose one drop of the illusion of control that they have over the Irish people
Isabel Hayes: Why Jim O’Callaghan is dangerously wrong about the important message at heart of consent advert buff.ly/PGAHT3k
Sad news.
Glenstal Abbey, one of the most prestigious schools for boys in the country, has announced it will shut its doors in two years’ time.
independent.ie/irish-news/gl… #Benedictines #GlenstalAbbey #catholiceducation
🚨 French President Emmanuel Macron has clarified his earlier comments where he stated that today was the 'first time' that people were killed for their religion in France
'I also want to recall an essential truth and avoid any controversy: in recent years, our country has experienced attacks that targeted Christians because they were Christians and Jews because they were Jews. None of these victims must be forgotten'
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President Emmanuel Macron is facing massive criticism after saying that today's in attack in Paris was the 'first time' that people had been targeted for their religion
Social media users pointed out the many Catholic martyrs from the past decade who were targeted for their religion
🚨 King Abdullah of Jordan has visited the survivors of the terror attack on a church that left seven Christians dead
🚨 The Ukraine city of Oleshky has secured a CEASEFIRE following calls by Pope Leo XIV to both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy imploring a pause in the conflict for humanitarian reasons 💪
'Those who are incorporated in the Catholic Church ought to sense their privilege and for that very reason their greater obligation of bearing witness to the faith and to the Christian life as a service to their brothers and sisters and as a fitting response to God.
They should be ever mindful that "they owe their distinguished status not to their own merits but to Christ's special grace; and if they fail to respond to this grace in thought, word and deed, not only will they not be saved, they will be judged more severely."'
Pope John Paul II
Arguably the 20th Century's two most influential Catholics, Pope John Paul II and Padre Pio, not only met one another but established a spiritual bond that culminated with the former canonising the latter in 2002
A young Karol Wojtyła attended Pio's Mass in 1948 and also confession with the famous friar
In 1962, Bishop Wojtyła attended the Second Vatican Council
He had received word of a mother of four from Poland, a concentration camp survivor, who had cancer
Wojtyła had a letter hand delivered to Pio, asking for him to pray for the woman to have healing
Pio said 'I cannot say not to this one. Keep this letter' to Angelo Battisti, who had delivered the letter
At a scan a few days later, it was revealed that her tumour had completely disappeared
Wojtyła wrote again to Pio and thanked him a few weeks later:
We give thanks to God and also to you, Venerable Father.
'I express my sincere thanks on behalf of the lady, her husband and the whole family. In Christ, Karol Wojtyla, Capitular Bishop of Krakow'
Pope John Paul II canonised Padre Pio in 2002
Formula 1 Grand Prix winner Sergio Perez is a devoted Catholic who has photos of Pope John Paul II and Our Lady of Guadalupe in his car each race.

















