(Click to enlarge)This monument is apparently called "The Spirit of Chester". Possibly "ghost" would be a better term?
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Little Jesus, Wast Thou Shy? - A HOLY AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS 2024 TO ALL OUR READERS!Little Jesus Ex ore infantium, Deus, et lactentium perficisti laudem (Ps 8, 3) Little Jesus, wast Thou ...
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Belloc on Wolsey and Cranmer - Os Justi Press is carrying two books by Hilaire Belloc: *Wolsey *and *Cranmer*. They have been brought back into print by Mysterium Press in the U.K. The...
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Holland 1944 - Just this week I found these two photos of a diorama from 1977 or so. I didn't expect it would survive the trip to Ecuador, so I gave it away.
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Cardinal Eijk on Mission, Secularization and the World Synod - *"Anyone who creates confusion alienates people from the Church... I would like to say to the bishops of other countries: do not make this mistake, do ...
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Saint Gabriel - The angels call for our veneration and awe as part of God’s creation. Part of the destructive modernism of the 1970s included advice to Catholic school t...
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The Pontificate of Abuse - I have in the past had some experience of abusive relationships. They are profoundly painful even when you love the person involved. It can take a long ...
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Our Lady Who Turns Her Face to the Wall - Some years ago, my late mother gave me a small statue of Our Lady of Torreciudad. She sits on top of the chest of drawers by my bed, in the corner of the ...
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Happy Easter - SURREXIT DOMINUS VERE! ALLELUIA! We wish you all a happy and blessed Easter. May God be with you.14 years ago
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Dom Prosper Gueranger on Our Lady's Expectation: - This feast, which is now kept not only throughout the whole of Spain but in many other parts of the Catholic world, owes its origin to the bishops of the t...
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