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This story begins in the third century with an oppressive Roman emperor and a humble Christian martyr. The emperor was Claudius. The Christian was Saint Valentinus.
Claudius had ordered all Romans to worship twelve gods, and he had made it a crime punishable by death to associate with Christians. But Valentinus was a dedicated to the ideals of Christ, and not even the threat of death could keep him from practicing his beliefs. He was arrested and imprisoned. During the the last weeks of Valentinus life, a remarkable thing happened. Seeing that he was a man of learning, the jailer asked whether his daughter, Julia might be brought to Valentinus for lessons. She had been blind since birth. Julia was a young girl with a quick mind. Valentinus read stories of Rome's history to her. He described the world of nature to her. He taught her arithmetic and told her about God. She saw the world through his eyes, and trusted in his quiet strength. "Valentinus, does God really hear our prayers?" Julia asked one day. "Yes my child, He hears each one," he replied. "Do you know what I pray for every morning and every night? I pray that I might see everything you've told me about." "God does what is best for us if we will believe in Him," Valentinus said. "Oh, Valentinus, I do believe," Julia said. "I do." she knelt and grasped his hand. As they prayed together, a brilliant light flooded the prison cell. Julia cried out, "Valentinus, I can see! I can see! "Praise be to God!" said Valentinus. On the eve of his death, Valentinus wrote a last note to Julia, urging her to stay close to God, and he signed it, "From your Valentine." His sentence was carried out the next day, February 14, 270 A. D., near a gate that was later named Porta Valentini in his memory. He was buried at what is now the Church of Praxdes in Rome. It is said that Julia herself planted a pink-blossomed almond tree near his grave. Today, the almond tree remains a symbol of abiding love and friendship. On each February 14- St. Valentine's Day- messages of affection, love and devotion are exchanged around the world.
scurrilous slurs launched by the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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The STRAIGHT STUFF Living In Tradition 
As we begin the Liturgical Season of Lent with Septuagesima we want to bring you this year something special so readers can enhance their spiritual lives, appreciate the traditions passed down and apply the principles of what the wise and holy abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger imparts in his masterful volumes known as The Liturgical Year. Thus we are providing excerpts on the Season of Septuagesima, and next week on Sexagesima, then Quinquagesima and Lent. In reading, you will hopefully gain a greater appreciation of the inspired words of this unofficial Doctor of the Church in the 19th Century. Moreover, you'll realize how much we have truly lost in relaxing the disciplines of the Church Militant. As they say, a lazy, slothful army is soon conquered, and we can easily see how the Church was prey to the Modernist enemies because so many eased up and took too lightly God's, Our Lady's, and numerous saints and Pontiffs' warnings and admonitions. This will hopefully wake many to realizing the treasure of sacrifice, self-mortification and penance in building the spiritual muscle to bulk up the numbers in restoring holy Mother Church to her former glory. We have also included his reflections for each day of Septuagesima Week at the beginning of each Proper of the Mass to the left as we present Abbe Gueranger's comments in The Story of Septuagesima
The Sanity of Sanctity 
We begin this month of February with the Time of Septuagesima leading toward Ash Wednesday later this month, by bringing you the Litany of Saints for the Saints and Feasts of February. Need some impetus to prepare for Lent? What we provide is a litany to all of the saints whose feast days are celebrated in the month of February. Many of these saints are little-known and often are not, for that reason, invoked in our prayers. While there are several feria days in this month, almost each day is dedicated to one or more saints historically and acknowledged in the traditional calendars. If you add this short litany to your daily Rosary, you will have the benefit of invoking the prayers of some of these lesser-known saints for February in preparation for the Time of Lent. Litany of the February Saints
Doctors of the Church   The eleventh Doctor of the Church chronologically in the history of the Church, whose feast we celebrate on February 9th, was considered the "Defender of Theotokos" - the Dogma of Mary as Mother of God. As many bishops in the early centuries, he was used and duped, but the Holy Ghost won out and rather than caving to the heretics, this Doctor became one of Holy Mother Church's staunchest defenders and presided over the Third Ecumenical Council - the Council of Ephesus. He served as the Patriarch of Alexandria and effectively squashed Nestorianism. For all he did for holy Mother Church this holy bishop was officially recognized by Pope Leo XIII as a Doctor of the Church and has become known in Church annals as Defender of Theotokos
Catholic PewPOINT On the BattleLine  
In the vein of the above editorial, The Daily Catholic will make these pages available to post all responses by Traditional Catholics, especially those ruthlessly attacked by the nebulous, corrupt Southern Poverty Law Center. One of the first to fire back a volley in defending their position is Tradition in Action with Atila Sinke Guimaraes stating the facts and delineating between a Catholic's right stance against the Jewish religion since the time of Christ and the total rejection of any prejudice as far as the Jewish race goes. True Catholics condemn any kind of racial prejudice as Atila emphasizes in his response to the attack by the SPLC. He points out why it is still licit under American Law to oppose the Jewish religion, but never morally permitted to hate. The SPLC twists the truths as Atila shows in his commentary
Arrogant Assessment Against Our Catholic Rights
Hot Issues  
We're also linking John Vennari's response to the scurrilous attack by the Southern Poverty Law Center in which he lists the seven ways organizations such as SPLC totally misconstrue and twist in order to villainize while maintaining a deliberate dishonest stance that distorts the truth. These muckrakers have no conscience or a clue what anti-Semitism is and purposely poison minds. Vennari, just like Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey did last week, lays the blame where it belongs in the hateful Talmud which, as John points out, the common Jew on the street may not have a clue about, but would be highly scandalized to realize who the smear merchants really are...and they are not those who uphold Catholic truth. The editor of Catholic Family News gets to the crux of the matter in his response
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Hate-Mongers
Christ or Chaos  
The first to alert all of the vicious yellow journalism of Heidi Beirich and the Southern Poverty Law Center was Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey who filed an excellent piece in exhibiting exact Catholic teaching on the issues and delineated the doctrinal points and upheld by every true Pope until the collapse of grace at Vatican II. What Tom also did in masterful form was to identify passages of the Talmud to expose it as alien to the Torah and as a book laced with hate as he illustrates only too well. It is all evidence that modern Jewish thought has nothing whatsoever to do with true Judaic heritage but a Zionist agenda that is political and definitely anti-Christ in content and purpose, and why the modern Jew is so apt to spout Vatican II platitudes for they play right into Zionist hands. Tom lays it all out in his lengthy, but pertinent essay
Hating Without Distinction
Doctors of the Church   The Last Sunday in the Time of Epiphany is bookended this year with the feasts of two holy Doctors of the Church - Saint John Chrysostom whose feast falls on January 27th and Saint Francis de Sales whose feast we celebrate on January 29th. Both were holy bishops who lived 1200 years apart, yet both were known for their written and oratory skills. Both fought tirelessly and valiantly against fierce heresies - St. John against the cancer of Arianism that engulfed 95% of the hierarchy and St. Francis de Sales against the heresy of Protestantism which claimed millions including whole countries such as England. These Doctors were known for their piety, zeal and energy with a deep love for Christ and His Blessed Mother. One, St. John Chrysostom is known as The Golden Mouth of Truth and the other, St. Francis de Sales whom many consider the patron of the internet, was officially proclaimed in 1923 Patron Saint of the Catholic Press Gabriel's Clarion   Gabriel Garnica files a column for the ignominious anniversary of Roe vs. Wade in which he explains the difference between true motherhood and "otherhood." The latter is the agenda of those posing as "good mothers" where in truth they use it to promote killing children in the womb. To compound the problem, Washington D.C.'s chief potentate of that archdiocese believes not only in the separation of Church and State, but believes in separating truth from dogmatic teaching. It's also called heresy of the highest degree. But it wouldn't be politically expedient to this pompous protector of politicians. This apostate rummy has no clue what a true Catholic shepherd is, nor does Nancy Pelosi have a clue what a Catholic is or what a mother is. She represents neither in her hypocritical well-planned lying crusade to dupe the elect. No matter that only a fraction elected her, she now intends to establish satan as the prince of this land. She and her counterpart with aims on the White House Hillary may have fooled the imposters posing as Catholic Bishops (can you say all members of the USCCB?), but they dare not dupe the Catholic faithful. Yet, unless they turn to the true ideal of motherhood and life, the Blessed Mother of God, they'll be deceived just as they have been with Vatican II and all the Modernistic heresies so rampant today. Gabriel explains in his column Mothers Beware!
Faithful to Tradition   In commemoration of the observance of Church Unity Octave, John Gregory presents a feature that should tweak the consciences and comfort zones of every Catholic in recognizing that platitudes are all fine and nice, but they don't address what Traditional Catholics must do in order to truly work toward true Church Unity and that is exactly what St. Paul directed in 2 Thessalonians 2: 15, "stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned whether by word, or by our epistle." These traditions have been sacked and obliterated by the false prophets of the conciliar church and proven heresy resonates from these VulgArians. John addresses twelve weak points launched by those not willing to admit that a heretic cannot possibly be a Pope, let alone a Catholic. He points out that these flimsy refutations to the accepted Church doctrine of sedevacantism are smokescreens to cover up the sedeplenists' own inaccuracies and unwillingness to truthfully face the facts and follows the excellent piece by Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey "Displaced Anger" on this very subject. It takes a humble heart to recognize when one is wrong and be willing to pray and realize one cannot have it both ways. If Benedict XVI is pope, then all who preceded him up through Pope Pius XII were not and they were wrong, or else Benedict and before him John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II were not only wrong but have apostasized from the True Faith and therefore cannot possibly be Catholic Popes. St. Paul made that abundantly clear in Galatians 1: 8-10. John Gregory explains in his column, The Key to Church Unity
Gabriel's Clarion  Gabriel Garnica returns for 2007 ready for bear as he sets his sights on this month when we commemorate the 34th anniversary of the fatal and fateful Roe v. Wade decision that has claimed at least 50 million souls. Just as the Jews of their day considered Christ's life disposable, and ruthlessly recycled their own morality to justify their evil deed of assaulting Innocence by sealing His fate with the release of the criminal Barrabas, so also today history repeats itself as the devil fiendishly infects minds and hearts to continue the slaughter of the innocents to the tune of over 50 million preborn souls. And we wonder why this world is in the shape it is today? We have blood on our hands if we do not stand up as true, committed Roman Catholics and work to stop this most vilest of murders in the history of mankind. The salvation of our very souls might very well depend on our response. Gabriel explains in his column The Mob Still Chooses Barrabas
The Sanity of Sanctity 
We continue our recent tradition of bringing you the Litany of Saints for the Saints and Feasts of each month. Need some impetus to prepare for Lent now just over a month away away? What we provide is a litany to all of the saints whose feast days are celebrated in the month of January. Many of these saints are little-known and often are not, for that reason, invoked in our prayers. While there are a few Time of Epiphany feria days in this month, almost each day is dedicated to one or more saints historically and acknowledged in the traditional calendars. If you add this short litany to your daily Rosary, you will have the benefit of invoking the prayers of some of these lesser-known saints for January and, as the Three Kings bowed in humility, better prepare yourself to keep your spiritual resolutions for 2007. Litany of the January Saints
Catholic PewPOINT   Editor Michael Cain lays out the plans for The Daily Catholic and SANCTUS for 2007; one that promises to be a landmark year in which we christen, so to speak, a new vessel of information to provide you with the navigational tools necessary to save more souls beginning with your own by retracing our own journey over the rough seas that lead to infrangible Catholic Truth. While looking back, we also look to the horizon and while we have been preaching, if you will, to the choir for lo these many years, our mission is near at hand to go beyond the "choir." This can only be done by making, presently, this site chiefly a resource site. While we cannot at this time reveal other plans that entail going beyond the "choir," we can give you all you'll need to assure you that you're not alone and can safely sail on your own. Cain explains and shares the new direction of The Daily Catholic in his editorial "May the Wind Be Always at Your Back"
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When it comes to all these ungodly laws being passed by liberal judges because of the lobbying and intimidation of a small minority out to do away with the natural and supernatural order, it is wise to keep in mind the following:
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