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IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
Pro Life Prescriptions 
In this issue Dr. Frank Joseph gets down to brass tacks by clearly showing how to embrace the Democratic platform of pro-abortion and call oneself a Catholic is a contradiction of the greatest degree. Jesus says if you love Me, keep My Commandments. If one does not keep His Commandments, even though they know better and every Catholic does, then the natural syllogism would have to be that one doesn't love God. Since the Democrats openly defy His Commandments, then for a Catholic to be a Democrat would greatly jeopardize his soul. There is absolutely no rhyme nor reason to compatibility of being both as Dr. Joseph points out in his column today How Can a Catholic be a Democrat?
Guest Column
In today's issue we bring you a probing article by Gary L. Morella which every Catholic must read for he illustrates how the dumbing-down and desensitizing of Catholics and the compromising of Catholic truths are playing right into the hands of those out to destroy Holy Mother Church. The entire ecumenical agenda is on a one-way course toward the abyss because the ultimate goal of those out to establish a one world religion is to get the Holy Roman Catholic Church to apologize and deny the Nicene Creed. It is heresy plain and clear. He pleads for Catholics to know their Faith if they are to survive the multicultural, politically correct, pan-christian, post-conciliar march toward a worldly global utopia that has no place in it for the One, True God - Jesus Christ, present Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. Gary sounds the clarion in his excellent insightful article tomorrow titled The Dangers of Syncretism and Indifferentism
Exspectans exspectavimus Ecclesia Dei
In the aftermath of Assisi II and the compromise by the traditional priests of Campos, Brazil, Father Peter Scott points out that though Rome has managed to lure the Campos contingent into compromising the principles they previously had so defended and stood for, the Society of Saint Pius X remains strong in rejecting the path post-conciliar church has taken in their quest to accommodate all religions and therefore compromise the church's once unyielding position as the True Church. Ecumenism is the death knell and Father reasserts that rather than caving to accepting modernism, the SSPX will be even more fortified just as Archbishop Lefebvre was motivated to ordain bishops because of Assisi I, this second aberration at Assisi should reinstill in Traditional Catholics the resolve to stand ever stronger for the unchangable Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church as he points out in What price for the Campos Compromise?
Simply Sheen
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen continues in this issue on the very topic so greatly twisted and misunderstood today: TOLERANCE. He speaks of the four kinds of way one can love - utilitarian, romantic, democratic and Divine. The fourth is the most important as His Excellency points out. He also expresses the concern that too many emphasize the 'brotherhood of man' while ignoring the 'Fatherhood of God.' He asks if they will "make humanity a brood of illegitimate children?" That is a serious concern with the late, great prelate in Four ways to love, but only one way to truly love!
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WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED:
 Father forgive them...
 The Remnant correspondent Christopher Ferrara gives first-hand accounts of Thursday's aberration at Assisi in reports sent by Gary L. Morella. We are grateful to Michael J. Matt for sending Chris to Assisi and allowing us to share this with you in such a timely manner. Chris cites Pope Pius IX's Mortalium Animos and Pope Saint Pius X's Omnia Instauare in Christo to prove the grave error of such a gathering. Inside Assisi
Traditional Thoughts
In Tuesday's issue we began a special series on what Traditionalism truly is - Roman Catholicism. Peter Miller, editor of the www.Seattle Catholic.com, shared a simple, concise response to 'conservatives' who see their beloved Church collapsing everywhere but continue to keep their heads in the sand, refusing to see the obvious. His work dispells the many myths about Traditionalism as we presented the first part of his excellent article A Brief Defense of Traditionalism.
The Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart
Tuesday we continued with the excellent work by Father Joseph McDonnell, S.J. first written during the Pontificate of Pope Saint Pius X and which, now out of print, Catholic Family News has given us permission to reprint following their publishing of it. It is a beautiful meditation and commentary that should encourage more devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus with Part Eight - Meditation on the Fourth Promise.
White Smoke, Black Fire!
In the fifth episode of Chapter Five in Part II - "The Smoldering" Fasif draws Pat deeper into the intrigue as a crucial, final chess game is revealed; one between good and evil, between good kings and bad kings, good queens and bad queens, good knights and bad knights, good bishops and bad bishops...very bad prelates as we learn of major religions' involvement, including Rome and the Israeli Mossad and the deadly compromise with Freemason interests.
Council of Constance
Just over a century after the Council of Vienne the sixteenth Ecumenical Council was called in the French area of Switzerland in 1414. Because of the Great Western Schism the legitimate Pope Gregory XII abdicated the Papal throne and the Council took control, electing Pope Martin V in 1417, three years after the Council was opened. It brought to an end the Great Schism and opened a whole new can of worms with the struggle between papal power and conciliar power. Condemned were the heresies of John Wycliffe and John Hus, the tip of the iceberg that would erupt a century later. For the full documents of the sixteenth Ecumenical Council see COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE
Catholic PewPOINT 
In the aftermath of Assisi II, editor Michael Cain took the gloves off on Monday. He asked if conservatives are aware of how the Pope in his agenda of ecumenism has violated the First Commandment, contradicting so much of what past pontiffs decreed. He asked if those who consider our Holy Father errorless cannot see the grave scandal he gives by continuing his ecumenical bent and promulgating beliefs that were condemned by the infallible, perennial Magisterium of the Church. The Marks that distinguish the True Church have been greatly blurred by the post-conciliar church, thus calling into question if, indeed, it is still truly Catholic today as Cain pointed out in one of his hardest hitting commentaries ever in Perhaps it is time to consider calling Trent II
Standing with the Church Militant On the BattleLine 
In Monday's issue Atila Sinke Guimarães continued a multi-part series The Ideal of the Universal Republic
Blessed by the Conciliar Pontiffs first carried in Catholic Family News on the alarming trend of the post-conciliar pontiffs to cater to the idea of a Universal Republic. Atila points out how Paul VI rejected the wisdom of all his predecessors by parrotting the very cry of the French Revolution with his infamous pledge at the United Nations in October 1965. Atila documented all of this in the third installment of his column How Paul VI distanced himself from holy and wise Pontiffs of the past by embracing the ideals of the French Revolution
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Day Seven of the Novena to Our Lady of Good Success
This Novena honors an early 1600 visionary Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, a Spanish Conceptionist nun whose mission was Quito, Ecuador where she received prophecies for these time in which Our Lady warned of the dire crisis the Church is undergoing today. For more information we urge you to see Our Lady of Good Success.For the Novena, see Prayer and Devotions
Death of a holy Saxon queen
Today is the 1,322nd commemoration of the death of Saint Bathildis, Saxon queen who married King Clovis and was privileged to have Saint Eligius to give her spiritual direction. Her early upbringing prompted her to lower taxation on the poor so the families could also raise families. She also ruled that no Christians or French citizen could be sold into slavery. Many believe she was the first crusader toward abolishing slavery. When Clovis died she gave up the castle in favor of life as a Benedictine nun where she lived out her life as a simple, humble religious at Chelles Abbey outside of Paris.
CATHOLIC CHUCKLES
A Rose by any other name!
Two older couples were on their way to Mass. The two gentlemen were in the
front seat, the two wives in the back. Mike was driving as Patrick asked him,
"Did you know I've been taking these new memory pills? They're tremendous."
"What are they called?" Mike
asked.
Pat scrunched his forehead, embarrassed that he couldn't
remember the name of the memory pills. "Wait!" he exclaimed. "Petals. Red
Petals! Name a flower, Mike, the one with red petals. You know, it has a
long green stem. With thorns..."
"A rose?" Mike guessed.
"Yes, that's
right!" said Pat, smiling brightly, as he turned around to
address his wife in the back seat, "Rose! What was the name of those memory pills?"
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In each issue we will feature a special prayer to enhance your Catholic devotions
Ave Maria
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructis ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Liturgy of the Saints
MONDAY, January 28:
Traditional Feast of Saint Peter Nolasco, Religious and Founder of the Order of Our Lady of Ransom and second feast of Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr. In the new liturgy it is the Feast of the Angelic Doctor of the Church Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron of Catholic Teaching.
TUESDAY, January 29:
Traditional Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Patron of Catholic Journalism, who was a Bishop and Doctor of the Church who passed to his Heavenly reward in 1622. Historical Feast of Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot who died in 570.
WEDNESDAY, January 30:
Traditional Feast of Saint Martina, Virgin who was martyred in 228. Historical Feast of Saint Bathildis, Widow who died in 680.
THURSDAY, January 31:
Feast of Saint John Bosco, Priest and Founder of the Salesian Order and beloved as Patron Saint of Altar Boys, Editors and Apprentices. He died in 1888. This holy visionary died in 1888.
FRIDAY, February 1:
Traditional Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop who was martyred in 107. Historical Feast of Saint Brigid of Ireland, Virgin and Patroness of Dairy Workers who died in 523.
SATURDAY, February 2:
FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. This feast is also known as Candlemass, or the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Historical feast of Our Lady of Good Success
SUNDAY, February 3:
Traditionally Sexagesima Sunday; the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time in the new. Also the Feast of Saint Blaise, Bishop and Patron Saint of those with throat diseases. He was martyred in 316. In the new liturgy it is the feast of Saint Ansgar, Bishop and Patron Saint of Scandinavia who died in 865. For reflections on Sexagesima Sunday, see Fr. Cusick's reflections
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