Pagan Aztec war dance takes over LA Catholic cathedral sanctuary
This happened on Saturday, June 27, 2026. Apparently Misa Azteca is a unique work that brings together the prayers of the Latin Mass with the rhythms and sounds of indigenous Mexican musical traditions.
How to be a great climate activist: 1. Write the book on avoiding climate disaster 2. Take 392 private flights in one year 3. Pay a Swiss firm $10m a year to suck it back out of the sky 4. Announce that this makes you part of the solution 5. Become the largest private farmland owner in America 6. Have a management company farm it for you 7. Say all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef 8. Fund a company that makes butter out of thin air 9. Say you honestly couldn't tell it from the real thing 10. Tell a man with thirty cows he is the emergency 11. Fund a programme to fix African cattle breeding, a thousand years after the herdsmen worked it out 12. Assure everyone there is no grand scheme 13. Publish 17 pages explaining it was never the end of the world after all 14. Refuel. Keep the farmland.
This post offers another clear instance of the place where faithful Catholics meet the political apparatus of the United States, a constitutional republic ordered toward the common good. The intersection is not optional. It arises from the duty to protect the innocent and to order society according to truth. There remain those who claim one can be fully pro-life and authentically Catholic while remaining entirely detached from the political sphere. That position cannot be sustained. The defense of human life from conception is a public responsibility as well as a private conviction. When the law and the culture fail to safeguard the weakest, Catholics are not free to withdraw. Engagement with the temporal order is required by the very faith that declares every human life sacred. Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) on X
2 Purgatory by Rev. Francois Xavier SCHOUPPE read by John Part 2/2 | Full Audio Book Purgatory by FX Schouppe, SJ, a french Catholic theologian who died in November, 1904 details the place where saved souls go before Heaven. Think of it as a temporary cleaning or purging place for those who aren't going to Hell. Fire, burning and intense pain for various lengths of time make up the experience of Purgatory. The author details eyewitness accounts and blood chilling stories from the perspective of a number of saints who went through it. We can pray, give alms and have Masses said for the souls in Purgatory to shorten their and our time there. This book really turned me around! Purgatory will scare the Hell out of you!(Summary by John Brandon) More information: librivox.org/purgatory-by-rev-francois-xavier-schouppe/
[Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori – XVII-XVIII Century AD; born: Marianella, Kingdom of Naples/died: Pagani, Kingdom of Naples; (aged 90); Bishop; spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian; Founder; Doctor of the Church] What has been said of dryness holds true of temptations also. Certainly we should strive to avoid temptations; but if God wishes that we be tempted against faith, purity, or any other virtue, we should not give in to discouraging lamentations, but submit ourselves with resignation to God’s holy will. St. Paul asked to be freed from temptations to impurity and our Lord answered him, saying: “My grace is sufficient for you.” So should we act when we find ourselves victims of unrelenting temptations and God seemingly deaf to our prayers. Let us then say: “Lord, do with me, let happen to me what thou will; your grace is sufficient for me. Only never let me lose this grace.” Consent to temptation, not temptation of …更に表示
"What has been said of dryness holds true of temptations also. Certainly we should strive to avoid temptations; but if God wishes that we be tempted against faith, purity, or any other virtue, we should not give in to discouraging lamentations, but submit ourselves with resignation to God’s holy will. St. Paul asked to be freed from temptations to impurity and our Lord answered him, saying: “My grace is sufficient for you.”"