Bill to Legalise Euthanasia Will Be Brought to Dáil 'In Weeks'

Well, the Satanic Culture of Death triumphed in Ireland last week. Now they want to extend the 'right' to murder those people already born, not just the unborn!

From Buzz.ie

A new piece of legislation to legalise euthanasia in Ireland is to be brought to the Dáil in a matter of weeks.

The bill which would legalise assisted dying is aiming to follow hot on the heels of the successful abortion referendum last week.

Independent Alliance minister John Halligan will bring the bill forward for the second time, after first bringing forth a bill in 2015.

This bill fell for a few reasons, although the collapse of the Dáil and subsequent elections were significant factors.

Now Halligan, a junior minister, will bring a new version of the bill in front of the Dáil in the next few weeks, although he will need some assistance to do so.

As a junior minister Halligan technically isn't allowed to introduce legislation, but will have the legislation brought to the Dáil on his behalf by an active backbencher.

According to The Irish Independent, the bill currently being drafted will have a number of safeguards in place, including:

Consent from the medical practitioner and person seeking euthanasia, an independent third party witness to this agreement who is not a beneficiary in the person's estate, and a two week cool-down period between the time of signing the agreement and when treatment would be administered.

There will also be a provision in place where this 14 days can be brought down to six days if the person seeking euthanasia is expected to die within the next month.

It is estimated right now that around ten Irish people per year travel overseas to countries like Switzerland to avail of assisted suicide services.

POLL: Would you support the legalisation of Euthanasia in Ireland?

IN LUMINE FIDEI: 4 JUNE – SAINT FRANCIS CARACCIOLO (Confessor)

IN LUMINE FIDEI: 4 JUNE – SAINT FRANCIS CARACCIOLO (Confessor): Ascanio Caracciolo was born in the town of Santa Maria della Villa in the Abruzzi in 1563. From his earliest years he showed great mark...

4 June A Chesterton Calendar

JUNE 4th

Every man of us to-day is three men. There is in every modern European three powers so distinct as to be almost personal— the trinity of our earthly destiny. The three may be rudely summarized thus: First and nearest to us is the Christian, the man of the historic Church, of the creed that must have coloured our minds incurably whether we regard it as the crown and combination of the other two, or whether we regard it as an accidental superstition which has remained for two thousand years. First, then, comes the Christian; behind him comes the Roman— the citizen of that great cosmopolitan realm of reason and order, in the level and equality of which Christianity arose. He is the Stoic who is so much sterner than the Ancorites. He is the Republican who is so much prouder than kings. It is he that makes straight roads and clear laws, and for whom good sense is good enough. And the third man: he has no name, and all true tales of him are blotted out; yet he walks behind us in every forest path and wakes within us when the wind wakes at night. He is the origins— he is the man in the forest.

‘William Blake.’

Chesterton, G. K.. The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] (Kindle Locations 44282-44290). Catholic Way Publishing. Kindle Edition.

5 June, The Roman Martyrology

Nonis Juniis 

June 5th anno Domini 2018 The 21st Day of the Moon were born into the better life: 

Holy Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz. He came from England to Rome, and was sent by Gregory II into Germany to preach the faith of Christ to those nations, and he earned the title of Apostle of the Germans by turning a vast multitude, more especially of Frisians, to the religion of Christ. At last he, along with Eoban and some other servants of God in Friesland, received martyrdom by the sword at the hand of raging heathens.
In Egypt, the holy martyrs Martian, Nicanor, Apollonius, and others, who finished an illustrious testimony, in the persecution under Galerius Maximian. 
At Perugia, the holy martyrs Florence, Julian, Cyriacus, Marcellinus, and Faustinus, who were beheaded in the persecution under Decius. 
At Caesarea, in Palestine, the holy Zenais, Cyria, Valeria, and Marcia, who with rejoicing attained unto martyrdom through many torments. 
At Tyre, the holy Priest Dorotheus. He suffered much under Diocletian, but survived till the time of Julian, in whose reign, and the hundred and seventh year of his own age, he crowned his venerable years with the glory of martyrdom. 
At Cordova, in Spain, the holy lad Sancho, who was brought up in the Royal Court, but in the persecution under the Arabs for Christ’s faith's sake accepted martyrdom without shrinking. 
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.

Memes of the Day

England’s Top Family Judge: Society Should ‘Welcome and Applaud’ the Decline of Nuclear Families

You can't make this stuff up! As His Eminence, Francis, Cardinal George said:

He also said,

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.

It is beginning!

From Breitbart London

Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice for England and Wales, has said society should “welcome and applaud” the collapse traditional nuclear family life.

“What is the family?” asked the wealthy 69-year-old at in a lecture at the University of Liverpool.

“Time was when most people probably thought the answer was not merely clear but obvious. Today it is more complex,” he suggested.

“In contemporary Britain the family takes an almost infinite variety of forms. Many marry according to the rites of non-Christian faiths. People live together as couples, married or not, and with partners who may not always be of the other sex.

“Children live in households where their parents may be married or unmarried. They may be brought up by a single parent, by two parents or even by three parents.

“Their parents may or may not be their natural parents. They may be children of parents with very different religious, ethnic or national backgrounds, [and they] may be the children of polygamous marriages,” he suggested — likely in reference to the explosion in Islamic polygamy in Britain, which is flourishing in spite of the country’s long-standing anti-bigamy laws.

“The fact is that many adults and children, whether through choice or circumstance, live in families more or less removed from what, until comparatively recently, would have been recognised as the typical nuclear family,” the judge continued.

“This, I stress, is not merely the reality; it is, I believe, a reality which we should welcome and applaud.”

The shocking statement is not the first controversial commentary on the state of British family life by England’s most senior family judge.

In 2014, Sir James gave an equally charged speech in which he issued a damning and partisan indictment of “Victorian values” and railed against “the dominant influence wielded by the Christian
churches” in the past.

He also celebrated the role played by the contraceptive pill and abortion on demand in removing “the fear of unwanted pregnancy [and] the fear of the consequences of contraceptive failure,” transforming sex into “something to be enjoyed, if one wished, for purposes having nothing to do with procreation” by the end of the 1960s.

“A fundamental link – the connection between sex and procreation – [was] irretrievably broken,” he gloated. “But for all this, much remained still to be done.”

British judges like Sir James are almost entirely self-selecting and more or less unaccountable to ordinary people, not being subject to judicial elections, retention races, or recall mechanisms at any level, as they are in many U.S. jurisdictions.

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Can You be a Christian and a Socialist? The Popes Say No

Last week I posted Catholic Condemnation of Socialism in 5 Papal Quotes which Doctor Marshall cites here. This is a 'part two'.

From Dr Taylor Marshal

Popes have taught clearly that "Christian" and "Socialist" are mutually exclusive

Early this week, I posted “Catholic Condemnation of Socialism in 5 Papal Quotes (Pope Leo XIII Puts the Smack Down on Socialism)” and as expected, folks came out of the word work saying things like “Aha! But the Church doesn’t condemn Christian Socialism, but only condemns Marxist or atheistic Socialism.”

This isn’t true. Simply read Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum and you’ll discover that he condemns Socialism as an economic error contrary to natural law and social justice. But if that does not convince you, here are some quotes from subsequent Popes further laying the smack down on Socialism and even on so-called “Christian Socialism”:

Pius XI against “Christian Socialism”:

Here is a quote form Pope Pius XI on the 40th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum showing that “Catholic Socialism” or “Christian Socialism” is condemned by the Catholic Faith:

“Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true Socialist.” (Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931. n. 120)

You cannot be “a good Catholic and a true Socialist.” It just doesn’t get any clearer than that! In that same encyclical, Pius XI also teaches:

“We make this pronouncement: Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because its concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.” (Quadragesimo Anno, n. 117)

The important distinction made by Pope Pius XI is that even if Socialism is modified to “truth and justice on the points” of error, it “cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church.” Socialism is inherently broken and motivated by covetousness. Socialism is, they say, the Gospel of Envy.

And one extra quote from Pius IX on Captitalism as not fundamenetally flawed as is Socialism:

“Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.”

Socialism is inherently flawed and condemned. Capitalism is not condemned. Capitalism is instrumentally neutral. It can be used for virtue or it can be used for vice (“vitiated”).

Pope John XXIII against “Moderate Socialism”:

And I’ve heard it said by some Catholics: “Yeah, but Leo XIII and Pius XI didn’t live to see later moderations of Socialism, so what they were condemning was an earlier form of Socialism.” In order to refute this objection, we have have Pope Saint John XXIII’s reiteration and approval of the previous papal condemnations of Socialism [the comments in red are my own]:

“Pope Pius XI further emphasized the fundamental opposition between Communism and Christianity, and made it clear that no Catholic could subscribe even to moderate Socialism [Catholics cannot even try to modify Socialism!]. The reason is that Socialism is founded on a doctrine of human society which is bounded by time and takes no account of any objective other than that of material well-being [Socialism is fundamentally materialistic and closed off to the spiritual]. Since, therefore, it proposes a form of social organization which aims solely at production; it places too severe a restraint on human liberty, at the same time flouting the true notion of social authority.”
(Pope John XXIII, Encyclical Mater et Magistra, May 15, 1961, n. 34)

Pope John XXIII teaches us that:

• Pius XI was right on Socialism as being opposed to Christianity
• Catholics may not subscribe “even to moderate Socialism”
• Socialism is materialistic
• Socialism restrains human liberty

Pope Paul VI on Socialism as Corrupt Ideology:

And Pope Paul VI also condemned Socialism in 1971 on the 80th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum against Socialism:

“Too often Christians attracted by Socialism tend to idealize it in terms which, apart from anything else, are very general: a will for justice, solidarity and equality. They refuse to recognize the limitations of the historical socialist movements, which remain conditioned by the ideologies from which they originated.” (Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens, May 14, 1971, n. 31)

Pope John Paul II as Reaffirming Leo XIII’s original condemnation of Socialism:

On the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s condemnation of Socialism, Pope John Paul II issued the document Centesimus Annus reiterating the Catholic condemnation of Socialism:

“It may seem surprising that Socialism appeared at the beginning of the Pope’s critique of solutions to the ‘question of the working class’ at a time when ‘socialism’ was not yet in the form of a strong and powerful State, with all the resources which that implies, as was later to happen. However, he correctly judged the danger posed to the masses by the attractive presentation of this simple and radical solution to the ‘question of the working class.’” (John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, May 1, 1991, n. 12)

John Paul II lived under Socialism and understood its corruption of the working class. He perceived Leo XIII as a prophetic voice at the turn of the century.

The Popes of the 20th century explicitly teach that whether we modify Socialism in the shape of “Moderate Socialism,” or “Christian Socialism,” or “Theistic Socialism,” it still doesn’t fit into Catholic teaching. Socialism is not Christian and never will be Christian.

Godspeed,
Dr Taylor Marshall

“The Holy Mass—Our Divine Treasure”: Bishop Athanasius Schneider

His Excellency is one of the finest Bishops in the Church of Christ! May God grant him many years!

From the New Liturgical Movement

Today NLM is pleased to publish the sermon preached by Bishop Athanasius Schneider on May 30, 2018, at the Pontifical Low Mass offered in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Winnipeg, Canada. We are grateful to His Excellency for the permission to share these inspiring words with our readers.

The Holy Mass — Our Divine Treasure

Sermon of H. E. Bishop Athanasius Schneider

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba

May 30, 2018

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ! In these moments we participate in the most holy, in the most great, in the most wonderful and in the most divine work in all creation and in all eternity: the Holy Sacrifice of Mass. The Holy Mass is in substance the same as the Holy Sacrifice of Golgotha. We are present at the same work which Christ accomplished on the Cross and which Christ the Eternal High Priest is now and forever acting in Heaven in the presence of the Holy Trinity: the sacrifice of the eternal and everlasting Covenant.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen said: “There are certain things in life which are too beautiful to be forgotten, such as the love of a mother. Hence, we treasure her picture. The love of soldiers who sacrificed themselves for their country is likewise too beautiful to be forgotten; hence, we revere their memory on Memorial Day. But the greatest blessing which ever came to this earth was the visitation of the Son of God in the form and habit of man. His life, above all lives, is too beautiful to be forgotten; hence, we treasure the divinity of His words in Sacred Scripture, and the charity of His deeds in our daily actions. Unfortunately, this is all some souls remember, namely, His words and His deeds; important as these are, they are not the greatest characteristic of the divine Savior. The most sublime act in the history of Christ was His death. … If then death was the supreme moment for which Christ lived, it was therefore the one thing He wished to have remembered. He did not ask that men should write down His words into a scripture; He did not ask that His kindness to the poor should be recorded in history; but He did ask that men remember His death. And in order that its memory might not be any haphazard narrative on the part of men, He Himself instituted the precise way it should be recalled.”

Archbishop Sheen continues, saying: “Hence the Mass is to us the crowning act of Christian worship. A pulpit in which the words of our Lord are repeated does not unite us to Him; a choir in which sweet sentiments are sung brings us no closer to His Cross than to His garments. A temple without an altar of sacrifice is non-existent among primitive peoples, and is meaningless among Christians. And so in the Catholic Church the altar, and not the pulpit or the choir or the organ, is the center of worship, for there is re-enacted the memorial of His Passion. Its value does not depend on him who says it, or on him who hears it; it depends on Him who is the One High Priest and Victim, Jesus Christ our Lord. The Mass is the greatest event in the history of mankind; the only holy act which keeps the wrath of God from a sinful world, because it holds the Cross between heaven and earth.”

When we recognize and really believe in what each Holy Mass is, then every detail of the rite of the Holy Mass, every word, every gesture is important, is deeply meaningful and spiritual. Even from the moment we enter a church to participate in the Holy Mass, we have to try to lift up our mind and heart to Golgotha and to the heavenly liturgy. Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman wrote: “The Catholic Church alone is beautiful. The celebrant, deacon and subdeacon, acolytes with lights, the incense, and the chanting — all combine to one end, one act of worship. You feel it is really a worshipping; every sense, eyes, ears, smell, are made to know that worship is going on. The choir singing out the Kyrie, and the priest and his assistants bowing low, and saying the Confiteor. This is worship, and it is far above reason” (words of Mr. White in the novel Loss and Gain).

Saint John Mary Vianney explained the greatness of the Holy Mass: “All good works together are not of equal value with the sacrifice of the Mass, because they are the works of men, and the Holy Mass is the work of God. Martyrdom is nothing in comparison; it is the sacrifice that man makes of his life to God; the Mass is the sacrifice that God makes to man of His Body and of His Blood. Oh, how great is a priest! If he understood himself he would die. God obeys him; he speaks two words, and Our Lord comes down from Heaven at his voice, and shuts Himself up in a little Host. God looks upon the altar. ‘That is My well-beloved Son,’ He says, ‘in whom I am well-pleased.’ He can refuse nothing to the merits of the offering of this Victim. If someone said to us, ‘At such an hour a dead person is to be raised to life,’ we should run very quickly to see it. But is not the Consecration, which changes bread and wine into the Body and Blood of God, a much greater miracle than to raise a dead person to life? If we knew the value of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or rather, if we had faith, we should be much more zealous to assist at it.”

Saint Peter Julian Eymard said: “Why has our Lord willed to establish so close a relation between the Sacrament of the Eucharist and His death? It was, in the first place, to remind us of the price His Sacrament cost Him. The Eucharist, in fact, is the fruit of the death of Jesus. The Eucharist is a testament, a legacy, which becomes valid only at the death of the testator. To give His testament legal force, Jesus had then to die. Every time we come into the presence of the Eucharist, we may therefore say: ‘This precious testament cost Jesus Christ His life; He thereby shows us His boundless love, for He Himself said there is no greater proof of love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. Jesus gave me the greatest proof of His love when He went to His death in order to make the Eucharist possible and give it to me. How many think of this price paid for the Eucharist? And yet Jesus is there to remind us of it. But like unnatural children we are bent only on using and enjoying our riches, without ever thinking of the One Who acquired them for us at the cost of His life” (The Real Presence. Eucharistic Meditations, ch. XIII).

Dear brothers and sisters, let us receive the Eucharistic Lord with love, with purity of heart, with a gesture of adoration kneeling down, with a gesture of humility and littleness opening our mouth and receiving the Holiest of Holies, the King of the universe, in the little sacred Host. O Lord, when we have You in the Eucharist, we have all things and we want for nothing. Amen.

Chevalier Charles Coulombe on The Canonization (sic) of Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI, probably one of the worst Popes in the history of Christ's Church, will be canonised on 14 October. The Chevalier discusses it in terms of how and why it is happening.

That canonisations are infallible is a commonly received opinion, with which I have no disagreement. However, the prudence of canonisations is an entirely different matter. The rush to canonise Popes John XIII, John Paul the Small, and Paul VI, is an attempt to 'canonise' the Second Vatican Council, a disaster for the Church. Saints are (or were!) intended as role models. To hold these men up as role models is an absurd attempt to undermine the Church.

Since 1800, there have been 16 Popes. Only one of them had been canonised prior to this frenzy of canonisations, St Pius X, who would have difficulty in being canonised today. He was, after all, the 'Hammer of Modernists', the theological and philosophical ancestors of the men trying to destroy the Church today.

In the last few years, every Pope since 1958 has been canonised except for Pope John Paul I, and he is on track, having been declared Venerable last October by Francis.

Catholic Parish Sued for Refusing to Host LGBT Event

It begins! This is a Dominican Parish that also celebrates the TLM in the Dominican Rite. Satan knows who to send his servants to sue. Go after the truly Catholic

From Church Militant

Holy Rosary Parish

PORTLAND, Ore. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Catholic parish in Oregon is being sued for going against the LGBT agenda.

In February 2015, Ambridge Event Center, owned by Holy Rosary Parish, had to turn down an LGBT group's request to host an event. The contract between Ambridge and Holy Rosary barred hosting groups that openly oppose Church teaching.

A few days later, after widespread backlash from the gay community, Ambridge — without the knowledge of Holy Rosary Parish — issued an apology and offered to host the LGBT event for free. Ambridge made further reparation in November 2015 by hiring an openly gay man.

Holy Rosary then fired the newly hired gay man and also fired Holladay Investors, the for-profit company running Ambridge. On May 22, Holladay Investors filed a lawsuit against Holy Rosary Church in Multnomah County Court.

Holladay Investors claims the firing by Holy Rosary was "retaliation" and based upon a "discriminatory policy" against those who identify as LGBT.

The complaint filed on May 22 states, "The Church was explicit in prohibiting Ambridge from renting out the Event Center to members of or groups affiliated with the LGBTQ community."

Ambridge's complaint argues the event center lost business as a result of the anti-gay policy, saying:

Even businesses and government entities that had previously scheduled events with Ambridge, who were not affiliated with the LGBTQ community but had equity-driven internal policies, refused to work with Ambridge after reading or hearing about the discriminatory policy involved in its employment relationship with the church.

Ambridge is suing Holy Rosary for about $2.4 million. The majority of this — nearly $1.9 million — is cited as reparation for loss of business.

Holy Rosary is a Catholic, Dominican parish. It offers a plethora of opportunities throughout the week to participate in the sacraments and various devotions. The parish is also known for offering Mass in the Dominican Rite on Sundays, feast days and first Fridays.

Church Militant reached out to Holy Rosary's staff. They said the parish is not in a position to comment about the lawsuit.

News of this lawsuit comes as Americans wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to announce its ruling on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The pending case involves a Christian baker who refused to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012. The couple retaliated with a lawsuit. The nation's highest court is deciding whether Jack Philips was violating gay civil rights or exercising his religious freedom.

On Conforming the Civil Order to the Natural Law

I like where this author's heart lies, but there are a few points with which I'd have a problem. Let's take them one at a time. I've inserted my commentary beneath each point.

From Laodicea

1. Catholicism alone shall be recognised as the true religion and putative laws solemnly condemned by spiritual power shall be ipso facto suspended and putative laws solemnly condemned by the highest authority in the Church ipso facto declared null and void. Citizenship shall be dependent upon baptism and the rights of citizenship upon communion with the Roman Pontiff.

I have no problem up to the first full stop. However, if one limits citizenship to the baptised and the rights of citizenship to Catholics only, the State is guaranteed to have a body within it dedicated to its overthrow, unless the entirety of its residents are Catholic.-JW

2. False monotheistic cult by the non-baptised shall be tolerated in private insofar as it does not in the abstract conflict with the natural law and in public insofar as it does not conflict with the common good.

I totally agree. This was the practice in Spain for all non-Catholic religions under Franco, or was until the modernists in the Vatican 'pressured' him to change it after the Council.-JW

3. All Sundays and holy days of obligation shall be public holidays and commercial activity forbidden. The sale of meat on days of abstinence shall be forbidden.

A lot depends on the definition of 'commercial activity'. The Church has always approved of restaurants and inns being open on Sunday and Holy Days. Is the sale of needed medication 'commercial activity'? The Church has never considered the unbaptised to be bound by Her discipline, which the law of abstinence is, so this would be a harm to Catholic restaurant owners. And how about the housewife who needs a joint for the dinner on the Sunday after an Ember Saturday? She can't buy it on Sunday.-JW

4. The civil courts shall have no direct jurisdiction over minors who are subject to the jurisdiction of their families unless those families forfeit that jurisdiction through actions intrinsically incompatible with the good of the child.

This one sounds solid, as long as it's limited to the civil courts under the limitation mentioned.-JW

5. No person shall be deprived of his life by public or private action from conception until natural death unless pursuant to a sentence of death pronounced after a criminal trial upon the verdict of a jury of his peers for crime which threatens the maintenance of the rule of law. All other homicide shall be punished by law under the severest penalties.

Only one quibble. What about countries outside the common law Anglosphere that don't use a jury of one's peers in a trial?-JW

6. No true marriage may be dissolved by any human power. The civil power has no jurisdiction over the marriage bond which is exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the spiritual power. Unnatural unions shall be punishable by criminal law.

Absolute agreement, if by 'true marriage' the author intends sacramental marriages as recognised by the Church. Unbaptised people cannot enter into a sacramental marriage, so those 'marriages' can be dissolved.-JW

7. The lending of money at interest to individuals with unlimited recourse shall be punishable by criminal law. Only the income and not the assets of the citizenry may be taxed. Inheritance may not be taxed.

If by this, the author means that the State shall legislate the Church's teaching on usury as laid out in Vix Pervenit, the Bull of His Holiness Pope Benedict XIV, I am in absolute agreement.-JW

8. The propagation of false accounts of Christian doctrine (as identified by the spiritual power) shall be forbidden and punishable by law. The testimony of persons refusing to take oaths in the name of God shall not be heard. The propagation of atheism or polytheism shall be forbidden and punishable by law.

I'm in basic agreement here, tho' I'm not sure why the author separates 'false accounts of Christian doctrine' and 'atheism or polytheism' and doesn't include non-Christian monotheistic religions as well.-JW

9. All forms of pornography shall be forbidden and punishable by law.

Absolutely in agreement here, as long as it is the Church which decide what is pornographic.-JW

10. Commercial advertisements outside of commercial premises in which the goods advertised are sold shall be forbidden and punishable by law.

On this point I am totally at a loss! What!? Why!? Since the first shopkeeper, through the High Middle Ages of Faith, into modern times, commercial premises have always advertised outside their shops. When many people could not read, it was done by symbols. A branch of a grapevine outside a wine shop, a signboard with knives outside a cutler's, etc. I'm not sure what or why this has to do with conforming the civil order to the natural law, as I've read nothing in the philosophers, Fathers of the Church, Scholastics, or moral theologians that deal with advertising.-JW

Feast of Ste Clotilde

Ste Clotilde and
the Baptism of Clovis

Today is the Feast of St Clotilde, Queen of the Franks. She deserves the Eastern title of Isapostolos (Equal to the Apostles) for it was she who led Clovis, her husband, to the baptismal font at Rheims, where he received the laver of regeneration at the hands of St Rémi. Clovis' Baptism began the long journey in the Faith of Christ's Church of France, the Eldest Daughter of the Church.

From Tradition in Action

St Clotilde was Queen of France, daughter of King Chilperic, and wife of King Clovis. It was due to her prayers that France received the gift of the Catholic Faith. She was glorified by an outstanding spiritual motherhood, because on a Christmas Eve, from the baptismal fountain of Rheims, was born the primogenital nation of the Church. 

The violent death of her father Chilperic, dethroned by a fratricidal usurper; the sight of her brothers massacred, and of her mother drowned in the Rhone; her long captivity in the Arian court of the murderer who brought heresy with him to the throne of the Burgundians, developed in her the heroism that was to make this niece of Gondebaud become the mother of the whole nation to Christ. 

From Catholic Online

St. Clotilde (c. 474- 545) and her husband King Clovis (c. 466-511) founded the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Franks for over 200 years. They were married in 492 or 493, and she converted him to Christianity in 496. When Clovis died, Clotilde retired to Tours. Her sons' quarrels caused her great sorrow. She died at the tomb of St. Martin of Tours and was buried in Sainte-Genevieve in Paris, a church that she and Clovis founded. St. Clotilde at prayer was a popular theme in Medieval art.

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3 June, A Chesterton Calendar

JUNE 3rd

I remember an artistic and eager lady asking me, in her grand green drawing-room, whether I believed in comradeship between the sexes, and why not. I was driven back on offering the obvious and sincere answer: ‘Because if I were to treat you for two minutes like a comrade, you would turn me out of the house.’

‘What’s Wrong with the World.’

Chesterton, G. K.. The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] (Kindle Locations 44278-44281). Catholic Way Publishing. Kindle Edition.

4 June, The Roman Martyrology

pridie Nonas Junias

June 4th anno Domini 2018 The 20th Day of the Moon were born into the better life: 

At Agnone, in the Abruzzi, holy Confessor Francis, of the noble Neapolitan family of Caracciolo, founder of the congregation of Regular Clerks Minors. He was a burning and a shining light of love towards God and his neighbor, and intense earnestness in spreading abroad the worship of the Holy Eucharist. His body lieth at Naples, and is held in great veneration. Pius VII. added his name to the list of those of the Saints. 
At Rome, the holy martyrs Aretius and Dacian. 
At Sisseg, in Illyricum, [in the year 304,] holy Quirinus, Bishop [of that see.] Prudentius writeth of him that, under the President Galerius, for Christ's faith's sake, a millstone was tied about his neck and he was cast into the river, but the millstone swam, and he was a long time exhorting the Christians who stood by not to be scared at the sight of his execution, nor to be shaken in the faith, and then obtained from God the glory of martyrdom, and so was allowed to sink. 
At Brescia, under the Emperor Nero, the holy martyr Clateus, Bishop [of that see.] 
In Hungary, the holy martyrs Rutilus and his companions. 
At Arras, the holy Virgin and martyr Saturnina. 
At Tivoli, the holy martyr Quirinus. 
At Constantinople, [in the fourth century,] the holy Metrophanes, Archbishop [of that see,] an eminent Confessor. 
At Milevitanus, in Numidia, holy Optatus, Bishop [of that see,] famous for his teaching and holiness. 
At Verona, holy Alexander, Bishop [of that see.] 
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.

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