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It’s been a marvelous pilgrimage together and today is our last day. Cardinal Burke was the highlight of the trip for most of the pilgrims—like the crescendo! We started our last day with Mass at the hotel and breakfast and then the ride back to Milwaukee for us all to catch your airline flights home. Along the way we prayed the Rosary and talked, napped and laughed and had a good time together. Looking forward to our upcoming pilgrimages and hope you can join us. The post Wisconsin Pilgrimage Last Day – Farewells & Departures appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith ..read more

The Hyatt Regency hotel is beautiful and everyone really enjoyed it. After our private breakfast, we boarded our good air-condition bus with our driver, Mike and headed to the Norbertine Abbey for a tour. The modern architecture and art is not to my liking but when they describe it all it is intriguing. Then to the National Shrine of Saint Joseph with the Norbertines and took another tour with Fr. Mike, and then I gave my talk on “St. Joseph, the Manly Man”. We dropped folks off in DePere for lunch before heading to the Shrine of the Apparition of Our Lady of Champion (formerly of Good Hope ..read more

These videos are mostly made for our current Pilgrims and their family and friends watching them back home. But everyone is more than welcome to enjoy our videos while we’re in Wisconsin. Today we all fought through cancelled flights and overly busy airports due to the Microsoft computer fiasco BUT we arrived and had a great first day. 1) Arrivals 2) Bus ride with prayers, priest vocation stories and fun, 3) Mass at St. Joseph’s in Sturgeon Bay and 4) Delicious outdoor dinner on the coast watching pelicans and the gorgeous sunset. Rosary on the way to our Hyatt Regency Green Bay Hotel. Off to ..read more

Joe Biden and a Tear in the Fabric of Things Last month’s debate destroyed the carefully crafted myth of Biden as an empathetic, intelligent and resolute leader. For the establishment that perpetrated this hoax, what comes next won’t be pretty Joe Biden entered the Senate in 1973, at the tender age of 30. He looked like a president, he felt like a president and he fully expected to rise to the top. His formula for success was that of every ambitious politician deprived by nature of directing principles or opinions: Find the meandering mainstream of his party’s establishment, where the big fis ..read more

We have the Devotion of the “Seven Dolores”, or the Devotion of the Seven Sorrows. But Mary suffered far more sorrows than those seven. From ‘The Glories of Mary’ by St. Alphonsus Liguori we read, “In this valley of tears, every man is born to weep, and every one must suffer those afflictions that daily befall him. But how much more miserable would life be, if every one knew also the future evils which are to afflict him! “The Lord exercises His compassion towards us, because He does not make known to us the crosses that await us; that if we are to suffer them, at least we may suffer the ..read more

It is sad that so many expect perfection before they will stand behind a good man. We have two choices this November — radically different choices for the future of America, our families, Israel, the world and the Church. Who else will fight on our behalf to stop the insane destruction of America and restore sanity in the world. Even if one is skeptical about Trump and Vance remember that God uses flawed people. He does not expect perfection before he calls a person for his service. God draws straight with crooked lines. He has always used flawed men to do his will — King David the murderer a ..read more

Trump has chosen his vice president and it will be JD Vance. He’s a young senator from Ohio and a recent convert to the Catholic Church. From what I can find he’s also pro-life and gave a talk at Franciscan University a couple years ago. Here’s a picture of him with Dr. Scott Hahn. And I can’t wait for the first vice presidential debate. The post JD Vance, Catholic Convert, Trump’s New Running Mate appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith ..read more

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It is always a great joy to answer lots of questions from non-Catholics who are questioning Catholic teaching and practice. Some of them are belligerent and others working their way into the Church. These are the questions I answered this week. https://catholicconvert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ca240710b.mp3 You can listen to the audio or watch it on YouTube. I am the first of two hours. Questions Covered: 06:15 – Why is the Filioque such a big deal? 11:24 – Was Mohammeds spiritual encounter authentic, and if it was, was it angelic or some other nefarious being? 14:10  ..read more