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Last year was a big success. Be there this year to pray and show your support. Pray, fast and do penance for an end to abortion. www.marchfo...

Here is the now current domain: http://www.orbiscatholicussecundus.blogspot.com/ .

Shroud of Turin.

Address change. Link here: http://www.orbiscatholicussecundus.blogspot.ca/. Find the photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/home?sourc...

AP photo from the Internet. Paul's final reason sure makes sense to me: "He [Pope Paul] wanted to abolish the special chair which c...

New blog, same stuff. Secundus natus est, venite... Link here and hope everybody likes it: http://www.orbiscatholicussecundus.bl...

See here: http://beatusest.blogspot.com/ . There are just a few legends left who can still design and build a Catholic church that actuall...

Friends: Many thanks! For the Lord Jesus was with His apostles as He had promised (Cf. Mt. 28:20) and sent to them as Paraclete the Spirit W...

Brethren: This blog, sadly, is just now at the end of its course. There is simply no more storage room. 1013 MB (99%) of 1024 MB has been ea...

This Byzantine-Romanesque is magnificent and wonderful to see in America! Church of St. Andrew, located in St. Paul, Minnesota. My mother wa...

Gauge the scope of beauty seen in this temple built overlooking the upper banks of the mighty Mississippi River and be inspired. In contras...

This is 89-year-old Fr. Paul Marx who was ordained priest in this same chapel in 1947 at the Benedictine Abbey of St. John's in Collegev...

This is our way. Our tradition. Our Catholic language. We are proud.

Yes, it has proven to be a time of saints: St. Mother M. Angelica (consecrated virgin in 1947). St. Fulton J. Sheen (ordained priest in 1919...

Teach your kids team spirit for the Church: and to show it proudly in the face of the world.

Rt. Rev. Msgr. Rudolph G. Bandas, S.T.D. et M., Ph.D. Agg. Consultor of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities Member of the...

The splendor of the old papal rites of the Cappella Papale. Too much of this was done away with. Too much too quickly. Now it's time to ...

Born in St. Paul this is James J. Byrne, Auxiliary to the Archbishop of St. Paul, consecrated in 1947 at the age of 38.

Altar containing the incorrupt body of Pope St. Pius X located in the Vatican Basilica. These cards are still somewhere in the sacristy trea...

Pray for the conversion of the Kennedy family. All Christians are to be pro-life. May their mother Rose continue to pray for them. May the s...

A very fine priest Fr. B. Pedersen celebrates Holy Mass in the Gregorian rite at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Robbinsdale, a suburb of...

Thank you Fr. Bryan for buying (= saving) this precious antique!

For about forty years the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale (founded in 1956) has performed an Orchestral Mass in this famed Baroque church (duri...

He lives through us, his sons. The priest is a father to many. This was a preeminent priest. He had many spiritual sons. If you're ...

Wish there was a religious symbol carved on the family stone, but anyways, grandpa's "pa" had this one made and the family mem...

In todays world this takes an effort.

Today yours truly saw the famous Fr. Z, and I guess it was a bit like an apparition! This morning while kneeling in an old Irish parish in t...

Archbishop James J. Byrne, S.T.D. (1908-1996). My parents knew him when they were kids and they both, along with everybody else, said he was...

Notice the two portable altars? One in front of the throne where the ordinations were held and one in front of the confessio , both where da...

Nice to see the old altar frontal and altar cards. Pray and do penance with the intention that the Archpriest and canons will opt to have a ...

A fine portrait. Bishop of Sioux Falls and later Archbishop of Saint Paul, William O. Brady, D.D., S.T.D.

Dear friends: What is done is done here for you. Hope you enjoy! Let us pray, JPSonnen

Pope John Paul II in October, 1978.

Homes in Catholic Bavaria still sometimes have a big cross in the corner of the common room. As a boy I can still remember when my grandfath...

Very 1930s and very nice. Maybe Swiss lace. Imported. Only the best for the holy of holies.

Monsignor Clarence J. Steiner (aka "Mike") 1918-1998 My parents were with him when he passed away in the hospital. He is the pries...

The Trial of Jesus The Jewish and Roman proceedings against Jesus Christ described and assessed from the oldest accounts by Josef Blinzler T...

In a time of world recession... Yesterday in the mail arrived a parcel...with relics of Pius XII Pont. Max.! Many thanks to the generous pri...

Question: "Was the [liturgical] reform not done by people who were conscious of what they were doing and well educated in the teachings...

The Roman mitre as seen in 1941 on Archbishop John Gregory Murray.

Teach your kids about the persecuted Church. See and link here . Sovietisation entailed tremendous hardship for the Catholics of Ukraine. ...

Anybody have any leads in regard to the ecclesiology of Paul VI - any books on this? Working on a project. Tanks!

A shine and glow of leadership in his peaceful gaze. A normal looking pectoral cross. The ferriolone cape worn for nonliturgical occasions. ...

Dennis Cardinal Dougherty looking fabulous for the 1941 National Eucharistic Congress held in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, U.S.A.

From the St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book, 1920. Once in August of 1993 my grandfather who was a church organist played this hymn ...

Haec est summa solutio quaestionis socialis praesentis.

The Latin Mass mission statement: Make known the treasures of Catholicism within the context of a Western culture that is in the process of ...

Want your kids to get a Catholic education? To stay Catholic? Take your pick: Option A . Option B . Finis.

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Great True Spy Stories 39 True Accounts from Greek Antiquity to the Cold War Edited by Allen Dulles Castle 1968

Imported from Italy of Cararra marble this statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was blessed and dedicated on the feast of the Sacred Heart in...

Dignity And Duties Of The Priest (aka Selva ) by St. Alphonsus de Liguori is one of the most significant books which has ever been printed...

Everybody grows up in the shade of a rectory and this was mine; in my youth I walked by it every day. This one was built in the 1920s. Sti...

Santo Subito (Sainthood Now)!

Simply gorgeous. 1936 Chevrolet. $16,000.