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Various Reports Highlights - Solemnity of All Saints – Holy Mass, 1 November 2025 – Pope Leo XIV https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-11/pope-leo-newman-doctor-church-light-new-generations.html - - - Patrick Reilly: Founder and President of The Cardinal Newman Society https://cardinalnewmansociety.org/officially-declared-doctor-of-the-church-this-morning/ And now, as of this morning, we officially have a new Doctor of the Church—just two days after naming him Patron of Catholic Education! Ora pro nobis, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman! Today, my wife Rosario and I joined thousands of Catholics at All Saints Mass in St. Peter’s Square, celebrated by Pope Leo XIV. And I prayed for you and all supporters of The Cardinal Newman Society and Newman Guide Recommended education. The entire Mass was beautiful and reverent! The schola sang the hymn “Lead, Kindly Light,” with lyrics written by Newman at a time when his commitment to Christian paideia—the complete formation of students in i...

Est. 6 minute read time. Anyone who has migrated from the typical diocesan Novus Ordo Mass to a Latin Mass (1962) or to Divine Worship in a community of one the Personal Ordinariates, or has explored an Eastern Catholic liturgy, knows that there are obvious differences in the "feel" between the typical Novus Ordo liturgy and the others. Many, if not most, diocesan liturgies tend to be casual to the point that one could reasonably speculate as to whether or not the priest and congregation realize that they are there to worship God. Other forms of the Mass are typically reverent, solemn, God-centered, and carefully prepared and celebrated. The Novus Ordo Mass, unfortunately, is often reduced to a social gathering with awkward improvisations that distract from a focus on the worship of God. Ritual gestures come across as half-hearted and fail to acknowledge the profound reality of Jesus’ eucharistic gift—his Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. Hidden among the weeds... . There are ...

Praesentia Tua ad Me Protegendum | AW An adaption of an existing prayer. HEAVENLY FATHER, I praise and thank Thee for all Thou hast bestowed upon me. I beseech Thee, shield me with the saving and Precious Blood of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, and increase within me Thy Holy Spirit, granting His gifts of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, a fervent desire for prayer, guidance, and discernment, that I may know Thy will and surrender wholly unto it. Father, please heal my troubled heart and any wounds to my spirit. Dispatch the blade of Thy Holy Spirit, to cleave and shatter all incantations, curses, hexes, sorceries and all matters genetic, inter-generational and addictive, be they past, present or yet to come, known or unknown, levied against me, my relationships and family, my worldly goods, my labors, and my service to Thee. Father, I forgive all trespasses against me, and seek forgiveness for mine own sins and failings, imploring that my whole being, body and mind, heart and will, soul and ...

Many are likely familiar with the martyrs Saint Thomas More and Saint Edmund Campion. Here is a brief account of one of the lesser known faithful Catholics who chose martyrdom over surrendering to the reign of terror of the Tudor state. Saint Polydore Plasden, S.J. (1563–1591) was born in London. He trained for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome. Ordained in 1586, he returned to England shortly afterward. The situation for Catholics in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I was grim. Catholicism was heavily suppressed. Catholic priests were prohibited by law from performing their ministry. Despite the dangers, Polydore remained committed to upholding the Catholic faith and providing spiritual guidance to those in need. He often celebrated Mass in secret and worked tirelessly to support the faithful during these challenging times. On November 2, 1591, Polydore was captured by the notorious priest hunter Richard Topcliffe, infamous for his ruthless methods of extracting confessions...

Cecil B. Hartley is the male alter ego of Florence Hartley, author of The Ladies' Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness and The Ladies' Hand Book of Fancy and Ornamental Work. Hints For Gentlemanly Deportment from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness (G.G. Evans, Publisher, Philadelphia: 1874); being a complete guide for a gentleman's conduct in all his relations toward society. Containing rules for the etiquette to be observed in the street, at table, in the ball-room, evening party, and morning call; with full directions for polite correspondence, dress, conversation, manly exercises and accomplishments. From the best French, English and American authorities. By Cecil B. Hartley https://archive.org/details/gentlemenquotsb00Hart/page/n3/mode/2up Excerpt from Chapter XI: p.198.  One hundred hints for gentlemanly deportment 22. Perhaps the true definition of a gentleman is this: "Whoever is open, loyal, and true; whoever is of humane and ...

Drawing inspiration from other Catholic rites and liturgies can enhance reverence and beauty in the common diocesan Ordinary Form Mass. It has been said here and many other places that meaningful and lasting changes could include attention to authentic liturgical practices, music education to develop the ability to present sacred music as desired by the Church, and greater focus on the aesthetics of the liturgical environment, all of which serve to provide occasions whereby the worshipper better disposes himself to God Who draws the worshipper into a more fervent communion. Exempla sequenda Our Eastern Catholic brethren remind us that the Sacred Liturgy opens into the contemplation of the Divine. The Eastern Churches excel in preserving continuity with the Church Fathers and upholding orthodox doctrine for genuine spiritual formation. As Pope Leo XIV has said (OSV News): (T)he Eastern Churches are to be “cherished and esteemed for the unique spiritual and sapiential traditions that the...

Almighty and everliving God, Whom we strive to worship in spirit and in truth, guide, we beseech Thee, our preparations and commitment to Thy truth, goodness and beauty, whereby Thou dost beckon us into Thy saving Presence. Help us to adore Thee according to Thy designs, with sincerity of heart, that we may enter into the glory of Thy Kingdom. May our earthly labours be graced by Thee to enable us to reverently worship Thee in the beauty of holiness for the salvation of souls; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who livest and reignest with Thee, Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.