Armenians Prepare to Abandon Historic Churches

Dadivank Monastery

With the impending encroachment of Azerbaijani forces, Christians in the Karabakh region of Armenia are now torching their homes and removing crosses from their churches as they await the inevitable arrival of their enemies.

Prominent amongst these is the monastery at Dadivank. The monastery was constructed between 1000 AD and 1300. After retrieving the church in 1994, Armenians had carried out extensive renovations upon it, to its various frescoes especially.

Now, despite defiance, the bells, the stonework and the frescoes are being transported to Armenia for safekeeping.

This is a sad time for the Armenian people and for all Christians. It is yet another reminder of where we are headed as a world, with non Christians becoming increasingly militant and intolerant towards our existence. It’s very important to keep tuned out from mainstream media lest we think that their views are reflective of reality across the world.

Irish Virus Experts Hoping to Invent New Date for Christmas

We gave up Easter. We delayed Communions. We held off on Confirmations.

We left cemeteries empty at the beginning of November instead of praying near the remains of our loved ones and laying flowers for them.

We entered Level 5 restrictions again, assured that it would allow us to have a normal Christmas.

Now, we face a whole new level of brazen failure to fulfil their promises.

Professor Tomas Ryan of Trinity College was speaking on Newstalk this morning and stated the following,

‘ I think we can return to a normality that is quite like life right now in most of Australia by early January, which would mean Level One or Level Zero restrictions by January, if we get rid of this now.

One way of doing this would be to delay Christmas until the end of January and have a real Christmas and a real party then.”

The haughtiness required to think that you can change centuries of tradition on a whim. Continuing, Professor Ryan explained himself: ‘I don’t think we have been communicated reasonable expectations from the Government on what our Christmas is going to be like.

It is certainly not going to be anything like the Christmases we normally have anyway. The important thing is, we are all in lockdown now, we are paying a heavy price anyway and we want to make sure we get the right benefit from it and we won’t be getting that if we have another lockdown in January.’

Modern man has become so accustomed to thinking that he is immortal, that his fear of death has propelled him to forget to hold to things that make this life worth living. If we take this advice and cancel Christmas, we can guarantee you that you won’t get Christmas at the end of January. We were told in March and April that banning services for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter was the shortcut to restoring normality, yet we haven’t had normality restored. Even as Gaelic football games are allowed, school is allowed and journalists are allowed to travel to their studios.

Catholics in Dublin Pray Rosary in Phoenix Park

Catholics in Dublin gathered at the Papal Cross in the Phoenix Park last night to pray the Rosary on the eve of All Saints Day.

The event comes after weeks of Masses being shut down by the Irish government, despite no evidence that Mass had led to a single outbreak of coronavirus.

Those praying carried a statue of Our Lady as they gathered around candles in the darkness of the Halloween night.

Antifa Torch Two Churches in Santiago

One of the most appalling of the many appalling things regarding the annus horribilis that is 2020, has been the rise of violent anti Catholic thuggery by Antifa all over the world.

Often defending themselves as ‘Anti Fascist Action', Antifa are actually a violent Communist group who work on behalf of corporations to squash opposition to such Globalist pet projects as mass migration, abortion and technocracy. In recent years, they have enjoyed political protection from some as highly connected as United States Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who even went so far as to bail out members of the terrorist group when they had been arrested.

In Santiag, Chile these past 48 hours, the terrifying reminders of 1930s Spain have been on full display for all to see. Parroquia de la Asuncion and Iglesia de San Francisco de Borja were both torched by Antifa members who posed for photographs in front of the building to mock Catholics.

The crowd laughed and jeered as one of the spires came tumbling down on each church as journalists around the world scrambled to try to paint the protests as being otherwise peaceful.

One female Antifa member posed inside the burnt Cathedral, a gesture designed to demoralise Catholics, just as the images of Communists digging up the dead bodies of nuns and priests in the Spanish Civil War was. We should not be demoralised however. As with those images, it needs to be a reminder of the sheer depravity of the evil that we are dealing with.

The Chilean government, for their part, have done absolutely nothing to protect Catholics. Please contact your local Chilean Embassy and let them know how you feel.

Carlo Acutis: A Model of Faith for the Digital Age

When the images of Carlo Acutis's body were beamed across the world last week, there were a number of divergent reactions. For Protestant prolifers in the United States, it inspired feelings of revulsion, many of them failing to comprehend the enormity of the implications that resulted from asserting the holiness of the human body itself. For others, Catholic and non Catholic, there was the common astonishment that we were being presented with a boy about to be beatified in a tracksuit after earning his life of holiness through the internet.

Acutis died only aged 15 in 2006 from leukemia. The holiness of his life was such that it consisted of the old reliables, he attended Confession each week, he read the lives of the saints and he was devoted to the Rosary. Most importantly, when his illness deteriorated rapidly, he offered it up for Pope Benedict XVI and stated ‘there are those who suffer much more than me’ when asked about his pain.

Strikingly however, he also expressed his love for God online and catalogued Eucharistic miracles on a website that he built himself. For young people today, and some adults, the internet has become an impediment to their religious life, enticing them into sins unimaginable without its corrosive influence. Yet for others, the internet has led them to the Traditional Latin Mass, to videos of men like Fulton Sheen, to the great works it Augustine and Aquinas. The internet is a very powerful tool, we can hope and pray that with the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis that people learn to harness its power to spread the glory of our faith.