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Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
I genuinely don't get how over 100 Christians can be massacred by Islamists in the past week alone and nobody seems to care.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
We need more people speaking out against the genocide of Christians in Nigeria.
Thousands have been killed for their faith - and the world keeps ignoring it.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century.
This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
In a powerful sign for our times, the Vatican has formally approved India’s first Eucharistic Miracle: the Miracle of the Holy Face of Vilakkannur, Kerala.
On November 15, 2013, during the celebration of Holy Mass at Christ the King Church in the small village of Vilakkannur (Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Thalassery), something extraordinary occurred.
At the moment of the Elevation, after the Consecration, the priest, Fr. Thomas Pathickal, noticed a small dark spot appearing on the large Host. As the Mass continued, the spot gradually transformed into a clear, radiant image of the Face of Jesus Christ, visible to the priest and those assisting at the altar. The Host was reverently placed in a monstrance, and many faithful present witnessed this profound sign.
What began as a quiet miracle in a humble village church has now been thoroughly examined over 12 years through scientific, medical, and theological investigations.
On May 31, 2025, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith gave its formal recognition, declaring it an authentic supernatural sign. A solemn Mass of thanksgiving was celebrated with over 10,000 faithful, led by the Apostolic Nuncio to India.
Today, the miraculous Host, bearing the clear image of the Face of Jesus, is now venerated in an ornate golden monstrance at Christ the King Church in Vilakkannur. The image remains preserved and incorrupt,
a silent yet powerful testimony to the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
What makes the Church’s defence of human dignity coherent across abortion, family support, healthcare and the end of life?
Pope Leo has just connected the dots on the first day of his South American Apostolic Journey.
Speaking to Uruguay’s authorities on 6 November, Pope Leo explicitly defended unborn children, the responsibilities of fathers, support for families, access to healthcare and care until natural death: "Protect life at all stages".
The Pope makes the essential point that a child does not acquire dignity by becoming wanted, a patient by recovering, or an elderly person by remaining independent, their worth precedes our preferences and survives the loss of their abilities.
This is why Catholic social teaching challenges the increasingly familiar assumption that dependence diminishes a human life. Every one of us began by relying entirely on the care of others and none of us can be certain that we will not end our lives in the same condition. To make autonomy the measure of dignity is therefore to make our worth conditional upon circumstances we cannot control. The mother who needs support, the disabled person who needs assistance and the dying person who needs someone to remain beside them confront society with a claim that cannot be reduced to a calculation of costs and benefits. They belong to us, and we have obligations towards them, before they have achieved anything or offered anything in return. A civilisation reveals its understanding of the human person most clearly when caring for someone offers no prospect of repayment, because it is then that we discover whether we believe a life is precious in itself or only while it remains useful to someone else. if society trains us (as it seems to be) to see individual worth as being intrinsically linked to self-reliance we are all in serious trouble!
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
This meeting isn't as surreal as it appears.
By his own account, Bob Dylan is a serious and committed Christian. His 1979 conversion and subsequent recording of three Christian-themed albums (Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love) are well known among Dylan fans, and among many who are not.
The common assumption, however, is that Dylan discarded Christianity as quickly as he took it up, and that his “Christian phase” was just another bizarre incident in a strange man’s multifacetedly quirky career.
The man himself, however, says otherwise. In 2022, long after he is widely assumed to have left Christianity and never looked back, Dylan said,
"I’m a religious person. I read the scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation, as well as predestination. The Five Books of Moses, Pauline Epistles, Invocation of the Saints, all of it."
And in 2009, when he released Christmas in the Heart, an album of Christmas carols and hymns sung as only he could sing them, an interviewer said to him, “You really give a heroic performance of ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem.’ The way you do it reminds me a little of an Irish rebel song. There’s something almost defiant in the way you sing, ‘The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.’ I don’t want to put you on the spot, but you sure deliver that song like a true believer.”
Dylan replied simply, “Well, I am a true believer.”
Let's pray that he puts to good use the rosary that Pope Leo gave him and comes all the way home to the Catholic Church!
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Pope Leo XIV denounces abortion in Uruguay:
“The unborn already belong to the human family, and to the future of their people. Their absolute dependence on their mother does not diminish the dignity to which they are entitled, nor to the protection they deserve. Jesus Himself chose to assume this condition.
Welcoming a new life requires that fathers assume their responsibilities alongside mothers, that the family offers their support and that social conditions exist that allow both parents to raise and care for their children.
Protection of the unborn and the support of those who welcome them are inseparable. The family remains the primary setting in which each person is welcomed and learns to life with others.
St. John Paul II, who also had the joy to visit this land, expressed this in a phrase that retains all of its original force; “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.””
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"In prayer the soul rises above life’s sadnesses."
- Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925)
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“Se você não tivesse capacidade, Deus não te daria a oportunidade. Seus medos você já conhece, experimente suas coragens.”
— Santa Teresinha do Menino Jesus 🌹
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
When we pray for the dead, we do so not only for them, but also with them, drawn into a reciprocal relationship that the Holy Spirit brings to life in our hearts. The Church is a mystery of communion between Christ, our head, and us, His members: from Him we receive life. This communion unites the blessed souls who already contemplate the face of God and all those who, in heaven or on earth, are journeying toward the radiant destination.
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Pope Leo XIV on death:
“Dear friends, in Christ, death does not dissolve our bonds. Rather, it transfigures them into a new dimension, which can be understood only in the mystery of His love, given to the very end on the cross and poured out after His paschal victory. By welcoming the charity of the risen Lord in the holy Eucharist, let us therefore preserve and nurture this communion throughout our journey, so that when our own hour comes, we too may receive the prayers of our brothers and sisters still on pilgrimage and rejoice with all the saints in the joy of our heavenly homeland.”
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
"The devil will try to upset you by accusing you of being unworthy of the blessings that you have received. Simply remain cheerful and do your best to ignore the devil's nagging. If need be even laugh at the absurdity of the situation. Satan, the epitome of sin itself, accuses you of unworthiness! When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future!"
— St. Theresa of Avila
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
„Historia uczy, że demokracja bez wartości łatwo przemienia się w jawny lub zakamuflowany totalitaryzm.” - św. Jan Paweł II
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
Former Irish President Mary McAleese is facing backlash over her new book, in which she criticises Catholic infant baptism, arguing that it violates babies' fundamental human rights by imposing religious membership without their consent.
Ironically, McAleese has also been a longstanding supporter of abortion access in Ireland, where unborn children can be killed in the womb without their consent.
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
“The saints suffered. Therese had tuberculosis. Teresa of Avila had cancer of the stomach. Padre Pio had perpetual diarrhea and asthma. Bernadette had asthma too. Mother Cabrini had high fever to malaria she contracted during her travels. Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it’s a requirement”.
-Mother Mary Angelica (to me)
Happy All Saints Day
Bishop Scott McCaig retweeted
The moment a human being draws a last breath, Catholic doctrine teaches that the soul steps immediately—without delay or reprieve—into the presence of Christ the Judge. This encounter, called the particular judgment, is the private, irrevocable verdict rendered on one individual life. As one of my seminary professors was in the habit of saying, “the person who we are at the moment of death, is the person we shall be for eternity.”
Unlike the general judgment at the end of time, when every soul will be publicly vindicated or condemned before the assembled universe, the particular judgment is intimate: only the soul, its conscience, and God.
At that instant the entire moral history of the person is laid bare. Every grace offered, every commandment kept or broken, every secret motive and public act passes before the divine light. The standard is not abstract perfection but fidelity to the light each person actually received: the natural law written on the heart, the revealed law of Scripture and Tradition, and the unique vocation inscribed by Providence.
Three outcomes alone are possible.
Souls who die in perfect love, detached from all sin, enter at once into the bliss of heaven—often, the Church adds, after a final cleansing in purgatory. Souls who die in friendship with God yet still bearing the temporal effects of forgiven sin are admitted to purgatory, a state of purifying joy that ends infallibly in heaven. Souls who die in unrepented mortal sin, having freely chosen final separation from God, enter hell: the eternal ratification of their own refusal of love.
Scripture states the principle plainly: “It is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment” (Heb 9:27). The Catechism distills two millennia of teaching: “Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ… Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death” (CCC 1021–1022).
Thus the particular judgment is not a preliminary hearing but the definitive sentence. No reincarnation, no second probation, no mitigation after the soul leaves the body. The doctrine therefore invests every earthly choice with everlasting weight and every confession with urgent hope. In the unforgettable words of Saint John of the Cross, “At the evening of life, we shall be judged on love.” Catholic faith replies: the examination begins the very second the evening falls.
