Here’s a fantastic church renovation St. John the Baptist parish in Minnesota was built in 1984 and renovated in 2025 TRIGGER WARNING: The original is REALLY bad.

HOW TO RECEIVE A PLENARY INDULGENCE ON THE FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS ⤵️ 📅 Friday, June 12, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, a feast honoring Christ's love and mercy for humanity. On this feast day, the Church grants a plenary indulgence (the full remission of temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven) to the faithful who publicly recite the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This can be done in a church, with your family, or in a religious community. To receive the indulgence, the usual conditions also apply: ➜ Be free from attachment to all sin, even venial sin ➜ Receive the Sacrament of Confession within about 20 days before or after ➜ Receive Holy Communion, preferably on the feast itself ➜ Pray for the intentions of the Holy Father (such as one Our Father and one Hail Mary) Many Catholics know this feast because of the promises associated with devotion to the Sacred Heart. But at its core is something much simpler. Jesus asks to be loved in return. In a world that often ignores God or pushes Him aside, acts of reparation may seem unnecessary. Yet Catholics believe that love responds to love. The Sacred Heart reminds us that Christ's mercy is always available and that our prayers and sacrifices can be united to His love for the world. This is a beautiful opportunity to return to Confession, receive Our Lord in the Eucharist, and entrust yourself and your family to His Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. 🙏 Recite the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus 🙏 Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence, and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thy altar, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject. Mindful, alas, that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary expiation not only for our own personal offenses, but also for the sins of those who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the vows of their Baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of Thy law. We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee. We are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints. We wish also to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on earth and Thy priests are subjected, for the profanation, by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very Sacrament of Thy Divine Love, and lastly for the public crimes of nations who resist the rights and teaching authority of the Church which Thou hast founded. Would that we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood. We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy divine honor, the satisfaction Thou didst once make to Thy eternal Father on the Cross and which Thou dost continue to renew daily on our altars. We offer it in union with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the Saints and of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense, as far as we can with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins which we and others have committed in the past. Henceforth we will live a life of unwavering faith, of purity of conduct, and of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel, especially that of charity. We promise to the best of our power to prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to follow Thee. O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so that we may one day come to that happy home where Thou, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, livest and reignest, God, world without end. Amen.

This is excellent stuff: "Holiness is neither one option among many nor an abstract ideal... The world greatly needs pastors who offer more than simply words or programs... " A papal message that doesn't excoriate priests for clericalism, or not being synodal enough—refreshing!

The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today. Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.

This is Noah Webster's definition of 'cat' from his 1828 dictionary. Don't worry. We like cats more than he did.

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SAD NEWS Bishop Osório Citora Afonso, aged 54, of the Catholic Diocese of Quelimane in Mozambique, was shot dead in the early hours of today, June 6, 2026, at his episcopal residence. Unknown assailants entered the home and shot him in the chest (near the heart). His body was found in a corridor of the residence. May his gentle soul rest in Peace 🕊️.

🚨 OMG. President Trump CUTS OFF and WALKS OUT of a Kristen Welker interview He looks her in the eyes and tells her SHE'S A LIAR, then storms off! "The elections are like a 3rd world country. YOU'RE CROOKED...let's call it QUITS. I've HAD ENOUGH." WELKER: Please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin! TRUMP: "I've sat in the RAIN with you for an HOUR! I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press. You know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press. Let's GO." WELKER: *Whines* BEST PRESIDENT EVER 🔥🔥🔥

An appeal, ahead of the SSPX's July 1 consecrations, from Monastère Saint-Benoit​, an international English-speaking traditional Benedictine monastery in France: monasterebrignoles.org/news

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🚨 WOW! CMS Chief Dr. Oz just personally showed up to a Somali FRAUD HOTBED in Ohio, home to the second-largest Somali population behind Minneapolis 7 buildings concentrated in one area have 288 "HOME HEALTH" Medicaid companies 🤯 That's 41 companies per building, some of which are nearly VACANT Franklin County is 3 TIMES above what it should be in "home health" billing "We also identified 288 Medicaid registered home health aid companies operating out of just seven office buildings along one nearby road." "Some of these buildings are nearly vacant. Home health care and personal care services have become the subject of nearly all of the recent fraud prosecutions in Ohio." "If we do this the right way, people will stop using Medicaid as a piggy bank. Vice President Vance, who's from Ohio, wants the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force coming after fraudsters everywhere with everything we have."

Muslims are FURIOUS and outraged after restaurant owners in Japan started putting up “No Halal” signs in a direct pushback against Muslim immigration. Do you stand with Japan? 🇯🇵

Bishops were consecrated in communist Eastern Europe without a papal mandate (or, in some cases, with disputed or expired faculties), primarily in Czechoslovakia. Early secret consecrations (late 1940s–early 1950s) were initially authorized by Pope Pius XII. He granted faculties allowing each bishop to secretly consecrate a successor (often with instructions for “one hidden, one active”) in anticipation of arrests or elimination of the hierarchy. Examples include bishops like Jan Korec and Pavol Hnilica (consecrated in 1951). Subsequent consecrations occurred without clear or ongoing papal approval, notably by figures like Felix Maria Davídek (consecrated around 1967). Davídek and associated underground networks reportedly consecrated additional bishops and ordained many priests (estimates of 150–250 priests, plus multiple bishops) from the 1960s–1980s. These were often independent of direct Vatican oversight due to isolation and persecution.

Blessed Otto Neururer was an Austrian priest who became the first clergyman to die in a Nazi concentration camp. Born on March 25, 1882, in the village of Piller in the Tyrol region of Austria, he was the youngest of twelve children raised by devout peasant parents. From an early age he felt a calling to the priesthood, entered seminary, and was ordained in 1907. For the next three decades he served quietly in several parishes, known for his humility, dedication to the sacraments, and care for his parishioners. His life changed dramatically after the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Father Neururer came into conflict with the regime when he counseled a young woman against entering what he considered an unsuitable marriage to a man of dubious character and morals. The Nazis viewed his pastoral advice as interference, and he was arrested by the Gestapo. He was first sent to Dachau concentration camp and later transferred to Buchenwald. Despite the ban on religious activities, Neururer continued secretly ministering to other prisoners—sharing food, offering counsel, and performing pastoral work. In April 1940, a fellow inmate approached him requesting Catholic baptism. Neururer suspected it might be a trap but proceeded anyway out of pastoral duty. It was a setup. The man was an informant (or acting under pressure from camp authorities). The baptism was reported, leading to Neururer’s arrest and transfer to the punishment bunker. There, under orders from the sadistic SS officer Martin Sommer (the “Hangman of Buchenwald”), Neururer was hanged upside down from a tree or post in the punishment block, a form of torture intended to prolong suffering and humiliate him. He endured this agony for many hours without complaint, reportedly praying silently for his executioners until he died on May 30, 1940. His death marked him as the first priest martyred in the Nazi camps, a grim distinction followed by the deaths of more than two thousand other Catholic priests under the same regime. In recognition of his faithful witness, Pope John Paul II beatified him on November 24, 1996, in Saint Peters Basilica, declaring him a martyr who died in odium fidei, out of hatred for the faith. Today the Church honors him and invokes him as a patron of preachers, of Christian marriage, and of priestly service. Blessed Otto Neururer stands as a quiet yet powerful example of ordinary priestly courage in the face of extraordinary evil. His story reminds us that even in the darkest hours of the twentieth century, steadfast fidelity to the Gospel could not be extinguished by hatred or violence.

Blessed Feast of St. Joan of Arc! This year marks the 595th anniversary of her martyrdom & the 570th anniversary of her rehabilitation—the retrial in which a papal commission overturned the charge of heresy & declared the original 1431 trial fraudulent & invalid. St. Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV. May she intercede for the Church and for France!

On Thursday May 28th I was in Omaha, Nebraska, where I ordained 12 priests for the FSSP in the Usus Antiquior of the Roman Rite.

This is utterly insane. In Canada, a psychiatrist can just LOOK at you in a public place, sitting on a bench, or eating a sandwich, or walking down the sidewalk, and they can "certify" you as being insane, and the police will arrest you and take you to a psychiatric evaluation. No rights. No law. No due process. No defense. The psych doctors are the ones who are insane. And government authoritarians, of course.

Three ordinations in Chicago. Let that sink in.