We are forming a new York Oratory football team – the Congo Rats – which has its first fixture on Saturday 25th November at 2pm. If you would like to be part of the team let us know. The patron saint of football is the Oratorian St Luigi Scrosoppi, so we are almost certain to win

Today is the feast of St Luigi Scrosoppi of the Udine Oratory, founder of the Sisters of Providence. “Charity, charity, all is charity!”

Let us remember this great man of faith and be inspired by the Truth that he shared so well.

Today is the feast of St Joseph Vaz, of the Goa Oratory, Apostle of Ceylon. St Philip felt called to go to the Far East to preach the Gospel, but a holy monk told him, “Rome shall be your Indies.” Joseph Vaz fulfilled Philip’s longing to bring Christ to the people of Asia.

"Be of good cheer ~•~ abandon yourself into the Sacred Heart and let Him take care of everything."

"Come back to the Eucharist." bit.ly/EWTNEucharist

"Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. The spiritual reading is as necessary as to you as the air you breathe.

Bought myself a copy of The Times and The Sunday Times so I’ve got a physical copy of this fantastic letter.

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron (Bishop Robert Barron) condemns blasphemous Opening Ceremony for Paris Olympics: “Would they ever have dared mock Islam in a similar way? This deeply secularist, post-modern society knows who its enemy is—they’re naming it—and we should believe them.”

The bigotry toward Christians and the blasphemy of Jesus Christ, God’s Divine Son on display at the Olympics is a new low for our human community. Shame on those who produced this mockery, shame on the Olympic Committee and the nation of France for allowing it. This tarnishes

Pray the “St Michael the Archangel” prayer to ward off the evil spirits that prowl about the world so openly today and in reparation and atonement for the blasphemies against almighty God.

So this 23 year old Brazilian surfer could not use his Christ the Redeemer surfboards because they violate Olympic rules. But mocking and blaspheming Christianity is permitted in Opening Ceremonies? Got it. Article 50 of Olympic Charter: “no type of political, religious or

The pushback has started.

16-year-old Catholic Olympian Rayssa Leal signed “Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life” after the Last Supper drag show parody at the Paris Olympics.

Happening now: Poles pray the rosary in reparation outside the French consulate in Krakow.

"There is an incident in the life of John Vianney that has been largely overlooked even by his principal biographers. It is an event that reveals another, deeper, and more painful wound in the heart of the Cure of Ars. I suspect that somehow it may be the key that opens up the

How can you know God if you don't speak to Him?

Anyone catch Cardinal Burke at the rosary tonight? I’m not aware of any other US Cardinals currently here. I hope they all continue to come to the piazza each night.

This morning the Holy Father Pope Francis approved the canonization of the Blessed Bartolo Longo (c. October 5, 1926). Blessed Bartolo was a satanic priest prior to his embrace of Christianity.