Chrysler of Pius XII and John XXIII

In 1966 sadly a lot of Vatican cars were sold to make room for a more modern fleet.  Ugh, it was the sixties.

Some years ago I heard that Pope Pius XII's and John XXIII's 1954 Imperial Chrysler is kept here on the edge of Bologna:

https://www.righiniauto.it/collezione-righini.html.

I hope to visit soon and post a decent image.  The car was bought 30 years ago by a wealthy auto collector by the name of Mario Righini and today is kept in his private collection in Bologna.

Interesting info on the car made by Ghia of Turin: http://www.imperialclub.com/Articles/GhiaStory/Page05.htm

I am also in search of John XXIII's 1960 Mercedes if anyone has any leads.

This auto I wish the Vatican had kept and still used: http://www.coachbuild.com/2/index.php/encyclopedia/coachbuilders-models/item/fleetwood-cadillac-series-90-v16-town-car

The Battle of Vienna, 1683: A Documentary

The Islamists Defeated at the Gates of Vienna by the Polish Armies

Remembrance Day/Veterans Day: Honoring Our Heroes

It was a great honor for me to shake hands with this warrior, Harold Thorp, a World War II hero who fought in the Pacific.  He wears the 1939-1945 Star and the Burma Star.  Thank you to all our veterans!  Lest we forget.

St. Maximilian Kolbe in the Coliseum

A future martyr killed in a brutal fashion.  

A modern saint.  The saint of our day.  

History is prologue.

"All Religions the Same?"

Science and God

Feminism is a Lie

Dominican Rite in Rome: Every Thursday at the Angelicum

Jordan Peterson on the Modern Crisis

50th Anniversary of the 1968 Cultural & Sexual Revolution

Cdl. Burke: Church accommodating herself to world is ‘diabolical’

The West is Losing the Family: Roberto de Mattei

Prof. Roberto de Mattei, Rome Life Forum, May 2018, Resistance

The Poetry of Leo XIII

"Auguror: Apparent flammantia lumina coelo,
Sidereoque rubens fulget ab axe dies."

-Leo XIII, Poems.

Rome Quotes

"Heart of Jesus, loaded down with opprobrium, have mercy on us."

-Litany of the Sacred Heart

100 Years: End of World War I

Dan Crenshaw for Congress

Catholic Memes on Bad Music in Church

I think we all had our fill of Glory & Praise.  Every funeral and every Mass in between. 

My Alma Mater: St. Agnes (K-12) School in St. Paul, Minnesota

Counselling for Addiction to Pornography at Renewed Hope Counselling

TRUMP @WAR - Full Movie Explicit Version

The Vortex—Unchecked and Out of Control (Tip of the Fedora to Fr. Z)

Soros's Formula for Killing America: A Brief Guide for Americans

Rome Quotes

“Hence let all citizens be mindful of their simultaneous right and duty to vote freely in the interest of advancing the common good.”

-Gaudium et Spes, 75.

Vote Today!

A friend of my recently lost an election for school board trustee by 28 votes.  Get out and vote!

Attending My First Latin Mass (Tip of the Fedora to Fr. Z)

Catholic Humor

Lesson from History: Transgender Mania is Sign of Cultural Collapse - Ca...

Rome Quotes

"Our historical textbooks, those upon which our Catholic youth is trained, are the textbooks of the opposition."

-Hilaire Belloc

Illinois Bishops Sued for Conspiracy to Conceal Public Hazard

The Lunacy of the Homosexualist Attack on the Family and Civilization

If you raise any opposition you will loose your job.  Without question.  

Which begs the question: who are the real bullies?

A world without Christianity is a world gone mad.

This poster is troubling.  I believe, if memory serves, this is what one would call discrimination.

Public agencies have no business granting special consideration to anybody.  This is discrimination. 

There are countless subsets of the population that suffer from discrimination, including all of us in one form or another. 

One of the great tragedies of our day is that persons with a homosexual inclination are defining themselves by their sexuality and not by their humanity.

All Souls Day Memoriam by Fr. Bede Jarrett, O.P.

Catholic Philippines

Keeping Youth in the Church

Catholic Culture: Classical Music

This poster is lovely.  God bless the faithful behind these great initiatives.  There is hope for the world.  

Rome Quotes

"The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers.  He will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves.  He will tempt Christian(s) with the same three temptations with which he tempted Christ...  He will have one great secret which he will tell no one; he will not believe in God.  Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect.  He will set us a counter-church...  It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.  It will be a mystical body of Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ."

-Fulton Sheen 

Saint Crispin's Day

Video on Latest Sex Abuse Crisis in the Church

Once Upon a Saint - St. Rita of Cascia - May 22nd

Renaissance of Catholic Cartoons

Rome Quotes

"It is characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy...only those who live by faith know what is happening in the world...the great masses without faith are unconscious of the destructive process going on, because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen."

-Fulton Sheen

CHURCH HISTORY: Introduction to the Campaign.

Catholic Culture: Catholic Historian (Support This Man)

I encourage everyone to watch this video.

Jason Brown is an adult convert to the Faith, and a few months away from his PhD in Church History.  A solid man.

He has started an Indigogo campaign to teach a live university level Church History course online.

If you know anyone who may be interested in supporting such a project, please pass along the link.

I think this is a great way to help increase the amount of solid Catholic material on Youtube.

We have been praying for a new generation of Catholic historians!  This is the answer.  

https://igg.me/at/jb-church-history/x/19401870

The People of Summorum Pontificum - Latin Mass Pilgrimage to Rome

7th Annual International Roman Pilgrimage "Summorum Pontificum" 2018

Be there!

This is the largest annual Traditional Catholic event in Rome and the Vatican.

Numbers count.  This event is incredible to experience. 

Join the forces of glory!

https://populussummorumpontificum.com/

Studying in Rome: A Guide to Pontifical Schools

I recently wrote this article to help students discern where to study in Rome.

Accidentally I left out the Augustinianum.  Sorry!  Will have to amend. 

In any event, here is the article and please share with any young person you may know who may be called to study in Rome:

https://bccatholic.ca/content/studying-in-rome-a-guide-to-pontifical-schools

Let's get the word out!

The Darwinian Roots of the Devaluation of Life | Dr. John G. West

Blessed Karl of Austria: An Example to All Leaders

I was privileged to attend his beatification in the Vatican as well as to meet his son and heir, Otto.  May we follow their eloquent example of public fidelity and piety. 

The Quotes that Best Summarizes These Times We Live In

St. Thomas Aquinas on Bad Seminarians and Weeding Them Out

"When public relations techniques are used to promote vocations, with advertising in religious publications and direct mailings designed to encourage young people to join a given society or community, the danger is always present that stress will be placed on numbers to the neglect of quality.  Saint Thomas insists that the weeding out of the unfit is an obligation of those charged with the selection of candidates...Avoid the methods of the world in promoting vocations.  It is possible to win customers in business by publicity techniques, but vocations require a different approach.  We may never be many, we may never be wise in the eyes of the world, but whatever we do must be done through the foolishness of the Cross."

-Fulton Sheen (Priest and Victim, Chapter 4: The Holiness of the Priest)

From the Angelic Doctor:

"Ad primum ergo dicendum quod Deus numquam ita deserit Ecclesiam suam, quin inveniantur idonei ministri sufficientes ad necessitatem plebis, di digni promoverentur, et digni repellent.  Et si non possent tot ministri inveniri, quot modo sunt, melius esset habere paucos ministros bonos quam multos malos, ut dicit beatus Clemens, epist. 2 ad Jacobum fratrem Dom., ante med."

-St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae III, Supp. q. 36, De Distinctione Ordinum, art. 4 ad I)

Rome Quotes

"Great truths are revealed to and placed in the custody of the few who are dedicated to the battle of faith."

-Fulton Sheen

The 10 Universal Principles | Camille Pauley

Rome Quotes

"Because the holiness of the priest in God's designs makes the Church holy, those who seek the priesthood but are wanting in holiness must be purged."

-Fulton Sheen

Chant from the Venerable See of Milan in Italy

Rome Quotes

"As Western civilization loses its Christianity, it loses its superiority."

-Fulton Sheen

Heartbreaking: Notre Dame Church Demolition Worcester, MA

Norcia Mass at Birthplace of St. Benedict Before the Devastating 2016 Earthquake

God bless the monks of Norcia.  I took these photos in 2015, just one year before the basilica was destroyed during the infamous earthquake.  And God bless our dear chaplain, Fr. William Ashley, who celebrated Mass in the crypt for our small band of Canadian pilgrims.  Little did we know that a year later the historic church and crypt would lay in a pile of rubble.  By God's grace, no lives were lost.  I wrote this short article to alert people the monks are rebuilding and fundraising in earnest:

https://bccatholic.ca/content/italian-monastery-to-feature-latest-seismic-technology

Travel Writer JPSonnen: Global Pilgrim Catholic Travel Column

Read and share our travel column:

https://bccatholic.ca/authors/j-p-sonnen

Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini

Have you been?

Make a stop here on your next trip to Rome!

http://roma.fssp.it/