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Marco Rubio being dispatched to Vatican over and above JD Vance is a huge story. More to come.

Interesting little detail: The ex-DOJ prosecutor who said he wanted to prosecute habited nuns is a Notre Dame alum (prz of College Dems, advocated for LGBTQ rights) and was featured at a campus event last year on Jan 6 hosted by the Democracy Initiative. ncregister.com/cna/anti-catho…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will to travel to Italy to meet with Pope Leo XIV this week, marking the first high-ranking encounter between the pontiff and a top administration official since President Trump issued withering criticism of the pope. wapo.st/42MfT2M

Today for the first time in many years the TLM was celebrated in Longworth Chapel, Hereford, by Dom Jonathan Rollinson of Belmont Abbey Traditional Masses are scheduled to continue for an initial trial period of three months to assess interest Today's Low Mass was well-attended, Deo Gratias!

Several Democrats, including some with presidential aspirations, are explicitly trying to win over young men. This usually involves two steps. Register for free to find out what they are economist.com/united-states/…

I would love that Opus Dei was half as interesting as they make it to be, but after a decade in it and having been to formation activities in 8 different countries and dozens of cities, I can say it's mostly somewhat conservative middle-aged dudes praying together.

The alleged D.C. attacker represents the phenomenon of “normie extremism”—people with conventional and widely held beliefs that they are willing to kill for—and the incident is reminiscent of another recent case, @alibreland argues. theatln.tc/Xn8uhHZk 📸: Robbin Goddard / Los Angeles Times / Getty

As a 67-year-old on the Upper West Side, wine importer Victor O. Schwartz is fairly representative of the boomer class living in the city. He likes the Grateful Dead and Lucinda Williams and hates what Donald Trump has done to this country. nymag.visitlink.me/olHMmU

Couples ditch fancy wedding meals for burgers and fried chicken #Echobox=1777827466" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/life-style/foo…

RIP bishop Gracida. He kindly encouraged my art work.

Has Europe’s emerging Right rediscovered faith? ✍️ Thomas Colsy Article | ow.ly/vzos50YTeiE

OTD in 1675: Massachusetts passed a law requiring church doors to be locked during services. Why? Because too many people were slipping out before the sermon was over.

Amid leaks, Justice Gorsuch says US Supreme Court needs room for 'candid conversations' reut.rs/48EQY4H reut.rs/48EQY4H

New Christian phone network aims to block porn and LGBT content: 'Jesus-centric' trib.al/WOI5dFq

Young New Yorkers Have a New Hot Spot: Sunday Mass - WSJ wsj.com/us-news/young-…

As Clarence Thomas hits a milestone, his conservative stamp on US Supreme Court endures reut.rs/3QYBsdS reut.rs/3QYBsdS

Archbishop Hicks directed all priests in the Archdiocese of New York to preach against physician-assisted suicide today.

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The Forest of Butovo— Where over 1000 clerics were executed The Butovo Forest was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino in Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast from 1938 to 1953. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,761 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed. In the winter of 1937 a group of priests, including an old bishop, were transported in the "black crow" (Stalin's closed trucks of the Communist secret police) to the scene of the execution. The ground was icy, hard as a rock. The guards, with their faces covered, ordered them to come out. The procedure was regular, cold and fast. However, something happened that the municipalities did not expect. As they were set at the edge of the plough, the bishop, with a trembling but clear voice, began to sing "Christ is Risen". The other priests, instead of crying or asking for mercy, joined him. Their chants echoed in the forest, breaking the absolute silence of death. An officer yelled to stop, marking the bishop in the face. He looked at him in the eyes with a peace that seemed eerie. "We forgive you, my children," he whispered, "for you do not know what you do." Every time a priest fell into the gap, the next would pick up the hymn from where the previous one had left off. With the last priest standing, the congregations were frozen. It wasn't the fear of death that shook them, but the lack of fear on the part of their victims. The last priest made the sign of the Cross, blessed his shooters, and fell into the pit before the final bullet was even heard. It is said that for years later, the inhabitants of the surrounding areas avoided approaching the Butovo Forest. They said that at nights, when the wind was blowing from the north, you could still hear the heavenly chants coming from through the earth. Today, a magnificent temple is erected on that spot. At its foundations are guarded thousands of objects found in the excavations: small crosses, etc., witnesses to a faith not defeated by bullets. From the book: Testimonies of Butovos - the Calvary of the Russian New Martyrs.