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SPAIN 🇪🇸 Athletic Bilbao pray the Our Father before playing against Real Madrid

BASTILLE DAY Following the French Revolution and during the Reign of Terror, 16 Carmelites were GUILLOTINED in Paris The nuns of Compiègne sang Salve Regina and Veni Creator Spiritus as they went to their brutal deaths at the hands of the French Revolution

When Pope John Paul II attended the Jubilee of Youth in 2000, a young man rushed the stage to have his confession heard by the pontiff

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Is this accurate?

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Praying for the 86 victims of the Nice terror attack who were slaughtered on this date in 2016 🙏

This is literally Hell on Earth.

Peter Kreeft is an incredible writer, full of truth and beauty and sincerity And listening to this, it is easy to see why This is what a Catholic sounds like, very moving

Congratulations to our Spanish brothers on their World Cup final 🇪🇸 Vamos!

It should be noted that in the week before and after this homily was made • A man in Belfast was almost BEHEADED in the streets by a man who had landed in the South and travelled North • A man who should have been deported was on trial in Dublin for slashing three children, leaving one permanently and severely disabled. He was heard saying 'Shit Irish, Shit Fucking Irish' as he went to try to kill the children • A migrant abandoned his efforts to appeal his sentence for killing Catholic school teacher Ashling Murphy, which suffered 11 stab wounds to her neck, severing her voicebox and removing her ability to scream for help • An American Catholic woman was murdered by her lover who should have been deported • There is also the reality that mass migration into Ireland is primarily to serve American companies such as Microsoft and Google, the workers of whom are completely pricing young Irish people out of homes. It is a bad reflection on the Catholic Church to be seen to be on the side of the rich and powerful against the people that they are supposed to represent. If a comment like this was posted by an Irish person about how beautiful it is to have only Irish in their office, they would surely attract condemnation, so why does it not work the same in the opposite direction? Is the church on the side of big business or its own people? It cannot just be Irish people who are accused of fostering division on this issue

The Christian Brothers helped to revive the Irish language in the early 20th century with their standardised grammar books If the church wants to offer something outside the box in their schools they should turn many of their schools into Gaelscoils over the next decade

Your Jubilee Year of Saint Francis reminder When Pope Benedict XVI visited Mexico and this dog soaked up the applause along the entire route

@MsgrsMelody Saint Charles de Foucauld

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World Cup Semi Final Spain vs France

SPAIN 🇪🇸 World Cup Winner Sergio Ramos: 'Holy Week is our culture, our history, and that heritage that passes from father to child as the greatest treasure we have'

In 2010, Spanish footballer Andres Iniesta scored the World Cup final winning goal against the Netherlands He then undertook a pilgrimage on the Camino Santiago de Compostela in thanksgiving

France football team's 2nd highest ever goalscorer Olivier Giroud 'I love Jesus, my saviour'