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Liechtenstein’s hereditary prince vetoes bill to legalize abortion up to 12 weeks

tfpks — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:05:51 +0000

h/t: spuc.org.uk Liechtenstein’s Hereditary Prince Alois has vetoed legislation that would have decriminalised abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, preserving the Alpine principality’s existing legal protections for unborn children. The decision, announced on Tuesday 21st October, blocked a reform approved by the country’s parliament in September. The bill had been proposed by the […]

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Challenging American Myths about Equality: Ending

tfpks — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:03:28 +0000

Continued From Part Two That is because one aspect of our Revolutionary world is that man has become increasingly susceptible to outside influences that carry him this way and that like a cork in the sea. Pope Pius XII spoke of this in his 1946 Allocution to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility. His Holiness stated: […]

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November 9 – Patrick’s psalm-singer

MDrake — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:00:03 +0000

St. Benignus Date of birth unknown; died 467, son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in that part of Ireland which is now County Meath. He was baptized by St. Patrick, and became his favorite disciple and his coadjutor in the See of Armagh (450). His gentle and lovable disposition suggested the name Benen, which has […]

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Death is preferable to the telling of a lie

tfpks — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:55:07 +0000

The days of revolution and schism were bearing heavily upon France, and the head of the Loras family had occasion to show of what stern stuff he was made. John Mathias Loras, the father of the future bishop [Bishop Loras, first bishop of Dubuque, Iowa], was imprisoned for loyalty to social order and religious unity. […]

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November 9 – He burned the pagan temple while out on bail

MDrake — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:50:43 +0000

St. Theodore of Amasea Surnamed Tyro (Tiro), not because he was a young recruit, but because for a time he belonged to the Cohors Tyronum (Nilles, Kal. man., I, 105), called of Amasea from the place where he suffered martyrdom, and Euchaita from the place, Euchais, to which his body had been carried, and where […]

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November 10 – Who Was the First Pope to Be Called “Great,” and Why?

MDrake — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:45:03 +0000

Pope St. Leo I (the Great) Place and date of birth unknown; died 10 November, 461. (Reigned 440-61). Place and date of birth unknown; died 10 November, 461. (Reigned 440-61). Leo’s pontificate, next to that of St. Gregory I, is the most significant and important in Christian antiquity. At a time when the Church was […]

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November 10 – St. Andrew Avellino

MDrake — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:35:54 +0000

Born 1521 at Castronuovo, a small town in Sicily; died 10 November, 1608. His baptismal name was Lancelotto, which out of love for the cross he changed into Andrew when he entered the Order of Theatines. From his early youth he was a great lover of chastity. After receiving his elementary training in the school […]

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November 10 – Pope Paul III

MDrake — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:30:18 +0000

(ALESSANDRO FARNESE). Born at Rome or Canino, 29 Feb., 1468; elected, 12 Oct., 1534; died at Rome, 10 Nov., 1549. The Farnese were an ancient Roman family whose possessions clustered about the Lake at Bolsena. Although counted among the Roman aristocrats, they first appear in history associated with Viterbo and Orvieto. Among the witnesses to […]

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Brotherly Treatment Between Superiors and Subordinates Should Not Eliminate the Variety of Conditions and the Diversity of Social Classes

tfpks — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:25:56 +0000

[From Benedict XV’s encyclical Ad beatissimi Apostolorum, of November 11, 1914]: “Human fraternity, indeed, will not remove the diversities of conditions and therefore of classes. This is not possible, just as it is not possible that in an organic body all the members should have one and the same function and the same dignity. But […]

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November 11 – Patron of Veterans and Soldiers

MDrake — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:20:13 +0000

St. Martin of Tours Bishop; born at Sabaria (today Steinamanger in German, or Szombathely in Hungarian), Pannonia (Hungary), about 316; died at Candes, Touraine, most probably in 397. In his early years, when his father, a military tribune, was transferred to Pavia in Italy, Martin accompanied him thither, and when he reached adolescence was, in […]

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Although Equal by Nature, Men Should Not Occupy the Same Position in Social Life

MDrake — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:15:34 +0000

From Benedict XV’s encyclical Ad beatissimi Apostolorum, of November 11, 1914: Face to face with those to whom either fortune or their own activity has brought an abundance of wealth stand the proletaires and the workers, inflamed with hatred and jealousy because, although they share the same nature, they are not in the same condition. […]

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Challenging American Myths about Equality: Part Two

tfpks — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:20:50 +0000

Continued From Part One First of all, to enforce such a situation is nearly impossible and would require dictatorial government power. Nevertheless, steps in its direction have been pushed on more than one occasion in America. In fact, bills promoting a 100% estate tax have been brought to the floor of the US House of […]

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November 5 – Her name means “God is an oath”

MDrake — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:15:49 +0000

St. Elizabeth (God is an oath—Ex., vi, 23) Zachary’s wife and John the Baptist’s mother, was “of the daughters of Aaron” (Luke, i, 5), and, at the same time, Mary’s kinswoman (Luke, i, 36), although what their actual relationship was, is unknown. St. Hippolytus (in Niceph. Call., Hist. Eccles., II, iii) explains that Sobe and […]

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Maria Feodorovna, Tsarina of all the Russias, Patron of the Impoverished Nobility

tfpks — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:10:52 +0000

Maria Feodorovna, Tsarina of all the Russias, was born princess of Württemberg on October 25, 1758. She was the second wife of Tsar Paul I, who fought against Napoleon Bonaparte, when the latter began to expand the egalitarian tenets of the French Revolution militarily to the rest of Europe. Among her numerous accomplishments, Tsarina Maria […]

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November 6 – We know nothing about him, except his miracles

MDrake — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:05:18 +0000

St. Leonard of Limousin Nothing absolutely certain is known of his history, as his earliest “Life”, written in the eleventh century, has no historical value whatever. According to this extraordinary legend, Leonard belonged to a noble Frankish family of the time of King Clovis, and St. Remy of Reims was his godfather. After having secured […]

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