Etheldredasplace

Do you know what it means to sacrifice, and are you ready to sacrifice your comfort zones for the sake of the one, holy, Catholic and aposto...

According to the Portuguese shrine’s  website , the statue of Our Lady of Fatima will leave for Rome on the morning of Oct. 12 and re...

Felix de Nicola was born in 1540 at Montegranaro in the Central Italian region know as the Marches of Ancona, around 1540, the second ...

Octopus Stew (in Maltese:  Stuffat tal-Qarnit ) Ingredients 1 kilo  (or 2 lb and 3.27 oz) ) octopus 6 medium sized onions (choppe...

Writing is a private labor intensive work. One cannot be entertaining much when thinking, reflecting, writing. However, in the lay life...

  A snippet and more here... http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/10/10/catholic-doctor-may-be-struck-off-for-refusing-sex-sel...

By the Triton Fountain in Valletta... I actually let my friend take a photo....some people want to move this fountain as it reminds them...

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize produced one of the best tweets ever The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons  won the Nob...

As I noted in the very beginning of the perfection series so long ago now, Garrigou-Lagrange believes, as do many mystics and theologians...

A reader asked me some questions on the levels of prayer. I can answer one of them quickly, as I wrote on the dangers of Quietism before...C...

Those of you who have followed my blog know that I lived in Malta for several months in 2011. This is my second visit in 2013.  My favorite ...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrandHarbourValletta1801.jpg Malta is under siege again. Pray, as ssm legislation will be voted u...

Priest: Obama Admin. Denied Mass to Catholics How about trying this one on for size? Here is the press release headline from Congressman...

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/10/08/government-gives-445-million-to-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-on-first/

It is good to know that modern popes made mistakes talking to the media in the not so distant past. Fr. Ripperger in his book on tradition m...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10363186/EU-calls-for-Mediterranean-sea-patrols-after-Lampedusa-tragedy.html Lampedusa...

Amazingly, although I have been to Malta twice before and the Cathedral of St. John so many times I have lost count, for the first time ...

Friday, 20 January 2012 The Ultimate Failure of Transformational Marxists Posted by  Supertradmum Some of you have wondered w...

Michael Walzer in the Winter 1996 issue of the Marxist journal  Dissent . see here for more  "Gramscian 'war of position,...