The predictable happened: bishops and cardinals called same sex marital simulation “marriage” and the laity believed them

I begged a cardinal and university processor to stop labeling sodomy as marriage. They made clear my opinion didn’t matter - I don’t habit letters after my name. Here we are.

Majority of US Catholics now support same-sex ‘marriage’ and abortion, Pew research finds

Pew found that 70% of Catholics now say they back same-sex ‘marriage’ and 59% favor abortion in most cases, exposing a collapse in Catholic moral formation and belief.

(Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace) — The U.S. Catholic Church stands at a crossroads, marked by an aging flock, a growing immigrant presence, and a devastating erosion of faith and morals.

The Pew Religious Landscape Study (RLS) for Catholics from 2007, 2014, and 2023-24 offers a sobering glimpse into this crisis for traditional Catholics rooted in the Magisterium’s truths: for every 100 Catholics entering, 800 Catholics leave, prayer is declining, belief in God is plummeting, and a super majority supports issues deemed morally evil by the Church – demographically propped up by immigrants yet spiritually adrift

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/majority-of-us-catholics-now-support-same-sex-marriage-and-abortion-pew-research-finds/

Catholics Are Rapidly Losing Ground

 A new survey shows that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. As bad as that is, the news is actually worse when we look more closely at the numbers. Radical changes are needed.

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  Eric Sammons

  Last week the Pew Research Center released a new surveyon religion in America; their first major study of this type since 2014. Upon the survey’s publication, I could almost hear a collective groan from Catholics, since we’ve come to approach such polls with a sense of dread. The question isn’t, “Will it be bad?” The question is, “How bad will it be?” 

  I won’t bury the lede: it’s bad. Really bad. 

  Only 19% of Americans self-identify as Catholic, down from 24% in 2007. This is a 20% decrease. By comparison, Protestants decreased by 21%, while religious “nones” increased by 81% and Muslims increased by an astounding 200% (although they still make up a small percentage of the overall population—only 1.2%). Even though the Pew Survey headline suggests that the decline in Christianity in this country may have “leveled off,” it’s clear the overall direction is downward.

  More: https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/catholics-are-rapidly-losing-ground

The Miracle of the Everyday

Every blade of grass,

every leaf on every tree,

every creature great and small,

reveals God’s splendor, one and all.

Laetare!

- KMC

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

24th Tract on John
The miracles which our Lord Jesus Christ did were the very works of God, and they enlighten the mind of man by mean of things which are seen, that he may know more of God. God is Himself of such a Substance as eye cannot see, and the miracles, by the which He ruleth the whole world continually, and satisfieth the need of everything that He hath made, are by use become so common, that scarce any will vouchsafe to see that there are wonderful and amazing works of God in every grain of seed of grass. According to His mercy He kept some works to be done in their due season, but out of the common course and order of nature, that men might see them and be astonished, not because they are greater, but because they are rarer than those which they lightly esteem, since they see them day by day.

Or it is a greater miracle to govern the whole universe, than to satisfy five thousand men with five loaves of bread; and yet no man marvelleth at it. At the feeding of the five thousand, men marvel, not because it is a greater miracle than the other, but because it is rarer. For Who is He Who now feedeth the whole world, but He Who, from a little grain that is sown, maketh the fulness of the harvest? God worketh in both cases in one and the same manner. He Who of the sowing maketh to come the harvest, is He Who of the five barley loaves in His Hands made bread to feed five thousand men; for Christ's are the Hands which are able to do both the one and the other. He Who multiplieth the grains of corn multiplied the loaves, only not by committing them to the earth whereof He is the Maker.
℣. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.

Vatican continues to ignore pleas of Rupnik’s victims and brandish his art like a taunt

The Rev. Marko Rupnik’s mosaics depicting biblical scenes, saints and the Virgin Mary that grace the walls of Luminous Mysteries Chapel are seen covered with paper at St. John Paul II National Shrine, July 23, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) 

Rupnik’s case casts light on the sexual abuse of nuns 

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Claims against the famous artist have brought attention to the widespread sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse of religious sisters. 

Gloria Branciani, center, is flanked by lawyer Laura Sgrò, left, and Mirjam Kovac, former member of the Loyola community of sisters co-founded by the Rev. Marko Rupnik, during a press conference in Rome, Feb. 21, 2024. Branciani, 59, is one of the first women who accused Rupnik, a once-exalted Jesuit artist, of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse. She went public to demand transparency from the Vatican and a full accounting of the hierarchs who covered Rupnik for 30 years. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Three women who claim to have suffered abuse at the hands of the Slovenian Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik joined together with their lawyer, Laura Sgrò, to ask the Vatican for justice on Wednesday (March 12), while calling attention to the growing number of religious sisters denouncing abuse in the church.

“We will continue our fight for this. We will continue fighting to make sure their voices are heard,” Sgrò said. “The issue of abuse against religious women must be addressed,” she added.

The appeal was made at the Spazio Sette bookstore in Rome during the presentation of Sgrò’s new book, “Sacred Rapes,” which tells the stories of three nuns, Gloria, Mirjam and Samuelle, as well as other religious sisters who claim sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse within the church.

In her book, Sgrò talks about the first time a nun, whom she calls Maria, walked into the legal office asking for her help after being raped by a priest who then forced her to have an abortion. Maria, she writes, told her that she had been shunned from her religious order after the mother superior was informed of the abuse. Sgrò said she never saw Maria again.

“No one believes them,” she said, “When a nun is raped by a priest, it’s always the nun who seduced him, she is the one who somehow possessed him and who knows what the poor devil had to do to escape her advances.”

Since that day, Sgrò said, she has received hundreds of letters, visits and emails from religious sisters relaying their experiences. When Gloria Branciani walked into her office and told her that she had been sexually and psychologically abused for years by Rupnik, Sgrò believed her.

Branciani claims that Rupnik, an artist of international renown and great influence in the church, abused her after she joined the Loyola community of Mengeš in Slovenia in 1987, which he founded with Sister Ivanka Hosta. Branciani alleges that Rupnik raped her and forced her to have sex with another sister under the guise of replicating the Holy Trinity. Branciani also claimed he abused her while she modeled for his mosaics of the Virgin Mary that currently adorn sanctuaries all over the world.

“I lost my identity,” Branciani said at the event. “I couldn’t feel my feelings anymore.”

She reported Rupnik in 1993 to her mother superior and as a result was forced to leave the order. Rupnik was also forced to leave the community, but no explanation was offered about what had happened.

Slovenian-born Mirjam Kovac, who was also a member of the community and a close friend of Branciani, said that after the accusations the religious order became more controlling of its members. “I was told that Gloria was not the right person to choose as a friend,” she said at the event, adding that the order isolated the sisters form the outside world. “We were manipulated,” she added.

“I felt guilty. I could have taken her defense, and I didn’t,” Kovac, who is a canon lawyer at the Pontifical Gregorian University, said.

Branciani and Kovac have both left the religious order and are no longer nuns. They were the first to come forward to denounce Rupnik and his order.

In 2020, the Vatican department for doctrine excommunicated Rupnik for absolving a woman he had sexual relations with during confession. An excommunication can be lifted in the church if the person repents for their sins, and Rupnik’s excommunication was lifted soon after.

“It OK if you repent. It’s OK if your excommunication is lifted. But you still have to go to prison,” Sgrò said, adding that Rupnik never publicly acknowledged or apologized for the abuse.

Sgrò currently represents five women who claim to have suffered some form of abuse at the hands of Rupnik, but she claims to have proof of at least 15 more. She said one of the victims, who goes by the name of Martha, was among the crowd on Wednesday but would not speak out of fear.

The Jesuit order expelled Rupnik from its ranks in February 2023, but while Pope Francis lifted the statute of limitations on the case, there is no report about the state of the canonical trial.

The question of whether to continue to display his artwork remains controversial. From the sanctuary at Lourdes to the ongoing project at the Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil, consisting of an area of 43,000 square feet, Rupnik’s religious mosaics adorn over 220 sacred sites around the world. 

The Vatican has yet to issue a direct statement on how religious sites should handle the already installed mosaics; however, Rupnik’s artwork has remained clearly visible in video recordings of Pope Francis at the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican, where Francis lives. And the head of the Vatican’s communication department, Paolo Ruffini, said during a press conference in June 2024 that in the past “removing, deleting or destroying art has never been a good choice.” 

More: https://religionnews.com/2025/03/13/rupniks-case-casts-light-on-the-sexual-abuse-of-nuns/

Syria: Human rights groups say jihadis are telling Christians ‘you’re next’

MAR 13, 2025 1:00 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS8 COMMENTS

Eyewitnesses are confirming continuously that it is Syrian leader al-Jolani’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists who are massacring civilians in Syria and trying to cover it up. Most of the mainstream media believed that al-Jolani was suddenly transformed into a “moderate,” and continue to support and run interference for him despite his barbaric history and continued actions against minorities, primarily the Alawites — the sect to which al-Assad belonged. France 24’s “terrorism expert” Wassim Nasr is calling the victims the instigators, saying that the jihad massacre of the Alawites was actually “the first coordinated attack by remnants of the Assad regime.” He then quoted al-Jolani as saying that he would hold responsible “anyone who was involved in the bloodshed of civilians.”

A month ago, the mainly leftist-run EU was quick to believe in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and lift sanctions:

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the armed jihadi group leading the offensive against the Assad forces, has now taken charge of the country and set up a caretaker government. Scepticism abounds in international circles about HTS owing to the group’s terrorist credentials and Salafist ideology. However, the new Syrian authorities have declared plans to establish a political transition inclusive of all minorities and segments of Syrian society, as well as increased engagement with neighbouring countries and other foreign players. 

But eyewitness have continued to say that it is al-Jolani’s forces who are responsible for the current mass slaughter, which already includes Christians and Druze, and the jihadis are now threatening Christians further. Yet the Arab League also supports al-Jolani, and the Western world is abandoning the Syrian minorities, so as to not cause conflict with the Muslim countries who have embraced him. A list of human rights organizations have identified al-Jolani’s HTS jihadists on the ground. They include Global Christian Relief,  the Iraqi Christian Foundation, International Christian Concern; and also the Vatican-affiliated news agency Asia News has reported HTS on the ground “in evidence for the killing of over 800 Christians based on their religion..”

More: https://jihadwatch.org/2025/03/syria-human-rights-groups-say-jihadis-are-telling-christians-youre-next

Minnesota Has Abortions Up to Birth, Killed 12,000 Babies in 2022

 

State  |  Paul Stark  |   Mar 13, 2025   |   6:37PM   |  St. Paul, Minnesota

ABORTION-UP-TO-BIRTH is the current law of the land in Minnesota. More than 12,000 babies were killed in 2022 alone, and a much higher number is expected in 2023 (that year’s data will be released soon). How can we make Minnesota pro-life again?

There are no easy solutions. Restoring protection for innocent human life will require changing the way many Minnesotans think about abortion and about the lives of unborn babies and other vulnerable persons. That’s why MCCL is so committed to creating a pro-life culture in our state. Here’s some of what we’re doing, and how you can help.

More: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/13/minnesota-has-abortions-up-to-birth-killed-12000-babies-in-2022/

Lent meditation: Adam is “the man with the withered hand”

From the Holy Gospel according to Luke

Luke 6:6-11
At that time: It came to pass also on another Sabbath, that Jesus entered into the synagogue, and taught; and there was there a man whose right hand was withered. And so on.

Homily by St. Peter Chrysologus.
Sermon 32
This man is a figure of all men. His healing is a type of their healing, and his soundness is a pledge of that soundness for which all have looked so long. The hand of man hath withered through the deadness of faith rather than through the drying up of the sinews, and by the fault of the conscience rather than by the weakness of the flesh. The withering up of man's hand hath been of old time, and a sickness which smote him at the very beginning of the world, and no art or benefit of man could heal that which had been blasted by the wrath of God. That hand had touched the forbidden thing, it had sought that which was unlawful when it had been stretched out to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It had need of Him who had made it, not to lay a plaster upon it, but to cancel the sentence which He had uttered, and to loosen by pardon that which He had bound by judgment.

This man's healing is a type of the healing of all men, our perfect health is to be found in Christ, then shall our miserable hand be withered no more when there droppeth thereon the Blood of the Suffering Lord, when it is stretched forth to the Tree of Life, which is the Cross. When it gathereth the mighty fruit of His suffering, when it layeth hold upon the Tree of Salvation, when the body is so nailed thereto with the nails of the Lord that it can never return again to the tree of lust and barren enjoyment. And He said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. Rise up and stand forth in the midst, O Thou that dost confess thine own weakness, thou that dost call for pity from on high, thou that canst witness to the power of God; rise up and stand forth in the midst, thou that tellest of the unbelief of the Jews; the power of so many signs hath not pierced them, so many works of healing hath not beset them; let the pity shown to such misery constrain them and soften them.

U.S. Takes Strong Stand on Gender Ideology at UN Panel

 By Austin Ruse | March 14, 2025

NEW YORK, March 14 (C-Fam) The U.S. Mission to the United Nations sponsored an event on the dangers of gender ideology this week. The event was co-sponsored by C-Fam, publisher of the Friday Fax, and the Heritage Foundation. The panel was significant because it was the first ever U.S. event against gender ideology at the UN.

“It is an honor to address this important gathering today on the critical issue of protecting women and families from the impact of gender ideology,” said the acting U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council, Jonathan Shrier. The career diplomat oversees the U.S. Mission’s work on social issues while Trump’s nominee as UN ambassador, Elise Stefanik, awaits to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

In an official statement, Shrier emphasized that the Trump administration is committed to protecting “the great American values of family, truth, well-being, and freedom” and opposing policies that “seek to erase the category of sex and the unique characteristics that define women as female and men as male” including by “preserving the integrity of women’s spaces, from our schools to our sports, and ensuring that biological males do not infringe upon the rights of women and girls.”

He also said the U.S. will oppose “the promotion of gender ideology in educational settings.” Shrier described ongoing “tough negotiations” on gender ideology at the United Nation and pledged to vote against resolutions “if necessary, to advance President Trump’s America First foreign policy.

More: https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/u-s-takes-strong-stand-on-gender-ideology-at-un-panel/

Commentary: Trump’s Signal Weakness

By Abe Greenwald

One of the most frightening aspects of the Signal group-chat scandal is the least discussed. It gives our enemies the impression of a hapless American national-security apparatus. This will surely inform their future calculations. 

Think of it. According to the transcript of the exposed chat, the vice president, secretary of defense, and various high-level U.S. officials are fulminating in tough-guy mode about “European freeloading,” which will come as nothing new to European heads of state. But if you’re Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, you look at the very fact of the revealed messages and think, “How did we get so lucky?” 

If a Russian or Chinese defense official butt-dialed a journalist into a discussion of a planned bombing attack, heads would literally roll. For Putin and Xi, information discipline is a deadly serious matter. Authoritarian regimes foster a culture of fear around secrecy in order to preserve their strength. They look at our text-happy blabbermouths and see weakness.

They’re not entirely wrong. No matter the issue, the Trump administration’s biggest weakness really is indiscipline. From DOGE’s showboating, to ICE’s sloppy deportation prep, to the Justice Department’s overenthusiasm, to Vance’s public dyspepsia, to planning military strikes on a messaging app, the root problem isn’t a penchant for tyranny, oligarchy, or unconstitutionality; it’s wild impulsivity. We’re governed by ADHD patients who seem unable to govern themselves. 

And, of course, it starts at the top. Donald Trump all but makes policy from his own social-media platform Truth Social. Sometimes he does so late at night, as when he “hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT” Joe Biden’s pardons for members of the House Select committee on January 6. He dreamed up that quasi-official decree at 12:35 A.M.

In Trump’s world, you do as he does. If he wears blue suits and red ties, so do you. If he likes tariffs, you now like tariffs. If he hates Ukraine, you’re done with Ukraine. And if he takes a loosey-goosey, break-things-and-have-fun approach to policy and affairs of state, you end up on a compromised Signal chat using all caps to call Europe “PATHETIC” while disclosing war plans to Jeffrey Goldberg. As did Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who also followed the Trump template in then calling Goldberg a “so-called journalist.” Only he judged wrong, as the White House had already confirmed Goldberg’s story. 

Hegseth is a wild card who’s new to this level of responsibility. But group indiscipline spreads, and it infects even those who should know better. Which is how National Security Adviser Mike Waltz ended up in the chat and inadvertently invited Goldberg to sit in on it.

Government officials are apparently allowed to use Signal to schedule meetings, not bombings. But a serious national-security team wouldn’t even use it for that. Kremlin teams have long been at work hacking away at the app. Why should they potentially get the jump on a meeting of U.S. foreign-policy decisionmakers? If nothing else, Signal and similar platforms should be taken off of all federal employees’ devices and machines. Trump could make it official and announce it on Truth Social.

But, of course, someone should be fired over this. Trump often says that Biden never fired anyone, no matter how bad a job the person did. He’s right. And it’s true that Trump has no problem getting rid of people. But, here too, Trump acts impulsively. He fires those he doesn’t like, not necessarily those who need firing. If everyone involved in this embarrassment keeps their jobs, that too sends a message abroad.

This administration is hard to read with any consistency. As Americans, we look at the occasional absurdities and think, “I hope someone serious is in there keeping this thing together.” Moscow and Beijing, however, look at the administration and fear that things aren’t as confused as they sometimes seem. The Signal blunder gives us more reason to worry and gives our enemies less reason to fear the United States.

Abe Greenwald is the executive editor of COMMENTARY.

The spirit of Lent in Jubilee years

(Roberto de Mattei)

Most people are unaware of or have forgotten what Lent is. Yet the Catechism of Pope Saint Pius X was very clear, calling it “a season of fasting and penance instituted by the Church according to apostolic tradition”. In the following paragraph, Saint Pius X explained its ends:

“To make known to us the obligation we have to do penance all through our lives; to imitate in some way the rigorous fast of forty days that Jesus Christ did in the desert; to prepare ourselves by means of penance for a holy celebration of Easter.” (No 36)

 

But often for good Catholics who do not forget about it, Lent is reduced to a few ascetic practices: fasting, mortifications, almsgiving, certainly praiseworthy and always recommended by the Church, but not sufficient to transmit to us the spirit of Lent, which is first of all that of detaching ourselves more deeply from sin and embracing the will of God with greater generosity.

Benedict XVI, in his Message for Lent 2009, recalls that in the first pages of Sacred Scripture the Lord commands man to abstain from consuming the forbidden fruit: “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Gen 2:16–17). This injunction that God gave to Adam is the first precept of abstinence from food that man receives. Commenting on the divine injunction, Saint Basil writes that “the ‘you shall not eat’ is, therefore, the law of fasting and abstinence”.1 So, Benedict XVI goes on to observe, if Adam disobeyed the Lord’s command “not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”, “the believer, through fasting intends to submit himself humbly to God, trusting in His goodness and mercy.“2

More:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/124256074

BREAKING: Cesare Sacchetti on Pope Francis’ condition

“I see that some, the usual charlatans in bad faith, are claiming that we wrote that Bergoglio was dead. Never said anything of the sort. Just look at the previous writings. We wrote that he was in serious health conditions and that he was not able to do anything that those false bulletins attributed to him. Even his doctors, despite the thousand contradictions, said that he was at the end of his life. Today's statement confirms what was written. Francis appears at best like a vegetable, so much so that the Santa Marta circle itself says that he has at the most two months remaining.”

ANALYSIS DEFUND Planned Parenthood: Dehumanizing preborn children while harvesting their body parts

 By Cassy Cooke | March 12, 2025 , 08:38am 

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Planned Parenthood still inexplicably receives hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, despite numerous scandals, criminal activities, and continual lies. And starting a decade ago, undercover journalists from the Center for Medical Progress sought to expose one of the most gruesome aspects of this corporation: its partnerships with fetal tissue harvesters.

In the Human Capital Project, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP)’s pro-life investigators, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, went undercover for two years to expose Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in the body parts of aborted children. They found that, even as Planned Parenthood denied the humanity of the preborn children it killed, it often sought to profit from the sales of the babies’ body parts.

LYING ABOUT HEARTBEATS AND PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT

One of the biggest criticisms leveled against Planned Parenthood is that it has a history of lying about prenatal development. Staffers have been caught calling preborn babies in the first trimester “undeveloped blobs,” with one staffer specifically saying that organs aren’t present in the first trimester.

One staffer was caught lying about a 1o-week preborn child in a Live Action undercover investigation, saying, “[A]t this point, there’s nothing developed at all. There’s no legs, no arms, no brain, no heart,” At this point, it’s just the embryo itself” (emphasis added). Yet preborn children have remarkable development in the first trimester:

Video, more: https://www.liveaction.org/news/defund-planned-parenthood-dehumanizing-preborn-harvesting-parts/

GRAPHIC WARNING: Up to 17,000 Slaughtered in Syria as World Remains Silent

 The genocide of Alawites and Christians in Syria continues as the mainstream media continues to downplay the thousands of dead. Death toll estimates range between 7,000 and 17,000.

More than 7,000 Christians and Alawites have been “slaughtered” in Syria, according to Greek Member of the European Parliament, Nikolas Farantouris, a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security & Defense, who visited Damascus on 8-9 March, Greek City Times reports.

“Basically, what happened is (President Mohammed Al-Jolani) sent his Al-Qaida gangs to Latakia to suppress the Alawite civilians there under the claim they are (Assad) Regime remnants,” said Armenian Christian YouTuber Kevork Almassian. “Kids, children, newborn babies, women and men have been executed in daylight in the streets, all documented on video because the goal is not only to kill, but they are having pleasure by killing all these ordinary people.”

Photos, more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/graphic-warning-up-17000-slaughtered-syria-as-world/

Trump Judge Rebuffs Catholic Bishops – Refuses to Order White House to Continue Flow of Money to Catholic Groups for Their Open Borders Work with Illegal Aliens

 

Photo credit: depositphotos.com

By Jim Hoft Mar. 11, 2025 8:40 pm

Federal Judge Timothy McFadden, a Trump appointee to the district court in Washington, refused on Tuesday to order the Trump administration to restart money flowing to Catholic groups supporting open borders and unlimited migration into the United States.

According to the Washington Times, Judge McFadden says the dispute is a contract matter that should be taken up in the Court of Federal Claims.

McFadden’s order comes after the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on February 19th, challenging the administration’s decision to suspend federal funding for refugee resettlement.

The move comes as part of President Donald Trump’s broader effort to realign American priorities—protecting the homeland first, rather than funding programs that facilitate unchecked migration and open borders, something the US Catholic Bishops support.

More: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/trump-judge-refuses-order-white-house-continue-flow/

Lent meditation: the sword of truth

 In the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His glory, and when the dead shall rise again from corruption incorruptible, i Cor. xv. 53, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones of judgment, condemning the twelve tribes of Israel, because, when ye believed in Me, they would not. John iii. 18. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My Name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. This place agreeth well with that other where the Saviour saith I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matth. x. 34. Every one, therefore, that hath set no store by affection, and riches, and the pleasures of the world, for Christ's faith's sake, and the preaching of the Gospel, shall receive an hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

- S Jerome