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Editor’s Note: I want to thank again those who have responded to our current fundraising drive celebrating the fifth anniversary of the creation of The Catholic Thing. As I’ve been saying these first days of the drive, we need all of you to help us any way you can, no donation too small – or big. We need some bigger donations this year for multiple reasons, and I have to ask anyone who can to please step up and make a more generous gesture than usual.
This past week we celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. (And, given my mention of Fatima, you may wonder why I have Our Lady of Guadalupe pictured here, but more on that in a moment). But as for Fatima, with all the emphasis on the magnificent teaching and prophetic fulfillment of that apparition,
Francisca de Paula de Jesus (1808-95), also known as Nhá Chica, was beatified on May 4 in Baependi, a town of 18,000 in southeastern Brazil. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the …
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