Near Assassinations: Two Presidents, Two Popes
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump and a foiled attempt against Pope Francis harken back to two other attempted assassinations, and Our Lady’s role.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump and a foiled attempt against Pope Francis harken back to two other attempted assassinations, and Our Lady’s role.
President Trump avoided being assassinated by less than an inch on the anniversary of an apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. A coincidence or heavenly intervention?
Marco Pontecorvo’s new film Fatima, a drama based on the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Portugal in 1917 and the three young seers who experienced them, debuted August 28 with balanced but mostly-favorable reviews in major outlets like CNN and The New York Times, as well as in Catholic publications. It’s encouraging that mainstream … Read more
On August 15–17, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on a 600-acre dairy farm near Bethel, New York. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of this monumental cultural event that marked an epoch. Woodstock changed America. It helped usher in a period of moral devastation. The event enshrined free love as acceptable in … Read more