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| THURSDAY vol. 10, no. 146 August 5, 1999 |
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Today we bring you the 91st person selected out of the TOP 100 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY. The voters selected Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles who has long championed Latin American rights, while downplaying the Latin rite. He is a favorite of the liberal church in America and his vote was influenced by many of that persuasion as well as the Hispanic vote, for his loyalty to their cause has won him many admirers. For more on the 91st selection, click on
 
 
Lord, pardon the sins of Your people. May the prayers of Mary, the Mother of Your Son, help to save us, for by ourselves we cannot please You.
Events that happened this day in Church History 
On this date 496 years ago, the notorious pontiff Pope Alexander IV was invited to dine with his treacherous cousin and cohort of many transgressions Cesare Borgia. Joining them was Cardinal Adriano Castellesi. Legend has it a jealous family member of the Borgias poisoned the three of them but some historians point to the evidence that Alexander's bitter enemy Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere orchestrated the dastardly deed. Rovere and Alexander fueded for years and after Alexander's death, which would occur two weeks later on August 18, 1503 as a direct result of the poison, Rovere would reap the spoils, becoming Pope Julius II that same year after a one-month reign by Alexander's immediate successor Pope Pius III. For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on MILLENNIUM MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
148 and counting, This Weekend
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In his column today, 
The clarion sounds as a wake-up call to Catholics as we provide a summer review of all past articles on the Church today 
Like our other feature series, this summer we present installments 1 through 105 of this series which is a set blueprint for Catholics everywhere to take up the banner of truth in defending Christ's One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church as we prepare for this glorious event - the second coming of Christ and the Reign of the Sacred Heart, the Second Pentecost, the Era of the Eucharistic Presence, the Advent of Peace. To read any of the over one-hundred previous installments in this long on-going series, click on the Archives of
The cure that soothes! 
Those words from the Sacred Heart of Jesus were imparted on May 9, 1995 to the 
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For a celebration as great as Jubilee 2000, a special hymn has been written by Jean-Paul Lécot of Lourdes fame, and to really put the exclamation mark on the melody the Holy Father has made a personal request to famous Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli to record the hymn so all may hear it in various languages. No doubt the Italian version by the beloved and awe-inspiring voice of Bocelli will be just as popular. The Pope asked Bocelli and he accepted during a private audience and Papal Mass in the Chapel at Castelgondolfo where he sung Panis Angelicus. Surely the angels had to be enthralled! For more, click on 
Continuing the trend of the Holy Father's dissertations on the after-life and following up on his talks on Heaven and hell the past two weeks in his Wednesday Audiences, the Pope addressed Purgatory yesterday, reinforcing that it is not necessarily a place but rather a "condition of life." He entreated those in the audience to pray for the poor souls in Purgatory and do good deeds in reparation for their souls, all part of our duties as members of the Communion of Saints. For more, click on 
Not everyone can make it to Miami, Florida for the annual Exposition of Catholic Communications, including this editor of the west coast headquartered DAILY CATHOLIC. Therefore, we are delighted to share with readers that all can keep up on the happenings and talks at the expo this weekend by tuning into EWTN or WEWN if you are fortunate to be able to receive Mother Angelica's Catholic programming, or if not, you have the opportunity to tune in the audio at www.etwn.com/audiovideo/. For more, click on 
The devil is in the details and those in alignment with the demon have admitted as much including the Serbian butcher Slobodan Milosevic and the culture of death advocates of the UN and their camouflaged "aid to the Kosovars" campaign which is not to help them, but to reduce their numbers through the silent form of ethnic cleansing - abortion and other contraception methods they are shipping to this troubled region of the world. For more, click on 
Dear children! Also today I rejoice with you and I call you all to prayer with the heart. I call all of you, little children, to give thanks to God here with me for the graces which He gives to you through me. I desire for you to comprehend that I want to realize here, not only a place of prayer but also a meeting of hearts. I desire for my, Jesus' and your heart to become one heart of love and peace. That is why, little children, pray and rejoice over everything that God does here, despite that satan provokes quarrels and unrest. I am with you and I lead you all on the way of love. Thank you for having responded to my call.
