Indiana exorcism has St. Louis 1949 ties

PRIEST WHO PERFORMED REPORTED EXORCISMS IN TERRIFYING INDIANA CASE DOUBLES DOWN — AND THE REPORTER WHO BROKE THE STORY SPEAKS OUT..

Intrigue, fear and skepticism continue to abound following Latoya Ammons’ terrifying claims that she and her children were demonically possessed inside their Indiana home before a priest performed a series of exorcisms.

Despite debate over the validity of the claims, Father Mike Maginot doubled down in an interview with Bill O’Reilly last night, noting that what he saw was “something unworldly.” And Indianapolis Star reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski who broke the story also told Megyn Kelly that her sources appeared to believe what they said about the purported possessions.

In conducting his interview with the priest, O’Reilly seemed skeptical, asking Maginot a series of questions about the shocking events that led to three exorcisms.

O’Reilly noted that the act of attempting to dispel demons is rare and requires permission from higher-ups in the church. He also questioned why the priest didn’t meet with any of Ammons’ children, despite claims that it was the kids, too, who were experiencing bizarre and horrific attacks at the hands of demonic spirits.

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Related link: Indiana exorcism has St. Louis 1949 ties…  The St. Louis exorcism inspired the book, “The Exorcist.”

A gripping account of demonic possession in Gary, Indiana has been making headlines all of the world this week. A mother and three young children claim they were terrorized by unclean spirits and describe horrific accounts of paranormal events in their home and at a nearby hospital. Many of the most terrifying details have been verified by other witnesses, according to an account

first reported by theIndianapolis Star and USA Today.

Family members say a 12-year-old girl levitated above her bed and other witnesses say her 9-year-old brother walked backwards up a hospital wall in the presence of a social worker and a psychologist.

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Thieves throw away relic with Pope John Paul II’s blood

Rome: Thieves accused of stealing a religious relic stained with Polish pope John Paul II’s blood threw it away thinking it worthless, Italian media said, reporting the police had detained three people.

The three “did not understand the relic’s value” and “cannot remember where they threw away the precious loot”, the ANSA news agency said, citing the police.

Police recovered the object’s metal frame but could not find the cloth, believed to be part of the robe the pontiff was wearing when he was shot in an assassination attempt in St Peter’s Square in 1981.

It was stolen on Saturday along with a cross, which has also been found, from the San Pietro della Ienca church in the mountainous Abruzzo region in central Italy where the late pope loved to go on skiing holidays.

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The PrimaDaNoi.it Abruzzo news website said two of those arrested are 23 and 24 years old and are drug addicts known to the police for other petty crimes.

The relic is a framed, tiny square of cloth. It was given to the small church in 2011 by Stanislaw Dziwisz, a cardinal who served as John Paul II’s personal secretary until his death in 2005.

Local media said some 50 police officers and sniffer dogs were deployed in the search for the missing relic in an area famed for its weathered stone houses and the little church where the head of the Roman Catholic Church once reportedly took refuge in a storm.

John Paul II and the Italian pope John XXIII, known as “Good Pope John”, are set to become saints in a ceremony at the Vatican in April — an event which will substantially increase the value of the stolen relic.

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Faster than a speeding bullet, ‘decorum police’ take ‘Super Pope’ down

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VATICAN CITY — Like a comic book showdown, Rome’s “decorum squad” took down the city’s latest hero when they scraped off and painted over the “Super Pope” street art very early this morning.

It marked a new city record given the piece went up Monday night and most illegal urban “decorations” are ignored for years. Notice the illegal cafe’ sign that quickly filled the void…

The artist, Mauro Pallotta, said he saw the censure coming. He told the Italian newspaper La Stampa that “city decorum” officials had been circling “dangerously close” to his piece on Wednesday.

“But the people’s reaction stopped them. There was a small revolution. They left, but they’ll be back,” he said. And right he was.

Pallotta said he draws and paints his “ecological” and removable street art onto paper that he then glues with a water-based adhesive to walls around his historic neighborhood of “the…

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Bill O’Reilly Interviews Rev Michael Maginot Who Performed Exorcism

Bill O’Reilly Interviews Rev Michael Maginot Who Performed Exorcism In Indiana, on Latoya Ammons and family. Latoya Ammons and her family concocted an elaborate tale of demon possessions and supernatural occurrences as a way to make money. But after several visits to their home and interviews with witnesses, Austin said simply, “I am a believer.”

Not everyone involved with the family was inclined to believe its incredible story.

But, whatever the cause of the creepy occurrences that befell the family — whether they were seized by a systematic delusion or demonic possession — it led to one of the most unusual cases ever handled by the Department of Child Services. Many of the events are detailed in nearly 800 pages of official records obtained by The Indianapolis Star and recounted in more than a dozen interviews with police, DCS personnel, psychologists, family members and a Catholic priest.

Furthermore, the family’s story is made only more bizarre because it involves a DCS intervention, a string of psychological evaluations, a police investigation and, ultimately, a series of exorcisms.

It started with flies

In November 2011, Ammons’ family moved into a rental house on Carolina Street in Gary, a quiet lane lined with small one-story homes. Big black flies suddenly swarmed their screened-in porch in December, despite the winter chill.

“This is not normal,” Ammons’ mother, Rosa Campbell, remembers thinking. “We killed them and killed them and killed them, but they kept coming back.”

There were other strange happenings, too.

After midnight, Campbell and Ammons both said, they occasionally heard the steady clump of footsteps climbing the basement stairs and the creak of the door opening between the basement and kitchen. No one was there.

Campbell said she awoke one night and saw a shadowy figure of a man pacing her living room. She leaped out of bed to investigate, and found large, wet bootprints.
On March 10, 2012, Campbell said, the family’s unease turned to fear.

It was about 2 a.m. Normally, Campbell, Ammons and her children would have been asleep, but they were mourning the death of a loved one with a group of friends.

Ammons, who was in Campbell’s bedroom, startled everyone by screaming, “Mama! Mama!”

Al Roker and National Weather Service hit back at politicians blaming bad forecasts for chaos in the South

‘You were warned!’ Al Roker and National Weather Service hit back at politicians blaming bad forecasts for chaos in the South that left roads clogged and coated in ice and forced 15,000 children to sleep at their schools because officials had not cancelled classes

• Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed blaming each other over the traffic chaos and claim they were not forewarned 
  
• However, the National Weather Service explicitly cautioned on Monday that snow-covered roads ‘will make travel difficult or impossible’
• Al Roker said: ‘They were warned about it and they should have been prepared for it. It’s a shame. It really is’
• Around the time the traffic jams began on Tuesday, Deal and Reed were at an awards ceremony recognizing the mayor as the ‘2014 Georgian of the Year’
• Georgia National Guard is taking drivers to find their abandoned cars today
• Temperatures dropped to about 15 degrees overnight on Wednesday in the Atlanta area but rose to high 30s today 
  
• Six dead in traffic accidents, including five in Alabama, and four people were killed early on Tuesday in a Mississippi mobile home fire blamed on a faulty space heater

The snow and sleet have stopped falling and traffic is slowly moving again but a storm is now brewing over who exactly is at fault for the South’s winter weather fiasco.

Weatherman Al Roker and the National Weather Service hit back at politicians in the South who have pointed the finger at inaccurate forecasts as the reason why authorities were so ill-prepared for snowfall and icy conditions which led to chaos on the roads. 

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal said on Tuesday: ‘The National Weather [Service] continually had their modelling showing that Atlanta would not be the area where the storm would hit.’ The governor added that the snow and ice was ‘unexpected’ and ‘we can’t control Mother Nature’. 

However NBC’s Al Roker completely rebuffed this claim on Wednesday, saying: ‘The mayor and the governor got on TV yesterday and said all this wasn’t expected, and that’s not true.’

Roker pointed out that the weather service issued an official warning for Atlanta at 3.38am local time on Tuesday and added: ‘They were warned about it and they should have been prepared for it. It’s a shame. It really is.’

Two inches of snow fell on Tuesday around 1.30pm in the Atlanta area leading to chaos as schools, government workers and private employees took to the roads at the same time. With few highways treated for ice and snow, slippery conditions quickly led to pile-ups and congestion, with many drivers forced to abandoned their cars or sit for hours without heat, food or water. 

As many as 15,000 schoolchildren across the South either slept on the buses that tried and failed to get them home, or on cots in school gymnasiums, GMA reported on air today. All students made it home by Wednesday evening, officials said.

Vehicles are backed up on interstate 20 westbound on Thursday in Leeds, Alabama as icy road conditions and temperatures well below the freeing mark continued 

 

Georgia National Guard Sgt. Chad Armstrong (pictured left) and other guardsmen help people get their stranded cars out of the snow in Atlanta on Wednesday after a rare snow storm left thousands stranded on the roads

One car lies half submerged in the Cahaba River as another sits abandoned on Thursday in Mountain Brook, Alabama. One driver was able to escape before the car slid into the river during Tuesday’s snow storm and was not injured

The I-75 Chattahoochee River overpass near downtown Atlanta was littered with abandoned cars on Wednesday after a winter snow storm slammed the city with just over 2 inches of snow on Tuesday

Temperatures crept up across the South today after dropping into the teens overnight on Wednesday

Teachers and parents questioned why classes went ahead on Tuesday if government officials received the adverse weather warning in the early hours.

At Atlanta’s Deerwood Elementary School, librarian Brian Ashley, a dozen of his colleagues and 35 children spent the night on cots set up in the gym.

The teachers and other staff members opened up the pantry in the cafeteria, making pizza and chicken nuggets accompanied by carrots and apples for dinner. Later, some police officers dropped off sandwiches, and parents living nearby brought food.

‘The kids slept peacefully through the night,’ Ashley said. ‘They knew that there were people around them that cared about them.’

However, Ashley said he was surprised officials allowed the schools to open Tuesday in the first place.

‘They were forewarned about the weather, and they were ill-prepared,’ he said. ‘If schools were canceled yesterday, we would not have had the catastrophe we did last night and today.’

The National Weather Service explicitly cautioned on Monday that snow-covered roads ‘will make travel difficult or impossible’. The agency issued a winter storm warning for metro Atlanta early on Tuesday and cautioned against driving.

Its website warned of possible ‘widespread ice accumulations’ across the South as early as Saturday – ‘expanding into the Southeast U.S. Tuesday into Wednesday’. This is what happened across the state and much of the South.

Furthermore, on Monday the weather service issued an advisory at 3.22 pm – almost 24 hours before the storm struck – that there was the potential ‘for 2 inches of snow and up to a half-inch of sleet from Atlanta to Athens’.

A teacher at E. Rivers Elementary school covers sleeping children in the gymnasium of the school who were forced to stay in the aftermath of a winter storm in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday night

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Pope Francis to Notre Dame: do not let the moral teaching and the freedom of the Church be diluted

 

In my recent Apostolic Exhortation on the Joy of the Gospel, I stressed the missionary dimension of Christian discipleship, which needs to be evident in the lives of individuals and in the workings of each of the Church’s institutions. This commitment to “missionary discipleship” ought to be reflected in a special way in Catholic universities (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 132-134), which by their very nature are committed to demonstrating the harmony of faith and reason and the relevance of the Christian message for a full and authentically human life.Essential in this regard is the uncompromising witness of Catholic universities to the Church’s moral teaching, and the defense of her freedom, precisely in and through her institutions, to uphold that teaching as authoritatively proclaimed by the magisterium of her pastors. It is my hope that the University of Notre Dame will continue to offer unambiguous testimony to this aspect of its foundational Catholic identity, especially in the face of efforts, from whatever quarter, to dilute that indispensable witness. And this is important: its identity, as it was intended from the beginning. To defend it, to preserve it and to advance it!

Franciscus

Address to the Trustees of the University of Notre Dame du Lac

 

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/01/pope-francis-to-notre-dame-do-not-let.html

 

BIEBER TURNS SELF IN ON EXPECTED CHARGE IN CANADA

 Canadian musician Justin Bieber is swarmed by media and police officers as he turns himself into city police for an expected assault charge, in Toronto, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. A police official said the charge has to do with an alleged assault on a limo driver in December. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

 TORONTO (AP) — Justin Bieber has turned himself in to Toronto police for an expected assault charge.

The baby-faced 19-year-old arrived Wednesday evening at a police station to a crush of media and screaming fans.

A police official said the charge has to do with an alleged assault on a limo driver in December. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Toronto police said in late December they were looking into allegations that a member of Bieber’s entourage assaulted a limo driver who was ferrying the Canadian pop star and several others. Police said at the time it was unclear whether Bieber was involved.

A spokesman for Bieber had no comment Wednesday.

Bieber emerged from a black SUV wearing a winter coat and a backwards ball cap before being led through a throng of police and reporters.

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Dogs Sniff for Late Popes Stolen Blood

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Dogs Sniff for Late Popes Stolen Blood

Dozens of police with sniffer dogs searched the area around the church of San Pietro della Ienca in the central mountainous Abbruzzo region of Italy for a stolen relic containing a fragment of cloth stained with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II.

The relic is believed to have been stolen Saturday night from the small stone church together with a small simple cross, according to police.

Pasquale Corriere, president of the Cultural Center that takes care of the sanctuary, said he believed this was a “commissioned theft.” He was alerted to the theft by his daughter, who saw the rails protecting the church sawed on Sunday morning and noticed that the relic was no longer in its place.

“Whoever broke in came for the relic, that is clear, all the rest was left untouched including the offering box,” Corriere said.

The small church is in the Gran Sasso mountains near the city of l’Aquila was dear to Pope John Paul II, who visited the area more than 100 times during his papacy, where he would walk and meditate and was even known to have skied down the slopes as a young pope. The area has become a place of pilgrimage for people in search of peace or wishing to pray.

The relic is a small piece of cloth soaked in blood the pope lost during the 1980 attempt on his life in St. Peter’s Square and is only one of three of its kind. This one was given to the people of L’Aquila in 2011, after the devastating earthquake that struck the area, by the pope’s personal secretary, now cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz. The cardinal has visited the church a number of times since the late pope’s death in 2005 and donated a bell in the pope’s memory. In 2011, the church was given Sanctuary status and dedicated to Pope John Paul II.

Some experts are even suggesting that this theft could be linked to a satanic cult. Objects like this relic, with a special symbolic value, are particularly sought after by the flourishing trade in religious objects.

“This area is not known for this sort of thing and nothing like this has ever happened…I don’t know what to think,” said Corriere. A criminal investigation has been opened by the local prosecutor’s office.

The Vatican has announced that Pope John Paul II will be made a saint on April 27, along with Pope John XXIII, and Rome is planning for millions of faithful to come for the ceremony.

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Rock star welcome by Republicans for Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson reveals deep political divide as president gives his State of the Union address to nation

President Obama may be delivering his fifth State of the Union address tonight to a joint session of Congress – but the list of guest attendees only highlights the deep partisan divide that still exists across the nation.

Both the Republican and Democrats are seeking to score political points through their plus-ones – with both sides of the debate on Obamacare, Benghazi, gay-rights, immigration, the Second Amendment and unemployment benefits all represented in the gallery this evening on Capitol Hill.

Indeed, the naked one-upmanship has seen Louisiana’s new Republican congressman, Vance McAllister invite Willie Robertson, the son of Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson, who was temporarily suspended from the show after making anti-gay remarks. 

Feted guests: Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson, center and his wife Korie, talk with Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., before President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28

 This was in contrast to first lady Michelle Obama, who welcomed basketball player Kim Collins – the first active male athlete on a major American sports team to come out as openly gay.

The controversy over Duck Dynasty caused a huge national debate over the First Amendment rights of Robertson, 68, to quote passages from the Bible that can be interpreted as homophobic.

Selfies with a cable television star: Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson, center and his wife Korie, pose with Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., before President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Capitol Hill

Indeed, Representative McAllister pointedly said in a statement that he looks forward to ‘bringing some diversity to our nation’s Capitol’, with the invitation of Willie Robertson, the CEO of Duck Commander and star of the hit A&E cable show.

In addition, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham threw his hat firmly into the Duck Dynasty ring by gifting his invite to Willie Robertson’s wife, Korie Robertson – and tweeted a smiling picture to prove it.

It has become tradition for the first lady’s guests to include those whose personal stories can help highlight a particular policy or issue for the president.

Twenty-four people have been invited to join Mrs. Obama in her box, including two Boston Marathon bombing survivors, Jeff Bauman and his cowboy hatted rescuer, Carlos Arredondo.

However, more politically pointed guests include, Amanda Shelley, from Gilbert, Arizona. The 37-year-old physicians assistant was uninsured and couldn’t get coverage because of a pre-existing condition until Obama’s health care legislation became law, the White House said. 

Two days after receiving coverage, she encountered abdominal pain that eventually required emergency surgery – something that would never have happened before the Affordable Care Act. 

Guests: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted this picture of Willie Robertson and his wife Korie Robertson saying he was proud to provide his guest ticket to the Duck Dynasty star’s wife 

Guest: In April, the 35-year-old Collins became the first active male athlete on a major American sports team to come out as openly gay

Countering this,  Republican leaders have urged their members to host people for whom Obama’s signature national health care law is a burden. 

House Speaker John Bohner’s guests are business owners from his Ohio district. They include David Lippert, president of Hamilton Caster & Manufacturing Company in Hamilton, Ohio, who complains ‘Obamacare’ is limiting his efforts to expand his business.

Backing up the president and his wife is Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who is hosting small business owner Martin West, whose wife Melinda was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. 

In December, West signed his family up for health insurance under the new law and ‘now have the peace of mind of knowing they cannot be dropped from their health insurance due to a pre-existing condition,’

Out of the ashes: Carlos Arredondo (in the white cowboy hat) helped save Jeff Bauman after he lost both legs in the explosion and now they will both be guests of Mrs Obama at the State of the Union address on Tuesday

 

 

Moving past it: The two men, seen here at a September 2013 football game, have become close friends

 

Keen to keep the Benghazi controversy rumbling on, Oklahoma Republican Congressman, Jim Bridenstine, is hosting Charles Woods, father of Ty Woods, a Navy SEAL killed in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. 

Bridenstine said in a statement ‘I am honored to host the father of a true hero.’ 

The Sept. 11, 2012 attack and the Obama administration’s response to it is a politically charged subject ahead of the 2014 midterms and the 2016 presidential election.

The first lady always brings a group of apolitical Americans to the annual speech with her to highlight their service and achievements throughout the year.

Some will be recognized by many and this year one of those men will be Carlos Arredondo, who was wearing a white cowboy hat as he rushed a stranger- later identified as Jeff Bauman- to get medical treatment after he lost both legs in the blast.

The iconic picture of Mr Arrendondo rushing Bauman to first responders became a hopeful symbol of the devastating attack.

The White House said that the two men have become close friends.

Another guest will be Cary Bird, the fire chief in Moore Oklahoma.

He led the rescue response to the tornado that hit the town and killed 25 people.

 

 

 Tests of character: Jason Collins became the first openly gay basketball player in the NBA after coming out last spring (left) and Cary Bird (right) was the fire chief in Moore, Oklahoma at the time of the tornado that killed 25

Honoring Americans: Mrs Obama is surrounded by people that the administration wants to highlight as heroes and leaders and she is seated with them at the annual State of the Union address (seen here in 2013)

‘Fire Chief Gary Bird represents all of those who rallied together to help the community of Moore, Oklahoma- firefighters, police officers, teachers, neighbors- in its greatest time of need,’ the White House said in a statement announcing Mrs Obama’s guests.

The best-known guest that has been announced so far is Jason Collins, the NBA player who announced that he is gay which made him the first openly gay athlete in the league.

Mrs Obama and the White House put out statements immediately praising Collins when he made his announcement in April, as did former President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea, who has been friends with Collins since they attended Stanford together.

Other guests include, Peter Mouskondis, president and CEO of Nicholas & Company, Inc., a third-generation, family-owned and operated food service distribution company, with roughly 500 employees. 

The White House says the company’s emphasis on work-life balance and benefits, including maternity, paternity and bereavement leave, have contributed to worker productivity and company growth.

Another two American hero is Army Ranger Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg who has met with Obama three times since a roadside bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on his 10th deployment, left him in a coma for three months, partially paralyzed and brain-damaged.

 

Young scientist: Joey Hudy met President Obama when he was 14 at a White House science fair in 2012 (pictured) and impressed him with his ¿extreme marshmallow cannon¿

He will be accompanied by his father, Craig, a retired Air Force Reserve firefighter, and stepmother Annie, are his caretakers.

Other, more politically pointed guests of the first lady include, John Soranno, the CEO of Punch Pizza, which has eight locations in the state, and co-owner, John Puckett, raised the company-wide minimum wage to $10 an hour. 

He will be accompanied by Nick Chute, an employee of Punch Pizza,  who the White House says has benefited from his employer’s decision to pay a higher minimum wage.

Immigration is also another political battleground between the Republicans and Democrats.

Sitting with the first lady is Cristian Avila of Phoenix, who along with his two younger brothers, were brought to the U.S. illegally when Avila was 9. 

Now 23, he is a so-called Dreamer who has benefited from an Obama policy allowing young people who immigrated illegally with their parents to avoid deportation. Avila recently fasted for 22 days to call for an immigration overhaul.

Also sitting in the gallery will be Mary Barra, the first female CEO of General Motors this month after 33 years with the company. GM also benefited from a federal bailout of the auto industry.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547839/Rock-star-welcome-Republicans-Duck-Dynasty-star-Willie-Robertson-r

The World’s Pope

“If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated. My reason for doing this would be, that if Christ is in any one of the churches of the world today, He must still be hated as He was when He was on earth in the flesh. If you would find Christ today, then find the Church that does not get along with the world. Look for the Church that is hated by the world as Christ was hated by the world. Look for the Church that is accused of being behind the times, as our Lord was accused of being ignorant and never having learned. Look for the Church which men sneer at as socially inferior, as they sneered at Our Lord because He came from Nazareth. Look for the Church which is accused of having a devil, as Our Lord was accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils. Look for the Church which, in seasons of bigotry, men say must be destroyed in the name of God as men crucified Christ and thought they had done a service to God. Look for the Church which the world rejects because it claims it is infallible, as Pilate rejected Christ because He called Himself the Truth. Look for the Church which is rejected by the world as Our Lord was rejected by men. Look for the Church which amid the confusions of conflicting opinions, its members love as they love Christ, and respect its Voice as the very voice of its Founder, and the suspicion will grow, that if the Church is unpopular with the spirit of the world, then it is unworldly, and if it is unworldly it is other worldly. since it is other-worldly, it is infinitely loved and infinitely hated as was Christ Himself. But only that which is Divine can be infinitely hated and infinitely loved. Therefore the Church is Divine.” 
– Ven.  Fulton Fulton J. Sheen