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Crocodile Tears & Guilty for the War
Greetings from Jerusalem
Peace of Christ be with you.
My name is A. Today I received my package with the novena of Our lady of Good Success.
I found a note inside saying “May Our Lady of Good Success bless you and protect you through the war.”. Thank you so much for your note. I was touched! Thank you for sending the blessed cotton touched at the face and hands of Our Lady and Baby Jesus. I’m so happy! I also got postcards.
May this war end soon as my daughters are on zoom: No schools and all shops are closed and Holy Sepulcher Church as well.
I was reading about Mother Marianna de Jesus Torres. I love her very much. She prayed the office prayer. I tried to look for the original prayer book from the 16th century. I ordered one from Amazon. I hope it is the same one.
Please pray for us. Thank you for your kindness.
God bless you.
A.G., Jerusalem
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Today’s Renaissance Polyphony
Salve Maria!
Sean McDermott (the organist-singer-composer at Our Lady Help of Christians Chapel in Orange County, California) just sent me this mostly beautiful piece of Renaissance-polyphony Ne timeas, Maria – Do not be afraid, Mary – an inspired choral music that he composed. I think it is well done.
The music is produced using modern choral software, so all the sounds you hear are produced by a machine, but I believe it contains a library of actual recorded vocal sounds, to make it sound closer to reality.
Perhaps it might be the case to feature it on the TIA site. It is people like Sean who, in normal times of the Church, would have had an outlet to channel his music. Because the Church is in crisis, people like him have their talents unappreciated and unwanted, and thus are forced to use machines to make music for lack of actual singers or a place (church) to sing it. It is very sad to me.
Anyway, I just thought I would pass it along. You may listen to it here.
In Jesu et Maria,
S.B.
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How Religion Is Being Taught in the US
In the aftermath of Susan Ostermann at Notre Dame (the pro-abortion professor chosen to head the Asian Studies Institute there), I am concerned about Catholic teachers who live at odds with Church teaching.
There is a Catholic school teacher who teaches religion at Malden Catholic high school in Malden, MA. This teacher, J.V. is living unmarried with her divorced boyfriend at … in Quincy, MA. The man works for the Quincy fire department. I have children at Malden Catholic so that is how we first made the connection.
This woman is also involved in training new teachers to the school network, as shown by social media in August 2025 (@xbssschools). This is the same Religious Order that defies the bishop’s gender policy in Worcester, MA.
This woman is a teacher of religion and she publicly presents herself for Holy Communion. What is she teaching our children about the sanctity of marriage and family, when her living situation is a public scandal?
The Archbishop, the Catholic Schools Office in the Archdiocese of Boston and the head of Malden Catholic were notified of this situation, but action has not been taken even though this behavior is prohibited especially for religion teachers. The bishop has the authority to demand removal.
Because I have family at Malden Catholic, I am very concerned that my children could be affected if I make myself known. All of these facts are true and verifiable to the public. As a whistleblower, I am afraid of potential repercussions for my family at the school.
Canon 804, § 1 - The formation and education in the catholic religion provided in any school, and through various means of social communication is subject to the authority of the Church. It is for the Bishops’ Conference to issue general norms concerning this field of activity and for the diocesan Bishop to regulate and watch over it.
§ 2 - The local Ordinary is to be careful that those who are appointed as teachers of religion in schools, even non-catholic ones, are outstanding in true doctrine, in the witness of their christian life, and in their teaching ability.
Canon 805 - In his own diocese, the local Ordinary has the right to appoint or to approve teachers of religion and, if religious or moral considerations require it, the right to remove them or to demand that they be removed.
Canon 1399 - Besides the cases prescribed in this or in other laws, the external violation of divine or canon law can be punished, and with a just penalty, only when the special gravity of the violation requires it and necessity demands that scandals be prevented or repaired.
Thank you,
B.G.
Posted April 7, 2026
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Only you might address this...
Our Lady of Fatima asked that the pope in union with the world's bishops consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart.
Research will bear out that this has not been done.
The fallout is that there will be an "annihilation of nations" if this request is not carried out.
Now we are on the cusp of that terrible calamity and no one is talking about this end result.
Please consider doing an article on this ASAP as many will die with absolutely no warning.
Souls will be lost in the eternal death.
"Beloved Lord, please save countless souls from eternal death before, during and after the coming Judgment of Nations."
In Our Lady,
R.D.
TIA responds:
Greetings R.D.,
Thank you for your suggestion.
We are writing the proposed note right away.
Indeed, we can see that every single day Pope Leo XIV is making public statements sending dramatic requests to the head of States asking them to stop using weapons and enter into dialogue to achieve peace through negotiations.
He does not consider, however, that he has at hand the way to avoid WWIII and the Great Chastisement predicted in Fatima. This means is, as you duly recalled, the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in union with all the Catholic Bishops of the world as requested by Our Lady in June 1929 at Tuy.
So, he and the previous Popes since Pius XI are directly accountable for the coming World War III as well as the terrible destruction it will cause.
The temporal heads of State, unknowingly, are the instruments of God to punish the world for the disobedience deliberately perpetrated by the Popes – Leo XIV included – to the heavenly command.
The dramatic complaints he issues about peace, as WWIII becomes more Imminent, look like crocodile tears when we know that before God he is the one who carries the greatest guilt for this situation.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk