In 1943, twenty-year-old Claude Newman was awaiting execution in a Mississippi prison for shooting Sid Cook, his beloved grandmother’s abusive second husband. One day, Claude noticed a medal hanging around the neck of a fellow prisoner, and asked the young man what it was. The latter responded by casting the medal to the ground with a curse and said, “take it.”  Unbeknownst to him, the curious pendant was a Miraculous Medal. Even though he knew nothing about it or who it represented,…

This information is a little older but I thought it was interesting and sad at the same time.  A sign of the times we are in. sja

From an email sent to TrueTrad on 6-26-2012:

"The statement below, cross-verified by Bishop Williamson, has just come from a friend working with the Dominicans in France. 

IT IS OF GRAVE CONCERN! PLEASE TO ST FRANCIS AND ST ANTHONY (THE WONDER WORKER) TO REVERSE THIS DECISION.…