Two women will jointly lead the Catholic Deanery of Bremen-Nord, Hildesheim Diocese, for the first time, marking a historic shift in church leadership. The decision was announced on July 21. Ute Zeilmann is a theologian and will oversee pastoral ministry and the pastoral staff. Agnes Dobrzynski will lead administration. Both have worked in the Bremen-Nord deanery for several years. To meet canonical requirements, Rev Johannes Pawellek will act as moderating priest, accompanying the new leadership team after his retirement in November 2026. The pastoral team will also be joined by Rev Pradyut Bahla, an Indian priest currently pursuing doctoral studies in Frankfurt. He will serve in Bremen-Nord for five years. The two women want “to embrace the global Church's call to synodality: leading together, listening to the Holy Spirit, and moving away from isolated leadership decisions”. The Diocese of Hildesheim was led by pro-homosexual Bishop Heiner Wilmer until June 2026. He was promoted by …More
Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13 “I am the source of living waters.” Let us return to the joy of the child. Matthew 13:10-17 The disciples approached him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” Jesus replied, “This is why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.” People listen and understand in parables. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
How did Jesus Carry The Cross? In Detail - Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick's Vision catholicaudiobooks Chapter XXX of "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ" by Anne Catherine Emmerich details the events surrounding Jesus' carrying of the cross. In this chapter, Emmerich describes how Jesus, after being condemned to death, was given the heavy wooden crossbeam to carry to the place of execution. Jesus, weakened and wounded from the earlier scourging, struggled under the weight of the cross. The soldiers accompanying him, driven by a sense of duty and impatience, prodded and mistreated him along the way. Emmerich vividly depicts the sorrow and suffering of Jesus, and how He bore the cross with great humility and resignation. She also narrates the encounter between Jesus and His Blessed Mother, Mary, on the Via Dolorosa, as they exchanged a profound and heart-rending gaze of love, compassion, and sorrow. The chapter captures the physical and emotional agony of Jesus as He carried …More
As the State of New York prepares to implement, on August 5 next, its new law on "medical aid in dying," four Catholic religious congregations, joined by Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre, have filed a lawsuit in federal court
FOCOLARES, NEO CATECHUMENAL WAY, CHARISMATIC RENEWAL LIKE FR. DAVIDE PAGLIARANI SAY OUTSIDE THE CHURCH THERE IS NO SALVATION: ONLY OPTION Kiko Arguello’s Neo Catechumenal Way and Chiara Lubich’s Focolares now have to interpret LG 8, 14, 16 etc in Vatican council II as being invisible and hypothetical cases in 2026-2027. So Vatican Counc8il II ( AG 7) is aligned with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) of the Council of Florence 1442, while LG 8 etc are not practical exceptions for EENS or AG 7 or CCC 846.This is the new rational approach in the interpretation of Vatican Council II. So Cardinal Baldasarre and all the employees of the Rome Vicarte they will be saying like me and the Missionaries of Charity Contemplative priests that outside the Church there is no salvation according to Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. They will be saying like at the Jewish Left synagogue in the old ghetto of Rome, that the Catholic Church today in Vatican Council II (…More
Several German Catholic dioceses have told De.CatholicNewsAgency.com on July 21 that they have no plans to expand the celebration of the Mass in the Roman rite. The dioceses that replied included the three "conservative" German dioceses Passau, Regensburg, and Cologne and the pro-homosexual Archdiocese of Hamburg. Passau and Cologne offered only brief responses, confirming that no expansion of the Traditional Latin Mass is currently planned. Regensburg Diocese, where the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX) operates a seminary, provided a more detailed explanation of its position: "A sufficient number of opportunities to celebrate Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is an important pastoral response to the sometimes aggressive missionary activity of the Society of St. Pius X and its supporters," diocesan spokesman Stefan Groß said. He added that the FSSPX continues to refuse full communion with the Pope, particularly regarding its understanding of religious freedom …More
2 Purgatory by Rev. Francois Xavier SCHOUPPE read by John Part 2/2 | Full Audio Book Purgatory by FX Schouppe, SJ, a french Catholic theologian who died in November, 1904 details the place where saved souls go before Heaven. Think of it as a temporary cleaning or purging place for those who aren't going to Hell. Fire, burning and intense pain for various lengths of time make up the experience of Purgatory. The author details eyewitness accounts and blood chilling stories from the perspective of a number of saints who went through it. We can pray, give alms and have Masses said for the souls in Purgatory to shorten their and our time there. This book really turned me around! Purgatory will scare the Hell out of you!(Summary by John Brandon) More information: librivox.org/purgatory-by-rev-francois-xavier-schouppe/
Pornographers-influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate - former webcam entrepreneurs turned pornographers-influencers – were arrested in Miami on July 18 following a provisional extradition request from the United Kingdom. The brothers also remain under criminal investigation in Romania. Allegations include human trafficking, rape, money laundering, and witness tampering. They face a total of 59 charges authorized by the UK's Crown Prosecution Service. They are British-American but have lived in Romania for years. Romanian prosecutors lifted the brothers' travel restrictions in February 2025, allowing them to leave the country. Later that month, they traveled to Florida by private jet. In March, Andrew Tate's then-girlfriend, Brianna Stern, filed a civil lawsuit alleging that he assaulted her at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, accusing him of choking her nearly to unconsciousness, beating her, and threatening to kill her. Tate has denied the allegations. The Tates were in Miami to …More
198 reactions · 14 shares | Last week I attended the opening of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs Renovation … the last part of a complete refurbishment of the entire park … we’ve been coming for decades now … and just want to thank … @crystalpalace.park @crystalpalaceparktrust @heritagefunduk and @lbbromley for such a brilliant beautiful and respectful upgrade … Spielberg would be proud … | Mark Adderley Last week I attended the opening of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs Renovation … the last part of a complete refurbishment of the entire park … we’ve been coming for decades now … and just want to thank … @crystalpalace.park @crystalpalaceparktrust @heritagefunduk and @lbbromley for such a brilliant beautiful and respectful upgrade … Spielberg would be proud …
Most people know her for one thing: banana ketchup. It's on tables across the Philippines. It's bottled by big companies now. And it exists because a chemist in the 1930s looked at expensive imported tomato ketchup, noticed tomatoes wouldn't grow well in the Philippine climate, and simply built a better answer out of a fruit that grew everywhere. That was Maria Ylagan Orosa. The ketchup is real, and it's hers. It is also the least interesting thing about her. Maria was born on November 29, 1893, in Taal, in Batangas province on the island of Luzon, one of seven children. She grew up inside history. As a small child she lived through the Philippine Revolution and then the Philippine-American War, during which her own father used his ship to move Filipino soldiers and supplies between the islands. She was a girl watching her father risk everything for the idea that the Philippines should feed and govern itself. That idea became the whole shape of her life. In 1916, at 23, she sailed for …More
Vance Praises Francis as "Genius": In a recent interview with Bishop Robert Barron, U.S. Vice President JD Vance praised Pope Francis, saying: "I always liked the way Pope Francis would make bold statements in the media because it forced people to talk about them. Sometimes he would say things that made me think, 'Wait a second, is that consistent or correct?'" However, the politician concluded that Francis had "forced a dialogue, and he was kind of a genius at that".
U.S. Vice President JD Vance praised Pope Francis in a recent interview with Bishop Robert Barron for being a “kind of genius” at forcing conversation with rhetorical “bombs.”
A wonderful short video with excellent Carmelite stories!
After 10 years of asking, a journalist was finally allowed inside the Carmelite Monastery in Christchurch, New Zealand. The story he got helped save countless souls who saw his final video. This is a portion of that final product.