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
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
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 …
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
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/
A new study of Catholic contemplative monasteries has found that 91 monasteries have closed in France over the past two decades, representing nearly one-third of the country's contemplative houses. The findings come from French sociologist Isabelle Jonveaux, a specialist in monastic life at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), whose research was published by LaVie.fr on July 21. Several well-known monasteries have already announced their closure for 2026, including La Grande Trappe of Soligny (Orne), the Carmel of Compiègne (Oise), and Notre-Dame du Port-du-Salut (Mayenne). According to the study, nearly 30% of France's contemplative monasteries have disappeared since 2007. Women's communities have been affected more severely than men's, with 32% of women's monasteries closing compared with 21% of men's. The pace of closures has also accelerated. Until around 2015, France averaged fewer than four monastery closures per year. Today, the figure is close to ten annually. Among religious …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
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
Dokumentárny film Vatican News opäť dostupný po spore o autorské práva: Dokumentárny film Vatican News o pápežovi Levovi XIV. bol opäť zverejnený na YouTube po tom, čo bol približne tri dni nedostupný. Dokument bol zablokovaný na základe reklamácie autorských práv zo strany RAI. RAI neskôr vydala verejné vyhlásenie k tomuto incidentu, v ktorom uviedla, že prerušenie trvalo len „niekoľko hodín“ a že materiál použitý v dokumente bol riadne vyžiadaný a licencovaný. Počas obdobia, keď bol dokument nedostupný, Dikastérium pre komunikáciu nevydalo žiadne verejné vyhlásenie k tomuto výpadku. Portál SilereNonPossum.com tvrdí, že vyhlásenie RAI malo za cieľ chrániť vatikánsky úrad pre komunikáciu.
Documentário da Vatican News volta a estar disponível após litígio sobre direitos de autor: O documentário da Vatican News sobre o Papa Leão XIV foi restabelecido no YouTube após ter estado indisponível durante aproximadamente três dias. O documentário foi bloqueado na sequência de uma reclamação de direitos de autor apresentada pela RAI. Posteriormente, a RAI emitiu um comunicado público sobre o incidente, afirmando que a interrupção durou apenas «algumas horas» e que o material utilizado no documentário tinha sido devidamente solicitado e licenciado. Durante o período em que o documentário esteve indisponível, o Dicastério para a Comunicação não emitiu qualquer comunicado público sobre a interrupção. O site SilereNonPossum.com defende que a declaração da RAI teve como objetivo proteger o gabinete de comunicação do Vaticano.
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
The Life of Sister Mary of Saint Peter Sr. Mary of St. Peter was born in Rennes in Brittany on October 4, 1816. She was rather sickly as child and not at all pious. In fact, she describes herself as stubborn and easily roused to anger. After making her 1st confession at the age of 6 1/2 years, she began to seriously work on overcoming herself and about this same time, her parents instilled into her a devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin. After making her First Communion at the age of 10 1/2 years, she progressed most rapidly in virtue to the amazement of all those who knew her. She received many graces in prayer and began to understand that Our Lord was calling her to consecrate herself to him in religion. With the direction of a wise and holy confessor who tried her in virtue for 5 years and prepared her for the religious life, she finally entered the Carmelite Monastery in Tours, France on November 13. As a novice, she continued receiving extraordinary favors in prayer. She submitted …More
Excellenz haben offensichtlich keine Ahnung vom Protestantismus, und weiß offensichtlich nicht, dass sein geliebter Papst Franziskus eine Lutherstatue im Vatikan aufgestellt ihn als großartig bezeichnet hat und den Ketzer noch kanonisieren wollte; na vielleicht erfüllt ihm sein Nachfolger seinen Wunsch.