Rev. Fidel Rodriguez, 66, was attacked twice during Eucharists last Sunday by a woman who later claimed she was a "lesbian".
The incident took place at St Thomas Aquinas Church in St Cloud, Florida, Diocese of Orlando. The woman first attended the 10am Eucharist, the First Communion of her niece. She stood in line for Communion, went up to the priest but didn't know what to do.
The priest, realising that she had no knowledge of the sacrament, politely asked her when she had last received Communion. She replied that it had been many years. He asked her if she had gone to confession, to which she rudely replied, "I don't need to explain that to you".
An hour later, at noon, the woman reappeared in the church for another Eucharist, also celebrated by Rev. Rodriguez. The woman was accompanied by her female concubine, whom the priest did not know.
The same situation repeated itself. The fury presented herself again to Rev. Rodriguez and asked to be given Communion. He asked her if she had …More

Tucho Fernández confirmed to VaticanNews.va (23 May) that he visited Coptic Pope Tawadros II and told him that he "shares" the teachings of a 7 March statement by the Coptic Church.
This statement calls homosexual acts "contrary to the human nature created by God". The text is supported by many quotes from the Bible.
Here are two extracts from the statement:
"As for someone who falls into homosexual behaviour, they are like heterosexuals who fall into the sin of adultery/fornication and need true repentance. Both need continuous spiritual and psychological follow-up. This follow-up has been shown to be effective with unwanted homosexual tendencies. As for those who choose to reconcile with their homosexual tendencies, give themselves over to homosexual acts, refuse spiritual and psychological treatment, and choose of their own free will to break God's commandment, their condition becomes worse than that of those who live in adultery or fornication. Therefore they must be warned and …More

As was to be expected, the Vatican has largely approved the decisions taken by Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth against the Carmelite nuns of Arlington, Texas.
However, the dismissal from religious life of the prioress, Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, was overturned by the Dicastery for Religious. The decree was announced by Bishop Olson on 22 May.
The dicastery rejected the nuns' complaints about the bishop's investigation into their convent, upheld the canonical warning issued to the nine nuns, threatening them with punishment if they continued to obstruct the investigation, and confirmed Mgr Olson's suspension of Mother Gerlach as prioress as a precautionary measure.
The Vatican considered an online affair between Mother Gerlach and a priest of the Raleigh diocese to be proven, but denied that this was an "abuse of her authority as prioress" as Mgr Olson had argued. Further, she was not given the legally required 15 days to appeal.
The Vatican is not known for its concern for canon …More

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II received Tucho Fernández on 22 May to discuss the March decision of the Copts to suspend theological dialogue with the Vatican because of Francis' homosexual propaganda text 'Fiducia supplicans'.
A press release on CopticOrthodox.church, which could not have been published without Tucho's approval, says that Tucho supports the Coptic March statement against 'Fiducia supplicans':
"Cardinal Victor Fernández stressed that the Catholic Church fully supports this statement and is committed to everything contained in it, considering that these are the teachings of the Holy Bible", the press release says.
At the end of the meeting, Tawadros II spoke of a "path of love" between the Church and the Copts and the "importance of dialogue", and sent greetings to Francis. In this context, the terms "love" and "dialogue" must be synonymous with mutual deception.
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George Weigel, biographer and admirer of John Paul II [who made Bergoglio and McCarrick cardinals on the same day] and neoconservative warmonger, published a list of questions (CatholicWorldReport.com, 20 May) that Ms O'Donnell ("60 Minutes") should have asked Francis in her recent softball interview. Examples.
- Do you ever break bread with those with whom you might disagree, or seek input from outside your bubble?
- You say the ordination of women is not possible, while Cardinal Hollerich says these are "open questions" to be discussed at Synod-2024. Have you reprimanded Cardinal Hollerich?
- Have you ever thought of correcting the idea that Catholic teaching on morality and ecclesiology is not a matter of politics but of revealed truth?
- Why was Father Rupnik never punished for his fornication with nuns?
- Do you think anyone is interested in a Church that is unsure of what it should believe?
- Why have you deposed bishops without due canonical process?
- Why have you hurt those who …More

On 22nd May the German dioceses published their feedback for the Roman Synod in October. The main anti-Catholic points:
"For the majority of people in Germany, religion has hardly any explicit significance for the organisation of their daily lives" [because what the German bishops present as "religion" is indeed without significance].
"Many people express an urgent desire for the sacramental diaconate to be opened up to women and for the possibility of women's ordination to the priesthood to be discussed."
"Specifically, this concerns the diaconate for women, equal access to leadership positions, the administration of the anointing of the sick, the ministry of preaching, and presence in theological training centres."
"In particular, Eucharistic hospitality [= Communion for Protestants who are Protestants because they don't believe in the Real Presence] in interdenominational marriages [Church weddings are practically non-existent in the German dioceses] is mentioned again and again".
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Joe Abdel Sater, a Lebanese Catholic, created a giant rosary chaplet that floated on the waves of the Mediterranean Sea in the coastal town of Bouar for the Feast of Our Lady of the Seas on 11 May.
Sater received the approval of the parish priest and the local mayor for his initiative.
The rosary chaplet, which stretches 100 metres across the water, consists of white plastic gallon jugs for the "Hail Marys" beads and larger blue ones for the "Our Fathers". The cross is made of wood.
"I dove down and tied the beads with rope, anchoring them to the rocks below," Abdel Sater told AciMena.com: "This way, the shape of the rosary remained intact despite the changing tides."
The installation is illuminated at night.
Although rough waters have forced Sater to temporarily move his masterpiece ashore, he hopes to have his creation floating again soon.
He has submitted the rosary for entry into the Guinness Book of Records.
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On 20 May, the entrance to the Rome office of 'Pro Vita & Famiglia', an organisation promoting fundamental human rights, was vandalised with extremist slogans promoting transvestite propaganda.
Jacopo Coghe of 'Pro Vita &Famiglia' links the vandalism to a demonstration by transvestite extremists that took place in Rome on Saturday 18 May.
He explains that these violent groups demand "respect" but do not show respect for others, constantly attacking the common sense, the right of expression and the existence of those who criticise their propaganda.
In the last three years, the 'Pro Vita &Famiglia' office has suffered more than ten (!) attacks, often coinciding with demonstrations by this type of street hooligans. One example was on 25 November, when the office of the human rights activists suffered an attack with broken windows, broken shutters and the throwing of an incendiary device, which only by chance did not explode.
The Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, a member of the successor …More

Last weekend, a woman on her knees asked another woman to "marry" her in front of the famous image of the Virgin of El Rocio in Huelva, Spain.
The performance was staged to be filmed and used as a provocation by the oligarchs' media. They sold the show as something "wonderful". Abc.es even called it an emotional "proposal". The two women ended their performance with a kiss.
Spain's law on religious freedom (General Law 7 of 5 July 1980) sanctions such acts of desecration of a church, but it is unlikely that Spain's regime will allow this to happen.
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A ten-page synod feedback from the Dutch dioceses was published earlier this month. After Vatican II, the Netherlands was an "example" of the implementation of the Council. Today not even a shadow of the former Dutch Church remains. The diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam, for example, announced in September 2022 that 60% of its churches would have to be closed within five years due to dwindling numbers of churchgoers. Cardinal Wim Eijk mentioned that the entire archdiocese of Utrecht might consist of only 10 to 15 churches still celebrating the Eucharist, compared to the current 280. Now it is clear that the Dutch dioceses want to continue on their downward path. Here are the main points of their synod feedback:
- The creation of new [invalid] ordained ministries, for both men and women, focused on "mission" [whatever that means].
- A more 'visible' role for women in the Church in the liturgy
- Different forms of liturgy with men and women presiding
- The invalid ordination of women to the …More

Homosexual propagandist John Stowe who makes his living as bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, has "approved" a woman who dresses as a man to live as a "diocesan male hermit" under the pseudonym "Christian Matson".
ReligionNews.com (19 May) reports that Ms Matson, 39, had her body mutilated in 2006.
Raised a Presbyterian, she 'converted' to Catholicism in 2010 and was keen to become a member of a male religious community, but was refused entry to the Jesuits and other groups until Stowe accepted her as a 'diocesan hermit'.
In August 2022, Stowe accepted her "vows", which are renewed annually.
"My willingness to be open to him is because it is a sincere person seeking a way to serve the Church," the homosexual activist literally said of Matson (Original English: "My willingness to be open to him is because it (!) is a sincere person seeking a way to serve the Church.").
Matson opposes Vatican and US bishops' documents proclaiming the truism that there are two sexes [and that water is wet]. …More

On 17 May, the German bishops published a 308-page document on younger priests.
The study surveyed 847 clerics who were ordained between 2010 and 2021 and 1,668 men who left the seminary. 153 priests and 18 former candidates responded. The average age of the priests was 37. Over 97% were born and raised in Germany. Just over half have two or more siblings.
The results showed that 75.7% of the priests believed that [real] reform would be achieved by a greater focus on the liturgy and the content of the Catholic faith. A small minority of priests (4.6%) said that 'no reform' was needed.
Only 25.7% of priests still believe that women should be invalidly ordained to the priesthood, and only 29.6% support betraying Christ's demand for celibacy.
At a press conference, Matthias Sellmann, who conducted the survey, said it was clear that younger priests did not support the priorities of the German synod. He described the majority of young priests as "alienated from the attitudes and [lacking] …More

Francis told Norah O'Donnell (60 Minutes) in the 20 May interview that there will be no deaconesses.
He added: "If they are deacons with holy orders, no."
And: "Women have always had, I would say, the function of deaconesses without being deacons, right? Women are of great service as women, not as clergy".
In other words, there will be "deaconesses" in a "different sense" to create more confusion, as has already happened with Amoris Laetitia and the homosexual [pseudo] blessings.
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After a visit to Gaza from 15-19 May, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, issued a statement on Lpj.org saying that he was "among my people who are currently suffering much from the war and the destruction it has left behind".
Despite this, he saw "hope and optimism" in the eyes of the people who had been living under heavy bombardment for months. They told the Cardinal: "We will stay here. As long as the Church is with us, we are not afraid". Pizzaballa was impressed by this attitude.
He visited the conditions of the Catholic community in Gaza: "The level of destruction I have seen is unbelievable, and the poor living conditions, such as the lack of water and electricity and the lack of security, are terrible."
"The sound of bombing is frequent and felt at every moment".
Pizzaballa celebrated Pentecost with the parish in Gaza and administered the sacrament of Confirmation to two parishioners.
His message to the decision-makers: "Enough killing! The war must …More

In another excerpt of his 19 May interview with Norah O’Donnell (“60 Minutes”), Francis who doesn't trust anybody claimed that “people are fundamentally good”.
Contradicting Christ (Mk 10:18 "No one is good except God alone") and reality, Francis blabbered: "We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some villains and sinners, but the heart itself is good.”
With the same incompetence, Francis then spoke about surrogate motherhood, saying that it is not authorised “in the strict sense of term” [= allowed].
Trying to dodge the problem, he then said: "Sometimes surrogacy has become a business, and that is very bad. It is very bad.” But O’Donnell insisted that surrogacy is sometimes “the only hope”. Francis replied that this “could be” adding that "the other hope is adoption. I would say that in each case the situation should be considered carefully and clearly, consulting medically and then morally as well.”
And, “I think there is a general rule in these cases, but you have to go into …More

Damian Thompson presented an interesting view of Francis in a long article on UnHerd.com (27 April).
He refers to a "Vatican source" who he describes as having watched Francis closely for a decade, who doesn't belong to any faction, and tends to have a conspicuously gentle view of people. Nevertheless, this source describes Francis as "a nasty man".
"He is one of the most complicated men I have ever met," says the source. "He can be terrific fun and also incredibly vengeful. If somebody crosses him, he'll kick them when they are at their lowest ebb."
"But don't get the idea that he's a master strategist. He's a clumsy tactician who spends his time lighting fires and putting them out. His number one priority, above all else, is to be inscrutable. He doesn't want anyone to know what he's up to - and if people find out, he'll do the opposite, even if it disrupts his plans".
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Those who want to steal the soul of Europe and make it a victim of their post-humanist atheism are pushing for its de-Christianisation, said Cardinal Gerhard Müller in his homily at the closing Mass on 20 May of the legendary Roman Rite pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres.
The cardinal hopes that Catholics [but not the Vatican] will be "immune to the propaganda and opium of substitute political religions" and declares that "self-destruction through suicide and euthanasia, drugs and alcohol, or the rejection of our male or female sexuality are not options for Christians".
He also said that Christians are the most persecuted religious community in human history.
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We live in very troubling times that sometimes seem apocalyptic, Cardinal Burke said in a May 18 address to the graduating class of 2024 at Thomas Aquinas College in Massachusetts.
The rebellion against God, the revolution against His truth and love handed down to us in the Church, has reached unimaginable levels, the prelate explained.
The current rebellion is not only against faith, but also against reason: "We are witnessing in the world the denial of our very nature as God created us".
And: "What is more, the rebellion and revolution are sustained by some within the Church, even by some who are called and ordained to shepherd the flock [= Francis]".
The cardinal points to the German synod as an example, adding that the current sessions of the Roman ex-synod threaten to spread the same devastation to the universal Church.
For Cardinal Burke, the current situation of the Church is "unprecedented in the history of the Church". He encourages trust in Christ's Word and His promises about …More

"God is one," Francis preached during his visit to the prison of Verona on 18 May: "Our cultures have taught us to call him by one name, by another name, and to find him in different ways, but he is the same Father for all of us. He is one".
Francis is wrong. It was not the "cultures" that revealed God's name, but God himself through his revelation to Moses (Ex 3) and more fully in his Son, Jesus Christ.
The theory of "finding God in different ways" contradicts what Jesus Christ says: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (Jn 14:6).
Francis also proclaimed the following banality: "All religions, all cultures, look at the one God in different ways." But what matters is not different ways but the right way.
Then Francis came up with the trick of giving his blessing to the inmates, but only in silence, "so that everyone can receive it from God in the way they believe [or don't believe]". He began a childish game: "One minute of silence and …More

Nearly 20,000 pilgrims attended Holy Mass on Pentecost during the legendary pilgrimage of the Roman Rite from Paris to Chartres.
This is a record number. The pilgrimage is taking place for the 42nd time. Despite or because of Francis' "Traditionis Custodes", it attracts masses of young Catholics, with an average age of around 21.
The French authorities support the pilgrimage, including with mounted police. C-News, a French television channel, ran several reports on the pilgrims, including a live broadcast of the mass.
Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, the organiser, writes that these broadcasts have reached hundreds of thousands of French people. The Bishop of Nanterre, Mgr. Matthieu Rougé, welcomed the pilgrims and accompanied them as they passed through his diocese.
Cardinal Müller will celebrate the final Mass of the pilgrimage at Chartres Cathedral tomorrow. Below are pictures and videos of this year's pilgrimage, all published by Notre-Dame de Chrétienté.
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