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The Pope in Spain Faces Protests from Abuse Victim Associations, and the Jesuits Offer a Unsatisfactory New Explanation for Withholding the Report on De Luca
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The Pope in Spain Faces Protests from Abuse Victim Associations, and the Jesuits Offer a Unsatisfactory New Explanation for Withholding the Report on De Luca
On May 15, 2026, Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas—On the Safeguarding of the Human Person in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter MH). This lengthy document includes 244 paragraphs, about 42,000 words, and 224 footnotes, nearly all referencing Vatican II and the post-conciliar popes.
Its only supernatural purpose is leading people to damnation.
Faithful Straight Clergy Canceled
Priests who appear to lead double lives like Payne know that most bishops are closeted homosexuals who rarely punish gay priests who lead very uncelibate lives or get caught using gay dating apps like Grindr, so they don’t fear repercussions by posting photos of themselves on social media with their lovers at Pride events, gay bars and clubs, and even on vacations with other gay couples.
A critical analysis of the papal visit to Spain and the Valley of the Fallen
Between May 14 and 15, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the first bilateral summit took place between the leaders of what are often considered the two current superpowers, Donald Trump’s United States of America and Xi Jinping’s China. The event evoked the summits of the Cold War, when the opposing pole to the West was embodied by the Soviet Union, but today, although there are some parallels, many circumstances are drastically different.
This case raises a fundamental question: is it better to speak the truth of the Church’s teaching, or to remain silent to avoid accusations and controversy?
A Catholic priest in Spain faces backlash after refusing communion to a man in a same-sex civil union, sparking a debate on Church doctrine.
The Church that once was a sign of contradiction to the world, has been hijacked by men who are Pied Pipers leading souls to hell.
‘The risk to his life is immediate. Any further delay may amount to a death sentence,’ human right activist Reggie Littlejohn warned regarding the ailing Jimmy Lai.
People gather in front of the Chinese Consulate General to protest the unjust conviction of media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai on February 14, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Jimmy Lai is a Hong Kong media entrepreneur who has stood up for the freedom of the Press. He has been held since December 2, 2020 and was convicted for violating Beijing's imposed National Security Law on Hong Kong, which was passed in June 30, 2020. The prosecution retroactively prosecuted him on his activities, which were done prior to June 30, 2020
He wants to put us on our knees but not to pray. Magnificent analysis by Fernando Paz
On our knees, subjected to the prevailing order of the world and its migratory invasion. Thus—says Fernando Paz, from the depths of his faith—the Pope wants to place us, whose Dicastery has even «congratulated the Spanish Government on its economic and social progress» (sic). Yesterday we lamented the absence of criticism from Spanish Catholics regarding the blessings the Pope has granted to the socialist government and its migratory invasion. Here, then, in the vibrant plea of Fernando Paz, we find a clear exception to such pusillanimity.
The journey of Leo XIV has already begun with signs worthy of comment, both from the progressive drift of the Church in Spain and the confusion in the Vatican over Bergoglio’s legacy, the so-called synodality.
Pedro Sánchez hopes a synodalized Pope and a well-managed World Cup will distract from his legal troubles.
There are subjects where our era, which believes itself passionately free, suddenly becomes very authoritarian again. It proclaims that everyone must be able to « be themselves », choose their life, their identity, their body, their narrative, their truth. But let an adult say: « I do not want to be defined by my sexual attractions; I want to work on them, understand them, order them, perhaps see them diminish », and contemporary great liberalism immediately transforms into a prison guard.