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Leo celebrated a motto used by Freemasons that traces back to the bloody, anti-Catholic French Revolution.
A meditation for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost on the master hidden inside our anxieties, the war within the soul, and Providence during the Church’s Passion.
Female prefects now govern religious orders and help choose bishops. Mallorca stages dance inside the Assumption liturgy while Belgium sends Rome a Pride-marching ambassador.
Italian headline writers have been reaching for the phrase so often that it has become almost tedious. Still, they have seen something many Catholic commentators prefer to soften. A structural change is underway in Rome, and Leo has spent the first fifteen months of his reign making it durable
The following interview (translated from English back into German by AI) was given by me to Niwa Limbu (AdVaticanum), who followed up on my last contribution regarding the papacy.
When the click is no longer enough
Andrea Cionci proposes a brilliant defense of "old-fashioned" activism, through petitions, legal actions, and concrete activism, in contrast to social media chatter that vanishes instantly. It is a passionate appeal for true Catholic resistance that rejects self-withdrawal, useless clicks, grand sacristy pronouncements, and the refuge of passivity disguised as hope. This is Catholic resistance embodied in reality, which, though a minority, triggers unstoppable chain reactions. Until the final victory.
Criticism of the Nuit Blanche celebration in several Paris churches has not ceased following the weekend. The controversy over Barbara Butch's appointment as artistic director has evolved into a broader debate about the use of Catholic temples for cultural activities unrelated to worship.
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.
