On the Feast of Saint Damien of Molokai: Should the State’s flawed justice be mirrored in the Church? This must be asked and the truth written. But ask as well, “Can a leper priest also serve God?”
Rev Gerd Neumeier of the Archdiocese of Bamberg has justified his “Star Wars” service held on April 18 talking to Katholisch.de on May 3. Neumeier emphasized that it was not a Eucharist, but a Liturgy of the Word. The Church’s liturgy is “diverse”, he said: “When people hear the word ‘church service,’ most associate it with the same Mass over and over again, especially in connection with a priest.” The event began with a lightsaber duel between Darth Vader and a Jedi knight. This was followed by the Kyrie, a first reading, Psalm 27, the Hallelujah, and the Gospel account of the temptations of Jesus. According to Neumeier, Star Wars, with its themes of good and evil, light and darkness, is a perfect bridge to an encounter with God. Neumeier announced that the format would be repeated: “Because the first one was received so well, we believe we are moving in a good and sustainable direction.” The Star Wars service is part of the “bookable church services” project of the youth office …More
MARIO CALIGIURI: THE VATICAN AND INTELLIGENCE (2026) “AN AMERICAN IN ROME”: MORLION Prologue The last episode on the “Morlion Case” concluded with the “First Section” of the “Second Chapter”. In it I based myself on the essay by Giacomo Pacini, contained in the book edited by Mario Caligiuri, The Vatican and Intelligence, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2026 (pp. 59-79). Since the material covered in detail by Giacomo Pacini is very vast, I stopped at page 66 of his interesting and well-documented essay. In this “Third Chapter” I continue (in a “Second Section”) to delve deeper into what Pacini explained to us starting from page 66 and arrive at the last page of his essay (p. 79). Finally, I allow myself to add an "Appendix" to this "Third Chapter", based on a conference on Father Morlion held at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, on January 18, 2020, by Dominican Father Riccardo Lufrani (a fellow friar of Father Morlion, who in Rome – from 1944 to 1987 – resided –…More
Two dozen of homosexual vigils are scheduled in Italian dioceses for May and June, reports LaNuovaBq.it on May 8. A record number of twelve Italian bishops are presiding over or attending these "vigils," which aim to "overcome homotransphobia." In 2025, only five bishops participated in similar events. The list for 2026 is as follows: - Bishop Enrico Solmi of Parma, who presided over the "Prayer Vigil to Overcome Fear and Discrimination" on May 5; - Bishop Antonio Napolioni of Cremona, who presided over a vigil at the Church of San Giuseppe (Cambonino) on May 8; - Bishop Claudio Cipolla of Padua, who will participate in the rainbow vigil on May 15 at the Church of St. Bartholomew the Apostle in Padua; - Bishop Nicolò Anselmi of Rimini, on May 17; - The Archbishop of Florence, Gherardo Gambelli, who will preside over the diocesan vigil on May 21 at the Maria Ausiliatrice parish in Novoli; - The Bishop of Modena, Erio Castellucci, on May 21; - The Bishop of Savona, Calogero Marino, on …More
Ambrosiaster (Catena Bible Romans1) AD 400 Those who knew by the law of nature that God requires righteousness realized that these things were displeasing to God, but they did not want to think about it, because those who do such things are worthy of death, and not only those who do them but those who allow them to be done, for consent is participation. Their wickedness is double, for those who do such things but prevent others are not so bad, because they realize that these things are evil and do not justify them. But the worst people are those who do these things and approve of others doing them as well, not fearing God but desiring the increase of evil. They do not seek to justify them either, but in their case it is because they want to persuade people that there is nothing wrong in doing them. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles
Say No to Labour’s ‘Summer of Sex’. The Labour Party is attempting a radical transformation and degradation of our society’s foundational values. How? Through a new initiative, they are calling the ‘Summer of Sex’. Related:BBC'S TRANSGENDER PROPAGANDA Labour MP Samantha Niblett recently launched her “lifelong learning” project with the backing of adult entertainment and adult “toy” industries. This project aims to radically overhaul education and reshape public discourse around intimacy. See also: 1. SIX YEARS WITH MILES CHRISTI. - 2. THREE YEARS WITH “SUPER OMNIA VERITAS”. Niblett’s main partner and advisor in the campaign is ‘sex educator’ and pornography site owner Cindy Gallop, who publicly boasts about enjoying hardcore adult content and believes that children as young as 8 should be taught the ‘joys of sexual pleasure’. Their plan is alarming: to expose people of all ages to adult content in a ‘positive way’ and teach how people how to derive pleasure from their own …More
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira A talk at the Carmelite Congress in São Paulo, Brazil, November 1958 Salvador - Bahia (Brazil) There is a conception of the Universe that regards God as its exemplary cause, as an infinitely beautiful Being reflected in a thousand ways in all the other beings He created, so that no being exists which in one way or another is not a reflection of the uncreated beauty of God. The divine Beauty is reflected above all in the hierarchical and harmonic ensemble of all these beings. In a certain sense, then, there is no better way to know the infinite and uncreated beauty of God than by examining the finite and created beauty of the Universe. Let us consider, for example, the beauty of the sea. One of the first elements of the sea's grandeur is its unity. The oceans of the Earth flow one into the other and form a mass of water that encompasses the entire globe. Among the most pleasant meditations we can make at any seashore, while filling our gaze with the liquid mass …More
Ontario Catholic trustees have been doing much PR work recently to try to keep their jobs and push back the changes to public education in Ontario. The reforms will come with the passing into law Bill 101, Putting Student Achievement First Act. The reforms have little to do with Catholic education. The new legislation is about how much trustees are paid, fiscal responsibility, the amount of discretionary spending they have, and whether they will still be in charge of the board budget. The law includes limiting the number of trustees in each board to 12, creating new positions of chief executive officer, chief education officer and making high school attendance part of student evaluation. The Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association, OCSTA, has contacted all school board chairs telling them to submit concerns about Bill 101 to the Provincial Regulatory Registry and their local MPPs. OCSTA puts board chairs on notice: "to explore and carefully consider any and all options to maintain …
Allow me to clarify: in nearly twenty years of working for the Church—at the parish and diocesan levels and in an apostolate that has international reach—I have never seen a parish (or diocesan) pastoral plan produce the wide-spread transformative fruit its authors hoped for.
Scary stuff! I'm thankful for her deliverance. God is all powerful and anyone needing help in this kind of situation can reach out through prayer! Don't give up! God bless you!
Vatican Sponsors Subversion of the Faith: The report of the Synod’s study group number 9 attempts to dismiss Catholic teaching on the inherent immorality of homosexual acts "by stigmatizing that teaching as the expression of an obsolete ‘paradigm’ that no longer can be relied upon to communicate God’s will to His people," wrote Rev. Gerald Murray in TheCatholicThing.org: "This Vatican-sponsored destructive subversion must come to an end now."