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Christmas warning

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Archbishop Gänswein warns of a "soulless Christmas"

Archbishop Gänswein warns of a "soulless Christmas"
The former Papal secretary reveals what is particularly important to him besides the church services during the holiday
Archbishop Georg Gänswein has warned of a loss of the Christian core of Christmas. In an interview with the German Catholic News Agency (KNA), the long-time secretary of Pope Benedict XVI and current nuncio to Lithuania said: "The religious aspect is increasingly being sidelined. The actual Christmas story—the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God—is fading into the background." Christmas is being undermined, and the festival is losing its soul.
Gänswein said that he is particularly moved by the spiritual dimension of the holidays: "The solemn liturgy of the Christmas days, especially the celebration of Midnight Mass." The liturgy opens the heart and speaks to the senses. "It unlocks the Christmas message in a unique way."
His personal perspective on the festival has changed over the course of his life: "My perspective …

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Quote: "The religious aspect is increasingly being sidelined. The actual Christmas story—the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God—is fading into the background." Christmas is being undermined, and the festival is losing its soul." News flash! This has been going on for quite awhile now. Even back to the 1950s here in the U.S. there has been a thoroughly secular consumerist X-mas of Santa, Jingle Bells, cookies, expensive presents, and holiday movies & TV specials. The "War on Christmas" is very real despite what liberal, multiculturalist elites tell you to debunk it.

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Truth comes out now

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Archbishop Gänswein finally speaks out about his shabby treatment by a vindictive Pope Francis. "The centrality of Christ has forcefully returned to the forefront of the homilies and words of the universal pastor of the Church."

Vatican, Monsignor Georg Gänswein speaks: "My truth about three Popes"
From Benedict XVI to Leo XIV, passing through Francis. Ratzinger's former secretary and right-hand man, "expelled" from the Vatican by Bergoglio, reveals secrets of the Holy See: from unauthorized recordings to prophecies that later came true.
It's almost surreal to meet Monsignor Georg Gänswein in a small room reserved just for the two of us at Casa Santa Marta, the place where Pope Francis lived—and died—for twelve years. The former secretary and right-hand man of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and then Benedict XVI was misunderstood, badly expelled from the Vatican, and perhaps even a little vilified. In this sort of hotel, renovated under Wojtyla to accommodate cardinals during conclaves, in the final years of the Bergoglian era, Msgr. Gänswein was considered an enemy, and therefore an unwelcome guest. Yet today, the current Apostolic Nuncio to the Baltic Republics is serene and smiling, as if that anguished period …

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Boanerges Boanerges

This is a STRAW-MAN a non-topic that serves to distract from Prevost's wolves wrecking the Church and sending souls straight to Hell. And at the end of course promo of Prevost himself by a prelate who pretends to care about orthodoxy and yet no mention of horrors and abominations coming from Rome for the past 12 years. Disgusting!

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Its definitely a fight

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Open warfare breaks out between Silere non Possum and Andrea Grillo

See the blogs 5/7/12 December on Silere non possum
Grillo hit back!
Grillo and Pocher, modernist super-heroes
OPEN LETTER. Women and the Diaconate: Solidarity with Linda Pocher by Andrea Grillo
Published on December 7, 2025, in the blog: Come se non
We are publishing this Open Letter of solidarity with Linda Pocher on the style of communication within the Church. The text of the Letter is also published by SettimanaNews magazine (here).
When one lacks effective arguments in public debate, one discredits the person with whom one disagrees – this is the tone with which Silere non possum attacked Professor Sister Linda Pocher after her interview with Repubblica regarding the recent publication of the Vatican Study Commission's document on women's access to the diaconate.
This is a worldly, and even violent, instrument that is ill-suited to those who claim to defend the essence of the sacrament of Holy Orders within the Catholic Church.
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The unjustified gratuitousness of this personal …

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Father Karl A Claver

In the Roman Catholic Church, the only one who follows tradition, there will NEVER be female deacons.

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Father Grinch

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Bishop supports priest canceling Christmas and anything to do with the great Feast of the Incarnation.

Bishop supports priest canceling Christmas and anything to do with the great Feast of the Incarnation.
In Avrechy, a small village in the Oise region, the Christmas liturgy has disappeared from the calendar due to a municipal conflict. When an electoral battle is enough to silence Christmas Mass, the entire place of the sacred in our society is called into question.
The affair erupted this past weekend in November in Avrechy, in the Oise region. The village priest decided to cancel the nativity scene, the festivities, and especially the Christmas Mass, stating that he wanted to prevent a religious celebration from becoming the subject of a purely political battle between two candidates in the municipal elections. Le Parisien specifies that the long-time organizer of the parish festivities is now the main opponent of the incumbent mayor and that both are engaged in a particularly tense local campaign. To distance himself from this confrontation, the priest has chosen to cancel all …

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Any excuse. By the way, this has been tried before; it never succeeded. "Those who do not know their history..."

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The affair erupted this past weekend in November in Avrechy, in the Oise region. The village priest decided to cancel the nativity scene, the festivities, and especially the Christmas Mass, stating that he wanted to prevent a religious celebration from becoming the subject of a purely political battle between two candidates in the municipal elections. Le Parisien specifies that the long-time organizer of the parish festivities is now the main opponent of the incumbent mayor and that both are engaged in a particularly tense local campaign. To distance himself from this confrontation, the priest has chosen to cancel all Christmas-related events.

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Bye bye

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Modernists think they will have to wait until Judgement Day before women are ordained and threaten to leave the Church

Catholic Women's Association criticizes report on women's ordination
"Waiting Until Judgment Day"

The Vatican's final report on the female diaconate is causing frustration in Germany. The Catholic Women's Association of Germany (kfd) has also reacted with disappointment. Why many women no longer accept the constant postponements.
The Catholic Women's Association of Germany (kfd) has expressed its disappointment with the final report on the female diaconate published on Thursday by the theological commission appointed by Pope Francis. In a statement released on Friday, kfd Vice President Ulrike Göken-Huismann predicted: "The final report will lead to a further exodus of Catholic women from the Church."
On the left!
The document left open the possibility of admitting women to the sacramental diaconate, but declared further theological and pastoral exploration necessary. Göken-Huismann stated: "We believe that everything theologically necessary and important on this topic has already been …

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Not on Judgement Day. Then, they get something else...

Father Karl A Claver

The devil tempted Eve, and she fell for his lies and tricks. These radical nuns are following Eve and have deserted God.

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They are losing

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Militantly modernist German Catholic laity angry to discover their power and influence slowly draining away under new Pontificate. No to female deacons!

German lay people criticize Vatican decision on women's ordination
"Missed Opportunity"
Recently elected for a second term. She has a habit of crying if she does not get her way
"Second-Class People?" Irme Stetter-Karp, President of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), and a reform group see the Vatican's decision against the diaconate for women as a fatal signal. What consequences do they fear for engagement in the Church?
Catholic lay representatives and the reform group "We Are Church" have reacted with irritation and criticism to the Vatican commission's decision on the diaconate for women, calling it a "missed opportunity."
... That the commission, "in the light of Holy Scripture, Tradition, and the Church's Magisterium," considers a "no" to the ordination of women deacons appropriate is "a message of stagnation," said Irme Stetter-Karp, President of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), on Thursday in Berlin. "The future cannot begin with this stagnation." …

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So schreiben die englischen Blogs über die deutsche Kirche: "Militante modernistische deutsche katholische Laien sind wütend darüber, dass ihre Macht und ihr Einfluss unter dem neuen Pontifikat langsam schwinden."

Father Karl A Claver

There never were female deacons, even though some women did help out in some ways over 1500 years ago. But then, there also were never any female acolytes or lectors. See, it is a brand-new religion that is devil made.

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Free to speak!

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Archbishop Gänswein supports Beatification of Pope Benedict and scrapping of Traditionis Custodes

Archbishop Gänswein supports Beatification of Pope Benedict and scrapping of Traditionis Custodes
"I personally very much hope that such a process will be opened": Archbishop Georg Gänswein desires a beatification process for Benedict XVI. In an interview, he also commented on the pope's theology and the Traditional Latin Mass.
Archbishop Georg Gänswein hopes that a beatification process will be opened for the late Pope Benedict XVI (2005–2013). "I personally very much hope that such a process will be opened," said the former private secretary of Benedict and current Apostolic Nuncio to the Baltic States in an interview with the television station K-TV.
According to the station, Gänswein also emphasized the central element of Benedict's understanding of faith in the interview. A key word in this regard is "joy." For the German pope, faith was both the source and the measure of joy. If faith doesn't lead to joy, "something is still not quite right with the life of faith. Ratzinger, …

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Looking at the future of the so-called Extraordinary Rite ("Old Mass"), Gänswein, according to the broadcaster, advocated overcoming the tensions and discord that arose within the Church after Pope Francis's Apostolic Exhortation "Traditionis Custodes" by returning to the line of Benedict XVI: "I consider Pope Benedict's wise arrangement to be the right way—and this path should be continued without difficulty, without restrictions." He could only hope that Pope Leo XIV would continue to resolve this thorny issue in this way.

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Enough is enough from these wretched people

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Bishop leads cabal of modernist priests praising depraved blasphemy. Our Lady as a bearded man and more.

The Vienna Artists Collective is staging a Christmas Exhibition in Vienna
The exhibition DU SOLLST DIR EIN BILD MACHEN (YOU SHALL MAKE YOURSELF AN IMAGE) explores the imaginative power of religious experience, its visual counterpart in Christian iconography, and its interpretation by contemporary artists. The focus is on works whose creators approach Christian iconography with a critical but also loving, humorous but also feminist eye, enabling new perspectives on pictorial motifs that have been handed down over centuries. In its conception and orientation, the exhibition does not stand for superficial provocation or loud protest, but rather for a differentiated view, a search for common ground and an endeavour to promote a dialogue between contemporary art and religion.
Religion and art are among the essential traits of human beings and deal with fundamental questions: the question of meaning, the world, our existence. Religion makes the unfamiliar familiar, while art often contrasts …

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Bischof Glettler sorgt dafür, dass die österreichische Kirche international als Blasphemie-Unterstützer gesehen wird...

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Enough is enough from these wretched people