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Leo XIV to Lutheran Lay-Bishops: We Have a “Shared Mission in the World”

Today, Leo XIV welcomed the Lutheran State Bishops of Norway in audience.
Referring to the fallen human condition, Leo XIV said it is “all too easy to adopt an attitude of hostility toward those with whom we disagree”.
That is why he seeks – at least with Protestants – “concrete paths of reconciliation and of fraternity”.
Leo XIV recalled Christ’s prayer for the unity of his disciples.
Key phrase: “Grounded in our common Baptism and our shared mission in the world, I pray that we may always grow together in our service to the promotion of peace and justice.”
Picture: Vatican Media, #newsVyggmwuakm

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Ecumenism sounds nice, but it does not work. Much dialogue has produced hardly any converts to Catholicis, while there have been countless apostate Catholics who have become non-Catholic.

SonoftheChurch

Perhaps the Superior General of the FSSPX should have declared himself a “Lutheran Bishop” from Norway, so he could have joined this delegation in Private Audience with Leo. Hmmm? 🤔

ComplicitClergy

Pittsburgh Diocese Hosts Event With Pro-LBGT Jewish Group After Ending Latin Mass

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Pittsburgh Diocese Hosts Event With Pro-LBGT Jewish Group After Ending Latin Mass

Such is the state of the Church, where “all are welcome” to dialogue, except the traditionalists. The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh under Bishop Mark Eckman that just ended its last diocesan traditional Latin Mass (TLM) earlier this month is joining the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to host its inaugural “Catholics, Jews, and Brews” interfaith event for young adults in their 20s and 30s tonight. While a post-conciliar interfaith Catholic-Jewish dialogue-style event is bad enough, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh openly supports LGBT ideology, and its mother organization has even expressed support for abortion, the murder of unborn children. While the August 26 event is nowhere to be found on the diocese’s official website, it’s advertised on the Jewish Federation’s site as “a partnership event between the Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh where we will be embarking on a journey of mutual understanding and relationship building …

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Credo .

"WHY HAVE YOU BLOCKED ME AND REMOVED MY COMMENTS la verdad prevalece"??? Are you the moderator of Gloria.tv? ~~~ It seems I am not the only one you have blocked! ~~~ For me, blocking is a form of unwarranted censorship and a sign of weakness of those who undertake such a measure. 😡

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Rev. Michael Pfleger Cleared of Latest Abuse Allegation

Rev. Michael Pfleger, 77, was reinstated effective August 24 after the Archdiocese of Chicago's Independent Review Board completed its investigation. He is known nationally for his progressive activism.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, 77, said the board, assisted by the Office of Child Protection and outside investigators, concluded there was “no reason to believe” Pfleger was guilty of the allegation. Cupich accepted the recommendation and returned him to ministry at St. Sabina.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times reporting, a woman alleged that Pfleger sexually abused her when she was a girl attending St. Sabina's school sometime between 1993 and 1995. The allegation surfaced this July, and Pfleger was removed from ministry on July 11 while it was investigated.
Rev. Pfleger denied it emphatically from the outset, calling it an “absolute lie.”
Under archdiocesan policy, the allegation was reported to police, and the accuser was offered assistance through the church's Victim Assistance Ministry. …കൂടുതൽ

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Many such accusers are liars….some tell the truth. God, Who judges righteously, knows the innocent and the guilty.

Nuno Alvares

The Broken Statue

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
– Folha de S. Paulo, May 29, 1978 –
This is the fact in its brutality: Brazil has venerated Our Lady as its special patroness for more than two centuries, and this veneration is directed to her under the invocation of the Immaculate Conception of Aparecida.
Our Lady Aparecida!
This exclamation often comes to mind for Brazilians, especially on important occasions. It may be the cry of an afflicted soul addressing God through the intercession of the Mediatrix, who refuses nothing to men and to whom God, in turn, refuses nothing. It may also be the exclamation of a soul unable to contain its joy, pouring out its gratitude at the feet of the Mother, from whom all benefits come to us.
The story of the small, dark terracotta image, with its large blue mantle on which precious stones shine and the Queen of Brazil’s crown on her forehead, would fill books. If conceived as I would imagine them, these books should contain not only the distinguished historical facts …കൂടുതൽ

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Dijon Archbishop Celebrates Funeral for French Freemason — Macron Delivers Speech: François Patriat — an acknowledged Freemason, Senator for Côte-d’Or and president of Macron’s RDPI group in the French Senate — received a Catholic funeral at Notre-Dame de Semur-en-Auxois.
Archbishop Antoine Hérouard of Dijon presided over the funeral. President Emmanuel Macron — who has championed France’s euthanasia legislation — delivered a speech inside the church in tribute to one of his earliest and most faithful political allies: “Every time I turned around, François was there.”

Obsèques de François Patriat à Semur-en-Auxois : la prise de parole du Président Emmanuel Macron. Le président qui vient de signer la loi sur l’euthanasie prend la parole dans l’église.

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“Please don’t go to Ukraine,” one warned. “If you come there as a Colombian, they’ll hug you and then stab you in the back… Don’t believe what the recruiters say, it’s all lies meant to take you to Ukraine and throw you away as cannon fodder.”

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From promises of riches to ‘cannon fodder’: Colombians expose reality of fighting for Ukraine (VIDEO)

The captured foreign fighters told RT they were promised good pay and conditions, only to be left on the front lines without basic supplies or troop rotations Ukraine is increasingly looking abroad to replenish its depleted ranks. Two Colombian fighters recently captured by Russian forces told RT they were lured to Ukraine with promises that bore little resemblance to the reality on the front line. Russian forces steadily liberate settlements in Donbass and elsewhere, leaving Ukraine struggling to sustain frontline units. At home, recruitment has increasingly relied on ‘busification’ – a term for draft officers violently snatching military-age men in public and dragging them into vans bound for draft centers. Videos of these incidents emerge almost daily, fueling public tensions and driving men to evade the draft by any means, including illegally fleeing the country. As manpower shortages worsen, Colombia has emerged as a major source of foreign recruits, targeted through social media …

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Michael Haynes-ൽ നിന്ന് en.news പങ്കിടുന്നു

Preliminary Recourse of FSSPX Rejected: The Vatican’s deadline to respond to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX) regarding its preliminary recourse against the July 2 decree declaring six bishops automatically excommunicated has now passed, notes @Michael Haynes The FSSPX submitted its recourse to the Holy See on July 11. Under canon law, the competent authority had 30 days to respond. With that period now expired without a decision, the FSSPX can proceed to the next stage of its canonical challenge. Canon 1735 provides that when no decision is issued within the prescribed 30 days, the time limit for presenting hierarchical recourse begins to run from the 30th day.

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Leo’s liturgical problem: SSPX and the Latin Mass

VATICAN CITY (Per Mariam) — The return of Pope Leo from his summer vacation serves as a useful moment for both the pontiff and the wider Church to take stock of his pontificate after another year, with a number of key agenda items demanding his early attention. As the motorcade departed the papal villas in Castel Gandolfo on the evening of July 27, Vatican observers began to resume their normal posts as Leo’s return to the Vatican signalled the pope’s return to work. This year he took nearly the full month of July for a personal holiday, and though it was interspersed with some lighter duties and trips to pilgrimage spots, it was overall a period of quiet. No official meetings or audiences were scheduled and it is the longest single block of time that Leo has spent away from work since he was elected – last summer he took two separate and shorter holidays at Castel Gandolfo. Pope Leo XIV in Rimini, August 22, 2026. ©Vatican Media So what happens now? The General Audiences have resumed …

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Andrzej Bogusław Ryfa

ALe ktoś ten hałas robi . . .

Boanerges Boanerges

Much Ado About Nothing

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Chinese Underground Church Consecrated 10 Bishops without Papal Mandate

After the 2018 Sino-Vatican agreement “terrible things happen to Catholics” in the Fujian province, an anonymous Chinese bishop who is unaffiliated with the Chinese state church ‘Patriotic Association’, told Anthony Clark for CatholicWorldReport.com on August 23.
The bishop speaks of a “state of emergency”.
As government influence over the bishops increases, “the integrity of the Catholic faith will suffer.” To “assure the survival of China’s Church,” new bishops have been “secretly consecrated.”
The bishop says the faithful question Rome’s genuine concern for their “spiritual well-being” when the Holy See approves government-selected bishops whom they regard as too reliable to the state.
The number is unknown, but he suggested that “at least ten new bishops” were consecrated for the underground community in the Fujian province.
#newsTzdkbhbakv

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They know it's unfair and they do not care.

Malki Tzedek

Prime the Vatican photocopier for more 'excommunications'. This mess is on the Vatican leadership when they cannot distinguish between a genuine (Spirit-driven?) cry for help from religious in China and elsewhere and attention-seeking exhibitionists and heretics (James Martin, et al anyone?!) who appear to have 'Get out of Orthodoxy free' cards.

Irapuato

"Where Are You Going, USA?": Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s Prophetic Warning & Blueprint
"If souls are saved, everything is saved. Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved." Fulton Sheen expert Dr. Peter Howard joins CatholicTV to share the prophetic blueprint Archbishop Fulton Sheen left for renewing the faith in the USA. Why is Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen more relevant today than ever before? Dr. Peter Howard steps into the living room on This Is the Day to discuss Sheen’s road to beatification and preview the national conference, "America’s Saint: The Catholic Hour is Now" in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Howard explains why Sheen was far more than a 1950s television celebrity reaching 30 million viewers weekly with Life is Worth Living—he was a holy soul whose power to convert hearts came directly from his unbroken promise to make a daily Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament every day of his priesthood. As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, Dr. Howard reflects on Sheen's final prophetic …കൂടുതൽ

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Leo XIV received French billionaire Bernard Arnault and his family privately at Castel Gandolfo on August 25. I.Media wrote that Arnault is participating in financing the Pope’s upcoming trip to France, although no amount was disclosed. Vatican journalist Hendro Munsterman commented on X: “New rules for Vatican correspondents who want to understand what's going on: follow the money.”

Pope Leo XIV received billionaire Bernard Arnault at Castel Gandolfo

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john333

Wolf. Money gets you to meet Chicago Cardinal Bernardine boy don't turn your back on him . Judas loved these rich guys Pachamama potion gone to his head Where your heart is so is your treasure.

la verdad prevalece

Wicked people—obstinate, malicious, and willfully blind—call an apostate who rebels against God "Pope," thereby contributing to this great diabolical deception and helping this impostor continue to murder souls.

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Gay media celebrates Pope Leo XIV’s 4 pro-LGBTQ bishop appointments - LifeSite

Tue Aug 25, 2026 - 6:37 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — A gay news site published an article praising Pope Leo XIV for having “made room for progressive LGBTQ+ voices.” Headlined Pope Leo’s Recent LGBTQ-Friendly Appointments Include Bishop Who Had Drag Queen Speak at Mass, the article draws heavily from a liberal Catholic Substack, Letters from Leo, authored by former Obama staffer Christopher Hale. The article focuses on the installation of four reportedly pro-homosexual and pro-transgender bishops: James Checchio, appointed by Leo in February to head the Archdiocese of New Orleans; Bishop Ramón Bejarano, chosen in December to lead the Diocese of Monterrey, California; Bishop Christian Würtz, selected in by Leo in July 2025 as the new bishop of Eichstätt in Germany; and Baker, Oregon diocese’s Bishop Thomas Hennen, who at age 47 became the youngest bishop to head a diocese. Perhaps the most alarming of the four is Bishop Bejarano. The former San Diego auxiliary bishop famously celebrated…

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Leo XIV Appoints to Vatican Former CIA Analyst - $1.9M CEO of Knights of Columbus

Today, Leo XIV has appointed Patrick Kelly, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, as a member of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life.
Kelly has moved during his career through the U.S. military, congressional intelligence oversight, the State Department.
CIA for Five Years
Kelly worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for five years as an analyst after graduating from Marquette University in 1985.
He subsequently graduated from Marquette Law School, served as a Navy JAG, worked at the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence and Policy Review, and became legislative counsel to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
At the Intelligence Committee, his chief responsibility was the annual Intelligence Authorization Act.
From Washington to Catholic Institutional Leadership
After Kelly's CIA/DOJ/House Intelligence work, he served at the State Department as senior adviser on international religious freedom and was its principal interlocutor with the Holy …കൂടുതൽ

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Robert B

Paragon of "conservative" Catholics.

Frà Alexis Bugnolo

Because Prevost himself joined the CIA while he was at college in Pennsylvania? according to the Hillsdale College newsletter Old Bridge, May, 2025, as I reported.

In Principio

The price of being recognized ~ Isaac Newton ~ Lock yourself in a room and study until you collapse. True brilliance comes from obsession.

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Vatican diplomat calls for end to Ukraine war during Moscow visit: Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday. “Let us be clear, this war must end,” Gallagher said after the talks. He warned that every additional day of fighting creates new victims and makes future reconciliation more difficult. Gallagher said the talks also covered possible paths toward peace and humanitarian issues. It is Gallagher’s first visit to Moscow since 2021.

Vatican's foreign minister to Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov today –– “Let us be clear: this war must end”. And: “The conflict cannot be resolved by military means”

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Saint Teresa de Gesu, Jornet y Ibars - August 26
Also known as
Teresa of Jesus Ibars
Memorial
26 August
Profile
Raised on a farm. Teacher at Lérida. Tried to join the religious life, but was refused. At the suggestion of her spiritual director, she founded the Little Sisters of the Poor at Barbastra on 27 January 1872. The congregation expanded to 58 houses in Teresa’s lifetime.
Born
9 January 1843 at Aytona, Lleida, Spain
Died
26 August 1897 in Liria, Valencia, Spain of natural causes
Venerated
22 January 1957 by Pope Pius XII
Beatified
25 April 1958 by Pope Pius XII
Canonized
27 January 1974 by Pope Paul VI
Patronage
people rejected by religious orders

Saint Teresa Jornet Ibars - August 26
Also known a: Teresa of Jesus Ibars
Teresa Jornet Ibars (9 January 1843 – 26 August 1897), also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Catalan Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly. Ibars was the great-niece of Francisco Palau and a friend and confidante of Saturnino López Novoa. Her dedication to the old and ill was noted and also the work of her sisters in Spain and later abroad.
Her beatification was celebrated under Pope Pius XII on 27 April 1958 in Saint Peter's Basilica while Pope Paul VI later canonized her as a saint in 1974.

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Edie Loughmiller

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Leo XIV: "Novus Ordo Rooted in and Respected the Tradition of Church"

At today’s General Audience, Leo XIV praised the failed liturgical reform after Vatican II.
He quoted extensively from a letter by the future Paul VI, Cardinal Montini, dated October 1962. He wrote that the faithful “cannot and must no longer remain silent and passive”.
No Participation: Novus Ordo Churches Empty
Leo XIV added that “the participation of the faithful cannot be passive”. The Conciliar reform “was intended to allow the liturgy to shine forth”.
He believes there was “the need to make the richness of the biblical texts and prayers more accessible to all the faithful”.
"Necessary" to Revise Liturgy
Furthermore, Leo XIV claims that the liturgy “has always been subject to developments and changes”.
“It is therefore not surprising that the Second Vatican Council too, with the utmost respect for the heritage of tradition, and precisely in order to make it more accessible, considered it necessary to revise the liturgical books.”
According to Leo XIV, “the liturgical reform promoted …കൂടുതൽ

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Wilma Lopez ഇത് പങ്കിടുന്നു

Leo XIV: “A radical reform of the liturgical rites was not in fact necessary in order to make the liturgy more accessible after the Second Vatican Council — a reality that the full, conscious, actual and extraordinarily fruitful participation in the unreformed rites today makes perfectly clear.”

Dr Bobus

The question is wheher "the liturgical reform promoted by Vat II" is rooted (even a little bit) in Vat II. IMHO, no, it is not.

Jeffrey Ade

Saint Louis, King of France, Confessor, Patron Saint of the Franciscan Tertiaries

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Mardi 25 août – Saint Louis, Roi de France, Confesseur, Patron des Tertiaires franciscains

Près de Carthage, saint Louis IX, roi de France et confesseur, illustre par la sainteté de sa vie et l’éclat de ses miracles. Sanctoral Saint Louis, Roi de France, Confesseur, Patron des Tertiaires franciscains Louis IX, devenu roi de France à l’âge de douze ans, par la mort de son père, fut très pieusement élevé par la reine Blanche de Castille, sa mère. Tout le monde connaît la belle parole de cette grande reine: « Mon fils, je vous aime après Dieu plus que toutes choses; cependant, sachez-le bien, j’aimerais mieux vous voir mort que coupable d’un seul péché mortel. » Époux affectueux et père de onze enfants, il fut en même temps un rigoureux ascète. Énergique et vigilant dans l’administration de son royaume, il ne négligeait en rien ses exercices de piété et recevait fréquemment les sacrements ; intrépide au combat et soucieux de son prestige dans les grandes circonstances, il s’épuisait secrètement en jeûnes et en mortifications. La stricte justice, la parfaite loyauté et l’amour …

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His sister ist a Saint, too. St Isabella

Wilma Lopez-ൽ നിന്ന് en.news പങ്കിടുന്നു

Leo XIV “has made room for progressive LGBTQ+ voices in several recent high-profile appointments”, writes the homosexual website Them.us on August 24. The article highlights four recent pro-homosexual appointments of bishops. The examples are:
- James Checchio (New Orleans): he supported homosexual propaganda as bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey.
- Ramón Bejarano (Monterey, California): he presided over homosexual Eucharists as auxiliary bishop in San Diego, including transvestites in the liturgy.
- Christian Würtz (Eichstätt, Germany): he supported “blessings” for homosexuals and changes to biblical teaching on homosexuality.
- Thomas Hennen (Baker, Oregon): he drafted pro-homosexual “pastoral” guidelines.

Pro-homosex media celebrate Leo XIV's bishops' appointments

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Pope Leo XIV’s LGBTQ-Friendly Appointments Include Bishop Invited Drag Queen to Mass

The first American Pope has made room for progressive LGBTQ+ voices in several recent high-profile appointments, per an analysis in the popular Substack Letters from Leo, written by former Obama staffer Christopher Hale. In February, Pope Leo XIV officially appointed Bishop James Checchio as leader of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, per a blogpost from New Ways Ministry, a Catholic outreach organization that “educates and advocates for equity, inclusion, and justice for LGBTQ+ persons.” Checchio had been in line to take over the role informally since September 2025, per EWTN News. Checchio, who had previously led the Metuchen Diocese in New Jersey, made LGBTQ+ outreach a priority with at least two of the 75 parishes under his jurisdiction known to be explicitly LGBTQ+-friendly, according to New Ways Ministry: Sacred Heart Parish in South Plainfield and St. Joseph Parish in Hillsborough. Not only did Checcio support a group for LGBTQ+ Catholics in his diocese, he attended their 2016 …

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john333

LEO lion roams about the world seeking to devour Catholics who believe the Blessed Mother is co redemptrix and Jesus only way to the Father.
Hell angels and Satan choice nominate this guy? Thanks St Gallen Mafia

In Principio

Bishop Schneider ~ Only one category is punished ~ the faithful who pray the Latin Mass.

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mccallansteve

Thank you, dear bishop! Satan hates the true mass more than anything and that's why he attacks it so viciously

Jan Joseph

Correct