Vatican grants plenary indulgence for St. Thomas Aquinas jubilee celebrations
The lunette of a side door depicting St. Thomas Aquinas, detail of the facade of the Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. / Credit: Zvonimir Atletic/Shutterstock Vatican City, Jul 15, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). The Vatican is granting a plenary indulgence to anyone who participates in the two years of jubilee celebrations […]
7th Sunday after Pentecost: Christ’s Soldier Slaves
Our task this week is to dive into the first reading for Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the Epistle, this week from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. I am always blathering on about context and my context right now is that I am on a driving trip with limited resources, a ticking clock and […]
German EU politician Christine Anderson to sue YouTube for censoring COVID videos
‘YouTube has not yet complied with my requests to provide a definition of the so-called ‘medical misinformation’ as well as to comment in more detail on the blockings.’Read More
Pope Francis Confirms Shanghai Bishop Appointed in Violation of Vatican-China Deal
Freshstock The Holy See first entered into a provisional two-year agreement with Beijing on the appointment of bishops in 2018, which was renewed in 2020 and again in 2022. Pope Francis formally confirmed Bishop Shen Bin for the Shanghai post on July 15.
‘Faith of Our Fathers’: Irish Catholics’ Heroism in the 17th and 18th Centuries
‘Faith of Our Fathers’ still TV Picks 07.16.23: EWTN to air St. Brigid Media and EWTN Ireland production.
UN Report Calls on Governments to Adopt LGBT Agenda
“The report calls on governments to threaten and punish religious leaders and organizations that do not comply with LGBT orthodoxy, and, in a novel and unprecedented way, it calls on government to destabilize religions from within by supporting pro-LGBT factions within religious denominations.” Victor Madrigal Borloz, a Costa Rican lawyer and independent UN expert on […]
Vatican: No Violation of Confession in the Orlandi Case
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, that the Office of the Vatican Prosecutor “is actively cooperating with the relevant Italian authorities” and that he had provided the documents available for the reopened Orlandi investigation. Among the documents given to the prosecutors of Rome are letters exchanged a few months after the […]
The Purple Thorn in Israel’s Foot
Pierbattista Pizzaballa will be created cardinal at the next ordinary public consistory to be held in the Vatican on September 30, 2023. “It was a big surprise for me,” he said in the wake of the July 9 papal announcement. Among his predecessors – and since the re-establishment of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in […]
A medida que aumenta la mortalidad materna en los EE.UU., líderes pro-vida piden una ‘Ley de cuidado para ella’
(Read in English here) WASHINGTON (OSV News) — La propuesta “Care for Her Act” (“Ley de cuidado para ella”) promete proporcionar lo que sugiere su título: apoyo a las mujeres, específicamente a las mujeres embarazadas y con hijos. Los líderes nacionales pro-vida también enfatizan la importancia del proyecto de ley, que legisladores de la Cámara […]
Cardinal Parolin at ordination: A Bishop gives his life for his flock
Cardinal Pietro Parolin confers episcopal ordination on Msgr. Gian Luca Perici, appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia and Malawi last month by Pope Francis, and in his homily notes that the bishop is to be a ‘watchman’ who keeps unity and hope alive among the people entrusted to him. Read all