The Handbook for Confused Catholics

Editor’s note: adults can sign up for the summer adult Credo Catechism course at the Avila Institute. The high school program starts again next spring semester. -TSF Catholics of a certain age know things about their religion that many — if not most — Catholics today have never been taught. We now have a resource, […]

The Gifts of the Holy Ghost (2): The Gift of Understanding

While the Church and her children celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Ghost during this octave of Pentecost, FSSPX.News offers an opportunity to discover a little better these seven gifts granted by God’s goodness to our souls in order to sanctify them. After discovering why this sanctification bears the name of gift or spirit, let us […]

The Gifts of the Holy Ghost (3): The Gift of Wisdom

While the Church and her children celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Ghost during this octave of Pentecost, FSSPX.News offers an opportunity to discover a little better these seven gifts granted by God’s goodness to our souls in order to sanctify them. After meditating on the gift of understanding, we continue with the gift of […]

Parolin: Vatican needs direct dialogue with China’s authorities

Sabine Kleyboldt (KNA) Rome (KNA) Personalities from the Church and academia have emphasised the importance of relations between the Vatican and China at an international congress. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin emphasised on Tuesday in Rome that a direct dialogue between the Holy See and the Chinese authorities was needed. The Council of Shanghai,… […]

Neo-Modernism & the DDF’s New Apparition Guidelines

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF)—in what has been described as a “crackdown”—recently released new norms for discerning apparitions. Revising a 1978 document on the topic, the updated norms, as a general rule, suspend judgment on the miraculous nature of alleged apparitions—arguably reflecting a neo-Modernist discomfort with the supernatural. Under the […]

Jerusalem Patriarch deplores extent of destruction in Gaza

Gaza/Jerusalem (KNA) According to the Latin Patriarch, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the city of Gaza is partly destroyed beyond recognition. The biggest problems for the civilian population, apart from the ongoing war, are medical care, the hygienic situation and the distribution of humanitarian aid, the Italian religious said on Monday in Jerusalem. He had previously visited […]

Daily Devotional: May 21, 2024

Today is Tuesday, May 21, 2024, The Tuesday in the Octave of Penecost, a first class feast, with the liturgical color of red. In this episode: the meditation, ”The Mighty Wind,” news from FSSPX.News: the Sermon of Bishop Bernard Fellay for the Funeral of Bishop Huonder,  and a Thought of the Day from Archbishop Lefebvre. We’d […]