2023-03-08 21:40
If y’all even THINK the new Mass is just Latin to English watch this https://t.co/KBxioANx9j— Briana Lamb (@BrianaLamb74) March 8, 2023The editorial carnage that the litur… Read More
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2023-03-08 21:27
This is an article from Prensa Obrera, a very left wing newspaper. I reproduce it in full and disagree totally with its conclusions. Only the deluded would think that the modern… Read More
2023-03-08 21:03
Argentine victims of child sexual abuse have been "ignored" by the Pope for 10 yearsThe founders of the NGO "Adultxs por los Derechos de la Infancia" (Adults for Children's Rights), Silvia P… Read More
2023-03-08 11:28
No, we don't want a Church without priestsWe would like to react and oppose the content of a brochure published by nine people from Liège who plead for the abolition of the clergy.The… Read More
2023-03-08 11:05
The bishop continues to defend his "condom pig's heart" in the church, claiming that there is said to be "a lot of positive feedback."In a letter available to kath.net, Diocesan Bishop, Herm… Read More
2023-03-08 10:51
Cardinal Woelki has to go to courtThe Cologne District Court has decided that the Cardinal must testify in court in the process of the dispute with the Axel Springer publishing house.For som… Read More
2023-03-08 10:45
"We are Church", "Parish Priest Initiative", "Laypersons Initiative" and "Priests without Office" will appear together in the future as "Church Reform Austria".The four Catholic associ… Read More
2023-03-07 22:42
"Even with mistakes, your God sees you as great and holy"With a blue cap, colored glasses and a gold chain around his neck, the Bavarian pastor Thomas Eschenbacher stood at the ambo… Read More
2023-03-07 22:23
Father Rupnik's reflection on marriage is still present on the portal of the diocese of Rome, with expressions which, re-interpreted in the light of the sex scandal that has come to light, c… Read More
2023-03-07 22:20
On the altar, dressed in sacred vestments, Marko Rupnik
concelebrates Mass in the Basilica of Santa Prassede in Rome, a few meters from
Santa Maria Maggiore.
Rupnik concelebrates among the… Read More
2023-03-07 21:51
Gaudet Mater EcclesiaWhatever they hoped to achieve, the implementation is long past its intellectual and spiritual sell-by date Read More
2023-03-07 19:16
On the occasion of the forthcoming German edition of Trees van Montfoort's book "Green Theology", Ari Troost had a conversation with the author.Van Montfoort is a Dutch theologian who has lo… Read More
2023-03-07 08:43
"Thou has written well of me, Thomas, what reward will thou have?"
"Nothing but you Lord". Read More
2023-03-05 22:11
The Catholic Church urgently needs further reform, according to the Pope's domestic preacher, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa. In justification, he referred to the "dizzying acceleration" of s… Read More
2023-03-05 20:52
How dare you. Because of this cruel rescript our "rich" community in Kyiv may as well be evicted out of the parish which is struggling enough to return its church building from state… Read More
2023-03-05 18:49
Viennese priest in the "Kurier": "God created man as man and woman. Only in this way can we be in his image."Father Faber is known as God's own lion of societyThe Viennese cathedral pr… Read More
2023-03-05 18:12
A few days before the start of the fifth and final Synodal Assembly, the President of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), Irme Stetter-Karp, has criticised the Vatican's behavio… Read More
2023-03-05 10:40
The duty of radical renewalA youth worker's perspective on the transformation of the Catholic ChurchYoung people in particular, who have grown up in a democratic-pluralistic society, expect… Read More
2023-03-05 09:58
Roman sadnessIt is one thing to be told, and another to see it. I have been saddened by this truth in recent days. Some Roman friends often tell me in and out of confidence about what goes o… Read More
2023-03-05 09:16
Today Cardinal Kasper celebrates his 90th birthday. He was a Professor and Bishop in Germany. Then it was off to the Vatican for him. There, he reports in an interview, there is shaking of h… Read More
2023-03-04 20:48
Munich Archbishop Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a debate on the Church's sexual morality. In the past, theology, preaching and pastoral care often painted a negative picture of human… Read More
2023-03-04 20:27
Mainz abuse study: Cardinal Lehmann made serious mistakesThe study on sexualised violence in the diocese of Mainz attests that the three former bishops Albert Stohr (1935-1961), Hermann Volk… Read More
2023-03-03 09:32
The former Catholic pastoral assistant, Raphaela Holzinger from a parish in Schweinfurt has started her new job as a Protestant pastor in Bad Staffelstein. She had problems with the Catholic… Read More
Feast Of Saint Cunigunde, Empress And Wife Of Saint Henry, Emperor And Patron Of Benedictine Oblates
2023-03-03 09:14
Empress of HeartsOn 3 March, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Saint Cunigunde, wife of Emperor Henry II and founder of the Archbishopric of Bamberg. She died on 3 March 1033 and was ca… Read More
2023-03-02 23:16
In the church reform debate, the former president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), Thomas Sternberg, sharply criticises Rome."I believe that we are currently experie… Read More
2023-03-02 22:35
"Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your… Read More
2023-03-02 22:27
Jan-Heiner Tück (*1967 in Emmerich, Germany) is Professor at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Vienna. Editor of the journal "Communio", freelancer f… Read More
2023-03-02 20:51
JAKOB" co-ordination office reacts to accusation by KAÖ President Kaineder that Bishops have shifted resources to "New Movements" - Against "internal profiling of enemies" within the Ch… Read More
2023-03-02 20:23
The Diocese of San Cristobal, in southern Mexico, will send Pope Francis a proposal to include indigenous Mayan rites such as dance, music and the participation of women in Catholic masses… Read More
2023-03-02 18:39
Petrine? Marian? Administration for women? Bishop Bätzing on Nuncio's speech: "Almost unbearable to listen to".Pope Francis rejects the women's priesthood - and according to Nuncio Eter… Read More
2023-03-02 11:15
"Like the devil responds to holy water"The Vatican also puts a damper on reform ideas for the General Assembly of Bishops. Magdeburg's bishop finds Roman fears of a Synodal Council unfounded… Read More
2023-03-02 10:43
How Annette Jantzen wants to feminise the language of liturgyThe language of the liturgy is patriarchal, she says: This is the opinion of the theologian and women's pastor Annette Jantzen. O… Read More
2023-03-01 22:17
The spring plenary meeting of the German bishops further widens the gap between Rome and the Church in Germany. A commentary.A wise old man experienced a bloodless martyrdom at the Spring Pl… Read More
2023-03-01 21:19
Kaineder: Upgrading synodality vis-à-vis hierarchy in churchThe KAÖ President told German church media: This should be concretised, among other things, in the appointment of bish… Read More
2023-03-01 20:54
Eminences, Distinguished Cardinals,Thank you very much for your valuable letter of January 16, 2023(Prot.N.2825/SdS/2023) that you sent me following a request from some confreres to th… Read More
2023-03-01 18:30
The German Bishops Conference (DBK) has published the letter from its chairman Bishop Georg Bätzing to the Roman Curia, with which he reacted to the Vatican's ban on the planned synodal… Read More
2023-03-01 18:16
The Welsh hymn to be sung at my funeralMy penn'orth I'll offer for a soul in prison, My candle I'll offer in the church in the vale, The Mass I'll pray earnestly, seven times seven, To save… Read More
2023-03-01 18:16
Imagine if a cardinal of the Catholic Church were to publish an article in which he condemned “a theology of eucharistic coherence that multiplies barriers to the grace and gift of the… Read More
2023-03-01 09:53
The Bishop of Aachen, Helmut Dieser, has defended the church blessing of a homosexual carnival prince and princess in his diocese. In response to a question from the "Tagespost", Bishop Helm… Read More
2023-03-01 08:56
Homily by Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki: Eucharistic Celebration at the Spring Plenary Assembly of the German Bishops' Conference in DresdenDear Sisters, dear BrothersNot everyone is born to… Read More
2023-02-28 22:17
Jesuit Batlogg: Potential of the Council not yet exhaustedReligious and theologian calls for patience with Synodal Process in "Kirche bunt" interview - Church "neither a museum nor a Life-Je… Read More
2023-02-28 21:07
Former members of the Catholic Integrated Community criticise Cardinal Reinhard Marx. With his statement that the audit report on the sect only gives tendencies, he disqualifies those affect… Read More
2023-02-28 18:23
There will be having whirling dervishes next. Wait that has already been done. Read More
2023-02-28 17:08
It is almost as if this is a satire account. No safe havens allowed for them, the folks who support the Latin Mass. #BruvverEccles #pontifex. The hypocrisy is stunning.— Cathol… Read More
2023-02-28 08:10
Synodal Council: Letter of the DBK President to RomeLetter of the cardinals had been provoked. Georg Bätzing names the topics of the meeting at the opening press conference of the Germa… Read More
2023-02-28 07:42
Greeting by Archbishop Dr Nikola
Eterović, Apostolic Nuncio to the Spring Plenary Assembly of
the German Bishops' Conference in Dresden on 27 February 2023.
"Remember your leaders… Read More
2023-02-27 21:15
Munich's Cardinal Reinhard Marx will open an exhibition on "Damned Desire" next weekend. The Freising Diocesan Museum will "deal with the tension between sexuality and religion in the mirror… Read More
2023-02-27 20:21
Gabriel’s 41 resolutions: I will keep my rule, even the smallest thing. I will not neglect any of my spiritual exercises. I will shun idleness. I will be punctual. I wil… Read More
2023-02-27 20:06
They have their final meeting coming soon, so their final view on the priesthood will be revealed. I fear the worst.From 2021The controversial "Synodal Path" now addresses the question of wh… Read More
2023-02-27 18:14
"Holy timidity" in investigations against the Church?The actions of the investigators in the abuse scandal at the Archdiocese of Munich show: The Church will also be prosecuted. Nevertheless… Read More
2023-02-27 17:58
"A Critical Situation"The spring conference of the Catholic bishops is dedicated to the Synodal Path reform process. It is entering its final phase - and the tension is great, admits Bishop… Read More
2023-02-27 16:37
Investigators apparently search Cardinal Marx's official residenceIn the Catholic Church abuse scandal, the public prosecutor's office has obtained a search warrant against the Munich Archdi… Read More
2023-02-27 11:40
The Lenten campaign of the Catholic Episcopal relief organisation, Misereor was officially opened on Sunday in Augsburg Cathedral. Under the title "Woman. Power. Change", the focus this year… Read More
2023-02-27 10:54
All local and auxiliary Catholic bishops in Germany and the Apostolic Exarch of the Ukrainians meet regularly in spring and autumn for the Plenary Assembly, the highest body of the German Bi… Read More
2023-02-26 20:26
Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke of Eichstätt felt that some synodal assemblies were like a party conference. Both bishops see more of a mixed conclusion. The Bishops' Conference is also divid… Read More
2023-02-26 12:04
Too much "German special way"Bonn's city deacon Wolfgang Picken resigns his mandate for the Synodal Path. He represents the Priests' Council of the Archdiocese of Cologne in the General Asse… Read More
2023-02-26 09:58
ArtTwoThreeExhibition of the Bochum Association of ArtistsAlready for the third time, members of the Bochum Association of Artists take the opportunity to exhibit current works traditio… Read More
2023-02-26 09:31
Abuse in East Germany: Covered up by church and stateSexualised violence against children and young people in Mecklenburg's Catholic Church during the German Democratic Republic period… Read More
2023-02-25 18:50
The Zanchetta affair (Part 1): the Bishop’s riseThe Zanchetta affair (Part 2): resignation, Archbishop Stanovnik, and a Vatican appointmentThe Zanchetta affair (Part 3): allegations an… Read More
2023-02-25 15:23
Sexual violence in the Church: the investigation against Cardinal Ricard closed due to statute of limitationsThe former Archbishop of Bordeaux had admitted last autumn to "reprehensible" beh… Read More
2023-02-25 13:25
Danger of a "church split"The Maria 1.0 initiative sees the Synodal Way to the Future of the Catholic Church in Germany at an end. One of the main goals of the dialogue, its continuation, ha… Read More
2023-02-25 10:55
Bergoglio has a record that will be almost impossible to surpass: he is the first pope to have proclaimed three of his predecessors saints and to have beatified a fourth. The circumstance is… Read More
2023-02-25 10:14
The Church must march on through time and not float around, Wolfgang Beinert told the Catholic News Agency (KNA). In doing so, it is necessary to recognise the "signs of the times", as calle… Read More
2023-02-25 09:21
After the interview book by Archbishop Georg Gänswein with Saverio Gaeta, which the Mondadori publishing house began to aggressively market immediately after the death of Pope Benedict… Read More
2023-02-24 22:18
The recent rescriptum approved by Francis and the Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Roche, continues to elicit reactions.The new docu… Read More
2023-02-24 21:53
14 July 2022 was a big Feast Day at St Peter's Abbey of Solesmes, a Benedictine abbey on the outskirts of the French city of Le Mans. Not surprisingly, the French celebrate their bank holida… Read More
2023-02-24 18:42
This has not stopped the treachery of Judas being forgiven by modernists. They set up a Shrine to Saint Judas in Linz. From the Golden LegendTHE ELECTION OF ST. MATTHIAS&nbs&hell…Read More
2023-02-24 18:10
The Hymn of First VespersExite Sion filiæ,Regis pudicæ virgines,Christi Coronam cernite,Quam mater ipsa texuit.Horret revulsis crinibusSpinis cruentatum caput:Et vultus ille deco… Read More
2023-02-24 11:35
There can only be one?Pope Francis often emphasises the synodality of the Church - this is countered by the latest papal restriction of the Old Mass, according to liturgical scholar Odenthal… Read More
2023-02-24 11:17
The prelates are taking photographs. As a commenter says, "I am not even Catholic and can see how wrong this is...DISTURBING!!" Read More
Radical Priest Encouraged Rolling Of One Joint After Another During Mass, Claimed God Was An Atheist
2023-02-24 09:40
The controversial priest from Madrid, Enrique de Castro, has died at the age of 80.The news was announced by the parish of San Carlos Borromeo to which he was linked all his life: "After a l… Read More
2023-02-23 22:55
The Lenten season for traditionalist Catholics is starting with a bang. Cardinal Roche, who is in charge of liturgical matters at the Vatican and has never hidden his opposition to the work… Read More
2023-02-23 20:25
The Lenten Hanging in Vienna's Cathedral.Matthew 24 15 When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy… Read More
There Is Something Rotten In The State Of Rome. A Brilliant Interview On Just How Completely Rotten.
2023-02-23 17:03
How serious is the current crisis in the Vatican and the Church and what does it portend for the future?To obtain a clearer idea, I spoke with Father Nicola Bux, a respected theologian and f… Read More
2023-02-23 16:05
"Mary 2.0" warns bishops: Synodal Path could fail fatallyNext week, the German bishops will meet for their spring plenary assembly in Dresden. In an open letter beforehand, "Maria 2.0" has a… Read More
2023-02-23 15:16
He was the youngest of a large family; his parents were noble, but poor. At his birth an elder brother protested against this new charge on the resources of the family with such effect that… Read More
2023-02-23 14:28
The Archbishopric of Seville removes the hideous altar table placed in Santa Clara last weekThe Archbishopric of Seville has announced that it will remove the "controversial" altar table fro… Read More
2023-02-23 12:03
Transparency- now on display in the museum of the Benedictine Monastery of AdmontThe artist Manfred Erjautz made the chasuble of transparent PVC for Hermann Glettler, the current Bishop of t… Read More
2023-02-23 11:39
Works of art in Innsbruck churchesContemporary images of the Passion and sufferingContemporary works of art could be seen in Innsbruck's St. Jacob's Cathedral, the Spitalskirche and St. John… Read More
2023-02-23 10:58
During Lent, works by contemporary artists can be seen in three Innsbruck churches. The magnificent altars are usually covered with purple cloths in order to fast with the eyes as well. The… Read More
2023-02-23 10:30
Precious relics stolen from Gütersloh churchAfter the theft of a relic cross from the church of St. Pancratius in Gütersloh, the police are asking for witnesses. They need to clari… Read More
2023-02-23 09:35
A brief rescriptum ex audiencia Sanctissimi was made public today. This type of document is a decision of the Roman Pontiff communicated orally to an ecclesiastic of the Roman Curia received… Read More
2023-02-22 23:40
Through the Synodal Path, the Church in Germany is distancing itself from the universal Church, which is why they no longer want to go along with it: Four delegates resign their mandate in t… Read More
2023-02-22 23:17
2023-02-22 17:34
There are new accusations against the late Benedict XVI: As Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he had signed a document of his Congregation from 1986 which dealt with… Read More
2023-02-22 17:14
Trial against paedophile ex-priest begins in TraunsteinOn 28 March, the trial against the ex-priest and abuser Peter H. begins at the Traunstein Regional Court. He must appear in person or s… Read More
2023-02-22 14:35
New Vatican document incriminates ex-Pope in Peter H. caseA previously unknown correspondence shows that Joseph Ratzinger, as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, knew abo… Read More
2023-02-22 11:23
The Papacy has a role in the provision of Providence."The Triumph of Divine Providence and Barberini Power" is located in the grand salon of the Palazzo Barberini, in Rome. This paintin… Read More
2023-02-22 10:48
Pope Francis gives a new turn of screw to contain traditionalist communitiesFaced with appeals from dioceses to defend the access of the faithful to the Mass according to the old rite, the P… Read More
2023-02-22 10:31
Liberal Bätzing is new chairman of the Bishops' ConferenceThe Bishop of the Diocese of Limburg, Georg Bätzing, shows humour with his costume at "Mainz remains Mainz". Not everyone… Read More
2023-02-21 23:10
Is this a parody account? On the day, Pope Francis takes further measures to destroy Latin Mass communities. No inclusion, no mercy, heartless.— Catholic Conclave (@cathconc… Read More
2023-02-21 22:26
"Unmerciful": Paul Martone thinks Francis is driving traditional believers out of the ChurchPaul Martone, a priest from Upper Valais, had been commissioned by the then Bishop Norbert Brunner… Read More
2023-02-21 21:51
Erwin Wurm's Lenten Cloth for St. Stephen's Cathedral: Sweater for the High Altar- 2020 ViennaIn addition, several sculptures by the artist in the church interior are intended to provoke ref… Read More
2023-02-21 21:03
Erotic Mass for YouthErotic Church Service- More Sex for the VicarWorld's youngest Cardinal equates faithful homosexual and heterosexual relations Bishop resigns after clashing with his… Read More
2023-02-21 19:39
A Lenten Altar hangingPsalm 129De profundis. A prayer of a sinner, trusting in the mercies of God. The sixth penitential psalm. [1] Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord: Canti… Read More
2023-02-21 14:59
The whole history of the work. In the modern Church, it is not the survival of the fittest but the most modernist.Full credit here to the brilliant Twitter account of Bruvver Ecc… Read More
2023-02-21 14:05
Who can dispense with the regulations of "Traditionis custodes"? Pope Francis makes it clear that only the liturgical dicastery can do so. With the new decree now published, the Vatican can… Read More
2023-02-21 13:25
Rescriptum granted at an Audience with the Holy FatherThe Holy Father, at the Audience granted on 20 February to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the… Read More
2023-02-21 12:13
Well, where can you find something like that? Here a real camel goes to churchNo, this is not papier-mâché: a real camel stands in front of the altar in the Vaterstetten Parish… Read More
2023-02-20 22:31
Father Matthieu Jasseron, known for his relativism and by his nickname of Father TikTok was interviewed at length in La Croix. Father TikTok is known for his vile online parodies of the… Read More
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