2023-08-15 21:55
Theme Week "Shift to the Right in Germany" - What Our Society Needs Now (1)Strengthening of the AfD: Is history repeating itself, Professor Großbölting?How dangerous is the shift… Read More
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2023-08-15 20:19
Bishop of the Dance
This is another of the bishops selected by Pope Francis. Bishop Owaldo Enrique Araque Valero, Bishop of Guanare Venezuela. At the Vatican we are thinking about gro… Read More
2023-08-15 15:00
Theme Week "Right-Wing Shift in Germany" - What Our Society Needs Now (2)Stetter-Karp: AfD members must not be allowed to hold lay church officeIrme Stetter Karp is President of the Central… Read More
2023-08-15 11:07
The Synodal Process must succeedHelena Jeppesen-Spuhler openly cites the opportunities and challenges of the Synodal Process. She was a member of the Swiss delegation at the European Assembl… Read More
2023-08-15 10:26
Youth Bishop takes stock of World Youth Day in Lisbon in "Kurier" interview: Portuguese capital "transformed" by young participants, atmosphere of "togethernessThe immense importance of Pope… Read More
2023-08-14 21:36
From 2019- Guy Gilbert: "I've become quite turned on spiritually speaking" - the original is too vivid, so toned downThe famous "priest of the hooligans" was in French-speaking Switzerland t… Read More
2023-08-14 20:52
Pühringer: Religious groundwater level still there in AustriaFormer Upper Austrian governor and now Linz "Pro Oriente" chairman Pühringer in Volksblatt guest commentary on necessar… Read More
2023-08-14 18:46
The Church of Christ the KingIn 1932, after 7 years of planning and design, the Parish of Christ the King was founded and the church was built. The parish vicarage was formed from the… Read More
2023-08-14 16:44
- In the disrespectful reactions to the Synodal Way, Bishop Bertram Meier of Augsburg sees a "chariot mentality" - and the line to ideology crossed. He sees fear as a sign of a lack of… Read More
2023-08-14 16:30
From 2017It was probably one of the strangest evenings in the Suite15 for a long time: where the party people normally spend their nights, things got really sacred on Saturday evening… Read More
2023-08-14 09:11
Jesuit Elías Royón, the Pope's confidant in SpainA member of the Community of Lanceros has provided an interesting piece of information that is going unnoticed. It came as a su… Read More
2023-08-13 17:50
Veronika Bachmann: The term sin does not appear in the "Fall of Man" narrative.The paradise narrative is about becoming human and being human. The Bible provides an incentive to find the bes… Read More
2023-08-13 17:06
The scandal over the improper mural in the Basilica of Pi exposes the concerts of "mákina" music in the same church and paralyzes that of the Church of Sant JaumeUrban art has replace… Read More
2023-08-13 08:40
Civitas: what is this Catholic fundamentalist movement, threatened with dissolution by Gérald Darmanin?Gérald Darmanin has announced the start of proceedings to dissolve Civita… Read More
2023-08-12 20:14
Dance Spectacle with a Message of Tolerance: Religious Aspects of the Zurich Street ParadeWhen about a thousand ravers danced through Zurich's streets for the first time in 1992, society dis… Read More
2023-08-12 20:08
Yet, they are persecuting the Latin Mass Read More
2023-08-12 03:35
The two names that Francis plans to canonize to close the rift in his visit to ArgentinaPreparations and scenarios for the Pope's visit after the October elections. He would frame his journe… Read More
2023-08-11 19:37
From 2019- contacts continue but on 1 September 2022, Christopher Campbell took over as director of Quo vadis?, the Center for Encounter and Vocation of Religious Communities in Vienna doubt… Read More
2023-08-11 19:04
Linz theologian Csiszar expects debates on compulsory celibacy as well in "ORF-Religion aktuell"The women's issue in the Roman Catholic Church will be a topic at the World Synod in Rome next… Read More
2023-08-11 18:47
Strong words, missed opportunitiesWas the World Youth Day in Lisbon already a foretaste of the planned World Synod? The president of the BDKJ (Federation of German Catholic Youth), Stefan Ot… Read More
2023-08-11 15:07
The rainbow flag also flies at World Youth DayWhom may I love? Do I see myself as a man, a woman - or neither? Is marriage the only legitimate form of relationship? These questions also move… Read More
2023-08-11 09:35
Sociologist of religion Polak: We are in the middle of an epochal changeViennese theologian in "Sonntag" interview: "Of course, this also has an effect on religion and faith"According to the… Read More
2023-08-11 09:15
Gänswein is still looking for a job in Freiburg"Am looking for a job"Archbishop Georg Gänswein, who was transferred by the pope, wants to help out where he is needed in the archdio… Read More
2023-08-10 21:50
Bishop Glettler silent on cost of Lenten art eventsThe construction and dismantling of the projects in the three Innsbruck churches alone, including the Lenten cloth with the pig's heart dep… Read More
2023-08-10 17:42
Tück on Tyrolean cross debate: "Topic is not suitable for a culture war".Is it still contemporary in a religiously plural society to erect crosses on mountain peaks or to preserve them?… Read More
2023-08-10 17:28
Church government through Motu ProprioThe publication in recent days of a new Motu Proprio by the Pope invites us to look at these decrees from the Pope's hand with a little hindsight.Since… Read More
2023-08-10 10:57
The new WYD liturgy, apotheosis of the Church of the defeatedThe Parisian faithful to whom Mgr Aupetit, under the pretext of "the start-up of Bon Dieu", has suppressed traditional masses in… Read More
2023-08-10 09:08
The GoGo Mass of the 1960s and 1970s: religious, musical and festive celebrationsLes Alléluias performing in Saguenay in 1965.The revolution in the Catholic Church brought about by th… Read More
2023-08-09 23:07
Veronika Jehle: "With techno I can get into the moment"The Zurich Street Parade on Saturday will be heralded with a raver service in the Wasserkirche - for the second time since 2019. Cathol… Read More
2023-08-09 18:39
Barbie Virgin and Ken Christ crucified provoke controversy in ArgentinaThe figures of these Mattel characters were first manipulated in 2014 by Argentinean artists Emiliano Pool Paolini and… Read More
2023-08-09 18:28
In 1966, just one year after the Second Vatican Council, the Church of Saint Agnes in Berlin was consecrated. The people cried out for Redemption and all they were given we… Read More
2023-08-09 14:30
Shared Tree planting at the Tropical Botanical Garden: "This is a ceremony full of meaning"On 2 August, at the Tropical Botanical Garden of the University of Lisbon, a ceremony took place to… Read More
2023-08-09 13:55
We have fallen from this.To this, a manual of how not to do Eucharistic Adoration; yet the Pope says liturgical abuse is a thing of the past.Like the TV adverts: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME!"The R… Read More
2023-08-09 09:34
Matthew 1615 Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I amDicit illis Jesus : Vos autem, quem me esse dicitis? 16 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the liv… Read More
2023-08-08 23:12
Bishop Glettler, well known to this blog for his taste for modern art in ecclesiastical service has come to the defence of the DJ priest on Instagram. His last public pronouncement was… Read More
2023-08-08 18:08
The Holy See this morning made public a new Motu proprio signed by Pope Francis that directly affects Opus Dei.Pope Francis converts the personal prelatures into "public clerical association… Read More
2023-08-08 15:46
This is a prime example of meeting people where they are, as recommended by the Pope, and leaving them there.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Padre Gui… Read More
2023-08-08 15:11
World Youth Day divides Catholics. While some rave about it and jump back and forth with a "DJ priest" at the end, others see WYD as the display of an inner emotional religion that has nothi… Read More
2023-08-07 21:29
Father Guilherme Peixoto leads in online betting campaignSome photos of the priest by way of introductionHe DJs in a biretta. From the advertising campaign- video belowFather Guil… Read More
2023-08-07 12:50
Pope Francis meanly attacks priests who disagree with his idea of church.In ten years of Pontificate, the Church has undergone a real earthquake. The ministerial priesthood has become Franci… Read More
2023-08-07 11:27
Winfried Aymans, canon lawyer and doctoral supervisor of Gänswein deadHe was one of the most distinguished representatives of his subject and took part in a "filial correction for the s… Read More
2023-08-07 08:24
Liechtenstein laity demand dissolution of the Archbishopric of Vaduz"Almost worse situation than in 1997"The 75th birthday of the controversial Archbishop Wolfgang Haas raises the question o… Read More
2023-08-06 22:11
Youth Bishop looks back on World Youth DayWübbe: The patience of most young people is exhaustedMany young people want reforms in the Church, says Youth Bishop Johannes Wübbe in an… Read More
2023-08-06 18:23
The library was founded by Saint Othmar, founder of the Abbey of St. Gall. During a fire in 937, the Abbey was destroyed, but the library remained intact. The library hall, designed by… Read More
2023-08-06 18:16
The "Heavenly Female Images" and St. Wiborada in the Cathedral of St. Gall (CH)From 23 February to 26 March 2021, the exhibition "Heavenly Female Images" was shown in the Cathedral of St. Ga… Read More
2023-08-06 17:44
Paul Zahner: "Life in a cell is madness - strange and challenging".Franciscan Paul Zahner was locked in the Wiborada cell from 16 to 22 July. He recounts his experience. "It is simply fascin… Read More
2023-08-06 10:48
Theologian: The human being is not the "crown of creation"Not only does Ms Spies go off the deep end in environmental theology but also in Marian theology.Swiss theologian Spies in the "Salz… Read More
2023-08-05 08:45
At the beginning of August, the bells of the church of La Baconnière, in Mayenne, rang for the last time. In France, many other churches are abandoned, destroyed or vandalized.Notre-D… Read More
2023-08-05 07:49
Our Lady of the Snow, Feast of ("Dedicatio Sancta- Maria; ad Nives"), a feast celebrated on 5 August to commemorate the dedication of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline Hill… Read More
2023-08-04 18:28
"The church is not a unitary bloc," says Gregor Podschun, chairman of the BDKJ, with a view to World Youth Day in Lisbon. He is enthusiastic about the diversity and the international encount… Read More
2023-08-04 18:07
From August 13th in St. Joseph in MunsterExhibition on the persecution of homosexuals in a church for the first timeAn exhibition shows how queer people worldwide suffer from state and churc… Read More
2023-08-04 17:31
Munilla signs up to 'make a mess' at WYD: "No one is born in the wrong body"The Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante, José Ignacio Munilla, has taken seriously the invitation of Pope Fra… Read More
2023-08-04 15:52
BDKJ (Federation of German Catholic Youth) : Clerical abuse of power / Auxiliary Bishop Hegge: No-GoFLUHM priestsPriest urges Münster World Youth Day pilgrims to Communion on the tongue… Read More
2023-08-04 14:52
Full interview in English“This started with a crazy idea and here we are.” This is how
Francisco's welcome begins. With the
naturalness with which he has impregnated every… Read More
2023-08-04 14:09
When Jorge Mario Bergoglio began to arrange the office in his own way, he placed a picture of a sleeping St Joseph on a chest of drawers next to his desk. With a few papers underneath. They… Read More
2023-08-04 09:19
Bishop Scheuer: Jägerstätter a role model through "discernment of spirits".Bishop of Linz and former postulator in the beatification process on the 80th anniversary of the death of… Read More
2023-08-04 09:11
Father Lício: Suicide among priests in BrazilSuicide is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon. In the case of priests, several studies indicate that the main risk factors are stress… Read More
2023-08-03 17:52
A new German connection to the Vatican?In Rome they are talking about Operation "Bomb Defusal": Rarely has a high-level meeting in the Vatican been so successfully shielded as the meeting of… Read More
2023-08-03 15:41
Beat the Heat: "Heat Party" of Wiener Linien (the Vienna transport service) cancelled due to cold and rain Under the motto "Beat the Heat", Wiener Linien planned an after-work event at Karls… Read More
2023-08-03 15:33
Colonialism, climate justice and the church: "Many things take too long"International Youth Hearing at WYDAt the "Youth Hearing" during the World Youth Day, the BDKJ dealt with colonialism a… Read More
2023-08-03 08:55
"Inauguration of the north façade, the other three sides of the church remain unfinished".Abuses contaminate it: Brazil's Aparecida shrine halts Rupnik's mosaics for the moment"Rupnik… Read More
2023-08-01 21:54
The Bishop of San Sebastian 'rehabilites' Kakux, the former vicar whom Munilla removed for abuseThe Bishop of San Sebastian has made public the new appointments and some changes in the dioce… Read More
2023-08-01 17:24
Surprise among priests at WYD Spanish Encounter Mass for having communion distributed in bowls of potato chipsCommunion bowls at WYD Mass During the meeting of Spaniards at World Youth… Read More
2023-08-01 16:59
In July, the Diocese of Besançon reported on a national meeting of permanent deacons who work among the working-class held at Merville in the Nord region - the photograph alone shows… Read More
2023-08-01 13:58
Tirol: David LaChapelle shows picture cycle "Jesus is My Homeboy"Exhibition in Seefeld on view with free admission - Bishop Glettler visited show before trip to World Youth Day: "Jesus… Read More
2023-08-01 12:52
2 Maccabees 7The glorious martyrdom of the seven brethren and their mother.1 It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the kin… Read More
2023-07-31 21:26
According to the theologian Benedikt Kranemann, new forms are needed for people to celebrate worship today. "The crisis of the church is also a crisis of liturgy," he said on Monday at… Read More
2023-07-31 18:52
And taking the message to the beach Read More
2023-07-31 17:03
ZdK Vice President criticises priest's warning in the Archdiocese of Cologne"Denunciation has nothing to do with pastoral care"After blessing ceremonies for homosexual couples, the pri… Read More
2023-07-31 16:30
Due to their dignity and vocation derived from baptism and confirmation, lay people have a share in the "general priesthood" and thus in the power of leadership of the church. However, they… Read More
2023-07-31 14:54
Fernando Simón Yarza on the Pope's words and the 'Gaztelueta Case': "His decision could undermine the presumption of innocence".More reactions continue to come in to the Disney docume… Read More
2023-07-31 12:45
There is already talk of a new legal outrage by the Vatican in the 'Gaztelueta case'. As we have been reporting in this medium since the beginning of the case, the strange events continue to… Read More
2023-07-31 08:26
Robert Zollitsch turns 85: Failure to deal with abuse overshadows his workRobert Zollitsch became a bishop late in life. As the Freiburg Abuse Study 2023 showed: During his tenure, he system… Read More
2023-07-30 16:55
Cardinal Woelki reprimands priest after blessing ceremony for loversThe #OutInChurch initiative and the Synodal Path reform dialogue have put dealing with sexual minorities in the Catholic C… Read More
2023-07-30 10:17
Pope Francis is to meet a million young believers next week in Portugal, a deeply Catholic country that has recently become aware of the extent of the problem of paedo-criminality within the… Read More
2023-07-30 09:57
Emeritus theologian from Tübingen, soon to be 75, calls for an end to the "persecution of theologians"All these persecuted theologians have made good livings criticising the Catholic Ch… Read More
2023-07-30 09:41
Why did few young people from Germany register for the World Youth Day in Portugal? Stefan Ottersbach from the BDKJ youth association blames Corona - but not only. An interview on the pressi… Read More
2023-07-30 09:19
Blessing ceremony for rainbow couplesChurch breaks new ground in MettmannMettmann - Premiere in St. Thomas Morus: For the first time, the Catholic parish invited to a blessing service as a s… Read More
2023-07-29 20:22
Sociologist of religion Pollack sceptical about German Synodal PathDemocratisation makes "pre-modern" Christianity far from compatible with today's society - sense of the sacred almost compl… Read More
2023-07-29 19:01
Catholic Women's Movement focuses on "climate justice"Chairwoman Ritter-Grepl opened Kfbö summer study conference at Seggau Castle on the theme "Together. Justice. Shaping" - Dist… Read More
2023-07-29 16:27
"Hope together" is the motto of the visit of the Sovereign Pontiff to Mongolia from August 31 to September 4, 2023. Bergoglio had sent Benedict XVI's second private secretary, Bis… Read More
2023-07-28 21:43
The Pope appoints Gabriel Mestre as the new Archbishop of La PlataHe was in charge of the Diocese of Mar del Plata. His appointment implies an ideological continuity with the outgoing 'Tucho… Read More
2023-07-28 20:33
Paix Liturgique
commemorates two years since the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which
sought, in the middle of summer 2021, to establish a "liturgical health
pass" and wipe the tradition… Read More
2023-07-28 20:22
THE CATRIMANI
MISSION IN BRAZIL, WHERE PRESENCE AND DIALOGUE IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR BAPTISMThe purpose of mission is to save souls. Lost on him.An article from 2018
Corrado
Dalmonego: "T… Read More
2023-07-28 20:06
The AfD (Alternative for Germany Party), which will meet tomorrow in Magdeburg for the federal party conference, is high in the opinion polls, CDU leader Friedrich Merz irritated with statem… Read More
2023-07-28 08:49
Father Olivier de Rubercy, from the Diocese of Versailles, gave an interview at the end of his first year as rector of the French seminary in Rome. He dwells in particular on the declining n… Read More
2023-07-28 08:01
"The firewall against the right is cracking". This analysis by Oliver Wintzek refers not only to politics, but also to the Catholic Church. In his commentary, the theologian warns against a… Read More
2023-07-27 19:47
Confidence after visit of German bishops to VaticanOn Wednesday, there was a surprising meeting of German bishops with top representatives in the Vatican. The topic: reform ideas from German… Read More
2023-07-27 19:25
Novus Horror Missae at the Sanctuary of Furi (Archdiocese of Monreale, PA): "rainbow" Eucharistic adoration... in deference to #desideriodesideraviWe receive this testimony of yet another ad… Read More
2023-07-27 18:11
The Anglican Frere Matthew will take over the leadership of the ecumenical brotherhood of Taizé at the end of the year. How does he see the possibility of welcoming women? What i… Read More
2023-07-27 17:47
After the chronicle of the failure of Traditionis Custodes, two years after the motu proprio adopted in July 2021 resulting from the desire of a certain number of those close to Pope Francis… Read More
2023-07-27 17:37
Daring to set outBishop Dr Georg Bätzing celebrates the anniversary of St Joseph's Church in KoblenzDaring to make a new startCoblenzCourage to experiment, good ideas to inspire people… Read More
2023-07-27 10:06
Worldwide anger at ban on Latin Mass in the Sanctuary of the Patron of Parish PriestsThe Curé of Ars is considered the patron saint of priests. Where he once worked, the Old Mass has… Read More
2023-07-26 19:36
Congratulations from a Zurich Jesuit to the Bishop of ChurFranz-Xaver Hiestand congratulates Bishop Joseph Bonnemain on his 75th birthday. Since he has been bishop, "there is a different, up… Read More
2023-07-26 18:15
In November, the German bishops had agreed during their ad-limina visit with representatives of the Vatican to remain in dialogue via the Synodal Way. A first meeting of this dialogue took p… Read More
2023-07-26 14:38
Episcopal pettiness :Celebration of the Mass in the Sanctuary of Ars.1) Priests who wish to celebrate the Mass or hold confessions must produce a valid CELEBRET and prove their identity… Read More
2023-07-26 14:28
Catholic action on "World Creation Day": radical change neededCatholic lay organisation appeals to responsible persons on the occasion of the worldwide World Day of Creation on 28 July: Away… Read More
2023-07-26 12:14
"If he wants to change something, then he has to start it now"Hoff: Pope sets the pace - pontificate "turns on the last bend"With Víctor Fernández, "room for maneuver" became a… Read More
2023-07-25 20:18
From a 2020 article With these words, the leader of the Catholic Church, responded to Sergio Decuyper, who denounced his paternal uncle and priest of Entre Rios for abuse.The criminal c… Read More
2023-07-25 20:09
Ridiculous: the Church covered up for an abuser priest and now that he is in prison she forbids him to say Mass.Caveat: A left-wing source but fundamentally does not change the realiti… Read More
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