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Father Congar [Vatican II peritus], of blessed memory, once said: "There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church". That is the challenge. For a different Church.

- Address of Pope Francis for the Opening of the Synod on Synodality, 09 Oct 2021 (vatican.va)


CULTURE: "O Bone Jesu" polyphony composed by Loyset Compère circa 1500. Performed by i buoni antichi
28 Mar 2024
Source: youtube.com


30 US Dioceses Have Filed for Bankruptcy Since 2004. This amounts to 15% of the total 194 US dioceses. Many dioceses cited the high cost of settling abuse claims as a major factor in the decision to declare bankruptcy.
25 Mar 2024
Source: catholicproject.catholic.edu


Christendom College Announces New President - Dr. George Harne replacing Dr. Timothy O'Donnell
25 Mar 2024
Source: christendom.edu


St. Peter's Basilica Dome is turned off 8:30-9:30pm as part of Earth Hour "to raise awareness and inspire women and men of our time to respect Our Mother Earth and to act against the climate crisis."
23 Mar 2024
Source: press.vatican.va


The Vatican and German Bishops' Conference Issue Joint Statement: The German Bishops agree "to identify concrete ways of exercising Synodality in the Church in Germany, in accordance with the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council." The German Synodal Way (Der Synodale Weg) participants have voted for priestly ordination of women, same-sex blessings, and changes to Church teaching on homosexual acts.
22 Mar 2024
Source: press.vatican.va


Mario Cardinal Grech, General Secretary of the Synod on Synodality, Corriere del Ticino interview : "I don't use terms like revolution. The female diaconate and a different space for women in the Church are a natural deepening of the will of the Lord, they express and demonstrate the dynamism inherent in the history of the Church ...we are not referring to the uniformity of thought. There is unity in the differences ...I always imagine the Church as a rainbow, with colors that do not exclude."
21 Mar 2024
Source: cdt.ch


French news outlet TF1Info reports Fr. Matthieu Raffray (from the Institute of the Good Shepherd) is being investigated for "comparing homosexuality to a 'weakness' and to some of the seven deadly sins. Above all, he goes on to believe that it is possible to 'fight' against these sins by pushing back one's inner 'demon'. Indirect promotion of conversion therapy."
20 Mar 2024
Source: tf1info.fr


Mass of the Ages Part 3 "Guardians of Tradition" Released
19 Mar 2024
Source: youtube.com


LGBTQ+ Advocate Fr. James Martin, SJ tweets that he is "deeply honored" to meet Pro-Abortion US President Joe Biden
17 Mar 2024
Source: twitter.com


The USCCB announced recently that it will require a pastoral note on antisemitism to be placed in worship aids and pew missals ahead of all Good Friday passion narratives, beginning this year. "The crimes during the Passion of Christ cannot be attributed, in either preaching or catechesis, indiscriminately to all Jews of that time, nor to Jews today."
16 Mar 2024
Source: bible.usccb.org


The Synod on Synodality organizers have formed ten working groups to address specific topics resulting from the Oct 2023 Synod -including the controversial topics of women deacons and welcoming the LGBTQ+ community
14 Mar 2024
Source: usccb.org


Pope Francis Autobiographical Memoires "Life: My Story Through History" scheduled to be released 19 Mar 2024. An advance review at Corriere della Sera reports that in the book, the pope says, "Homosexual marriage is not possible, but civil unions are: It is right that these people who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else."
14 Mar 2024
Source: corriere.it


Timothy Cardinal Dolan celebrates the beginning of Ramadan, says Muslims are "a good example to us on our Lenten journey."
11 Mar 2024
Source: twitter.com


Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke announces nine-month, worldwide novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe for the Church and against forces of evil. The novena begins 12 Mar 2024.
10 Mar 2024
Source: novena.cardinalburke.com


The Coptic Orthodox Church March 2024 Synod reaffirms its rejection of any type of same-sex relations and also suspends dialogue with the Catholic Church -ostensibly in response to Fiducia Supplicans, the Dec 2023 Declaration issued by the Dicastery for Doctrine of the Faith and signed by Pope Francis which explicitly sanctions the blessing of same-sex couples.
07 Mar 2024
Source: ocpsociety.org


Professed Catholic, US President Joe Biden Unconditional Support for Legalized Abortion in his 2024 State of the Union Address: "If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose I promise you: I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again."
07 Mar 2024
Source: whitehouse.gov


Joseph Cardinal Tobin participates in Catholic-Orthodox meeting: The Pastoral Care of Mixed Marriages: Neither Yours nor Mine—but Ours, calling for the Catholic Church to allow "divorced and remarried Catholic parties, in mixed marriages with Orthodox Christians, eucharistic participation in the Catholic Church"
05 Mar 2024
Source: usccb.org


France "Eldest Daughter of the Church" enshrines abortion as a constitutional right, the first nation in the world to do so. Following the vote, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was lit up in celebration, with the message: "Mon corps mon choix" (My Body My Choice).
04 Mar 2024
Source: bbc.com


Church Militant ceased operations March 2024 following a $500,000 defamation judgment against it. In 2023, Michael Voris who founded Church Militant resigned from from his position as CEO over a "morality violation".
02 Mar 2024
Source: catholicnewsagency.com


Papal Household Preacher, Raniero Cardinal Cantalamessa: "Were [the great 'I AM' words of Jesus -John 8:58] really pronounced by Jesus, or are they due to the later reflection of the Evangelist, like many parts of the Fourth Gospel? The answer that practically all exegetes today would give to this question is the second one ...If, due to some unlikely new discovery, we would come to know that the sentence was in fact historically pronounced by the earthly Jesus, this would not prove it is true."
01 Mar 2024
Source: cantalamessa.org


Pope Francis on 29 Feb 2024, met with Fr. Andrzej Komorowski, Superior General of the FSSP accompanied by Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad
01 Mar 2024
Source: fssp.org


Anonymous Cardinal "Demos II": The Vatican Tomorrow - A Profile of the Next Pope
29 Feb 2024
Source: newdailycompass.com


Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church Leads Plenary Meeting of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission to discuss Fiducia Supplicans which proposes forms of blessing same-sex unions. The members of the Commission "were unanimous that this innovation reflected a sharp departure from Christian moral teaching."
20 Feb 2024
Source: patriarchia.ru


The Synod on Synodality will host a World Meeting of Parish Priests 28 Apr to 2 May, 2024 at the Fraterna Domus, Sacrofano, Italy. The purpose is "a worldwide meeting of listening, prayer and discernment". Bishops were asked to consider the following: (1) preference to parish priests who have significant experience in the perspective of a synodal Church (2) favor a certain variety of pastoral contexts of origin (rural, urban, specific socio-cultural contexts)
03 Feb 2024
Source: synod.va


Víctor Manuel Cardinal Fernández, Perfect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, in 1998 authored "La pasión mística: espiritualidad y sensualidad" (Mystical passion: spirituality and sensuality) which includes in-depth spiritual reflection on human sexuality and the meaning of orgasms. The out-of-print book was recently discovered.
08 Jan 2024
Source: ia601300.us.archive.org



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