Leo XIV approved Cardinal Arthur Roche's text against the Traditional Latin Mass, reaffirming Francis' Traditionis Custodes, reports LaRazon.es on August 2. The text was distributed to about 170 cardinals at the January 7 consistory. Key phrase: "This newspaper has been able to confirm that the cardinal distributed the text at the request of Leo XIV and therefore with the Pope's approval of its contents." According to the newspaper, Cardinal Roche and officials from his dicastery drafted the document at the Pope's request. Leo XIV then personally reviewed it. "He did not change a single comma," Vatican sources said, adding that "the distribution of the document to the cardinals was intended to make the new Pope's position on this issue visible." The one-and-a-half-page document defended Traditionis Custodes, describing Tradition as a "living river" rather than a static preservation of past forms. It claimed that the Novus Ordo is fully consistent with authentic Tradition. Picture: Arthur …Bontsi
The Novis Ordo is not at all fully constant with authentic tradition. It was made up by commissioners who hated the Mass and anything sacrificial and theocentric.
Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 "From them will come praise, the sound of people rejoicing." Let us remain in God's love. Matthew 15:1-2, 10-14 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?" Sometimes, people observe actions and words, but not the heart. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
"The Church is, at least in the West, in a time of great difficulty, even of confusion, both at the doctrinal level and at the moral and disciplinary level", Cardinal Robert Sarah told IlFoglio.it on August 2. For Cardinal Sarah, it is "a tragedy, indeed a real and proper sin", that there is "a kind of war" and "fierce conflicts" over the liturgy. Main quote: "No one has authority over the rites, which arise from the centuries-long history of the Church. The rites cannot be arbitrarily abolished, and no one can say that a rite no longer exists from one day to the next." The Cardinal wants to return to Benedict XVI.'s Summorum Pontificum, which allows the Mass in the Roman rite alongside the Novus Ordo: "Over the decades, the holy people of God will be able to choose which form best corresponds to their need for faith, silence and spirituality." He added: "Some excesses on the part of those attached to the extraordinary form are, in part, justified by the dramatic and widespread abuses …Bontsi
Beach Mass During Jesuits' Retreat Worse than Germany: A photograph published by Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference, shows a Mass celebrated on the beach during "100 Pinne – Mare e Bibbia," a Jesuit summer retreat founded in 2010. The programme offers a week-long holiday including daily Eucharists, Bible study, prayer, community life, excursions, time at the beach. The 2026 edition is taking place in Ragusa (Sicily), Briatico (Calabria), Cagliari (Sardinia), and Vlorë (Albania).
Messa celebrata sulla spiaggia nell'ambito di "100 Pinne – Mare e Bibbia", il programma estivo dei gesuiti nato nel 2010, che propone a giovani e adulti una settimana di ritiro spirituale, con studio quotidiano della Bibbia, preghiera, vita comunitaria, escursioni e tempo trascorso al mare.
The retired Catholic priest Rev. Winfried Abel, 87, of the Diocese of Fulda, Germany, has come under criticism after publishing a letter (article's picture) in a local newspaper criticizing comments made by Berlin Archbishop Heiner Koch about the city's homosexual march. The letter was written in the aftermath of the Islamic terrorist attack in Berlin, in which a man drove a van into participants of the annual homosexual march, killing one woman and injuring dozens. Priest Against "Public Glorification of Perversion" Archbishop Koch had described the homosexual march as "a joyful and moving celebration." Rev. Abel replied: "A Catholic bishop therefore calls the parade of shamelessness and the public glorification of perversion a 'joyful and moving celebration'?" He asked: "Have the shepherds of the Church not been entrusted with the prophetic mission of interpreting such events in the light of the Gospel?" While unequivocally condemning the terrorist attack, Rev. Abel argued that Christians …Bontsi
The Prisoner Who Returned to Celebrate the Eucharist On 31 July 2026, Cardinal Ernest Simoni celebrated the Eucharist at the former communist prison camp of Spaç in Albania. There, he spent years imprisoned and subjected to forced labor after his arrest (1963). He remained imprisoned until 1981. In a message for the occasion, Pope Leo XIV wrote that "no prison can separate a person from the love of Christ."
Albanian Cardinal Simoni returns to former prison camp, Spaç, to celebrate a Eucharist there.
"... “China’s transnational repression has become quite well known by now. Still, the willing cooperation of the USCCA with China’s transnational repression is disappointing and troubling,” he said. “It is a shame that a U.S.-based Catholic organization has become part of China’s long-arm repression in the United States.” " La sottolineatura è mia ...................................... USCCA: U.S.-China Catholic Association "The USCCA was founded in 1989 by the Jesuits, the Maryknoll religious movement, and several bishops to inform the American Church and the general public about the needs and circumstances of the Church in China. Today, the organization’s aim is to build fraternal ties between “the Catholic communities on both sides of the Pacific.” However, a source known to LifeSiteNews who chose to remain anonymous told LifeSite that the organization has been promoting voices who support the CCP’s policy of “sinicization” while silencing voices who have spoken out about the …Bontsi
High Altar for Church of FSSP: In September 2025, the stately church of the Immaculate Conception in Lobith, the Netherlands, was already closed. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) acquired the church with the consent of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. Since November, the Mass in the Roman rite has been celebrated there. Dutch priest Paolo D'Angona reports that in recent days, the church received this magnificent high altar from another church that had to be closed.
Fr. Paolo D'Angona: "In recent days, the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Lobith (NL), which was entrusted by the Archdiocese of Utrecht to the FSSP, received this magnificent high altar from another church that had to be closed"
The Antilles Episcopal Conference published a Pastoral Letter on Sexual and Gender Identity on 26 July (full text below). Main quotes. - We must resist narratives that suggest the human person is a self-made project, detached from biological reality or moral order. - The human body is not an accessory to identity. - The confusion of our times - driven by ideologies that detach the body from identity, treat desire as destiny, and blur sexual difference - compels us to offer the light of the Gospel and the wisdom of Christian anthropology. - The body is not a barrier to identity but a revelation of it. It is through our male or female embodiment that our unique personhood and our capacity for relationship are revealed. - It is a scientific fact, not a social construct, that human beings are sexually dimorphic. - Sex, then, is not arbitrarily 'assigned' at birth; it is determined at conception through the presence or absence of the SRY gene. If activated, the gene initiates the development …Bontsi
Elon Musk says that somebody is FUNDING mass NGOs who are facilitating mass illegal immigration and invasion of Europe ELON: "Who is funding these NGOs?" The NGO workers PANICKED when confronted. REPORTER: "You're facilitating illegal immigration — this is a criminal offense!"
Der britische Abgeordnete Chris Philp konfrontiert französische Frauen, die für eine Nichtregierungsorganisation arbeiten, die illegale Migranten bei der Überquerung des Ärmelkanals unterstützt. Sie reagieren sehr verärgert auf ihn und bestehen darauf, dass es ihr Recht sei, sein Land mit illegalen Migranten aus der Dritten Welt zu überschwemmen.
John and the French Revolution August 4 - Memorial of the Holy Curé of Ars In France at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, the French Revolution had replaced God with the Goddess of Reason, the worship of the divine sacraments with the worship of Mother Earth. The streets of France were bloodied by hatred and terror. At this dramatic moment in French history, God chose a simple young man, but one with a pure heart and full of zeal for God and the salvation of souls, to restore peace to the hearts of his children and embrace them in his merciful embrace. John Mary Vianney, born in Dardilly, Lyon on May 8, 1786, became a priest in 1815 at the age of 30. He was sent by the Bishop to the Chaplaincy of Ars, a small village of 230 inhabitants, 35 kilometers from Lyon. When the Holy Curé arrived, the village was isolated and abandoned, and the inhabitants seemed "wild by nature." At his death on August 4, 1859, Ars had long been a destination for pilgrimages from all over …Bontsi
Trump: Die USA können "was immer wir wollen" von der Ukraine nehmen Die USA können von den Vorkommen an Seltenen Erden der Ukraine "so viel nehmen, wie wir wollen", sagte Präsident Donald Trump mit Blick auf ein Abkommen aus dem Jahr 2025. Er fügte hinzu, dass die Gewinne aus dem Abkommen die gesamte amerikanische Hilfe für Kiew seit 2022 letztendlich sogar übersteigen könnten. Trump äußerte diese Bemerkungen in einem Interview mit Real America's Voice, das am Freitag ausgestrahlt wurde. Darin kritisierte er seinen Vorgänger Joe Biden dafür, dass er der Ukraine angeblich 300 Milliarden US-Dollar an militärischer Unterstützung gegeben habe, ohne die Rückzahlung zu sichern. "Er hätte Europa dafür bezahlen lassen können. Doch alles, was sie tun mussten, war zu fragen", sagte Trump und fügte hinzu, dass die europäischen Nationen erst unter seiner Regierung zahlen müssen. Trump sagte nun, die Ukraine habe "sehr reichen, sehr fruchtbaren Boden in Bezug auf seltene Erden. Wir haben einen Vertrag …Bontsi