In a July 6 InfoVaticana.com opinion piece ("Tribune"), Pedro Gómez Carrizo argues that decades of doctrinal and disciplinary drift have hollowed out the Church's authority. He writes that Leo XIV demands obedience from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X. after years of treating other disputes as negotiable, contextual, or exempt. Leo XIV' Priorities Exposed Rome has tolerated what Carrizo considers far more serious ruptures than the episcopal consecration of the FSSPX: - Germany's Synodal Way, which has drifted toward schism without consequence. - Episcopal appointments negotiated with China's Communist Party. - Blessings of homosexual couples. - Liturgical experimentation. - Synodality, which has repackaged old heresies as "innovation". The willingness to make exceptions in many controversial areas while drawing an absolute line at Écône, Carrizo contends, exposes the pope’s priorities rather than his strength. "The Signature Is Tucho's; the Failure Is Leo XIV's" Carrizo portrays …barrachd
History of the Papacy and Roman curia a been a reflection of St Peter personality and worse at times . Difference St Peter probably the greatest repentant sinner in Church history. Cried so much that his tears made a imprint
U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch has described an informal Independence Day dinner he hosted for Pope Leo XIV at his residence in Rome. Speaking with Italian media, Burch said the pope arrived at 7:30 p.m. on July 4, prayed with the ambassador's family, and shared a meal featuring American charcuterie, watermelon salad, Chicago-style hot dogs, apple pie, and gelato. Burch said Leo XIV approved of the menu. The pope arrived without aides or secretaries, accompanied only by two Vatican gendarmes. Burch said he invited Leo XIV to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States by hosting the first U.S.-born pope. The invitation was sent about two months before the dinner, and confirmation came about a month later. The ambassador also said Leo XIV still carries a Peruvian credit card, uses a cellphone, follows the Chicago White Sox, and sometimes wakes during the night to check soccer scores. The dinner took place the same day Leo XIV visited Lampedusa. Burch said the pope rejected …barrachd
But no time to meet with SSPX Bishops who have 700,000 Catholics, 700 Priests and 300 Seminaries in their care, who have been repeatedly been asking for an audience to discuss their very valid concerns about the spiritual needs of their flock.
one very good thing about Mu lims, you don't see them running around half naked, and they aren't pushing the LGBTQRS agenda, nor are they evidnt in Prid3e parades.
On July 6, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told K-TV.org that FSSPX confessions are illicit but valid. Now he has repeated his disagreement with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Its explanatory note from July 2 had claimed that confessions heard by FSSPX priests are "invalid." "The note from the Dicastery, which appears only as explanatory notes, is unclear," Cardinal Müller told Andreas Wailzer on X.com on July 8. He added: "The authority to forgive sins is conferred by Christ Himself in the sacrament of Holy Orders. It is not conferred by the Pope through his primacy of jurisdiction. Orthodox priests, too, validly grant absolution." Müller continued: "The Pope can only prohibit the exercise of this authority. He can also reserve certain sins for his own absolution. One example is the sin against the unity of the Church, committed through an unauthorized episcopal consecration." #newsMpjletlqsm
Tibetan Rituals in a U.S. Church. Worse than Germany: On Monday, more than 60 Tibetans gathered at Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley, Massachusetts, to celebrate the Dalai Lama's 91st birthday and mark the conclusion of the "Year of Compassion," an initiative of the Central Tibetan Administration. The event opened with a ritual in which participants chanted "Om" three times and tossed tsampa (barley flour) into the air. Attendees also made mandala offerings by bowing and placing a white ceremonial scarf before a photo of the Dalai Lama. The celebration continued with speeches, traditional Tibetan songs and dances, and performances by students from a local Tibetan Sunday school.
"Members of the Tibetan community celebrate the Dalai Lama's 91st birthday during the Year of Compassion at Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley", Massachusetts
Anti-Christian attacks in Israel are reportedly rising sharply. According to the Religious Freedom Data Center, documented incidents nearly doubled in the second quarter of 2026, with most occurring in Jerusalem. Reported cases include spitting, physical assaults, threats, and harassment of priests, religious, and pilgrims.
Attacks against Christians in Israel double: spitting, assaults, and threats increase in Jerusalem
@HicksonMaike Pope Leo just appointed a bishop to the Diocese of Eichstätt who has been a supporter of the German Syndodal Path, its re-assessment of homosexuality and of female ordination. Not a sign that the pope wishes to correct the current developments in the Church.
Tuesday, July 7 – Saints Cyril and Methodius, Bishops and Confessors – Blessed Odin Barotto, Parish Priest and Provost of Fossano in Piedmont, Franciscan Tertiary
Leo’s ‘Gayification’ of the Church + Chicago Cardinal Cupich’s Memorial to Suicide Why would anyone want to heed anything Prevost says after listening to this claptrap? Will Gpd give us rest and end Prevost's miserable existence?
A number of faithful Catholics were, to say the least, surprised to hear a simple priest deliver the sermon at the episcopal consecrations in Écône on July 1, 2026. It may be objected that this is a logical consequence of the position of the Society of Saint Pius X, which maintains that it does not possess ordinary jurisdiction over the faithful. Yet this explanation raises a difficulty: does it not tend to minimize the bishop's proper mission, whose first duty is to teach and preach the faith? If one holds that a bishop consecrated under the present circumstances cannot publicly exercise this teaching office, it seems difficult to justify a simple priest exercising it in his stead. According to classical Catholic doctrine, the priest shares in the bishop's ministry, but he is not, properly speaking, a subject of the Magisterium; by divine institution, the bishop remains a member of the teaching Church. The recent history of the Society itself appears to confirm this understanding. At …barrachd
"Apostolic succession is certainly ensured materially through a valid consecration, but the question remains whether episcopal authority is fully manifested when the consecrating bishop no longer appears to exercise the decisive personal judgment" --- Oh, then what about all those poor bishops throughout the Church history, a multitude of them, elected by cathedral chapters? Did they also have "episcopal authority in not-so-full manifestation"?
"A number of faithful Catholics were, to say the least, surprised to hear a simple priest deliver the sermon..." --- Oh, I hear a simple priest delivering a sermon every time I go to the Mass with the sermon so I am not surprised.
From the ancient Maronite village of Deir El Ahmar in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, we witnessed one of the most beautiful moments in the life of the Church: the ordination of a new priest.