Catholic World News April 20, 2026 The typical member of the priestly ordination class of 2026 is a 33-year-old cradle Catholic, according to a newly released survey of 334 of the 428 men slated to be ordained to the priesthood in the United States this year. The survey was conducted for the Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and posted on the USCCB’s website. The typical ordinand regularly took part in Eucharistic adoration and prayed the Rosary before entering seminary, according to the survey. 81% of the men were preparing for the diocesan priesthood. 35% of the men attended seminaries in the Midwest, 28% in the Northeast, 19% in the South, 14% in the West, and 5% abroad. 26% of the ordinands are foreign born, with the most typical foreign countries of birth being Vietnam (5%), Mexico (3%), and Colombia (2%). On average, these foreign-born seminarians …
Joe Tippens @JoeTippen Don’t tell Pfizer. Stage 4 Cancer... GONE in 3 Months — Naturally! A 73-year-old woman was told there was no cure. Stage 4. “Nothing we can do,” doctors said.But just 90 days later… her scans showed NO disease detected. What changed? Her son went down the research rabbit hole on X and found my posts on IP6 (Inositol Hexaphosphate), juicing, Mesima mushrooms, and Ivermectin. Here’s what she did : • IP6: 2 scoops, twice a day on an empty stomach • 24 oz carrot juice daily (+ some other juices) • A bit of Mesima mushroom & Olive leaf • 3 immunotherapy sessions (docs said it wouldn’t cure her) • Ivermectin: added as support — we’re seeing more and more remarkable responses when it’s included No chemo. No radiation. No Fenben. And guess what? The cancer disappeared. This isn’t a one-off story. I’ve been receiving multiple reports of stunning cancer reversals using these exact protocols — especially IP6, juicing, and Ivermectin. There are also published studies …More
In June, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X will announce the names of the future bishops to be consecrated on 1 July in Ecône, Switzerland. Father Kevin M. Cusick published this rumour on the Rorate-Caeli blog, referring to an anonymous 'reliable source' who claimed that both Don Davide Pagliarani, the Fraternity's Superior General, and Father John Fullerton, the Fraternity's Superior for the US, had confirmed the information. Picture: FSSPX, #newsFxhhtjsjxz
Cardinal Pizzaballa and the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land have issued a statement expressing profound indignation and unreserved condemnation of the desecration of a statue of Jesus Christ by an Israeli soldier in a Lebanese village, calling it a grave affront to the Christian faith — and linking it to a broader pattern of IDF desecration of Christian symbols in southern Lebanon.
L’Assemblea degli Ordinari Cattolici di Terra Santa ha diffuso un comunicato durissimo dopo la profanazione di un’immagine di Gesù crocifisso in un villaggio del Libano. Il testo parla di un’offesa grave alla fede cristiana e denuncia anche altri episodi contro simboli cristiani nel sud del Paese. I vescovi chiedono misure disciplinari immediate, un’accertata assunzione di responsabilità e garanzie chiare perché fatti simili non si ripetano. La Chiesa di Terra Santa rinnova il suo appello: fermare una guerra che lacera la regione da troppo tempo e scegliere una strada fatta di dialogo, responsabilità, rispetto del sacro e di ogni vita umana. da pagina facebook di SilereNonPossum
Authored by Andrew Korybko, Orban’s “democraticouster” is expected to remove Hungary’s procedural opposition to the EU’s planned €90 billion loan to Ukraine that’ll be financed by members raising common debt. RT published a detailed article about this plan here last December, which was a compromise for financing this loan after the bloc failed to reach a consensus to either outright confiscate some of Russia’s frozen assets for giving to Ukraine or use at least some of them as collateral for a loan to it. Readers can learn more here and here. If everything goes according to plan, and Bloomberg reported that the bloc plans to move swiftly after Hungary held everything up for several months already, then this move risks funding a forever war. Hopes of a military breakthrough along the front or a diplomatic breakthrough in US-mediated talks have yet to materialize, so the pace of Russia’s on-the-ground advance remains glacial, thus meaning that it could take years to achieve …
The Dicastery for Culture and Education announced the participation of several influential figures in contemporary art and culture — including American singer Patti Smith and Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao — in the Holy See Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which will be held May 9 through Nov. 22.
Amid growing controversy over the future of the Valley of the Fallen, Spain’s Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has defended Cardinal José Cobo of Madrid. Bolaños told LaSexta.com that the plan to secularise the religious site was not the cardinal's initiative, but the result of an agreement reached directly with the Vatican. He emphasised that no personal deal had been made with Cobo, who has faced significant pressure from Catholics over the issue. The minister also said that the Vatican is fully committed to transforming the Valley from a monastery into a site of "democratic memory". Addressing divisions within the Catholic Church, Bolaños described it as a 'plural organisation', while criticising more traditional sectors that oppose the transformation and suggesting that they are out of step with 'contemporary society'. He also placed the “re-signification” of the Valley within a broader set of negotiations between the Spanish government and the Church, covering issues …More
Pass this to Muller, Burke, Sarah & Co too... Because it seems they are all trying to convince themselves that whatever they don't want to see and hear, it simply doesn't exist! And here we see that in fact both of them are the same. And because they are the same in what is diametrically opposed to good, they have hated and killed each other since they are what they are. Ein israelischer Soldat enthauptete eine Statue …
Several anonymous cardinals and curial officials told the Substack.com account The Pillar on April 17 that they do not expect any resolution to the question of the Mass in the Roman rite in the near future. Some Catholics had hoped the next extraordinary consistory of cardinals on June 26–27 would address the liturgical issue. Instead, Leo XIV chose to focus on Francis' document Evangelii Gaudium. One Vatican official said that Leo XIV was not very familiar with traditional communities or even the traditional liturgy, and that his primary concern was not liturgy but whether members of those communities accept the Second Vatican Council. As early as June 2025, the best friend of Leo XIV, Alejandro Moral, Prior General of the Augustinians, had already ruled out any return of the older form of the Mass under his pontificate. #newsVdgrmnvwkv
The late great ALAIN DELON’s parents divorced when he was 4yrs old and put him up for adoption - so his answer when asked — “if God exists what would you ask him after your death?” — hits me hard every time.
When a man begins to fast, to pray, to deny himself, it is not heaven that is disturbed—but hell. While I lived in distraction, no one troubled me. But when I knelt—then the blows began. Thoughts like arrows. Doubts like a fog. Bodily weakness. Unexpected quarrels. Temptations precisely where I am weakest. And I understood—it is not an attack because I am weak, but because I have begun. The devil does not attack the dead. He attacks those who have awakened. Fasting is not a diet. Fasting is war— war against the old self. War against the passions that bound me for years. A war in which I fall every day, yet rise again. And every time I say “no” to sin, heaven records a victory the world does not see. I am not afraid of temptations. I would be afraid if they did not exist. For where there is no struggle, there is no growth. When there is no attack, it means the enemy has nothing to lose. But I know he does— because I fast, because I pray, because I desire Christ more than my own comfort. …More
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