Bishop Athanasius Schneider urged Pope Leo XIV to correct Amoris Laetitia, affirming it violates divine law with regard to the sanctity of marriage and the Holy Eucharist.
Tagle also participated in the Pachamama ritual in the Vatican Gardens in 2019 and defended the Vatican-China agreement in 2022.
Leo XIV appoints Cardinal Luis Tagle as new dean of the College of Cardinals. Today, Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, 92, as Dean of the College of Cardinals. He approved the election of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as the new Dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Tagle is Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization. Nicknamed “Chito,” the sentimal prelate is known for singing and crying in public. He has wept during liturgies, promotions and talks. In 2015, Tagle condemned the Church's use of “harsh language” toward homosexual, claiming it had contributed to their alleged isolation. In 2017, he participated in an Easter campaign promoting greater acceptance of marginalized people, including homosexuals. #newsThwhrzspyd
Leo XIV promotes Italian bishop who calls Ramadan “return to God” and “path toward holiness”. Today, Leo XIV appointed Archbishop Giorgio Ferretti of Foggia-Bovino, Italy, additionally as bishop of Lucera-Troia. Ferretti now leads both dioceses, united in persona episcopi, under the same bishop. Such arrangements between neighbouring dioceses sometimes precede a later merger. Born in Genoa in 1967 and ordained in 2004, Ferretti belongs to the Missionary Fraternity of Sant'Egidio, associated with social outreach, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. Francis appointed him Archbishop of Foggia-Bovino in November 2023. Supports big mosque in his city In March 2024, Ferretti wrote to Muslims that Ramadan urges an interior “return to God”. He also described Ramada as a “holy way”. His message opened by greeting “brothers and sisters of the Islamic faith, al-salam alaykum”. As bishop, Ferretti has participated every year in diocesan Caritas meals celebrating the end of Ramadan (pictured). …More
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The parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Raleigh, North Carolina, celebrating on social media its participation in the homosexual Pride march in Durham on October 3. The parish says its homosexual ministry was founded in 1999 and has participated in Durham Pride since the early 2000s. Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama of Raleigh has met this public activity with silence.
Nobel peace prize winner Navi Pillay jokes about sharing award The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has won a Nobel her efforts to promote peace and international law. Subscribe to Guardian News The 85-year-old, who is an ad hoc judge at the international court of justice, received the news while attending the Nuremberg Forum. The forum is an annual gathering of legal scholars, practitioners, policymakers and civil society in Nuremberg, Germany, the location of the trials of Nazi war criminals that helped lay the foundations of international law. The international criminal court said the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Pillay, a former ICC judge, was important recognition for the role of international justice as a cornerstone of peace
Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions nytimes.com/…/trump-international-criminal-court-… U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge. By Edward Wong and Jeanna Smialek Edward Wong reported from Athens, Greece, and Jeanna Smialek reported from Brussels. Both cover diplomacy and international news. Oct. 9, 2026Updated 1:51 p.m. ET The Trump administration announced on Friday that it was imposing severe financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court, its latest effort to cripple the global body that seeks to prosecute those accused of war crimes, genocide and other murderous criminal acts. The new sanctions, unveiled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the State Department, would prohibit transactions with the court after a grace period of six months. Any companies doing business with the court afterward could be subject to punishment …More
Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize nytimes.com/…09/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-na… The choice drew condemnation from Israel over Ms. Pillay’s role leading a U.N. commission that said the country had committed genocide against Palestinians. By Zane Irwin Oct. 9, 2026Updated 1:55 p.m. ET A South African lawyer with a long record in human rights work, including leading a U.N. commission that said Israel had committed genocide, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a decision that drew Israel’s condemnation and underscored the country’s deep isolation on the world stage. The lawyer, Navanethem Pillay, known as Navi, has worked for decades on human rights issues, defending anti-apartheid activists like the future president and Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela. Over the years, she has variously served as a top U.N. official and as a judge on the International Criminal Court and a tribunal investigating genocide in Rwanda. But it was Ms. Pillay’s work last year …More
Canada plans to permanently exclude people with mental illness alone from euthanasia. The expansion was due in March 2027. Justice Minister Sean Fraser cited two reasons: no medical consensus on when mental illness is incurable, and poor access to psychiatric care. However, the Liberals voted against a Conservative bill seeking the same ban. They argued its wording was too broad. Instead, they plan their own bill, combining the ban with a proposal to allow advance euthanasia requests for patients with dementia. Critics accuse the government of using the ban to push through this expansion.
Apparently "died by suicide" is now the politically correct term for "killed himself"
Suicide of a priest: Bernard Card, 73, parish priest of Sainte-Chantal Church in Dijon, France, has committed suicide (pictured left). The Diocese of Dijon announced his “tragic death,” which occurred during the night of October 4–5 at the Sainte-Chantal presbytery. Archbishop Antoine Hérouard (pictured right) described the suicide as “completely unexpected and difficult to understand.” According to reports citing his message to diocesan clergy, Rev. Card had recently been tired and had previously been deeply affected by the suicide of his brother. Ordained in 1981, Rev. Card served the Diocese of Dijon for more than four decades and had been parish priest of Sainte-Chantal since 2019. Despite the suicide, he will be buried at Sainte-Chantal on October 13. His death comes less than two years after another priest of the Diocese of Dijon, Rev. Claude-Marie Millet, also committed suicide. #newsAywayqmkjl
Cardinal notes “changing understandings of gender,” says Church must discern how to change. At Leo XIV's meeting marking ten years of Amoris Laetitia on October 8, Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão delivered a speech on the challenges facing families in Asia. He is the President of the Conference of Bishops of India. Discussing changes in the “identity, nature and composition of the family,” the cardinal observed that “new forms of partnership and cohabitation are emerging, amid changing understandings of gender and relationships in urban settings.” Reflecting on what the Church has learned from its pastoral work, Ferrão declared: “Pastoral work is itself a place of discernment. We don't arrive with ready-made answers. We discern together with families and, in doing so, we learn how the Church herself is being asked to change.” In his conclusion, the cardinal stated that “there is no single stereotype of an ideal family” and asked, “What is the Holy Spirit asking the Church to change – not …More
Leo XIV warns against those who “radicalize” Catholic teaching. Pope Leo XIV spoke during a Eucharist in St. Peter’s Basilica marking the opening of the 2026–2027 academic year for Rome’s Pontifical Universities. He said: “In every age, there is no shortage of false teachers who exploit the religious sentiments of many believers for their own interests, often pushing them to radicalize certain aspects of the teaching they have received at the expense of the whole — the whole, which is Christ and his Gospel.” Leo XIV then invented a Church’s responsibility for both “to safeguard” the revelation but also “to develop, within diverse contexts, a prayerful understanding of it”. #newsCulbilpxew
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as the new Dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Tagle is Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization.
