Leo XIV has confirmed Cardinal Kurt Koch, 75, as the new President of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). He succeeds Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, 81, who led the foundation for fourteen years. In 2024, ACN supported more than 5,000 projects in about 140 countries, investing roughly €140 million in aid. While Bishop of Basel, Switzerland (1995–2010), Monsignor Koch reflected the generally liberal stance of the Swiss bishops. After Benedict XVI appointed him Prefect of the Dicastery for Christian Unity, Cardinal Koch was seen as close to Ratzinger’s theological vision. Under Francis, Koch aligned with the new tone. In 2013, he called Martin Luther “a seeker of God.” In 2017, he called for a “new understanding” of Martin Luther and praised the secularising Reformation as a “festival of Christ.” In recent years, he has both denounced the impossibility of coexistence between the Roman Rite and the Novus Ordo (2020) and requested (2025) that the Church “open the now-closed door” of the Roman …More
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has appointed Cardinal Kurt Koch as its new President, following confirmation by Pope Leo XIV. He succeeds Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who led the foundation for fourteen years. Koch, born in 1950 in Switzerland, has previously served as Bishop of Basel, Cardinal, and Prefect for the Promotion of Christian Unity. He has long collaborated with ACN’s Swiss and German offices. ACN states that his experience in dialogue and Church leadership will support its mission of assisting persecuted and suffering Christians worldwide.
Home » News » Cardinal Kurt Koch appointed president of ACN – “We are grateful to Pope Leo,” says executive president Regina Lynch Cardinal Koch has been a friend of ACN for many years and brings with him a wealth of experience in the field of ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue. The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has expressed its gratitude to Pope Leo XIV for the appointment of Cardinal Kurt Koch as its new president. Cardinal Kurt Koch Koch, 75, replaces Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who headed the charity for 14 years as its first President since ACN became a pontifical foundation. Cardinal Kurt Koch was born in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1950. He completed his studies in Germany and in Switzerland and was ordained to the priesthood in 1982. In 1995, he was appointed Bishop of Basel, having been consecrated by Pope John Paul II, and made a cardinal by Pope Benedict in 2010. The Cardinal is no stranger to ACN and has closely collaborated with the …
Did You Know? An AI-powered teddy bear was pulled from the shelves after it was recorded telling children how to find and light matches – “hold the matchbook and strum it like a tiny guitar” – and even drifting into sexual roleplay and spanking. FoloToy’s Kumma bear also directed kids to knives and pills. Watchdogs are critically concerned that this isn’t a one-off, and warn that this could be an early warning of the dangers of exposing young people to AI tech in general. The toys are designed to be especially sticky, taking effective tech from social media apps, limiting parental controls, and quietly harvesting kids’ data. What on earth are we doing? It’s Not Just the Kumma Bear Consumer researchers at the Public Interest Research Group tested a range of AI toys, finding the Kumma bear the worst offender. It delivered detailed instructions on striking matches, and started explicit kink talk in extended conversations without first being prompted to do so. FoloToy responded by pausing …
Skip to content President Trump announced on on Thanksgiving that Sarah Beckstrom passed away after the terrorist attack on Wednesday. President Trump made the announcement moments ago. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member who was critically wounded in an ambush-style shooting near the White House on Wednesday. Sarah had volunteered to work that day so others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. Beckstrom suffered a “mortal wound,” and passed away on Thanksgiving Day. “She volunteered to be there on Thanksgiving — working today — she volunteers, as did many of those guardsmen and women so other people could be home with their families,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday. Sarah was killed by an Afghan national who was brought into the US in 2021 by Joe Biden. Our prayers are with Sarah, her family, and all of the brave men and women who protect this great …
27. November 2025 27. November 2025 11/27/2025 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. Truth doesn’t only fall victim to propaganda in times of war. Why does truth seem so abstract to us today? Because our understanding of truth is heavily influenced by our own views, and these are generally shaped by the media we consume. Thus, uncritical viewers of television propaganda become part of that propaganda themselves. An interesting interview was published today on unser-mitteleuropa.com: Sergey Lavrov on quality that surpasses even Western media dominance – Part 2.Source. …whenever a projectile or fragment from the air defense system hit a civilian facility, Ukraine and countries that support its regime immediately cried out that Russia was acting “inhumanely” . The UN Security Council convened a meeting on this issue in New York on November 19. The same old clichés were trotted out, but no one responded to our demand to see evidence. It is regrettable that the UN Secretariat is completely …
Mark Kelly Fires Back After Hegseth Launches Investigation Into Him: ‘I’ve Given Too Much to This Country to Be Silenced by Bullies’ ...after they threaten him alongside other Democrat Senators to be executed and arrested over saying that troops can refuse to do illegal orders. Kelly responded to the development on X, where he wrote, “When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents.” “In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the …More
NOVEMBER 28 2025 THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 21,29-33. Jesus told his disciples a parable. “Consider the fig tree and all the other trees. When their buds burst open, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near; in the same way, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away."
Tucho Must Be Removed: On 25 November, Cardinal Víctor Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said at a press conference on monogamy that, when he was a student in Rome 40 years ago, there was a joke that "Romans had their wife, but most of them also had another woman and even another man". ElWanderer.com comments that Tucho's telling of such a coarse joke shows very low moral standards: an inability to distinguish between what is fitting and what is not, and between what is pure and what is vulgar. Tucho's words are sadly consistent with his earlier erotic writings: "I also wonder what circles he was moving in as a student to hear that kind of talk." ElWanderer.com insists that Tucho must be removed.
Tucho: "Quando ero studente qui a Roma, quarant’anni fa, si diceva che i romani avevano la loro moglie, ma che la maggioranza aveva anche un’altra donna e anche un uomo. Non si sapeva se ridere o piangere."
Update: “Kait McNeeley’s employment as Executive Director of Joseph and Mary’s Home was formally terminated today, November 25, 2025, effective at 9:30 a.m., and a full formal statement outlining the decision and next steps will be shared with you in the coming hours.”
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The Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case against President Donald Trump and others has been dismissed after the prosecutor who took over the case requested that it be dropped. "In my professional judgment, the citizens of Georgia are not served by pursuing this case in full for another five to ten years," wrote Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, who took over the case after the original prosecutor was disqualified from the case. Within minutes of Skandalakis' court filing, the judge overseeing the case granted the request and dismissed the case. "This case is hereby dismissed in its entirety," wrote Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, who earlier this month had scheduled a Dec. 1 "status/pretrial" hearing in the case. Trump and 18 others pleaded not guilty in August 2023 to all charges in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of …
“The reason the Church’s leaders persecute the most faithful Catholics is that, broadly speaking, the leadership of the Catholic Church on earth at this time is dominated by a network of active homosexuals and theological modernists”, philosopher Peter Kwasniewski wrote on his Substack.com-account TraditionSanity.com on November 20. He added that they in the network rely on one another’s support: “We all know individual good bishops or cardinals but such exceptions are a controlled opposition, with very limited mobility.” Kwasniewski explains that their “religion” is one of self-actualization and self-regard: “Theirs is the fashionable subjectivism and flexible relativism of the postmodern West, where ‘anything goes’ - except, of course, traditional faith and morals, for this faith and these morals would eliminate them ...” The more fruitful the Mass in the Roman rite is, the more furious they will be: “It’s precisely because of this fruitfulness, not in spite of it, that its …More
New men were bred with brand new fiber, Potomac made it to the Rhine, pushing it down into the Tiber, the Sun went black and ceased to shine...
Song of False Freedom There was the Mass of de Mendoza, New Orleans, Frisco by the sea, but on the dies lacrimosa you gave your freedom for your liberty. Yes, there were Huns and even worse, you made pacts, you waged wars with them, who did you fight for, what did you die for: the City of God or the waste of men? New men were bred with brand new fiber, Potomac made it to the Rhine, pushing it down into the Tiber, the Sun went black and ceased to shine. Many got blind and could not see, elders told fables to the youth... Now ruin is at hand, it's time to make a stand, not for the ghost of democracy but for the Spirit of Truth. notes: de Mendoza - cf. the Mass in San Agustin (St. Augustine), Florida celebrated on Sept 8, 1565 by Fr. de Mendoza, one of first Catholic Masses in North America: TIA Catholic Thanksgiving Greeting 2025 New Orleans - cf. Our Lady’s of Prompt Succour intercession at the battle of New Orleans (Jan 8, 1815) after prayers led by Bishop Dubourg Frisco - San Francisco …More
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