Ukraine could join the European Union as early as January 2027 under the latest US plan to end the war with Russia, a senior source familiar with the matter told AFP on Friday. The complicated EU accession process usually takes years and requires a unanimous vote from all 27 members of the bloc, and some countries, most notably Hungary, have consistently voiced opposition to Ukraine joining. The idea of a speedy accession is included in the latest version of a US-led plan to end the war, which would also see Ukraine cede land to Russia, and has triggered a diplomatic frenzy across Europe in recent weeks. “It’s stated there but it’s a matter for negotiation, and the Americans support it,” the senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, referring to the US plan. Washington has the leverage needed to convince leaders opposed to Ukraine’s membership to change their stance, President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists, including AFP, on Thursday. “The United States can …
“I am a consecrated person; I gave my life to God, so my life doesn’t belong to me,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, told NCRegister.com on December 12 about his offer to exchange himself for hostages in 2023. His flock includes about 190,000 Christians in Israel, 45,000 in the West Bank, and 500 in Gaza. Palestinian Christians in the West Bank, including Bethlehem, have been severely affected by the Gaza war, as tourism has nearly collapsed and work permits to Israel have been suspended. “This created a very problematic situation from the economic point of view,” the Cardinal said. The conflict has also intensified tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, including settler attacks on Christian Palestinian communities. Cardinal Pizzaballa described the situation as “chaotic and very problematic,” adding: “What is scary for the people is that you don’t know how, when this will finish.” Despite this, he sees the U.S.-brokered ceasefire …More
We continue posting daily Advent reflections by the Church Fathers. It's a good way to prepare to celebrate Christmas. The reflections and quotations come from the book titled, Advent and Christmas with the Church Fathers by Marco Pappalardo. Introduction What still astounds us is also what helps us to live each day with new eyes. On Christmas night in Bethlehem, many people must have experienced a wonder that rejuvenated them, drawing them outside of themselves and away from their concerns to follow the star, to seek a king, and to listen to the angels’ song. What a special night that Christmas must have been! Now it is up to us to let ourselves still be amazed by the Father’s grand gesture of love; it is up to us to believe in the Incarnation of the Son without a doubt, to be convinced of it, and to give witness to it by the strength of the Holy Spirit. Ephrem the Syrian, Hymn for the Birth of Christ, A man is overcome by great awe when he considers the miracle of God descending,…
Psalm 21.10-11 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God. Supports: Messianic prophecy; highlights divine protection from the womb, prefiguring Mary's graced motherhood.
12/12/2025 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. Many of us ask ourselves: How can it be that our world is heading straight for disaster? The concepts of the “deep state,” globalists, technocrats, or simply the “swamp” don’t explain why so many people on our planet are completely indifferent to the direction it’s hurtling in. They are merely the architects and executors of a plan to seize global domination during the inevitable financial crisis fueled by mounting debt. We are still in the dark when it comes to understanding this meticulously crafted plan to destroy human civilization as we know it—a plan that is unfolding before our very eyes. Muhammad is the most popular name given to newborns in England. Of course, they exploit the fear, complacency, and selfishness of most of us. Psychological phenomena play a major role in this. An article by Simone Hörrlein, a German living in Canada, published on manova.news on Wednesday, sheds some light on the mechanisms used to change the world …
Second, normalize sexual pleasure as the central analogy for divine encounter. If the deepest human experience of unity is orgasm, then that becomes the template for mystical union. The body scan with “no part of the skin insensitive” is the formation of a particular way of inhabiting the body, where spiritual attention deliberately passes through explicitly erogenous zones.
Porn in the Holy Office, Boyfriends in the Chancery, and Fantasy Stoles in the Sanctuary
Nick Sortor @nicksortor BREAKING: The Minnesota State Government is “FULLY COMPLICIT” in the Somali scheme to steal BILLIONS in U.S. tax dollars, per Stephen Miller Tim Walz should be JAILED over this. NO CHANCE he was unaware. “The total tab for this is going to be FAR BEYOND the numbers we’ve already seen reported.”
When a Nativity Scene Becomes a Partisan Billboard: COMMENTARY: The display in Dedham, Massachusetts, is more of a political prop than a call to a deeper relationship with Christ.
COMMENTARY: The display in Dedham, Massachusetts, is more of a political prop than a call to a deeper relationship with Christ. At St. Susanna Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, the Holy Family has been removed from the parish’s Nativity scene — not by an indifferent innkeeper, but by a pastor intent on sending a message. St. Susanna unveiled a “Nativity” without Jesus, Mary or Joseph. In their place: a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE,” and another urging passersby to contact a local activist coalition if they see immigration enforcement officials. The pastor, Father Stephen Josoma, says the display will remain until he can have “further dialogue” with Archbishop Richard Henning of Boston. The archdiocese has already done what prudence requires. It issued a clear statement calling the display “politically divisive,” reaffirmed that sacred objects are for worship, not messaging, and asked that the crèche be restored to its “proper sacred purpose.” At that point, wise leadership does not …
Fri Dec 12, 2025 - 3:23 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the papal nuncio to Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, during an interview released last weekend said Pope Leo XIV should end the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and return to the norms of Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum because it brought unity to the Church. Gänswein, during an interview that aired on December 7 with the German Catholic television network, Katholisches Fernsehen (K-TV), noted that the Tridentine Mass, which nourished the faith of the Church for centuries, cannot suddenly become invalid or invaluable now, and questioned why Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis Custodes, when the majority of bishops were satisfied with his predecessor’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The former personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI then emphasized that Summorum Pontificum was the right path to fostering liturgical peace in the Roman rite, and he hopes it will be restored …
This publicity stunt is not about Benedict's jailer Gänswein but it's there to aid Prevost in confusing remaining Catholics while he slowly but surely implements his plan of destruction of Catholic Church.
More pornographic texts of pro-homosexual Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, 63, have emerged. ElWanderer.com published today new quotes from different books. The disgusting texts are more of the same soft-porn style as published by Tucho in Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing, 1995, and in The Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality, 1998. The latter is about male and female orgasms. The newly discovered books show that the first two were not a youthful mistake, but that this erotic mindset was constant. KISS: Your mouth sings / without using words. Aged 39, Tucho wrote in his 2002 book ¿Por qué no termino de sanarme? (“Why can’t I finish healing myself?”), on page 10: “A body can make an impact if it wears the right clothes, clothes that awaken sensuality by accentuating interesting shapes, depending on the body type. The sensuality of tanned shoulders and arms is accentuated by wearing a T-shirt. Elegance is highlighted by concealing fat with a black vest and white …More
Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is death". Jude 22-23 : "When there are some who have doubts, reassure them; ·when there are some to be saved from the fire, pull them out; but there are others to whom you must be kind with great caution, keeping your distance even from outside clothing which is contaminated by lust".
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