In December, the Family Pastoral Service of the Diocese of Chiavari, Italy, published a booklet titled Non c’è un amore più grande (“There Is No Greater Love”). The diocese is run by Bishop Giampio Devasini. The publication presents a collection of autobiographical “Christian testimonies” of homosexuals and adulterers. Among the homosexuals are Marco and Michele: "We have been together since 2001." The two homosexuals are increasingly integrated into parish life, including participation in the parish choir and diocesan pastoral activities: "What was previously set aside because it was uncomfortable and difficult to testify to has now become a reason for commitment, to bring our experiences to others." They blame their lifestyle on God: "I believe that the ultimate goal of our work is to break down those walls of division that have always hindered the active participation of people belonging to the broad sphere of homoaffectivity in the life of the Church, under the love of the one …More
In 1940, the United States faced a terrifying intelligence blackout. Japan had deployed a new encryption system so sophisticated that American codebreakers called it simply "Purple." The machine used telephone stepping switches wired in patterns so complex that even the world's best cryptanalysts couldn't find a way in. For 18 grueling months, the team at the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service tried everything—and failed. Then came Genevieve Grotjan. A 27-year-old statistician from Buffalo, New York, Grotjan had been hired after scoring remarkably high on a civil service mathematics exam. She'd originally wanted to teach math but couldn't find a school that would hire her. Instead, she found herself in a cramped second-floor room of the Munitions Building in Washington, D.C., staring at pages of encrypted Japanese messages that looked like meaningless jumbles of letters. On September 20, 1940—a sweltering Friday afternoon—Grotjan saw something no one else had noticed. Working with …More
"19. There is not and there will never be, either in God's creation or in his mind, a creature in whom he is so honoured as in the most Blessed Virgin Mary, not excepting even the saints, the cherubim or the highest seraphim in heaven. Mary is God's garden of Paradise, his own unspeakable world, into which his Son entered to do wonderful things, to tend it and to take his delight in it. He created a world for the wayfarer, that is, the one we are living in. He created a second world - Paradise - for the Blessed. He created a third for himself, which he named Mary. She is a world unknown to most mortals here on earth. Even the angels and saints in heaven find her incomprehensible, and are lost in admiration of a God who is so exalted and so far above them, so distant from them, and so enclosed in Mary, his chosen world, that they exclaim: “Holy, holy, holy” unceasingly."
[Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort; XVII-XVIII Century AD; Montfort-sur-Meu, France/Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, France; (aged 43); Founder; Spiritual Writer] “II - To find the grace of God, we must discover Mary 17. Mary is the great mould of God, fashioned by the Holy Spirit to give human nature to a Man who is God by the hypostatic union, and to fashion through grace men who are like to God. No godly feature is missing from this mould. Everyone who casts himself into it and allows himself to be moulded will acquire every feature of Jesus Christ, true God, with little pain or effort, as befits his weak human condition. He will take on a faithful likeness to Jesus with no possibility of distortion, for the devil has never had and never will have any access to Mary, the holy and immaculate Virgin, in whom there is not the least suspicion of a stain of sin. 18. Dear friend, what a difference there is between a soul brought up in the ordinary way to resemble Jesus Christ by people who,…More
13.12.2025 POPE LEO, FISICHELLA,SPADERO DELIBERATELY CHOOSE THE FALSE PREMISE TO INTERPRET VATICAN II AND CREATE POLARISATION Pope Leo, Archbishop Rino Fisichella and Fr. Antonio Spadero sj are deliberately choosing the False Premise to interpret Vatican Council II and produce liberalism and polarization with the conservatives and traditionalists in the Church. The Synod Study Groups used the False Premise and the Consistory will do the same next month. Without the False Premise, Vatican Council II is aligned with the Athanasius Creed, the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS), the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX. There is no change in faith and morals. It means LGBT activity is a mortal sin. Divorce is not permitted. Priests cannot marry and women cannot become priests.The ecclesiology is exclusivist at every liturgy and Holy Mass. The whole Church has to use the Roman Missal which is in harmony with the Athanasius Creed, while, the New Missal of Pope Paul VI is not. The New …More
12/14/2025 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. This provocative headline appeared in an article on The Vigilant Fox on Wednesday: The Pandemic Revealed the Most Cowardly Society of All Time. We masked toddlers, banned funerals, and cheered censorship. COVID didn’t break us—it revealed who we really are. Scientific studies comparing the “morbidity” of COVID-19 have several methodological flaws. First, the author’s claim that COVID-19 is a real disease is false. COVID-19 was invented by appropriating ten already known upper respiratory infections, including influenza, to create a new disease name to justify a dangerous pandemic. The best evidence for this is the sudden and unexpected decline in influenza cases at the time COVID-19 was claiming its victims. The second, far more serious error in these studies is the acceptance of the PCR test, developed by the German charlatan Christian Drosten and some of his followers, as the gold standard for diagnosing this non-existent disease. The …
Ties to accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate exposed in NYT report nytimes.com/2025/12/11/briefing/the-world-of- … New reporting from the New York Times reveals Andrew Tate’s release from Romania—where he faced rape and human trafficking charges—may have involved powerful allies, including Barron Trump. Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Megan Twohey joins to discuss. » Subscribe to MS NOW
But their legal problems haven’t gone away. The Romanian case is moving forward, and once it’s finished, the brothers will face charges of human trafficking and rape in Britain. And in the United States, The Times found, anti-trafficking agents at the Department of Homeland Security have been investigating the Tates for years. Riding Outrage to Money and Fame Andrew Tate found modest fame as a professional kickboxer in the 2010s, but as he tells it, he didn’t start making real money until he and his brother went into pornography. By 2015, the Tates had installed women in apartments and a hotel room in Britain, to perform live on webcams for paying customers. Andrew later described how the brothers romanced attractive women, coaxed them into the business and took most of the profits. “It’s not just about picking up girls,” Mr. Tate said in an interview posted to YouTube. “It’s about converting them into really loving you enough to moving in with you and working for you and giving you …More
The World of Andrew Tate nytimes.com/…025/12/10/us/andrew-tate-barron- … We look at the social media influencer accused of rape and human trafficking, who was freed from Romania after courting Trump’s allies and family members. Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, are paragons of the manosphere — influencers who say a man’s role is to dominate women. In 2023, Romanian prosecutors said the brothers had seduced women and then pressed them into performing for the Tates’ pornography business. Andrew was also accused of rape. They were barred from leaving the country while prosecutors built their case. Earlier this year, though, Romania lifted the travel restrictions. An investigation by my colleagues Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai found that support from Trump administration officials had played a crucial role in the decision. “We’re massively back,” a grinning Tate said in a video he posted in February as the brothers flew to Florida by private jet. For years, Megan and Isabella …More
The Door of Humility: Entering the Place Where Christ Was Born — Church of the Nativity Bethlehem—whose name in Hebrew means “House of Bread”—holds a place of profound significance in the Christian world. It was here that Mary and Joseph found refuge in a stable, and where Mary gave birth to Jesus, ‘the Bread of Life’. Over this sacred grotto, the Church of the Nativity was built, transforming a humble place of divine intervention into one of Christianity’s most treasured pilgrimage sites. The Church of the Nativity is among the oldest continuously functioning churches in existence. It was originally commissioned in the 4th century by Emperor Constantine the Great and his mother, Saint Helena, who identified the grotto as the true site of Christ’s birth. Dedicated in 339 AD, the first basilica drew pilgrims from across the Roman Empire. Although the original structure was destroyed, Byzantine Emperor Justinian rebuilt a grander version in the 6th century, parts of which remain today …More
Les yeux déconjugués. Son œil gauche triste. Son œil droit joyeux. (Couvrez un côté pour mieux le remarquer). Le manteau ouvert. À sa gauche, révélant la tapisserie brune terrestre. Un calendrier maya. Notre séjour sur terre. À sa droite, le manteau céleste. L'ange qui la porte accentue l'asymétrie. Une main sur la robe brune, l'autre sur le manteau céleste. L'image rappelle la vie sacramentelle avec les deux plans d'existence, terrestre (à sa gauche) et recouverte par le manteau céleste (à droite).
Translation to English The disconjugate eyes. Her left sad. Right happy. (cover one side versus the other to notice). The opening cloak. On her left revealing the brown earthly tapestry. A Mayan calendar. Our sojourn on earth. On her right the Heavenly cloak. The carrying angel accentuates the asymmetry. One hand the brown gown, the other the Heavenly cover. The image reminds of the Sacramental Life with the two planes of existence, earthly (left) and with coverage by the Heavenly mantle (right).
DECEMBER 14 2025 THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 11,2-11. When John the Baptist heard in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples to Jesus with this question, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?" Jesus said to them in reply, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the good news proclaimed to them. And blessed is the one who takes no offense at me." As they were going off, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John, "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? Then what did you go out to see? Someone dressed in fine clothing? Those who wear fine clothing are in royal palaces. Then why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom it is written: 'Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will …More
The New German War Machine After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Photographs by Hannes Jung Listen to more stories on hark Updated at 8:59 p.m. ET on December 9, 2025 Sign up for ournewsletter about national securityhere. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical, with a red-tile roof. Parts of the German military were based there in World War II, and it’s where officers who plotted to kill Hitler in 1944 were executed by firing squad. Now the complex houses Germany’s defense ministry, which oversees the armed forces. I went to the Bendlerblock this past summer to meet with German military officials and see how they’re responding to an aggressive Russia and a mercurial America. Two sergeants escorted me to the office of Lieutenant General Christian Freuding. Explore the January 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find …
DEC 2025 - A motion for impeachment is taking place already, congresswoman Ramirez asking Kristi Noem to reconsider resigning before she's processed and taken to jail for lying to congress and abusing power as well as for spending taxpayer's money and government resources to do all criminal acts. This is not about blue or red, democrat or republican, far left or far right, this is about justice, not overlooking at facts of abuses brought by authoritarianism, and racism.
Obviously an old post - it's too late to pray that Francis die "repentant." that ship has sailed. While true that ONLY God judges & knows, it doesn't look good from what information we have.