Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez as the bishop of Palm Beach, Florida. Born January 15, 1974, in the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez became a Salesian of Don Bosco and was ordained a priest on July 3, 2004. He is currently the parish priest at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Queens, in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Monsignor Rodriguez became a U.S. citizen in 2018. He has regularly been revealing his thoughts on Twitter since 2014. Staunch Loyalist of Wonderful Francis He is a priest “who loves Pope Francis and defends immigrants”. According to him, Francis’ writings were amazing, beautiful, crystal clear and straight to the point. March 2024, “11 years of the Pope of Mercy today: how many blessings bestowed upon us all through his ministry! How many people welcomed back to the Church! How many wrongs fixed! How much justice done! May God keep & protect him for many years to come. Long live the Pope!” September 2024 about a papal travel: “Our heroic Holy Father going …More
An Iowa priest, Father Thomas Thakadipuram, pleaded guilty to stealing parish funds and investing them in a scam without church approval. The case stands out not for the crime itself, but because a local bishop appeared in court to emphasize the seriousness of the offense rather than seek leniency for the priest.
“I’m proud of the bishops’ statement on immigration. We must protect our borders, but must uphold human dignity. We must honor due process. We must respect our immigrant brothers and sisters.” — Archbishop-designate Ron Hicks
This morning, the Holy Father received in audience: - Bishop Athanasius Schneider, titular of Celerina, auxiliary of Mary Most Holy in Astana, Kazakhstan …
Papa Leone XIV ha ricevuto questa mattina in udienza privata il vescovo Athanasius Schneider.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Ramón Bejarano of San Diego as the new Bishop of Monterey, California. Born on July 17, 1969, in Laredo, Texas, Monsignor Bejarano was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Stockton on August 15, 1998. On February 27, 2020, Pope Francis appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, run by Cardinal Robert McElroy, one of the most progressive prelates in the American hierarchy. “All Are Welcome” Eucharist In June 2024, Bishop Bejarano presided over an “All Are Welcome” Eucharist at St. John the Evangelist Parish in San Diego. The service was presented as an outreach to practicing homosexuals. At the end of the service, he offered a special blessing for homosexuals: "Help us embrace that our beloved LGBTQ+ siblings and all who feel marginalized by the Church are beautifully and wonderfully made in Your image." He continued: "Bless our LGBTQ ministry so that we may continue to grow by your grace and bring all people to the knowledge and love …More
Before the Hamas war against Israel, the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, and yesterday’s shooting attack in Australia, I associated Hanukkah with triumph rather than despair. The eight-day festival, which began at sundown on December 14, was an opportunity to recognize Jewish perseverance and share Jewish light. This year is different. While menorahs are ordinarily displayed outdoors in celebration, during times of danger the Talmud suggests kindling Hanukkah lights discreetly. Even without overt peril, mounting hostility toward Jews draws me inward and homeward. I prefer to stay indoors with my family, where the somber hymn of my childhood will echo more poignantly than the cheerful holiday prayer. Like other winter holidays, Hanukkah occurs when daylight is lacking and darkness evokes faith. More than a solstice observance, however, Hanukkah is a celebration of Jewish distinctiveness and daring. In the second century B.C., enlightened Greeks sought to extinguish …
An American tech company allegedly helped a foreign country plan a terrorist attack on a U.S.-allied nation, injuring nearly 4,000 people and killing children. The UN condemned the attack as a war crime. That company, Palantir, receives over half its funding from U.S. government contracts and holds $10 billion in U.S. Army contracts. In a just society, executives involved in such actions would face prison—not continued taxpayer funding. Who will hold them accountable?
Every time there’s a terrorist attack, politicians use it to cut back civil liberties. We saw it with the Patriot Act, which is still in place decades later. Tragedies are repeatedly used to justify permanent expansions of state power.
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
UK government vows to ‘ramp up’ use of facial recognition, biometrics in policing - "Live facial recognition could be the end of privacy as we know it" and lead to an "authoritarian surveillance state," director Silkie Carlo warned.
Police will be better equipped to track down dangerous criminals as the government launches a consultation on how forces should use facial recognition and biometrics, in what could be ‘the biggest breakthrough since DNA matching’. Facial recognition is used to locate wanted suspects in public places, find vulnerable missing people and identify offenders more quickly through footage obtained from CCTV and doorbell cameras. In the last two years, the Metropolitan Police made 1,300 arrests using facial recognition including rapists, domestic abusers and violent criminals and found more than 100 registered sex offenders breaching their license conditions. The consultation will pave the way for new laws so all police forces can use this new technology with greater confidence and more often. Crime and Policing Minister, Sarah Jones, said: Facial recognition is the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching. It has already helped take thousands of dangerous criminals off …
A new analysis found that 41 percent of Netflix TV shows for children portray homosexual relationships, ‘transgender’ and ‘non-binary’ characters, and other ‘queer’ themes.
Obama went to a kindergarten yesterday and was reading woke books to youngsters. How scandalous, and the Church keeps her silence because Obama is one of her apostles.
Absolutely brutal… The EU Commissioner of Industry: "Last month, I was supposed to go to Brazil to discuss a rare earth mine. 3 days before, we were told that the Americans had already come, put money on the table, and bought all production until 2030."
A federal appeals court sided with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, upholding the Trump administration’s exclusion of transgenders from military service.
Leaders of a Catholic church near Boston kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it.
James Martin and Fiducia Supplicans