The Holy See forces a strange, hybrid version of the Roman Rite Mass and the Novus Ordo on the hitherto traditional sisters of the "Institute of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit" in Pontcallec, France.
On July 25, the "synodal" Vatican imposed on the sisters ready-made decisions that will take effect on 1 December (communiqué on Dominicaines-Du-Saint-Esprit.fr, July 25):
- The Vatican requires that the Novus Ordo liturgical calendar be used.
- The Novus Ordo must be celebrated in all houses, one week a month on weekdays, and Holy Mass remains for three weeks and the Sundays.
- The readings are to be taken from the Novus Ordo lectionaries.
- The Novus Ordo prefaces are to be used at all Masses.
The Vatican calls these measures "a step toward the discovery" of the Novus Ordo.
The sisters will retain the Latin, the Gregorian chant, and the celebration toward the altar [for now]. #newsWsighfilfz

Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill is suing the homosexual sex dating app Grindr for reportedly failing to protect his data. Being outed as a practicing homosexual led to his resignation from his top position as secretary general of the U.S. bishops’ conference in 2021.
The lawsuit was filed this week filed in the Superior Court of California.
According to the lawsuit, the group Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal purchased the priest's data from the app and sent it to PillarCatholic.com. The website reported 2021 on Burrill that the data used were "commercially available records" correlated to the priest's mobile device.
The app advertises itself as "the largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people." Its geolocation feature is widely known to enable casual sex between homosexual men.
The lawsuit alleges that Grindr failed to take steps to protect the data from acquisition by third parties. Monsignor Burril is mainly seeking money - damages, attorney's fees, and "injunctive …More

In 2022, the Dicastery for the Liturgy has "allowed" the celebration of the Mass in the Roman rite in 55 parish churches in ten countries. The figures were published on July 26 in the Dicastery's bulletin (“Notitiae”).
The list of "dispensations" by country:
USA: 34 parish churches in 20 dioceses
Poland: 3 parish churches in 3 dioceses
Great Britain: 5 parish churches in 4 dioceses
Canada: 4 parish churches in 3 dioceses
Germany: 5 parish churches, Diocese of Regensburg
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania: 1 parish church in only 1 diocese Figures for 2023 are not yet available. Francis has tried to ban the celebration of Mass in parish churches. A bishop cannot “allow” it, only the Vatican can. Such permissions are officially granted only when no other chapel or church is available. There is a large number of unreported Holy Masses celebrated in parish churches without a "dispensation" from the Vatican or with a dispensation that expired this summer. Picture: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, …More

The social media account 'Synod.va' launched a poll on Twitter and Facebook on 25 July.
It asked the question: "Do you believe that synodality, as a way of conversion and reform, can strengthen the mission and participation of all the baptised?"
From the start, the negative responses were overwhelming.
The screenshot that still exists to illustrate this article shows that at the moment there are 5,633 votes, 88% of them negative. The percentage of "no" responses on Facebook was similar.
On 26 July Synod.va deleted the poll. Those who are interested in religion and voted know that "synodality" is irrelevant for the reform of the Church. The others don't bother to vote. But the Vatican cannot understand this.
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Metropolitan Hilarion has been temporarily suspended from his post in Budapest, Hungary, by a decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian state religion (July 25).
Hilarion is a former president of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (second man after Patriarch Kirill).
The Holy Synod decided to transfer the administration of the Budapest diocese to the Patriarchal Exarch for Western Europe, Metropolitan Nestor.
The reasons for the dismissal were not given.
Earlier this month, NovaYaGazeta.eu reported that the Metropolitan had a close relationship with his personal secretary and housemate Georgy Suzuki. The latter claims that Hilarion forced him to sleep naked side by side in a bed. Hilarion is also accused of financial misconduct.
According to Suzuki, Hilarion leads a luxurious lifestyle with frequent stays on lavish yachts and ski trips to expensive resorts.
Picture: novayagazeta.eu, #newsXvgoxdgmhm

More than half the world's countries have fertility rates below replacement level.
UN projections estimate that the world's population will peak earlier and at a lower level than previously thought: 10.2 billion, or 6% less than predicted a decade ago.
Today, more than half the world's countries have fertility rates below replacement level, notably the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Almost a fifth of countries have an "ultra-low" fertility rate of less than 1.4 births per woman.
Demographers predict a population collapse after 2100, with devastating consequences for economies and quality of life.
Dean Spears, an economist at the University of Texas Population Research Center, co-authored a paper estimating world population projections beyond 2100.
One of the paper's three scenarios shows that if world population remains below the replacement rate, the number of people on the planet will fall rapidly to a "very low" number.
Darrel Bricker and John Ibbitson, authors of …More

The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr is much more than a few verses on the walls of a Twelve Step program. It’s a vital petition to recover from spiritual wounds.
“Forgiveness is to give up all hope for a better past.”
For the last several years where I live [in prison], greeting cards of any sort have been banned.
It was somehow determined that some people on the “outside” found a way to separate the card stock on which greeting cards are made, and then insert narcotics between the layers of the card.
I hear that there were machines that could detect all this, but the cheaper and more expedient way of dealing with it was to simply ban all cards from friends and families of prisoners.
This was a morale bombshell especially around Christmas which is already sanitized to be virtually unrecognizable in prison. The draconian measure has been resolved a bit, but not for the better.
We now get no mail at all. We receive only a photocopy of any mail that you send while the original is shredded …More

Monsignor Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero, Bishop of Tehuacan, Mexico, was forced to stop his car by six strangers, robbed and then left handcuffed in an unpopulated area (July 23). The assailants took his Mitsubishi, cell phone, and personal valuables
The bishop didn't suffer any physical injuries.
The Diocese of Tehuacan stated that he was traveling from Tehuacan to Magdalena Alquizapan to celebrate the feast of a patron saint.
Mexico is considered the most dangerous country in the world for clergy.
Picture: Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero, Diócesis de Tehuacá, #newsDtxzieznjn

At the Giffoni Film Festival for children and youth on 23 July, the homosexual activist and president of the Italian bishops Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, exalted what he calls the "queer family".
He said: "You have to understand what, in my opinion, 'queer' means. A person whose name was Michela and whose surname was Murgia, explained it to me. She told me about her children, with whom she had no blood relationship. She married a man because she loved him and so that she could continue to have that bond with those children. I think that is something we should all learn, that a bond can exist without there necessarily having a legal implication. The point is to love each other".
Michela Murgia (1972-2023) was an Italian writer and homosexual propagandist. She married a certain Manuel Persico in 2010 and separated from him in 2014.
She claims to have four "children of the soul" from this relationship but little is known about their family origins. Murgia then began a concubinage …More

Father John Berg, the new/old Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) has given an interview to FamilleChretienne.fr in which he tries to appease Francis.
He admits that "some faithful" are worried because of Francis’ extremist manifesto 'Traditionis custodes'.
But his overall experience as a Roman Rite parish priest in the US over the last six years was totally different: "I haven't experienced too much anxiety on the part of the American faithful".
For him the problem is "the Internet". According to his version, the concerns of his faithful grew "in proportion to the amount of time they spent on the internet reading articles and information on the subject!".
In the face of Traditionis Custodes, some men of his parish resolved during lent to cease all Internet activity and – miracle! - "they suddenly found a peace they hadn't had before!".
"If you just read what's being said on the internet, it's easy to get the false impression that the 'traditional Mass' is …More

From July 15-21, a group of American Catholics climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise funds for a new priestly seminary in Tanzania.
The climbers were led by Christopher Wendt of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima and Michael Matt from RemnantNewspaper.com. In the morning, Father João Silveira from Portugal celebrated the Roman Mass.
The climb was part of a fundraising campaign for the St. Benedict House of Studies in Tanzania. The idea for this new seminary was born in August 2023. Bishop Athanasius Schneider supports the seminary.
It will be part of already existing charitable works run by Father Antonius Maria Mamsery, Superior-General of the Missionaries of the Holy Cross, a community of the Roman rite.
Father Mamsery is already the head of a school for 250 boys, another school for 170 girls, a hospital for the poor and, in the future, a house for those considering the priesthood and for seminarians.
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"The institution that presents itself as the Catholic Church is not a safe place at the moment, in fact it has not been a safe place for the last 60 years: Heresy kills souls," wrote Deacon Nick Donnelly on @ProtecttheFaith (Twitter.com, 24 July).
The deacon notes that "the Church is full of heretics who are as bad as sexual abusers". These heretics "kill souls and send them to hell to suffer for eternity".
"And just as countless bishops covered up sexual abuse, they cover up the murder of souls by their silence."
The deacon reminds the many faithless bishops that their "primary duty" is to make the Church a safe place for souls by protecting their flocks from heretics, "a duty they are spectacularly failing".
Because of the failure of the bishops, it is our duty to expose and oppose heresy in the Church for the sake of souls, whatever the cost, because "the supreme law of the Church is the salvation of souls," he writes.
Deacon Donnelly observes that in the last 60 years - and especially …More

The cascade of pronouncements by Tucho's Dicastery for the Destruction of the Faith on 'supernatural phenomena' continues.
Tucho Fernàndez sent a letter on July 24 to Oscar Cantoni, Bishop of Como, about spiritual experiences at the Sanctuary of Maccio in Villa Guardia, northern Italy. The letter was approved by Francis. Cantoni is a friend of Francis who made him a Cardinal.
The alleged visionary is Gioacchino Genovese, a music teacher and choir director who is married and has two daughters. He claims "intellectual visions" and a "living presence of the mystery of the Holy Trinity" since the year 2000.
As usual, Tucho first emphasizes what he likes in the alleged [banal] messages. Here are some examples:
“‘In Me, the Incarnate Word, oh my Bride, you see and touch the Love, Charity and Mercy of Me, the one God, and you contemplate, without understanding, except in Me the Word, oh my Bride, the Gift of We Trinity’ (864).”
Or: “My Incarnation is a gift of Trinitarian Mercy!
My Word is a …More

Francis elevated the diocese of Santiago del Estero, Argentina, to an archdiocese and named its archbishop, Vicente Bokalic Iglic, Primate of Argentina on 22 July.
Until now the Primate of Argentina has been the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
The capital Buenos Aires has three million inhabitants, the unknown provincial capital Santiago del Estero 250,000.
The transfer of the title of Primate will be celebrated on 25 August in Buenos Aires and on 7 September in Santiago del Estero. As such, the title is meaningless.
The official excuse for the transfer of the title is that Santiago del Estero, founded in 1550, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Argentina. Buenos Aires was founded by the Spanish in 1536, but abandoned after a bad harvest and only repopulated in 1580.
Other more likely reasons for Francis's whimsical decision include his dissatisfaction with his successor as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, the homosexual propagandist Jorge García Cuerva.
Francis is also annoyed by the …More

A statue called "witness" at the public University of Houston, Texas, installed in February 2024, was decapitated on July 8, reports LifeNews.com.
The golden sculpture was meant to "honor" the abortion propagandist and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (+2020).
It represents a 6-meters-tall naked female figure with braids shaped like goat horns. Her arms are like tentacles. It wears a lace collar in imitation of Justice Ginsburg's style.
It also bears the Hebrew word Havah, which (spelled correctly Havvah) is the name of Eve, the wife of Adam, and commemorates the first lawbreaker.
The statue will not be repaired and will remain in place until October 31, as planned.
Picture: lifenews.com, #newsCneesjifpq

Cloistered life in Spain has lost nearly 3,700 nuns since 2013, and 162 monasteries have been closed. Many more will follow.
Spain and Italy are the countries with the largest number of cloistered monasteries.
According to the Spanish Bishops' Conference (CEE), there are 703 active convents, compared to 865 in 2013.
And so far in 2024, four more have closed their doors. The latest is the Congregation of the Carmelite nuns of Lucena, which has been linked to this city in Cordoba for four centuries.
Of the total number of convents currently in operation, 666 are for women and 37 for men.
The unstoppable secularisation of the Church, together with the low birth rate and the ageing of the communities (the average age of the nuns is around 80), is disastrous.
For the first time, the average number of nuns per convent has fallen below 11.
The convent of the Carmelite nuns of Ronda is one of the monasteries struggling to survive, writes Heraldo.es (21 July). Its abbess, the Gibraltarian Sister …More

Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonised in 2025, Cardinal Semeraro announced during a prayer at the 18th National Assembly of Catholic Action in Sacrofano on 26th April.
Frassati, who died of poliomyelitis at the age of 24, was declared Blessed by John Paul II on 20 May 1990. For the occasion, a photograph used for his beatification, which showed him smoking a pipe, was retouched because smoking would not have been appropriate for a future "blessed".
At the age of 19, Frassati had joined the Conferences of St Vincent de Paul to help the needy, and at 21 he became a Dominican tertiary.
At Frassati's beatification, John Paul II described him as a person of "Vincentian holiness" and a model of Christian life of heroic virtue and a martyr of charity, a "man of the Beatitudes" and a man "completely immersed in the mystery of God and dedicated to the constant service of his neighbour".
But there is another side to the story. Gloria.tv has collected the testimony of Dr Francesco Rosina, a former …More

Four men used forged documents to obtain the ordination as deacons in the Diocese of Lokoja, Nigeria, on July 12, CisaNewsAfrica.com reports (July 23).
Bishop Martin Dada Abejide Olorunmolu of Lokoja was deceived by a certain Stephen Obioma Nwaigwe. He claimed to be the Superior General of a Congregation of Paraclete Missionaries and asked for the ordination of the candidates.
His forged documents showed, among other things, the establishment of the congregation as an institute of the Diocese of Morogoro, Tanzania, in 2016. He also claimed to run various social projects, including a hospital in Nigeria.
However, the order does not exist.
The faithful noticed that one of the candidates had previously pretended to be a priest and had presided at a thus invalid Eucharist.
The diocese will now "seek appropriate canonical steps to resolve this unfortunate situation".
Measures will be taken to ensure that such events do not recur in the future.
Picture: Cisa, #newsMoudzryxwt

Notre-Dame du Travail Church in Paris, France, was vandalised and partially burned on the night of July 14 to 15.
The floor of the church was soiled with food scraps and excrement. Religious items were strewn about. A knife was plunged into a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the level of her throat.
The parish priest, Abbé Gabriel Würtz told Aleteia.org that only Divine Providence has limited the fire damage.
The church's organ and the sound system were damaged.
Blasphemous inscriptions were written inside and outside of the church: Jésus brûle (Jesus burns);
Soumettez-vous à Allah, infidèles, et priez 5 fois par jour (Submit yourselves to Allah, infidels, and pray 5 times a day); Un seul dieu Allah (One god, Allah)
Volunteers cleaned up the damage. A Eucharist of reparation was celebrated on July 17. A police investigation is underway.
In 2023, nearly 1,000 acts of anti-Christian violence were recorded by the anti-Christian French Ministry of the Interior, the vast majority of which …More

The Chaldean Church, the Catholics in Iraq, rejects Francis’ homosexual pamphlet 'Traditionis custodes' and the [pseudo] blessing of homosexual couples.
Their synod passed a resolution last week, Cardinal Louis Raphaël I. Sako announced on ChaldeanPatriarchate.com (July 22):
"The Chaldean Church in Iraq and throughout the world does not consider same-sex unions to be marriage, as it considers marriage between a man and a woman to be the legally valid marriage for the establishment of a family. It refuses to bless same-sex unions in order to preserve the sanctity of marriage, which is one of the seven sacraments."
There are about 600,000 Chaldeans, most of them in Iraq. Due to persecution and expulsement, the number of Chaldeans has decreased in Iraq in recent years. Most recently, Patriarch Sako was in exile for eight months and only returned to Baghdad in April.
Picture: Raphaël I Sako © Mazur CC BY-NC-ND, #newsMytbuthccx