Among Benedictines, the Roman Rite and the Novus Ordo coexist very peacefully side by side, said Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder, a German Benedictine, in an interview with KNA on 30 April. Throughout the order, there are around ten abbeys that celebrate the old rite, mostly in France. The majority belong to the Congregation of Solesmes. Fontgombault Abbey was the first of a group of monasteries that celebrate according to the old rite and they are fully integrated into the Solesmes congregation. Most monasteries in that congregation use the Novus Ordo. In addition, there is Le Barroux Abbey and its daughter foundations, which were initially oriented towards the Lefebvrist movement. Following the episcopal consecrations in 1988, the monastery returned to full communion with Rome is now under the authority of Abbot Schröder. He also mentioned the community in Norcia, Italy (pictured). Novus Ordo in Fontgombault Abbot Schröder summarised: "We all treat one another with respect. As Abbot …More
Among Benedictines, the Roman Rite and the Novus Ordo coexist very peacefully side by side, said Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder, a German Benedictine, in an interview with KNA on 30 April. Throughout the order, there are around ten abbeys that celebrate the old rite, mostly in France. The majority belong to the Congregation of Solesmes. Fontgombault Abbey was the first of a group of monasteries that celebrate according to the old rite and they are fully integrated into the Solesmes congregation. Most monasteries in that congregation use the Novus Ordo. In addition, there is Le Barroux Abbey and its daughter foundations, which were initially oriented towards the Lefebvrist movement. Following the episcopal consecrations in 1988, the monastery returned to full communion with Rome is now under the authority of Abbot Schröder. He also mentioned the community in Norcia, Italy (pictured). Novus Ordo in Fontgombault Abbot Schröder summarised: "We all treat one another with respect. As Abbot …More
According to a report from the National Post, Dr. Karine Katchadourian – one of the first doctors in Canada to provide hormones to trans-identifying youth – stated at a virtual lecture for the University of Alberta in February that she now believes the “majority of youth” should not be medicalized. Khatchadourian is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Ottawa as well as a pediatric endocrinologist who works at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. She began providing hormones to minors with gender dysphoria in 2014 and, according to the National Post, “some 250 to 300 gender-distressed children and teens have been under her care over the years.” According to the National Post’ssummary of the lecture: The field is in a highly consequential grey zone with contradictory findings at best, the Ottawa doctor told a virtual audience. The evidence doesn’t allow doctors to say with confidence whether puberty suppression has psychological benefits or not and …
CATECHISM OF PERSEVERANCE : AN HISTORICAL, DOCTRINAL,MORAL, AND LITURGICAL EXPOSITION OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION Translated from the French of Mgr Gaume by REV. F. B. JAMISON - COURSE SECOND - CHAPTER 20 - Of union with our Lord, the new Adam, by faith – Purgatory....Download, print, and above all share !
Vatican recommends Catholic families in crisis compost and a rain gauge: The Vatican has published on August 27 the handbook, Integral Ecology in the Life of the Family, urging Catholic families to adopt environmentally focused practices such as composting, collecting rainwater, and monitoring rainfall as part of an “ecological conversion.” Issued jointly by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the text presents care for creation and sustainable living as integral to Christian family life and holiness.
Wed Apr 29, 2026 - 2:56 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — There is a particular kind of sentence that does not require embellishment. It does not need adjectives. It does not benefit from rhetorical inflation. It simply needs to be stated plainly – and then be allowed to do its work: Seventeen babies were born alive in Alberta following labor-induced late-term abortions in 2025 and left to die. That’s it. That’s the sentence. Seventeen. Seventeen babies. Seventeen times. In Alberta. In 2025. Born alive and then? No life-sustaining intervention. No automatic presumption in favor of care. No clear, system-wide requirement that birth triggers a clinical reset. Instead, within the system administered by Alberta Health Services, the response is shaped in advance: a non-interventional pathway, established before the child is even born, and carried through after the child is. This is not a failure of the system; it is how the system is designed to function. If that sounds implausible, it is only …
How morally sick that we murder our own born and unborn babies and then must keep the immigrations doors open. The number of deaths in Canada will soon surpass the number of birth. Demographically we are dying.
From 16 to 25 April, the former Chapelle Sainte Jeanne d’Arc in Paris hosted performances by a homosexual group. The neo-Gothic chapel was commissioned in 1909 by Marie de la Passion in honour of Saint Joan of Arc, following her beatification. It was deconsecrated in 2020, after the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary left the convent complex due to insufficient financial and human resources. The chapel now forms part of Village Reille, a publicly funded, cultural and social project. From 16 to 25 April 2026, Cirque Fier.e.s - a group calling itself ‘LGBTQIA+ and intersectional feminist collective’ - held a performance there. During their show, the altar was removed and replaced with circus staging featuring dance, acrobatics, nudity and provocative theatrical imagery, including sadomasochism. According to reports, transvestite Esther opened one performance by stating: “You know that Chapelle Reille is not its real name — it is actually the Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Chapel, and we are going to …More
I avoided this spat between Pope Leo and President Trump until a National Catholic Reporter op-ed told us to “Oppose this narcissistic mad man in the White House.”
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New images have been released by federal prosecutors showing the arsenal that Cole Allen had before attempting to ass*ssinate President Trump. He even took pictures of himself decked out in the weaponry.
[Saint Catherine of Siena /Caterina di Benincasa/; XIV-XV Century AD; Siena, Republic of Siena/Rome, Papal States; aged 33; Spiritual Writer; Mystic; Virgin; Doctor of the Church] “How if the three aforesaid powers are not united, there cannot be perseverance, without which no man arrives at his end. " I have explained to thee the figure of the three steps, in general, as the three powers of the soul, and no one who wishes to pass by the Bridge and doctrine of My Truth can mount one without the other, and the soul cannot persevere except by the union of her three powers. Of which I told thee above, when thou askedst Me, how the voyagers could come out of the river. There are two goals, and, for the attainment of either, perseverance is needful—they are vice and virtue. If thou desire to arrive at life, thou must persevere in virtue, and if thou would have eternal death, thou must persevere in vice. Thus it is with perseverance that they who want life arrive at Me who am Life, and with …More
" You were all invited, generally and in particular, by My Truth, when He cried in the Temple, saying : Whosoever thirsteth, let him come to Me and drink, for I am the Fountain of the Water of Life.' He did not say ' Go to the Father and drink, but He said - Come to Me? He spoke thus, because in Me, the Father, there can be no pain, but in My Son there can be pain. And you, while you are pilgrims and wayfarers in this mortal life, cannot be without pain, because the earth, through sin, brought forth thorns. And why did He say ' Let him come to Me and drink ' f Because whoever follows His doctrine, whether in the most perfect way or by dwelling in the life of common charity, finds to drink, tasting the fruit of the Blood, through the union of the Divine nature with the human nature. And you, finding yourselves in Him, find yourselves also in Me, who am the Sea Pacific, because I am one thing with Him, and He with Me. So that you are invited to the Fountain of Living Water of Grace, and …More
Medforth AI by Eric Utter Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, recently stated of President Trump and the United States, “An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible.” I myself have questioned Trump’s endgame strategy, insofar as Iran’s leadership, such as it is, is simply never going to negotiate in good faith. Even if an agreement is reached with Iran in the wake of U.S.-Israel military action, whatever it may be, Iran will not honor it. However, if its nuclear program is significantly disrupted and set back, and the rest of its military greatly degraded … and therefore its sponsorship of various terrorist groups greatly curtailed, we can legitimately call it a win and go on with life. Once proud Germany, on the other hand, is embarrassing itself with great repetitiveness of late. Unwilling to take the side of the Americans against the world’s premier …
Tue Apr 28, 2026 - 9:10 am EDTTue Apr 28, 2026 - 8:14 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — Nova Scotia Education Minister Brendan Maguire launched into an angry tirade condemning parental rights in the provincial legislature this week, responding to an MLA who brought up concerns published by Juno News and the Citizens’ Alliance of Nova Scotia about provincial funding for sex change surgeries for minors and school policies on “social transitioning” without parental notification. Last July, Juno News published exclusive documents revealing that Nova Scotia doctors had “greenlit five surgeries to create artificial vaginas for patients listed as under 19 years old.” “I’ll be damned if I’m going to stand here and listen to someone say that the parents deserve rights over a child,” Maguire said angrily. “No, they don’t. They absolutely don’t.” READ: New York Catholic bishops equip faithful with end-of-life guide as assisted suicide law takes effect Maguire described his own troubled youth as the …