Loup Besmond de Senneville published on La-Croix.com (8 April) tips on how to keep a job in the Roman Curia.
He recalls that according to Francis' Apostolic Constitution "Praedicate Evangelium", which came into force in June 2022, priests and members of religious institutes working in the Roman Curia have a five-year term, which theoretically means that they will have to leave the service from 2027.
De Senneville quotes an anonymous Curia insider who says that "this is [another] opportunity for Francis to get rid of people who no longer fit the bill". So the question for Curia staff is: How can I avoid getting the axe?
The informer of de Senneville knows how: "One has to do everything one can to avoid talking about oneself... but let others speak well of you."
He warns that "there are those who talk too much. Some think they're the Pope's spokesmen, while others start criticising him in public," says the Curia insider: "These people don't survive very long."
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Tucho Fernández began the presentation of the endless document "Infinite Dignity" on 8 April by reaffirming his support for Francis' discredited propaganda piece "Fiducia Supplicans".
He amused his audience by stating that "Francis has broadened our understanding of blessings" and protesting that "there are these kinds of blessings that do not meet the requirements of those in a liturgical context" - although this theory has long been refuted.
He believes that Francis has the right to invent "blessings" and sees a precedent in Francis' complete rejection of the death penalty.
Tucho Fernández expressed his hope that "Infinite Dignity" would generate as much "interest" as "Fiducia Supplicans", which, however, didn't generate "interest" but a universal rejection.
Asked whether the Church's teaching that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered" should be "changed", Tucho Fernández began to talk about formulations instead of content: "It is a strong expression that needs to be explained …More

On 8 April Tucho Fernández published "Dignitas infinita" on human dignity, another long and useless text that took the Vatican five years to write. It condemns in words only abortion, euthanasia and suicide.
Kowtowing to the United Nations
Tucho claims that from the beginning the Church, driven by the Gospel (!), has sought to promote "the rights" of all people. He refers to the [hypocritical] "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", strongly rejected at the time by Pius XII, and says that it was "authoritatively" given by the United Nations.
Historically, "human rights" were invented by the French Revolution in 1789 to replace the Ten Commandments and Roman Law (etc.), which are based on duties, not "rights". Rights-based laws end up in conflicting rights, both of which are debatable and decided at the whim of the regime ("judge"). It has never been defined whose duty it is to grant an alleged right, and who must pay or work to make it possible.
Gender Ideology
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Researchers in the Netherlands followed 2,700 children from the age of 11 to their mid-20s and found that only 4% of respondents said they experienced "gender dissatisfaction", down from 11% at the start of the study.
Researchers from the University of Groningen asked participants to respond to the statement "I wish I were of the opposite sex" six times over 15 years, and they were asked to answer with "0" for "not true", "1" for "somewhat or sometimes true" and "2" for "very true or often true".
The study found that 78% remained the same throughout the survey, and 19% became more satisfied with their gender.
"The results of the current study may help adolescents to realise that it is normal to have some doubts about one's identity and gender identity at this age, and that this is also relatively common," the researchers concluded.
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The Archbishop of Algiers, french-born Monsignor Jean-Paul Vesco OP, 62, wants deaconesses, he told the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano (2 March): "I very much want it to happen!"
"It seems impossible to me to deprive the faithful, and therefore myself, of the female reception of the Word of God [as if ordinary women couldn't 'receive the Word of God']. None of the arguments put forward have ever convinced me" [because I, Vesco, have fallen away from the Catholic faith].
Because he doesn't want to understand, Monsignor Vesco finds it "difficult" to understand the objections against women's ordination.
He accuses the Church of having "a problem with women for centuries", when in fact Vesco has a problem with the Catholic Faith. Vesco fears that it is in danger of becoming "an obsolete Church, not timeless, but anachronistic and old-fashioned in its organisation", when in reality the Novus Ordo Church is putting itself on the sidelines by becoming a branch of the local newspaper, …More

Father Stefan Hörstrup, pastor of St Lamberti's in Ochtrup (6400 "Catholics"), Diocese of Münster, Germany, has only about 20 marriages a year in his parish, he told the newspaper 'Westfälische Nachrichten' (5 April).
It seems that the few couples who want a church wedding are not religious: "If someone doesn't know how a church service works, that's no problem," Rev. Hörstrup explained. He is prepared to give "stage directions".
At these marriages, there is a tendency to forgoe the Novus Ordo Eucharist and settle for a few readings and prayers ("liturgy of the word").
The Novus Ordo "liturgy" of these weddings is mainly decided by the couple. Rev. Hörstrup has seen balloons floating above the Novus Ordo table, and a dog bringing the rings.
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Cardinal Raymond Burke told "Fede & Cultura" (2 April, video below) that there is "corruption in the Church". He mentions worshipping Pachamama in St Peter's during the Amazon Synod, or monstrous "art" shows in churches.
Faced with such phenomena, Burke feels "frustration" and a "sense of bewilderment". For him, the solution is "to remain even more with Christ in the Church - to fight".
The Cardinal said that the Holy Mass [as opposed to the Novus Ordo Eucharist] has been an extraordinary blessing for the Church for fifteen and more centuries, but now its celebration becomes more and more difficult "because of the new legislation in this matter".
In visiting different parts of the world, Cardinal Burke has seen that Holy Mass continues to attract many people. The numbers of the faithful are getting bigger and bigger: "They are congregations of people of all ages, but what is very impressive is the number of young families with many children, and also young people who are not yet married …More

Monsignor James Powers, the Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin, has accused Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former nuncio to the United States (2011-2016), of "public defamation", reports PillarCatholic.com (decree here).
Monsignor Powers presided over a syncretistic Chrism Eucharist on 19 March, which included a shamanic ceremony in which several women danced around the Novus Ordo table with feathers and drum beats.
Viganò called this a "sacrilegious act that desecrates the cathedral" and said that Mgr Powers was "not a successor of the Apostles, but a servant of Freemasonry" [although the event must be blamed entirely on the Novus Ordo Church, not on anyone else]. He further apostrophised Bishop Powers as "a squalid official of the ecumenical religion" and "a dutiful executor of Santa Marta's wishes".
The accused defended himself by revealing that a similar shamanic ceremony had been performed at his installation as Bishop of Superior in 2016, adding that "Archbishop Viganò was present …More

At least 100 consecrated hosts were scattered across the car park of St Peter's Church in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, during an Easter service.
The Rev. Timothy Grassi said the church reported the action to National Park Service law enforcement.
Grassi told CatholicNewsAgency.com (5 April) that he was certain the hosts did not come from his church because they were a different size: "I don't know of any churches that have identified hosts that have been stolen to this extent." He suggested that the hosts were probably not consecrated.
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Reverend Johnson Vadakkapurathan of the parish 'Our Lady of Mount Carmel', Chumukedima, Nagaland, India, claims that a Eucharistic miracle took place in his parish.
In March, a parishioner brought a Protestant to a Novus Ordo Eucharist. She also grabbed a host during communion but took it home without consuming it. After a restless night, she returned the host to the church.
Father Vadakkapurathan broke the host into pieces and poured holy water over it to dissolve it, while keeping it in the tabernacle. Days later, on Palm Sunday, 24 March, he opened the tabernacle and allegedly found in the vessel in which he had dissolved the host, a solid surface that was bleeding.
Bishop James Thoppil of Kohima launched an investigation on 27 March.
Most cases of blood-like colouring of dissolved hosts are caused by Neurospora crassa, a type of red bread mould. Another agent responsible for the "bloody bread" effect is Serratia marcescens, a type of rod-shaped bacteria.
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As announced by MessaInLatino.it, on 6th April, Francis transferred Cardinal De Donatis, 70, from Vicar of Rome to the meaningless Apostolic Penitentiary. He replaces Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, 79.
Auxiliary Bishop Libanori of Rome has been transferred from his diocesan duties in the diocese of Rome to become Francis' "assessor" for consecrated life, another meaningless position.
This demotion is reportedly a punishment for Libanori investigating Father Marko Rupnik and finding him guilty, while Francis wanted to cover up the investigation.
As an aside, Francis also appointed the allegedly homosexual poet José Tolentino de Mendonça, Francis' Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, as a delegate to the Eucharistic Congress in his native Portugal.
This year's sentimental and egomaniacal Stations of the Cross, supposedly written by Francis, were very much in Mendonça's style.
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According to MessaInLatino, on 6th April Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, 79, of the Apostolic Penitentiary, will be replaced by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, 70, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome whom Francis has disempowered with the Apostolic Constitution 'In Ecclesiarum Communion' (31st January 2023), concentrating simultaneously all power in himself.
Francis was so angry with Cardinal De Donatis that he did not even allow him to accompany him on visits to Roman parishes.
Monsignor Daniele Libanori, 70, the current Auxiliary Bishop of Rome Centre, will also be removed and placed in some useless Roman dicastery, perhaps the Dicastery for Consecrated Life.
There are rumours that his removal has something to do with the Rupnik case, in which Libanori has always defended abused women and would have clashed with Francis, the great defender of Father Marko Rupnik.
Francis' motto seems to be: chaos and tyranny until the last minute.
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Described as “an atomic bomb dropped on the Roman Curia,” a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States accused Pope Francis of covering up some Cardinal sins.
I was just sitting on my bunk in my prison cell on Sunday night, August 26, after a tiring day on multiple fronts. I went through the day without a single message on the GTL tablet I was holding. It was unusual, the calm before the storm.
I spent a few minutes at night playing one of its solitaire games that I can never seem to win. Several minutes later I exited the game to find a surprise. In that brief ten minutes, 19 messages had come into my GTL inbox. Before the night was over, there were nine more.
The summer of Catholic scandal had just detonated its third and most explosive bomb, and several readers sent me alerts and commentary. Archbishop Carlo María Viganò (pro. “vee-ga-NO”), a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, published an 11-page letter on two Catholic websites.
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The world's Catholic population allegedly increased by 1% in 2022, but the number of priests decreased, according to the newly published Pontifical Yearbook 2024 and Statistical Yearbook 2022 (VaticanNews.va, 4 April).
The number of Catholics increased worldwide, from 1.376 billion in 2021 to 1.390 billion in 2022, with a relative increase of 1.0%. The increase is mainly in Africa: 3% (!), where the number of Catholics rose from 265 to 273 million.
Europe shows a situation of stability: in 2021/2022 there were 286 million Catholics [at least on paper]. The Americas and Asia showed a slight increase: +0.9% and +0.6% respectively.
The number of Catholic priests in the world fell slightly from 407,872 to 407,730, while Africa saw an increase of 3.2%.
The number of priests in Europe decreased by 1.7%. The number of men in religious orders also fell slightly, from 49,774 to 49,414.
The decline in the number of sisters was more dramatic: from 608,958 professed women in 2021 to 599,228, a …More

The diocese of Columbus in the US has gone from having no priestly ordinations to having almost 30 seminarians in just two years, writes Álex Navajas on ElDebate.com (31 March).
The diocese had no priestly ordinations and the clergy had aged dramatically. Until at least two years ago, when 16 young men entered the seminary to study for the priesthood. A dozen more are expected this year.
The Bishop of Columbus, Monsignor Earl Fernandes, told Vatican News how he changed the situation: prayer, fasting and closeness to young people.
"We have chosen young priests to meet with the boys and girls once a month to help them discern their vocation to the diocesan priesthood or religious life, and to read Brother Brett Brannan's book 'Saving a Thousand Souls: A Guide to Discerning a Vocation to the Diocesan Priesthood'.
Retreats called "Quo vadis?" have also been organised for high school students.
"Young people spend three days in prayer, listening to testimonies, talking with priests who understand …More

The São Paulo parish in Viana, near Angola's capital Luanda, has published a video (below) showing priests and nuns ecstatically dancing in front of the Novus Ordo table as if they were Baal priests or Elvis Presley.
According to information, which Gloria.tv has not been able to verify, Francis was shown the film footage by his private secretary on a mobil phone. Francis was reportedly deeply scandalised when he realised that at least three (!) priests in the video were wearing albs with lace decoration.
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Reverend Javier Sánchez, 60, died on 4th April in the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza, Spain.
He was presiding over the Easter Vigil last Saturday at the convent of the Sisters in the Santa Isabel district of Zaragoza, where he lived.
Apparently a spark flew when he lit the candle, setting fire to his chasuble and burning half of his body. An ambulance took him to hospital, where the doctors couldn't save him, writes InfoVaticana.com.
Sánchez was the parish priest of San Gregorio parish in Zaragoza. Known as the "rock priest" who sometimes played guitar at concerts. As a priest, he was stuck in the mentality of the 1960s.
During the Covid hysteria, he presided over the Eucharist via zoom and pasted the photos of the parishioners on the pews.
Rev. Sánchez gained notoriety in 2015 when he starred in a video clip in which he appeared half-naked with only angel wings and a guitar, prompting the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Monsignor Vicente Jiménez, to temporarily remove him from his duties.…More

Jean-Marie Guénois wrote an article on LeFigaro.fr (29 March) entitled "The end of the reign in the Vatican - How the Church is preparing for the day after Francis".
In the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, "restoration work" is currently being carried out.
In reality, according to Guénois, what is called "restoration work" is a tomb being prepared for Francis. "I want to be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore," he said in an interview on 13 December last year.
Guénois observes that Francis' image "is always good" in the [anti-clerical] media of the oligarchs, while the climate in the Church is deteriorating: "In the Vatican, the atmosphere is more tense than ever; in the local parishes, there is confusion".
He writes that "more than half of the world's bishops" [all from areas where the Church is not in numerical and moral decadence] have rejected Francis' homosexual propaganda piece "Fiducia supplicans".
He quotes a cardinal living in Rome who calls Fiducia supplicans 'the drop of …More

On 3rd April the Court of Lorient delivered its verdict in the case of Sister Marie Ferréol (née Sabine Baudin de la Valette) against Cardinal Ouellet, her former community and the two Apostolic Visitors, Dom Jean Charles Nault and Mother Desjobert.
According to LeSalonBeige.fr, the judges recognised that the defendants had committed errors against Sister Marie, who was dismissed from her community, the Dominican Sisters of Pontcalec, after 34 years of consecrated life.
The dismissal took place on 21 October 2020, without giving Sister Marie the opportunity to defend herself. She was simply thrown out into the street.
In the case of the Dominican sisters, the court found that
- the procedure for dismissal from the community was not followed
- that no reasons were given for the dismissal
- there was no prior warning
- the duty to help Sr. Marie after her dismissal was not respected. Regarding Dom Nault, the Court found that he had compromised the exercise of the fundamental rights of …More

The former bishop of Chur, Switzerland, Vitus Huonder, died on Easter Wednesday. The news was published by Fsspx.news and is not yet online on the website of his former diocese.
Huonder made international headlines when he joined the Priestly Society of Pius X after retiring from the diocese.
After a month of feeling unwell, his skin turned yellow and he was admitted to hospital on 19 March 2024, where he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
He spent his last years in the boarding school of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X in Wangs, Saint Gall, Switzerland, and publicly supported its positions.
He will be buried on 17 April in Ecône, Valais, Switzerland, in the same crypt as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
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