By Erik Gregory, Todd Gregory Civilizational erasure, as it relates to Europe, has been in the news lately, with the renewed and scaled up predations of Islam once again commanding center stage. Islam’s resurgence has been a full century in the making, enabled in large part by Western ignorance and enforced taboos against discussing Islam’s highly relevant 1,400-year history of mass bloodshed and conquest. Indeed, that history is whitewashed by Western academics, whether pseudo-historians like the late Edward Said or execrable and ahistorical oikophobes like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. Wikipedia, Google, and artificial intelligence also play outsized roles in the academic and historical whitewash. The true history of Islam and what it has wrought through the centuries is not taught to Western schoolchildren. Modern Westerners have zero historical memory of Islam extending back more than a few decades, nor would they be the least bit curious if they were taught this hugely important …
The museum Künstlerhaus in Vienna, Austria, is presenting an exhibition titled “You Shall Make Yourself an Image.” It opened in late October 2025 and runs through 8 February 2026. The exhibition features about 40 provocateurs (“artists”) mocking Christian imagery. Catholic organizations and online petitions describe the exhibit as “blasphemous,” “insulting,” and as mocking key Christian symbols such as the crucifixion and imagery of the Virgin Mary. Works criticized include: - A wolf dressed in liturgical garments - A crucified frog - Portrayals of Mary as a trans woman or other provocative reinterpretations The Austrian right-wing party FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party) condemned the exhibition as “a scandalous mockery of Christianity” and demanded that it be shut down, especially since it runs during Advent and Christmas and receives public funding. On Monday, a group of Catholics gathered outside the museum to protest the exhibition, including an act of penance prayer. However, …More
Cardinal Baltazar Porras, emeritus of Caracas, Venezuela, was banned from leaving the country as he was boarding a plane. He was told that he won't be allowed to leave Venezuela anymore. Last month Porras said that Venezuela lives a situaton "morally unacceptable."
Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, emeritus of Caracas, was stopped from leaving Venezuela on December 10. Authorities at Simón Bolívar International Airport annulled his passport as he prepared to board a flight to Madrid. Officials informed him he was under a travel ban, confiscated his passport, and detained him for about two hours before sending him back to his residence. He was escorted even to go to the bathroom. Authorities claimed “non-compliance with travel regulations” and required Cardinal Porras to sign a document confirming he could not travel. The cardinal reported that when he attempted to photograph the document, he was threatened with arrest. He also said an officer told him he appeared as “deceased” in the government system, which was used to justify the passport cancellation. The incident follows growing tension between the Venezuelan government and the Church. Weeks earlier, Cardinal Porras had described the situation in Venezuela as “morally unacceptable …More
Meanwhile in London “Get out of our Country - do you know who you’re messing with” Muslims yelling at British people to get out of ‘their’ Country - anyone else see the issue here?
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝? The official audience granted by Pope Francis to Father James Martin, a known advocate for changing Church teaching on homosexual acts, sent a message of confusion to Catholics worldwide. By not correcting the public perception that the Pope supports these activities, the Holy See risks signaling agreement with efforts that contradict Church doctrine.
Adrian Milag: Your excellency, you strongly promote the Traditional Latin Mass, but there seems to be no listed TLMs in Kazakhstan. Could you clarify the situation? Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Well, our current bishops are not so considering. Well, we have very few people who demand it because majority of our liturgies, thanks be to God, are very worthy. We have in all Kazakhstan, the communion in hand is prohibited; formally, it is prohibited by the decree of the bishop’s conference. The only ordinary form to receive Holy Communion is kneeling on the tongue in all churches, in all chapels, with the paten. There is no other possibility, except of course, for sick people.
The Hong Kong Court of Appeals heard the appeal of 93-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen and four other members of the now-defunct 612 Humanitarian Fund, who were convicted in 2022 for failing to formally register the fund as a society, as required by local law. The verdict will be announced within the next nine months. The 612 Fund, created in 2019 to provide assistance to pro-democracy protesters, was shut down in 2021. The defendants—including lawyer Margaret Ng, singer Denise Ho, former parliamentarian Cyd Ho, and academic Hui Po-keung—were each fined HK$4,000. Although the case is not being tried under the National Security Law imposed by Beijing in 2020, pro-democracy organizations argue that it has political undertones and seeks to punish pro-democracy activism and limit religious and civil liberties in Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal has been hearing the appeal of Cardinal Joseph Zen (93, retired Catholic bishop of Hong Kong) and four other trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund: barrister Margaret Ng, academic Hui Po-keung, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, and singer-activist Denise Ho. They were convicted in November 2022 of failing to register the 612 Fund as a “society” under Hong Kong’s Societies Ordinance and each fined HK$4,000; the fund’s secretary, Sze Shing-wai, was fined HK$2,500 and is not part of the appeal.
Mind the sidenote: PelicanPlus is a paywalled website that publishes media contributions from several traditional Catholic authors in the US. It uses the a blogging software Ghost.org (a competitor to WordPress) and technical maintenance provided by Treefort Systems.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, 77, told PelicanPlus.com on 8 December that the modern push for gender and homosexual ideology is "absolutely criminal". PelicanPlus is a paywalled website that publishes media contributions from several traditional Catholic authors in the US. It uses the a blogging software Ghost.org (a competitor to WordPress) and technical maintenance provided by Treefort Systems. Cardinal Müller believes naively that bishops are "naive" about homosexual ideology. "God created human beings, male and female," he said, adding that it is also biologically and empirically "obvious" that we exist as men and women. He linked this ideology to communist and gnostic ideologies and warns of an attack on the divine institution of marriage. Cardinal Müller asked: "Which ideology was responsible for the deaths of more than 100 million people and the Gulags?" He replied: "This is not an accident in communism, but a logical consequence of atheism and a lack of respect for life." Furthermore …More
Brigitte Macron can clearly be seen receiving Communion while the commentator says: “She has the perfect right to do so.” He adds that Emmanuel Macron did not approach to receive the Host out of “total respect” for “secularism,” the separation between Church and state that the French call “laïcité.”
Mon Dec 8, 2025 - 12:21 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Father Guy Pagès is a priest of the diocese of Paris well known for his work on Islam, its incoherence, and its total incompatibility with the Catholic faith. He recently wrote an open letter to Pope Leo XIV asking him to impose sanctions on those who allowed a profanation of the Holy Eucharist when France’s first lady was publicly given Communion during a special Mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, in Notre Dame Cathedral. The occasion was the cathedral’s official reopening after the terrible fire, beginning on the Monday of Holy Week in 2019, that could have destroyed it. Pagè’s letter is full of anguish regarding the eternal fate of those who made this sacrilege possible and, mentioning the assessment of Benedict XVI, warns that a parallel can be made between the abuse of children within the Church and contempt for the Body of Christ. READ: Bishop Eleganti: Vatican trying to play both sides of the women deacons …
Pope Leo XIV has extended an Apostolic Blessing to the Society of St. Pius X's chapel in the Charlotte Diocese of North Carolina: « The Holy Father Leo XIV cordially imparts the requested Apostolic Blessing to Reverend Father John Bourbeau, FSSPX and Faithful of the Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X of Saint Anthony of Padua Chapel on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Chapel invoking through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary an abundance of divine graces. Mount Holly, North Carolina, 22nd August 2025, Jubilaeum A.D. MMXXV. »
Pope Leo XIV granted an Apostolic Blessing to Fr John Bourbeau FSSPX and the faithful of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX) at Saint Anthony of Padua Chapel in Mount Holly, North Carolina. The blessing commemorates the 25th anniversary of the chapel’s founding. The Vatican document is dated November 18 and signed by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. The chapel is in the Charlotte area. Many Catholics gather there for Mass because Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte curtailed most celebrations of the Mass in the Roman rite in diocesan parishes. He now permits the Roman rite only in a single diocesan chapel with capacity for approximately 350 people. St. Anthony’s community was formed in the early 1980s and spent 19 years worshipping in various temporary locations, including a private residence, a rented floor of a bank building, and facilities of the Junior League of Charlotte. In 2000, community members identified a church building for sale. The first Mass in the new chapel took …More
Shouldn't read too much into this - it's pro forma. In fact Francis consolidated trade in these papal blessing parchments. Why? I've seen many IRL for priests', couples', organizations' anniversaries; you can order them! Also recall the nu-Vatican said one can "bless anything & anyone" (in Fiducia Supplicans).
This is really the greatest moment of my life and my career, right now' Singer Michael Bublé was overcome with emotion at the Concert with the Poor in the Vatican tonight The singer has sold 75 million records worldwide
He breached bail conditions in 2023. He asked people to call a library manager to try and dissuade her from holding the drag-queen story hour. But a judge decided that his actions were an act of intimidation to get the manager to cancel the event. As if the other side doesn't use similar tactics against Christians. What a complete double-standard.
Just days ago, Calgary Pastor Derek Reimer from was arrested once more and sent to jail. His crime this time? He had been ordered by a court to write an apology for protesting a public library's "drag queen story hour." He refused to do so. He's Christian and cannot support the grooming of children. Where is the diversity and inclusion for Christians? Reimer stood in front of a public library in an effort to defend the children. In Canada, standing up for children's innocence has now become a crime. His other punishable public offence? He breached bail conditions in 2023. He asked people to call a library manager to try and dissuade her from holding the drag-queen story hour. But a judge decided that his actions were an act of intimidation to get the manager to cancel the event. As if the other side doesn't use similar tactics against Christians. What a complete double-standard. One for Christians and another for those who support the sexual letters of the alphabet. The police actually …
On Thursday, retired Swiss bishop Marian Eleganti warned at the RomeLifeForum.com that efforts to promote a 'universal fraternity' risk collapsing into religious relativism. He stressed that, according to Christian teaching, people are not 'children of God' simply by existing. Rather, they receive this identity through faith in Christ and baptism. Any model of human fraternity that obscures this truth ceases to be authentically Christian, he said. Mission Cannot Be Replaced by Dialogue Monsignor Eleganti warned that the Church’s mission must not be reduced to interreligious dialogue which avoids proclaiming the truth. He also noted the impact of media imagery showing religious leaders praying together, which implicitly suggests that "one religion is as good as another". Criticism of Pope Francis’ Statements Furthermore, Bishop Eleganti criticised Pope Francis's controversial remarks. He cited the 2024 statement in Singapore that "all religions are a path to God", as well as the assertion …More