“The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God.”
—Pope Leo XIII, Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus, 1 November 1900
can’t wait to go to the best place in the world (Europe) finally next month. I am going to Italy and will eat the best food, use the ATM (in English?), buy things in Euros, wear the perfect outfits, take the best pictures and walk a lot so get exercise. Also will go to church.
Not my photo or post so credit to: x.com/imperatoraus/status/1926676131505434695
Italy (and all of Europe) has changed A LOT during the last decades: don't expect too much, otherwise you'll find yourself disappointed. Even the climate is getting worse every year...
Real Catholics are very rare to find in Italy (and Europe) these days...
Italy desperately needs a revival, and it will come, but we're not there yet.
God speed you! Be careful out there!
I discovered today that Pope Benedict XIV’s encyclical titled Unambiguous is specifically and entirely about Lenten fasting, although the translation of an excerpt included in my missal suggested the message was about the general observance of Lent.
Summary: “The whole Church, spread throughout the Christian world, believes that it must include, among the main cornerstones of right doctrine, the Lenten fast. . . . With fasting, as if a mark of our militia, we are distinguished from the enemies of the Church. . . . No one is permitted to dispense without just reason and the advice of two doctors. . . . Even if there is no reason to illustrate what the very serious need is, we want you to know well how in such a situation we must first of all stick to a single meal. . . . We implore you in the Lord that those who cannot observe this penitential discipline common to all the faithful . . . do not neglect with other works of piety to atone for their sins and . . . with works of piety, the …More
The translation from my missal, but I imagine the editors did not cross-reference and independently translate the original Italian.
The fruits of Vatican II antipopes and their liberalization & hollowing out of “Catholicism”
Sad story!
Notice that there's no concern for her daughter's soul. Of course, she married a Muslim so one wonders if the author cared for her own either. But it seems her maternal instinct has manifested in her gut reaction.