On 1 March, the anti-Catholic Italian association Rete L'Abuso reported that the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith had confirmed that the statute of limitations would apply in the case of Italian priest Valentino Salvoldi of the Diocese of Bergamo. Ordained in 1970, Salvoldi served as a missionary in several African countries and presented himself as a professor of philosophy and moral theology involved in clergy formation. Describing himself as a “beggar of love”, he promoted a spirituality centred on affection, the body, and physical closeness, often positioning himself as critical of what he considered to be a “rigid” Church. He has been accused by at least 21 individuals — all male and including minors at the time — of sexual abuse allegedly committed during youth camps and spiritual retreats between the 1990s and early 2000s. The allegations describe a pattern of prolonged kissing, inappropriate physical contact, sharing beds, and manipulative spiritual practices …More
Saint Luke proclaims the Parable of the Prodigal Son as the Gospel for Saturday of the Second Week of Lent. Is there any sin that is beyond the compassion of God?
2026-02-18 Reconquest – The Living Rosary Summary: Core Message: The Father is allowing the deep corruption and works of Satan in the world and the Church to be fully exposed. This painful exposure is not a sign of divine indifference but a necessary cleansing—like surgically removing infected tissue to reach healthy flesh—so that her Army can see the true enemy and fight with clear vision. The Call to Battle: This is a unique, tremendous Hour in salvation history. Past spiritual weapons are insufficient.The faithful are called to be her trained Army for this specific battle against overwhelming confusion, manipulation, and deception. The Essential Weapons:The primary weapon for this Hour is not just praying the Rosary, but living it . The lived Rosary forges a living chain to God's Heart and trains the soul in the three vital virtues: FAITH: To believe and unite with the divine mysteries. HUMILITY: To accept and set aside one's own will for the Father's infinite plan. OBEDIENCE: …More
As he left Castel Gandolfo for the Vatican this evening, Pope Leo XIV spoke to journalists again. However, he took only one question from EWTN. It was about Jimmy Lai's 20-year sentence under Hong Kong's national security law. Leo XIV replied: "I can't comment on that." He then added that "we must pray for peace, work for peace and reduce hatred". He continued: 'Hatred is constantly increasing in the world. We must seek to promote dialogue and find solutions.” On 23 December, he “couldn’t comment” on a question about his appointment of the effeminate Archbishop Ronald Hicks of New York. #newsKmcpvoilbb
04.03.2026 WITH LG 16 INVISIBLE THE SSPX CAN CLAIM THAT RAHNER, RATZINGER AND CHAPP ARE IN SCHISM : WITH LG 16 VISIBLE FERNANDEZ CAN ACCUSE THE SSPX OF BEING IN SCHISM The SSPX says that they want to save souls from Hell but they interpret Vatican Council II irrationally like Pope Leo, the Council is liberal and nontraditional, which the pope uses to justify the LGBT agenda. The pope is responding to his religious formation in Chicago and it is the same formation as that of the SSPX. Neither of the two choose to interpret Vatican Council II rationally with the Rational Premise and so affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, the Athanasius Creed and the exclusivist ecclesiology of the Roman Missal. The SSPX sends its seminarians in Rome to study at the pontifical universities where the priests and professors also interpret Vatican Council II irrationally like the SSPX. Now the Latin Mass is being attacked because of the Roman Missal’s exclusivist ecclesiology and the SSPX can do …More
Seventy church buildings in the Diocese of Roermond are currently in the process of being closed, Bishop Cornelis Van den Hout, 61, of Roermond, Netherlands, told Nd.nl on March 3. In 2026, he employed a full-time economist to oversee the closure of church buildings. "It's an urgent issue. The financial figures leave us with no other option," Bishop Van den Hout said. He believes that the downward spiral will not stop after the closing of the seventy churches. "At the moment, the diocese has 280 church buildings. Around the turn of the century, we had 360. Occasionally, a church would be closed in the previous century, but until 1981, new ones were still being built." Monsignor Van den Hout added that presiding over the Eucharist in a church "requires a certain number of people — not ten people in a church that can hold several hundred". "Given the current financial situation and declining church attendance, it is inevitable that we will designate one centrally located church building …More
Churches have become so far apart that, more and more, only those who can afford a car (or a round-trip Uber) can attend Mass. That leaves out most of the old, disabled, and just plain poor. Of course, one benefit of that is the attendance numbers decline more and the closure of more churches can be justified. It's "Let them eat cake" instead of the Bread of Life for them (they only put a widow's pence in the collection basket, anyway).
4. March 2026 4. March 2026 03/04/2026 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. News is spreading on social media that Saudi and Qatari intelligence services have arrested Mossad agents who were planning and/or carrying out attacks. The obvious aim was to blame Iran in order to persuade the Gulf states to enter the war. Russia is apparently trying to mediate between the Gulf states and Iran to prevent the war from spreading. Meanwhile, the EU states are adding fuel to the fire by talking about arbitrary attacks, even though the targets are clearly US interests and therefore legitimate targets for a country defending itself. The excerpt I selected from the report on the events of the fourth day of the US/Israel coalition’s aggression against Iran can be read in the article published late yesterday evening on tkp.at: Day 4 of the war of aggression against Iran.Source. Tucker Says Mossad Chaos Agents Captured By Gulf Countries. Meanwhile, television in the corrupt West, i.e. here in our country …
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And Why Does it Matter? The following first appeared as an interview in The Catholic Herald. Jan C. Benz, who conducted the interview, teaches philosophy at Blackfriars College, Oxford. Los Angeles Cathedral, completed 2002 Jan C. Benz wrote: For many Catholics, the experience is familiar and disquieting: newly built churches that feel more like conference centres than places of worship, stripped of ornament, symbolism, and the Holy. The question of ugliness in modern church architecture is often dismissed as a matter of taste or nostalgia. Yet for David Clayton, artist, educator and one of the most articulate contemporary defenders of traditional Catholic aesthetics, the issue runs far deeper. At stake is not merely style, but theology: how the Church understands worship, the human person and the relationship between beauty and truth. In this conversation, Clayton argues that modern ecclesial ugliness reflects a loss of Catholic inculturation, a failure of formation, especially in …
Jeremiah 17:5-10 The person who listens to the Lord is wise. But the person who follows what leads away from God's love distances themselves from God, from themselves, and from others. Luke 16:19-31 Jesus tells the parable of the rich man and Lazarus to remind us to be ourselves. Hence, also the need to listen to people and to be with them. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Mário Antônio da Silva, 59, as the new Archbishop of Aparecida. The archdiocese is significant because it houses Brazil's National Shrine. Born on October 17, 1966, he was ordained a priest on December 21, 1991, for the Diocese of Jacarezinho. Benedict XVI appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus in 2010. Francis promoted him to Bishop of Roraima in 2016 and to Archbishop of Cuiabá in 2022. He is President of Caritas Brazil. Monsignor da Silva participated in the Amazon Synod in October 2019. He was among the drafting committee responsible for preparing the Synod's final document. Wisdom of the Indigenous and Hugging Trees In October 2019, during the Amazon Synod, Bishop da Silva used all of Francis’ buzzwords. The Synod provided an opportunity to “listen to the voice of the Amazon” and to open “new paths” for the Church and integral ecology. He also supported the concept of “ecological conversion”. He called the Synod “an opportunity to get in …More
M ROSA in English. DEAR FRIENDS, since the Slovak edition of the M ROSA magazine has received an extraordinary response around the world, we have translated this issue 01-02/2026 into English. Please, since it is a serious Catholic content, spread this magazine as much as possible. It is important. Thank you! Anton Selecký Editor-in-Chief and Director of the Magnificat Slovakia Association.
On Tuesday, the General Secretariat of the Synod published two final reports from the study groups established for the October 2024 Synod. Study Group Number 3 concerns a comprehensive strategy for Christian mission in the digital age (30 pages). Study Group 4 concerns the reorientation of priestly formation (25 pages). Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, claimed that these reports are "not just simple bureaucratic cooperation" – and thereby identified the problem. The reports' language is repetitive and employs dense synodal vocabulary, frequently referencing the Final Document of the Synod, Vatican II texts and papal addresses. Vatican Licks Wounds The Group 3 report on missions in the digital environment recognises that the Church must be present in a culture increasingly shaped by algorithms and online communities: "Digital mission must become part of regular Church structures instead of remaining a niche project." The document calls on the Church to treat the …More
A viral post claims that having nine children while running a business is 'irresponsible.' As a legal analyst and mother of 10, I’d like to plead guilty —and offer the beautiful, messy evidence of a life lived at scale. A post recently making the rounds on social media declared, with considerable confidence, that having nine children while running a business is irresponsible. The author, for her part, identifies as “pro-natalist, pro-kids, pro-family.” I read it with interest, because in addition to working as a legal analyst and running a small organization, I am also the mother of ten. By her accounting, I am apparently a cautionary tale. Allow me to plead guilty. And offer some evidence. On Adventure and Letting Go of Control This past summer, I loaded the younger half of my children into the minivan for what I will generously describe as an ambitious itinerary: from the D.C. area to the Midwest to visit grandparents, then north to Niagara Falls, passing through Boston, then onward …
[Saint Bonaventure – XIII Century AD: Civita di Bagnoregio, Papal States/Lyon, Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles; (aged 52-53); Cardinal, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Seraphic Doctor, Teacher of the Faith, Writer, Philosopher] “Chapter III ~ ‘THE MEANINGS OF THE NAME MARY’ Ave Maria. As we have said above, this name was inserted here not by the Angel, but by the devotion of the faithful. The Blessed Evangelist Luke says significantly: "And the name of the Virgin was Mary" (Luke I, 27.) This most holy, sweet, and worthy name was eminently fitting to so holy, sweet, and worthy a virgin. For Mary means a bitter sea, star of the sea, the illuminated or illuminatrix. Mary is interpreted lady. Mary is a bitter sea to the demons; to men she is the star of the sea; to the angels she is illuminatrix, and to all creatures she is lady. Mary is interpreted: "a bitter sea"; this is excellently suited to her power against the demons. Note in what way Mary is a sea, and in what way she is bitter, and how …More
"Mary is interpreted: "a bitter sea"; this is excellently suited to her power against the demons. Note in what way Mary is a sea, and in what way she is bitter, and how she is at once a sea and bitter. Mary is a sea by the abundant overflow of her graces; and Mary is a bitter sea by submerging the devil. Mary is indeed a sea by the superabounding Passion of her Son; Mary is a bitter sea by her power over the devil, in which he is, as it were, submerged and drowned."
2026-02-18 Reconquest - The Living Rosary youtube.com/watch?v=vbNBza6Kez8 February 18th, 2026 Our Blessed Mother. Ash Wednesday. The Living Rosary. (Dictated in English.) (NOTE: The footnotes are not dictated by God. They are added by Sister. Sometimes the footnote is to help clarify for the reader Sister’s sense of the meaning of a certain word or idea, and at other times to better convey the sense of God’s tone when He spoke.) My little children, It is I, your Heavenly Mother, your Queen, Who speaks to you today. My little ones – who eagerly await Our Words – I bless you with all of My Motherly Love. Sons and daughters of My Heart,1 My soldiers, you have seen more and more of the horrors, indifferences, insults, blasphemies, and manipulations that our enemy has produced with the cooperation of so many souls. So many, My children. When one is cleaning a wound in which there is infection and gangrened tissue one must expose it, removing and exposing all the layers of infection, until …More