Worse than Germany: Cardinal Tarcisio Kikuchi of Tokyo has welcomed the Japanese government's plan to promote "understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity", which was approved on 16 June. The plan involves education and "awareness initiatives" in government, schools, and workplaces, as well as measures to combat "discrimination" against homosexuals. In an interview with UcaNews.com on June 17, Cardinal Kikuchi described the government’s decision as “meaningful”, stating that it had clearly articulated a policy intended to foster a "deeper understanding of sexual minorities". And: "An inclusive community that welcomes everyone is not just an attitude; it is the first step towards building the world that God calls us to create." The cardinal's latest remarks are consistent with his longstanding homosex activism. Tokyo Archdiocese has organised monthly homosexual Eucharists. In 2023, he contributed to the book LGBT and Christianity, promoted by the 'Catholic HIV/AIDS Desk'. …Ibindi
One more that slipped off my list: Müller, Sarah and Burke are among those who chose Prevost, along with Tarcisio Kikuchi of Tokyo, José Cobo,Tucho/Víctor Manuel Fernández, Timothy Radcliffe, Blase Cupich, Jozef De Kesel, Carlos Aguiar Retes, Joseph W. Tobin, Matteo Maria Zuppi, Robert McElroy, Mario Grech, Wilton Gregory, Reinhard Marx, Vincent Nichols, Luis Antonio Tagle, Timothy Dolan, Pietro Parolin, José Tolentino de Mendonça, Kevin Farrell, Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio, etc. Bergoglio's Fiducia Supplicans Cardinals who elected Prevost: Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio, Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, Pablo Virgilio David, Jaime Spengler, Jean-Paul Vesco, Roberto Repole, Tarcisio Isao, Vicente Bokalic Iglic, etc Bergoglio's Fiducia Supplicans Cardinals who elected Prevost: Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio, Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, Pablo Virgilio David, Jaime Spengler, Jean-Paul Vesco, Roberto Repole, Tarcisio Isao, Vicente Bokalic Iglic, etc.
– Folha de S. Paulo, June 6, 1987 – by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Back in the seventies, the Brazilian newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo, asked Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira if he favored the end of legal restrictions to divorce. His reply is very applicable to the present debate around same-sex “marriage.” We reproduce the newspaper interview here having in mind the similarity between the two issues. _______________ * * * ________________ The Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) had numerous jousts against divorce in its history. Employing every means of action in this struggle, the TFP fought against it until the final moment. The victory of divorce did not result, however, from the fact that a particularly fervid or efficacious pro-divorce onslaught had finally managed to raze the glorious rampart of conjugal indissolubility. Rather, this victory resulted from the lamentable relaxations that occurred within the Catholic milieu itself! But, I insist,…Ibindi
Taybeh must not vanish into silence. Taybeh, the last fully Christian town in Palestine, is suffering months of attacks by Israeli settlers. On August 5, settlers entered the property of a Christian family belonging to the local parish, cut through the fence and brought a flock of sheep onto the family’s land. The incident follows reports of fires, damage to farmland and repeated incursions onto private property. Around 1,200 Christians remain in Taybeh, a West Bank town traditionally identified with the biblical Ephraim. Parish priest Bashar Fawadleh has appealed for international attention: “Do not forget Taybeh! Taybeh must not vanish into silence.”
Tajbeh, the last fully Christian town in Palestine, has been subjected to attacks and intimidation by Israeli settlers for months. Residents fear that the pressure will force more families to leave their homes and land. The village, located east of Ramallah in the West Bank, is identified with the biblical Ephraim. According to tradition, Jesus and his disciples found refuge there. Recently, there have been repeated incursions onto private properties and farmland. On August 5, settlers entered the property of a family belonging to the parish, destroyed the fence, and brought a flock of sheep onto the land. Such actions are systematic in nature and are intended to instill fear and force Palestinians to leave their land. There have also been instances of arson, destruction of fields, roadblocks, and restrictions on freedom of movement. “We feel forgotten; we feel alone,” he emphasizes, appealing to the international community for concrete protection of the civilian population and political …Ibindi
Capt Kyle @CaptKylePatriot THEY HAVE BEEN LYING TO YOU ABOUT OIL FOR 150 YEARS. Oil is not rare. It is not made from dead dinosaurs. It is the second most common liquid on Earth after water and it is literally the planet’s lifeblood. The entire “fossil fuel” scam was invented by the Rockefellers and the Smithsonian in the late 1800s to create artificial scarcity and jack up prices to insane levels. They fed you the biotic lie so you would believe oil is some finite dinosaur soup that is about to run dry. Total fabrication. Oil is abiotic. It is a liquid mineral cooked deep in the Earth’s mantle under crushing pressure and scorching heat. It is the natural lubricant for tectonic plates and the grease that keeps the planet’s massive gears turning smoothly. That is why wells drilled dry in the 1970s are filling back up again today. The Earth is pumping fresh oil from below and regenerating it nonstop. It does not run out. We are sucking the lubricant out of the planet’s engine and now the …Ibindi
Mónica Astorga spent almost 40 years as a Discalced Carmelite nun in Argentina and became prioress of her convent in Neuquén. She became internationally known for her work with transvestites because of Pope Francis' encouragement. Astorga meanwhile left the convent and trained in hairdressing. The Vatican formally accepted her departure from the Discalced Carmelites in 2024. She “still” considers herself a believer – yet without attending a Eucharist regularly. Long Connection with Bergoglio Her connection with Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, began much earlier. Astorga says she met him when he was a Jesuit in Buenos Aires in 1987, nearly two decades before she began working with transvestites. She later described Bergoglio's support for her as “unconditional.” Beginning Her Work with Transvestites Astorga began assisting transvestites in 2006, after one such guy sought help in a parish. Her clientele included prostitutes, people living with HIV, and impoverished or …Ibindi
You know it was heterosexual couples who brought you into this world .Family vs sterile self centered prideful twisted sisters Are the seeds of there own destruction Nobody going to be there when you take your last breath .your false community could care less about you in the end. Look how Francis died in a elevator
On August 11, 1937, Soviet Russia began the mass extermination of Poles living in the USSR. - it was the so-called "Polish Operation of the NKVD". 111 thousand people were murdered, and about 140 thousand Poles were "tried" and sent to prisons and labor camps.
Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia on August 7 in a ceremony reflecting his Catholic faith. Succeeding left-wing President Gustavo Petro, he took the oath at Santiago de Cali University, accompanied by his wife, their four children, and members of his government team. An image of Our Lady of Fatima stood prominently on the stage. De la Espriella concluded by asking God to bless his children and declaring: “Everything for the homeland… Stand firm for the homeland! Long live Christ the King!”
Kolumbiens neuer konservativer christlicher Präsident verkündet bei seiner Vereidigung als Präsident „Lang lebe Christus der König“. @SGTnewsNetwork @Qanalwwg1wga Mäckle macht gute Laune
“Padre DJ” Performed at Brazil’s Muquém Pilgrimage. Worse than Germany: On 9 August, Rev. Rômulo Leal, also known as "Padre DJ", performed 45 minutes of electronic music at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abbey of Muquém in Niquelândia, in the Diocese of Uruaçu, Brazil. The performance took place during a vigil as part of the annual Nossa Senhora d’Abadia do Muquém pilgrimage.
Father Rômulo Leal of the Archdiocese of Goiânia, Brazil He is known as "Padre DJ" Video from the 2026 Pilgrimage at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abbey of Muquém (Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Abadia do Muquém) in Niquelândia, Diocese of Uruaçu, Goiás, Brazil
Eucharistic Boat Procession will Grace Louisiana's Bayou Teche on August 15 | Shalom World News Louisiana’s annual Fête-Dieu du Teche Eucharistic boat procession returns Saturday, August 15, traveling down Bayou Teche from Leonville to St. Martinville for the Feast of the Assumption.
World’s Oldest Trappist Monk, 108, Survivor of Communist Persecution, Has Died. Fr. Benedict Chao, the world’s oldest Trappist monk, died on July 31 at Our Lady of Joy Abbey on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, at the age of 108. Born in Hebei, China, in 1918, Chao entered monastic life in 1941 and was ordained a priest in 1949. He belonged to a generation of Chinese Trappists whose monasteries were destroyed during Communist persecution. After fleeing mainland China, Chao and fellow monks lived for a time in Canada and the United States before rebuilding their monastic community in Hong Kong.
China: Fallece el último trapense superviviente de la persecución comunista. El monje trapense más anciano del mundo ha muerto a los 108 años en la Abadía de Nuestra Señora de la Alegría, en la isla de Lantau, Hong Kong. hmtv
The Perpetual Necessity of the Latin Language Pope John XXIII Promulgated In His Apostolic Constitution "Veterum Sapientia" And now we have the illiterate Robert Prevost. How do these things happen? How strong is Satan?
Today, Leo XIV sent a prerecorded video message to the 70th-anniversary assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in Orlando. LCWR is the largest association of leaders of Catholic women religious in the United States. Its members are generally the superiors of congregations of sisters. The video was shown to an overwhelmingly elderly gathering, with scarcely a religious habit or young face in sight. Religious to Become “Experts in Synodality” Leo XIV said that all Christians are called to be “formed in a synodal Church”. He continued: “In a special way, those in religious life are called to become experts in synodality due to the opportunities afforded by community life to practice it.” Then, he praised the assembly's planned “synodal method of listening, discussion and discernment,” expressing the hope that through such “fraternal and receptive dialogue” the sisters would be able to “discern what the Holy Spirit is saying” about “the present and future of consecrated …Ibindi
Jeder Depp kann in der Kirche machen, was er will! Wehe, wenn die Priesterbruderschaft St. Pius X. einen Notstand beklagt, der wird dann plötzlich von allen, leider auch von konservativen Bischöfen (!!), geleugnet!
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference attended the private funeral of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini in Pavana on Saturday. He delivered an address, published on Avvenire.it (August 8), in which he practically canonized the self-described agnostic. Guccini, 86, had described himself as an “agnostic possibilist.” Zuppi, who was his friend, recalled that the singer had once told him he wanted the cardinal present at his funeral. Addressing Guccini directly, Cardinal Zuppi imagined what the deceased might now be seeing: “We do not know precisely … what you see: the fullness of that light which, in reality, you had already sensed from here and which you were able to glimpse in the poignant and infinite beauty of life.” Cardinal Zuppi portrayed Guccini’s agnostic doubt positively, as an honest search for truth. “Doubt was your way of standing before things without cheating, with integrity,” he said. “You never stopped asking and listening.” …Ibindi
Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho Meanwhile yesterday in the UK King Charles is back in his favourite place - the new local Mega Mosque based in Cambridge - surrounded by Islamists praying to Allah. King Charles is a traitor of the highest magnitude.
Video Captures Cathedral Collapse: A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on August 10. In Manizales, the earthquake caused significant damage to the city’s Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary. Dramatic video shows the massive cathedral shaking violently as part of one of its domes collapses. The historic neo-Gothic building is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Manizales. More than 160 people have been reported dead, while rescue operations continue across the affected regions.
Colombia: la Catedral de Manizales, gravemente afectada por un terremoto de magnitud 7,4 Las imágenes son impactantes: bajo la violencia de los fuertes temblores, varios elementos de las torres de la Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Manizales se desprenden y caen. Uno de los monumentos católicos más emblemáticos de Colombia ha sufrido graves daños a causa del potente terremoto que sacudió el oeste del país el lunes 10 de agosto.
Blessed Karl Leisner - August 12 The Blessed Karl Leisner (28 February 1915 in Rees – 12 August 1945 in Planegg, Germany) was a Roman Catholic priest interned in the Dachau concentration camp. He died of tuberculosis shortly after being liberated by the Allied forces. He has been declared a martyr and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 23 June 1996. Leisner was born on 28 February 1915, the oldest of five children. When he was six years old, the family moved to Kleve, a city on the lower Rhine, where his father worked as a civil servant. He attended school and completed his gymnasium studies in 1934. During his youth, he became an altar boy and, at the suggestion of the high school chaplain, former a Catholic youth group, the Saint Werner Group. These youth groups combined prayer with outdoor activities, such as camping and cycling. Leisner turned out to be a natural leader and became a youth leader in the 1930s, during the era in which the Nazis were beginning to take control of …Ibindi
Der katholische Märtyrer des Zweiten Weltkriegs, der im KZ heimlich zum Priester geweiht wurde Hinter dem Stacheldrahtzaun des Konzentrationslagers Dachau versuchte das NS-Regime, jeglichen religiösen Widerstand zu unterdrücken. Doch im Winter 1944 ereignete sich in den Baracken ein geheimes Ereignis, das als eine der heldenhaftesten Glaubenstaten der modernen Geschichte in die Annalen eingehen sollte. In dieser Dokumentation von SG NEWS beleuchten wir die bewegende Geschichte des seligen Karl Leisner, eines jungen deutschen Jugendführers und katholischen Märtyrers, der alles riskierte, um sich der Überwachung durch die Gestapo zu entziehen. Nachdem er vom Regime ins Visier genommen und inhaftiert worden war, nahm Leisners Leben eine unglaubliche Wendung: eine heimliche Zeremonie direkt vor den Augen von SS-Wachen. Wie konnte ein gefangener französischer Bischof in einem Konzentrationslager eine geheime Priesterweihe vollziehen? Wie wurde die Geschichte des Dachauer Priesters Karl Leisner …Ibindi
The Vatican's reasoning for the ban on lay preaching is "not entirely consistent," Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz told Katholisch.de on August 11. "The letter from the Prefect for Liturgy states that only the priest celebrating Mass may preach. But taken to its logical conclusion, that would mean a concelebrating priest or an assisting deacon shouldn't be allowed to preach either." Lay Preaching Is No Problem In the Diocese of Mainz, occasional lay preaching has become an established practice and Bishop Kohlgraf has no intention of changing that. In some parishes, "it is customary for laypeople to preach," he said. "If I hear about it, I won't take disciplinary action or impose canonical sanctions." "Denunciations" Are a Problem Bishop Kohlgraf is concerned that the directive from Rome could encourage "denunciations": "There are people who report liturgical violations straight to the bishop and write directly to me. That happened before too - individual people would complain to me - but …Ibindi
"The letter from the Prefect for Liturgy states that only the priest celebrating Mass may preach. But taken to its logical conclusion, that would mean a concelebrating priest or an assisting deacon shouldn't be allowed to preach either." Even a blind squirrel will find a nut every once in a while. So the Prefect for Liturgy is careless to the point of being goofy. But what self-respecting Catholic, much less a bishop, can use this for an excuse?
Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz criticised the Vatican’s June 17 ruling upholding the ban on lay preaching at Mass as “not entirely coherent”. He noted that lay preaching has become common practice and said he would neither intervene nor impose canonical sanctions.