"Preserving the precious treasure of the traditional liturgy is part of preserving the Deposit of Faith," Bishop Athanasius Schneider said in his homily on August 2 in Limerick, Ireland, at the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. He is currently celebrating Mass and delivering talks in various locations across Ireland, including Cobh, Leixlip, Monaghan and Ardee. Previously, he was in Africa. In July, he led the golden jubilee celebrations of the Congregation of the Mothers and Missionaries of the Holy Cross in Puma, Tanzania. Interfering with the Liturgy Destroys Religion In Sunday's homily, Bishop Schneider recalled that "history has proved a thousand times that there is nothing more dangerous for a religion - nothing more likely to result in discontent, unrest, division, and apostasy - than interference with the liturgy and, consequently, with religious sensibility." He recalled the apostolic rule: "Antiquity was retained. Novelty was rejected." Quoting Dom Prosper Guéranger …Àteru
A video of Moroccan soldiers beating an illegal migrant near the border with Ceuta has gone viral. Several violent clashes in the area have taken place over the past few days
From Failure at EWTN to Vatican Communication Reform? This morning, Leo XIV received the new Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, the divorced Zionist Maria Montserrat Alvarado, in audience. During his pontificate, Leo XIV has met the current Prefect, Paolo Ruffini, only rarely and has not held private audiences with other senior Vatican communications officials, including Matteo Bruni, Andrea Tornielli, and Andrea Monda, seeing them only at public events. Alvarado will officially take office in November. Last year, her effort to consolidate EWTN's international news operations under a single EwtnNews.com platform did not achieve its intended goal. The project remained English-only and failed to become the successful international news site originally envisioned.
"The Church is, at least in the West, in a time of great difficulty, even of confusion, both at the doctrinal level and at the moral and disciplinary level", Cardinal Robert Sarah told IlFoglio.it on August 2. For Cardinal Sarah, it is "a tragedy, indeed a real and proper sin", that there is "a kind of war" and "fierce conflicts" over the liturgy. Main quote: "No one has authority over the rites, which arise from the centuries-long history of the Church. The rites cannot be arbitrarily abolished, and no one can say that a rite no longer exists from one day to the next." The Cardinal wants to return to Benedict XVI.'s Summorum Pontificum, which allows the Mass in the Roman rite alongside the Novus Ordo: "Over the decades, the holy people of God will be able to choose which form best corresponds to their need for faith, silence and spirituality." He added: "Some excesses on the part of those attached to the extraordinary form are, in part, justified by the dramatic and widespread abuses …Àteru
Leo XIV approved Cardinal Arthur Roche's text against the Traditional Latin Mass, reaffirming Francis' Traditionis Custodes, reports LaRazon.es on August 2. The text was distributed to about 170 cardinals at the January 7 consistory. Key phrase: "This newspaper has been able to confirm that the cardinal distributed the text at the request of Leo XIV and therefore with the Pope's approval of its contents." According to the newspaper, Cardinal Roche and officials from his dicastery drafted the document at the Pope's request. Leo XIV then personally reviewed it. "He did not change a single comma," Vatican sources said, adding that "the distribution of the document to the cardinals was intended to make the new Pope's position on this issue visible." The one-and-a-half-page document defended Traditionis Custodes, describing Tradition as a "living river" rather than a static preservation of past forms. It claimed that the Novus Ordo is fully consistent with authentic Tradition. Picture: Arthur …Àteru
1 John 3:12 unlike Cain who was from the evil one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil while those of his brother were righteous.
60 million Muslims in Ceuta have left supermarkets and shops looted... invasion of homes, hundreds of terrified women, and the closure of the free movement area (Schengen) applied by Italy to Spain. They've also allowed us to see an immense majority of Muslim males with good phones and a real attempt at Islamization through illegal migration. They voted for leftists, this is what you get in Spain
The Prisoner Who Returned to Celebrate the Eucharist On 31 July 2026, Cardinal Ernest Simoni celebrated the Eucharist at the former communist prison camp of Spaç in Albania. There, he spent years imprisoned and subjected to forced labor after his arrest (1963). He remained imprisoned until 1981. In a message for the occasion, Pope Leo XIV wrote that "no prison can separate a person from the love of Christ."
Albanian Cardinal Simoni returns to former prison camp, Spaç, to celebrate a Eucharist there.
1960 generation been trap with the heresy of modernism without iron bars Totalitarian Vatican II thought police destroyed the mass of all ages. replace with blessing of gay couples
CHAPTER 3 - Christianity established - Life of St. Paul continued - First Century - CATECHISM OF PERSEVERANCE - COURSE THIRD - AN HISTORICAL, DOCTRINAL,MORAL, AND LITURGICAL EXPOSITION OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION Translated from the French of Mgr Gaume by REV. F. B. JAMISON ....Download, print, and above all share !
High Altar for Church of FSSP: In September 2025, the stately church of the Immaculate Conception in Lobith, the Netherlands, was already closed. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) acquired the church with the consent of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. Since November, the Mass in the Roman rite has been celebrated there. Dutch priest Paolo D'Angona reports that in recent days, the church received this magnificent high altar from another church that had to be closed.
Fr. Paolo D'Angona: "In recent days, the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Lobith (NL), which was entrusted by the Archdiocese of Utrecht to the FSSP, received this magnificent high altar from another church that had to be closed"
The Antilles Episcopal Conference published a Pastoral Letter on Sexual and Gender Identity on 26 July (full text below). Main quotes. - We must resist narratives that suggest the human person is a self-made project, detached from biological reality or moral order. - The human body is not an accessory to identity. - The confusion of our times - driven by ideologies that detach the body from identity, treat desire as destiny, and blur sexual difference - compels us to offer the light of the Gospel and the wisdom of Christian anthropology. - The body is not a barrier to identity but a revelation of it. It is through our male or female embodiment that our unique personhood and our capacity for relationship are revealed. - It is a scientific fact, not a social construct, that human beings are sexually dimorphic. - Sex, then, is not arbitrarily 'assigned' at birth; it is determined at conception through the presence or absence of the SRY gene. If activated, the gene initiates the development …Àteru
The Antilles Episcopal Conference has published a Pastoral Letter on Sexual and Gender Identity on the 26 July. They state that, “We must resist narratives that suggest the human person is a self-made project, detached from biological reality or moral order. The human body is not an accessory to identity.” The Antilles Episcopal Conference further stated that, “Sex is not a spectrum. It is a binary reality, inscribed in our nature, affirmed by biology, and upheld by faith.” And that: “A person may say, ‘I feel like a woman’ or ‘I feel like a man,’ but such feelings, however sincere, do not define reality. To feel like a woman is not to be one. Feelings are not facts.”
Dozens of Ceuta illegal migrants manage to reach mainland Europe More and more boats carrying dozens of illegal migrants are landing in the area of Cala Secreta, near Algeciras, on the coast of Campo de Gibraltar.
Beach Mass During Jesuits' Retreat Worse than Germany: A photograph published by Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference, shows a Mass celebrated on the beach during "100 Pinne – Mare e Bibbia," a Jesuit summer retreat founded in 2010. The programme offers a week-long holiday including daily Eucharists, Bible study, prayer, community life, excursions, time at the beach. The 2026 edition is taking place in Ragusa (Sicily), Briatico (Calabria), Cagliari (Sardinia), and Vlorë (Albania).
Messa celebrata sulla spiaggia nell'ambito di "100 Pinne – Mare e Bibbia", il programma estivo dei gesuiti nato nel 2010, che propone a giovani e adulti una settimana di ritiro spirituale, con studio quotidiano della Bibbia, preghiera, vita comunitaria, escursioni e tempo trascorso al mare.
drzainhasan New study from the Weizmann Institute suggests Viagra’s active ingredient, sildenafil, may help stop cancer from spreading. Cancer cells need cholesterol to break away from a tumor and invade other organs. Researchers found sildenafil traps that cholesterol inside the cell, cutting off its ability to metastasize. Effects appeared even stronger when combined with statins, and a separate patient analysis linked sildenafil use to better survival outcomes. Important caveat, this is preclinical and observational data. No one should start taking Viagra to prevent cancer. Human trials are the next step. Still, a striking example of drug repurposing. A blood pressure medication that became an ED drug might now have a role in oncology. instagram.com/reel/Dbir2QxsZrQ/
August 3rd - Saint of the Day: Saint Aspren of Naples, Bishop The Saint You Pray To For Headaches Saint Aspren of Naples, feast day August 3rd, has one of the most underrated stories in Church history. A sick man with no future meets Saint Peter, the Apostle chosen by Jesus, passing through Naples on his way to Rome. One healing later, Aspren is baptized, transformed, and consecrated as the FIRST bishop of Naples. His faith came directly from the man who walked with Christ. In this story you will discover: The friend who brought Peter to his sickbed and changed history The famous altar where people still rest their aching heads today The wild Italian tradition connecting his name to aspirin How his 2,000 year old church ended up inside the Naples Stock Exchange His life proves that God builds His Church through ordinary people who say yes. Read the full story and meet a new saint every day at HolyManna.blog
3. August – Heiliger des Tages: Der heilige Aspren von Neapel, Bischof Der Heilige, zu dem Sie bei Kopfschmerzen beten Der heilige Aspren von Neapel, dessen Gedenktag der 3. August ist, hat eine der am meisten unterschätzten Geschichten der Kirchengeschichte zu erzählen. Ein kranker Mann, der keine Zukunft mehr sah, begegnete dem heiligen Petrus, dem von Jesus berufenen Apostel, der auf seinem Weg nach Rom durch Neapel reiste. Nach einer Heilung wurde Aspren getauft, verwandelte sich und wurde zum ersten Bischof von Neapel geweiht. Sein Glaube stammte direkt von dem Mann, der mit Christus gelebt hatte. In dieser Geschichte erfährst du: Der Freund, der Petrus ans Krankenbett brachte und Geschichte schrieb Der berühmte Altar, an dem noch heute Menschen ihre schmerzenden Häupter anlehnen Die skurrile italienische Tradition, die seinen Namen mit Aspirin verbindet Wie seine 2000 Jahre alte Kirche schließlich in der Börse von Neapel landete Sein Leben beweist, dass Gott …Àteru
Black ladies are 14% of the population yet they obtain 38% of abortions. This is a truly horrific situation that needs the efforts of all God fearing peoples to counter act. Pray and act.