The Heralds of the Gospel announced on April 5 in São Paulo that priestly ordinations will resume in April 2026, following a suspension in place since 2019. 31 acolytes will be ordained as deacons on April 11 and 26 deacons to the priesthood on April 12. The ordinations concern members of the clerical society of apostolic life Virgo Flos Carmeli, which is associated with the Heralds of the Gospel. The diaconal ordinations will be conferred by Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães, archbishop emeritus of the Military Ordinariate of Brazil. The priestly ordinations will be presided over by Raymundo Damasceno Assis, archbishop emeritus of Aparecida and Pontifical Commissioner. Ordinations within the Heralds had been suspended following a Vatican intervention that began in 2017 and was reinforced in 2019 with the appointment of a Pontifical Commissioner. During this period, candidates for ordination remained in a state of waiting, and no formal public accusations or clear timeline for resolution …More
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What are we to understand when we speak of the Resurrection of Jesus? Ancient Scriptures and interpretations from a brilliant theologian-pope provide amazing clues.
Fr Basden had a Latin Mass in London before his retirement.
"Quando ero bambino, mio padre viaggiò in auto con me dall'Inghilterra all'Iran. Questo oggi sarebbe impensabile e inattuabile. Perché, a parte l'incomprensibile situazione odierna?" Ho tradotto a senso una parte delle sincere dichiarazioni di questo Sacerdote (nato in Egitto da padre Battista del Texas e madre Cattolica inglese)
A forensic study has rejected long-standing claims of an organised network of 'stolen babies' in Spain during the second half of the 20th century. Conducted by five forensic geneticists from the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences (INTCF), the research was published in March. What did the "narrative" claim? The 'stolen babies' narrative, which gained widespread attention in the 2000s and 2010s, alleged that, during the Franco era and beyond (1950s–1990s), newborn babies were systematically taken from their parents in hospitals. Mothers were told their babies had died, while the children were allegedly given to other, regime-loyal families - sometimes for money. The narrative described a coordinated network involving medical staff, hospital administrators and religious institutions, including Catholic institutions. Advocacy groups and reports have claimed that up to 300,000 babies were stolen. The first religious figure to be formally investigated was Sister María …More
Fifth Day: Tuesday within the Octave of Easter: Today bring to Me THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM MY CHURCH,* and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church, My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion.
by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, we post the short reflection for Wednesday in the Octave of Easter. Keep in mind that this is Easter Week and Easter season or Eastertide lasts until Pentecost Sunday, that's 50 days. Cyril and John of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catecheses II, 5In the exchange of Christ for humanity, we only have to gain: his all for our nothing—who would not call that a bargain? Yes, it’s all strange and unimaginable, but who thinks they can know God’s plans? Perhaps we do, who do not even really know who we truly are? Our task is to trust in him and to carry our cross, always looking to him. O strange and paradoxical thing! We are not truly dead, nor truly buried, nor truly crucified and risen, but imitation by image brings true salvation. Christ was truly crucified and truly buried, and he is truly risen. So many graces are lavished upon us because we imitate him by participating in his suffering, and true salvation is earned. O boundless mercy! Christ even received nails …
From Castel Gandolfo, Leo XIV issued a call for peace talking to journalists. The continuing escalation is not resolving anything: “It is only provoking more hatred throughout the world.” Leo XIV urged consideration for civilians, saying: “I would like to invite everyone to think of the many innocent children, the elderly.” Commenting on warnings of large-scale destruction, he said: “This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people.” Regarding military actions, Leo XIV added that attacks on civilian infrastructure are “a sign of the hatred and division that we are capable of.” #newsUuspftwcym
To assess the inner man Trump brokered peace between several warring nations. He reached out to Kim Jong II in his first administration and arrived at a truce. He honored Our Lady on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception with a beautiful statement, more so than did our national Bishop's conference. He always keeps everyone guessing, and I for one like it that way. It keeps the pressure on those who would do us harm.
For sure the American president is speaking like a mad mullah. Death to Iran as opposed to death to America. It's a form of dialogue that is familiar to the counterpart I expect. As to how this will shake out, it's hard to tell. Politics at that level is very convoluted. The weight of it is shuddering to contemplate. Iran is duty bound to follow just war theory too in relation to its own population as a matter of natural law.
Acts 3:11-26 Peter addressed the people after the healing of the crippled man: “You Israelites, why are you amazed at this?” Peter is confident in his faith. He is beginning to evangelize. Luke 24:35-48 “Why are you troubled?” This astonishment means that they have not yet fully grasped the resurrection. But now they are witnesses to it. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
08.04.2026 CARDINALS FERNANDEZ, LADARIA, O’MALLEY, BISHOP LIBASCI AND FR. LAIRE LIKE CARDINAL RATZINGER, INTERPRET VATICAN COUNCIL II UNETHICALLY AND SCHISMATICALLY. The popes from Pius XII to Leo XIV have been in schism on a particular point. With Vatican Council II and the Catechism interpreted rationally they become Feeneyite traditionalists overnight.This is a secret they keep hidden. Cardinals Burke, Sarah, and Bishop Athanasius Schneidrer would also become Feeneyite traditionalists when Ad Gentes 7 is aligned with EENS and LG 16 is not an explicit exception for AG 7 or EENS. In 1965 when the excommunication of Fr.Leonard Feneey was still not lifted, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger did not announce that Lumen Gentium 16 in Vatican Council II was not an explicit exception for the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) of the Council of Florence . The 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop’ of Boston confused implicit cases of the baptism of desire as being explicit examples of …More
Sixth Day: Wednesday within the Octave of Easter: Today bring to Me THE MEEK AND HUMBLE SOULS AND THE SOULS OF LITTLE CHILDREN, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. Only the humble soul is capable of receiving My grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.
Few people know that for years before he became pope, Robert Prevost met most Saturdays with Francis inside the Casa Santa Marta. And in the final weeks of his life, from a hospital bed at Gemelli, Francis elevated him to the highest rank of cardinal — the act that placed him at the center of the conclave that would soon elect him pope.
Thank you for reading!Letters from Leois a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Make A One-Time Gift to Support My Work Pope Leo XIV teared up this morning. Standing at the Apostolic window at the Vatican on Easter Monday, the American pope paused mid-sentence as he tried to describe the man who had summoned him from a small diocese on Peru’s northern coast and, in the final weeks of his life, made him one of the few cardinal bishops in the Catholic Church. The man he was mourning was Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday last year — April 21, 2025 — after twelve years of upending the Church and infuriating the powerful. The official anniversary of his death falls in just over two weeks, but Leo will not be in Rome to mark it. He will be in Africa, on the second major papal voyage of his young pontificate, carrying the Gospel to a continent Francis loved and visited often. So this morning’s tribute …
PROLOGUE After studying the figures of Peter Thiel and Samuel Atman and the role the former played in Rome, in March 2026, especially: 1st) in the conservative Catholic environment, linked to the traditional Mass, (only if normalized by the full acceptance of the Second Vatican Council and the perfect orthodoxy of the Novus Ordo Missae of 1969, in the “Ecclesia Dei” Institutes); 2nd) … Traditional Mass, which was positioned by Thiel within the framework of the “Katekon” (which according to him would be … himself …) to the Antichrist; that is, 3°) in a strange mixture (in the style of Benedict XVI's “hermeneutics of continuity”) of Apostolic Tradition (the Roman Mass, improperly called the Mass of St. Pius V), married not only to the modernism of Vatican II and the new Montinian Mass of 1969 (in “Ecclesia Dei adflicta”), but also to the highly advanced technology of Artificial Intelligence, of Palantir and the pantheistic philosophy of Yuval Noah Harari's Transhumanism. Well, this …More
Mel Gibson's prayer while filming The Resurrection of the Christ: "Graciously send thy defender, Michael, to protect all involved in this holy project from the attacks of Satan."