Pope Leo XIV will present Cardinal Michael Czerny with Villanova University’s first “Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal” on 13 October at Castel Gandolfo’s Borgo Laudato si’. The award recognises Czerny’s work on social justice, poverty and the environment. A leading Vatican advocate of “integral ecology”, he links environmental concerns with social and economic issues. The medal highlights the growing prominence of sustainability within Vatican initiatives.
Catholic priest had his cremated ashes turned into a blue diamond to become a “diamond with countless facets” reflecting God’s love. Vatican teaching forbids converting remains into jewelry and calls for burial as it honors the resurrection of the body.
Ein italienischer Priester hat nach seinem Tod seine Asche zu einem Diamanten pressen lassen – das verbietet die Kirche
RARE MOVE by a Virginia Bishop Ahead of Election Day "Catholic Bishop Michael Burbidge says he has never before asked every priest in his diocese to do what he requested this weekend: read a letter at Mass urging Catholics to oppose two Virginia constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage." "Across 70 parishes serving more than 430,000 Catholics in Northern Virginia, worshippers heard Burbidge warn against what he called 'two dangerous ballot initiatives'—proposed constitutional amendments that Virginians will decide Nov. 3. Early voting begins Friday."
10 Italian bishops attend national conference on LGBT ‘pastoral ministry’
Italian bishop has "converted" - but to the . Ten (!) bishops and below 200 participants gathered for a homosexual conference titled “Good Practices in Pastoral Ministry with Homo-Affective and Transgender People” at the General Curia of the Jesuits in Rome on September 4. Among the bishops were: - Archbishop Gherardo Gambelli of Florence; - Archbishop Giuseppe Satriano of Bari-Bitonto; - Bishop Antonio Napolioni of Cremona; - Bishop Giampio Devasini of Chiavari; - Archbishop Giampaolo Dianin of Gorizia; - Bishop Francesco Savino of Cassano all’Jonio. Four dioceses - Florence, Bari-Bitonto, Cremona and Chiavari - presented their existing homosexual programs. These include dedicated diocesan teams, formation for priests and pastoral workers, accompaniment of families, and structures integrating ministry with homosexuals into ordinary diocesan pastoral work. Bishop Dianin conveyed personal greetings from the president of the Italian bishops, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi. Theologian Fr. Luca …More
In 2022, a Detroit parish approached a wealthy Catholic family and asked for money for restorations. The family agreed, but with a catch: the Catholic Church couldn't own the property. And so in 2025, with Vatican approval, ownership of St. Anne de Detroit was transferred to a lay-led Catholic non-profit.
This has been the strategy for several years now. Everyone knows that legal protection via a Not For Profit organization is the only way to keep the local diocese from selling these treasures for money to pay down the high debt from clerical abuse settlements.
Cardinal Müller has once again spoken out strongly against bishops taking sides in party politics. He said that taking a clear stance against the AfD constitutes “a clear abuse of office.”
"Clear abuse of office" - Cardinal Müller criticises German bishops for their anti-AfD stance. After the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won 44% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller accused German bishops of interfering in party politics in an interview with Kontrafunk.radio on 11 September. When asked about the [Berlin Archbishop Heiner Koch's] idea that the Church could do without Catholics who vote the 'wrong' way, Müller responded: "In my view, this is quite simply a clear abuse of office." The Church, he added, is "not a trade union". "When it comes to party-political preferences, bishops have no right to call into question the civil rights of Catholics." Müller also dismissed comparisons between the AfD and National Socialism as "far-fetched". Nazism was an ideology that was incompatible with Christianity. By contrast, the AfD has "a political programme that every individual citizen can judge for themselves". His message to Germany’s bishops: "Bishops …More
Cardinal Koovakad, invited by the non-cardinal García Cuerva, says that we must "build the magnificent humanity" through dialogue. There is no mention of Christ or conversion, nor that Gospel fraternity arises from becoming adoptive children through Baptism rather than a convergence of good feelings among religions. García Cuerva applauds and opens the Catholic University for the occasion. The house remains Catholic in name; what is taught under its roof, less and less so.
“These are not times for entrenching ourselves in partial and fragmented visions of reality. We need one another in order to broaden the horizon of truth, according to the model of the polyhedron, which is capable of incorporating the totality of visions and perspectives in the search for the common good, without anyone being excluded or discarded.” - Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, delivered the address on September 11, 2026, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) in Buenos Aires.
Bishop Schneider: Synodality is a ‘code word to undermine Catholic doctrine’
Bishop Schneider: Document Against Co-Redemptrix Will One Day Be Cancelled Synodality is a “very cunning code word to undermine Catholic doctrine”, Bishop Athanasius Schneider told AdVaticanum on September 10. He believes the vagueness of the word is deliberate, a means of gradually adapting Catholic doctrine, morality and ecclesial structures to Protestantism and contemporary attitudes toward sexuality. Monsignor Schneider calls synodality the height of the modernist movement, leading toward relativism. He adds that this openness has one notable exception: the traditional Latin Mass. “This document will be cancelled” Responding to the document Mater Populi Fidelis against the Marian titles Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces, Bishop Schneider argues that the Church cannot cancel language found in missals and used by popes, saints and Doctors of the Church. He believes the document, not the titles, will eventually disappear: “I think, in the future, this document will be cancelled.” …More
Brazilian Bishop believes in "Goddess" and embraces "all sexual diversity": Bishop José Valdeci Santos Mendes, 64, of Brejo, Maranhão, presided over a Eucharist at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Conception on September 7, Brazil’s Independence Day. After Communion and before the final blessing, two young men recited the “Creed of the Youth of the Ecclesial Base Communities.” Developed in 2016, the text speaks of a “God/Goddess,” described as “liberating and revolutionary.” This creed explicitly rejects belief in a “hierarchical Church” while “embracing all sexual diversity.” Before the recitation, Bishop Mendes introduced the creed as a “supplication from the youth of Latin America, who stand before God asking him to come to meet us.”
A heterodox creed invoking a “God/Goddess” and featuring left-wing political language was recited at the annual “Cry of the Excluded” Mass celebrated by Bishop José Valdeci Santos Mendes of Brejo, Brazil.
If there was one speech which swung it, it was this from Ashley Dalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and spoke so powerfully about how the bill failed the people it purported to serve:
If there was one speech which swung it, it was this from Ashley Dalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and spoke so powerfully about how the bill failed the people it purported to serve:
'This is an irreversible decision that Parliament is being asked to make. We've got to make sure safeguards are there, but they weren't.' Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill on why she voted against the assisted dying bill today.
Monsignor Roger Landry, director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA, said Sept. 11 that he was taking a “temporary leave of absence” amid unspecified allegations from “multiple individuals."
The Diocese of Fall River, Mass., announced Friday that Msgr. Roger Landry has been restricted from public ministry after allegations of misconduct were made against the priest by 'multiple individuals.'
Emma Bonino has died aged 78. May God have mercy on her soul. She was one of the most consequential figures in modern Italian politics, and Catholics should be honest about what that legacy means. She devoted much of her public life to causes fundamentally opposed to Catholic moral teaching, most notably the legalisation and promotion of abortion. She became a principal architect of Italy’s transformation from an overwhelmingly Catholic culture into a far more secular one. That makes Pope Francis’s repeated warmth towards her, including his extraordinary description of Bonino as one of Italy’s “forgotten greats”, all the more difficult to understand.
The text is a fictional, satirical narrative set within the Vatican, focusing on the Dicastery for Communication and the political and power struggles within the Vatican. It describes the tension between t wo key figures: Andrea Tornielli, the current Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, and Salvatore Cernuzio, a loyalist under Tornielli.
. Ten (!) bishops and below 200 participants gathered for a homosexual conference titled “Good Practices in Pastoral Ministry with Homo-Affective and Transgender People” at the General Curia of the Jesuits in Rome on September 4.
narrative set within the Vatican, focusing on the Dicastery for Communication and the political and power struggles within the Vatican. It describes the tension between t wo key figures: Andrea Tornielli, the current Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, and Salvatore Cernuzio, a loyalist under Tornielli.