The late Belgian Catholic priest Abbé Maurice Léonard, who was publicly mourned by his female “companion” and his “children of the heart,” was not an isolated case. RiposteCatholique.fr has published on January 29 another obituary that renews questions about clerical celibacy in Belgium. Abbé Marc Otjacques, a longtime priest in the Andenne region, died on September 4, 2025 at age 73 in a bicycle accident while returning from presiding over a Eucharist. The official diocesan obituary praised his decades-long commitment to the poor and made no mention of a concubine. According to a separate family-published notice, the priest was mourned by Madeleine Dorjoux, identified as his companion; Caroline and Ludovic Trufin-Struvay, described as his “daughter of the heart” and son-in-law; and Laure-Anne and Romain, his beloved grandchildren. #newsHynsecvpst
No surprise there: "Eighty-two per cent of U.S. religious institutions reported that no members professed perpetual vows in 2025, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate..."
2nd book of Samuel 12,1-7a.10-17. The LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he came to him, Nathan said: "Judge this case for me! In a certain town there were two men, one rich, the other poor. The rich man had flocks and herds in great numbers. But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He nourished her, and she grew up with him and his children. She shared the little food he had and drank from his cup and slept in his bosom. She was like a daughter to him. Now, the rich man received a visitor, but he would not take from his own flocks and herds to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him. Instead he took the poor man's ewe lamb and made a meal of it for his visitor." David grew very angry with that man and said to Nathan: "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this merits death! He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this and has had no pity." Then Nathan said to David: "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of …ད་རུང་།
JANUARY 27 - THE FIRST READING breski1 2nd book of Samuel 12,1-7a.10-17. The LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he came to him, Nathan said: "Judge this case for me! In a certain town there were two men, one rich, the other poor. The rich man had flocks and herds in great numbers. But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He nourished her, and she grew up with him and his children. She shared the little food he had and drank from his cup and slept in his bosom. She was like a daughter to him. Now, the rich man received a visitor, but he would not take from his own flocks and herds to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him. Instead he took the poor man's ewe lamb and made a meal of it for his visitor." David grew very angry with that man and said to Nathan: "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this merits death! He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this and has had no pity." Then Nathan said to David: "You …ད་རུང་།
Pope Leo XIV is expected to return to the Apostolic Palace, but not to the former papal apartment, reports the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Friday. He plans to move into a top-floor attic-style apartment located one level above the papal residence. It is barely visible from the outside. The apartment is described as being located above the papal apartments, on the uppermost level between the 'Third Loggia' and the roof. It is situated in a self-contained section of the palace. Inside the new apartment are bedroom, kitchen and bathroom, a fitness room, a small private chapel and a roof terrace. On the terrace, there is a replica of the Lourdes grotto, placed there during the pontificate of John Paul II. Despite repeated expectations that the move was imminent, no specific move date has been set. #newsJqrfiojjus
On 27 January 2026, Cardinal Víctor Fernández opened the plenary session of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Tucho placed the legal system of the Inquisition alongside modern atrocities. He said that we must be aware of our limitations and our need for God "so as not to fall into a terrible deception - the same one that led to the excesses of the Inquisition, the world wars, the Holocaust and the massacres in Gaza". He also used relativistic language, quoting Pope Leo XIV that "no one possesses the whole truth". Tucho added: "We must reflect, think, and analyze reality, but while also listening to others, welcoming their perspectives—which allows us to perceive other aspects of that same reality - and opening ourselves to other points of view." In line with Pope Francis’s outdated vision, Tucho urged us to pay attention to the "peripheries", "where things are seen differently". Finally, he criticised online discourse, noting that "on any blog, anyone - even without having …ད་རུང་།
It is right judgement and right reason to understand that GOD wants both pro-choice women and pro-choice men to convert. The conversion of both men and women means that to be righteous, which means right with GOD, both women and men must remain chaste until marriage according to what GOD has revealed, and this is the answer for the entire world to follow which will result in the END OF ABORTION.
It is possible that pro-choice men are against the abortion of puppies too; but then again will they value animals more than the baby they conceived as fathers involved in fornication if they are pro-choice men?
Cardinal Blaise Cupich has again criticized the Traditional Mass, while in his own Archdiocese of Chicago he allows serious liturgical abuses and offenses against the Blessed Sacrament. In this video, Fr. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina parish is shown during a Mass marked by repeated abuses. During the Sign of Peace, a layperson’s exuberant greeting causes a container holding many consecrated Hosts to be knocked over, and the incident is handled casually, as if they were ordinary crackers. The bishops who persecute the Traditional Mass in the name of “obedience” to the Pope often tolerate grave liturgical abuses in their dioceses without correction. It gives pause for thought.
That Pfleger character is a megalomaniac! The late Francis Cardinal George tried to remove him due to abuse, but this wayward priest's mostly black followers threatened to riot, so the Cardinal caved. Pfleger is untouchable - the "Chicago way"!
Oh, Xi Jinping Pooh is not going to be very happy with Mark Carney, the globalist squish Prime Minister of Canada. It wasn't a week ago that the two of them were bestest broskis and the rest of the Western Hemisphere was going, 'You out your mind, dude? Or just having a Newsom moment?' Even the Washington Post took a step back. DUDE Especially when Carney talked about how much common ground he and Xi had found discussing such important Chinese-Canadian issues as...Greenland. And 'Canadian sovereignty.' I FOUND MUCH ALIGNMENT Carney negotiated a wicked good deal with the Chinese while he was there. The Chinese got doors opened to run freely into Canada, while the Canadians got a larger market for pet food. What a score. It had to be dog-eat-dog at the bargaining table as Carney charted a course with his new friends to that 'New World Order' he's so fond of. ...Carney is in China as part of his effort to move past years of diplomatic tension with Beijing and double non-U.S. exports over …
“My body was telling me that this baby belonged to me” – Christian’s Testimony on Surrogacy Abolish Surrogacy - Abolition GPA youtube.com/watch?v=G1-nFkbwOYQ LISTEN TO THE WOMEN CONCERNED: TRUTHS ABOUT SURROGACY In the media, commissioning people – wrongly called intended parents – are the ones whose voices are heard. But who listens to the women who gave birth ? ➤ Christian, a woman from the United States, accepted to carry a pregnancy for a couple she wanted to help. What seemed like an act of generosity turned into a nightmare: a high-risk pregnancy, a fraudulent contract, and the loss of any contact with her child. Her story exposes the violence of a system that exploits women and commodifies children. Surrogacy is not a medical act nor a free choice – it is a global reproductive market built on economic and gender inequalities. Recorded at the public event Listen to the Women Concerned: Truths about Surrogacy held at the French Senate (Palais du Luxembourg) on October …ད་རུང་།
The Archbishop of Córdoba has criticised the fact that priests were prevented from providing last rites to people following the train tragedy in Adamuz that led to the deaths of 45 people
A priest, 57, former member of the conservative French community St Jean, was tried on 29 January before the tribunal correctionnel d’Alençon, Orne, France, on charges of corruption of tw minors over the age of 15 and possession of pornographic images involving minors. He was found guilty and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, fully suspended. The case concerns acts alleged to have occurred in July 2014 in London during a language trip. The priest was accompanying two young men, brothers of each other, both over 15, who regarded him as a mentor. According to the investigation, one adolescent reported that the priest washed his back and feet in a shared shower and then asked him to wash the priest’s genitals, while the second brother described different but comparable inappropriate acts. The victims stated that their mother had known the priest since before their birth, reinforcing the relationship of trust. Following a complaint by one of the brothers, French authorities opened a …ད་རུང་།