Leo XIV Accepts Secularised Mitre as Gift: Rev. Tom McCarthy, a Chicago priest and fellow Augustinian, gave Leo XIV a Chicago White Sox “Pope Hat” at the Vatican. The mitre-shaped hat was originally produced en masse by the Chicago White Sox baseball team as a giveaway for their August 11 game. Leo XIV has been a White Sox fan since childhood and attended Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.
Worse than Germany: A contemporary dance and sound performance was incorporated into the celebration of the Solemnity of the Assumption at the Church of Sant Joan Baptista in Muro, Mallorca. It was entitled El Vol Màgic (“The Magic Flight”). According to the Diocese of Mallorca, the work was “conceived specifically for the liturgical context of the celebration of the Assumption of the Mother of God.” The project was directed by a musician and developed together with a dancer and choreographer, an organist, and a sound specialist. According to the diocesan description, the project grew out of research into Mallorca’s traditional observances surrounding the Assumption and sought to explore the relationship between “sound, body, space and ritual.” #newsPvjzmshrbf
𝐓𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬. Liturgy of the Word for next Sunday, the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. The sermon is given by Father Dr. Alfredo Sáenz, SJ. The audio is in Spanish, but you can activate English subtitles by pressing "Translate." A summary in English can be found on our blog: Seguir la Cruz sin vacilaciones
Saint Maria Goretti / Svatá Maria Goretti / Santa Maria Goretti (2003) *soundtrack *music by Ennio Morricone and Andrea Morricone *directed by Giulio Base
Singapore Introduces New Family Support Measures: With the country’s fertility rate falling to a record low of just 0.87 children per woman, Singapore is introducing a major new support package for families. From 2027, the government will provide nearly S$70,000 (about US$55,000) in support for each Singaporean child from birth to age 17. The package includes cash payments, childcare credits, healthcare and education support.
LiveLeak A 26-year-old man deliberately plowed a car into a crowd near the train station in Caen, France, yesterday, killing two people and injuring 10 others, seven critically. The suspect, who was born in Russia, was arrested about 20 km away in Ouistreham; authorities said there was no indication of a terrorist motive at this stage. Follow main channel -> LiveLeak Follow private channel -> LiveLeak Private LiveLeak
Actor Jim Caviezel said that after he started talking about adrenochrome, Hollywood allegedly blacklisted him overnight and he was dropped by his agency. "I've brought this up a few years ago and all of a sudden I was attacked by every media. Look it up, it's there."
Mother of Mercy Chapel in Columbus, Ohio, was already a beautiful Romanesque-style church, but later 20th-century alterations had diminished the coherence of its sanctuary. In 2025, William Heyer Architect replaced the small modern forward altar with a hand-carved wooden freestanding altar better suited to the character of the historic interior. The main intervention was the expansion of Rudolph Scheffler’s 1950s Christ the King apse mural. New saints and sacred symbols now occupy previously bare areas around the original composition.
Before and After: Mother of Mercy Chapel at St. Charles Preparatory School in Columbus, Ohio
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court has acquitted Yona Simcha Schreiber, 36, of criminal responsibility for a violent attack on a French Catholic nun in April. The court accepted psychiatric evidence that he was psychotic at the time of the assault. He could neither understand the nature of his actions nor control them, the court ruled. He was ordered to undergo compulsory psychiatric hospitalization for up to six years. The attack occurred on Mount Zion, near King David’s Tomb outside Jerusalem’s Old City. Security footage showed Schreiber running toward the 48-year-old nun from behind and knocking her violently to the ground, causing her head to strike the stone pavement. Schreiber initially walked away before returning and kicking the nun while she remained on the ground. He also assaulted a passerby who attempted to intervene. The victim is a researcher at the Dominican-run École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem. Schreiber is a resident of Peduel, an illegal settlement …More
coming out of Gaza or else it will unleash a massive air aggression on the Strip. And honestly, what more is there to say? You don't need a 20-post thread for this one. The headline is the entire dystopian joke. A nuclear-armed entity, armed to the teeth and claiming regional military supremacy, terrorizing, bombing multiple states, genociding the population of one state while ethnically cleansing the population of another state, is threatening another devastating attack because children in Gaza are flying paper kites. Children living amid rubble. Children with barely any electricity, food, water or normal childhood left. And somehow, the paper kite is the threat that requires an ultimatum. Let that sink in. Not a missile. Not a fighter jet. Not an army. A piece of paper. A string. And a child. If this does not capture the sheer absurdity of the reality Palestinians are being forced to live through, I don not know what does. Marwa Osman/MidEaStream
"O holy men ! People blessed of the Most Holy Trinity ! Your victorious founder shall triumph over the world, the flesh, and the Devil. Laos Deo et omnibus Sanctis ejus. May God and all his saints be praised ."
Sixth Letter My excellent Lord, — The time is coming when his Divine Majesty will visit the world with a new religious order of holy Cruciferi, who will carry a crucifix, or the image of our crucified Lord, lifted up upon the principal standard in view of all. This standard will be admired by all good Catholics; but at the beginning it will be derided by bad Christians and by infidels. Their sneers shall, however, be changed into mourning when they shall witness the wonderful victories achieved through it against tyrants, heretics, and infidels. Many wicked men and obstinate rebels against God shall perish; their souls will be plunged into hell. This punishment shall fall upon all those transgressors of the Divine commandments who with new and false doctrines will attempt to corrupt mankind and turn men against the ministers of God’s worship. The same chastisement is due to all obstinate sinners, but not to those who sin through weakness, because these being converted, doing penance, …More
"Tenete traditiones. ~ Permanete in iis quae didicistis". ~ ~ ~ "Keep the traditions. Stand fast in those things which you have learned" ~ (II Thessalonions 2:14). ~
"Citizens Want Political Turnaround": AfD Now … ... So berichtet manin den USA über den aktuellen Erfolgskurs der AfD ... AfD liegt in ganz Ostdeutschland bei 43 Prozent "Bürger fordern politischen Wandel nach Jahren gescheiterter progressiver Experimente, die eine Masseneinwanderung aus der Dritten Welt und eine die Nation schädigende Deindustrialisierung begünstigt hätten. AfD-Co-Chefin Alice Weidel schrieb auf "X": „Laut aktueller Forsa-Umfrage liegt die AfD im gesamten Osten bei 43 Prozent, die CDU nur noch bei 13 Prozent. Die Bürger wollen die politische Wende!“ Die zentrale Aussage der Umfrage: Die AfD liegt mehr als dreimal so hoch wie die unionsgeführte CDU/CSU und höher als CDU/CSU, SPD und Grüne zusammen. (...) “Ein Grund für die besondere Frustration vieler Bürger: Europas Wirtschaftsmotor gerät ins Stocken. Betriebsräte des Volkswagen-Konzerns warnten Anfang dieser Woche, dass beim angeschlagenen Autobauer bis zu 140.000 Stellen wegfallen könnten." (...) "Citizens Want …More
A 26-year-old man deliberately plowed a car into a crowd near the train station in Caen, France, yesterday, killing two people and injuring 10 others, seven critically.
AfD liegt in ganz Ostdeutschland bei 43 Prozent
Die zentrale Aussage der Umfrage: Die AfD liegt mehr als dreimal so hoch wie die unionsgeführte CDU/CSU und höher als CDU/CSU, SPD und Grüne zusammen. (...)
