Leo XIV sent a video message to those gathered at DePaul University in the U.S. to mark the 15th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in the State of Illinois. He stressed that the Church continues to affirm “that the dignity of the person is not lost even after very serious crimes are committed.” In The City of God, Augustine of Hippo argues that legitimate public authority acting under just law may order death.

Pope Leo sent a video message to those gathered at DePaul University in the U.S. to mark the 15th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in the State of Illinois. In the message, he stressed that the Church continues to affirm “that the dignity of the person is not lost even after very serious crimes are committed.”

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The appeal of the Old Liturgy for young people lies in its focus and orientation on God, not on the community.
We have so many rites in the Catholic Church. We should accept them for what they are: mere rites. We must infuse every rite with love and devotion; otherwise, it misses its mark.
The Old and New Rites, as such, have nothing to do with whether we recognize the Council or not, or how we deal with its texts or reforms.

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Neues Interview mit Mir von Niwa Limbu

Das folgende Interview behandelt Themen wie die Liturgiereform; die Situation des Glaubens; die Entwicklungen nach dem Konzil u.a.m. Das Original ist auf Englisch (siehe weiter unten!). Ich habe es mit Niwa Limbu geführt, der bis vor kurzem beim Catholic Herold gearbeitet hat und sich beruflich neu aufstellt.
1) Exzellenz, Sie wurden 1955 geboren und haben berichtet, dass Sie in Ihrer Kindheit als begeisterter Messdiener im traditionellen Ritus tätig waren, bevor Sie für den Novus Ordo umgeschult wurden. Sie haben die nachkonziliare liturgische Umgestaltung als „eine ziemlich gewaltsame, provisorische Neugestaltung der Heiligen Messe … verbunden mit großen Verlusten, die angegangen werden müssen“ beschrieben und dabei insbesondere auf Unterschiede bei den Gebeten, den Körperhaltungen und der Ausrichtung ad orientem hingewiesen. Junge Katholiken von heute, die oft wenig über die Texte des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils wissen, fühlen sich zunehmend vom tridentinischen Ritus angezogen …

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enya’s Court of Appeal ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right and is only legal in limited situations, such as when the mother’s life or health is at risk or in emergencies. The court said Kenya’s constitution protects life from conception and generally prohibits abortion except for those narrow exceptions.
The ruling reverses a 2022 High Court decision that had broadened abortion access and restores criminal proceedings against an abortion provider in a 2019 case involving complications after a teen’s abortion.
Supporters of abortion rights criticized the decision and plan to appeal to the Supreme Court, while pro-life groups and many Christians in Kenya praised it as protecting unborn life. Kenya remains socially conservative on abortion despite limited legal exceptions.

BREAKING: Kenya's Court of Appeal rules that abortion violates the child's right to life and overturns the decision of a rogue judge who had tried to legalise abortion! This is a HUGE win in one of Africa's biggest legal cases ever.

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Kenyan appeal court overturns ruling that affirmed the right to abortion

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A court of appeal in Kenya Friday overturned a ruling that affirmed the right to access abortion, setting up a legal clash that is likely to be appealed again to the Kenyan Supreme Court.
The appeal was based on the 2022 case of a teenager who went to the hospital with pregnancy complications. A doctor who examined her determined she had lost the pregnancy, and provided emergency post-abortion care. They were acquitted by the high court.
The high court in 2022 had ruled that access to abortion was a fundamental right under the constitution, declaring the arrest and prosecution of women and health care providers unconstitutional.
The court of appeal on Friday reiterated that abortion denies a child the right to life as guaranteed in the constitution and is prohibited except in circumstances such as when the life …

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Catholic Quotes - Christians pray the “Our Father” in the middle of Auckland New Zealan...
Christians pray the “Our Father” in the middle of Auckland New Zealand 🇳🇿 ✝️ x.com/CatholicQuote12/status/2047883559042752881/…

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Who was Blessed Alan de la Roche and why is he significant? │Audiobook - Secret of the Rosary
4th ROSE - Blessed Alan de la Roche
The restoration of the Holy Rosary by blessed Alan de la Roche, a dominican father in Brittany (north-west of modern France).
00:00 Intro
00:43 European Plague in 1349
01:45 Blessed Alan's vision of Our Lord in 1460
02:51 Blessed Alan's vision of Our Lady
03:19 Blessed Alan's vision of St. Dominic
📕 Title: The Secret of the Rosary
🖋️ Author: Saint Louis de Montfort
📅 First publication: around 1710
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ABOUT ME: I am passionately creating and sharing my Catholic audiobooks here. If you enjoy my work, consider subscribing to …More

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Olprint

The graphics are false (like false Prophets). The graphics are deceptions. You haven't gone far. You can correct it, or let it be a foundation stone of your works.

Pierre Henri

John Dowland for classic guitar

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2 Peter 2:21-22
It would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back and abandon the holy commandment that was handed on to them. What happened to them manifests the truth of the proverbs:
“The dog returns to its own vomit,” and “The washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.”

Leo Affirms Francis on Blessing of Gay Couples

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Leo Affirms Francis on Blessing of Gay Couples

Leo XIV’s answer on Cardinal Reinhard Marx and homosexual blessings was a containment strategy.
Asked about Marx’s decision in Munich to press forward with blessings for homosexual couples, Leo did not say that such couples cannot be blessed as couples. He did not say that Fiducia Supplicans created confusion. He did not say that Rome would discipline Marx. He did not even place Catholic sexual morality at the center of the answer. Instead, he began by saying that “the unity or division of the Church should not revolve around sexual matters,” then shifted to “justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion,” which he said “would all take priority before that particular issue.” Only after that did he say the Holy See does not agree with the “formalized blessing of couples,” whether homosexual couples or other irregular couples, “beyond what was specifically” allowed by Francis.
That is the whole game.
The word doing the work is formalized. Leo did not close the …

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la verdad prevalece

Jude 7: 7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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Day of the Most Holy Miracle of Santarém
In the year 1247, a poor woman lived in Santarém whose husband greatly offended her, going astray with another woman.
Tired of suffering, she went to ask a Jewish witch to end her misfortune with her spells.
The witch promised her an effective remedy, but for that she needed a Consecrated Host.
After much hesitation, the poor woman consented to the sacrilege. She went to the Church of Santo Estêvão, confessed, and asked for Communion.
Once she had received the Sacred Particle, she carefully removed it from her mouth and wrapped it in her veil. She quickly left the church and headed for the witch’s house. However, without her noticing, blood began to drip from the veil.
Several people saw it and asked the unfortunate woman what wounds she had that were bleeding so much. Extremely confused, she ran home and locked the Miraculous Host inside one of her chests.
Later that day, in the afternoon, her husband returned.
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Dead UFO-linked scientist becomes ELEVENTH …

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UFO-linked scientist who warned 'my life is in danger' before she was found dead at 34 becomes ELEVENTH mysterious case

A scientist experimenting with anti-gravity tech was found dead at 34 after warning that her life could be in danger, marking another mysterious case of deaths and disappearances in recent years.
Amy Eskridge was just 34 years old when she allegedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head in Huntsville,
Alabama on June 11, 2022. However, neither the police nor the medical examiners have publicly released any details of an investigation ever taking place.
Before her death, she was openly researching and trying to develop anti-gravity technology, a way to control or cancel out gravity, which could revolutionize space travel and energy production.
Anti-gravity propulsion has also been widely discussed by UFO researchers, who have claimed this advanced technology is what allows alien spacecraft to achieve impossible speeds.
Conspiracy theorists have also claimed the US military has been experimenting with this technology for years, but the government has denied that alien technology …

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🛸🔬 UFO-Wissenschaftlerin Amy Eskridge (34) tot aufgefunden – warnte vor Lebensgefahr! 🕵️
Elfter mysteriöser Todesfall bei Weltraum-Wissenschaftlern.
Die Anti-Schwerkraft-Forscherin aus Huntsville arbeitete an Technologien mit Bezug zu unbekannten Flugobjekten. Sie meldete jahrelang Bedrohungen, Belästigungen und Angriffe mit Energiewaffen. Offiziell Selbstmord durch Schusswaffe, doch Ermittler sehen Mord durch privates Luftfahrtunternehmen. Elfter mysteriöser Todesfall bei Weltraum-Wissenschaftlern.
Quelle:
Dead UFO-linked scientist becomes ELEVENTH …
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Actual Grace in Conversion | The Fatima Center

Editor’s Note: An excellent way to summarize the Message of Fatima is that Our Lady is calling all of us to conversion, reparation, and consecration. Our most recent Issue of The Fatima Crusader (#136, Fall 2025) focused on how to Live the Message of Fatima by emphasizing important Catholic practices along the lines of these three themes. The Fatima Center also recently posted a video by Fr. Karl Stehlin detailing the connection between these themes, the Message of Fatima, and the lives of the three little shepherds to whom Our Lady appeared. Watch this video, Living the Message of Fatima Today: Why and How, or listen to the audio only podcast. We also invite you to read a short excerpt from Frere Michel’s The Whole Truth About Fatima which shows how Fatima Is a Call to Conversion.
How God Moves the Soul from Sin to Salvation
The conversion of a sinner is one of the greatest miracles of grace. It is easy to see bodily healings, answered prayers, or public reversals of life as …

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@ 123jussi, You just made my point exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know very well that she has never tried to stop abortion so all you can do is insult me. The apparition is not the mother of the living because she is horribly cruel to the unborn. She never, never tries to save them or help them.
Jeffrey Ade the apparition has no sympathy of the unborn and you know it. That is why you can only spout a generalization that is meaningless.

123jussi

I don't know what moves you to speak of the Mother of All the living that way Chris ,but it is probably the most serious blasphemy I have ever heard concerning her and her care for us.

Irapuato shares from Irapuato

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 16,15-20.
Jesus said to the eleven: "Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages.
They will pick up serpents (with their hands), and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.

Aus dem Heiligen Evangelium nach Markus 16,15-20.
In jener Zeit erschien Jesus den Elf und sprach zu ihnen: Geht hinaus in die ganze Welt und verkündet das Evangelium der ganzen Schöpfung!
Wer glaubt und sich taufen lässt, wird gerettet; wer aber nicht glaubt, wird verurteilt werden.
Und durch die, die zum Glauben gekommen sind, werden folgende Zeichen geschehen: In meinem Namen werden sie Dämonen austreiben; sie werden in neuen Sprachen reden;
wenn sie Schlangen anfassen oder tödliches Gift trinken, wird es ihnen nicht schaden; und die Kranken, denen sie die Hände auflegen, werden gesund werden.
Nachdem Jesus, der Herr, dies zu ihnen gesagt hatte, wurde er in den Himmel aufgenommen und setzte sich zur Rechten Gottes.
Sie aber zogen aus und verkündeten überall. Der Herr stand ihnen bei und bekräftigte das Wort durch die Zeichen, die es begleiteten.
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Our Lady of Fatima pray for us..

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EU Court Blocks Hungary’s Restrictions on LGBT Content for Children

The European Union’s top court has ruled that Hungary’s 2021 child protection law violates EU law in a decision that appears driven more by ideology than by legal reasoning.
On Tuesday, April 21st, just days after Hungary’s national elections, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in a case brought by the European Commission, supported by 16 member states and the European Parliament.
The court
found that Hungary’s legislation—originally introduced to strengthen penalties against paedophilia but later amended to restrict the promotion of homosexuality and gender ideology to minors—violates EU rules on multiple fronts, including fundamental rights and internal market provisions.
The ECJ declared that the law infringes Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, which enshrines the bloc’s core values such as human dignity, equality, and respect for minority rights. The court argued that Hungary’s measures were “contrary to the very identity of the Union” and rejected …

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Satanizm i wspołpracujaca z nim DEPRAWACJA dorosłych jak i dzieci POSTEPUJE... Caly swiat jest ogarniety SZALENSTWEM i odrzuceniem BOGA.

Everyday for Life Canada

The European Union’s “values” already at work in Hungary.

In Principio

St. Padre Pio ~~~ Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother...

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@chris griffin The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church has blessed and approved the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. I disagree it is "fair and just," "all Catholics should ignore Fatima." Our Lady of Fatima said "only I can help you." If we had done what Our Lady of Fatima asked there would be no abortion today plain and simple. I think your position in opposition to Our Lady of Fatima only continues the "Errors of Russia," and abortion is one of those "Errors." God bless you!

Jeffrey Ade shares this

Our Lady of Fatima, asks us to pray our Rosary daily! Our Blessed Mother wants to save us!

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Cardinal Marx Must Be Opposed – Bishop Strickland

On 23 April, Bishop emeritus Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, commented on X.com on the homosexual 'blessing' in the Archdiocese of Munich:
"This is evil and must be opposed by every faithful Catholic. Woe to so-called shepherds who lead the sheep astray. Rome should speak clearly and immediately but all I hear is silence. Blessing sin is the complete opposite of love."
Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has instructed all priests and full-time pastoral staff in the archdiocese to perform, enable or facilitate 'blessings' of same-sex and adulterous couples.
#newsRyvhmffviq

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@chris griffin I guess you just don't understand what I post or what I'm about now do you? It is clear you can't make the connection between abortion and the "Errors of Russia." And you can't make the connection between Our Lady of Fatima and Her words, "only I can help you." I really don't understand how that is lying? God bless you!

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Thank you Bishop Strickland.

Tom Morelli

How Iran Committed Suicide: Iran’s decades-long bluff—built on terror proxies, nuclear brinkmanship, and Western appeasement—collapsed the moment it faced direct force and a changed geopolitical landscape.

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How Iran Committed Suicide › American Greatness

How does the supposedly most fearsome regime in the violent Middle East now find itself on the verge of an utter economic and military collapse?
Iran’s half-century-long deadly terrorist reputation peaked with the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel that it helped fund and coordinate.
Iran’s terrorist ambitions of running the Middle East had accelerated after witnessing Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his administration’s distancing itself from Israel. Biden’s humiliation by a series of Chinese slights and the Russian invasion of Ukraine further eroded American deterrence. European appeasement was another force multiplier of Iranian hubris.
The theocracy apparently assumed that its supposed “ring of fire” terrorist proxies—in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen—could lethally squeeze Israel, now reeling from the greatest single-day loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust.
The theocrats further conjectured that, like most incumbent presidents, Biden would be reelected and continue …

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Everyday for Life Canada

Victor Davis Hanson who writes this article should look at his own country committing suicide before he condemns others.

yuca2111

True, He doesn’t hear those who destroy for the sake of destruction, He never heard the ayatollahs for 46 years waging war against their own people and anyone else, but that is not what the false prophet is implying, no... Leo loves to use the truth for his lie and both becomes a beautiful lie, subtle, powerful and destructive...
God hears those who wage war against His enemies. Who are His enemies? Those who use His Name or a resemblence of it to cover for their spiritual manipulation, rape, murders and the destruction of innocence...
Nayib Bukele prayed and wage war against the enemy of El Salvador and with God on his side he won, Bukele saved his country..how? By bending his knees.
I can tell you one thing for sure... HOPE... The people of Venezuela hopes, the people of Cuba hopes and the majority of Iranians too... I HOPE this ends well for their sake and of America, as the USA has always been brave in favor of the weak who hopes.
All our powerful allies ARE socialists (a beautiful …More

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