The German Catholic Days in Würzburg are marked by strong emphasis on strong emphasis on climate protection, gender issues, and queer-themed programming this year, reflecting a significant shift in focus compared to earlier editions of the event. The gathering takes place from Wednesday to Sunday and is expected to attract around 30,000 participants, with more than 900 events scheduled across the city. This year’s motto, “Be courageous!,” is presented by organizers as a call to engagement in public life, though the concept of courage is framed primarily in socio-political rather than religious terms. According to the official programme materials, central themes include the “climate crisis” and the “endangered democracy,” alongside a wide range of discussions on social change, activism, and public debate. Traditional theological concepts such as sin, repentance, forgiveness, and eternal life appear to receive comparatively limited attention. Instead, initiatives include “climate …
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The German Catholic Congress (Katholikentag), taking place May 13–17 in Würzburg, will include a workshop on May 14 entitled: “Planning Blessing Services with Trans* Individuals.” The Congress is one of Germany’s largest Catholic gatherings and includes more than 900 events. There is a strong presence of politicians, including Protestant President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Markus Söder, Ricarda Lang, Andrea Nahles, and climate activist Luisa Neubauer. On May 16, there will be a homosexual worship service (“Queer-Gottesdienst”) under the title “Life is colorful – diversity in the Church?!” in the Augustinerkirche. Other official program events include: - Bible workshop: “Reading the Bible queerly: Why God is a fan of diversity” - When queer believers encounter the Church - From murder mystery dinners to escape games: discovering queer traces in the Bible through playful methods - Queer in the climate crisis: vulnerability and empowerment — also in Europe …More
There goes the Catechism. The new cover will be rainbow. Everyone will receive a blessing, whether in sin or not. History will record: This is a burden Pope Leo will be held personally responsible for. If you remove the smoke screen from the land of Oz, it's easy to see that this is His Proud Agenda. In the very near future: The "special children" will be ENTITLED to receive a blessing ANY church they walk into - if the priest refuses, the special children are to report this inaction to the local Archbishop to initiate chastisement and schism if ever repeated.
In 1987, the Lutheran minister Richard John Neuhaus argued that history had entered into a “Catholic moment,” in which the Catholic Church had a chance to take up its “rightful role” in constructing a “religiously informed public philosophy” for the United States. Given the Church’s declining numerical and institutional strength, it is striking to find that a strange kind of Catholic moment has indeed arrived—one in which the Church has a thinner presence on the ground but seemingly a greater one in public debates.
As early as his time in Chicago and Peru, Prevost betrayed Christ by following the apostate Marxist ideology of the pseudo-theology of liberation of Gutiérrez and Boff. Prevost Was Early Influenced by Marxist …
Bishop Varden on hope, AI, patience — and not weaponizing Christianity BALTIMORE (OSV News) — During his May 7 visit to St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, a member of the Trappist monastic order, sat down with OSV News to share his insights on Christian hope, the dangers of AI and weaponizing the Christian faith, and the need for patience in the spiritual life.
Noruega: Mons. Varden reivindica la paciencia frente a la cultura de lo inmediato El Obispo Erik Varden, monje trapense y titular de la diócesis de Trondheim (Noruega), ha afirmado que no alberga «absolutamente ninguna esperanza» en la inteligencia artificial como instrumento de renovación espiritual. «Cualquier renovación espiritual digna de ese nombre es aquella que traspasa el corazón humano, y eso es algo que un algoritmo no puede hacer», ha declarado en una entrevista concedida a OSV News durante su visita al seminario de St. Mary's en Baltimore el pasado 7 de mayo. hmtv
Bishop Varden on hope, AI, patience - and not … This interview has been edited for length and clarity. OSV News: You provided the reflections for the Lenten Spiritual Exercises in the Vatican for Pope Leo XIV and others, and in your final reflection, you focused on the theme of communicating hope. In the U.S. there’s been a real interest in Nordic noir films and books — often bleak and morally ambiguous — and a perception that Nordic culture is broadly the same. Do you find any irony in a Nordic bishop focusing on hope? Bishop Varden: Well, your question makes me smile, because I’ve lived in a number of different countries, mainly in Europe, and I find that the more you move south in Europe, the more people have extravagant notions of the North, and the more they assume that it is an area of the world plunged in perpetual darkness, where everyone is given to drink and excess, and where everyone is on antidepressants, and where people keep killing themselves with axes. And it isn’t …More
– Folha de S. Paulo, October 29, 1972 – by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Unfortunately, the daily press coverage of the recent debate at the UN was not very clear. In summary, it seems to be about the following: a) As is well known, by using satellites to transmit television broadcasts, a state can send news or commentary to any part of the world. There are no technical means for another country to defend itself against such transmissions. b) Russia has proposed to other UN members that international regulations be established for the use of satellites for television. Otherwise, it would destroy a satellite to prevent it from serving as an instrument of anticommunist ideological propaganda on its territory. Incidentally, this gesture will not upset pro-communists worldwide who advocate breaking down ideological barriers. The US protested the Kremlin’s unusual stance by defending the principle of total freedom of communication. After review by the relevant committees, the matter will be …More
St. John Chrysostom ~~~ When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him...
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