GROK Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has suggested that Ukraine may be behind an attempted bombing of one of the country’s major gas pipelines just days before voters head to the polls for the most contested election in decades. According to the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet, security services in Serbia discovered a large explosive device at the Turkish Stream gas pipeline near the Hungarian border. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is reported to have informed Budapest that if the bomb had been successfully triggered, gas supply to Hungary would have been interrupted. Bálint Pásztor, the leader of the local Vojvodina Hungarian Association (VMSZ), which represents the large Hungarian population on the Serbian side of the border near the pipeline, said that he believed it was an attempted terrorist attack aimed at toppling Prime Minister Orbán ahead of this month’s elections. In a post on social media on Sunday, Orbán said the pipeline is “vital” to Hungary’s energy supply …
Statue of Saint Stephen in Budapest by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (Folha de S. Paulo, January 16, 1978) Once upon a time, intelligent and strong people lived in a beautiful region. Everything would have made their lives easy, leading them toward a glorious future, had it not been for the countless centuries of barbarism that weighed upon them. With barbarism came primitive and crude beliefs, pagan customs, and the vice of living at the expense of their neighbors through wars of plunder. All this was around the year 1000. Astonished by its age, the civilized world imagined itself old. Some extravagant people even thought it was coming to an end. However, the world—and more precisely, the West—was being born into all the glories of civilization that soon shone upon it. Almost everywhere, men of valor began leading their peoples along paths toward prosperity and greatness. Among these men were many saints. The prominent men of that era agreed that, in essence, a man’s highest value lies …More
Fourteen thousand people registered in a single day for the 2026 Notre-Dame de Chrétienté pilgrimage on the Paris–Chartres route, compared to 6,000 on the first day last year. The pilgrimage will take place over Pentecost, from May 23 to 25, and is expected to gather 20,000 participants walking to Chartres. A new, more accessible option - the “Jerusalem Route” - has been introduced. Shorter than the traditional 100 km walk (around 70 km), it is designed for those unable to complete the full distance. Like the main route, it also ends in Chartres, allowing more pilgrims to take part in the final stages of the pilgrimage. #newsChiagvdgui
Hundreds of empty seats during Leo XIV’s Easter Vigil: Matt Butorac, a Catholic pilgrimage guide, reported on X that there were “hundreds of empty seats” during the Easter Vigil at St Peter’s Basilica. The screenshots, taken from a video he shared for "those claiming it was not empty", show the basilica during the baptisms. Butorac attributes this to ticketing issues and disorganised queues. However, shortly before the Eucharist began, entry was permitted without tickets and everyone was able to enter.
EMTY SEATS: Catholic Traveler had a video on X.com from yesterday's Easter Night Eucharist with Leo XIV. Screenshots (fair use)
St. Catherine of Sweden ~~~ If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire. Let the Truth be your delight...proclaim it...but with a certain congeniality
I, however, disagree with the above theoretical (Major), and two factual (Minores), premises, but the refutation of the above three arguments requires argumentation for non-Thomists even to see, let alone understand.
Freiherr, also, every pope (at least the canonists advising him) since John XXIII inclusively has taken the position that 1) no pope, including Pope St. Pius V, can bind his successors to an object of *merely ecclesiastical (liturgical); 2) Popes since St. Pius V did change the Roman Missal more than once between 1570 and 1962, ergo so could John XXIII; and 3) since Quo Primum is not an object of *Faith, it can be modified by a successive pope. So go the arguments against qualifying Quo primum tempore as binding all successive popes to the Roman Missal of 1570.
Horrific Easter Attack: Muslim Driver Rams into Christian Procession in Gujranwala Village, Critically Injuring 60+ and Killing Several On Easter morning in the village of Klasske, Gujranwala while Christians were taking part in a Easter procession, a Muslim driver in a high-speed car plowed straight into the crowd, critically injuring more than 60 people. Multiple Christians have been killed in this horrific attack on a HOLY day.
IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DIVIDED? (and is Division so Bad?) fr.williamnicholas Fr. Bill addresses divisions within the Catholic Church - why some divisions can be bad, and why some are good for the Church as a whole. Given that Jesus appointed 12 Apostles instead of just 1, could this be what Jesus intended for a Church that is meant to spread throughout the world?
Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970 Top Doctors sound the alarm on the dangers of biopsies..."Biopsies are the kiss of death. The needle punches a hole in the tumor, dragging cancer cells & spreading them." ~Dr. Ben Johnson
"67. The vanity of the sciences.—Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences."
[Blaise Pascal – XVII Century AD; Clermont-Ferrand, France/Paris, France; Mathematics/Physics/Theology] “Section II ~ THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD 60. First part: Misery of man without God. Second part: Happiness of man with God. Or, First part: That nature is corrupt. Proved by nature itself. Second part: That there is a Redeemer. Proved by Scripture. 61. Order.—I might well have taken this discourse in an order like this: to show the vanity of all conditions of men, to show the vanity of ordinary lives, and then the vanity of philosophic lives, sceptics, stoics; but the order would not have been kept. I know a little what it is, and how few people understand it. No human science can keep it. Saint Thomas did not keep it. Mathematics keep it, but they are useless on account of their depth. 62. Preface to the first part.—To speak of those who have treated of the knowledge of self; of the divisions of Charron, which sadden and weary us; of the confusion of Montaigne; that he was quite …More
Pray like Breathing Is giving up our will to be in union with Gods Divine Will by conscious of what we think, do, act as constant communion and resting in the heart of our Triune God.
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Beautiful Easter Prayer Song -- PRAYER OF SAINT GREGORY (POPE) PRAYER OF SAINT GREGORY (POPE) (An Easter Prayer) It is only right, with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise You Father and Your Only-Begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Dear Father, by Your wondrous condescension of Loving-Kindness toward us, Your servants, You gave up Your Son. Dear Jesus You paid the debt of Adam for us to the Eternal Father by Your Blood poured forth in Loving-Kindness. You cleared away the darkness of sin by Your magnificent and radiant Resurrection. You broke the bonds of death and rose from the grave as a Conqueror. You reconciled Heaven and earth. Our life had no hope of Eternal Happiness before You redeemed us. Your Resurrection has washed away our sins, restored our innocence and brought us joy. How inestimable is the tenderness of Your Love! We pray You, Lord, to preserve Your servants in the peaceful enjoyment of this Easter happiness. We ask this through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Who …More
Every night I give a Latin blessing to the housekeeper. As soon as I begin the blessing, my dog wakes up from sleep and follows me to my sleeping quarters.