US priest affiliates with FSSPX, canonical proceedings started. Rev. Philip Conklin, 38, a priest of St. Paul and Minneapolis, has affiliated with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX), and his archbishop has initiated a canonical process against him. It will presumably see the priest declared excommunicated. Archbishop Bernard Hebda wrote on September 30 in the archdiocese’s newspaper: “After confirming with Father Conklin that he does not intend to cease this affiliation, I have felt compelled to commence a canonical process to clarify the situation and his status.” Rev. Conklin was ordained a priest by Archbishop Hebda relatively recently, on May 25, 2024. In March 2026, he went on a six-month leave of absence to discern his priestly vocation. There are some interesting biographical details. Before entering seminary, he trained as a pilot, served for six years in the U.S. Air Force as an air traffic controller, and subsequently worked as a civilian air traffic contractor at …More
WHAT DID WE LOSE? When the Church lost much of her sacred musical language, more than music disappeared. ✦ ━━━ QUICK READ ━━━ ✦ When people debate Catholic church music, the argument is often reduced to taste. Some people like Gregorian chant. Others prefer contemporary hymns. Some prefer the organ. Others prefer guitars. But something much greater than musical preference was at stake. For centuries, the Church cultivated a musical language recognizably her own. Gregorian chant, sacred polyphony, the organ, sacred silence, and generations of Catholic composition belonged to a world of worship deliberately set apart from ordinary life. That musical world did not recede for no reason. Changing ideas about participation, accessibility, cultural adaptation, and ecumenical openness helped create a very different musical culture. But this raises the deeper question: When the old musical world receded, what disappeared with it? We lost some of the distinctiveness that made Catholic worship …More
Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Hubertus van Megen told Germany’s bishops in Fulda that the papacy and the Eucharist safeguard Church unity and no local Church outranks another.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Pierre Goudreault - open to married priests - as the new bishop of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Bishop Goudreault, 63, has governed Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière since 2018 and has headed the Canadian bishops’ conference since September 2025. He said after his September 29 appointment that Catholics should discern how to become “a synodal Church” characterized by “mutual listening” and “communal discernment.” “The Church as a laboratory” Already before becoming a bishop, Goudreault told LePlacoteux.com in 2017 that he sees “the Church as a laboratory where we have to allow ourselves to try things” and that “we have to change our ways of doing things”. The remarks accompanied discussion of his book Faire Église autrement (“Being Church Differently”), in which he proposed the multiplication of small groups for reflection, faith-sharing and Christian formation as a path for the Church's future. Open to Married Priests In January 2024, LePlacoteux.com asked …More
All Biblical Prayer Song of Catholic Worship, good for House Worship not inside the Church coz the Beat is Modern. For Personal worship getting close to Triune God and their Ultimate LOVE to his Image and Likeness Human Being, His Creation his Children. .. . We cannot Love More than our God Love us sooo Much...
S. D. Wright: Archbishop Viganò and the Seat of St. Peter: A respectful reply Sep 30, 2026 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò recently made a number of criticisms of 'sedevacantism' – but do they stand up to scrutiny? Following the release of his recent essay The Capital Schism, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò gave an exclusive three-part interview to LifeSiteNews. EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Viganò says restraint on Antichrist loosened at Vatican II EXCLUSIVE: Abp. Viganò says Leo XIV has intensified Francis’s agenda, not slowed it EXCLUSIVE: Abp. Viganò: The Catholic Church ‘is alive’; the ‘synodal church is a corpse’ The interview covered a range of topics about the state of the Church. In the third part, he made a number of critical comments about “sedevacantism” and explained why he is not a “sedevacantist.” However, a number of these criticisms were “wide of the mark.” Whether one holds to the “sedevacantist” conclusion or not, it is necessary that such criticisms address what “sedevacantists …More
WHITE SMOKE 1958 -71- TWO POPES Second point: What follows is just as certain as what has been stated above, namely: - The 1958 conclave elected two Popes; we know of the first one because of the white smoke; we know of the second one because he appeared. - How could the cardinals of the conclave have proceeded to elect two Pontiffs? Indeed, this is impossible. If they elected the second, the first must necessarily have abdicated. - The successor to Pius XII, elected on October 26, 1958, therefore abdicated after accepting the election, and this abdication was recognized as valid by all the cardinals since the conclave continued to elect a new pontiff with the very participation as an elector of the one who had been elected. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) (Source: first comment)
Children as young as three facing immigration judges without lawyers Under the Trump administration, following a CNN exclusive exposing their treatment inside immigration courts. Harry Litman breaks down the implications of children being forced to navigate deportation proceedings alone and the consequences of sending them to Honduras and other countries without legal representation. Subscribe: @TalkingFeds Visit Meidas+ | MeidasTouch Network | Substack for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: Record TV with SnapStream to get clips that will … Support the MeidasTouch Network: patreon.com/meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: The MeidasTouch Podcast
Dutch Cardinal Wim Eijk condemned the euthanasia of a severely disabled Dutch child, nearly two years old, as a violation of human dignity. “Is it merciful to violate the fundamental dignity of the human person by ending their life?” he asked. Speaking to CruxNow.com in an interview on September 25, Eijk warned that “merciful” is often used to justify “ethically questionable actions.” He said ending the body is a “fundamental violation” of a person’s inherent dignity.
Cardinal Eijk condemns euthanasia of Dutch toddler
Going Viral in the Worst Ways nytimes.com/…09/29/opinion/trump-mideast-diplomac… Sept. 29, 2026 By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 President Trump is such an awful human being that just writing about him feels degrading. What president would denigrate his predecessor in front of China’s leader the way Trump mocked Joe Biden, now suffering from cancer, by pointing out that a framed picture of an autopen was hanging in the White House instead of Biden’s portrait? Alas, though, when someone as morally warped as Trump — whose first secretary of state called him a “moron” — assumes this much unchecked power at the dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence, he can’t be ignored. Because right now Trump is leaving America exposed to dangerous viruses: digital, biological and diplomatic. Something bad is going to happen to us as a result. We and our children are going to pay for this, and not only at the gas pump. Let me start with the digital virus now on the loose. …More
