Le Pape invite les fidèles à redécouvrir la figure de saint Grégoire le Grand, fêté le 3 septembre À l’approche de la fête de saint Grégoire le Grand, le 3 septembre, LéonXIV invite à redécouvrir la figure de ce pape du VIe siècle et prie que son exemple « suscite une confiance renouvelée en Dieu ». En intégralité sur KTO et • Audience générale du 2 septembre 2026 - L'...
Latin Mass Draws Young Catholics in Hanoi: In August, a traditional Latin Mass was celebrated in a private home in Hanoi, temporarily converted into a chapel. A visiting priest celebrated for a congregation largely made up of people in their 20s and 30s. There are no dedicated Mass parishes in Vietnam, so celebrations remain occasional and sometimes depend on visiting foreign priests.
A Traditional Latin Mass actually took place in a private home in Hanoi in early August 2026, celebrated by a visiting priest. Young Vietnamese Catholics attended using bilingual missals.There are small organized communities of young Catholics interested in the old Mass, including one led by Joseph Christopher Nguyen Thien Tuan Hoang. Participants are mainly in their 20s and 30s.
"The Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism has been tapped by the Government of Israel as part of its latest outreach to American Catholics"
EWTN is reporting the so-called “Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism” (CCAA) has been “tapped by the Government of Israel as part of its latest outreach to American Catholics.” A high-ranking Israeli official, Tammy Ben-Haim, met in May with the head of the CCAA Simone Rizkallah in Washington, DC. Rizkallah previously received funding from billionaire, Jewish activist Paul Singer and is currently affiliated with the “Tikvah Fund.” Rizkallah said in the article Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to “design a trip specifically for Catholic leaders, [so] it made sense that they would reach out to us.”
"May your Spirit make us pilgrims of the essential" - Leo XIV's Prayer for the Month of September
The Pope’s Prayer intention for the month of September is to pray for care of water: “Lord of Life, you have given us the gift of water, source of fruitfulness, freshness, and hope. It quenches thirst, nourishes the earth, and heals wounds. We thank you because it is also a symbol of your grace and love that renews us through baptism. Today, we ask you to teach us to safeguard it with gratitude, justice, and responsibility. Forgive us for turning it into a commodity, forgetting that it is a universal gift, a right without borders, meant for all your children. We see with pain, so many brothers and sisters, who lack clean water, who walk for miles to find it, who become ill due to its scarcity. May your Spirit make us pilgrims of the essential, able to live with simplicity, denouncing waste and pollution, defending the right of every brother and sister to drink without fear and without inequality. May our care for water, be a sign of love for the Creator, and a commitment to the lives of …More
Real-life good Samaritans and the story of Artemis Ghasemzadeh If the U.S. is a “Christian nation,” then why are we deporting Christian converts who try to flee here so they can freely practice their faith? The story of Artemis Ghasemzadeh and the good Samaritans in Canada who found a home for her. Religiverse
Rev. Edgard Rimaycuna, 36, Leo XIV’s personal secretary, was a disciple of Father Eleuterio Vásquez, called “Lute”. This former priest from Chiclayo is accused of sexually abusing girls aged 9 and 11. The information is revealed in the book The Shepherd and the Wolves, as reported by InfoVaticana. The book was written by Peruvian author Santiago Roncagliolo and is sympathetic toward Leo XIV. Lute was investigated so poorly under Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo that the case remained unresolved. After becoming Pope, Leo XIV granted Lute’s request for laicization in September 2025. This brought the canonical proceedings to an end, thus avoiding a guilty verdict. Close Collaboration Between Prevost and Lute In recounting the relationship between Bishop Prevost and Father Lute - at the time the diocese’s most popular priest and promoter of devotion to the Child of the Miracle of Eten - Roncagliolo writes: “Fighting together brought the bishop and the priest very close. Father Lute informed …More
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers of Dresden-Meissen. He has resigned a year earlier than the canonical expectation at age 74.
Continuing his catechetical series on Vatican II, reflecting now on the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et spes, Pope Leo XIV says: “This Document focuses on the Church’s pastoral responsibility to engage with the contemporary world, sharing in its joys and sorrows, and calls for a commitment to conversion, bearing witness to Christ’s work, and advocating for the poor and marginalized. The Church is also to be attentive to the signs of the times, interpreting them in the light of the Gospel, thereby addressing pressing issues such as the technological progress that benefits only some and the persistence of widespread poverty. In our own day, marked by profound change and much injustice, each of us, then, is called to play our part in welcoming and listening to the deepest questions and longings of the human heart, making present to all the merciful love of Christ our Savior.”
Military Officers Can’t Look Away From This Any Longer nytimes.com/2026/09/01/opinion/air-force-military… Sept. 1, 2026 By Frank Kendall Mr. Kendall was the secretary of the Air Force in the Biden administration. I attended a military retirement ceremony last month at which Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the presiding officer and featured speaker. It was eerily, even alarmingly normal. In a large room full of current and retired senior military officers, everyone was playing the same game of “Let’s pretend everything is fine.” Denial is one of the two approaches the nation’s senior military leaders seem to have taken to cope with Donald Trump’s presidency. When they aren’t ignoring how abnormal things have become, they turn to the other approach, claiming that they have no responsibility for the actions the armed forces have been ordered to take because those orders were “policy” choices outside the scope of their duties. This is a cop-out, and it is …More
catholicculture.org/news/index.cfm The Vatican has not approved the German bishops' planned synodal meeting to make policies, where most of the voting participants would not be bishops. Therefore, it has been cancelled, at least for the moment. I explain in German synodality stalled. Hot air cooling? Phil Lawler reflects on an odd historical situation, which also involves one of his commentaries from five years ago: Revisiting: Why early Church debates were more exciting. Fr. Jerry Pokorsky offers a beautiful commentary on Outwitting Human Suffering. Thomas Mirus coninues his series on Pope Leo XIII: St. Leo the Great’s Teaching on Petrine Primacy— available as a written commentary and in podcast form. IN PODCASTING: Note that we are now adding transcripts to our podcast pages, for those who would rather read than listen, or who simply want to be able to refer back to the text. The transcripts appear at the bottom of the show notes. The first example of this is the latest …More
1 Corinthians 3:18-23 "You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God." Let us remain in the joy of God's heart. Luke 5:1-11 "They left everything and followed Jesus." Letting go of what is unnecessary is already being with Jesus. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
FromPost tam diuturnastoDignitatis humanae Pius VII —Post tam diuturnas, April 29, 1814 “By the very fact that freedom of all forms of worship without distinction is established, truth is confused with error, and the Church, the holy and immaculate Bride of Christ, outside of which there is no salvation, is placed on the same level as heretical sects and even the perfidy of the Jews. Moreover, by promising favor and support to the sects of heretics and to their ministers, one tolerates and favors not only their persons, but also their errors. This is implicitly the disastrous and ever deplorable heresy which St. Augustine mentions in these words: “It maintains that all heretics are on the right path and speak the truth,” an absurdity so monstrous that I cannot believe that any sect actually professes it.” De Post tam diuturnas à Dignitatis humanae
My dad checked my car every single time he came to visit. I used to find it annoying. Until the first time I pulled away from my parents’ house and realized he wasn’t there anymore. I was thirty-four. I was married. I had two kids of my own. And every time we visited my parents, Dad still walked outside before we left. “Your tires look a little low.” “You’re almost out of windshield washer fluid.” “When was the last time you changed the oil?” I used to roll my eyes. “Dad, I’m an adult.” “I know,” he’d say. And then he’d check anyway. One Sunday, I was getting the kids into the car when it started raining. Dad came outside holding a box of windshield wipers. “Yours are terrible.” I laughed. “They’re fine.” “They are not fine.” And right there in the rain, he started replacing them. I sat inside the car while he worked. I remember feeling impatient. The kids were tired. We had a two-hour drive ahead of us, and I just wanted to get home. When he finished, he tapped twice on my window. “…More
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The “chain of evidence”