Another Vatican appointment for Montse Alvarado: Leo XIV puts the future head of Vatican communications on the board of his new “Fratello Sole” Foundation - even as her digital record at EWTN offers little to celebrate. Today, Leo XIV appointed Maria Montserrat “Montse” Alvarado as a member of the Board of Directors of the Vatican’s newly established Fratello Sole Foundation. She becomes the third member of its three-person governing board. Alvarado is due to take office as Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication on November 1. She is divorced and received a Church annulment of her marriage. She is not a theologian and has attracted attention for arguing in 2022 that Jews should not be converted to Christianity. Women Taking Over the Vatican Leo XIV established the Fratello Sole Foundation in June to oversee an agrivoltaic project intended ultimately to meet the electricity needs of Vatican City State. The three-member board now consists of: - Sister Raffaella Petrini, President of …More
Pope Francis supported a Spanish bishop in his attempt to gain control over Opus Dei’s famous Torrecuidad shrine and take back a historic image of Our Lady
Neu veröffentlichte handschriftliche Briefe, die „El País“ vorliegen, zeigen, dass der verstorbene Papst Franziskus persönlich in den Streit um Torreciudad mit dem Opus Dei eingegriffen und die Situation als „mafiaähnlich“ bezeichnet hat. Die Briefe untermauern die Behauptung des Bischofs, dass Franziskus ihn gegen den Druck in Bezug auf die Wallfahrtsstätte und das Bildnis der „Unsere Liebe Frau von den Engeln“ aus dem 11. Jahrhundert unterstützt habe. Im Juli 2023 sagte er zu Bischof Ángel Pérez Pueyo: „Geben Sie nicht nach!“ Nachdem er im Oktober 2024 einen bevollmächtigten Kommissar ernannt hatte, schrieb Franziskus erneut: „Mit der Ernennung des Dekans der Rota mache ich mein direktes Eingreifen in die Aktivitäten des Opus Dei dort sichtbar. Und indem ich Ihnen eine neue Stelle vorschlage, versuche ich, Sie von all den ‚mafiaähnlichen Intrigen‘ zu befreien, die derzeit im Gange sind. Damit mache ich deutlich, dass mein Eingreifen umfassend ist.“
[Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort – XVII-XVIII Century AD; born: Montfort-sur-Meu, France/died: Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, France; aged 43, Total consecration to Jesus through Mary] 5. Exterior practices 60. Besides interior practices, which we have just mentioned, this devotion has certain exterior practices which must not be omitted or neglected. Consecration and its renewal 61. The first is to choose a special feast-day to consecrate ourselves through Mary to Jesus, whose slaves we are making ourselves. This is an occasion for receiving Holy Communion and spending the day in prayer. At least once a year on the same day, we should renew the act of consecration. Offering of a tribute in submission to the Blessed Virgin 62. The second is to give our Lady every year on that same day some little tribute as a token of our servitude and dependence. This has always been the customary homage paid by slaves to their master. This tribute could consist of an act of self-denial or alms, or a …More
The official page of the SSPX has started a series on bishops appointed by Leo XIV, announced in a previous article, with Bishop Dave Dean Capucao, the first bishop appointed by the reigning pope, if we exclude Bishop Angel Contreras Llajaruna, appointed auxiliary bishop of Callao in Peru. However, this series focuses primarily on titular bishops. Training Born on September 25, 1965 in Naga in the province of Southern Camarines, Bishop Capucao is the first Philippine bishop appointed by Leo XIV, on May 16, 2025. He was consecrated on September 5, 2025. He first joined the missionaries of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM), then entered the seminary of the Prelature of Infanta. Ordained a priest on October 3, 1994, he served for a few years in the Philippines before going to study in Europe. He pursued university studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, where he was a researcher between 2002 and 2006, earning a doctorate in theology. He also obtained a …More
The Vatican’s International Theological Commission has just given a positive hearing to panentheism (the idea that creation exists “in God” so is also Divine).
Saint Lawrence Justinian cybrotius Lawrence Justinian was a member of the well-known Giustiniani family, which includes several saints. His brothers were Leonardo and Marco. The piety of his mother seems to have served as an inspiration for his own spirituality, as he chose a life of prayer and service. In 1404, after he had been ordained a deacon, at the suggestion of an uncle who was a priest, he joined a community of canons regular following a monastic form of life on the island of San Giorgio in Alga. He was admired by his fellows for his poverty, mortification, and fervency of prayer. Two years after his ordination to the Catholic priesthood in 1407, the community accepted the Rule of St. Augustine. He was chosen to be the first prior of the community. Lawrence promoted the Constitutions which had been established for the Canons Regular of St. George, which was embraced by other communities of Canons in the region and shortly thereafter he became the Prior General of a …More
A massive number of blacked out men in balaclavas have taken control of roads in Dover right now to protest to the illegal migrant invasion They are REFUSING to move, with more protesters beginning to arrive. The whole country backs them.
Not So Supreme, Mr. Roberts nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion/not-so-supreme-mr-… Sept. 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington It’s crazy to think about Donald Trump outrunning anything. But in legal terms, the president is an Olympic-class sprinter. He breaks the law so fast that the law is left in his orange dust. Trump is an outlaw. And our system was not built for an outlaw in the Oval. He zeros in on loopholes in the law and the system that are based on trust and the assumption that our leaders — and their families — will be not be voracious scam artists. “The Constitution was built on this idea that the president would have enough decency and morality that they just wouldn’t run around exploiting the gaps,” said the Trump biographer Tim O’Brien. “And for Trump, it’s like red meat. This idea that Trump’s mentor was Roy Cohn was profoundly wrong. Donald Trump’s mentor was Fred from day one. His father showed him how to exploit the government …More
@spinmeister there's never anything you guys see that can be satisfying with the novus ordo, that's precisely why NOBODY listens to you guys when you talk your big "traditional ways" and your critical points on the matter on wayyyy more of the 90% of the catholic world, the novus ordo mass IS the mass and the Eucharist there is not false my dear @Ivan Tomas the Eucharist IS the Holy Flesh of God, there’s better ways to address the problems there, but heck, not even priests listens to your points, even less speaking like that... Anyways, I don’t know why I even reply when some of you are like walls, or like the men with stones ready to pounce the adulterous woman. Even that spinfraud guy comes, speaks his mind while having a block on me but whatever, not losing any sleep over it.
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The Universal Call to Christian Perfection A Patristic and Scholastic Essay Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience as the Means to Perfect Charity PREFACE: THE FALSE ASSUMPTION There is an error of comfort that has always threatened the Church from within — more dangerous in many respects than the errors that attack her from without, because it does not announce itself as error but settles quietly into the assumptions of ordinary Christian life and makes itself at home there, undisturbed and unexamined, generation after generation. It is the assumption that not every baptized soul is called to Christian Perfection. This error takes many forms. It presents itself as realism — an honest acknowledgment that most people are not monks or nuns and cannot be expected to live as though they were. It presents itself as pastoral charity — a merciful lowering of the bar for souls who are, after all, doing their best in difficult circumstances. It presents itself as theological sophistication — a nuanced …More
Geopolitics Prime | Iran & Ukraine News Updates Another of Ukraine's logistics hubs goes up in smoke A truck parking lot was obliterated in a Russian strike on the Zaporozhye region, Ukrainian media report.
Another of Ukraine's logistics hubs goes up in smoke