The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter (1481–1482), Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino (1448–1523). We can all see in our head the images of the cardinals’ entrance into the conclave on May 7, 2025, a little more than a year ago, to elect the new pope. In this way they perpetuated a centuries-old tradition: since the 1400s, this assembly has been held in the Sistine Chapel. One of the frescoes that watched over the election is particularly significant, since it depicts the appointment of Peter as the head of the nascent Church. Michelangelo outshone Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484), who had commissioned the construction of the papal chapel that bears his name, as well as the other painters who decorated it. Perugino, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio, among others, nevertheless labored on the middle tier. Producing parallel scenes from the lives of Moses and Jesus, they manifested the continuity of salvation, which was offered first to the chosen people, then to the whole world. For example, opposite …More
On 27 June, Bishop Czesław Kozon of Copenhagen, Denmark, conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation according to the Roman Rite at the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) apostolate in Recklinghausen, Germany.
Firmung im alten Ritus mit Bischof Czeslaw Kozon, Bischof von Kopenhagen. FSSP Recklinghausen Katholisch am Niederrhein
The Pope seeks discernment, but revelation ended with the death of St. John. The Holy Spirit assists us in living that revelation. It is the demonic spirits who provide new inspiration.
Sat Jun 27, 2026 - 2:34 pm EDT VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV opened his second extraordinary consistory of cardinals on Friday in which he insisted that the Lord is leading the Church via “synodality” so that she can “grow in communion,” according to a report by Vatican journalist Edward Pentin. The Pontiff encouraged the 178 cardinals to “engage wholeheartedly” in a synodal, working group structure, adding that he was “well aware that, for many of us, this is not the usual way of conducting a consistory,” Pentin said in his EWTN News report. “I count on you to help me discern what the Spirit is saying to the Church today. I need your support: strong, explicit, and public,” Leo said in his opening remarks on Friday. “I need to feel sustained by you as brothers.” “The pope’s comments came after some cardinals had expressed apprehensions about the consistory using a ‘synodal’ round-table format for a second time — a structure they felt was ‘very controlled’ when …
St. Peter's Basilica Sells Tickets for Faster Access: Visitors who purchase a ticket or visitor package for St. Peter's Basilica are directed to a dedicated entrance. Although admission to the Basilica is free, the official website and various commercial providers state that purchasing a package, such as an audio guide, includes access via a separate entrance, which is presented as providing faster access than the general admission line.
Dalle foto si può vedere che per chi vuole accedere alla Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, c'è anche un accesso dedicato solo a chi acquista uno dei vari pacchetti per le visite. ( l'ingresso alla Basilica di San Pietro è gratuito, ma "pagando" si ha un ingresso riservato, così viene scritto o fatto intendere nei vari siti web) Come si legge anche nei vari siti web tra cui quello ufficiale della Basilica di San Pietro Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano | audioguida … I vantaggi Ingresso dedicato alla Basilica di San Pietro Audioguida multilingua della Basilica di San Pietro Ingresso dedicato Recarsi presso l'edicola situata al lato del colonnato di destra di Piazza San Pietro Mostrare la conferma di acquisto codice QR al personale della Basilica presente I visitatori con audioguida verranno indirizzati verso l'ingresso a loro dedicato basilicasanpietro.va/it/idea/41280461/basilica Durata: circa 1 ora. Tipologia: privato, Visita Libera. Punto di partenza: la visita inizia dopo il …More
Our Lord has no earthly Father - results of tests of Eucharistic Miracles. The Claim and Its Origins The claim you're referring to stems from alleged scientific analyses of purported "Eucharistic miracles" where consecrated Communion hosts (transubstantiated into Christ's body and blood per Catholic doctrine) were tested. Specifically, it's said that blood samples showed a human male AB blood type with DNA containing only X chromosomes (no Y chromosome), interpreted as evidence Jesus was conceived without an earthly father (virgin birth), having Mary's X chromosome doubled (XX, like a female, but phenotypically male). This is not verified mainstream science. It's promoted in Catholic apologetics circles, often linked to miracles like Lanciano (Italy, 8th century) or Buenos Aires (1996). No peer-reviewed studies in journals like Nature or Science confirm it. Claims rely on private lab reports, sometimes anonymous or disputed, with critics noting contamination risks, poor chain-of-custody …More
"How many civilians have actually been killed?! You don't know, do you?" Piers Morgan grills John Spencer on his claim that Israel's ratio of civilian deaths to combatants in Gaza is "the best ratio in modern warfare".
This is Part One of the interview for the British audience I gave a few days ago, where I answer questions not so much on the contemporary politics but on Russian Soviet History. Why did the Soviet Union collapse? Why did Putin come to power? Why is he so popular in Russia and so much detested in some West European ruling circles? Dr. Brovkin served as an Associate Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University, he is the author of numerous books on Russian History and politics. His latest book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its identity (Routledge, London 2024) is available from Amazon and Routledge.com. Yu can find: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin, Russia under the Communist Regime, War in Ukraine, European History and other playlists. THESE WERE CONVERTED TO PODCASTS on You Tube music. FOLLOW me ON X TWITTER Vladimir Brovkin (@BrovkinVla97791) on X. I HAVE JUST BEGUN AUDIO PODCASTS WITH RSS.COM Video Putin: Why is He Loved, or Feared?
I am corrected by Dr. Brovkin. It's not 83 -84% favorabilty but 86%! I thought it was higher. But I went by someone I watch. I use to see many interviews with many people and their happiness I knew he was off. But still a very high number for a man in office so long. And they will continue to vote for him as long as he runs. Which came from each interview. But I don't think there will be a next time to vote for anyone. I think Putin's time is over. He has done all he can and hopefully will see it till the end of his term. With GOD stepping in, or I should say, stepping back to let The Great Chastisement begin. As we are only in the very beginnings of it. The way I see it is, as well as others and from Putin himself, while he is going slowly in Ukraine to save lives of men on both sides. GOD is allowing things to go slow so He can call souls to Himself. Does anyone else see it that way? Or am I the only one to see this?
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June 28th - Saint of the Day: Saint John Southworth, Priest & Martyr The Priest Who Refused to Stop Being a Priest — Even When It Cost Him Everything In 1654, a sixty-two-year-old Catholic priest stood at the Tyburn gallows in London. His judge had wept while reading the sentence. The foreign ambassadors in the room had begged him to deny being a priest. There was barely enough evidence to convict him. He refused to lie. Saint John Southworth had already been arrested four times, deported three times, and had voluntarily walked back into a plague-ravaged London — at a time when being a Catholic priest on English soil was legally a capital offense. He served the dying. He raised money for plague victims' families. He heard the final confession of his martyred friend through a prison window. And when they finally executed him, his body was quartered, purchased by the Spanish Ambassador for forty guineas, stitched back together, sent to France, and then buried in an …More
Hl. John Southworth - Gedenktag katholisch: 28. Juni als einer der vierzig Märtyrer von England: 25. Oktober Priester, Märtyrer * um 1592 in Samlesbury in Lancashire in England † 28. Juni 1654 in Tyburn, heute Teil des Stadtbezirks Westminster in London in England John Southworth stammte aus einer Gutbesitzer-Familie, die seit dem 14. Jahrhundert in Samlesbury lebte. Er studierte Theologie am damaligen Englischen Kolleg - gegenüber der Kirche Saint-Jacques - in Douai in Frankreich. Obwohl 1585 ein Gesetz erlassen wurde, das jeden Priester als verräterisch brandmarkte, der nach England zurückkam, kehrte er im Oktober 1619 nach England zurück und blieb dort, bis er 1624 als Kaplan der Benediktinerinnen nach Brüssel berufen wurde. 1625 kehrte er wieder zurück, wurde 1627 verhaftet und zusammen mit Edmund Arrowsmith im Schloss in Lancaster inhaftiert. Nach Arrowsmiths Hinrichtung wurde er ins Clink-Gefängnis nach London verlegt und dann wegen des Bekenntnisses zum katholischen Glauben …More
27.06.2026 THE ‘BLUE PASSAGES’ DOMINATE IN THE SSPX DECLARATION OF FAITH, THE SAME AS IN VATICAN COUNCIL II WHICH IS NOW ECCLESIOCENTRIC AND TRADITIONAL AND NO MORE LIBERAL. Church Documents interpreted rationally with ' the red not being an exception for the blue ', support the traditionalists and not the liberals and Pope Leo The section on The Church in the SSPX Profession of Faith is clear. So I can make the blue and red passage distinction. It shows that the blue passages dominate in Vatican Council II and so the text of Vatican Council II is traditional and ecclesiocentric and not liberal. Vatican Council II is liberal for Pope Leo, the Consistory of Cardinals and the bishops conferences, since they project the red passages as being explicit exceptions for the blue passages. This is irrational and creates schism with the Magisterium of the centuries. We no more have the ecclesiology of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine of Siena or St. Teresa of Avila and St. Ignatius …More
"FSSPX Are Schismatic Priests": Cardinal Gerhard Müller told EWTN that Catholics “cannot go” to Masses offered by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (SSPX): “They shouldn't go and cannot go, participate in the masses of the schismatic priests.” He added that Catholics must accept not only dogmas such as the Trinity and the Incarnation, but also that “the Church is the visible presence of the Body of Jesus Christ.” Regarding the FSSPX's planned episcopal consecrations, he said: “Consecrations without the Pope are absolutely impossible against the will of God, and who is working against God will be excommunicated.” The Vatican has so far never used the word "schism" or "schismatic" in context with the FSSPX.
Cardinal Müller's remarks to EWTN (June 26) were strikingly uncompromising: "Catholics cannot go to these schismatic priests."
Has there ever been a time like this? The FSSPX is not doing something new, as throughout history of the Church there has been consecrations without papal aproval and nothing happened, because the salvation of souls is #1 and above everything else, BUT we are living in such dangerous times that we no longer distinguish good from bad and light with dark, this is why the FSSPX is doing what's best for their sheep and I (even though im not one of them), stands with them.
Why on earth are you complaining about Mel now? He is a sede. Just like you follow with the dimond brothers. After I warned you they aren't even Priests. Let alone Monks or Benedictine Monks. You defended them and said, you will continue to listen to them. Amazing always finding something wrong with someone else. As long as you don't like them. But when you do. You can't find a thing wrong with them. Even when proven a fraud. Especially when you find out how they support and praise President Putin and Russia. Then they are your enemy. Mel like the rest of us are sinners. We sin everyday. More than you will ever admit or see. Besides he is a sede and that's what happens to anyone following those lying lunatics. They become just like them.
"Young People Want Traditional Mass": Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, told EWTN on June 26 that he sees "a resurgence of interest in all things traditional, especially among young people": "They want reverence. They want transcendence. They want beauty in the liturgy." He believes this desire is also influencing the Novus Ordo: "I believe that we're seeing a trend turning more traditional even in the Novus Ordo. And I think this is a good thing." Ordained in 1985, Bishop James Conley has celebrated the Mass in the Roman rite since 1988, though about 95% of the time he uses the Novus Ordo.
Bishop James Conley, Lincoln: "There is a resurgence of interest in all things traditional, especially among young people. I see it in my own diocese. They want reverence. They want transcendence. They want beauty in the liturgy." "Thanks be to God we have not only the Fraternity of Saint Peter, but I have a couple of priests who celebrate, with permission of the Holy See, a Sunday Mass in the Extraordinary Form... It's my hope that as they continue to ordain priests... they will be able to meet the needs of the people who desire this form of the Mass." "So don't give up and don't jump ship."
"Thanks be to God we have not only the Fraternity of Saint Peter, but I have a couple of priests who celebrate, with permission of the Holy See," He is thanking God for Novus Ordo priests who accept V2 as promulgated by the synodal church right? And this is the synodal tradition they want to hand on to the next generation right?
The month of June is all about celebrating pride in Toronto. All the sexual letters of the alphabet are in full display around the city. There will be a pride parade and many other events. Even the Toronto Zoo has gone wild for pride. Schools fly the pride flag. Sporting events celebrate pride. Public libraries offer a program the drag queen story for children. But will anyone remember the murder Emanuel Jaques? He was an innocent 12 year old boy trying to earn a few dollars for his poor family. He was lured, then tortured and sodomized to death by three men: Saul David Betesh, Robert Kribs and Joseph Woods. Two were homosexuals and one a pedophile. The three were convicted of murder. Jaques was born in 1964. He was the son of an immigrant Portuguese family. He worked as a shoeshine on Yonge Street, in downtown Toronto. The boy was offered $35 to move photographic equipment from an apartment above a massage parlour. It was a lie. Once there, Jaques was sexually abused for twelve hours …
Saint Marguerite Bays | Prayer. shalomworld Saint Marguerite Bays (8 September 1815 – 27 June 1879) was a Swiss seamstress and Roman Catholic mystic who was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. She lived a simple life as a Franciscan and adapted the tenets of the order's charism into her own life and social apostolate, especially after she was cured of bowel cancer on 8 December 1854. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1995 after the recognition of a miracle attributed to her intercession. She was canonized by Pope Francis on October 13, 2019.
Tipjar: buymeacoffee.com/torresangelica Psalm 6 - A Prayer of a Penitent Sinner │ Bible - Old Testament How to Rise After Falling - Call Upon God's Mercy. Psalm 6 - A prayer of a penitent sinner, under the scourge of God. The first penitential psalm. Title: Bible - Book of Psalms Author: King David (The Book of Psalms does not have a single author, however King David is the primary author) First publication: The 150 individual psalms were collected into five distinct sections or books by scribes, likely finalizing around the 400s BC to the 2nd century BC Narrator: Angelica Torres Genre: Religious, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Historical Narrative Language: English Version: Unabridged, Divided by Chapters Subtitles included -------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The narration in this video is HUMAN generated. ABOUT ME: I am passionately creating and sharing my Catholic audiobooks here. If you enjoy my work, consider subscribing to …More