04/25/2026 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. As I sat on the terrace this morning drinking my coffee and enjoying the sight of the blooming chestnut trees, the birdsong and the buds on the trees reminded me of my childhood. I didn’t drink coffee as a child, but everything else was already part of my life. There were also May beetles… This pleasant atmosphere would surely have lasted much longer had I not looked up at the sky. To the conspiracy theorists who believe in contrails, I assure you that passenger planes do indeed fly in this area of Vienna. They always fly in one direction toward the airport and never leave contrails, as they are in the landing phase, during which the plane reduces its speed and altitude. These contrails were not left by any commercial aircraft. The flight paths of planes departing from Vienna pass over different parts of the city depending on their destination. Wikipedia • Chemtrails are said to be a specific type of contrail that, according to related …
There is such a thing as contagious euthanasia....like suicide....The chances of someone else in the family trying suicide is very high when a parent or sibling or friend has done it....Nobody realizes that God won’t accept you if you do that because you are displaying the desire to be God yourself...a very bad idea!
Thu Apr 23, 2026 - 7:08 am EDT (LifeSiteNews) — A mother in Austria has been fined for temporarily keeping her 10-year-old son out of school during a sexual education class. Michaela Vamos-Karandish was fined 110 euros ($128) for keeping her young son out of school for four days in March 2025 after an external sex education workshop was to take place. The workshop’s content had not been disclosed to parents beforehand. In addition, numerous sex education books – the content of which some parents found questionable – were made available in the classroom for unsupervised use by students. According to a report by ADF International, the materials included books such as Lina, the Explorer and My First Sex Education Book, which contain explicit depictions of sexual practices. Some of the books also depicted modern views on gender and family, incompatible with nature and traditional teaching. The mother argued that these violated the principle of neutrality in public schools. In a book …
Ken Klippenstein writes on April 24 the truism that the U.S. has long maintained extensive intelligence and security monitoring of the Vatican. The used agencies are the CIA, NSA, FBI, and State Department. - The CIA is represented in the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican and the Agency has been penetrating the Vatican government and diplomatic corps for years. It has human spies working inside the Holy See bureaucracy. - The NSA intercepts Vatican communications, emails, and texts, working independently and through a joint NSA/CIA “Special Collection Service.” - The FBI investigates crimes committed against and by the Vatican. It also regularly provides threat intelligence to the Pope during his travels. FBI documents show that the first Trump administration sought to beef up its coordination with Italian intelligence agencies and Vatican officials on things like cyber security, white collar crime, human trafficking, art theft and other issues. - The State Department closely follows the ins …More
25.04.2025 BIBLE READING AT THE HOLY MASS TODAY SAYS ‘THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED’ All need faith and baptism for salvation and those who do not believe will be condemned said Fr. John Cross, a Nigerian diocesan priest at Holy Mass today in English. He was reading the Gospel from St. Mark at the chapel of the Missionaries of Charity Brothers Contemplative of Mother Teresa, Largo Preneste, Rome. Today is the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist. Fr. John Cross was referring to the belief in Jesus in the Catholic Church for non condemnation to Hell. This missionary passage from St. Mark is supported by Vatican Council II. It says all need faith and baptism for salvation (Ad Gentes 7). Ad Gentes 7 is placed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church under the title No salvation outside the Church (846). Yesterday, in the Reading from the Bible, at Holy Mass, Jesus identifies with the Catholic Church. He says, “Saul, Saul why do you persecute me”. Saul was persecuting the Early …More
"6. The three powers of a flame And just as there are three powers in the glowing heat of a flame, so the one God is in three persons. How is this? The flame consists of splendid brightness, purple vigour and fiery glow. It has a splendid brightness so that it can shine its light, a purple vigour so that it can maintain its existence, and a fiery glow so that it can burn. Consider the Father in the splendid brightness, for he sends out his brightness to the faithful through the goodness of his fatherhood; and in the purple vigour held within the flame and containing its strength, consider the Son, who assumed a body from the Virgin in which the godhead declared its marvels; and in the fiery glow perceive the Holy Spirit, who pours his fire over the minds of believers.But the flame will not be seen if there is no splendid brightness, or purple vigour, or fiery glow; in the same way, God is not worthily honoured in any place where neither the Father, Son, nor Holy Spirit is venerated."
[Saint HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ~ XI-XII Century AD; Bermersheim, Holy Roman Empire/Bingen am Rhein, Holy Roman Empire, aged 81; Abbess, Polymath, Writer, Composer, Mystic, Visionary, Philosopher, Medical Writer and Practitioner, Composer of Sacred Monophony, Virgin, Founder, Doctor of the Church] “5. The Trinity (Scivias II, 2) The illustration accompanying this vision of the Trinity in the Rupertsberg codex shows a series of three concentric coloured circles with a large figure of a man standing in the middle. The subtlety with which Hildegard uses imagery to explain the mysteries of the Trinity should be compared with her letter to Odo of Soissons (4) on the same subject. Scivias, Part II, vision 2 Then I saw an extremely bright light and in the light the figure of a man the colour of sapphire, and it was all burning in a delightful red fire. And the bright light flooded through all the red fire, and the red fire through all the bright light, and the bright light and the red fire shone …More
"Therefore the salvation of love did not originate in us, for we neither knew nor were able to love God for our salvation; rather, it came from our Creator and Lord,who loved his people so much that he sent his Son for our salvation, as leader and Saviour of the faithful, who washed all our wounds. Thus also he shed that sweet balm from which all the good things of our salvation flow. Therefore, O human creature, you too should know that God is not affected by any adverse mutability, for the Father is the Father, the Son is the Son, the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit;these three persons exist indivisibly in the unity of the godhead. How does this come about?"
When we pray this prayer, we are trying to rescue souls and heal our wounds, both physical and mental. It is about having compassion and mercy on one another, on lost souls, and on the living in our earthly world. This prayer is originally derived from the prayer for souls in purgatory. We imagine that God, Jesus, the angels, and the saints rescue souls suffering in hell. It would be wonderful if we all prayed this beautiful prayer. O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Free the souls in the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of your mercy. God the Eternal Father, I offer you the wounds of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to heal our wounds, forgive our sins, and save souls. My Jesus, pardon and mercy; through the merits of your holy wounds. Jesus, God, I love you, save souls. Amen. Share, spread the word, let this prayer go viral and become official for all our churches. Save yourselves, forgive one another, and renew your faith. Visit my Patreon to see …More
War in Iran. Key Developments, April 24: A “Neither Peace Nor War” Stalemate. Iran Holds All the Cards—the U.S. Is Digging Its Own Grave The war in the Middle East has entered a “neither peace nor war” phase, but this is precisely where the U.S. seems to have miscalculated: by maintaining the blockade, they are themselves provoking a rise in oil prices, putting pressure on their own economy, and strengthening Iran’s role as the controller of key routes. Trump’s “unwavering” stance isn’t working; all the trump cards are in Iran’s hands—and the US is digging its own grave. The “neither peace nor war” mode In the Middle East, the conflict between the US and Iran has entered a “neither peace nor war” phase. According to military blogger Yuri Podolyaka’s morning briefing, the situation is as follows: the formal two-week ceasefire announced by Donald Trump on April 8 was supposed to end on the 22nd, but the U.S. president effectively extended it without specifying a concrete timeframe …More
Pope Leo sent a video message to those gathered at DePaul University in the U.S. to mark the 15th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in the State of Illinois. In the message, he stressed that the Church continues to affirm “that the dignity of the person is not lost even after very serious crimes are committed.”
Chris Jackson (Hiraeth in exile) wrote rightly: So what are we supposed to believe? That the Church “long considered” an attack on human dignity to be morally acceptable? That Scripture, the Fathers, the Doctors, the Roman Catechism, and centuries of Catholic rulers all endorsed something intrinsically contrary to the dignity of man until Francis, of all people, corrected the moral theology of Christendom?
Pope Leo XIV affirms informal blessing for homosexual couples and downplays sexual sin Prevost’s Evasive Response to the Apostate Marx’s Homosexual Pseudo-Blessings: No Sanctions. Malachi 2:2 I will send a curse on you, and I will turn your blessings into a curse. se. Prevost has not repudiated "the entirety" of the apostate and heretical pamphlets *Amoris Laetitia* and *Fiducia Supplicans*. Rather, Tucho and Prevost seek to legitimize this by invoking an alleged transgression of the boundaries that the homosexual Tucho—acting in complicity with Bergoglio—had established; this maneuver, in its diabolical cunning, was skillfully contrived to soften the impact of the apostasy. But homosexual activists—beginning with Tucho, Bergoglio, Prevost, James Martin and the sacrilegious German apostates—have, in fact, given themselves permission to transgress biblical boundaries and Catholic moral doctrine. Consequently, the pamphlets *Amoris Laetitia* and *Fiducia Supplicans* consummate a triple …More
"Do you renounce Satan? And all his works? And all his pomps?" R: "I do." When we, as Catholics, renew our baptismal promises or vows, we swear before God and renounce all attachment to sin—all the works of Satan and his seductions; that is to say, we renounce living deliberately in sin. Therefore, it is impossible to receive a blessing when we deliberately defy God and, sinning out of presumption, expect Him to grant us impunity to continue sinning. Hebrews 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after having come to the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. Jesus warned that we must not cast our pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot—a reference to the Sacraments—for these are not the private property of priests. The Church has declared that in the proper use of a sacramental—for example, the wearing of a scapular—one commits oneself to wearing it with dignity; that is, to not continue sinning, for such items are abused when one …More
People have fallen into unbelief because they have completely lost the spirit of prayer, or never had it at all—in short, because they do not pray. The prince of this century [the devil] has free rein in the hearts of such people; he is their master. Because they do not pray, they do not ask the Lord for the dew of His Grace (for only those who seek receive the gifts of the Lord). Consequently, their hearts, corrupted by nature and lacking the nourishing dew of the Holy Spirit, have dried up. From this extreme dryness, they are finally set ablaze by the hellish flame of unbelief and various passions. The devil then knows how to ignite the passions that sustain this terrible fire, triumphing at the sight of the perishing souls—souls redeemed by the blood of Him who purified them. St. John of Kronstadt