Senseless: Bergoglio Promulgates Vatican Law to Break It
Francis' appointment of Sister Raffaella Petrini as President of the Commission for Vatican City State and Governor breaks the Fundamental Law of Vatican City State signed by Francis on 13 May 2023.
Article 1, paragraph 1 of this law states that "the Pontifical Commission is composed of Cardinals, including the President, and other members appointed by the Supreme Pontiff for a term of five years".
Art. 15 adds: 'The President of the Pontifical Commission is the President of the Governorate and exercises the executive function in accordance with the laws and other regulations'.
Sister Petrini is not a Cardinal and therefore does not have the requirement to be a member of this Committee of Cardinals. She should have refused the appointment, writes Vatican commentator Luis Badilla.
For him, the fact that Francis first writes that one must be a cardinal to be president of the governorate and the commission, and then appoints a woman …

As If Money Were Their Gospel: US Bishops Sue Trump Administration
The U.S. bishops' conference (USCCB) has sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for halting funding to resettle illegal immigrants.
They accuse the government of 'violating federal law'. The lawsuit (below) states that the bishops "cannot sustain its programs without the millions in federal funding".
"At the time of the suspension, there were more than 6,700 refugees assigned to USCCB by the government that were still within their 90-day transition period. As a direct result of the suspension, USCCB has millions of dollars in pending, unpaid reimbursements for services already rendered to refugees and is accruing millions more each week-with no indication that any future reimbursements will be paid or that the program will ever resume", they write.
The bishops is still waiting for $13 million in reimbursements for expenses incurred before January 24, according to the lawsuit.
The bishops' immigration agency has sent …

Lucifer Was Born on 1 January 2025
Lucifer Gary Bell was born on New Year's Day 2025, fifty-five minutes after midnight, at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, England.
Parents Jess Bell, 25, and Stefan Wake, 27, chose the name Lucifer because "it means bearer of light and has a special meaning to us. We have no intention of associating him with the devil. In fact, we did not call him Satan."
Adding to the unusual name is a strange coincidence: Lucifer was born in delivery room number 6, and both mother and baby were moved to bed 6 in room 6.
"But we had already decided on the name," the father points out, "so 666 is just an oddity."
The mother said: "It was mainly people from the older generation who told us we couldn't call our son that. They told us: 'Think what will happen at school! But we are normal, loving parents and we certainly have no interest in associating our son with the devil," she added.
The couple insist that the baby is "an angel, not a little devil"…

First Woman to Head a Vatican Dicastery - Becomes Boss of a Cardinal
Francis on January 6 named Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, an Italian-born religious sister of the Consolata Missionaries, Prefect of the Dicastery for Religious.
In October 2023, she was named the Secretary of the Dicastery that she will now lead - with a Cardinal under her authority.
Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, former Rector Major of the Salesians, is the new Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery. He was made a Cardinal in September 2023 in order to hang around for over one year.
Also on January 6, Francis confirmed what was already known in the media, that Cardinal McElroy would become the Archbishop of Washington. Cardinal McElory is obsessed with issues of homosexuality and immigration, and has been a vocal critic of President Trump's first administration.
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Simulated Ordinations of Women Outside the Ex-Synod
The sect "Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests" plans to simulate an ordination of women from Spain, France and the USA in Rome on 17 October.
The sect currently has 270 preachers in 14 countries. They want to create a "renewed, emerging church of equals" that serves everyone, including adulterers and homosexuals [not mentioned are paedophiles and racists].
The group's previous simulations under John Paul II and Benedict XVI ended in excommunication. In the current pontificate, the only laity threatened with excommunication are pro-family activists.
Meanwhile, Bishop Anthony Randazzo of Broken Bay, Australia, told the ex-synod (video below) that in rich Western countries, "niche issues" like deaconesses get more attention than the real issues, and that there is an "obsession" among a minority of "Catholics" in the West with the ordination of women.
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USA and European Union Want Exception to Criminalisation of Child Pornography
The United States and the European Union are calling for exceptions to the criminalisation of child pornography in a draft United Nations treaty 'against cybercrime'.
They want child pornography that does not involve a 'real child', is generated by artificial intelligence or is created as part of a 'consensual relationship' and stored for 'private use' not to be prosecuted by governments.
This version of the treaty will come into force in the coming months if the majority of countries present at the UN General Assembly continue to support it.
Delegates from Africa called for a vote to remove these exceptions, arguing that they were being exploited to harm children and promote paedophilia.
Fifty-one countries joined critical voices to remove the provisions.
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USA and European Union Want Exception to Criminalisation of Child Pornography
The United States and the European Union are calling for exceptions to the criminalisation of child pornography in a draft United Nations treaty 'against cybercrime'.
They want child pornography that does not involve a 'real child', is generated by artificial intelligence or is created as part of a 'consensual relationship' and stored for 'private use' not to be prosecuted by governments.
This version of the treaty will come into force in the coming months if the majority of countries present at the UN General Assembly continue to support it.
Delegates from Africa called for a vote to remove these exceptions, arguing that they were being exploited to harm children and promote paedophilia.
Fifty-one countries joined critical voices to remove the provisions.
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Francis Dismisses Germans from the Vatican - Only Two Left
Francis appointed Monsignor Tuomo Vimpari, 55, of Finnish origine as under secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts (7 August).
Herder.de describes Vimpari as 'conservative' and also 'subservient' [=bureaucrat without conviction]. He previously worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See with posts in India, Ukraine, Germany and Nigeria. Vimpari succeeds the conservative German Salesian Father Markus Graulich.
Father Graulich has been a critic of the German synod and other German suicide squads such as the Synodal Council, the ecumenical paper "Together at the Lord's Table" or the church labor law.
He had been in office since 2014. After two five-year terms, his mandate was not renewed. With Graulich's departure, only two Germans remain at the top level of the Curia.
Monsignor Matthias Ambros, diocesan priest of Passau, is under secreatary of the Dicastery for Culture.
Monsignor Daniel Pacho, diocesan priest of Fulda …

Martin Mosebach: Catholic Art Shows Eyeless Dolls
The Church was wrong to see "no danger in secularised art", writes the German writer Martin Mosebach (Communio, June 2024).
According to Mosebach, after the so-called "Enlightenment", artists refused to be instructed on how to paint sacred art and refused to follow the tradition of sacred art. They "embraced a theology that dissolved the Gospel into the abstract-philosophical or secular-political".
This art was in keeping with a "Church that was moving ever closer to the areligious zeitgeist". In the meantime, even the cross has become "too intrusive" for many artists [and clerics] and "smells too eerily of blood and sacrifice".
Mosebach points to the main problem: the clergy no longer know how to relate to Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity.
If many bishops and priests do not know how to deal with the tradition of the Church, especially with the will of early Christianity to pass on an authentic image of Jesus, "how can one …

Müller: Oligarchs Want to Replace Christendom with Atheism
Those who want to steal the soul of Europe and make it a victim of their post-humanist atheism are pushing for its de-Christianisation, said Cardinal Gerhard Müller in his homily at the closing Mass on 20 May of the legendary Roman Rite pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres.
The cardinal hopes that Catholics [but not the Vatican] will be "immune to the propaganda and opium of substitute political religions" and declares that "self-destruction through suicide and euthanasia, drugs and alcohol, or the rejection of our male or female sexuality are not options for Christians".
He also said that Christians are the most persecuted religious community in human history.
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Cardinal Burke Remains in his Roman Apartment
Cardinal Raymond Burke has found financial supporters to pay for his Roman apartment, reports Loup Besmond de Senneville on La-Croix.com (22 April).
In November, Francis asked the Cardinal, whom he considers an "enemy", to pay the monthly rent according to the estimated market price in Rome: 8,000 euros.
It is revealing that the "Pope of a Poor Church" is so interested in money.
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Strickland: Francis' Vatican Is Destroying the Faith
The tendency for the Church to be dominated by the world has been gaining momentum for more than a century, wrote Monsignor Joseph Strickland, 65, the unjustly deposed bishop of Tyler, Texas, in an April 19 letter.
"Whether in liturgy, doctrine, or the simple everyday piety of Catholics, too many prelates and powerful forces in the Vatican are doing their best to dismantle any vestige of supernatural faith."
After decades of decline, Strickland is now witnessing a "crescendo of apostasy". He did not name the "many prelates" and "powerful forces in the Vatican" because everyone knows who he meant.
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Pope Francis Was Taken to Hospital
Francis, 87, was taken to Gemelli hospital “for a visit” after the usual Wednesday general audience, Italian news agency ANSA reports.
No further details were given. Francis skipped his reading at the general audience asking an aide to present the text.
On Saturday, the Vatican press office announced that the he was suffering from a “mild case of the flu”.
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Transvestites: British Prisons Reveal Reality
More than 70% of Britain's transvestite prisoners are in jail for homosexual, paedophile or violent crimes.
Government data shows that at least 181 of Britain's 244 transvestite inmates are behind bars for crimes including rape, forcing minors to have sex, grievous bodily harm and robbery.
Five men pretending to be 'women' are being held in women's prisons, while 25 women pretending to be 'men' are being held in women's prisons for violent or sexual offences - up from just five a year ago. Apparently, women posing as 'men' are not keen on being transferred to men's prisons.
Former prison governor Rhona Hotchkiss said most male transvestites only "changed their gender" when they came into contact with the criminal justice system.
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Carnival: A [Former] House of God Gets Feathered
Andreas Wissmiller - a German pastoral assistant who is well paid [well over 10,000 euros] to destroy the former Catholic parish of Peter and Paul in Willisau, Diocese of Basel, Switzerland - organised a "fool's mass" last Sunday consisting of an "ecumenical" show without Eucharist.
Three jesters were the main characters. Wissmiller wore an alb with a pseudo stole and stood somewhere off to the side. A guild master of the carnival took his place at the Novus Ordo altar table. A Protestant preacher stood at the other side.
The embarrassing highlight of the event was the scattering of a bag of feathers and confetti around the altar.
Another highlight was when the three leaders lifted a bottle of beer that had been placed on the communion table. Earlier, other participants, some of them masked, had received similar bottles.
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Argentina: Second Oldest Cardinal Turns 98
Cardinal Estanislao Esteban Karlic is the longest-serving member of the Argentine episcopate and the second-longest serving cardinal in the world. He celebrated his 98th birthday on 7 February.
He lives in Aldea María Luisa, 20 kilometres from Paraná, where he conducts the daily 11.30 am Eucharist for a community of Benedictine nuns in the chapel of the convent of Our Lady of Paraná.
His mobility and vision are limited and his memory is fragile, according to AciPrensa.com.
When he celebrates the Eucharist, Karlic is assisted by a nun who helps him reach the altar, shows him the steps to follow and places a lamp very close to the missal so that the cardinal can read it.
"I have no other reason for being what I am, other than a participation in the mystery of the priesthood of Jesus, which has always made me very happy," admits Karlic.
Karlic was a member of the commission headed by Cardinal Ratzinger that drafted the Catechism of the Catholic …

Vatican: Rupnik’s Art Is Still in Demand
The Vatican and the Archdiocese of Bologna continue to use Father Rupnik's images on calendars, posters and in churches.
VaticanNews.va features Rupnik's images on the Vatican News liturgical calendar for March, May, June, July, August and December this year.
At the Church of the Missionary Parish in Bologna, Cardinal Zuppi consecrated the new altar and presbytery decorated with Fr Rupnik's mosaics.
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Austrian Parish Offers Opportunity to View Nude Dances
On Saturday, exhibitionists of all ages were given the chance to perform completely naked in sub-zero temperatures during an open-air "cultural" event in Bad Ischl, Austria.
To cover up the worst of it, they repeatedly dusted their bodies with baby powder. As a result, their pathetic performance was advertised as a "powder dance". Commentators on social media described the spectacle as "sick" and "decadent".
Not surprisingly, this outburst of madness was well received by the local Catholic parish. The nude dancing was broadcast live in the 18th century parish church of Sankt Nikolaus in Bad Ischl. A large screen was set up in front of the main altar.
As might be expected, the parish priest, Rev. Christian Öhler, saw "no problem" in all this. He told Nachrichten.at: "Jesus is the most frequently depicted naked person" - and Öhler himself was not ashamed to show all his moral and intellectual nakedness to the world.
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France: The Church Collapses - Literally
In Garbicz, a hamlet outside Toulouse, France, the roof of the two-hundred-year-old church collapsed in early January, completely destroying the building.
According to Maryelle Vidal, mayor of Monferran-Savès-Garbic (853 inhabitants), speaking to French media activists, what happened was "inevitable".
The beams were waterlogged and "we knew very well that the roof had to be rebuilt", she said, "but unfortunately we had no funds". All French churches built before 1905 were nationalised.
As a result, the mayor now has to find 200,000 euros to repair the damage.
In Saramon, 25 kilometres away, the church tower collapsed last March, causing 400,000 euros in damage.
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Francis Has Received Cardinal Burke
Francis met Cardinal Burke in private audience this morning. The meeting followed reports that Francis wants to evict the Cardinal from his residence.
No details of the meeting have yet emerged. Cardinal Burke's private secretary told journalist Cindy Wooden: "His Eminence does not wish to comment at this time.
Earlier this week, Cardinal Burke acted as co-president at Francis' Eucharistic celebration for Christmas.
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