In August 2001, I wrote an article, “Home Alone in the Priesthood,” that was published in America magazine. My thesis was that as more diocesan priests find themselves living alone, pastoring one or more parishes, both bishops and the laity need to provide more support than was offered in the past when two, and sometimes three, priests lived together in rectories. I identified various consequences that result from priests living alone, including retention problems, an increase in health and disciplinary problems, requests for early retirement, etc. Looking back at my article twenty-five years later, I have to say that I agree with 90% of what I wrote, and that almost everything I predicted has come to pass. While an October 14, 2025, “National Study of Catholic Priests,” provided data that supported many of my earlier findings, the recent study did not adequately explain “Why Are So Many Young Priests Leaving Ministry?” Even though the study identified “burnout” and “loneliness” …
Book of Numbers 24,2-7.15-17a. When Balaam raised his eyes and saw Israel encamped, tribe by tribe, the spirit of God came upon him, and he gave voice to his oracle: The utterance of Balaam, son of Beor, the utterance of the man whose eye is true, The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured, and with eyes unveiled: How goodly are your tents, O Jacob; your encampments, O Israel! They are like gardens beside a stream, like the cedars planted by the LORD. His wells shall yield free-flowing waters, he shall have the sea within reach; His king shall rise higher than. . . . and his royalty shall be exalted. Then Balaam gave voice to his oracle: The utterance of Balaam, son of Beor, the utterance of the man whose eye is true, The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured and with eyes unveiled. I see him, though not now …More
Fri Dec 12, 2025 - 1:17 pm ESTFri Dec 12, 2025 - 3:53 pm EST OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Liberals have passed an amendment that could criminalize parts of the Bible dealing with homosexuality under Canada’s new “hate speech” laws. Following a nearly eight-hour committee review on December 9, Liberals adopted an amendment to Bill C-9, the “Combatting Hate Act,” that removed protections in the “hate speech” legislation for quoting Scripture, essentially allowing Canadians to be punished for quoting the Bible. “This is a direct attack on the freedom of expression and the freedom of religion, given how toxic and how divisive this Bloc amendment is and will continue to be,” Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Larry Brock told the committee. The clause-by-clause review lasted into the late hours of the night as Conservative MPs fought against the proposed amendments. “This meeting could go until close to midnight and Conservatives are ready to stand up for freedom of speech and …
Se i demoni usano politici e governanti per impedirci di predicare il vangelo è indispensabile darsi una mossa con manifestazioni di massa contro queste folli imposizioni.
This is toxic legislation, if it becomes law, that is actually hate speech against Christians and Christian belief. It would be a terrible law and not to be obeyed.
Spotlights are on the Vatican's Supreme Court, which will meet next January 9, in the afternoon, to decide whether to recuse the Promoter of Justice, Alessandro Diddi, and exclude him from the appeal for the so-called London Trial. The recusal is seen by all as a sort of test on the actual independence of the judging panel, and it was requested in September by the defendants' defenses when they raised Diddi's incompatibility due to a series of interceptions that emerged in the spring, revealing that, in the first instance, the then prosecutor was aware of the manipulations made by the main prosecution witness, Monsignor Alberto Perlasca. In practice, the messages (thousands of them) exchanged between PR Francesca Chaouqui and Genoveffa Ciferri weigh heavily, as the two women, amidst the complexities of this tangled affair, would have inspired at different levels the memoir drafted by Perlasca, the main accuser of Cardinal Becciu. In particular, according to the text of the recusal, …More
Most Censored (Actual) Journalist In Ireland. Exposing Media Lies And Fakery. Twitter Will Not Reinstate My 65K Account. Editor https://irishlightpaper.com/ Crisis acting worse than usual: they're recycling glowies at a rate of knots. All you can do is lol but I continue to cover these psyops in the hope that just one normie sees through the media lies They gave us a double whammy this weekend: Bondi and Brown as fake as they get. 2025 was the year of some of the most contrived media hoaxes and they’re desperate to cram in a few more before December is out. This weekend, the yids gave us a double whammy with some awful tripe from Bondi to put a dampener on the barby season and remind the groypers in Ausjailia who’s boss. We got another trailerload of manure from Brown University, Rhode Island. Where these psyops actually took place is anyone’s guess - they could just as easily have been thrown together in a seedy film studio on a back street of Haifa. The purpose as always: to justify …
Fri Dec 12, 2025 - 3:23 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the papal nuncio to Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, during an interview released last weekend said Pope Leo XIV should end the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and return to the norms of Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum because it brought unity to the Church. Gänswein, during an interview that aired on December 7 with the German Catholic television network, Katholisches Fernsehen (K-TV), noted that the Tridentine Mass, which nourished the faith of the Church for centuries, cannot suddenly become invalid or invaluable now, and questioned why Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis Custodes, when the majority of bishops were satisfied with his predecessor’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The former personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI then emphasized that Summorum Pontificum was the right path to fostering liturgical peace in the Roman rite, and he hopes it will be restored …
This publicity stunt is not about Benedict's jailer Gänswein but it's there to aid Prevost in confusing remaining Catholics while he slowly but surely implements his plan of destruction of Catholic Church.
Conor McGregor, a mixed martial arts fighter, married his long-term partner, Dee Devlin, out of all places in Vatican City. The couple have been together for over 15 years and share four children. They wed at the Chiese di Santo Stefano degli Abissini on Friday, with more than 150 guests in attendance. The priest who officiated acknowledged McGregor’s controversial past, saying: “I’m aware of it, but what can I do?” The wedding comes shortly after McGregor lost a civil appeal related to the Nikita Hand case, in which a damages award against him was upheld.
Conor McGregor si è sposato in Vaticano, con la sua compagna di lunga data Devlin Dee. Una cerimonia super segreta, di cui non si sapeva nulla fino a ieri. È stato l'Irish Independent, uno dei principali quotidiani irlandesi, a dare la notizia stamattina, citando fonti interne al Vaticano e al contempo dando conto della preoccupazione vaticana per il coinvolgimento in un rito sul proprio suolo di un personaggio molto controverso come il lottatore di MMA nato a Dublino, protagonista di parecchi episodi di violenza... fanpage.it/…-del-terrificante-pugno-a- … McGregor perde l'appello: confermata la condanna …
Third Sunday of Advent- Make your hearts firm Letter of James 5,7-10. Be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You too must be patient. Make your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another, that you may not be judged. Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates. Take as an example of hardship and patience, brothers and sisters, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. DeniceMay
CATECHISM OF PERSEVERANCE : AN HISTORICAL, DOCTRINAL,MORAL, AND LITURGICAL EXPOSITION OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION. Translated from the French of Abbe Gaume by REV. F. B. JAMISON - COURSE FIRST- CHAPTER VII - Knowledge of God - God considered in his works - End of third day and beginning of the fourth day of the Creation....to download, to print !
DECEMBER 15 2025 THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 21,23-27. When Jesus had come into the temple area, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?” Jesus said to them in reply, "I shall ask you one question, and if you answer it for me, then I shall tell you by what authority I do these things. Where was John's baptism from? Was it of heavenly or of human origin?" They discussed this among themselves and said, "If we say 'Of heavenly origin,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'Of human origin,' we fear the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet." So they said to Jesus in reply, "We do not know." He himself said to them, "Neither shall I tell you by what authority I do these things."
Fugitive Caught Hiding in Nativity Scene: In the southern Italian town of Galatone, a wanted man tried to evade arrest by blending into the town’s Nativity scene. Early on Saturday morning, Mayor Falvio Filoni noticed what he thought was a new life-size figure among the statues — until it started moving and speaking. The man, a 38-year-old from Ghana, had been hiding there for weeks. Police later identified him as a fugitive wanted for resisting law enforcement and aggravated assault. He has now been arrested and is serving his sentence in Lecce.
Un latitante si nasconde nel presepe vivente di Galatone