Notre Dame of Paris - December 7th, 2025 | No Greater Delight No Greater Delight is a daily Marian podcast meant to start the day with a Marian touch. After examining the Marian feasts celebrated throughout the world on a given day, Fr. Nate offers a brief reflection to help make our love for Our Lady concrete in daily living. The title "No Greater Delight" is inspired by a homily of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, wherein he expresses his joy in preaching about the Virgin Mother, even though he acknowledges the challenge of adequately praising her. Mary's greatness is beyond words. 0:00 Feasts of Mary Today 02:26 True Devotion to Mary WhatsApp Channel: Catholic Voice | WhatsApp Channel Links: catholicvoice | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
12/09/2025 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. The new US national security strategy has caused considerable confusion in European politics. What does it mean that NATO will no longer defend us in exchange for our subservient attitude towards the US? That was precisely the solid foundation on which most European politicians built their strategies. How convenient – they only have to nod and ignore American crimes, and they can save themselves the expense of armaments. What use is sovereignty, which is hardly monetizable? Although some politicians have managed to do so… And then suddenly: Save yourselves – Europe is threatened by independence from the US! The United States has no interest in investing in a Europe that is collapsing – economically and politically – on its own. You don’t feed parasites – it’s best to force them to take their fate into their own hands. With the current politicians of most European countries, that’s impossible. They live in a prehistoric Cold War world. …
The incorrupt left foot of Saint Anna, the mother of the Theotokos, the grandmother of Christ. The nerves and toes are clearly visible, while it still retains the temperature of a living body. Skete of Saint Anna, Holy Mount Athos. Saint Anna, pray to God for us!
Mind the sidenote: PelicanPlus is a paywalled website that publishes media contributions from several traditional Catholic authors in the US. It uses the a blogging software Ghost.org (a competitor to WordPress) and technical maintenance provided by Treefort Systems.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, 77, told PelicanPlus.com on 8 December that the modern push for gender and homosexual ideology is "absolutely criminal". PelicanPlus is a paywalled website that publishes media contributions from several traditional Catholic authors in the US. It uses the a blogging software Ghost.org (a competitor to WordPress) and technical maintenance provided by Treefort Systems. Cardinal Müller believes naively that bishops are "naive" about homosexual ideology. "God created human beings, male and female," he said, adding that it is also biologically and empirically "obvious" that we exist as men and women. He linked this ideology to communist and gnostic ideologies and warns of an attack on the divine institution of marriage. Cardinal Müller asked: "Which ideology was responsible for the deaths of more than 100 million people and the Gulags?" He replied: "This is not an accident in communism, but a logical consequence of atheism and a lack of respect for life." Furthermore …More
The ordination of new bishops for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X will be the great challenge in the coming years, German Father Franz Schmidberger, a former Superior General of the Fraternity, told Corrigenda.online on December 8: "It is being considered, but I cannot say when it will take place and how many bishops will actually be ordained." And: "The Fraternity will have to discuss this with Rome, which is an essential point, because in a normal situation, bishops cannot be consecrated without the Pope's permission."
Heute vor 50 Jahren wurde Pater Schmidberger zum Priester geweiht. Der Schwabe hat die Piusbruderschaft in Deutschland maßgeblich mit aufgebaut. Im großen Corrigenda-Interview spannt er den Bogen von der Krise in der Kirche zur Krise in der Gesellschaft. Und er zeigt einen Ausweg auf.
teresa smith - This is worthy of Stalin. Almost comic. Who is screaming orders at t... This is worthy of Stalin. Almost comic. Who is screaming orders at the vision mixer to “cut the feed”? x.com/treesey/status/1994812911924170944/video/1
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Is there a definitive cause for the collapse in religious vocations? In this Pints With Aquinas episode, host Matt Fradd asks Sister Miriam Heidland, SOLT, a pressing question: Why are there so few religious sisters today? “I think part of it is the attack on spiritual motherhood and spiritual fatherhood…really, it’s the attack on man and woman, and like, who are we?” she begins. Sister Miriam then shares a personal story and offers her opinion on why there are fewer vocations to the religious life today. “I was talking with the bishop many months ago, and he was saying that in the 1960s…there was a religious community in Wisconsin that was receiving a hundred women a year. 100 women! And they built a brand new novitiate, and then by 1972, they were receiving just four,” she says. At this point in her conversation with the bishop, Sister Miriam says, he posed the question: “Women still have the capacity to say ‘yes’ to this divine invitation. What is preventing them?” Sister Miriam …
Abdul Qadir Mumin, Wikimedia Commons, Al-Kataib, PD-Somalia The wife and children of a Somalian ISIS leader are reportedly living in taxpayer funded accommodation in Britain. The purported global leader of the so-called Islamic State terrorist network, Abdul Qadir Mumin, has a wife and three children living in a council apartment in the town of Slough in south east England, the Daily Mailreported. Mumin, known for his red-dyed beard, who is said to have recently been elevated to the supreme commander of ISIS and who is one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, is currently believed to be hiding out in the remote Cal Miskaad mountains of the Puntland region of Somalia as he seeks to marshal Islamist forces under his banner. Prior to his ascension, the jihadist lived in London between 2003 to 2010. During this time, Mumin met and married a British Somali woman, Muna Abdule, and fathered three children with her. Abdule is believed to be his second of four wives. While living in London …
Vatican City - On Thursday, 4 December 2025, the Holy See Press Office released a letter in which Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, President of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate, submitted to the Pope a summary of the work carried out by the body. Throughout Francis’ pontificate, the dynamics of his governance always unfolded along two parallel tracks: an official one and an unofficial one. In this case, on the one hand, the Pope had wanted a commission tasked with examining a question debated for decades, placing it in direct relation with him and removing it from intermediate mediations. On the other hand, he fuelled the discussions within the C9, bringing into the Council figures capable of orienting the conversation and persuading that body – which he had strongly desired as a sort of “king’s council” – toward certain sensibilities. It was in this context that Francis brought Sister Linda Pocher to the Vatican who, much like Alessandra Smerilli, does not particularly …
It was in this context that Francis brought Sister Linda Pocher to the Vatican who, much like Alessandra Smerilli, does not particularly enjoy convent life, preferring to frequent salons, publishing houses, and influential circles, constantly seeking support or favour. Following “wise advice,” Bergoglio had her intervene, together with other women, before the cardinals during the Council meetings dedicated to the role of women in the Church. Yet she is a religious who offered no theological reflection, only vague and clickbait considerations.
Mary Live with Dr. Mark Miravalle: International Mariologists Respond to Vatican Document on Mary An international group of Mariologists has respectfully responded to the Nov 4, 2025, Vatican document on Mary, calling for "substantive changes" due to the document's straying from previous papal teachings on Our Lady. Listen and pass on the following summation of the International Marian Association's Theological Commission by Dr. Mark Miravalle.
… Response to Mater Populi Fidelis by the International Marian Association Theological Commission Introduction 1. The International Marian Association is a group of cardinals, bishops, clergy, religious, theologians and lay leaders who seek to promote full Marian truth and devotion throughout the world. In light of its mission, the IMA’s Theological Commission respectfully wishes to offer the following response to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in reference to its recent doctrinal note, Mater Populi Fidelis: Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, November 4, 2025. In its presentation, the DDF explains that this Note is not intended to be “comprehensive or exhaustive,” but it does seek “to maintain the necessary balance that must be within the Christian mysteries between Christ’s sole mediation and Mary’s cooperation in the work of salvation.” 2. The IMA’s Theological …More
This is the legacy of the Protestant error of "total depravity of man." The deformers insisted exclusively on "all have sinned" (or as the 1960s put it "the devil made me do it") that NO ONE, no saint even the Virgin Mary can lead a moral life; so no blame for wickedness since 'everybody does it!
May God grant you a joyful and blessed Feast of the Immaculate Conception! Related: Paying the Price for the Immaculate Conception by Father Daniel Couture, from the series ‘KNow Mary, KNow Jesus’ [Video] [Audio Only] Although the Church’s faith in the Immaculate Conception is of apostolic origin, the dogma was explicitly defined with infallible petrine authority (ex cathedra) on December 8, 1854. In his apostolic constitution, Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX teaches: “We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of Her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.” Hence, if anyone shall dare — which God forbid! — to think otherwise than as has been defined by us …
8. December 2025 8. December 2025 12/08/2025 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. The thief shouts, “Catch the thief!” Why does he do this? To distract from the theft he has just committed. The most hypocritical of all European institutions, the European Commission, combats disinformation in a similar way. Of course, the only entity that determines what constitutes disinformation is the one who spreads it. The history of misleading public opinion is as old as humanity itself. The example of the United States’ entry into the two World Wars and the Vietnam War illustrates how this is done. False flag tactics or provocations for actual military action were mostly employed to gain public acceptance for participation in the war. Warning issued by the German embassy in the American press in May 1915 not to travel to Europe on the Lusitania. World War I – Sinking of the Lusitania; World War II – Pearl Harbor; Vietnam War – Gulf of Tonkin Incident; The 1991 Iraq War – incubator lie. The …
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