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Il Cardinale Francis Arinze, 93 anni, ha parlato a PerMariam.com del grave danno che viene causato alla sacra liturgia: "Se un sacerdote introduce parti della Messa che non sono approvate, o rimuove parti che lo sono, causa un danno alla Chiesa. Anche se le sue intenzioni erano buone, forse ha pensato: 'Voglio rendere la Messa più interessante. Voglio renderla più personalizzata' - questo è un errore. Sbaglia".
Cardinal Arinze: "the priest has a key role in the celebration of the Mass, but if he behaves badly, if he introduces into the Mass parts that are not approved, or eliminates parts that are approved, he harms the Church"
Pope Leo XIV will wash the feet of 12 priests of Rome, during Maundy Thursday Mass. Eleven of them are priests he ordained last year, & the 12th is spiritual director of Rome's Major Seminary. Thus he changes from Pope Francis' 2016 break with tradition, when he started washing women's feet
What percent of people who claim to be Catholic would kneel before a pagan idol, do you think? If they did, would you still consider them Catholic? And yet, the man who is now POPE did just that. What does that tell you about the Church that he leads? For him, it's more important to please man than to please God.
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(PerMariam) — Today the Church’s traditional calendar marks the ancient feast of the Compassion of Mary. The placement of the feast of Our Lady’s Compassion is rather striking, since it occurs on the last Friday before Good Friday. It teaches us about the relation between Mary and Christ, but also about how we ought to approach God in our own lives. But before embarking upon a discussion of the feast, we must first comprehend what it actually means. The word ‘compassion’ must be understood properly in order to fully grasp the weight which such a feast holds. It is derived from the two Latin words cum, meaning with, and patior meaning to suffer. Compassion thus equates to suffering with another. The modern usage of the word has slightly reduced the meaning of compassion, to something akin to feeling sorrow for another during a time of trial. But the true meaning and older usage of the term in fact denotes suffering with another. The compassion of Mary thus refers to her suffering …
Australian Bishop Anthony Randazzo was made president of Dicastery for Legislative Texts today. He was very vocally against female deacons during the Synod on Synodality & warned that Synodality can often be “focussed on niche issues of the West.”
Menschenrechtsorganisationen, insbesondere Human Rights Watch, werfen dem israelischen Militär vor, weißen Phosphor in Wohngebieten im Libanon eingesetzt zu haben. Der Einsatz solcher Waffen gegen Zivilisten ist nach dem humanitären Völkerrecht verboten
Monsignor Pellizzon has returned to Argentina. Unfamiliar with the name? The former papal secretary has been one of the more influential figures over many years given his close links to the late Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández.
A priest close to Pope Francis and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has left his Vatican post and returned to Argentina to serve as a parish priest. Daniel Pellizzon, a Buenos Aires priest and former personal secretary to Pope Francis since July 2023, has taken up a pastoral role at San Cayetano de Belgrano parish. His return, announced in late 2025 and publicized in early February, comes amid Pope Leo XIV’s gradual reshaping of the papal household.
Additional information from Elwanderer: Tucho "managed to get Monsignor Daniel Pellizzon, who was Pope Francis' private secretary among other roles in Rome, appointed parish priest of the elegant and well-endowed parish of San Cayetano de Belgrano upon his return to Buenos Aires. It is strange that someone who was expelled from the seminary in Buenos Aires (we will draw a veil over the reason) and then granted papal mercy and reluctantly ordained as a priest by Cardinal Poli in 2018, should have obtained promotions and privileges of this nature so quickly."
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the Holy See’s former Apostolic Visitor to the Society of Saint Pius X, has opined that any excommunication which the Society may be handed following the upcoming episcopal consecrations would be invalid.
“I think that, if the excommunication (SSPX) would be applied, it would be in some way not valid because there is no intention to do a schismatic act on the side of the Society of Pius X, and you cannot be punished when you have not the intention to do it, according to the canon law,” Schneider said.