Leo XIV-appointed, divorced Prefetessa for Media calls her appointment “bizarre”. Montserrat Alvarado, 39, is the first American, the first woman and the youngest prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, she told EWTN in an interview broadcast on October 23. She added, unprompted: “I'm annulled in the church too, so that's also bizarre.” Alvarado spoke about annulment almost as if it were a Church-sanctioned divorce: “I think more people have spoken to me about that than anything else, their desire to pursue an annulment, to consider that reunification with the church after divorce, not that you need it if you don't want to marry again, but if you do.” A bizarre remark from her: “I don't think that's why I was chosen.”
Vatican Media Prefect "Montse" admits herself: "I'm annulled in the church too, so that's also bizarre. And I think more people have spoken to me about that than anything else, their desire to pursue an annulment, to consider that reunification with the church after divorce, not that you need it if you don't want to marry again, but if you do. There's a lot of confusion around that, and I think that's, for whatever reason, I don't think that's why I was chosen, but there's providence in everything, right? All of our mistakes and all of our flaws, our Lord uses everything for good."
At a webinar earlier this week, representatives of the WHO discussed the “Fides” influencer group, which was launched in 2020 to spread content on social media platforms to oppose “anti-vax” narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO has an official partnership with TikTok to make sure this content is widely seen.
After nearly 30 years of priesthood, Father David Mary Engo, founder of the Franciscan Brothers Minor, has drawn closer to the FSSPX. A decision that earned him the withdrawal of his priestly faculties by the Diocese of Knoxville, in Tennessee (United States). In this interview, he looks back on his journey, his refusal to celebrate the new Mass, and his project to develop a traditional apostolate in the region.
"The award is named after the Vatican II declaration, Nostra Aetate, which was issued in 1965. The Nostra Aetate award serves as a symbol of the Catholic Church's ongoing commitment to improving relationships with other faiths." Some religions, like Baal and Pacamama, have child sacrifice. So, the Synodal church wants to encourage pagan practices, maybe?
No alternatives dates were offered to the Summorum Pontificum Mass and the previously granted permission was withdrawn. Edward Pentin reports on X.com that organisers of the annual Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage were not offered an alternative date to celebrate Mass in St Peter’s Basilica. He added that the Vatican’s August 7 letter simply stated that the basilica was unavailable, without mentioning any conflicting events. In recent days, it has been argued that the Franciscan anniversary celebrations in St Peter's basilica had been planned for years. @Michael Haynes wrote that the specific event at the Altar of the Chair was announced only in September, after the pilgrimage’s request for Mass had been refused in August. As for the prohibited procession, customary security restrictions have been cited as an excuse. Yet Haynes reports that permission to process into the Vatican had already been granted in April, only to be withdrawn the day before the pilgrimage. #newsUhvemzsmjm
Iranian FM spox slams Germany for duplicity, warmongering and hypocrisy Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei highlighted Germany’s stark flip-flop on attacks against Iran — with Chancellor Friedrich Merz cheering Israeli strikes in June 2025, while Berlin now calls for restraint and dialogue. “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us,” Merz said at the time. Now German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and other European officials are warning against renewed attacks and calling for de-escalation, the spokesman highlighted. Baghaei responded to Berlin’s U-turn with a fitting dose of Friedrich Schiller: “O exalted Reason... who are you, then, if, bound to the tail of the wild horse of madness, you must watch helplessly, crying out, as you are dragged alongside that drunken rider into the abyss?” Geopolitics Prime
Leo XIV will reportedly receive three years of cancer immunotherapy despite an earlier Vatican statement to the contrary. Pope Leo XIV will receive preventive immunotherapy with pembrolizumab for at least three years to reduce the risk of cancer returning, journalist Mirticeli Medeiros of GloboNews reported on October 23. He referred to sources at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. The Pope will not undergo chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The report contradicts an official statement issued just two days earlier. On October 21, the Holy See Press Office announced that the Pope’s doctors had concluded that no further treatment was necessary following his lung cancer surgery. Surgeons removed the lower lobe of the Pope’s right lung during an operation on October 13. According to Medeiros, the tumour measured 2.5 centimetres and tested positive for PD-L1, a protein that can help cancer cells evade the immune system. Pembrolizumab works by helping the immune system recognise and attack cancer cells. The …More
Israel brings Gaza-style demolition campaign to Hebron Israel’s sweeping punitive campaign in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron is gathering steam. Visiting the area, Benjamin Netanyahu promised to replicate the devastating operations previously carried out in the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps, where Israeli forces displaced populations and transformed parts of camps into permanent military outposts. The Israeli PM has vowed to destroy the neighborhood the two Palestinian resistance fighters who killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on October 23 came from. The shooting at the northern entrance to Hebron claimed the lives of two Israeli soldiers and wounded six others, with the perpetrators also killed. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for a West Bank campaign modeled on Israel’s operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Israeli forces maintained their lockdown of Hebron on Saturday, deploying additional troops and bulldozers Demolished Palestinian homes …More
Putin Is Running Out of Men. So Russia Is Grabbing Them Off the Street Putin is running out of men. If you were a man in Russia right now, you might be checking your phone for a summons, or quietly pricing a flight to Georgia. Putin's war needs about a thousand new soldiers every single day, and Russia is struggling to find them. Officials keep denying a new mobilization, while men in one region are pushed into vans, debtors and migrants are pressured to sign, and tens of thousands of foreigners are lured with fake job offers. We explain this war with maps and facts: the numbers, the money, the hidden draft, the foreigners, the fear, and what can happen next. Here, we explain. You decide. Subscribe. Data as of 25 October 2026. Recruitment figures are estimates by analyst Janis Kluge. Confirmed deaths follow Mediazona and BBC Russian; total losses are Western estimates, as Russia does not publish its own. Figures on foreign recruits come from Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the …More
Israel squeezes Gaza and the West Bank as elections loom Palestinians in Gaza see their suffering reduced to campaign material ahead of Israel's October 27 election, with little expectation that the vote will change their reality, The Guardian reports. Both Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition and his main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party, have centered their campaigns on destroying Hamas and responding to the trauma of October 7. Meanwhile, the devastation of Gaza — home to nearly a million displaced people facing dire sanitation, water shortages, and constant strikes — has gone almost unmentioned by either camp, and neither has outlined a clear plan for the territory's future. The current government is not waiting for the vote to reshape the West Bank. After a shooting near Hebron killed two Israeli soldiers, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced plans to forcibly displace Palestinian residents and carry out extensive destruction, invoking the "offensive model"…More
Islam is a “magnificent faith” for Italian bishops. During the presentation of 11 teaching materials for Catholic religion classes in Italian schools, Rev. Valentino Cottini, former rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), praised Islam. The presentation was attended by the presiding Italian Cardinal, Matteo Zuppi. Rev. Cottini said that the school materials provide "an objective and empathetic presentation of Islam that does not shy away from difficulties, but illustrates this magnificent faith and splendid culture". The materials were developed jointly by Christian and Muslim scholars with the backing of the Italian Bishops' Conference.
"Insomma, credo sia uscita una presentazione dell'Islam oggettiva ed empatica che non rifugge dalle difficoltà, ma illustra questa magnifica fede e questa splendida cultura nei suoi nuclei fondanti e anche in alcune delle sue più attuali forme espressive." Padre Valentino Cottini, già rettore del Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica (PISAI), durante la presentazione delle «Schede per conoscere l’Islam», Palazzo Borromeo, Roma, 21 ottobre 2026.
Bl. Carlo Gnocchi - October 25 i Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 1902 – 28 February 1956) was an Italianpriest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. During World War II, he was a military chaplain of the Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers of the Italian Army, and after the tragic experience of the war, he strove to ease the wounds of suffering and misery created by the war. "Two of my sons you have already taken, Lord. The third I offer to You, so that You bless him and keep him always at Your service." — Clementina Pasta, mother of Father Gnocchi Gnocchi was born in San Colombano al Lambro, a few miles from Lodi, to Enrico Gnocchi and Clementina Pasta, a seamstress. The youngest of three brothers, when he was age five, he lost his father in 1907, from silicosis, caused by the unhealthy job as a marble worker. After moving to Milan with family, he lost his two older brothers in a few years – Mario, in 1908, and Andrea, in 1915, from …More
Modern Saints in Two Minutes: Bl. Carlo Gnocchi - October 25 incordejesu Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 1902 – 28 February 1956) was an Italianpriest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. During World War II, he was a military chaplain of the Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers of the Italian Army, and after the tragic experience of the war, he strove to ease the wounds of suffering and misery created by the war. "Two of my sons you have already taken, Lord. The third I offer to You, so that You bless him and keep him always at Your service." — Clementina Pasta, mother of Father Gnocchi Gnocchi was born in San Colombano al Lambro, a few miles from Lodi, to Enrico Gnocchi and Clementina Pasta, a seamstress.[2] The youngest of three brothers, when he was age five, he lost his father in 1907, from silicosis, caused by the unhealthy job as a marble worker. After moving to Milan with family, he lost his two older brothers in a few years …More
Father Gnocchi in the company of mutilated children The dramatic experience of the retreat from Russia, lived as military ordinariate always on the front, matured in Gnocchi the idea and the focus of his charitable mission; assisting the victims of war, in search of redemption for their "innocent suffering". In 1945, he was nominated as director of the Istituto Grandi Invalidi (Institute of Registered Invalids) of Arosio, thus accepting the first orphans and adults disabled by the war. In 1948, he founded the "Fondazione Pro Infanzia Mutilata" ("Foundation For Mutilated Infants"), acknowledged in the next year with a decree by the President of Italy. The same year, the Italian Prime MinisterAlcide De Gasperi nominated Gnocchi as adviser to the Presidency of the Council for the mutilated by the war. In 1951, the foundation was dissolved, and all its goods and structure were donated to the newly created Fondazione Pro Juventute (Juvenile Foundation).
Total chaos in Marseille, France as violent rioters tear through the streets! Police are finally moving in with force to crush the mobs and take back control.
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Iranian FM spox slams Germany for duplicity, warmongering and hypocrisy
“This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us,” Merz said at the time.
Israel brings Gaza-style demolition campaign to Hebron
Israeli forces maintained their lockdown of Hebron on Saturday, deploying additional troops and bulldozers