Pope Leo XIV named Monsignor Sithembele Anton Sipuka, 65, as Archbishop of Cape Town on January 9. He succeeds Cardinal Stephen Brislin, who was transferred to Johannesburg in October 2024. Early Life and Formation Sithembele Anton Sipuka was born on April 27, 1960, in Idutywa (Dutywa) in the Eastern Cape. Before entering seminary, he worked for two years as a post office clerk. He was ordained a priest in 1988 for the Diocese of Queenstown, six years before the end of apartheid. In 1992, he was sent to Rome to study at the Pontifical Urban University. Rising Star in the Church In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Sipuka as Bishop of Mthatha. The diocese is rural, located in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, and has fewer than 40,000 Catholics. Cape Town, by contrast, is one of South Africa’s most prominent sees, with approximately 280,000 Catholics. From 2019 to 2023, Bishop Sipuka served as President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference. In July 2025, Pope Leo …Hafa
If you like mathematics, then this is for you... "1004. 9. 1. Some of the properties of the Universal Transcendental Function (UTF) and Universal Transcendental Constants (UTC) 26 December 2016 AD, Feast of St Stephen I derived general formulas for multiplication, division, powers, and logarithms for the Universal Transcendental Constants (UTC). Addition and subtraction are more challenging to derive; it was done only partially. Universal Transcendental Constants have their unique way of calculations, i.e., they use what I call, Index Mathematics. It means that indexes (subscripts) of the given constants are used to calculate new values of multiplication, division, powers, and logarithms, possibly integrals and derivatives. I will start with simple examples so it is easier to understand and then derive the general formulas. Link to the article... 1004. 9. 1. Some of the properties of the …
"Eternal Wisdom.--Never was there a thirsty mouth that longed so ardently for the cool fountain, nor a dying man for the pleasant days of life, as I longed to help all sinners and to render Myself beloved of them."
[Blessed Henry Suso; XIII-XIV Century AD; Uberlingen, Holy Roman Empire/Ulm, Holy Roman Empire; (aged 70); Religious, Priest; Mystic; German Dominican Friar] “CHAPTER III ~ How It Was With Him on The Cross According to The Exterior Man Eternal Wisdom.--When I was suspended on the lofty tree of the cross because of My unfathomable love to thee and all mankind, My whole frame was very grievously distorted, My bright eyes were extinguished and turned in My head; My divine ears were filled with scoffing and blasphemy; My delicate nostrils were wounded with foul smells; My sweet mouth was tormented with bitter drink; and My tender feeling with hard blows. The whole earth was not able to afford Me any rest, for My feeble head was bowed down with pain and distress, My fair throat was unnaturally distended, My pure countenance polluted with spittle, My beautiful complexion faded. Lo! My comely figure withered entirely away, as though I were an outcast leper, and had never been the fair and …Hafa
"And, therefore, was I so covered with marks of love that one could not have placed the small point of a needle on any spot of My lacerated body that had not its particular love-mark. My right arm stretched out; My left very grievously distended; My right foot perforated; My left cruelly transfixed; that I hung fainting, and in great distress of My divine limbs; all My delicate members were immovably fastened to the hard bed of the cross. My hot blood, because of My anguish, burst forth in many a wild gush, which overflowed My expiring body, so that it was a most piteous sight to see. Behold a lamentable thing! My young, My fair and blooming body began to fade, to wither and pine away, My weary and tender back had a hard pillow on the rough cross, My heavy body gave way, My whole frame was gashed with wounds, and like one great sore, and all this My loving heart willingly endured.”
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Roman Rite Not Central Question for Cardinal Müller: “The Church has to discuss how to go on with these questions about the old and the new rite,” Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller told EWTN on January 8: “I think Pope Leo XIV will find a good solution for everybody.” Cardinal Müller believes that this “is not the central question for the Church today.” He added: “We are living in times of secularization and atheism, in some great anti-Christian political systems, and we also face the Woke ideology and a false anthropology, which are absolutely in contradiction to the Christian understanding of human dignity.” Because time was limited at the consistory, he said, the cardinals preferred to speak about these major challenges facing the Church rather than about internal Church matters, he claimed.
Gerhard Müller confirmed to EWTN that the traditional Latin Mass was not discussed in the consistory this week. The cardinals “preferred to speak about the great (external) challenges of the Church and not so much aspects inside the Church”
In 1950s Spain, a young orphan boy living with monks discovers a wooden Jesus figure in the monastery's attic. After sharing his bread with it, a miracle occurs, leading him to make a heartfelt wish. The Miracle of Marcelino
Watched that film when I was a postulant to the Carmelites in France. In French.. On an overhead projector. One of the sisters, also a postulant had her birthday that day, and requested it. It was the only time we did something like that the whole time I was there (14 months), other than watching a film about St Teresa of Avila..
11.01.2025 NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER, SSPX ALIGNED ON VATICAN COUNCIL II AND EENS : RATIONAL PREMISE UNITES Will the National Catholic Reporter and the SSSPX choose the Rational Premise to interpret Vatican Council II in harmony with ‘the strict interpretation’ of the dogma extra ecclesium nulla salus , the Athanasius Creed and the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX ? The National Catholic Reporter and the Society of St. Pius X in the same doctrinal boat? When Cardinal Walter Kasper and Bishop Bernard Fellay affirm Vatican Council II with the Rational Premise they are aligned with Feeneyite extra ecclesium nulla salus (EENS). No liberal - traditionalist division exists. When Pope Leo interprets Vatican Council II with the Rational Premise he is a rad trad on EENS. But the rad trad is a liberal like Bishop Robert Barron, if he chooses to interpret Vatican Council II rationally and not like Balthazar. Barron is then no more a liberal. Can you picture this? This the National Catholic …Hafa
Book of Isaiah 42,1-4.6-7. Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, Upon whom I have put my Spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations, Not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, Until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching. I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness. Psalms 29(28),1-2.3-4.9-10. Give to the LORD, you sons of God, give to the LORD glory and praise, Give to the LORD the glory due his name; adore the LORD in holy attire. The voice of the LORD is over the waters, the LORD, over vast waters. The voice of the LORD is mighty; the voice of the LORD is …Hafa
"May I Hug the Pope": This evening, Pope Leo XIV welcomed young people from the Diocese of Rome to the Paul VI Audience Hall. One of the young participants, who had been selected to speak, addressed the Pope at the microphone, saying: 'Dear Pope Leo, thank you for all you do for us. We love you. You are not alone. May we give you a hug?” After this, the young man approached Pope Leo XIV and embraced him.
“Dear Pope Leo, thank you for all you do for us. We love you. You are not alone. Can we give you a hug?”
"5. I feel sure that vexation at thinking that during our life on earth God can bestow these graces on the souls of others shows a want of humility and charity for one’s neighbour, for why should we not feel glad at a brother’s receiving divine favours which do not deprive us of our own share? Should we not rather rejoice at His Majesty’s thus manifesting His greatness wherever He chooses?"
[Saint Teresa of Avila XVI Century AD; Avila, Crown of Castile, Spanish Monarchy/Alba de Tormes, Crown of Castile, Spanish Monarchy; Aged 67; Virgin; Doctor of the Church; Mystic; Writer; Reformer] “CHAPTER I ~ THIS CHAPTER TREATS OF THE BEAUTY AND DIGNITY OF OUR SOULS AND MAKES A COMPARISON TO EXPLAIN THIS. THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING THIS AND THE FAVOURS GOD GRANTS TO US IS SHOWN, AND HOW PRAYER IS THE GATE OF THE SPIRITUAL CASTLE. 1. WHILE I was begging our Lord to-day to speak for me, since I knew not what to say nor how to commence this work which obedience has laid upon me, an idea occurred to me which I will explain, and which will serve as a foundation for that I am about to write. 2. I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in heaven there are many mansions. If we reflect, sisters, we shall see that the soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us …Hafa
Jerusalem Post/Middle East/Iran News Iran threatens retaliation against Israel, US bases if Washington attacks Israel is on high alert for the possibility of a US intervention to support a nationwide protest movement in Iran, sources said. A drone photo shows the damage over residential homes at the impact site following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Ramat Gan, Israel June 14, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/Yair Palti) ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF JANUARY 11, 2026 08:49 Updated: JANUARY 11, 2026 09:25 Iran warned President Donald Trump on Sunday that any US attack would lead to Tehran striking back against Israel and regional US military bases as "legitimate targets," Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf told parliament. Israel is on high alert for the possibility of a US intervention to support a nationwide protest movement in Iran, sources said. This announcement was made in response to President Donald Trump's announcement that America "stands ready to help" since …
Documents such as Fiducia Supplicans on homosexual "blessings" or Mater Populi Fidelis on Our Lady need to be corrected and given a “true interpretation in the sense of the traditional doctrine” in order to remain coherent with tradition, retired Swiss Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti told Michael Haynes on 8 January for PelicanPlus.com (Blogger software Ghost.org): "The biggest problem is that we have never had a situation like this before, where the Dicastery or the Magisterium of the Church has become inconsistent and incoherent. That’s the great problem. We have to correct that." The Bishop added: "As we have seen with Fiducia Supplicans, there has been resistance to the document, and good theological arguments have been put forward against it. The document is not well founded. So, resistance is arising, and you can observe that, in a second note, Cardinal Fernández downplays it a little." Regarding Islam, Bishop Eleganti said that he is not "so naive as to think that water and …Hafa
2 Timothy 4:3-4 "For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts, and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables."
If the Papal 'teaching' is "inconsistent and incoherent", it does not follow or draw upon Christ's teachings which are the essence of consistency and coherency. Inconsistent and incoherent 'teachings' are nothing short of heresy. Any Pope worthy of the Seat would point that out and act accordingly.
Protests have expanded rapidly across Iran in recent days, with dozens reportedly having been killed amid a crackdown by the Iranian regime. “Protesters demonstrated in at least 156 instances across 27 provinces on January 8, which almost doubles the number of protests recorded on January 7,” according to the Institute for the Study of War, a national security policy and education nonprofit. The anti-regime protests are in response to Iran’s failing economy and rampant inflation. The protests are the largest demonstrations against the regime in years, and President Donald Trump has threatened to take action against the regime if its crackdown on protests turned deadly. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now “In the past, they’ve started shooting the hell out of [protesters],” Trump said during a recent interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “So they played rough,” Trump continued, “and I said, if they do that, we’re going to hit them very hard.” …