Msgr. Indunil Kankanamalage, Secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, attended the Tri Hita Karana Universal Reflection Ceremony in Bali. It was “anchored by an interfaith prayer” and included a Bumi Bajra performance featuring a Barong from Ubud Palace and what they called “sacred rhythms.” Barong is a lion-like ceremonial representation of a supernatural protector in Balinese Hindu tradition, closely associated with Balinese religious and ritual life.
Honoring Idol Barong in Bali: The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue participated in a gathering in Indonesia organized by Scholas Occurrentes and United in Diversity.
Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples wrote the foreword to a new Catholic book on transgender people, writing that “no one is excluded from the heart of God.”
Cardinal Battaglia Wants to Accompany Transvestites Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, 63, of Naples, Italy, wrote the foreword to the book 'Transgender People'. He believes that the Church is called to "renew its gaze upon humanity". The book deals with “complex and sensitive issues,” he writes. His examples are “gender dysphoria, transgender identities, and life experiences that do not conform to traditional models.” This raises “profound questions - including for the Church.” Cardinal Battaglia proposes “a path not of condemnation, but of accompaniment”: “No one is excluded from God’s heart.” And: “No life is foreign to the mystery of salvation.” “Every person, every story - even those that seem distant or difficult to understand - carries within it the possibility of a revelation.” The book “reminds us that behind ideas there are people. People whom we must encounter, listen to, and accompany.” #newsUqdcmgjzfp
Will Monsignor Gänswein be the new apostolic nuncio in France?
Leo XIV Receives Gänswein Amid Speculation Over Paris Nunciature Today, Pope Leo XIV received Archbishop Georg Gänswein, 70, in an audience, amid renewed speculation that Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary could soon be appointed Apostolic Nuncio to France. It was Gänswein’s third meeting with Leo XIV: the first came during the Pope’s gathering with apostolic nuncios in June 2025, followed by a private audience on December 12, 2025. Monsignor Gänswein serves as Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Pope Francis appointed him to the diplomatic post in June 2024, ending roughly a year in Freiburg without an official assignment following the death of Benedict XVI. In recent months, Vatican observers have speculated that Gänswein could be transferred to the Apostolic Nunciature in Paris. Asked about the possibility at a public appearance in Ravensburg in July, Gänswein declined to confirm the speculation. #newsYgnllwgzqu
That would constitute remarkably poor judgement from Rome even if Lizardo Estrada were simply another name passing across the Pope’s desk. But he isn’t — Robert Prevost knows Lizardo Estrada very well. This is not one of those tenuous Vatican connections in which two churchmen happened to occupy neighbouring seats at a conference twenty years ago. Estrada has described Prevost as his professor and his spiritual director. Vatican News itself describes Prevost as Estrada’s formator in the Order of Saint Augustine. Estrada studied under him at Trujillo, where Prevost taught Patristics and Canon Law and served in Augustinian formation. The relationship therefore goes back to Estrada’s formative years as a young religious. Teacher and pupil. Formator and seminarian. Spiritual director and directee. Fellow Augustinians. Later, fellow bishops in Peru. And now Pope and archbishop-elect. Is there anything improper about a pope appointing somebody he knows?
At 94 years old, Cardinal Zen sees his conviction confirmed in Hong Kong amid Chinese repression - A historic figure in Hong Kong Catholicism and defender of freedoms, Cardinal Joseph Zen has lost his appeal in the case of the 2019 aid fund for protesters
Hong Kong Court Rejects Cardinal Zen’s Appeal Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of Cardinal Joseph Zen, 94, and four other former trustees of a humanitarian fund. Cardinal Zen attended court using a walking stick. He was convicted in 2022 alongside barrister and former legislator Margaret Ng, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, singer Denise Ho and academic Hui Po-keung for failing to register the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund under Hong Kong’s Societies Ordinance. Each was fined HK$4,000 (about €440). The convictions were the first of their kind under the ordinance. The fund was established in June 2019 to provide legal, medical and other financial assistance to people arrested or injured during the protests. It ceased operations in October 2021. Today, three judges rejected the defendants’ argument that the fund was money administered through a trust and therefore did not constitute a “society.” They found that those governing the fund had mutual rights and obligations and that …More
EWTNNews.com was supposed to give EWTN’s international news operation a single global home. Seven months on, the domain remains outside Cloudflare Radar’s Top 100,000. Hardly an impressive digital calling card for Montse Alvarado as she moves on to lead the Vatican’s communications.
Cloudflare Data Put Gloria.tv Among World’s Top 10,000 Domains Cloudflare Radar data suggest that Gloria.tv is the only major Catholic website dentified in the global Top 10,000. Other major Catholic domains, including Vatican.va, VaticanNews.va or EWTN.com, appear only in the Top 100,000. The datasets do not provide ranks beyond the Top 100. The Top 10,000 and Top 100,000 are unordered buckets and domains in the downloaded files are listed alphabetically. Catholic Websites Between the Top 10,000 and Top 100,000 vatican.va - Holy See vaticannews.va - Vatican News ewtn.com - EWTN usccb.org - U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops aleteia.org - Aleteia aciprensa.com - ACI Prensa / EWTN hallow.com - Catholic prayer app opusdei.org - Opus Dei lifesitenews.com - LifeSiteNews Catholic Websites Between the Top 100,000 and Top 1,000,000 ewtnnews.com - EWTN News ewtnvatican.com - EWTN Vatican catholicnewsagency.com - Catholic News Agency / EWTN infovaticana.com - InfoVaticana ncregister.com - National …More
He invites wolves into the sheepfold and persecutes faithful traditionalists. Who does that? The false prophet: a ravenous wolf hiding behind the shepherd's cloak.
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of September is for the care of water. “Water is a symbol of your grace and love that renews us through Baptism. We beg forgiveness that it has been turned into a commodity, forgetting that it is a universal gift, a right without borders," the Holy Father expressed in his prayer released September 1 on the occasion of the Season of Creation. He added a plea to become “pilgrims of the essential, capable of living simply, denouncing waste and pollution, and defending the right of every person to drink without fear and without inequality.”
I think there is a trap when prayers have an audience are they for God or are they for the audience? The beauty of the Holy Rosary it has no audience appeal. Is this prayer for my ears or for God’s? Is this weaponised virtue signalling or a sincere prayer to God. Because if it is to God the prayer could be recited in Latin a language God knows well! The Pope’s Prayer intention for the month of September is to pray for care of water: “Lord of Life, you have given us the gift of water, source of fruitfulness, freshness, and hope. It quenches thirst, nourishes the earth, and heals wounds. We thank you because it is also a symbol of your grace and love that renews us through baptism. Today, we ask you to teach us to safeguard it with gratitude, justice, and responsibility. Forgive us for turning it into a commodity, forgetting that it is a universal gift, a right without borders, meant for all your children. We see with pain, so many brothers and sisters, who lack clean water, who walk for …More
the Swiss guard look bored maybe they could do this Nepal (April 26 to May 29, 2015) - Operation RENAISSANCE 15-1 On April 25, 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck western and central parts of Nepal. It caused widespread destruction. CAF members began leaving for the region on April 26, 2015. They were a part of Canada’s response led by DFATD (now known as Global Affairs Canada (GAC)). About 200 personnel were sent to assist. They performed various tasks. These included engineering, medical aid, liaison services and mapping. A second earthquake hit the country on May 12, 2015. By the end of the mission, the DART had: distributed 75 water filtration units given about 3,400 people access to clean, safe drinking water treated more than 700 Nepalese patients provided 750 maps and imagery products to the Nepalese and foreign militaries, NGOs and UN agencies removed more than 3,000 cubic meters of rubble and cleared roads, allowing access to about 204,000 Nepalese enabled more than 300 …More
A ruling by the Superior Court of Quebec in Canada finds that Cardinal Marc Ouellet was “falsely accused” of sexual assault in connection with a class action against the Archdiocese of Quebec, and he will receive $100,000 in damages, which he will donate to organizations combating the sexual abuse of Indigenous peoples.
Cardinal Ouellet Wins Defamation Lawsuit Former Curia Cardinal Marc Ouellet has won his defamation lawsuit against Paméla Groleau. She had accused him of sexual assault. Quebec Superior Court Judge Martin Castonguay found her allegations unfounded and ordered her to pay Ouellet C$100,000 (€62,000) in damages. Judge Rejects Accuser’s Account Paméla Groleau, a former pastoral worker, accused the former archbishop of Quebec of inappropriate touching during several encounters between 2008 and 2010. Her main allegation concerned a priestly ordination in 2010, where she claimed Ouellet ran a hand down her back and touched the upper part of her buttocks. Ouellet denied the allegation. At trial, Groleau acknowledged that this was the only incident she considered sexual assault. The judge found her account “neither credible nor reliable,” pointing to changes and inconsistencies in her testimony. Castonguay also noted that Ouellet was holding his episcopal crozier when the alleged contact was said …More
IT is also part of the on-going war against the Church; when you think of a cleric from another religion, do you think of sexual abuse? Do you think that's because it doesn't happen, or because they own the media?
European Bishop Forbids Society of Saint Pius X to PRAY ROSARY in famous Marian Shrine.
Austrian Bishop Bans FSSPX Rosary at Mariazell Basilica Bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl of Graz-Seckau, Austria, has prohibited the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX) from holding its annual public Rosary prayer on October 4 inside the Basilica of Mariazell. It is one of the most important Marian shrines in Austria. The annual ceremony in the basilica included Rosary, Litany of Loreto, Marian hymns and a blessing - but no sacraments. Fsspx.at announced the decision on August 27, adding that a pilgrimage will take place with a modified program. The FSSPX’s rosary prayer in Mariazell has existed for half a century. On September 8, 1975, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre led approximately 600 faithful to the Austrian shrine. Muslims and Homosexuals: "All-Are-Welcome"-Bishop Krautwaschl Bishop Krautwaschl has governed Graz-Seckau since 2015. Against the prohibition of the FSSPX’s Rosary, consider what has been welcomed or promoted during his tenure. Ten examples: 2018: Krautwaschl sent a greeting …More
Počet katolíckych krstov v Írsku klesol za desať rokov o 30 %: Podľa správy Iona Institute zverejnenej 18. augusta klesol počet katolíckych krstov v Írsku v rokoch 2015 až 2025 o 30 %. Štúdia vychádza z údajov takmer všetkých diecéz na ostrove. Klesajúca pôrodnosť sa podieľa na tomto poklese približne 60 %, zvyšok pripisujeme rastúcej sekularizácii. Počet narodených detí klesol v celom Írsku o 18,8 %, z toho v Írskej republike o 17,9 % a v Severnom Írsku o 21,3 %. V Dubline bol zaznamenaný pokles krstov o 39,9 %, a to z 15 759 na 9 465.
Os batismos católicos na Irlanda registam uma queda de 30 % numa década: De acordo com um relatório do Iona Institute publicado a 18 de agosto, os batismos católicos na Irlanda diminuíram 30 % entre 2015 e 2025. O estudo baseia-se em dados provenientes de quase todas as dioceses da ilha. A queda das taxas de natalidade é responsável por cerca de 60% deste declínio, sendo a crescente secularização responsável pelo restante. O número de nascimentos diminuiu 18,8% em toda a Irlanda, incluindo uma redução de 17,9% na República e de 21,3% na Irlanda do Norte. Dublin registou uma diminuição de 39,9% nos batismos, passando de 15 759 para 9 465.
First meeting of German Synodal Conference cancelled The first meeting of the proposed Synodal Conference of the Catholic Church in Germany has been cancelled after the Vatican failed to approve its statutes. The decision leaves the next stage of the country’s controversial Synodal Way without a date to begin. The meeting had been scheduled for November 6 and 7 in Stuttgart.
Gute Nachrichten: Synodalkonferenz der deutschen Kirche für November abgesagt.
Mawdsley - MI6? - became unusually deeply involved in Burmese opposition politics at a young age; operated around rebel/opposition networks near the Thai-Burmese border; attracted substantial Western political/media attention; subsequently moved in NGO and parliamentary/political circles; and portions of his early-1990s biography are allegedly unclear. If independent evidence showed undisclosed relationships with British government/intelligence personnel, funding, tasking, training, unusual travel arrangements, or contemporaneous records identifying him as an asset/officer, those circumstances could become significant.
French Freemason receives Catholic funeral in violation of Church law
Obsèques de François Patriat à Semur-en-Auxois : la prise de parole du Président Emmanuel Macron. Le président qui vient de signer la loi sur l’euthanasie prend la parole dans l’église.
Sorry, I don't buy it. Any pope worthy of the name is not merely a script-reader, and, if he can't discern that which is wrong (or 'wrongly phrased') he's on autopilot, and should recuse himself from his office.
Claimed Eucharistic Miracle Under Investigation in Guatemala Church authorities are examining a possible Eucharistic miracle after a Host placed in water reportedly failed to dissolve and subsequently developed reddish stains that “could be blood”, the Cathedral Parish of El Niño Dios in Cuilapa, Guatemala, has announced on August 22. The parish is the cathedral of the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima. The incident began on July 30, during a Missionary Eucharistic Week. A priest was celebrating the Eucharist at a private school when he noticed that a teenage student, after receiving Holy Communion, was removing the Host from his mouth. The priest intervened before the student could throw it to the ground. Following the procedure used in such cases, the priest placed the Host in a glass of water in the chapel of the parish house so that it could dissolve. When the chapel was cleaned the following Thursday, however, a parish worker found that the Host had not dissolved and noticed reddish …More
Leo XIV says we shouldn’t ‘retreat into our own religious certainties’
Two short video quotes from today's Angelus: Leo XIV offers unusual definitions of faith, suggesting that focusing on what has been handed down to us is insufficient.
So this leads to bowing down to Pachamama in order to encounter Jesus the Phenomenology of Religion vs Revelation of Jesus the messiah the narrow gate.
