Thu Jan 8, 2026 - 4:25 pm EST VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV announced Wednesday that he is beginning a catechesis series to “closely” study the Second Vatican Council, which many priests and scholars have affirmed to be in need of correction. “We are beginning a new catechesis series dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and to a fresh reading of its Documents,” Leo wrote in an X post. “The Council’s Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey.” We are beginning a new catechesis series dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and to a fresh reading of its Documents. The Council’s Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey. #GeneralAudiencehttps://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm — Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) January 7, 2026 “Closely studying the Council documents will help us to be attentive interpreters of the signs of the times, and to proclaim the Gospel to all,” Leo …
Wed Jan 7, 2026 - 10:10 am EST (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Robert Barron has said that synodality, which questions settled doctrine, must not become a “permanent feature of the Church.” In a statement published on January 6 on X, the bishop of Winona-Rochester in southern Minnesota said, “I understand that one of the topics under consideration at the Consistory of Cardinals is synodality. I’m speaking as a bishop who was an elected delegate to both rounds of the Synod and Synodality in Rome and who has just presided over a local synod in my own diocese.” “Synods are good and useful tools for the determination of practical pastoral strategies, but they oughtn’t to be forums for debate regarding doctrine,” he stated. “When settled teaching becomes a subject for synodal determination, the Church devolves into relativism and self-doubt – as is clearly evident in the misconceived ‘Synodal Way’ in Germany.” He cited three theologians who co-founded the Communio journal, Joseph Ratzinger …
This afternoon after a Mass the Priest had Prayers and Benediction. There was only one Prayer Intention, Pope Leo! That is Our Duty as Catholics! Pray for Pope Leo!
I thought Catholic teaching says we will be pardoned if we ask Jesus to forgive us our sins. Why would we need the Sacrament of Confession if Jesus would give forgiveness without contrition? General Audience of 20 August 2025 - Cycle of …
Francis taught that even if a sinner does not repent, the priest must always absolve him of his sins. Of course, such a sacrament is invalid, and sins will not be absolved even if the priest says a hundred times that he absolves. Without repentance there is no absolution. Leo is simply continuing Francis' line, using modernist equivocal language.
This is stupid. Jesus’ offer of forgiveness was established as a sacrament. It’s called the sacrament of penance. The church has always taught there are 5 requirements for a sacramental confession: examination of conscience, sorrow for sins, resolution not to sin again, confess your sins to a priest, do the penance the priest gives you. This is modernist mumbo jumbo leading souls to conclude they don’t need confession because Jesus just forgives anyway.