Michael Matt: Private Latin Masses allowed in France once again. Last year, over Pentecost weekend, private Traditional Latin Masses were forbidden in Paris and Chartres before and after the Notre Dame de Chretiente Pilgrimage to Chartres.
Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 "Paul beared witness to the kingdom of God." Here, where we are, we can proclaim the kingdom of God. The King is Christ, the Kingdom is the Love of God. John 21:20-25 Saint John says: "There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written." God accomplishes his work in the present. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
On May 21, Lionsgate shared a glimpse at Mel Gibson's biblical drama 'The Resurrection of the Christ’. Gibson said in a press release that this film represents “a major part of my life's work, and it has demanded everything of me as a filmmaker and as an artist”.
Mel Gibson Reveals First Look at The Resurrection of the Christ
Faith "makes room" for the Spirit Sunday 24 of May - Solemnity of Pentecost Dear brothers and sisters, on the occasion of the Solemnity of Pentecost we want to remind to ourselves that only faith can allow the Holy Spirit, who Jesus poured into our hearts through holy baptism, to be operative in our lives. In fact, in order to be able to operate in our hearts the Holy Spirit needs our complete, trusting abandonment to his action which, while freeing us from the diabolical illusion of being able to become god without, against or even in God’s place, makes us experience, at the same time , the beauty and unheard purity of Father's love which makes us, in Jesus, His children and brothers and sisters among us!
The man featured for nearly 25 years on the cover of the Roman priest calendar “Calendario Romano” is not a priest. Giovanni Galizia, now 39, told La Repubblica he posed for the photo at age 17 in Palermo as a joke after meeting photographer Piero Pazzi. Galizia said he was never paid, never felt called to the priesthood, and now works in flight attendant training for a Spanish airline. He described the image as an aesthetic portrait of an embarrassed teenager whose friends were laughing during the shoot.
A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades. However, many of those photographed aren't actually priests.
Picture a child in 1952, barefoot on a sunbaked sidewalk, pressing a glass marble between two fingers and squinting at a target drawn in chalk. That child is still alive today. And the world they woke up into this morning looks nothing like the one that shaped them. There is a generation walking among us that carries something no algorithm can replicate and no archive can fully capture. They hold the living memory of a world that has been completely dismantled and rebuilt within a single lifetime. They were born into the aftermath of the deadliest war in human history. Rationing, rebuilding, and the quiet exhaustion of survival hung in the air of their childhoods. Yet somehow, those years produced a generation of extraordinary adaptability. Their education arrived by chalkboard and candlelight intuition. Their research demanded real patience, the kind that required a library card, a heavy encyclopedia, and the willingness to sit with uncertainty until an answer emerged. They fell in love …More
Stefan Diefenbach, a former priest, co-authored the German guideline 'Blessing Gives Strength to Love' ('Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft') in April 2025 for homosexual couples. He spoke about it with katholisch.de on May 22. Diefenbach was a priest with the Arnstein Fathers. He left the order in 2005. Since 2016, he has been in a homosexual "marriage" with a male opera singer from Argentina. Diefenbach said that the guideline merely implements Fiducia Supplicans: "It is an attempt to 'translate' it for pastoral practice in Germany and make it fruitful." He was surprised by the vehemence of the criticism. And: "I cannot fully comprehend the criticism. The text of the guideline clearly states that blessings should be given freely and spontaneously, that no approved liturgical celebrations or prayers are provided for, and that there should be no confusion with a liturgical celebration of the sacrament of marriage." Diefenbach himself was not present at the discussions in the Vatican. "But I …More
Creepy video shows gender-confused man seeking lactation help at NYC women’s shelter. “I’m about to see my doctor, and if everything goes right, I’m about to walk away from here with a referral to a lactation specialist, which means these babies will soon actually be making milk,” said the unidentified male in the disturbing video. The man who presents himself as a female reportedly lives in a women’s shelter in Brooklyn, New York.
Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes All this used to be underwater Lake Mead is on the border between Nevada and Arizona and it’s water levels are now critically low. There are many Data Centers that have been put in the Lake Mead area and draw directly from the lake - Google’s Henderson data center consumed roughly 352 million gallons in one year. It directly pulls from the Lake Mead sourced municipal supply - Flexential Data Center facility used around 20 million gallons in one year - Other Data Centers in the area collectively used over 716 million gallons in 2024, with nearly all the water drawing from Colorado River and Lake Mead sources Pair this with droughts, water demand from agriculture and resident use and now there is almost nothing left… just look at this…. The lake is only at about 32% capacity Why is this being allowed ?
Reporter: “Should we let non-citizens vote in our elections?” Karen Bass: “We should explore it.” No we shouldn’t. We should actually deport you for suggesting that
1 Peter 5 posts the full February 12, 2026 interview of canon lawyer Marc Balestrieri JCL by Matt Gaspers. A lot of ground was covered: Are episcopal consecrations conducted without papal approval intrinsically schismatic? Does canon law say anything about cases of “necessity”? Could a canonical case be made that the men involved would not be liable to automatic excommunication due to their sincere belief that they acted out of necessity? Will SSPX priests still have the faculties necessary for the sacraments of Penance and Matrimony following the unauthorized consecrations?
When Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), consecrated four bishops in 1988 against the will of Pope John Paul II, he famously referred to his act as “Operation Survival” during his sermon for the occasion: It is not for me to know when Tradition will regain its rights at Rome, but I think it is my duty to provide the means of doing that which I shall call ‘Operation Survival,’ operation survival for Tradition. Today, this day, is ‘Operation Survival.’ If I had made this deal with Rome, by continuing with the agreements we had signed [see here for context], and by putting them into practice, I would have performed ‘Operation Suicide.’ There was no choice, we must live! This past February, current SSPX Superior General Fr. Davide Pagliarani decided that the time has come for the SSPX to consecrate more bishops, after writing to Pope Leo XIV and receiving no answer: “We believe that the time has come to think about the future of the Society of …
May 21st - Saint of the Day: Saint Eugene de Mazenod, Nobleman, Missionary, Bishop & Founder A nobleman lost everything in the French Revolution… then became a saint who spent his life chasing after the forgotten. Saint Eugene de Mazenod was born into privilege, but exile, family wounds, and disappointment brought him face to face with the Cross. On Good Friday, his life changed. He realized Jesus had not come for the perfect, polished, and powerful. He came for sinners, the poor, prisoners, wounded families, restless young people, and everyone the world overlooks. So Eugene became “the servant and priest of the poor.” He preached in the language of ordinary people, risked his life ministering to prisoners during a typhus outbreak, founded the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and became Bishop of Marseille. His mission was simple but intense: help the forgotten see their true dignity in Christ. His final words still hit hard today: “Among yourselves, charity …More
Hl. Karl Eugen von Mazenod - Gedenktag: am 21. Mai Bischof von Marseille, Ordensgründer * 1. August 1782 in Aix-en-Provence in Frankreich † 21. Mai 1861 in Marseille in Frankreich Charles Joseph Eugène de Mazenod war Sohn einer Adelsfamilie, die im Frühjahr 1794 vor der Französischen Revolution nach Italien flüchten musste, wo Eugène dann aufwuchs. In Turin besuchte er das Kolleg der Adligen; als seine Familie nach Venedig zog, erhielt er Privatunterricht durch den Priester Don Bartolo Zinelli; in dieser Zeit begann seine Berufung zum Priestertum zu wachsen. Als 20-jähriger kam er zurück nach Frankreich. In Aix-en-Provence drohte er zunächst in den Vergnügungen jener Zeit zu versinken, aber dann langweilte ihn das Leben der gehobenen Gesellschaft. Er lehnte einige Heiratsangebote ab und sehnte sich danach, seinem Leben einen tieferen Sinn zu geben. 1808 trat er ins Seminar der Sulpizianer in Paris ein. Schon als er noch Diakon war, wurde ihm die Leitung des Seminars anvertraut und …More
Acts 25:13-21 "A certain Jesus who had died but who Paul claimed was alive." It is wonderful; life continues in Christ. John 21:15-19 Jesus specifically tells Peter: "Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep." And the same message is for us as well. Let us allow the sheep to become free by revealing to them that they are loved by God. Jesus is the First Shepherd, and we lead the sheep to him. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
Mr. Sausage @MrSausageGet 2016: Guy McPherson (a climate change expert, scientist, and professor from the University of Arizona) says that there will not be any humans on the planet by 2026 due to the effects of climate change.
1.2K views · 514 reactions | The real Jesus. Not the image you grew up with. Not the pale skin and flowing hair painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 — fifteen hundred years after Jesus lived. Historians at King’s College London confirm Jesus had olive-brown skin, short dark hair and dark brown eyes. A typical Middle Eastern Jewish man from first century Palestine. But here is what really broke my brain. The earliest centre of Christianity was not Rome. It was Alexandria. Egypt. The greatest early Christian thinkers — Origen and Clement of Alexandria — were African. The concept of the Holy Trinity has documented roots in the Egyptian divine trinity of Osiris Isis and Horus. The Madonna and Child image came directly from Egyptian statues of Isis nursing Horus — art historians have documented this comprehensively. The Father of Monasticism — the system every monastery on earth still follows — was an Egyptian man named Anthony the Great. The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt is the …More
Hmmm, I think that was God pre-figuring Himself in old pagan religions , and that works out when people for that reason make the transition more easily to the true Faith.