Padre Guilherme Peixoto performed in a Beirut nightclub: On 10 January, Rev Guilherme Peixoto presided over a Eucharist at the University of the Holy Spirit of Kaslik, Lebanon. Later that night, he performed a DJ set at AHM, a Beirut nightclub. A legal complaint filed on 4 January by a group including clergy sought to cancel the concert, citing moral concerns. The petition was rejected by a judge on 9 January. The event proceeded after the venue announced that no religious symbols would be displayed and that no clerical attire would be worn. The performance lasted about two and a half hours and drew roughly 2,000 attendees. The priest played 1990s techno music with deep bass that was repetitive and boring, interspersed with very brief interludes of bells, hints of Gloria and Alleluia, and fragments of symphonic music. Images flashed across the screens: a large white dove, Pope John Paul II, and - of course - a rainbow.
A recent performance in Beirut of Father Guilherme Peixoto sparked opposition from some Christians in Lebanon. “Not all need to like what I’m doing, but they need to respect. It’s music to bring the church outside of the church,” he said.
Why do people insist on posting every scandal in our Church? Scandalous posts get thousands of views, while the good Catholic posts barely get 40 or 50 on some. Shouldn't we be concentrating on Our Lord and His "Goodness" And our Salvation? Didn't Our Lord say more than once, not to do this? That His Priests are His business and He and He alone will judge them. And our business is to pray for them. I don't want to hear, well, I want to know what is going on. You don't need to know anything that is going on but what will start soon. And on Our Lord. Scandals are the last thing we should be looking at. Our Lord is not impressed at all for seeking them out. Nor condemning them and mocking them.
Pope Leo plans to visit Angola as part of a multi-nation trip across Africa, the Vatican's ambassador to the country announced on Tuesday, in what could be the pontiff's first overseas trip in 2026.
Excellent lesson from GOD for one to review and understand. Also, Adam and Eve repented and received the gift of Eternal Life. PRAISE, HONOR, GLORY, and THANKS be to ALMIGHTY GOD. AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM
The Mosaic of Pope Leo XIV at St Paul: Today, Pope Leo XIV received the completed mosaic that will be displayed in the Basilica St Paul outside the walls. He met with the artists and gave his blessing. The basilica’s famed series of papal portraits spans more than two thousand years, presenting a unique visual history.
The Mosaic of Pope Leo XIV at St. Paul Outside the Walls The Pope received the mosaic that will be displayed in the papal basilica, meeting the artists and blessing those present The basilica’s remarkable portrait series spans over two thousand years, offering visitors a unique visual history of the popes
The work of the white around the neck shows that the Artisan was quite skilled in his craftsmanship. Faces looking forward are always tough to do. In looking at all the 266 mosaics of the popes at St. Paul Outside the Walls, very few show the Pope looking straight out. Now there IS a legend that claims when they run out of wall space, that will be the last pope and end of the world. Why the popes’ mosaics spark end-of-the-world … Here is a nicer one to look at - Messiah
Sedevacantism Isn’t Traditional. It’s a Heresy in Latin Clothing. Sedevacantism sells itself as heroic fidelity: we are the last Catholics standing while Rome has fallen. It sounds dramatic. It sounds pure. It sounds—if you squint—like Athanasius contra mundum. It’s none of those things. Strip away the rhetoric, and sedevacantism collapses into something the Church has seen before, condemned before, and buried before: private judgment dressed up as tradition. The Church Fathers would have recognized it instantly. Start with the basic Catholic claim: Christ founded a visible Church, with a visible hierarchy, governed by a visible head. That’s not Vatican I spin. That’s Irenaeus, Cyprian, Augustine—men who fought real heresies, not imagined apocalypses. St. Irenaeus didn’t say, “Check Rome’s doctrine against your personal theological spreadsheet.” He said you know the true Church by public succession from the Apostles, above all at Rome. Augustine didn’t say, “When things look bad …Bontsi
That Rome has fallen into the deluge of scandals against the Faith and is worth only a God given purge - it is an objective fact. Responses to this fact are different - assuming "sede vacante" in many various versions is one kind of the reaction. It might be an error regarding the fact (whether the see is vacant or not - the Church will judge it in the future if God permits it) but most sedevacantists are not heretical.
I don’t understand how a Catholic can hold ZERO doubt about the authenticity of the hierarchy. I don’t remember the last time I heard something Catholic from Rome. I’m not convinced by sedevacantism per se I.e. I don’t think it can be held onto as something dogmatic. But I certainly think Catholics can hold it as an opinion without being heretics. Any Sede would tell you the church needs the papacy and that they love and hold the office in the highest esteem. I don’t buy all of the neo con arguments that an extended vacancy would necessarily mean the failure of the Church against the gates of hell. It’s Christs church, he told us there would be false shepherds whom the sheep would ignore. He will pull us through. I hold no malice toward those who disagree with sedevacantists. I can see where they are coming from. I think we live in a time where the devil has succeeded in pitting authority and dogma against each other to cause fierce infighting among the most faithful Catholics.
A big company decided to send three employees to a professional development program. The first one to go was a data analyst. He came back three days later and reported: “The course was fascinating. They taught us how to build a full analytical model. The model doesn’t actually work yet, but hey — the architecture is gorgeous.” The second one was a sales manager. He returned after two days and announced: “Fantastic training. They taught us how to sell anything. If you want, I can sell you my completion certificate — it’s still warm.” The third was a logistics specialist. He didn’t return after three days. Not after five. Two weeks went by before he finally walked back into the office — tanned, relaxed, and looking extremely pleased with himself. Everyone rushed him: “Where have you been?!” He shrugged: “Well… did anyone book me a return date? Did anyone put down the office address? Did anyone list a contact person in case I got lost? No? Thought so. So I applied what they taught …Bontsi
"Religious sentiments were hurt": After almost 3 weeks, the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart acknowledges, in typical Novus Ordo speak, the disaster that was the nationally televised 'Christmas Mass' featuring a living slime-alien as the Christ Child
The diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany, allegedly regrets its televised Christmas Eve Eucharist, which featured an adult woman covered in sticky rice paper who resembled a slimy alien in a manger. The Eucharist was broadcast Germanwide from the parish of St Mary’s in Stuttgart. The officiating priest, Thomas Steiger, said during the service: "The nativity scene shows a real human being, lying there miserable, naked and exposed." Next to him, the female actor breathed heavily and slowly writhed in the paper, which was apparently meant to represent the vernix covering a newborn child. "This is how radically God becomes human: close, touchable, without distance, real," said Rev Steiger. It was only on 12 January, after nearly three weeks of mounting criticism and online mockery, that Bishop Klaus Krämer of Rottenburg-Stuttgart published a statement on the diocesan website. It claims that the bishop has taken note of the feedback and carefully reviewed it over the past few days. "The …Bontsi
I said it in one of the dreams I shared that the Lord showed me 17 years ago, and confirmed last year with the sign of the cross drawn with the clouds in the sky outside my house that WW 3 will start during the presidency of Donald Trump when a solar eclipse and a blood moon eclipse happen. I mentioned the main nations involved in the beginning of this war. The world is now entering the judgement to all nations, the GREAT TRIBULATION WHICH STARTED LAST YEAR, AND THE PAINS WILL INCREASE GRADUALLY AS A WOMAN READY TO GIVE BIRTH. OFFER ANY ILLNESS, PAIN, SUFFERINGS YOU MAY BE GOING THROUGH TO OUR LADY TO OFFER TO OUR LORD FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS, AND THANK THE LORD DAILY ALL DAY FOR ALL HIS BLESSINGS, BECAUSE EVEN EATING AND DOING YOUR BODILY NEEDS ARE HUGE BLESSINGS AND WE NEVER GIVE THANKS FOR THAT. I skipped many details in my 3 dreams, because in all 3 I say over and over again that we must pray unceasingly, this can not be avoided, it will happen but we need to pray for the salvation …Bontsi
Das Konsistorium der letzten Tage hatte nur einen Zweck: Der Teufel Prevost will wissen, welcher Kardinal seiner Bosheit gefährlich werden könnte, wie sicher er sein kann, die Kirche ohne Widerstand in ein perverses Bordell zu verwandeln? Dafür bezahlt er die widerliche Ökobilanz dieser völlig sinnlosen Reisen. Selbst der so fromm erscheinende Mühlenbetreiber fährt Rad rauf und runter wie bei der Tour de Vaticano. Sie wurden ja nur geweiht, weil sie rückgratlos waren. Das Böse knebelt jeden Widerstand. An ihrer Stelle könnte ich mich nicht mehr im Spiegel schauen. Die Schwächlinge bibbern vor Angst. Dem Kazi Führer der Josephinisten müssen sie gehorchen. Der Gularsch wartet. Gott Satan ist mächtig.
Vatikan Papst fordert Kardinäle zur Zusammenarbeit auf Papst Leo XIV. hat die Kardinäle ermahnt zusammenzuarbeiten, der Einheit der Kirche zu dienen und nicht spezielle Projekte und Agenden zu verfolgen. Er hatte zu einem außerordentlichen Konsistorium alle 245 Kardinäle der Weltkirche eingeladen. Anwesend waren laut Vatikan-Angaben 170 von ihnen. Das „außerordentliche Konsistorium“, zu dem er sie nach Rom eingeladen hat, sei ein „Moment der Gnade“, in dem die „Einheit im Dienst der Kirche zum Ausdruck kommt“, erklärte er Dienstagfrüh in einer Predigt vor dem Kardinalskollegium im Petersdom. Kardinäle und Papst seien versammelt, „um gemeinsam herauszufinden, was der Herr zum Wohl seines Volkes von uns verlangt“. Sinn des Konsistoriums sei es „unsere Projekte und unsere Eingebungen einer Prüfung zu unterziehen, die (…) nur vom Herrn kommen kann“. Bei den Beratungen sollten die Kardinäle einander in die Augen schauen, einander zuhören und sich in ihrem Dialog „zur Stimme all jener …Bontsi
Bishop Earl Fernandes broke out a 200 year-old set of vestments out of the Columbus Museum for Catholic Art and History for the opening mass of SEEK 26.
Good Riddance to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Swamp Creature 'Populism': From shifting stances, to bizarre alliances, to unusual wealth gains, this is pretty much the opposite of MAGA.
My grandmother Clara would be up at the break of dawn and would have picked many boxes of apricots and peaches for canning at the local community cannery. I know it is hard work, been there and done that, along side our helpers from "down under" in the fields of Hanford, California!
Photograph showing Joseph Ratzinger and Fulton Sheen together at the Second Vatican Council. Sede Bishop Ngo-dinh-Thuc is in the photo as well (bottom row, second from left).
Fri Jan 2, 2026 - 12:51 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — After the Indiana Hoosiers’ huge win at the Rose Bowl on New Years Day, quarterback Fernando Mendoza, a devout Catholic, once again began a post-game interview by giving glory to God. “First of all, my team and I want to give all the glory to God,” he said. “The first thing football superstar Fernando Mendoza did after winning the Rose Bowl was praise God,” noted conservative social media commentator Anna Lulis. “This is one of the greatest interviews you will ever see,” said Lulis. The first thing football superstar Fernando Mendoza did after winning the Rose Bowl was praise God “First of all, my team and I want to give all the glory to God.” This is one of the greatest interviews you will ever see. pic.twitter.com/tXOqqZMYb6 — Anna Lulis (@annamlulis) January 2, 2026 As usual, Mendoza, fresh off being awarded the coveted Heisman Trophy, pointed not to his own achievements, but to those of his teammates and coaches, while ultimately …