Freedom from stone walls and iron bars brings no freedom from a prison of the mind. Pornchai Moontri now faces a tempest within and I still walk with him from afar.
Today, the Vatican released the final report of Synodal Study Group 6, which deals with relations between bishops, religious and consecrated life, and lay ecclesial associations. Under a proposal to “establish more synodal structures,” the report calls for “equitable and participatory representation” of consecrated persons and laity “at all decision-making levels” - and: “as full members and not merely as consultants, in diocesan, national, and international commissions, as well as in Vatican dicasteries.” At the diocesan level “it is necessary to allow for broader participation of consecrated persons in the decision-making processes of the local Church.” Women Religious in the Selection of Bishops The report proposes to: “allow women religious to participate in the process of electing bishops responsible for consecrated life at the national and diocesan levels”. It also proposes their participation in the election of chaplains for religious communities. “Gender Equality” in the Workplace …Gehiago
The flourishing Cistercian abbey of Heiligenkreuz and their Benedict XVI College (Hochschule) aren't traditional (TLM) but still way too conservative for the Vatican not to wreck them. Rector Wolfgang Klausnitzer for example is an outsider. He popped up after the apostolic visitation of the College. The sinodal obliteration must proceed.. Wird das blühende Stift Heiligenkreuz …
[Saint Bonaventure – XIII Century AD: born: Civita di Bagnoregio, Papal States/died: Lyon, Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles; (aged 52-53); Cardinal, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Seraphic Doctor, Teacher of the Faith, Writer, Philosopher] CHAPTER IV -- THE NAME OF THE BLESSED MARY IS FREE FROM ALL VICE AND RESPLENDENT WITH EVERY VIRTUE Hail Mary. This most sweet and affectionate name, so full of grace and so noble, so glorious and so worthy, excellently befits Our Lady. For most fittingly is so loving a virgin named Mary. For she is Mary, in whom there is no vice, and who is glorious with every virtue. She is Mary, who was entirely immune from the seven capital sins. She was most humble in opposition to pride; most loving by charity in opposition to envy; most meek against anger by her gentleness; indefatigable by her diligence against sloth; Mary by her poverty was detached against avarice; against gluttony she was most sober by her temperance; against lust she was most chaste by her virginity …Gehiago
09.09.2026 MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY IN ROME LABELLED ‘DOMESTIC TERRORIST’? : BIBLE, VC2 AND CATECHISM OF POPE JOHN PAUL II ‘POLITICALLY DANGEROUS’. Yesterday (Sept 8) I formally asked the religious community Missionaries of Charity Contemplative Brothers of Mother Teresa, Rome, if I could join them as a religious brother. I am ready to be consecrated and take vows. I wrote to Fr. Ramon Lustiner m.c, the Father General of the community. He is in Rome these days. I had been living in a dormitory of their Home for the Aged, Casa Serena. I participated in their daily prayers, at the mother house. My Eucharistic Adoration time was 8 a.m to 10 a.m and then 7 p.m to 8 p.m before the night prayers. But to accept me as a member of their religious community, to live with them as a brother, Fr. Ramon needs the permission of the secular police in Rome. Since, I affirm the Catholic teaching outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation from Hell according to the Bible ( John 3:5, Mark 16:16), …Gehiago
Full Movie - Secret of the Golden Arrow Holy Face Devotion -- Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let all that hate Thee flee from before Thy Face. youtube.com/watch?v=DcemQnlnleo Holy Face Devotion: Home Sister Mary of St. Peter (1816–1848), a Carmelite of Tours, reported interior locutions calling for reparation for blasphemy and the profanation of Sunday. Devotion to the Holy Face subsequently developed at Tours; the Archdiocese of Tours states that Pope Leo XIII approved the devotion in 1885, when the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face was established. The traditional Little Chaplet honors the five senses of Christ's Holy Face in five groups of six small beads and then recalls his public ministry on three small beads. With six large beads, there are 39 beads in all. This is a private devotion rather than a liturgical rite, and claims associated with private revelations must be understood according to the Church's teaching in Verbum Domini 14.
The devil attacks those who spread Christian truth, “corrupts the shepherds” of the Church and seeks particularly to destroy the family, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke told Shawn Ryan in his September 8 podcast. Ryan is a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor. He grew up Catholic but never “took Church seriously”. When he left home, he lost faith. In 2025, he called himself a Christian believer. In April 2026, he said, “I consider myself Catholic, but I bounce back and forth between that and non-denominational.” In the interview with Burke, he said that he had undergone four exorcisms with two different priests after what he described as encounters with demonic entities. He also mentioned a psychedelic experience that he believed had shown him hell. Ryan described sensationalist disturbances that continued after the exorcisms, including picture frames coming off the walls, unexplained bodily “manifestations” and every smoke alarm and detector in his house repeatedly going off at around 12:45…Gehiago
LiveLeak A Lebanese reporter was injured by an Israeli strike while broadcasting live from Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, on September 7. He is in stable condition.
Title: The Syro-Phoenician woman's faith The persevering faith of the Syro‑Phoenician woman inspires my own life and strengthens my faith in God. She came to Jesus seeking HIS blessing, pleading for the cure of her afflicted daughter. And I too plead with Jesus for mercy upon my afflicted mother— a cancer patient for the second time. Together, my mother and I persevere in our faith, waiting upon HIS saving help. Though she endures painful, physically exhausting chemotherapy each month, yet she perseveres, keeping her faith and hope strong in God. Her steadfastness is a living witness to the strength that comes from trusting Jesus. #God#Christianlife
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, 97, in a text published by Sandro Magister on September 8, writes about “synodality.” Main points: - According to the classical Catholic understanding, a synod is a meeting of bishops for the purpose of exercising jointly their teaching and pastoral ministry. - In 1965, Paul VI created the so-called Synod of Bishops as a consultative body of the pope. - Recently established bodies whose members include, in addition to bishops, priests and lay faithful of both sexes cannot properly be called synods. - Competent laypeople can, of course, be entrusted with a consultative role. But wherever such collaboration is practiced, one should carefully avoid any misleading use of the terms “synod,” “synodality,” and the like, and instead find a term that adequately expresses the actual situation. - The establishment of such bodies arises from an effort to adopt secular structures and democratic procedures within the life of the Church. - What is being proposed within the …Gehiago
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira In his message to the bishops at the opening of the CELAM Conference in Puebla, John Paul II gives us the reason for the change that has taken place in the Church — as I described in the previous article — and that has resulted in an impressive number of bishops and priests no longer focusing on the eternal purpose of their mission but rather on earthly life alone. In a section titled “The Truth About Jesus Christ,” the pontiff shows that at the root of this change is a doctrinal error stemming from “re-readings of the Gospel” (“re-reading” is the modern and cheerful term by which certain theologians refer to reinterpretation). These “reinterpretations” are “the result of theoretical speculations rather than authentic meditation on the word of God” and cause serious harm to souls.[1] What do such “reinterpretations” lead to? The pontiff enumerates: “In some cases, either Christ’s divinity is passed over in silence, or some people in fact fall into forms of …Gehiago
"“Liberation theology,” “political engagement,” and “structural reforms” are expressions increasingly common among Latin American clergy, to the perplexity of a growing number of the faithful." Spot on!
It seems that the author is unaware that the foundation of the mass and the faith is the Apostles. The reason we don't have "Eucharistic Prayers" based on other Gospels is because The Cannon was passed down from the Apostles. They knew Christ personally and expressed what they received in the Cannon. Changing the Cannon into a set of eucharistic prayers implies that "we" know better than the Apostles or that the understanding of the eternal and unchanging God has changed. We come to the mass to receive what the Apostles passed on, not to judge it, change it or improve it. I am not qualified to judge the validity, liceity or value of the Novus Ordo. I simply know it is not what the Apostles passed on to us.
A Lebanese reporter was injured by an Israeli strike while broadcasting live from Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, on September 7.