Today, the 'International Theological Commission' published the verbose document “Caring for Our Common Home” (40,000 unreadable words). Cardinal Víctor Fernández brought the text to the consideration of Leo XIV on 28 July and authorized its publication on 21 August. Positive Reception of Teilhard de Chardin The text is often buried beneath dense and highly abstract vocabulary, much of it reflecting a cosmic and evolutionary vision of creation. The document speaks of the Holy Spirit “Christifying” creation through a “progressive growth”, so that creation “advances toward its eschatological fulfillment.” Elsewhere it describes “all matter” as tending toward transformation and fulfillment in Christ. Christ is consequently described as “the axis of the maturation of the world.” This language is strongly reminiscent of the cosmic heresy of the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). The document admits that it received "the contribution of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin” (footnote 184). …Magis
“What I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now. And if that leads to the end times, so be it,” U.S. Vice President JD Vance said - assigning himself a rather grand role in God’s plans - in an interview with evangelical Bryce Crawford, published on August 31. Vance added: “There are, like, things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us, but, again, I try not to focus too much on it.” “The end times may be coming - in fact, they are coming. It’s just a question of whether they’re coming thousands of years down the road or a few months down the road.” Vance also said some developments involving AI companies made him feel there was “some really, really weird spiritual dark energy.” Vance Defends Trump’s Mockery of Christ Later in the same interview, Crawford confronted Vance about an AI-generated image Trump had posted in April depicting himself in Christ-like robes. Vance defended Trump: “Did Donald Trump …Magis
I'm not sure I'd agree with the comment by this writer that Vance was assigning himself a "grand role" in God's plans. Shouldn't we all be doing God's work while we're here? Perhaps I've missed something in what was said.
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.Benedicta tu in mulieribus,et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,ora pro nobis peccatoribus,nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Church Memorial Remembers Aborted Babies: At St. Antonius Church in Bregenz, Austria, a memorial commemorates children who died before birth. Bishop Benno Elbs of Feldkirch inaugurated the memorial in December 2025. A memorial plaque remembers Lydia, who died in the ninth week of pregnancy after her mother took an abortion pill. Her mother regretted the decision and tried unsuccessfully to stop the effects of the pill. Lydia was later given a dignified burial. The pro-life organization Plattform Leben Vorarlberg promotes the memorial and has published Lydia’s story in a short German-language film, which can be watched with translated subtitles.
Bregenz: Herzliche Einladung zu einem Besuch der Gedenkstätte für früh verstorbene Kinder in der St. Antoniuskirche! Hier geht es zum Bericht über „Lydia“, das Mädchen, das in der 9. Schwangerschaftswoche abgetrieben wurde. plattform-leben-vorarlberg.at/lydia
France Requires Life Insurers to Cover Assisted Deaths: France’s new assisted-dying law requires life insurers to pay benefits when a policyholder dies through euthanasia. This applies even when the policy normally excludes suicide during its first year. It also applies to contracts signed before the law took effect. After repeated Senate opposition, the National Assembly approved the euthanasia law on July 15. The Constitutional Council upheld the contested provisions on August 14. The law was promulgated on August 18.
"Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genetrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus nostris, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta."
The Golden Arrow May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified, in heaven, on earth and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the most holy Sacrament of the altar. The Golden Arrow was revealed by Our Lord Jesus Christ to a Carmelite nun of Tours in 1843 as a reparation for blasphemy. The sin of blasphemy was said to be a 'poisoned arrow' more grievous than all other sins. It follows that this prayer would most especially be appropriate after hearing the Holy Name blasphemed, and in reparation for such blasphemy generally. Jesus said: 'This Golden Arrow will wound My Heart delightfully, and heal the wounds inflicted by blasphemy. The Heavenly Banquet ~ from a text attributed to St. Brigid of Ireland (10th century) I would like to have the men of Heaven in my own house; with vats of good cheer laid out for them. I would like to …Magis
Rev. Edgard Rimaycuna, 36, Leo XIV’s personal secretary, was a disciple of Father Eleuterio Vásquez, called “Lute”. This former priest from Chiclayo is accused of sexually abusing girls aged 9 and 11. The information is revealed in the book The Shepherd and the Wolves, as reported by InfoVaticana. The book was written by Peruvian author Santiago Roncagliolo and is sympathetic toward Leo XIV. Lute was investigated so poorly under Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo that the case remained unresolved. After becoming Pope, Leo XIV granted Lute’s request for laicization in September 2025. This brought the canonical proceedings to an end, thus avoiding a guilty verdict. Close Collaboration Between Prevost and Lute In recounting the relationship between Bishop Prevost and Father Lute - at the time the diocese’s most popular priest and promoter of devotion to the Child of the Miracle of Eten - Roncagliolo writes: “Fighting together brought the bishop and the priest very close. Father Lute informed …Magis
SS. Œcumenici Concilii Tridentini Canones VIII et IX de Sanctissimo Missæ Sacrificio zazzle.com/…t_ix_de_missa_canvas_photo_tile-25690…zazzle.com/store/provaticanusallmylinks.com/ProVaticanus Si quis dixerit Missas in quibus solus sacerdos sacramentaliter communicat illicitas esse ideoque abrogandas: anathema sit. Si quis dixerit Ecclesiæ Romanæ ritum quo submissa voce pars canonis et verba consecrationis proferuntur damnandum esse; aut lingua tantum vulgari Missam celebrari debere; aut aquam non miscendam esse vino in calice offerendo eo quod sit contra Christi institutionem: anathema sit. -Sacrosanctum Œcumenicum Concilium Tridentinum, Sess. XXII, 17 Sept. 1562 A.D., Canones de sanctissimo Missæ sacrificio, Canones VIII et IX, per magisterium SS. Pii PP. IV et imperium PSS. Ferdinandi I Augusti approbatum; Mansi, Tom. XXXIII, Col. 132. Cf. Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima … & Enchiridion symbolorum definitionum et … Gratias ago tibi Deo per instrumenta de Jove Mauro Camara …Magis
Leo XIV personally intervened to stop VaticanNews.va from using the artwork of Father Marko Rupnik, according to Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes. Rupnik has been accused by numerous women of fornication and sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse. In an interview with Paris Match (August 31), Bishop Micas described a private audience with Leo XIV in June 2025. The pope asked him how Lourdes was dealing with Rupnik’s asymmetrical mosaics and the big black eyes. Leo XIV supported the bishop’s approach to cover the mosaics. Then, Leo XIV mentioned that he had instructed the Holy See’s communications office to stop using Rupnik’s mosaics to illustrate articles. “He is truly very determined on this issue,” Bishop Micas said. Rupnik’s work quietly disappeared from VaticanNews.va in June 2025, shortly after Leo XIV’s election. However, the canonical case against the Slovenian priest remains ongoing and is clearly delayed, even years after the allegations against him became public …Magis
Dominica XIV Post Pentecosten V. Augusti INTROITUS Ps 83 Protéctor noster, áspice, Deus, et réspice in fáciem Christi tui: quia mélior est dies una in átriis tuis super mília. ~ Quam dilécta tabernácula tua, Dómine virtútum! concupíscit, et déficit ánima mea in átria Dómini. V. Glória Patri... ~ Protéctor noster, áspice, Deus, et réspice in fáciem... noscatholici.blogspot.com/p/dtm-oss.html
Bishop Ángel Javier Pérez Pueyo of Barbastro-Monzón, Spain, has said he would offer his resignation rather than sign a settlement under which the statue of Our Lady of the Angels of Torreciudad remains permanently at the Opus Dei sanctuary. The bishop drew his red line in a public letter on 31 August, ahead of the image’s return to its ancient hermitage on 5 September for the 47th Pilgrimage of the Virgins of Ribagorza and Sobrarbe. That return is temporary. It has been authorized by Archbishop Alejandro Arellano Cedillo, the pontifical commissioner for Torreciudad. After the pilgrimage, the image is due to return to the sanctuary. Bishop Pérez Pueyo’s threat concerns the final settlement: he refuses to accept an arrangement under which the statue remains there permanently and returns to the hermitage only on special occasions. He would "never sign such an unlikely act of plundering your dignity," he wrote, adding he would instead offer his resignation. The dispute has effectively been …Magis
A Bishop is willing to resign over the location of a sacred image, but not over ongoing sacrilegious practices that continue in so many churches in one's diocese, abuses of the Blessed Sacrament, LGBTQ processions and Masses, etc.. Where is the like zeal of any Bishop for the such causes?
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 Catholic Register / EWTN wordonfire.org - Word on Fire …Magis
Diptychon Consulare Bœthii 487 A.D. una cum Domino Orthodoxorum Ss. Geronimu Augustinu Gregoriuque zazzle.com/store/provaticanusallmylinks.com/ProVaticanus Diptychon Bœthii est diptychum eburneum consulare (24 cm × 18 cm × 2 cm), quod ad finem sæculi V A.D. attribuitur et in Museo Sanctæ Iuliæ Brixiæ asservatur. A Cardinali Angelo Maria Querini sæculo XVIII comparatum, ex eius testamento ad Museum Ævi Christiani transiit. Historia Opus a fabris Romanis confectum est ad secundam designationem Narnii Manlii Bœthii in præfecturam urbis Romæ anno CDLXXXVII celebrandam. Consilium operis mere commemorativum erat — huiusmodi diptycha mandabantur ut amicis intimisque donarentur occasione magnorum eventuum, sicut promotionis ad munera publica summi momenti. Primo in Museo Ævi Christiani exhibitum, quod in quibusdam conclavibus suppressi Monasterii Sanctæ Iuliæ ineunte sæculo XIX apertum est, ibi aliquandiu mansit. Museo Sanctæ Iuliæ anno MCMXCVIII aperto, diptychum pars collectionis "Res …Magis
Enzo Bianchi, founder of the Monastic Community of Bose, died at the Molinette Hospital in Turin at the age of 83 after kidney failure led to a metabolic coma. Bianchi was a monk but never became a priest. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on Scripture, spirituality and contemporary Christianity. He addressed Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox audiences and became a regular interlocutor of secular intellectuals and non-believers. Bose: From Farmhouse to a Center of Ecumenism Bianchi was born on March 3, 1943, in Castel Boglione, Piedmont. His mother died when he was eight, and he grew up with his atheist and communist father. After studying accounting and beginning economics studies, he chose a different path. In 1965, he settled in a farmhouse at Bose, near Magnano in the province of Biella, arriving on December 8, the final day of the Second Vatican Council. Three years later, others joined him. The community included men and women, Catholics and Protestants. Initially viewed with …Magis
Catholic baptisms in Ireland fall 30% in a decade: According to an Iona Institute report published on 18 August, Catholic baptisms in Ireland fell by 30% between 2015 and 2025. The study is based on figures from almost every diocese on the island. Falling birth rates account for around 60% of the decline, with growing secularisation accounting for the rest. The number of births fell by 18.8% across Ireland, including by 17.9% in the Republic and by 21.3% in Northern Ireland. Dublin recorded a 39.9% decrease in baptisms, falling from 15,759 to 9,465.
Plan A didn't work obviously.