10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (549+ words) Pope John Paul II’s Polish diocese is embracing gender ideology, even going so far as to welcome a gender-confused “trans” activist into its synodal process. The Krakow Synod is led by Grzegorz Ryś, who was created a cardinal by Francis…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (456+ words) Emperor Leopold I fled Vienna with his court westward and sent out messengers for immediate help to the rulers of Europe, one of which reached King Jan Sobieski III of Poland which read The Marian monk and confessor of King…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (174+ words) Leo XIV appoints Archbishop: “The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow.” Today, Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Mario León Dorado, 52 — a T-shirt guy and an adherent of the heretical Abu Dhabi program — as Coadjutor Archbishop…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (183+ words) Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, claims that Catholics could morally assent to a law permitting assisted suicide in Italy.Speaking to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire.it on September 6, he said: “From the Catholic side,…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (220+ words) Today the liturgy celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We post the refection of the day from the Magnificat. It's called, "The Birth of the Divine Abode" and reads like a poem. The author is…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (165+ words) Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: That if we ask anything according to His…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (726+ words) Cardinal Robert Sarah’s address this summer to the European Parliament identifies a foundational problem in contemporary bioethical discourse: the widening gap between language and reality. Words that once conveyed stable meanings – “healthcare,” “rights,” “dignity” – are increasingly deployed with ideological elasticity....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (604+ words) On September 2, Leo XIV began his series of catechism lessons on Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes. Oddly, he opened his catechesis by invoking John XXIII’s dismissal of the “prophets of doom…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (878+ words) On September 3, the 1962 Roman Calendar exhorts Catholics to commemorate St. Pius X, a pope whose very name has become a banner for those who believe the one true Catholic Faith must be preserved and defended in its entirety. Upon his…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (255+ words) The following essay was published in German on July 4, 2020, by Michael Charlier at Summorum Pontificum but the topic is relevant again, so we have made it available in translation.—PAKFor all those who feel committed to the entire Catholic tradition,…...