The Oasis of Medjugorje and the Desert of Satan
The matter of the desecrations in Medjugorje cannot be considered closed because wherever God manifests himself, the devil also plays his part in thwarting Heaven's plans. It is no coincidence that these events took place in the run-up to the Youth Festival, which Our Lady has addressed on multiple occasions with words of salvation.
Poland is home to Europe’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary
Work is nearing completion on the statue of Our Lady of Mercy (55.6 metres high, including the plinth) in the village of Konotop. The statue, funded by a Polish millionaire, will be blessed on 15 August, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Medjugorje: parish responds with prayer after affront to Our Lady
During the night of 27–28 July, the statues of Our Lady on the Hill of Apparitions in Medjugorje were defaced with blasphemous graffiti; they have since been cleaned. A fire was also set at the outdoor altar of St James’s Church. These sacrilegious acts took place just a few days before Mladifest. The parish has responded by following the example of the Virgin Mary, through prayer, fasting and forgiveness.
Victims ignored: Rupnik’s trial is yet another scandal
Lawyer Sgrò denounces the absence of even the most fundamental information required for a fair trial. The victims have not been heard and are even being denied the right to know the names of the judges. 'How can justice be guaranteed in a trial conducted in total secrecy?' Yet the facts have already been established.
Europe slumbers ten years after Father Hamel’s martyrdom
On 26 July 2016, Father Hamel, an 85-year-old priest, had his throat slit at the foot of the altar by two young jihadists in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. Though struck at its very heart, the Old Continent has continued to slumber in the face of mounting threats. Nonetheless, his blood has not been shed in vain for French Catholics, especially the younger generation, who have experienced a renewal of faith in recent years.
The Rupnik scandal: the trial has become a farce
The Vatican Press Office has denied reports that Father Rupnik, who has been accused of sexually abusing at least twenty nuns, has been acquitted. This raises new questions. There is a fear that the network protecting Rupnik is manipulating the trial, about which nothing is known.
- DOSSIER: The Rupnik case
The Society of Saint Pius X lodges an appeal, but excommunications stand
The Lefebvrian bishops were consecrated on the basis that any condemnation would be invalid; they are now asking Rome to revoke the decree. However, the excommunication latae sententiae takes effect before, and irrespective of, the relevant judgement. The consequences are uncertain, but the contradiction regarding Petrine authority is clear: it is recognised, but only in order to act against it.
China–Écône: who is forcing regularisation and who is rejecting it?
Why not recognise the bishops of the Fraternity in the same way as those imposed by Beijing? The latter, in effect, invite themselves into communion with Rome, whilst the former exclude themselves from it in order to operate independently. The Chinese government’s appointments remain questionable, but they do not justify the Lefebvrian schism.
Europe is changing the language to destroy man and the family
The linguistic confusion surrounding new rights and a reversal of reason lie at the heart of the crisis facing the West, which has lost sight of the meaning of its own civilisation. The call to return to logos and to the truth of the person, the family and peoples in the lectio magistralis on Europe and Africa: In Dialogue with Cardinal Robert Sarah, delivered today, 15 July, in Brussels, in Room SPAAK 5B1 of the European Parliament, at the invitation of the ECR Group (European Conservatives and Reformists), together with SOS Chrétiens d’Orient and Pro Vita e Famiglia.
Gender and new rights: Sarah denounces the EU’s blackmail of Africa
Invited by the ECR Group in the European Parliament, the cardinal does not mince his words; on the contrary, he exposes the distorted use of such language to convey and impose – even outside Europe – an anthropological vision that runs counter to faith and reason, one that has been artificially created in the ‘corridors of Brussels’. It is a message that also resonates within the Church itself.
- Europe is changing the language to destroy man and the family by Robert Sarah
The charism of Saint Camillus: caring for the sick with a mother’s tenderness
St Camillus de Lellis “called for the sick to be cared for with the same affection and tenderness that a mother has for her only sick child”. To mark the liturgical commemoration of the founder of the Ministers of the Sick, La Bussola interviews the Camillian Ange Désiré Ouedraogo.
True and False Obedience: What a Confusion Among Écône Supporters
If we must obey the Pope, then we should keep quiet and lay low about Fiducia supplicans: this is one of the most common reactions among those who justify the disobedience of the Society of St. Pius X. Things aren’t exactly like that, but to understand what is binding and when, we must first get to the “heart” of the Petrine primacy.