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.
Martina, the little girl on a mission for the Virgin Mary
“From the moment she was born, she was guided by someone, although we only realised this clearly when she fell ill: Maria Rosa Mistica came into her life after she was given a small holy card.” The story of Martina Kluzer, who died of cancer at the age of 7, after offering her life to Jesus and Mary for the conversion of hearts: Bussola interviewed her family.
Monsignor Pozzo: in 2018, it was the Fraternity that rejected the agreement
The Écône schism is “a serious wound to the Church that could have been avoided” eight years ago: it was not the Apostolic See that closed the door, but the Fraternity that demanded Rome correct its errors and reject the Declaration – “the result of a joint effort” – as the former secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei recalls in La Bussola.
Müller: ‘A de facto heresy on the part of the FSSPX’
The schism within the Society of St. Pius X is taking place. Interview with Cardinal Müller: “I ask for a theological response to the errors that constitute heresy in practice”; “Welcome those who leave”; “Abolishing Ecclesia Dei was a mistake”; “There is ideology in Traditionis custodes; tradition needs pastoral care.”
The Lefebvrians reject the Pope’s appeal and opt for schism
Father Pagliarani’s reply to Leo XIV confirms the stonewalling of any proposal from the Holy See. There is no backing down; on the contrary, the Pope is invited to take time to reflect, with only one possible outcome: Rome should approve whatever is decided in Menzingen.