Saint Leo the Great by Ermes Dovico

Church crisis favours false St Athanasius pretenders
DANGEROUS COMPARISONS

Church crisis favours false St Athanasius pretenders

Today's ecclesial crisis resembles, in some ways, that caused by the Arian heresy. But the parallel between St Athanasius and some of today's schismatic prelates does not hold up: the holy bishop of Alexandria, exiled several times, defended the faith and at the same time remained obedient to Rome.


Switzerland, Catholic website offers church list for ‘gay blessings’
DEVIATION

Switzerland, Catholic website offers church list for ‘gay blessings’

The Swiss organisation Alliance for Catholic Equalityhas published a list of parishes willing to blessirregular and same-sex couples. Few priests are listed, but the Fiducia supplicans drift continues to make headway.


Deaconesses, Pope shields behind Jesuitical preface
SACRED ORDERS

Deaconesses, Pope shields behind Jesuitical preface

Women at the altar: five authors explore the question, including an Anglican bishopess,” at least two of whom argue for female priests. The Pontiff pens the introduction but plays safe using ambiguity.


Bishop Tremolada: "Mary, Mystical Rose, she’s the beauty needed today"
INTERVIEW

Bishop Tremolada: "Mary, Mystical Rose, she’s the beauty needed today"

From the writings of Pierina Gilli one immediately grasps "a certain spirituality of beauty, a fundamental characteristic of the Blessed Virgin." The prophetic significance of the devotion of the three roses for the consecrated and Mary's motherhood towards the sick. The Daily Compass interviews the Bishop of Brescia, Pierantonio Tremolada.


Mary, Mystical Rose apparitions described by Pierina Gilli
BACKGROUND

Mary, Mystical Rose apparitions described by Pierina Gilli

In Pierina Gilli Diaries, ample space is dedicated to the apparitions (of Mary and not only) the visionary of Montichiari is said to have had from 1944 onwards. Although still unrecognised, it is to those that the messages and fruits judged positively by the Church today are linked. Let us review the main ones.


The Instrumentum Laboris confirms synodality dangers
SYNOD

The Instrumentum Laboris confirms synodality dangers

The Synod working document is full of 'listening', 'circularity', 'relational conversion' and 'conversation in the Spirit'. For 'walking together' the how is sufficient, without knowing where to go.

- Instrumentum Laboris, torture by words prepares October Synod by Nico Spuntoni


Instrumentum Laboris, torture by words prepares October Synod
PRESS CONFERENCE

Instrumentum Laboris, torture by words prepares October Synod

Amidst rehashed slogans and hardly credible declarations of intent, the Instrumentum Laboris gives the impression that the last session of the synodal path is of little interest to the faithful. And perhaps also to the Pope.


Rosa Mistica: Vatican nihil obstat explained
THE DECREE

Rosa Mistica: Vatican nihil obstat explained

Starting with the letter from Prefect Fernández recognising "several positive aspects" in the messages circulated by Pierina Gilli, followed by Bishop Tremolada's decree granting the nihil obstat for the "spiritual proposal" linked to the cult of Mary, Mystical Rose. The main passages of both documents are explained.


Vatican approves Maria Rosa Mistica apparitions,"historic turning point”
INTERVIEW

Vatican approves Maria Rosa Mistica apparitions,"historic turning point”

The approval of the apparitions at Montechiari Brescia is the first decree nihil obstat after the Vatican produced new norms on supernatural phenomenon. Monsignor Marco Alba, rector of the sanctuary speaks to the Daily Compass. “Pilgrims visiting Fontanelle can live an authentic Marian devotion linked to Pierina Gilli's spiritual experience”.

-Rosa Mistica: Vatican nihil obstat explained by Ermes Dovico


Only fidelity to the hierarchy of the Church is Catholic, even in trials
INTERVIEW

Only fidelity to the hierarchy of the Church is Catholic, even in trials

Sedevacantists, sedeprivationists, Lefebvbrians and traditionalists who deny the authority of the Pope. The crisis in the Church is overt, but the only Catholic solution is a threefold fidelity: fidelity to the hierarchy, fidelity to its infallible teachings in its constant magisterium, and fidelity to the liturgy consistent with the sacrificial nature of the Mass. The Daily Compass interviews Abbé Hilaire Vernier, priest of the St Peter's Priestly Fraternity.

- Version française


In Linz, catto-feminism doesn't even spare the Madonna
PACHAMAMA 2

In Linz, catto-feminism doesn't even spare the Madonna

In the Austrian cathedral yet another insult to religious sense. The diocese is outraged at the vandalism suffered by the work, but not at the depiction of the Virgin in a manner disrespectful of a human motherhood, let alone a divine one.


Sloane Avenue scandal puts Vatican official on stand
ENGLAND

Sloane Avenue scandal puts Vatican official on stand

Raffaele Mincione’s trial in the High Court in London (parallel to the Vatican trial) forces the Secretary of State's deputy to appear as a witness. An embarrassment for the Vatican. The London real estate affair is not over.