Zuppi, the queer cardinal
At the Giffoni Film Festival, dedicated to children and the youth, the president of the Italian bishops exalts the queer family the ‘commune’ in which all family roles are deconstructed, with the declared aim of destroying the natural family. Such serious affirmations are something the cardinals should take this into account in the next Conclave.
Communauté Saint-Martin, too many priestly vocations annoy Rome
The reason for the forced ‘accompaniment’ imposed on the French community enjoying a boom of seminarians amid the general desert of vocations appears due to the Holy See finding the elevated numbers worrisome: too many priests and too many conservatives who risk infecting half of France.
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’
The Swiss organisation ‘Alliance for Catholic Equality’ has published a list of parishes willing to ‘bless’ irregular and same-sex couples. Few priests are listed, but the Fiducia supplicans drift continues to make headway.
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"
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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.
