The race for the White House, between age comparisons and teleprompter
If you look at the ages of the presidential candidates, there are similarities between 1984, when Reagan ran for re-election, and today. The Democrats cannot use the age difference argument with Trump: they would score a home goal. Experience and vitality count more than age. And Harris’ dependence on the teleprompter....
Rupnik case, endless shame for the Vatican
The Dicastery for Communication continues to re-propose the works of the former Slovenian Jesuit accused of serious sexual abuse, in defiance of Cardinal O'Malley's dispositions. And even in Bologna, Archbishop Zuppi has given the green light to the completion of the incriminated mosaics. In the fight against abuse this pontificate has no credibility.
Prayer against abortion, British police pay compensation for wrongful arrest
Isabel Vaughan Spruce receives £13,000 and an apology in an out-of-court settlement for being arrested twice. It’s a major victory for pro-lifers but the new Labour government promises new clampdowns.
‘Vaccines did not stop Covid’: increases bishops’ moral guilt
The Italian Medicines Agency's admission that anti-Covid vaccines were ineffective in preventing contagion reopens the question of their lawfulness. Including on the subservience of the pastors who, without asking questions, pushed for mass inoculation.
‘Sufferance does not redeem’: PAV anaesthetises Redemption
In the notable controversial volume on the end of life the meaning of Salvifici doloris is turned upside down by denying that suffering can have redemptive value. If this were the case, the Passion of Christ would have been incidental.
A false scoop against Müller reveals nothing new
At the basis of the German cardinal’s early retirement lies a presumed scandal about the funds of the former Holy Office. But, the anonymous ‘revelation’ by The Pillar only recycles facts already known for years. And from which the former prefect emerges innocent.
Despite so many speak with hatred, we speak of prayer
On the Solemnity of the Assumption the Daily Compass adheres to the appeal of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, for a prayer of intercession to the Blessed Virgin Mary for peace.
- Prayer to our Lady of the Assumption
Italian Medicines Agency rewrites history admitting 'Covid 19 Vaccines don’t stop contagion'
In replying to the Arbitrium association, the Italian Medicines Agency (known as Aifa in Italy) admits what had already emerged from the pharmaceutical companies and European Medicines Agency (EMA): "No Covid-19 vaccine prevents the transmission of Sars cov-2". The decree in Italy which forces health workers to vaccinate was based on false assumptions, and so was the imposition of the green pass. And the government knew it.
Trafficking of aborted foetuses, finally online videos Kamala Harris cached
Five videos shot undercover that demonstrate Planned Parenthood's lucrative trade in the organs of aborted babies. The footages seized in 2016 by Kamala Harris, then California Attorney General, are now public thanks to a congressional investigation. But mainstream media is keeping the news quiet.
August 15 day of prayer and negotiations for peace in the Middle East
"I invite everyone to a moment of intercession for peace to the Blessed Virgin Mary," Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem calls all Christians to prayer on 15 August, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the same day the next round of pace negotiations will take place between the US, Israel, Qatar and Egypt for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Martyrdom, a constitutive element of the Church
Jesus sends His apostles out like sheep among wolves, that is into a hostile world. Like the first disciples, also Christians today are called to publicly testify to the Lord’s name as they did in the past, even at the cost of martyrdom. Christians knowingly share Jesus’s cross and resurrection.
