Minnesota McCarrick, Archbishop Hebda Advocating for Gun Control at Interfaith Mess in Fancy Gay Basilica

Hebda holds forth at evil Interfaith Service

"A place where a Jewish rabbi, who does not believe in the divinity of Christ, and a Protestant minister, who doubts it, meet with a Catholic priest, who agrees to forget it for an evening."

Fruity commentator Christopher Hale is all fired up!

Minneapolis-St. Paul Archbishop Bernard Hebda, although he’s a rotund mincer, didn’t mince words: prayer is ok, “but it’s not a hall pass for political inaction,” says Chris. In other words, he doesn’t want a free people, and doesn’t want them to defend themselves from Globohomo tyrants which he certainly represents. Chris is enlarging on the theme, but Archsihop Hebda gave a little speech at St. Mary’s Basilica, the community’s gay centre, and home to the usual elderly left-wing boomers and a few perfunctorily Catholic yuppies during an “interfaith” “prayer” service. 

It has been noted that there was a tiny vigil at Annunciation last night. But rather than a fake interfaith prayer service with lady rabbis, why not a procession and a call to prayer and penance of Southwest Minneapolis’ lukewarm and heretical population?

How does Hebda promote the Globohomo, you ax? In the  aftermath of Wednesday’s massacre at his archdiocese’s Annunciation Catholic School, Hebda hosted an “interfaith prayer” with heretics, pagans and Jews.  With the usual marketing message that prayer “doesn’t absolve us” from taking steps to prevent the next church shooting, he urged his community to confront both the prevalence of gun violence and the mental-health crisis head-on. 

What Christopher Hale and Hebda mean, looks who’s reposting these childish sentiments on X:

Anyway, we know that these bishops and these affluent boomer Catholics 🏳️‍🌈 and their materialistic children GLBT 🏳️‍⚧️ probabaly aren’t really Catholics, but it bears some reminding that things like Hebda’s fake and ghey Interfaith ™️ event have been condemned by Councils, Saints and Theologians. We’re not talking about post-conciliar “Saints”.

 * Council of Laodicea (c. 365 AD): Canon 33 of this council famously states, "No one shall join in prayers with heretics or schismatics." This decree reflects a firm stance against sharing in the formal worship of those outside the full communion of the Church.

* The Apostolic Canons (c. 4th century): Canon 45 of the Apostolic Canons states, "Let any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon that merely joins in prayer with heretics be suspended, but if he has permitted them to perform any service as clergymen, let him be deposed." This demonstrates the severity with which the early Church viewed such actions, especially for the clergy.

 * 1917 Code of Canon Law: This pre-Vatican II code was very strict on the matter, clearly prohibiting Catholics from taking part in non-Catholic worship. It reflected a period of the Church's history that was highly defensive and focused on clear lines of demarcation.

Were the Catholic Saints any less emphatic?

* St. Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444): A fierce opponent of Nestorianism, St. Cyril wrote and fought to preserve the Church's teaching on the nature of Christ. His zeal for doctrinal purity extended to warning against association with heretics, as it could lead to spiritual harm. He is famously quoted as saying, "It is therefore unlawful, and a profanation, and an act the punishment of which is death, to love to associate with unholy heretics, and to unite yourself to their communion."

 * St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): The Angelic Doctor, in his works, distinguishes between formal and material heresy. He upholds the principle that one must avoid the active participation in the rites of heretics, as it can cause scandal and can be a sign of a lack of faith. He also taught that "to know whom to avoid is a great means of saving our souls."

It is also intersting to note that the Robert Westman's mother was employed by the school, while his AWOL father seems to have been employed by the CIA. I understand that in the past, the family attended a conservative NO liturgical parish that offers a “reverent” Novus Ordo in Latin, if a reverent NO were ever possible! 

 I'll just leave this here:

And, as if to mock the wayward shepherd of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Hebda and his failure to teach the Catholic Faith, this Mohamedan was recently arrested for shooting and severely wounding one person and killing a 55 year old Polish American man in an failed attempt to carjack in rural Kandiyohi, Minnesota.

Will Hebda preach against his masters at the DFL who impose these merciless Saracens upon the hapless Swedes and Poles of Minnesota? Even tell us that the brown pedophile worshippers are God’s punishment?

Will Hebda address the threat posed by Islamists and other groups who wield guns, machettes and hammers against the people of God?

Breaking two days ago: Black gunman named “Bino” opened fire at Jesuit outsourced education outlet, Christo-Rey in Minneapolis and kills one. The media is trying to make it look like white people did it.  We don’t know of a specific statement about Christo Retconned. 

Cristo Rey is a Jesuit High School for Mexicans living in Minnesota.

 

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Minnesota Archbishop’s Mealymouthed Response to Trannycide

The Latest Soros-inspired Initiative to Enslave Minnesota

Edit: no mention of the horrors of transitioning, the drugs, the procedures which destroy young lives and end bloodlines. There were thousands of ways he could have gone to throw some light and offer a guiding light to his sheep, but instead, we get anemic calls for “an end to gun violence,” and the usual empty and pro-forma statements written by marketing firms. 

How about calling the Archdiocese to prayer, and days of fasting and reparation to atone for this sacrilege? How about a procession your Lordship?

We get the shepherds we deserve, I suppose.  Imagine if Skojec had gotten ordained and became a Bishop, that would have been horrible!

My heart is broken that instead of shepherds, God in His infinite mercy has given us these +McCarrick protégés.

[Catholic Snooze Agency] Archbishop Bernard Hebda, who leads the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, released a statement following the deadly shooting that took place on Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic School in southern Minneapolis.

“My heart is broken as I think about students, teachers, clergy and parishioners and the horror they witnessed in a church, a place where we should feel safe,” Hebda wrote in a statement Wednesday afternoon, hours after police confirmed two children were killed and 17 injured in the shooting.

Hebda expressed gratitude to Pope Leo XIV, who sent his condolences to Hebda after the attack, and all those around the world who have offered prayers following the shooting that occurred during a Mass for the K–8 school early Wednesday morning.

Crazed Tranny Fires on Children During Mass in Minnesota

At first it seemed like it was going to be a black on white crime, since this is a marginal area with lots of diversity, albeit the neighborhood itself is an affluent, Liberal community. Then thoughts led to Muslims! There are plenty of Somalis! But not this time. This time it’s a tranny hopped up on serotonin uptake inhibitors and beta blockers. He has a Manifesto.

The blood-thirsty tranny in today's shooting has been identified as Robin Westman (he underwent a name change), multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News. 

The tranny’s mother was employed at the school.

Police have said publicly that the suspect is in their early 20s with a limited [now they’re saying none] criminal history.

NBC News has confirmed with those law enforcement officials that the suspect left behind videos posted online with writings that reference suicide, "extremely violent thoughts and ideas," an apology to their family, and a handwritten sketch of the interior layout of a church. It's unclear whether that church was the one at Annunciation Catholic School.

There isn’t at present any discussion of the effect of psychoactive drugs and hormone blockers on this degenerate.

BREAKING 🚨🚨 🚨

WARNING HIGHLY DISTURBING

This is an 11 minute video posted by the psychotic school shooter today in Minneapolis. It was posted 2 hours ago on a YouTube channel named Robin W.

In it he shows a manifesto and an arsenal of guns with writing on them while… pic.twitter.com/w5VNufJWXL

— Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) August 27, 2025

Naturally, the effeminate Jew mayor of Minneapolis disparages Christian prayer.

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Lapel Pin “Nun” Decides Who Runs the Church

She was literally born after the wreckage was being cleared in the 1968 Revolution 

Edit: Sister Natalie Becquart learned “ecclesiology” at Boston College, which is liberal even for Jesuit schools. She belongs to the Congregation of Xavières, which was also founded by a Jesuit. The order is of very recent vintage, 1921, and probably isn’t drinkable.

[Christopher Hale] Outside of Mary, the Mother of God, no woman today shapes how the Catholic Church governs itself more than Sr. Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops — the first woman ever appointed to that post.

After Pope Francis changed the synod rules in 2023 to allow non-bishops, including women, to be voting members, she became the first woman to cast a binding vote at a synod.

 She runs the levers of power for the body, setting the agenda, knitting together global consultations, and translating the Francis-Leo synodality agenda from theory into practice.

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Priest Dumps Francis-Church for Moribund Church of England

 Edit: hey Clerical Lispers is back!! They started posting in 2022 after a hiatus of 5 years.

The Hull Diocese could have at least said, “good riddance to bad rubbish,” but apparently this priest was a model of good conduct.

Does he confect the Sacrament while he’s using the Book of Common Prayer? No mention of any reasons for leaving from the Diocese and no comment from them, either.

 
Catholic priest leaves diocese to join Church of England

A Catholic priest of the Diocese of Middlesbrough, UK, is leaving the Catholic Church in order to join the Church of England.

Canon Stephen Maughan, who was ordained a priest in 2005 after working as a secondary school teacher, will leave the Catholic faith to become an Anglican priest in the Diocese of York.

Until the announcement he had been parish priest of St Charles Borromeo, just outside Hull, and both Chancellor and Judicial Vicar of the Diocese. As Judicial Vicar, Canon Maughan was responsible for the Diocesan Tribunal, much of which involved processing cases of nullity of marriage.

A spokesperson for the Diocese of Middlesbrough said: “We can confirm that after a long period of discernment, Canon Stephen Maughan will be received into the Church of England on September 15, after which he will continue his ministry in the Diocese of York. We thank Canon Stephen for his years of service in our diocese and ask for prayers during this time of transition for him, his family and the communities he has served.” 

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Leo Aiming to Canonize Buggery

Typical Scuffed Boomers During Covidiotry

Edit: We Are Church is made up primarily of ancient and soon to be dead boomers who want to see their sons and grandsons gay married, their daughters ordained as priestesses and basically everything that would be unrecognizable to the communion of saints as Christianity. 

Maybe Leo has them where he wants them and will excommunicate them!? 😆 

[Letters From Leo] In a landmark move revealed this week, Pope Leo will host “We Are Church,” a pro-LGBT Catholic [Sic] reform organization, at the Vatican in late October — the first time an LGBT Catholic delegation has been invited “in this form.” 

Eight representatives from the group, which explicitly endorses blessings for same-sex couples and calls for an “end of the exclusion of LGBTQ persons,” will participate in the Vatican’s Jubilee of synodal bodies. 

The meeting is increasing evidence that this pontificate will not retreat from Francis’s reforms.

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Lila Rose has Been Censured from the Living Room Archdiocese!

Edit: special thanks to Chris Jackson for posting this one! We'll be on the lookout!

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Mosque Burning in Cordova

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The purpose of porn

Settlers Burn Ancient Orthodox Monastery

 Edit: the Israeli authorities are denying the accusation, but then again, they lie constantly, so I’m not sure why they expect to be believed. For example, they admitted they were using an “air blower” to “fight the fire.” Does anyone know of an authorized use of an air blower for firefighting? According to the Jerusalem Post.

Independent reporting by The Press Service of Israel (TPS-IL) told a different story. A frame-by-frame review of video released by the Taybeh Municipality showed teenage Jewish farmhands sprinting toward the flames with a compressed-air blower – equipment used to contain, not ignite, brush fires.

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Jewish Mayor of Minneapolis Hands Keys to Whacko Somali

The Physiognomy Hits Hard

 Edit: fruitcake Mayor Jacob Frey is done at the helm. He looks a lot like Greg Brady!  There’s a metaphor at work here between the Brady Bunch and Minneapolis.

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Cartel Bishop of San Bernardino Exempts Invading Mexican Marauders from Mass Attendance

Why wouldn’t he be a guitar picker? 

 Edit: deport this Rojas to Juarez! He can strum down there.

Eric Sammons, editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine, wrote on X, “While American bishops dispense Catholics from the Sunday obligation due to the potential of being (legitimately) arrested, African Catholics in our day are attending Mass in spite of the potential of being killed by Muslims.” 

[Catholic Vote & New York Times]

Naturally, New York Times has a Marrano connection and wants these invaders in the US to attack real Americans.

The Diocese of San Bernardino has told its parishioners that they do not have to attend Mass for fear of federal immigration raids.

Evil Cartel Bishop Alberto Rojas, the leader of the Roman Catholic community of about 1.6 million worshipers in Southern California, said in a letter on Tuesday that those who face a “genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions” if they attend Mass on Sundays or holidays are “dispensed from this obligation.” The bishop’s message was issued as a formal decree.

The lifting of the obligation for Catholics is a rare step usually reserved for extenuating circumstances such as the pandemic and comes after many churches in the Los Angeles region have experienced significant drops in attendance at Mass and other events. The diocese in San Bernardino, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, said attendance at Spanish-language Masses across its parishes had dropped by at least half.

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Just a Brief Thought On Transubstantiation

Say it ain’t so, Lord…😱 pic.twitter.com/OhlsE4UMc5

— ☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ (@SecretFire79) July 8, 2025

Edit: and yet there is only one ritual where this is manifestly evident.

Is it any wonder that a clear majority of those attending the Novus Ordo or Bugninine Liturgy, don't believe the dogma of transubstantiation?

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Mel is Going to Make the Siege of Malta Film

Edit: he said he was going to do the battle of Vienna 1683 too in the late 90s, but it never transpired. The story of the Siege was attempted by a Polish film company in 2012, named Monolith. Not only was the film a commercial failure, but it was even less historically accurate than Braveheart.

Gibson talks about doing various projects, but doesn’t get around to making them. Nobody’s perfect. 

This could be a story like Hacksaw Ridge or They Were Soldiers. 

If anyone could make this film, it’s him. It could be a cultural treasure that flies in the face of the usual suspects.

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The Capa Magna Returns

Edit:

And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went into the house of the Pharisee, and sat down to meat. And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment; And standing behind at his feet, she began to wash his feet, with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.  And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner. And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. But he said: Master, say it.

 

 

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Muslims Bomb Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus

Photo taken from Google Maps at Mar Elias

Edit: this is the result of a decades long civil war backed by the US to empower cutthroat Mohamedans who seem to be stepping into the vacuum left by Assad.

Schofield “Christians” have no idea that there are large Christian minorities in the Middle East being threatened by Islamic cutthroats and rapists for centuries. At least the Ottomans protected them. Someone had to pay taxes.

(Reuters) -At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighborhood of Syria's capital Damascus on Sunday, health authorities and security sources said. 

It was the first suicide bombing in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad was toppled by an Islamist-led rebel insurgency in December. 

Syria's interior ministry said the suicide bomber was a member of Islamic State. He entered the church, opened fire and then detonated his explosive vest, a ministry statement added. 

A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two men were involved in the attack, including the one who blew himself up.

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The Abolition of Reality and The End of History

 https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/on-legalise-freedom-with-greg-moffit

🌈Covid was a giant Gay Psyop🫃🏼

And, the anti-TLM hierarchy was all on board.

 

3rd Temple Lunacy

George Floyd 5 years later

The Women of January 6th

Humani Generis Unitas (1938)

TLM Crackdown

The guys in the tin foil hats were right!

Vatican II ~ Noahide Law ~ Third Temple (W/ Professor Bezerra)

Pope Prylest Appoints Sister Pants Suit

Edit: h/t to Chris Jackson at the Remnant.

 

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The pope's accent

"If it was the other way around...."

Is Donald Trump now the Second Most Important American in the World?

🇬🇧 Did Britain lose WWII? 🫵🏿

Rigged but valid?

Episcopagans Are Mad US is Trying to Stop White Genocide in South Africa

Edit: often massacred by vengeful blacks and persecuted by punitive Marxist policies of successive  ANC  governments, these productive farmers will now enrich the United States and themselves. Instead of bringing Paleolithic Africans and cutthroat Islamists who despise Caucasians, the US will provide sanctuary to people who really want to work. Is it any wonder that Africa still has famines and food shortages. South Africa has struggled with food production since the end of Apartheid. Apparently, there has been a boom harvest in the years 2022-2023. Let’s see what’s behind that! Can it be that the Communists at ANC have lied about their agriculture production?

Obviously, the Episcopagan Communion hates white people and is deeply ashamed that finally, white South Africans are being protected from their black overlords. How dare you protect oppressed white farmers, you bigots!!

[NPR] Episcopal Church ends refugee partnership. The Episcopal Church on Monday announced it would terminate its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners.

 Episcopal Migration Ministries said it had been notified by the federal government that it was expected to resettle some of the refugees. Episcopal Church ends refugee partnership The Episcopal Church on Monday announced it would terminate its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners. 

 Episcopal Migration Ministries said it had been notified by the federal government that it was expected to resettle some of the refugees.

“It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years,” wrote Most Rev. Sean Rowe, the presiding bishop of the church, adding that others including the Afghans and Christians fleeing persecution have been denied refuge.

“It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years,” wrote Most Rev. Sean Rowe, the presiding bishop of the church, adding that others including the Afghans and Christians fleeing persecution have been denied refuge.

Has the coup d'é·tat been thwarted & and who really knows?

America's Last Prophet

In reality, Strickland got sacked because he was trying to set up a Catholic Jonestown with Gary-Michael Voris.

The Pope's Latin

First American Pope: How should we react?

The Catholic Meltdown??

“We Are God’s Chosen People”

Edit: did Leo just name them?

El Papa León XIV, hoy, sobre los Cristianos:

“Somos el pueblo elegido de Dios” pic.twitter.com/5xhrU0qzSz

— Gon Sánchez Rey ✟ (@gonsanchezrey1) May 9, 2025

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Sanborn on Leo XIV

Pope Prylest is a Cynical Gambit by Vatican

Too bad it’s not real! 😂 

 

Gushing endorsement by the head sod

Edit: since Bergoglio bankrupted the Vatican by alienating faithful Catholics and cozying up to satanic celebrities and evil politicians like Xi and Biden,  these Cardinals think that hiring an American fruitcake for Pope can fill their coffers again (Let the coke fueled orgies continue, bros! Did they ever stop?) .  Sounds like the Don is on to their gay tricks!

They couldn’t even bring in a decent crowd for the Conclave. It would have helped if they’d been planning on a Catholic.

Prylest watched that satanic film, Conclave, gay confirmed:

Even Barnparts isn’t buying this op.

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American pope takes the name of a pope who opposed Americanism

Habemus Papam — Quem Papam Habemus?

The new Pope is called Leo XIV and comes from the USA

 First thoughts by Giuseppe Nardi

1.4 billion Catholics have been waiting to find out who will be the 267th deputy of Christ on earth.  The waiting was no longer lasted than in 2013. After the fifth ballot, the new Pope of the city of Rome and the globe was presented at the time, and it was the same today.

The waiting was associated with fear for many Catholics worldwide.  Which Pope would lead the church in which direction in the coming years?

The American Augustinian Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected.  As a year in 1955, he represents a generation leap. At the age of 69, he could sit in the Petrine chair for decades.  The cardinal electors wanted to make a long -term course.

Prevost joined the Augustinian Order in 1978, for which he was ordained a priest in 1982.  In 2001 he became general of his order until he was appointed Apostolic Administrator by Chiclayo in Peru in 2014 and at the same time became a titular bishop, in 2015 the diocesan bishop of the diocese mentioned.  In 2020 he was sent by Francis in the same function in the diocese of Callao, always Peru.  In 2023 Prevost's appointment was made to Rome, where Francis promoted him to the prefect of the Dicastry of Bishops and archbishop.  In the same year he also appointed him President of the papal Latin American commission, a body that was of particular importance for Francis.  Since then Prevost has been a papabile.

 In 2024, Francis created him to the cardinal at the last consistory for cardinal selection.

In his first steps, Leo XIV tries to stand out from his predecessor as possible by chosing a papal name of a Pope who died in the distant year of 1903.  He also showed himself in the traditional liturgical robes to offer the blessing to city and the earth.  In 2013, Francis signaled the demonstrative refusal to carry the Mozzetta that he wanted to break.

Leo XIV speaks very good Italian for an American.  In 2013, an American could become a Pope, which is why, at the suggestion of Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, the US cardinals themselves got out of the race.  After twelve years of a Latin American Pope, the path became clear for an American.

Leo XIV emphasized “peace” in his first, short speech.  His first appearance on the blessing loggia of St. Peter's Basilica was surprisingly positive.

From tomorrow there are many questions in the room how the new Pontifex will ask itself on various burning questions.  What about his relationship with US President Donald Trump?  How does he plan to respond to the wars that threaten the world, whether in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East or South Asia?  How will he face the globalist elites and their agenda?

However, the Church issues are more relevant: How does Leo XIV hold with the traditional rite?  How with tradition?  How with the imposing progressive demands?

The astonishingly long address of the new Pope will be searched for keywords to find initial clues.  For example, the fact that Leo XIV spoke of justice, but never of mercy, the word that was so important to his predecessor.  He thanked him, who had raised him to the bishop and cardinal and thus paved the way to the pontificate.  Leo XIV not only spoke of peace frequently, but also made a first commitment to a "synodal Church".  You will see if it was just a courtesy gesture or actually a commitment.

Many questions that answers will take place in the coming days, months and years, but should not be speculated here.  In the first place, the judgment of the Americans is now required.

 What is certain is that Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of Augustin, who was previously known as an order of Augustinians, that order, in addition to many loyal sons of the Holy Church, also belonged to Martin Luther before he broke with the order and Church.

The multilingual new Pontifex gave the apostolic blessing Urbi et Orbi for the first time.

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Popesplainers not getting pink slips any time soon

Edit Tancred: he's a Jadot protege, and he was in charge of the Congregation of Bishops. His choice of regnal name was interesting. Leo XIII was on the Liberal side... . His choices in the Congregation would be a good indication.

   

Is Leo a Covidiot?  

Prevost may have played a role in the sidelining of U.S. Bishop Joseph Strickland, who had become notorious for his resistance to COVID-19 vaccines and sharp criticism of the pope. In 2023, Prevost met with Pope Francis and Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio, or ambassador, to the United States, and speculation was that the conversation centered on the process of asking for the resignation of the bishop.

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Paddy Power Papal Favorites Are Neck and Neck

 

Edit: Say what you want about Vatican press messages. They’re often meant to deceive or conceal rather than inform.  The heretical leftist rice bowl candidate, +++Tagle is moving up neck and neck to 11/4 alongside the past master of sex predator coverup, lip service to the non-negotiables and finkelthink, +++Parolin. Meanwhile the current favorite of the Masonic and Mossad is starting to faint away, quite literally, Vatican denials notwithstanding.  This is not to say that +++Tagle himself isn’t also a coverup artist, but his minority status allows a low level of scrutiny by the gatekeepers and masses. It’s not surprising that the Orient’s DEI papal contender was so close to Francis but then so was Parolin.

Let’s also not assume that the smart money at Paddy Power is infallible, but it’s a much better indicator of truth than the habitually obfuscating Bruni. Something has happened to Parolin and everybody knows it.

Does anybody really believe papal spokesdrones? Evidently, smart money at Paddy Power doesn’t.

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Parolin is Out

JUST IN: According to multiple sources, yesterday afternoon an “alert” was triggered in the Vatican concerning the health of former Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is considered one of the leading papal contenders. The 70-year-old Cardinal reportedly… pic.twitter.com/96QcME6VwI

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) May 1, 2025

https://t.co/GJmS4cF41k "He - concluded Di Bernardo - told me that there was a person in the Vatican who wanted to meet me personally and I found myself in front of the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Pietro Parolin. There was immediate harmony on what to do. I returned there… pic.twitter.com/UmenpX1kdP

— TheRohanian 🇺🇸🇻🇦🐸 (@TRohanian) April 28, 2025

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Some men just aren't interested in a gal who made out with a tackle-box.

Explaining the Catholic Counterrevolution

Is Nick Fuentes right about black people?

Pope Francis Has Been Recalled

Pope Francis, 2013 to 2025. One of the last images from the Vatican Image Service.

A first obituary by Giuseppe Nardi

Almighty God has called Pope Francis to Himself at 7:35 AM. Thus ended the most recent pontificate, which will go down in Church history as one of the most unspeakable, after twelve years, one month, and eight days. Katholisch.info has critically followed this pontificate from the beginning. Our database documents this pontificate, accessible to everyone.

It will now be said that it is "too early" to draw a balance. But that is not so. Attentive and sensitive Catholics already felt the looming trouble for Catholicism on the day of his election, March 13, 2013. And precisely this sense of those whom God allows to recognize more was confirmed with each day of the 266th pontificate.

The titles that characterized the now-ended pontificate have already been written: There was talk of the "dictator pope" and the "lost shepherd." The pope from Argentina did not heed the warning voices until the end. He followed his agenda, which gave faithful Catholics an uneasy feeling from the beginning, confirmed by the harshness of the facts and verifiable at any time.

The pontificate will remain inextricably linked to his distancing from non-negotiable values, with unspeakable documents like Amoris laetitia, the document on the fraternity of all people from Abu Dhabi, with Fiducia supplicans and Traditionis custodes, with the homo-agenda, the Corona pandemic-lie, the pandering to the globalist agenda, the disregard for the sacred liturgy and its rubrics. The pontificate will be recorded in the annals of the Church as that of the pope who did not want to kneel and did not administer communion, who made the Holy Thursday liturgy with the institution of the Sacrament of the Altar and the Sacrament of Holy Orders invisible, and who fled the public veneration of the Holy Eucharist on Corpus Christi. The talk will inevitably be about the false friends with whom Francis surrounded himself, with Emma Bonino, Marco Pannella, and Eugenio Scalfari, to name the church-hostile, Freemason atheists; but also with the false advisors in the Church itself, such as Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo and Victor Manuel "Tucho" Fernández. It was not the false advisors who misled him. Francis himself set the direction and chose the appropriate advisors and friends for it.

Francis will also be remembered as the pope of the McCarrick boys and the absolution for abortion politicians like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Also as the pope of arbitrariness against orthodox bishops, communities, and churchmen.

He will also be recorded as the pope who wanted to radically reshape the constitution of the Church like no other before him through synodality and his bitter and unjust struggle against the clergy, but also through already implemented legal norms or at least the groundwork for them. This hidden revolutionary side will demand much reparation from his successors, in this and many other areas. Not least, consider the neo-absolutism that Francis quietly imposed, and which was "overlooked" by the mainstream so well-disposed to him, up to the strangulation of contemplative women's monasteries and the fact that the rights for religious foundations were taken away from the bishops.

Among the shadows of the past years is also that too many have remained silent. This is based, consciously or unconsciously, on a false understanding of the papacy, whereby the papacy is absolutized in the wrong place, while where it is absolute in the preservation and defense of worship, tradition, and Catholic identity, it was dismantled, not least by Francis himself.

Francis was also the pope, which should not be concealed, who did not cover up the West's complicity in the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, but spoke of the "too loud barking of NATO" at Moscow's door.

The cardinals, that mass of purple-clad men whom Francis himself appointed with great urgency in recent years to make the processes he initiated irreversible, will gather in a few days for Francis's funeral mass in St. Peter's Square and shortly thereafter convene for the general congregations that precede the conclave. What will follow is the conclave, which, in all likelihood, will give the Holy Church of Jesus Christ the 267th pope by mid-May at the latest.

As the 2013 conclave showed, much is done in certain high Church ranks to lock the Holy Spirit out of the Sistine Chapel at the "Extra omnes." However, He works, that is the justified confidence of every Catholic, where and how He wills.

The succession games have long begun, even before Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Clinic in mid-February. The lists of the so-called papabili have been circulating for months. Francis knew at the end, as much as he tried to lay down his papacy, at least how to die like a pope, by not resigning, although it would have been appropriate for him to do so, unlike his predecessor. He died in office, as is fitting for a pope elected for life, and he died in the Vatican, not in any hospital. That may be little, some will find, given the less than pleasant balance of the pontificate, to put it euphemistically, but at least.

The purple-clad men have begun to play election sum games. The numbers are on the table: 135 cardinals are eligible to vote in the upcoming conclave, should Cardinal Becciu's resignation be legally valid, which is to be assumed. If all papal electors appear, at least 90 votes are necessary for the election of the 267th pope to reach the two-thirds majority. That is more than ever before in church history.

Many of the cardinals will see and get to know each other personally for the first time at the general congregations. This is a byproduct of the Bergoglian appointment practice. However, not all were inactive. There are preparations on various sides, because: when a pope dies, a new one is elected.

The faithful, earthly speaking, in the holy Church, which is hierarchically structured by Christ, have no voice in the chapter of the papal election. But they have a powerful means at hand, prayer.

~We have to thank God that the 266th pontificate of history has come to an end.

~We have to ask God for mercy for the late pope. The personal judgment has already passed for Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected in 2013 as the Vicar of Christ on Earth.

~We have to ask God for a holy pope, whom He may give to His Church: for a holy, apostolic, charismatic, and missionary pope, who celebrates the holy liturgy and strengthens His brothers in faith.

Francis has already passed the moment of personal judgment, which occurs immediately at the moment of death. The Lord knows everything, the good and the bad of a long life. May He repay all the good and be merciful.

Lord, grant Francis eternal rest,

and let eternal light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace. Amen.

Image: VaticanMedia (Screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Pray for the Conclave

Pope Francis has passed to his judgment. Whilst he was in the hospital, my Latin Mass community prayed that he would be delivered from sudden and unprovided for death. I hope you did the same.

Pope Francis was an unremarkable product of the post-conciliar church. Like most seminarians approved for ordination in 1969, he got through the process precisely because he wrongly believed that the pre-conciliar rites of holy Church had no remaining value for “modern man,” and that the Church is somehow obliged to alter everything that she is and does to accommodate “modern man.” At no point, do contemporary churchpersons feel the need to explain who modern man is or why s/he deserves accommodation. Like most Jesuits, he had no appreciation for high liturgy.

 

Pope Francis has now been judged. Pray and fast for the Cardinal electors that they may exercise their right to vote wisely.

 

This is our chance; the conciliar church is mostly dead. Pray and fast.

Veronica’s Veil

Is it not the Veil of Veronica in Manoppello, but the Holy Face (the small burial shroud)?

By Roberto de Mattei*

Simon of Cyrene and Veronica are two figures that the tradition of the Church have placed close to the hearts of the faithful because they participate in the Passion of Our Lord during the Way of the Cross.

Of Simon, the Gospel says: "And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross" (Mk 15:21).

Simon of Cyrene, a city in North African Libya where there was a flourishing Jewish community at the time, happened to be passing by and was forced to carry the cross because Jesus no longer had the strength, and the Jews wanted him to go all the way to Golgotha to have him crucified there. The compulsion to which Simon was subjected became an extraordinary privilege for him. It is therefore permissible to imagine that divine providence chose him because his soul was seized with deep compassion in the face of the shameful spectacle.

Veronica, on the other hand, acted on her own initiative, out of that impulse that often makes women more generous and self-sacrificing than men. The reward for her was extraordinary. According to tradition, the image of the Holy Face of Jesus was imprinted on the linen cloth that she had offered the Savior to wipe the blood and sweat from his face.

Little is known about both, but the fact that Mark's Gospel (15:21) mentions Simon's sons suggests that his family may have played an active role in the early Church, and that the Rufus mentioned by Mark is the same one Paul mentions in the Letter to the Romans when he says: "Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well" (Rom 16:13).

Veronica does not appear in the canonical Gospels, but unlike Simon, she is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, which makes her an undisputed historical figure who, thanks to her veil, which has become one of the most precious relics of Christianity, holds great significance in ecclesiastical veneration.

The Veil of Veronica has been kept in St. Peter's Basilica since at least the beginning of the 8th century, when Pope John VII had a special chapel built in St. Peter's dedicated to the relic, which, like many others, may have come from Constantinople. The recognition of its authenticity is also evident in the fact that Pope Innocent III, in the 13th century, approved its public display, and from then on, it was shown to pilgrims from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica on special occasions, attracting a large influx of faithful. This is attested to by Dante Alighieri, who, in a famous passage of the Divine Comedy, compares himself to one of the many pilgrims who came "perhaps from Croatia" to venerate the icon of the Face of Christ in the first Holy Year in the Church's history in 1300:

Like one who perhaps comes from Croatia

to see our Veronica,

who cannot be sated with his ancient longing,

but says in his thought while he gazes:

"My Lord Jesus Christ, true God,

was then your face like this?"

Paradise, XXXI, 103–108

An expression of this veneration is also the large statue of Veronica by the sculptor Francesco Mocchi from 1640, located in a niche of the four pillars of St. Peter's Basilica.

The Jesuit Heinrich Pfeiffer (1939–1921), professor of art history at the Pontifical Gregorian University, argues in his book Il Volto Santo di Manoppello ("The Holy Face of Manoppello," Carsa Edizioni, Pescara 2000) that the precious relic, which was kept in St. Peter's Basilica for centuries, was allegedly stolen and secretly brought to the small Abruzzese town of Manoppello between 1608 and 1618.

Veronika Maria Seifert, lecturer in Church history at the Sant’Apollinare Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, concludes in her meticulously researched book Il sudario della Veronica e il Volto Santo. Storia e devozione ("The Sudarium of Veronica and the Holy Face. History and Devotion," Velar, Bergamo 2024) that the relic removed from St. Peter's Basilica in the 17th century was not the Veil of Veronica, but the Holy Face, that is, the small burial shroud that John saw in the empty tomb (Jn 20:7). The Mother of God, the apostles, and the disciples had carefully collected all the objects that had come into contact with Jesus, explains the author of this study, and the two relics, which were kept in the Church from generation to generation, both came to Rome. The Veil of Veronica is still in the Vatican, while the Holy Face was brought to the Capuchin monastery of Manoppello in the 17th century. There are unfathomable points of contact between the two relics, but also profound differences: from the closed or open eyes to the more or less recognizable "image" imprinted on the cloth.

St. Peter's Basilica has claimed possession of the Veil of Veronica since the Early Middle Ages and last publicly displayed it on April 6, 2025, as on every fifth Sunday of Lent, from the Veronica Loggia. The holy relics considered "Acheiropoieta," that is, images not painted by human hands that show the faithful the image of the suffering, dead, and risen Christ, are therefore three: the Veil of Veronica, the Holy Face of Manoppello, and the Shroud of Turin.

Regardless of the number of these relics and the place where they are kept, the Holy Face of Jesus has always been deeply venerated. Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face was an ardent devotee. She contemplated with immense love the Face of Jesus, which, despite the traces of all the wounds, blows, and humiliations suffered, expressed an impressive mercy, gentleness, and noble features.

The Church is the mystical body of Christ and stands before us like Christ before Veronica. In the Holy Face that Veronica has transmitted to us, we contemplate today the sufferings of the Church, which suffers on its Good Friday but preserves the extraordinary dignity that made the Face of Christ shine in his suffering. The saints of all centuries have wept over the suffering of Christ. May the Mother of God at least moisten our eyes and stir our hardened hearts, uniting us closely with her redeeming compassion during the Holy Triduum.

*Roberto de Mattei, historian, father of five children, professor of Modern History and History of Christianity at the European University of Rome, president of the Lepanto Foundation, author of numerous books, most recently in German translation: Verteidigung der Tradition: Die unüberwindliche Wahrheit Christi, with a foreword by Martin Mosebach, Altötting 2017, and Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil. Eine bislang ungeschriebene Geschichte, 2nd expanded edition, Bobingen 2011.

Books by Prof. Roberto de Mattei in German translation and the books by Martin Mosebach can be obtained from our partner bookstore.

Translation: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Corrispondenza Romana

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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