@mcallansteve I understand what you’re suggesting, but the problem with that statement is that it was the “religion” or the “faith” that was changed in Vatican II. I know many suggest it’s a “new” Church, but the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ and can never change. The Modernists of Vatican II could only change the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church, which they have done.
San Torpè, oltre 80 pellegrini da Saint-Tropez accolti in Sala Baleari 2025 Sindaco Conti: “Celebriamo un legame profondo che attraversa generazioni”. Omaggiata anche Santa Caterina da Siena Martedì 29 aprile, il sindaco di Pisa Michele Conti, insieme all’assessore ai gemellaggi Riccardo Buscemi e al presidente del Consiglio Comunale Alessandro Bargagna, ha accolto in Sala Baleari una delegazione di oltre 80 pellegrini provenienti da Saint-Tropez, guidata dal sindaco del comune francese, Sylvie Siri. L’accoglienza dei “tropesiennes” rientra nel quadro delle celebrazioni dedicate a San Torpè iniziate il 24 aprile con un ricco programma che ha unito momenti di riflessione storica, spiritualità e musica. “E’ con profonda gioia e sincera emozione che, a nome dell’intera città di Pisa, vi do il più caloroso benvenuto – ha detto il sindaco Michele Conti rivolgendosi ai pellegrini. Il vostro pellegrinaggio annuale non è solo un gesto di devozione religiosa, ma un atto di profonda …Ebisinga
From Saturday 16 to Monday 18 May 2026 Les Bravades de Saint-Tropez | Local festival … ‘Les Bravades’ have taken place in Saint-Tropez for years on 16, 17 and 18 May. They are a display of the pride which residents of Saint-Tropez have in their glorious military past and of their deep devotion to their Patron Saint. HISTORY In 68 AD, Saint Tropez publicly refused to renounce his Christian faith in front of Nero. Nero had him beheaded. His body was then placed in a boat with a rooster and a dog to symbolize the disrespect shown to the emperor. The boat was then pushed into the River Arno. It was carried by the currents to the shores of Saint-Tropez. At the end of the 15th century, the town of Saint-Tropez was rebuilt, fortified and repopulated. The role of the new inhabitants of Saint-Tropez was to defend the town and its surroundings. They also carried their weapons to celebrate the Saint's feast day, which took place on May 17 in the Saint-Tropez chapel "outside the walls". The …Ebisinga
Pope Leo XIV has established a Vatican commission dedicated to artificial intelligence. The “Interdicasterial Commission for Artificial Intelligence” includes representatives from seven Vatican dicasteries: Doctrine of the Faith, Culture and Education, Communication, and Integral Human Development, as well as the Pontifical Academies for Life, Sciences, and Social Sciences. According to the Vatican, the new body aims to promote cooperation and information exchange on AI-related projects and to develop internal guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence. The commission will initially be coordinated for one year by Cardinal Michael Czerny, 79. #newsMymxarmlmb
The problem with AI is the 'magical thinking' which presumes the stuff it is computing with is actual 'intelligence'. Any computer, no matter how massive or fast, loaded with the ideological slop and skewed 'facts' in which our world is mired at the moment will end up giving you back what you put into it. It thereby becomes, inherently, 'fool's gold', or, in this instance, 'fool's god'.
These Catholic couple, Nora Kenney Mittiga and Jonathan Mittiga, first met outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in New York while praying for the unborn, and were married last December.
Worse than Germany: The Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of San Rafael, Argentina, Bishop Marcelo Mazzitelli, did not authorize the celebration of the Mass in the Roman rite during the pilgrimage Nuestra Señora de la Cristiandad, except on the final day, reports ElWanderer.com on May 14. The pilgrimage to Luján scheduled for August 15-17 follows the model of the Chartres pilgrimage. Last year, there were about 3,000 participants. Such restrictions are uncommon even in Germany or Italy. The celebrant for the German pilgrimage in the Roman rite, held at Corpus Christi on June 4–7 in Altötting, Bavaria, is Bishop Marian Eleganti. #newsAnclnpgxnu
Worse than the German Church: Barbara Butch, the French activist who parodied Christ in a Last Supper-style during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, is now directing artistic installations in Parisian churches. Butch described herself as a "fat, Jewish, queer lesbian" and labelled the 2024 mockery, which featured transvestites, as the "new gay testament". According to TribuneChrétienne.com, Butch will direct installations inside several historic Parisian churches during Paris' Nuit Blanche festival, scheduled for 6–7 June. The initiative aims to transform the churches into spaces for sensory and participatory experiences. One project will take place inside Saint-Laurent Church in Paris. Titled Sous la peau du ciel (“Beneath the Skin of the Sky”), this installation invites visitors to leave recorded “wishes” via telephone. These messages will then be mixed with atmospheric sounds and digitally processed to create what the organisers describe as 'living and evolving sound …Ebisinga
Germany’s Synodal Conference "Postponed": Presiding German Bishop Heiner Wilmer said he does not expect the first meeting of Germany’s planned Synodal Conference to take place in November as originally scheduled. Speaking at the Katholikentag in Würzburg, he pointed to ongoing Vatican review processes, saying the proposal is moving “from one dicastery to the next.” Bishop Wilmer nevertheless said he is “confident that it will continue,” while adding that “some patience” is needed. The Synod Conference is a permanent national body that makes decisions for the entire country, thereby exercising authority over individual bishops.
DBK-Chef Heiner Wilmer SCJ erwartet die erste Zusammenkunft der Synodalkonferenz als Verstetigung des Synodalen Wegs nicht für November 2026, wie dies eigentlich geplant war.
Note to readers •This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune andGrist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Skeptics of the proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County are sweating about a lot more than its energy demands and potential toll on water supplies. Turn out, it could create a massive heat island capable of devastating the area’s ecology, said Robert Davies, a physics professor at Utah State University. “I suspected it would not be good,” Davies said. “What I’ve found is it’s so much worse than I even thought it would be.” News of the proposed sprawling data complex, dubbed the Stratos Project, became public last month. The project’s boosters say it will likely need 9 gigawatts of energy at full build — more than double the electricity currently used by the entire state of Utah. That energy will likely come from a pipeline carrying natural gas from Wyoming to Nevada, Oregon and California. The project’s developer, “…
These huge data centres will be the new secular shrines for the very rich to worship the new god AI and enslave the rest of us. We must pray and resist.
Leo XIV will fly to France from September 25–28 for his fifth international trip, the Vatican confirmed today. The visit will include a stop at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Full details of the itinerary have not yet been released.
Worse Than Germany: The Spanish Episcopal Conference will award the music prize '2025 ¡Bravo!' to Rosalía for her 'Lux Tour'. The tour heavily incorporates Catholic imagery and symbols, including confessionals, crosses, Marian references, processions, and a stage version of the huge incense burner from Santiago de Compostela. These elements are combined with nightclub aesthetics, sexual provocation, and reinterpretations of religious themes.
¿Valores evangélicos? La Conferencia Episcopal premia a Rosalía en los ¡Bravo! 2025
"Excommunication of FSSPX Will Go Down in History as Huge Error of Leo XIV": Talking to EWTN on May 14, Bishop Athanasius Schneider notes that the Vatican shows leniency toward anti-Catholic movements, the German Synodal Way, and even state-controlled forces like Communist China, while cracking down harshly on the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X: “Now it seems that the Vatican and the Pope are showing their power: ‘We have the power. We will excommunicate them.’ This is not synodal. This is not pastoral. If the Pope excommunicates them, it will go down in history as a huge error of rigidity, pastoral rigidity, and one-sided severity toward tradition in the Church.”
Bishop Schneider told EWTN that if Pope Leo excommunicates the SSPX “this will go down in history as a huge error in pastoral rigidity and one-sided pastoral severity towards tradition in the Church”
Republicans Waited to Challenge Trump on the Iran War. Now It May Be Too Late. nytimes.com/…26/05/15/us/politics/iran-war-powers… Having deferred to the president for months, G.O.P. lawmakers missed crucial milestones to try to limit his war powers. That has tied their hands in seeking parameters and exit criteria. By Megan Mineiro Reporting from the Capitol May 15, 2026 The Republican-led Congress has missed a crucial window to play a role in the U.S. military operation in Iran, with G.O.P. lawmakers who deferred to President Trump for months on the war now hand-tied by their reticence to challenge him and his administration’s efforts to evade congressional oversight or input. Since Mr. Trump began the war on Feb. 28, Republicans have consistently blocked Democratic efforts to halt the hostilities and force the president to win authorization from Congress, arguing that such a move would undermine him in the fight in the Middle East. They have also hung back from putting forth any …Ebisinga