Priests must continue to celebrate the traditional Mass ‘under the radar’ and, when necessary, openly defy the attempted prohibition of it, philosopher Peter Kwasniewski told Certamen.info. He underlined that lay Catholics who attend an FSSPX Mass because of their attachment to the old rite are “by no means schismatics.” But he simultaneously distances himself from a more strongly pro-FSSPX position: “If another opportunity of assisting at the old rite is already available in the same geographical area, it becomes harder to justify attending an SSPX chapel.” He points to the FSSPX’s “manifest canonical irregularity.”
Kwasniewski zu Certamen: Traditionis Custodes ist gescheiterte Gesetzgebung Rom hat sechs Bischöfe der Priesterbruderschaft St. Pius X. für exkommuniziert erklärt, und Kardinal Roche, der Präfekt für den Gottesdienst, hat jede Änderung an Traditionis Custodes öffentlich ausgeschlossen. Kwasniewski hält das Motu proprio für juristisch wie theologisch unstimmig. Kwasniewski: Rückkehr zum Frieden von Summorum … #katholisch#Kirche
Thanks be to God my bishop gave me permission to offer the TLM many years ago. Now I know it cannot be revoked, and living in a private residence, I can offer private Masses without being forced to celebrate the Novus Ordo.
A “queer ecumenical service” was held inside the Catholic Kollegienkirche in Salzburg, Austria, on September 2 as part of the city’s “Pride Festival.” Catholic participation included the Catholic University Chaplaincy, alongside Protestant, Old Catholic and Methodist representatives and a homosexual advocacy group. Salzburg’s archbishop is Franz Lackner.
Homosex-Liturgie in der Kollegienkirche in Salzburg. Was meint ihr dazu? Quelle: Catholic Arena, X
adapt2030 @adapt2030 Not Just Water, Power Inflates Food! One farm’s irrigation pumping bill: £600,000–£700,000 from April to early September. After fertilizer, seed, diesel, pesticides, and haulage, the power to move water lands in every kilo you eat.
"Just one month ahead of a global meeting of bishops in the Vatican on Amoris laetitia, some episcopal leaders have told The Pillar that they have not received information about what to expect or how to prepare, and are eager to learn the pope’s plans for the scope and approach to the discussion."
Another Vatican appointment for Montse Alvarado: Leo XIV puts the future head of Vatican communications on the board of his new “Fratello Sole” Foundation - even as her digital record at EWTN offers little to celebrate. Today, Leo XIV appointed Maria Montserrat “Montse” Alvarado as a member of the Board of Directors of the Vatican’s newly established Fratello Sole Foundation. She becomes the third member of its three-person governing board. Alvarado is due to take office as Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication on November 1. She is divorced and received a Church annulment of her marriage. She is not a theologian and has attracted attention for arguing in 2022 that Jews should not be converted to Christianity. Women Taking Over the Vatican Leo XIV established the Fratello Sole Foundation in June to oversee an agrivoltaic project intended ultimately to meet the electricity needs of Vatican City State. The three-member board now consists of: - Sister Raffaella Petrini, President of …بیشتر
The International Theological Commission's new document presents panentheism as an 'interpretive framework' for understanding God as 'intimately present in every aspect of reality'. It explicitly contrasts this with classical theism. @Gaetano Masciullo argues that this positive portrayal of panentheism obscures the Catholic distinction between Creator and creation and risks normalising pantheistic theology.
The Vatican’s International Theological Commission has just given a positive hearing to panentheism (the idea that creation exists “in God” so is also Divine).
The history class “The Catholic Intellectual Tradition” has become one of Yale’s most popular courses. Last spring, it attracted 85 students - up from just 13 a decade ago. The course explores two millennia of Catholic thought, from early Christianity and medieval mysticism to debates about war, philosophy and modern life. It has even reportedly attracted more students than long-standing Yale favourites such as “The Birth of Europe” and “The Roman Empire”. This boom comes at a time when universities are debating cuts to the humanities.
Fr Edmund Waldstein, a monk and priest of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria, will no longer teach moral theology at the abbey’s seminary. Rector Wolfgang Klausnitzer, 75, a diocesan priest, says Waldstein will not return to teaching during his tenure. Waldstein has defended the death penalty for heretics and Catholic integralism. He has now been removed from teaching and sent to Rome to pursue a further doctorate in philosophy. He has occasionally celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass.
Pater Edmund Waldstein darf nicht mehr an der Hochschule Heiligenkreuz unterrichten.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce is being prosecuted again. The 48-year-old Catholic faces a new trial in January 2027 after pleading not guilty to interfering with an abortion clinic. Prosecutors say she stood inside a 150-metre buffer zone outside a Birmingham clinic on five occasions in 2025. Vaughan-Spruce replies she approached no one and simply prayed silently in her head. She was arrested over silent prayer in 2022 and 2023 and received a £13,000 police settlement in 2024. “Wherever we are permitted to be, our thoughts inevitably go with us,” she says. “Those thoughts should not be subject to censorship.” The new case is being brought under England’s national buffer-zone law.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce will face trial in January 2027 after being charged over silently praying outside an abortion centre in Birmingham
Pope Francis supported a Spanish bishop in his attempt to gain control over Opus Dei’s famous Torrecuidad shrine and take back a historic image of Our Lady
Neu veröffentlichte handschriftliche Briefe, die „El País“ vorliegen, zeigen, dass der verstorbene Papst Franziskus persönlich in den Streit um Torreciudad mit dem Opus Dei eingegriffen und die Situation als „mafiaähnlich“ bezeichnet hat. Die Briefe untermauern die Behauptung des Bischofs, dass Franziskus ihn gegen den Druck in Bezug auf die Wallfahrtsstätte und das Bildnis der „Unsere Liebe Frau von den Engeln“ aus dem 11. Jahrhundert unterstützt habe. Im Juli 2023 sagte er zu Bischof Ángel Pérez Pueyo: „Geben Sie nicht nach!“ Nachdem er im Oktober 2024 einen bevollmächtigten Kommissar ernannt hatte, schrieb Franziskus erneut: „Mit der Ernennung des Dekans der Rota mache ich mein direktes Eingreifen in die Aktivitäten des Opus Dei dort sichtbar. Und indem ich Ihnen eine neue Stelle vorschlage, versuche ich, Sie von all den ‚mafiaähnlichen Intrigen‘ zu befreien, die derzeit im Gange sind. Damit mache ich deutlich, dass mein Eingreifen umfassend ist.“
The Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos celebrated the ordination of 20 clergy on September 4 in a ceremony presided over by Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins, Archbishop of Lagos, held at the Church of the Ascension, Ikeja, Nigeria, where six deacons were ordained to the priesthood and 14 seminarians were ordained to the diaconate.
Swiss bishop appoints lay woman to share leadership of diocesan vicariate The Diocese of Basel has announced a new “more synodal” leadership model, with a lay woman set to share responsibility for its general vicariate alongside the canonical Vicar General
Bishop Felix Gmür of Basel, Switzerland, has appointed theologian Sarah Gigandet to a senior leadership position in the diocese. From 1 November, she will share the responsibilities of the vicariate general with incoming Vicar General Ruedi Heim. The Diocese of Basel announced this unusual arrangement under the headline 'Vicariate General becomes more synodal'. Gigandet, aged 40, will formally hold the title of Episcopal Delegate in the Vicariate General, while Heim will be the canonical Vicar General. According to the diocese, however, the two will divide the areas of responsibility between them and jointly assume leadership responsibilities. According to canon law, the office of vicar general, which involves exercising ordinary executive authority as the bishop’s deputy, is reserved for priests. Therefore, Gigandet cannot formally be appointed vicar general. Bishop Gmür is known for his pro-homosexual activism. He also supports the ordination of women as deacons and priests. #newsUvpbpswmke
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