Bishop José Antonio Satué - the Vatican-appointed pontifical delegate governing the conservative Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) - has appointed a new general council for the community, reports the Substack.com-Account The Pillar. Furthermore, Bishop Satué introduced a new website of the institute. Founded in Argentina in 1984, the IVE operates internationally. The institute had lost close to 40% of its members since its foundation. The New General Council Bishop Satué of Málaga, Spain, appointed five members to the council in a decree dated July 25. He communicated it to the IVE members on August 18. The Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life approved the appointments. The new council includes: - Fr. Ervens Mengelle, IVE, as vicar general; - Br. Giampiero Pettenon, SDB, as treasurer general; - Fr. Diógenes Urquiza, IVE, with responsibility for contemplative monasteries; - Fr. Giampiero Gambaro, OFM Cap., with responsibilities as …Daha çox
İtalyan Piskoposluk, Kilise İdaresinde Kadınların Rolünü Genişletiyor. Almanya’dan Daha Kötü: İtalya’nın Trapani Piskoposluğu, rahip sayısının azalmasıyla birlikte resmi Kuria ve piskoposluk görevlerine kadınlar da dahil olmak üzere giderek daha fazla sayıda laik kişiyi atıyor. Piskoposlukta şu anda 100’den az piskoposluk rahibi bulunuyor ve piskoposluk, cemaatlerdeki boş kadroları doldurmak için Madagaskar, Tanzanya ve dini kurumlardan rahipler getiriyor. En önemli atamalardan biri olarak, avukat Susanna Catalano piskoposluğun ikinci rektör yardımcılığına getirildi. Dört Katolik laik kişi, aralarında Francesca Messina ve Caterina Vesco adlı iki kadının da bulunduğu, kateşistlik görevine atanacak.
Trapani, mancano i preti ma crescono i laici in Curia: Fragnelli cerca sacerdoti all’estero e nomina la seconda vicecancelliera
Today, Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann, 66, of Speyer, Germany, due to health reasons. He had led the Diocese of Speyer since March 2008. Bishop Wiesemann said that "the burden of the extensive responsibility has taken a serious physical and psychological toll on me." Depression and Health Bishop Wiesemann had previously suffered from depression. In 2021, he withdrew from his duties for about seven months for health reasons, including inpatient treatment. He later publicly identified the illness as depression. In May 2026, he spoke about his experience at the Katholikentag in Würzburg during an event on depression and mental health. He attributed his depression to prolonged pressures including the demands of episcopal office, financial and structural problems in the diocese and, above all, the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis. Pro-Homosexual Bishop Bishop Wiesemann was among the German bishops supporting changes in the Church's approach to homosexuality …Daha çox
Italian priest Lino Zatelli, 75, killed himself on August 12. He had been parish priest of San Carlo Borromeo in Trento for a quarter of a century. He was found dead inside the rectory of his parish after he didn’t show up to celebrate the Eucharist. Corriere del Trentino reported the death as a voluntary act. Two months earlier he had learned that he would have to leave San Carlo in November for another pastoral assignment. Zatelli publicly said he had not asked to leave. Sad detail: During his Easter homily, Don Zatelli preached about Judas's suicide. He discussed Judas as someone overwhelmed by despair who could no longer see beyond the obstacle before him, but emphasized Christ's forgiveness and imagined Jesus ultimately embracing Judas in heaven. Eucharists Beyond Rubrics A 2019 interview called him the “eternal bad boy of the Trentino Church.” A November 2020 profile describes Zatelli as working in a kind of laboratory parish. His Eucharists went beyond formulas and interpreted …Daha çox
We are obliged to pray for all of the lost, but the point is clear - current theological aberrations are poisoning the Faith and the Faithful. We are being led by those who "are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth." Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Amy-Jill Levine was elected the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America on July 20, 2026. In February 2020, Levine stated: “So I'm not a Christian, I'm not a Messianic Jew, I do not worship Jesus as Lord and Savior, and for me the New Testament is not sacred scripture.” Discussing the Gospels, she continued: “I will argue, that not all the comments the gospel writers attribute to Jesus were spoken by him. I think they added some things.” She added: “My bias or my agenda is in part to help Christians stop making Jewish practice and belief look bad in order to make Jesus look good.”
1. Jüdin Präsidentin der Catholic Biblical Association Amy-Jill Levine, 1. jüdische Präsidentin der Catholic Biblical Association (USA): "I'm not a Christian. I'm not a Messianic Jew. I do not worship Jesus as Lord and Savior and for me the New Testament is not a Sacred Sripture. I will argue, I hope convincingly or at least I'm convinced that not all the comments the gospel writers attribute to Jesus were spken by him. I think they added some things." „Ich bin keine Christin. Ich bin keine messianische Jüdin. Ich verehre Jesus nicht als Herrn und Erlöser und für mich ist das Neue Testament keine Heilige Schrift. Ich werde darlegen – hoffentlich überzeugend, oder zumindest bin ich selbst davon überzeugt –, dass nicht alle Äußerungen, die die Evangelisten Jesus zuschreiben, tatsächlich von ihm gesprochen wurden. Ich glaube, sie haben einiges hinzugefügt" Amy-Jill Levine wurde am 20. Juli 2026 zur 1. jüdische Präsidentin der Catholic Biblical Association der USA gewählt: National Catholic …Daha çox
Substack.com’daki “The Pillar” hesabının haberine göre, Vatikan tarafından atanan ve muhafazakar “Enkarnasyon Sözü Enstitüsü”nü (IVE) yöneten Piskopos José Antonio Satué, topluluk için yeni bir genel kurul atadı. Ayrıca Piskopos Satué, enstitünün yeni web sitesini de tanıttı. 1984 yılında Arjantin’de kurulan IVE, uluslararası alanda faaliyet göstermektedir. Enstitü, kurulduğundan bu yana üyelerinin yaklaşık %40’ını kaybetmiştir. Yeni Genel Konsey İspanya’nın Málaga kentinden Piskopos Satué, 25 Temmuz tarihli bir kararnameyle konseye beş üye atadı. Bu kararı 18 Ağustos’ta IVE üyelerine duyurdu. Vatikan’ın Kutsal Yaşam Enstitüleri ve Apostolik Yaşam Toplulukları Dicastery’si bu atamaları onayladı. Yeni konseyde yer alanlar: - Peder Ervens Mengelle, IVE, genel vekil olarak; - Br. Giampiero Pettenon, SDB, genel sayman olarak; - Peder Diógenes Urquiza, IVE, tefekkür manastırlarından sorumlu; - Giampiero Gambaro OFM Cap. rahip, vekil olarak; - Peder Paolo Crivelli, FFB, eğitimden sorumlu; …Daha çox
Catholics Walk With the Blessed Sacrament in Dublin - ShalomWorldNews Around 1,500 Catholics gathered in Dublin on August 16 for the third annual Eucharistic and Marian Procession, marking the Feast of the Assumption. The faithful prayed the Rosary and accompanied the Blessed Sacrament through the city streets, stopping at significant locations, including the GPO and Leinster House, for prayer. The Children’s Rosary of the UK also joined the faithful, leading prayers along the route. The day concluded with Holy Mass at St. Andrew’s Church.
May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored and loved with grateful affection at every every moment in all the tabernacles of the world even unto the end of time. ~ Amen.
RFK Jr. says Fauci paid UNC scientist Ralph Baric to develop a technique called "no-see-em," which makes pathogens MORE dangerous and COVERS UP the evidence of human manipulation. Baric went on to teach this technique to the "Bat Lady" at the Wuhan Lab. Fauci knew this. Then spent years telling the public COVID came from a "natural origin." RFK JR: "He was lying about the origins from day one. Why was he lying? Because he funded those studies at the Wuhan lab, and he funded the studies at the University of North Carolina that developed the techniques for weaponizing COVID-19." "And then [he] gave those to Ralph Baric, his funded scientist at the University of North Carolina, gave those to Shi Zhengli, the scientist, the 'bat lady' scientist in the Wuhan lab. And he taught her a technique that Anthony Fauci had paid him to develop called seamless ligation, which is also called 'no-see-em.'" "It's a way of manipulating the virus to make it deadly to human beings and then covering up the …Daha çox
On 18 August 2026, Pope Leo XIV appointed twelve new consultors to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Leo XIV fills the Vatican's social-policy apparatus with mostly anti-Catholic figures. 1. Peter G. Kirchschläger, 49, Social ethicist, University of Lucerne, Switzerland In December 2018, he said that the Catholic Church has an unresolved human-rights problem regarding the impossibility of women's ordination to the priesthood. He even claimed that the state "may not look away" but has an obligation to press the Church on it. When presented with the argument that women dissatisfied with Catholic teaching can leave, he answered: “That would be protecting the perpetrator.” 2. Kathryn A. Koch, 45, Wall Street Finance Kathryn Koch spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, became a Goldman partner and ran its approximately $300 billion public-equity business. In 2015, Koch was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Since 2024, Koch has …Daha çox
Leo XIV appointed this guy: Peter G. Kirchschläger, 49, a social ethicist at the University of Lucerne, has called the Church’s ban on women’s ordination an unresolved human-rights problem and argued that the state should pressure the Church over it. Rejecting the argument that dissatisfied women can simply leave the Church, he responded: “That would be protecting the perpetrator.”
Bugün, XIV. Leo, sağlık nedenleriyle Almanya’nın Speyer Piskoposu 66 yaşındaki Karl-Heinz Wiesemann’ın istifasını kabul etti. Wiesemann, Mart 2008'den beri Speyer Piskoposluğu'nu yönetiyordu. Piskopos Wiesemann, “Bu büyük sorumluluğun yükü, hem fiziksel hem de psikolojik olarak beni ciddi şekilde yıprattı” dedi. Depresyon ve Sağlık Piskopos Wiesemann daha önce de depresyon geçirmişti. 2021 yılında, yatarak tedavi de dahil olmak üzere sağlık nedenleriyle yaklaşık yedi ay boyunca görevinden uzak kalmıştı. Daha sonra bu hastalığın depresyon olduğunu kamuoyuna açıkladı. Mayıs 2026'da, Würzburg'da düzenlenen Katholikentag'da depresyon ve ruh sağlığı konulu bir etkinlikte yaşadıklarını anlattı. Depresyonunun nedenini, piskoposluk görevinin getirdiği talepler, piskoposluktaki mali ve yapısal sorunlar ve her şeyden önce Katolik Kilisesi’ndeki cinsel istismar krizi gibi uzun süreli baskılara bağladı. Eşcinselliği Destekleyen Piskopos Piskopos Wiesemann, Kilise’nin eşcinselliğe yaklaşımında …Daha çox
Church in Tel Aviv Vandalized: A man in his 20s was arrested after St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, was vandalized. Police said several statues were smashed and crosses were broken inside the church. The Religious Freedom Data Center recorded 83 acts of harassment against Christians in Israel between April and June 2026. The group recorded 107 incidents in 2024, 181 in 2025, and 120 by mid-2026.
St. Anthony's Church in Jaffa has been vandalized by an Israeli extremist. Several statues inside the catholic church were knocked over and smashed, while broken crosses were discovered scattered across the floor and on chairs. Suspect taken into police custody.
Relationship With Female Staffer CALLED OUT By Press and Senators Trump is lashing out at the press as questions grow over his relationship with longtime aide Natalie Harp and Melania Trump’s absence from major public events. The scrutiny intensified after Sen. Jon Ossoff publicly questioned Harp’s unusually close role in Trump’s inner circle. Trump is now attacking CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes after she questioned him. Popok reports. Subscribe: youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: Subscribe to Legal AF's Substack Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: Legal AF (@legalafmtn.bsky.social) Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: POPOK (@mspopok.bsky.social) Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: Legal AF by MeidasTouch Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: The Intersection with Michael Popok Subscribe to Unprecedented with …Daha çox
Natalie Harp - Wikipedia According to the journalist Alex Isenstadt, in one instance, Trump's wife Melania discovered Harp in his private quarters—an area reserved for the Trump family—delivering papers to him at night. Her proximity to Trump concerned other aides, some of whom attributed Trump's relationship with Harp to her decision to remain with him after the January 6 Capitol attack. Aides who spoke to The New York Times called Harp a "conduit" and an "instant enabler of his impulses". Trump purportedly remarked that Harp was the only aide who cared about him after his arraignment in connection with the Georgia election racketeering prosecution, according to the Times. The paper additionally reported on a series of letters Harp sent Trump in 2023 that unnerved people in Trump's inner circle, citing phrases such as "You are all that matters to me" and "I want to bring you joy." Her access to Trump allowed people to send her damaging clips of their rivals and she served as an …Daha çox
Jordan wants to attract more Christian pilgrims for the 2,000-year anniversary in 2030 Jordan is preparing to mark the 2,000-year anniversary of Jesus Christ’s baptism in the Jordan River, with the Muslim nation investing more than $100 million to draw Christian pilgrims to one of the world’s holiest sites. Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan met with Christian leaders this month and signed agreements to develop the baptism site by building a village for Christian pilgrims and visitors, a museum dedicated to the baptism, a green corridor, and infrastructure upgrades leading to the site. The project is expected to cost $120 million, Vatican media reported. The year 2030 is widely accepted as the two millennium anniversary of Christ’s baptism by John the Baptist, a moment that marked the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. The ceremony took place at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the east bank of the Jordan River, which today separates Jordan from the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the …Daha çox
LaNuovaBq.it’in 18 Ağustos tarihli haberine göre, Vatikan’ın Eğitim Dicastery’si, Hamburg Başpiskoposluğu’ndaki Katolik okulları için hazırlanan yeni cinsel eğitim çerçevesine karşı yürütülen bir veli kampanyasına katılan Katolik bir anneye yanıt verdi. Hamburg Başpiskoposluğu’nun başında Başpiskopos Stefan Heße bulunmaktadır. Yanıt, “Çocukların Korunması ve Önleme için Ebeveyn Ağı”nda yer alan Peru doğumlu anne Varinia Arauco’ya gönderildi. Arauco ve diğer ebeveynler, Hamburg Başpiskoposluğu’nun “Erkek, Kadın, Çeşitlilik: Hamburg Başpiskoposluğu’ndaki Katolik Okullarda Cinsel Eğitim Çerçevesi” başlıklı programı nedeniyle Almanya ve Roma’daki Kilise yetkililerine başvuruda bulunmuştu. 2025 yılında yayınlanan bu çerçeve, 2026/27 öğretim yılından itibaren başpiskoposluğa bağlı 15 Katolik okulda uygulanması planlanmaktadır. Çerçeve, “cinsel yönelimler ve cinsiyet kimliği konusunda çeşitliliğin kabulünü” açıkça desteklemektedir. Veliler ayrıca Almanya’daki Apostolik Nüncio aracılığıyla Papa …Daha çox
Trump’s Lust for Vengeance Is Turning Into a Farce Aug. 19, 2026 nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/trumps-revenge.html By Jamelle Bouie Opinion Columnist The principal aim of President Trump’s second term is revenge. Trump is consumed by this lust for revenge. It defined the first moments of his second term. “Within hours of taking the presidential oath,” my news-side colleagues Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report in “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” the president “stripped protective details” from Gen. Mark Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “and others he had viewed as disloyal, including former national security adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper.” Revenge against the aides and officials who restrained Trump’s worst impulses. Revenge against the bureaucrats and “deep state” agents who challenged his lawbreaking. Revenge against the prosecutors who pursued cases against …Daha çox
times Investigation Inside Russia’s Giant Push to Upend a Tiny Country nytimes.com/2026/08/14/world/europe/russia-moldov… In Moldova, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.
This is one of the dangerous speeches that has turned Charlie Kirk into a target of certain media outlets that, arrogating to themselves the role of guardians of the truth, democracy, and freedom, dictate who deserves a voice and who should be demonized - - - Este es uno de los peligrosos discursos que ha convertido a Charlie Kirk en objetivo de unos medios que, arrogándose el papel de guardianes de la verdad, la democracia y la libertad, dictan quién merece voz y quién debe ser demonizado.