Forty years after the scandalous Assisi meeting of 1986, Pope Leo XIV will take part in its anniversary gathering. On October 27, Leo XIV will travel to Assisi for the 40th anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Peace convened by Pope John Paul II in 1986. Back then, a Buddha statue was placed on the tabernacle. The 2026 gathering, titled “Disarmed and Disarming Peace,” will bring together 384 representatives of religions, cultures and institutions from 53 countries. Leo XIV will preside over the Christian prayer for peace in the Lower Basilica together with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, while representatives of other religions will pray separately in different locations to their idols. The religious leaders will then gather in the Piazza Inferiore outside the Basilica of Saint Francis for the concluding ceremony and message of peace.
Leo XIV will attend the upcoming meeting in Assisi on October 27. This is the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Assisi scandal.
Amen I say to you unless you turn and become like children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven Whoever humbles himself like a child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven Learn to trust Jesus with a pure and innocent heart just like these little ones Les aseguro que si no cambian y se vuelven como niños no entrarán en el reino de los cielos El que se humilla como este niño es el más grande en el reino de los cielos Aprende a confiar en Jesús con un corazón puro e inocente como estos pequeños Em verdade vos digo que se não vos converterdes e não vos tornardes como crianças não entrareis no reino dos céus Aquele que se humilhar como esta criança esse é o maior no reino dos céus Aprenda a confiar em Jesus com um coração puro e inocente como estes pequeninos En vérité je vous le dis si vous ne vous convertissez et si vous ne devenez comme les enfants vous n entrerez pas dans le royaume des cieux C est pourquoi quiconque se rendra humble comme cet enfant sera le plus grand dans le …More
A WhatsApp post by an Italian bishop’s secretary showing Pride flags as a swastika sparked media coverage, prompting explanations from the secretary and two responses from his bishop. The Italian city of Aosta held its third homosexual march on 26 September. That same day, Bishop Franco Lovignana’s secretary, Gilbert Turcotti, posted on his personal WhatsApp status a graphic showing four trans flags arranged to form a swastika. He accompanied it with the words “Questione di prospettiva…” (“A matter of perspective…”). Turcotti subsequently deleted the post. When GazzettaMatin.com contacted him about the image, Turcotti replied: “It seemed like a nice colourful design to me.” According to Bobine.tv, Turcotti said that he had deleted it because the day was over and repeated that he thought it was a colourful design. When the swastika was pointed out, he replied: “Well, look, sometimes, coincidence. I have nothing to say.” According to La Verità, the following evening Turcotti said that he …More
Here's another in the series of memoirs from the redoubtable Fr. Black, FSSPX. This time, he writes of a tour he took with Archbishop Lefebvre in the 1980's. Canada & the Americas with Archbishop Lefebvre - …
ope Francis's private diary edited by Cardinal Fernández who wrote pornographic books on "the art of kissing" and "mystical passion." The Vatican will release the notes on November 24 worldwide.
Thousands of Canadians took part in the 36th annual Life Chain on October 4. Coordinated nationally by Campaign Life Coalition, the event brought participants to intersections and busy streets across Canada for an hour of quiet prayer and peaceful pro-life witness. Participants held signs including “Abortion Kills Children,” “Abortion Hurts Women,” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals.” Life Chain began in Canada in 1991.
Cardinal Pizzaballa mourns the deaths of two Catholic women in Gaza who were killed by an Israeli airstrike as they slept. The mother and daughter died in their apartment after they had left Holy Family parish.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa of Jerusalem has expressed his condolences following the deaths of two Palestinian Christian women in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. “With deep sorrow and grief,” the Patriarch mourned Maysa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud (Ayyad) and Mary Hafez Michel Najjar (Abu Daoud). The two women, who were mother and daughter, were killed in the strike on the night of October 2. On behalf of the Patriarchate, its clergy and faithful, Cardinal Pizzaballa extended his “deepest condolences” to the families of the two women and to Gaza’s Christian community. He prayed that their relatives and loved ones might find comfort, strength and hope in their loss. The funeral was held on Saturday, October 3, at the Greek Orthodox church St. Porphyrius in Gaza. They had sheltered at the Catholic church Holy Family during the war. #newsQnztxwkjwm
Dutch Auxiliary Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of ’s-Hertogenbosch: “I do not have to spend very much time convincing this audience that there is a crisis. And indeed, if I were beginning by saying, ‘My dear friends, everything is going splendidly,’ I suspect that you would immediately check whether I have been replaced by an employee of the communications department of the Vatican. And perhaps this is already the first difficulty. Catholics today fall in two groups. There are those who think the Church is experiencing an unprecedented springtime and those who have actually looked at the statistics.”
3 categories the 3rd being those who are quite well aware of the statistics and rejoice and are glad. Plainly they are not Catholic but no one is calling them out on their apostasy.
Cardinal' Gambetti leaves behind ‘eco-friendly’ St. Peter’s that has lost its sacredness During Gambetti’s tenure, the statutes governing the Chapter of St Peter’s were substantially revised. The article says this reduced the number and role of canons, imposed five-year terms and retirement at 80, capped salary/pension at €1,800, and put the Chapter under the authority of the Fabbrica di San Pietro. It reports significant liturgical/operational changes at St Peter’s: fewer Masses, abolition of private Masses in side chapels, removal of the canons’ choir stalls from the presbytery, and changes concerning Latin liturgy. A rooftop bistro at St Peter’s has apparently been completed but, according to this article, had not yet opened as of October 2026. St Peter’s has undertaken energy-efficiency and climate-neutrality measures, apparently connected with a goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2030.
Musealización irrespetuosa y.caótica Devolverle el carácter sagrado a San Pedro, una basílica que, bajo la administración de Gambetti, aspiraba a ser climáticamente neutra y altamente eficiente en energía, pero que ha sucumbido a una musealización e irrespetuosa.caótica Entre la profanación por parte de los turistas y las distracciones de los fieles. El reemplazo del cardenal Mauro Gambetti como arcipreste de la Basílica de San Pedro solo tendrá sentido si su sucesor no continúa por el mismo camino que él siguió durante sus cinco años de mandato. Cinco años bastaron para romper ese equilibrio, que hoy evidencia claramente su fracaso en la percepción de la Iglesia del Papa. Tan solo cinco años, especialmente si todo se remonta a la reforma de los estatutos del Capítulo de San Pedro, que contribuyó a la degradación de esta valiosa institución, indispensable para garantizar el decoro y la dignidad de la basílica más importante de la Iglesia. Por este motivo, si el nombre que tiene en mente …More
Bishop James Beckman of Knoxville, Tennessee, has revoked the faculties of Fr David Mary Engo who has associated himself with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX), “He is not authorized to exercise public priestly ministry anywhere within the Diocese of Knoxville.” David Mary Engo was ordained a priest in 1997 by then-Bishop Seán P. O’Malley of Fall River, the future Cardinal of Boston. His religious and community status has a somewhat complicated history. He was incardinated into the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend in 2010, while simultaneously being excardinated from the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. Engo founded a Franciscan community in 2009, professed perpetual vows, and served as the community’s Minister General. In May 2017, he resigned as Minister General and withdrew to a hermitage. By 2021, Engo was described by the Diocese of Knoxville’s newspaper as a Franciscan hermit living in the Diocese of Helena, Montana. Engo subsequently ministered in the Diocese of …More
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