‘There is no such thing as an apolitical Islam,’ Bishop Marian Eleganti said in a new interview. ‘It is a system of domination.’
Dear Faithful,
We have once again arrived at this special time of the year devoted by Holy Mother Church to the holy souls in purgatory. During November the Church asks us to redouble our prayers and sacrifices for the remission of debt incurred by the faithful departed whose sins have already been pardoned.
In order to assist in providing relief to the suffering souls it is a pious traditional Catholic custom to give to the priest the names of the deceased for daily remembrance in the month of November. The names are placed on the altar to be remembered at the commemoratio pro defunctis of every Mass offered during the month.
Submitting the names in person using a small intention envelope or index card is preferable. If you are unable to use that method you can email the names to fatherkmc@gmail.com.
In Christo et Maria,
“Bishop Erik Varden's reflections following the Vatican's Amoris Laetitia meeting deserve careful attention, particularly his recognition of Catholics in irregular marital situations who faithfully attend Mass, participate in parish life, but refrain from receiving Holy Communion.
“He describes their fidelity as a genuine contribution to the Christian community, beautifully observing that “Sacramental exile sustained over time can prepare a joyful homecoming.”
“Professor Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos makes a particularly interesting observation here. In a city like London, such Catholics could attend Mass anonymously, receive Communion and nobody would be any the wiser. Yet many choose not to.
“Consider what this tells us. Their fidelity is not imposed by surveillance or fear of embarrassment, rather it springs from conscience, reverence for the Eucharist and a recognition that the sacraments possess an objective reality which cannot simply be subordinated to our personal circumstances.
“Surely this raises a question about the whole synodal enterprise?
“We hear a great deal about listening to those who experience the Church's teaching as burdensome, and rightly so. But how much attention is given to those who embrace that teaching despite the burden it places upon them? Are their sacrifices, their consciences and their "lived experience" being taken equally seriously?
“There is a danger of treating every painful pastoral situation as a problem whose solution must involve relaxing sacramental discipline but the Christian life has never promised freedom from suffering. It promises that suffering, united to Christ, can become fruitful. Bishop Varden's great insight is that Christian accompaniment must be ordered towards conversion and holiness, not simply affirmation. Genuine mercy does not pretend that difficult truths cease to exist. It helps people live in the light of those truths, confident that God's grace is already at work.
“Perhaps one of the most important voices in the debate over Holy Communion belongs to those who quietly, faithfully, choose not to receive it.”
Mark Lambert @sitsio
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NEWS: Andrea Grillo, one of the principal architects of Traditionis custodes, has accused Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of advancing “schismatic arguments."
The Italian liturgist criticised the San Francisco archbishop’s claim that the Church enjoyed greater unity under Summorum Pontificum than under Traditionis custodes, rejecting his defence of the 1962 Missal and his call for dialogue with the SSPX.
Andrea Grillo argued that Summorum Pontificum effectively adopted Lefebvre’s project and that Traditionis custodes restored a single lex orandi.
Full report on @RealAdVaticanum:
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According to Father Silveira @joaosilveiraa:
“Today, at the meeting of the organizers of the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage, Christian Marquant commented on the controversy stirred up on social media by people who wish to sow confusion:
“1. The request to use the altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica was made on the day of Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s audience with Pope Leo at the Vatican, on 18 December 2025, ten months and one week before the Pilgrimage.
“2. On 7 August, eight months after the request, a negative response arrived from the Secretariat of State of the Holy See. No alternative date was suggested for the Mass, contrary to what's claimed by those people hungry for the limelight.
“3. On 8 September, Father Claude Barthe, chaplain of the Pilgrimage, sent a request to the Secretariat of State asking whether the Pilgrimage might enter the Basilica to pray at the tomb of St. Peter, as had happened in the fourteen previous years, even when no Mass was celebrated there: “May we nevertheless, on the coming 24 October, enter the Basilica in procession, pray for the Pope at the Confession, and adore the Blessed Sacrament at the Altar of the Chair? The Basilica’s sacristy informs us that this would be possible at 1 p.m., should Your Excellency grant us the necessary permission.”
“4. On 30 September, the response was sent by post, delivered a few days later to the Apostolic Nunciature in Paris, and only reached Father Barthe on 12 October, less than two weeks before the Pilgrimage. The response was negative. The pilgrims would not even be allowed to enter the Basilica to pray.
“5. This was not disclosed immediately at that time because the organizers still tried to obtain permission for the group to enter the Basilica, given the importance of that gesture and the scandal it would represent for the pilgrims, and for Catholics in general, to be denied entry in the context of a pilgrimage. Since these efforts were unsuccessful, the announcement was made one day before the procession that led the pilgrims to St. Peter’s Square.
“6. Christian Marquant lamented the confusion stirred up by people who have no connection whatsoever with this initiative of Catholic faithful, and he emphasized that the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage has at its heart love for the Pope and for the Catholic Church.
Long live Christ the King! Viva Cristo-Rei!”
@BernardiMotta comments: “These silly interdicts seem to be the last desperate gestures of an aging curial elite that won’t accept being on the wrong side of History. Time will fix this. Nobody lives forever.”
“A principal pastoral concern in such situations is to recall the bigger picture, letting sufferers discover the potentially productive sense of their troubles, which may serve to lessen selfishness and purify love. Marriage, no less than monastic life, is a school of conversion.
Concerning ‘irregular’ relationships, I find our Catholic communities normally embrace these maturely and well. It can be liberating for persons in such situations to be in a setting where their ‘irregularity’ is acknowledged, not relativised; and where they are yet embraced with Christian friendship, enabled to contribute to the community.
I think of the example of many faithful people I know who, Sunday after Sunday, come up for a blessing at the time of Communion, knowing they cannot accede to the sacrament, yet entrusting themselves to God’s mercy at work in the Church.
Their example of fidelity does much to build up the Christian community. It testifies to the vital realism of the sacrament and to the virtue of hope. Sacramental exile sustained over time can prepare a joyful homecoming.
Christ gave us his rigorous commandments to educate us and to liberate us from ourselves, ‘that we might live no longer for ourselves but for him who died and rose again for us’ (Fourth Eucharistic Prayer). His intention is to make us grow in stature into new, divinised life.
That life must always be the aim we propose to people, not merely human affirmation — though we all need a bit of that as well.”
@MLJHaynes
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But anti-Catholics who attack the faith and desecrate sacred spaces are welcome …
These people say they are Catholic but don’t follow the teachings of the church. They publicly dissent. With vulgarity and blasphemy. Which contradicts the definition “Catholic”. They are welcome in Saint Peter’s.
“Traditional Catholic pilgrims of the Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage have been blocked this morning from entering St Peter’s Basilica to pray at the tomb of St Peter. The Vatican stopped the procession at the obelisk in St Peter’s Square, the border of Italian jurisdiction, according to @messainlatino.
“The Vatican has also prohibited a Pontifical Mass to be celebrated this afternoon in the Basilica of St Mary Major. Instead it will be a Prelatial Low Mass and can last no more than one hour @messainlatino. Bishop Athanasius Schneider will be the celebrant.”
More reporting by @MLJHaynes:
“Some theories are circulating online about the Latin Mass pilgrimage, spread by people unconnected with it.
“Some clarity below — “Organisers asked for permission for the Vatican Mass, via a letter delivered directly to Pope Leo by Bishop Schneider in December. The pilgrimage is in its 15th year, and is always held on the same date. “Organisers received no answer about the Mass until August, when the Secretariat of State replied to say they could not have Mass in the Vatican. Pilgrimage organisers then announced publicly that no Mass would take place in the Vatican. “Instead, pilgrims would process into the Vatican at 1pm on the Saturday, and then go to St Mary Major for a 3pm Mass. Permission for the procession into the Vatican was granted in April 2026. “Weeks after this, in September, St Peter’s announced an event taking place at 3:30pm at the Altar of the Chair (used by the pilgrimage last year for Mass). “Then this week – just yesterday I am told – organisers received another letter from the Secretariat of State informing them they could not even process into the Vatican as planned, and as permitted since April. Basilica events are not the prerogative of the Secretariat but of the Archpriest & the Fabric of St Peter’s: hence why the Secretariat of State’s involvement is so strange. “On Saturday, pilgrims walked through the streets up to the obelisk in St. Peter’s Square – accompanied by Italian state police – where they were stopped by the Vatican as this was the limit of the Italian police’s jurisdiction. “Then they were informed that their usage of St Mary Major’s had changed: they could only be inside for an hour. “Thus meaning that the planned and authorised pontifical solemn Mass would have to be a low Mass. “Also St Mary Major’s informed pilgrimage that no official photos could be taken.”
(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Marian Eleganti, in an interview published Thursday, said that Islam cannot be integrated into Western political systems that the Christian faith has shaped.
During the interview with La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana published August 13, the auxiliary bishop emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, emphasized that it’s impossible for Islam to be integrated into the Western world, which holds Christian foundations. The bishop further highlighted the “anti-Christian” agenda of both Islamists and modernism and the dangers of mass migration into Europe.
“Personally, I am convinced that Islam cannot be integrated into our political systems, which have been shaped by Christianity,” Eleganti said during the interview.
“There is no such thing as an apolitical Islam, one of purely internal religious devotion. It is a system of domination. And the more its followers are convinced of this, the less it can be integrated. The result is parallel worlds,” he added.
During another part of the interview, the Italian outlet cited a 2017 Pew Research Center report that projected that by 2050 there will be 57.9 million Muslims in Europe, accounting for 11.2 percent of the population. The interviewer also noted that while the Muslim population is steadily growing in Europe, the native population, which primarily includes at least nominal Christians, is declining.
Eleganti stressed that this is a result of European Christians having “far too few children of our own” and compensating by importing Muslim migrants. Asked about how the Catholic Church has responded to this mass migration, the bishop underscored that the hierarchy refuses to see the reality of the situation.
“(The Church) refuses to see things as they really are and speaks only of charity – against which there is nothing to object. But that doesn’t solve the problem,” he said. “A father who wants to help orphaned children and already has two of his own must still assess whether he can afford to adopt another child.”
“His love for his neighbor is expressed in a reasonable way. He evaluates whether the child can be integrated into the existing family, both from a human-psychological and a financial standpoint,” he added. “One too many adoptions could place a heavy burden on the family and perhaps even put it at risk. Those who cannot provide for a child cannot adopt. Any child understands this.”
Pope Leo XIV’s pro-migrant rhetoric
Indeed, Pope Leo XIV and other prominent Catholic prelates have taken numerous opportunities to praise and only highlight the dignity of migrants while largely ignoring the Church’s full teaching on immigration.
While the Church affirms that immigrants should be treated with dignity and respect, as the Holy Father suggested, it also notes that a country has a right to secure its borders. In the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB’s) “Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples,” the conference outlines that countries are under no obligation to accept all who wish to enter.
In particularly egregious remarks during the pontiff’s June visit to Spain, he praisedmigration into Europe, days after a migrant from Muslim-majority Sudan attacked and attempted to behead a man in Northern Ireland.
Just under two months later at the end of July, 50,000-60,000 migrants swarmed into the small Spanish territory of Ceuta illegally from the predominantly Islamic Moroccan border.
During the reckless surge, at least 86 people died, mostly by drowning while trying to swim onto the Spanish shores.
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