Without faith in Christ, Europe becomes 'a lifeless body' ripe for takeover by its ‘strongest neighbor,’ Cardinal Gerhard Müller warned amid Islamic migration and ‘Orwellian’ globalism.
Beloved: Do not be surprised if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. In this we have come to know His love, that He laid down His life for us; and we likewise ought to lay down our life for the brethren. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? My dear children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
I John lll. 13-18
The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has reportedly corrected and reminded two Argentine bishops that the faithful retain the right to receive Holy Communion kneeling and on the tongue, following local measures widely perceived as discouraging or restricting these longstanding practices.
According to reports in Argentine Catholic media, including El Wanderer, Vatican officials held discussions with Archbishop Marcelo Colombo of Mendoza, president of the Argentine Bishops’ Conference, and Bishop Gabriel Barba of San Luis. The dicastery is said to have underlined that “the faithful have the freedom to receive Communion according to the methods established by the Church, and this freedom cannot be restricted”.
N.B. Well said …
“1. In 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre was a renowned figure. He had plenty of enemies in the Roman Curia, to be sure — but he was also a highly influential missionary to Africa due to his prolific work in the Holy Ghost Fathers. He had brother bishops in Rome going back to pre-conciliar times, and they would have been at least somewhat sympathetic to him, even if they disagreed with his cause.
“In 2026, this is no longer the case. A generation of SSPX priests and bishops has now run its course in relative isolation from the conciliar structures. Those types of personal relationships are long gone.
“Sure, its possible that Bishop Fellay made some friends during his negotiations in the 2010s...but I think it's safe to say that SSPX sympathizers in Rome are few and far between these days.
“2. Benedict XVI wasn't exactly a traditionalist, but his attempts at a hermeneutic of continuity betrayed his desire for some kind of post-conciliar course correction. Reconciliation with the SSPX was a big part of that, as evidenced by Summorum Pontificum and the lifting of the 1988 excommunications.
“But under Francis, the hermeneutic of continuity died — and the eulogy was Traditionis Custodes. And to make matters worse, the cardinals he appointed make a future Benedict XVII exceedingly unlikely.
“You'd assume that Francis was opposed to the very raison d'être of the SSPX, yet he granted them more privileges than anyone else. He was also kind enough to eliminate most of their competition by issuing Traditionis Custodes.
“Unfortunately, while the more skittish SSPX faithful might have enjoyed the comforts of those papal privileges, the doctrinal crisis reached a fever pitch under that pontificate — and the chief architect of those problems is the man now presented to the SSPX for negotiations. Not good.
“3. Whatever doctrinal problems existed in 1988 have only gotten worse since then — or, in the words of Father Pagliarani, "received, developed, and applied for sixty years by successive popes."
“In 1988, there was collegiality, ecumenism, religious liberty, and of course, the Novus Ordo Missae to deal with. The most scandalous event in recent memory was the Assisi meeting.
“A reconciliation in The Big '26 would mean resolving all those original issues, PLUS Traditionis Custodes, Mater Populi Fidelis, Fiducia Supplicans, Amoris Laetitia, the Abu Dhabi declaration...to say nothing of the many public scandals that have hardened so many hearts since 1988.
“4. The Ecclesia Dei groups are now well-established, along with plenty of diocesan TLMs that have escaped Traditionis Custodes unscathed.
“Of course, anyone who's been in traditionalist circles for a while knows that the Missal is just the tip of the iceberg. Still, the existence of "safe, legal, and rare" traditionalist ghettos does a lot to neuter the opposition: If you've got a comfortable longhouse where you can just pretend the Novus Ordo doesn't exist, why rock the boat? (You aren't a schismatic, are you?)
“All of that to say...even if the Vatican attempts a copy-paste on John Paul II's response to the consecrations of 1988, the experience on the ground will be very different this time.
“And whatever your take on the issue, prayer and pursuit of personal holiness is never a bad response.”
@CullumSmith
A Catholic Marian festival in the West Bank was able to proceed after Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa intervened with Israeli authorities amid mounting pressure on Christian communities.
June 1, 2026
TAYBEH, Palestine (LifeSiteNews) — A Marian festival in the Christian West Bank town of Taybeh proceeded after Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa intervened after an attempt by Israeli military personnel to halt preparations.
On May 29, Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, intervened with Israeli authorities after military personnel ordered organizers to stop preparations for a Catholic Marian festival in Taybeh, a Palestinian town in the West Bank that is widely regarded as the last entirely Christian locale in the territory. According to witnesses and representatives of the Vulnerable People Project (VPP), the intervention by the cardinal resulted in permission being granted for the celebration to continue as planned.
(LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Gerhard Müller has warned that the West is threatened by Islamic migration and “Orwellian” globalist elites and will not survive without a return to Christianity.
In an essay published by kath.net, the German cardinal detailed the political and religious problems the West is facing and traced them to their philosophical roots in the anti-Christian Enlightenment.
He said the Western world cannot survive without the Christian faith because “the West is nothing other than the cultural community of the Germanic and Slavic tribes and nations, which emerged from the legacy of the Western Roman Empire and are united in their faith in Christ, the Son of God and universal Savior of humanity.”
“Thus, Europe is Christianity in its synthesis with Greek metaphysics and the Roman will for order according to the principle of justice – that is, the will to give to each his due: suum cuique (Ulpian) or, to put it theologically, the inviolable dignity of every human being as the image and likeness of God.”
“Outside of this definition, Europe loses its formative soul and becomes a lifeless body that, like an ownerless territory, falls into the hands of the nearest and strongest neighbor,” he argued.
Citing the late Pope Francis, Müller said that “we are already in the midst of a Third World War, in stages.” Explaining, he said:
“Only the conceit of Western superiority remains alive,” Müller mused. “Should our secularism and materialism – as in the days of colonialism – be imposed as a panacea on the supposedly backward East and South, under the motto: Development aid only on the condition of legalizing same-sex marriage and the killing of children in the womb, euthanasia, and assisted suicide – and all of this for the sake of drastically reducing the population due to climate protection and the scarcity of material resources?”
More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/europe-is-christianity-muller-says-the-west-must-return-to-the-faith-to-defeat-islam-globalism/