“The traditional liturgy is a work of the Holy Spirit. It can be persecuted, but not destroyed,” affirmed Monsignor Athanasius Schneider during an interview organized by the apostolate Know, Love, and Live Your Faith, in which he answered questions for over an hour about the state of the traditional liturgy, the doctrinal crisis in the Church, and the new pontificate of Leo XIV.
The Traditional Mass, a “perennial” and persecuted liturgy
Monsignor Schneider began by referring to the climate of “continued persecution” against the Traditional Mass in various parts of the world, such as France, the United States, and Argentina, resulting from the application of Traditionis Custodes. Despite this, he expressed his hope:
“This liturgy cannot be destroyed. It is the work of the Holy Spirit for centuries. As in the times of Arianism, it will be divine Providence that restores peace with tradition.”
He asked the faithful to maintain a supernatural vision: “The Church belongs to Jesus Christ, not to the Pope, nor to us.”
Advice to Pope Leo XIV: Unrestricted freedom
Asked about what the new pontiff should do regarding the liturgy, Schneider was clear: avoid direct confrontation with his predecessor and, instead, prudently consult the College of Cardinals and then promulgate a new document that restores the full freedom of the Traditional Mass:
“The Pope must protect the children who have grown up in this liturgy. They must not be considered second-class Catholics. The Church is a mother; she must love all her children.”
He insisted that bishops should not have the authority to restrict this rite and proposed a clear and generous formula that transcends the “current dialectics”:
“A good father protects his children when their elders mistreat them. The Pope must prevent arbitrary persecutions.”
More: https://cathcon.blogspot.com/2025/06/bishop-schneider-asks-pope-leo-xiv-for.html
The incense is rising again.
Not just in Gothic cathedrals or Latin Mass enclaves—but in the hearts of young Americans who, against every cultural current, are swimming upstream toward Catholicism. It’s a phenomenon that baffles secular elites and liberal Protestants alike. How, in this age of deconstruction and digital nihilism, could the Church of hierarchy, ritual, and confession be considered—of all things—cool?
Yet it is. Quietly, steadily, and then suddenly. The Latin Mass is trending. Catechisms are bookmarked. Young adults are quoting Aquinas in the same breath as Camus. It’s not ironic. It’s not aesthetic. It’s not cosplay. It’s a revolt against rootlessness.
Because what looks like a religious revival is also a cultural rebellion.
We were told the future would be limitless, utterly empowering. We were told we’d be happiest with fewer rules, fewer roles, fewer traditions. Just vibes.
But the experiment failed. We’re lonelier. Sicker. Spiritually starved. In place of meaning, we got algorithms. In place of transcendence, we got TikTok therapy. And beneath the saccharine haze of self-care, many young people feel the gnawing presence of something missing.
Catholicism offers what the modern world cannot: structure. Discipline. Mystery. It doesn’t whisper that you’re perfect just the way you are. It demands transformation. It demands submission—to something older, wiser, and greater than you.
To be Catholic is to live inside a story. A two-thousand-year-old, blood-soaked, gold-threaded, world-shaping story. It has martyrs and miracles. Saints and scoundrels. Architecture that makes you weep. A God who became man. A carpenter who suffered for your sins. A virgin mother crowned in heaven. Try fitting that into a 15-second Instagram reel.
For young Americans raised on Marvel movies and deconstructionist memes, the sheer audacity of Catholicism is intoxicating. It doesn’t hedge its bets or dilute its claims. It says: This is the Body. This is the Blood. This is the Truth.
And young people, weary of euphemisms and moral relativism, are saying: Amen.
More: https://thecatholicherald.com/traditional-catholicism-the-new-cool-for-young-americans/
Cohabiting couples can be enlightened to the truth and beauty of Christian marriage by Catholics who bear witness to the sacrament in their own lives, Pope Leo XIV has said.
In an address to the seminar organised by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the American Pontiff said that many young people were “longing for authentic relationships and guides in life” and that the soaring numbers “who choose cohabitation instead of Christian marriage in reality need someone to show them in a concrete and clear way”.
He said the most effective witness Catholic couples could offer to cohabitees was “the example of their lives”.
Catholics can demonstrate “what the gift of sacramental grace is and what strength derives from it”, Pope Leo said, and be “someone to help” other young couples “understand the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life that God gives to married couples.”
Opinion | Maria Gallagher | May 30, 2025 | 5:35PM | Salem, Oregon
The territory for the disaster known as assisted suicide is expanding. Oregon, the state where legalized assisted suicide was born, has no residency requirement, meaning that anyone anywhere in the U.S. could fall victim to the state’s radical law. Now, some lawmakers in the Western state want to dismantle the few restrictions that exist regarding the diabolical practice.
In response, I decided to submit written testimony to the Oregon legislature raising my objections to the ill-conceived SB 1003.
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My name is Maria Gallagher, and I come to you as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, an affiliate of National Right to Life. I also come as a concerned mother, a daughter who has dealt with the health challenges of her parents, and an American citizen who is worried about the suicide tourism which is likely to expand under SB 1003.
In the year 2000, Jeanette Hall was told that she had only six months to live after receiving a cancer diagnosis. But she had a doctor who believed in her, who encouraged her not to give up. Twelve years later, she was still alive, and happy about it!
She readily admitted that, had her doctor believed in assisted suicide, she would have been dead, and would have missed out on so much of life. She expressed gratitude to her physician for giving her life with dignity.
The number one reason given for assisted suicide by its victims is not pain—it is loss of autonomy. They fear being a burden on others. That can be exacerbated when family members, friends, or medical professionals portray the patient as being a burden rather than a human being in need of care.
Shortening the existing waiting period, mandating promotion of assisted suicide by health care facilities, and broadening the definition of who can prescribe lethal drugs will only worsen a health care crisis which sees patients as problems rather than as people of priceless worth and dignity.
What about the patient who feels as if he or she is being pressured into assisted suicide because of the high cost of health care? What about the patient who is suffering from debilitating depression and needs treatment, but who does not receive it? What about the patient whose loneliness and fears drive him or her to want to stop living?
More: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/05/30/oregon-wants-all-americans-to-come-there-to-kill-themselves/
Pope Leo XIV called for the evangelization of young people to help them choose sacramental marriage, in stark contrast to Pope Francis’ scandalous comments about cohabitation.
