French Priest Says Pope Must Intervene After Brigitte Macron’s ‘Profane’ Reception of Communion

December 10, 2025 Tags Sacrilege from LifeSite Newsby Jeanne Smits

Father Guy Pagès is a priest of the diocese of Paris well known for his work on Islam, its incoherence, and its total incompatibility with the Catholic faith. He recently wrote an open letter to Pope Leo XIV asking him to impose sanctions on those who allowed a profanation of the Holy Eucharist when France’s first lady was publicly given Communion during a special Mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, in Notre Dame Cathedral. The occasion was the cathedral’s official reopening after the terrible fire, beginning on the Monday of Holy Week in 2019, that could have destroyed it.

Pagè’s letter is full of anguish regarding the eternal fate of those who made this sacrilege possible and, mentioning the assessment of Benedict XVI, warns that a parallel can be made between the abuse of children within the Church and contempt for the Body of Christ.

It was exactly one year ago, on December 8, 2024, that Brigitte Macron, civilly married to French president Emmanuel Macron, joined her husband at Notre Dame and went up from her front row seat in Notre Dame to receive Holy Communion. She received the Host from the hands of Bishop Philippe Marsset, auxiliary bishop of Paris, in the presence of the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich. Not a word was said, nor an eyebrow raised, in the face of this public scandal. Brigitte Macron, who divorced her first husband, André-Louis Auzière, in 2006, is not known to have regularized her marital situation by a religious wedding after Auzière’s death in December 2019. Also, she is a public supporter of abortion, euthanasia, and LGBT demands.

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Three Kings To Arrive On Camelback For Epiphany Celebration In Waldorf

 

by Jessica JenningsDecember 30, 2025

Image from Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church

WALDORF, Md. — For the third year in a row, three kings traveling by camel will arrive at Our Lady Help of Christians Church on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, as part of a community Epiphany celebration welcoming families from across Southern Maryland.

The kings are expected to arrive at 100 Village Street at 10 a.m., marking the start of the celebration, which will include food, music, and treats for children. All are invited to attend, and participation is open to everyone, regardless of religious background.

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Is the Church committing suicide? Cardinal Zen's warning

John-Henry Westen and a guest priest react to the latest crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass, this time from the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee. The discussion opens with Cardinal Joseph Zen’s grave warning that the Church is “committing suicide” by assimilating with the world.

The focus then turns to Bishop Mark Beckman’s letter, which reduces the Latin Mass to a monthly event, calling the post-Vatican II liturgical reform “a gift of the Holy Spirit.” The priest’s response is unequivocal: “No. I do not consider it a gift … It is an atrocity. It is an insult to God.”

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focus then turns to Bishop Mark Beckman’s letter, whicvidei  reduces the Latin Mass to a monthly event, calling https://www.lifesitenews.com/episodes/pope-leo-downplays-the-filioque-in-new-apostolic-letter/

Trump Administration Has Found 62,000 Children, Some Victims of Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor, Tom Homan Reports

 Virginia Allen  | December 08, 2025

White House border czar Tom Homan outside of the White House, Nov. 14. (Evelyn Hockstein via Reuters) 

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The Trump administration has located 62,000 children who entered the U.S. unaccompanied underthe previous administration, according to border czar Tom Homan.  

“Some of these children were in sex trafficking—we found them. Some were in forced labor, some were being mistreated—I can’t even discuss some of the mistreatment we found out about,” Homan said Sunday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends Weekend.” 

“President [Donald] Trump, again, proves why he’s the greatest president in my lifetime,” Homan added. “Over 62,000 children rescued by President Trump, again, children that were ignored and weren’t being looked for under President [Joe] Biden.” More: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/08/trump-administration-found-62000-children-some-victims-sex-trafficking-forced-labor/

Brigitte Gets The Host, Illegals Get Dispensations, Trad Families Get The Toll Booth

 

When bishops suspend Mass for fugitives, reward sacrilege for the powerful, and crack down on coffee hour for trads, you are watching a regime guard its revolution

CHRIS JACKSON dec 10, 2025

Advent is supposed to be a season of penance and preparation. Instead we get a parish in Boston evicting the Holy Family from the crèche to score points against ICE, a televised sacrilege in Notre Dame as Brigitte Macron receives Communion, a bishop in Louisiana handing out dispensations that function as cover for people avoiding arrest, and a bishop in Charlotte trying to dissolve what is left of a Latin Mass community. It is very clear whose side the post conciliar establishment has chosen, and it is not God’s.

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Slavery is not a uniquely American phenomenon.

Unfortunately true. Why do American schools teach about it as if that is the case?

From Brett Pike @ClassicLearner on Twitter:

“Slavery had been the norm throughout all of history, for thousands of years, impacting all people, including millions of Europeans enslaved in the Ottoman Empire - which had institutionalized the sexual slavery of European women. Yet children are led to believe that slavery was a uniquely American activity.

“Now why do you think that is?”

Scripture for today: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”

“6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.“

1 John, 1:6-10

Europe has three problems

 

Brilliant, tragic and witty from Daniel Foubert on Twitter @Arrogance_0024:

Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover".

First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive. 

The British identity crisis is like watching a retired lion try to adopt a vegan diet. They traded imperial confidence for an HR department’s sensitivity training. The land of Churchill is now governed by a sprawling "nanny state" bureaucracy that is more terrified of offending someone on X than it is of actual decline. The British police, once the envy of the world, now seem to spend more resources investigating "non-crime hate incidents" and painting their patrol cars in rainbow colors than solving burglaries. It is a nation desperately clinging to the aesthetics of tradition—the Royals, the pomp, the tea—while its institutions have been hollowed out by a progressive rot that makes a California university campus look conservative. They want the swagger of the 19th century but are paralyzed by the emotional fragility of the 21st.

Then there is France, the angry, chain-smoking aunt of Europe who refuses to admit she’s been unemployed for decades. 

France’s hangover manifests as a permanent state of insurrection masquerading as "civic engagement." Their identity is split between a delusional elite who still think Paris is the capital of the universe and a populace that expresses its "joie de vivre" by burning down bus stops every Thursday. The French suffer from a Napoleonic complex without a Napoleon; they demand the living standards of a conquering empire while working a 35-hour week and retiring at an age when most Americans are just hitting their stride. They preach "Republican values" and aggressive secularism, yet the state has lost control over vast swathes of its own suburbs. France is essentially a beautiful, open-air museum where the curators are on strike, the guards are afraid of the visitors, and the management is busy lecturing the rest of the world on "grandeur" while the electricity bill goes unpaid.

Finally, we have Germany, the neurotic giant that has decided the only way to atone for its history is to commit slow-motion industrial suicide. 

Germany’s post-imperial hangover is a moral autoimmune disease: the country is so terrified of its own shadow that it has replaced national pride with aggressive self-flagellation and recycling regulations. Their identity is built on being the "Moral Superpower," which practically translates to shutting down their perfectly functional nuclear power plants to burn dirty coal, all while lecturing their neighbors on carbon footprints. It is a nation of engineers who have engineered a society that doesn't work. The German spirit, once defined by efficiency and discipline, has mutated into a paralyzed bureaucracy where filling out the correct form is more important than the outcome. They are so desperate to avoid being "threatening" that they’ve become essentially a large NGO with an army that has broomsticks for rifles, terrified that showing any backbone might be interpreted as a relapse.

Meditation on the Feast of St Stephen, protomartyr

Acts 6

8 And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and signs among the people.
9 Now there arose some of that which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them that were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that spoke.
54 Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.

Acts 7:55-59
55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
56 And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him.
57 And casting him forth without the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.
58 And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
59 And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord.

From the Sermons of St. Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspe.
On St. Stephen
Yesterday we were celebrating the birth in time of our Eternal King; today we celebrate the victory, through suffering, of one of His soldiers. Yesterday our King was pleased to come forth from His royal palace of the Virgin's womb, clothed in a robe of flesh, to visit the world; today His soldier, laying aside the tabernacle of the body, entereth in triumph into the heavenly palaces. The One, preserving unchanged that glory of the Godhead which He had before the world was, girded Himself with the form of a servant, and entered the arena of this world to fight sin; the other taketh off the garments of this corruptible body, and entereth into the heavenly mansions, where he will reign for ever. The One cometh down, veiled in flesh; the other goeth up, clothed in a robe of glory, red with blood.

The One cometh down amid the jubilation of angels; the other goeth up amid the stoning of the Jews. Yesterday the holy angels were singing, Glory to God in the highest; today there is joy among them, for they receive Stephen into their company. Yesterday the Lord came forth from the Virgin's womb; today His soldier is delivered from the prison of the body. Yesterday Christ was for our sakes wrapped in swaddling bands; today He girdeth Stephen with a robe of immortality. Yesterday the new-born Christ lay in a narrow manger; today Stephen entereth victorious into the boundless heavens. The Lord came down alone that He might raise many up; our King humbled Himself that He might set His soldiers in high places.

Why brethren, it behoveth us to consider with what arms Stephen was able, amid all the cruelty of the Jews, to remain more than conqueror, and worthily to attain to so blessed a triumph. Stephen, in that struggle which brought him to the crown whereof his name is a prophecy, had for armour the love of God and man, and by it he remained victorious on all hands. The love of God strengthened him against the cruelty of the Jews; and the love of his neighbour made him pray even for his murderers. Through love he rebuked the wandering, that they might be corrected; through love he prayed for them that stoned him, that they might not be punished. By the might of his love he overcame Saul his cruel persecutor; and earned for a comrade in heaven, the very man who had done him to death upon earth.

Giotto as a Guide to Christmas Light and Darkness

«Even the dumb ox, symbol of the lower creation in its brute force, seems to take its cue from the Virgin and turns into a contemplative, pleased to be an animal-in-waiting at the humble court of the Lamb of God.»

Giotto di Bondone (ca. 1267–1337) holds a front rank among the great painters of the Western tradition. Giotto’s work shows a mastery of form, color, volume, spatial arrangement, dramatic appeal, emotional expressiveness, and spiritual depth. Although his influences are obvious (e.g., Cimabue and the Assisi circle), the alchemy he performs with them is, like Suger’s St. Denis in Paris, a miracle of transformation.

Giotto and Fra Angelico are often mentioned in the same breath as artists in whom one sees a marvelous confluence of medieval luminosity, Byzantine formalism, and a new awareness of naturalism and perspective. The resulting whole is greater than the mere sum of its parts. Giotto’s work stands poised at a magical moment when the naïve innocence of medieval art and the stable, hieratic framework of the icon are still the order of the day, but when artists have acquired a new eye for shading, nuance of brushstroke, and depth of human psychology.

In the image above—a detail from one of the many scenes painted on the walls of the Scrovegni or Arena Chapel in Padua—we see Our Lady holding the Christchild with tender love and reverent awe. Her serene face tells us that she has not suffered the pains of childbirth, while the bright eyes of her Son and His preternaturally upright head tell us that He is no ordinary mortal boy, but the Promised One who fully knows Who He is, whence He has come, and whither He goes. As in Byzantine icons, He is wrapped in swaddling clothes that hauntingly suggest burial linens; He is about to be placed in a manger that

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Women Wearing Fantasy-Stoles Act Already As If Ordained - Swiss Bishop

 

Swiss Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti has criticised the Vatican study commission that has examined the impossibility of a female diaconate.

In a post on his personal blog on 8 December, he argued that it was difficult to understand why the commission was unable to reach a definitive conclusion.

According to Eleganti, "it is all too obvious that, despite the historical evidence, the goal is to keep the pot simmering — to keep the question open."

He notes that church feminists already wear "fantasy stoles".

He recalls that previous study commissions have repeatedly re-examined the historical record, only to arrive at the same results that have been known for decades. "Is it tragedy or comedy?" he asks. The bishop adds that the ancient deaconesses "were different from the deacons of their time and were shaped by cultural circumstances".

Contradicting Sister Linda Pocher, who is presented publicly as a papal advisor, Eleganti insists that the Church's rejection of a sacramental female diaconate is not culturally conditioned, but rather an infallible and timeless teaching.

While the current study commission acknowledges that history provides no grounds for establishing a sacramental female diaconate, it nonetheless declares that the matter must be clarified by the Magisterium.

Eleganti criticises this deliberate manoeuvre: "The unteachable remain unteachable despite magisterial decisions. Why, then, did the commission insert this twist into its conclusion despite the clear evidence? To ensure that we enter yet another round of debate under new pretexts."

The bishop is reminded of the German folktale about the hedgehog and the hare on the racetrack — a story in which trickery leads to a senseless contest and an exhausted hare. Eleganti asks: "Is the next goal a sui generis female diaconate — a deaconess without ordination, but with a liturgical blessing?"

In his conclusion, Monsignor Eleganti warns of an impending "sacramental dystopia".

"If, in practice, women and men, whether ordained or not, end up performing the same tasks — some by virtue of ordination and others through blessings and exemptions, such as baptism, preaching or leadership — then we have reached a dystopian distortion of the sacramental order.' Some will call this the overcoming of clericalism, while others will praise it as a new form of synodality or shared ministry. Both misunderstand what a sacrament is. In Switzerland, we have had this for a long time. Call it whatever you want."

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