Merry Christmas!

At Christmas Midnight Mass, Pope Leo XIV says: “Let us marvel dear brothers and sisters at the wisdom of Christmas. In the Child Jesus, God gives the world a new life, His own, offered for all. He does not give us a clever solution to every problem, but a love story that draws us in. In response to the expectations of peoples He sends a child to be a word of hope. In the face of the suffering of the poor, He sends one who is defenceless to be the strength to rise again. Before violence and oppression He kindles a gentle light that illumines with salvation all the children of this world. As St. Augustine observed “Human pride weighed you down, and so heavily, that only Divine Humility could raise you up again.”

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BREAKING: In meeting with Pritzker Pope Leo explicitly condemned Illinois “assisted” suicide legalization of murder

 BREAKING 

Pope Leo XIV has said that he 'very explicitly' told Illinois Governor Pritzker of his opposition to Assisted Suicide laws

“We were very clear about the need to respect the sacredness of life, from beginning to end. And unfortunately he decided to sign that bill. I am very disappointed by this"

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Cardinal Müller: Pope is to be the ‘guarantee of unity of the Church’

 

Cardinal Müller: Gender ideology is ‘absolutely criminal’ 

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has issued a firm critique of gender ideology and modern push for LGBT acceptance, condemning it as “absolutely criminal” and warning that there is too much “naivety” in the Church on the matter. 

“The clarity of the doctrine is essential for the Catholic Church,” Cdl. Müller noted, as he opined on the issues relating to doctrinal confusion and LGBT ideology affecting the Catholic Church today.   

Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave the comments in a wide-ranging exclusive interview with this correspondent for Pelican Media.  

The 77-year-old German theologian – who took part in his first conclave earlier this year – spoke about the need for doctrinal integrity, the pervasiveness of LGBT ideology and the “naivety” of bishops to counteract it, the contradictions of a “synodal church,” and the positive steps being taken in America to counteract the spread of anti-Christian ideologies.  

Not content with just condemning the omnipresent LGBT ideology, Müller also offered an analysis of its links to Communist and Gnostic ideology, and how at the heart of such movements, is an attack on the Divine institution of marriage. 

“Which ideology was responsible for the death of more than 100 million people, also for the Gulags?” he quipped. “This is not only an accident in Communism, but it is a logical consequence of atheism, and no respect for life.” 

The first part of Pelican+’s exclusive interview with Cardinal Müller is found below, and subsequent parts will be published in the coming days. 

More: https://pelicanquill.com/snippet/56766

In Vigilia Nativitatis Domini

"Let us therefore make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us, he may abide there" (IV Kings 4:13).

Such was the Sunamite woman's regard for the prophet Eliseus, that she would make such preparations for his entertainment! Will we do as much for Christ who is ready to come to us? Take pains, O Christian, to occupy this night in pious thoughts, and aspirations, for the love of God and for the good of your own soul, making yourself worthy to receive the graces which He is ready when He comes, to give you. Think how Mary, who was near her time, and Joseph her spouse obedient to the Imperial command, and perfectly submissive to the will of God, journeyed with the greatest inconvenience to Bethlehem, and when, because of the multitude of people, they found no place to receive them they took refuge, as God willed it, in a most miserable stable, at the extreme end of the town. What love does not the Savior deserve, who for love of us so humbled Himself! - Father Goffine

COLLECT

O God, who makest us rejoice in the yearly expectation of the feast of our redemption: grant, that we who cheerfully receive Thy only-begotten Son as a Redeemer, may behold without fear the same Lord Jesus Christ, coming as our judge. Through our Lord.

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SHOCK: Rorate Mass at Saint Mary’s in Laurel

The Rorate Mass is essentially a traditional Latin Mass thing but the new Mass can easily be dressed up with chant and the other trimmings to serve as a dignified substitute. Congratulations to the priests and seminarians who showed up and served. Bravo.

Evidently the pendulum is indeed swinging.

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Catholic church, chapel desecrated within a week in Rome

 Human feces were found in San Nicola di Bari Church and in a chapel at Rome's busiest train station in November. 

Antonino Cambria

ROME (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic church and a chapel at Rome’s busiest train station were recently desecrated within a week of one another, with an act of reparation being performed in one and the other being closed after the sacrilege.

On November 25, human feces were found at various parts of San Nicola di Bari Church (St. Nicholas of Bari) in Ostia, including the altar, per the Diocese of Rome. Cardinal Vicar Baldassare Reina, the vicar general of the Diocese of Rome; Bishop Monsignor Renato Tarantelli Baccari, auxiliary bishop of the Southern sector; and the parish priest celebrated a Solemn Mass of reparation at the church on December 1.

Just days after the first desecration, urine and human excrement were also found in multiple corners of a Catholic chapel, including the altar, at the Termini Railway Station, Rome’s main train station, which frequently draws Catholic pilgrims traveling to the Eternal City, according to Italian media. After this desecration, the chapel was temporarily closed, but enough faithful volunteered to watch it, allowing it to reopen.

“San Nicola di Bari … was shaken by a very serious and unspeakable sacrilegious act that occurred this afternoon … inside the sacred building,” a diocesan statement on the desecration at St. Nicholas Church said. “Unknown vandals entered the church making a gesture of profound desecration: human excrement was found in several places in the building, including the altar, a place reserved for the Eucharistic Sacrifice.”

After the desecration, while the church remained open to the public, Masses were temporarily celebrated at a nearby church until the December 1 Mass of reparation,during which the altar and walls were purified.

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-church-chapel-desecrated-within-a-week-in-rome/

The sad fate of the Catholic Herald is a warning of the dangers of US investment firms

 Olenka Hamilton

Wed, 3 December 2025 at 4:26 am GMT-5

8 min read

Catholic Herald

The US investment firm Redbird has withdrawn from its deal to buy The Telegraph. The fate of another iconic British publication, the Catholic Herald, which was bought in 2023 by $3.4bn alternative asset firm GEM NY, offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of being taken over by private equity firms, especially American ones.

After only two years of GEM’s involvement, the Catholic Herald is about to go to only four issues a year, down from 12, and most of its staff have walked out.

The once mighty Herald, which in its post-war glory days used to boast a 100,000 weekly Sunday newspaper circulation and operate from its own building off Fleet Street, now has its British HQ in a “hot-desk” corner of Westminster Library. When I joined the magazine part-time in 2019, it was one of the most civilised places in Britain, or possibly the world, to work. We operated from Herald House, a Dickensian old building next to the Barbican – with its own church – owned by the diocese of Westminster.

That it was falling to pieces and you had to walk up five floors to reach editorial didn’t matter. The staff, then headed by Luke Coppen, were courteous, brilliant, marvellously eccentric and, most importantly, superb at what they did, miraculously putting out 50 extremely high-quality weekly issues a year.

I realised at the time what a privilege it was for a young journalist like me to be working in such a professional and historic media organisation.

Lack of money, however, became a serious problem during the pandemic when churches were closed and distribution effectively cut off. The directors were under enormous pressure to find new investment. Finally, the New York-based GEM NY, who had recently had success with selling an iconic French fashion magazine for $57m, acquired a controlling stake in the 135-year old magazine which had a 100-year-plus digital archive and whose writers used to include GK Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene.

GEM NY was run by “good New York Catholics with a lot of money who wanted to give something back”, we were told. They would hire brilliant consultants who would turn the Catholic Herald into a global brand and we would just continue as normal. With America having 80 million Catholics, compared to just 3 million in the UK, having a new focus on the USA – where conservative Catholics help to shape political conversation in a way that doesn’t happen here – made sense.

More: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sad-fate-catholic-herald-warning-092600729.html

SSPX Bishop Fellay calls Vatican’s latest Marian document ‘pitiful,’ ‘insult to God’

If you pray and make sacrifices, you can really save souls. If that’s true for any souls, how much more for the Blessed Virgin Mary?’ Bishop Bernard Fellay said.

Warsaw, mazowieckie, Poland - April 24 2025: Church of Virgin Mary Mediatrix of Graces.magdalenasparrow/Shutterstock

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Emily Mangiaracina

(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Bernard Fellay of the traditional priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) denounced the Vatican’s rejection of Mary’s titles of Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces as an “insult to God.”

Asked how the faithful should interpret the recently issued doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis, Bishop Fellay said in an interview with Kenya’s Immaculata TV, “I would dare to use the word ‘pitiful.’ It is an insult to God.”

“It’s only God who produces grace in us. But God wants his creatures to collaborate and cooperate in his work. Precisely because He made us free, He wants us to make use of that freedom. And more than that He wants us to merit, He wants us to work.”

“Our Lady at Fatima said there are so many souls who fall into hell because no one prays and makes sacrifices for them,” he continued. “Which means if you pray and make sacrifices you can really save souls. If that’s true for any souls, how much more for the Blessed Virgin Mary? She had been chosen by God to be His mother.”

Bishop Fellay pointed out that popes had used the terms Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix to refer to the Blessed Mother, and he believes “almost all” of the popes have spoken of her in terms of these roles, whether they used these particular terms or not.

He believes that ecumenism has inspired Mater Populi Fidelis, something he pointed out has permeated the Church hierarchy since the Second Vatican Council. The attitude that we must ignore the Blessed Mother is a Protestant one, he added. “There is a Protestant spirit in the Church.”

Bishop Fellay went on to encourage the faithful to ask the Blessed Mother for graces because, as she pointed out in her apparition inscribed on the Miraculous Medal, there are so many graces waiting to be bestowed that people don’t ask for.

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sspx-bishop-fellay-calls-vaticans-latest-marian-document-pitiful-insult-to-god/

Hindu Idols in Carolina, Mosques in Texas, Catholics in Exile

 

As idols and mosques take U.S. soil, Leo grins for the cameras, preaches “dialogue,” and lets the Church burn. 

CHRIS JACKSON

DEC 05, 2

You can tell a civilization is dying by what it permits at the center and what it tolerates only at the margins.

In North Carolina, a 155 foot statue of a Hindu deity is rising over land that once assumed, without even thinking about it, that the First Commandment was true. In Texas, capital is building a purpose built Muslim enclave with mosque, school, and shops. In Germany, bishops and lay technocrats are creating a permanent Synod Conference to manage the controlled demolition of whatever Catholic sense of authority still exists. In Rome, Leo XIV stands between minarets and bell towers and speaks of one God and shared hymns.

And in America, most bishops are still trying to get Latin Mass communities out of parish churches and into rented halls and gymnasiums.

The idols are going up. The mosques are multiplying. The synod offices are expanding. The Catholic faith, in human terms, is retreating underground. The week’s news reads like a guided tour of the postconciliar experiment in real time.

More: https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/hindu-idols-in-carolina-mosques-in?triedRedirect=true