Last Spring,the most popular course at Yale was “Thr Catholic Intellectual Tradition”

“Last spring, the most popular history course at Yale was The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, a survey of Catholic thinking and writing from the first century to the present. It beat out such popular, evergreen classes as The Birth of Europe and The Roman Empire. I was asked to assist with this 85-student course as a teaching fellow. Each week, after scrolling past calls to defund the humanities and to automate the many jobs that make a liberal arts education possible, I found myself surrounded by eager students ready to engage with fourth-century Christology, medieval mysticism, World War II–era debates over “just war” theory, and much more.”

I Teach at Yale. There Are Gen Z Catholics All Around Me. I Know What Must Be Done.

Universities need to do more to connect with an increasingly religious student body.

BY SERGIO INFANTE

AUG 27, 20261:37 PM

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Erick W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images and thinkomatic/iStock/Getty Images Plus.

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TODAY: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Beatification

Livesreamed here at 2 pm:

https://www.celebratesheen.com/ 

Synodalism Marches On: Martyrs Need Not Apply

 To be "written in blood," meant (and still means) to make binding. God himself called the New Testament, written in His blood, an everlasting testament.

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  Fr. John A. Perricone

  Martyrs are now passé—for the Synodalist Church, that is. 

  Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process.

  Who would die for that?

  For the Synodalist, truth is an antediluvian embarrassment—and so are martyrs.

  To the chagrin of faithful Catholics, the Synodal Church marches forward. Any religion worth its salt cringes at the sandbox therapeutics of this comedy parading as Catholicism.

  Our one consolation is that its only appeal lay in the tony salons of the outré theological gentry. They pride themselves as standing aloof from the smelly Catholic hoi polloi who still clutch their rosaries and prayer books, standing on confessional lines in heartfelt contrition. Synodalists and their fellow travelers such as America,The National Catholic Reporter, and the elite Catholic universities have been birthing a New Christianity, one not shackled to a spent millennial past. These Bright Young Things (forgive me, Mr. Waugh) are no longer victims to a literal Gospel which takes God at His word. Part of their sparkle is a proud new revision of the Gospel page, unimpeded by the rude objectivity of the past.

  More: https://x.com/sitsio/status/2093043212109971826?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

BREAKING: Rupnik victims speak out

Reported by Michael Haynes via Twitter:

JUST IN: Alleged Rupnik victims pen open letter to Pope Leo

They argue “it is useless to report abuse to church authorities, because nothing will happen anyway, no one will be held accountable, and the victims will never see justice”

Call for transparency & impartiality so that Rupnik's trial “remain free of any shadow of doubt.”

They note they only heard his trial was underway from media reports – Vatican has been silent 

On @CatholicHerald

Umberto Eco on the Internet “invasion of the idiots”

 

Mexican bishop bans laypeople from presiding over liturgical celebrations

 Niwa Limbu

Aug. 27, 2026

A Mexican bishop has issued a decree restricting laypeople from presiding over certain liturgical celebrations and wearing vestments reserved to the clergy

Bishop Carlos Enrique Samaniego López of Texcoco has issued a decree prohibiting laypeople who have not been instituted as acolytes from presiding over celebrations of the Word, funeral rites, sacramentals and other liturgical acts reserved to ordained ministers.

The decree, promulgated on 10 August in the Episcopal City of Texcoco, also prohibits laypeople from wearing the alb and other sacred vestments reserved to the clergy, whether during liturgical celebrations or outside them. 

Bishop Samaniego said the measures were necessary because of “irregular practices that distort the priestly ministry and the sacred character of liturgical acts”. Particular concern was raised about celebrations taking place in halls, gardens and other locations that have not been approved for worship, sometimes involving people who present themselves as ministers despite lacking the necessary authorisation.

The bishop specifically named former seminarians, religious, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and other lay faithful who have not been instituted in the stable ministry of acolyte. Such people, the decree states, may not preside over celebrations of the Word, funeral rites, sacramentals or “any kind of celebration or liturgical act proper to an ordained minister”, whether inside churches belonging to the Diocese of Texcoco or elsewhere.

The prohibition is accompanied by a warning about the use of clerical or liturgical clothing. “It is further forbidden, by reason of evident unlawfulness, to use or put on, within or outside liturgical acts, the alb or any sacred ornament or vestment reserved uniquely and exclusively to the clergy,” the decree states.

The regulation is directed not only at laypeople but also at priests serving in the diocese. Bishop Samaniego instructed priests incardinated in Texcoco, as well as priests from other dioceses who are invited to celebrate there, to ensure that liturgical acts are celebrated “validly and licitly”.

Priests are told not to “permit, consent to, or promote illicit practices, abuses, or deceptions” and are instructed to prevent laypeople from assuming responsibilities that belong exclusively to the ordained ministry.

More: https://x.com/niwalimbu1988/status/2092905675168862385?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Cardinal Sarah says restricting the TLM is ‘harmful, destructive for the Church’

Cardinal Sarah on the perfidious document 'Traditionis Custodes', based on manipulations and lies of the late Argentine pope who cruelly persecuted Catholics who adhered to Tradition:

"It did not seem to me a wise or respectful choice. But Benedict XVI, a man meek as a lamb, allowed himself to be humiliated, and, thus, in silence and prayer, offered his suffering to God to better immerse himself in Christ's pain for his Church and purify it.

The war on those who devoutly participate in the Mass, solely because they prefer one form over another: it is a shortsighted and entirely ideological attitude, therefore not pastoral and not Christian. It is harmful, destructive to the Church."

@SiateSanti