ANNIVERSARY OF THE BULL “QUO PRIMUM TEMPORE” OF ST. PIUS V (July 14, 1570)

On July 14, 1570, Pope St. Pius V promulgated the bull Quo primum tempore, on the perpetual use of the Roman Apostolic Mass, stating:

“…so that the priests may know with certainty which prayers they must use, which are the rites and which the ceremonies that they must, under obligation, preserve henceforth in the celebration of the Masses; so that all everywhere may accept and observe what has been transmitted to them by the Roman Church, Mother and Teacher of all the other Churches, and so that, henceforth and for the time to come, perpetually, in all the patriarchal, cathedral, collegiate, and parish churches, etc…

We have decided and declare that the superiors, administrators, canons, chaplains, and other priests or religious of any order whatsoever cannot be obliged to celebrate the Mass in any other manner than as We have prescribed it, and that never shall anyone, whoever it may be, be able to contradict them or force them to change their Missal…”

The codification approved by St. Pius V through this bull could never be abrogated by anyone.

Oslo Bishop begins preparations for canonization cause of Sigrid Undset

Oslo Bishop Fredrik Hansen has begun preparations for the canonization cause for Sigrid Undset, the Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureate who converted to Catholicism in 1924.

Sigrid Undset

Info: Catholic Church in Norway

Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show

By Kate Abnett

July 13, 20261:10 AM GMT+2Updated 3 hours ago

BRUSSELS, July 13 (Reuters) - European countries reported more than 10,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave that engulfed the west of the continent in late June, official data showed.

The vast majority — more ​than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above, according to data published by ‌EuroMOMO, a network backed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization.

Extreme heat can kill by causing heat stroke, or aggravating cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, with older people among the most ​vulnerable.

"To have this kind of excess at this time of year is unusual. It’s ​really high," Lasse Vestergaard, Chief Physician at Denmark's Statens Serum Institut, which hosts ⁠EuroMOMO, told Reuters.

"It is difficult to explain this high excess mortality by anything but the extreme ​heat," Vestergaard added.

Scientists have said the late-June heatwave would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, ​which is making heatwaves more frequent and intense.

The data, pooled from national mortality statistics in 27 European countries, included excess deaths from all causes, not just heat-related ones, during the week of June 22 to 28, when ​the heatwave peaked in France, Spain, Britain and other countries.

More: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/europe-recorded-10000-excess-deaths-during-late-june-heatwave-data-show-2026-07-12/

Chiesa di San Zaccaria, Venezia

 

I reliquie di San Atanasio e San Zaccaria 

Pala di altare da Giovanni Bellini

Cardinal Müller: SSPX confessions and marriages are valid

From Andea_Wailzer on Twitter/X:

Regarding the DDF's explanatory note stating that confessions and marriages administered by SSPX priests are "invalid," Cardinal Gerhard Müller told me the following:

“The note from the Dicastery, which appears only in the explanatory notes, is unclear.“

“The authority to forgive sins is conferred by Christ Himself in the sacrament of Holy Orders, not by the Pope through his primacy of jurisdiction, for Orthodox priests also validly grant absolution.”

“The Pope can only prohibit the exercise of this authority and reserve certain sins for his own absolution, such as, for example, the sin against the unity of the Church committed through an unauthorized episcopal consecration."

Cardinal Müller had stated earlier in an interview with K-TV that SSPX confessions are "valid but not allowed" after the excommunications following the July 1 episcopal consecrations without papal mandate. This has caused some confusion since Cardinal Victor Fernandez said in the DDF document that confessions and marriages would not only be "not allowed" (i.e., faculties revoked) but also "invalid."

Chiesa di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venezia

La faciata della chiesa

Capolavoro di Tiziano: l’Assunzione di Beata Maria Vergine

L’ apside

Pala del altare

Tomba di Canova

Tomba monumentale del doge

Pope Leo welcomes migrants to Europe while Vatican keeps fortress-like borders

 A viral video shows Pope Leo XIV welcoming a large group of African migrants in Sicily, but Vatican City bans illegal immigration with huge fines and jail time.

Pope Leo XIVJuan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images

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LifeSiteNews staff

(LifeSiteNews) — Images of Pope Leo XIV welcoming African migrants to Europe has sparked outrage, as some accuse the Pontiff of encouraging the weakening of western nations while maintaining Vatican City as an impenetrable fortress that threatens illegal migrants with huge fines and lengthy prison sentences. 

In a widely viewed video posted by EWTN, the Pope can be seen greeting a large group of migrants who had just made their way by boat to the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa. He also prayed at a cemetery there for migrants who died making the perilous journey. 

The viral video has been seen over 1.1 million times while triggering nearly 2,000 mostly negative comments because of the Vatican’s longstanding hypocrisy on migration and open borders. 

“The Church’s silence regarding the threats European Christians face is already deafening. Combining it with telling Europeans that they must do more to ‘integrate and protect migrants’, is adding insult to injury,” declaredEva Vlaardingerbroek, conservative European commentator and founder of the Save Europe Act, responding to the video. 

“The Pope’s decision to do this now, right as Europe is witnessing yet another wave of murders of its citizens by migrants (think of Louis, Christian, Henry, and the countless others) cannot be dismissed as a mere public relations blunder,” Vlaardingerbroek wrote. 

Louis, Christian, Henry and the “countless others” she refers to are young people who were recently brutally murdered or sexually assaulted by migrants amid western Europe’s suicidal policies favoring migrants over native-born citizens.  

“It is a painful slap in the face of the Christian native peoples of Europe and all those who lost their children and loved ones as a result of mass migration,” Vlaardingerbroek said.

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-leo-welcomes-migrants-to-europe-while-vatican-keeps-fortress-like-borders/