Rome’s Failure to Correct Germany’s Bishops has Emboldened Their Pro-LGBT Agenda

 

As the country’s bishops issue a new document encouraging diversity of sexual identities in Catholic schools, German Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby explains the full extent of the crisis.

EDWARD PENTINDEC 01, 2025

Archbishop Georg Baetzing, president of the German bishops’ conference.

A recently published document from the German bishops encouraging Catholic school pupils to self-identify according to their “sexual identity” is the latest significant departure of the bishops’ conference from the Church’s teaching, re-igniting talk of a possible new, German-born schism.

The “orientation aid,” published on Oct. 30, states that Catholic schools should consider “diversity of sexual identities is a fact,” effectively normalizing any pupil to self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and non‑binary.

Teachers are further encouraged to use language that reflects “the diversity of sexual identities,” and are advised to present questions of sexual morality as “disputed,” allowing students to form their own judgments.

Only three German bishops have so far publicly voiced their opposition to the document: Bishops Stefan Oster of Passau and Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, and Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Archbishop of Cologne.

The Vatican has, at least in its teaching documents, been clear about its opposition to this “gender theory” approach, describing it as an ideology that denies the created difference of man and woman, and that undermines the anthropological basis of the family.

More: https://edwardpentin.substack.com/p/romes-failure-to-correct-germanys

For priestly blessing of a Christmas tree

 

Benedictio ad omnia

Hæc benedictionis formula adhiberi potest a quovis Sacerdote pro omnibus rebus, quarum specialis benedictio in Rituali Romano non habeatur.

℣. Adjutórium nostrum in nómine Dómini.
℟. Qui fecit cælum et terram.
℣. Dóminus vobíscum.
℟. Et cum spíritu tuo.

Orémus.Oratio
Deus, cujus verbo sanctificántur omnia, bene✠dictiónem tuam effúnde super creatúram istam (creatúras istas): et præsta, ut, quisquis ea (eis) secúndum legem et voluntátem tuam cum gratiárum actióne usus fúerit, per invocatiónem sanctíssimi nóminis tui, córporis sanitátem et ánimæ tutélam, te auctóre, percípiat. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. ℟. Amen.

Et aspergatur (vel aspergantur) aqua benedicta.

On-the-ground missionary exposes who is really funding the slaughter of Nigerian Christians

 

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NOVEMBER 25, 2025

Allie Beth Stuckey interviews Judd Saul on the genocide of Nigerian Christians at the hands of militant Muslim groups.

While the mainstream media consistently denies or downplays the genocide of Christians in Nigeria, Judd Saul, founder and director of Equipping the Persecuted, who consistently does mission work in the country, assures us that Christians and churches are being wiped out by militant Islamic groups while the Nigerian government turns a blind eye.

On a recent episode of “Relatable” with Allie Beth Stuckey, Saul unveiled the gut-wrenching reality of what is really happening to our Christian brothers and sisters in Nigeria.

“What's happening right now is a real-life systematic jihad against Christians perpetrated by radical Islamists from the north,” he says.

One of the Muslim groups with the most radicalized factions is the Fulani tribe, which has exploded in population in the last 30 years. This growth in tandem with the tribe’s goal to take over Nigeria has culminated in the tribe gaining political power and implementing Sharia law in many regions. However, as it expands into the nation’s southern zones, where Christianity is the dominant religion, conflict has ignited.

Video, more: theblazecom

Christian massacre in Damascus

 

"If the world hates you, know that it hated Me first." John 15:18. 

Requiescant in pace.

FDA claims Covid shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules

 ov. 29, 2025, 1:30 PM EST

By Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

The director of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine division told agency staff in a memo that an internal review found that at least 10 children died “after and because of receiving” the Covid vaccine.

The 3,000-word memo, obtained by NBC News, was written by Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. In it, Prasad claims that agency staff determined that “no fewer than 10” of 96 child deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, between 2021 and 2024 were “related” to Covid vaccination. He said the true numbers could be higher, accusing the agency of ignoring the safety concerns for years.

More: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-covid-vaccines-children-deaths-rcna246437

St. Thomas Aquinas on Immigration

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In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.

1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.

2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state.

3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens.

However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".

Check out my article with @realAtlasPress to read more:

https://www.atlaspress.co/p/citizens-vs-foreigners-a-saints-perspective?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Truth About the Abortion Pill: Sue Liebel Exposes FDA Failures & Hidden Dangers

 By PETER DEMOS

November 28, 2025

Peter Demos

What if the abortion pill isn’t the “safe, easy” option you’ve been told — but oneof the most dangerous medical deceptions in America?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I sit down with Sue Liebel, Director of State Affairs for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, to break down the shocking truth behind chemical abortion drugs, the FDA’s deregulation and the real-world consequences women are facing.

The FDA removed in-person medical oversight. Mail-order pills are flooding pro-life states. Emergency rooms are miscoding complications. Women are being coerced, harmed and left alone in moments of medical crisis. And most Americans have no idea any of this is happening.

More reporting and video: https://x.com/streamdotorg/status/1994465788980281805?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

“Wokeness is hard to define because it’s an incoherent concept”

 Source: @AlecMacGillis via Twitter 

"I am not arguing, as is commonly suggested, that wokeness was on the right track but went too far. Rather, by unwittingly accepting deeply regressive philosophical assumptions, it went in the wrong direction entirely." 

Really worth reckoning with Susan Neiman's latest in @nybooks:

‘Bride of Christ’: Meet the Sisters Adorers Dedicating Lives to Praying for Priests

The Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest are drawing young women who seek a contemplative life rooted in tradition, adoration and prayer for priestly vocations.

Beautiful Reception of habit and profession of temporary vows of the Sisters Adorers in Naples. (photo: Bénédicte Cedergren / EWTN News )

Bénédicte Cedergren FeaturesNovember 23, 2025

NAPLES, Italy — Since its foundation 35 years ago, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest has inspired men and women to embrace a traditional vocation dedicated to honor God and the sanctification of priests in the service of the Church and souls.

Animated by a deeply missionary spirit, the institute seeks to spread the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in all spheres of human life.

Today, the Institute of Christ the King includes 147 canons and 108 seminarians serving in 13 countries around the world, carrying out their apostolic work in the churches entrusted to them, in schools and missions in Africa and through retreats, catechesis and spiritual guidance. 

More: https://www.ncregister.com/features/sisters-adorers-of-the-royal-heart-of-jesus-christ-sovereign-priest

Famous Mariologist Who Dislikes Title Co-Redemptrix: Tucho Mistepped, Incompetent, Overly Radical ,

 

Fr Salvatore Perrella OSM, a famous Mariologist, told Rsi.ch on 20 November that Tucho’s note about the title Co-Redemptrix is controversial and sparks debate.

He personally dislikes the title 'Co-Redemptrix', but as a theologian he cannot ignore the fact that it also appeared in the post-conciliar magisterium.

He would never have described the title as "always inappropriate", as Tucho did. "I favour the intelligent approach of Lumen Gentium, which neither stigmatises nor uncritically adopts earlier terminology."

"Moreover, I have the impression that the note is dominated by ecumenical concerns. And this is a misstep." Such a concern should not dominate, he adds.

Furthermore, Fr Perrella calls the note "excessively long" and "contrary to the Roman Magisterium, which has always been marked by sobriety and concision".

He continues: "Although the document is broad and extensive, it lacks historical memory."

Tucho expressed himself "in an overly radical way". The note is "too monophysite" and includes unprecious pearls, Fr Perrella analyses. "I believe the document should have been better rethought and refined, and above all, it should have been based on studies carried out by competent people."

Regarding Tucho's assertion that recent popes were "concerned" about Marian titles, Perrella disagrees. "It does not seem to me that the popes were concerned about this. Their concern was the immediate reception of Lumen Gentium and of the Council."

Perrella highlights a truly pressing concern: "Today, many no longer believe in the Trinity or the Divinity of Christ."

Source Gloria.tv