Pope Leo XIV leading prayer of rosary for peace today

 Please join him as you are able.

Link to prayers in Italian: https://www.vatican.va/content/dam/liturgy/pdf/2026/20260411-libretto-santo-rosario-pace.pdf

Paul Ehrlich, False Prophet

SCOTT YENOR MARCH 19, 2026 

Paul Ehrlich, noted author of The Population Bomb, died last week. Few people have been so consequentially wrong as Ehrlich. Ironically, his name, translated from the German, means “honest, truthful, sincere.” It is remarkable how this PhD in butterflies and Stanford professor rose to such prominence, capitalizing on a wave of popular pessimism to attack civilization from the left. 

Ehrlich’s Population Bomb begins with an arresting line: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate . . .” Indeed, in the late 1960s, American society seemed to be coming apart. The threat of nuclear war loomed. Mass migration wore away borders. Disease spread. Ehrlich’s Population Bomb more caught the wave of alarmism than created it. The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations were already promoting population control across the world, especially in India and East Asia, in the early 1960s. 

Paywall: https://firstthings.com/paul-ehrlich-false-prophet/

Is Cardinal Fernández the real source of tensions in the SSPX and Vatican standoff?

 Michael Haynes 

The past few days, replete with revelations and drama around the Society of Saint Pius X, have emphasised something that many have not yet fully noticed. At the risk of being reductionist, one overlooked aspect is the influence that Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández is having on the Catholic Church.

Catholic Herald readers will by now be well acquainted with the February 2 statement from the SSPX announcing episcopal consecrations for July 1. For Fr Davide Pagliarani, SSPX Superior General, the decision was a natural one in light of what he interpreted as a breakdown in negotiations between the Society and the Holy See.

His request for a papal audience last summer was disregarded, and a subsequent detailed letter to the Pope was answered in recent days by Cardinal Fernández. Don Davide wrote that it “does not in any way respond to our requests”.

The Church has been taken by storm by the news, and reactions have varied greatly. Some have made the charge of active schism, others have sought to defend the Society, while fewer have attempted to analyse what this will mean for the Church.

Una Voce International issued a measured response, calling on Leo to be “mindful of these pastoral realities”, which see many Catholics flock to the traditional liturgies. Bishop David Waller of the Ordinariate cautioned strongly against the consecrations, while telling the Herald that the very discussion “is indicative of a serious ecclesiological problem in itself, regardless of whether such consecrations go ahead”.

Undoubtedly, it will force Leo XIV to address the question of the traditional Mass, perhaps sooner than he would have otherwise wished. Though not afraid to implement the law when necessary, Leo tends to govern by consent. He will be tested if he is to build one of his famous bridges after having his hand forced in this manner.

This is where Fernández becomes relevant. In an interview with the SSPX in-house news service, Fr Pagliarani pointed to Fernández’s documents, such as Mater Populi Fidelis, and actions, such as his promotion of synodality and divorcing the kerygma from Tradition, as key elements in the decision to proceed with the episcopal consecrations.

The priest made the criticisms of Cardinal Joseph Zen his own: “Cardinal Zen himself considers this method manipulative and considers attributing it to the Holy Ghost blasphemous. Unfortunately, I fear that he is right.”

More: https://thecatholicherald.com/article/the-real-source-of-tensions-in-the-sspx-and-vatican-standoff

The last historic Christian village in the Holy Land, threatened with annexation by the Jewish state of Israel

Bashar Fawadleh Photo: ACN

The last historic Christian village in the Holy Land, threatened with annexation by the Jewish state of Israel | ZENIT - English

The risk is not only that Christians will leave, but that one day they will be remembered as having once been there

MARZO 16, 2026 10:31ZENIT STAFF

The last historic Christian village in the Holy Land, threatened with annexation by the Jewish state of Israel | ZENIT - English

ZENIT News / Rome, 03.16.2026).- In the hills east of Ramallah, the village of Taybeh has long stood as a quiet anomaly: the only entirely Christian community left in the West Bank. Today, its 1,400 residents find themselves at the intersection of geopolitics, demographic decline and a mounting sense that their presence may be slipping into history. What is unfolding in Taybeh is not an isolated episode but a concentrated expression of wider transformations across the Palestinian territories. Since early February 2026, a decision by Israeli authorities to deepen administrative and military control over the West Bank has altered the terrain in ways local clergy describe as unprecedented in decades. For many observers on the ground, it marks a structural shift—one that some interpret as a step toward de facto annexation.

More: https://zenit.org/2026/03/16/the-last-historic-christian-village-in-the-holy-land-threatened-with-annexation-by-the-jewish-state-of-israel/

'Every parent's worst nightmare': Couple forced to permanently give up their two daughters because they GO TO CHURCH!

'It is tragic – and unacceptable – that a child who recanted her allegations and yearns to be home remains separated from her family, resulting in extended and severe mental distress'

By Bob Unruh

March 17,

Qualified parents who even earned the seal of approval from leftists in their nation's social agenda-pursuing government have been ordered to give up their parental rights to their two daughters, permanently, because they go to church.

The anti-Christian ruling, which is final, was delivered by the so-called European Court of Human Rights, which appears to have violated the rights of not just the parents but the daughters, as all parties had sought a reunion.

The original fracas developed several years ago when Swedish child protective service activists found out the eldest daughter made a false report at school, a report that was triggered by a dispute with her parents over their decision against allowing her to have a cell phone and use makeup.

More: https://www.wnd.com/2026/03/every-parents-worst-nightmare-couple-forced-permanently-give/

Pray for Lebanon

At least 254 people have been killed and another 1,165 have been injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Wednesday, a Lebanese Civil Defense spokesperson confirmed to @ABC News. 

https://x.com/abcpolitics/status/2041954875970343396?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

UNEARTHED: 1995 photo shows Pope Leo XIV participating in Pachamama ritual

 Exclusive to LifeSiteNews, this explosive revelation will feature prominently in Fr. Charles Murr's forthcoming book on the new pontiff.

Fr. Robert Prevost (now Pope Leo XIV) present at a Pachamama ritual in 1995LifeSiteNews

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John-Henry Westen

(LifeSiteNews) — In an explosive revelation that will feature prominently in his forthcoming book on the new pontiff, Faith & Reason co-host Fr. Charles Murr has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV — then Fr. Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. — actively participated in a pagan Pachamama “Mother Earth” agricultural ritual while attending an official Augustinian theological symposium.

The story was first brought to light by Fr. Murr, who has spent months meticulously compiling documentation for his upcoming book on Leo XIV. Three Augustinian priests have now independently confirmed to Fr. Murr that Robert Prevost is clearly visible among the kneeling participants in the central photograph. Although none of the three were present at the 1995 ritual itself, they immediately and unmistakably recognized their confrere from the published image.

More: https://x.com/jhwesten/status/2034345672342651185?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Scottish assisted suicide Bill defeated in major victory for the most vulnerable in our society

 17 Mar 2026 NEWS

Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide Bill has been defeated in a major victory for opponents of the Bill by 69 votes to 57, settling the issue in Scotland for a generation after a two-year national debate, and likely striking a mortal blow to the assisted suicide Bill in Westminster. 

After two years of debate, and the most intense scrutiny that the question of assisted suicide has ever received in Scotland, Holyrood, widely regarded as one of the world’s most socially and politically progressive legislatures, has come to the conclusion that introducing assisted suicide is unsafe and dangerous.

Ahead of the vote, the Deputy Political Editor of The Scotsman, David Bol, described the final vote on the Bill at Stage 3 tonight as “potentially the biggest decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament”, and this was echoed by other prominent political commentators.

The Bill was defeated at its decisive stage, with the leader of the SNP, Scottish First Minister John Swinney, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, and the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Russell Findlay, all uniting in their opposition to the proposals. They were joined by Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and former First Ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Humza 

More: https://righttolife.org.uk/news/scottish-assisted-suicide-bill-defeated-in-major-victory-for-the-most-vulnerable-in-our-societyL

Gareth Gore’s War Agsinst Opus Dei: Wascthe Pope Hoodwinked?

 Was Pope Leo XIV Hoodwinked?

Bill Donohue

Last April, I wrote a scathing review of a book that smeared the Catholic Church, and Opus Dei, in particular. The following letter to the pope explains why I felt compelled to write to him.

                                                                                     

March 18, 2026

Secretariat of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV

00120 Vatican City

Your Holiness:

Your service to the Catholic Church is appreciated the world over, by Catholics and by those who belong to other faith communities. It is in this vein that I write to you regarding your meeting on March 16 with Gareth Gore, the author of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church. After the meeting, Gore said that you found his book to be a “rigorous piece of work.”

I have no idea if this is true, or whether you actually had the time to read it. I read it and published my review in the April 2025 edition of Catalyst (see enclosed), the journal of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. I hasten to add that I am not a member of Opus Dei. I am a sociologist who has published twelve books, and I am president of the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization.

Quite frankly, Gore’s book is anything but rigorous. I labeled it “sloppy,” saying it is “strewn with hyperbole, innuendo and out-and-out falsehoods. Yet he had the audacity to say in an interview that his book is ‘100 percent correct.’” To cite one example, any author who portrays the late Cardinal George Pell as a pedophile is either ignorant or malicious. I detail many other examples of his irresponsible commentary.

“To be fair,” I concluded, “there are conspiratorial kooks on the right who claim bogeymen are trying to undermine America. However, they are mostly without effect, owing to their notorious stupidity. But those on the left, especially those who write books which appear to be well sourced, are not so easily identified. That’s why they are a much bigger menace.”

I respectfully request that you take another look at Gore’s book. I honestly don’t want to see him take advantage of your goodwill.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

William A. Donohue, Ph.D.

President

Liberal HuffPost Mocked for Article Claiming Pentagon ‘Excluded Catholics’ from Good Friday Service

 By Margaret Flavin Apr. 4, 2026 11:20 am

Pope Leo leads Stations of the Cross/Image: Video screenshot via the Vatican.

Liberal Huffington Post breathlessly wrote about the Pentagon and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth allegedly “excluding Catholics” from Good Friday services.

Jennifer Bendery, a senior politics reporter at the outlet, wrote that the Pentagon “invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel.”

“Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics,” Bendery claimed.

Was there not a single Catholic Bendery could have queried about religious traditions during the period surrounding Easter and Holy Week?

And, in sharing the actual text from the Pentagon invitation, does she not understand sentence structure?

Bendery shared a memo sent to staff by Air Force leadership that read, “Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel.”

“No Catholic Mass” does not exclude Catholics; it simply notes that a Catholic Mass is not being held. Why? Because Catholics traditionally do not attend Mass on Good Friday.

More: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/liberal-huffpost-mocked-article-claiming-pentagon-excluded-catholics/

Surrexit Dominus vere, Alleluia!

 

The Women the Vatican Forgot

 

BRONWEN MCSHEA

Did women’s participation in public life begin with universal suffrage? No, of course not. But a recent Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith synodal document (say that five times fast) suggests that it did and, in an appended list of “Important Women in the History of the Church,” includes only two women with significant public roles: Ss. Helena and Joan of Arc. Bronwen McShea seeks to rectify this error, including a list of saints and queens (and saintly queens) who were both public figures and influential in Church history. As she writes, “Perhaps, even though we are more than sixty years past Vatican II, we are still not ready in the Catholic world to truly leave behind the “clericalism” that the report condemns. This would, after all, require us to confront the possibility that a truly serious, historically grounded discussion of women’s participation in high levels of ecclesial decision-making might not have all that much to do, after all, with the suitability (or not) of women for diaconal ordination. Nor may it have all that much to do, either, with appointments of specific women—made always by popes and other high-ranking clergymen these days—to positions in the Vatican or in bishops’ chanceries.” For further reading: McShea wrote a book about one of the influential women listed: Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot du Pont Courlay, titled the Duchesse d’Aiguillon and a Peer of France. You can read an excerpt of her book from 2023, “The Duchess Who Shaped the Fate of France.”

Resurrexit sicut dixit, Alleluia!

Pope Leo XIV is giving his first Easter Urbi et Orbi address.

He is joined on the loggia by 97-year-old Cardinal Simoni: friend of the traditional Mass, longtime exorcist, & imprisoned by the Albanian Communists for nearly 30 years.

@MLJHaynes

The Pachamama Saga Just Got Even Darker

 

According to the information in a new report, our indignation was not only justified, but I would argue that we were not outraged enough.

RADICAL FIDELITY

MAR 16, 2026

Remember when the modernist and liberal enemies of Christ mocked Catholics who were outraged about the Pachamama spectacle in Rome as alarmist? How we were told that the carved figures brought into the Vatican gardens were merely “symbols of life,” “expressions of indigenous culture,” or harmless gestures of “dialogue with creation”?

Well, guess what? According to the information in a new report by Infovaticana, our indignation was not only justified, but I would argue that we were not outraged enough.

New revelations emerging from South America suggest that the story of Pachamama is far darker than the carefully constructed narrative that was presented to the world during the controversial events surrounding the Amazon Synod in 2019.

The deeper one investigates the cult of Pachamama, the harder it becomes to maintain the fiction that it is simply an innocent reverence for nature. Evidence continues to surface that the religious universe surrounding Pachamama is tied not only to superstition, but to rituals involving blood, death, and offerings made to powers believed to dwell beneath the earth.

In March 2024, a court in La Paz convicted two men in connection with the disappearance and death of a young woman, Shirley HRA, a 25-year-old mother of two.

According to the prosecution and the police investigation, the woman was deceived, drugged until unconscious, and transported to a mine in the municipality of Palca. There she was buried as an offering to Pachamama, “Mother Earth”, in the hope that the ritual would bring favor or prosperity.

This was not speculation from hostile outsiders, but the official explanation accepted in the courtroom: a human being was offered as a sacrifice.

The brutality of the case is in stark contrast to the romantic language that was used by the anticatholic usurpers in Rome, and their minions, to defend these practices. In the case of this young victim there was no poetic reverence for nature, no charming folklore, no harmless ritual. There was only a young mother turned into a sacrificial object for a pagan rite.