The trial of a homosexual couple who adopted a baby boy will begin this month in Preston Crown Court in England. Jamie Varley, aged 36, and John McGowan-Fazakerley, aged 31 stand accused of raping a 13 month old baby to death within 3 months of the child being placed in their care. Varley denies the murder and manslaughter of Preston on 27 July 2023. He has also pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault by penetration, five counts of cruelty and one count of grievous bodily harm. He denies 12 counts of taking an indecent photo of a child, two counts of making an indecent photo of a child and one count of distributing an indecent photo of a child. All the charges, involving still images and videos, relateD to Preston Davey and are alleged to have occurred between March and July 2023. He also denies seven counts of possession of extreme pornography, between 2017 and July 2023. Varley is also jointly charged with McGowan-Fazakerley with one count of the sexual assault of Preston Davey,
A 'Table Mass' was celebrated at 8:00 pm on Maundy Thursday at St Barbara's Church in Schophoven, Germany. The service, held around a large banquet table, included elements of the Jewish Passover meal. The only people who participated were the elderly. The parish is part of the Diocese of Aachen, which is led by Bishop Helmut Dieser.
Gründonnerstag Tischmesse in Sankt Barbara Schopphoven bei Juelich sowie Fastenbrechen in Sankt Sales in Juelich, alles mit „Pfarrer“ Hans, Otto von Danwitz
07.04.2026 CARD.FERNANDEZ IS IN SCHISM ON VATICAN COUNCIL II LIKE CARDINAL RATZINGER : CANONICALLY HE CANNOT EXCOMMUNICATE THE SSPX I affirm Ad Gentes 7 with LG 16 not being an exception for AG 7. This is the rational interpretation of Vatican Council II. Cardinal Ratzinger would affirm LG 16 as an exception for the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, the Athanasius Creed and the Syllabus of Pius IX.There was a rupture with the past. This was schism. He was automatically excommunicated? Schism is a mortal sin of faith and he had changed the interpretation of the Creeds, with alleged visible LG 16. For Cardinal Ratzinger, Lumen Gentium 16, being saved in invincible ignorance outside the Catholic Church, was a visible case. For me it is invisible. For him LG 16 was a visible example of salvation outside the Catholic Church and an explicit exception for the dogma EENS of the Council of Florence 1442, which did not mention any exceptions. For me LG 16 is invisible and so does not contradict …More
St. Catherine of Sweden ~~~ If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire. Let the Truth be your delight...proclaim it...but with a certain congeniality
This is the First Lady of California. She reveals she changes pronouns when reading stories to defy biological reality and gives her sons dolls to play with. Horrific.
The devil has sifted your earthly illusions, skillfully employing his wit and his charms but he was permitted for higher conclusions, God bless you, God keep you, Dear Brothers in Arms.
Letter to the Timothies They want you to join in, give up your last breath, become like the others: uneasy, annoyed and trapped in the working of fiefdom of death, the former empire Our Lord had destroyed. * The world has gone bigger, you're forced to the border, behold modern trends, beware of their Geist and firmly preserve the right ancient order, the order of God and His Holy Christ. * Ignore all the sirens, the voice for the stulted, wherever you struggle, just fight the good fights, this way you will hear the words of Exultet in depths of the darkest and longest of nights. * The devil has sifted your earthly illusions, skillfully employing his wit and his charms but he was permitted for higher conclusions, God bless you, God keep you, Dear Brothers in Arms.
Few people know that for years before he became pope, Robert Prevost met most Saturdays with Francis inside the Casa Santa Marta. And in the final weeks of his life, from a hospital bed at Gemelli, Francis elevated him to the highest rank of cardinal — the act that placed him at the center of the conclave that would soon elect him pope.
Thank you for reading!Letters from Leois a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Make A One-Time Gift to Support My Work Pope Leo XIV teared up this morning. Standing at the Apostolic window at the Vatican on Easter Monday, the American pope paused mid-sentence as he tried to describe the man who had summoned him from a small diocese on Peru’s northern coast and, in the final weeks of his life, made him one of the few cardinal bishops in the Catholic Church. The man he was mourning was Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday last year — April 21, 2025 — after twelve years of upending the Church and infuriating the powerful. The official anniversary of his death falls in just over two weeks, but Leo will not be in Rome to mark it. He will be in Africa, on the second major papal voyage of his young pontificate, carrying the Gospel to a continent Francis loved and visited often. So this morning’s tribute …
Hundreds of empty seats during Leo XIV’s Easter Vigil: Matt Butorac, a Catholic pilgrimage guide, reported on X that there were “hundreds of empty seats” during the Easter Vigil at St Peter’s Basilica. The screenshots, taken from a video he shared for "those claiming it was not empty", show the basilica during the baptisms. Butorac attributes this to ticketing issues and disorganised queues. However, shortly before the Eucharist began, entry was permitted without tickets and everyone was able to enter.
EMTY SEATS: Catholic Traveler had a video on X.com from yesterday's Easter Night Eucharist with Leo XIV. Screenshots (fair use)
@sp2 I see your point and you could be correct. The published pic on this site showed less than a dozen empty seats which were probably in the back of the church. Unfortunately, too many media-types on both sides of any issue are inclined to push a narrative rather than inform their readers.
@sp2 perhaps you should share with us the specific time-mark in the vid you posted where it contradicts the conclusion that there were “hundreds of empty seats” during the service. The posted vid appears to only capture the seating in the front of the church.
[Saint Catharine of Genoa – XV-XVI Century AD; Genoa, Republic of Genoa/ Genoa, Republic of Genoa; Aged 62-63; mystic, known for her work among the sick and the poor] Verses from Imitation ~ Thomas A Kempis Trust not in thy friends and neighbors, and put not oft thy soul's welfare till the future ; for men will forget thee sooner than thou thinkest. It is better to provide now in time and send some good before thee than to trust to the assistance of others after death. If thou art not solicitous for thyself now, who will be solicitous for thee hereafter. Did'st thou also well ponder in thy heart the future pains of hell or Purgatory, methinks thou would'st bear willingly labor and sorrow and fear no kind of austerity. Who will remember thee when thou art dead ? and who will pray for thee ? Now thy labor is profitable, thy tears are acceptable, thy groans are heard, thy sorrow is satisfying and purifieth the soul. The patient man hath a great and wholesome purgatory. Better is it to …More
"Trust not in thy friends and neighbors, and put not oft thy soul's welfare till the future ; for men will forget thee sooner than thou thinkest. It is better to provide now in time and send some good before thee than to trust to the assistance of others after death. If thou art not solicitous for thyself now, who will be solicitous for thee hereafter."
Blessed Notker the Stammerer - April 6 Benedictine monk (c. 840-912) Notker, also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. He was born circa 840, to a distinguished family. He studied with Tuotilo at Saint Gall's monastic school, taught by Iso, and Moengall. He became a monk there and is mentioned as librarian in 890 and as master of guests in 892-4. He was chiefly active as a teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author. Ekkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of Saint Gall, lauds him as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time". He died in 912. He was beatified in 1512.
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[St. Anthony of Padua XII-XIII Century AD; Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal/Padua, Holy Roman Empire; (aged 35); powerful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick; canonized less than a year after his death; Doctor of the Church] 9 ~ St. Saint Anthony Consoler of persecuted Women St. Anthony always took a great interest in women in- distress, or persecuted, and they therefore look on him as their special protector. Among those who, owing to the sanctity of the Franciscans, held them in great veneration and aided them in their daily wants, was a lady who suffered much from a jealous and irritable husband. One evening, after finishing some work and making some purchases for the Brothers, finding it too late to take them to the monastery that night, she took them home with her. This so greatly roused the anger and jealousy of her husband that, not content with loading her with reproaches, he pulled almost all her hair off her head. The poor …More
"12 ~ The Carved Capon St. Anthony was one day invited by a party of heretics to come to dine with them, in order, as they said, to give them the opportunity of laughing at his stupidity. He good-naturedly accepted their invitation. After sit ting down to table a large bat, such as are found in Sicily, was served up to him, with the request to carve it. When, without being the least disconcerted, he began to do so, they could hardly refrain from laughing aloud; but soon their laughter was changed into astonishment, for hardly had the saint begun to carve the wretched bird before it was changed into a magnificent capon, emitting the most delicious smell. This miracle so completely changed their hearts that they not only acknowledged the power of the servant of God, but renounced their errors and were received into the Church.”