Dr. Pascal Trotta, French physician and radiologist "If I have cancer, I won't go into the hospital..." "I've seen too many people die from chemotherapy..." "I would fast for 30 days..." "I would stop working..."
Dr. Pascal Trotta, médico francés y radiólogo "Si tengo un cáncer, no entraré al hospital..." "He visto demasiadas personas morir de la quimioterapia..." "Ayunaría durante 30 días..." "Dejaría de trabajar..."
Let's explore WHY cultures like the British and Germans have fallen off a cliff (after straying from Holy Mother Church). If your society isn't Catholic, then it is patently inferior.
The Winnipeg Statement was an influential and controversial pastoral letter issued by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) on September 27, 1968. Released during a plenary assembly in St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, the document served as the Canadian hierarchy's official response to Pope Paul VI’s papal encyclical, Humanae vitae, which reaffirmed the Catholic Church's absolute prohibition on artificial birth control. [1] The statement became a historical milestone due to its unique stance on individual conscience, which many interpreted as a departure or dissent from official Vatican teaching.
The Russian Orthodox Church has revoked its June decision assigning its former foreign affairs chief to two Russian Orthodox parishes in southern Brazil. Instead, Patriarch Kirill has assigned Hilarion, 60, to the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery near Moscow. The latest reassignment comes after a series of controversies involving the once-powerful church diplomat. In May, Czech police detained Hilarion in Karlovy Vary after searching his car and finding four containers containing a white powder. Czech authorities later identified the substance as cocaine. Hilarion was released without charges after two days, while the investigation remains ongoing. He denies any involvement and says he was the victim of a provocation. Hilarion had already been removed as Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary in 2024 after a former male assistant accused him of homosexual misconduct and financial impropriety. The allegations were accompanied by claims that Hilarion lived a lavish lifestyle and accumulated …More
Statue of Our Lady Decapitated in Hammer Attack at New York Parish: In the early hours of 1 August, a statue of the Virgin Mary at St Rita's Church in Long Island City, New York City, was smashed with a hammer, leaving it decapitated and knocked from its pedestal. The police are investigating. According to the Diocese of Brooklyn, this is the fourth act of vandalism to target the parish since 2024.
Our Lady statue destroyed in latest attack on New York Catholic church
What a total fuqn’ disaster… I wouldn’t think they have any interest at all in Latin anyway. The end of this train wreck is nearing. Thank God for the Lefebvrists!!
Oh, but but,... all the novus ordo clergy don't need Latin at all. What do they need Latin for? Plus, even the demons hate the sacred Latin of the Church—especially its prayers, Gregorian chant, and above all the solemn rite of exorcism.
Using a Gun to Defend Yourself? The Right to Kill Is Growing. States are pushing to pass laws sanctioning more reasons to use lethal violence in self-defense, a distinctly American tradition. nytimes.com/…-defend-yourself-the-right-to-kill-i… By Mike McIntire Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter for The Times. This article has been adapted from his book, “Ricochet: Guns, Greed, and the American Way of Violence.” Aug. 3, 2026 Tennessee recently enacted a law making it easier legally to shoot someone who’s stealing the lawnmower, bicycle or power tools you left in your garden shed. This is a new take on the “stand your ground” doctrine, which lets you defend yourself but not your stuff. Under the expanded provision, you can kill to protect your belongings as long as you believe the interloper is a threat to you or others. “Stand your ground” laws, or the idea behind them, have existed since the Centennial. The principle is intuitive: A person can’t use force to coerce you. The …More
A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS. ~ O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep all Thy priests within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart, where none may harm them. ~ Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Thy Sacred Body. ~ Keep unsullied their lips purpled with Thy Precious Blood. ~ Keep pure and unearthly their hearts sealed with the sublime marks of Thy glorious priesthood. ~ Let Thy holy love surround them and shield them from the world's contagion. ~ Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may the souls to whom they have ministered here below be their joy and consolation and in Heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. ~ Amen. ~ O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us, and obtain for us a number of holy priests. ~ Source: Catholic Prayers. TAN Books & Publishers Page 83.
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has called on Catholics to defend the sacrament of marriage and the Christian family even at the cost of suffering. Preaching on July 25 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Wisconsin, the cardinal encouraged married couples to embrace their vocation as a path to holiness. "The grace of Holy Matrimony is not an ideal to which only a few can aspire," he said, "but an objective reality, a supernatural gift, which leads husband and wife to seek each other's eternal salvation along the path of divine love." The cardinal concluded: "Let us be ready for martyrdom, if not the red martyrdom of blood, certainly the white martyrdom of faithful witness to Our Lord in the face of indifference, ridicule, and persecution." Cardinal Burke's appeal comes just two months before the Vatican's October meeting convened by Pope Leo XIV to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Amoris laetitia. In this exhortation, Pope Francis repeatedly uses the language of the "ideal" of marriage …More
Saint of the Day, August 6, 1965 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira August 6 is the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ. On this day, the first church on Mount Tabor was dedicated. Tradition has it that Mount Tabor was the “high mountain” described in the Gospel as the site of the Transfiguration. In 1457, Pope Callistus III ordered this feast to be solemnly celebrated throughout Christendom in thanksgiving for the defeat of the Turks in Belgrade, especially due to the heroic efforts of Saint John of Capistrano. The novena to Our Lady of the Assumption also begins on this day. We all know the Gospel episode in which the Lord goes up with Peter, James and John to the top of Mount Tabor. At a certain moment, He manifests Himself in all His glory with Moses on one side and Elijah, our spiritual father, on the other. The disciples are so enthralled with His glory that they express a desire to remain there. However, this external manifestation of glory gradually diminishes as the …More
Muslims Lose Their Minds When 26 Different ARABIC Qurans Return to Speakers' Corner! Hatun Tash DCCI Ministries Hatun Tash DCCI Ministries youtube.com/watch?v=9y7eWEjBBw4 4 lug 2017 #JaySmith#SpeakersCorner#HatunTash About a year ago, Jay Smith and Hatun Tash got up on their ladders at Speakers' Corner to show 26 different Arabic Qur'ans to the world. They didn't have the time then to go through the 26 Qur'ans, and so they decided to bring the Qurans back to Speakers' Corner for a similar talk, but this time to go through and show some of the differences. To date, Arabic scholars who are doing the research (not Jay nor Hatun, who are clear that they are not Arabic scholars) have found 45,377 differences within the 26 Qur'ans they are looking at. That number will continue to rise as they find hundreds, and perhaps thousands more. Jay and Hatun couldn't go through all the 45,377 differences they were aware of, so they only brought down about 70 examples, taken from an assortment of the …More
"However, sources close to the dicastery have told The Pillar that Pope Leo respects Roche, especially for how he has approached liturgical controversies with the German bishops’ conference, and that it’s at least plausible that the cardinal’s remarks came from an informed perspective on the matter."
Meanwhile, organizers of the traditionalist Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage told The Pillar that they have asked permission to celebrate a TLM in Saint Peter’s Basilica this year, but haven’t received a response. One of Leo’s concrete gestures towards traditionalist communities last year was allowing the celebration of a TLM during the pilgrimage in Saint Peter’s Basilica after not being allowed to do so in 2023 and 2024. One source said organizers of the pilgrimage intend to ask again after the summer. “The problem is that in the pope’s close circle, they saw that the Mass helped a lot of people but was also used as propaganda and they didn’t like that,” the source said. If Pope Leo declines to allow the pilgrimage to celebrate the TLM in St. Peter’s, that could be seen by many observers as a sign that he has grown cold to the idea of abrogating, reforming or even loosening the application Traditiones custodes. However, it is also possible that the lack of a response is a matter of …More
The American Way of Violence: Mike McIntire on Guns, Greed, and a Daily Trickle of Bloodshed. “You didn’t have to look someone in the eye while you extinguished their life, and you could do it from a distance.” — Mike McIntire on what the gun changed Is there an American way of violence? Earlier this month, the film critic David Thomson blamed gory Hollywood movies, like Coppola’s Godfather, for glorifying it. Today’s guest has an even more brutal answer. According to Mike McIntire, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist, it’s the gun itself that can be blamed for the perpetual American plague of violence. Yes, the gun did it. In his new book Ricochet: Guns, Greed, and the American Way of Violence, McIntire observes that every developed country has violent movies, violent video games, and significant mental illness. But what no other country has are schoolchildren, grocery shoppers, and churchgoers massacred on a regular basis. Up to forty thousand …More
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira An informal lecture, February 6, 1965 (*) At Lourdes, Divine Providence takes two different attitudes towards human suffering. The first is more sensational and thus catches our attention more. It is when Our Lady, as a compassionate mother, heals the sick and lame and thus proves the veracity of the Faith. This, in turn, shows her mercy for wayward souls, by giving them a strong motive to convert. The innumerable pilgrims who are not cured exemplify the other attitude, and beg the questions: “Why would Our Lady cure one and not others?” and “Isn’t this in contradiction to the first attitude?” The answers to these questions demonstrate suffering’s raison d’être and role within the perfection of the Divine plans. Thus, we can learn much more by this second attitude than by the first. To reach a conclusion, we first must recognize that Our Lady demonstrates her goodness at Lourdes. She shows that she can and wants to work miracles for her children. Nevertheless …More