Francis appeared at Rome's Olympic Stadium on Saturday to kick off a football match as part of the Vatican's celebration of "World Children's Day".
The cameras of Vatican television CTV couldn't hide the fact that many of the seats in the stadium were empty (screenshots below). Despite this, Francis appeared to be in good spirits.
The centrepiece of the event was a four-metre high "Cross of Joy". Its producer, Mimmo Paladino, said it mixed Christian culture and fairy tales (sic).
Earlier in the day, Francis held an audience at the Vatican with children from war-torn regions, including Palestine and Ukraine. He joked around and donned a baseball cap given to him by the children.
In his message for Children's Day, he wrote that "everything that is not new will pass away. God is newness. The Lord always gives us something new".
It is to be feared that the children may have applied this statement to their desire to buy a new mobile phone.
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This riveting account by a survivor of adolescent sexual abuse first appeared in the Catholic League Journal, Catalyst, in April 2020. It is republished with permission at Beyond These Stone Walls.
As an adolescent victim of homosexual clergy abuse, I know the challenges that men face in coming forward. Many of us are silenced in shame after being abused. Aggravating the recovery process is that, despite the evidence, there is an ongoing agenda to cover up the homosexual nature of the abuse crisis, disenfranchising more than 80% of us victims.
Recovery is difficult enough without predatory advocacy groups and their lawyers trolling us for profit and politics. The added torment of being told the problem isn’t related to homosexuality only compounds our pain. For this reason, I am grateful to the Catholic League for giving me the opportunity to relay the difficulties facing victims of homosexual abuse in particular, with all due respect and recognition of the grief suffered by victims who …More

Mother Isabel de la Trinidad did not consult with her community, the Poor Clare Sisters of Belorado, when she decided to break with the Archdiocese of Burgos and join Pablo de Rojas Sáncez-Franco, a self-declared sedevacantist bishop, Sister María Amparo, 81, said in an interview with DiarioDeBurgos.es (May 18).
The nun has been in religious life for 62 years, 20 of them spent in Belorado. She left three days after the nuns' declaration of schism. Sister María strongly denies Mother Isabel’s claim that the decision was unanimous.
“You can’t make such a decision like that without a chapter, and there was no meeting. We were presented with facts that had already been established,” she said. According to the sister, the 16 nuns were called to gather in a parlour, where Pablo de Rojas Sánchez-Franco waited and told the nuns that he was now in charge.
Sister María says she spoke out against the [pseudo-] bishop at the meeting: “The Lord put words in my mouth. I told him: We are under the …More

A woman from Madrid, who suffers from several illnesses and has a very serious visual impairment, has regained her sight thanks to the waters of Lourdes, the famous Marian sanctuary in the south of France.
The extraordinary event was immediately verified by doctors and recorded by the Sanctuary.
The possible miracle took place during a Spanish pilgrimage that ended on 19 May.
So far, out of hundreds of alleged miracles, only 70 have been recognised by the Lourdes medical commission, the last in February 2018. This case could become number 71. A process of medical and spiritual discernment is underway.
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The plenary meeting of the 'International Commission for Theological Dialogue' with the Orientals in Rome in January was supposed to be about Our Lady.
But the Orientals wanted to talk about Francis' homosexual propaganda piece 'Fiducia supplicans', Cardinal Kurt Koch told Die-Tagespost.de (23 May).
So the Cardinal invited Tucho Fernández to the meeting. But the coward "could not come" in person and only sent a written statement, which the Orientals described as "insufficient".
Before having caused a schism in the Catholic Church, the homosex issue has already divided the Anglicans. At Koch's recent meeting with Anglican lay bishops, the African representatives were absent. The reason: Canterbury pushes for homosex-propaganda and the Anglican ordination of women.
"Talking to [lay] Archbishop Welby, I had to say frankly that we have similar tensions in the Catholic Church over the same issues," admits Cardinal Koch.
He warned that "there are quite a few bishops in Germany, Switzerland …More

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker made a public statement on Friday night following his memorable commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, which caused a nervous breakdown for the regime's propaganda activists.
Butker was speaking at an event sponsored by DailyWire.com, a warmongering outlet that recently kicked out Catholic convert Candace Owens for condemning the war in Gaza.
"If it wasn't clear that timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it is now," Butker said, announcing that the "shocking level of hatred" would not stop him from being "unapologetic" about the Faith.
"Over the past few days, my beliefs, or what people think, I believe, have been the focus of countless discussions around the globe."
"The more I've talked about what I value most, my Catholic faith, the more polarising I've become. It's a decision I made consciously, and one I have no regrets about".
"As the days went by, even those who disagreed with my viewpoints shared their …More

The Jesuits are in "deep decline", writes Father Julio Fernández Techera SJ, 57, rector of the Catholic University of Uruguay, in a eleven-page study dated 22 April and first circulated among Jesuits on 18 May. The main points.
- The decline in admissions to the Jesuits in the West is getting worse every year.
- Many members are leaving the order.
- A friend told Fernández that in his province there have been 72 novices in the last ten years, while in the same period 71 Jesuits have left the Society.
- 314 novices joined the Jesuits in 2023, while 319 Jesuits died.
- There are currently 13,995 Jesuits, but in a few years the Society of Jesus will have disappeared from several European countries and will be insignificant in others in Europe, America and Oceania.
- Africa is the only continent where the Jesuits are growing.
- Since 2013, the Jesuits have lost more than 3,000 members. - "The problem is not only that many members of the order are dying and few are joining, but also that we …More

The former Pontifical Academy for Life, now the Pontifical Academy for Death, has betrayed its founder, John Paul II, and its first president, Professor Jérôme Lejeune, said George Weigel, John Paul II's biographer and neo-conservative warmonger, at a conference on bioethics held in Rome on 17-18 May.
As an example, he cited the book with the euphemistic title "La Gioia della Vita" ("The Joy of Life") published by the Academy in February. It contains a prologue by the homosexual activist Vincenzo Paglia, who is also a Vatican archbishop and president of the academy.
The authors of the articles in the book attempt to whitewash contraception, medically assisted procreation and euthanasia suicide.
Weigel describes the book's authors as "dissenting from the authoritative teaching" of the Church, and formulates the truism that the book espouses an "anti-biblical and anti-metaphysical anthropology" that would have been " completely foreign, indeed abhorrent, to both Jérôme Lejeune and John …More

A mentally ill man crashed his car into a church in Zúñiga, Chile, at around 10pm on Monday, reports BioBioChile.cl.
A parishioner noticed smoke coming from the Nuestra Señora de la Merced church. He informed the parish priest, who saw "a lot of smoke and a car parked in front of the altar".
According to witnesses, the driver shouted: "Padre Pio is coming to get me!"
The car caused extensive damage to the church. The front door, wall and pews were damaged. The driver was arrested.
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Rev. Fidel Rodriguez, 66, was attacked twice during Eucharists last Sunday by a woman who later claimed she was a "lesbian".
The incident took place at St Thomas Aquinas Church in St Cloud, Florida, Diocese of Orlando. The woman first attended the 10am Eucharist, the First Communion of her niece. She stood in line for Communion, went up to the priest but didn't know what to do.
The priest, realising that she had no knowledge of the sacrament, politely asked her when she had last received Communion. She replied that it had been many years. He asked her if she had gone to confession, to which she rudely replied, "I don't need to explain that to you".
An hour later, at noon, the woman reappeared in the church for another Eucharist, also celebrated by Rev. Rodriguez. The woman was accompanied by her female concubine, whom the priest did not know.
The same situation repeated itself. The fury presented herself again to Rev. Rodriguez and asked to be given Communion. He asked her if she had …More

Tucho Fernández confirmed to VaticanNews.va (23 May) that he visited Coptic Pope Tawadros II and told him that he "shares" the teachings of a 7 March statement by the Coptic Church.
This statement calls homosexual acts "contrary to the human nature created by God". The text is supported by many quotes from the Bible.
Here are two extracts from the statement:
"As for someone who falls into homosexual behaviour, they are like heterosexuals who fall into the sin of adultery/fornication and need true repentance. Both need continuous spiritual and psychological follow-up. This follow-up has been shown to be effective with unwanted homosexual tendencies. As for those who choose to reconcile with their homosexual tendencies, give themselves over to homosexual acts, refuse spiritual and psychological treatment, and choose of their own free will to break God's commandment, their condition becomes worse than that of those who live in adultery or fornication. Therefore they must be warned and …More

As was to be expected, the Vatican has largely approved the decisions taken by Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth against the Carmelite nuns of Arlington, Texas.
However, the dismissal from religious life of the prioress, Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, was overturned by the Dicastery for Religious. The decree was announced by Bishop Olson on 22 May.
The dicastery rejected the nuns' complaints about the bishop's investigation into their convent, upheld the canonical warning issued to the nine nuns, threatening them with punishment if they continued to obstruct the investigation, and confirmed Mgr Olson's suspension of Mother Gerlach as prioress as a precautionary measure.
The Vatican considered an online affair between Mother Gerlach and a priest of the Raleigh diocese to be proven, but denied that this was an "abuse of her authority as prioress" as Mgr Olson had argued. Further, she was not given the legally required 15 days to appeal.
The Vatican is not known for its concern for canon …More

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II received Tucho Fernández on 22 May to discuss the March decision of the Copts to suspend theological dialogue with the Vatican because of Francis' homosexual propaganda text 'Fiducia supplicans'.
A press release on CopticOrthodox.church, which could not have been published without Tucho's approval, says that Tucho supports the Coptic March statement against 'Fiducia supplicans':
"Cardinal Victor Fernández stressed that the Catholic Church fully supports this statement and is committed to everything contained in it, considering that these are the teachings of the Holy Bible", the press release says.
At the end of the meeting, Tawadros II spoke of a "path of love" between the Church and the Copts and the "importance of dialogue", and sent greetings to Francis. In this context, the terms "love" and "dialogue" must be synonymous with mutual deception.
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George Weigel, biographer and admirer of John Paul II [who made Bergoglio and McCarrick cardinals on the same day] and neoconservative warmonger, published a list of questions (CatholicWorldReport.com, 20 May) that Ms O'Donnell ("60 Minutes") should have asked Francis in her recent softball interview. Examples.
- Do you ever break bread with those with whom you might disagree, or seek input from outside your bubble?
- You say the ordination of women is not possible, while Cardinal Hollerich says these are "open questions" to be discussed at Synod-2024. Have you reprimanded Cardinal Hollerich?
- Have you ever thought of correcting the idea that Catholic teaching on morality and ecclesiology is not a matter of politics but of revealed truth?
- Why was Father Rupnik never punished for his fornication with nuns?
- Do you think anyone is interested in a Church that is unsure of what it should believe?
- Why have you deposed bishops without due canonical process?
- Why have you hurt those who …More

On 22nd May the German dioceses published their feedback for the Roman Synod in October. The main anti-Catholic points:
"For the majority of people in Germany, religion has hardly any explicit significance for the organisation of their daily lives" [because what the German bishops present as "religion" is indeed without significance].
"Many people express an urgent desire for the sacramental diaconate to be opened up to women and for the possibility of women's ordination to the priesthood to be discussed."
"Specifically, this concerns the diaconate for women, equal access to leadership positions, the administration of the anointing of the sick, the ministry of preaching, and presence in theological training centres."
"In particular, Eucharistic hospitality [= Communion for Protestants who are Protestants because they don't believe in the Real Presence] in interdenominational marriages [Church weddings are practically non-existent in the German dioceses] is mentioned again and again".
"…More

Joe Abdel Sater, a Lebanese Catholic, created a giant rosary chaplet that floated on the waves of the Mediterranean Sea in the coastal town of Bouar for the Feast of Our Lady of the Seas on 11 May.
Sater received the approval of the parish priest and the local mayor for his initiative.
The rosary chaplet, which stretches 100 metres across the water, consists of white plastic gallon jugs for the "Hail Marys" beads and larger blue ones for the "Our Fathers". The cross is made of wood.
"I dove down and tied the beads with rope, anchoring them to the rocks below," Abdel Sater told AciMena.com: "This way, the shape of the rosary remained intact despite the changing tides."
The installation is illuminated at night.
Although rough waters have forced Sater to temporarily move his masterpiece ashore, he hopes to have his creation floating again soon.
He has submitted the rosary for entry into the Guinness Book of Records.
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On 20 May, the entrance to the Rome office of 'Pro Vita & Famiglia', an organisation promoting fundamental human rights, was vandalised with extremist slogans promoting transvestite propaganda.
Jacopo Coghe of 'Pro Vita &Famiglia' links the vandalism to a demonstration by transvestite extremists that took place in Rome on Saturday 18 May.
He explains that these violent groups demand "respect" but do not show respect for others, constantly attacking the common sense, the right of expression and the existence of those who criticise their propaganda.
In the last three years, the 'Pro Vita &Famiglia' office has suffered more than ten (!) attacks, often coinciding with demonstrations by this type of street hooligans. One example was on 25 November, when the office of the human rights activists suffered an attack with broken windows, broken shutters and the throwing of an incendiary device, which only by chance did not explode.
The Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, a member of the successor …More

Last weekend, a woman on her knees asked another woman to "marry" her in front of the famous image of the Virgin of El Rocio in Huelva, Spain.
The performance was staged to be filmed and used as a provocation by the oligarchs' media. They sold the show as something "wonderful". Abc.es even called it an emotional "proposal". The two women ended their performance with a kiss.
Spain's law on religious freedom (General Law 7 of 5 July 1980) sanctions such acts of desecration of a church, but it is unlikely that Spain's regime will allow this to happen.
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A ten-page synod feedback from the Dutch dioceses was published earlier this month. After Vatican II, the Netherlands was an "example" of the implementation of the Council. Today not even a shadow of the former Dutch Church remains. The diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam, for example, announced in September 2022 that 60% of its churches would have to be closed within five years due to dwindling numbers of churchgoers. Cardinal Wim Eijk mentioned that the entire archdiocese of Utrecht might consist of only 10 to 15 churches still celebrating the Eucharist, compared to the current 280. Now it is clear that the Dutch dioceses want to continue on their downward path. Here are the main points of their synod feedback:
- The creation of new [invalid] ordained ministries, for both men and women, focused on "mission" [whatever that means].
- A more 'visible' role for women in the Church in the liturgy
- Different forms of liturgy with men and women presiding
- The invalid ordination of women to the …More

Homosexual propagandist John Stowe who makes his living as bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, has "approved" a woman who dresses as a man to live as a "diocesan male hermit" under the pseudonym "Christian Matson".
ReligionNews.com (19 May) reports that Ms Matson, 39, had her body mutilated in 2006.
Raised a Presbyterian, she 'converted' to Catholicism in 2010 and was keen to become a member of a male religious community, but was refused entry to the Jesuits and other groups until Stowe accepted her as a 'diocesan hermit'.
In August 2022, Stowe accepted her "vows", which are renewed annually.
"My willingness to be open to him is because it is a sincere person seeking a way to serve the Church," the homosexual activist literally said of Matson (Original English: "My willingness to be open to him is because it (!) is a sincere person seeking a way to serve the Church.").
Matson opposes Vatican and US bishops' documents proclaiming the truism that there are two sexes [and that water is wet]. …More