With the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Church enters a new chapter. We pray that the Holy Father will lead with fidelity to the Church’s sacred traditions, defend the deposit of faith with courage and clarity, and restore unity grounded in truth. May the Holy Spirit guide him.
May God have mercy on the soul of Pope Francis and grant him eternal rest. Let us now pray fervently for the Cardinals tasked with choosing his successor—that they may select a shepherd who will lead the Church with clarity, courage, and fidelity to Christ.
One of my all-time favorite quotes in all of Christian theology. Not a single wasted word. Such profound truth and beauty.
All the more wonderful to contemplate as we approach the great Feast Day of Christmas, when the Word became small among us.
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you.
–St. John of The Cross
They're attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. This is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry from the AP, and the entire organization should be ashamed of itself.
A statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as “The Virgin of Paris,” returned to Notre Dame Cathedral five years after surviving the devastating 2019 fire.
Ave Maria
The Roman Pontiff has full and immediate authority over all the faithful, and there is no authority on earth superior to him, but he cannot, either by erroneous or by ambiguous statements, change and weaken the integrity of the Catholic faith, the divine constitution of the Church or the constant tradition of the sacredness and the sacrificial character of the liturgy of the Holy Mass. If this happens, there is the legitimate possibility and duty of the bishops and even of the lay faithful not only to present private and public appeals and proposals of doctrinal corrections, but also to act in “disobedience” of a Papal order which changes or weakens the integrity of the Faith, the Divine Constitution of the Church and the Liturgy. This is a very rare, but possible, circumstance, which does not violate, but confirms the rule of devotion and obedience to the Pope who is called to confirm the faith of his brothers. Such prayers, appeals, proposals of doctrinal corrections and a so-called “disobedience” are, on the contrary, an expression of love for the Supreme Pontiff in order to help him to convert from his dangerous behavior of neglecting his primary duty to confirm the entire Church unambiguously and vigorously in the Faith.
One has to recall also what the First Vatican Council taught: “The Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that, by his assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the apostles” (First Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Pastor aeternus, chap. 4).
—Bishop Athanasius Schneider