JUST IN: The Vatican has rejected the German bishops’ request for lay people to preach at Mass
This is bc “the reservation of the homily to a priest or deacon is not a mere disciplinary norm but derives from the very nature of the liturgy”
In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.
He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.
Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."
This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.
Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?
Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.
But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.
If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.
If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?
One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.
Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?
What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.
Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.
The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.
Link to the article below.
Young Catholics gathered at the gates of Georgetown University to protest Fr. James Martin's pro-LGBT "Outreach 2026" conference.
Not only are the event speakers at odds with the Bible, but also against natural law, papal documents, the Fathers of the Church, the Doctors of the Church, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and countless saints.
One of the conference panels is titled: "Celebrating the Transgender Catholic Experience."
In response, 31,000 faithful Catholics signed a petition in protest. TFP Student Action volunteers brought the concerns of those 31,000 Catholics directly to the gates of Georgetown.
Young Catholics say: June belongs to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, not the sin of pride.
In this time of great confusion, silence is not enough.
We have a duty to proclaim the truth with charity and courage.
Today, the voices of 31,000 Catholics arrived at Georgetown's doorstep.
But will Georgetown listen?
My husband and I both had covid in August of 2021. We both became VERY SICK. Our blood oxygen was in the low 80's. We had a prescription for Ivermectin but the pharmacy played games for over a week and would not fill the order. Finally my daughter went to the pharmacy and told the pharmacist if something happened to us she would spent her life seeing he was punished.
He finally gave her the prescription. Two days after taking the ivermectin, we walked outside for the first time in 30 days.
At one point I was very seriously considering going to the hospital but my husband wisely discouraged me from that, he was right. I firmly believe had we walked into the hospital we would not have walked out.
Thank you to @stella_immanuel for having the courage to buck the system and save our lives.
Anthony Fauci needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Spencer Pratt led the L.A. mayoral race on election night, then Nithya Raman accumulated another hundred thousand votes over the following week.
The LA mayoral race was stolen long before the votes came in. Democrats built this system on purpose.
🚨 HOLY CRAP. Sen. Chuck Schumer just sounded the alarm that the SAVE America Act will REMOVE "25 MILLION PEOPLE" from the voter rolls
Keep in mind, the bill is for voter ID and proof of citizenship
If true, that means 25 MILLION people are illegals or not eligible citizens without ID! 🤯
Chuck is either making crap up or HE KNOWS THERE ARE 25 MILLION ILLEGALS VOTING
Which is it, Chuck? PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!
Here it is:
Democrats say, “There’s no evidence of voter fraud.”
Well, here is a Democrat—not just a Democrat, but August Gitschlag, the Elections Clerk in Fraser, Michigan.
Caught on hidden camera explaining how to steal an election.
Election Clerk August Gitschlag: “These guys will go door-to-door and take people’s ballots. They bully them, and then the people hand over their ballots.
Voter fraud happens in small ethnic communities when someone is more assimilated and can run the show through intimidation. They say, ‘If you don’t vote for me, your cousin will have nowhere to live next year when he comes in.’
They go around the neighborhood with absentee ballot applications and have people sign them. Then they have some candidate drop them all off at City Hall.
After that, they know when the ballots go out, so they go back to the person’s house and say, ‘Give it up. Sign the envelope. Give me the ballot.’
They’re harvesters. I admit it.”
Veterinarian Dr. John Robb: "OUR PETS ARE DYING... THOUSANDS of pets are dying every day from vaccines they don't need."
"The LAW is forcing people to kill their pets, but I WON'T do it."
Vaccines cause a drastic rise in chronic diseases: diabetes, cancer & heart failure.
Our family pets are being poisoned for profit:
- No Limits on Over-Vaccination: There are ZERO rules capping how many times pets can be jabbed for the same disease, leading to deadly overdosing.
- Size Doesn't Matter—But It Should: Vaccines aren't adjusted for body weight; a tiny 5lb cat gets the SAME dose as a 100lb dog, risking lethal reactions.
- Rising Chronic Illnesses: Over-vaccinating & over-medicating is skyrocketing pet diseases like diabetes, cancer, kidney failure & heart issues.
- Toxic Pet Food Alert: Grain-based dry foods loaded with byproducts, seed oils & chemicals are wrecking dogs' & cats' health.
- Titer Tests Ignored: If pets show positive antibodies via titers (just like humans), they shouldn't need more shots—but vets push them anyway.
- Big Food's Grip: Mars Candy owns 3,000+ vet clinics & 50+ pet food brands, prioritizing profits over pet lives with unnecessary meds, tests & services.
- Whistleblowers Silenced: Dr. Robb faced backlash from Mars for refusing to follow harmful vaccination policies—research shows full doses are "dangerous" & "potentially lethal."
- Vet Suicide Crisis: Veterinarians pushing for change are ignored, taunted & laughed at in hearings, contributing to a suicide rate 4X higher than the general population.
Stop the madness! Protect your pets — & say NO to unnecessary vaccines.
🚨 BOMBSHELL FROM JAPAN — THEY CAN’T HIDE THIS ANYMORE
Professor Robert Clancy just dropped the receipts:
A massive Japanese study tracking 20 MILLION people found that ALL excess deaths were in the vaccinated group.
The unvaccinated group? ZERO excess deaths. And here’s the killer detail: mortality surges exactly 3 months after every booster — with peak deaths hitting around 100 days post-vaccination.
The pattern is undeniable. In my opinion, they can no longer suppress the information on the COVID vaccine. The data is out. The cover-up is crumbling. The world needs to see this.
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING @mr_pool_47
I don’t know how to write this…
But I’ve spent a ton of time today thinking about Charlie Kirk today.
Especially his wife and kids today on Father’s Day.
I remember the night Charlie died, my wife and I were just sitting in bed watching Charlie’s videos and at one point,
She looks at me and goes,
“I used to hate him and I have no idea why.”
Charlie had a way of making people stop, listen, and actually engage. You didn’t have to agree with him. You didn’t have to like him. But he believed people were worth talking to.
Watching someone like my wife go from assuming she knew and hated him… to actually listening to him… reminded me how powerful a conversation can be.
There’s this line I recently read in CS Lewis’s book “The Weight of Glory” that has stuck with me.
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
I’m just beginning to understand what that means, but it’s obvious to me that Charlie… he knew.
He knew the stakes were eternity and he took that job seriously.
He was the best I’ve ever seen at making people feel heard, even when they disagreed with him. He could walk into hostile rooms, face people who despised him, and still choose conversation over contempt.
That’s why he was such a threat… not because he wanted people to fight.
But because he wanted people to think.
And they killed him for it.
I remember sitting on the podcast studio Green room at TPUSA waiting to go on his show a few months ago, and I saw Charlie’s daughter running around playing and my son played with her for a moment.
I can’t explain it, but in that moment I think I finally understood the full weight of evil.
To murder a father whose great crime was the fact that he was willing to talk to anyone about anything, no matter if you hated or loved him…
To remove him from his wife and young kids…
And then for them to celebrate his death in such grotesquely evil ways…
I don’t think I’ll ever get over it, honestly.
Here it is:
The Chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board, Devin Nunes,
CONFIRMS: that Barack Obama ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago because he was looking for this—his ICA report, the falsified intelligence report used to frame Donald Trump in an effort to overthrow the United States government.
King Solomon @jsolomonReports was asked by Devin to join the board: MORE DECLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE ARE COMING: