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| City of Zurich will mandate assisted suicide option in every care home, including religious ones |
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Posted by: Stone - 6 hours ago - Forum: General Commentary
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City of Zurich will mandate assisted suicide option in every care home, including religious ones
Zurich officials support a policy requiring every hospital, care home to provide assisted suicide,
overturning protections that allowed religious homes to refuse participation.
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Elderly woman in hospital
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Feb 4, 2026
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — Swissinfo.ch reported on February 2 that the Swiss Canton of Zurich is in favour of requiring assisted suicide in all hospitals and retirement homes but not in psychiatric facilities and prisons.
The Swissinfo article reported:
Quote:The cantonal government is generally in favour of assisted suicide in all retirement and nursing homes. It has drawn up a corresponding counter-proposal to the initiative “Self-determination at the end of life in retirement and nursing homes too.” This would mean that all homes would have to tolerate assisted suicide in the future.
READ: Disabled Canadian man chooses euthanasia due to loneliness, ‘psychosocial suffering’
This proposal, which requires every care home to provide assisted suicide, does not extend to psychiatric facilities and prisons. The article further explains:
Quote:The popular initiative challenges a cantonal decision in October 2022 that not all care homes should allow assisted suicide on their premises, but only those with a service mandate from a municipality. This considers religious care homes, that often reject euthanasia.
This news article is essentially stating that the new policy ordering all retirement homes to provide assisted suicide only differs from the previous policy by the fact that it requires religious care homes to also permit assisted suicide.
What begins as an option for people who are seeking assisted suicide becomes an obligation to provide assisted suicide, even for people and groups who oppose killing.
Reprinted with permission from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
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| How Our Lady Gave ‘Good Success’ to the Obregon Brothers |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 08:46 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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How Our Lady Gave ‘Good Success’ to the Obregon Brothers
José Muñoz Maldonado, Count of Fabraquer
Adapted from José Muñoz Maldonado, Historia, tradiciones y leyendas de las imágenes de la Virgen aparecidas en España, 1, Madrid,
Impr. y Litografía de D. Juan José Martínez, 1861, pp. 511-522
TIA | January 30, 2026
Note: A reader sent us a link to this Book of Histories of various statues of Spain. It tells of the conversion of the founder of the Minim Order, Ven. Bernadino de Obregón, and describes how the statue was found and how Pope Paul V gave it the name Our Lady of Good Success.
This account was written by the Count of Fabraquer in 1861. We offer it here to our readers and point out the use of the term ”good success” in the context not of the "event" of the Purification, as some are wrongly claiming today, but of a good outcome, or success, for the Obregon Order.
On a winter morning in the year 1567, a gallant young man of age 27, whose chest already bore the red emblem of the Apostle Saint James, was walking down Postas Street in the town of Madrid, where King Philip II's Court was then located. A poor young man was cleaning the mud from the street and unfortunately splashed some on the elegant cabellero. In the first flash of anger that overcame him, the knight struck a hard blow to the face of the street cleaner.
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A knight who did great feats in Spain’s wars with Flanders under King Philip II
Without showing any emotion, the young man who had received the insult knelt before his aggressor and said: "I thank you, Sir Knight, for the favor and honor you have bestowed upon me, and never in my life have I felt more honored than now."
The knight, a moment before so proud and haughty, was astonished to witness such humility. He was no longer the same man and, hiding his face in his hands, yielded to the sudden change he felt within himself. He fell to his knees and begged forgiveness from that poor man whose revenge had been humility.
Upon rising to his feet, that brilliant proud knight showed by his pale face and uncertain gait that happiness had fled from him, that the butterfly had lost its wings.
That young man was Don Bernardino de Obregón, who was born in Las Huelgas de Burgos in 1540 into a noble family. He had distinguished himself by his brilliant exploits in the wars of Flanders, and had been decorated by the Order of Santiago. Now, he had come to Court where his merit and comely appearance had won him great favor.
The past, present and future smiled on this youth. The son of rich parents, brave and of noble bearing, there was no whim that crossed his mind that he could not satisfy. In the glittering salons of the Court and among the grandes, where egoism has its throne, everyone rushed to celebrate him and greet him with flattering smiles.
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Obregón became the founder of an Order that nursed the sick & poor he had once despised
He was praised for his courage and talent; mothers coveted him for their daughters. Thus, vanity had crept into his heart, and in his pride he considered himself almost a demigod to whom antiquity would have erected altars. Suddenly, his arrogance found itself face to face with the deepest humility. God touched his heart at that moment, and he saw how vain was his grandeur and how unjust his refusal to endure even the slightest offense.
Returning home, he bemoaned his vanity and contemplated the humility of the Redeemer of mankind stretched out on the vile instrument of his torture. He compared the small offense he had suffered and aroused his anger to those that Jesus Christ had suffered for him before reaching the summit of Calvary. It was a grain of sand next to an immense mountain, a drop of water compared to the unfathomable sea!
Obregón had received a religious education from his parents: The divine faith and the celestial hope that they had instilled in his heart had vanished after succumbing in the battle of the most shameful passions, but the pious memories of childhood remained. The example of the humility of the poor man he had offended was enough for those memories to suddenly rise up powerfully, tearing away the dark veil that concealed from his sight the radiant truth and the new mission to which God destined him on this earth.
That man who had rejected the poor and wretched now resolved to dedicate his life to their service, detesting and cursing pride and vanity as the prophets of old cursed the sinful cities. He left his position in the military and gave away his riches, becoming poor to join the ranks of the poor. Humbling his pride, he dedicated himself to serving the sick in the Royal Hospital, submitting his will to that of its administrator, exchanging his finery in which he had once taken such pride for a coarse black sackcloth.
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An old biography: The Life & Virtues of the Servant of God Bernadino de Obregón
The sudden change in young Obregón astonished the Court. His zeal found imitators, and the following year, with the permission of the Papal Nuncio, the Archbishop of Toledo and King Philip II, he founded a Congregation, calling his brothers the Franciscan Minims, because of the humility they were to practice in the service of the poor. But the people themselves gave the Order the name of their founder, calling them the Obregones, or Obregon Brothers, a name they have conserved for three centuries. They vowed to God chastity, poverty, obedience and hospitality.
The number of those who came to enlist in the new army of charity grew day by day. Bernardino de Obregón's zeal knew no bounds: He founded convalescent homes, schools for foundlings, several hospitals, including one in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, whose Kingdom King Philip II had added to the Crown of Spain. It was Bernardino de Obregón who the Monarch called to his deathbed to assist him in his last moments in El Escorial, where the King died in 1598.
Bernardino de Obregón, so haughty and proud in his youth, suffered with the greatest patience and humility many hard persecutions, from all of which the hand of the Lord delivered him. To the great sorrow of the Court, so edified by his virtues, he died at age 59 on August 6, 1599, and his body was buried in the General Hospital in Spain, which he had founded.
His Order approved by the Pope
Brother Gabriel de Fontanet, who had succeeded him in the governance of the Congregation, accompanied by Brother Guillermo Rigosa, decided to go to Rome to obtain for their Institute the sanction of the Apostolic See, then occupied by Pope Paul V.
They traveled on foot to Valencia, where their Congregation had a hospital and was highly regarded by the holy Patriarch of that Diocese, Archbishop Don Juan de Rivera. They continued on their journey and, after leaving Traiguera, a town in the jurisdiction of Tortosa along the borders of Catalonia, they lost their way, and a terrible storm surprised them during the night.
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The mountains in the distance seen from the medieval town of Traiguera
The rain fell in torrents, the winds raged, terrifying thunder resounded in the hills, and the two pious pilgrims, thinking themselves soon to be victims of the fury of the elements, fervently commended themselves to God. Suddenly, from the light of the flashes, they discovered in that engulfing darkness some overhanging rocks and ran to take refuge there.
From that weak shelter, they then saw a glowing site on a distant hill that at first they thought was but a reflection from the continuous lightning. However, this light remained even after the storm had abated. The climb to the top of that mountain was difficult and arduous, but by taking off their shoes and helping each other, they managed to reach the summit.
In a hollow place inside the rock, they found an exquisitely carved small shrine or chapel, and, as if embedded in the rock face, an image of the Virgin Mary, about half a yard tall. The two Obregón Brothers were astonished, and the words of the Prophet Isaiah came to their minds: Invenerunt qui non quaesierunt me. “I was found by those who did not seek me." (Chap. 65)
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Miracles recorded of cures by the miraculous Image of Our Lady of Good Success discovered by the Obregon Brothers
They humbly venerated the image, then contemplated it carefully and saw that it was made of cypress wood. The Virgin held her Divine Son in her left arm and a scepter in her right hand; a beautiful and unusually shaped crown was on her head, she wore and ancient dress of fine fabric and design, with another reserved beside it. On the rock was a lit lamp whose light illuminated the darkest shadows of the cave.
They decided to take the holy image and the extra gown beside it, which is still piously preserved today, and to make her the intercessor for the petition they were bringing to Rome. Thinking that perhaps the holy statue might belong to one of the nearby towns that placed it in that shrine for veneration and not wanting to steal what belonged to another, they remained in the area for several days, cautiously inquiring amongst the oldest inhabitants of the surrounding towns whether anyone knew of the existence of an image of the Virgin, but always keeping their fortunate discovery a secret.
Finally, they surmised that the image found so miraculously was one of those hidden by Spanish Catholics during the sad days of the Arab domination. This belief was confirmed by the ancient dress they had found next to the image, for the Catholics would also hide the ornaments with the statues, as noted by that genius of poets, the great Lope de Vega:
They enclose the images,
and hide them in the countryside,
With their sacred ornaments,
While from their faces,
They are banished with tears.
(Las imágenes encierran,Y en las campañas las cierran Con los ornamentos sacros, Mientras de sus simulacros Con lágrimas se destierran)
The Statue receives Her name
The two Brothers made a wicker basket and lined it with buckram. In it they placed the holy image and took turns carrying on their backs, never leaving it for even a moment until they arrived in Rome.
They presented themselves to kiss the foot of Pope Paul V, who, seeing the so carefully tended basket, curiously asked them what was in it. They told the Pope about their miraculous discovery of the Holy Virgin, to whom they had entrusted the good success of their intentions, which they humbly exposed to him.
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Pope Paul V puts the purple cross on the statue & names her Our Lady of Good Success
They took the holy image out of the basket, and Paul V, admiring her beauty, venerated her and, taking a gold cross with purple enamel from around his neck, placed it on the statue. Then he told them that they should take her as the special patroness of their Institute and Congregation, and gave to her the name of Our Lady of Good Success because of the fortunate outcome of their endeavors.
He granted many indulgences to this Virgin, and in memory of the gilded enamel cross he had placed upon her, he authorized the Brothers of the Congregation he had just approved to wear a purple cloth cross on their black habits.
Joyful and content, Brothers Fontanet and Rigosa returned to Spain, heading once again to Valencia, because the Pope had entrusted to Archbishop and Patriarch Don Juan de Rivera the organization of the Congregation, which was now established as a Religious Order. Along the way they revisited the place where, on a night of a terrible storm, they had found the miraculous image that had brought such success to their mission.
The plague was then ravaging the city of Valencia, and the Brothers found a vast field in which to exercise their zeal and ardent charity. Of the thirteen Minim or Obregon Brothers who were there, nine had succumbed to the contagion while caring for the poor and infirm.
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Indulgence given in 1760 for reciting a Hail Mary before the statue & making Acts of Faith, Hope & Charity
Archbishop Don Juan Rivera delayed as long as he could the implementation of the Pope's bull and the presentation of the purple cross to Brothers Fontanet and Rigosa, because he wanted to keep them near him as long as possible. He tried to persuade them to settle in Valencia so that the center and head of the new Hospital Order would reside there.
But Brother Gabriel de Fontanet did not consider this advisable and left with his companion for Madrid. There they placed their image of Our Lady of Good Success on an altar in one of the rooms of the General Hospital, and they wore their habits and purple crosses for the first time on Corpus Christi Day in the year 1610.
Our Lady of Good Success remained in the General Hospital of Madrid until the Obregon Brothers in charge of the Royal Hospital of the Court transferred her to its infirmary. This is the hospital which was located in Puerta del Sol and sadly was demolished to make way for the expansion of the Plaza.
The body of Ven. Bernadino de Obregón was first interred in a vault of the General Hospital when it was located at San Jerónimo Street, which was originally a shrine founded by the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella for the relief and treatment of sick soldiers. Emperor Charles V expanded it in 1529 and established it as the Royal Hospital of Corle for the treatment of soldiers and employees of his royal household.
King Philip II, so knowledgeable and skilled in architecture, rebuilt the Hospital on the Puerta del Sol in Madrid in 1587. He personally designed the plan of the small church, which was cruciform and of regular shape, will pillars and a dome in the center proportionate to the building. Philip III dedicated this church on July 6, 1611, with the attendance of Queen Margaret and the entire Court.
At that time, the statue of Our Lady of Good Success, which had previously been in the infirmary, was placed in the a chapel of the church.
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The first statue in Madrid; below each year in October to commemorate the finding she is processed through the streets of Madrid
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| Vandals desecrate Catholic school in California |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 07:30 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Vandals desecrate Catholic school in California, destroy statue of Our Lady, throw tabernacle to floor
Attackers devastated Holy Innocents Catholic School in Long Beach, destroying a large statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, attempting to break into the tabernacle, and destroying objects made by religious sisters.
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Immaculate Heart of Mary
Shutterstock
Feb 3, 2026
LONG BEACH, California (LifeSiteNews) — Staff arriving at Holy Innocents Catholic School in Long Beach, California, on Monday morning found the school assembly hall, chapel, and classrooms had been ransacked, with smashed statues, ruined images of Our Lady, and the tabernacle knocked to the floor.
Vandals had evidently attempted to break into the tabernacle, but were unsuccessful. “The tabernacle was not breached and the hosts, though damaged, remained inside,” noted a statement by the school.
The school was forced to cancel Mass, though the school was able to open for the day.
One statue of Our Lady, which has been in the school since 1958, was worth at least $40,000, Tony Tripp, director of advancement for the school, told the Long Beach Post. Another was valued around $10,000. “Many of the religious articles couldn’t be priced, as they had been handmade by the sisters,” Tripp said, according to the Post.
After inspecting the damage, Bishop Mark Trudeau said that it is the worst case of vandalism that he’s ever seen in the region.
“The sound equipment and that sort of thing was ripped out of the wall,” Tripp told local news outlet, KTLA. “Any closet that was there, everything was pulled out, so we thought, ‘Oh, OK. This is to be expected,’ but what was not to be expected is the sanctuary part. We have a large statue of Mary that was pushed down and destroyed. We had the tabernacle, the gold tabernacle where our Lord is kept here, they tried to break that open to get the host out of there.”
“I want to know why you could do this to kids,” said the school’s principal, Cyril Cruz. “What kind of heart do you have to do this?”
“This is horrific, there are some demonic forces at work in our country,” noted Jeremy Wayne Tate, the leading promoter of classical education in the United States.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division immediately promised to investigate what she described as “an awful crime.”
Activist Robby Starbuck, a Protestant, and Catholic convert and entertainer Rob Schneider stepped forward and offered to cover the cost of replacing Bibles destroyed in the attack on the school.
The desecration of the Catholic school comes just two weeks after an angry mob stormed a Baptist church in St. Paul, Minnesota, while a Sunday worship service was in progress.
A GoFundMe account created to help the school recover from the vandalism has quickly garnered nearly $90,000 in donations.
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| Abp. Viganò gives ‘full support’ to SSPX consecrations, Bishop Eleganti calls them ‘schismatic' |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 07:24 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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Archbishop Viganò gives ‘full support’ to SSPX consecrations, Bishop Eleganti calls them ‘schismatic’
Archbishop Viganò declared new SSPX consecrations necessary for the ‘good of souls’ while Bishop Eleganti believes the ‘salvation of souls’ is not an excuse.
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Courtesy of Archbishop Viganò
Feb 3, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included below; emphasis mine]) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò expressed his “full support” for the upcoming Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) episcopal consecrations, as Bishop Marian Eleganti has condemned the plans as a “schismatic act.”
“When the Hierarchy becomes complicit in the demolition of the Church, the only solution is to appeal to the state of necessity and guarantee that Apostolic Succession continues for the good of souls,” Viganò wrote in a X post. “Nothing has changed since 1988, and we can even say that the situation has dramatically worsened.”
“I therefore express my full support for the decision taken by the Society of Saint Pius X,” he concluded.
Viganò had highlighted the “double standard” demonstrated by the Vatican’s “refusal to comply with” the requests of an orthodox Society as it promotes “synodality” that “opens to the way to schism,” something admitted by Bishop Eleganti himself.
According to Viganò, the Vatican has denied the SSPX permission to consecrate new bishops “precisely because it has not compromised with the conciliar revolution, the highest expression of which is synodality.”
By contrast, Bishop Eleganti, who has defended the Catholic faith from post-conciliar innovations such as synodality, denounced the SSPX’s plans for episcopal consecrations as “schismatic.”
The General House of the SSPX announced Monday that it plans to proceed with new episcopal consecrations without Vatican approval on July 1:
“After having long matured his reflection in prayer, and having received from the Holy See, in recent days, a letter which does not in any way respond to our requests, Father Pagliarani, in harmony with the unanimous advice of his Council, judges that the objective state of grave necessity in which souls find themselves requires such a decision,” read an SSPX communiqué dated February 2, 2026.
Bishop Eleganti maintained in a statement received by LifeSiteNews that the SSPX’s appeal to a state of emergency and prioritizing “the salvation of souls” “cannot in any way legitimize” episcopal consecrations without papal approval. The Catholic Church, he said, is “visibly realized in unity with the pope,” and this unity must be realized “canonically by refraining from obvious acts of canonical disobedience.”
“Popes adhere to tradition and do not contradict their predecessors on the Chair of St. Peter,” Bishop Eleganti said.
The SSPX and other orthodox clergy and Catholics have maintained, on the contrary, that popes have demonstrably contradicted their predecessors, particularly Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV. For example, Francis’ document Traditionis Custodes, which directly touches on a key part of the SSPX’s mission, the preservation of the TLM, contradicts Summorum Pontificum as well as Quo Primum by declaring that bishops have the right to restrict the traditional Latin Mass in their dioceses.
Quo Primum, by contrast, specifically states that the traditional missal “is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment, or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used … We likewise declare and ordain … that this present document cannot be revoked or modified but remains always valid and retains its full force.”
In another example of papal contradiction to predecessors, Pope Leo XIV recently declared that different Christian churches are “already” “one,” contrary to Catholic catechisms, as well as Pope Leo XIII’s teaching in the encyclical Satis Cognitum that Christian unity is grounded in shared faith, the sacraments, and governance.
[Read the rest of the article here.]
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| Exaggerations and Eucharistic Miracles |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-03-2026, 04:15 PM - Forum: New Rite Sacraments
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Exaggerations and Eucharistic Miracles
It would be tragic for Catholics to try to convince the world of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
with unsubstantiated scientific claims about bleeding hosts and divine DNA.
Stacy Trasancos, PhD via Crisis Magazine | December 23, 2024
Two new forensic science papers raise concerns about Eucharistic miracle investigations. The main author, Dr. Kelly Kearse, is a faithful Catholic, Eucharistic minister for over 20 years, and science teacher at Knoxville Catholic High School in Tennessee. Kearse is also an immunologist who trained at Johns Hopkins, worked as a principal investigator at the NIH’s cancer and immunology branch, and served as editor for a Methods in Molecular Biology textbook.
Before summarizing his concerns, I want to make it clear that his purpose is not to disprove miracles and not to question the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Quite the opposite! The present concerns address exaggerations and how to correct them. Kearse points out important natural explanations that were never addressed. Until those are ruled out as causes, it is premature to claim a miracle. Kearse also provides analytical protocols that would decisively show whether the blood and cardiac tissue samples all originate from a single source, a key point in the validation of Eucharistic miracles that has never been addressed.
The first paper, “The relics of Jesus and Eucharistic miracles: scientific analysis of shared AB blood type,” was published in the Journal of Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology.
Five samples test positive for type AB blood, the rarest of blood types at about 5 percent of the global human population. Two are Eucharistic miracle cases, one from Lanciano, Italy (c. 750) and the other from Tixtla, Mexico (2016). According to tradition, in Lanciano the bread turned into flesh and the wine turned into blood. Both species underwent scientific analysis in the 1970s by Professor Odoardo Linoli, who reported the blood as AB type. In Tixtla, a nun noticed a reddish substance on a Host while distributing Communion; it, too, tested as type AB. The other AB results are from cloths believed to have touched Jesus at the crucifixion (the relics): the Shroud of Turin (a burial garment), the Tunic of Argenteuil (a seamless robe), and the Sudarium of Oviedo (a face cloth).
It seems remarkable that all five test for the same, rare blood type. But there is a problem: the A and B antigens are not unique to humans. Since the 1960s, biologists have known that bacteria cells also have A and B antigens on their surfaces. Hence, if a sample is contaminated with bacteria, even if it contains no blood at all, it could still show a type AB blood result in this test.
Yet, without anyone ever checking for bacteria as the explanation, the claim about the blood type is often repeated as miraculous. In his 2021 book, A Cardiologist Examines Jesus, Dr. Franco Serafini calculates the probability that all five samples would produce an AB result, given their rarity, to be one in 3.2 million. A 2023 article at Catholic Answers Magazine goes so far as to claim that this “statistical impossibility” is a mathematical proof for the Real Presence, proof that God is real, and proof that “our Lord has AB blood.” A 2024 article at EWTN calls type AB “the Divine Blood Type as revealed by Eucharistic miracles.”
The investigators knew the samples were dirty, handled by multiple people, and contaminated with microorganisms. Dr. Linoli reported residuals of small dead insects and larvae on the Lanciano samples fifty years ago. The Shroud blood fibers were found to be contaminated with bacteria and fungi. The Tixtla sample was handled by multiple people over the seven years it took to investigate. Kearse maintains that “it is reasonable to propose that shared AB antigens from bacteria could readily explain the observed shared blood type.”
Kearse describes both genetic and protein tests that can detect other antigens and the genes responsible for them, providing not only information about the source of the AB antigens (human or otherwise) but also whether the samples are genetically identical. If the samples truly contain blood from a single source—that is, Jesus—then the DNA would match for all samples. These tests are routine now. To even begin to make the claim that the AB results are a “Divine Blood Type” or a “statistical impossibility,” these tests would need to be done.
If the samples truly contain blood from a single source—that is, Jesus—then the DNA would match for all samples. To even begin to make the claim that the AB results are a “Divine Blood Type,” these tests would need to be done.
The second paper, “Scientific Analysis of Eucharistic Miracles: Importance of a Standardization in Evaluation,” was published in the Journal of Forensic Science and Research.
In multiple Eucharistic miracle cases, parishioners found consecrated Hosts in improper locations, too dirty to consume. According to norms, the procedure in such situations is to place the Host in water, store it in the Tabernacle until it dissolves, and then discard it in the sacrarium, a sink that goes straight to the ground and bypasses the sewer.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1990s, a Host was found in a candleholder near the back of a church. After eleven days in water, a reddish substance appeared on it. In Sokółka, Poland, in 2008, a Host was found on the steps of the altar. A week later, it was undissolved and covered by a red substance. In Legnica, Poland, in 2013, a consecrated Host fell to the ground and after storage in water displayed a crescent-shaped portion turning red.
Kearse devised, for the first time ever, a set of control experiments. He obtained unconsecrated communion wafers and processed them according to the same conditions described above. He left them in a dusty, dark corner for several days and then stored them in water at ambient temperature and humidity for 7-10 days. Approximately 15 percent of the control wafers formed a gelatinous red substance on the surface, like the photos from the Eucharistic miracle reports.
Microscopy, fluorescence, and molecular biology techniques showed the reddish substance to be fungus and bacteria. Again, this is a natural explanation that was not checked but easily could be. Kearse presents a variety of tests showing that blood can easily be distinguished from microorganisms. As before, genetic testing would ultimately confirm what the red substances are and whether they have a single origin.
Another concern regards the claim of divine DNA. Only the Buenos Aires and the Tixtla samples underwent a forensic DNA test, known as an amplified PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test. The Buenos Aires study indicated that “a very low concentration of human DNA was recovered” and that the sample contained a good amount of DNA from a “non-human origin.” For the Tixtla sample, no human DNA could be detected at all.
A “very low concentration of human DNA” is indicative of handling contamination. In forensic DNA tests, trace amounts of DNA from humans who touch a sample can be unintentionally amplified, and reports say the Hosts were touched by several people.
As for DNA of “non-human origin,” the forensic lab reports simply show an “N.R.” (no result). Yet, instead of reporting the straightforward result that no human DNA was detected, the investigators went the other way. They said that human DNA was present but defies detection because it is of divine origin, explaining that Jesus’ DNA would only have maternal DNA and no paternal DNA from a biological father. If this is the standard for testing miracles, then anyone can conclude anything.
Kearse ran the same DNA tests on his controls and found that non-human DNA does, in fact, show up in the form of plant DNA from wheat in the wafer. He found that bacterial and fungal DNA were abundant as well, which would show up as non-human DNA. These natural explanations must be checked before claims of divine DNA can be taken seriously.
Recently, Edward Pentin reported on the worldwide Vatican International Exhibition began by Blessed Carlo Acutis, the teenager who traveled the world to catalog 160 Eucharistic miracle investigations and died at the age of fifteen from leukemia. These stories are published by the Real Presence Eucharistic Education and Adoration Association in their book and exhibit The Eucharistic Miracles of the World. Pentin notes that the exhibit has been shown in thousands of parishes and at more than 100 universities globally. The book and posters repeat all the exaggerations mentioned here.
Hopefully, a new team will be formed to coordinate genetic tests on all available Eucharistic miracle samples and implement Kearse’s recommendations for a standard protocol. I asked him how he thought Catholics would take this news. He said:
Quote:Transformation of communion bread into literal human tissue and blood is an extraordinary and historic event. True faith should welcome evaluation at the scientific level, in as detailed and transparent of a manner as possible, to establish the validity of such findings so that they may be shared unequivocally with the world.
The results may show that all the samples are from the same human body, which we could reasonably assume to be that of Jesus Christ! Or they may show that none of these cases are miraculous after all. As disappointing as that would be, Catholics are truth-seekers who believe in the testimony of Christ. It would be tragic indeed, worse than big-haired charlatans faking miracle cures on television, for Catholics to try to convince the world of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist with unsubstantiated scientific claims about bleeding hosts and divine DNA. Thanks to Kearse, there is a way to obtain better information. Starting those tests yesterday would not be soon enough.
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Stacy A. Trasancos, PhD is the author of Particles of Faith: A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science and co-author of Behold It Is I: Scripture, Tradition, and Science on the Real Presence. She is an Adjunct Professor for Seton Hall University's Catholic Studies Program and at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. Her upcoming book, IVF is Not the Way: The False Promises of Artificial Procreation will be published by Sophia Institute Press in Summer 2025.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Not a Lack of Valid Bishops—A Lack of Doctrine, a Lack of Faith |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-03-2026, 08:37 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Not a Lack of Valid Bishops—A Lack of Doctrine, a Lack of Faith
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted] | February 2, 2026
On 2 February 2026, Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Neo Society of Saint Pius X, announced that new episcopal consecrations will take place on 1 July 2026.
- “To the Novus Ordo Missae correspond a new catechism, a new priesthood, new seminaries, a charismatic Pentecostal Church—all things opposed to orthodoxy and the perennial teaching of the Church. This Reformation, born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever. The only attitude of faithfulness to the Church and Catholic doctrine, in view of our salvation, is a categorical refusal to accept this Reformation.” –Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Declaration of November 21, 1974
- “The entire tradition of Catholic Faith must be the criterion and guide in understanding the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, which, in turn, enlightens - in other words deepens and subsequently makes explicit - certain aspects of the life and doctrine of the Church implicitly present within itself or not yet formulated conceptually.” –Bishop Fellay, Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012
- “The Society of St. Pius X regrets sincerely that this spirit of opposition has led to an episcopal consecration…The Society of St. Pius X denounces this episcopal consecration of Fr. Faure, which, despite the assertions of both clerics concerned…All the declarations of Bishop Williamson and Fr. Faure prove abundantly that they no longer recognize the Roman authorities, except in a purely rhetorical manner. –Communique of the General House of the Neo Society of St. Pius X concerning the episcopal consecration of Fr. Jean-Michel Faure - Menzingen, March 19, 2015
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Not a Lack of Bishops, Not a Lack of Valid Bishops—A Lack of Doctrine, a Lack of Faith
The decisive issue is doctrine, not only bishops. The Neo SSPX remains Neo SSPX because it still formally holds the 2012 doctrinal positions, and those positions have never been retracted.
21 years of well-documented collaboration with the enemies of the Catholic Church culminated in the formal adoption of a new doctrinal line. These doctrines were submitted to Rome on April 15, 2012 and later codified in the General Chapter statement of July 14, 2012. From that moment forward, the SSPX founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ceased to exist within that organization, regardless of appearances.
The positions in question can not actually be disputed. They are documented, public, and have never been condemned and/or retracted by Bishop Fellay and the NeoSSPX leadership:
• Vatican II is merely tainted with error, not a rupture
• The New Mass was legitimately promulgated
• Vatican II can be interpreted in the light of Tradition
• The 1983 Code of Canon Law is accepted without distinction
This is a new theology. Once accepted, resistance is no longer possible in principle.
No episcopal consecration can reverse a doctrinal surrender.
Consider examples of episcopal compromise and failure:
- Bishops who compromised at Vatican II: ~2,000+ bishops.
- The Conciliar Church today: ~5,000+ "bishops" worldwide.
- Arian Crisis: hundreds of compromised bishops.
- Schismatic and heretical Eastern Orthodox: 1000+ bishops historically and continuing today. Anglican schism: 100+ bishops and "bishops."
- Past 15 years of Neo-SSPX bishops: +Galerrata, +Fellay, +Tissier.
- Neo-SSPX operating inside Rome: Conciliar “Bishop” Huonder scandal.
- Schismatic Orthodox bishops.
- Old Catholic bishops and "bishops."
- Sedevacantist bishops and "bishops."
- “Bishop” Pfeiffer. Other independent sect bishops.
- Fake Resistance bishops of Bishop Williamson. Most recently: consecration of “Bishop” Anthony Ward (Servants of the Holy Family).
Catholic Resistance to error and heresy is not defined by bishops alone; it is determined by fidelity to the true Faith and authentic Catholic doctrine, as revealed by God and preserved by the Church.
Consecrating bishops inside the Conciliar framework does not restore resistance.It preserves an institution that has already conceded the doctrinal battlefield.
That is why the 2026 announcement is decisive not for what it says, but for what it does not say.
There is:
• No rejection of Vatican II
• No condemnation of the New Mass
• No denunciation of the Conciliar Church
• No repudiation of the 2012 Declaration
• No condemnation or even acknowledgment of the hundreds of well-documented acts of compromise, doctrinal change, and concessions that have been systematically recorded in the now Neo-SSPX
• No return to Archbishop Lefebvre’s doctrinal line
Instead, the language is careful, diplomatic, pastoral, and institutional, continuity with the Conciliar Church and not rupture.
+Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre vs Neo SSPX: opposite attitude and principles
+Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated bishops to resist the Conciliar Church.
The Neo SSPX consecrates bishops to survive alongside, and within this Conciliar Church (to which they no longer recognize the distinction).
Those principles are opposites. +Lefebvre acted against Modernist Rome in order to preserve Catholic doctrine. Neo SSPX acts with doctrinal concessions already granted, operating in lockstep with Modernist Rome, in order to preserve organizational continuity.
This is why questions about Rome’s involvement, permissions, sanctions, or future lifting of censures are secondary.
Once doctrine is surrendered, Rome does not necessarily need to control the process. The boundaries have already been internalized.
The appearance of independence is therefore sufficient for this next phase.
Apostolic succession without doctrine is empty continuity
New bishops do not equal true resistance.
Apostolic succession without doctrinal integrity is sacramental form without Catholic substance.
The SSPX survives as Archbishop Lefebvre founded it only where:
• Vatican II is rejected as a complete and entire rupture
• The New Mass is refused as evil and harmful in itself
• The Conciliar Church is recognized as a new religion opposed to Tradition, to Eternal Rome
That continuation does not exist within the Neo SSPX.
It exists outside it.
+Archbishop Lefebvre’s SSPX survives today only in the True SSPX Resistance, carried on by priests who refused the 2012 doctrinal betrayal and have not submitted to the Conciliar framework in exchange for peace, recognition, or institutional survival.
Bishops can be multiplied indefinitely. Without doctrinal resistance, nothing is restored.
The conclusion? The 2026 announcement proves only one thing.
The Neo SSPX is still Neo SSPX.
No amount of wrongfully ordered episcopal activity can change that fact.
Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for Us.
-The Catholic Trumpet
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| FSSPX Announces Consecration of New Bishops on July 1, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-03-2026, 08:21 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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FSSPX Announces Consecration of New Bishops on July 1, 2026
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gloria.tv | February 2, 2026
The Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X (FSSPX) has announced that on 1 July 2026, they will consecrate new bishops without the Vatican's approval. This follows their request to Pope Leo XIV in August, to which they did not receive a satisfactory response.
Full Statement
On 2 February 2026, the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, the Reverend Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, during the ceremony of the taking of the cassock which he presided over at the International Seminary of Saint-Curé-d’Ars in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, France, publicly announced his decision to entrust the bishops of the Fraternity with the task of proceeding with new episcopal consecrations, on 1 July next.
Last August, he sought the favour of an audience with the Holy Father, making known his desire to present to the Holy Father, in a filial manner, the current situation of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X.
In a second letter, he explicitly expressed the particular need of the Fraternity to ensure the continuation of the ministry of its bishops, who have been travelling the world for nearly forty years to respond to the many faithful attached to the Tradition of the Church and desirous, for the good of their souls, that the sacraments of Holy Orders and Confirmation be conferred.
After having long matured his reflection in prayer, and having received from the Holy See, in recent days, a letter which does not in any way respond to our requests, Father Pagliarani, in harmony with the unanimous advice of his Council, judges that the objective state of grave necessity in which souls find themselves requires such a decision.
The words he wrote on 21 November 2024, for the fiftieth anniversary of the historic declaration of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, are more than ever the reflection of his thought and intentions:
"It is only in the Catholic Church as it has always been, and in her unchanging Tradition, that we have the guarantee of possessing the Truth, of being able to preach it, and of being able to serve her. […]
The Society [of Saint Pius X] is not primarily seeking its own survival. It primarily seeks the good of the Universal Church and, for this reason, the Society is, par excellence, a work of the Church, which, with unique freedom and strength, responds adequately to the specific needs of an unprecedentedly tragic era.
This single goal is still ours today, just as it was fifty years ago. That is why, without any spirit of rebellion, bitterness, or resentment, we pursue our work of forming priests, with the timeless Magisterium as our guide. We are persuaded that we can render no greater service to the Holy Catholic Church, to the Sovereign Pontiff and to posterity (Abp. Lefebvre, Declaration of 21 November 1974)."
In the coming days, the Superior General will provide further explanations regarding the present situation and his decision.
“Nos cum Prole pia benedicat Virgo Maria.
May the Virgin Mary bless us, together with her divine Son.”
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| Fr. Hewko's Sermons: Purification of B.V. Mary [Reception of Cassock] 2/2/26 |
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 02-01-2026, 09:43 PM - Forum: February 2026
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Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary [Reception of Cassock]
February 2, 2026 (NH)
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Prayers for Vocations
O God, Who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, send forth, we beseech Thee, labourers into the harvest: inspire many young people with the generous desire of devoting their lives to Thy service; grant that there may be a great increase in the number and sanctity of vocations to the priesthood and to the religious life, so that Thy Holy Name may be glorified and many souls may be brought to know and serve Thee, the One true God, and Him Whom Thou hast sent, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord.
O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, may all the love of Thy Sacred Heart be with Thy Priests and Religious in their life and work. Amen.
Jesus, Divine Master, Thou hast said: "The harvest is great but the laborers are few". Behold me here, Lord, ready to take up Thine invitation "to pray to the Heavenly Father to send good laborers into His harvest ".
Jesus Divine Master, make me more aware of the need to crusade for vocations. Raise up Priests who will be the salt of the earth , the city placed on the mountain top for the salvation of mankind, Redeemed by Thy Blood.
Give to Thy Church more men and women Religious whose communities will be a centre of light and warmth, a fount of grace and prayer-life. Instill in all the members of Thy Church an awareness of their own calling. Help them reach out and persevere in that holiness of life to which all men are called.
Help me Lord, who pray to Thee, to be faithful to the calling for which Thou hast chosen me, particularly in those moments of stress, discouragement and lack of faith.
O Mary , the "chosen one of God" pray with us, pray for us, and for all those who are called by God.
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Lord Jesus, High Priest and universal Shepherd, Thou has taught us to pray, saying: "Pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His harvest ". Therefore, we beseech Thee, graciously to hear our supplications and raise up many generous souls who, inspired by Thine example and supported by Thy grace, may Conceive the ardent desire to enter the ranks of Thy sacred ministers in order to continue the office of Thy one, true Priesthood.
Grant that the continual promotion of religious institution, true piety, purity of life, and Devotion to the highest ideals, may prepare the groundwork for good vocations among youth. May the Christian family, as a nursery of pur and pious souls, become the unfailing source of good vocations, ever firmly convinced of the great honor that can rebound to Our Lord through some of its numerous offspring.
Come to the aid of Thy Church, that always and everyplace He may have at Her disposal the means necessary for the reception, promotion, formation and mature development of all the good vocations that may arise.
For the full realization of all these things, O Jesus, Who art most zealous for the welfare and salvation of all, may Thy graces continually descend from heaven to move many hearts by their irresistible force; first the silent invitation, then generous cooperation and finally perseverance in Thy holy service. Amen.
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