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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - July 26, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 5 hours ago - Forum: July 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
w/ Commemoration of the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2026
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| The Other Unauthorized Episcopal Consecration in California |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-14-2026, 10:06 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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The hypocrisy continues in the Conciliar Church - Tradition is suppressed while every corruption is allowed ...
The Other Unauthorized Episcopal Consecration in California
by Fr. Romano Tommasi, SLD
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Above: the other recent unauthorised consecration. Photo credit: InfoVaticana.
1P5 | July 1, 2026
The SSPX has now consecrated bishops without a papal mandate. OnePeterFive has noted the comparisons to the Chinese Church situation (see two views on China here and here).
Here I want to quickly note another similar situation that took place quite recently. Joseph V. Brennan, Catholic Bishop of Fresno (California), participated in an unauthorized consecration of an American Episcopalian bishop without an apostolic mandate 18 April 2026.
Despite this, he remains in his see with jurisdiction and no announcement of canonical trial or penalties.
The Episcopalian Church in America still uses the 39 articles of religion from the Church of England (subtracting those naming the monarch as head of the Church), even if they are guideposts and things of honor, not doctrinally binding. (In fact, it would take quite a specialist to understand what indeed binds consciences under sin in today’s Episcopalian Church in the USA.)
Be that as it may, we shall expect that a communicatio in sacris with a religious body, including consecration of their bishop, without papal mandate will show that the CIC 1983 is only selectively operative.
The instance vitiates rule by law in the Vatican prior to the 01 July 2026 SSPX equally unauthorized consecrations.
What is the scandalous difference: The Episcopal Church rejects the extraordinary and universal ordinary magisterium (and the ordinary magisterium of Vatican II), but no penalties will be applied to Brennan, whereas the SSPX only provisionally rejects some limited decrees of post-Vatican II magisterium until they can be reconciled with the Extraordinary and Universal Ordinary Magisterium. Cardinal Müller, as former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, sees no threat in Brennan for Church unity at the Consistory. Somehow unity is preserved in California but gravely threatened at Ecône.
The mistake the Vatican keeps making is to reduce these absurdities as inconsequential to its publicly perceived teaching authority in the ordinary magisterium. In a first-world Catholic Church where many faithful are better educated and more learned than their clergy, the Church looks unserious, and they are not wrong to join with the traditionalists.
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| Pope Leo’s pick to lead German diocese proposes scrapping priestly celibacy |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-14-2026, 09:58 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Continuing Pope Francis' agenda of elevating extreme liberals ...
Pope Leo’s pick to lead German diocese proposes scrapping priestly celibacy
Bishop Christian Würtz, who supported the Synodal Way's push for homosexual 'blessings,'
says he is open to abolishing mandatory priestly celibacy as part of ‘synodal’ talks.
Jul 14, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — A German bishop who backed the Synodal Way’s push for homosexual “blessings” says he’s open to abolishing priestly celibacy, telling German broadcasters the Church must weigh what it “gains and gives up.”
Bishop Christian Würtz, who was recently appointed as bishop of Eichstätt by Pope Leo XIV, gave an interview to Bayerischer Rundfunk in which he talked about his attitude toward the “reforms” demanded by the heretical German Synodal Way.
Würtz said he is in favor of an open debate on priestly celibacy, arguing that the Church should weigh the “costs and benefits.”
The 55-year-old Würtz was among the 38 German bishops in 2023 who voted in favor of a document endorsing “blessings” for homosexual “couples” as well as for the divorced and “remarried.” Six months earlier, Würtz supported the German Synodal Way’s heterodox “Theological Reassessment of Homosexuality” document that called homosexual acts “not sinful” and “not intrinsically evil,” contrary to the timeless teaching of Scripture and the Church.
READ: Pope Leo appoints German bishop who endorsed homosexual ‘blessings,’ claimed sodomy ‘not sinful’
His predecessor as bishop of Eichstätt, Gregor Maria Hanke, was known as a conservative who rejected the radical proposals of the Synodal Way and wanted to remain faithful to the Church’s perennial teaching. However, Würtz said that he did not want to make these differences into a point of contention.
“It’s important not to get lost in factional struggles, but to always look for what unites us and what is central,” he stated. “That’s also an important aspect of synodality – this listening to one another, this working together, moving forward together, learning from one another, and not immediately treating one’s own opinion as absolute.”
According to his own account, Würtz was visiting Eichstätt for the very first time when he was appointed as bishop. “I suspect that when most people heard the name Christian Würtz, they had no idea who he was,” the new bishop of Eichstätt said. “But it was really wonderful for me to see that the cathedral was so full, that people spontaneously applauded, and right after the announcement of my appointment, I went out to the cathedral’s forecourt and met many people there.”
“It is a beautiful coincidence that my appointment takes place on the feast day of St. Willibald, the patron saint of the Diocese of Eichstätt. I hope that, with my experience and abilities, I can also contribute to building the Kingdom of God in Eichstätt and walk alongside the people here,” Würtz said in an official diocesan statement after his appointment.
“I thank Pope Leo for the trust he has placed in me and am now looking forward to getting to know the people in the diocese,” he added.
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| Murder of Catholic pro-life politician is now being investigated as terrorism: UK police |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-14-2026, 09:54 AM - Forum: Global News
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Murder of Catholic pro-life politician is now being investigated as terrorism: UK police
Ann Widdecombe, who was known for opposing abortion and pro-LGBT policies, was found dead at her home on Friday with ‘serious injuries.’
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Ann Widdecombe speaks during a Brexit Party campaign rally at Mill Farm, home of A.F.C Flyde on May 4, 2019 in Wesham, United Kingdom.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Jul 13, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — The murder of prominent English Catholic politician Ann Widdecombe, who was known for opposing abortion and pro-LGBT policies, is being investigated as terrorism, UK police announced on Monday.
“We now have new information and evidence that means Counter Terrorism Policing is now leading the investigation,” the head of the UK’s National Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said. “We are pursuing multiple lines of inquiry to establish the motivation for this attack.”
“New information and evidence has come to light during what has been a dynamic and complex investigation,” Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) said.
Police rearrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of “commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism,” the CTPSE added.
Local police in Devon, where Widdecombe was killed, had initially stated that there was “no information to suggest that this is a terrorism related incident.”
Police first arrested the suspect on Saturday evening in South Yorkshire, more than 200 miles from Widdecombe’s village, on suspicion of murder.
They had arrested a previous, 26-year-old suspect on Friday but released him hours later.
Widdecombe, 78, was found dead at her rural home on Thursday with “serious injuries,” according to police.
They said that they believe the attack occurred on Wednesday, almost 24 hours before the discovery of her body.
Widdecombe was a Conservative member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010 and a member of the European Parliament for the Brexit Party from 2019 until 2020, when the UK left the EU. In 2023, she joined the Reform Party, serving as the party’s immigration and justice spokesperson.
Widdecombe’s opposition to abortion, assisted suicide, homosexuality
Widdecombe was well-known for defending the right to life and the traditional family.
As Right to Life UK noted, she repeatedly opposed pro-abortion policies and supported pro-life measures, including legislation to require parental notification for underage abortions and to lower the abortion limit from 24 weeks to 12.
She also stressed that she “would never license an abortion clinic” if she became health secretary.
Widdecombe likewise opposed assisted suicide, fighting multiple attempts to legalize it during her time in Parliament. More recently, she denounced assisted suicide legislation that failed in the UK this year as “riddled with horrors.”
“It is impossible to introduce adequate safeguards to protect the mentally ill, disabled and the frail elderly,” she said.
Widdecombe was a member of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the UK’s oldest pro-life organization, from her time in university. SPUC Executive Director Michael Robinson told LifeSiteNews: “In an age when many public figures shifted with the political winds, she stood firm on matters of principle, often at considerable personal cost.”
“Her Catholic faith was not something she kept private; it shaped her public life,” he added. “She was an unashamed defender of the dignity of every human life, speaking up for the unborn, the elderly, the disabled, and the vulnerable. Her belief that every human life matters — from conception until natural death — never wavered.”
Widdecombe strongly pushed back on the LGBT movement as well, consistently voting against pro-LGBT measures, including efforts to lower the age of consent for homosexual activity from 21 to 18 and from 18 to 16.
“One of the sundry horrors for which this Government is likely to be remembered will be that it gave its imprimatur to sodomy at 16,” she said in 1998, slamming Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour government.
“They will clothe the whole revolting business with the politically correct jargon of equal rights and the need to respect the sexual orientation of the individual,” she said.
Widdecombe additionally opposed homosexual “marriage,” gender self-identification, and the promotion of homosexuality in schools and defended reparative therapy for homosexuals.
“Anybody can get help for anything from psychotherapists in this country except apparently gays who do not want to be gay,” she said in a 2012 column. “A man who wants to be a woman will receive not only the necessary operations but also a huge amount of psychological support and counselling.”
Catholic convert
Widdecombe was raised in an evangelical family and became Anglican after falling into agnosticism in her youth. She later converted to the Catholic Church in 1993 after the Church of England decided to “ordain” women.
She remarked that the “ordination” of women “was the last straw” that led her to leave the Church of England, “but it was only one of many.”
“For years I’ve been disillusioned by the Church of England compromising on everything,” she said.
Widdecombe “became the first person since the Reformation to be received into the Catholic Church in the crypt of the Commons,” according to The Guardian.
Pope Benedict XVI named her a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in 2013 for her services to politics and public life.
Catholic historian Henry von Blumenthal told LifeSite: “Ann Widdecombe gave a voice to those of us who left the Church of England in the 1990s because we saw that the ordination of women formally set aside the Catholic understanding of clerical ordination and therefore of the sacraments of confession and Holy Communion.”
He noted that she wrote a pamphlet in 2004, The Mass is a Mess, that “denounced the banality of the English vernacular translation of the new Mass, but went on also to point out its defective theology.”
“This placed her adjacent to those who went further still; for as is now much more widely recognised, liturgy is doctrine in motion and the modern doctrinal collapse goes hand in hand with the introduction of the new Mass,” von Blumenthal continued.
He also said that Widdecombe was “a prominent supporter” of the Anglican Ordinariate created by Pope Benedict XVI, and “it commonly supposed that she may have added impetus to its creation.”
“If so it is hardly surprising that Benedict made her a dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great only weeks before his abdication,” he said.
The murder of Widdecombe is the latest of numerous killings or attempted assassinations of conservative political and cultural figures in recent years, including U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Charlie Kirk, and others.
In 2021, a Muslim terrorist murdered British MP David Amess, another conservative, pro-life Catholic.
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| Holy Mass in Idaho [Post Falls area] - July 26, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-13-2026, 11:53 AM - Forum: July 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
w/ Commemoration of the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
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Date: Sunday, July 26, 2025
Time: Confessions - 9:00 AM
Holy Mass - 9:30 AM
Location: 26485 North Silver Meadows Loop
Athol, ID 83801 [Post Falls area]
Contact: 253-509-2564
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