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| Man desecrates altar, Blessed Sacrament inside St. Peter’s Basilica |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-22-2026, 02:38 PM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Man desecrates altar, Blessed Sacrament inside St. Peter’s Basilica
The January 17 profanation follows a series of desecrations that have occurred inside St. Peter's Basilica in recent times.
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St. Peter's Basilica
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Jan 21, 2026
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — A man desecrated the altar of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel in St. Peter’s Basilica, prompting an immediate rite of reparation.
On Saturday, an unidentified man climbed onto the altar of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament inside St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City and violently threw candlesticks, the monstrance, and the altar cross to the ground in front of worshippers gathered for prayer, an act considered particularly serious because the Blessed Sacrament was exposed for perpetual adoration. Authorities carried out an immediate penitential rite of reparation in accordance with canon law.
“A rite of reparation was celebrated immediately after the profanation,” a witness told journalist Nico Spuntoni. However, security tried to cover up what had happened.
The man reportedly managed to reach the altar and knock down the liturgical furnishings before being stopped. The Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament is one of the most sensitive areas of the basilica, as it is reserved for Eucharistic adoration during daytime hours, meaning that the consecrated Host is exposed.
Spuntoni confirmed to LifeSiteNews that, according to the witness, the incident would have taken place in the early afternoon. Although there is no certainty on this point and authorities are evasive on the issue, it is highly likely that the desecration occurred while the Blessed Sacrament was exposed. According to the adoration schedule published on the website of St. Peter’s Basilica, on Saturdays adoration is uninterrupted until the Eucharistic blessing at 6:45 p.m.
Under the Code of Canon Law, when a sacred place or altar is gravely violated, the celebration of the liturgy is not permitted until a penitential rite of reparation has been performed (see can. 1211). The witness cited by Spuntoni stated that this rite was celebrated immediately following the incident, restoring the chapel for worship.
The January 17 profanation follows a series of desecrations that have occurred inside St. Peter’s Basilica in recent times. On June 1, 2023, a naked man climbed onto the Altar of the Confession inside the basilica and shouted a pro-Ukraine message.
On February 7, 2025, a Romanian citizen climbed onto the same altar, threw candlesticks to the ground and removed the altar cloth. On that occasion, however, no penitential rite was carried out.
On October 10, 2025, another drunk man carried out what was described as a grave profanation at the same altar by stripping naked and urinating in front of those present. As for this most serious case, Silere non possum reported that an immediate rite of reparation was not initially planned. According to the same source, direct intervention by Pope Leo XIV was required in order for Cardinal Mauro Gambetti to celebrate a reparatory rite without delay.
Multiple witnesses to these acts of vandalism have stated that, on several occasions, members of the Vatican staff known as sampietrini and officers of the Vatican Gendarmerie instructed people present, including tourists, to delete videos recorded on their mobile phones and to remain silent. Despite these instructions, information about these incidents have circulated online.
Outside St. Peter’s Basilica, security is provided by the Italian State Police, which maintains a constant presence in St. Peter’s Square. Inside the basilica, security falls under Vatican jurisdiction. In recent years, security in St. Peter’s appears to have been significantly reduced. According to reports carried out over the years by Silere non possum, the responsibility would lie with “an incompetent and nepotistic management of resources: many sampietrini have been removed from the Basilica and reassigned to office positions within the Fabric of Saint Peter.”
Responsibility for the internal governance of St. Peter’s Basilica lies with Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, an Italian Conventual Franciscan. He serves as archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St. Peter, vicar general of the Pope for Vatican City State, and president of the Fabric of St. Peter. Gambetti was created cardinal by Pope Francis in 2020.
Gambetti has been at the center of several controversies. Since 2023, following the implementation of Pope Francis’s motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, he has not permitted participants in the annual traditional pilgrimage Summorum Pontificum to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica, allowing only a brief liturgical service instead.
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| Pope Leo appoints heterodox consultants to Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-21-2026, 11:17 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo appoints heterodox consultants to Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
Pope Leo XIV confirmed a line of nominations consistent with those made under Pope Francis.
Jan 20, 2026
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks from original included]) — Pope Leo XIV has appointed 19 new consultants to the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, confirming a line of nominations consistent with those made under Pope Francis.
On Monday the Holy See announced that Pope Leo XIV had named 19 consultants to the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue in Vatican City, selecting clerics, religious, and lay academics from various countries to advise the dicastery in its mission of fostering relations between the Catholic Church and followers of other religions.
Among the newly appointed consultants is Emilce Cuda, who is also secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. She stated in a 2020 interview: “I do not comment on abortion because I am specialized in social morality, not in bioethics.”
Cuda attracted international attention in 2022 following the decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Commenting on the ruling, she warned that many Catholics “confuse the defense of life with the defense of ideological positions” and argued that human dignity should not be reduced to the issues of abortion and euthanasia alone. Cuda is also publicly associated with the “theology of the people” (teología del pueblo), a current of thought originating in Argentina and germinated from the condemned theology of liberation.
Another appointee is Mónica Santamarina, a leading figure in the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations (WUCWO). In June 2023, Santamarina called for combating what she described as “clericalism” by expanding the presence of women in seminaries and in Church leadership. Speaking to the daily newspaper of the Italian Conference of Bishops, Avvenire, she said: “It is no secret that the gap exists. Obviously not at all levels, and not in the same way.” In the same interview, she praised Pope Francis as a “champion” of inclusion for appointing women to senior Vatican roles, while maintaining that “much clericalism still persists, especially at the local level.”
The list of consultants also includes Ana María Bidegain, president of a confederation of lay movements called Pax Romana. In a June 2023 interview with CatalunyaReligio.cat, Bidegain said: “Our great challenge is how to help articulate and build the Synodal Church.” In the same interview, she stated that, “without the work of the laity, Liberation Theology would never have been born.” She also referred to theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez as then serving as an adviser to Pax Romana groups in Peru. Gutiérrez, the founding father of liberation theology, died in October 2024.
From Latin America, Sofía Nicolasa Chipana Quispe of Bolivia was named among the consultants. Chipana is associated with indigenous, feminist, and decolonial theology and is a member of the Community of Indigenous Women Theologians of Abya Yala, which is the indigenous name for the region of Latin America and Caribbean. She has been presented by the World Council of Churches as “a primary voice of an indigenous theology that values living in dignity and sacredness with the earth and respect for all forms of life.” Chipana has also spoken of Andean spirituality as “unconditionally linked to Pachamama, the Mother Earth.”
The final highlighted appointment is that of Father Wasim Salman, a Syro-Italian priest incardinated in the Diocese of Palestrina. Salman has described interreligious dialogue as the only path to peace between religions, stating that “it is the love for our Muslim brothers that will mark our activities, especially since the Church shares with Islam the same concerns described and developed extensively in the Document on Human Fraternity.” He has also referred to Islam as “this great religion whose spread is impressive today.”
The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue was established by Pope Paul VI for dialogue between Catholics and members of other non‑Christian religions. After the reform of the curial structure carried out by Pope Francis with Praedicate Evangelium, the dicastery adopted the specific aims of “promoting mutual understanding, respect, and cooperation between Catholics and followers of other religious traditions; encouraging the study of religions; and fostering the formation of people dedicated to dialogue.”
The latest appointments by Pope Leo XIV continue this trajectory, drawing on figures previously active in synodal processes, interreligious initiatives, and controversial theological movements across the Church.
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| Pope Leo meets with FSSP at Fraternity’s request |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-21-2026, 11:14 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo meets with FSSP at Fraternity’s request
The meeting came after the head of the Vatican’s liturgy office issued a document to cardinals justifying the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).
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Pope Leo XIV arrives to attend an ecumenical and interreligious meeting in Martyrs’ Square alongside religious leaders on December 1, 2025, in Beirut, Lebanon
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Jan 20, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [Emphasis mine]) — Pope Leo XIV met with the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), a society dedicated to offering the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), on Monday at the FSSP’s request.
Leo received Father John Berg, the FSSP’s superior general, and Father Josef Bisig, one of the founders of the Fraternity, in a private audience only 30 minutes long, according to the FSSP.
The meeting came almost two weeks after the head of the Vatican’s liturgy office issued a document to cardinals justifying the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass, in which Cardinal Arthur Roche stated that “we cannot go back” to the 1962 Missale Romanum, the TLM.
The audience was an opportunity to help explain to Leo the “foundation and history of the Fraternity,” and its “various forms of apostolate,” as well as to recall its “proper law and charism,” the FSSP reported.
The society priests also saw the audience as a chance to “evoke any misunderstandings and obstacles that the Fraternity encounters in certain places and to answer questions from the Supreme Pontiff.”
Vatican journalist Diane Montagna shared that the meeting was at the FSSP’s request.
In its communiqué on the audience, the FSSP encouraged Catholics to “pray fervently during the 30-days novena of preparation for the renewal of its consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on February 11.
The FSSP was founded in 1988 as a break-off group from the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) by 12 priests, led by Fr. Bisig. It was established months later as a Society of Apostolic Life by Pope John Paul II. As a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical right, the FSSP is directly under the authority of the pope via the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The central charism of the FSSP is to offer the traditional Mass and sacraments, and the Fraternity has “chosen St. Peter as their special patron in order to express their gratitude, filial love, and loyalty to the Supreme Pontiff.”
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| Once again, the SSPX is administering Confirmations within Novus Ordo confines |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-21-2026, 11:00 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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Bishop Fellay Administers Confirmations in Florida Novus Ordo Church
Once again the SSPX in utilizing a Florida Novus Ordo church for Confirmations. This first occurred in 2023 when Bp. Tissier de Mallerais administered Confirmations in this same Novus Ordo church.
Once again, we see yet further evidence of the SSPX's ongoing cooperation and alignment with the Conciliar Church, which was brought into the public's view with it's Doctrinal Declaration of 2012 though it was later revealed that the SSPX has been working secretly with the Conciliar Church much earlier through it's association with GREC.
Here is the local SSPX church bulletin announcing the upcoming Confirmations for the parishioners of St. Thomas More Chapel in Sanford, FL - notice no location is provided to the public - as was done the first time as well in 2023. Curious that this fact is downplayed and hidden:
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Screenshot taken January 20, 2026 from here
The Recusant, Issue 61, highlighted the significance of Bp. de Mallerais' Confirmations in 2023 in this N.O. chapel, which certainly rings true again now:
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Screenshot of Issue 61, page 54 |
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| Schism fears arise as Catholic Church in Germany aims to put laity on ‘same level’ as bishops |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-19-2026, 09:16 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Schism fears arise as Catholic Church in Germany aims to put laity on ‘same level’ as bishops
'This Synodal Conference will have decision-making power and be able to introduce changes to doctrine by majority vote,' reported Italian journalist Nico Spuntoni.
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FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 05: Catholic bishop Georg Baetzing, speaks to the media after the 3. congress of the
"Synadoler Weg" Catholic reform movement on February 05, 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Jan 17, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — As Pope Leo XIV meets with his Apostolic Nuncio for Germany, Monsignor Nikola Eterovic, on Saturday, the very real possibility of schism with the Catholic Church in Germany looms.
“It’s alleged the German Church wants to put the German laity on the same level as the bishops and also let them control the cash,” according to a report in the Italian language publication Il Giornale by Nico Spuntoni.
Spuntoni explains:
Quote:This is a project, already approved by the powerful Central Committee of German Catholics, that will create a permanent body in which laypeople will be on an equal footing with bishops. This Synodal Conference will have decision-making power and be able to introduce changes to doctrine by majority vote, forcing those who disagree to provide a public justification. In addition, the Conference will take control of the financial resources of the extremely wealthy German Church.
The Holy See’s concern over what many interpret as a trajectory toward schism extends far beyond Germany’s national boundaries.
Spuntoni suggests that the German Church would like to trigger a contagion that would spread through the rest of the Roman Catholic Church.
An unpublished document shows that in 2021, Benedict XVI contacted Cardinal Reinhard Marx, then-head of the German Bishops’ Conference and chief proponent of Germany’s “Synodal Way,” to express his “great concern” about the synodal process in Germany.
“Vatican sources confirm that in recent years Ratzinger was very skeptical about the direction taken by the German Church and was convinced that ‘this path will do harm and end badly if it is not stopped,’” wrote Spuntoni. “Marx ignored the appeal of the Pope Emeritus.”
“Now it is Leo XIV’s turn,” said the Il Giornale author, who noted that the Pope may turn to Cardinal Mario Grech’s report to the consistory, which stated that “it is always up to the bishop of Rome to suspend the synodal process if necessary.”
“Prevost shares Benedict XVI’s concerns,” said Spuntoni, who warned that if Pope Leo “lacks the strength to say no to the Synodal Conference project, there is a risk that the German avalanche could become a schism for the universal Church.”
The Synodal Way is a heterodox reform project launched by the German Bishops’ Conference and the Central Committee of German Catholics in December 2019.
By 2023, an overwhelming majority of the members of the Synodal Way, including more than two-thirds of the German bishops, voted in favor of heretical documents calling for women deacons, “blessings” of same-sex unions and even “transgender” priests in a text replete with gender ideology.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), blasted the heretical German Synodal Way at the time, saying it was worse than schism and calling it a variant of “materialistic and nihilistic woke culture” that has abandoned “the very essence of Christianity.”
Müller explained in an interview with the conservative German magazine Tichys Einblicke that while the schismatic Orthodox Church kept its focus on Christ, the Synodal Way in Germany has abandoned “the very essence of Christianity … in favor of its transformation into a variant of the materialistic and nihilistic woke culture of man’s self-redemption and self-creation.”
“Instead of the word of God in Holy Scripture and Church Tradition, one refers to the ‘authorities’ like Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Helmut Kentler, or Yuval Harari,” Müller continued.
The German cardinal furthermore said that “woke culture,” which is also represented in the Synodal Way, leads humanity further down the path of self-destruction. At the root of this problem Müller identifies a “wrong anthropology which makes the marriage of man and woman an arbitrary variant of self-centered libido.”
Proponents of the German “Synodal Way” are “propagandists of a secularized church that has distanced itself from Christ, who want to cast out the violations of the natural and revealed anthropology and sexual morality by destroying it,” wrote Cardinal Müller in a LifeSiteNews essay in 2022.
“The main goal of the whole campaign is the preservation of Christianity as the civil religion of the secular state and of the largely religiously agnostic and indifferent society as a whole,” said Müller. “Therefore, one offers itself to the ‘modern world’ – whatever that is supposed to be – as a socio-psychologically useful religious and social service organization.”
“One pretends that the Church was not founded by God to be the sacrament of salvation for the world in Christ (Lumen gentium 1; 48; Gaudium et spes 45), that it therefore in no way has to legitimize itself before atheists in regard to its expediency for the welfare state or an earthly paradise of socialist (Red Chinese model of society) and capitalist character (Great Reset by 2030),” declared the faithful German cardinal.
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| Oratory Conference: Fr. Denis Fahey Summarizes Papal Encyclicals January 15, 2026 |
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 01-17-2026, 10:07 PM - Forum: Conferences
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Fr. Denis Fahey Summarizes Papal Encyclicals
January 15, 2026 (NH)
Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789
Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power, as well as those of the executive power, may be compared at any moment with the objects and purposes of all political institutions and may thus be more respected, and, lastly, in order that the grievances of the citizens, based hereafter upon simple and incontestable principles, shall tend to the maintenance of the constitution and redound to the happiness of all. Therefore the National Assembly recognizes and proclaims, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen:
Articles:
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good.
2. The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.
5. Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society. Nothing may be prevented which is not forbidden by law, and no one may be forced to do anything not provided for by law.
6. Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has a right to participate personally, or through his representative, in its foundation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, are equally eligible to all dignities and to all public positions and occupations, according to their abilities, and without distinction except that of their virtues and talents.
7. No person shall be accused, arrested, or imprisoned except in the cases and according to the forms prescribed by law. Any one soliciting, transmitting, executing, or causing to be executed, any arbitrary order, shall be punished. But any citizen summoned or arrested in virtue of the law shall submit without delay, as resistance constitutes an offense.
8. The law shall provide for such punishments only as are strictly and obviously necessary, and no one shall suffer punishment except it be legally inflicted in virtue of a law passed and promulgated before the commission of the offense.
9. As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty, if arrest shall be deemed indispensable, all harshness not essential to the securing of the prisoner's person shall be severely repressed by law.
10. No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views, provided their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law.
11. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
12. The security of the rights of man and of the citizen requires public military forces. These forces are, therefore, established for the good of all and not for the personal advantage of those to whom they shall be intrusted.
13. A common contribution is essential for the maintenance of the public forces and for the cost of administration. This should be equitably distributed among all the citizens in proportion to their means.
14. All the citizens have a right to decide, either personally or by their representatives, as to the necessity of the public contribution; to grant this freely; to know to what uses it is put; and to fix the proportion, the mode of assessment and of collection and the duration of the taxes.
15. Society has the right to require of every public agent an account of his administration.
16. A society in which the observance of the law is not assured, nor the separation of powers defined, has no constitution at all.
17. Since property is an inviolable and sacred right, no one shall be deprived thereof except where public necessity, legally determined, shall clearly demand it, and then only on condition that the owner shall have been previously and equitably indemnified. |
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