Leo XIV approved Cardinal Arthur Roche's text against the Traditional Latin Mass, reaffirming Francis' Traditionis Custodes, reports LaRazon.es on August 2. The text was distributed to about 170 cardinals at the January 7 consistory. Key phrase: "This newspaper has been able to confirm that the cardinal distributed the text at the request of Leo XIV and therefore with the Pope's approval of its contents." According to the newspaper, Cardinal Roche and officials from his dicastery drafted the document at the Pope's request. Leo XIV then personally reviewed it. "He did not change a single comma," Vatican sources said, adding that "the distribution of the document to the cardinals was intended to make the new Pope's position on this issue visible." The one-and-a-half-page document defended Traditionis Custodes, describing Tradition as a "living river" rather than a static preservation of past forms. It claimed that the Novus Ordo is fully consistent with authentic Tradition. Picture: Arthur …Lebih
The Novis Ordo is not at all fully constant with authentic tradition. It was made up by commissioners who hated the Mass and anything sacrificial and theocentric.
Leo XIV menyetujui teks Kardinal Arthur Roche yang menentang Misa Latin Tradisional, sekaligus menegaskan kembali dokumen Traditionis Custodes milik Paus Fransiskus, demikian dilaporkan LaRazon.es pada 2 Agustus. Teks tersebut dibagikan kepada sekitar 170 kardinal dalam sidang konsistori pada 7 Januari. Kalimat kunci: "Surat kabar ini telah dapat memastikan bahwa kardinal tersebut mendistribusikan teks tersebut atas permintaan Leo XIV dan oleh karena itu dengan persetujuan Paus atas isinya." Menurut surat kabar tersebut, Kardinal Roche dan pejabat dari dikasterinya menyusun dokumen tersebut atas permintaan Paus. Leo XIV kemudian meninjaunya secara pribadi. "Beliau tidak mengubah satu koma pun," kata sumber-sumber Vatikan, sambil menambahkan bahwa "pendistribusian dokumen tersebut kepada para kardinal dimaksudkan untuk memperjelas posisi Paus baru mengenai masalah ini." Dokumen setebal satu setengah halaman tersebut membela Traditionis Custodes, dengan menggambarkan Tradisi sebagai “sungai …Lebih
"The Church is, at least in the West, in a time of great difficulty, even of confusion, both at the doctrinal level and at the moral and disciplinary level", Cardinal Robert Sarah told IlFoglio.it on August 2. For Cardinal Sarah, it is "a tragedy, indeed a real and proper sin", that there is "a kind of war" and "fierce conflicts" over the liturgy. Main quote: "No one has authority over the rites, which arise from the centuries-long history of the Church. The rites cannot be arbitrarily abolished, and no one can say that a rite no longer exists from one day to the next." The Cardinal wants to return to Benedict XVI.'s Summorum Pontificum, which allows the Mass in the Roman rite alongside the Novus Ordo: "Over the decades, the holy people of God will be able to choose which form best corresponds to their need for faith, silence and spirituality." He added: "Some excesses on the part of those attached to the extraordinary form are, in part, justified by the dramatic and widespread abuses …Lebih
Domenico Bartolucci - Ave verum corpus - Cappella Victoria Jakarta. O INESTIMABLE GIFT Sacred Music in honor of the Eucharist Sabtu, 09 Juni 2012 | Pukul 20.00 wib Gereja Katolik Santa Theresia, Jakarta Gubahan ini merupakan bentuk elaborasi pada jaman moderen atas nyanyian pokok dari Kantus Gregorian (modus VI). Ave verum corpus lazim dilagukan pada saat Upacara Penghormatan Sakramen Mahakudus (in honorem SS. Sacramenti) dan lazim pula dilagukan sebagai nyanyian Komuni. Teks: Paus Innocentius VI. Ave verum corpus natum de María Vírgine, vere passum immolátum in cruce pro hómine, cujus latus perforátum unda fluxit cum sánguine. Esto nobis prægustátum in mortis exámine. O Jesu dulcis, O Jesu pie, O Jesu, Fili Maríæ. Salam Tubuh sejati yang dilahirkan dari Perawan Maria, yang sungguh-sungguh menderita dan berkorban di atas kayu salib bagi manusia, dari sisi yang tertusuk mengalir keluar air dan darah. Sehingga menjadi pratanda dari ujian kematian yang kita hadapi. O Yesus yang manis, O …Lebih
"Gereja, setidaknya di Barat, sedang berada dalam masa yang penuh kesulitan, bahkan kebingungan, baik pada tingkat doktrinal maupun pada tingkat moral dan disiplin," kata Kardinal Robert Sarah kepada IlFoglio.it pada 2 Agustus. Bagi Kardinal Sarah, merupakan "suatu tragedi, bahkan dosa yang sesungguhnya", bahwa terdapat "semacam perang" dan "konflik sengit" seputar liturgi. Kutipan utama: "Tidak ada seorang pun yang memiliki wewenang atas ritus-ritus, yang berasal dari sejarah Gereja yang telah berlangsung berabad-abad. Ritus-ritus tersebut tidak dapat dihapuskan secara sewenang-wenang, dan tidak ada seorang pun yang dapat menyatakan bahwa suatu ritus tidak lagi ada dari satu hari ke hari berikutnya." Kardinal tersebut ingin kembali ke Summorum Pontificum karya Benediktus XVI, yang mengizinkan Misa dalam ritus Romawi berdampingan dengan Novus Ordo: “Selama beberapa dekade ke depan, umat Allah yang kudus akan dapat memilih bentuk mana yang paling sesuai dengan kebutuhan mereka akan iman …Lebih
The Prisoner Who Returned to Celebrate the Eucharist On 31 July 2026, Cardinal Ernest Simoni celebrated the Eucharist at the former communist prison camp of Spaç in Albania. There, he spent years imprisoned and subjected to forced labor after his arrest (1963). He remained imprisoned until 1981. In a message for the occasion, Pope Leo XIV wrote that "no prison can separate a person from the love of Christ."
Albanian Cardinal Simoni returns to former prison camp, Spaç, to celebrate a Eucharist there.
Beach Mass During Jesuits' Retreat Worse than Germany: A photograph published by Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference, shows a Mass celebrated on the beach during "100 Pinne – Mare e Bibbia," a Jesuit summer retreat founded in 2010. The programme offers a week-long holiday including daily Eucharists, Bible study, prayer, community life, excursions, time at the beach. The 2026 edition is taking place in Ragusa (Sicily), Briatico (Calabria), Cagliari (Sardinia), and Vlorë (Albania).
Messa celebrata sulla spiaggia nell'ambito di "100 Pinne – Mare e Bibbia", il programma estivo dei gesuiti nato nel 2010, che propone a giovani e adulti una settimana di ritiro spirituale, con studio quotidiano della Bibbia, preghiera, vita comunitaria, escursioni e tempo trascorso al mare.
High Altar for Church of FSSP: In September 2025, the stately church of the Immaculate Conception in Lobith, the Netherlands, was already closed. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) acquired the church with the consent of the Archdiocese of Utrecht. Since November, the Mass in the Roman rite has been celebrated there. Dutch priest Paolo D'Angona reports that in recent days, the church received this magnificent high altar from another church that had to be closed.
Fr. Paolo D'Angona: "In recent days, the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Lobith (NL), which was entrusted by the Archdiocese of Utrecht to the FSSP, received this magnificent high altar from another church that had to be closed"
The Antilles Episcopal Conference published a Pastoral Letter on Sexual and Gender Identity on 26 July (full text below). Main quotes. - We must resist narratives that suggest the human person is a self-made project, detached from biological reality or moral order. - The human body is not an accessory to identity. - The confusion of our times - driven by ideologies that detach the body from identity, treat desire as destiny, and blur sexual difference - compels us to offer the light of the Gospel and the wisdom of Christian anthropology. - The body is not a barrier to identity but a revelation of it. It is through our male or female embodiment that our unique personhood and our capacity for relationship are revealed. - It is a scientific fact, not a social construct, that human beings are sexually dimorphic. - Sex, then, is not arbitrarily 'assigned' at birth; it is determined at conception through the presence or absence of the SRY gene. If activated, the gene initiates the development …Lebih
Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 "From them will come praise, the sound of people rejoicing." Let us remain in God's love. Matthew 15:1-2, 10-14 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?" Sometimes, people observe actions and words, but not the heart. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.
Konferensi Uskup Antilles menerbitkan Surat Pastoral tentang Identitas Seksual dan Gender pada tanggal 26 Juli (teks lengkap di bawah ini). Kutipan utama. - Kita harus menentang narasi yang menyiratkan bahwa manusia adalah sebuah proyek yang diciptakan sendiri, terlepas dari realitas biologis atau tatanan moral. - Tubuh manusia bukanlah sekadar pelengkap identitas. - Kebingungan zaman kita ini — yang didorong oleh ideologi-ideologi yang memisahkan tubuh dari identitas, memperlakukan hasrat sebagai takdir, dan mengaburkan perbedaan seksual — memaksa kita untuk menawarkan terang Injil dan kebijaksanaan antropologi Kristen. - Tubuh bukanlah penghalang bagi identitas, melainkan perwujudan dari identitas itu sendiri. Melalui perwujudan kita sebagai laki-laki atau perempuan, kepribadian unik kita dan kemampuan kita untuk menjalin hubungan terungkap. - Adalah fakta ilmiah, bukan konstruksi sosial, bahwa manusia memiliki dimorfisme seksual. - Jenis kelamin, oleh karena itu, tidak “ditentukan” …Lebih
Spanischer Premier Sánchez greift Giorgia Meloni wegen Wiedereinführung von Grenzkontrollen an "Der spanische Premierminister Pedro Sánchez hat die Reaktion europäischer Kollegen auf den Ansturm von Zehntausenden Migranten aus Marokko an die spanische Grenze scharf kritisiert und dabei offenbar insbesondere die italienische Premierministerin Giorgia Meloni angegriffen, die nach dem Vorfall europäische Grenzkontrollen wieder eingeführt hat. (...) „Im gegenwärtigen internationalen Kontext kann sich die Europäische Union diese Art von egoistischer, polarisierender und rechtswidriger Reaktion nicht leisten“, schrieb Sánchez in einem Brief, der der Nachrichtenagentur Agence France-Presse (AFP) vorliegt. (...) Sánchez forderte in dem Brief, der an EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen, den Präsidenten des Europäischen Rates António Costa und den irischen Premierminister Micheál Martin gerichtet war, zudem ein formelles Treffen der Innenminister aller 27 EU-Staaten. (...) „Die …Lebih