German Islamist on Sat1: “I would whip women and have homosexuals stoned”
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Unbelievable statements by a Salafist with a German passport last night on SAT1/Ronzheimer – The journalist also reveals that German borders are not protected
GERMANY
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FRANCE
Pope Francis to come to Paris for the reopening of Notre-Dame
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The cathedral is to be reopened on December 8th after the major fire in 2019. Francis wants to come to Paris for this. This is reported by a French newspaper
GERMANY
Three queer pastors for Hildesheim
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The dioceses are increasingly becoming specialist departments for gender, climate and migration. This has little to do with the mission that Jesus gave to the church. The Monday Kick by Peter Winnemöll
U.K.
“YES, I am Roman Catholic and love the ‘Old Mass'”
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“Dr. K.”, one of the most famous YouTube piano players, is Catholic. In London, he plays the piano almost every day in front of thousands of live viewers. But during a live broadcast on August 19, unusual events occurred – By Roland Noé
VATICAN
Vatican employee: “Dissatisfaction is growing relentlessly”
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Questionable changes combined with a lack of communication are causing unrest among the workforce, according to the union
ITALY
Catholic meeting in Italy reports record numbers
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Over 150,000 participants on site, hundreds of thousands connected via live link – strengthening the commitment to dialogue, friendship between cultures and the search for peace
POLAND
“Not a human but a divine idea: marriage between man and woman and its indissolubility”
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“Ideological manipulations of God’s plan and human nature will not change anything,” emphasizes Rev. Chyła on the “Opoka” website of the Polish Bishops’ Conference.
POLAND
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Bishop Mazur/Poland: There are external and internal threats – He criticizes the spread of the civilization of death, the desire to kill unborn children, the mockery of God, the Church and values - Criticizes gender ideology
GERMANY
Trans hype among young people – a headache caused by social contagion
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“The experts from the German Medical Association strongly criticise the new self-determination law, especially the far too early starting age for gender reassignment.” Guest commentary by Hubert Hecker
FRANCE
Growing interest among young Catholics in the Old Mass
Despite the restrictions imposed by Pope Francis, interest is increasing, especially among young believers.
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Pope Francis appoints controversial moral theologian to Synod study group on synodality
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Pope Francis has appointed Maurizio Chiodi as a member of the seven-person study group on “controversial doctrinal, pastoral and ethical questions” of the Synod on Synodality. This is reported by Catholic journalist Diane Montagna on X.
The majority of Austrians reject gender equality
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The approval of the Austrian population for gender has continued to decline from a low level in recent years. A survey by the Linz-based opinion research institute IMAS, which was published at the beginning of July, found that 52 percent never use gender-neutral language and only four percent “always”, reports the Kronen Zeitung . 12 percent each use gender “sometimes” and “rarely”.
Cardinal Müller: “Better empty churches than masses in the older rite”?
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Courtalain (kath.net) kath.net documents the sermon of Gerhard Cardinal Müller on Saturday, June 29, Peter and Paul in full in the original German. The Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordained five candidates as deacons and two deacons as priests in Courtalain near Chartres. He explained to kath.net verbatim: “I have complied with this request to confer these ordinations because of the sacrament of ordination itself, not because of the form of the extraordinary rite, because the two ritual variants of the Latin rite are secondary to the substance of the sacrament instituted by Christ and effective in the Holy Spirit. (This is just to explain two opposing false positions). This is explained in more detail in the text.”
Deutsche Kirchenstatistik 2023: 20 Mill. ‘Katholiken’, aber nur 1,26 Mill. besuchen die Hl. Messe
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Deutschlandweit gab es nur 38 Priesterweihen im Jahr 2023. In Frankreich gibt es 2024 über 100, im kleinen Österreich 20. In Deutschland wurde heute die sogenannte “Kirchenstatistik 2023” veröffentlicht, aus der hervorgeht, dass im Vergleich zum Jahr 2022 die Taufen deutlich zurückgingen. So gab es 2023 131.245 Taufen, im Jahr davor 155.173. Die Zahl der kirchlichen Trauungen ging von 35.467 auf 27.565 zurück. In der Aussendung der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz wird dies als “leicht rückläufig” bezeichnet. Zur Erstkommunion kam nur mehr 151.835 statt 162.506 Kinder. Ähnlich sieht es bei den Firmungen aus (105.942 statt 110.942). Einen leichten Zuwachs gab es beim Gottesdienstbesuch (6,2 statt 5,7 %). Allerdings besuchen weiterhin mit 6,2 % der Katholiken nur eine kleine Minderheit an einem Sonntag eine Hl. Messe. Im Bistum Regensburg ist die Zahl der Gottesdienstbesuche mit 9,9 % deutlich höher als in anderen Diözesen, in Passau sind die Gottesdienstbesucherzahlen bei 7 %, in Köln nur bei 5 %. Das Bistum Limburg hat das Thema “Messbesuch” in der heutigen Presseaussendungen nicht einmal erwähnt.
The Synod does not please me: response from a bishop on the equality of men and women in the Church
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Synodalin after the bishop’s appearance: “I just don’t understand it”
Monika Zimmerli, a member of the Zurich Synod, wanted to know from Bishop Joseph Maria Bonnemain what equality between men and women was in the Church. Her detailed response did not satisfy all members of the synod.
The bishop was called, came and again clearly rejected the ordination of women on Thursday morning in Zurich City Hall. And this despite the fact that he was convinced that equality and the teaching of the Church can and should work in harmony.
“Not negociable”
The fact that ordination positions are reserved for men is, on the one hand, non-negotiable, but on the other hand it does not hinder equal rights per se, explained Bishop Joseph Maria Bonnemain at the beginning of the fourth session of the Catholic Synod. Roman in the current mandate. However, it is right and good that senior leadership positions in the church are increasingly filled by women.
Vatican financial oversight finds few irregularities
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Internal supervisory authority ASIF has been monitoring the financial activities of the Vatican Bank and other institutions since 2010 =
The Vatican financial supervisory authority ASIF published its annual report for 2023 online on Monday. According to the report, 123 “suspicious activities” were checked in the reporting year, 118 of which were handled via the Vatican Bank IOR. In only 11 cases did the ASIF inform the Vatican public prosecutor’s office, compared to 19 cases in the previous year.
The non-existent Synodal Committee met in Mainz. Even in its second session, the bishops and laity ignored the irregular state of their fantasy club. Peter Winnemöller’s Monday Kick
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To say it right away: No Catholic has to be interested in and/or follow anything that some of the German bishops and the controversial “ZdK” decide in their fantasy club “Synodal Committee”. Several canon lawyers have now made it very clear that everything that happens there takes place in a legal vacuum or is even illegal. The German Bishops’ Conference cannot be the sponsor of such an event because it lacks legal capacity. The legal entity of the DBK, the VDD, cannot be the legal entity of the Synodal Committee because there is no legally valid resolution for this. So now some bishops have founded an association, the name of which is not known, in order to be able to pay for the joint church destruction club, which is run by lay officials. It would be interesting to find out whether church tax money is used for this and how church tax payers can defend themselves against it. The DBK secretariat and the “ZdK” press office continue to carry out press work for the Synodal Committee. It is worth questioning whether the costs will be refinanced by the bishops’ association and whether such an advance payment is even legally permissible. Nothing is clear here. Transparency can be achieved in other ways.
Every third primary school student in Vienna is Muslim
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Around a third of Viennese primary school students at public schools are Muslims, according to a survey by the Education Directorate.
Vienna (kath.net) One in three primary school students in Vienna is Muslim. This was the result of a survey by the Education Directorate at public primary schools, reported by OE24. This does not include the approximately ten percent of private schools.
Vatican wants to propose new type of papal office
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The Vatican wants to present a document on Thursday that could have far-reaching consequences for relations between the Christian churches. The text was prepared by the Pope’s ecumenical authority, the Vatican press office announced.
The paper is entitled “The Bishop of Rome – Primacy and Synodality in the Ecumenical Discussions and the Responses to the Encyclical Ut Unum Sint”. It takes up an encyclical from 1995 by Pope John Paul II. The doctrinal text, which was groundbreaking for Christian unity at the time, had promised a new self-understanding and a different way of exercising the papal office, especially with regard to the churches of the East.
At the time, the Pope had invited the other Christian churches to seek, in a “brotherly, patient dialogue” with Rome, ways in which the papal office could be understood as a “service of mercy” to all churches. The Vatican’s ecumenical department then set up its own dialogue forums with several churches, which consulted for decades. The results are now available.
Pope backtracks on clericalism warnings
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In front of the participants in the general assembly of the Clergy Dicastery, he also dedicated himself to priestly training. In view of a constantly changing world in which new questions and complex challenges are constantly arising, constant further training is essential. In this context, it is important to create a strong network - with bishops, other clergy, parishioners, religious and associations. It is important that priests have a feeling of “home”.
https://www.kath.ch/newsd/papst-rudert-bei-klerikalismus-warnungen-zurueck/