Leo XIV embraced and blessed 11-year-old Marie-Garance during his visit to Lourdes. Marie-Garance, who lives with profound multiple disabilities, was adopted at 16 months by Clotilde and Nicolas Noël, a Catholic couple who already had six biological children. The Noëls have adopted four children with disabilities. Clotilde describes her bond with Marie-Garance as extraordinarily close, calling her the “cornerstone of our family” and saying: “I had been searching for her for all eternity.”
Marie-Garance, la fillette que le pape Léon XIV avait bénie lors de sa visite en France, avait été placée en famille d’accueil avant d’être adoptée par une famille catholique. Ses parents avaient déjà six enfants biologiques lorsqu’ils ont accueilli chez eux trois autres enfants en situation de handicap, dont Marie-Garance, qui souffre de handicaps multiples et profonds.
Fleeing scandal, a 23-year-old gave birth in a Catholic mother and baby home in 1917. The surname she chose for her baby, ‘Prevost’, endured down the decades, becoming the name of her grandson, Pope Leo XIV.
“Encounter” (Encontro) is a white-marble sculpture by Portuguese architect and artist Álvaro Siza Vieira, unveiled in the Vatican Gardens on September 24. The anthropomorphic work depicts a slender, stylized figure positioned near an olive tree and facing the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. It was previously displayed as part of the Holy See Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale. At the unveiling, Vatican Governor Sister Raffaella Petrini described it as an encounter between art, the Pope’s gardens, and the community. Open to individual interpretation, the sculpture is intended to evoke care for our “Common Home,” fraternity, peace, and a “culture of encounter.”
New sculpture installed in Vatican gardens: My first associations are a giant outdoor Wi-Fi router, a solar-powered parking meter, a minimalist surveillance camera, a patio table growing out of a bollard, or an unfinished Starlink terminal for the Vatican.
Woman Distributes Communion at Leo XIV’s Eucharist — One Communicant Bare-Chested During the Eucharist celebrated by Leo XIV this evening at the Port of Rimini, a woman was spreading Communion in the hand as if it were cookies. One male attendee even received Communion bare-chested, without a shirt.
>>btselem.org/the_elimination_project/?lang=en "All this didn't start with the current Israeli government, and it didn't begin on October 7th. Over time the methods have changed, the scale changed, but the direction remained. In the West Bank apartheid remains the central legal framework for understanding the Israeli regime and the crimes committed to maintain it", said Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s Executive Director, at the launch of our new report The Elimination Project. A checkpoint. A community forced from its land. A farmer unable to reach his fields. An economy pushed further into crisis. A journalist arrested. These may look like separate events. B’Tselem’s new report shows that they are interconnected parts of the same system. Understand the logic behind what is happening in the West Bank. See the full picture. Read the full report... >> btselem.org/the_elimination_project/?lang=en facebook
Putin can't possible fall for this. No less after Rubio said, We are NOT intermediators. We are ON the side of Ukraine. He has too much hope in him for peace and in human beings who don't act nor talk like human beings.
How odd. Ukraine backed by NATO attacked Russia during elections with over 1,600 drones. They said nothing. NOW? Now I see this. NATO jets scrambled in Poland, Romania as Russia strikes Ukraine According to information published by Romania’s Ministry of National Defense on August 20, 2025, two German Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled from Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base in response to one of the heaviest Russian drone assaults in recent weeks targeting Ukrainian territory along the Danube River. Romania’s air surveillance tracked waves of Shahed drones directed against Izmail, a strategic Ukrainian port located only meters from NATO territory. The same night, Poland’s operational command confirmed that its own fighter jets had been scrambled and air defense systems placed on maximum readiness due to Russian long-range aviation strikes against Ukraine, which included the use of hypersonic missiles.
Speaking to journalists earlier on Wednesday, Rubio expressed his hope that the Russian president would arrive for the summit. “We hope that’s an invitation he’ll accept. There’s an opportunity in December if that happens.” That must be one of his sick jokes again. Except it's not funny at all.
Priests heard confessions right on the street along the Champs-Élysées as huge crowds gathered for Pope Leo XIV’s open-air Mass in Paris at Place de la Concorde today.
The Mean Girls Presidency nytimes.com/…pinion/donald-trump-administration-m… Sept. 27, 2026 By Molly Jong-Fast Ms. Jong-Fast is a contributing Opinion writer. I was once a teenage girl, but not a very cool one. I never had the right vintage jeans. I never wore the right high-heeled Free Lance boots, the ones that all the cool girls had. I think about this a lot while watching how Donald Trump runs the White House and the world alongside a high school clique of dumb jocks (Pete Hegseth!) and hot cheerleaders (Natalie Harp!) and nerdy suck-ups (Mike Johnson!). My Queen Bee — my Regina George from “Mean Girls,” my Cher Horowitz from “Clueless” — wasn’t the president of the United States, but at the time she felt arbitrarily powerful, profoundly charismatic and definitely wealthier than I was. She bullied me about my weight and lack of style. She had her friends shun me, too. My peers were rewarded with the social relevance that comes from pleasing the top of the food chain. Now, looking at …بیشتر
Trump calls for all nations to quit the International Criminal Court, as the ICC never goes after the killers of Christians and constantly loves to whine about the "atrocities" of the US military and how they (the ICC), cherish the butchery of kids and transgenderism in children (sick), DJT truth bomb.
This is why we know people like @Falk B are either brainwashed or fools, the video and statement of this article is Trump denouncing the ICC for their proselytism of transgenderism and butchering of kids, but the ICC instead of trying the butchers of Christians and kids, with their omission and constant demon style proselytism prefer to butcher kids, and our dear unhinged democrat, liberal or perhaps bergoglian talks about the sins of the US military like if this post is about that. Even Jesus said about wars and rumors of wars: "they NEED to happen", I CHALLENGE YOU @Falk B to find 1 Venezuelan living abrought that backs you up on the killing of those who died safeguarding Maduro, BUT hey, you have free will and have NO common sense at all, so ill give you 1 point out of 100 for participating yet missing the mark entirely.
Atrocities of US military? Hell yes!!!! Iran, Irak, Contras, Syria, Venezuela, Peru, Cuba, Kongo, Haiti, Chile (not all wars but "involvement) you name it!!!! Basically no war on this planet without the US at least involved, many of em on their behalf...
The Infinite Ocean I remember when I was in highschool, the school took us to a catholic retreat, the confessional was open and it was my turn, an old priest was waiting, I sat down and pour my sins in the open, that confession was like any other... Repeat offender? Yeah, Did I want to get better? Sure, but the only thing I remember about this particular confession was what happened at the end... The priest took his hand and put it exactly where my heart is and said to me: "Remember this, Jesus loves you, He loves you." My heart started to burn, literally... The sensation or the feel of this fire burning my heart from the inside out was surprising yes, ethereal and magnific... There and then I knew Love. This actually happened to me, such an unworthy human being, no humility, no holiness, no nothing just a sad clown looking to roll with the world, while my Lord waited and waited and waited and still... waits on me, this sack of unworthiness, I wish the Love I was shown in my heart would've …بیشتر
“I want to bring everybody to Christ — especially… Jews.” 'Conservative' Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester discussed the salvation of non-Christians in an interview with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo following the release of a new Vatican document on interreligious dialogue. Barron said the covenant with Israel “is fulfilled in Christ,” rejecting the idea of two parallel paths of salvation. “I want to bring everybody to Christ,” Barron said, adding, “especially… Jews.” The Church’s purpose is “always and everywhere to everybody” to proclaim Jesus Christ as Savior, he said. Asked how much doctrinal weight Catholics should give the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate, Barron replied that “there are elements in it that really belong to the doctrine of the Church,” including human dignity and Christianity’s grounding in the revelation given to Israel.
Bishop Robert Barron on Nostra Aetate: “I want to bring everybody to Christ” — including Jews — while saying only “elements” of the declaration “really belong to the doctrine of the Church.”
It's been said by many that Trump has something big coming. They said, it's not good either. When I read this I felt I knew why he was doing it. When he said he was going to nuke Russia he was not kidding. Just like the other day he said, he was going to wipe out Iranian people. AGAIN! So why not build two more military bases close to Russia? Just crawling closer and closer to Russia. An easy target. usnews.com/…en-two-new-military-bases-in-greenlan… Distance from Greenland to Russia is 5,017 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 3,117 miles.
Question: Based on all going issues since Benedict XVI resigned from ministerium and not from munus, how one can consider Bergoglio and Prevost were/are true popes? Canon 332 §2 of the 1983 Code states plainly: Si contingat ut Romanus Pontifex muneri suo renuntiet, ad validitatem requiritur ut renuntiatio libere fiat et rite manifestetur, non vero ut a quopiam acceptetur. "If it happens that the Roman Pontiff resigns his munus, it is required for validity that the resignation be freely made and properly manifested, but it is not necessary that it be accepted by anyone." The canon uses munus — not ministerium, not officium, not any other term. Munus in the canonical tradition carries the weight of the office itself: the ontological reality, the gift-and-burden of the Petrine charge, not merely its active exercise. On February 11, 2013, Benedict XVI declared in Latin: ...declaro me ministerio Episcopi Romae, Successoris Sancti Petri, mihi per manus Cardinalium die 19 aprilis MMV …بیشتر