Cardinal Blase Cupich recently faced backlash from other bishops for planning to award pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin with a ‘lifetime achievement’ award.
Cardinal Sarah said ‘the Christians who practice today, they are the ones who go to traditional Mass,’ adding that he does not know what Pope Leo will decide on the issue.
Pope Leo decried a tendency to neglect family ‘values developed over centuries that mark our cultural identity, sometimes even presuming to erase their historical and human relevance.’
St. Callixtus built the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere; and enlarged the catacombs on the Appian Way, in which many holy pontiffs and martyrs were buried.
‘Synodality is an attitude, an openness, a willingness to understand,’ Pope Leo said, presenting the concept as the hallmark of his papacy though without emphasizing doctrinal clarity.
Pope Leo must ‘urgently’ make reparation after the Vatican endorsed an LGBT Jubilee ‘pilgrimage’ and allowed unrepentant homosexuals to pass the Holy Doors at St. Peter’s, Bishop Schneider said.
Pope Leo XIV appointed Cristiana Perrella as president of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts, though Perella has organized sexually explicit, pro-homosexual ‘art’ displays in recent years.
The appeal by Catholic layman Ernest Williams entreats Pope Leo XIV to proclaim a ‘World Day of Prayer and Fasting for Gaza’ amid ongoing suffering in Palestine.
The orthodox Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz, the largest monastery in Austria, will receive a Vatican visitation this fall, with visitators including a religious sister without a habit.