Standing to Receive Communion, Part II:
The Anthropological Question
In my first article on this topic, I made the historical and liturgical case for standing, which is the normative posture for receiving Holy Communion in the United States. Several readers pressed back from various angles. Rather than rehearse those exchanges, I want to explore the deeper question that the first article opened but did not fully develop, and that sits underneath most of the objections I received.
That question is anthropological. It concerns not merely which posture is older or which gesture communicates reverence more immediately, but what the Church believes about the human person who approaches the altar, and what the Eucharist means for that person to receive.
The most serious objection to the first article’s argument runs roughly as follows. To privilege the practice of the first millennium over that of the second is antiquarianism, the error Pius XII warned against in Mediator Dei when he wrote …

China unilaterally chooses a bishop, and Leo XIV retroactively “appoints” him.
The Vatican press service announced today that Father Ignatius Ding Zuyao, 40, was consecrated Bishop of Haimen, in China's Jiangsu province. He is now the youngest bishop worldwide.
Leo XIV reportedly confirmed his appointment on 24 August 2026.
However, Ding was selected unilateral on 14 May 2026 by the Chinese selection process - 102 days before the alleged "appointment" by Leo XIV.
Ding was consecrated by Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai. The latter is vice-president of the Chinese governmental ‘Patriotic Association’.
During Ding's consecration, the secretary-general of the Chinese Bishops' Conference read the approval document issued by that body.
During an episcopal consecration in the Church, the papal bull is read - not so today.
Furthermore, AsiaNews.it highlights a pattern in China's episcopal appointments. Ding is the youngest bishop in the world. Four of the five bishops appointed in China in …

"Suffering Hostilities with the Lord"
Today the liturgy celebrates the memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila). The Gospel reading is from St. Luke 11:47-54:
The Lord said: “Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets whom your fathers killed. Consequently, you bear witness and give consent to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and you do the building. Therefore, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute’ in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who died between the altar and the temple building. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood! Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility …

Leo XIV promoted Bishop Paolo Andreolli today to Ponta de Pedras, Brazil. The video is from his episcopal consecration in April 2023 in the Cathedral of Belém, including an indigenous-style ceremonial gesture with a maraca-rattle.

EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Schneider says Amoris Laetitia is ‘against divine law’, must be ‘explicitly corrected’
Bishop Schneider questioned how the Vatican could discuss the family without resolving the “confusion” which Amoris Laetitia has spread.
As the Pope gathers prelates to the Vatican to discuss Amoris Laetitia, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has expressed his concerns that the text is a practical “denial of the divine truth of the indissolubility of marriage” and an attack on the “ineffable sanctity of the Holy Eucharist”.
The prominent prelate, auxiliary of Astana in Kazakhstan, gave a wide-ranging interview to the Catholic Herald recently, discussing issues such as the Society of Saint Pius X, the traditional Mass, Amoris Laetitia (AL), the recent document commemorating Nostra Aetate and his overall assessment of the state of the Church.

Localize - Farmers Market
3d Printed Salmon just hit U.S. Grocery shelves, from Israel
824K views · 32K reactions | 3d Printed Salmon …

I am calling this video Pure and Unconditional Love.
They say beauty is only skin deep. This mother has proved that. She sees only a baby. Her baby. And she loves him and cares for him as if he were a normal child. If the world could have more mothers like her. More parents like her. How beautiful this world would be.
Doctors wouldn't let me see my newborn #specialneeds, #specialneedsparenting, #geneticdisorder

Leo calls them false and then turns it around with a beautiful lie, he washes his hands like Pilate did.

Trois diocèses autrichiens soutiennent un spectacle sur la Création avec des drag queens
En Autriche, un concept scandaleux, décrit comme à la fois liturgique, artistique et œcuménique, prétend célébrer la Création de façon « queer ».
Jusqu’où la société contemporaine peut-elle chuter ? En Autriche, un concept scandaleux, décrit comme à la fois liturgique, artistique et œcuménique, prétend célébrer la Création de façon « queer ». Intitulé « Abrakadabra – und es war gut! » (« Abracadabra, et c’était bon ! »), ce concept a été développé par de prétendus chrétiens catholiques, évangéliques, méthodistes et vieux-catholiques à Graz, Vienne et Linz. Il mêle textes bibliques, musique de percussions, danse, « performances » de drag queens (des travestis), art lumineux et éléments interactifs.
Selon ses promoteurs, l’accent est mis sur la diversité de la Création et sur la manière dont l’Église peut être vécue comme un lieu de spiritualité, de communauté et d’épanouissement personnel. Ce concept …

St. Francis de Sales ~ Never leave the Church because of the scandals of men.

FOX 7 Austin
A city council meeting in Iowa came under an intense discussion amongst its council after a satanic prayer was read to open their council meeting.
Iowa city council opens meeting with a ‘Hail …

"Just go to church. Who cares if they're actually Christian or not."

Cardinal notes “changing understandings of gender,” says Church must discern how to change.
At Leo XIV's meeting marking ten years of Amoris Laetitia on October 8, Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão delivered a speech on the challenges facing families in Asia. He is the President of the Conference of Bishops of India.
Discussing changes in the “identity, nature and composition of the family,” the cardinal observed that “new forms of partnership and cohabitation are emerging, amid changing understandings of gender and relationships in urban settings.”
Reflecting on what the Church has learned from its pastoral work, Ferrão declared: “Pastoral work is itself a place of discernment. We don't arrive with ready-made answers. We discern together with families and, in doing so, we learn how the Church herself is being asked to change.”
In his conclusion, the cardinal stated that “there is no single stereotype of an ideal family” and asked, “What is the Holy Spirit asking the Church to change – not …

Dear Muslim Migrants who burn France , I bow before your dignity. +Leo XIV

Ben Shapiro believes Jesus was a common Criminal.
AntiChrist Filth.

Aaron Murphy, a commercial pilot and flight instructor proved that the Flydubai story presented by Netanyahu is impossible, raising suspicions of another Israeli false flag operation.
Sitting down in a flight simulator recreating the Flydubai FZ1073 incident so viewers can see what the cockpit and the aircraft itself would have looked like during the sudden dive.⁠
Murphy’s point at the end of the segment is that the dive was not just violent to sit through — it was close to structurally unsurvivable.
In the simulator, the horizon drops away, the jet pitches steeply nose-down, and overspeed warnings start screaming as the aircraft accelerates through the plunge. His conclusion is blunt: a descent that steep and that fast would have torn the airplane apart.
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Bishop Martin Praises New Jewish Head Of Catholic Biblical Association
Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has written to congratulate Jewish professor Amy-Jill Levine on her election as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and to condole with her over what he called the “hateful and antisemitic messages” that he said followed the appointment.
“I was delighted to learn of your appointment as President of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on this historic and well-deserved recognition,” Martin wrote in a letter posted by Levine on Sunday.
Levine, who has said she is “not a believer in Jesus” as God, will be the association’s president for 2026–2027. Announcing the election, the Catholic Biblical Association noted that she was the first Jewish scholar to teach the New Testament at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute in 2019 and that her “standing with Rome is best recognized by the fact that she had three audiences …

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) spoke from the pulpit at a Catholic church this week, co-opting the authority of the Church to accuse conservatives of making Catholics “turn against … our trans brothers and sisters and neighbors and siblings.”

St. Francis Borgia ~ I have great doubts about the salvation of those who do not have special devotion to Mary.

Never stop clapping - Leo XIV in Metz