Sally Dorman

The Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, is halting Sunday Mass at 84 of its parishes as it consolidates parishes into 24 pastorates.

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Archdiocese of Dubuque Halts Weekend Mass at 84 Iowa Parishes

As part of an ongoing reorganization due to a priest shortage and declining numbers of churchgoers, the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, announced the parishes that will no longer hold weekend Masses.
The Archdiocese of Dubuque is halting weekend Masses at more than 80 parishes across northeastern Iowa this summer as part of a reorganization plan.
The
reorganization, which began in September 2024 in response to declining numbers of priests and churchgoers, is now in its third and final phase. The archdiocese will be organized into 24 “pastorates,” or groups of parishes that work closely together and share resources and ministries. Merged parishes will not yet be closed and may still be used for liturgical celebrations such as funerals, weddings, and weekday Masses.
The archdiocese, in which there are about 182,000 Catholics, has only one priest for every two parishes. The reorganization plan is designed to prevent burnout among the 85 priests actively serving in the archdiocese, a number …

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Hugh N. Cry

Thanks V2

giveusthisday

This is terrible! What will they do on Sunday? Don't tell me they cannot work this out without cancelling any Sunday Masses.

Sally Dorman

Canada’s House of Commons passes ‘anti-Christian’ bill that would criminalize quoting Bible Canada plans to criminalize God's revelation about sodomy and his creation of only two sexes -- male and female

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Canada’s House of Commons passes ‘anti-Christian’ bill that would criminalize quoting Bible - LifeSite

Wed Mar 25, 2026 - 7:33 pm EDTThu Mar 26, 2026 - 12:19 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (
LifeSiteNews) — The majority of Canadian MPs have voted to pass a Liberal bill that will allow the criminalization of religious expression and belief when quoting parts of the Bible, including about homosexuality and gender.
Early Wednesday evening, MPs from the Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois, in a 186–137 vote, passed Bill C-9, known as the “Combatting Hate Act.” Conservatives, NDP, and Green Party MPs voted against the bill in a rare form of unity among the usually opposing parties.
The bill now heads to Canada’s rubber-stamp Senate for review.
A last-minute effort by the Conservatives to change the wording of the bill failed to pass.
Earlier this week, Liberal MPs forced the bill through the report stage, after earlier, as reported by LifeSiteNews, shutting down all debate on the bill in the committee stage.
In comments sent to LifeSiteNews, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) blasted the passage of …

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paul grech

Goesb to show how utterly corrupt and ignorant each of those politicians is!

CatMuse

"Poor Canada"

Sally Dorman

“Vance has maintained in recent private conversations that he hasn’t yet decided whether he will seek the presidential nomination for 2028”

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Vance is in a bind, supporting a war that could cost him politically

Vice President JD Vance is projecting loyalty to Donald Trump as the president leads the United States into the type of war the Iraq veteran didn’t want — and as the new conflict complicates Vance’s political future.
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Vance allies have played down the impact the operation in Iran could have on his presidential ambitions, insisting that a mission involving the U.S. military only for a matter of weeks won’t stay in voters’ memories. People close to the vice president have also conceded to The Washington Post, however, that a months-long conflict will pose a problem for whoever is the next Republican nominee. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to comment on private discussions.
The war has put Vance in an increasingly difficult bind. Once a stalwart critic of America’s costly military interventions overseas, the 41-year-old Marine veteran has found himself defending the president’s growing appetite …

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Oxford student Samuel Williams, who chanted "put the Zios in the ground" at a pro-Palestine rally in October, will not stand trial for another two years. Yet somehow Lucy Connolly was in court in under a month.

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Oxford Student Who Chanted "Put the Zios in the Ground" to Go on Trial in Two Years' Time – The Daily Sceptic

Oxford University student Samuel Williams, who chanted “put the Zios in the ground” at a pro-Palestine rally in London in October, will not stand trial for another two years. The Mail has the story.
An Oxford University student is due to go on trial accused of allegedly making antisemitic chants at a pro-Palestine demonstration.
Samuel Williams, 21, is accused of stirring up racial hatred at a Palestine Coalition demonstration in Whitehall, central London, on Saturday October 11th.
He was charged last year and appeared before Southwark Crown Court today.
He spoke to confirm his name and plead not guilty.
He was given conditional bail and told a trial date was set for January 17th 2028.
Williams was previously told he was not allowed to take part in Palestine-related protests inside the M25 or in Oxford as part of his bail.
Williams was identified by the Daily Mail after the incident was caught on camera and shared on social media.
“Zio” is an offensive reference to Zionists, and some …

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Sally Dorman

Meditating on St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Bishop Erik Varden on the second day of the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for the Holy Father and the Roman Curia says: “On the face of it, the Cistercian project was conservative. Yet its protagonists introduced novelties. This dialectic was fruitful. Bernard’s confidence in his own judgement could make him flexible in the observance of conventional procedures he otherwise claimed to uphold. His view of the Church’s needs drove him sometimes to adopt rigid positions that involved fierce partisanship. But he was no hypocrite. He was a genuinely humble man, fully given to God, capable of tender kindness, a firm friend — indeed, able to befriend former enemies — and a compelling witness to God’s love. He was, and remains, fascinating.”

coramfratribus.com

Bernard the Idealist - Coram Fratribus

Life Illumined
From the second conference of this week’s
Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
What sort of man was St Bernard? Where did he come from? He towers over the twelfth-century Cistercian movement: such were his charisma and industriousness.
Many people, including some who should know better, suppose he got the order going. He did not, of course; though he did make a splash when he turned up in 1113, aged 23, with a band of thirty companions.
The monastery he joined, Cîteaux, was a project as much of innovation as of reform. The founders, who set it up in 1098, called their house novum monasterium. They were doing something new, not primarily reacting against anything, which is just as well, since projects of reaction sooner or later run into the sand.
On the face of it, the Cistercian project was conservative. Yet its protagonists introduced novelties. This dialectic was fruitful.
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The Lepanto Institute has asked Pope Leo XIV to laicize and suspend Fr. Steve Rosera of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
In an August 2025 report, Lepanto stated that Rosera entered a registered homosexual domestic partnership in San Francisco that lasted ten years during a 28-year leave from public ministry. The group submitted a notarized July 30, 2025 divorce document from the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco to the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Christophe Cardinal Pierre, requesting it be delivered to the pope.
Lepanto said Rosera has been reinstated to ministry and serves as a parish pastor and marriage tribunal judge. The group stated that Archbishop John Wester has not imposed canonical sanctions.

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Lepanto Institute calls for Pope Leo to laicize New Mexico priest over homosexual ‘domestic partnership’

The Lepanto Institute has formally requested that Pope Leo laicize and suspend from ministry a New Mexico priest who entered into a homosexual “domestic partnership” for ten years during a 28-year leave of absence from the priesthood.
Lepanto sent a copy of its
August 2025 report on Fr. Steve Rosera, of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with the notarized “divorce” documents of Rosera and his “partner,” issued by the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, to the Papal Nuncio to the United States, His Eminence, Christophe Cardinal Pierre. This followed a recent in-person conversation with the Nuncio in which Lepanto brought the scandal to his attention in Washington, D.C.
Lepanto requested of the Nuncio that the report and court documents be delivered in person, via the Apostolic pouch, to Pope Leo XIV, with the request that the Holy Father impose the canonical penalties incurred by a priest for grave violations of the vow of celibacy: suspension …

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Sandy Barrett

Will never happen.

Sally Dorman

Cardinal becomes police chaplain

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Cardinal Dolan, Reverend A.R. Bernard to Lead NYPD Chaplains Unit - The Good Newsroom

Cardinal Dolan, Reverend A.R. Bernard to Lead NYPD Chaplains Unit
By: The Good Newsroom
New York Police Department (
NYPD) Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch on Tuesday will name Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Reverend A.R. Bernard as co-chief chaplains of the department’s chaplains unit, the commissioner said Monday in a statement.
“For more than a century, our Chaplains Unit has made sure that our officers never have to carry the tremendous weight of their work alone. They’ve helped officers find their better angels and remember the calling that lives at the heart of this work,” the commissioner said. The official announcement will be made as part of her “State of the NYPD” address on Tuesday.
“As I was thinking about who should fill this role, one Hebrew word kept coming to mind — ‘Tzadik,’ a person of righteousness.
“Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Reverend A.R. Bernard are two of the most righteous people this City has ever known. They are two men of incredible faith whose lives and leadership …

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Newyorský kardinál sa stal policajným kaplánom v medzináboženskej jednotke: Dolan bol vymenovaný za spoluhlavného kaplána newyorskej polície. Bude viesť medzináboženskú a medzináboženskú kaplánsku jednotku oddelenia - spolu s A. R. Bernardom, evanjelickým megacirkevným pastorom z Brooklynu. Jednotka zahŕňa kazateľov z rôznych náboženských tradícií vrátane katolicizmu, protestantizmu, judaizmu a islamu.

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O Cardeal de Nova Iorque torna-se Capelão da Polícia numa unidade inter-religiosa: O Arcebispo Emérito de Nova Iorque, Timothy Dolan, foi nomeado Co-Capelão-Chefe do Departamento de Polícia de Nova Iorque. Irá dirigir a unidade de capelania inter-religiosa e interdenominacional do departamento - juntamente com A. R. Bernard, um pastor evangélico de uma mega-igreja de Brooklyn. A unidade inclui pregadores de uma variedade de tradições religiosas, incluindo o catolicismo, o protestantismo, o judaísmo e o islamismo.

Sally Dorman

Leo XIV's "choice of consultors follows the trajectory set under Pope Francis. Figures associated with synodal processes, pluralist approaches to religion, and expansive readings of dialogue have again been elevated to advisory roles. No doctrinal rupture has been made, but the pattern reveals a sustained preference for voices formed in the post conciliar culture of openness."

thecatholicherald.com

Is the Francis era continuing in Leo’s interreligious appointments?

Pope Leo XIV has appointed 19 new consultors to the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, a move that broadly confirms the trajectory of nominations established under Pope Francis.
The Holy See announced the appointments on Monday, naming clerics, religious sisters, and lay academics from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas to advise the dicastery in its work.
The consultors come from a wide range of theological, cultural, and institutional backgrounds and include figures already prominent in synodal processes, interreligious initiatives, and Catholic social movements.
Among those appointed is Emilce Cuda, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Cuda attracted international attention in 2022 following the United States Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, when she warned that many Catholics “confuse the defence of life with the defence of ideological positions” and argued that human dignity should not be reduced to abortion and euthanasia alone. She …

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Ivan Tomas

"No doctrinal rupture has been made, but the pattern reveals a sustained preference for voices formed in the post conciliar culture of openness."
What kind of language is that!?
The V2 revolution as a whole is the very hallmark of the complete perversion of the Catholic Faith and Church doctrine.

Sally Dorman

"Leo is cautious, but I think he will continue on Pope Francis' trajectories," said Faggioli. "I don't think he will go back."

reuters.com

Pope Leo urges Catholic cardinals to create more inclusive Church

Item 1 of 5 Pope Leo XIV meets with the world's Catholic cardinals as part of a two-day summit at which he urged the senior clerics to shun divisions in the 1.4-billion-member Church and focus on attracting new believers, at the Vatican, January 8, 2026. Vatican Media/Simone Risoluti/Handout via REUTERS
[1/5]Pope Leo XIV meets with the world's Catholic cardinals as part of a two-day summit at which he urged the senior clerics to shun divisions in the 1.4-billion-member Church and focus on attracting new believers, at the Vatican, January 8, 2026. Vatican Media/Simone Risoluti/Handout via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
VATICAN CITY, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Pope Leo met on Thursday with the world's Catholic cardinals as part of a two-day summit, urging the senior clerics to shun divisions in the 1.4-billion-member Church and focus on attracting new believers.
Leo also signalled a desire to press ahead with the reforms of the late Pope Francis, who battled with conservative …

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Anthony November

How effeminate of him.

Mike the Pike

Too funny. Leo should not "battle" Catholic cardinals or try to make Catholicism anything other than it was before Pope Bergoglio Francis. If Leo wants a more inclusive (globalist lingo) church, let Leo make a new church. Leo can make Catholicism better by abdicating.

Sally Dorman

As the Archdiocese of Dubuque finalizes its "Journey in Faith" plan, Catholics in northeast Iowa are grappling with parish consolidations, fewer weekend Mass sites, and a shift toward evangelism amid priest shortages and declining attendance.

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Could reducing Sunday Mass locations be a key to increasing Catholic church attendance?

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.
LUXEMBURG — Since the 1800s, two institutions have been a constant for families in Luxemburg: Holy Trinity Catholic Church and Ungs Shopping Center.
At the small town’s four-way stop intersection, Holy Trinity’s steeple has towered over the town’s general store, just across the street from the church, since 1875. The Ungs family has been part of Luxemburg since the church’s first construction in 1857.
For decades, Mike Ungs, the fourth generation in his family to run the store for groceries, sundries and farm supplies, has watched the two change with the times — often in tandem.
Growing up, he remembers how hours at the family business used to be set around Mass.
“It used to be a big part of our business,” Ungs said. “You’d sell eight or 10 dozen doughnuts (on Sunday.) Sunday was family day, so people would pick up sliced meat for picnics.”
In the 1860s or 1870s, before it was sold to …

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Orthocat

Cut the crap... the real problem is not enough priests - even with church attendance in single digits. Reduce Mass locations? That just means you "hope" people will care enough to travel to get to a N.O. Mass far from their locale so it will "look" full. But the decline is still happening! There is NO increase!!

rhemes1582

an illusion 🥺 "key to increasing Catholic Church attendance"

Sally Dorman

“They are an extraordinary family,” McGurn said in the interview. Lai’s wife, Teresa Lai, “is a rock. If Jimmy didn’t have Teresa to lean on, he knows it, he wouldn’t be strong. I mean, he has his faith, but she strengthens it. That’s what they have in common,” McGurn said.

catholicnewsagency.com

Jimmy Lai’s godfather weighs in on ‘phony’ guilty verdict

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 16, 2025 / 07:00 am
Catholic human rights and pro-democracy advocate
Jimmy Lai was found guilty following his lengthy national security trial. Lai, 78, will be sentenced at a later date but faces up to life in prison.
The Dec. 15 verdict “is important, and it’s not important,” Bill McGurn, Wall Street Journal columnist and godfather of Lai, told “EWTN News Nightly.”
“It’s important because it’s part of the Hong Kong process, and everyone knew he would always be convicted. So it’s important because we have to get it out of the way,” McGurn said. “Jimmy cannot be released until he was convicted, and that’s why we had to wait all these years for the trial and then his conviction.”
“On the other hand, it was always this charade … the world sees it for what it is. And so in Jimmy Lai’s world, it’s not really a big milestone because it’s phony. Everything about it is phony,” McGurn said.
‘The real work begins now’
While the verdict was guilty, it is …

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Boanerges Boanerges

Where is Prevost? Celebrating with commies and sodomites?

Sally Dorman

“Many abortion workers have some faith,” explained ATTWN marketing and communications director Karen Herzog. “Each year, we choose a Christmas card with a Holy Family scene. The nuns write handwritten notes inside, letting the person who opens the cards and hopefully everyone else working there, know that religious sisters are praying for them to choose to leave the abortion industry.”

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Pro-Life Nuns Send Christmas Cards To Every Abortion Mill In US

A beautiful, behind-the-scenes project has been taking place during the Christmas season for the past five years.
Religious sisters from convents across the country have been sending Christmas cards to abortion centers, letting the staff there know they are prayed for, and that help is available if they’re interested in finding other work.
Sr. Christina Nazareth, a Capuchin Sister who lives in a Williamsport, Pennsylvania convent, received a letter from
And Then There Were None, an organization that helps abortion workers leave the industry. With no computers, website, or email, the letter was the first the five nuns there had heard of the ministry.
The letter was an invitation to participate in a project of mailing Christmas cards to abortion center staff. The order of nuns is contemplative, meaning they don’t leave the convent much, and devote themselves to prayer.
“We thought this would be a great way to reach out, like an extension of our prayer,” Sr. Christina told me.
Boxes of …

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Jeffrey Ade

Receiving a special hand written note from the sisters is always a Grace! It helps you imagine you are special in a little sort of way!

Sally Dorman

Cardinal Mario Grech knew you couldn’t wait, so he dropped you a little appetizer of a publication that “seeks to promote a broader understanding of this phase of the Synod’s implementation process.”
Let’s dive in.
Actually, since the summary is 11,359 words long all by itself, why don’t I just summarize the summary and give you the highlights?

substack.com

Roughly Translated from the Original Synodalish

Roughly Translated from the Original Synodalish
A Guide to the Managerial Speak of the Interim Report of the Synod on Synodality
You’re Excited, Right? … Right?
Aren’t you excited?
The Secretariat for Synodality has released the
Interim Report of the Study Groups, of the Canonical Commission, and of the SECAM Commission on Polygamy and Presentation of the Study Group on Liturgy.
It’s just an exciting “update on the ongoing journey of research and discernment that began following the First Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops and has continued by integrating the fruits of the Second Session.”
I know you’re on the edge of your seat, and they’re sorry for keeping you waiting, even though “the richness and complexity of most of the topics entrusted to them has required more time than originally anticipated [to release the reports on schedule.]"
Of course, you’re one of the people who’re excited about the interim report dropping, right? You’re not one of …

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Sally Dorman

This pic from the article is gold

Sally Dorman

Members of Minnesota’s Somali community have been involved in a scheme to defraud Medicaid by falsely diagnosing children with autism and sending the money to Al-Shabaab. It cites a sharp rise in Medicaid spending on autism services and an increase in autism centers as evidence, though no verified sources are provided.
Look at the insane spike in claims: 2018: $3 million 2023: $399 million

city-journal.org

Minnesota Welfare Fraud: Some Funds Went to Al-Shabaab

Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.
In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”
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Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically …

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Father Karl A Claver

These animals do not care. They are termites who feed upon us and then give the products to other lands. REMEMBER, it was Catholic charities who sponsored most of these beasts into our nation., and the blame goes mainly to them.