An unusually long and visibly tense exchange between Pope Leo XIV and Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo after Wednesday’s General Audience in St. Peter’s Square. The Argentine prelate had unsuccessfully sought a private audience with the Pope for months.
September 7, 2026 76 Year Anniversary of Fr. Patrick Peyton. Tribute to : Venerable Fr. Patrick Peyton Pray for us, for the Conversions of Many souls on Earth.
Saint of the Day – Sept 8, 1975 – Monday by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Today, September 8, Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady and of Our Lady of Coromoto – for the two invocations go together – and you well know how devotion to Our Lady of Coromoto is dear to us – on this feast I wanted to make sure to hold this meeting with you to replace the Saturday meeting I was unable to give for health reasons, so we could talk about the Nativity of Our Lady. So that you can take advantage of the presence of the Statue during this meditation, I would advise you to have in mind the following: there is no guarantee that this statue physically resembles Our Lady very much. This statue was sculpted by a contemporary Portuguese artist who did not draw inspiration from any special document about Our Lady. For, except for the image found in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, which is painted on wood – an image of Our Lady said to have been painted by the Evangelist St. Luke, but there is no …More
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"The person who is foreseen to be more fervent in resolution of will and more steadfast in humility and perseverance receives grace in the beginning, and it continues to the end. A person who struggles against vice and yearns to be better deserves to be called toward the end of life. An ungrateful person, however, does not deserve to be admitted to his mother's breast.”
[Saint Bridget of Sweden – XIV Century AD; born: Uppland, Sweden/died: Rome, Papal States; Patron Saint of Europe, Widow, Mystic, Spiritual Writer] Answer to the sixth question. ”As to why the wicked sometimes have greater worldly success than the good" Answer to the sixth question. ”As to why the wicked sometimes have greater worldly success than the good, I answer: This is an indication of my great patience and love and a testing of the righteous. If I were to give temporal goods to my friends alone, then the wicked would despair and the good would grow proud. Instead, temporal goods are granted to all, so that I, God, the giver and Creator of all things, may be loved by all and so that good people who become proud may be taught righteousness by means of the wicked. It is also in order that everyone may realize that temporal things are not to be loved or preferred to me, God, but are only to be possessed for the sake of sustenance, and in order that they may be all the more zealous in …More
EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Schneider calls for ‘fatherly charity’ towards SSPX and responds to Sacrosanctum Concilium General Audience Niwa Limbu Sep. 2, 2026 EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Athanasius Schneider has called for “fatherly charity and magnanimity” towards the SSPX and offered his assessment of the post-conciliar liturgical reform following Pope Leo XIV’s recent General Audience on Sacrosanctum Concilium Bishop Athanasius Schneider is one of the most respected and outspoken traditionalist prelates in the Church today. The auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, he serves in a country where Catholics make up less than one per cent of the population. The archdiocese itself was established just 23 years ago, making the bishop’s see an unlikely place from which to emerge as a prominent voice of traditional Catholic thought. Nonetheless, Bishop Schneider has become a source of inspiration and hope for a generation of young priests devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass …More
Leo XIV visited Genazzano’s Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel on September 7, riding in an electric vehicle. He unveiled a fresco commemorating his May 2025 pilgrimage and celebrated the Eucharist. The visit reinforces an emerging pattern: Leo XIV enjoys getting out of the Vatican for drives, excursions and shrine visits, even as a substantial governing workload awaits him back in Rome.
Today, Leo XIV visited Genazzano - aboard an electric vehicle - to pray at the Shrine of the Mother of Good Counsel
Troparion of the Nativity of the Theotokos Your Nativity, O Mother of God, heralded joy to the whole universe, for from you rose the Sun of Justice, Christ our God. He cancelled the curse and poured forth His grace; He vanquished death and granted us eternal life. "Eyes has not seen, ear has not heard, and the human heart has not felt what God has prepared for those who love Him. Who, then, can dare speak about what God has prepared for His Mother!" St. Bernard
NAISSANCE DE LA MÈRE DE DIEU. Témoin de la volonté d’Allah, 8 septembre Tropaire de la Naissance de la Mère de Dieu Votre naissance, ô Mère de Dieu, a annoncé la joie à l’univers tout entier, car de vous s’est levé le Soleil de justice, le Christ notre Dieu. Il a effacé la malédiction et répandu Sa grâce ; Il a vaincu la mort et nous a accordé la vie éternelle. « Ce que l’œil n’a pas vu, ce que l’oreille n’a pas entendu, et ce que le cœur humain n’a pas conçu, c’est ce que Dieu a préparé pour ceux qui l’aiment. Qui donc oserait parler de ce que Dieu a préparé pour sa Mère ! » Saint Bernard Traduit avec DeepL.com (version gratuite)
[Saint HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ~ XI-XII Century AD; born: Bermersheim, Holy Roman Empire/died: Bingen am Rhein, Holy Roman Empire, aged 81; Abbess, Polymath, Writer, Composer, Mystic, Visionary, Philosopher, Medical Writer and Practitioner, Composer of Sacred Monophony, Virgin, Founder, Doctor of the Church] 16. Teachings on the Church (from Scivias) [The principles on which Hildegard based her advice and admonitions to the principal churchmen and politicians of her day are set out extensively in the pages of Scivias, from which the following extracts are taken. The book was much in demand: in the early 1150s, for instance, Archbishop Arnold of Cologne expressed a wish to have a copy, for he was ‘unable and unwilling to be without it’. 1 In responding to his request, Hildegard sent the following message as a covering letter: Now, as you wished, shepherd of your people, I (a poor woman) have sent you my writings of the true visions to you. They contain nothing of human ingenuity and nothing …More
"‘Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?’ Who are these who have withdrawn in their hearts from earthly and fleshly desires in order to soar in full devotion towards heavenly things? They strengthen their bodily senses in dovelike simplicity, without bitter gall."
Breaking the First Commandment: An interfaith celebration was held at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa, and was organised by the All India Catholic University Federation (a Jesuit movement).