The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, scheduled a call for Monday with Pope Francis. Both are very close ideologically, and I imagine that the war in Ukraine will be at the center of the conversation since Lula plans to create a group of neutral countries to broker a peace deal. https://bahia.ba/politica/lula-marca-conversa-por-telefone-com-o-papa-francisco-diz-coluna/
The President Lula will talk to the pope by telephone this Wednesday (May 31). Both will discuss the war in Ukraine, the climate agenda, and the fight against inequalities. https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.c...com-o-papa-francisco-na-proxima-quarta-feira/
Brazil's Lula, Pope Francis discuss Ukraine war in phone call Reuters May 31, 202312:45 PM GMT-3Updated 2 hours ago [1/2] Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meets with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (not pictured) before a summit with presidents of South America to discuss the re-launching of the... Read more SAO PAULO, May 31 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday had a phone call with Pope Francis to discuss topics such as the war in Ukraine and environmental protection, the Brazilian government said in a statement. Lula thanked the pope for his peace efforts but lamented that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia had escalated. The government added the leftist leader also thanked Francis for his support of measures aimed at protecting the Amazon rainforest. It added that Lula invited Francis to visit Brazil, noting the Roman Catholic leader replied he would consider the invitation. The two are set to meet in person in Vatican in June or July. Reporting by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Steven Grattan https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...is-discuss-ukraine-war-phone-call-2023-05-31/
Pope has named two-thirds of cardinals eligible to elect his successor Catholic News Service 1 hour ago Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, center, arrived with other cardinals for the funeral Mass of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in this file photo from Jan. 5, 2023. As of June 2, 2023, two-thirds of the members of the College of Cardinals who are under the age of 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope are cardinals created by Pope Francis. (CNS Photo by Paul Haring) By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the retired archbishop of Naples, celebrated his 80th birthday June 2 and, consequently, became ineligible to enter a conclave to elect a new pope. The cardinal’s aging out left the College of Cardinals with 121 clerics under the age of 80 and eligible to vote. Of those 121 cardinals, 81 — 66.9% — were inducted into the college by Pope Francis. According to modifications to the norms governing the election of the bishop of Rome promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2013 and still in force, “a majority vote of two-thirds of the cardinal electors present is always necessary for the valid election of a Roman Pontiff.” With Cardinal Sepe’s birthday, just over two-thirds of the currently eligible voters were made cardinals by Pope Francis. Another seven cardinals – including three given their red hats by Pope Francis — will celebrate their 80th birthdays before the end of the year. They include Cardinal Juan Cipriani Thorne, former archbishop of Lima, Peru, who was made a cardinal by St. John Paul II; and Cardinals Giuseppe Versaldi, Angelo Comastri and Leonardo Sandri, all retired Vatican officials who were made cardinals by Pope Benedict. The almost-80-year-olds inducted into the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis are: Cardinals Patrick D’Rozario, retired archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Andre Yeom Soo-jung, retired archbishop of Seoul; and Jean Zerbo, archbishop of Bamako, Mali. According to rules set by St. Paul VI and never abrogated, but frequently set aside for months at a time over the past three decades, the College of Cardinals can have a maximum of 120 members eligible to vote in a conclave. https://www.google.com/amp/s/therec...ardinals-eligible-to-elect-his-successor/?amp
It may be we may be swiftly reaching a parting of the ways with the False Church that is being constructed. It would for instance by gravely sinful for any Catholic to be attend a Mass that was blasphemous. I can see us very fast approaching this. For instance if I lived in Germany or much of Northern Europe I would think twice and very hard about what particular Church I was attending. Better no Church at all and say the rosary than attend a False one.
I would give a good example, if a Church performs same sex blessings or weddings or the priest is a pervert or supports perversion never step foot in it. Such an abomination needs burnt to the sticks, not supported.
I recal the last time I was in Rome, such an atmosphere of pure evil hang over the city. I could not get out of the place quick enough. As Scripture indicates there is a road that l,eads t,o Salvation and a Road that leads to Perdition, be sure you are walking the right one.
I think there may come a point where the only chance of having a conservative pope again involves divine intervention.
If I were Pope I would have Pope Francis's body dug up, cremated and thrown into the sea in the Mediterranean. I would then state that since he was the worst Pope in history all his utterances, writings and decrees were void. There have of course been several bad or wicked Pope's before this, but no bad or wicked Pope that has ever previously been can even come close to Pope Francis. In hell not a single one of them will even come close to even tying his shoe strings. After this I would head right of to Germany and declare the Bishops and Cardinals there excommunicate and do a sharp swing round and declare the same thing for many of the Bishops and Cardinals in the Netherlands, France , Austria, Switzerland and so on. From there, though I might be a little tired I would do a tour of Italy with considerable blood letting and beheading. After that the Vatican, were there would be a total massacre. Exhausted as I may be after that onwards to the USA. Nowhere nearly as bad as Germany but I could name at least three Cardinals who would get the chop. After that back to Rome and the total suppression of the Jesuits. I mean total. All of them laicized. Many of them excommunicate. After this the total suppression of several other religious orders especially nuns. I might be tired at this point, but , I assure you I would only be slightly getting warmed up. In all this I would be inspired by Jesus who said it is better to cut your right hand off than that the whole body be poisoned.
I would not in the least care if any of these heretics and perverts liked me or not. But, by the Good God they would fear me and the very last thing they would ever dream of doing would be to ignore me. In fact the more they hated me and the less they ignored me the more certain I would be that I was on the right path. But I guarantee that never, ever, for one single fear stricken second would a single one of them ever ignore me. Be they child molester, Bishop or Cardinals who cover up child molester priests.Sodomites. Heretics. Careerist Clerics. Whatever. Gone. Gone . Gone. The only confusion in the Clerical World would be how to escape a very bloody and energetically swinging Shepherds Crook.
I am just sick and tired of a whimpy, defensive Church saying whimpy and defensive things , often out of fear. For instance, saying sexual perversion leads on to greater and greater perversions such as molesting children. Such as saying that murdering unborn babies makes all of us at risk of being murdered. Such as that artificial contraception has meant that our civilisations are old and dying.
I think one very good thing would be an anti Sodomite Oath placed on the Clergy ,similar to the anti Modernist Oath placed upon them by Pope St Pius X . Simply making them declare publically that they hold it to be wrong and sinful and that they themselves will not ever partake in it. I guarantee at least half the Bishops and Cardinals would be trampling over themselves to escape this.
Hi Padraig It’s Sunday afternoon and I am sitting in church waiting for adoration, benediction and evening prayer to begin. A dear friend of mine has just left to return to Pluscarden in Scotland after a two year sabbatical to take care of his invalid mother here in New Zealand. On Wednesday another friend (from Donegal) leaves to follow his vocation to monastic life with an English community. I will pray that we all persevere in the one, true, Catholic and apostolic faith. Your Favourite swinging shepherds crook. Joe
You remind me Joe that the Catholic Church is Universal and nearly anywhere you go there is a Catholic Church close by. I asked a very holy old Dominican priest one time what he thought of people who went to work in a place like say Saudi Arabia where Churches and the Mass is illegal. He said that God would find them culpable for going to work there in the first place. I was thinking about this recently when I was in Istanbul and it was so very hard to get to Mass. We draw close to the time of the Great Persecution, may we all be strong. I love so many young Catholics I have been listening to recently. Some of them have all the signs of being Great saints or of becoming great saints. I was watching a young Dominican priest who looks like a little boy to me but is superb. My mouth falls open listening to him. But then I recall that St Therese of Lisieux , a Doctor of the Church was only 26 when she died. Still it is amazing and very humbling.
I think one reason young people are turning away from the Church is that it has become so nice it is spectacularly boring. Time to salt it with a big dose of nastiness to God's enemies. A big, big, big dose.
