The cardinals really were guided by the Holy Spirit when they chose our new Holy Father.
Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears at the Consecration at Mass this morning in Castel Gandolfo.
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Damian Thompson
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Damian Thompson
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Associate Editor, The Spectator, presenter of its Holy Smoke religion podcast. Once described as 'A blood-crazed ferret' by the Church Times
- NB: Cardinal Robert Sarah does not turn 80 until June 15. He will therefore be an influential participant in the conclave.
- Rest in peace, my beautiful sister Carmel, who died a few hours ago fortified by the love of her friends, her Catholic faith and her own astonishing courage.
- Cardinal Ernest Simoni, 97, hero of the viciously persecuted Albanian Catholic Church, recites the prayer to St Michael:
- It seems possible today that a Catholic journalist may have brought about an end to the Church’s disastrous – and, we now know, deliberately engineered – liturgy wars. She’s called @dianemontagna and we are all in her debt.
- Thread: Famous names including Bianca Jagger, Lord Lloyd-Webber, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Princess Michael of Kent, Sir Andras Schiff, Tom Holland, Lady Antonia Fraser and many others appeal to the Vatican to save the Traditional Latin Mass in a letter to the Times tomorrow.
- If it was up to me, this cardinal would be elected pope on the first ballot:
- I have been re-reading the homily delivered by Pope Leo in the Sistine Chapel. Its passion and eloquence are breathtaking. Leo cannot and will not water down what he said. There can be no more indifferentism or blurring of boundaries with other faiths. The Pachamama has been
- Just once more before the year ends...
- It’s happening – St Peter’s welcomes back the liturgy for which it was built.
- Aren’t you sick of this shit?JUST IN: Hip hop concert at the Vatican tonight. US band “Clipse” performs with pop singer Pharrell Williams & John Legend St Peter’s Square turned into a concert venue tonight
00:00 - I have never been more ashamed of my countryThe British House of Commons has just voted, with a vast majority, for the complete decriminalization of abortion up to birth in England and Wales. God have mercy.
- Perhaps this matter is best resolved by returning Westminster Abbey to the Church that founded it.There are over 500 mosques in London, but they chose to pray on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, the most sacred site in the Anglican Church. Why?
00:00 - The Tridentine Mass returns to St Peter’s. This is big news.JUST IN: Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass in the Old Rite in St. Peter’s Basilica during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome this October 24–26. The Mass will be offered at the Altar of the Chair on Saturday, October 25: blog.messainlatino.it/2025/09/una-gr…
