Jeanie Hannaman

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - A pan-European prayer initiative that hopes to help end the COVID-19 pandemic and bring conversion and healing to the continent after two years of division and rancor has seen a surge of participation in recent weeks... Called “Europe Prays,” the organizers are calling on all Christians to gather in public to “pray for an end of the COVID pandemic, for freedom, for an end to the prevailing polarization and for a conversion of hearts.” Launched by the Austrian Catholic news site Kath.net, the initiative also calls on Christians to pray for their politicians.

By Diane Montagna, OnePeterFive - In a reflection titled, “The Duty of the Roman Pontiff to Restore Liturgical Peace” (see full text below), Bishop Schneider asserts that a “spiritual wound” has been inflicted on Christ’s Mystical Body through the publication of these documents, and that the Roman Church’s “entire ancient liturgical patrimony” is “under threat.”

By Raymond Wolfe, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Blase Cupich faced protests Saturday over his recent restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in Chicago... Protesters convened in front of Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral for a Rosary rally, organized by the Coalition for Canceled Priests, demanding an end to the cardinal’s crackdown on the traditional liturgy. Demonstrators held a banner addressed to Cupich and Pope Francis that read: “Stop the war on our timeless Faith.”