Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael Haynes, LifeSite News - Cardinal Walter Kasper issued his own call for female deacons, days after the final document of the Synod on Synodality stated the question “remains open.”... In an interview with online theology magazine Communio, Kasper opined freely on the question of the female diaconate – in an intervention that takes on special significance in light of the recently concluded Synod on Synodality... Kasper, notable for his successful promotion of Holy Communion for the divorced and “remarried,” made reference to the two commissions on the female diaconate that Pope Francis established.

By Jules Gomes, Souls and Liberty - Italian artist Simone Legno, co-founder of the tokidoki lifestyle brand, is the creator of “Luce,” an androgynous-looking doll for the Jubilee Year... Legno has also openly displayed his association with National Nude Day, occult-like artwork, and even softcore pornography... On Monday, Abp. Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization and organizer of the Jubilee Year, told a Vatican press conference that the mascot was intended to attract more young people to the Church through “pop culture.”

By Stephen P. White,  The Catholic Thing - God, whose love is infinite, loves a finite number of people. He may love everyone, but the number is still finite... I read somewhere that the total number of human beings who have ever lived is estimated to be somewhere north of 100 billion. That’s a lot of humans. How one estimates such a number is somewhat obscure to me, but if we take that number as reasonably accurate, it means that something like seven or eight percent of the people who have ever lived are alive today. ....

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSite News - Deacon Greg Kandra shared on Tuesday a memo from the Missouri diocese announcing that Bishop W. Shawn McKnight had “published a list of prohibited hymns and composers” based on the USCCB’s guidelines, published in 2020, on evaluating whether Church hymns are suitable for the liturgy... The bishops’ conference had named specific examples of doctrinally unsound hymns, which are cited in McKnight’s list, including the popular “All Are Welcome,” “Bread of Life” by Bernadette Farrell, and “Table of Plenty” by Dan Schutte.