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By ACI Digital, Catholic News Agency, (Catholic World Report) - The apostolic nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, has asked Bishop Emeritus José Luis Azcona Hermoso to no longer live in the territory of the Prelature of Marajó, where he served for almost 30 years... Azcona relayed the news to Father Kazimierz Antoni Skorki, the diocesan administrator of the prelature, who in a Dec. 9 Instagram post said the prelature had not received any notice from the nuncio nor been given any reason for the move.

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland - My Dear Priestly Brothers, As we begin a new liturgical year, I am compelled to reach out to as many of you as possible with a simple but profound request - to join me in an important renewal of our priestly lives. I urge you to share this letter with every brother priest you can, even if it means translating it into another language. My hope is that Catholic priests around the world have an opportunity to join me in this renewal.

By Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange - God’s patient love is offered to us in each Eucharistic celebration. He is so patient with all of us, even with those who reject His love and deny His Real Presence in the Eucharist. Despite all the graces for repentance and holiness that we have wasted, God continues to pour out His Spirit on us, the patient and ever-acting God who never stops sanctifying and preparing for the return of the glorious Christ... Let each Holy Communion intensify our hunger for Jesus so that we keep our desire for His glorious return alive in us.

By Henry Sire, OnePeterFive - When Joseph Shaw proposed this talk to me in early September, I suggested the title “Pope Francis: how much lower can we sink?”, but the fact is that since then we have been overtaken by events. Over the past eleven years we have all seen Pope Francis’s pontificate in a trajectory of accelerating descent into more and more overt betrayal of Catholic doctrine, but I must say I did not foresee the Gadarene rush we have seen just within the last three months. If we want to assess the very grave events that are happening around us, we need to try and understand the man we now have sitting on the throne of Peter.