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By Andrea Gagliarducci, National Catholic Register - Such relatively minor adjustments do not change a substantial fact, notes Msgr. Stefano Sanchirico, an official of the Vatican Apostolic Archives and professor of history of the Roman Curia: The death of the pope and the display of his body are public... “Indeed, death and the preceding moments become the occ

By Gerhard Cardinal Müller, First Things - Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev. 2:11). This passage from Scripture is frequently quoted to justify a so-called “synodal Church,” a concept that at least partially, if not completely, contradicts the Catholic understanding of the Church. Factions with ulterior motives have hijacked the traditional principle of synodality, meaning the collaboration between bishops (collegiality) and between all believers and shepherds of the Church (based on the common priesthood of all those baptized into the faith), to further their progressive agenda. By executing a 180-degree turn, the doctrine, liturgy, and morality of the Catholic Church is to be made compatible with a neo-gnostic woke ideology. ....

By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report - When the five members of his firing squad took aim at José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez on November 23, 1927, what did they see? What would a Mexican soldier have noticed about the man now known as Blessed Miguel Pro?... It is very rare for a Catholic saint to be photographed in the final moments of his life. While the journalists and photographers who showed up to watch Miguel’s execution were simply hoping for something newsworthy for the front pages of their newspapers, the Mexican authorities were hoping for something else.