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♰ The Sword of Saint Michael ♰ Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us An incredible line stretches from Ireland to the Holy Land, connecting seven holy sites dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel. Many believe this alignment symbolizes the sword St. Michael Beauty of the Catholic Faith (@advoluntas) on X

Leo XIV Appoints Bishop Who Celebrates Jewish Passover with Seminarians.
Pope Leo XIV today appointed Bishop Ramón Salazar Estrada, 63, until now auxiliary bishop of Guadalajara, as the new Bishop of Mazatlán, Mexico.
Salazar was ordained a priest in 1993 for the Archdiocese of Guadalajara. He holds a doctorate in moral theology from the Alphonsian Academy in Rome.
Allegations of Homosexual activity at the seminary
In the Archdiocese of Guadalajara there is an anonymous church watchblog, GdlSantaIPecadora.blogspot.com. According to this source the seminary was suffering in 2012 from “delicate cases of homosexuality”, alongside alcoholism. In May 2014 the blog alleged an internal network of seminarians arranging homosexual encounters by phone, connections with priests outside the seminary, and protection or tolerance by some formators. It also claimed that at least seven seminarians had been dismissed after accusations concerning homosexuality.
Salazar was already closely involved in …

Why Conservative Politicians Are Rated More Attractive – Allah's Willing Executioners
The Right Look: Why Conservative Politicians Are Rated More Attractive
Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a Dutch right-wing political commentator and activist. Photo credit: Instagram
A study by sociologist Ulrich Rosar of the University of Düsseldorf, evaluated by the German mainstream weekly newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS), concludes that conservative and liberal politicians are more frequently perceived as more attractive than their left-wing counterparts.
For the study, people in several countries were shown thousands of photos of politicians they didn’t know. Researchers then compared these ratings with election results and party convention data. According to the findings, more attractive candidates received more votes, had fewer opponents, required fewer rounds of voting, and were more frequently nominated in promising constituencies. An Ifo study from 2023 also concluded that …

A diocesan bishop has undergone a personal “conversion” toward the traditional Latin Mass.
Bishop Donald Lippert of Mendi, Papua New Guinea, has come personally to see the beauty and power of the traditional Roman rite.
He told AdVaticanum.com on September 29 that he had “over the last year or so, a bit of a conversion myself into the Traditional Latin Mass.”
“I am, as many of us are, an amphibian. I exist mainly in the Novus Ordo, because that is the reality in which I live, and the Church that I have been called to serve at the moment.”
He has “no problems with the Novus Ordo”, but sees the power of the traditional Mass particularly in its reverence: “The Traditional Latin Mass has a mysticism about it, and a reverence about it, that can touch the hearts of people and draw them closer to God in a world where there are so many distractions pulling them away.”
He is still learning to celebrate the Mass.
Mass not primarily for educated Western people
When someone told him that the Mass …

Unknown ~ If they are okay with losing you, then stop fighting for them.

Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp, Belgium, is pressing ahead with his plan to ordain married men in 2028.
Several married candidates are already being prepared for possible ordination. “I trust that an appropriate regulation can be found by the end of the synodal process in autumn 2028,” Bishop Bonny told Herder Korrespondenz, according to katholisch.de (September 28).
Bonny warned that it would be “a fatal blow to the credibility and implementation of the entire synodal process if no regulation were reached by then.”
Bishop Bonny also expressed confidence in Pope Leo XIV and his approach to the needs of local Churches.
“Like a good father, he knows what his children need, and that is not the same everywhere or for everyone,” Bonny added.
He also mentioned that he went to Rome in June with the backing of the Belgian Bishops’ Conference. “Before my visit to the two dicasteries in Rome, the president of the Belgian Bishops’ Conference gave me a letter in which the Bishops’ Conference supports …

UK to reopen refugee resettlement scheme to push 'safe' migration
UK interior minister Shabana Mahmood announced Monday the reopening of a scheme for refugees to settle in Britain as part of a renewed focus on "safe and legal routes" for vulnerable people to reach…
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Liverpool (AFP) – UK interior minister Shabana Mahmood announced Monday the reopening of a scheme for refugees to settle in Britain as part of a renewed focus on "safe and legal routes" for vulnerable people to reach the country.
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Britain's Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced the scheme during her speech at the Labour Party conference © Darren Staples / AFP
The scheme will be relaunched immediately, and along with three new "community" refugee sponsorship routes previously announced, is initially expected to welcome hundreds of applicants, according to the interior ministry.
Mahmood formally unveiled the plan in a speech at the ruling Labour …

St. Olga of Alaska ~ God can create great beauty from complete desolation and nothingness.

On September 26, about 200 faithful of the Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX) made their annual pilgrimage to the Canadian Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ontario.
Their published programme scheduled veneration of the relics at the Shrine at 3 p.m. The pilgrims were denied entrance to the church. According to LifeSiteNews.com, this was ordered by the Archdiocese of Toronto.
The FSSPX has made this pilgrimage for years. In September 2025, more than 500 FSSPX pilgrims attended.
In contrast to the denial of entry to the FSSPX pilgrims, in July 2026 the Archdiocese of Toronto advertised the annual Tamil pilgrimage at the same Shrine. Its announcement invited “Tamil Catholics and other Tamil-speaking devotees” to a programme including Rosary, Eucharist and Adoration, concluding: “All Are Welcome!”
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Saint Michael the Archangel, Model of the Perfect Knight
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
September 28, 1966
The Catholic calendar reads: Saint Michael, Prince of the Heavenly Host fought the rebel angels in the heavenly battle. He continues to lead the battle to free us from the devil. Our guardian angels depend on him.
He is the custodian angel of the Church and the one who presents the Eucharistic Oblation to the Eternal Father. We are in the novena of Our Lady of the Rosary and in the novena of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces.
I call your attention to the fact that Saint Michael is the chief who fought against the devil and cast him into hell. He is the leader of the guardian angels of individuals and also of the guardian angels of institutions. He is himself the guardian angel of the Institution of institutions, the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Therefore, he has a custodian function, which one may ask how it relates to his attitude or mission of casting into hell those …

The Tripartite Nature of Humankind: A Catholic Journey of Discovery
INTRODUCTION The ‘genesis’ of this journey began with my short and quite blunt critique of Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity): “It seems to me that the main flaw in our Holy Father's encyclical (curiously entitled ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ i.e., ‘Magnificent Humanity’) is that it totally ignores our Catholic Church's doctrine of Original
INTRODUCTION
The ‘genesis’ of this journey began with my short and quite blunt critique of Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity):
“It seems to me that the main flaw in our Holy Father’s encyclical (curiously entitled ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ i.e., ‘Magnificent Humanity’) is that it totally ignores our Catholic Church’s doctrine of Original Sin and the Fall of Humankind in the Garden of Eden. The entire history of humankind has been a chronicle of the aftereffects of that Fall, and our Catholic Church’s doctrine …

2M views · 125K reactions | During the prayer vigil with young people at the Stade de France, thousands of voices rose together in this beautiful Marian hymn before Pope Leo XIV. Catholicism is alive in France and hope remains. Watch full coverage of the trip on the EWTN News YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCaJBwb7XkojUOPbz_6uzPag | Catholic News Agency
During the prayer vigil with young people at the Stade de France, thousands of voices rose together in this beautiful Marian hymn before Pope Leo XIV. Catholicism is alive in France and hope remains.
Watch full coverage of the trip on the EWTN News YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCaJBwb7XkojUOPbz_6uzPag

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Boston pays immigrants $575 to learn political organizing, excluding US-born residents
Boston taxpayers are funding a $575 political-organizing course for immigrants. No legal status required. US-born residents forbidden from applying.
Past graduates include activists that have pushed for driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and rent control.
Read more at MDN:
No legal status required: Boston is paying …

St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi ~ Calm your heart, for God does not shed His Graces on sad souls.

New sculpture installed in Vatican gardens: My first associations are a giant outdoor Wi-Fi router, a solar-powered parking meter, a minimalist surveillance camera, a patio table growing out of a bollard, or an unfinished Starlink terminal for the Vatican.