Cardinal Ranjith just jumped to the top of my papabile index.

Real

From the ancient city of #Damascus, along the Straight Street where Saint Paul once walked, #Christian protesters continue to stand against the foreign fighters affiliated with HTS. They are demanding their expulsion from Christian towns. Chanting, ‘We are your men, Jesus Christ.

A reminder that Christmas Eve is a day of fasting and abstinence. No meat may be taken at any time of day. Catholics are bound - under the pains of mortal sin - to observe.

Christmas Midnight Mass in 1948, in the magnificent Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris celebrated by His Eminence Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Cardinal Archbishop of Paris. This was the first time Midnight Mass was broadcast on French television.

Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

To quote my far more liberal wife, who learned Greek in college and is obsessed with classical translations... "Any translation after Fagles is needless. Wilson crosses the line to outright vandalism."

Man hassled for owning Bibles. Location unknown.

Education is about teaching individuals how—and not what—to think. My small contribution to The Telegraph Telegraph Letters:

The story of Ehsan Shan, a Christian sentenced to death for sharing a Tik Tok video, reveals the cruelty of Pakistan's blasphemy laws which fuels violence and silences Christians. We will be taking this to the Pakistani embassy in London.

I fully support President Donald J. Trump Donald J. Trump’s first executive order that restores common sense. Male is male, female is female, transgender is weird and abominable. Andrew Tate Tristan Tate Joe Rogan Elon Musk Candace Owens

Pray for the Holy Father!!

Is it really appropriate for the The Church of England Bristol Cathedral to be spreading ideological and politicised messages within their house of worship?

Pray for the Holy Father

This is a real gem of a letter to The Times and The Sunday Times.

Looking forward to discussing with Felice Basbøll John Maier Alastair Donald at a time when questions about the purpose of a university could not be more relevant. What is the point of a university? And to paraphrase St Peter: "quo vadimus?" What might the future hold?

Rose Again, personal poverty does not relate to the beauty of churches, ornaments, or vestments used by the clergy. Saint Francis of Assisi, who lived poverty better than most, was known for wearing the most beautiful vestments when he served liturgy and he lamented that churches

While American bishops dispense Catholics from the Sunday obligation due to the potential of being (legitimately) arrested, African Catholics in our day are attending Mass in spite of the potential of being killed by Muslims.