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Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime

Lord David Alton of Liverpool, a prominent member of the House of Lords in the UK, recently condemned the 2018 provisional agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a “deal with the devil,” highlighting its complicity in “gross violations” of religious freedom and its resultant betrayal of the underground Church in the nation.

“In the case of the Chinese Communist regime, it is making a deal with the devil—a regime that has committed genocide against Uyghur Muslims and persecutes Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, and Chinese Christians,” Alton said.

by Blazingcatfur•August 26, 2026August 26, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Catholic Church

The Catholic Groups Harboring Muslim Migrants in Ceuta

Two weeks after over 70,000 Muslim migrants invaded the Spanish city of Ceuta, the siege of the embattled city continues with unknown numbers of migrants still overrunning the area. While Morocco, which allowed the invasion to protest Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez’s recent visit to rival Algeria, is no longer allowing further invasions, many thousands of migrants were left behind.

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2026August 21, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church

Europe’s tallest Virgin Mary statue unveiled in rural Poland

A statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be Europe’s tallest has been formally unveiled in a small Polish village.

The 55.6-metre (182ft) concrete figure is roughly two double-decker buses longer than Rio de Janeiro’s smaller – if more prominently placed – Christ the Redeemer monument, though it still pales in comparison to a 98m Virgin Mary erected in the Philippines.

The ecclesiastical sculpture in rural Konotopie was consecrated by a local bishop in a ceremony on Saturday, a day chosen to coincide with the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Not sure any other Euro state would have allowed this out of fear they might anger their Muslim settlers.

Poland has kept the Muslims out for the most part.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2026August 16, 2026•0•Catholic Church, Christianity, Poland

Too Catholic To Be French Officers

A scandal has come to light alleging that pupils from French independent Catholic schools were deliberately excluded during the admissions process for a military secondary school. This case, which serves as a reminder that the victims of discrimination are not always those we might expect or those who make a profession of it, highlights a deeper problem affecting the military establishment: can the army today do without traditional families who, alongside their faith, still instil in their children a love of their country and a sense of sacrifice?

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•Catholic Church, Christian Persecution, Christianophobia, France

Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX

The Vatican has excommunicated a rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics who defied Pope Leo by ordaining bishops without his consent, creating a schism in the Roman Catholic church.

In a statement on Thursday, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the group from the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), founded in the Swiss village of Écône in 1970, had “committed an act of a schismatic nature” which, under canon law, was punishable with automatic excommunication.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2026July 2, 2026•0•Catholic Church

Pope Leo pleads with ultra-conservative sect not to ordain own bishops

Pope Leo has made a last-ditch attempt to persuade a rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics to abandon plans to ordain its own bishops without Vatican approval, calling the “schismatic act” a “sin of extreme gravity”.

The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), founded in the Swiss village of Ecône in 1970 to oppose liberalising reforms in the Catholic church, plans to ordain four new bishops at its seminary there on Wednesday.

by Blazingcatfur•July 1, 2026July 1, 2026•0•Catholic Church

America’s Bishops ‘Turn A Blind Eye’ to Abuse of American Generosity

They’re at it again. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to support President Donald Trump in terminating temporary protected status (TPS) for a host of foreign nationals, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is once again raising the hue and cry. Here’s what USCCB Migration Committee chairman Bishop Brendan J. Cahill had to say …

by Blazingcatfur•June 28, 2026June 28, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, USA

Crisis looms for Pope Leo as splinter sect seeks to ordain far-right bishops

A far-right Catholic sect’s plan to ordain its own bishops on the first day of July has placed it on a collision course with the Vatican – posing a possible crisis for Pope Leo a little over a year into his papacy, and straining the Roman Catholic church’s already fraught relationship with rightwing and traditionalist Catholics in the US and elsewhere.

Founded in Switzerland in 1970 to oppose liberalizing reforms in the Catholic church, the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has gained significant followings in the US, France, Argentina and other countries. The order, which has a large base of operations in Kansas, claims that more than half a million people worldwide attend its masses, though these numbers are difficult to verify. It counts nearly 1,500 priests, seminarians and other vocational members among its members.

by Blazingcatfur•June 26, 2026June 25, 2026•0•Catholic Church

Mass Deportations Are ‘The Christian Response’ to Mass Immigration

Pope Leo XIV has, as I’ve noted before, done tremendous work reversing much of the damage done by his late predecessor Pope Francis, who often sowed confusion and nearly as often refused to offer subsequent clarity. There is one topic, however, upon which Pope Leo could and should afford further clarity, in accord with the age-old teachings of the Catholic Church and her greatest thinkers, and that subject is immigration.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2026June 21, 2026•0•"Remigration", Catholic Church

D-Day, Just War, and Pope Leo

On June 6, 1944, as American forces began the liberation of France from Hitler’s clutches, President Franklin Roosevelt asked the nation to join with him in prayer…

by Blazingcatfur•June 8, 2026June 8, 2026•0•Catholic Church, WW II, WW II History

FBI Analysts Learn the Anti-Catholic Memo Crew Can’t Hide Behind ‘Just Following Orders’

FBI Director Kash Patel fired five FBI employees tied to the 2023 Richmond memo that treated “radical traditionalist Catholics” as a possible pipeline to violent extremism.

The fired group included four intelligence analysts and one supervisory analyst. David Laufman, lawyer for the employees, confirmed the termination and called it unjust.

Pic – Saint Theresa Catholic Church

by Blazingcatfur•June 6, 2026June 6, 2026•0•Catholic Church, Christian Persecution, FBI

Confession Secrecy: Catholic Church Targeted by French MPs

The French National Assembly has dropped the most controversial part of a child protection bill that would have lifted the seal of confession in cases of violence against minors.

The provision, which sought to challenge sacramental secrecy, was the focal point of heated debates over the past few days in the Assembly during examination of the legislation aimed at protecting children and combating violence in schools. The bill was finally adopted on June 1 without this measure.

by Blazingcatfur•June 2, 2026June 2, 2026•0•Catholic Church, Christianity, Christianity and the left

Old people and no children: Pope warns against Europe becoming ‘the old continent’

On May 25, Pope Leo XIV addressed members of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography at the Vatican with a warning that they risk becoming “the old continent”—not because of its ancient history, but because of its advancing age. Declining birthrates and population aging, according to the Holy Father, are “an urgent challenge with practical implications for millions of people and their families.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 30, 2026May 29, 2026•0•Catholic Church, Demography

Pope Apologizes for Church’s Support of Slavery

Well, isn’t this interesting?

Over there at Mediaite is this headline: “Pope Leo Makes Historic Public Apology for Vatican’s Complicity in Slavery,” but silence on reparations.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•Catholic Church, Pope Leo, Slavery and Reparations

In “Magnifica humanitas,” Pope Leo fires a broadside against AI companies

VATICAN CITY — In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV put forth an ode to human dignity in the era of AI on Monday, delivering a far-ranging treatise on the morality of technology that included a dramatic plea for guardrails to ensure that artificial intelligence eases — rather than exacerbates — inequality and poverty, helping to improve conditions for workers and limiting the power of technology companies over the vast computing resources that could reshape how human beings live.

An encyclical is among the highest forms of papal documents, and Leo’s first — his most important writing to date — positions AI as the catalyst of a new kind of industrial revolution, a cognitive one that has already begun to redefine how the world works, lives, plays, loves and wages war. The document sets a clear tone for Leo’s early papacy, elevating the ethics of AI to a religious imperative in the same way Pope Francis did with the fight against climate change a decade ago.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence", Catholic Church