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| Vatican ends routine use of Latin in sweeping overhaul |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-26-2025, 07:41 PM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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From the liberal Catholic outlet, The Catholic Herald - November 25, 2025:
Vatican ends routine use of Latin in sweeping overhaul
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The Vatican has announced the most far-reaching overhaul of its internal administration in a quarter of a century, with Pope Leo XIV approving two major regulatory texts that will reshape daily life inside the Holy See.
Signed on the Feast of Christ the King and published on 24 November, the new Regulation of the Roman Curia and the corresponding Regulation of Personnel set out a five-year ad experimentum framework intended to bring order, consistency and modern management to an institution long governed as much by custom as by law.
Among the most striking changes is the disappearance of the old requirement that curial acts be drafted “as a rule” in Latin. Vatican officials privately acknowledge that, with Italian, English, French and other modern languages now permitted for normal use, this will in practice mean the abandonment of Latin. Article 50 states that while “the curial institutions will normally draft their acts in Latin or in another language”, care will be taken to ensure that major documents intended for publication are translated into the most widely used languages.
Under the reforms, all acts intended for the Pope must be channelled through the Secretariat of State, and documents of broader significance must be shared across relevant institutions before publication. Interdicasterial meetings are now governed by mandatory procedures and scheduled collaboration. Officials interpret these moves as an attempt to restore coherence and accountability after years of overlapping jurisdictions and divergent administrative practices.
Another innovation directly concerns the Church’s faithful. For the first time, the regulations stipulate that dicasteries must “examine and, if necessary, adjudicate on matters that the faithful, exercising their right, directly refer to the Holy See”. In such cases, the local ordinary and the pontifical representative are to be consulted confidentially. In practical terms, this grants Catholics a right not to be ignored by Vatican departments and places a significant burden on officials who, until now, could decline to respond to sensitive or complex matters such as the Traditional Latin Mass.
Equally significant is the requirement that decisions affecting dioceses, religious institutes or movements must be preceded by consultation with their superiors. This appears to address past controversies in which bishops or religious superiors were disciplined, replaced or overruled without being heard, sometimes on the basis of incomplete or misleading reports. The regulations instruct Vatican officials to consult those concerned before taking action, restoring a degree of procedural fairness long criticised as inconsistent.
Digitalisation receives unprecedented emphasis. For the first time, Vatican offices will be required to use certified IT systems, digital archives, controlled destruction protocols and access logs. “The institutions acquire the IT systems necessary to carry out their work in accordance with procurement regulations,” the text states, subject to technical validation by the Secretariat for the Economy.
Alongside structural reforms, the new Personnel Regulation imposes more demanding expectations on the Vatican workforce. Staff are required to maintain “exemplary religious and moral conduct, including in their private and family lives, in accordance with the doctrine of the Church,” reflecting the long-standing view that service in the Curia is a form of ecclesial mission.
Employment rules have also been codified, including a six-day working week, fixed hours, 26 days of annual leave, limits on part-time work and strict bans on hiring relatives within the same office. Sick leave will be more closely monitored, and new evaluation systems will link responsibilities to measurable standards.
The regulatory texts seek to impose uniformity across the system, from drafting procedures and cooperation between dicasteries to personnel discipline. Some inside the Vatican see the reforms as a welcome return to clarity; others fear that increased centralisation may burden officials and concentrate too much authority in the Secretariat of State.
Few dispute, however, that the Curia now enters a markedly new phase.
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| Leo XIV Appoints "Extremely Liberal" Archbishop in Poland |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-26-2025, 09:47 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo XIV Appoints "Extremely Liberal" Archbishop in Poland
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gloria.tv | November 26, 2025
Today, Pope Leo XIV appointed Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś as the new Bishop of Kraków in Poland.
Born in Krakow in 1964, he was ordained as a priest in 1988. In 2011, Benedict XVI appointed him as an auxiliary bishop of Krakow.
Pope Francis named him archbishop of Łódź in 2017 and cardinal in September 2023.
Francis' man in Poland
Edward Pentin described Cardinal Ryś on CollegeOfCardinalsReport.com as an extremely liberal bishop and as Poland’s "Pope Francis man". "His elevation to the cardinalate was seen as a reward and encouragement for his attempts to reform Poland's conservative Church."
Pentin added that, since Ryś became a member of the Congregation for Bishops in October 2023, new bishops in Poland have been more progressive than their predecessors. Like Cardinal Ryś, they all strongly promote the Church’s new synodal way.
In October 2023, Cardinal Ryś said that opposition to Pope Francis is "completely unjust" and "always based on one or two phrases taken out of context". He repeated: "It is completely unjust how we treat Francis in our discussions."
Eucharist Must Be Synodal, Not Action of One Priest
In October 2024, Cardinal Ryś said that the liturgical reform had yet to take place. He believes that the liturgy should not be the action of one priest alone, but rather a "synodal" action involving "all".
His vision of the Eucharist is as follows: "If the liturgy has a comprehensible language, the priest is facing the congregation and new books have been published, yet the liturgy still resembles a one-person show, with only a priest present, then the reform has not taken place."
In November 2024, he told Die Tagespost that Christ founded the Church to be synodal: "Jesus gave his Church a constitution based on synodality, hierarchy, collegiality, the Petrine office, and so on."
Any Muslim Welcome in Poland
He is a champion of uncontrolled migration. In a pastoral letter dated July 2025, he wrote: "Social teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose where to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs, culture, language and faith."
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| The Book of Destiny by REV. FATHER HERMAN BERNARD KRAMER |
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 11-25-2025, 04:09 PM - Forum: Articles by Catholic authors
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Full text link: The Book of Destiny (tap on the blue letters in the link to access through internet archive)
"The Book Of Destiny prophecies old new testament Apocalypse Kramer Catholic theology"
Book of Destiny is an in-depth analysis of the Apolypse that really makes sense. Proves it is a prophetic history of the Catholic Church. Proceeds chapter by chapter and verse by verse, explaining everything in terms of the language and symbolic meaning of Scripture itself. Gives the keys to understanding the Apocalypse. Shows we are on the verge of dramatic events! A masterpiece!
The Rev. Father Herman Bernard F. Leonard Kramer was born in 1884 at Petersburg, Iowa. After studying philosophy at Mt. Calvary for five years, and theology at Austria for one, he returned to America due to ill health and completed his studies at St. Paul Seminary. Subsequently ordained a priest, he served the Diocese of Sioux City for four decades before retiring to Oakland, California. After studying the Book of Revelations for thirty years, he released The Book of Destiny in 1955 through Buechler Publishing Company, Illinois. Father Kramer’s work also received the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur upon publication.
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| UK concludes biggest pandemic simulation with virus targeting children |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-25-2025, 02:20 PM - Forum: Global News
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Summary from disclose.tv:
Quote:UK concludes biggest pandemic simulation with virus targeting children
This autumn, the UK conducted Exercise Pegasus, the country’s biggest pandemic simulation in nearly a decade and its first Tier 1 national emergency exercise since Covid-19. Concluding last month, it involved ministers, all devolved nations, COBRA activation and every major government department. Participants faced a fictional novel strain of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) that originated on the imaginary southeast Asian island of Musiyana after a food festival.
Unlike Covid-19, the simulated virus primarily killed infants, children and teenagers, causing respiratory failure, brain swelling and occasional paralysis. The three-phase drill began in September with regional spread in Asia, progressed in October to a WHO-declared pandemic with school closures, hospital strain and street protests over social distancing, then escalated in November to national lockdown, non-essential business shutdowns, travel bans and fears of food shortages from potential pig herd infection.
Sir Peter Horby, Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University said:
Quote:“The choice of an enterovirus is a good choice because it is a real possibility with real risks but is different from what we have seen before,”
Ministers tested both containment and mitigation decisions, including whether early travel restrictions could keep the virus out of Britain. The exercise followed Covid Inquiry findings that pre-2020 plans focused only on coping with high deaths rather than prevention, and that school closures “brought ordinary childhood to a halt”.
Lessons from Pegasus will be published next year.
Full article here:
Schools locked down again in secret pandemic drills
Exclusive: Exercise Pegasus imagined a virus deadly to children spreading around the world from an island in southeast Asia
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News of the drill comes a week after the Covid Inquiry found the UK did ‘too little, too late’ to contain and mitigate the virus Credit: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images
telegraph.co.uk [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original] | 25 November 2025
Schools across the UK were locked down this autumn as part of a state drill to tackle the threat of a new deadly virus.
Exercise Pegasus, which concluded last month and involved all major government departments, was the biggest pandemic simulation exercise the country has ever held.
Those participating in the drill were told a novel enterovirus had broken out on a fictional Island in southeast Asia before spreading across the world.
Unlike Covid-19, which disproportionately affected older age groups, the new virus was most lethal in the young. The virus, “EV-D68”, was said to cause respiratory failure, brain swelling and – in rare cases – paralysis in infants, children and teenagers.
The spread of the imagined virus resulted in travel restrictions, school and business closures and mask wearing in the UK and around the world.
Ministers involved in the drill also had to “wargame” dealing with fictional street protests over social distancing, the Telegraph understands.
News of the drill comes a week after the second module of the Covid Inquiry found the UK did “too little, too late” to contain and mitigate Covid-19 in the early part of 2020 and prevent a series of ruinous national lockdowns.
Closing schools “brought ordinary childhood to a halt” and the decision to shut them had a “profound consequence” on children, it said.
‘A realistic pandemic scenario’
Exercise Pegasus was designated a “Tier 1” national emergency exercise, meaning it involved ministerial participation, all devolved nations and activation of COBRA, the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
It ran in three parts in September, October and November this year and imagined a novel version of EV-D68 had triggered a pandemic.
It’s key purpose was “to simulate a realistic pandemic scenario, and is the first of its kind in nearly a decade,” according to a NHS briefing document.
The real EV-D68 is a respiratory virus first isolated in California in 1962, which has gained global traction. As well as respiratory disease and meningitis, it can cause a polio-like paralysis in children known as acute flaccid paralysis.
“The choice of an enterovirus is a good choice because it is a real possibility with real risks but is different from what we have seen before,” said Sir Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute.
“The big question for me would be, has anything really changed since Covid?” added Sir Peter, who was not involved in the exercise. “Have the systems changed and were the responses different?”
In Phase 1 of the Exercise Pegasus, participants were told an outbreak of a novel enterovirus had occurred on the fictional Island of “Musiyana” in southeast Asia and that it had already spread to Malaysia and Singapore.
The outbreak followed a local “food festival”, a child had died on 17 September and the virus was “considered to have pandemic potential”.
It is not clear if travel restrictions were recommended by UK ministers at this point in an attempt to prevent the virus getting to Britain, but the Telegraph understands a range of travel restrictions were in place by the end of the exercise.
In Phase 2 of the simulation, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally declared a pandemic, schools were closed and hospitals started to come under pressure. Protests over social distancing also broke out.
COBRA was told that, like Covid, the virus can be spread through respiratory aerosols and droplets and that “asymptomatic spread cannot be excluded”.
In Phase 3, a national lockdown was declared and non-essential businesses ordered to close. There were also fears that the virus – thought to be carried in pigs – could also cause food shortages if UK herds became infected.
The first part of the Covid Inquiry found the UK’s pandemic plan ahead of that outbreak was flawed in that it failed to consider preventing a novel virus sweeping across Britain in the first place.
“It focused on only one type of pandemic, failed adequately to consider prevention or proportionality of response, and paid insufficient attention to the economic and social consequences of pandemic response,” said the Inquiry.
“When it was said that the UK was well prepared before the Covid-19 pandemic, this meant at the time that the UK should have been able to manage the deaths of [837,500] people – not that it was prepared to prevent them,” it added.
It is not clear what measures ministers ordered during the Exercise Pegasus to try and prevent the virus getting to the UK, but the exercise was designed to test government decision making around “containment” as well as “mitigation”, say government documents.
Closing schools during the Covid-19 lockdowns “brought ordinary childhood to a halt,” the second part of the Covid Inquiry found. No plans had been made ahead of the pandemic that would have allowed for a quick switch to remote learning.
“The decisions to close schools and early years provision to most children and to implement a lockdown were steps taken to protect the adult population. They brought ordinary childhood to a halt,” concluded the Inquiry.
In Exercise Pegasus, the imagined virus was most lethal to children – presenting ministers with a different challenge around schools.
It is not thought that any ministers walked out during the exercise as happened during Exercise Cygnus in 2016, when the then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt downed tools when it became clear hospitals would be overrun and he was asked to decide who should get care and who should not.
“The hospitals were full and Hunt was asked to make the call as part of the exercise. But instead of doing so he basically said ‘I’m not playing any more’. People were very cross as it mucked up the exercise,” recalled one observer.
Mr Hunt said he had paused the exercise to argue that such decisions indicated insufficient planning and maintains that his action prompted improvements in the UK’s pandemic planning protocols ahead of the Covid-19 outbreak.
The Department of Health and Social Care is expected to publish a report about the drill next year.
A Government spokesperson emphasised for the avoidance of doubt that the lockdowns were not real but a table to exercise, and said: “Exercise Pegasus concluded this autumn and was the largest simulation of a pandemic in UK history, involving every government department, all four nations, and many government agencies.
“A fictional scenario was designed to test participants and improve public bodies’ ability to respond to a pandemic.
“Learnings will be taken to strengthen the UK’s ability to protect the public, and findings will be published as part of the Government’s commitment to transparency.”
Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research at The University of Oxford, said pandemic drills like Exercise Pegasus were now being held around the world and that there was a need to better share the results and findings.
“These exercises are really important as they throw up barriers and innovations you might not have foreseen but they should be made open and shared internationally in a curateable form,” she said.
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| More than 300 students, staff abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria last week |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-25-2025, 12:12 PM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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More than 300 students, staff abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria last week
Initial estimates were that 52 children were abducted from St. Mary's Catholic boarding school, but recent reports indicate that it was 315 students and 12 teachers.
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Nov 24, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Attacks on Christians in Nigeria have reached new heights after more than 300 students and staff at a Catholic school in Papiri were abducted last week.
“I make a heartfelt appeal that the hostages be immediately released, and I urge the competent authorities to take appropriate and timely decisions to ensure their liberation,” Pope Leo said after Sunday Mass this weekend in St. Peter’s Square.
On Friday, gunmen forcibly took some 315 students and 12 of their teachers from St. Mary’s Catholic boarding school in Niger State, making it one of the worst kidnappings the country has ever seen. Initial estimates were that 52 children were taken.
“The gunmen were on about 50 motorcycle bikes while controlling them,” one of the children’s fathers told the BBC. “Some children were falling and the men would kick them and instruct them to stand up.”
Prayers seem to have been answered as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has reported that 50 students have been returned to their families.
“The pupils escaped between Friday and Saturday and have reunited with their parents as they could not return to the school after they escaped,” a spokesman for CAN’s Niger State chapter said.
Niger State promptly closed all schools after the abduction.
The Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles operate St. Mary’s. The group’s leader, Sr. Mary Barron, asked for “prayers and spiritual solidarity” in an appeal following news of the kidnapping.
“We believe deeply in the power of unified prayer. We need as many people as possible to lift this community before God during this moment of suffering and uncertainty. May God, in God’s infinite mercy, protect the innocent, guide leaders to act with justice, and bring all those taken back home safely,” she said.
READ: Trump’s UN ambassador calls persecution of Nigerian Christians a ‘genocide’
Friday’s attack is the third major incident reported in recent weeks. Last Wednesday, gunmen killed at least two people and kidnapped several more in an attack on a church in Eruku, a town in the central Kwara State. Also last week attackers abducted 25 girls from a predominantly Muslim boarding school.
On Tuesday, November 18, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz described the ongoing slaughter of Christians in the country as a “genocide wearing the mask of chaos.”
Waltz made his remarks during an event hosted by the United States Mission to the United Nations. Following Waltz’s address, best-selling rapper Nicki Minaj took to the podium to express her own concerns. She previously praised President Donald Trump’s social media posts condemning the killings.
Trump previously announced that he is preparing the U.S. military to potentially “wipe out” Islamic terrorists who are killing and kidnapping Christians in the country.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has canceled foreign trips to South Africa and Angola, where he was scheduled to attend an African Union-European Union summit and a G20 summit. Tinubu has sent a delegation of government officials led by Nigeria’s national security advisor to the U.S. to meet with American government officials about the situation.
Findings published by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) highlight many of the state-sponsored attacks on Christians in the country. In its 2025 report, the USCIRF urged the U.S. government to designate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern.” It also noted that “the Nigerian government remains slow or, at times, appears unwilling to respond to this violence, creating an environment of impunity for the attackers.”
Shockingly, during a keynote address for an event held at the Vatican last month, the current Secretary of State Pietro Parolin diminished the influence that Islam has played in the attacks.
The violence is “not a religious conflict, but rather more a social one, for example, disputes between herders and farmers. We should also recognize that many Muslims in Nigeria are themselves victims of this same intolerance,” he claimed.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria from 1992 until 1998, denounced Parolin’s remarks.
“The shameful words of Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on the alleged ‘social conflict’ in Nigeria misrepresent the reality of a ferocious and genocidal persecution against Catholics, martyred while Rome rambles on about synodality and inclusiveness,” His Excellency remarked.
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