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| Pope Leo appoints Cupich to Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-17-2025, 12:56 PM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Pope Leo appoints Cupich to Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
Cardinal Blase Cupich recently faced backlash from other bishops for planning to award pro-abortion,
pro-LGBT Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin with a ‘lifetime achievement’ award.
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Cardinal Blase Cupich entering the 2024 Synod
Michael Haynes
Oct 16, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appointed heterodox Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State.
In an October 15 bulletin, the Vatican announced that Pope Leo had named Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State. Such appointments are often considered a reward for loyalty to and alignment with the Holy Father’s vision for the Church.
Cupich, who serves as the archbishop of the pontiff’s hometown of Chicago, has recently made headlines for planning to award pro-abortion Illinois Senator Dick Durbin with a “lifetime achievement” award, has a long history of suppressing the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), and has opposed the pro-life movement.
LifeSite’s editor in chief, John-Henry Westen, noted Cupich’s history of suppressing the TLM and embrace of pro-abortion politicians in an X post.
The Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State is the Vatican’s legislative body responsible for many of the state’s functions and activities, including economics, security and public order, customs and postal services, public health and the environment, and overseeing the Vatican Museums. It’s worth noting that all laws proposed by the commission must ultimately be approved by the sovereign pontiff.
In recent weeks, Cupich had planned to honor the radically pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Democratic Senator Dick Durbin with a “lifetime achievement” award, citing his support for liberal immigration policies, at the Archdiocese of Chicago’s “Keep Hope Alive” benefit in November.
READ: Cardinal Cupich to honor pro-abortion Sen. Durbin with lifetime achievement award
Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 1997, Durbin has supported every possible brutal method of abortion, as well as even post-abortion infanticide, voting against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Durbin’s horrendous voting record has earned 0 percent pro-life scores and 100 percent pro-abortion scores from the National Right to Life Committee.
Several American bishops, including Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Durbin’s bishop, and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, denounced Cupich’s decision, noting that awarding the pro-abortion senator risks “grave scandal.”
Cupich responded by doubling down on his decision and dismissing concerns that he risked “grave scandal” by presenting Durbin with the “lifetime achievement” award, claiming that Catholic teaching on life and dignity “cannot be reduced to a single issue, even an issue as important as abortion.”
However, after continued backlash, Cupich announced that Durbin had declined to receive the award. Just hours before the archbishop of Chicago’s announcement, Pope Leo raised eyebrows by appearing to defend the cardinal’s decision to honor the pro-abortion senator when pressed by a reporter.
“I think that it is very important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during … 40 years of service in the United States Senate,” the American pontiff stated.
READ: Pope Leo says support for death penalty is ‘not pro-life,’ defends awarding pro-abortion politician
Leo then echoed Cupich’s erroneous equation of abortion to the death penalty and migration policy: “Someone who says I’m against abortion but says I’m in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” the pope said. “Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
Cupich has also been a vocal opponent of the Latin Mass, placing sweeping restrictions on its celebration as well as the celebration of old rite sacraments in the Chicago archdiocese. The cardinal has also repeatedly criticized traditional Catholics, recently denouncing “traditionalism” as the “dead faith of the living.”
READ: Cardinal Cupich decries ‘traditionalism’ as the ‘dead faith of the living’
Liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, in a Facebook post, remarked that the faithful shouldn’t be “freaking out” over Cupich’s appointment, emphasizing that the commission is a minor appointment and suggested that perhaps the pontiff’s intention behind this nomination is to lessen the cardinal’s influence elsewhere.
Pope Leo on Wednesday also appointed Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the vicar general for the diocese of Rome, to the commission.
In one of the pontiff’s first major appointments, Leo had named Reina as the grand chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute “John Paul II” for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family, replacing the controversial Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia. Reina’s appointment was welcomed by pro-life Catholics as his record on pro-life matters is believed to be more orthodox than that of the man he replaced.
Pope Leo also confirmed McCarrick-linked Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life; Cardinal Arthur Roche, the prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, who was responsible for many of the Francis Vatican’s restrictions on the TLM; Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik, prefect for the Dicastery for the Clergy; and Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches in their current roles on the pontifical commission.
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| “Lepanto” By G.K. Chesterton |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-15-2025, 09:37 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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“Lepanto”
By G.K. Chesterton
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The Imaginative Conservative | October 6th, 2025
White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.
They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,
The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;
From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,
And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.
Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,
Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,
The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,
That once went singing southward when all the world was young,
In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,
Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war,
Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold
In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,
Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,
Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.
Don John laughing in the brave beard curled,
Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world,
Holding his head up for a flag of all the free.
Love-light of Spain—hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.
Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri’s knees,
His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.
He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease,
And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees,
And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring
Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.
Giants and the Genii,
Multiplex of wing and eye,
Whose strong obedience broke the sky
When Solomon was king.
They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,
From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;
They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;
They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground,—
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate ;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth.”
For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
Sudden and still—hurrah!
Bolt from Iberia!
Don John of Austria
Is gone by Alcalar.
St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north
(Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.)
Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift
And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift.
He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone;
The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone;
The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse
Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips,
Trumpet that sayeth ha!
Domino gloria!
Don John of Austria
Is shouting to the ships.
King Philip’s in his closet with the Fleece about his neck
(Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.)
The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,
And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.
He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon,
He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon,
And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey
Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day,
And death is in the phial, and the end of noble work,
But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk.
Don John’s hunting, and his hounds have bayed—
Booms away past Italy the rumour of his raid
Gun upon gun, ha! ha!
Gun upon gun, hurrah!
Don John of Austria
Has loosed the cannonade.
The Pope was in his chapel before day or battle broke,
(Don John of Austria is hidden in the smoke.)
The hidden room in man’s house where God sits all the year,
The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear.
He sees as in a mirror on the monstrous twilight sea
The crescent of his cruel ships whose name is mystery;
They fling great shadows foe-wards, making Cross and Castle dark,
They veil the plumèd lions on the galleys of St. Mark;
And above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs,
And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous griefs,
Christian captives sick and sunless, all a labouring race repines
Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines.
They are lost like slaves that sweat, and in the skies of morning hung
The stair-ways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young.
They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or fleeing on
Before the high Kings’ horses in the granite of Babylon.
And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell
Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell,
And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign—
(But Don John of Austria has burst the battle-line!)
Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,
Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
Vivat Hispania!
Domino Gloria!
Don John of Austria
Has set his people free!
Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath
(Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.)
And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,
Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,
And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade….
(But Don John of Austria rides home from the Crusade.)
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire [with Fr. Ruiz] - October 26, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:33 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ
w/ Commemoration of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
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Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| Holy Mass in Tennesee [Nashville area] - October 26, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:26 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ
with Commemoration of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: Confessions - 3:30 PM
Holy Mass - 4:30 PM
Location: 1016 Donoho Drive
Old Hickory, TN 37318
Contact: 510-368-4994
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| Holy Mass in North Carolina [Charlotte area] - October 26, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:21 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of Christ the King
with Commemoration of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: Confessions - 9:00 AM
Holy Mass - 9:30 AM
Location: 3802 Solen Drive
Harrisburg, NC 28075
Contact: Nino 980-833-2379
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| Holy Mass in North Carolina [Raleigh area] - October 25, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:18 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Our Lady's Saturday
with Commemoration of Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria
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Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Time: Confessions - 2:30 PM
Holy Mass - 3:30 PM
Location: 2722 Kudrow Lane
Morrisville, NC 27560 [Raleigh area]
Contact: Margarita 510-361-4394
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Rome Has Lost the Faith — La Salette and Fatima Warnings Ignored Today |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 10:20 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Rome Has Lost the Faith — La Salette and Fatima Warnings Ignored Today
Rome has lost the Faith. The prophetic warnings of La Salette and Fatima have been ignored, and the Church is now eclipsed by Modernist errors, silent shepherds, and widespread compromise.
The post-conciliar hierarchy has abandoned the defense of truth, leaving the faithful remnant largely unprotected. This video examines the crisis of Vatican II, the betrayal of Tradition, and the ongoing fulfillment of prophetic warnings. It exposes the eclipse of the Church’s spiritual authority, the complicity of compromise-minded clergy, and the pressing need for vigilance, fidelity, and perseverance.
What the faithful must do:
• Remain in the state of grace.
• Pray the Rosary daily.
• Consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
• Fight, and reject all compromise with error.
• Uphold the perennial Magisterium and traditional sacraments.
The warnings of Our Lady are clear. The Church is eclipsed, but her restoration will come through fidelity, penance, and devotion. The faithful remnant must rise and remain steadfast, speaking and acting according to truth, even when others fall silent.
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