Media is not a sustainable, profitable enterprise. Everyone wants to browse the internet, but hardly anyone wants to pay for it. Most media outlets survive because someone else pays the bill - either governments with taxpayers' money or giant foundations with ideological agendas. Gloria.tv is a social network for the Church, for Catholics, and for people of goodwill. It survived 2025 on less than €10,000 a month, funded almost entirely by small donations from ordinary Catholics. That is not a marketing budget. Gloria.tv started financially as a garage project and has remained that way ever since. Gloria.tv is based on conviction, not on a business plan. Goodwill has enabled technical development. Gloria.tv only needs enough money to balance even, not a profit. Year after year, YOU have made this possible. Thanks! Since we receive an average of €30 per donor, we need many donations to balance even. Please help us again in 2026. There is no secret sponsor or institutional safety net. We …ད་རུང་།
A baby was born 4 months early, pronounced dead, and then revived with only a 1% chance of survival. Doctors predicted the worst: poor quality of life — unable to walk or talk. When his mother was given the option to give up on her child’s life, she refused. “I had to give him a shot.” That baby went on to become a Super Bowl champion. His name is Derick Hall.
The state’s decision comes after a lawsuit essentially forcing it to back down from revocation of foster-care licenses for families holding traditional religious beliefs on sex and gender. The decision made it difficult for Christian foster parents to adopt children while staying true to Christian and normal biological views that boys and girls are different.
Mon Feb 23, 2026 - 4:21 pm ESTMon Feb 23, 2026 - 4:52 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Yesterday, on February 22, 2026, Cardinal Robert Sarah—a respected voice for tradition in the Church—published an impassioned essay in the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. Titled “Before it is too late!”, it’s a direct intervention against the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X’s (SSPX’s) announcement of episcopal ordinations without papal mandate. Sarah calls this a grave threat to Church unity, urging fidelity to the Pope as the successor of Peter. Among his strongest words: “One cannot claim to disobey the Church in order to save it. Disobedience to the Pope cannot be the ordinary path of salvation for souls.” And even more pointedly: “It is through obedience that Christ saved the world. It is not by rebellion that we will save the Church.” These quotes capture his core plea: stay in the boat of Peter, no matter the storm. Now, with that context, here’s my response to His Eminence. An open …
Here as well. It's in everything. It's hard to buy anything anymore. I have given up so many things. Sometimes I just have to because I'm tired of the same ole, same ole things. There is metal in everything as well as other poisons. Even in toothpaste and hair shampoos and soap. Check out the ingredients on the things I just mentioned. You will see what I mean.
End of Plague in Rome - February 24th, 2026 | No Greater Delight February 24: Plague in Rome ends after Pope St. Gregory the Great leads a procession with a painting of Our Lady by Saint Luke (591) The Abbot Orsini wrote: “On this day, in the year 591, St. Gergory the Great, having had the picture of Our Lady, which was painted by St. Luke, carried in procession, the plague ceased at Rome.” The miseries that afflicted Rome in the year 591 were substantial. The Gothic War between the Byzantine Empire and the Goths had substantially depopulated Italy, so much so that a Germanic tribe of Lombards had entered the peninsula and established their own kingdom. They were pagans and Arians who did not respect Catholics, burning the famous Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino and pillaging the land at will. The instability and warfare caused famine in large regions, though Rome was still able to obtain grain by sea. Then came earthquakes and flooding to further the suffering, and from this …ད་རུང་།
Heiliger Papst Gregor I. Bußprozession gegen die Pest Im Jahre 590 herrschte in Rom, der Hauptstadt der Christenheit, eine schreckliche Pest. Selbst der Papst Pelagius wurde ein Opfer derselben. Im allgemeinen Jammer sah man sich um einen würdigen Nachfolger desselben um. Geistlichkeit und Volk wussten aber keinen würdigeren zu finden, als den Abt des von ihm selbstgestifteten Benediktiner-Klosters, den heiligen Gregorius. Nur gezwungen nahm er die Wahl an, nicht der Übel wegen, welche damals ein Papst zu ertragen hatte, sondern weil er sich einer so hohen Würde gar nicht wert hielt. Die Pest wütete indessen fort; die Verheerungen, welche sie anrichtete, waren schreckbar; nirgends fand man eine Hilfe. Doch der heilige Oberhirt Gregor verzagte nicht; er setzte all sein Vertrauen auf Jesus und seine gebenedeiteste Mutter. Er rief das Volk zusammen, und hielt an dasselbe eine eindringliche Rede, in welcher er zeigte, dass die wider Gottes heilige Gebote begangenen Sünden seinen Zorn …ད་རུང་།
Joan of Arc is getting a new take on stage, with Mandipa Kabanda set to play Joan in Saint Joan, a “reimagining” of George Bernard Shaw’s classic play. Via Citizens Theatre, Mandipa Kabanda headlines the production as Joan in Saint Joan, a Raw Material, Perth Theatre and Aberdeen Performing Arts co-production in association with Citizens Theatre. The play puts Joan front and center as a young figure who shakes power structures and forces institutions to react. Mandipa Kabanda as Saint Joan What this Saint Joan is about Saint Joan is based on the true story of a sixteen-year-old girl who led France to victory in the Hundred Years War. This new version frames the story through modern lenses, focusing on power, gender, and youth-led change, and how someone from a marginalized background can impact international politics. The production positions Joan of Arc as the kind of unlikely revolutionary history keeps producing, which makes the story feel pointed in a time of political unrest …
Rev Jaime Mercant Simó, a Spanish diocesan priest and professor at the Center for Theological Studies of Mallorca Diocesan priest from Spain, wrote on X.com on February 22 about the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X. His thoughts. Several of my readers have asked me about the upcoming episcopal consecrations of the Society of St. Pius X. Here is my position, presented in a pedagogical format of questions and answers: 1. Will the Lefebvrists commit a mortal sin with these episcopal consecrations? — No, not at all. 2. Is it not a schismatic act? — No, formally it is not. 3. Why is it formally not a schism? — Because, for a “perfect schism” to occur, there must be a clear intention to perform a schismatic act and to establish, with the new bishops, a hierarchical jurisdiction parallel to the one existing in the Roman Catholic Church. In this case, neither of these two things will occur. 4. Could it at least be an act of disobedience? — Yes, indeed it is, at least materially, since Rome …ད་རུང་།
The excommunication is unjust. The doubtful pope is in grave error for denying the supply of Bishops to faithful of the SSPX after they legally requested them.
Your Ancestors Never Paid Taxes Until 1913 — Then They Made It a Crimeyoutube.com/watch?v=qHAM7os9OsY In 1913, the United States ratified a constitutional amendment that did something no federal law had ever done before: it claimed a permanent, legally enforced portion of every American's labor. Within six years, a nationwide enforcement bureaucracy — with investigators, auditors, criminal referral authority, and purpose-built offices from Boston to San Francisco — had materialized with a speed that institutional history struggles to explain. Your ancestors kept everything they earned. Then, in a single year, that ended. And then they made it a crime to live the way your grandparents had lived. This investigation traces the architecture of that transformation — the 1913 pivot, the suspicious coordination between the income tax amendment and the Federal Reserve Act, the enforcement machinery that appeared to exist before it was needed, and the global pattern of identical mechanisms …ད་རུང་།
[BLESSED JAN VAN RUYSBROEK – XIII-XIV Century AD; Ruisbroek, Holy Roman Empire/ Groenendael, Holy Roman Empire; Mystic, Spiritual Writer, Doctor Divinus Ecstaticus] “Chapter V ~ OF THE WORKS WHICH GOD WORKS IN ALL IN COMMON AND OF FIVE KINDS OF SINNERS HEAR now what those three works are, which our Lord works in all men if they will submit themselves thereto. The first work which God works in all men in common consists in His calling and inviting them all, without exception, to union with Himself. And as long as a sinner does not follow this call, he must lack all the other gifts which would follow thereafter. Now I have observed that all sinners may be divided into five kinds. To the first kind belong all those who are careless of good works, who through bodily ease and the lust of the senses prefer to live in worldly employments and in multiplicity of heart. All such are unfit to receive the grace of God, and even if they had received it, they would not be able to keep it. To the …ད་རུང་།
"HEAR now what those three works are, which our Lord works in all men if they will submit themselves thereto. The first work which God works in all men in common consists in His calling and inviting them all, without exception, to union with Himself. And as long as a sinner does not follow this call, he must lack all the other gifts which would follow thereafter."
Mon Feb 23, 2026 - 12:47 pm EST The following text is taken from a statement made by Bishop Joseph Strickland on his X account on February 23, 2026. (LifeSiteNews) I share this as a follow up to my statement regarding the situation of the SSPX which I posted on February 3. In the intervening days, some have “put words in my mouth” that were not an accurate representation of my thoughts on this critically important subject. I pray that the following clarifies where I stand as one bishop who loves the Church deeply. I renew my plea that we pray for Pope Leo and for the leaders of the SSPX. Statement dated February 23, 2026. The current situation involving the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has once again exposed a painful and longstanding tension within the life of the Church. In the years following the Second Vatican Council, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre believed that foundational elements of Catholic life – traditional priestly formation, clear sacramental theology, and the ancient Roman …ད་རུང་།
On February 21, Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Archbishop Jean-Marie Speich as nuncio to the Netherlands. Monsignor Speich left The Hague only ten months after his appointment. Nuncios may retire upon reaching the age of 70 (and not only at 75). Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to The Hague in April 2025. He turned 70 in June 2025. Had Monsignor Speich truly planned to step down at 70, he could have requested to remain in Slovenia until his birthday and then taken his leave. He became known for his role as nuncio in Slovenia in connection with the Marko Rupnik case. Rupnik is accused by two dozen former nuns of sexual perversion. Monsignor Speich is considered responsible for Rupnik's incardination in the diocese of Koper (Capodistria). Born in Strasbourg on June 15, 1955, Speich was ordained a priest in 1982 for the Archdiocese of Strasbourg. He joined the Holy See's diplomatic service in 1986 and served in numerous countries, including Haiti, Nigeria, Bolivia, Canada …ད་རུང་།
Paul VI said: “In my view, it is better that a selection be made of Psalms more suitable to Christian prayer, and that the imprecatory and historical Psalms be omitted (though these last may be suitably use in certain circumstances." (Annibale Bugnini, The Reform of the Liturgy (1948-1975), Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1990, p. 509). Photo and quote from the website The ‘Anti-Liturgical Heresy’ - Dialogue Mass 153 …
During a pastoral visit to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus near Rome’s Termini station on February 22, Leo XIV shared a detail from his youth, reports Vatican News.va. He had briefly considered entering the Salesian order founded by St. John Bosco. “Before I entered the Augustinians, as a young man I also visited the Salesian community,” he said with a smile. “You came in second place — I’m sorry!” His remark drew laughter from the Salesians who run the parish. Leo XIV added that since his election, he has visited more Salesian communities than Augustinian ones, joking that perhaps “something of you has remained in my heart.” Speaking after the Eucharist, Leo XIV expressed appreciation for the Salesians’ work with young people, especially immigrants. Leo XIV served as Prior General of the Augustinian Order from 2001 to 2013. Picture: Vatican Media, #newsMuljhvgbzr
February 23: The Process of Becoming Christian (2026) Benedictus Moments is a series of 365 short daily meditations from the writings of Pope Benedict XVI. Each day’s reflection comes alive as actor Leonardo Defilippis recites the words of Pope Benedict, rendering these theological gems amazingly accessible. Pope Benedict’s profound insights lead to an ever-deepening discovery of the beauty and richness of our Christian faith that will stir your heart and gladden your soul. Listen each day and be inspired! "The Benedictus refers to the advent of the incarnate God in our midst. Christ's eucharistic coming makes a present occurrence out of a promise, and brings the future into the here and now." —Pope Benedict XVI From the book Benedictus: Day by Day with Pope Benedict XVI published by Ignatius Press.
"Benedictus Moments“ - am 23. Februar "Benedictus Moments“ ist eine Reihe von 365 kurzen, täglichen Meditationen aus den Schriften von Papst Benedikt XVI. Die tägliche Betrachtung wird lebendig, wenn der Schauspieler Leonardo Defilippis die Worte des Papstes rezitiert und diese theologischen Juwelen so auf erstaunliche Weise zugänglich macht. Die tiefgründigen Einsichten des Papstes führen zu einer immer tieferen Entdeckung der Schönheit und des Reichtums unseres christlichen Glaubens, die Ihr Herz berühren und Ihre Seele erfreuen wird. Hören Sie jeden Tag zu und lassen Sie sich inspirieren! „Das Benedictus bezieht sich auf das Kommen des menschgewordenen Gottes in unsere Mitte. Christi eucharistisches Kommen macht aus einem Versprechen ein gegenwärtiges Geschehen und bringt die Zukunft ins Hier und Jetzt.“ – Papst Benedikt XVI. Aus dem Buch „Benedictus: Tag für Tag mit Papst Benedikt XVI.“, erschienen im Ignatius Verlag.
St. Ambrose ~~~ He that is wounded requires medicine; we are wounded, because we are under sin; and the medicine is the sacred and heavenly sacrament...