#  @holysmoke Damian Thompson Damian Thompson posts on X about pope francis, leo, rome, to the the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::18273207/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +39% - [--] Month [---------] +64% - [--] Months [---------] -68% - [--] Year [----------] +947% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::18273207/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +23% - [--] Month [---] +107% - [--] Months [---] +72% - [--] Year [---] +265% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::18273207/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.13% - [--] Month [------] +0.59% - [--] Months [------] +4.70% - [--] Year [------] +15% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::18273207/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [countries](/list/countries) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [finance](/list/finance) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [us election](/list/us-election) [musicians](/list/musicians) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) **Social topic influence** [pope francis](/topic/pope-francis) #81, [leo](/topic/leo) #2414, [rome](/topic/rome), [to the](/topic/to-the), [in the](/topic/in-the), [for the](/topic/for-the), [has been](/topic/has-been), [the most](/topic/the-most), [china](/topic/china), [london](/topic/london) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Chorus of groans from priests expecting the appointment of Richard Moth of Arundel & Brighton to Westminster. The big question: why did Rome pass over the apparently obvious choice John Wilson of Southwark" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2001964789506171074) 2025-12-19T10:36Z 42K followers, 29.5K engagements "The behaviour of Bishop Michael Martin is a scandal that Pope Leo must not ignore. A comment left on my Facebook page today from a parishioner in Charlotte. https://t.co/dBHJaIynVS A comment left on my Facebook page today from a parishioner in Charlotte. https://t.co/dBHJaIynVS" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2013048732908916757) 2026-01-19T00:39Z 42K followers, 42.3K engagements "Oh boy Austen Ivereigh. The attacks on the Pope by the Santa Marta hacks 📰 Read now: https://t.co/hmToHLBKtP https://t.co/iVTnwdG7d2 Austen Ivereigh. The attacks on the Pope by the Santa Marta hacks 📰 Read now: https://t.co/hmToHLBKtP https://t.co/iVTnwdG7d2" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2014107874943779272) 2026-01-21T22:48Z 42K followers, 10.1K engagements "@BDamian25 Im afraid it keeps happening in all hierarchical organisations. The Catholic Church has made progress in this area (undermined by the example of abuse-concealer Pope Francis) but as this case illustrates there are still outrageous failures of safeguarding" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2014297035436941393) 2026-01-22T11:20Z 42K followers, [--] engagements "Have you posted anything about Pope Leos message to the March for Life Perhaps Ive missed it just as I missed your references to the Popes earlier comments about surrogacy and abortion. You are not serious people. You are not serious people" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2014685560942526527) 2026-01-23T13:04Z 42K followers, 12.2K engagements "@TaylorLoy Whats the appropriate formula for someone who chooses the One True Church of the TEC (EDOD) which is your particular sect" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015345846858977624) 2026-01-25T08:47Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "England has the worlds largest number of medieval churches. Many face a desperate future. My Holy Smoke conversation with a 23-year-old campaigner who is tackling the crisis of friendless churches. https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/ https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015384824068874719) 2026-01-25T11:22Z 42K followers, 22.3K engagements "This is a good question. I dont think Pope Leo is ignorant of these awful facts which dont rule out a private meeting. But they DO rule out a photo-op surely. @holysmoke Q: In the fourth decade of the internet age can a [--] year old pope plausibly claim ignorance of facts that anyone with a phone can easily discover https://t.co/BcgEbyTD3t @holysmoke Q: In the fourth decade of the internet age can a [--] year old pope plausibly claim ignorance of facts that anyone with a phone can easily discover https://t.co/BcgEbyTD3t" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015418904256905663) 2026-01-25T13:38Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "England has more purely medieval churches than France. That may surprise you. Do listen to the Holy Smoke episode about the crisis and the remarkable young campaigner highlighting it: https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/ @Goldenoriole3 France has more churches with medieval origins and elements. But https://t.co/8vpzdu8hYH https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/ @Goldenoriole3 France has more churches with medieval origins and elements. But https://t.co/8vpzdu8hYH" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015433720539287557) 2026-01-25T14:36Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Absolutely. My Ordinariate priest friends would support this. But everyone in charge is so risk-averse. @holysmoke Its a great pity that the full potential of the Anglican Ordinariate has never really been realised. It would be fascinating to see an Anglican benefice with five or six churches give just one medieval building back to Catholic use and see how it functions in practice. If @holysmoke Its a great pity that the full potential of the Anglican Ordinariate has never really been realised. It would be fascinating to see an Anglican benefice with five or six churches give just one" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015736675922493648) 2026-01-26T10:40Z 42K followers, 13.8K engagements "Amazing stuff especially about Argentina. Leo XIV is starting to make waves and some are worried (And the strange case of the visit to Spain) https://t.co/qT1abe11gU https://t.co/1iIx7nCB3m Leo XIV is starting to make waves and some are worried (And the strange case of the visit to Spain) https://t.co/qT1abe11gU https://t.co/1iIx7nCB3m" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015749985665482922) 2026-01-26T11:33Z 42K followers, 36.8K engagements "Mahonys shameless behaviour was tolerated by the amoral Francis but how can Pope Leo possibly tolerate it @holysmoke What if The Holy Father told Cardinal Mahony to stop attending episcopal consecrations in California where he has been a regular attendee Told him to heed Archbishop Gomezs censure and retreat quietly to a life of penance & reparation. @holysmoke What if The Holy Father told Cardinal Mahony to stop attending episcopal consecrations in California where he has been a regular attendee Told him to heed Archbishop Gomezs censure and retreat quietly to a life of penance & reparation" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015857831686090975) 2026-01-26T18:42Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Fortunately Pope Leo is not the biggest fan of Cupich who went over his head to Francis regarding episcopal appointments and also embarrassed him over Sen. Durbin (whose sudden decision to decline Cupichs award came the day after Pope Leo was put on the spot). Cardinal Cupich has again praised Pope Francis Latin Mass restrictions calling for [--] rite only in the Church: Again as in keeping with his predecessor St. Pope Pius V there must be only one rite as a means of preserving the unity of the church. Via @chicagocatholic https://t.co/DJdnsTg4Uk Cardinal Cupich has again praised Pope Francis" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015859975403274463) 2026-01-26T18:50Z 42K followers, 21.6K engagements "Strickland was removed by Francis who would certainly have taken the decision himself and not left it up to Prevost. My instinct is that Pope Leo is troubled by Martin which whom he had problems as Prefect. But any action he takes will be frustratingly cautious its his modus operandi. Theres a faction of Bergoglian fanatics who are looking for any excuse to make Leos life hell something that powerful Curial officials can definitely do to a pope as we saw with Benedict. Leo is not their creature as Dolan Burke etc knew when they supported him in the conclave" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016159676124065906) 2026-01-27T14:41Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "I wrote an article [--] years ago about how St Andrews Chorleywood had been taken over by extremists whom local parishioners accused of behaving like a cult This is the big question and no one is asking it @churchofengland given the most recent scandals at Soul Survivor and now the investigation into Saint Andrews Chorleywood. The charismatic movement which undoubtedly has enriched the modern church contributed to our growth and https://t.co/ApRmvikVSX This is the big question and no one is asking it @churchofengland given the most recent scandals at Soul Survivor and now the investigation into" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016293141024845979) 2026-01-27T23:32Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Hes extraordinary. Very few priests touch my heart as directly as Fr @Joeinblack. Father Joseph Krupp for the record is one of the most balanced clerics on X. (And hes a master homilist.) Father Joseph Krupp for the record is one of the most balanced clerics on X. (And hes a master homilist.)" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016479293287604494) 2026-01-28T11:51Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "@Rgt71Robert Alas a lost pre-digital relic. The place creeped me out I can tell you that especially when I saw a boy with Down Syndrome subjected to something that looked suspiciously like an exorcism" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016482165840593374) 2026-01-28T12:03Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "I think this is right. Both the C of E and the Catholic bishops have displayed a deplorable meanness of spirit towards the Ordinariate. @janeeecharman @grumpyesq @holysmoke @churchofengland To the best of my knowledge the only church building purchased by the Ordinariate in England is the one in Torbay which was acquired from the Methodists. @janeeecharman @grumpyesq @holysmoke @churchofengland To the best of my knowledge the only church building purchased by the Ordinariate in England is the one in Torbay which was acquired from the Methodists" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016519544521592889) 2026-01-28T14:31Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "So to clear up any misunderstanding the Bishop of Fulham has posted his congratulations to the new Archbishop of Canterbury above a photo of them together with other C of E bishops while believing that said archbishop is a lay person. Did I get that right" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016537472167977019) 2026-01-28T15:42Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "@DuncanHegan1 It differs because Fulham is a bishop of the Church of England welcoming Archbishop Sarahs new status as primate of his church. Vincents statement was silly but theres no question of him recognising her as anything other than a lay person" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016540191058509955) 2026-01-28T15:53Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "@DuncanHegan1 There is confusion here though. Some Anglo-Catholics under alternative oversight recognise the probable validity of womens ordination. I know because they have told me so. Is Jonathan Baker closer to their position or to that of Anglo-Catholics who regard her as a lay person" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016541931459781000) 2026-01-28T16:00Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "@Starcourse That was carefully worded" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017156191965594037) 2026-01-30T08:41Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "Hell need to sack Tucho first. Pope Leo XIV has urged the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to provide clear authoritative guidance amid emerging challenges facing the Church and society. In his address the Holy Father emphasized the need for precise doctrinal clarity to navigate contemporary issues Pope Leo XIV has urged the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to provide clear authoritative guidance amid emerging challenges facing the Church and society. In his address the Holy Father emphasized the need for precise doctrinal clarity to navigate contemporary issues" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017161060621447289) 2026-01-30T09:00Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Fascinating. According to @nicospuntoni Cupich wanted to be Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Instead the job went to a little-known American Augustinian in Peru https://newdailycompass.com/en/leo-xiv-has-a-problem-his-name-is-cupich https://newdailycompass.com/en/leo-xiv-has-a-problem-his-name-is-cupich" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017216519881499106) 2026-01-30T12:41Z 42K followers, 19.5K engagements "The following is repugnant to me. And thats the end of any profitable discussion between us. Mawdsley has asserted that Hitler did not set out to conquer Europe while the Jews schemed then and now to rule the world. He has opposed Jews holding power in Christian societies claiming they are corrosive to Christs order and damage worldviews in an antichrist way. He has accused Jews of genocide against Germans waging a race war against them. Etc" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017254895548547465) 2026-01-30T15:13Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "No She was a comic genius. Hard to believe. https://pagesix.com/2026/01/30/celebrity-news/schitts-creek-star-catherine-ohara-dead-at-71-report/ https://pagesix.com/2026/01/30/celebrity-news/schitts-creek-star-catherine-ohara-dead-at-71-report/" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017313587799163110) 2026-01-30T19:06Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "@RonCriss5 Thanks Ron" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017709293793927565) 2026-01-31T21:19Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "Incoherent patronising nonsense from Fr Reese. No surprises there. But there is also a gratifying whiff of panic that Pope Franciss restrictions have backfired. My @RNS column: Is church unity worth a Latin Mass https://t.co/iLaWYSNlx2 My @RNS column: Is church unity worth a Latin Mass https://t.co/iLaWYSNlx2" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019487956973519070) 2026-02-05T19:07Z 42.1K followers, 11K engagements "With my sister Carmel after her successful cancer surgery. Shes doing brilliantly fortified this morning by visit from Fr Julian Large bearing relic of St Teresa of Avila 😇" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1105876652289130497) 2019-03-13T17:01Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "'I dread the day Charles becomes king' I must have said hundreds of times. Well I got that one spectacularly wrong didn't I" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1607062179236220933) 2022-12-25T17:14Z 42.1K followers, 101.4K engagements "I understand that [---] British Catholic clergy will today release a statement declaring that the same-sex blessings envisaged by Fiducia Supplicans aren't theologically permissible and that they won't have anything to do with them. The moment of crisis has arrived" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1737672125891137611) 2023-12-21T03:11Z 42.1K followers, 118.5K engagements "I think this is the highlight of my [--] years on Twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740167160570532056) 2023-12-28T00:25Z 42.1K followers, 23.8K engagements "A year ago the Church lost the heroic cardinal it most needed to guide it through its present crisis. Rest in peace Your Eminence" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745046533857268190) 2024-01-10T11:34Z 42.1K followers, 34K engagements "NB: Cardinal Robert Sarah does not turn [--] until June [--]. He will therefore be an influential participant in the conclave" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1914257905227804764) 2025-04-21T10:00Z 42.1K followers, 159.2K engagements "Perhaps this matter is best resolved by returning Westminster Abbey to the Church that founded it. There are over [---] mosques in London but they chose to pray on the grounds of Westminster Abbey the most sacred site in the Anglican Church. Why https://t.co/1AasQoWkrh There are over [---] mosques in London but they chose to pray on the grounds of Westminster Abbey the most sacred site in the Anglican Church. Why https://t.co/1AasQoWkrh" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1929451543650074749) 2025-06-02T08:14Z 42.1K followers, 69K engagements "The great Cardinal Zen: After celebrating the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) at Mary Help of Christians Parish in Hong Kong I led a Eucharistic procession () https://t.co/6AcalsvNNQ () https://t.co/6AcalsvNNQ" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936740866925703371) 2025-06-22T10:59Z 42.1K followers, 90.6K engagements "The revelation that Traditionis custodes involved the deceitful manipulation of a survey of bishops has thrown the enemies of the TLM into panic and disarray. And no one is panicking more than Roche the DDW prefect who was shamefully complicit in the deception" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940702963980460408) 2025-07-03T09:23Z 42.1K followers, 25K engagements "The Novus Ordo celebrated as orientem with incense may be an admirable thing but it is NOT the same liturgy as the TLM many of whose most precious features are missing from the new Missal. I would rather attend the most spartan of Tridentine Low Masses than any Novus Ordo celebration though Im not going to make a fuss about attending the newer form if thanks to the spiteful intolerance of bishops the former is unavailable. However be in no doubt that the suppression of the TLM is a disgrace" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978964875486413211) 2025-10-16T23:22Z 42.1K followers, 31.6K engagements "Look at this. Incredible scenes in the approach to St Peters thousands and thousands of pilgrims praying for the liberation of the ancient liturgy" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982058587397443722) 2025-10-25T12:16Z 42.1K followers, 19.3K engagements "Not so much numbered as over. This. Its precisely their narrative the strongest intellectual promoters of what Pope Benedict called the Hermeneutic of Rupture that must be excised from the life of the Church. I expect the Holy Fathers catechesis will do this. Massimo knows his ilks days are numbered. This. Its precisely their narrative the strongest intellectual promoters of what Pope Benedict called the Hermeneutic of Rupture that must be excised from the life of the Church. I expect the Holy Fathers catechesis will do this. Massimo knows his ilks days are numbered" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2009351852727599342) 2026-01-08T19:49Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "The leaking of the memo is a disaster for Roche. Now his intellectual shortcomings are displayed to the world. Imagine the reaction of cardinals to being lectured like schoolchildren by this patronising mediocrity whos already been snooping around their dioceses. @GregoryCaridi @holysmoke Skipping over the translations of the liturgical books under Benedict. Apart from the question begging just wild that a paragraph like this could be written without mentioning Benedict by name. https://t.co/2scTxNBpe0 @GregoryCaridi @holysmoke Skipping over the translations of the liturgical books under" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2011408249023771104) 2026-01-14T12:01Z 42K followers, 11.5K engagements "Pope Leo has shown admirable restraint on the world stage wisely not condemning President Trumps brilliantly executed arrrest of Maduro. Trump respects the Pope and I cant help wondering if Leo might persuade him to moderate his deeply worrying rhetoric about Greenland. I never thought Id say anything like that but the situation does seem to be spinning out of control. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013205438439858520 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013205438439858520" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2013205438439858520) 2026-01-19T11:02Z 42.1K followers, 10.4K engagements "Interesting. Is this fair @holysmoke Moth spent [--] years in A&B writing & rewriting a Diocesan Pastoral Plan. Not that its got much to do with the Pastoral in-fact its in its ever worsening drafts a cost cutting exercise. With Moth if it comes to Finance v Gospel Finances win V. bad apt to Westminster. @holysmoke Moth spent [--] years in A&B writing & rewriting a Diocesan Pastoral Plan. Not that its got much to do with the Pastoral in-fact its in its ever worsening drafts a cost cutting exercise. With Moth if it comes to Finance v Gospel Finances win V. bad apt to Westminster" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2013990381789073532) 2026-01-21T15:01Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Catholics are puzzled and disturbed that Pope Leo should pose for a photograph with the disgraced abuse-protecting Roger Mahony. A private meeting is one thing but the rehabilitation of this man under Francis was a scandal and he should not be further indulged" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015344454425563426) 2026-01-25T08:42Z 42K followers, 14.4K engagements "This is a horribly ignorant attack on the Ordinariate. The priests I know who belong to it are passionate evangelists. One of them has produced a remarkable number of vocations to the regular priesthood; another found time to minister to my terminally ill sister while risking his life to help persecuted Christians in war zones. None of them are remotely interested in fancy vestments. @holysmoke The Ordinariates won't realize their potential as long as they merely define themselves as thees and thous building a quaint ghetto. A real expression of Anglo-Catholicism which focused on culture" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2015819517184954607) 2026-01-26T16:09Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Im so frustrated with the trad Leo-is-Francis-II brigade and their lefty opposite numbers like @christopherhale. Why cant they accept that a pope like most people can inspire and disappoint more or less simultaneously Instead they resort to defamation or caricature" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016483820980027821) 2026-01-28T12:09Z 42K followers, 10.7K engagements "whom the Bishop of Fulham now clearly recognises as a valid Anglican bishop. Has a rift finally been healed" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016532993448312993) 2026-01-28T15:25Z 42K followers, 18.7K engagements "@john_ritzema As if that makes one iota of sense" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016535613000782120) 2026-01-28T15:35Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "Catholics dont recognise her orders conservatives deplore her lefty platitudes she has questions to answer about safeguarding but dont rule out the possibility that the Church of England will benefit from her administrative competence and the warmth of her personality. https://t.co/lzWEE4hZXr https://t.co/lzWEE4hZXr" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2016908176629633427) 2026-01-29T16:15Z 42K followers, 15.5K engagements "Everyone in Rome says the same thing: the Pope is waiting for an appropriate see to become vacant before moving Tucho. This is frustrating but Leo seems determined never to humiliate anyone (even if they deserve it). @holysmoke Everyday I wake up hoping for good news about the long-overdue correction of the travesty of this man being placed in a high Church office let alone given charge of the DDF And every night I go to bed disappointed yet again. @holysmoke Everyday I wake up hoping for good news about the long-overdue correction of the travesty of this man being placed in a high Church" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017190636923879833) 2026-01-30T10:58Z 42K followers, 14.7K engagements "Pope Leo is revoking Franciss cruel ban on housing subsidies for cardinals and curial officials reveals @nicospuntoni another sign that he wants to turn the page on the previous pontificate. Leone XIV cancella la stretta di Francesco e rid gli alloggi gratuiti a cardinali e capi dicastero. Il decreto in vigore da domani. La rivelazione oggi su @ilgiornale https://t.co/uAz56zAmrP Leone XIV cancella la stretta di Francesco e rid gli alloggi gratuiti a cardinali e capi dicastero. Il decreto in vigore da domani. La rivelazione oggi su @ilgiornale https://t.co/uAz56zAmrP" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017534227651219643) 2026-01-31T09:43Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "The important thing is that the Pope no longer lives in Santa Marta which had acquired the stench of corruption. While some had hoped Leo's move to the Apostolic Palace signaled a return to tradition his decision to take up what were the guest quarters above the papal apartment suggest a more nuanced message from Leo: a nod to pre-Francis era papal customs imbued with the freedom his While some had hoped Leo's move to the Apostolic Palace signaled a return to tradition his decision to take up what were the guest quarters above the papal apartment suggest a more nuanced message from Leo: a nod" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017651060559483323) 2026-01-31T17:27Z 42K followers, 10.1K engagements "I agree so long as Pope Leo repairs some of the damage done to the Church by Francis: ending the liturgy wars and sidelining the crypto-Protestant Synodal faction that started them. Other developments are beyond his control. How the revival of tradition and the acceleration of secularism will relate to each other remains to be seen. Vast demographic forces are involved; so is a numerically modest but culturally powerful recovery of orthodoxy. Pope Leo is like them old timey popes who you rarely hear from. I think that was needed honestly after like a century of these towering figures. Pope" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017955604640280817) 2026-02-01T13:38Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "The German Synodal Way is liberal Protestantism which wielded enormous and destructive influence in the Church until John Paul II was able to halt its progress. But only temporarily: Francis revived it motivated more by a desire to settle scores than by personal conviction. My great concern is that there is currently a creeping attempt in Germany to implement a new ecclesiology and a new anthropology that are no longer in harmony with the faith and teachings of the universal Church. Cardinal Woelki @Synod_va @Pontifex https://t.co/Yh1Of9zmPW My great concern is that there is currently a" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017957319494021408) 2026-02-01T13:44Z 42K followers, 11.6K engagements "@MarianSekerak @grok My post refers to the revival of liberal Protestant influence in the Catholic Church" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017987216929128698) 2026-02-01T15:43Z 42K followers, [---] engagements "Honestly Chris you cant keep turning Pope Leo into an anti-Trump culture warrior while leaving out inconvenient stuff and expect to be taken seriously. Is this the third time a papal condemnation of abortion is (unless Ive overlooked it) missing from your posts Pope Leo quoting Mother Teresa describes abortion as the worldsgreatest destroyer of peace. Yet again I cant find @christopherhales reference to it. My fault or another Letter from Leo lost in the post Pope Leo quoting Mother Teresa describes abortion as the worldsgreatest destroyer of peace. Yet again I cant find @christopherhales" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018108516263772220) 2026-02-01T23:45Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "I much prefer Mgr Wilson (unusual these days but not incorrect) to Archbishop John clerical title plus Christian name is a ghastly formula though so ubiquitous that Im often forced to use it. @holysmoke @ALucieSmith Superb discussion but why did the (otherwise excellent) Fr ALS insist on referring to Mgr Moth and Mgr Wilson instead of Bishop Moth and Archbishop Wilson Its E&W after all not Italy. @holysmoke @ALucieSmith Superb discussion but why did the (otherwise excellent) Fr ALS insist on referring to Mgr Moth and Mgr Wilson instead of Bishop Moth and Archbishop Wilson Its E&W after all" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018248437083357341) 2026-02-02T09:01Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Can you guess who this is" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018257959550165406) 2026-02-02T09:39Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "The wording of this post is so sneaky. No accident that he says Latin Mass Trads rather than the more accurate and economical SSPX. Latin Mass Trads are going to ordain their own bishops because Pope Leo did not give them what they want. Schismatics gonna Schism. This mentality is endemic to the Latin Mass Trad mentality indeed it is at the core. I am not sure how we could ever expect a different outcome. Latin Mass Trads are going to ordain their own bishops because Pope Leo did not give them what they want. Schismatics gonna Schism. This mentality is endemic to the Latin Mass Trad mentality" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018411979463877045) 2026-02-02T19:51Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Fair point It would be difficult to see how the Holy See would impose any canonical sanctions on the SSPX given the fact that they have not done so in a comparable manner in China where the Communist government has repeatedly proceeded with episcopal ordinations without prior papal It would be difficult to see how the Holy See would impose any canonical sanctions on the SSPX given the fact that they have not done so in a comparable manner in China where the Communist government has repeatedly proceeded with episcopal ordinations without prior papal" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018412114390430124) 2026-02-02T19:52Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Loving Barrons casual look Ironic that Pope Leo such a meticulously dressed pope also wore lay clothes off duty right up until his election. Friends John Ringlings estate here in Sarasota Florida is really something. I was struck particularly by a painting of seven saintly defenders of the Eucharistincluding my great hero St. Thomas Aquinas https://t.co/CruGlULqPp Friends John Ringlings estate here in Sarasota Florida is really something. I was struck particularly by a painting of seven saintly defenders of the Eucharistincluding my great hero St. Thomas Aquinas https://t.co/CruGlULqPp" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018413213948273143) 2026-02-02T19:56Z 42K followers, 11.4K engagements "Still stands but I agree it has not aged well. Whats that supposed to mean Boulton once impartial now as overtly partisan as the News Agents is predictably now trying to deflect attention from Mandelson to Trump. Still stands but I agree it has not aged well. Still stands but I agree it has not aged well" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018657199883694521) 2026-02-03T12:05Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Really Mandelson remains a peer even after stepping down from the House of Lords. The lefty media elite really want this story to go away. No legislation needed. Mandelson has stepped down from the Lords No legislation needed. Mandelson has stepped down from the Lords" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018731659391324519) 2026-02-03T17:01Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Bolton desperately spinning for Starmer 💥Julia Hartley-Brewer and Adam Boulton's explosive clash over Peter Mandelson. Adam: "You are just being self-righteous." JHB: "He's a nasty piece of work a proven liar best mates with a paedophile and you're happy to be mates with him" @JuliaHB1 https://t.co/mCJnG4Xn9n 💥Julia Hartley-Brewer and Adam Boulton's explosive clash over Peter Mandelson. Adam: "You are just being self-righteous." JHB: "He's a nasty piece of work a proven liar best mates with a paedophile and you're happy to be mates with him" @JuliaHB1 https://t.co/mCJnG4Xn9n" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019028085509890228) 2026-02-04T12:39Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Bishop Varden supports the right of young people to attend the Traditional Latin Mass👇 NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and spiritual writings The retreat is to be held in the Pauline Chapel not the Redemptoris Mater chapel w the Rupnik art https://t.co/kMAnXIyO7o NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and spiritual writings The retreat is to be held in the" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019041444867330525) 2026-02-04T13:32Z 42.1K followers, 12.1K engagements "A lovely tribute to a lovely men. Alex mentions his fathers occasional lost weekends. I was privileged to get lost with him on a couple of them. We both gave up the booze in the mid 1990s but never forgot the rapture of discovering a Soho bar that would serve us at two in the morning. Allan Massie 1938-2026 https://t.co/z28XYfaV4K https://t.co/cfPEhDg89z Allan Massie 1938-2026 https://t.co/z28XYfaV4K https://t.co/cfPEhDg89z" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019097234109796590) 2026-02-04T17:14Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "@ClarkeMicah I dont describe you as pompous because you speak in formal sentences. I call you pompous because you are" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019343404908380331) 2026-02-05T09:32Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Genius. After such ludicrous drivel in The Times what a pleasure to read this. This is how you write an opening paragraph https://t.co/sIqbEIYqh5 After such ludicrous drivel in The Times what a pleasure to read this. This is how you write an opening paragraph https://t.co/sIqbEIYqh5" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019352073368723515) 2026-02-05T10:07Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "It seems completely unreasonable that Fr Pagliarini has not been granted a meeting with the Pope. JUST IN: In a new in-depth interview with SSPX Superior General Fr. Davide Pagliarani he says the consecration of bishops has become a matter of grave necessity citing what he describes as an effort to preserve the doctrinal emptiness characteristic of Pope Francis https://t.co/N5dHF4HJW8 JUST IN: In a new in-depth interview with SSPX Superior General Fr. Davide Pagliarani he says the consecration of bishops has become a matter of grave necessity citing what he describes as an effort to preserve" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019412211463319945) 2026-02-05T14:06Z 42.1K followers, 29.2K engagements "This disgusting post hails as a giant a man who tried to keep the child abuser Fr Julio Grassi out of jail and protected convicted abuser Bishop Zanchetta and suspected multiple rapist Fr Marko Rupnik. Pope Francis emerges as a giant from the Epstein Files: a person whom Epstein Bannon and their allies strongly despised and plotted to overthrow.May his soul be blessed forever. He was a light in these times of darkness. Pope Francis emerges as a giant from the Epstein Files: a person whom Epstein Bannon and their allies strongly despised and plotted to overthrow.May his soul be blessed" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019689024592703662) 2026-02-06T08:26Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Keir Starmer may lose his job because he knew about Mandelsons friendship with Epstein and promoted him. But Pope Franciss record of shielding and protecting sex abusers (including at least one paedophile) and their allies was FAR worse. Francis was a pope not a mere PM however and was able to use his power as an absolute monarch plus the services of lying Catholic commentators to save himself from the public disgrace he deserved. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019706167597932803 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019706167597932803" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019706167597932803) 2026-02-06T09:34Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Lets hope Pope Leo makes Archbishop Shevchuk a cardinal passing him over was one of Franciss petty snubs. This morning the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV received in audience His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych (Ukraine). https://t.co/Y91S7sYmby This morning the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV received in audience His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych (Ukraine). https://t.co/Y91S7sYmby" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021916266752073758) 2026-02-12T11:56Z 42.1K followers, 12.9K engagements "Typically good read but no serious evidence of revival or even recovery to pre-pandemic levels of Mass attendance. Bishop Richard Moth will be installed as the 12th Archbishop of Westminster tomorrow. What is the state of the Catholic Church in England and Wales on the eve of his installation 🏴🏴: https://t.co/ie4GjIhdIp https://t.co/ZHLIGTXSKG Bishop Richard Moth will be installed as the 12th Archbishop of Westminster tomorrow. What is the state of the Catholic Church in England and Wales on the eve of his installation 🏴🏴: https://t.co/ie4GjIhdIp https://t.co/ZHLIGTXSKG" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022260913726771267) 2026-02-13T10:45Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "The information is here from Xs own Grok: People put a full stop (period dot) in front of a Twitter/X handle like .@username instead of just @username mainly due to an old platform behavior that changed years ago. Historically (pre-2016/2017 era): If a tweet started with @ (meaning the very first character was @username) Twitter treated it as a reply or conversational tweet. This made it less visible: It appeared in the timelines of: The person mentioned (@username) Mutual followers (people who followed both you and the @username) It didnt show up in the main timelines of your other followers" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022282773436776690) 2026-02-13T12:12Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "We are witnessing one final massive push by the anti-Brexit establishment including civil servants at the highest level to reverse the referendum result of [----]. They have almost limitless resources at their disposal" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1058304501566898177) 2018-11-02T10:27Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "No pope for centuries has done more damage to the Catholic Church than Francis" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1187792790157172739) 2019-10-25T18:07Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "Just once more before the year ends" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1212051367927390209) 2019-12-31T16:42Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Cardinal Zen reveals some of the creepy details of the Vatican-China deal. Cardinal Zen: 'Parolin manipulates the pope' and Vatican's China policy is 'immoral' https://t.co/jqe7wt96iS via @cnalive Cardinal Zen: 'Parolin manipulates the pope' and Vatican's China policy is 'immoral' https://t.co/jqe7wt96iS via @cnalive" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1241407121780084736) 2020-03-21T16:51Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Sources in Rome tell me that the formidable Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali former Anglican Bishop of Rochester has become a Catholic and will be ordained a priest of the Ordinariate later this month" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1448471042641510400) 2021-10-14T02:09Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "Rest in peace my beautiful sister Carmel who died a few hours ago fortified by the love of her friends her Catholic faith and her own astonishing courage" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1463329460879609860) 2021-11-24T02:11Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "What a joy to talk to one of my heroes this evening. I thought Id never meet him again. Let me assure you: this is not a broken man - far from it - and his mission continues" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1470108837571178502) 2021-12-12T19:10Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "Why the Tories should back the extraordinary @KemiBadenoch. Me for @spectator online: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-tories-should-gamble-on-kemi-badenoch https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-tories-should-gamble-on-kemi-badenoch" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1545761906014699527) 2022-07-09T13:28Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "There is something happening here. The power of the TLM to move young people is something I could never have foreseen. It must be fully harnessed in a gigantic campaign to rescue the ancient liturgy. We did not have "#ShiaLaBeouf becoming Catholic thanks to celebrating the Latin Mass in a movie role as Padre Pio" on our [----] Bingo card but we are moved and touched by it. Deo gratias and welcome Shia https://t.co/q0HSczUV1v We did not have "#ShiaLaBeouf becoming Catholic thanks to celebrating the Latin Mass in a movie role as Padre Pio" on our [----] Bingo card but we are moved and touched by" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1562986421203320834) 2022-08-26T02:12Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "We have lost one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the 20th century who offered the Catholic Church a radiantly beautiful vision of its future. Unfortunately it is necessary to fight to preserve the legacy of this great pope. So let us do so" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1609127063004356608) 2022-12-31T09:59Z 42.1K followers, 50.5K engagements "He did no such thing. The girl was not morally responsible was NOT excommunicated would NEVER be excommunicated under any circumstances. Your tweet is spreading a despicable lie. Never forget that #PopeBenedictXVI excommunicated a 9-year old child for having a life-saving abortion after her stepfather raped her and impregnated her with twins.Excommunicated her mother too. Guess who he didn't excommunicate The rapist stepfather. https://t.co/TZIwwOdPPU https://t.co/BnfRdf8vfQ Never forget that #PopeBenedictXVI excommunicated a 9-year old child for having a life-saving abortion after her" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1609538373403680768) 2023-01-01T13:13Z 42.1K followers, 108.8K engagements "This is terrible news. Cardinal Pell a hero of the Church and a true friend has died.He endured unbelievable suffering as the victim of a malicious plot. May God rest his soul and forgive his lying despicable persecutors" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1612940487685545994) 2023-01-10T22:32Z 42.1K followers, 114.5K engagements "Bombshell from Cardinal Pell written for the @spectator just before he died: an attack on the 'toxic nightmare' on the 'neo-Marxist' Synod on Synodality which he said sidelined Christ and was rigged by organisers: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-catholic-church-must-free-itself-from-this-toxic-nightmare/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-catholic-church-must-free-itself-from-this-toxic-nightmare/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1613168326515073024) 2023-01-11T13:37Z 42.1K followers, 85.3K engagements "Strickland is kicked out of his see while Uncle Teds lying collaborators receive cardinals hats Chinese Communist Party thugs are embraced as bishops and a rapist enjoys papal protection. Its the desperate act of a Latin American dictator whose time is thankfully running out" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1723366118511837384) 2023-11-11T15:44Z 42.1K followers, 34.5K engagements "This is an intensely moving photograph" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1726057432835555581) 2023-11-19T01:58Z 42.1K followers, 32.8K engagements "Here is the statement I've been shown by the British Confraternity of Catholic Clergy which consists of more than [---] priests and deacons in England Scotland and Wales. My emphasis at the bottom:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1737685006712025197) 2023-12-21T04:02Z 42.1K followers, 127.7K engagements "How wonderful to find a church in Rome not defaced by a piece of IKEA furniture in the sanctuary. SS Trinit de Pellegrini thriving as a parish of the FSSP:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1768584023821992375) 2024-03-15T10:24Z 42.1K followers, 15.2K engagements "I was there. My favourite memory is the fury of the BBC correspondent. VATICAN On this day [--] years ago ecstasy and joy in St. Peter's Square as Cardinal Ratzinger was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI https://t.co/ttQ4ipBXFb VATICAN On this day [--] years ago ecstasy and joy in St. Peter's Square as Cardinal Ratzinger was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI https://t.co/ttQ4ipBXFb" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1781306173976641759) 2024-04-19T12:57Z 42.1K followers, 76.5K engagements "Shes been received by the priest who ministered selflessly to my dying sister and if you say ONE WORD to attack him I will go nuclear. Candace Owens has become a Catholic because of course. Candace Owens has become a Catholic because of course" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1782732355225924016) 2024-04-23T11:24Z 42.1K followers, 40.6K engagements "As we speak Cardinal Mller is celebrating a Tridentine Requiem for Traditionis Custodes in Chartres Cathedral" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1792555060750061912) 2024-05-20T13:56Z 42.1K followers, 38.7K engagements "Thread: Famous names including Bianca Jagger Lord Lloyd-Webber Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Princess Michael of Kent Sir Andras Schiff Tom Holland Lady Antonia Fraser and many others appeal to the Vatican to save the Traditional Latin Mass in a letter to the Times tomorrow" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1808248505859035534) 2024-07-02T21:16Z 42.1K followers, 450.2K engagements "Defenders of the Traditional Latin Mass in today's Times: not the usual suspects" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1808292829057184139) 2024-07-03T00:13Z 42.1K followers, 46.7K engagements "After #listening to the faithful @Synod_va hastily pressed the delete button 🤣" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1816831782894842345) 2024-07-26T13:43Z 42.1K followers, 60.5K engagements "Cardinal Robert McElroy was told in detail about Theodore McCarricks predatory activities and said nothing publicly. His appointment to Washington is a disgrace. Me in this weeks Spectator:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1882722912811311490) 2025-01-24T09:31Z 42.1K followers, 45.5K engagements "Cardinal Parolin is campaigning hard to be the next pope. That alarming prospect should worry all Catholics. My piece from this weeks Spectator:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1902639895862022491) 2025-03-20T08:34Z 42.1K followers, 81.9K engagements "Yesterday I attended a beautifully reverent Traditional Latin Mass attended by many young people. Let us pray that its persecution will now end and that it will be restored to the place of honour established for it by Pope Benedict" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1914250915550199846) 2025-04-21T09:32Z 42.1K followers, 20.3K engagements "The thing I most disliked about Pope Francis was his protection of sex abusers. Tell me how the Gospel inspired his support for the predators Grassi Zanchetta and Rupnik. The critics of Pope Francis ran into a problem: The things they disliked about the pope were the things about which he was most in line with the Gospel. https://t.co/8jpu7ASiGT The critics of Pope Francis ran into a problem: The things they disliked about the pope were the things about which he was most in line with the Gospel. https://t.co/8jpu7ASiGT" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1915729828428304405) 2025-04-25T11:29Z 42.1K followers, 34.2K engagements "The Parolin campaign is putting it about that it already has [--] votes sewn up. Such relentless lobbying on behalf of a candidate could easily backfire" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1917320610331402530) 2025-04-29T20:50Z 42.1K followers, 82K engagements "Im sick of this hagiography. Francis did not take up the cry of the violated nuns who begged him to prosecute Rupnik. Instead of alleviating the pain of Zanchettas and Grassis victims he tried to shelter both priests from justice. All three abusers are still in Holy Orders. "Pope Francis has taught us to take up the cry of violated life to take it up and present it to the Father but also to work to concretely alleviate the pain that arouses this cry" Cardinal Gugerotti said at a memorial Mass for the late pope. https://t.co/GMxKxEdbwp "Pope Francis has taught us to take up the cry of violated" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1918612548313579756) 2025-05-03T10:24Z 42.1K followers, 36.5K engagements "REVEALED: How the People's Pope shielded sexual predators in the clergy - including one priest accused of violently raping nuns. @MailOnline and tomorrows Mail on Sunday. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14675793/Peoples-Pope-shielded-sexual-predators-clergy-priest-accused-violently-raping-nuns.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14675793/Peoples-Pope-shielded-sexual-predators-clergy-priest-accused-violently-raping-nuns.html" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1918799930673582351) 2025-05-03T22:48Z 42.1K followers, 542.4K engagements "This is the *first* MSM investigation into Pope Franciss despicable shielding of obscene abusers around the world. Im so grateful to the Mail for having the courage to publish the truth. REVEALED: How the People's Pope shielded sexual predators in the clergy - including one priest accused of violently raping nuns. @MailOnline and tomorrows Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/xuwT6lxN8i https://t.co/rquyya85EB REVEALED: How the People's Pope shielded sexual predators in the clergy - including one priest accused of violently raping nuns. @MailOnline and tomorrows Mail on Sunday." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1918800711497691220) 2025-05-03T22:51Z 42.1K followers, 50.9K engagements "Il cardinale Zen ha fatto un discorso esplosivo e coraggioso al #conclave: Lunit della Chiesa non si basa unicamente sullautorit del Papa ma sulla sua fedelt alla verit e alla missione ricevuta da Cristo. Ha denunciato laccordo con la Cina che ha tradito i cattolici. https://t.co/oleY99QR0U Il cardinale Zen ha fatto un discorso esplosivo e coraggioso al #conclave: Lunit della Chiesa non si basa unicamente sullautorit del Papa ma sulla sua fedelt alla verit e alla missione ricevuta da Cristo. Ha denunciato laccordo con la Cina che ha tradito i cattolici. https://t.co/oleY99QR0U" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1919399155266400389) 2025-05-05T14:29Z 42.1K followers, 30.5K engagements "If it was up to me this cardinal would be elected pope on the first ballot:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920029087436767270) 2025-05-07T08:13Z 42.1K followers, 147.6K engagements "Raising a glass in Rome to our new Holy Father Pope Leo. He may not have been my preferred candidate but Im waiting to be pleasantly surprised" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920557098812776853) 2025-05-08T19:11Z 42.1K followers, 34.8K engagements "I just spoke to influential traditionalists in Rome and they think Leo will be a vast improvement on Francis or (shudder) Parolin. The name the traditional robes an excellent homily today the new pope may not be conservative but he isnt a continuity candidate. There will never be a Francis II. As for the TLM one source said: Leo doesnt enjoy hurting people unlike Francis or Roche. The Church has a new Pope. Hes American. Augustinian. Leo XIV didnt rise without controversy. To some hes a sign of continuity To others of decline. Who is he And why did this choice divide so many Let me show" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920790953666732349) 2025-05-09T10:40Z 42.1K followers, 196.1K engagements "The TLM returns to the basilica where Pope Francis is buried: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/latin-mass-celebrated-in-roman-basilica-where-francis-is-buried/utm_source=twittercath https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/latin-mass-celebrated-in-roman-basilica-where-francis-is-buried/utm_source=twittercath" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920857476615766072) 2025-05-09T15:04Z 42.1K followers, 42.6K engagements "An excellent source tells me the same thing. If true this is astonishing and wonderful news. BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm that Pope Leo XIV privately celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass for years even inside the Vatican with special indult from Pope Francis. Also his Latin sounds perfectlyfluent and photos show him in traditional vestments. A new report https://t.co/mN4MUynkjg BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm that Pope Leo XIV privately celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass for years even inside the Vatican with special indult from Pope Francis. Also his Latin sounds perfectlyfluent" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920879532891894222) 2025-05-09T16:32Z 42.1K followers, 130.6K engagements "I wont say why but not all meetings with Cardinal Bergoglio were mutually agreeable. Fascinating. Pope Leo XIV then Bishop Robert Prevost back in [----] in Peru right before he was made Cardinal: Yesterday marked ten years since Pope Francis' election. I knew Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. As the Augustinian General I'd met him several https://t.co/KesYqPNUfb Pope Leo XIV then Bishop Robert Prevost back in [----] in Peru right before he was made Cardinal: Yesterday marked ten years since Pope Francis' election. I knew Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1921754389015839055) 2025-05-12T02:28Z 42.1K followers, 59.8K engagements "I have been re-reading the homily delivered by Pope Leo in the Sistine Chapel. Its passion and eloquence are breathtaking. Leo cannot and will not water down what he said. There can be no more indifferentism or blurring of boundaries with other faiths. The Pachamama has been exorcised" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922056618323153369) 2025-05-12T22:29Z 42.1K followers, 122.2K engagements "I went to a diocesan Tridentine Low Mass this morning: reverent beautiful restrained with an excellent non-political sermon and a congregation that apart from the womens mantillas and more young people was pretty much indistinguishable from any other. And I thought: how utterly fatuous bigoted and self-defeating that the last pontificate targeted Latin Masses in parish churches of all places. I pray that Pope Leo recognises the injustice done to good Catholics in less enlightened dioceses (such as Detroit). It is self-sabotage: ridiculous as well as cruel" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1924291223772168509) 2025-05-19T02:29Z 42.1K followers, 41.1K engagements "On an urgent mission to rescue their grandparents from the Synod on Synodality" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1925092777039130749) 2025-05-21T07:34Z 42.1K followers, 23.5K engagements "This is a deplorable escalation of the liturgy wars that are destroying the unity of the Church. Bishop Martin should be ashamed of himself. JUST IN: Bishop Michael Martin issues new restrictions on the traditional Mass in Diocese of Charlotte He authorizes only one location at an as yet un-named chapel and reduces frequency to [--] Sundays a month & on Holy Days. https://t.co/8lDxH5lZF8 JUST IN: Bishop Michael Martin issues new restrictions on the traditional Mass in Diocese of Charlotte He authorizes only one location at an as yet un-named chapel and reduces frequency to [--] Sundays a month & on" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1925933132521394453) 2025-05-23T15:13Z 42.1K followers, 34.9K engagements "Bishop Martins memo is a bombshell. He taunts traditionalist Catholics by demanding that they renew their commitment to the Church and suggests they need to do penance. Many US bishops will be appalled. Id be surprised if Pope Leo approves of such contemptuous language" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1927167758766059689) 2025-05-27T00:59Z 42.1K followers, 61.9K engagements "Bishop Martins fanatical actions have backfired spectacularly. The spectacle of a bishop twisting the knife with such relish has disgusted some of his episcopal colleagues and will not be welcomed in Rome. I suspect even Roche is torn between applauding Martins brutality and worrying about the consequences. As is their pastoral responsibility and canonical right the four pastors of the impacted parishes have written Charlotte Bishop Martin urging reconsideration of his restrictions against the Latin Mass. https://t.co/GFdjZ5Nlb6 https://t.co/WpJzgfaVFb As is their pastoral responsibility and" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1927704155168157831) 2025-05-28T12:31Z 42.1K followers, 27.7K engagements "This dictatorial document trashing much of the Churchs heritage already embraced by Pope Leo XIV should render Bishop Martins position in Charlotte untenable. Im not saying he will be removed but he should be immediately. Rorate Exclusive: The Anti-Traditional and Anti-Liturgical Pastoral Letter to be Sent by the Bishop of Charlotte on Liturgical Norms in His Diocese https://t.co/IMEIfHlOjg Rorate Exclusive: The Anti-Traditional and Anti-Liturgical Pastoral Letter to be Sent by the Bishop of Charlotte on Liturgical Norms in His Diocese https://t.co/IMEIfHlOjg" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1927755484431364581) 2025-05-28T15:54Z 42.1K followers, 29.5K engagements "He has become the most hated bishop in America and not just in traditionalist circles. Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has initiated a new chapter of confusion for the Catholic Church in America. https://t.co/EYrS9TWxse Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has initiated a new chapter of confusion for the Catholic Church in America. https://t.co/EYrS9TWxse" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1927794990421270721) 2025-05-28T18:31Z 42.1K followers, 100.6K engagements "I wonder if Pope Leos enthusiastic references to Pope Francis while sincere are also intended to keep liberals happy while he changes theological and liturgical direction. Leo XIV: marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total faithful and fruitful (cf. Humane Vitae 9). A correction of Amoris Laetitia For it in fact marriage was an ideal (no 122) and individual conscience paramount https://t.co/0CXPfkXpmQ Leo XIV: marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total faithful and fruitful" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1929447628044964110) 2025-06-02T07:58Z 42.1K followers, 70.2K engagements "Youth Mass 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1931784562008285447) 2025-06-08T18:45Z 42.1K followers, 13.6K engagements "Murderous bastards Jerome Mayhew MP (@JeromeMayhew) sums up today's debate: We've made a major change to the abortion law on the basis of no evidence session no committee stage scrutiny just [--] minutes of backbench debate and a government minister wind-up who refused to take any interventions. https://t.co/M9hIJf08Ky Jerome Mayhew MP (@JeromeMayhew) sums up today's debate: We've made a major change to the abortion law on the basis of no evidence session no committee stage scrutiny just [--] minutes of backbench debate and a government minister wind-up who refused to take any interventions." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1935069522664308768) 2025-06-17T20:18Z 42.1K followers, 14.1K engagements "I have never been more ashamed of my country The British House of Commons has just voted with a vast majority for the complete decriminalization of abortion up to birth in England and Wales. God have mercy. The British House of Commons has just voted with a vast majority for the complete decriminalization of abortion up to birth in England and Wales. God have mercy" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1935070432367153393) 2025-06-17T20:21Z 42.1K followers, 35.7K engagements "A colleague texts me: The government should issue a formal apology to Harold Shipman. He was just ahead of the curve. A pioneer really" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936098856065753516) 2025-06-20T16:28Z 42.1K followers, 48.2K engagements "This is highly significant. The greatest of living cardinals has just celebrated a TLM in a parish church. Let us pray that Pope Leo honours him by relaxing his predecessors cruel restrictions on the ancient Mass. The great Cardinal Zen: After celebrating the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) at Mary Help of Christians Parish in Hong Kong I led a Eucharistic procession The great Cardinal Zen: After celebrating the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) at Mary Help of Christians Parish in Hong Kong I led a Eucharistic procession" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936742271841382646) 2025-06-22T11:05Z 42.1K followers, 15.9K engagements "This wasnt my finest hour. I do admire Ed and I apologise. Catholic writer @holysmoke whose work Ive long admired and w/ whom Ive always been on good terms out of the blue DMs me to say hes blocking me because of my TDS (i.e. my defense of Catholic teaching on just war abortion IVF). It seems politics trumps faith and friendship https://t.co/OOTbf0Unju Catholic writer @holysmoke whose work Ive long admired and w/ whom Ive always been on good terms out of the blue DMs me to say hes blocking me because of my TDS (i.e. my defense of Catholic teaching on just war abortion IVF). It seems politics" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936900688652501228) 2025-06-22T21:34Z 42.1K followers, 70.6K engagements "He was a vicious murderer who would no doubt have found an excuse to do away with you. I love King Henry VIII for stopping the Papal religion taking hold in England. https://t.co/Ozv8A5dtFU I love King Henry VIII for stopping the Papal religion taking hold in England. https://t.co/Ozv8A5dtFU" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1939060736875225449) 2025-06-28T20:38Z 42.1K followers, 44.3K engagements "Wow. We suspected it and now we know. Traditionis Custodes was based on a flagrant lie. Well done @dianemontagna EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes. Previously undisclosed text raises serious questions about the stated rationale for Pope Francis decree restricting the TLM. My inaugural article on Substack: https://t.co/em3E9IVpJj https://t.co/ua0DG4S3K1 EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes. Previously undisclosed text raises serious questions about the stated rationale for Pope" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940053030826885415) 2025-07-01T14:21Z 42.1K followers, 101.6K engagements "New Holy Smoke: Time for Pope Leo to make some tough decisions. Start by getting rid of Tucho and liberating the Latin Mass. https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/its-time-for-pope-leo-xiv-to-make-some-tough-decisions/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/its-time-for-pope-leo-xiv-to-make-some-tough-decisions/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940082410936520971) 2025-07-01T16:17Z 42.1K followers, 98.5K engagements "We now know that Arthur Roche was up to his neck in a conspiracy to deceive faithful Catholics. His career has ended in disgrace" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940160978773012485) 2025-07-01T21:29Z 42.1K followers, 82.5K engagements "It seems possible today that a Catholic journalist may have brought about an end to the Churchs disastrous and we now know deliberately engineered liturgy wars. Shes called @dianemontagna and we are all in her debt" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940191413012242555) 2025-07-01T23:30Z 42.1K followers, 52.8K engagements "The popesplainers dont have a clue how to respond to the revelation of Franciss deceit. Look at @poperespecter1 flailing around helplessly 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940330297385750936) 2025-07-02T08:42Z 42.1K followers, 26.4K engagements "A DM from a priest friend. Good point I think" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940397596113277386) 2025-07-02T13:10Z 42.1K followers, 29.6K engagements "Cardinal Pell said of Pope Francis: It costs a lot of money to be that humble. @holysmoke The appearance of poverty is often quite costly. @holysmoke The appearance of poverty is often quite costly" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940745387905880366) 2025-07-03T12:12Z 42.1K followers, 46.7K engagements "Montagna's is a Vatican Watergate the late Pope lied to justify his decision to limit TLM celebrations. This shatters the image of a pontificate centred on proclamations of synodality and collegiality. @nicospuntoni gets it right: https://newdailycompass.com/en/the-uncomfortable-question-about-the-latin-mass-sends-bruni-into-a-tailspin https://newdailycompass.com/en/the-uncomfortable-question-about-the-latin-mass-sends-bruni-into-a-tailspin" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1941058755803971843) 2025-07-04T08:57Z 42.1K followers, 27.9K engagements "Pope Leo really is a wonderful communicator perhaps the most gifted of all recent popes in this respect. Pope Leo's soft voice in english 🥹😭 "We have our ears flooded constantly with all kinds of digital inputs but sometimes we forget to listen to our own hearts. And it's in our hearts that God speaks to us." https://t.co/DgF1te44Ps Pope Leo's soft voice in english 🥹😭 "We have our ears flooded constantly with all kinds of digital inputs but sometimes we forget to listen to our own hearts. And it's in our hearts that God speaks to us." https://t.co/DgF1te44Ps" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1941579526494093496) 2025-07-05T19:26Z 42.1K followers, 40.3K engagements "This is a tremendous tribute to Cardinal Burke by the Pope. Note Leos emphasis on Burkes legal expertise. Canon law lies in ruins and the Pope knows it. Also the cardinal is a profoundly holy man. Even if you dont agree with his views that should be obvious. NEW: Pope Leo has written to congratulate Cardinal Burke on his 50th ordination anniversary & thank him for his service to the Church @Pontifex thanks Burke for the earnest care he has demonstrated most especially for the law which has also been of good service to the https://t.co/VvbShS0jqJ NEW: Pope Leo has written to congratulate" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1942742056712970597) 2025-07-09T00:26Z 42.1K followers, 31K engagements "The banning of private Masses in St Peters was one of the many incomprehensible acts of the last pontificate. Surely Pope Leo will reverse a measure that caused so much pain to priests. . ✝ At dawn in Fontgombault Abbey Benedictine monks offer private Masses at side altars. . https://t.co/TQJAHQyYh6 . ✝ At dawn in Fontgombault Abbey Benedictine monks offer private Masses at side altars. . https://t.co/TQJAHQyYh6" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948357357777358920) 2025-07-24T12:19Z 42.1K followers, 45.6K engagements "This is breathtaking. Bravo Holy Father Buona sera buenas tardes good evening. Pope Leo XIV greeting over [------] young people gathered in St. Peters Square this evening telling them in English: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of world. https://t.co/YP8TAXTmpC Buona sera buenas tardes good evening. Pope Leo XIV greeting over [------] young people gathered in St. Peters Square this evening telling them in English: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of world. https://t.co/YP8TAXTmpC" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1950302132436947175) 2025-07-29T21:07Z 42.1K followers, 26.1K engagements "Now that Pope Leo has declared St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church surely its time to sweep away restrictions on the Mass that Newman himself celebrated" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1950872719169290391) 2025-07-31T10:54Z 42.1K followers, 21.3K engagements "This is extraordinary. One of the most admired cardinals in the Church praises Cardinal Burke for humbly enduring a humiliation that though Eijk does not say so was inflicted on him by Pope Francis. Dutch Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk of Utrecht has warmly commended Cardinal Raymond Burke for how he has endured criticism from some inside the Church who have attacked him for proclaiming the fullness of the Catholic faith. Cardinal Ejik was preaching at a July [--] Mass to mark https://t.co/UWpiTwj31t Dutch Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk of Utrecht has warmly commended Cardinal Raymond Burke for how" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1951773120672710666) 2025-08-02T22:32Z 42.1K followers, 52.1K engagements "Fascinating. Pope Leo finds himself behind an altar without a prominent crucifix the sort of omission one associates with liberal masters of ceremonies. Cardinal Zen then reminds us that Pope Benedict requested that all priests celebrate Mass in front of a clearly visible central crucifix ie one standing vertically rather than lying flat on the altar which is the miserable compromise favoured by liberals including the notorious Bishop Martin of Charlotte NC. Cardinal Zen is clearly not criticising the Pope who has apparently been let down in this matter. But his words highlight just how far" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1951935241922244740) 2025-08-03T09:16Z 42.1K followers, 50.3K engagements "The cardinals really were guided by the Holy Spirit when they chose our new Holy Father. Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears at the Consecration at Mass this morning in Castel Gandolfo. https://t.co/xJvbFxf01T Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears at the Consecration at Mass this morning in Castel Gandolfo. https://t.co/xJvbFxf01T" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1956377444853985415) 2025-08-15T15:28Z 42.1K followers, 112.4K engagements "I doubt it. This is a massive PR disaster for the publicity-obsessed Fr Martin one he brought on himself. Dear @Pontifex: Women cannot enter St. Peter's with bare shoulders but hand-holding males with F*CK THE RULES knapsacks are welcomed. I can almost hear @JamesMartinSJ cackling from here. https://t.co/0Amgr2LE3t Dear @Pontifex: Women cannot enter St. Peter's with bare shoulders but hand-holding males with F*CK THE RULES knapsacks are welcomed. I can almost hear @JamesMartinSJ cackling from here. https://t.co/0Amgr2LE3t" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1964423860624712119) 2025-09-06T20:22Z 42.1K followers, 42.8K engagements "I have decided to mark the raising of St Carlo Acutis to the altars by apologising to @jdflynn for my repeated cheap and mean-spirited attacks on him. We may not be on the same wavelength but he does far more good than harm is an outstanding family man and together with @canonlawyered and my dear friend @LukeCoppen runs the most important news website in the Catholic world. Ill be renewing my subscription to @PillarCatholic today" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1964612842096672781) 2025-09-07T08:52Z 42.1K followers, 34.9K engagements "The Tridentine Mass returns to St Peters. This is big news. JUST IN: Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass in the Old Rite in St. Peters Basilica during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome this October [----]. The Mass will be offered at the Altar of the Chair on Saturday October 25: https://t.co/RoGCedb14x https://t.co/aoM5m6kUEs JUST IN: Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass in the Old Rite in St. Peters Basilica during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome this October [----]. The Mass will be offered at the Altar of the Chair on" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1964799139042164753) 2025-09-07T21:13Z 42.1K followers, 49K engagements "What a shame that a Pope who grew up in the same city as Charlie didnt say this. Friends let us remember Charlie Kirkas a kind of apostle of civil discourse but above all as a man who loved Jesus Christ. https://t.co/wetPaswIxQ Friends let us remember Charlie Kirkas a kind of apostle of civil discourse but above all as a man who loved Jesus Christ. https://t.co/wetPaswIxQ" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966618404950851737) 2025-09-12T21:42Z 42.1K followers, 25.4K engagements "Arent you sick of this shit JUST IN: Hip hop concert at the Vatican tonight. US band Clipse performs with pop singer Pharrell Williams & John Legend St Peters Square turned into a concert venue tonight https://t.co/ix6wvdn3lT JUST IN: Hip hop concert at the Vatican tonight. US band Clipse performs with pop singer Pharrell Williams & John Legend St Peters Square turned into a concert venue tonight https://t.co/ix6wvdn3lT" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966984186256080994) 2025-09-13T21:55Z 42.1K followers, 84.6K engagements "Archbishop Cordileone is a giant among bishops not just morally impregnable but an evangelical pioneer and as a patron of sacred art a creative force of revived orthodoxy. I stand in solidarity with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield Illinois in urging Cardinal Cupich to reconsider giving Senator Durbin a Lifetime Achievement Award through the Archdiocese of Chicagos Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity given his long record of supporting I stand in solidarity with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield Illinois in urging Cardinal Cupich to reconsider giving Senator Durbin a Lifetime" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1970270685399494815) 2025-09-22T23:35Z 42.1K followers, 22.4K engagements "Tridentine Mass is already back in St Peters Basilica in the week it is being expelled from Charlotte NC parishes. BREAKING: a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form was offered today for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel at the altar of St. Michael in St. Peter's Basilica. The first time in years that a TLM has been offered here. (📸: Peter Carter on FB.) https://t.co/jHvcfeIDGK BREAKING: a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form was offered today for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel at the altar of St. Michael in St. Peter's Basilica. The first time in years that a TLM has" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972639065326440703) 2025-09-29T12:26Z 42.1K followers, 35.6K engagements "Pope Leo has told several people that he was elected to bring peace to the Church. It pains me to say that today that prospect seems as elusive as ever" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973132353573966018) 2025-09-30T21:06Z 42.1K followers, 43.2K engagements "This article is so desperately unfair to Abp Longley who was roped into various LGBT listening exercises but advocates chastity for gay Catholics is doctrinally and politically one of the more conservative English prelates and a much-loved friend to traditionalist Catholics. Pope Leo XIV raises pro-LGBT UK archbishop to key Vatican roles https://t.co/ONYgXoIQ3W Pope Leo XIV raises pro-LGBT UK archbishop to key Vatican roles https://t.co/ONYgXoIQ3W" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1974212836495675760) 2025-10-03T20:39Z 42.1K followers, 57.4K engagements "Thank God this wretched man never became pope. How dare he betray Nigerias Christian martyrs in this fashion. Speaking at the Aid to the Church in Need's Religious Freedom Report Pietro Cardinal Parolin says that the violence against Christians in Nigeria is "not a religious conflict of Muslim against Christians but rather more a social one for example disputes between herders and https://t.co/VZCR5RWvvm Speaking at the Aid to the Church in Need's Religious Freedom Report Pietro Cardinal Parolin says that the violence against Christians in Nigeria is "not a religious conflict of Muslim" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980643800478531729) 2025-10-21T14:34Z 42.1K followers, 50.1K engagements "Im in Rome. The streets are full of joyful traditional Catholics. No doubt the Bergoglian old guard will try to stop the Pope from witnessing these extraordinary scenes. Latin Mass pilgrimage to the Vatican happening now Scores of clergy and seminarians leads hundreds of faithful on procession @PerMariam https://t.co/mfB8eohMkx Latin Mass pilgrimage to the Vatican happening now Scores of clergy and seminarians leads hundreds of faithful on procession @PerMariam https://t.co/mfB8eohMkx" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982043807609733611) 2025-10-25T11:17Z 42.1K followers, 30.3K engagements "Its happening St Peters welcomes back the liturgy for which it was built" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1982077632603668610) 2025-10-25T13:31Z 42.1K followers, 59.1K engagements "Standing room only in the section of St Peters set aside for the solemn Tridentine Mass celebrated by Cardinal Burke" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982081242410471550) 2025-10-25T13:46Z 42.1K followers, 15.2K engagements "Cardinal Burke now giving thanks for all the souls who found Christ down the centuries thanks to the usus antiquior" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982084809502404931) 2025-10-25T14:00Z 42.1K followers, 13.1K engagements "You know its the ancient rite when the priests arent ancient" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982091255757643941) 2025-10-25T14:25Z 42.1K followers, 54.1K engagements "Cardinal Ernest Simoni [--] hero of the viciously persecuted Albanian Catholic Church recites the prayer to St Michael:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982103818486907266) 2025-10-25T15:15Z 42.1K followers, 503.3K engagements "Heres a take that will lose me followers. Catholic liberals did not in fact get what they wanted from Francis: no married priests no women deacons and a provision for gay blessings so catastrophically mishandled that Francis basically nuked it. (That isnt to say that blessings of same-sex relationships dont happen in contravention of Church teaching but they already did when JPII and Benedict were in office.) Francis even de-fanged the synod by removing the participants right to vote on hot-button issues much to the fury of hardline synodistas. And most of you unlike me arent old enough to" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982872616458432637) 2025-10-27T18:10Z 42.1K followers, 34.9K engagements "Strange analogy. Basil Hume wasnt even a bishop when he was appointed so hadnt spent years in the magic circle. He had a certain charisma which Moth doesnt. The latter has been on every shortlist as a dull possibility. No one is keen though theres general relief it wont be Hudson. This would be the Cardinal Basil Hume of unexpected but wouldn't be a bad shot This would be the Cardinal Basil Hume of unexpected but wouldn't be a bad shot" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1988152526512763018) 2025-11-11T07:51Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "It begins: This is exquisite - An Open Letter to the Bishop of Charlotte: "Bishop Martin it is men like you who strongly imply that the Protestants had it right." https://t.co/RWRQvF2oA7 This is exquisite - An Open Letter to the Bishop of Charlotte: "Bishop Martin it is men like you who strongly imply that the Protestants had it right." https://t.co/RWRQvF2oA7" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988767672570638423) 2025-11-13T00:35Z 42.1K followers, 76.1K engagements "Reports that Pope Leo will grant a Latin Mass extension to any bishop of England and Wales who asks for one. Nuncio has informed the bishops several of whom have already secured permission for Tridentine Masses in their dioceses. So it seems that any incoming Archbishop of Westminster will continue Cardinal Nicholss enlightened policy and the TLM is likewise safe in Southwark" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989067003215138961) 2025-11-13T20:25Z 42.1K followers, 72.6K engagements "Leo didnt say what Hale hoped and predicted he would say. So hes grasping at straws. NEW: The United States Ambassador to the Holy See is appearing to undermine Pope Leo XIVs stance on Venezuelan independence. This has never happened in the history of official US-Holy See diplomatic relations. NEW: The United States Ambassador to the Holy See is appearing to undermine Pope Leo XIVs stance on Venezuelan independence. This has never happened in the history of official US-Holy See diplomatic relations" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2008242652043727193) 2026-01-05T18:22Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "The distance between Rome and the SSPX has just increased enormously. These will be illicit consecrations and may cause some non-SSPX traditionalists to question their attendance at the Societys Masses. Does it increase pressure on Pope Leo to end the persecution of traditionalists loyal to him I think it may. Gosh I didn't think I would see the day but after years and years of rumour it seems it is finally happening. Today the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X announced the consecration of new bishops for the Society. https://t.co/yjTCXYVsPs Gosh I didn't think I would see the" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018310299854455293) 2026-02-02T13:07Z 42.1K followers, 23.6K engagements "Im sorry but I dont think Catholics on either side of the debate should be guided by a priest who *still* belongs to the Legionaries of Christ founded by one of the most disgusting abusers in Church history. Pope Leo should disband it immediately. If you follow a bishop in schism you too are in schism. This has been how we understand a random Orthodox believer is in schism. It would also apply to people choosing to follow schismatic "Catholic" bishops who choose to consecrate bishops against the Pope's request. If you follow a bishop in schism you too are in schism. This has been how we" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2018629487852998832) 2026-02-03T10:15Z 42.1K followers, 27.1K engagements "Dont see it myself but heres a photo of Liberace with Pope Pius XII. @holysmoke Hicks reminds me of an ecclesiastical Liberace. @holysmoke Hicks reminds me of an ecclesiastical Liberace" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020169920353575064) 2026-02-07T16:16Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "@AndyDrozdziak Pope Francis was nothing of the sort. How much do you know about the Zanchetta and Grassi scandals" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020516863923363998) 2026-02-08T15:15Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "We are talking about the same man I trust The guy who spent large sums of money trying to keep child abuser Fr Grassi out of jail; who created a top Vatican financial job for Bishop Zanchetta when he was already charged with abuse (later convicted); who refused to act against suspected serial rapist Fr Rupnik until after his plan to reintroduce him to parish life was revealed (and never did take action nor explain his sinister lifting of Rupniks excommunication). And this is to say nothing of the savage divisions over the Latin Mass and sexuality that he exacerbated. If your opinion is that" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020519717900108220) 2026-02-08T15:26Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "Im not going to agree to disagree having read court reports of Zanchettas abuse and corruption and the extraordinary lengths to which Francis went to keep him out of court. Also Im familiar with Cardinal Bergoglios outrageous attempts to smear the child victims of Grassi and you can see for yourself on YouTube the moment when Francis as pope lied on camera about his involvement with Grassi. Merciful Tell that to the women who claim that they were raped by Rupnik whose criminal and sacrilegious behaviour was well known to Francis when he tried to rehabilitate him having previously cancelled" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020535915421065617) 2026-02-08T16:31Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "He goes to a tailor (probably Anderson & Shepherd) who make overcoats intended to last at least [--] years. But Im guessing one of these would set you back a minimum of [----] today. The King of Britain is still wearing a coat he has had for [--] years. What does this indicate https://t.co/d0yrBm8joQ The King of Britain is still wearing a coat he has had for [--] years. What does this indicate https://t.co/d0yrBm8joQ" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020788047361577423) 2026-02-09T09:13Z 42.1K followers, 13.8K engagements "This is the purest fantasy wedded to what appears to be a crude misconception of Webers Protestant Ethic thesis. Capitalism is simply a perverted form of Christianity. (Calvinist Neo-scholastic Jansenist.) If we overthrow it and restore Christendom in a new more egalitarian mode we can then have a better and more respectful exchange with other ancient religious civilisations. Capitalism is simply a perverted form of Christianity. (Calvinist Neo-scholastic Jansenist.) If we overthrow it and restore Christendom in a new more egalitarian mode we can then have a better and more respectful" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021141080188539021) 2026-02-10T08:35Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Synodal lobby thought they were on course for women deacons and formal gay blessings. Francis teased them then withdrew support and theyre not happening under Pope Leo. So they are *desperate* to see the TLM suppressed. Perhaps it was always their top priority since they find hurting their enemies more psychologically satisfying than helping their friends. (They are not alone in this to be fair.) Fr. Reese AND Rita Ferrone targeting the TLM in recent weeks This is not unprecedented but it does make wonder if theyre afraid of something happening in the short term. Fr. Reese AND Rita" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021152965810122922) 2026-02-10T09:23Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Tony Benns work for the people would have created East German levels of poverty while leaving us unable to defend ourselves against a Soviet nuclear strike. His Labour cabinet colleagues thought he was a dangerous (if personally likeable) loony and they werent wrong. I don't think I've ever seen the apple fall further from the tree than with Tony Benn and Hilary Benn. Literal polar opposites. His pops fought to give up his lofty title to work for the people his son is desperately trying to cling on to his to stay in government. Father for I don't think I've ever seen the apple fall further" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021155194508075467) 2026-02-10T09:32Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Seems like Grillo is not the only Bergoglian upset with Pope Leo: La guerra al Papa passa anche dai social: Checchinato e la critica a Leone XIV 🗞📰 Leggi ora: https://t.co/wFxsH9rLhE https://t.co/smrboE1HhO La guerra al Papa passa anche dai social: Checchinato e la critica a Leone XIV 🗞📰 Leggi ora: https://t.co/wFxsH9rLhE https://t.co/smrboE1HhO" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021305375811596540) 2026-02-10T19:28Z 42.1K followers, 12.8K engagements "@pattif21 That was the absolute highlight" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021544025619309048) 2026-02-11T11:17Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements "Lets remember how little moral authority the US bishops actually have. For decades senior figures kept quiet about their own Epstein Uncle Ted. McElroy of Washington actively protected him" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021574526698508617) 2026-02-11T13:18Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Im getting quite good at guessing which items of news concerning Pope Leo wont be posted on X by @ChristopherHale. Will this be one of them NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and spiritual writings The retreat is to be held in the Pauline Chapel not the Redemptoris Mater chapel w the Rupnik art https://t.co/kMAnXIyO7o NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019047147170398332) 2026-02-04T13:55Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Ive had my differences with Cardinal Nichols over the years but recently hes defended the sanctity of human life while protecting the traditional Mass (in so far as Rome would let him). I send him my warmest wishes for a long and productive retirement. @CardinalNichols has served as Archbishop of Westminster since [----]. Join us at 5:30pm at @WestminsterCath this Thurs (5th February) for a special Mass of Thanksgiving for his [--] years of service and to wish His Eminence well as he enters a new chapter of his priestly ministry. https://t.co/k2VBoy3vwd @CardinalNichols has served as Archbishop" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2019413788030837105) 2026-02-05T14:12Z 42.1K followers, 15.9K engagements "German media are now speaking of synodale Ermdung or synodal fatigue writes @LukeCoppen. I think most Catholics are sick of Synodality a vanity project of the last pontificate that benefited only ambitious clerics and lobbyists. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/is-germany-facing-synodal-fatigue https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/is-germany-facing-synodal-fatigue" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021518997351703011) 2026-02-11T09:37Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "How dare this ex-priest smugly pronounce that condemnations of Pope Franciss behaviour were without evidence. Has he read the Zanchetta court documents I have. Does he know about Francis according to Zanchetta himself contacting his protege to help him conceal the source of funds for dodgy projects in his Orn diocese Has he read the agonising testimony of Zanchettas victims forwarded to Rome *before* the disgraced bishop was airlifted into a Vatican sinecure that kept him out of the hands of Argentinian prosecutors Can he explain why Francis lifted the automatic excommunication of his friend" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021864174138102022) 2026-02-12T08:29Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "OK. Tell me the whole truth about the Grassi and Zanchetta cases. @cephasquovadis @holysmoke The anti Pope Francis campaign is still trying for it to work. It never has worked much to their frustration and even less so the more comes to light. We do know the truth and it has absolutely nothing to do with anything this man says his hate is palpable so unhealthy. @cephasquovadis @holysmoke The anti Pope Francis campaign is still trying for it to work. It never has worked much to their frustration and even less so the more comes to light. We do know the truth and it has absolutely nothing to do" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021918825537843548) 2026-02-12T12:06Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "@cathfav @VeritasLucia The snub was denying him a red hat" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022220486189695342) 2026-02-13T08:05Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements "@shaunmwing @HE0776 @ClarkeMicah @cjsnowdon Does Google translate Wing into English" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022261694525735236) 2026-02-13T10:48Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements "@VeritasLucia @Netterville It is nonsense. I remember discussing Pope Francis with Bannon in [----]. The campaign ie opposition to Franciss more dubious actions verging on criminality existed long before he took an interest in it" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022284636009746764) 2026-02-13T12:20Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements "@VeritasLucia @Netterville Uh My simple point was that opposition to Francis began long before SB expressed an interest in it" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022290989302386769) 2026-02-13T12:45Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements "Bishop Martin now so obviously losing the plot that he may force a reluctant Vatican to intervene. Update from Charlotte: Every pastor has been emailed a video clip from Bishop Martin which MUST be shown at all Masses this weekend. It is believed that in the video he will share his pastoral vision for the diocese. In an unusual move a first for the diocese the video Update from Charlotte: Every pastor has been emailed a video clip from Bishop Martin which MUST be shown at all Masses this weekend. It is believed that in the video he will share his pastoral vision for the diocese. In an unusual" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022320654842777970) 2026-02-13T14:43Z 42.1K followers, 18.1K engagements "The archdiocese of Los Angeles embraces cancel culture. Is Archbishop Gomez aware of this crude attempt to silence Ed Feser I had been invited to speak later this month at St. Johns Seminary in Los Angeles. I have now been informed that the event is being cancelled due to complaints from unnamed critics who find me too controversial. Meanwhile the always controversial Fr. James Martin will be https://t.co/vqMDCpFlAq I had been invited to speak later this month at St. Johns Seminary in Los Angeles. I have now been informed that the event is being cancelled due to complaints from unnamed" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2022585443179479227) 2026-02-14T08:15Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "This is embarrassing. Ive tried and failed twice to get through The Brothers Karamazov. Any advice The online trend of young men reading classic works of literature and posting about it continues. @ChrisKindaReads was the first I saw do it but it is spreading. Dont blackpill on the next generation. https://t.co/O5A5OfjKzf The online trend of young men reading classic works of literature and posting about it continues. @ChrisKindaReads was the first I saw do it but it is spreading. Dont blackpill on the next generation. https://t.co/O5A5OfjKzf" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2017628837048098997) 2026-01-31T15:59Z 42.1K followers, 15.5K engagements "Hale applauds Archbishop Hickss more sober attire. But note that when Pope Leo wears more elaborate vestments than his predecessor which he does every day thats perfectly fine. Hickss [----] Installation Dolans [----] Installation https://t.co/yx85dcb77s Hickss [----] Installation Dolans [----] Installation https://t.co/yx85dcb77s" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020117047527543060) 2026-02-07T12:46Z 42.1K followers, 12.3K engagements "A reminder that some of us who regarded Francis as the worst pope for centuries also believe that Pope Leo XIV is a man of deep personal holiness who is working hard to heal the catastrophic divisions in the Church. Steve Bannon worked with Jeffrey Epstein for years to try to take down Pope Francis. He failed miserably. Now he and his friends in the MAGA Epstein class are trying to destroy Pope Leo XIV. By the grace of God we will defeat him and his cronies once and for all. Steve Bannon worked with Jeffrey Epstein for years to try to take down Pope Francis. He failed miserably. Now he and" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020467503843950664) 2026-02-08T11:59Z 42.1K followers, 18.7K engagements "Some thoughts. You can believe that Pope Leo is holy and well-intentioned even if you conclude that he is badly misguided on crucial issues. I think hes too enigmatic for us to make firm judgments about his convictions. My instinct and Ive been reporting on the Church since the 80s is that hes more theologically orthodox than many people assume but worried about antagonising the liberal lobby that destroyed Benedict. A very revealing moment was his refusal to pray in the Istanbul mosque. Also note that he wouldnt give a blessing alongside other Christian bishops. On the other hand he loathes" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2020786407158034473) 2026-02-09T09:06Z 42.1K followers, 21.9K engagements "Does anyone think the movie is superior or even equal to the magnificent TV adaptation I've got a story to tell you it's all about spies". TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (1979) Many believe the 70s TV adaptation is superior to the [----] movie. John le Carr said the series was his favourite adaptation of his work. #AlecGuinness #HywelBennett https://t.co/zaRtFZ7uwk I've got a story to tell you it's all about spies". TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (1979) Many believe the 70s TV adaptation is superior to the [----] movie. John le Carr said the series was his favourite adaptation of his work. #AlecGuinness" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021215607245451762) 2026-02-10T13:32Z 42.1K followers, 25K engagements "Glorious Mad toxic old Grillo is fuming about one of Pope Leos letters. I wonder how many other Bergoglian apparatchiks are wringing their hands I regret to inform you that Andrea Grillo apparently thinks @Pontifex 's letter to Madrid priests was something of a hack job: (auto-translated) "This one-sided discourse is followed in the Letter by a description of the "priest" along the lines of the "cathedral": this is a I regret to inform you that Andrea Grillo apparently thinks @Pontifex 's letter to Madrid priests was something of a hack job: (auto-translated) "This one-sided discourse is" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021293010353521039) 2026-02-10T18:39Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "It was a terrifying miscalculation. Benedict lived for nearly another decade frail but intellectually productive. If hed waited just another couple of years it would have ruled out the cunning and amoral Archbishop of Buenos Aires as a candidate. Today is [--] years since Pope Benedict announced his resignation. Its a day Ill never forget. Today is [--] years since Pope Benedict announced his resignation. Its a day Ill never forget" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021522189728813472) 2026-02-11T09:50Z 42.1K followers, 78.5K engagements "If the SSPX turns this down the gulf between the Society and the Ecclesia Dei communities will increase to the point where traditionalists will have to choose sides. If the leadership of the SSPX accepts the deal the Society will split. Either way there is a very strong case for Pope Leo removing the ludicrous restrictions of Traditionis Custodes. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has communicated the outcome of the meeting between Cardinal Vctor Manuel Fernndez and Fr Davide Pagliarani Superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X with the consent of Pope Leo XIV. Rome is" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021918066234265629) 2026-02-12T12:03Z 42.1K followers, 36.7K engagements "Why didnt you do those articles while Pope Francis was alive Couldnt work out how to explain the Vatican sinecure for Zanchetta the victim-smearing Grassi report the lifting of Rupniks excommunication @holysmoke Ive already told you several times that we are in the middle of doing many articles that will prove the truth. With interviews and statements from many victims and others covering every single lie you have told about Pope Francis and his actions. As with Steve Bannon the. @holysmoke Ive already told you several times that we are in the middle of doing many articles that will prove the" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021922003477790935) 2026-02-12T12:19Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Thats convenient @holysmoke What like last time you said the same When I started to answer point by point person by person and after each limited amount worded comments that I numbered [--] [--] [--] etc you just started asking for the one I hadnt said yet. No not doing that again. You will have to wait. @holysmoke What like last time you said the same When I started to answer point by point person by person and after each limited amount worded comments that I numbered [--] [--] [--] etc you just started asking for the one I hadnt said yet. No not doing that again. You will have to wait" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021931551701790999) 2026-02-12T12:57Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements "Grassi. Rupnik. Zanchetta. Explain. Now. @holysmoke Whats convenient Surely you have access to your own page to see. Stop using victims for your anti Pope Francis campaign. @holysmoke Whats convenient Surely you have access to your own page to see. Stop using victims for your anti Pope Francis campaign" [X Link](https://x.com/holysmoke/status/2021932223541457218) 2026-02-12T12:59Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Chorus of groans from priests expecting the appointment of Richard Moth of Arundel & Brighton to Westminster. The big question: why did Rome pass over the apparently obvious choice John Wilson of Southwark"
X Link 2025-12-19T10:36Z 42K followers, 29.5K engagements
"The behaviour of Bishop Michael Martin is a scandal that Pope Leo must not ignore. A comment left on my Facebook page today from a parishioner in Charlotte. https://t.co/dBHJaIynVS A comment left on my Facebook page today from a parishioner in Charlotte. https://t.co/dBHJaIynVS"
X Link 2026-01-19T00:39Z 42K followers, 42.3K engagements
"Oh boy Austen Ivereigh. The attacks on the Pope by the Santa Marta hacks 📰 Read now: https://t.co/hmToHLBKtP https://t.co/iVTnwdG7d2 Austen Ivereigh. The attacks on the Pope by the Santa Marta hacks 📰 Read now: https://t.co/hmToHLBKtP https://t.co/iVTnwdG7d2"
X Link 2026-01-21T22:48Z 42K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@BDamian25 Im afraid it keeps happening in all hierarchical organisations. The Catholic Church has made progress in this area (undermined by the example of abuse-concealer Pope Francis) but as this case illustrates there are still outrageous failures of safeguarding"
X Link 2026-01-22T11:20Z 42K followers, [--] engagements
"Have you posted anything about Pope Leos message to the March for Life Perhaps Ive missed it just as I missed your references to the Popes earlier comments about surrogacy and abortion. You are not serious people. You are not serious people"
X Link 2026-01-23T13:04Z 42K followers, 12.2K engagements
"@TaylorLoy Whats the appropriate formula for someone who chooses the One True Church of the TEC (EDOD) which is your particular sect"
X Link 2026-01-25T08:47Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"England has the worlds largest number of medieval churches. Many face a desperate future. My Holy Smoke conversation with a 23-year-old campaigner who is tackling the crisis of friendless churches. https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/ https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/"
X Link 2026-01-25T11:22Z 42K followers, 22.3K engagements
"This is a good question. I dont think Pope Leo is ignorant of these awful facts which dont rule out a private meeting. But they DO rule out a photo-op surely. @holysmoke Q: In the fourth decade of the internet age can a [--] year old pope plausibly claim ignorance of facts that anyone with a phone can easily discover https://t.co/BcgEbyTD3t @holysmoke Q: In the fourth decade of the internet age can a [--] year old pope plausibly claim ignorance of facts that anyone with a phone can easily discover https://t.co/BcgEbyTD3t"
X Link 2026-01-25T13:38Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"England has more purely medieval churches than France. That may surprise you. Do listen to the Holy Smoke episode about the crisis and the remarkable young campaigner highlighting it: https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/ @Goldenoriole3 France has more churches with medieval origins and elements. But https://t.co/8vpzdu8hYH https://spectator.com/podcast/the-historic-value-of-english-churches-with-daniel-wilson/ @Goldenoriole3 France has more churches with medieval origins and elements. But https://t.co/8vpzdu8hYH"
X Link 2026-01-25T14:36Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Absolutely. My Ordinariate priest friends would support this. But everyone in charge is so risk-averse. @holysmoke Its a great pity that the full potential of the Anglican Ordinariate has never really been realised. It would be fascinating to see an Anglican benefice with five or six churches give just one medieval building back to Catholic use and see how it functions in practice. If @holysmoke Its a great pity that the full potential of the Anglican Ordinariate has never really been realised. It would be fascinating to see an Anglican benefice with five or six churches give just one"
X Link 2026-01-26T10:40Z 42K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Amazing stuff especially about Argentina. Leo XIV is starting to make waves and some are worried (And the strange case of the visit to Spain) https://t.co/qT1abe11gU https://t.co/1iIx7nCB3m Leo XIV is starting to make waves and some are worried (And the strange case of the visit to Spain) https://t.co/qT1abe11gU https://t.co/1iIx7nCB3m"
X Link 2026-01-26T11:33Z 42K followers, 36.8K engagements
"Mahonys shameless behaviour was tolerated by the amoral Francis but how can Pope Leo possibly tolerate it @holysmoke What if The Holy Father told Cardinal Mahony to stop attending episcopal consecrations in California where he has been a regular attendee Told him to heed Archbishop Gomezs censure and retreat quietly to a life of penance & reparation. @holysmoke What if The Holy Father told Cardinal Mahony to stop attending episcopal consecrations in California where he has been a regular attendee Told him to heed Archbishop Gomezs censure and retreat quietly to a life of penance & reparation"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:42Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Fortunately Pope Leo is not the biggest fan of Cupich who went over his head to Francis regarding episcopal appointments and also embarrassed him over Sen. Durbin (whose sudden decision to decline Cupichs award came the day after Pope Leo was put on the spot). Cardinal Cupich has again praised Pope Francis Latin Mass restrictions calling for [--] rite only in the Church: Again as in keeping with his predecessor St. Pope Pius V there must be only one rite as a means of preserving the unity of the church. Via @chicagocatholic https://t.co/DJdnsTg4Uk Cardinal Cupich has again praised Pope Francis"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:50Z 42K followers, 21.6K engagements
"Strickland was removed by Francis who would certainly have taken the decision himself and not left it up to Prevost. My instinct is that Pope Leo is troubled by Martin which whom he had problems as Prefect. But any action he takes will be frustratingly cautious its his modus operandi. Theres a faction of Bergoglian fanatics who are looking for any excuse to make Leos life hell something that powerful Curial officials can definitely do to a pope as we saw with Benedict. Leo is not their creature as Dolan Burke etc knew when they supported him in the conclave"
X Link 2026-01-27T14:41Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"I wrote an article [--] years ago about how St Andrews Chorleywood had been taken over by extremists whom local parishioners accused of behaving like a cult This is the big question and no one is asking it @churchofengland given the most recent scandals at Soul Survivor and now the investigation into Saint Andrews Chorleywood. The charismatic movement which undoubtedly has enriched the modern church contributed to our growth and https://t.co/ApRmvikVSX This is the big question and no one is asking it @churchofengland given the most recent scandals at Soul Survivor and now the investigation into"
X Link 2026-01-27T23:32Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Hes extraordinary. Very few priests touch my heart as directly as Fr @Joeinblack. Father Joseph Krupp for the record is one of the most balanced clerics on X. (And hes a master homilist.) Father Joseph Krupp for the record is one of the most balanced clerics on X. (And hes a master homilist.)"
X Link 2026-01-28T11:51Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"@Rgt71Robert Alas a lost pre-digital relic. The place creeped me out I can tell you that especially when I saw a boy with Down Syndrome subjected to something that looked suspiciously like an exorcism"
X Link 2026-01-28T12:03Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"I think this is right. Both the C of E and the Catholic bishops have displayed a deplorable meanness of spirit towards the Ordinariate. @janeeecharman @grumpyesq @holysmoke @churchofengland To the best of my knowledge the only church building purchased by the Ordinariate in England is the one in Torbay which was acquired from the Methodists. @janeeecharman @grumpyesq @holysmoke @churchofengland To the best of my knowledge the only church building purchased by the Ordinariate in England is the one in Torbay which was acquired from the Methodists"
X Link 2026-01-28T14:31Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"So to clear up any misunderstanding the Bishop of Fulham has posted his congratulations to the new Archbishop of Canterbury above a photo of them together with other C of E bishops while believing that said archbishop is a lay person. Did I get that right"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:42Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"@DuncanHegan1 It differs because Fulham is a bishop of the Church of England welcoming Archbishop Sarahs new status as primate of his church. Vincents statement was silly but theres no question of him recognising her as anything other than a lay person"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:53Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"@DuncanHegan1 There is confusion here though. Some Anglo-Catholics under alternative oversight recognise the probable validity of womens ordination. I know because they have told me so. Is Jonathan Baker closer to their position or to that of Anglo-Catholics who regard her as a lay person"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:00Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"@Starcourse That was carefully worded"
X Link 2026-01-30T08:41Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"Hell need to sack Tucho first. Pope Leo XIV has urged the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to provide clear authoritative guidance amid emerging challenges facing the Church and society. In his address the Holy Father emphasized the need for precise doctrinal clarity to navigate contemporary issues Pope Leo XIV has urged the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to provide clear authoritative guidance amid emerging challenges facing the Church and society. In his address the Holy Father emphasized the need for precise doctrinal clarity to navigate contemporary issues"
X Link 2026-01-30T09:00Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating. According to @nicospuntoni Cupich wanted to be Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Instead the job went to a little-known American Augustinian in Peru https://newdailycompass.com/en/leo-xiv-has-a-problem-his-name-is-cupich https://newdailycompass.com/en/leo-xiv-has-a-problem-his-name-is-cupich"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:41Z 42K followers, 19.5K engagements
"The following is repugnant to me. And thats the end of any profitable discussion between us. Mawdsley has asserted that Hitler did not set out to conquer Europe while the Jews schemed then and now to rule the world. He has opposed Jews holding power in Christian societies claiming they are corrosive to Christs order and damage worldviews in an antichrist way. He has accused Jews of genocide against Germans waging a race war against them. Etc"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:13Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"No She was a comic genius. Hard to believe. https://pagesix.com/2026/01/30/celebrity-news/schitts-creek-star-catherine-ohara-dead-at-71-report/ https://pagesix.com/2026/01/30/celebrity-news/schitts-creek-star-catherine-ohara-dead-at-71-report/"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:06Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"@RonCriss5 Thanks Ron"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:19Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"Incoherent patronising nonsense from Fr Reese. No surprises there. But there is also a gratifying whiff of panic that Pope Franciss restrictions have backfired. My @RNS column: Is church unity worth a Latin Mass https://t.co/iLaWYSNlx2 My @RNS column: Is church unity worth a Latin Mass https://t.co/iLaWYSNlx2"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:07Z 42.1K followers, 11K engagements
"With my sister Carmel after her successful cancer surgery. Shes doing brilliantly fortified this morning by visit from Fr Julian Large bearing relic of St Teresa of Avila 😇"
X Link 2019-03-13T17:01Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"'I dread the day Charles becomes king' I must have said hundreds of times. Well I got that one spectacularly wrong didn't I"
X Link 2022-12-25T17:14Z 42.1K followers, 101.4K engagements
"I understand that [---] British Catholic clergy will today release a statement declaring that the same-sex blessings envisaged by Fiducia Supplicans aren't theologically permissible and that they won't have anything to do with them. The moment of crisis has arrived"
X Link 2023-12-21T03:11Z 42.1K followers, 118.5K engagements
"I think this is the highlight of my [--] years on Twitter"
X Link 2023-12-28T00:25Z 42.1K followers, 23.8K engagements
"A year ago the Church lost the heroic cardinal it most needed to guide it through its present crisis. Rest in peace Your Eminence"
X Link 2024-01-10T11:34Z 42.1K followers, 34K engagements
"NB: Cardinal Robert Sarah does not turn [--] until June [--]. He will therefore be an influential participant in the conclave"
X Link 2025-04-21T10:00Z 42.1K followers, 159.2K engagements
"Perhaps this matter is best resolved by returning Westminster Abbey to the Church that founded it. There are over [---] mosques in London but they chose to pray on the grounds of Westminster Abbey the most sacred site in the Anglican Church. Why https://t.co/1AasQoWkrh There are over [---] mosques in London but they chose to pray on the grounds of Westminster Abbey the most sacred site in the Anglican Church. Why https://t.co/1AasQoWkrh"
X Link 2025-06-02T08:14Z 42.1K followers, 69K engagements
"The great Cardinal Zen: After celebrating the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) at Mary Help of Christians Parish in Hong Kong I led a Eucharistic procession () https://t.co/6AcalsvNNQ () https://t.co/6AcalsvNNQ"
X Link 2025-06-22T10:59Z 42.1K followers, 90.6K engagements
"The revelation that Traditionis custodes involved the deceitful manipulation of a survey of bishops has thrown the enemies of the TLM into panic and disarray. And no one is panicking more than Roche the DDW prefect who was shamefully complicit in the deception"
X Link 2025-07-03T09:23Z 42.1K followers, 25K engagements
"The Novus Ordo celebrated as orientem with incense may be an admirable thing but it is NOT the same liturgy as the TLM many of whose most precious features are missing from the new Missal. I would rather attend the most spartan of Tridentine Low Masses than any Novus Ordo celebration though Im not going to make a fuss about attending the newer form if thanks to the spiteful intolerance of bishops the former is unavailable. However be in no doubt that the suppression of the TLM is a disgrace"
X Link 2025-10-16T23:22Z 42.1K followers, 31.6K engagements
"Look at this. Incredible scenes in the approach to St Peters thousands and thousands of pilgrims praying for the liberation of the ancient liturgy"
X Link 2025-10-25T12:16Z 42.1K followers, 19.3K engagements
"Not so much numbered as over. This. Its precisely their narrative the strongest intellectual promoters of what Pope Benedict called the Hermeneutic of Rupture that must be excised from the life of the Church. I expect the Holy Fathers catechesis will do this. Massimo knows his ilks days are numbered. This. Its precisely their narrative the strongest intellectual promoters of what Pope Benedict called the Hermeneutic of Rupture that must be excised from the life of the Church. I expect the Holy Fathers catechesis will do this. Massimo knows his ilks days are numbered"
X Link 2026-01-08T19:49Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"The leaking of the memo is a disaster for Roche. Now his intellectual shortcomings are displayed to the world. Imagine the reaction of cardinals to being lectured like schoolchildren by this patronising mediocrity whos already been snooping around their dioceses. @GregoryCaridi @holysmoke Skipping over the translations of the liturgical books under Benedict. Apart from the question begging just wild that a paragraph like this could be written without mentioning Benedict by name. https://t.co/2scTxNBpe0 @GregoryCaridi @holysmoke Skipping over the translations of the liturgical books under"
X Link 2026-01-14T12:01Z 42K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Pope Leo has shown admirable restraint on the world stage wisely not condemning President Trumps brilliantly executed arrrest of Maduro. Trump respects the Pope and I cant help wondering if Leo might persuade him to moderate his deeply worrying rhetoric about Greenland. I never thought Id say anything like that but the situation does seem to be spinning out of control. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013205438439858520 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013205438439858520"
X Link 2026-01-19T11:02Z 42.1K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Interesting. Is this fair @holysmoke Moth spent [--] years in A&B writing & rewriting a Diocesan Pastoral Plan. Not that its got much to do with the Pastoral in-fact its in its ever worsening drafts a cost cutting exercise. With Moth if it comes to Finance v Gospel Finances win V. bad apt to Westminster. @holysmoke Moth spent [--] years in A&B writing & rewriting a Diocesan Pastoral Plan. Not that its got much to do with the Pastoral in-fact its in its ever worsening drafts a cost cutting exercise. With Moth if it comes to Finance v Gospel Finances win V. bad apt to Westminster"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:01Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Catholics are puzzled and disturbed that Pope Leo should pose for a photograph with the disgraced abuse-protecting Roger Mahony. A private meeting is one thing but the rehabilitation of this man under Francis was a scandal and he should not be further indulged"
X Link 2026-01-25T08:42Z 42K followers, 14.4K engagements
"This is a horribly ignorant attack on the Ordinariate. The priests I know who belong to it are passionate evangelists. One of them has produced a remarkable number of vocations to the regular priesthood; another found time to minister to my terminally ill sister while risking his life to help persecuted Christians in war zones. None of them are remotely interested in fancy vestments. @holysmoke The Ordinariates won't realize their potential as long as they merely define themselves as thees and thous building a quaint ghetto. A real expression of Anglo-Catholicism which focused on culture"
X Link 2026-01-26T16:09Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Im so frustrated with the trad Leo-is-Francis-II brigade and their lefty opposite numbers like @christopherhale. Why cant they accept that a pope like most people can inspire and disappoint more or less simultaneously Instead they resort to defamation or caricature"
X Link 2026-01-28T12:09Z 42K followers, 10.7K engagements
"whom the Bishop of Fulham now clearly recognises as a valid Anglican bishop. Has a rift finally been healed"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:25Z 42K followers, 18.7K engagements
"@john_ritzema As if that makes one iota of sense"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:35Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"Catholics dont recognise her orders conservatives deplore her lefty platitudes she has questions to answer about safeguarding but dont rule out the possibility that the Church of England will benefit from her administrative competence and the warmth of her personality. https://t.co/lzWEE4hZXr https://t.co/lzWEE4hZXr"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:15Z 42K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Everyone in Rome says the same thing: the Pope is waiting for an appropriate see to become vacant before moving Tucho. This is frustrating but Leo seems determined never to humiliate anyone (even if they deserve it). @holysmoke Everyday I wake up hoping for good news about the long-overdue correction of the travesty of this man being placed in a high Church office let alone given charge of the DDF And every night I go to bed disappointed yet again. @holysmoke Everyday I wake up hoping for good news about the long-overdue correction of the travesty of this man being placed in a high Church"
X Link 2026-01-30T10:58Z 42K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Pope Leo is revoking Franciss cruel ban on housing subsidies for cardinals and curial officials reveals @nicospuntoni another sign that he wants to turn the page on the previous pontificate. Leone XIV cancella la stretta di Francesco e rid gli alloggi gratuiti a cardinali e capi dicastero. Il decreto in vigore da domani. La rivelazione oggi su @ilgiornale https://t.co/uAz56zAmrP Leone XIV cancella la stretta di Francesco e rid gli alloggi gratuiti a cardinali e capi dicastero. Il decreto in vigore da domani. La rivelazione oggi su @ilgiornale https://t.co/uAz56zAmrP"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:43Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"The important thing is that the Pope no longer lives in Santa Marta which had acquired the stench of corruption. While some had hoped Leo's move to the Apostolic Palace signaled a return to tradition his decision to take up what were the guest quarters above the papal apartment suggest a more nuanced message from Leo: a nod to pre-Francis era papal customs imbued with the freedom his While some had hoped Leo's move to the Apostolic Palace signaled a return to tradition his decision to take up what were the guest quarters above the papal apartment suggest a more nuanced message from Leo: a nod"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:27Z 42K followers, 10.1K engagements
"I agree so long as Pope Leo repairs some of the damage done to the Church by Francis: ending the liturgy wars and sidelining the crypto-Protestant Synodal faction that started them. Other developments are beyond his control. How the revival of tradition and the acceleration of secularism will relate to each other remains to be seen. Vast demographic forces are involved; so is a numerically modest but culturally powerful recovery of orthodoxy. Pope Leo is like them old timey popes who you rarely hear from. I think that was needed honestly after like a century of these towering figures. Pope"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:38Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"The German Synodal Way is liberal Protestantism which wielded enormous and destructive influence in the Church until John Paul II was able to halt its progress. But only temporarily: Francis revived it motivated more by a desire to settle scores than by personal conviction. My great concern is that there is currently a creeping attempt in Germany to implement a new ecclesiology and a new anthropology that are no longer in harmony with the faith and teachings of the universal Church. Cardinal Woelki @Synod_va @Pontifex https://t.co/Yh1Of9zmPW My great concern is that there is currently a"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:44Z 42K followers, 11.6K engagements
"@MarianSekerak @grok My post refers to the revival of liberal Protestant influence in the Catholic Church"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:43Z 42K followers, [---] engagements
"Honestly Chris you cant keep turning Pope Leo into an anti-Trump culture warrior while leaving out inconvenient stuff and expect to be taken seriously. Is this the third time a papal condemnation of abortion is (unless Ive overlooked it) missing from your posts Pope Leo quoting Mother Teresa describes abortion as the worldsgreatest destroyer of peace. Yet again I cant find @christopherhales reference to it. My fault or another Letter from Leo lost in the post Pope Leo quoting Mother Teresa describes abortion as the worldsgreatest destroyer of peace. Yet again I cant find @christopherhales"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:45Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"I much prefer Mgr Wilson (unusual these days but not incorrect) to Archbishop John clerical title plus Christian name is a ghastly formula though so ubiquitous that Im often forced to use it. @holysmoke @ALucieSmith Superb discussion but why did the (otherwise excellent) Fr ALS insist on referring to Mgr Moth and Mgr Wilson instead of Bishop Moth and Archbishop Wilson Its E&W after all not Italy. @holysmoke @ALucieSmith Superb discussion but why did the (otherwise excellent) Fr ALS insist on referring to Mgr Moth and Mgr Wilson instead of Bishop Moth and Archbishop Wilson Its E&W after all"
X Link 2026-02-02T09:01Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Can you guess who this is"
X Link 2026-02-02T09:39Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"The wording of this post is so sneaky. No accident that he says Latin Mass Trads rather than the more accurate and economical SSPX. Latin Mass Trads are going to ordain their own bishops because Pope Leo did not give them what they want. Schismatics gonna Schism. This mentality is endemic to the Latin Mass Trad mentality indeed it is at the core. I am not sure how we could ever expect a different outcome. Latin Mass Trads are going to ordain their own bishops because Pope Leo did not give them what they want. Schismatics gonna Schism. This mentality is endemic to the Latin Mass Trad mentality"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:51Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Fair point It would be difficult to see how the Holy See would impose any canonical sanctions on the SSPX given the fact that they have not done so in a comparable manner in China where the Communist government has repeatedly proceeded with episcopal ordinations without prior papal It would be difficult to see how the Holy See would impose any canonical sanctions on the SSPX given the fact that they have not done so in a comparable manner in China where the Communist government has repeatedly proceeded with episcopal ordinations without prior papal"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:52Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Loving Barrons casual look Ironic that Pope Leo such a meticulously dressed pope also wore lay clothes off duty right up until his election. Friends John Ringlings estate here in Sarasota Florida is really something. I was struck particularly by a painting of seven saintly defenders of the Eucharistincluding my great hero St. Thomas Aquinas https://t.co/CruGlULqPp Friends John Ringlings estate here in Sarasota Florida is really something. I was struck particularly by a painting of seven saintly defenders of the Eucharistincluding my great hero St. Thomas Aquinas https://t.co/CruGlULqPp"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:56Z 42K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Still stands but I agree it has not aged well. Whats that supposed to mean Boulton once impartial now as overtly partisan as the News Agents is predictably now trying to deflect attention from Mandelson to Trump. Still stands but I agree it has not aged well. Still stands but I agree it has not aged well"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:05Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Really Mandelson remains a peer even after stepping down from the House of Lords. The lefty media elite really want this story to go away. No legislation needed. Mandelson has stepped down from the Lords No legislation needed. Mandelson has stepped down from the Lords"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:01Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Bolton desperately spinning for Starmer 💥Julia Hartley-Brewer and Adam Boulton's explosive clash over Peter Mandelson. Adam: "You are just being self-righteous." JHB: "He's a nasty piece of work a proven liar best mates with a paedophile and you're happy to be mates with him" @JuliaHB1 https://t.co/mCJnG4Xn9n 💥Julia Hartley-Brewer and Adam Boulton's explosive clash over Peter Mandelson. Adam: "You are just being self-righteous." JHB: "He's a nasty piece of work a proven liar best mates with a paedophile and you're happy to be mates with him" @JuliaHB1 https://t.co/mCJnG4Xn9n"
X Link 2026-02-04T12:39Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Bishop Varden supports the right of young people to attend the Traditional Latin Mass👇 NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and spiritual writings The retreat is to be held in the Pauline Chapel not the Redemptoris Mater chapel w the Rupnik art https://t.co/kMAnXIyO7o NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and spiritual writings The retreat is to be held in the"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:32Z 42.1K followers, 12.1K engagements
"A lovely tribute to a lovely men. Alex mentions his fathers occasional lost weekends. I was privileged to get lost with him on a couple of them. We both gave up the booze in the mid 1990s but never forgot the rapture of discovering a Soho bar that would serve us at two in the morning. Allan Massie 1938-2026 https://t.co/z28XYfaV4K https://t.co/cfPEhDg89z Allan Massie 1938-2026 https://t.co/z28XYfaV4K https://t.co/cfPEhDg89z"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:14Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"@ClarkeMicah I dont describe you as pompous because you speak in formal sentences. I call you pompous because you are"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:32Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Genius. After such ludicrous drivel in The Times what a pleasure to read this. This is how you write an opening paragraph https://t.co/sIqbEIYqh5 After such ludicrous drivel in The Times what a pleasure to read this. This is how you write an opening paragraph https://t.co/sIqbEIYqh5"
X Link 2026-02-05T10:07Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It seems completely unreasonable that Fr Pagliarini has not been granted a meeting with the Pope. JUST IN: In a new in-depth interview with SSPX Superior General Fr. Davide Pagliarani he says the consecration of bishops has become a matter of grave necessity citing what he describes as an effort to preserve the doctrinal emptiness characteristic of Pope Francis https://t.co/N5dHF4HJW8 JUST IN: In a new in-depth interview with SSPX Superior General Fr. Davide Pagliarani he says the consecration of bishops has become a matter of grave necessity citing what he describes as an effort to preserve"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:06Z 42.1K followers, 29.2K engagements
"This disgusting post hails as a giant a man who tried to keep the child abuser Fr Julio Grassi out of jail and protected convicted abuser Bishop Zanchetta and suspected multiple rapist Fr Marko Rupnik. Pope Francis emerges as a giant from the Epstein Files: a person whom Epstein Bannon and their allies strongly despised and plotted to overthrow.May his soul be blessed forever. He was a light in these times of darkness. Pope Francis emerges as a giant from the Epstein Files: a person whom Epstein Bannon and their allies strongly despised and plotted to overthrow.May his soul be blessed"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:26Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Keir Starmer may lose his job because he knew about Mandelsons friendship with Epstein and promoted him. But Pope Franciss record of shielding and protecting sex abusers (including at least one paedophile) and their allies was FAR worse. Francis was a pope not a mere PM however and was able to use his power as an absolute monarch plus the services of lying Catholic commentators to save himself from the public disgrace he deserved. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019706167597932803 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019706167597932803"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:34Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Lets hope Pope Leo makes Archbishop Shevchuk a cardinal passing him over was one of Franciss petty snubs. This morning the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV received in audience His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych (Ukraine). https://t.co/Y91S7sYmby This morning the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV received in audience His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych (Ukraine). https://t.co/Y91S7sYmby"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:56Z 42.1K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Typically good read but no serious evidence of revival or even recovery to pre-pandemic levels of Mass attendance. Bishop Richard Moth will be installed as the 12th Archbishop of Westminster tomorrow. What is the state of the Catholic Church in England and Wales on the eve of his installation 🏴🏴: https://t.co/ie4GjIhdIp https://t.co/ZHLIGTXSKG Bishop Richard Moth will be installed as the 12th Archbishop of Westminster tomorrow. What is the state of the Catholic Church in England and Wales on the eve of his installation 🏴🏴: https://t.co/ie4GjIhdIp https://t.co/ZHLIGTXSKG"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:45Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The information is here from Xs own Grok: People put a full stop (period dot) in front of a Twitter/X handle like .@username instead of just @username mainly due to an old platform behavior that changed years ago. Historically (pre-2016/2017 era): If a tweet started with @ (meaning the very first character was @username) Twitter treated it as a reply or conversational tweet. This made it less visible: It appeared in the timelines of: The person mentioned (@username) Mutual followers (people who followed both you and the @username) It didnt show up in the main timelines of your other followers"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:12Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"We are witnessing one final massive push by the anti-Brexit establishment including civil servants at the highest level to reverse the referendum result of [----]. They have almost limitless resources at their disposal"
X Link 2018-11-02T10:27Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"No pope for centuries has done more damage to the Catholic Church than Francis"
X Link 2019-10-25T18:07Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Just once more before the year ends"
X Link 2019-12-31T16:42Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Cardinal Zen reveals some of the creepy details of the Vatican-China deal. Cardinal Zen: 'Parolin manipulates the pope' and Vatican's China policy is 'immoral' https://t.co/jqe7wt96iS via @cnalive Cardinal Zen: 'Parolin manipulates the pope' and Vatican's China policy is 'immoral' https://t.co/jqe7wt96iS via @cnalive"
X Link 2020-03-21T16:51Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Sources in Rome tell me that the formidable Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali former Anglican Bishop of Rochester has become a Catholic and will be ordained a priest of the Ordinariate later this month"
X Link 2021-10-14T02:09Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Rest in peace my beautiful sister Carmel who died a few hours ago fortified by the love of her friends her Catholic faith and her own astonishing courage"
X Link 2021-11-24T02:11Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"What a joy to talk to one of my heroes this evening. I thought Id never meet him again. Let me assure you: this is not a broken man - far from it - and his mission continues"
X Link 2021-12-12T19:10Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Why the Tories should back the extraordinary @KemiBadenoch. Me for @spectator online: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-tories-should-gamble-on-kemi-badenoch https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-tories-should-gamble-on-kemi-badenoch"
X Link 2022-07-09T13:28Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"There is something happening here. The power of the TLM to move young people is something I could never have foreseen. It must be fully harnessed in a gigantic campaign to rescue the ancient liturgy. We did not have "#ShiaLaBeouf becoming Catholic thanks to celebrating the Latin Mass in a movie role as Padre Pio" on our [----] Bingo card but we are moved and touched by it. Deo gratias and welcome Shia https://t.co/q0HSczUV1v We did not have "#ShiaLaBeouf becoming Catholic thanks to celebrating the Latin Mass in a movie role as Padre Pio" on our [----] Bingo card but we are moved and touched by"
X Link 2022-08-26T02:12Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"We have lost one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the 20th century who offered the Catholic Church a radiantly beautiful vision of its future. Unfortunately it is necessary to fight to preserve the legacy of this great pope. So let us do so"
X Link 2022-12-31T09:59Z 42.1K followers, 50.5K engagements
"He did no such thing. The girl was not morally responsible was NOT excommunicated would NEVER be excommunicated under any circumstances. Your tweet is spreading a despicable lie. Never forget that #PopeBenedictXVI excommunicated a 9-year old child for having a life-saving abortion after her stepfather raped her and impregnated her with twins.Excommunicated her mother too. Guess who he didn't excommunicate The rapist stepfather. https://t.co/TZIwwOdPPU https://t.co/BnfRdf8vfQ Never forget that #PopeBenedictXVI excommunicated a 9-year old child for having a life-saving abortion after her"
X Link 2023-01-01T13:13Z 42.1K followers, 108.8K engagements
"This is terrible news. Cardinal Pell a hero of the Church and a true friend has died.He endured unbelievable suffering as the victim of a malicious plot. May God rest his soul and forgive his lying despicable persecutors"
X Link 2023-01-10T22:32Z 42.1K followers, 114.5K engagements
"Bombshell from Cardinal Pell written for the @spectator just before he died: an attack on the 'toxic nightmare' on the 'neo-Marxist' Synod on Synodality which he said sidelined Christ and was rigged by organisers: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-catholic-church-must-free-itself-from-this-toxic-nightmare/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-catholic-church-must-free-itself-from-this-toxic-nightmare/"
X Link 2023-01-11T13:37Z 42.1K followers, 85.3K engagements
"Strickland is kicked out of his see while Uncle Teds lying collaborators receive cardinals hats Chinese Communist Party thugs are embraced as bishops and a rapist enjoys papal protection. Its the desperate act of a Latin American dictator whose time is thankfully running out"
X Link 2023-11-11T15:44Z 42.1K followers, 34.5K engagements
"This is an intensely moving photograph"
X Link 2023-11-19T01:58Z 42.1K followers, 32.8K engagements
"Here is the statement I've been shown by the British Confraternity of Catholic Clergy which consists of more than [---] priests and deacons in England Scotland and Wales. My emphasis at the bottom:"
X Link 2023-12-21T04:02Z 42.1K followers, 127.7K engagements
"How wonderful to find a church in Rome not defaced by a piece of IKEA furniture in the sanctuary. SS Trinit de Pellegrini thriving as a parish of the FSSP:"
X Link 2024-03-15T10:24Z 42.1K followers, 15.2K engagements
"I was there. My favourite memory is the fury of the BBC correspondent. VATICAN On this day [--] years ago ecstasy and joy in St. Peter's Square as Cardinal Ratzinger was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI https://t.co/ttQ4ipBXFb VATICAN On this day [--] years ago ecstasy and joy in St. Peter's Square as Cardinal Ratzinger was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI https://t.co/ttQ4ipBXFb"
X Link 2024-04-19T12:57Z 42.1K followers, 76.5K engagements
"Shes been received by the priest who ministered selflessly to my dying sister and if you say ONE WORD to attack him I will go nuclear. Candace Owens has become a Catholic because of course. Candace Owens has become a Catholic because of course"
X Link 2024-04-23T11:24Z 42.1K followers, 40.6K engagements
"As we speak Cardinal Mller is celebrating a Tridentine Requiem for Traditionis Custodes in Chartres Cathedral"
X Link 2024-05-20T13:56Z 42.1K followers, 38.7K engagements
"Thread: Famous names including Bianca Jagger Lord Lloyd-Webber Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Princess Michael of Kent Sir Andras Schiff Tom Holland Lady Antonia Fraser and many others appeal to the Vatican to save the Traditional Latin Mass in a letter to the Times tomorrow"
X Link 2024-07-02T21:16Z 42.1K followers, 450.2K engagements
"Defenders of the Traditional Latin Mass in today's Times: not the usual suspects"
X Link 2024-07-03T00:13Z 42.1K followers, 46.7K engagements
"After #listening to the faithful @Synod_va hastily pressed the delete button 🤣"
X Link 2024-07-26T13:43Z 42.1K followers, 60.5K engagements
"Cardinal Robert McElroy was told in detail about Theodore McCarricks predatory activities and said nothing publicly. His appointment to Washington is a disgrace. Me in this weeks Spectator:"
X Link 2025-01-24T09:31Z 42.1K followers, 45.5K engagements
"Cardinal Parolin is campaigning hard to be the next pope. That alarming prospect should worry all Catholics. My piece from this weeks Spectator:"
X Link 2025-03-20T08:34Z 42.1K followers, 81.9K engagements
"Yesterday I attended a beautifully reverent Traditional Latin Mass attended by many young people. Let us pray that its persecution will now end and that it will be restored to the place of honour established for it by Pope Benedict"
X Link 2025-04-21T09:32Z 42.1K followers, 20.3K engagements
"The thing I most disliked about Pope Francis was his protection of sex abusers. Tell me how the Gospel inspired his support for the predators Grassi Zanchetta and Rupnik. The critics of Pope Francis ran into a problem: The things they disliked about the pope were the things about which he was most in line with the Gospel. https://t.co/8jpu7ASiGT The critics of Pope Francis ran into a problem: The things they disliked about the pope were the things about which he was most in line with the Gospel. https://t.co/8jpu7ASiGT"
X Link 2025-04-25T11:29Z 42.1K followers, 34.2K engagements
"The Parolin campaign is putting it about that it already has [--] votes sewn up. Such relentless lobbying on behalf of a candidate could easily backfire"
X Link 2025-04-29T20:50Z 42.1K followers, 82K engagements
"Im sick of this hagiography. Francis did not take up the cry of the violated nuns who begged him to prosecute Rupnik. Instead of alleviating the pain of Zanchettas and Grassis victims he tried to shelter both priests from justice. All three abusers are still in Holy Orders. "Pope Francis has taught us to take up the cry of violated life to take it up and present it to the Father but also to work to concretely alleviate the pain that arouses this cry" Cardinal Gugerotti said at a memorial Mass for the late pope. https://t.co/GMxKxEdbwp "Pope Francis has taught us to take up the cry of violated"
X Link 2025-05-03T10:24Z 42.1K followers, 36.5K engagements
"REVEALED: How the People's Pope shielded sexual predators in the clergy - including one priest accused of violently raping nuns. @MailOnline and tomorrows Mail on Sunday. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14675793/Peoples-Pope-shielded-sexual-predators-clergy-priest-accused-violently-raping-nuns.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14675793/Peoples-Pope-shielded-sexual-predators-clergy-priest-accused-violently-raping-nuns.html"
X Link 2025-05-03T22:48Z 42.1K followers, 542.4K engagements
"This is the first MSM investigation into Pope Franciss despicable shielding of obscene abusers around the world. Im so grateful to the Mail for having the courage to publish the truth. REVEALED: How the People's Pope shielded sexual predators in the clergy - including one priest accused of violently raping nuns. @MailOnline and tomorrows Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/xuwT6lxN8i https://t.co/rquyya85EB REVEALED: How the People's Pope shielded sexual predators in the clergy - including one priest accused of violently raping nuns. @MailOnline and tomorrows Mail on Sunday."
X Link 2025-05-03T22:51Z 42.1K followers, 50.9K engagements
"Il cardinale Zen ha fatto un discorso esplosivo e coraggioso al #conclave: Lunit della Chiesa non si basa unicamente sullautorit del Papa ma sulla sua fedelt alla verit e alla missione ricevuta da Cristo. Ha denunciato laccordo con la Cina che ha tradito i cattolici. https://t.co/oleY99QR0U Il cardinale Zen ha fatto un discorso esplosivo e coraggioso al #conclave: Lunit della Chiesa non si basa unicamente sullautorit del Papa ma sulla sua fedelt alla verit e alla missione ricevuta da Cristo. Ha denunciato laccordo con la Cina che ha tradito i cattolici. https://t.co/oleY99QR0U"
X Link 2025-05-05T14:29Z 42.1K followers, 30.5K engagements
"If it was up to me this cardinal would be elected pope on the first ballot:"
X Link 2025-05-07T08:13Z 42.1K followers, 147.6K engagements
"Raising a glass in Rome to our new Holy Father Pope Leo. He may not have been my preferred candidate but Im waiting to be pleasantly surprised"
X Link 2025-05-08T19:11Z 42.1K followers, 34.8K engagements
"I just spoke to influential traditionalists in Rome and they think Leo will be a vast improvement on Francis or (shudder) Parolin. The name the traditional robes an excellent homily today the new pope may not be conservative but he isnt a continuity candidate. There will never be a Francis II. As for the TLM one source said: Leo doesnt enjoy hurting people unlike Francis or Roche. The Church has a new Pope. Hes American. Augustinian. Leo XIV didnt rise without controversy. To some hes a sign of continuity To others of decline. Who is he And why did this choice divide so many Let me show"
X Link 2025-05-09T10:40Z 42.1K followers, 196.1K engagements
"The TLM returns to the basilica where Pope Francis is buried: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/latin-mass-celebrated-in-roman-basilica-where-francis-is-buried/utm_source=twittercath https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/latin-mass-celebrated-in-roman-basilica-where-francis-is-buried/utm_source=twittercath"
X Link 2025-05-09T15:04Z 42.1K followers, 42.6K engagements
"An excellent source tells me the same thing. If true this is astonishing and wonderful news. BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm that Pope Leo XIV privately celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass for years even inside the Vatican with special indult from Pope Francis. Also his Latin sounds perfectlyfluent and photos show him in traditional vestments. A new report https://t.co/mN4MUynkjg BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm that Pope Leo XIV privately celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass for years even inside the Vatican with special indult from Pope Francis. Also his Latin sounds perfectlyfluent"
X Link 2025-05-09T16:32Z 42.1K followers, 130.6K engagements
"I wont say why but not all meetings with Cardinal Bergoglio were mutually agreeable. Fascinating. Pope Leo XIV then Bishop Robert Prevost back in [----] in Peru right before he was made Cardinal: Yesterday marked ten years since Pope Francis' election. I knew Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. As the Augustinian General I'd met him several https://t.co/KesYqPNUfb Pope Leo XIV then Bishop Robert Prevost back in [----] in Peru right before he was made Cardinal: Yesterday marked ten years since Pope Francis' election. I knew Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of"
X Link 2025-05-12T02:28Z 42.1K followers, 59.8K engagements
"I have been re-reading the homily delivered by Pope Leo in the Sistine Chapel. Its passion and eloquence are breathtaking. Leo cannot and will not water down what he said. There can be no more indifferentism or blurring of boundaries with other faiths. The Pachamama has been exorcised"
X Link 2025-05-12T22:29Z 42.1K followers, 122.2K engagements
"I went to a diocesan Tridentine Low Mass this morning: reverent beautiful restrained with an excellent non-political sermon and a congregation that apart from the womens mantillas and more young people was pretty much indistinguishable from any other. And I thought: how utterly fatuous bigoted and self-defeating that the last pontificate targeted Latin Masses in parish churches of all places. I pray that Pope Leo recognises the injustice done to good Catholics in less enlightened dioceses (such as Detroit). It is self-sabotage: ridiculous as well as cruel"
X Link 2025-05-19T02:29Z 42.1K followers, 41.1K engagements
"On an urgent mission to rescue their grandparents from the Synod on Synodality"
X Link 2025-05-21T07:34Z 42.1K followers, 23.5K engagements
"This is a deplorable escalation of the liturgy wars that are destroying the unity of the Church. Bishop Martin should be ashamed of himself. JUST IN: Bishop Michael Martin issues new restrictions on the traditional Mass in Diocese of Charlotte He authorizes only one location at an as yet un-named chapel and reduces frequency to [--] Sundays a month & on Holy Days. https://t.co/8lDxH5lZF8 JUST IN: Bishop Michael Martin issues new restrictions on the traditional Mass in Diocese of Charlotte He authorizes only one location at an as yet un-named chapel and reduces frequency to [--] Sundays a month & on"
X Link 2025-05-23T15:13Z 42.1K followers, 34.9K engagements
"Bishop Martins memo is a bombshell. He taunts traditionalist Catholics by demanding that they renew their commitment to the Church and suggests they need to do penance. Many US bishops will be appalled. Id be surprised if Pope Leo approves of such contemptuous language"
X Link 2025-05-27T00:59Z 42.1K followers, 61.9K engagements
"Bishop Martins fanatical actions have backfired spectacularly. The spectacle of a bishop twisting the knife with such relish has disgusted some of his episcopal colleagues and will not be welcomed in Rome. I suspect even Roche is torn between applauding Martins brutality and worrying about the consequences. As is their pastoral responsibility and canonical right the four pastors of the impacted parishes have written Charlotte Bishop Martin urging reconsideration of his restrictions against the Latin Mass. https://t.co/GFdjZ5Nlb6 https://t.co/WpJzgfaVFb As is their pastoral responsibility and"
X Link 2025-05-28T12:31Z 42.1K followers, 27.7K engagements
"This dictatorial document trashing much of the Churchs heritage already embraced by Pope Leo XIV should render Bishop Martins position in Charlotte untenable. Im not saying he will be removed but he should be immediately. Rorate Exclusive: The Anti-Traditional and Anti-Liturgical Pastoral Letter to be Sent by the Bishop of Charlotte on Liturgical Norms in His Diocese https://t.co/IMEIfHlOjg Rorate Exclusive: The Anti-Traditional and Anti-Liturgical Pastoral Letter to be Sent by the Bishop of Charlotte on Liturgical Norms in His Diocese https://t.co/IMEIfHlOjg"
X Link 2025-05-28T15:54Z 42.1K followers, 29.5K engagements
"He has become the most hated bishop in America and not just in traditionalist circles. Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has initiated a new chapter of confusion for the Catholic Church in America. https://t.co/EYrS9TWxse Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has initiated a new chapter of confusion for the Catholic Church in America. https://t.co/EYrS9TWxse"
X Link 2025-05-28T18:31Z 42.1K followers, 100.6K engagements
"I wonder if Pope Leos enthusiastic references to Pope Francis while sincere are also intended to keep liberals happy while he changes theological and liturgical direction. Leo XIV: marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total faithful and fruitful (cf. Humane Vitae 9). A correction of Amoris Laetitia For it in fact marriage was an ideal (no 122) and individual conscience paramount https://t.co/0CXPfkXpmQ Leo XIV: marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total faithful and fruitful"
X Link 2025-06-02T07:58Z 42.1K followers, 70.2K engagements
"Youth Mass 👇"
X Link 2025-06-08T18:45Z 42.1K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Murderous bastards Jerome Mayhew MP (@JeromeMayhew) sums up today's debate: We've made a major change to the abortion law on the basis of no evidence session no committee stage scrutiny just [--] minutes of backbench debate and a government minister wind-up who refused to take any interventions. https://t.co/M9hIJf08Ky Jerome Mayhew MP (@JeromeMayhew) sums up today's debate: We've made a major change to the abortion law on the basis of no evidence session no committee stage scrutiny just [--] minutes of backbench debate and a government minister wind-up who refused to take any interventions."
X Link 2025-06-17T20:18Z 42.1K followers, 14.1K engagements
"I have never been more ashamed of my country The British House of Commons has just voted with a vast majority for the complete decriminalization of abortion up to birth in England and Wales. God have mercy. The British House of Commons has just voted with a vast majority for the complete decriminalization of abortion up to birth in England and Wales. God have mercy"
X Link 2025-06-17T20:21Z 42.1K followers, 35.7K engagements
"A colleague texts me: The government should issue a formal apology to Harold Shipman. He was just ahead of the curve. A pioneer really"
X Link 2025-06-20T16:28Z 42.1K followers, 48.2K engagements
"This is highly significant. The greatest of living cardinals has just celebrated a TLM in a parish church. Let us pray that Pope Leo honours him by relaxing his predecessors cruel restrictions on the ancient Mass. The great Cardinal Zen: After celebrating the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) at Mary Help of Christians Parish in Hong Kong I led a Eucharistic procession The great Cardinal Zen: After celebrating the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) at Mary Help of Christians Parish in Hong Kong I led a Eucharistic procession"
X Link 2025-06-22T11:05Z 42.1K followers, 15.9K engagements
"This wasnt my finest hour. I do admire Ed and I apologise. Catholic writer @holysmoke whose work Ive long admired and w/ whom Ive always been on good terms out of the blue DMs me to say hes blocking me because of my TDS (i.e. my defense of Catholic teaching on just war abortion IVF). It seems politics trumps faith and friendship https://t.co/OOTbf0Unju Catholic writer @holysmoke whose work Ive long admired and w/ whom Ive always been on good terms out of the blue DMs me to say hes blocking me because of my TDS (i.e. my defense of Catholic teaching on just war abortion IVF). It seems politics"
X Link 2025-06-22T21:34Z 42.1K followers, 70.6K engagements
"He was a vicious murderer who would no doubt have found an excuse to do away with you. I love King Henry VIII for stopping the Papal religion taking hold in England. https://t.co/Ozv8A5dtFU I love King Henry VIII for stopping the Papal religion taking hold in England. https://t.co/Ozv8A5dtFU"
X Link 2025-06-28T20:38Z 42.1K followers, 44.3K engagements
"Wow. We suspected it and now we know. Traditionis Custodes was based on a flagrant lie. Well done @dianemontagna EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes. Previously undisclosed text raises serious questions about the stated rationale for Pope Francis decree restricting the TLM. My inaugural article on Substack: https://t.co/em3E9IVpJj https://t.co/ua0DG4S3K1 EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes. Previously undisclosed text raises serious questions about the stated rationale for Pope"
X Link 2025-07-01T14:21Z 42.1K followers, 101.6K engagements
"New Holy Smoke: Time for Pope Leo to make some tough decisions. Start by getting rid of Tucho and liberating the Latin Mass. https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/its-time-for-pope-leo-xiv-to-make-some-tough-decisions/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/its-time-for-pope-leo-xiv-to-make-some-tough-decisions/"
X Link 2025-07-01T16:17Z 42.1K followers, 98.5K engagements
"We now know that Arthur Roche was up to his neck in a conspiracy to deceive faithful Catholics. His career has ended in disgrace"
X Link 2025-07-01T21:29Z 42.1K followers, 82.5K engagements
"It seems possible today that a Catholic journalist may have brought about an end to the Churchs disastrous and we now know deliberately engineered liturgy wars. Shes called @dianemontagna and we are all in her debt"
X Link 2025-07-01T23:30Z 42.1K followers, 52.8K engagements
"The popesplainers dont have a clue how to respond to the revelation of Franciss deceit. Look at @poperespecter1 flailing around helplessly 👇"
X Link 2025-07-02T08:42Z 42.1K followers, 26.4K engagements
"A DM from a priest friend. Good point I think"
X Link 2025-07-02T13:10Z 42.1K followers, 29.6K engagements
"Cardinal Pell said of Pope Francis: It costs a lot of money to be that humble. @holysmoke The appearance of poverty is often quite costly. @holysmoke The appearance of poverty is often quite costly"
X Link 2025-07-03T12:12Z 42.1K followers, 46.7K engagements
"Montagna's is a Vatican Watergate the late Pope lied to justify his decision to limit TLM celebrations. This shatters the image of a pontificate centred on proclamations of synodality and collegiality. @nicospuntoni gets it right: https://newdailycompass.com/en/the-uncomfortable-question-about-the-latin-mass-sends-bruni-into-a-tailspin https://newdailycompass.com/en/the-uncomfortable-question-about-the-latin-mass-sends-bruni-into-a-tailspin"
X Link 2025-07-04T08:57Z 42.1K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Pope Leo really is a wonderful communicator perhaps the most gifted of all recent popes in this respect. Pope Leo's soft voice in english 🥹😭 "We have our ears flooded constantly with all kinds of digital inputs but sometimes we forget to listen to our own hearts. And it's in our hearts that God speaks to us." https://t.co/DgF1te44Ps Pope Leo's soft voice in english 🥹😭 "We have our ears flooded constantly with all kinds of digital inputs but sometimes we forget to listen to our own hearts. And it's in our hearts that God speaks to us." https://t.co/DgF1te44Ps"
X Link 2025-07-05T19:26Z 42.1K followers, 40.3K engagements
"This is a tremendous tribute to Cardinal Burke by the Pope. Note Leos emphasis on Burkes legal expertise. Canon law lies in ruins and the Pope knows it. Also the cardinal is a profoundly holy man. Even if you dont agree with his views that should be obvious. NEW: Pope Leo has written to congratulate Cardinal Burke on his 50th ordination anniversary & thank him for his service to the Church @Pontifex thanks Burke for the earnest care he has demonstrated most especially for the law which has also been of good service to the https://t.co/VvbShS0jqJ NEW: Pope Leo has written to congratulate"
X Link 2025-07-09T00:26Z 42.1K followers, 31K engagements
"The banning of private Masses in St Peters was one of the many incomprehensible acts of the last pontificate. Surely Pope Leo will reverse a measure that caused so much pain to priests. . ✝ At dawn in Fontgombault Abbey Benedictine monks offer private Masses at side altars. . https://t.co/TQJAHQyYh6 . ✝ At dawn in Fontgombault Abbey Benedictine monks offer private Masses at side altars. . https://t.co/TQJAHQyYh6"
X Link 2025-07-24T12:19Z 42.1K followers, 45.6K engagements
"This is breathtaking. Bravo Holy Father Buona sera buenas tardes good evening. Pope Leo XIV greeting over [------] young people gathered in St. Peters Square this evening telling them in English: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of world. https://t.co/YP8TAXTmpC Buona sera buenas tardes good evening. Pope Leo XIV greeting over [------] young people gathered in St. Peters Square this evening telling them in English: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of world. https://t.co/YP8TAXTmpC"
X Link 2025-07-29T21:07Z 42.1K followers, 26.1K engagements
"Now that Pope Leo has declared St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church surely its time to sweep away restrictions on the Mass that Newman himself celebrated"
X Link 2025-07-31T10:54Z 42.1K followers, 21.3K engagements
"This is extraordinary. One of the most admired cardinals in the Church praises Cardinal Burke for humbly enduring a humiliation that though Eijk does not say so was inflicted on him by Pope Francis. Dutch Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk of Utrecht has warmly commended Cardinal Raymond Burke for how he has endured criticism from some inside the Church who have attacked him for proclaiming the fullness of the Catholic faith. Cardinal Ejik was preaching at a July [--] Mass to mark https://t.co/UWpiTwj31t Dutch Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk of Utrecht has warmly commended Cardinal Raymond Burke for how"
X Link 2025-08-02T22:32Z 42.1K followers, 52.1K engagements
"Fascinating. Pope Leo finds himself behind an altar without a prominent crucifix the sort of omission one associates with liberal masters of ceremonies. Cardinal Zen then reminds us that Pope Benedict requested that all priests celebrate Mass in front of a clearly visible central crucifix ie one standing vertically rather than lying flat on the altar which is the miserable compromise favoured by liberals including the notorious Bishop Martin of Charlotte NC. Cardinal Zen is clearly not criticising the Pope who has apparently been let down in this matter. But his words highlight just how far"
X Link 2025-08-03T09:16Z 42.1K followers, 50.3K engagements
"The cardinals really were guided by the Holy Spirit when they chose our new Holy Father. Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears at the Consecration at Mass this morning in Castel Gandolfo. https://t.co/xJvbFxf01T Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears at the Consecration at Mass this morning in Castel Gandolfo. https://t.co/xJvbFxf01T"
X Link 2025-08-15T15:28Z 42.1K followers, 112.4K engagements
"I doubt it. This is a massive PR disaster for the publicity-obsessed Fr Martin one he brought on himself. Dear @Pontifex: Women cannot enter St. Peter's with bare shoulders but hand-holding males with FCK THE RULES knapsacks are welcomed. I can almost hear @JamesMartinSJ cackling from here. https://t.co/0Amgr2LE3t Dear @Pontifex: Women cannot enter St. Peter's with bare shoulders but hand-holding males with FCK THE RULES knapsacks are welcomed. I can almost hear @JamesMartinSJ cackling from here. https://t.co/0Amgr2LE3t"
X Link 2025-09-06T20:22Z 42.1K followers, 42.8K engagements
"I have decided to mark the raising of St Carlo Acutis to the altars by apologising to @jdflynn for my repeated cheap and mean-spirited attacks on him. We may not be on the same wavelength but he does far more good than harm is an outstanding family man and together with @canonlawyered and my dear friend @LukeCoppen runs the most important news website in the Catholic world. Ill be renewing my subscription to @PillarCatholic today"
X Link 2025-09-07T08:52Z 42.1K followers, 34.9K engagements
"The Tridentine Mass returns to St Peters. This is big news. JUST IN: Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass in the Old Rite in St. Peters Basilica during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome this October [----]. The Mass will be offered at the Altar of the Chair on Saturday October 25: https://t.co/RoGCedb14x https://t.co/aoM5m6kUEs JUST IN: Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass in the Old Rite in St. Peters Basilica during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome this October [----]. The Mass will be offered at the Altar of the Chair on"
X Link 2025-09-07T21:13Z 42.1K followers, 49K engagements
"What a shame that a Pope who grew up in the same city as Charlie didnt say this. Friends let us remember Charlie Kirkas a kind of apostle of civil discourse but above all as a man who loved Jesus Christ. https://t.co/wetPaswIxQ Friends let us remember Charlie Kirkas a kind of apostle of civil discourse but above all as a man who loved Jesus Christ. https://t.co/wetPaswIxQ"
X Link 2025-09-12T21:42Z 42.1K followers, 25.4K engagements
"Arent you sick of this shit JUST IN: Hip hop concert at the Vatican tonight. US band Clipse performs with pop singer Pharrell Williams & John Legend St Peters Square turned into a concert venue tonight https://t.co/ix6wvdn3lT JUST IN: Hip hop concert at the Vatican tonight. US band Clipse performs with pop singer Pharrell Williams & John Legend St Peters Square turned into a concert venue tonight https://t.co/ix6wvdn3lT"
X Link 2025-09-13T21:55Z 42.1K followers, 84.6K engagements
"Archbishop Cordileone is a giant among bishops not just morally impregnable but an evangelical pioneer and as a patron of sacred art a creative force of revived orthodoxy. I stand in solidarity with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield Illinois in urging Cardinal Cupich to reconsider giving Senator Durbin a Lifetime Achievement Award through the Archdiocese of Chicagos Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity given his long record of supporting I stand in solidarity with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield Illinois in urging Cardinal Cupich to reconsider giving Senator Durbin a Lifetime"
X Link 2025-09-22T23:35Z 42.1K followers, 22.4K engagements
"Tridentine Mass is already back in St Peters Basilica in the week it is being expelled from Charlotte NC parishes. BREAKING: a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form was offered today for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel at the altar of St. Michael in St. Peter's Basilica. The first time in years that a TLM has been offered here. (📸: Peter Carter on FB.) https://t.co/jHvcfeIDGK BREAKING: a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form was offered today for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel at the altar of St. Michael in St. Peter's Basilica. The first time in years that a TLM has"
X Link 2025-09-29T12:26Z 42.1K followers, 35.6K engagements
"Pope Leo has told several people that he was elected to bring peace to the Church. It pains me to say that today that prospect seems as elusive as ever"
X Link 2025-09-30T21:06Z 42.1K followers, 43.2K engagements
"This article is so desperately unfair to Abp Longley who was roped into various LGBT listening exercises but advocates chastity for gay Catholics is doctrinally and politically one of the more conservative English prelates and a much-loved friend to traditionalist Catholics. Pope Leo XIV raises pro-LGBT UK archbishop to key Vatican roles https://t.co/ONYgXoIQ3W Pope Leo XIV raises pro-LGBT UK archbishop to key Vatican roles https://t.co/ONYgXoIQ3W"
X Link 2025-10-03T20:39Z 42.1K followers, 57.4K engagements
"Thank God this wretched man never became pope. How dare he betray Nigerias Christian martyrs in this fashion. Speaking at the Aid to the Church in Need's Religious Freedom Report Pietro Cardinal Parolin says that the violence against Christians in Nigeria is "not a religious conflict of Muslim against Christians but rather more a social one for example disputes between herders and https://t.co/VZCR5RWvvm Speaking at the Aid to the Church in Need's Religious Freedom Report Pietro Cardinal Parolin says that the violence against Christians in Nigeria is "not a religious conflict of Muslim"
X Link 2025-10-21T14:34Z 42.1K followers, 50.1K engagements
"Im in Rome. The streets are full of joyful traditional Catholics. No doubt the Bergoglian old guard will try to stop the Pope from witnessing these extraordinary scenes. Latin Mass pilgrimage to the Vatican happening now Scores of clergy and seminarians leads hundreds of faithful on procession @PerMariam https://t.co/mfB8eohMkx Latin Mass pilgrimage to the Vatican happening now Scores of clergy and seminarians leads hundreds of faithful on procession @PerMariam https://t.co/mfB8eohMkx"
X Link 2025-10-25T11:17Z 42.1K followers, 30.3K engagements
"Its happening St Peters welcomes back the liturgy for which it was built"
X Link 2025-10-25T13:31Z 42.1K followers, 59.1K engagements
"Standing room only in the section of St Peters set aside for the solemn Tridentine Mass celebrated by Cardinal Burke"
X Link 2025-10-25T13:46Z 42.1K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Cardinal Burke now giving thanks for all the souls who found Christ down the centuries thanks to the usus antiquior"
X Link 2025-10-25T14:00Z 42.1K followers, 13.1K engagements
"You know its the ancient rite when the priests arent ancient"
X Link 2025-10-25T14:25Z 42.1K followers, 54.1K engagements
"Cardinal Ernest Simoni [--] hero of the viciously persecuted Albanian Catholic Church recites the prayer to St Michael:"
X Link 2025-10-25T15:15Z 42.1K followers, 503.3K engagements
"Heres a take that will lose me followers. Catholic liberals did not in fact get what they wanted from Francis: no married priests no women deacons and a provision for gay blessings so catastrophically mishandled that Francis basically nuked it. (That isnt to say that blessings of same-sex relationships dont happen in contravention of Church teaching but they already did when JPII and Benedict were in office.) Francis even de-fanged the synod by removing the participants right to vote on hot-button issues much to the fury of hardline synodistas. And most of you unlike me arent old enough to"
X Link 2025-10-27T18:10Z 42.1K followers, 34.9K engagements
"Strange analogy. Basil Hume wasnt even a bishop when he was appointed so hadnt spent years in the magic circle. He had a certain charisma which Moth doesnt. The latter has been on every shortlist as a dull possibility. No one is keen though theres general relief it wont be Hudson. This would be the Cardinal Basil Hume of unexpected but wouldn't be a bad shot This would be the Cardinal Basil Hume of unexpected but wouldn't be a bad shot"
X Link 2025-11-11T07:51Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It begins: This is exquisite - An Open Letter to the Bishop of Charlotte: "Bishop Martin it is men like you who strongly imply that the Protestants had it right." https://t.co/RWRQvF2oA7 This is exquisite - An Open Letter to the Bishop of Charlotte: "Bishop Martin it is men like you who strongly imply that the Protestants had it right." https://t.co/RWRQvF2oA7"
X Link 2025-11-13T00:35Z 42.1K followers, 76.1K engagements
"Reports that Pope Leo will grant a Latin Mass extension to any bishop of England and Wales who asks for one. Nuncio has informed the bishops several of whom have already secured permission for Tridentine Masses in their dioceses. So it seems that any incoming Archbishop of Westminster will continue Cardinal Nicholss enlightened policy and the TLM is likewise safe in Southwark"
X Link 2025-11-13T20:25Z 42.1K followers, 72.6K engagements
"Leo didnt say what Hale hoped and predicted he would say. So hes grasping at straws. NEW: The United States Ambassador to the Holy See is appearing to undermine Pope Leo XIVs stance on Venezuelan independence. This has never happened in the history of official US-Holy See diplomatic relations. NEW: The United States Ambassador to the Holy See is appearing to undermine Pope Leo XIVs stance on Venezuelan independence. This has never happened in the history of official US-Holy See diplomatic relations"
X Link 2026-01-05T18:22Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The distance between Rome and the SSPX has just increased enormously. These will be illicit consecrations and may cause some non-SSPX traditionalists to question their attendance at the Societys Masses. Does it increase pressure on Pope Leo to end the persecution of traditionalists loyal to him I think it may. Gosh I didn't think I would see the day but after years and years of rumour it seems it is finally happening. Today the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X announced the consecration of new bishops for the Society. https://t.co/yjTCXYVsPs Gosh I didn't think I would see the"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:07Z 42.1K followers, 23.6K engagements
"Im sorry but I dont think Catholics on either side of the debate should be guided by a priest who still belongs to the Legionaries of Christ founded by one of the most disgusting abusers in Church history. Pope Leo should disband it immediately. If you follow a bishop in schism you too are in schism. This has been how we understand a random Orthodox believer is in schism. It would also apply to people choosing to follow schismatic "Catholic" bishops who choose to consecrate bishops against the Pope's request. If you follow a bishop in schism you too are in schism. This has been how we"
X Link 2026-02-03T10:15Z 42.1K followers, 27.1K engagements
"Dont see it myself but heres a photo of Liberace with Pope Pius XII. @holysmoke Hicks reminds me of an ecclesiastical Liberace. @holysmoke Hicks reminds me of an ecclesiastical Liberace"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:16Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@AndyDrozdziak Pope Francis was nothing of the sort. How much do you know about the Zanchetta and Grassi scandals"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:15Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"We are talking about the same man I trust The guy who spent large sums of money trying to keep child abuser Fr Grassi out of jail; who created a top Vatican financial job for Bishop Zanchetta when he was already charged with abuse (later convicted); who refused to act against suspected serial rapist Fr Rupnik until after his plan to reintroduce him to parish life was revealed (and never did take action nor explain his sinister lifting of Rupniks excommunication). And this is to say nothing of the savage divisions over the Latin Mass and sexuality that he exacerbated. If your opinion is that"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:26Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Im not going to agree to disagree having read court reports of Zanchettas abuse and corruption and the extraordinary lengths to which Francis went to keep him out of court. Also Im familiar with Cardinal Bergoglios outrageous attempts to smear the child victims of Grassi and you can see for yourself on YouTube the moment when Francis as pope lied on camera about his involvement with Grassi. Merciful Tell that to the women who claim that they were raped by Rupnik whose criminal and sacrilegious behaviour was well known to Francis when he tried to rehabilitate him having previously cancelled"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:31Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"He goes to a tailor (probably Anderson & Shepherd) who make overcoats intended to last at least [--] years. But Im guessing one of these would set you back a minimum of [----] today. The King of Britain is still wearing a coat he has had for [--] years. What does this indicate https://t.co/d0yrBm8joQ The King of Britain is still wearing a coat he has had for [--] years. What does this indicate https://t.co/d0yrBm8joQ"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:13Z 42.1K followers, 13.8K engagements
"This is the purest fantasy wedded to what appears to be a crude misconception of Webers Protestant Ethic thesis. Capitalism is simply a perverted form of Christianity. (Calvinist Neo-scholastic Jansenist.) If we overthrow it and restore Christendom in a new more egalitarian mode we can then have a better and more respectful exchange with other ancient religious civilisations. Capitalism is simply a perverted form of Christianity. (Calvinist Neo-scholastic Jansenist.) If we overthrow it and restore Christendom in a new more egalitarian mode we can then have a better and more respectful"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:35Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Synodal lobby thought they were on course for women deacons and formal gay blessings. Francis teased them then withdrew support and theyre not happening under Pope Leo. So they are desperate to see the TLM suppressed. Perhaps it was always their top priority since they find hurting their enemies more psychologically satisfying than helping their friends. (They are not alone in this to be fair.) Fr. Reese AND Rita Ferrone targeting the TLM in recent weeks This is not unprecedented but it does make wonder if theyre afraid of something happening in the short term. Fr. Reese AND Rita"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:23Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Tony Benns work for the people would have created East German levels of poverty while leaving us unable to defend ourselves against a Soviet nuclear strike. His Labour cabinet colleagues thought he was a dangerous (if personally likeable) loony and they werent wrong. I don't think I've ever seen the apple fall further from the tree than with Tony Benn and Hilary Benn. Literal polar opposites. His pops fought to give up his lofty title to work for the people his son is desperately trying to cling on to his to stay in government. Father for I don't think I've ever seen the apple fall further"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:32Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Seems like Grillo is not the only Bergoglian upset with Pope Leo: La guerra al Papa passa anche dai social: Checchinato e la critica a Leone XIV 🗞📰 Leggi ora: https://t.co/wFxsH9rLhE https://t.co/smrboE1HhO La guerra al Papa passa anche dai social: Checchinato e la critica a Leone XIV 🗞📰 Leggi ora: https://t.co/wFxsH9rLhE https://t.co/smrboE1HhO"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:28Z 42.1K followers, 12.8K engagements
"@pattif21 That was the absolute highlight"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:17Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Lets remember how little moral authority the US bishops actually have. For decades senior figures kept quiet about their own Epstein Uncle Ted. McElroy of Washington actively protected him"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:18Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Im getting quite good at guessing which items of news concerning Pope Leo wont be posted on X by @ChristopherHale. Will this be one of them NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and spiritual writings The retreat is to be held in the Pauline Chapel not the Redemptoris Mater chapel w the Rupnik art https://t.co/kMAnXIyO7o NEW: Bishop Erik Varden will lead the Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV & the Roman Curia +Varden bishop of Trondheim is famed for his preaching and"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:55Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive had my differences with Cardinal Nichols over the years but recently hes defended the sanctity of human life while protecting the traditional Mass (in so far as Rome would let him). I send him my warmest wishes for a long and productive retirement. @CardinalNichols has served as Archbishop of Westminster since [----]. Join us at 5:30pm at @WestminsterCath this Thurs (5th February) for a special Mass of Thanksgiving for his [--] years of service and to wish His Eminence well as he enters a new chapter of his priestly ministry. https://t.co/k2VBoy3vwd @CardinalNichols has served as Archbishop"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:12Z 42.1K followers, 15.9K engagements
"German media are now speaking of synodale Ermdung or synodal fatigue writes @LukeCoppen. I think most Catholics are sick of Synodality a vanity project of the last pontificate that benefited only ambitious clerics and lobbyists. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/is-germany-facing-synodal-fatigue https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/is-germany-facing-synodal-fatigue"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:37Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"How dare this ex-priest smugly pronounce that condemnations of Pope Franciss behaviour were without evidence. Has he read the Zanchetta court documents I have. Does he know about Francis according to Zanchetta himself contacting his protege to help him conceal the source of funds for dodgy projects in his Orn diocese Has he read the agonising testimony of Zanchettas victims forwarded to Rome before the disgraced bishop was airlifted into a Vatican sinecure that kept him out of the hands of Argentinian prosecutors Can he explain why Francis lifted the automatic excommunication of his friend"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:29Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"OK. Tell me the whole truth about the Grassi and Zanchetta cases. @cephasquovadis @holysmoke The anti Pope Francis campaign is still trying for it to work. It never has worked much to their frustration and even less so the more comes to light. We do know the truth and it has absolutely nothing to do with anything this man says his hate is palpable so unhealthy. @cephasquovadis @holysmoke The anti Pope Francis campaign is still trying for it to work. It never has worked much to their frustration and even less so the more comes to light. We do know the truth and it has absolutely nothing to do"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:06Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@cathfav @VeritasLucia The snub was denying him a red hat"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:05Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@shaunmwing @HE0776 @ClarkeMicah @cjsnowdon Does Google translate Wing into English"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:48Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@VeritasLucia @Netterville It is nonsense. I remember discussing Pope Francis with Bannon in [----]. The campaign ie opposition to Franciss more dubious actions verging on criminality existed long before he took an interest in it"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:20Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@VeritasLucia @Netterville Uh My simple point was that opposition to Francis began long before SB expressed an interest in it"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:45Z 42.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Bishop Martin now so obviously losing the plot that he may force a reluctant Vatican to intervene. Update from Charlotte: Every pastor has been emailed a video clip from Bishop Martin which MUST be shown at all Masses this weekend. It is believed that in the video he will share his pastoral vision for the diocese. In an unusual move a first for the diocese the video Update from Charlotte: Every pastor has been emailed a video clip from Bishop Martin which MUST be shown at all Masses this weekend. It is believed that in the video he will share his pastoral vision for the diocese. In an unusual"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:43Z 42.1K followers, 18.1K engagements
"The archdiocese of Los Angeles embraces cancel culture. Is Archbishop Gomez aware of this crude attempt to silence Ed Feser I had been invited to speak later this month at St. Johns Seminary in Los Angeles. I have now been informed that the event is being cancelled due to complaints from unnamed critics who find me too controversial. Meanwhile the always controversial Fr. James Martin will be https://t.co/vqMDCpFlAq I had been invited to speak later this month at St. Johns Seminary in Los Angeles. I have now been informed that the event is being cancelled due to complaints from unnamed"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:15Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is embarrassing. Ive tried and failed twice to get through The Brothers Karamazov. Any advice The online trend of young men reading classic works of literature and posting about it continues. @ChrisKindaReads was the first I saw do it but it is spreading. Dont blackpill on the next generation. https://t.co/O5A5OfjKzf The online trend of young men reading classic works of literature and posting about it continues. @ChrisKindaReads was the first I saw do it but it is spreading. Dont blackpill on the next generation. https://t.co/O5A5OfjKzf"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:59Z 42.1K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Hale applauds Archbishop Hickss more sober attire. But note that when Pope Leo wears more elaborate vestments than his predecessor which he does every day thats perfectly fine. Hickss [----] Installation Dolans [----] Installation https://t.co/yx85dcb77s Hickss [----] Installation Dolans [----] Installation https://t.co/yx85dcb77s"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:46Z 42.1K followers, 12.3K engagements
"A reminder that some of us who regarded Francis as the worst pope for centuries also believe that Pope Leo XIV is a man of deep personal holiness who is working hard to heal the catastrophic divisions in the Church. Steve Bannon worked with Jeffrey Epstein for years to try to take down Pope Francis. He failed miserably. Now he and his friends in the MAGA Epstein class are trying to destroy Pope Leo XIV. By the grace of God we will defeat him and his cronies once and for all. Steve Bannon worked with Jeffrey Epstein for years to try to take down Pope Francis. He failed miserably. Now he and"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:59Z 42.1K followers, 18.7K engagements
"Some thoughts. You can believe that Pope Leo is holy and well-intentioned even if you conclude that he is badly misguided on crucial issues. I think hes too enigmatic for us to make firm judgments about his convictions. My instinct and Ive been reporting on the Church since the 80s is that hes more theologically orthodox than many people assume but worried about antagonising the liberal lobby that destroyed Benedict. A very revealing moment was his refusal to pray in the Istanbul mosque. Also note that he wouldnt give a blessing alongside other Christian bishops. On the other hand he loathes"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:06Z 42.1K followers, 21.9K engagements
"Does anyone think the movie is superior or even equal to the magnificent TV adaptation I've got a story to tell you it's all about spies". TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (1979) Many believe the 70s TV adaptation is superior to the [----] movie. John le Carr said the series was his favourite adaptation of his work. #AlecGuinness #HywelBennett https://t.co/zaRtFZ7uwk I've got a story to tell you it's all about spies". TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (1979) Many believe the 70s TV adaptation is superior to the [----] movie. John le Carr said the series was his favourite adaptation of his work. #AlecGuinness"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:32Z 42.1K followers, 25K engagements
"Glorious Mad toxic old Grillo is fuming about one of Pope Leos letters. I wonder how many other Bergoglian apparatchiks are wringing their hands I regret to inform you that Andrea Grillo apparently thinks @Pontifex 's letter to Madrid priests was something of a hack job: (auto-translated) "This one-sided discourse is followed in the Letter by a description of the "priest" along the lines of the "cathedral": this is a I regret to inform you that Andrea Grillo apparently thinks @Pontifex 's letter to Madrid priests was something of a hack job: (auto-translated) "This one-sided discourse is"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:39Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It was a terrifying miscalculation. Benedict lived for nearly another decade frail but intellectually productive. If hed waited just another couple of years it would have ruled out the cunning and amoral Archbishop of Buenos Aires as a candidate. Today is [--] years since Pope Benedict announced his resignation. Its a day Ill never forget. Today is [--] years since Pope Benedict announced his resignation. Its a day Ill never forget"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:50Z 42.1K followers, 78.5K engagements
"If the SSPX turns this down the gulf between the Society and the Ecclesia Dei communities will increase to the point where traditionalists will have to choose sides. If the leadership of the SSPX accepts the deal the Society will split. Either way there is a very strong case for Pope Leo removing the ludicrous restrictions of Traditionis Custodes. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has communicated the outcome of the meeting between Cardinal Vctor Manuel Fernndez and Fr Davide Pagliarani Superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X with the consent of Pope Leo XIV. Rome is"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:03Z 42.1K followers, 36.7K engagements
"Why didnt you do those articles while Pope Francis was alive Couldnt work out how to explain the Vatican sinecure for Zanchetta the victim-smearing Grassi report the lifting of Rupniks excommunication @holysmoke Ive already told you several times that we are in the middle of doing many articles that will prove the truth. With interviews and statements from many victims and others covering every single lie you have told about Pope Francis and his actions. As with Steve Bannon the. @holysmoke Ive already told you several times that we are in the middle of doing many articles that will prove the"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:19Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Thats convenient @holysmoke What like last time you said the same When I started to answer point by point person by person and after each limited amount worded comments that I numbered [--] [--] [--] etc you just started asking for the one I hadnt said yet. No not doing that again. You will have to wait. @holysmoke What like last time you said the same When I started to answer point by point person by person and after each limited amount worded comments that I numbered [--] [--] [--] etc you just started asking for the one I hadnt said yet. No not doing that again. You will have to wait"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:57Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Grassi. Rupnik. Zanchetta. Explain. Now. @holysmoke Whats convenient Surely you have access to your own page to see. Stop using victims for your anti Pope Francis campaign. @holysmoke Whats convenient Surely you have access to your own page to see. Stop using victims for your anti Pope Francis campaign"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:59Z 42.1K followers, [----] engagements
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