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Pope Leo XIV places a nun in the missions box, the former president of the Vatican bank, the false teachers in St. Peter's, the unpublished homily of Benedict XVI, Enna and the last view, 170,983 Catholics in Norway, the basement on Via Nomentana, Michelangelo's letter.

October 9, 2026 | SPECOLA

Viernes y el encuentro sobre la familia va por su tercer día, a puerta cerrada, y cierra el 14 con documento. En Sotto il Monte empiezan hoy los tres días por san Juan XXIII. Y la Basílica de San Ped…

Pope Leo XIV opens the meeting without saying "divorced", a few meters from "De Maria numquam satis", Livatino patron of magistrates and a bishop in the dock, Ouellet and the Australian bishop who enters prison, Tucho's quotes compared, new nuncio in Dublin, it is not a court but an arbitration chamber, the mass is not a "chitarrata".

October 8, 2026

Meeting on the family: final document to be issued, Leo XIV: “a yes that is not only for one day”, the Striano case against Becciu, four readings of Amoris laetitia, what Gambetti leaves in St. Peter’s, Eichstätt and the opponents of the Synodal Path, the errors about Saint Francis, forty years of the spirit of Assisi, four hundred million for the Vatican hospital.

October 7, 2026

The Pope receives the Vatican union, Leo XIV and the martyr of sweat, "how long, O Lord?", between awards and the bench, the Jesuits expel Peris, Rupnik and a year of court, Pope Francis's annotated diary Tucho, twenty-two of one hundred and eighty-seven, the papal praise of the Enlightenment, Ottawa and the purification ceremony.

October 6, 2026

Quinielas for San Pedro, Parolin and the "aggrieved people", Assisi and the blessed weapons, Leo XIV and the October rosary, the brush and the painter, Familiaris consortio versus Amoris laetitia, synod: paragraph 60 and the ninety-seven votes, behind Saint Francis stands Clare, the trip Pope Francis did not take, five hundred years since the Sack of Rome.

October 5, 2026

Gambetti leaves the Vatican, Leo XIV to the gendarmes: "a heart that knows how to guard", Amoris laetitia and those who are not, the machine's conscience, layoffs at the Padre Pio shrine, the baptismal register, the viri probati of Antwerp in 2028, Saint John Damascene and Islam, eight hundred years of Saint Francis.

October 4, 2026

Gambetti leaves the Vatican, Leo XIV to the artists: "the spark of the human", two hundred bishops and Amoris laetitia, rewriting the two codes, synodality and pruning "dead wood", in the Orlandi case there was no Vatican intrigue, Christa Pike, 307,117 departures and 19,500 marriages in Germany.

October 3, 2026

Zuppi inside a prisoner camp, "the influence of the big donors", the encyclical calls for overcoming just war, a new foundation with one million euros, Gambetti to Chieti and the chair he leaves, the co-founder and the machine's conscience, Taylor Swift at a celebration of the Word, "charisms are not ad libitum", on October 14 closing mass, the carpets and the catacombs, a ninety-seven-year-old cardinal recites the exorcism from memory.

October 2, 2026

León XIV: Notre-Dame symbol of the journey, "do not ask how to maintain structures", the report that will rewrite the code, a traditional mass in the Vatican, uniting communion and confirmation, stubborn denialism, one hundred and sixty-five years, four flags and a swastika in Aosta, the mercury of the Amazon, Henry VIII the Defender of the Faith, giving lessons on what is not known.

October 1, 2026

León XIV: "they are not mere words engraved on pediments", the traditional Mass as preference, the Summorum replaced by a lectio, the Mass is not a concert, Zuppi in Moscow recounted from Moscow, a drone over the Academy of Sciences, the child as object of contract, from fourteen commissions to eight, the climate apocalypse that does not exist, two hundred fifty copies a day, two thousand professors for fifteen thousand students, the newsstand vendor.

September 30, 2026

León XIV: abuses and the word "systemic", the far right is not Christianity, the hemorrhage and the antidote, Macron backtracks, a step out of the catacombs, the Mass reduced to preference, a hope more human than Christian, Reina dismantles Tarantelli, Antwerp wants to ordain married men in 2028, nothing is known about Rupnik, the cardinal of AI who does not use AI, between Siena and a musical.

September 29, 2026