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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 | SPECOLA

Monday, Saint Faustina Kowalska. The weekend left Assisi and Pompeii, and the week brings three dates: on Wednesday the family meeting opens with the one hundred and eighty-seven, on Thursday there is mass…

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

León XIV: "the painful scourge", seven victims behind closed doors, the veil of Rupnik, Metz and a venerable at the table, Zuppi flies to Moscow, thirteen thousand two hundred thirty-four, McElroy and the robots, to the abortionist Biden, the merchants have returned to the temple, Zuppi in Moscow.

September 28, 2026

Pope Leo XIV: mass where the guillotine stood, Macron stayed home, those who did not swear, two reprimands in Notre-Dame, the godparents, Parolin at the General Assembly, the Primate of Bolivia dies, who chooses the bishops?, a Greco from Lima, the miracle of Valeria.

September 27, 2026

León XIV: "a just laicity does not consist in excluding religion", the most terrible of human works, the last daughter of the Church, Stockholm hides a Roman decree, Baton Rouge rises to the Dicastery, the one of the payment to Pachamama explains synodality, three hundred thousand Swiss francs, Gallagher and the Wall, Sheen the next day.

September 26, 2026

León XIV: that Europe safeguard life, a third woman investigated in the Orlandi case, the trial about the trial, a cry the Church does not want to hear, the first criticism of the encyclical, Aveline the key piece, remaining in the majority, between Paris and the Council.

September 25, 2026