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Sacred music, Is Parolin leaving?, resignation "for health reasons", the misunderstanding about the Middle East, another excommunicated priest, the eternal financial reform of the Vatican, Russia corrects Pope Francis, Leo XIV and France, journalists on papal trips, Canadian military, the "priest of migrants", Pope Joan.

August 20, 2026 | SPECOLA

Let's go with the week and head towards the end of August, a month traditionally very quiet for news that has changed. We start this August 20th filled with more than interesting news. The music...

Human integral development, the Vatican despises Catholic parents, the Pope's authority, the Pachamama idol, who guards Tradition?, the Vatican athletics, the Swiss Guard, the Italian deacons, the Tridentine rite, the Fraternity banned in Lourdes, the validity of Vatican II.

August 19, 2026

Pope Leo XIV and the men of Francis, the Vatican in Ukraine and Russia, the Petrine Ministry, the trip to America and Trump, a leg for Constantine, respect for the rites, Scola and synodality, the Pope and the traditional Mass, Strickland and the supernatural, Woelki turns 70, left-wing bishops, State and Church in Germany, curias without priests, the lame donkey of progressivism.

August 18, 2026

Perspectives on the pontificate of Leo XIV, Parolin and Ceuta, 'squatters' with blessings, Catholic rainbows in China, protecting priestly celibacy, the end of Christianity.

August 17, 2026

The Pope in Castelgandolfo for the Assumption, two new nuncios, Leo XIV and the Traditional Mass, vocations to religious life, back to synodality, the newly baptized in France.

August 16, 2026

Another Mason in the Vatican, Marx awarded, Leo XIV and Roche, the 1962 Missal, what is the synod for?, the nuncio to Morocco, bishops who are not very Catholic, bishop arrested, homosexuality in Latin America, Father Kolbe.

August 15, 2026

The pontifical historical sciences, Pope Leo and the religious, the ecological garden in the Vatican, the media church in Venezuela, imposed euthanasia, Catholic and pro-abortion governor, Europe's dilemmas, exorcism at Epstein's ranch, exhausted modernism.

August 14, 2026

The Sunday Mass, the Pope in San Marino and Rimini, Decline of the Petrine ministry?, Is silence an absolution?, Enzo Bianchi and the excommunications, the woke bishops, the German mockery, the pro-abortion governor, the protomartyr of Peru, "we live etsi Deus non daretur".

August 13, 2026

The Vatican Economic Council, Leo XIV with Colombia, the Pope in France, the unsettling future, the Masonic funerals, the culture of nothingness, Norway's first synod, the first martyrs of Peru.

August 12, 2026

Strange consultants of Leo XIV, Eijk at the Vatican, another luxury hotel, "guest of honor", Buenos Aires, the Pope at the heart of secularism, have we adapted Catholic liturgy to Protestant?, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, Trump prefers Catholics.

August 11, 2026

The Pope: Sudan, Ukraine and Russia; Parolin and the visit of Leo XIV to Mexico, Zuppi at the secular funeral, anniversary of the atomic bomb, the funerals of the Freemasons.

August 10, 2026