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Pope Leo in France, Gallagher in Ukraine, Czerny turns 80 today, the Synodal Thematic Path, abuses this week, the limits of authority, A Synodal Church?, Germans in the Curia, naive obedience, Thiel and the Antichrist, “God save the saints”, Black and queer theologian, shortage of exorcists.

July 18, 2026 | SPECOLA

Saturday and Saturday in July, the heat invades us in the eternal city and we don’t feel much like facing harsh reality. These are tough times and they don’t leave us alone, not even in summer or on a Saturday. The battlefie…

Concert in Castelgandolfo, A Summer of Changes in the Curia?, a Pope or a Politician, interview with Filippo Iannone, the Declaration of Rome, on the consecrations, Is There a Conciliar Church?, the End of the Company in Spain, married priests in Belgium, euthanasia in France, to understand the disorder of Vatican II.

July 17, 2026

First visit of Pope Leo to Latin America, the bishop of Huacho, Burke and synodality, Sarah in the European Parliament, director general of the IOR, the ‘Marxist’ priest, Cordileone and the Traditional Mass, the traditional movement, the excommunication decree, the Vatican in the storm, Pius VII and the ‘priest-eater’ Napoleon.

July 16, 2026

Farewells in the Vatican media, Zuppi in Ukraine, Sarah returns to Guinea, the Aguiar reform in Guadalupe, pastoral care of ‘migrants’, canon 212, Mass among ruins, the Gaudian crosier, the catechism of schism, Catholics of Hamburg, ‘anti-rights’ bishops, Germany without faithful but richer, funerals and the last things, red terrorism, Catholics in football.

July 15, 2026

The Fraternity appeals the excommunication, Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Mexico, the Vatican blesses Aguiar, Zuppi in Ukraine, a rainbow Pope?, Eternal Rome and Conciliar Rome, excommunication for euthanasia, the martyrs of Libya, Grünwidl bans Joachin Heimerl from writing.

July 14, 2026

The Angelus in Castelgandolfo, Leo XIV in Covadonga, “Catastrophe and Wonder”, the Bishop of Eichstätt, complicities Made in USA, Guadalupe resolved?, the universities ‘Catholic’, the Waldensians, the fake swindler priests, some close and others open.

July 13, 2026

Lunch with the Pope, the Latin rite in Ukraine, abusers of the week, the women theologians and Maria Goretti, back to the Fraternity, the Ecclesia Dei Institutes, the devil exists: “a living and spiritual being, perverted and corrupting”

July 12, 2026

The situation of the Church and of Leo XIV, multilateralism, the Vatican and the protection of religious sisters, the Church in China, reactions to the Lefebvre case, Muslims and mosques, healing unity in the Church.

July 11, 2026

Leo XIV and freedom, did Francis choose a "good" cardinal?, the Society of Saint Pius X defends itself, headless bishops: Germans and Italians, between equalities and inequalities, the Sistine Chapel in Brazil, Benedict XIV and Summorum Pontificum.

July 10, 2026

León XIV and the United States, Lopez Romero: an isolated case?, spies in the Vatican, the validity of the sacraments, the confusion of the faithful, the Latin Mass, the “trumpet of Jericho,” unresolved tensions.

July 9, 2026

The Pope on vacation, another German synodal bishop, the bullying cardinal of Rabat, Reviewing Amoris Laetitia?, the moderator of the Roman Curia, anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, Lefebvre and Padre Pio, Müller and Muslim immigration, Muslim ‘Christian sympathizer’, the brutal excommunication decree.

July 8, 2026