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| Pope Leo urges Christians to ‘be less fearful’ of Islam, encourages ‘dialogue’ with Muslims |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-05-2025, 10:25 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo urges Christians to ‘be less fearful’ of Islam, encourages ‘dialogue’ with Muslims
'One of the values of this trip is precisely to raise the world’s attention to the possibility
that dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible,' Leo stated.
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Pope Leo XIV leaving the event at the Waterfront Mass on December 2, 2025, in Beirut, Lebanon
Photo by Adri Salido/Getty Images
Dec 4, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has spoken warmly about the relationship between Muslims and Christians and downplaying fears of Islamization.
During his recent international trip to Turkey and Lebanon, the Pope gave a speech at an interfaith meeting held at Martyrs’ Square in Beirut.
“Dear friends, your presence here today, in this extraordinary place where minarets and bell towers stand side by side, yet both soar toward the heavens, testifies to the enduring faith of this land and the persistent dedication of its people to the one God,” Leo said, speaking about the relationship of Christianity and Islam in the country.
“Here in this beloved land,” the Pope continued, “may every bell toll, every adhān [Islamic call to prayer], every call to prayer blend into a single, soaring hymn – not only to glorify the merciful Creator of heaven and earth, but also to lift a heartfelt prayer for the divine gift of peace.”
On the flight back to Rome, the Roman Pontiff gave a press conference, in which a reporter asked him about the perceived threat of Islam to the Christian identity of the West.
“All of the conversations that I had during my time, both in Türkiye and Lebanon, including with many Muslims, was precisely concentrated on the topic of peace and respect for people of different religions,” Leo stated.
“I know that, as a matter of fact, that has not always been the case,” he said, likely referring to past Islamic invasions of Christian Europe.
“I know that in Europe there are many times fears that are present but oftentimes generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who may be from another country, another religion, another race,” the Pope continued.
“And in that sense, I would say that we all need to work together. One of the values of this trip is precisely to raise the world’s attention to the possibility that dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible.”
“I think one of the great lessons that Lebanon can teach to the world is precisely showing a land where Islam and Christianity are both present and are respected and that there is a possibility to live together to be friends,” he stated.
“I think those are lessons that would be important also to be heard in Europe or North America. We should perhaps be a little less fearful and look for ways of promoting authentic dialogue and respect,” he concluded.
Bishop Marian Eleganti, speaking exclusively at the Rome Life Forum on December 4, criticized the Pope for his “naïve” remarks.
The Swiss bishop stressed that Muslims do not worship the same God as Christians, but instead, quoting Psalm 95, he said that all the pagan gods are demons.
“Muslims teach that God has no son. Where is the same God? It is impossible – it is such a contradiction,” he stated, adding that the Pope portrayed “a naïve relationship with Islam.”
According to OpenDoors’ World Watch List of Christian persecution, the most common reason for Christian persecution is “Islamic oppression.” In 31 of the 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution, Islam is the main reason. Christians face varying levels of oppression and persecution in almost every Muslim-majority country in the world.
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| Vatican refuses to form ‘definitive judgment’ on women deacons |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-05-2025, 10:19 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican refuses to form ‘definitive judgment’ on women deacons
The Petrocchi Commission rejected ‘women priests’ and said evidence strongly ‘rules out’ ordaining women
as deacons but claimed the question of the diaconate is not definitively closed.
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Dec 4, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A Vatican commission denied the possibility of a sacramental “female diaconate” but without making a “definitive judgment.”
In December, the Vatican released the report of the Petrocchi Commission, headed by Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, which ruled out admitting women to the diaconate as a sacramental degree of Holy Orders but suggested that a form of “female deacons” could be possible.
“The status quaestionis of historical research and theological investigation, as well as their mutual implications, rules out the possibility of moving in the direction of admitting women to the diaconate understood as a degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders,” the commission said.
“In light of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the Church’s Magisterium, this assessment is strongly maintained, although it does not at present allow for a definitive judgment to be formulated, as is the case with priestly ordination,” it continued.
The commission was established in 2021 by Pope Francis to examine the possibility of women being ordained as deacons. The commission’s final seven-page report was submitted on September 18 to Pope Leo XIV and has now been openly published by the Vatican.
Within the commission, some argued that preventing women from being ordained as deacons undermined the “equal dignity of both genders, based on this biblical reference” as well as the profession of faith that “there is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female, for you are all ‘one’ in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).
This group expressed hope that women would be able to become deacons, as they argued that the ordination of a deacon is for ministry and not for the priesthood.
However, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the diaconate is one of the three degrees of Holy Orders, not just a ministry or function.
Some members of the commission pointed this out and insisted “on the unity of the sacrament of Holy Orders, together with the nuptial meaning of the three degrees that constitute it.”
This group rejected the hypothesis of a “female diaconate,” noting “that if the admission of women to the first degree of Holy Orders were approved, exclusion from the others would become inexplicable.”
The orthodox group further pointed out that “the masculinity of Christ, and therefore the masculinity of those who receive Holy Orders, is not accidental but is an integral part of sacramental identity, preserving the divine order of salvation in Christ. To alter this reality would not be a simple adjustment of ministry but a rupture of the nuptial meaning of salvation.”
This thesis was voted on by the commission but not passed as it received five votes in favor and five opposed.
At the same time, while the commission ruled against women being ordained as deacons, members votes 9-1 in favor of expanding women’s role in the Church.
The commission expressed hope that “women’s access to ministries instituted for the service of the community might be expanded (…) thus ensuring adequate ecclesial recognition of the diakonia of the baptized, particularly of women. Such recognition will be a prophetic sign especially where women still suffer situations of gender discrimination.”
In conclusion, Petrocchi called for a continued examination of the role of the diaconate “on its sacramental identity and its ecclesial mission—clarifying certain structural and pastoral aspects that are currently not fully defined.”
Meanwhile, teachings of the Catholic Church reserve the vocation of priesthood to “baptized men.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that the Church is bound by Christ’s decision to ordain men to the priesthood and “for this reason the ordination of women is not possible.”
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| The Catholic Trumpet: The Forbidden Sermon That Refutes the Neo SSPX |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-03-2025, 12:50 PM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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✠NEW VIDEO: The Forbidden Sermon That Refutes the Neo SSPX
THE☩TRUMPET [slightly adapted] | November 26, 2025
On January 1 2015, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais delivered one of his most decisive sermons, reaffirming the unchanging Catholic faith.
Watch Here:
He declared that there can never be compromise with the conciliar Church. He repeated Archbishop Lefebvre’s strict duty for any priest who wills to remain Catholic to separate from the conciliar Church until Rome returns to Tradition. He exposed the false argument that the Society is in an abnormal situation and corrected the lie that the faithful who hold fast to Tradition become a sect. He explained the visible Church and the four notes that define it. His words strike directly at the new trajectory of the neo SSPX and restore the original line of Archbishop Lefebvre.
Historical Insight from This Sermon:
This January 1, 2015 sermon captures the uncompromising witness of the old Bishop Tissier. Over the following nearly ten years, despite repeated approaches by faithful priests such as Fr Hewko, Bishop Tissier was often dismissive of the real Resistance. [...]
During this period, Bishop Tissier:
• Remained largely silent in support of the Resistance
• Turned Resistance-leaning priests back towards the neo-SSPX
• Lent credibility to the neo-SSPX by remaining in its structures
Pray for the repose of his excellency’s soul.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Vatican II Inside the Resistance |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-03-2025, 12:46 PM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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✠NEW VIDEO: Vatican II Inside the Resistance
THE☩TRUMPET | November 24, 2025
This presentation is taken from The Recusant, issue sixty three, and narrated by Greg Taylor, founder and editor of The Recusant. It exposes the gradual entrance of Vatican II ideas into the Resistance through the teachings of Bishop Williamson.
Watch Here:
This video sets out the four principal errors found in Bishop Williamson’s teaching. These include his rejection of structure and authority, his distortion of religious liberty, his Trad ecumenism, and his treatment of the New Mass. All of this is taken from the written record. Nothing is altered. Nothing is exaggerated.
Our purpose, by the grace of God is the same as that of +Archbishop Lefebvre. We defend the Faith. We keep the record straight. We protect souls from ideas which oppose the perennial teaching of the Church.
May God bless all who love the truth and seek it without compromise.
Link to the The Recusant Issue #63.
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| Pope Leo lays wreath at grave of Turkish leader Atatürk despite links to anti-Christian genocides |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-02-2025, 01:31 PM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo lays wreath at grave of Turkish leader Atatürk despite links to anti-Christian genocides
Under the leadership of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, his forces committed widespread murder and persecution
of Greek, Armenian, and other Christian minorities.
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ANKARA, TURKEY – NOVEMBER 27: Pope Leo XIV lays a wreath during a visit to the Atatürk Mausoleum on November 27, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey.
Burak Kara/Getty Images
Dec 1, 2025
ANKARA, Turkey (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV paid homage at Atatürk’s tomb on November 27, 2025, at Anıtkabir in Ankara, despite the Turkish leader’s links to genocides against Christian minorities.
On November 27, 2025, in Ankara, Pope Leo XIV – arriving for his first apostolic visit to Turkey – paused at Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, where he laid a wreath and signed the Honor Book. The visit, carried out according to a protocol consolidated over recent decades for diplomatic reasons, preceded the official meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the presidential palace, with the stated intention of promoting regional stability and dialogue among peoples at a time marked by international tensions and Turkey’s internal crises.
“May Turkey be a source of stability and of drawing peoples closer together, in the service of a just and lasting peace,” Pope Leo XIV declared, speaking before a large globe at the entrance of the presidential palace.
Atatürk remains, in fact, a deeply controversial figure. Referred to as the “Father of the Nation” for having led the War of Independence and launched an extensive modernization program, historians highlight troubling aspects of his political legacy. For example, under Atatürk’s leadership, his forces committed systemic murder and persecution of countless thousands of Greek, Armenian, and other Christians in Turkey, executed Christian clergy, and destroyed Christian monuments in the region, which was home to ancient Christian communities.
The new republican direction did not openly address the Armenian genocide committed by the Young Turk government between 1915 and 1923.
The tribute to Atatürk – the founder of the Turkish Republic in 1923 – has by now become standard diplomatic practice during papal visits to Turkey since the era of John Paul II. It was not always so: when Paul VI visited the country in 1967 he avoided Anıtkabir.
The turning point came with John Paul II in 1979, followed by Benedict XVI in 2006 and Francis in 2014, thereby consolidating in international protocol a gesture that acknowledges the founder of the Turkish secular state while avoiding the political interpretations surrounding his figure.
Some scholars also recall that the Young Turk movement, to which Atatürk was connected, had significant ties with Masonic circles of the time, an element that for decades has fueled critical interpretations of the nation-building process.
The Pope’s arrival took place at a time when Ankara has been attempting for years to define its own geopolitical role, presenting itself as an effective mediator between the Euro-American bloc and the Russo-Chinese one. Furthermore, Turkey aspires to become a new reference point for the Sunni Islamic world over Saudi Arabia, which several sectors of the Muslim public perceive as too close to the United States.
This balancing strategy has been particularly evident in the fact that a very large segment of the Turkish population openly supports the Palestinian cause and calls for an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
However, foreign policy is not the main concern of most citizens. The persistent cost-of-living crisis, fueled by high inflation and market fluctuations made worse by political uncertainty, remains the dominant issue.
This explains why Leo XIV’s jorney, although symbolically and diplomatically significant, went largely unnoticed in Turkish society and the local media, with the exception of the small but ancient Christian community. Fatma Cicek Geyik, a 57-year-old artist interviewed by the Associated Press, said that the Pope’s visit should not be “exaggerated” and that Turkey does not need to “elevate” foreign presences. “They will leave just as they came,” Geyik told reporters.
At the institutional meeting, Erdoğan welcomed the Pontiff with all the honors required by protocol, aware of the international weight of the visit in such a delicate moment. The Pope, who since the beginning of his pontificate has insisted on disarmed peace among peoples, reiterated the need to promote dialogue.
For the small Turkish Christian community – 0.6 percent of the population – the visit represents a sign of attention and hope. Yet the reason for Pope Leo’s apostolic visit to Ankara is primarily ecumenical, taking place on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and in the wake of the publication of the controversial Apostolic Letter In unitate fidei, in which the Catholic dogma of the Filioque appears to have been minimized in the name of dialogue with Eastern Orthodox Christians.
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