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  • [Catholic Caucus] Thousands of Catholics join SSPX Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to Rome, process into St. Peter’s Basilica

    08/29/2025 5:02:40 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | August 27, 2025 | Maike Hickson
    [Catholic Caucus] Thousands of Catholics join SSPX Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to Rome, process into St. Peter’s BasilicaOn August 19-21, the pilgrims entered the Holy Doors of first the Basilica of St. Mary Major, then St. John Latera's Basilica, and finally St. Peter's Basilica.Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) procession inside St. Peter's BasilicaLast week, nearly 8,000 Catholics from 44 countries joined the 680 clergy and religious of the traditional Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) on its pilgrimage to Rome on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 2025. On three different days, August 19-21, the pilgrims entered the Holy...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Vatican welcomes LGBT pilgrims as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimage

    08/29/2025 4:46:35 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | August 29, 2025 | John-Henry Westen
    [Catholic Caucus] Vatican welcomes LGBT pilgrims as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimageIn the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter's Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of 'inclusion.'Friends, what does it mean when the Vatican welcomes open promoters of sexual perversion into its Jubilee celebrations?That’s right, a group of over 1,000 so-called “LGBTQ Catholics” are about to descend upon Rome next week for the Jubilee year.It’s organized by an Italian group called “La Tenda di Gionata” – the Tent of Jonathan, now that is likely a repugnant and...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Society of Saint Pius X Jubilee Pilgrimage Images

    08/21/2025 8:15:14 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | August 21, 2025 | New Catholic
    [Catholic Caucus] Society of Saint Pius X Jubilee Pilgrimage ImagesThe Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is gathering faithful from around the world in their 2025 Jubilee Rome pilgrimage this week. Here are some images and video:
  • [Catholic Caucus] SSPX pilgrimage for Jubilee endorsed by Vatican despite canonical dispute

    08/13/2025 6:03:41 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    The Catholic Herald ^ | August 13, 2025 | Catholic Herald
    [Catholic Caucus] SSPX pilgrimage for Jubilee endorsed by Vatican despite canonical disputeThe Vatican’s official Jubilee 2025 calendar is currently listing a pilgrimage by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (SSPX), with the occasion marking a rare moment of visible accord following long-running tensions between SSPX and the Vatican. According to the SSPX website for Great Britain, the pilgrimage on 21 August will include a public Rosary at Colle Oppio, a Solemn High Mass at 9.30 a.m., and a procession entering the Holy Door of the Archbasilica of St John Lateran.The SSPX, founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in November 1970...
  • Keith Ellison met in Saudi Arabia with jihadi cleric and bank that funds jihad bombings

    12/01/2016 4:44:13 AM PST · by detective · 23 replies
    Ellison has spoken at a convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Yet ISNA has actually admitted its ties to Hamas, which styles itself the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Justice Department actually classified ISNA among entities “who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood.” It gets worse. In 2008, Ellison accepted $13,350 from the Muslim American Society (MAS) to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Muslim American Society is a Muslim Brotherhood organization: “In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One...
  • Climate emergency strikes Islam’s holy ritual, with nearly 600 dead of heat stroke in Mecca

    06/21/2024 3:07:20 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 57 replies
    https://johnmenadue.com ^ | Jun 21, 2024 | Juan Cole
    As the temperature in Mecca reached 125.24° F. (51.8° C.) on Tuesday, word leaked out that nearly 600 pilgrims had died of heat stroke and 2,000 have been hospitalised for treatment. A virtual clinic treated more thousands remotely. Some 324 of the dead were Egyptians, while dozens were from Jordan. The season of the annual Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam, just ended. Some 1.8 million pilgrims participated. Eyewitnesses said that not all the dead were elderly, that young persons died, as well. Pilgrims carry out a series of rituals during the pilgrimage, beginning with preparing themselves...
  • [Catholic Caucus] How to Plant Christendom In Your Parish Community Next Year

    07/26/2023 6:40:04 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | July 20, 2023 | Danielle Heckenkamp
    [Catholic Caucus] How to Plant Christendom In Your Parish Community Next YearThere is a shift among faithful Catholics – it is the desire to renew their faith through prayers, penance, and fasting. The desire to grow closer to God is beyond anything the superficial world can offer the soul. Yet, the spiritual world combined with the natural world can offer quite a penitential and cleansing experience. On May 27-29th, around 16,000 pilgrims traveled on foot from the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris (originally, it began at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris before it burned) to the Cathedral of...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The True Meaning of Our Liturgies” (and the Meaning of Chartres, the Largest Pilgrimage in Europe) - by Fr. Luc de Bellescize

    06/06/2023 1:35:12 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | June 6, 2023 | Fr. Luc de Bellescize
    [Catholic Caucus] “The True Meaning of Our Liturgies” (and the Meaning of Chartres, the Largest Pilgrimage in Europe) - by Fr. Luc de BellescizeIn this beautiful meditation, Father Luc de Bellescize, a priest of the Diocese of Paris, looks back on the difficult post-conciliar years and their abuses, on the extraordinary success of the Chartres Pilgrimage, on the thirst for transcendence, on the mystery of the Trinity, and on the true meaning of the liturgy. La NefJune 6, 2023My grandfather was a Lefebvrist. He was not present at my baptism or ordination. He had organized dozens of retreats for men....
  • Historic Pilgrimage Routes of Japan, Spain Form Friendship Tie that Transcends Religion

    04/25/2023 6:33:41 AM PDT · by chajin · 8 replies
    Japan News (Yomiuri Shimbun) ^ | April 25, 2023 | staff
    A historic pilgrimage route believed to be the oldest in Japan has formed a friendship tie-up with the world-famous Routes of Santiago de Compostela, with the aim of increasing global name recognition for both through cooperation that transcends their different religions. The Saikoku Kannon Pilgrimage officially signed an agreement with the Santiago de Compostela, a World Heritage Site, at the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday. The 1,000-kilometer Saikoku route comprises 33 Buddhist temples worshipping Kannon Bodhisattva, and stretches across seven prefectures, including Osaka, Kyoto and Wakayama...
  • “The Christian Crimea” – New Tourist Destination in Russia

    12/09/2021 7:17:04 PM PST · by marshmallow · 10 replies
    A new tourist route called “The Christian Crimea” is being developed as part of the national tourist project "Tourism and the hospitality industry" in Crimea. This issue was discussed at a meeting between the Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Chernyshenko, and the Chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov, RIA Novosti reports. After the meeting, Dmitry Chernyshenko gave a number of directions, suggesting that a tourist and pilgrimage destination — a national tourist route called “the Christian Crimea” — should be developed as part of a large-scale tourist project in Crimea. For its...
  • Hagia Sophia, a continuous story of schisms

    07/10/2020 3:25:12 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 6 replies
    Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) ^ | Jul 10, 2020 | Ariana Ferentinou
    ...The decision of the High Administrative Court opens the way for Hagia Sophia to become a mosque again, that will fill many Turkish Muslims with joy; after all, they have been waiting for so long to “break the chains” of Hagia Sophia and enter the place for free as they do with any other place of their faith. ...That, however, is not the view from outside Turkey. As the issue started gathering momentum this year, especially following the special celebrations organized in front of the monument for the 567th anniversary of its conquest. Christians around the world, Byzantine scholars or...
  • A pilgrimage to Champion, Wisconsin (near Green Bay, WI) The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help

    06/17/2020 5:46:33 AM PDT · by ADSUM · 9 replies
    This is the sacred, peaceful place in the United States where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared. It is a humble, quiet place of refuge, noble in simplicity, located at the core of a tri-county region in the heart of agricultural country in Northeast Wisconsin.
  • The uncomfortable truth: Haj pilgrims to Mecca and the spread of illnesses

    09/09/2018 11:53:46 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/09/2018 | Thomas Lifson
    Simply raising this topic is almost certain to be denounced as “Islamophobia,” but disease vectors don’t care about theology.  In the past week, there were two health scares at major US airports with passengers quarantined on airliners that landed from overseas with very sick passengers on board. On Wednesday, an Emirates Airline 380 super jumbo jet from Dubai was quarantined at JFK Airport, with 100 passengers initially reported as ill. Eventually, nineteen passengers were confirmed as ill, and ten passengers were hospitalized with respiratory illnesses. The following day, two American Airlines flights from Europe were quarantined upon landing at...
  • House Hacking Suspects’ Father Transferred Data To Pakistani Government, Ex-Partner Claims

    04/19/2018 7:39:09 PM PDT · by Libloather · 26 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 4/19/18 | Luke Rosiak, Wajid Ali Syed
    FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The father of Imran Awan — an IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who investigators concluded made “unauthorized access” to House servers — transferred a USB drive to a Pakistani senator and former head of a Pakistani intelligence agency, the father’s ex-business partner, Rashid Minhas, alleged. Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran Awan’s father, Haji Ashraf Awan, was giving data to Pakistani official Rehman Malik, and that Imran bragged he had the power to “change the U.S. president.” Asked for how he knew this, he said that on one occasion in 2008 when...
  • January 2018, 'Extraordinary' Boom in Pilgrimages to the Holy Land

    02/05/2018 6:20:46 PM PST · by marshmallow · 14 replies
    AsiaNews ^ | 2/5/18
    The presence of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European pilgrims increased significantly. The "controlled" reaction of the Palestinians against Trump's decision on capital Jerusalem. Pilgrimages "good for the whole population": They help fight terrorism and fundamentalism.Jerusalem (AsiaNews) - 2018 began with an "extraordinary boom" in pilgrimages. The Christian Information Center recently announced this, confirming the statistics of the Israeli ministry for tourism: the tensions over Jerusalem have not affected the steadily increasing number of pilgrims arriving in the Holy Land. In the month that has just ended, 770 groups of pilgrims went to the Holy Land, for a total of 26...
  • Farmer Found Guilty of Murdering US Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago

    04/07/2017 3:38:41 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    The Local ^ | 6 April 2017
    Denise Thiem disappeared on the camino de Santiago on April 5th 2015. Photo issued by Thiem Family A farmer from northern Spain has been found guilty of the brutal murder of American Denise Thiem, who went missing as she walked the pilgrimage route to Santiago. Miguel Angel Muñoz Blas, 41, was convicted by a court in León on Wednesday of the murder of a 40-year-old woman whose body was discovered on his land five months after she disappeared while walking the Camino de Santiago. Denise Pikka Thiem, from Arizona, was last seen on April 5th 2015 in a rural area...
  • Spaniard Walks 6,000 KM From Paris en Route to Makkah

    11/05/2016 3:16:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    Al Arabiya ^ | Saturday, 5 November 2016
    “Issac the traveler” as he is known on social media has so far walked almost 6,000 km and has now reached Kuwait. But the Spanish traveler of Algerian descent has about 1,356 km to go to reach the holy city of Makkah to perform Umrah. Umrah is a non-mandatory lesser pilgrimage made by Muslims to Makkah, which may be performed at any time of the year. From Paris - Issac’s starting point - the traveler took five months to reach Kuwait, passing through 16 countries. The only device he has with him to help him reach the goal is simply...
  • Anglicans to Build New Centre in Spain for Pilgrims on 'The Way' to Santiago de Compostela

    07/29/2016 10:08:46 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 6 replies
    Christian Today ^ | 7/28/16 | Ruth Gledhill
    A new $5 million Anglican Centre is to be built in Spain in Santiago de Compostela, the end of the world-famous Catholic pilgrimage route the Way of St James. The Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, which is part of the Anglican Community under the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is to begin fundraising with the help of Trinity Church, Wall Street in the United States. The new Anglican centre in Spain will have instant and enormous appeal to Christians from through the Anglican Communion worldwide. Santiago de Compostela is believed to be the burial site of the disciple James,...
  • NJ Church Group to Sleep at Philly Zoo in Order to See Pope

    07/30/2015 3:22:38 AM PDT · by Biggirl · 7 replies
    NBCPhiladelphia.com ^ | July 30, 2015 | Jen Maxfield, David Chang
    While some people are spending as much as $600 a night at hotels for Pope Francis’ highly anticipated visit to Philadelphia, a North Jersey church group is spending less money on a far less luxurious place to stay: the Philadelphia Zoo.
  • Revealed: Names of Seven American Muslim Leaders at White House ‘Anti-Muslim Bigotry’ Meeting

    02/05/2015 10:22:38 PM PST · by Nachum · 32 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2/5/15 | Jordan Schachtel
    The White House has still refused to name the “American Muslim leaders” with whom President Obama met to “discuss a range of domestic and foreign policy issues.” According to a White House statement on the President’s meeting, the domestic issues discussed were the “Affordable Care Act, anti-Muslim violence and discrimination, the 21st Century Policing Task Force, and the upcoming White House Summit on Countering Violence Extremism.” On the foreign policy front, “the President discussed the need to continue countering ISIL and other groups that commit horrific acts of violence, purportedly in the name of Islam,” while also congratulating Muslims on...