The Gates Foundation sponsored the Assisi interreligious meeting.
The Bill Gates Foundation is listed as the first “Platinum” sponsor of the international interreligious peace gathering organized by the Catholic Community of Sant’Egidio in Assisi, Italy, from October 25–27, 2026.
Pope Leo XIV cancelled his planned attendance, reportedly for health reasons.
The Gates Foundation appeared in the highest sponsorship category alongside two other organizations: BFIO and Fondazione Cariplo, an Italian philanthropic foundation.
The German Bishops’ Conference was also listed among the event’s official partners.
The amount contributed by the Gates Foundation to the Assisi meeting has not been publicly disclosed. Neither have any specific conditions or agreements associated with its sponsorship.
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Pro-life group protests Cardinal Cupich’s award to philanthropist, Planned Parenthood donor
Cardinal Blase Cupich said the award is not an endorsement of every stance a person has, but Illinois Right to Life accused him of “scandalizing the faithful” at the Oct. 29 banquet.
Pro-life activists will publicly protest the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Rerum Novarum Banquet based on objections to an award recipient who has donated more than $1 million to organizations that promote abortion access, including Planned Parenthood.
The archdiocese announced it will give the Nostra Aetate Award to the billionaire businessman and philanthropist Michael Sacks at the Oct. 29 banquet. He is CEO of the investment firm GCM Grosvenor, the president of Sacks Family Foundation, and a board member of the Obama Foundation.
Sacks, through his foundation, has donated to philanthropic efforts related to education, arts, veterans, and other issues. His contributions also include $500,000 to Planned Parenthood of …

Arkansas has been named the most pro-life state in the nation for the seventh year in a row, according to Americans United for Life’s annual Life List. The ranking was announced Wednesday with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Americans United for Life scores all 50 states on their protections for life in law across bioethical issues from conception to natural death, not solely abortion. Louisiana ranked second. “I’m incredibly proud that Arkansas is ranked the most pro-life state in the nation for the seventh year in a row,” Gov. Sanders said. “Every life is a gift from our Creator, made in His image, and is worth defending. As Governor, I will continue fighting for every Arkansan, at every stage of life, and make our state the best place to live, work, and raise a family.” John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life, said the ranking reflects sustained partnership and leadership.
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BLASPHEMY: Fr. James Martin’s Outreach Publishes an “LGBTQ Confiteor” Invoking “Queer Saints”
Outreach, the apostolate aimed at LGBT Catholics promoted by Jesuit James Martin, has published an adaptation of the Confiteor, the penitential prayer that the faithful recite at the beginning of Mass, in which the invocation of the Virgin Mary, the angels, and the saints is replaced by a reference to “spiritual ancestors” and “queer saints.”
The proposal appears at the end of an article published on October 25, titled “An LGBTQ Catholic Guide to the Mass: Praying the Confiteor,” written by Ariell Watson Simon, a graduate in Theology from Boston College. The text is part of a series by Outreach dedicated to interpreting different elements of the Catholic liturgy from an LGBT perspective.
The publication has drawn criticism for modifying one of the best-known prayers of the Mass. LifeSiteNews described the adaptation as “blasphemous” and specifically questioned the invocation of the so-called …

Vatican wants to eliminate traditional Latin Mass - Bishop Schneider.

“To whom God wants to make very holy, He makes devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
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Rabbi Mentz tells Fox News that Israel has directed Trump to attack Iran "immediately" because Israel is "ready to roll" with this war. ...
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Iran Activates
Its "Dead Hand" Doctrine
Iranian supreme authorities have ordered the country's military leadership to fully activate the decentralized "mosaic defense" doctrine amid a growing likelihood of a joint US-Israeli strike against the Islamic Republic.
According to reports, local commanders have received detailed lists of targets, covering US economic and political assets throughout the region, which could become targets in the event of a war.
The "dead hand" or "mosaic defense" doctrine is designed to allow Iran to continue fighting even if its central leadership is defeated.
The IRGC is organized into 31 largely autonomous provincial commands, each of which has its own weaponry, supplies, and decision-making authority, allowing military commanders to make decisions without waiting for approval from Tehran.
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Bishop Schneider celebrates in Rome

Leo XIV receiving a warm welcome this morning from Charismatic Catholics mostly from Kerala in southern India.

This is St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Morristown, Tennessee. Can someone explain what’s going on?

Chaos in Rome. Rioters storm the Colosseum, tourists caught in the middle flee in panic. The symbol of Italy under assault. Unbelievable.

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Netanyahu announces that after Gaza he will transfer the war on West Bank
“I and Katz have reviewed a plan for a large-scale military operation that hasn't occurred in the West Bank since 1967, and we are the ones who will determine its timing.
The army will enter the neighborhoods from which the attackers originated, evacuate the residents, inspect every house, and destroy the infrastructure of terrorism. We are prepared for a large-scale operation in the West Bank.”
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Denver’s newly appointed Archbishop Jim Golka was seen praying over Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Other Catholic bishops visible in the photo included Edward Burns of Dallas, Scott Bullock of Rapid City, and Joseph Naumann of Kansas, a longtime supporter of Trump and the MAGA movement.

Jewish settlers’ attacks on Palestinians are not isolated incidents, and despite condemnations by Israeli officials, the violence continues, fueled by persistent impunity for perpetrators.
The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a joint statement following the October 17 settler attack on the Christian village of Taybeh.
They insist the attack was not an isolated incident, but part of a wider pattern of settler violence against Palestinian villages across the West Bank, escalating during the olive harvest.
The Church leaders acknowledge that Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the violence and that Israeli police made arrests. However, they warn that settler attacks continue because perpetrators enjoy impunity, raising serious concerns about the effectiveness of Israeli law enforcement.
Finally, they condemn a recently published religious ruling permitting Jews to take Palestinians' olives, calling it "very worrying and dangerous, and absolutely unacceptable."
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Leo XIV-appointed Missio President doubles down: Women called to priesthood.
Pope Leo XIV appointed Irish Sister Mary Teresa Barron on October 8, as president of the Pontifical Mission Societies (Missio) and adjunct secretary of the Vatican's Dicastery for Evangelization.
On October 19, she told EWTNNews.com: “Who am I to say whether the door is open or closed to women priests?”
“Women today may hear the call to priesthood,” she said. “So for me, itʼs how do we within Church facilitate that discernment?”
Sister Barron wants the Church to accompany women who feel "called to the priesthood", “What do we do as a Church to accompany that discernment to see if, yes, this is what the Spirit is calling the entire Church to or not at this point?” she asked.
Barron cited the October 2024 Synod on Synodality's final document: “What comes from the Holy Spirit cannot be stopped.”
“So I think even though … there have been moments where we’ve been told we canʼt talk about this at all, itʼs over … it …

Saint Bernadette Soubirous about Our Lady of Lourdes ~ She is so beautiful that, once you have seen Her, you want to die to be able to see Her again.

EXCLUSIVE: James Martin has dined regularly with Napa billionaire for years - LifeSite
The Busch family ‘salon dinners’ treat James Martin as a co-host and table companion without public correction or any demand for retraction.
Tue Oct 20, 2026 - 12:19 pm EDTTue Oct 20, 2026 - 1:55 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — I had a strong conviction about a week ago that the center had shifted. That the old normal for Catholics was no longer the norm, or that John Q Catholic was now in a very different place from his co-religionists from where he was even only 20 years ago.
Only a few years ago it would have been unthinkable that one of the best-known, wealthiest, and most intellectual conservative Catholic groups in the U.S. would have Fr. James Martin, SJ, lead a Eucharistic procession through Manhattan. Martin, the best-known promoter of the LGBT heresy in the world; Martin, denounced by cardinals and bishops as a heretic; Martin, who hopes Catholic “married” “husbands” will one day be able to kiss at …

October 19: Cardinal Koovakad, the Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, was given a tour of the sacred spaces, housed in Europe’s first traditional Hindu stone temple, followed by a gathering in the main hall where members of the Neasden Temple community shared information and testimonies of their experiences of interreligious dialogue.

Netanyahu says Israel is not colonialist — 'We are the original owners'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the label of a colonialist enterprise, asserting absolute historical and divine ownership over the territories in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
The ‘Greater Israel’ is a plan to expand Israel’s borders all the way to the limits vaguely described in ancient Jewish religious texts where God purportedly promised Jews the land stretching from the Nile River to Euphrates.
There is another distinction: traditional colonialism sought to extract resources and subjugate the local population. The project unfolding today is different: it aims at total erasure.
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