Papal Mass.
Our Lord's body is handed around.

Gloria.TV News on the 16th of January 2014
No Freedom To Insult Religion: On board of the plane that brought him from Sri Lanka to the Philippines Pope Francis commented on freedom of expression referring to the French defamation magazine Charlie Hebdo. Quote: “One is not allowed to insult the faith of others.” Francis referred to Mister Gasbarri, the responsible for the organization of the Apostolic Journey who was standing next to him, saying: “If Mister Gasbarri who is a big friend of mine says a bad word against my mother, then he must be ready to receive a punch.”
Same-sex-marriage cannot be tolerated: 95-year-old archbishop Emeritus José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez of Manizales, Columbia, is among those who will be made Cardinals on February 14. On January 11th he gave an interview to the Columbian weekly Semana. To the question what he things about same-sex-marriage, Pimiento said: “Same-sex-marriage is a union that can be tolerated, but it is no marriage.”
Incompetence: The …

Gloria.TV News on the 31st of October 2014
Cardinal Forbidden To Say Mass: Coming Wednesday Cardinal Raymond Burke was supposed to celebrate an old-rite Mass in the Vienna parish church of St. Leopold which belongs to the very rich monastery of Klosterneuburg. But the Mass was cancelled. The provost of Klosterneuburg, Father Bernhard Backovsky has personally forbidden the local pastor to allow the Cardinal to celebrate.
The Doors to Hell: In an interview with laportelatine.org the superior general of the FSSPX, bishop Bernard Fellay, spoke about the recent Synod of Bishops. He agrees that sinners need help but – quote – “one does certainly not help them by telling them that there is an open door where, in reality, there is none. The door they are about to open is a door leading to hell.” And: “These prelates have received the power of the keys, that is to say, to open the doors to heaven, but they are about to close them and to open the doors to hell.”
Which Way? On October 28th archbishop …

Pope Francis is my hero. Make this man a saint now!
By Mesfin Fekadu
Elton John called Pope Francis “my hero” for his compassion and push to accept gays in the Catholic church at his annual AIDS benefit.
John hosted the event, “An Enduring Vision: A Benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation,” Tuesday night in New York City, which raised $3.7 million. He said Francis is pushing boundaries in the church and told the crowd: “Make this man a saint now, OK?”
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Liturgische Erneuerung in Italien.
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Gloria.TV News on the 24th of October 2014
Apologizing for the Truth: Catholic journalist Michael Voris has profusely apologized for having truthfully reported last weekend about Cardinal Burke’s truthful statement that the Pope was harming the Church by not speaking out openly about the crazy ideas floating around in the Synod. Voris apologized for having given the impression that he – Voris – was criticizing the Pope. But Gloria.tv believes that Voris has now to apologize for giving the impression that defending the Pope is in contradiction with speaking the truth.
No Role Model: The number of British Anglicans has halved in the last 50 years from 65 to 31 per cent. In the same period the number of British Catholics grew slightly from 8,6 to 9,1 percent. The Anglicans will still dramatically bleed in the future as among the Brits below 24 only 14 per cent identified as Anglican. The crazy thing: A big number of Catholic bishops and even the Bishop of Rome seem to believe that the Church …

Was that why he was elected?
by Fr. Ray Blake
I must admit I still don't understand Francis. Is he the greatest thing since unsliced bread, a cunning old Jesuit, a conservative, a trad, a prophet, a fool or even the anti-Christ; a breath of fresh-air or the stench from the tomb of those rather detestable men who surrounded the Blessed Paul VI and added to his suffering?
I have never done the Benedict through Francis thing at least, but neither am I convinced of the Francis against Benedict thing entirely. I am still perplexed and confused by him. Perhaps it is in Francis who rather than being an Emperor who is wearing no clothes we actually have clothes with no Emperor. I mean those morning homilies that come out of the marble halls of Sta Martha that are full of barbs but actually teach nothing. Perhaps we should expect nothing!
It is worth remembering that what many of the Cardinals were calling for before the Conclave was a de-centralised Church and greater Collegiality. The BBC, …

Was that why he was elected?
by Fr. Ray Blake
I must admit I still don't understand Francis. Is he the greatest thing since unsliced bread, a cunning old Jesuit, a conservative, a trad, a prophet, a fool or even the anti-Christ; a breath of fresh-air or the stench from the tomb of those rather detestable men who surrounded the Blessed Paul VI and added to his suffering?
I have never done the Benedict through Francis thing at least, but neither am I convinced of the Francis against Benedict thing entirely. I am still perplexed and confused by him. Perhaps it is in Francis who rather than being an Emperor who is wearing no clothes we actually have clothes with no Emperor. I mean those morning homilies that come out of the marble halls of Sta Martha that are full of barbs but actually teach nothing. Perhaps we should expect nothing!
It is worth remembering that what many of the Cardinals were calling for before the Conclave was a de-centralised Church and greater Collegiality. The BBC, …

Burke: The pope had “done a lot of harm” by not stating “openly what his position is.”
A top cardinal told BuzzFeed News on Friday that the worldwide meeting of church leaders coming to a close in Rome seemed to have been designed to “weaken the church’s teaching and practice” with the apparent blessing of Pope Francis.
Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American who heads the Vatican’s highest court of canon law, made the remarks in a phone interview from the Vatican, where a two-week Extraordinary Synod on the Family will conclude this weekend. An interim report of the discussions released on Monday, called the Relatio, produced a widespread backlash among conservative bishops who said it suggested a radical change to the church’s teaching on questions like divorce and homosexuality, and Burke has been among the most publicly critical of the bishops picked by Pope Francis to lead the discussion.
If Pope Francis had selected certain cardinals to steer the meeting to advance his personal views …

Gloria.TV News on the 29th of September 2014
Poor Pope: Bishop Rogelio Livieres Plano of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, who was removed last week from his office by Pope Francis, has published an open letter to the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Bishop Rogeglio stated that Pope Francis will have to answer for his decision before God. There have never been any specific allegations against Rogeglio. His seminary had about seven times as many seminarians as the much larger Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. Bishop Livieres is like Pope Francis from Argentina.
No Mercy: In his open letter Bishop Rogelio calls his removal unfounded and arbitrary. Quote: “Despite so much discourse about dialogue, mercy, openness, decentralization, and respect for local Churches, I haven’t have the opportunity to talk to Pope Francis, not even to clarify a doubt or a concern.” More than 60 graduates of Rogeglio’s seminary have become priests in the last ten years. The diocese also opened a minor seminary and …

‘Nuns on the Bus’ - Day One with Joe Biden
By: Marian T. Horvat, Ph.D.
A recent incident where our Vice President praised his grade school sisters caught my attention. While promoting the Obama administration in Iowa recently, Joe Biden, a liberal Democrat and Catholic in name only, lent his “star power” to the inauguration of the 2014 “Nuns on the Bus” campaign that took off outside the Des Moines statehouse.
Sisters of many orders, all a part of NETWORK, a national Catholic Social Justice lobby, are going around the country on a bus on a road trip for justice, “challenging the Church and government to reclaim their core values.”
This year’s theme is “We the People, We the Voters,” and the goal is to sign up voters for the midterm November 2014 elections. They are seeking out immigrants, the marginalized, the poor to sign them up to vote. If they take the pledge to vote, then they are invited to sign their names on the side of the bus.
Now, top on the list of issues for these sisters …

REEL ANSWERS: Bishop Fellay & The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Critics of Bishop Bernard Fellay argue that he should 'sign a deal' of SSPX regularization with the Vatican ASAP. But after what the Vatican just did to the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, others aren't so sure. This clip from The Outlaw Josey Wales may help convince Fellay's critics to chill out.

Gloria.TV News on the 19th of September 2014
The End of the First Church: The Apostolic Commissioner Father Fidenzio Volpi will close the Franciscans of the Immaculate Institute at the Church of San Pasquale in Benevento, Italy. The decision was made in cooperation with the general secretary of the order Father Alfonso Bruno. This is a symbolic decision because the first community of the Franciscans of the Immaculate was founded in Benevento in 1990. The first 30 brothers made their vows there in that year. The friars were celebrating in this church the only Old Mass in the whole oft the Archdiocese of Benevento.
Bishops on the List: It is said that the Pope has asked for the list of bishops who incardinate friars of the Franciscans of the Immaculate who wish to abandon the order, Marco Tosatti writes in La Stampa. Many friars are leaving after the intervention and the compulsory re-education from the Traditional Latin Mass wanted by the Vatican and after the newly assigned leadership …

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Gloria.TV News on the 5th of September 2014
Bishop Attacks Popes: In a memorandum leaked to the media, Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerpen, Belgium, has accused Paul VI and John Paul II for allegedly having disrespected the collegiality of the bishops. Bonny is angry at Paul VI because he published the encyclical letter Humanae vitae which forbids artificial contraception and at John Paul II for having published Familiaris Consortio. Bonny has been a close collaborator of the ultra liberal German Cardinal Walter Kasper. He believes that Pope Francis is on his side.
Meeting: Bishop Bernard Fellay, the superior general of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X will meet on September 21st with the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller. During his time as a bishop of Regensburg, Germany, Müller was a pronounced enemy of the SSPX and showed little understanding for the faithful of the old rite.
Conflict: Bishop Vitus Huonder of Chur, Switzerland …

Gloria.TV News on the 18th of August 2014
So Far Away: Chinese Catholics cheered Pope Francis's visit in South Korea, albeit the news of the Pope's visit was censored by the government-controlled media. Chinese officials threatened Catholics and clergymen with retribution if they take part in the papal visit. Priests and mass goers on Friday at a church in Beijing expressed that they felt close to the Pope. However, as the Pope's visit in South Korea came to an end, Chinese Catholics expressed sentiments that he seemed "so far away."
Stamina: Even seasoned pope-watchers have been amazed by Francis’ stamina during his visit in South Korea. It’s an eleven-hour flight from Rome to Seoul and there’s a seven-hour time difference. This can do awkward things to human metabolism and human sleeping habits. But Pope Francis has never shown signs of being affected by either.
Manipulation: Homosex news outlets are trying to twist the words of Bishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu in Uganda. Odama said …

The Passion of the Copts.
Rescue Egypt's Copts

Gloria.TV News on the 22nd of July 2014
Dead: Tony Palmer, the Protestant preacher who enjoyed a privileged relationship with Pope Francis, has died after a motorcycle accident in the U.K. Palmer was a – quotation marks - bishop in a group called the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches. He gained notoriety this January after Pope Francis received him for a long private meeting and suggested that Palmer would record him on his iPhone for a video message for some Prosperity Gospel Conference. Palmer died on Sunday after hours of surgery.
Not Acceptable: On Vatican Radio the Apostolic Nuncio in Tel Aviv, archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, has strongly criticized the Israeli military action against Gaza, a territory, Israel has kept under blockade and occupation for decades. Quote: “The situation really becomes tragic. There is a loss of human lives that is not acceptable.” So far Israel has killed more than 500 people, most of them civilians and children. Yesterday an Israeli tank …