Seeing is believing

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

It used to be an article of the faith, for me, that there are Catholic Bishops in this world. But as I never met one, I simply believed it.  Now I have met the reality, and found that we agree on everything.

It was a great consolation, to be invited to visit, and a total consolation to have made the trip, to the home of the Most  Rev. René Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, the 2nd oldest living bishop in the Catholic Church.

Then last night, I gave a conference to a small group of Catholic men, about how to survive all the problems in the Church and serve Jesus Christ as He wills.

I also spoke about my work at CrossAzure.Org, and the wonderful work that is being done by so many helping the cause in Ukraine, and on how important it is that Pope Francis consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart, as the only means of salvation for the Church in the modern world.

I want especially to thank my dear Benefactress in Tennessee whose donation made this trip possible.

Remembering Pope Benedict XVI

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

After four years of crusading for Pope Benedict XVI, it seems like just the other day, I looked at the Latin of his Declaratio.

I am not publishing much this month or the next, because I am currently visiting family and friends in the USA.

Let us not forget to pray for Pope Benedict XVI’s soul and for the Holy Father, Pope Francis.


CREDITS: Here I stand in front of the image of Pope Benedict XVI which hangs in the house of my family in the USA. The Latin inscriptions read: Benedict XVI, with the titles of his two most historically significant acts, Summorum Pontificum, for the restoration of the traditional Latin Mass, and Non solum propter, for his Declaratio. At the bottom, the Latin says, “We will never forget you”.

VATICAN: Pope Francis recites the traditional Our Father (video at 17:00)

Editor’s Note: Back in 2020, a new version of the Our Father in Italian was published and adopted in the standard Italian translation used at the Mass, beginning in the liturgical year of 2021. That new translation was based on the faulty Spanish translation which has been used for nearly 500 years, and reads, “And do not abandon us to temptation”. But Pope Francis has just signaled to the world, that the new translation is not obligatory, by reciting the traditional Italian version which is faithful to the original text, at 17:09 in the above video, from the Angelus recited at St. Peter’s Square. — This is a marvelous and palpable proof of the power of Christ’s Prayer for Peter.