Archbishop Dominique Mathieu (center) after his consecration as archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan, Iran, in Rome’s Basilica of the Twelve Apostles. Credit: Vatican Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Rome Newsroom, Feb 18, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- A Franciscan friar was ordained archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan this week and commissioned to “offer the light of the Gospel” in Iran.
Archbishop Dominique Mathieu, 57, was consecrated in Rome in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles on Feb. 16, the feast of St. Maruthas, the fourth-century bishop and patron saint of Iran.
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, offered the Mass, commissioning the new archbishop to “be a shepherd of His people in Iran.”
et omnes qui confidunt in eis.
Their makers will come to be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
- Ps 113:16
QUICUMQUE VULT SALVUS ESSE or Concerning the Idolatry of Vatican II
While nations that were once Catholic introduce laws that promote abortion and euthanasia, gender theory and sodomitical “marriages;” while in the United States a legitimately elected President is seen to be usurped in the White House by a corrupt, depraved, and pro-abortion “President” placed in power by a gigantic fraud to the sycophantic applause of Bergoglio and progressive bishops; while the world population is held hostage by plotters and conspirators who profit from the psycho-pandemic and the imposition of ineffective and dangerous pseudo-vaccines, the solicitude of Francis is focused on catechesis, in a monologue staged on January 30 for the selected audience of the National Catechetical Office of the Italian Bishops’ Conference [CEI]. The show was presented on the occasion of
tu es qui restitues hereditatem meam mihi. -Ps 16: 5
PARS HEREDITATIS MEÆ
On the occasion of the XXV Day of Consecrated Life
What does it matter if Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Dominic, Saint Clare, Saint Francis de Sales and all the Founder Saints are left scandalized by the systematic demolition of their Orders, when the words of the Holy See enjoy the benign applause of the globalist elite, the infamous sect, and the enemies of Christ!
On February 2 the Church celebrates the Purification of Mary Most Holy and the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple. The feast, also called Candlemas because of the candles that are blessed during the rite on this day, began as a Marian celebration of a penitential nature.
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A year of peace and hope 08 January 2021
Pope Francis calls for an end to violence in Yemen and offers special prayers for the country’s children
As he addressed the faithful from the Private Library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace during the Angelus on Friday, 1 January, Pope Francis expressed his wish that 2021 be a “year of fraternal solidarity and peace for all; a year filled with trusting expectation and hope”. The following is a translation of the Holy Father’s reflection, which he offered in Italian.