The Conclave starts tomorrow to elect the new Pope, the 267th Successor of St. Peter, the father of princes and kings, ruler of the world, vicar on earth of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, to whom is honour and glory for ever and ever

🧵of the people who will play a prominent role. His Eminence Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at 10am, Pro Eligendo Pontifice, for the election of the Roman Pontiff. His sermon will set the tone for the Conclave. He however doesn’t have a vote.

Tomorrow Pope Francis will be the first Pope in 122 years to not be buried in St. Peter’s Basilica, instead choosing to be buried in the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on Esquiline Hill in Rome

A🧵looking at the other Popes buried in this magnificent Church Pope Honorius III (1150-1227), was the first pope to be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore, where he once served as a canon. He approved both the Franciscan and Dominican orders Here is he depicted at the feet of Christ in the mosaic in St Paul’s Outside the Walls. His tomb is now extant

Pope Francis has announced a Consistory for the creation of 21 new Cardinals (with 20 of them being Cardinal-Electors, including 5 from South America), be held in Rome on 8 December 2024.

🧵of the new Cardinals 1. His Excellency Angelo Acerbi, Titular Archbishop of Zella, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus of the Netherlands, (99, non-voting Cardinal)

I honestly think many Americans are misunderstanding the European context here. The European Union struck financial deals with Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania, to stop illegal migration into Europe. These countries used(s) EU tax payer money to dump non-Muslim black African migrants in the Sahara desert to die, thereby meeting EU targets to still get paid. This isn’t that widely known. The Pope himself hasn’t addressed this head on. He has spoken about migrant dumping in the Sahara, without calling out the Muslims who do this to Christian black Africans, whilst letting fellow Muslims through to attempt to cross the Mediterranean.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is Queen of Heaven because her Son, Jesus Christ, is the King of Israel and the Heavenly King of the universe.

Short 🧵of some countries where Our Lady is Queen too. The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland. On 1 April 1656, during a Mass in the Latin Cathedral of Lwów (today Lviv, Ukraine), John II Casimir entrusted the Commonwealth to the protection of the Our Lady, and proclaimed her Queen of the Polish Crown and of his countries

It is being reported that Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa, the seer to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary had appeared in 1973 in Akita, Japan, died on 15 August 2024, the Solemnity of the Assumption, a truly blessed day to enter to her eternal reward.

Short 🧵on Akita. At the time of the apparitions Sister Agnes Sasagawa was a novice of the Institute of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. She had been born prematurely, suffered from numerous health issues as a result. She was more or less totally deaf at the time.

Posting a thread of 'The clock of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ', by Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori. Tweets will added to the thread at the exact time of the events in Jerusalem, almost two millennia ago. At six o'clock in the evening. Jesus enters into the Cenacle, to make there the Pasch and to wash the feet of his apostles, and even of Judas.

Our lookback at the 10 year Pontificate of Pope Francis. [Thread] #TenYearsPopeFrancis A Pontificate with notable high points, the Covid Urbi et Orbi, the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and notable low points, the angrily accusing Chilean clerical abuse survivors of slander and Zanchetta.

A thread of the secretive Vatican-China agreement on the appointment of Bishops, which is set the expire tomorrow but all indications are that it will be renewed for at least another two years, under same conditions of the original provisional agreement of 2018. In the 4 years since the deal has been in force there have been only six new episcopal appointments, two of which had been agreed before the deal came into force. That is a total of four bishops in four years. The last consecration has over a year ago in September 2021

Nine years in the making, Pope Francis most significant act as Supreme Pontiff, the complete overhaul and reform of the Roman Curia with the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium which has been published today, coming into force on Pentecost Sunday.

https://twitter.com/HolySeePress/status/1505139191876923396

Some initial thoughts on the reform:
1.) Even though it expressly says that all dicasteries of Curia are equal, the Secretary of State has usurped the CDF in prominence and has increased in power.

In the least surprising news of the day, Pope Francis publishes motu proprio 'Traditionis Custodes', imposing restrictions on the celebration of the Liturgical Rites prior to Vatican II, which had been liberalised by his predecessor Benedict XVI
press.vatican.va/content/salast… So what has changed:

1:) “The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite”

There are no longer two forms of the Roman Rite

Posting a thread of 'The clock of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ', by Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori. Tweets will added to the thread at the exact time of the events in Jerusalem, almost two millennia ago. At six o'clock in the evening. Jesus enters into the Cenacle, to make there the Pasch and to wash the feet of his apostles, and even of Judas.

Joe Biden has won the US presidential election, and will become only the second Catholic President of the United States of America Quite astonishing that a Catholic President will be the one to codify Roe v. Wade. The absolute state of American Catholicism.

A prayer book of Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with engravings by Johann Baptist Klauber, who ran a Catholic fine art publishing company in Augsburg, Germany in the 18th Century. Each sheet depicts an invocation of the Litany of Loreto, beginning with Kyrie eleison [Thread] Christe eleison

Posting a thread of 'The clock of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ', by Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori. Tweets will added to the thread at the exact time of the events in Jerusalem, almost two millennia ago. At six o'clock in the evening. Jesus enters into the Cenacle, to make there the Pasch and to wash the feet of his apostles, and even of Judas.

The reports of the 'Circoli minori' small working Groups of the #SinodoAmazonico #AmazonSynod press.vatican.va/content/salast… Italian Group A: "The Church has the mission to announce Jesus Christ in the Amazon. To evangelize is to make the Kingdom of God present in the world. Therefore, it is the task of the Church to present the good news of Jesus and his Kingdom in the Amazon." #SinodoAmazonico

A newspaper article from October 1917 with eyewitness reports of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, the greatest miracle of modern times.

(from the 'Illustração Portuguesa', a weekly magazine, published by the Portuguese newspaper O Século) This is the famous front page of October 15th 1917 of O Século, an anticlerical Portuguese newspaper with a report from journalist Avelino de Almeida, an eyewitness of the Miracle of Sun at Cova da Iria. The headline reads "How the Sun danced in the middle of the day in Fatima"

Vatican lifts embargo on the deliberations this afternoon at #SinodoAmazonico; themes discussed included Young people, indigenous rites, groundwater, fossil fuels and Viri Probati. This afternoon at #SinodoAmazonico, youth protagonism in integral ecology was mentioned, citing #GretaThunberg and the “The strike for the climate”. An “option for the young” and the need to dialogue with them on themes of preservation of Creation was raised several times.

Pope Francis announces new Consistory for the creation of 10 new Cardinals, on October 5th. The group includes 7 new Cardinal electors, pushing the current number to 125 The new Cardinal are:
1. +Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and leading historian on Islam.
2. ++José Tolentino Mendonça, Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, second rate Portuguese Poet, consecrated a Bishop only last year