Sadiq Khan, le maire de Londres lance le plus grand appel à ce jour pour que la Grande-Bretagne rejoigne l’Union européenne : "Le Brexit a été catastrophique. Il est temps de réintégrer l’UE […] Ce doit être notre destination." Le maire de Londres souligne que les liens plus étroits avec l'Europe sont plus vitaux que jamais alors que la guerre illégale de Poutine en Ukraine fait rage. ⤵️ standard.co.uk/news/politics…

France TV zeigt 12 Minuten die Wahrheit über Paris: Gewalt, Plünderungen, brennende Autos. Die linke Gewerkschaft CGT fordert daraufhin den Rausschmiss des Moderators und seines Teams. Die Bilder sollen nicht gesehen werden. Der Grund liegt auf der Hand.

Has Pope Leo XIV just provided the clearest indication yet of how he intends Amoris laetitia to be understood? His latest teaching on marriage and conscience deserves careful attention. Just days after the Vatican's discussions marking the tenth anniversary of Amoris laetitia, Pope Leo XIV returned to the foundations of Catholic teaching on marriage in his General Audience of 21 October. Drawing explicitly upon Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Leo reaffirmed marriage as the lifelong covenant between a man and a woman, requiring total fidelity and indissoluble unity, with children described as the supreme gift of marriage. I think the most theologically significant passage concerns the relationship between conscience and divine law. Speaking about the responsibility of married couples to make judgements concerning their family, Leo explained that such decisions must ultimately be made before God, but added that conscience must conform to divine law as interpreted by the Church's Magisterium. *This distinction is absolutely fundamental, particularly in the context of the controversies surrounding Amoris laetitia.* The Church has always recognised the importance of conscience, including the distinction between the objective moral character of an action and the subjective culpability of the person performing it. Circumstances, knowledge and freedom all matter when assessing personal responsibility. However, conscience does not create moral truth, instead its task is to recognise & apply that truth (even when doing so involves considerable personal difficulty). This is where some interpretations of Amoris laetitia ...Perhaps even Amoris laetitia itself, have generated controversy. If I'm honest I think that was completely intentional though. I'm not worried that pastoral accompaniment takes account of complicated personal circumstances, the Church has always recognised that as necessary, the problem is appeals to discernment appear to suggest that an objectively disordered situation may become morally acceptable because of those circumstances. So this is why Pope Leo's formulation here is so important; it preserves the distinction. Pastoral discernment concerns how the truth is understood, embraced and lived by particular individuals; it cannot transform an objective moral prohibition into a permission. I bet the weak minded sycophantic cardinals listening (like Grech & Roche) will hear this and simply fall into line. You see the ideas they pushed were never their own, they were just trying to please Francis. There is another interesting aspect to this address. Rather than distancing himself from Vatican II, Leo grounds his teaching directly in it. Gaudium et Spes presents marriage in profoundly personalist terms, emphasising mutual self-giving, tenderness, human dignity and the intimate communion of spouses, but the Council also insists that authentic conjugal love cannot contradict the divine moral law. This is the hermeneutic of continuity in practice: the Council's richer articulation of marriage does not replace the Church's received moral teaching but illuminates its theological foundations. I am not claiming that Pope Leo has repudiated Amoris laetitia, or that this audience resolves every controversy surrounding its implementation. He explicitly acknowledged the recent Vatican discussions and situated them within the continuing pastoral concern of successive popes. But the significance of what he said here should not be overlooked. If Amoris laetitia is to be interpreted within the continuity of Catholic doctrine, as it surely must be, then conscience, pastoral accompaniment and discernment cannot be detached from the objective moral order which the Church has received and is obliged to teach. Leo XIV has not introduced a new doctrine, what he has done is restate an essential principle with remarkable clarity at a moment when that clarity is particularly welcome. Perhaps the most important question now is whether that same clarity will be reflected in the practical pastoral guidance emerging from the Vatican's recent discussions!

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C’est en fait le paradoxe de Tocqueville qui nous éclate à la figure. Dans l’un des pays qui redistribue le plus au monde, le pays qui égalise le plus les conditions objectives d’existence, qui donnent le plus de chance à tous, qui donne culture, éducation et enseignement supérieur gratuitement à tous, qui respecte le plus les droits de l’homme, dans ce pays de cocagne donc, une part significative de la population est persuadée qu’elle vit dans un enfer d’injustices et de violences systémiques. Comme l’avait très bien montré Tocqueville, plus il y a d’égalité, plus les inégalités qui restent deviennent insupportables. Notamment parce que la société méritocratique, par rapport à l’ancien régime fondé sur la naissance, a cela de terrible qu’elle rend les gens responsables de leurs conditions.

🇮🇹 En Italie, lors des manifestations du 18 octobre, une racaille s’en prend à un curé en lui faisant un doigt d'honneur. Le curé ne se laisse pas faire et lui renvoie la pareille. Ces racailles veulent la fin de notre civilisation et du christianisme.