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Rosary, Mongols & Surveillance State
New Mongols
It was very interesting to hear of the dispute over who would move Our Lady when Atila visited (here, here, here, here, here and here); and the way Our Lady intervened by making the figures immovable.
It reminds of the story of St. Hyacinth carrying a heavy alabaster statue of Our Lady a long distance after she made it light for him so as to save it from the Mongols.
I don’t think that I would ever have believed such supernatural things before I converted to Catholicism (2008). But now they seem to be a “natural” part of our faith and tradition.
God bless,
T.B., New Zealand
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Dhaka Ecumenical Prayer
The bad example of Leo at the end of Week of Unity that you highlighted in your Revolution in Pictures is stimulating that spirit in our besieged Church.
Here, in India, an ecumenical prayer service was held at the Church of Rosary in Tejgaon. Everyone had something to say.
Archbishop Bejoy N. D'Cruze: divisions are ‘a great scandal’.
Methodist Bishop Simon Biswas: ‘When we are united, Christ becomes visible’. etc You can read more here.
The ecumenical prayer ceremony brought together priests from the Catholic Church and pastors from 18 Protestant denominations. It is shocking how what is heretical is being accepted as normal, and even orthodox by most Vat II Catholics.
G.G.
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Progressivist Historical Method
Another path Leo is adopting from Francis – slurs against the traditionalists.
We are warned at his weekly catechetical series on Vatican II against "fundamentalist or spiritualist readings" of Scripture. Citing Vatican II document Dei Verbum he “reaffirms” that “in every age, the Church is called to repropose the Word of God in a language capable of being embodied in history and reaching hearts.”
This promotes the historical critical method of interpreting Scriptures advocated by Benedict, which says the meaning of the Biblical text must be reinterpreted constantly in light of the times. It is not the immutable teaching of the Church defended until Vatican II.
Sorry to see this – yet another disappointment from Leo XIV and sign he is surely following the conciliar synodal way.
Viva Cristo Rey!
M.G.
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Looking for Work
It’s really happening. Robots unloading delivery pallets and stocking shelves with soda bottles. Robots folding laundry neatly… and even pouring soft-serve yogurt. Driverless taxi Zoox maneuver real passengers through heavy Vegas traffic. Robots aren’t science fiction anymore. They are here.
The bad news of 2026 is… the job market is about to get even more competitive, with millions of robots expected to enter the workforce over the coming years.
G.L.
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Biometric ID & Surveillance State
The Mexican Senate approved a law in June of 2025 that makes a biometric identity card mandatory for citizens. 2026 begins the obligatory phase of the law.
The law makes it so that the government has a centralized database with the biometric data of citizens, with fingerprints, facial scan, signature, and iris scan information. This biometric ID card is being made obligatory in 2026 to use for all public and private services
The promise is that this will increase security. But the question is: Does this not seem like a slippery slope into a surveillance state? How easy would it be to then mandate that the government be given all your medical information? If the government has your biometric data, could it not very easily prevent you from functioning in normal society or even do physical harm to you if you do not obey its dictates, since it knows all your body’s weaknesses from the biometric data? How easily could this turn into a social credit system like that in China?
Interestingly, China is developing in this area by leaps and bounds. One 2022 study by the Mercator Institute for China Studies affirmed:
“While Chinese citizens are being granted greater protections, legislation and regulation are carefully crafted to give public security organs broad powers to harvest and use biometric data in conjunction with the performance of their law enforcement and national security duties. Such a security-centric approach has paved the way to the creation of the world’s largest police-run DNA database.
"In the name of stability maintenance, the voice, facial, fingerprint, gait, iris, and DNA information of millions of people is being collected without their informed consent, particularly in minority regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet. Such a mass data collection has gone hand in hand with the emergence of a booming surveillance tech industry.”
This is not new though - China has been collecting biometric data of foreigners who visit the country since 2017. See also here
Yuval Noah Harari “prophesied” exactly this, that governments would be interested in “hacking” human beings, with wanting to know “what is going on under the skin” and prolonging this under-skin surveillance.
Is this not obviously a slavery to unknown federal actors? Who controls these databases? What about the third party tech companies that manage them - wouldn’t citizens then become unknown slaves to these people as well? What implications does this have on free will?
Harari is also famous for questioning the fact that humans have free will…
In Jesu et Maria,
S.B.
Posted February 5, 2026
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I read in your articles, “One of our readers from New York developed a set of Rosary meditations focused upon Our Lady of Good Success and her prophetic warnings for our times.”
What happened to the “Luminous Mysteries”?
Thanks a million,
J.B.
TIA responds:
Greetings J.B.,
I think you will find the answer to your question reading the article "The Luminous Mysteries: Novelty Clashes with Tradition" by our editor Atila Guimarães.
As he notes, the Rosary asked for by Our Lady is 15 decades; the Rosary she requested at Fatima to be prayed daily is 15 decades. The Rosary confirmed by the Popes with indulgences and approvals is 15 decades. The introduction of the Luminous Mysteries by John Paul II on a personal whim is a novelty, subverting an 800-year-old devotional practice and sabotaging the Fatima devotion.
We hope you will benefit from the Rosary meditations we posted.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk