TRADCAST EXPRESS - Episode 219

Topics covered: The Vatican fails to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the encyclical 'Quas Primas' of Pope Pius XI. The Social Kingship of Christ explained and contrasted with the Vatican II Church. Vatican celebrates 60 years of ecumenical dialogue with Methodists. What did Leo XIV just say? Vatican study commission says calls for women deacons not synodal enough. How Paul VI's celebrated encyclical Humanae Vitae is actually dangerous. Did Leo XIV pray at the Blue Mosque of Istanbul during his November trip to Turkey?

Links:

• Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Quas Primas (Dec. 11, 1925)
• "How the Vatican Celebrates 100 Years Since Pope Pius XI's Encyclical Quas Primas on Christ the King", Novus Ordo Watch (Dec. 11, 2025)
• Vatican II, Declaration Dignitatis Humanae (Dec. 7, 1965)
• "Vatican publishes summary of 60 years of Catholic-Methodist dialogue", OSV News (Dec. 11, 2025)
• Leo XIV, Address to Promoters and Artists of the Vatican Christmas Concert, Vatican.va (Dec. 13, 2025)
• Tweet by CatholicSat on Vatican decision on women's ordination (Dec. 4, 2025)
• "Petrocchi Commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment not definitive", Vatican News (Dec. 4, 2025)
• John Galvin, "Humanae Vitae - Heroic, Deficient, Or Both?" (originally appeared in Winter 2002 issue of The Latin Mass Magazine, pp. 6-17)
• Video: Leo XIV visits Sultan Ahmed Mosque of Istanbul (Nov. 29, 2025)
• Video: Leo XIV answers reporter about visit to mosque (Dec. 10, 2025)
• Clare Marie Merkowsky, "Pope Leo says he didn't pray at mosque because he prefers to pray 'in a Catholic church' with Eucharist", Life Site (Dec. 11, 2025)

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