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Ireland was once the flower of Europe and the protector of Roman classical and ecclesiastical culture. No more. The Irish devotion to Catholicism turned to anger when the paedophile Newchurch replaced the Catholic Church in 1965. Then, in 2009, the devastating Ryan and Murphy reports were issued, detailing out-of-control rape, sodomy, and other sexual assaults against Irish children by Newcurch's Protestantized presbyters (Catholic priests were not ordained after 1968) and an elaborate cover-up by Irish Newbishops, including the purported Newbishop of Rome, Benedict-Ratzinger. The proud Irish people rejected the fake Newchurch and its pretender Newpopes and began to return to their pre-Roman pagan origins, voting to approve sodomy and abortion.
So angry are the Irish against the fake Newpopes Paul VI-Montini, JPII-Wojtyla, Benedict-Ratzinger, and Francis-Bergoglio that they threated to do in any Newpope who dared to set foot on the Emerald Isle. The Prime Minister in 2010 told the Irish parliament that he could not protect the life of Ratzinger, who wanted to come on a Newpapal junket. Ratzinger in fear canceled his proposed junket. No man in the North of Ireland has been interested in becoming a Newseminarian in a paedophile Newseminary in the Newdiocese of Glogher over the last six years, until on August 26, 2024, just one came forward. Whether he will last through the Newchurch predations, no one knows. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Irish News.]
Traditional Catholics, after sixty years the Newchurch of the New Order is collapsing in once-Catholic Ireland. The national Newseminary in Maynooth has only 20 Newseminarians for the entire country, whereas before the Vatican II Anti-council and the replacement of the Catholic Church with Newchurch in 1965, there had been some 500. From 1950 to 2021 the number of Newdiocesan presbyters fell by more than 53 per cent, to just 64. Once-Catholic Ireland is now sinking into its pre-Roman barbarism..
The apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio kicked off his Newpapal junket to the South Pacific with worship at the infidel Islamic Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 4, 2024. The mosque commemorates the end in the 1940s of over 350 years of Christian government of Indonesia. There Bergoglio officially hobnobbed with a congeries of pagans from Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism. Only 2.9 per cent of Indonesia's population are heretical Newchurchers, so one could easily wonder why Bergoglio is blowing the wad of his bankrupted Newvatican on such a junket.
Then the pretender Newpope, together with the infidel Grand Imam, signed the Istiqlal Joint Document, titled "Fostering Religious Harmony for the Sake of Humanity" and named after the infidel Istiqlal Mosque itself. The document calls for the head of Newchurch and the head of Islam to "work together to promote human dignity, interreligious dialogue, and environmental protection." Bergoglio then went on to make a shocking statement that proves he is not Catholic:
Sometimes we think that a meeting between religions is a matter of seeking common ground between different religious doctrines and beliefs no matter the cost. Such an approach, however, may end up dividing us, because the doctrines and dogmas of each religious experience are different. What really brings us closer is creating a connection in the midst of diversity, cultivating bonds of friendship, care and reciprocity.
In other words, Bergoglio pontificated: "Truth be damned." "Christ's true Church be damned." Doctrines and beliefs are unimportant and differ all over the map according to "religious experience. "Diversity," not unity, is the governing principle. There is not one god; there many gods. Bergoglio is an outright pagan and certainly no true pope.
"Interreligious dialogue," also known as syncretism and indifferentism, is condemned by the Catholic Church. "Environmental protection" is a Leftist political term colored with paganism and falls outside the purview of the Church. Bergoglio has now completed his conversion to Islam, condemned by the Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, the Grand Imam of the Islamists in Indonesia is tickled to his very toes by Bergoglio's recognition of the infidel Islamic religion, consistently denounced by true popes, chief among them Pope St. Pius X and Pope Pius XI. The Grand Imam says that Bergoglio "makes the Muslim community proud." Yet Indonesia recently imprisoned Jakarta's Christian governor for purported blasphemy against Mohammed, while Christians can't get building permits for churches. The infidel Grand Imam is happy, but Newchurch prelates and laymen are increasingly calling Francis-Bergoglio a pretender Unpope and his Newchurch itself most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
A dirty little secret that Newchurch has been hiding is that under the Vatican II Anti-council's Heresy of Oecumenism ("we all worship the same gods"; "all religions are true"), Newchurch has been allowing heretics and schismatics to use Newchurch temples. An earlier case in point saw Francis-Bergoglio was caught lending out St. Bartholomew's Basilica in Rome for an heretical Protestant Anglican "eucharist," "presided over by the chief Anglican heretic Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
It was revealed that at Newchurch's St. Vincent Basilica in Labrobe, Pennsylvania, a group of hundreds of heretics in the Anglican Church of North America were allowed to take over the once-Catholic basilica. Hundreds of Anglican clergy, including "priestesses" and "deaconesses," took over the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States from June 25 to June 28, 2024. The meeting included the election of a new Protestant "archbishop" for the Anglicans. Of course, Anglicans are totally invalid and cannot confect any "eucharist" whatsoever. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Greenville, Pennsylvania, Newbishop Larry Kulick feigned ignorance of the highly-publicized event that went on for four days in his Newdiocese. He claimed to be deaf, dumb, and blind to the sacrilege, and took no punitive action on those Newchurchers involved at the basilica who permitted the sacrilege. Obviously, he knew -- and probably Bergoglio knew too -- what was going on and permitted it. No surprise here. Newchurch's Newpopes and Newbishops since 1968 have not been consecrated as Catholic bishops, but instead are fake pretenders, merely "installed" as non-clerical "overseers" (episcopoi) under the invalid Protestant Ordinal.
Newjesuit Marko Rupnik, the notorious presbyter "artist" intimate of Francis-Bergoglio who has been charged with sex crimes against children and Novus Ordo "nuns," continues to be openly favored by the apostate Newpope. Rupnik was given a feature article on Newvatican's web site, and on August 16, 2024, that Bergoglio was caught displaying Rupnik's "art" on the walls of the Newpapal apartments. Rupnik has spread his mosaic "art" all over the world through the patronage of Bergoglio.
Bergoglio's efforts to cover up Rupnik's crimes was so blatant that at Bergoglio's own October 2023 Synod on Synodality (aka Vatican III), several of the members of his own hobbled Commission on Crimes against Children publicly denounced him for returning Rupnik "in good standing" to a Newchurch post involving children, even though the mendacious Bergoglio had promised to sideline Rupnik permanently. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurch presbyter Marko Rupnik had already been convicted in January 2020 of one of the worst sins a cleric can commit, the Crimen Sollicitationis, and excommunicated from Newchurch. Bergoglio then proceeded to lift the excommunication and reinstated the notorious paedophile to run a Newchurch school in Croatia. While many Newchurch sites around the world are hastily removing Rupnik "art" from their walls, the apostate Newpope Bergoglio is busy hanging them in his own apartment.
The U.S. Federal Judge overseeing the bankruptcy of the Newarchdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana, indicated on August 23, 2024, that the Newchurch archdiocese does not have the wherewithal to continue to exist. If so, this will be the first time that a Newchurch diocese not only goes broke, but goes out of existence as a "going concern."
The New Orleans Newarchdiocese is so mired in sex crimes against children perpetrated by its presbyters and Newbishops that there are now 500 sexually-assaulted children with cases pending before the courts. The judge indicated that he was going to take away Newarchbishop Gregory Aymond's authority over the archdiocese, which would thereby become the first to fall into a new kind of "sede-vacantism" on October 8, 2024.
The New archdiocese desperately tried to argue that the U.S. Constitution's alleged separation of church and state prevents a bankruptcy court from removing the Newarchbishop or any of his appointees as the manager of the church’s business operations. But lawyers for the 500 child victims argue that under the Constitution the bankruptcy court has plenipotentiary power over all aspects of the case. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the U.K. Guardian.]
Traditional Catholics, Newarchbishop Aymond has been accused of wanting to have his cake and eating it too. He wants the court to protect him from bankruptcy, but not to have the power to make Aymond pay the penalty for his malfeasance. Isn't that typical of the immoral and corrupt Newchurch of the New Order, which refuses to take real responsibility for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children's lives that have been ruined by its paedophile clergy from the Newpopes on down.
While Francis-Bergoglio continues to deny an audience to the clueless Neocon Newchurchers associated with the Half New Order 1962 "New Latin Mess" of the Vatican II Anti-council, he rolled out the red carpet on August 13, 2024, to two LGBTQXXX activists from Africa, which tends to be much more conservative on homosexual activity, whereas these two activists oppose the African Anti-Homosexuality Act, which criminalizes gay and lesbian sex acts.
The two activists represent GLAAD, the world’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer media advocacy organization, which describes itself as "focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change" through creating "national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance." That goal is totally at odds with the teaching of the real Catholic Church, but not with the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Yet the two homosexual activists praised Bergoglio for his "progressive stance" in favor of homosexuality. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by "The Blade."]
Traditional Catholics, in a world increasingly mired in paedophilia, homsexuality, lesbianism, and other gross immorality, one might ask whether Bergoglio, who calls himself a "pope," gives priority to pushing the homosexual agenda. The answer is simple: Bergoglio is not a true pope; he is a Marxist/Modernist apostate, ipso facto an excommunicate from the Catholic Church.
In English for centuries the abbreviation for years after Christ was "A.D.," the Latin abbreviation for "Anno Domini" (In the Year of the Lord), and "B.C." for "Before Christ." After the time of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), the Leftist radicals in academia, government, and the Jews suppressed the use of these abbreviations, substituting for them the neologisms "BCE" for "Before the Common Era" and "CE" for "(In) the Common Era."
Now the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, not to be outdone by the Marxists in "woke" grammar as it is in "woke" liturgy, doctrine, and morals, has begun to follow the "woke" anti-Christians with the new abbreviations in English "translations." Newchurchers themselves have accused Bergoglio of betraying Christ and of once again showing his Marxist/Modernist stripes. Ironically, the new "woke" abbreviations appeared in an Newapostolic Letter "On the Role of Literature in Christian Formation," dated July 17, 2024, and released on August 28, 2024.
"Removing the name of Christ from official documentation is a complete betrayal" of Christ by Bergoglio, said a British minster of government. The use of the "woke" abbreviations represents a major betrayal of the true Catholic Church’s perspective of history, which hinges on the birth of Christ. The term BCE was used from the 1800s by Jewish scholars who did not acknowledge Christ as the Messias. The "woke" abbreviations denote an atheistic and infidel rejection of Christ. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic Herald.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch's "woke-isms" were reserved for perverted English speakers. In the other "translations" into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Arabic (?) -- the equivalent of "Before Christ" and "After Christ" are maintained. Actually, it is ironic that the "woke" English abbreviations can just as easily be expressed as "Before the Christian Era" and "(In) the Christian Era." So once again the anti-Christians are foiled by the very Christ that they tried to blot out!
The apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio has again snubbed child victims raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted by his perverted Newclergy. Bergoglio has been reveling in his latest Newpapal junket, to East Timor, an island state in Southeast Asia, which, from the 16th century to 1975, was under Catholic Portuguese influence. That all came to a crashing end, as Newchurch clergy took over and committed sex crimes against the natives of East Timor. There are continuing accusations against several Newchurch presbyters, so Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated in East Timor, as it does elsewhere all over the world.
Hatred against Newchurch came to a head when it was revealed in 2022 that Newbishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sodomized young boys. Bergoglio's response to these crimes was his usual: abject silence. Belo was apparently permitted to retire with no public punishment for his crimes. But on his junket Bergoglio will stare with his own criminal silence into the faces of the child victims of his perverted Newchurch regime. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, the Marxist/Modernist Newpope Bergoglio, who himself has been charged by Newarchbishop Carlo Vigano for perpetrating the same vile crimes against young Newseminarians in Argentina when he was running the Newjesuit seminary there, has refused to meet with East Timor's child victims, who have demanded that he admit to the world how he and his Newpope predecessors failed to protect vulnerable children. The man who falsely claims to the "Vicar of Christ" won't even talk about the paedophile crimes and his complicity in them. Yet the Christ Whose vicar Bergoglio claims to be has prejudged the penalty for such criminal ilk as Bergoglio, to suffer the Biblical penalty appointed for child molesters, "that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6/DRV).
A Newchurch Capuchin "friar" from New York swindled clueless Newchurchers for 650,000 USD for non-existent Middle Eastern missions. In fact that funds were spent on liposuctioning the obese "friar," numerous vacations to exclusive Hamptons resorts, an expensive gym membership, dinners at expensive New York City restaurants, and upscale secular clothing at a New York City boutique. He also gifted himself outright with 50,000 USD in cash.
Pawel Bielecki, whom the Newcapuchins called "Friar Paul" had expensive tastes for a Newchurch Capuchin "friar" who took a vow of poverty. Religious orders are a joke in the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. He was charged on August 17, 2024, with wire and mail fraud by the U.S. Attorney's Office for defrauding clueless Newchurchers by claiming that he was a diplomaed medical doctor operating Middle-Eastern missions. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the New York Post.]
Traditional Catholics, even the Newchurch Capuchins finally wised up after years of his arceny and turned him in to the U.S. Attorney. The 48-year-old faces 40 years in the federal penitentiary, where he can do "lots" of penance. Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust is alive and well through the connivance of the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio and his henchmen and through the cluelessness of lay Newchurchers.
On December 2, 1973, the Newchurch of the New Order did away with the Sacrament of Penance and substituted for it the non-sacramental Novus Ordo "Rite of Reconciliation," administered not by Catholic priests but by New Order presbyters, who are not ordained (since Newchurch's adoption of the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968, a year before the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess" was introduced.) Thus, no sins are forgiven in Newchurch, and no sacramental grace is imparted by Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Now the incoming Newchurch archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, Richard Henning, has admitted in an August 22, 2024, interview the truth: these Newchurch reconciliations are being used by presbyters for sex predation. Several of them have been caught already, as we have previously documented in these Commentaries. Confessionals have been essentially done away with, and "reconciliations" are being routinely staged not in a church, but on "psychiatric" couches or in presbyters' bedrooms. Henning now readily admits that "the reconciliation room is a problem" and that predator presbyters are exploiting them for nefarious purposes, in fact for one of the most serious crimes a priest can commit (except that New Order presbyters are not priests). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Our Sunday Visitor..]
Traditional Catholics, the real problem is not, in the end, the configuration of "reconciliation rooms," but in the fact that Newchurch since 1973 has not administered valid confessions, and Newchurch presbyters have no power to forgive sin. In fact, that power has been specifically stricken out of the Protestantized Rite of Installation of Presbyters, used in Newchurch since 1968. True Catholics must seek an independent Traditional Catholic priest not affiliated with the apostate Newchurch of the New Order for a valid confession.
Even the worldwide medical profession is warning Newchurchers that new guidance from the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio will lead to outright murder of patients. Bergoglio's "updated" guidelines, ironically issued through his Newpontifical Academy of Life on August 8, 2024, makes euthanasia (mercy-killing) acceptable in certain circumstances. Such a position is entirely against Catholic moral theology, which holds that euthanasia is never moral. But, then, Bergoglio is not a Catholic pope, but a pretender Newpope, and his dicta must be entirely rejected by true Catholics.
Bergoglio's new guidelines are already being taken up by morally-corrupt secular organizations such as the World Health Organization, as a way of saving money in elderly care, often by depriving the sick of water and nutrition, which is grossly immoral and tantamount to murder. Causing death by starvation or dehydration is entirely against traditional Catholic moral practice. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Cathoic Herald.]
Traditional Catholics, Catholic moral theology clearly teaches that causing death by starvation or dehydration is grossly immoral and entirely against traditional Catholic moral practice. Bergoglio has become complicit in murder. His "updated" guidelines were condemned even by Newpope JPII-Wojtyla, who decreed that euthanasia, under whatever rubric, is always "a serious violation of the law of God because it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person." Bergoglio is no pope of the Catholic Church, but a fraudster, perpetrating immorality, false doctrine, and fake "liturgies" upon the clueless Newchurchers, who know not the true Faith.
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