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Francis-Bergoglio is in a panic. Newvatican's auditors have warned for several years now that Newvatican is rapidly sinking into bankruptcy. Attendance at Newchurch's invalid (fake) Messes have tanked, collection plates are sparse because of Newchurch's continuing Great Sex and Embezzlement Holocaust, and Newparishes are shutting down right and left.
On September 20, 2024, the apostate Newpope ordered a virtual economic shutdown of Newvatican expenditures and services. "The economic resources of the mission are limited," he lamented. Now, less than a month later, on October 18, Bergoglio has cut the salary of his curial Newcardinals, which he already cut by ten per cent in March 2021. In 2023 he eliminated the Newcardinals' subsidized housing. Francis previously ordered a 10 per cent pay cut for cardinals in Rome in March 2021. He also began to eliminate subsidized rents for cardinals and other top Vatican officials in 2023.
The curial Newcardinals currently make 5,400 USD per month, or 64,800 USD per annum. That amount will again be cut by ten per cent. The Newcardinals will also be stripped of two monthly allowances totaling 500 USD per month for hiring personal secretaries. This is clearly a move of desperation because the amount of the cuts is comparatively insignificant, only a total of a little over 100,000 USD per annum, as there are only twenty such Newcardinals.
Thus, the directive also appears to be another vindictive move by the "Dictator" Newpope Bergoglio against his own workers. Yet the cuts that Bergoglio gleefully imposes on his own workers apparently don't apply to the Unholy Father himself. He always seems to have enough money to spend on himself, as on his recent Newpapal junket to the South Pacific and one pending to the Canary Islands. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newsmax.]
Traditional Catholics, meanwhile the consequences of its impending bankruptcy are being felt throughout Newvatican now. St. Peter's Archbasilica is notoriously filthy, as tourists report, because Bergoglio can't hire and pay enough cleaning staff. Security in the Newvatican museums has obviously been cut because the number thefts and vandalism of precious artifacts have been skyrocketing.
On October 23, 2024, Francis-Bergoglio issued a Message praising the Latin language, which read in part: "Latin ... represents the roots of western civilization and, in many ways, our very identity. It is a language that embraces philosophy, science, art and politics, thus demonstrating its intrinsic value as a tool for reflection and dialogue, more necessary than ever in a world as fragmented as ours."
Yet, displaying the hypocrisy of the apostate Newpope, Bergoglio wrote the message in vulgar Italian! Even the Protestant leaders Martinus Lutherus and Johannes Calvinus wrote their influential works in Latin. Moreover, Bergoglio himself contributes to the "fragmented world" that he describes by heretically rejecting the doctrine of the dogmatic Council of Trent that the vulgar tongues should be banned from the Sacred Services. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Vatican Press Office.]
Traditional Catholics, Pius XII prophesied: "The day the Church abandons her universal tongue [Latin] is the day before she returns to the catacombs." Just ten years after the death of Pius XII, the prophecy came true, when the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess" of 1969 replaced the true Mass in the Newchurch of the New Order, and the true Faith was temporarily relegated to the catacombs of libraries, senior centers, public buildings, and other locations, as necessity demanded, with courageous Traditional Catholic priests around the world offering the fully Traditional Latin Mass, not Newchurch's 1962 corrupted version. Moreover, the Newchurch "theology," such as it is, could not have been written in traditional Latin, so the true Church's Sacred Language had to be dumped for the vulgar tongues.
He hasn't even been installed as a Newcardinal yet, and already Timothy Radcliffe is in hot water. He's a known homophile and has astonishingly claimed that the African Newbishops' long-standing opposition to homosexuality is due not to moral outrage, but to "intense financial pressure" from American Evangelicals, from the Russian Orthodox, and even from Muslims, whose Koran denounces homosexuality as immoral. Yet Francis-Bergoglio elevated Radcliffe, knowing all of this, even though Radcliffe remarkably isn't even a Newbishop.
On October 22, 2024, Radcliff denied his statement, but Newcardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, President of African (New)bishops' Conference, called him a liar and presented the evidence that he did in fact make the statement. But Besungu's retort was censored from Newvatican's official newspaper, "L'Osservatore Romano." There is a strong odor here of yet another cover-up by the mendacious Newchurch, in 2025 to become officially the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, just a week ago civil war broke out within Francis-Bergoglio's Newvatican when the Disciplinary Head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (New Order) Faith and the Deputy Secretary of State issued conflicting decrees on the status of a paedophile Argentinean presbyter. Now two Newcardinals are warring against each other over the morality of homosexuality. Clearly, Bergoglio's regime is out of control. Meanwhile, the incompetent Bergoglio, instead of taking responsibility for his broken administration, is planning to fly the coop on yet another Newpapal junket, this time to the Canary Islands.
The Marxist/Modernist Newpope Francis-Bergoglio renewed on October 22, 2024, for the third time, his concordat with Xi Jinping, the Communist Dictator of Red China. The terms are supposed to be secret, but the essence of the concordat long ago leaked out. The original agreement was cut in 2018, then renewed in 2020 and 2022. This time the apostate Newpope has renewed the agreement for not just two years, but for four years. Bergoglio has even made noises that he wants to visit Red China, but the Communist Dictator wants none of it.
Essentially, the apostate Newpope Bergoglio acceded to giving up his Newpapal power to the murderous Communist Dictator, so that, for all practical purposes, Xi can appoint his own Communist Newchurch bishops without Bergoglio's involvement. Recently, Xi has appointed Communists in the state-run Chinese Patriotic "Catholic" Association to a number of vacant Newbishoprics.
The naive Bergoglio probably thought that Xi would become more placable, but just the opposite has happened. Xi has stepped up his persecution of Newchurch bishops, presbyters, and laypeople. He has ordered crucifixes removed from their churches and his own photograph put up in their place. Ten of these Newchurch bishops have suffered detention without due process, surveillance, police investigations, and banishments from their Newdioceses, even torture and murder. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newsmax.]
Traditional Catholics, Pope Pius XII severed all ties of the Catholic Church with Communist China in 1951, four years after Communist Revolution of 1949, which brought Mao Tse-tung to power as Dictator. To the contrary, Bergoglio, who has been associated with Communists from his youth in Argentina and who essentially admits that he is a Marxist, has given Dictator Xi anything he wants. Many courageous Newchurch bishops have denounced Bergoglio for his cowardice and complicity with atheistic Communists. The highly-respected Newcardinal of Hong Kong, Joseph Zen, a strong opponent of Bergoglio, has been particularly outspoken against him.
"Tragedy" and "appalling" are just two words used to describe the revelations in an 802-page government report, titled the September 3, 2024, "Scoping Inquiry," which exposed 2,395 sex crimes perpetrated primarily by 884 Newchurch presbyters, many of them backed and covered up by Newbishops and even Newpopes. That works out to three rapes, sodomies, and other sexual assaults per Irish presbyters. The total number of cases is believed to be far higher.
The covers were ripped off of the Irish Newchurch in 2022, when a documentary entitled the "Blackrock Boys" revealed how extensively Newchurch clergy were involved in paedophile crimes at Newchurch schools, like Blackrock College in Dublin. The government will now set up an Investigating Commission to seek out the Newchurch criminals and bring them to justice in the name of the child victims, many of whom were handicapped. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Ireland was once one of the most Catholic of countries. When Newchurch took over in 1964, it turned into a cesspool of crimes against children. Newchurch has been exposed as hardly the "Church of Love," as it often portrays itself. These vile crimes were perpetrated in most cases with the full knowledge and consent of Newchurch prelates. The apostate Newpopes had a big hand in fanning the flames of the crimes, the worst being Benedict-Ratzinger, who for two decades let the worst criminals off because if he did anything, it would "embarrass" the Nechurch of the New Order and expose it as the died-in-the-wool hypocritical institution it truly is..
Newchurch's propaganda went really sour on October 21, 2024, when its news service, Agenzia Fides, headquartered in the Propaganda Palace of Newvatican, announced to the world that the Newchurch of the New Order, fabricated at the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church, is dying worldwide. The latest statistics show that "Initiations," as Newchurch now calls what in the traditional Catholic Church is called the Sacrament of Baptism, plunged by 17 per cent in just the last six years, from 16,000,000 to some 13,000,000. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, in the last eleven years, Newchurch has suffered a pronounced loss of Newseminarians. With fewer and fewer babies (and adults) entering Newchurch, and with fewer and fewer young men wanting to waste their lives in the false religion of the New Order sect, Newchurch is more rapidly than had been anticipated heading toward its demise. When the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio establishes his openly-pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Age in 2015, more Newchurchers will wash their hands of the doomed Newchurch. Newchurch will be left a carcass of condemned Modernism, immorality, and "liturgies" from pagan cultures around the world.
Just 150 kilometres from Marsailles, France, is one of the most active Newdioceses in France for the Half New Order Vatican II New Latin Mess of 1962, Frejus-Toulon. (The 1962 New Latin Mess is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass and is invalid because it is being simulated not by traditional Catholic priests, but by unordained Novus Ordo presbyter-ministers, merely "installed" by unconsecrated -- and therefore invalid -- Newchurch bishops.)
There, following Newvatican's directives, Newbishop Francois Touvet has lowered the axe on the 1962 Mess as of October 12, 2024. Newseminarians must sign an oath to simulate only the invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969, ensuring the demise of the 1962 Mess. The Missionaries of the Divine Mercy, an "indult" group set up in Frejus-Toulon, with its thirty members, has been gutted. Installations of "indult" presbyters has already been shut down for two years, and now seems to be indefinitely suppressed.
Moreover, even now the remaining New Latin Messes of 1962 are being forceably corrupted with Novus Ordo features. Such Messes will be prohibited from being simulated ad orientem (facing away from the congregation and toward the tabernacle, the traditional orientation). The traditional Offertory prayers will be (invalidly) replaced by the Jewish prayers used in the New Order Mess. Other corruptions are also being introduced according to the apostate Modernist Newpope Benedict-Ratzinger's 2007 directive "Summorum pontificum" and the apostate Marxist Newpope Francis-Bergoglio's 2021 directive "Traditionis custodes."
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Touvet was specifically appointed by Bergoglio in November 2023 to take charge of the Newdiocese away from Newbishop Dominque Rey, who allowed 1962 Messes throughout the Newdiocese. Bergoglio was horrified and was determined to put a stop to it by sending in Touvet to dismantle the 1962-friendly Newdiocese. Firing the now-impotent Rey will only be the coup de grace. The whole fraud of the "1962 Mess" is falling in France, as it is in the United States and around the world.
The explosion on October 16, 2024, was so great as to propagate like a magnitude 10 earthquake from Los Angeles, California, to Francis-Bergoglio in Newrome. Newchurch's continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, which has bankrupted almost one-quarter of the Newdioceses in the United States and which has shuttered thousands of Newchurches in the United States and cut collections to a comparative trickle, has again hit between the eyes the most populous Newarchdiocese in the U.S. to the total sum of 1,500,000,000 USD, the largest payout for sex crimes perpetrated by Newchurch presbyters in the history of Newchurch. (Newchurch has not ordained priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders since adopting a Protestantized New Ordinal 1968.)
1,353 child victims involved in the legal action against the Newarchdiocese proved in court that they had "suffered horrific abuse at the hands of local [Newchurch presbyters]" numbering at least 800. The payout hit also many religious orders operating in the Los Angeles area, many of whose presbyters were involved in raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting the children. The settlement will -- justly -- cripple the operations of the Newarchdiocese, which is most certainly NOT Catholic, but part of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Los Angeles Times.]
Traditional Catholics, the infamous Roger Mahoney, who served as Newarchbishop from 1985 to 2011, was at the center of many of these crimes, which he illegally covered up. When Mahony was forced to retire in 2011, he was prohibited from operating as a clergyman, but now at age 88, Mahoney is still at large in the community, awaiting his pitiful demise. What is even more important is that the court will release many documents hitherto concealed. If these files are anything like what the court has already published, Newchurch will leave with a black eye that will never heal.
And you thought that Robert Schuller's famous Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, was over the top! Schuller and his "Hour of Power" TV ministry went bankrupt in 2010 and subsequently the "the largest glass building in the world," was sold to the corrupt Newbishop of Orange County, California, Tod "Bunko" Brown, in 2012. Brown was a criminal, who was castigated from the bench by a U.S. Federal judge for obstructing justice and contempt of court in 2007, when he was also forced to pay nearly 7,000,000 USD to four girls whom he sexually assaulted.
Although the Crystal Cathedral, whose renovation as finally comjpleted in October 2024, seats over 2,000, the puny eucharistic dinner table (formerly altar) is spun around to face the almost "in the round" congregation. The blasphemous Modernistic style is more reminiscent of a pagan altar than anything Christian, except for the scrawny crucifix so beloved of the Modernist heretics. In fact, a similar architecture was used in the 2002 Los Angeles Newcathedral, upon which pagan maidens did in fact dance at its "inauguration," as several famous photographs at the time demonstrated. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, the bankrupted Newchurch poured filthy lucre for twelve years into renovating the Crystal Cathedral to "New Order standards." Newchurch might just as well have left it in the Protestant form in which Schuller left it, which had at least some hint of Christianity. The New Order sect is worse than Protestant. It is openly pagan and will officially be declared so as Francis-Bergoglio's new Synodal Church is inaugurated in 2025.
In addition to being a pathological narcissist, the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio is also a sneaky reprobate. He knows that homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexualism, and transsexuality are contrary to nature and against the law of God, whose "vicar" he claims to be. Yet he is attracted to these perversions and wants to support them. But he is now failing in popularity among Newchurchers and can no longer get away with the outrageous behavior that he has previously been practicing.
So, on October 12, 2024, he conducted a tete-a-tete with the perverted group, New Ways Ministry, but in secret, at his private residence, ordering that the meeting be omitted from his public calendar. But he ought to know that nothing is secret in Newvatican. It leaks like a sieve. And the truth naturally came out to the horror of even most Newchurchers. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch had publicly twice condemned the group in 1999 and 2011 -- before the pretender Bergoglio was elected Newpope. Bergoglio, who won't meet with conservative Newchurchers, gave the condemned group ninety minutes of his time. He didn't even give that much time to the three leading Newcardinals who came from the United States recently to meet him over the grave problems in Newchurch there.
On September 18, 2024, Newchurch in Austria announced the stunning news that it had shrunk by 2 per cent in just one year, 2023. Austria has been sinking fast year by year under the failed leadership of the infamous apostate Newcardinal Christoph Schonborn, a known intimate of Francis-Bergoglio. And that includes only the number of Austrians who "formally" left.
In Austria Newchurchers can leave Newchurch only if they submit a withdrawal declaration to a competent authority in person or in writing, along with official documents such as an "initiation" certificate, and if they pay an administrative fee. Obviously, an even larger number of Newchurchers have left without bothering to sign the papers. That way, Newchurch can claim far more adherents than it actually has. This is a similar ruse to the high numbers that Newchurch in other countries publicizes to make its political clout more than it actually is. How can the numbers of Newchurchers be going up, for example, in the United States, when one-fifth of the Newdioceses there are in bankruptcy, and Newchurches are being sold off at a rate of up to 50 per cent? The explanation is that the publicized numbers are fake -- and everybody knows it.
The Austrian Newchurch admitted to a steep "downward trajectory" and tried to explain the plummeting numbers by an "unfavorable ratio" between "initiations" (formerly Baptisms) and deaths. First Communions and "Confirmations -- both of which are invalid in Newchurch -- as well as Matrimonies are also down. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, the report refers obscurely also to "church exits," but does not qualify these. But we know that many of them are of Austrians who are sick of Newchurch's continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust and the Newpopes' complicity in the rape, sodomy, and other sexual assaults of children by Newchurch's presbyters and Newbishops. The number of secular and religious presbyters is down. Funds are down. It is a desperate situation, replicated in Germany, France, Italy, and most countries in Europe.
On September 26, 2024, Eastern-rite Newchurchers forced Francis-Bergoglio's administrator and his entire staff to flee the jurisdiction, as the long-standing revolt in the East against the pretender Newpope flared up again. A large number of presbyters of the Syro-Malabar rite, the second largest Eastern rite in Newchurch, operating mostly in India, joined in the revolt, crying: "We will not cooperate with them (Bergoglio's representatives)." Police had to be called in to escort Bergoglio's administrator out through the crowds of angry Easterners.
The uproar for more than a decade now arises from Newchurch's attempt to fiddle with the orientation of the eastern altars, a dispute that is still going on in the West after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), after which many altars were, in violation of Apostolic Tradition, turned around to face the congregation. Even Western Newchurchers have refused to attend the New Order (Novus Ordo) service with the altar (known officially in the Novus Ordo liturgical books as the "eucharistic dinner table") twisted around, as most Protestant heretic sects do. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by UCA News.]
Traditional Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio's incompetence as an administrator is fully illustrated by this long-standing dispute, which he has been incompetent to resolve in his Newchurch. In fact, the more he intervenes, the worse the dispute becomes, the Easterners sometimes spilling out into the streets by the thousands in violent protests and burning effigies of Bergoglio and his representatives.
The country of Argentina, where Francis-Bergoglio operated for many years, ending up as Newarchbishop of Buenos Aires, is seething more than most countries with rampant paedophile crimes perpetrated by Newchurch clergy. One infamous case is that of presbyter Ariel Principi, who had sexually assaulted children using Newchurch's charismatic prayer circles and was laicized by the local Newdiocese in Argentina on June 2, 2023.
On September 25, 2024, Newvatican's Secretary of State ordered Principi reinstated, but Bergoglio's Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the [New Order] Faith, Victor Fernandez, a known intimate of the Newpope and also an Argentinean, attempted on October 7, 2024, to void that order and reinstate Principi. The dicastery, through its Disciplinary head, attempted to tell the Secretary of State's office that Principi's reinstatement was null and void. That office's Deputy Secretary of State, known as the Sostituto, is Bergoglio's de factochief of staff. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newchurch news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio has an abysmal record of leadership in Newchurch. That fact has led to outright war between his Newcurial departments, which knowledgeable observers say has not happened before in recent memory. Bergoglio is known as a disruptor, not a stable administrator. Moreover, like his Newpope predecessor JPII-Wojtyla, he escapes his duties in Newrome as much as possible, engaging in expensive and pointless junkets to such remote locations as the jungles of Indonesia, an almost exclusively Muslim country.
Just when you think that the Newchurch of the New Order can't sink any lower, you are smacked in the face again. We all know that the studies show Newchurch is sinking into bankruptcy, as are many of its Newdioceses. With up to half the Newchurches being shuttered, with collections way off because of Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, and with court judgments in favor of the tens of thousands of children raped and sodomized by Newchurch presbyters, Newbishops are desperate for funds.
So Bergoglio's intimate Newcardinal-archbishop Blase Cupich, of Chicago, Illinois, has hatched another fraud. Surreptitiously, he has been robbing the dead by embezzling from the Newarchdiocesan cemetery, putting into jeopardy the very existence of the tombs and graves there, which have already been paid for in perpetuity by the dead. The embezzled funds are being used to pay off for the Newarchdiocese's ongoing sex crimes against children. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Chicago Sun Times.]
Traditional Catholics, Cupich has essentially lied to the Newchurchers of Chicago by claiming that to date, he has used loans and property sales to pay off the 200,000,000 USD in judgments assessed against the Newarchdiocese for its crimes against children. Now it turns out that he has been robbing the dead without telling anyone. When Cupich was exposed, the Newarchdiocese fessed up and essentially admitted its embezzlement, calling it financial legerdemain.
On October 6, 2024, the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio announced that he had appointed twenty new voting Newcardinals for Newchurch (which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church), to be "installed" December 8. Thus, he has packed the number to some 140. His own canon law limits the number to 120. But the "Dictator (New)pope" Bergoglio has never cared about the law. His goal is obvious: to perpetrate "election interference" in his Newchurch so that his own candidate wins post mortem.
One Newcardinal appointed by Bergoglio surpassed the age of 80 on October 10; and another will be deprived of his vote on Christmas Eve. Six more of the Newcardinals who were appointed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI will pass the age of 80 over the course of 2025. By the end of 2024, 79 per cent of all the Newcardinals will be Bergoglians. That will bring the percentage of Bergoglians in Newchurch's College of Newcardinals to over 80. So much for the clueless Neocon Newchurchers' hopes for a more "conservative" heretic as Newpope!
One of the New voting Newcardinals is the notorious homerast Timoty Radcliffe, former leader of the Newdominicans and a wild radical. None of the Newcardinals is from the United States (Bergoglio hates Americans) and only one is even from North America, a continent that includes Mexico, Canada, and all of Central America. The one exception is the new and inexperienced Newarchbishop of Toronto. He is only 53 years old and will therefore be a voting Newcardinal for the next 27 years. Yet again, the Newarchbishop of Montreal, Christian Lepine, was passed over. Bergoglio clearly dislikes him.
A fair number of the Newcardinals hail from Bergoglio's personal bailiwick, South America, one each from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Some are from places where there are few if any Newchurchers. Bergoglio also threw in the Newarchbishop of Iran, Dominique Joseph Mathieu, at just the time that bellicose Iran is readying nuclear weapons and sending ballistic missiles against the Holy Land and international shipping through the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. So much for the phony "Peace" Newpope!
On September 26, 2024, the respected Pew Research Center released the results of its latest study of Newchurchers in the Western Hemisphere, specifically the United States, Argentina (Francis-Bergoglio's former Newarchbishopric), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
The Newchurchers, who adhere to the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Newchurch of the New Order, founded in 1964 at the apostate Vatican II Anti-council -- which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church -- in large numbers reject Catholic teaching on the ordination of priestesses, celibacy of presbyters, homosexuality, and artificial contraception. The heretical and anti-Catholic beliefs were most prominent in Argentina, where Bergoglio was Newarchbishop of Buenos Aires, at 86 per cent, followed by the United States at 83 per cent. Over half of U.S. Newchurchers now approve of "gay" marriage.
The apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio's popularity has sunk in just ten years, as, for example, in his native Argentina, from 98 per cent in 2013 to 74 per cent in 2023. In the U.S., which never liked him as much, his popularity has fallen from 85 per cent to 75 per cent.
Traditional Catholics, the Pew Research Study confirms the fact that Newchurchers are not Catholic, and in many cases fail to meet the standards even of Protestants. Moreover, it must be remembered that even most Newchurchers who were conservative have left, so these numbers reflect the Leftist remnant. Large numbers have left in recent decades as their once traditional churches are being closed, in some Newdioceses at a rate of 50 per cent or more. Many others have left because of Newchurch's continuing Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust.
On the Feast of St. Bridget, October 8, 2024, at 20:08 U.T., the Neo-SSPX's Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais died, and Fellay lied. We had previously reported in these Commentaries that Tissier has been ill for some time, and we at that time had published a photograph of him looking gaunt and unhealthy. In what might have been negligence on the part of Davide Pagliarani, current Superior Dictator of the Neo-SSPX, and Bernie Fellay, the past Superior Dictator, who actually runs the Neo-SSPX (the original traditional Society of St. Pius X was reorganized out of existence by Fellay after the death of founder Archbishop Lefebvre in 1991 and turned into a Newchurch-leaning organization), Tissier was allowed to fall down the stairs on September 28, 2024, at the Neo-SSPX's principal seminary in Econe, Switzerland. His exequies will be celebrated on the Feast of St. Luke, Friday, October 18, 2024, at 07:30 U.T., followed by burial in the Neo-SSPX seminary vault at Econe, Switzerland.
Surely, with Tissier in such a frail, unsteady condition, it was the responsibility of the Neo-SSPX leadership to assign someone to accompany him at all times. Then, the ever-secrretive Bernie Fellay apparently lied to the world by severely downplaying the fact that after the fall the 79-year-old Tissier was at death's door, but instead Fellay stated that Tissier's condition was "not life threatening." In fact, had suffered a skull fracture and a cerebral haemorrage, hurtling him into unconsciousness. So bad was his condition that his physicians put him into an induced coma. He died exactly ten days after the fall. The Neo-SSPX is now down to just two bishops of the original four, senior Bishop Richard Williamson having already abandoned the Neo-SSPX after a contretemps with Fellay.
Tissier was one of Archbishop Levebvre's first collaborators in 1969, and helped him found the original traditional SSPX. After the Archbishop's death in 1991, Fellay changed the bylaws of the SSPX to allow him to turn it into a Newchurch-friendly Neo-SSPX. To the present time Fellay & Co. have not denounced the apostate, charged paedophile Newpope Francis-Bergoglio, but have continued to seek entry into his Newchurch of the New Order, now in 2025 to become the openly pagan New Age Synodal Church.
Notably, Tissier became the biographer of Archbishop Lefebvre and published his biography in 2003. Some of the most interesting insights revealed by Tissier was that after 1988, the Archbishop, who had already publicly termed the Newchurch of the New Order after the Vatican II Anti-council to be not the Catholic Church, but a "Conciliar Church," turned completely sour against the apostate Newpope at the time, JPII-Wojtyla, and indicated his intention to reject the Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962 and return to the fully Traditional Latin Mass. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by sources within the Neo-SSPX.]
Traditional Catholics, we restate: a time of reckoning is rapidly approaching for the Neo-SSPX. It lost its senior bishop, Richard Williamson, by political connivance and Tissier de Mallerais by death. Only Bernie Fellay, aged 76, and Alfonso Galarreta, aged 77, are now left. Fellay is a proven sellout to the New Order sect and will not proceed with a new consecration without Bergoglio's permission, and, if Fellay should ever get it, it will be at the price of his becoming even more of a Newchurch advocate than he is now. Last time he tried to join the Newchurch of the New Order, he lost up to one-fifth of his priests and numerous Neo-SSPX laymen. Two high officials of the Neo-SSPX are now in prison, and the Neo-Society is being investigated in several jurisdictions around the world for paedophile crimes.
Rape and sodomy by Newchurch presbyters and Newbishops is coming at a higher and higher price these days, as courts tire of Newchurch clergy committing these vile crimes.
The Newdiocese of Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, has the distinction of having the highest financial penalty ever assessed: It is slated to pay 200,000,000 USD to the child-victims. The Newdiocese declared bankruptcy on October 1, 2020. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop John Barres declared to the court that the Rockville Centre is "at the end of its resources" and is now flat broke. The criminal presbyters and Newbishops of the Newdiocese have driven the Newdiocese and its affiliates into total bankruptcy because of their vile crimes against children. Now Newchurch around the world is paying the price for is complicity in these crimes, all the way up to thea apostate Newpopes, who are most certainly NOT Catholic.
It seems that the All-just God has it in for the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio. Bergoglio thought that he could get away with his rampant crime and corruption, but now all his evil deeds have come back to bite him, like the Serpent's pointed tail to his derriere. Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, the nearly half billion USD real estate fraud in London from his Newchurchers donations, his Newvatican teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, and now his illegal takeover of the 700-year-old traditional charitable organization, the Sovereign Order of the Knights Templar, which was eventually metamorphosed into the Knights of Malta.
On October 7, 2024, the very day commemorating the day on which Our Lady is said to have vanquished other enemies of the Church at the miraculous Battle of the Bay of Lepanto, the Knights of Malta, having a prodigious 700-year record of courage and charity beginning with its actions during the Holy Crusades, have sued the pretender Newpope Bergoglio for his illegal takeover of their organization. The Knights Templar/Knights of Malta, to this day, had been regarded internationally as independent and sovereign, even having separate representation at the United Nations -- that is, until Bergoglio illegally took over the organization. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Dagens News US.]
Traditional Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio, known throughout Europe as the "Dictator Pope," illegally took over the Knights of Malta in 2022. The courageous Knights are, therefore, seeking justice against Bergoglio in the form of financial restitution and restoration of properties. Bergoglio's Newvatican, as confirmed by several Newchurch auditors, is already on the brink of bankruptcy. Bergoglio has had to order Newvatican's budget to be stripped to the bone. A judgment for the Knights to any degree could be the final nail in the coffin for the pretender Newpope.
Newchurch and its pretender Newpopes thought that they could get away with their rampaging presbyters raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting children. But God's justice apparently had other plans. In the United States, Newdioceses are falling like bowling pins into bankruptcy, and the rate is increasing, not decreasing, as Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated.
On September 30, 2024, the Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, became the 39th Newdiocese to topple. It became the second Newdiocese to fall in the month of September 2024 alone, the Newdiocese of Norwich, Connecticut, having fallen on September 6, 2024. Already in 2024 the Newdiocese of Sacramento, California, had fallen on April 1, 2024, and the Newdiocese of Fresno, California, on May 29, 2024.
Burlington had suffered its fourth wave of children's lawsuits for sex crimes and could no longer put off the inevitable. 31 new lawsuits had just been entered by the child victims. Newbishop John McDermott mouthed the usual pro-forma apology to the victims and shed the pro-forma crocodile tears, but obviously nothing had really been done to stop the crimes. Burlington had spent its remaining funds in settlement and had liquidated its 130,000-square-meter chancery building for 10,000,000 USD and its Camp Holy Cross for 4,000,000 USD. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, former Newbishop Salvatore Matara in 2006 had slyly incorporated each Newparish separately so that the child victims would not have access to these properties. So much for Newchurch's fake handwringing. Current Newbishop John McDermott didn't even bother to pay for insurance. Pure and simple, Newchurch is running a scam, by which children sexually-assaulted by Newchurch presbyters and bishops can't even get the full settlement to which they are entitled in justice.
Bankrupt and desperate for money, the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio made a junket to one of the smallest countries in Europe, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Its per-capita Gross Domestic Product is 130,000 USD, increased by the number of billionaires who reside there. The latest Newpapal junket took four days, September 26, 2024, to September 29, 2024.
Noteworthy is the fact that the Newchurch population in Luxembourg is markedly dwindling. When the duchy was Catholic, the monarch was known as "Rex Catholicissimus." No longer. Newchurch's continuing Great Sex and Embezzlement Holocaust has largely emptied the magnificent cathedrals and village churches, such as Luxembourg's late-Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame. Monthly attendance at the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order New Mess has plummeted into the single digits, as has the number of new presbyters installed (since adoption of the 1968 New Ordinal, Newchurch has not ordained priests, merely installed presbyters "to preside over the assembly," like Protestant ministers). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, in Luxembourg, as well as Belgium, which was also included in the junket, Francis-Bergoglio was greeted with coolness, particularly at the University of the Louvain, once Catholicism's greatest university, alma mater of, in pre-Vatican II years, Fr. Gommar DePauw, the founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement in 1964, and Newarchbishop Fulton Sheen. Both countries despise Bergoglio's Newchurch, which has raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted children throughout Europe. His publicity meetings and "photo ops" with the few child victims who condescend to be with him have done nothing to erase the vile crimes that Newchurch and its pretender Newpopes have perpetrated, and continues to perpetrate, upon Europe's children, as well as its women and men
The Newarchdiocese of Denver, Colorado was stunned by the news that ten of the leading members of its Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (Sodality of Christian Life), known as a (pseudo-)traditionalist group, operating within the Newarchdiocese, were adjudged to be paedophile criminals and expelled for "severe crimes" and "abuse of power," as Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated.
On September 25, 2024, the Superior General of the Sodality, the Newarchbishop associated with the Sodalitium internationally, two Regional Superiors, one presbyter, and two formators were expelled. Several officials affiliated with the corrupt Newchurch EWTN cable television network were also expelled. The Sodality had completely pulled the wool over the eyes of the clueless Denver Newarchbishop, Samuel Aquila. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, this is not the first instance of a Newchurch group identifying itself as "traditionalist" and pandering the Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962 to have turned out to be a front group for unspeakable crimes. One recalls the notorious Society of St. John the Evangelist of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which ran a sham fundraising operation while operating a school. The presbyters involved bamboozled the Newbishop there, James Timlin. Eventually, the group fled the United States and set up shop under another Newchurch bishop in Paraguay, who knowingly accepted the paedophiles. The corrupt Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, deliberately continues to perpetrate the same sins and crimes as ever.
When the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio returned from his profligate Newpapal junket to the South Pacific on September 14, 2024, he received a rude awakening. He told the reporters on the return plane of his secret Concordat with Communist Dictator Xi Jinping: "The result is good." In fact, Bergoglio's efforts to play patsy with the murderous Communist Dictator of China has exploded into a thousand pieces.
Within days of Bergoglio's return to Newrome, Red China ordered the removal of crosses from Christian churches and their replacement by images of the new god: Xi Jinping. Statues of the Virgin Mary have also been removed. The Chinese Communist Party has now taken "total control" over Newchurch in China and has begun forcibly to "eradicate religious elements" from the beleaguered country.
The remnants of Newchurch have been forced to enroll in the Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church [sic] in Chine, which is under the direct control of the Communist government. Those Newchurchers who resist are arrested en masse and imprisoned as "cultists" under Chinese law. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.
Traditional Catholics, in 2018 Bergoglio entered into a naive concordat with Xi, which the Communist Dictator has torn up, just as Adolf Hitler tore up the Czech agreement with naive British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. According to the concordat Xi was supposed to get Bergoglio's permission to appoint Newchurch bishops, but Xi has ignored the concordat and designated several Communist "bishops" on his own authority. Bergoglio's Newbishops have now been banished. The improvident Bergoglio has been left dangling in front of the world with enough egg on his face to fry a giant omelet!
The Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) was hastily accepted in 1988, when Newpope JPII-Wojtyla panicked at Archbishop Lefebvre's sua sponte consecration of four traditional bishops for the original traditional Society of St. Pius X. JPII-Woytla, then later Benedict-Ratzinger, and certainly Francis-Bergoglio clearly did not want the FSSP, even in its hobbled state, to continue indefinitely. It was supposed to pass away, with its Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962, into the sunset, and the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Mess of 1969 was supposed to supplant it. Yet it shuffled along, though pruned back by Bergoglio's decree "Traditionis custodes" of 2021.
Now the death-knell is once again tolling for the Fraternity. On September 28, 2024, Bergoglio dispatched his Newpapal inquisitors to find a reason to axe it. Bergoglio has sent Inquisitors to other conservative Newchurch organizations, and the result has always been the same: they are either suppressed or severely curtailed. Newvatican admits that it is not investigating anything specific, but is doing a complete vetting. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the temporary "Decretum" of February 11, 2022, which allowed the FSSP to operate, albeit on a more limited basis, after "Traditionis custodes," is beginning to look, as we said at the time, as if it isn't worth the paper it was scribbled upon. Of course, Newvatican would downplay any problems in public, as it likes to operate in the dark, then apply the guillotine in one fell swoop. That has been the "Dictator (New)pope" Bergoglio's invariable modus operandi.
Bernie Fellay's Neo-Society of St. Pius X is more secretive even than Francis-Bergoglio's Newvatican. Thus, only on October 1, 2024, did the Neo-SSPX reveal that one of its only three remaining bishops, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, biographer of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, fell down the stairs at the Neo-SSPX's principal seminary in Econe, Switzerland, after the Angelus three days earlier, on September 28, 2024. Tissiered suffer a cerebral haemorrage as a result. Tissier is 79 and has been ill for some time, struggling with instability, which likely caused the fall. He now lives at the Econe seminary, but apparently did not have suitable assistance provided.
Tissier was one of Archbishop Levebvre's first collaborators in 1969, and helped found the original traditional SSPX. After the Archbishop's death in 1991, Fellay changed the bylaws of the SSPX to allow him to turn it into a Novus Ordo-friendly Neo-SSPX. To the present time Fellay & Co. have not denounced the apostate, charged paedophile Newpope Bergoglio, but have continued to seek entry into his Newchurch of the New Order, in 2025 to become the openly pagan New Age Synodal Church.
The Neo-SSPX is trying to downplay the serious of the incident, claiming that Tissier's haemorrage is not life-threatening, but the world has seen vividly how U.S. President J.R. Biden, who suffered two cerebral haemorrages, was seriously brain affected with eventual onset of apparent dementia. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by sources within the Neo-SSPX.]
Traditional Catholics, a time of reckoning is rapidly approaching for the Neo-SSPX. It lost its senior bishop, Richard Williamson, in 2012. Now a second bishop may be lost. Only Fellay and Alfonso Galarreta would be left. Fellay is a sellout to the New Order sect and will not proceed with a new consecration without Bergoglio's permission, and, if Fellay should ever get it, it will be at the price of becoming even more of a Novus Ordinarian than he is now. Last time he tried to join the Newchurch of the New Order, he lost up to one-fifth of his priests and numerous Neo-SSPX laymen.
Yes, it's true, On November 27, 2024, Newchurch is going to impose yet another "translation" of the New Mass upon the English-speaking countries of the world. The New, New Mess will hit the English-speaking world on the First Sunday of Advent. And it's all so pointless. Newchurch lost the true Mass in 1969 when it substituted the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan invalid, i.e., fake, New Mess in the vulgar tongues. That is why there is a growing desire for a return to the Traditional Latin Mass, which is valid, and One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, bearing the marks of the true Church.
And this new "translation" is considerably different from the one that was introduced in 1973. Newchurch is warning its ever-dwindling congregations to get used to a big change. Newchurch's officials have begun to lay the groundwork for the shock that the few remaining Newchurchers will experience. These Newchurch officials basically admit that more Newchurchers will walk out because of never-ending changes. More Newchurches will close. More Newchurch schools will close. Good riddance!
Not only the fake and invalid Novus Ordo Mess will be changed but also the "Lectionary," the Novus Ordo book that contains the "readings" for its Mess. This book in 1969 threw out the traditional Epistles and Gospels read from apostolic times and substituted for them the Protestant "readings" on a three-year cycle instead of the traditional Apostolic one-year cycle. A big part of the changes will consist of confusion between male and female pronouns. By fiat of Francis-Bergoglio, Newchurch has to be "transsexual friendly." Who knows when Newchurch will begin to call God "she"!
And to put the cherry on top of the dung heap, even the wording of the non-sacrament of "reconciliation," formerly the Sacrament of Penance, will be mucked with. Not that it makes any difference. Newchurch did away with the Sacrament in 1972 when it dumped Confession and substituted a form of Protestant "reconciliation." Confessionals have substantially disappeared in favor of open arrangements or psychiatric couches. Since 1968 Newchurch has not ordained priests to hear confessions when it substituted a Protestant-style "installation" of presbyters. The power to forgive sins in the name of Christ, which was specifically conferred upon priests before 1968, was specifically removed from the post-1968 "installation" of "presbyters." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.
Traditional Catholics, wasn't it Divine when, before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), virtually the whole world prayed in Latin, the true Church's Sacred Tongue, consecrated by the martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome. Wasn't it Divine when each year the familiar Epistles and Gospels going back to Apostolic times returned each year as familiar friends? Wasn't it Divine when one could go to confession to a priest instead of telling one's sins to a presbyter out in the open and not even get valid absolution? Newchurchers may as well leave the corrupted Newchurch entirely. It is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Its Mess is fake. Its presbyters are fake. Its non-sacraments are fake. Its doctrine is fake. And most certainly its pig-sty morality is fake.
As if lay deacons weren't bad enough -- one of the Vatican II Anti-council's innovations -- Francis-Bergoglio now wants to push deaconesses. “We already know that the (New)pope is very much in favor of deaconesses," said Bergoglio's representative. Twice already two special theological commissions has rebuffed Bergoglio, telling him that deaconesses are contrary to (what is left of) Tradition. But the "Dictator (New)pope" is bound and determined to be as anti-traditional as possible. No surprise there: he is, and has been since his days with the Newjesuits in Argentina, an apostate from the Catholic Faith. It is clear now that the fix is in for deaconesses.
So back the question goes to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (New Order) Faith, now headed by Bergoglio's Modernist/Marxist toady, Newcardinal Victor "Tucho" Fernandez. Bergoglio apparently intends to shoehorn deaconesses into the final Synod on Synodality in October 2025, which will replace the Newchurch of the New Order with Bergoglio's Synodal Church. The agenda item is entitled "On Theological and Canonic Questions around Specific Ministerial Forms" and includes the questions of deaconesses because of "a growth in the pastoral responsibilities entrusted to them [women] in all areas of the life and mission of the (New)church." That sounds like presbyteresses is the next step. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Catholic Church teaches that the diaconate is one of the Holy Orders, which are reserved by Divine law to men. In reality, Newchurch lost its Holy Orders in 1968, when it adopted the fake (invalid) Protestantized New Ordinal. Since then, Newchurch doesn't have priests, any more than the Anglican/Episcopalians or the Presbyterians do.
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