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In 1956 numerous major corruptions were made to the traditional Catholic liturgical calendar to accommodate the coming Half New Order "New Latin Mess" of 1962 and fully Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess" of 1969. One of these corruptions involved the patronal feast in the United States of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, December 8. In the fully Traditional Catholic calendar, if this feast falls on a Sunday in Advent, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception takes precedence, with the Sunday of Advent being reduced to a commemoration.
This is how the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is properly listed in the TRADITIO Network's "Traditional Catholic Calendar Following the Rubrics of Pope St. Pius X (pre-1951) for the Universal Calendar (Roman Rite) of the Church " For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Traditional Catholic Calendar department, available from the TRADITIO Networks main menu (www.traditio.com).
But in 1956, the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini corrupted the Traditional Catholic calendrical rubrics to give the Sunday of Advent precedence and to transfer the Feast of the Immaculate Conception to the following Monday, December 9. The U.S. Conference of Catholic [sic] Bishops and the Newvatican are now in a contretemps about whether the transferred feast on December 9 is a Holyday of Obligation. The apostate Newchurch has published calendars that give it both ways. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio's intimate Blase Cupich, Newcardinal of Chicago, Illinois, has decided to dump the Feast of the Immaculate Conception this year for the "spiritual good" of Chicago Newchurchers. What a bunch of nonsense! If Newchurch had not spurned the Catholic Church and had kept the fully-Traditional Catholic calendar, it would not have shot itself in the foot and come that much closer to the demise of Newchurch.
Newcardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasahas pulled the veil off Francis-Bergoglio's directive on September 29, 2024, for a "hasty" con-anization of King Baudouin, of Belgium (ob. 1993) as a mere political sop, like so many of Bergoglio's invalid con-anizations," such as that of the Communist agitator Oscar Romero in 2018.
It turns out that Baudouin may have been an accomplice to assassination, viz., that of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo, after it had secured independence from Belgium in 1960, whence it was once called the Belgian Congo. Lumumba's assassination, arranged by the Belgian government in 1961 is held to have been approved personally by Baudouin. In 2002 Belgium officially apologized for its role in the assassination. In addition, Baudouin publicly praised his predecessor, King Leopold III's, torture and starvation of as many as half of the Congolese population, known as the Congolese Genocide [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurch of the New Order, founded in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church, because it is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has no power to canonize anyone validly. Instead, its "canonizations" are fakes, known derisively as "con-anizations," because they are "cons" of the clueless Newchurchers. Almighty God knows who is in Heaven, and when the Catholic Church is completely restored, valid canonizations can begin again.
Traditional Catholic producer Mel Gibson is working on a new limited television series on the Christian victory over the Mohammedans at the 1565 Great Siege of Malta. Gibson said that by the end of September 2024, three hours of the series have already been written, and locations for the filming have already been scouted. This siege led to the famous naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian forces, under the leadership of Pope St. Pius V and with the suffrages of the Confraternities of the Most Holy Rosary, 700 Catholic knights decisively defeated 40,000 infidel Mohammedans and their ships to thwart for centuries Sultan Suleiman's plan to take over Catholic Europe.
When the Muslims planned to destroy Western Civilization, Pope St. Pius V called upon the Confraternities of the Most Holy Rosary throughout the Catholic world to offer up their Rosaries for protection against the impending invasion. Dominican, Franciscan, and Jesuit religious embarked on each vessel of the Catholic fleet to celebrate daily Masses and to see that the soldiers and sailors fulfilled their religious duties and refrained from gambling, swearing, and blasphemy, for which there were severe penalties. The Holy Rosary was recited daily on each ship.
Although the Catholic fleet was greatly outnumbered with 214 ships and 80,000 sailors against the Muslims' 275 ships and 120,000 sailors, by about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, October 7, 1571, the Austrian admiral, Don Juan of Austria, son of Emperor Charles V, who commanded the Catholic fleet, though he was only 24 years of age, won a miraculous victory over the Mohammedan Turkish admiral, Ali Pasha. Ali Pasha was killed in the battle along with 25,000 of his sailors in the Gulf of Lepanto, or Gulf of Corinth, in southern Greece. "The sea was full of dead men [and] mostly bright with red blood," wrote one eyewitness. The Catholics freed 15,000 men enslaved by the Mohammedans to man their galleys.
Thus was broken the aggressive designs of the Mohammedan Turks to overrun Christian civilization. Pope St. Pius V did not hesitate to attribute the victory entirely to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Most Holy Rosary. He said: "Neither valor, nor arms, nor leaders, but the Rosary of our Lady gave the victory." He, therefore, added the title Auxilium Christianorum (Help of Christians) to Our Lady's Litany of Loretto, and he instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory, later to become known as the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, although Mel Gibson is producing the series, as well as the sequel to his 2004 blockbuster film "The Passion of the Christ," entitled "The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection," he is not currently sure whether he will play one of the rules in the television series. This Traditional Catholic is almost the only significant producer left that can produce major-release films depicting courage and faith, including 1995's "Braveheart," 2000's "The Patriot", and 2006's "Apocalypto."
So much for Newchurch's vaunted "love," which embraces Communists, Modernists, heretics, apostates, sodomites, paedophiles, and transsexuals, but not devout handicapped and elderly nuns who are deemed "too traditional." The Newchurch of the New Order and its Marxist/Modernist Newpopes are some of the most hateful people around. And they hate Catholics with a special passion.
Newbishop Michael Olson, acting in complicity with the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio, on October 29, 2024, expelled Mother Superior Agnes Gerlach, handicapped and confined to a wheelchair, and the elderly nuns of the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, in the Newdiocese of Fort Worth, Texas. The nus were "too traditional" for standing firm with the New Latin Mess, albeit the Half New Order corrupted version of 1962.
Olson and Bergoglio tried to take over the Carmelites, but, handicapped and elderly as they were, they were not cowed, by courageously stood up to both and left Newchurch, taking with them the monastery and school, which they owned as private property, and went independent together with the many followers whom they had won over because of their charitable work. The savvy nuns enlisted the help of knowledgable laypeople to keep the property successfully out of the hands of the ever-grasping, bankrupted Newchurch. Olson and Bergoglio were left with much egg on their face. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Marxist/Modernist Francis-Bergoglio, no Catholic he, openly spurned the verse in Sacred Scripture, in which the Lord says: "Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me" (Matthew 24:40/DRV). Maltreating the handicapped and elderly, particularly because they want to be true Catholics, is a species of one of the Four Sins that Cry out to Heaven for Retribution. The penalty for those engaging in such vile behavior and contumacy against the Lord is clearly specified in the very next verse: "Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire."
On October 21, 2024, Newvatican's news agency, Agenzia Fides, came out with more bad news for the Newchurch of the New Order. The Newchurch population in Europe fell by nearly half a million in 2022, the latest year for which figures are available. The total population of Europe fell by approximately the same amount. The percentage of Newchurchers by overall population also went down, as it has for several years now.
More than that, the shortage of presbyters declined for the fifth straight year. Newchurch has not ordained priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders since 1968 when it adopted the invalid (fake) Protestantized New Ordinal, but now merely "installs presbyters" like Protestant ministers. In the Americas too the number of presbyters has been plummeting. Now there is only one Novus Ordo presbyter worldwide for every 15, 682 Newchurchers. No wonder Newchurch is closing down large numbers of its churches! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, the biggest hit was the loss of Newseminarians around the world, but most significantly in the Americas and Europe. The number of Novus Ordo nuns has also plummeted, by the thousands. Smart young men have decided, by and large, to shun the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Wisely, they are not going to waste their lives serving the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan institution that is the Newchurch of the New Order and be raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted by Newchurch's corrupt clergy. Bad as the current generation is, the next generation is far worse. It will be starved for clergy so badly that more Newchurch closures and Newdiocesan bankruptcies will -- thank the Lord! -- radically curtail the fake Newchurch's activities.
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