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Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Private prayers and devotions are of merit, but can you tell us some of the special graces that we receive only when we are personally present at Holy Mass?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
Theologians over the centuries have listed over one hundred, but the following are ten that you may not have thought of or known. As at Holy Mass the Sacrifice of Calvary is offered by Christ Himself, there is no other prayer that can in any way equal the infinite power of the Mass. The Rosary is no substitute, let alone viewing some electronic knock-off.
The horror of it! Gerald Ridsdale, an Australian Newchurch presbyter, started raping and sodomizing children at the outset of the Vatican II Anti-council. Every single one of the Newpopes presided over his predations: the Unsaint Paul VI-Montini, the Unsaint JPII- Wojtyla, and especially Benedict- Ratzinger. After the corrupt and apostate Newchurch and its Newpopes did nothing, finally the Australian police acted in 1994, locked up the paedophile presbyter, and threw away the key. Ridsdale has now died in prison on February 18, 2025, at age 90 and has faced his final judgment from above.
Ridsdale abused his status as a Newchurch presbyter to overcome the children and deceive their parents, both in Australia and in the United States. His crimes were so pervasive that he earned the title of "Australia's worst paedophile pr(esbyter)." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Guardian.]
Traditional Catholics, even the notorious Newcardinal George Pell, of Melbourne and Sydney, who himself was later imprisoned for sex crimes, covered up Ridsdale's multitudinous crimes, moved him to another province in a cover-up, and testified in court as a character witness for the paedophile. Paul VI-Montini, JPII-Wojtyla, Benedict-Ratzinger, and Pell. The whole leadership of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, was in on it the crimes. And to this day, under Francis-Bergoglio, Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust goes on unabated, and the very lives of millions of children are destroyed as part of a perverted Newchurch sex game.
Francis-Bergoglio, gravely ill in hospital, has political matters on his mind. He is trying to protect his "legacy," i.e., the destruction of the Catholic Church and its final replacement by his apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. He has already packed the Newepiscopate with fake (invalid) bishops like ants, now surpassing 5,000. He broken Newcanon Law to stuff the College of Newcardinals cut out of his own openly-apostate cloth. He has appointed women to positions previously held only by clergy, and has encouraged sodomites and transsexuals in his Synodal Newchurch.
Bergoglio also involved himself in a political contretemps with the Vice President of the United States, who indicated that Bergoglio was violating Catholic teaching by encouraging illegal invaders to violate the U.S. border, many of whom are felons, rapists, child traffickers, and even terrorists. Vice President J.D. Vance, who, though a Newchurcher, seems to have some grasp of true Catholic theology and contradicted Bergoglio's errors by citing St. Augustine's bedrock Catholic theology. Bergoglio issued a response that was almost unintelligible (he should stick to clear Latin). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Politico.]
Traditional Catholics, Bergoglio has also extended the term of Newcardinal Giovanni Battista Re as Dean of the College of Newcardinals, a close disciple of his, who will be the manager of the next conclave to elect a Newpope for the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. Re is described as a "(New)vatican operator," who will try to protect Bergoglio's "legacy." Re will also lead the invalid (fake) Novus Ordo funeral rites for Bergoglio, which Bergoglio has decreed be less "papal," exposing once again his belief that he is not really a pope.
On February 12, 2025, Fr. Reid Hennick has rejected the Neo-SSPX's pro-Novus Ordo policies and has embraced sede-vacantism to conduct his ministry outside the Neo-Society as an independent Traditional Roman Catholic priest. In the last seven years some 100 priests of the Neo-SSPX,. or almost 20 per cent, have left the Fellayite organization, which still wants to join the apostate Newchurch of the New Order. Fr. Hennick, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, was ordained in 2016. He joined Fr. Fabio Calixto, of Brazil, who in January 2025 similarly abandoned the Neo-SSPX.
In his farewell letter to "Brother Priests, Religious, and Faithful" of the Neo-SSPX, Fr. Hennick refers to a meeting with the Superior General, Davide Pagliarani, which exposed "serious disagreements" with the position of the Neo-SSPX regarding the apostate Newpopes. Fr. Hennick has come to the conclusion that the "Holy See has been vacant since the Second Vatican Council." In other words, Paul VI-Montini, JPI-Luciani, JPII-Wojtyla, Bemedict-Ratzinger, and Francis-Bergoglio have all been pretenders, fakes, whereas the Neo-SSPX embraces these apostates.
Traditional Catholics, the Neo-SSPX is leaking like a sieve. Most of its members must be aware that the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) founded a Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, any more than was Martin Luther's Revolutionary Church, which he called the Catholic Church. Some hundred former priests of the Neo-SSPX have seen this truth clearly and left the Neo-Society, which in 1994 broke from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), revised its bylaws, and became a different, semi-Novus Ordo organization with the goal of becoming even more integrated with the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order that it already is.
Now we have a double whammy, bound to happen in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order run by the apostate Newpopes who openly reject the Catholic Faith. There she was, a heretic Anglican, and a priestess to boot, con-celebrating the "con" of a fake Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo Mess for the installation of a new Newarchbishop appointed by Francis-Bergoglio.
Vivian Schwanke De Oliveira participated with all the fake (invalid) Newchurch bishops and presbyters in the violated "sanctuary" of the Mess for the installation of the new Newarchbishop of Chapeco, Brazil, Odelir Jose Magri. This outrage occurred on February 9, 2025, in St. Anthony Newcathedral and is grave sacrilege according to the Newcanon Law of the Newchurch. Of course, none of the participants is ordained, as Newchurch adopted the fake (invalid) Protestantized Ordinal in 1968. Newchurch thereby abolished the Catholic Sacrament of Holy Orders.
In addition, Bergoglio's appointee Magri perjured himself, swearing a false oath in the Newcathedral's "sanctuary," when he swore to uphold the "Catholic" Faith. He and the Anglican priestess proceeded to much the fake Novus Ordo cookie and swill the fake Novus Ordo grape juice, adding the grave sin of idolatry to their blasphemy and sacrilege, all grave sins against the First Commandment of God. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, when the Newarchbishop was denounced to the Brazilian nunciature for his for his grave Public Sins, he sent out a press release saying that they were "inadvertent," as if he didn't know that priestesses are invalid (fake)! No harm, no foul in the eyes of the fake Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Nor was the Newarchbishop deposed by Francis-Bergoglio and excommunicated. No, Bergoglio was probably behind the whole desecration!
As Newchurch around the world deals with a dearth of Newclergy and of Newserminarians who don't want to join the apostasy from the Catholic Faith or to be raped by perverted Newprelates like Newcardinal Theodore McCarrick, the remaining Newclergy in the Newdiocese of Rome have been refusing to cooperate with the apostate Francis-Bergoglio's "synodal reforms" contained in his January 2023 Newapostolic Constitution In ecclesiarum communione.
In fact, there has not been a "communion of churches." Six Newbishops of Rome have left within the span of a year, and presbyters of Rome are refusing to attend Bergoglio's "reform" meetings. although the Newdiocese of Rome is supposed to be made thereby more "pastoral, oriented according to the synodal style," the constitution actually gives the Newpope far more centralized dictatorial powers over the Newdiocese than ever before. Nothing can be done without his personal approval. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, the 200 presbyters of Rome refuse to attend Newclergy meetings out of resentment against "Il Papa Dittatore." All this resistance is occurring at the same time more and more presbyters within and outside Italy are now publicly calling Bergoglio an apostate from the true CatholicFaith, but is, in fact, an "anti-pope."
On February 17, 2025, Professor Doctor David Allen White passed away at his home at age 76, having been fighting several medical afflictions in recent years. He received his Philosophiae Doctor degree summa cum laude from the University of Indiana in 1981. He was for many years Professor of Western Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994/1995. Professor White did many years of theater work, acting and directing in over 100 productions. He was the editor of Shakespeare A-Z, a Shakespeare encyclopedia. He presented many lecture series and was a regular on Washington, D.C., radio with a monthly Shakespeare commentary.
Professor White was a committed Traditional Catholic, who wrote biographies of three great Traditional Catholic bishops: Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, Bp. Antonio de Castro-Meyer, and Bp. Richard Williamson, a great friend of Professor White's, who passed away on January 29, 2025.
A Requiem Mass for the repose of his soul was offered on February 20, 2025, at Saint Athanasius Traditional Church, an independent Traditional Catholic Church, which he had attended for many years.
Professor White penned many wonderful letters of support about the work that the TRADITIO Traditional Roman Catholic Network has been doing for over thirty years, particularly in carrying on traditional Catholic culture and the Sacred Gregorian chant. His passing is a great loss to this network, as it is to the Traditional Catholic communities worldwide. He was particularly edified by the TRADITIO Fathers' Commentaries on the importance of Catholicism in the area of Western literature and the Latin and Greek languages. He was a great aficionado of Dante Alighieri's Divina Comedia, which is so steeped in classical culture, particularly Vergil's great epic of Rome, the Aeneid. He also revered Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex, called by Aristotle the greatest of plays, although Professor White admitted that he had never gotten around to studying the original Greek language in which it was written.
In his farewell interview released February 13, 2025, Newcardinal Wilton Gregory, of Washington, D.C., had several recriminations for what he had done. He had left the Newarchdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia, under a cloud of scandal. He promised that he would strip down profligate expenditures and then proceeded to purchase a new multimillion-dollar archiepiscopal mansion. His Atlanta Newchurchers were so scandalized that he was forced to sell it back and was scuttled off by the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio to Washington, D.C., following the immemorial adage of corruption: promoveatur ut moveatur.
Gregory had to admit that when he was installed as a presbyter-minister (Newchurch stopped validly ordaining priests in 1968 when it adopted a Protestantized New Ordinal), the image of the true priesthood was that portrayed in the film "Going My Way," starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald as the traditional Catholic priests, who represented virtue and holiness. That image was smashed in Washington, D.C., which became a paedophile capital, completely poisoned as a result of its Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, in which he played a part.
Moreover, Gregory now regrets his actions during the Red China Virus (2019-2022). He shuttered Newchurches in D.C., following the lead of many Newchurch bishops and cutting off Newchurchers from contact with Newchurch during a highly-critical period. Yet many Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories remained open, countering the Newchurch capitulation. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic Standard.]
Traditional Catholics, no wonder most Newchurchers failed to return when the Newchurches reopened because Newchurch had shut itself off in the time of greatest need. Newbishops did little or nothing against the highly-arbitrary regulations that petty bureaucrats, many of them anti-religion, imposed. In the United States, for example, even the cowardly Supreme Court conveniently forgot the First Amendment and went along with a suppression of the basic right to the exercise of religion until almost the very end.
It should be no surprise that Newchurch presbyters who have no respect for children would sink to murdering domestic animals. A Newchurch pastor in West Memphis, Arkansas, was arrested on February 11, 2025, on charges of aggravated cruelty against domestic animals. It seems that the presbyter went on some kind of maniacal killing spree, using traps and drowning. The cats that he had trapped and drowned in a tank of water on his property were found in his house, which police entered with a search warrant. A concerned citizen reported the perverted presbyter to police.
The Director of the West Memphis Animal Society hit the nail on the head when he said: "To see someone be actively cruel, to see neglect, to see harm come to them [domestic animals] in any way, is not only heartbreaking and illegal; it makes a statement for how that person lives his life." Police added: "Animal cruelty will NOT be tolerated in our community."
Yet Newchurch presbyter calls himself a "priest" (although Newchurch presbyters are not priests, as Newchurch since 1968 uses a non-sacramental Protestantized Ordinal, not the traditional Sacrament of Holy Orders) and a pastor of several Newparishes to boot. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the U.K. Daily Mail.]
Traditional Catholics, the traditional teaching of the Church is clear. Inflicting pain and suffering upon such a domestic animal needlessly is Mortally Sinful, as it brutalizes the tormentor himself and serves to gratify his sadistic impulses. In this case, a Newchurch presbyter was the perpetrator and caused scandal by his perverted actions.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I was recently challenged by some Protestant who chided me for addressing my Traditional Catholic priest as "Father." She dragged up that old chestnut about "Call none your father upon earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven." Could you once and for all set aside this Protestant misintpretation?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
The statement does appear in St. Matthew's Gospel (23:9). The point is: what did Our Lord mean when he said it? In their uninformed reading of Scripture, some Protestants seem to miss entirely the clear meaning of this passage.
When saying "call none your father upon earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven," Our Lord cannot mean literally that you cannot call anyone by the name "father." That would be nonsensical and illogical, as St. Augustine said: "lest Holy Scripture be exposed to ridicule." What do those Protestants call their own father: "Joe" or "Sid"? Of course not; that would be ridiculous. They call their father "father" and think nothing of it.
If one reads the context of the passage, Our Lord is making the spiritual point that Our Heavenly Father is incomparably more to be regarded than any natural or spiritual father on earth. By the Fourth Commandment of God, Our Lord's words cannot mean that we are not to have due respect in addressing our earthly father and our spiritual fathers. In fact, St. Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians (4:15), claims for himself, and others, the respect of being called a father spiritually. Thus, the title is quite scriptural, a reasonable title of respect for a priest.
Those Protestants might as well say: call no one reverend on earth: for only God is to be revered, who is in heaven." Otherwise, Protestants' own "reverends" would be in great trouble indeed! Obviously, this kind of misinterpretation exposes a basic lack of understanding of the message that Our Lord was clearly trying to convey.
On February 11, 2025, U.S. Border Czar Tom Holman, 63, who was born before the Vatican II Anti-council under the presidency of Catholic John Kennedy. describes himself as a "baptized and confirmed lifelong Catholic." Homan has a reputation for not mincing words, has called out the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio's hypocrisy in wading into U.S. politics on border and immigration policy, which are out of his wheelhouse:
You ought to get out of the business of our national security and our border enforcement work and concentrate on the Catholic [Sic] church. You got a lot of problems right there in the Catholic Church. You got enough to do. You got enough to fix in your own home.
Bergoglio in a February 11 letter had attempted to take on U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, another Newchurcher, who had decimated Bergoglio's attempt to criticize plans to eject illegal invaders from the United States. Vance eloquently put Bergoglio in his place by citing true Catholic doctrine, as represented particularly by the Church's Universal Theologian, St Thomas Aquinas. Bergoglio failed to address the fact that many of the estimated 21,000,000 invaders who had illegally entered the country and have overtaxed the U.S. budget, schools, hospitals, roadways, and other resources are murderers, rapists, and felons in their home countries. Homan said that Bergoglio "doesn't understand": [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newsmax.]
He's got a border wall around the Vatican. We're saving lives every day. A secure border saves lives. When less fentanyl comes across that border, fewer Americans die from drug overdoses. I?ve got harsh words for the pope [sic]. Stick to the Catholic Church; leave border enforcement to us.
Traditional Catholics, we're waiting for the time when the hypocrite Newpope puts his money (which he doesn't have, his Newchurch being almost bankrupt ) where his mouth is and sets up tents in St. Peter's Square to house the "migrants" whom he so often abets. Surely, there is room for at least a thousand of them there. But, no, that would kill Bergoglio's golden calf -- tourist money -- which is about the only thing that he can now count on, since collections and donations have dried up because of his Marxist/Modernist heresies and his Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Could you explain the significance of the current season of Septuagesma that we are currently celebrating? Why has it been obliterated from the invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess" of 1969, used almost exclusively by the Newchurch of the New Order.
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
To make a transition from the joyousness of the Epiphany season to the penitential character of Lent, Septuagesima is a kind of "pre-Lent" or "fore-Lent" before Lent proper begins on Ash Wednesday seventeen days from Septuagesima Sunday (March 5 in 2025). We see the altar clothed not in the green of hope, but in the violet of penitence. The word "Septuagesima" itself comes from the Latin for "seventieth," as from today until Easter there are some seventy days, though not exactly seventy -- the term is used as a round number.
The number seventy is associated with the seventy years during which the Jews were captive in Babylon in the sixth century before Christ. For them, this was a time of somberness and reparation for their transgressions against God. As Psalm 136 describes it: "Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept; when we remembered Sion" (Psalm 136:1/DRV). Now the true Church observes this seventy-day period spiritually in reparation for our sins, just as the Jews did penance physically by their captivity.
During the Septuagesima season the Sacred Liturgy takes the joyous song of the Angels, the Alleluia, away from us. It will not return in the Divine Office and Masses of the season until the Vigil of Easter, when the triumph of Our Lord's Resurrection is proclaimed upon earth by those same Angels. From now on, we no longer hear the Gloria in Excelsis or the Te Deum in the Divine Office and Masses of the season. The Ite, Missa Est at the end of Mass is replaced by the simple Benedicamus Domino, Let us bless the Lord. The celebrant does not say or chant this call to prayer facing the congregation, but turns away to face the Lord.
This elimination of joyfulness from the Sacred Liturgy for Septuagesima is quite ancient, going back at least to the Rule of St. Benedict in the sixth century. Nevertheless, the apostate Newchurch of the New Order founded in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, obliterated this ancient season in its invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess."
The Gospels of these three Sundays focus their message upon a single theme: an invitation to us to commit ourselves to our faith even more fervently. The Propers of these Masses are some of the earliest in the Roman Missal, being composed in the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great, perhaps by the great Saint himself.
On February 7, 2025, the jig was up for the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] Bishops and their illegal "charities." The USCCB announced massive layoffs when the recent U.S government audit showed widespread illegal expenditures of government funds. USCCB's Catholic [Sic] Charities operation is now being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justics for illegal expenditure and is a defendant in several court cases.
The government funds were supposed to go to specific charitable purposes, but the recent U.S. government audit discovered that the funds were being spent on illegal invaders. The audit has shown conclusively that many of the illegal "migrants" were illegal invaders, who crossed the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico illegally. Therefore, the USCCB has already been forced to lay off one-third of its staff associated with what it deceptively calls "migration and refugee services."
Catholic [Sic] Relief Services is experiencing massive cuts in its budget because it has been caught converting government funds to illegal purposes. Although it was generally believed that CRS was operating from donated funds of Newchurchers, in fact CRS was the top NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) recipient of government funding, up to half of its total annual income.(1,500,000,000 USD). Catholic Relief Services was originally founded in 1943 legitimately to assist World War II survivors and DPs (Displaced Persons) in Europe. Now the funds are being used to support illegal activities. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Reporter.]
Traditional Catholics, even Newchurchers themselves have had it with the corruption in the Newchurch of the New Order in the United States. High government officials, including both U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Presidential Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who identify as Newchurchers, have publicly criticized the illegal activities of the USCCB and its agencies and have charged that the USCCB's primary concern is its "bottom line."
What Catholics seem to have forgotten in the commercialism of this Holy Martyr's feastday is that February 14 is not Valentine's Day -- it is SAINT Valentine's Day. Its origins are not a day dedicated to romantic sentimentalism, but to love of God -- to the death.
The Roman priest Valentine was imprisoned for courageously professing his Catholic Faith, and helping other Catholics to do so, during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus about the year 269. St. Valentine, who sent letters of encouragement ("valentines") in the Faith from his prison cell, was eventually martyred by beating and beheading. Far from representing romantic sentimentalism, the red color and the hearts that are so prevalent this day recall the fact that St. Valentine gave his body's red heart and his life's red blood as a Martyr for his Catholic Faith.
As St. Augustine writes in the Traditional Catholic Divine Office for this day: (Sermo 44 de Sanctis): "In cuius glorioso agone duo nobis praecipue consideranda sunt: indurata videlicet tortoris saevitia, et Martyris invicta patienitia" [In whose glorious agony two things must especially be considered by us: namely, the hardened brutality of his torture, and the unconquered patience of the Martyr].
Traditional Catholics, instead of sentimentality on this day, the true Catholic should be recalling how much blood the millions of courageous Catholic Martyrs shed to purchase that precious Faith for us -- a faith that today is being persecuted not only by the government, but by the Newchurch of the New Order founded in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council -- which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. So, save the candy and flowers for secular Mother's Day and let February 14 be unsullied by sentimentality, but devoted to devout prayer for the intercession Martyr-Priest, who gave his life for the True Faith as a light for the faithless.
In recent days the Newvatican has been involved in numerous cyberattacks, against which it cannot defend itself, because Bergoglio and his apostate Newchurch of the New Order has virtually bankrupted itself and continues to lose money hand over first, mainly from embezzlement and markedly-decreased collections and donations because of Newchurch's Marxism/Modernism and its continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust.
Newvatican in November 2024 experienced a complete collapse of its web servers and remained down for several days. The cause is believed to be a denial-of-service attack on its web servers that it was incompetent to address adequately. The personal data on the web sites were twice hacked. A cybersecurity auditor who investigate the failures concluded that Newvatican's web servers were "insecure." The auditor reported that Newvatican had been warned for years that its web sites were not unsafe. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch has reportedly given up on securing its web servers, thus putting at risk the personal information of all Newchurchers and others around the world who interact with them. Who knows what may become public? Perhaps details of Francis-Bergoglio's personal involvement in the paedophile scandals. Newvatican may pay a high price for its malfeasance, criminality, and incompetence.
Newvatican is literally falling apart. Sinking close to bankruptcy, the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio has had to slash staff and salaries. This situation has led to outright vandalism and theft of artworks in the Vatican Museums, even by Newchurch clergy. Reports from tourists indicate that Newvatican is filthy (in more ways than one) because the cleaning staff has been decimated. Because security staff has been cut back as well, attacks against St. Peter's is increasing.
On February 7, 2025, a man attacked the high altar of St. Peter's Archbasilica. Without anyone impeding him, the man climbed on top of Bernini's exquisite High Altar and proceeded to hurl the six monumental candelabra onto the ground. Again, without anyone impeding him, the man began to remove the altar cloth. Only then did the decimated security guards, who were absent until an alarm bell rang, make any attempt to stop the man's actions. In 2023 another man climbed atop the High Altar and proceeded to denude himself. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, these incidents could hardly be called a desecration because the High Altar since 1965 has been continuously desecrated by simulation thereon of the fake (invalid) apostate Vatican II Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Unholy New Mess of 1969, which is a far more serious crime than causing physical damage. True popes have the obligation under the Papal Coronation Oath taken since the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great (r. 590-604) to preserve Sacred Tradition untouched: "I vow to change nothing of the received Tradition, and nothing thereof I have found before me guarded by my God-pleasing predecessors, to encroach upon, to alter, or to permit any innovation therein." Paul VI-Montini in 1963 was the last to be crowned pope and to take the oath, but he immediately went apostate from the Catholic Faith, to be followed by apostate Newpopes, who never took the oath.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is the Universal Doctor of the Catholic Church, whose work is regarded as authoritative in matters of doctrine and morality, particularly as explicated in detail in his Summa Theologica, a stellar work of almost 3,000 pages in small Latin type. The Dominican "Angelic Doctor" was of a meditative nature and did not show off in class his brilliant mind, which had memorized the entire Latin Vulgate Bible, together with many of the works of the Catholic theologians.
Thus, some of the Saint's fellow students called him Bos Mutus the "Dumb Ox" ("dumb" in the sense of not speaking). However, the Saint's teacher, himself a Saint, Albertus Magnus, prophesied: "You call him the dumb ox, but in his teaching he will one day produce such a bellowing that it will be heard throughout the world." As indeed it was. At the dogmatic Council of Trent, the Saint's Summa Theologica was given pride of place beside the Latin Vulgate Bible, so authoritative was his great work regarded. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Now, after 750 years, scientists using 3D imagining of the Saint's skull as preserved in Toulouse, France, have reconstructed the Saint's countenance, which differs from the usual depictions. It has been described as "kindly and humble," as opposed to the common depiction, which is a somewhat harsh and intimidating. The scientists also concluded that the Saint was not the portly friar generally described, but "handsome and noble-looking."
Traditional Catholics, most important is the Saint's brilliant and comprehensive theology, based on reason and logic, with major inspiration from the similarly brilliant man whom he called merely "Philosophus" (The Philosopher), the ancient Greek polymath Aristotle. The Saint, who expressed his work in the clearest of Latin prose, has had an unrivaled and persistent impact upon not only the Catholic Church but Western civilization as a whole.
It is breathtaking how the corrupt Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has involved so many organizations into suborning its Newclergy's sex crimes against children, i.e., its Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. The latest organization involved is a surprising one: the National Football League (NFL) New Orleans Saints.
A cache of 300 leaked E-mails revealed on February 4, 2025, showed that the owner of the team was deeply involved in suborning paedophile sex crimes by helping the Newarchdiocese of New Orleans to conceal the crimes against children by providing "public-relations assistance" to Newarchbishop Gregory Aymond. A media firestorm erupted after the collusion was revealed, especially as the Saints owner, Gayle Bensel, herself a Newchurcher, had already admitted her team's collusion in the scandal. Bensel's support for the corrupt Newchurch was described in a Saints' statement as "unwavering." She was also accused of pressuring the New Orleans District Attorney into taking some of the paedophile presbyters off the list of offenders.
Bensel was even writing "talking points" for bankrupted Newarchbishop Gregory Aymond, who is at the center of the controversy. Aymond took the Newarchdiocese into bankruptcy in 2020 because of sex crimes committed by his presbyters against children. Aymond then coerced money from "parishes, schools, and ministries" to protect his bankrupted Newarchdiocese, which is being sued for $1,000,000,000 USD for the child victims. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, why was an NFL team involved with Newchurch at all? As the Latin saying goes, "Corruptio optimi pessima." Newchurch's crimes have infiltrated presbyters, Newbishops, Newcardinals, and even Newpopes. Now Newchurch has even involved a sports team. And isn't it the height of irony that the sports team involved is named "The Saints"?!
Not one of the largest Newdioceses in the United States numbering more than 750,000 Newchurchers has admitted enough Newseminarians to replace the presbyters who are leaving, retiring, or dying. Newchurch is so infected with paedophile Newclergy, doctrinal heresy, and disgusting "liturgies" that only the rare exception will even consider entering a Newchurch seminary, where the probability of his being sodomized is high, as Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
A January 29, 2025, report on "The State of P(resbyter) Vocations [Sic] in the United States" found that of the some 200 Newdioceses in the U.S., fewer than 20, or 10 per cent, could even maintain a "replacement level." For example, New York has "installed" only 23 per cent of the replacement level. (Since 1968 Newchurch has not ordained priests, but merely "installed presbyters," who are like Protestant ministers, with the use of an invalid (fake) Protestantized New Ordinal.)
Other examples falling far short, where 100 per cent indicates attainment of the replacement level:
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch leaders are already discussing the possibility of merging Newdioceses, just as they have been merging Newparishes. Such action would be yet another clear sign that Newchurch is sinking into the abyss. Newchurch marriages fell by 25 per cent in the last decade, and even the few young men that are foolish enough to enter a risky Newchurch seminary experience as much as a 50 per cent dropout rate.
In spite of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), the Philippines remained Catholic far longer than Europe and the Americas. No more. The first report issued on the extensive sex crimes being perpetrated on children and others by Newchurch clergy was released on January 29, 2025. It shows Newchurch as a paganized sect under the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio and his Newpope predecessors. The report documents Newbishop and presbyters awash in sex crimes. Bergoglio's vaunted "zero tolerance" policy simply doesn't exist; it is only mendacious propaganda.
The Philippine Newbishops routinely admit into the Newchurch clergy known sex criminals. Then the Newbishops routinely cover up cases of rape, sodomy, and sexual assault by Newchurch clergy against children. The Newbishops were caught with their cassocks down perpetratng the now well-known ruse with children's lives, by which the paedophile presbyters are suspended or transfered and then reinstated Bergoglio himself has been caught many times perpetrating this ruse, most recently in the case of the notorious paedophile Newjesuit Marko Rupnik. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by UCA News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishops in the United States have also been caught trafficking paedophile presbyters to the Philippines, where they can once again operate, with the full knowledge of the corrupt Newbishops. One of the presbyters is being prosecuted for raping a four-year-old girl. It doesn't get much more vile than that. Newchurch's paedopohile presbyters are an equal-opportunity lot: they rape and sodomize girls, boys, men, and women with equal abandon. Who knows but that some of Francis-Bergoglio's own beloved "transsexuals" are to be found in this perverted Newchurch mix?
On January 20, 2025, yet another Italian presbyter, Natale Santonocito, of Palestrina, Italy, has been excommunicated for calling the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio an "antipope" He is only one of a growing number of presbyters publicly doing so. Bergoglio has been excommunicating or suspending quite a number of them in recent months. Five Italian presbyters have been excommunicated in 2024 alone, as the number of Newchurch presbyters declaring Bergoglio a fake pope has been increasing around the world.
Santonocito, of Palestrina, Italy, posted a public videos on December 8, 14, and 17, 2024, in which he termed Bergoglio an "antipope." Other Newchurch presbyters publicly declaring Bergoglio a fake pope include the following:
In addition, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Newarchbishop Carlo Vigano, was excommunicated on July 5, 2024, from Newchurch, although for all his talk, he has never formally sworn the Abjuration of Heresy, has never formally left Newchurch, and has never gone independent from it.
Traditional Catholics, none of these presbyters is a priest, as all of them were merely installed under the Protestantized New Ordinal adopted by the Newchurch of the New Order in 1968, which merely "installs" men as Protestant-like ministers, known in Newchurch formally as "presbyters" (elders). The truth about the pretender status of Francis-Bergoglio and, for that matter, of Benedict-Ratzinger, JPII-Wojtyla, and Paul VI-Montini is getting out. Even Bergoglio knows the truth about himself and once admitted it to the press on the Newpapal airplane and on another occasions to Neo-SSPX Superior General Bernie Fellay.
Francis-Bergoglio at age 88 has become noticeably accident prone in recent months. On December 7, 2024, he fell onto his nightstand and badly contused his chin. The black bruise was quite noticeable the next day. In January 2025 he fell and injured his right arm, which was put into a sling. On February 1 he broke his walking cake under his morbidly obese weight lost his balance. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio's predecessor as Newpope, Benedict-Ratzinger, also suffered a nighttime fall, a period of unconsciousness when he fell against a radiator, and an incident in which he fell out of bed. These accidents led the apostate Newpope to abdicate the Newpapacy. His apostate successor Bergoglio contends that he is not abdicating. He still has more heretical Marxist/Modernist goals to achieve as he develops his pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which he kicked off in late 2024 after his Great Synod on Synodality in October 2024.
Marko Rupnik, the Newjesuit sex offender so bad that even the Newjesuits have expelled him, keeps coming back like a bad penny. Francis-Bergoglio is so obsessed with the man that he cannot seem to expel him from Newchurch as well. Rupnik has fashioned lurid mosaics for Newchurches in Newvatican, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, but because of his persistent scandals, his mosaic have been torn down.
Rupnik has been found guilty by Newvatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (Novus Ordo) Faith and excommunicated for sexually assaulting some 30 Newchurch "nuns," as well as for blasphemous acts of sexual assault associated in the design of his filthy mosaics. He was also expelled in 2023 by the Newjesuits after an extensive investigation, but through the intervention of Bergoglio, he was reinstated. as a "presbyter in good standing." Bergoglio's action reinstating him spurred a public outcry of corruption against the apostate Newpope.
On January 23, 2025, the new Prefect of the Dicastery, Newcardinal Victor Fernandez, who is an intimate of Francis-Bergoglio, has again taken up the case and downplayed the sex crimes against thirty Newchurch "nuns," stating that "other cases are worse." Fernandez has also been pilloried for dragging his feet on the Rupnik case. Fernandez had an abysmal record as Newarchbishop of La Plata, Argentina, for failing to deal seriously with presbyters' sex crimes. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, it is clear that Francis-Bergoglio and Newcardinal Fernandez are just playing games with the Rupnik case so that the sex criminal can escape punishment. It isn't the first time that the apostate Newpope has let sex criminals among his clergy go, acting only when the public outcry is so loud that he cannot ignore it. Fernandez is his henchman in these cases.
A battle royal is developing in the United States, pitting Newchurch Marxist/Modernists and Neocons against each other. Of course, these have no business getting involved in secular politics at all, but because they have lost the Catholic Faith, what else is there for them to do?
On January 21, 2025, Newcardinal Blase Cupich, of Chicago, Illinois, an intimate of the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio, spoke out against U.S. President Donald Trump's programme to deport criminal invaders legally and repatriate them to their country of origin. It is estimated that there are as many as 20,000,000 illegals now in the U.S., a significant number of them being felons, But Cupich does not dare to talk about the innocent citizens who have been raped, murdered, and assaulted by illegals, not to speak of the citizens who have been defrauded of government services for which they have paid.
Cupich's dicta were immediately drowned out by the EWTN Network, the largest religious media network in the world, which was once the official cable network of the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops, but lost that designation because it was "too conservative." EWTN has been denouncing the former U.S. President, J.R. Biden, who on January 19, 2025, automatically excommunicated himself by joining the condemned Freemasonic Lodge. EWTN called the Biden presidency a "lawless regime," which let in some 20,000,000 criminal illegal invaders.
EWTN's broadcasters also pointed to the new Trump administration's moves to give back control of children's education to their parents, in accordance with Natural Law recognized by the true Catholic Church, instead of to a governmental Department of Education. Moreover, the new administration has defined that legally and officially there are only two sexes, male and female, not intersex (I), transexaual (T), or any number of other fabricated unnatural "sexes." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Church's Universal Theologian St. Thomas Aquinas defines an unjust law as "a code that is not rooted in Eternal Law and Natural Law.? The Saint's definition aptly describes everything about the Newchurch of the New Order, which became in 2025 the Newchurch of the New Age and which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Rather, it is the epitome of lawlessness, as it is of apostasy from the Catholic Faith.
Former senior bishop of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Richard Williamson, who in 2012 went independent and consecrated several Traditional Catholic bishops for the Traditional Catholic movement, was hospitalized following a cerebral haemorrhage in his frontal lobe and received the Traditional Catholic Sacrament of Extreme Unction at Broadstairs Hospital in Kent, England. Later, a death announcement was issued by a member of the staff of Williamson's episcopal seat, Regina Martyrum House in Broadstairs, Kent, near Canterbury, not far from London. The announcement read:
Regina Martyrum House, Broadstairs, Kent
Announcement about Bishop Williamson
It is difficult to announce that at around 12:00 PM [1200 hours Greenwich Mean Time, January 25, 2025], our greatest champion, Richard Williamson, has passed away from a haemorrhage on his frontal lobe. It is deeply troubling to every single one of us. Due this event we are closing our house temporarily and ask that you keep us in your prayers. God bless you.
Apparently, the death announcement from the bishop's own household was premature. It later turned out that he had not passed away, but was in fact unconscious and unresponsive, as a result of which condition his doctors suspended treatment and gave him only a few days to live. The good bishop then passed away at 23:23 Greenwich Mean Time on January 29, 2025. Williamson was just short of his 85th birthday. It is entirely fitting that Our Lord should have taken him at the Hour of Matins for the Double Major Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, as Williamson was himself a convert from Anglicanism and himself converted many souls.
Bishop Williamson consecrated eight bishops for the Traditional Catholic Movement:
On June 23, 2011, Bishop Williamson, who was at the time in the midst an imbroglio with Bernie Fellay, then Superior General of the Neo-Society of St. Pius X, took the time to write the TRADITIO Fathers, conveying his "respect for you and your work on the TRADITIO site." That imbroglio with Fellay finally led to Williamson's abandoning the Neo-SSPX because it had strayed from the Traditional Catholic principles of its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and had made overtures to join the apostate Newchurch of the New Order
Although Bishop Williamson disappointed many Traditional Catholics by not taking on the mantle of SSPX Traditional Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and vigorously carrying on the Archbishop's work in contrast to Fellay and his Neo-SSPX, which fell away from those principles, Williamson was a very decent man and did much for the Traditional Catholic movement.
As the French saying goes, "Plus ?a change, plus c'est la m?me chose." It is clear that Newchurch has learned nothing from its Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust except how to hide it better. Newpope Francis-Bergoglio was outed on January 21, 2025, for praising Sicilian Newbishop Rosario Gisana, who has been charged by a public prosecutor to stand trial for perjury in the case of a presbyter who was later convicted of aggravated sexual violence against minors" aged 14-19.
Newbishop Gisana dragged his feet in originally investigating the accusations by one of the child victims. As a result, the victim reportedly wrote to Bergoglio personally "expressing frustration at the slow pace of the process." Police intercepted a telephone call in which Gisana admitted to the presbyter that he (Gisana) was in difficulty because had "buried (or covered up) this story." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Rome Il Messaggero.]
Traditional Catholics, Bergoglio had publicly described Newbishop Gisana as "good, this bishop, good, a just man." Bergoglio claimed that it was not the children who were the victims, but Gisana. The laity of the Sicilian Newdiiocese know the case much better than the Newpope and have held protests against Gisana, demanding his abdication. The Italian (New)bishops' Conference already in 2021 had identified 68 paedophile presbyters, but Gisana is the first Newbishop to be brought up on charges and to face trial.
Newly-elected U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, a Newchurcher himself, has denounced the U.S. Conference of Catholic {Sic] Bishops, saying that they are essentially operating an illegal-invader mill to boost Newchurch's tanking finances. He said that the Newbishops were more worried about their finances and humanitarian work.
Vance revealed that Newchurch in the United States receives more than 100,000,000 USD to coddle illegal invaders, indicating that much of that money goes into shoring up the Newchurch administration, not humanitarian work. Vance said that, as a Newchurcher, he was "heartbroken" because the U.S. Newbishops had encouraged the sex-trafficking of children through the open-border policy engineered by former U.S. President J.R. Biden. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Daily Express.]
Traditional Catholics, recently both Catholic [Sic] Charities and the Catholic [Sic[ Relief Fund have been charged with running a scam. In fact, Catholic [Sic] Charities is now in court facing fraud charges in its handling of government funds for illegal invaders and has been caught coaching illegals on how to avoid the law. On January 28, 2025, U.S. President Trump cut Catholic [Sic] Charities and other Non-Governmental Organizations that were aiding illegals off from government funding.
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