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SOLEMN RITES OF HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

April 23, 2025 - Easter Wednesday
Ember Wednesday of Paschaltide
Semidouble Feast

Newdioceses around the U.S. and the World Are Shutting down the New Latin Mess of 1962
All Exceptions Have Now Expired after Francis-Bergoglio's Latest Decree Banning the Half Novus Ordo Fake

Francis-Bergoglio, Who Himself Simulates
The Fake (Invalid) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan
New Order (Novus Ordo) Mess
Has Banned the Half Novus Ordo Mess of 1962
Which Is Most Certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass
But a Corruption of It
Intended only as a Stepping Stone for just a Few Years
Until the Full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan
New Mess of 1969 Could Be Imposed on Newchurch
Invalidly Simulated by Unordained Presbyter-ministers

In accordance with Francis-Bergoglio's 2021decree "Traditionis custodes," all New Latin Messes, i.e., the Half New Order Vatican II Mess of 1962, are being banned of July 1, 2025, in all Newparishes of the Newarchdiocese of Detroit, Michigan. Francis-Bergoglio forbids Newdiocesan bishops from allowing such simulations. All 1962 Sacraments are also banned.

Some Newdioceses were granted exceptions for a year or two, but on February 20, 2023, the axe fell when Bergoglio decreed that Newbishops did not have the authority to allow exceptions. All such exceptions then expired, and only he could grant the rare future exception. Other Newdioceses that were operating under an exception, such as Savannah, Georgia, and Albany, New York, announced that their exceptions had expired with Bergoglio's 2023 decree, and all Newdiocesan New Latin Masses were canceled. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]

Traditional Catholics, a handful of Newbishops thought that they could fly under the radar to get around Francis-Bergoglio's ban, but they have been whipped by Bergoglio. It must be remembered that the "1962 Mess" is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, but a corruption of it, engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini. It was intended only as a stepping stone for just a few years until the invalid (fake) full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969 could be imposed on Newchurch, simulated by unordained (fake) presbyter-ministers, merely installed under the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968 like Protestant ministers.

APRIL 22, 2025 - EASTER TUESDAY
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE FIRST CLASS

Latest Pew Research Study Shows that the World Is Becoming Pagan
Many Christians Have Abandoned Their Childhood Faith and Experienced the Greatest Drop

The Apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio
Worships the Pagan Fertility Goddess
Pachamama (Bottom)
And Installed Her in Front of St. Peter's Altar
He Also Approved a Pagan
Pachamama Mess (Top)
Which Is Now Practiced in Mexico
And Is Spreading Thence into Latin America

A new Pew Research Study released on March 26, 2025, shows that Christians are losing the battle to the Pagans. First of all, one out of every five adults around the world has abandoned his childhood faith, Christians most of all. The highest losses are in South Korea (50 per cent), Netherlands (36 per cent), United States (28 per cent), and Brazil (21 per cent). Most of those lost have become "nones," i.e., those who have no religion at all.

Christianity in Western Europe has the highest net loss of believers, the losses being highest in Italy, Germany, France, Poland, and Spain, which had traditionally been staunch Catholic countries before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). In Italy, in the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio's backyard, more than one out of every four (28 per cent) have abandoned the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age (Novus Ordo), which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.

Traditional Catholics, while once-Catholics defect from the Synodal Newchurch, which has apostatized from the true Catholic Church, and Leftist "Christians," like the Lutherans, Methodists, Anglican/Episcopalians, and Congregationalist, defect from the Protestant denominations, the Infidels (Jews and Islamists) and the Pagans (Hindus) had the highest retention rates. The Pew Research Study confirms what is obvious to all: the world is becoming more pagan, more immoral, and more violent, and the true Traditional Catholics Faith has been relegated to the catacombs once again, just as Pope Pius XII predicted that it would. No surprise there: Francis-Bergoglio and his predecessor Newpopes after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) long ago sold out to the pagans.

APRIL 21, 2025 - EASTER MONDAY
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE FIRST CLASS

Francis-Bergoglio Makes Two Mysterious Visits in Rome
Is He Beginning to Regret His Apostasy, or Is It Just His Usual Hypocrisy?

Francis-Bergoglio Left His Sickbed
In a Bedsheet to Be Wheeled
To the Tomb of Pope St. Pius X
Ironically, Pius X's Life Work
Was to Extirpate the Heresy of Modernism
From the Catholic Church
Bergoglio Is the Absolute Worst Incarnation
Of This Heresy
If the Pope-Saint Were Alive Today
He Would Excommunicate Bergoglio
On the Spot as an Unrepentant Apostate
From the Catholic Church

On April 10, 2025, Francis-Bergoglio left his sickbed, wrapped himself in a striped bedsheet, and had himself wheeled to the tomb of Pope St. Pius X in the Confession under the High Altar of St. Peter's Archbasilica, desecrated since 1964 by the invalid (fake) blasphemous, idolatrous, and sacrilegious Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess (Novus Ordo) deriving from the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965).

Ironically, Pius X was most noted for his vigorous work for what he designated from the beginning of his pontificate to be his life's work: to extirpate the heresy of Modernism from the Catholic Church, which, at base, is the rejection of objective goodness (morality), beauty (the Mass and Sacraments), and truth (doctrine). Bergoglio is the absolute worst incarnation of this heresy. If Pius X were alive today, he would excommunicate Bergoglio on the spot as an unrepentant apostate from the Catholic Church.

Two days later, Bergoglio had himself transported in a wheelchair to St. Mary Major Archbasilica. Ironically, this basilica houses the body of Pope St. Pius V displayed under a side altar. Pius V decreed the Traditional Latin Mass be "in perpetuity" the only Mass celebrated in the Roman Rite (with minor exceptions for a couple of minor variants of it). Bergoglio has egregiously violated the decree of the dogmatic Council of Trent, instead hawking and simulating the fake "New Mess."

Bergoglio has already announced that he will break even with Newchurch practice of being buried in the Confession of St. Peter's Archbasilica. Bergoglio doesn't want to lie with his fellow Newpopes and instead has ordered that his corpse be buried in St. Mary Major Archbasilica. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Reuters News Service.]

Traditional Catholics, what are we to make of these curious excursions? Heretical Modernists like Bergoglio like to put on these hypocritical displays occasionally to fool the clueless Newchurchers to make it appear, for a moment, that they might be Catholic. They're not. One wonders whether Bergoglio knows something that he's not telling even his fellow leaders in the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.

APRIL 20, 2025 - EASTER SUNDAY
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE FIRST CLASS

Omnibus circa Mundum in Hoc Festo Paschae
BEATAM PASCHAM

Graduale Cantandum Dominica Resurrectionis

"Haec Dies, Quam Fecit Dominus
Exsultemus, et Laetaemur in Ea"

Omnibus Lectoribus Internexus TRADITIONIS
BEATAM PASCHAM!

MEDITATION ON EASTER SUNDAY:
The days of violet are gone. The voices of the Old Testament prophets Isaias and Jeremias are stilled. The Alleluias and Glorias that have been missing since Septuagesima return once more, in profusion. "Hence it is that at the Gloria today the bells are rung, the organ peals forth, the statues and pictures are uncovered, and a few moments afterward the glad Alleluias, silenced for nine weeks past, are heard again in jubilant tones, soaring in their triple repetition higher and higher until they seem to mingle with the songs of the Angels in Heaven." As the great drama of our redemption draws to an end, let us join in the joy of Holy Mother Church today as she specially sets before us after Communion the great psalm of praise to our risen Lord: "Praise the Lord, all ye nations; praise him, all ye people. For his mercy is confirmed upon us; and the truth of the Lord remaineth forever" (Psalms 116:1-2/DRV). Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC:
Gregorian Chant of Easter Sunday
Johann Sebastian Bach's Easter Oratorio [BWV 249]
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

APRIL 19, 2025 - HOLY SATURDAY
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE FIRST CLASS

Holy Saturday: The Mother of All Vigils
The Light of Christ Is Kindled, We Hear the Ancient Prophecies, and the Mass of the Easter Vigil Is Celebrated at Noon

What Transpired when Christ Descended into Limbo
On Holy Saturday

WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE "NEW RITES" OF HOLY WEEK (1956-1962)." The heresy-tinged Modernist changes of 1956-1962 gutted the Traditional Latin Rites of this most holy week of the entire year. They were engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, the Chief Architect of the Novus Ordo (New Order) of 1969, and were never approved by Pope Pius XII in forma specifica. They were introduced by Bugnini as a transition to the fabricated, invalid Novus Ordo of 1969.

Among the Modernisms introduced for Holy Saturday, making the false "Extraordinary" rites of 1956-1962 like the invalid Novus Ordo service, are: (1) eliminating two of the three ancient prayers blessing the new fire; (2) replacing the traditional ceremony for inscribing and blessing the Paschal candle with a new one, completely fabricated by the Modernists; (3) completely changing the ancient procession of the triple candle into the church while Lumen Christi was thrice invoked as each candle of the reed was individually lighted; (4) modifying the ancient Paschal Proclamation, the Exsultet; (5) eliminating eight of the twelve Old Testament prophecies foretelling the coming of Christ; (6) directing that the Collects be chanted at the sedilia rather than the altar, in the manner of the Novus Ordo "presider"; (7) dividing and partially eliminating the traditional Litany of the Saints; (8) introducing a spurious "Renewal of Baptismal Vows" in the vernacular, the first time that the vernacular is explicitly permitted as an integral part of a liturgical rite; (9) eliminating in their entirety from the Mass the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar and the Last Gospel, as does the Novus Ordo service; (10) moving the entire service to nighttime instead of before noon with the First Mass of Easter immediately following at noon, in contravention of the traditional principle that during Lent, in both Western and Eastern rites, there is a symbolic inversion of time as a consequence of the Fall, with the restoration of normality coming only with the victory of the Lord on Easter morning.

MEDITATION ON HOLY SATURDAY:
Through these rites of Holy Saturday, historically and devotionally so gripping, from ancient ages the most solemn of all Vigils of the year, we see Our Lord revealed to us in specific ways, and we in turn are called upon to reflect Him in those ways in our own lives. Together, on this, the "Mother of All Holy Vigils," as St. Augustine calls it, we hear the Lessons that teach us the history of our Faith, the Old Law before the fulfillment of our redemption under the New. We come through the darkness of Our Lord's Passion and Death into the light, as together we now celebrate His glorious Resurrection.

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC:
Gregorian Chant of Holy Saturday
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Music for Holy Saturday
Carlo Gesualdo's Responsoria for Holy Saturday Tenebrae
William Byrd: Music for Holy Saturday
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

APRIL 18, 2025 - GOOD FRIDAY
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE FIRST CLASS

Good Friday: The Only Day from the Early Church on Which We Are Without Holy Mass, without Holy Communion
Just the Moving Rites of This Saddest Day in the Church's Liturgical Calendar

What Transpired after the Erection of the Cross
Before Christ Gave up His Spirit
On Good Friday

WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE "NEW RITES" OF HOLY WEEK (1956-1962)." The heresy-tinged Modernist changes of 1956-1962 gutted the Traditional Latin Rites of this most holy week of the entire year. They were engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, the Chief Architect of the Novus Ordo (New Order) of 1969, and were never approved by Pope Pius XII in forma specifica. They were introduced by Bugnini as a transition to the fabricated, invalid Novus Ordo of 1969.

Among the Modernisms introduced for Good Friday, making the false "Extraordinary" rites of 1956-1962 like the invalid Novus Ordo service, are: (1) changing the one aliturgical day, on which no Mass was celebrated because "the Apostles hid themselves for fear of the Jews," into a full-scale communion service; (2) directing that the "presider" conduct the first part of the service from the sedilia rather than from the altar in Novus Ordo style; (3) directing that the Litanical Prayers be chanted from a book at the center of the altar in contravention of the Roman rite; (4) changing the litanical Prayer for Heretics and Schismatics into a "Prayer for the Unity of Christians"; (5) commanding that a genuflection be made in the litanical Prayer for the Jews, which was anciently omitted because the Jews genuflected to mock Christ during His Agony; (6) allowing the crucifix to be held up for a brief adoration, as in the Novus Ordo, rather than having the people approach the Communion rail to kiss it; (7) suppressing the Solemn Procession from the Repository with the Blessed Sacrament and the singing of the ancient hymn Vexilla Regis; (8) eliminating the offertory, incensation, and elevation of the Blessed Sacrament; (9) directing that the congregation recite the Pater Noster with the priest in Novus Ordo style; (10) allowing Communion to be received this day, which was anciently prohibited on Good Friday; (11) adding a responsorial psalm to the communion service in Novus Ordo fashion.

After the celebration of Good Friday at the University of Durham, England, one year, Rev. Dr. T.C.G. Glover, JCD, a former priest of the Roman Oratory, who continued to celebrate the Sacred Triduum in the Traditional Latin Roman form, was asked why he didn't celebrate the false Modernist rites of 1956-1962, introduced into Newchurch by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini. His answer was pure Dr. Glover at his very best: "I would rather get drunk in a brothel than celebrate that crap."

MEDITATION ON GOOD FRIDAY:
There are few scenes liturgically more impressive than the appearance of the church at the beginning of the rites of Good Friday. The bare floor, the dismantled altar, the veiled crucifix, the unlighted candles. Then, when the procession of the celebrant in black vestments with servers has silently made its way to the sanctuary, the sudden prostration before the altar, where the celebrant annihilates himself in abject penitence -- all these are things that can hardly fail to produce an effect upon each one of us. Then follow the sorrowful lessons and tracts and the reading of the Passion of Our Lord, producing a sense of desolation that no other service in the liturgical year approaches. On this day the Church gives her churches an appearance of desolation and clothes her clergy in mourning. Today the Church, and we who enter the church, are in mourning because Our Lord has died to redeem us.

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC:
Gregorian Chant of Good Friday
Carlo Gesualdo's Responsoria for Good Friday Tenebrae
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Music for Good Friday
Tommaso Luigi da Vittoria's Popule Meus
William Byrd: Music for Good Friday
Johann Sebastian Bach's Johannes Passion [BWV 245]
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

APRIL 17, 2025 - MAUNDY THURSDAY
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE FIRST CLASS

Maundy Thursday: The Sacred Triduum Begins
The Three Most Sacred Days of the Year for Traditional Catholics

The Institution of the Blessed Sacrament
And of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
On Maundy Thursday

WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE "NEW RITES" OF HOLY WEEK (1956-1962)." The heresy-tinged Modernist changes of 1956-1962 gutted the Traditional Latin Rites of this most holy week of the entire year. They were engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, the Chief Architect of the Novus Ordo (New Order) of 1969, and were never approved by Pope Pius XII in forma specifica. They were introduced by Bugnini as a transition to the fabricated, invalid Novus Ordo of 1969.

Among the Modernisms introduced for Maundy Thursday, making the false "Extraordinary" rites of 1956-1962 like the invalid Novus Ordo service, are: (1) cutting out the Credo and the Last Gospel; (2) adding a responsorial psalm to the communion service in Novus Ordo fashion; (3) importing the Maundy (washing of feet) into the Mass, as in the Novus Ordo; (4) directing that the Collect following the Maundy be chanted "facing the people," as in the Novus Ordo; (5) eliminating the adornment and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Repository; (6) the fabrication of a new "Chrism Mass," which separates the function of the blessing and consecration of the Sacred Oils for the Sacraments from the one Mass of Maundy Thursday.

MEDITATION ON MAUNDY THURSDAY:
We have today to consider a great and awful mystery of betrayal. This betrayal is commemorated in the special Canon used only at this Mass of Maundy Thursday. Judas, one of the twelve chosen disciples of Our Lord, taught by Him for three years, confirmed in the faith by so many miracles, loaded with graces, becomes the tool of those who plot the death of Our Lord. He traitorously sells His Lord to the high priest for the ancient price of a slave, thirty Roman denarii. But Judas here is not only an historical figure of some 2000 years ago. He is spiritually each one of us, sinners, for whom Christ so grievously began His suffering and death this night. Let us consider the betrayal of Judas and what it forces us to confront in our own spiritual lives.

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC:
Gregorian Chant of Maundy Thursday
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Music for Maundy Thursday
Carlo Gesualdo's Responsoria for Maundy Thursday Tenebrae
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

April 17, 2024 - Wednesday in Holy Week - Holy Wednesday - "Spy" Wednesday
Privileged Ferial Day

Wednesday in Holy Week
Holy Wednesday - "Spy Wednesday"

MEDITATION ON "SPY" WEDNESDAY:
Today is known as "Spy Wednesday," in remembrance of the traitorous deed of Judas Iscariot. The Introit gives us a foretaste of what is to come after the Passion and Death of our Lord: "In nomine Domini omne genu flectatur, caelestium, terrestrium, et infernorum" (Philippians 2:10/V). But immediately juxtaposed to this acknowledgment of divine glory is the other side of the equation. This is the refrain that will be repeated at every Hour of the Divine Office beginning tomorrow: "Quia Dominus factus obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis" (Philippians 2:8/V).

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC:
Gregorian Chant of Wednesday of Holy Week
Johann Sebastian Bach's Passio secundum Lucam [BWV 246]
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

April 16, 2024 - Tuesday in Holy Week - Holy Tuesday
Privileged Ferial Day

Tuesday in Holy Week
Holy Tuesday

From: The TRADITIO Fathers

MEDITATION ON TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
Today we turn our sights to the Cross. The Introit consists not of the usual psalm, but with the words of St. Paul, putting the meaning of the Cross into perspective for us: "Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce Domini nostri Iesu Christi (Galatians 6:14/V). Holy Mother Church then adds: "In quo est salus, vita, et resurrectio nostra, per quem salvati, et liberati sumus."

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC
Gregorian Chant of Tuesday in Holy Week
Johann Sebastian Bach's Passio secundum Marcum [BWV 247]
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

April 14, 2024 - Monday in Holy Week - Holy Monday
Privileged Ferial Day

Monday in Holy Week
Holy Monday

MEDITATION ON MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK
Today we begin by placing our trust firmly in God. In the Introit Psalm (34:1/V): Iudica, Domine, nocentes me, expugna impugnantes me, we call upon the Lord to battle against those who are impugning us. We call upon the Lord to take up arms and shield us, and we call upon Him as the strength of our salvation. The Collect acknowledges how many adversities we face and how we fail from human infirmity. It is only through the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ that we are given life again (respiremus).

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC
Gregorian Chant of Monday in Holy Week
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

April 13, 2024 - Palm Sunday
Semidouble Sunday of the First Class

Palm Sunday: Holy Week Begins
The Most Sacred Week of the Year for Traditional Catholics

AS HOLY WEEK, THE MOST SACRED WEEK OF THE YEAR, BEGINS, true Catholics traditionally complete the daily chores that might be an obstacle to participating in the ancient, traditional rites of Holy Week. All true Catholics should attend the traditional sacred rites not only on Palm Sunday but also on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. On Maundy Thursday we commemorate the institution of the Holy Eucharist, the First Mass, and the Ordination of the Apostles. The priesthood and the Holy Eucharist are living events that should remind us of the continuing value of Christ's act of redemption for the sin of man. Good Friday is an unforgettable reminder to all of us of the price of being a follower of Christ. We have to give something of ourselves to be followers of Christ. The Holy Saturday Vigil is the most solemn memorial of the central mystery of our redemption: Christ's saving death and glorious resurrection. We are reminded that we are obligated as Catholics to carry Christ into our world.

Accordingly, our Daily Commentaries during Holy Week will shift from current events and reader questions, and focus instead upon a Meditation and Recommended Sacred Music for each day of this week. Also, we shall add a "WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE 'NEW RITES' OF HOLY WEEK (1956-1962)," which are not the Catholic and Apostolic Rites of Holy Week going back to the early Church, but were instead introduced by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini in 1956 as a transition to the fabricated, invalid New Order Mess of 1969. The Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, prohibits the use of the Catholic and Apostolic Rites of Holy Week. HOWEVER, THE FULLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC RITES OF HOLY WEEK BEFORE 1956 ARE STILL TO BE FOUND AT TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND ORATORIES INDEPENDENT OF THE HERETICAL NEWCHURCH OF THE NEW ORDER.

The Fully-Traditional (Pre-1956) Palm Sunday Rites
As Celebrated at Westminster Cathedral, London, 1919
The Traditional Holy Week Rites Were Gutted in 1956
By the Freemason Presbyter Hannibal Bugnini
It Is These Half New Order Rites
That Are Used in the "1956 Mess" and the "1962 Mess"
(Formerly Erroneously Known as the "Extraordinary Mess")

WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE "NEW RITES" OF HOLY WEEK (1956-1962)." The heresy-tinged Modernist changes of 1956-1962 gutted the Traditional Latin Rites of this most holy week of the entire year. They were engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, the Chief Architect of the Novus Ordo (New Order) of 1969, and were never approved by Pope Pius XII in forma specifica. They were introduced by Bugnini as a transition to the fabricated, invalid Novus Ordo of 1969.

Among the Modernisms introduced for Palm Sunday, making the 1956-1962 rite like the invalid Novus Ordo service, are: (1) directing that red vestments be used, as in the Novus Ordo service, instead of the traditional violet vestments; (2) eliminating the Introit, Collect, Epistle, Responsory, Gospel, Preface, and Sanctus of the First Mass after which the palms are blessed; (3) directing the priest to leave the altar and face the congregation Novus-Ordo style while blessing the palms; (4) eliminating four of the five ancient prayers of blessing; (5) eliminating the prayers and ceremonial of re-entering the church after the procession of the palms; (6) directing that the priest chant the final Collect facing the congregation Novus-Ordo style with his back to the Holy Tabernacle; (7) eliminating the beginning and end of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. Matthew; (8) eliminating the Last Gospel, as in the Novus Ordo service.

MEDITATION ON PALM SUNDAY:
All the ceremonies of Palm Sunday -- the blessing of the palms, the procession, the chanted Hosannas -- are instituted by Holy Mother Church to recall the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem on this day. What a contrast, at only six days' interval, between the honors rendered to Our Lord today and the affronts and blasphemies that will greet Him five days hence on Good Friday! Let us learn these three things from the great lesson taught us by Our Lord on Palm Sunday. First, to be content to rely not upon man, but upon God alone for consolation and the witness of our sorrows and sufferings. Second, to detach ourselves from earthly possessions, which often come at our soul's cost. Third, to set no store by earthly greatness, notice, fame, or applause. "For after all these things do the heathens seek" (Matthew 6:32/DRV).

RECOMMENDED SACRED MUSIC:
Gregorian Chant of Palm Sunday
Johann Sebastian Bach's Passio secundum Matthaeum [BWV 244]
For further information, see FAQ07: What Sacred Music Recordings Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Catholic Apologetics).

April 12, 2025 - Ferial Day of Passiontide

Newvatican Is Sinking Fast with an Unfunded Liability of Well Over 1,500,000,000 USD
"Greenie" Radical Francis-Bergoglio's Solution: Build Solar Panels!

Newvatican Whistleblowers Tell:
For 12 Years Francis-Bergoglio
Has Been Fiddling While His Newrome Burns
Newvatican Is Quickly Going Bankrupt
Without Emergency Action
Newvatican Will Not Be Able to Pay
Pensions and Health Services
St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums
Will Continue to Decay

In November 2024 Bergoglio announced to the College of Newcardinals that Newchurch's financial situation was desperate, given its financial liabilities in courts around the world for its paedophile crimes and for funds embezzled by Newchurch officials. No wonder Francis-Bergoglio declared a "jubilee year" and plans to display the corpse of a poor 15-year-old dead boy in a ghastly "con-anization" extravaganza to bring tourists into Newvatican. Bergogliio has announced yet another commission to get donations, but that well is increasing dry, as donors are fed up with the paedophile crimes and embezzlements and the revelation that donations, such as Peter's Pence, that are supposed to go to the poor Bergoglio has been immorally converting to his own uses.

In 2015, the last year in which an audit of Newvatican's Pension and Health Funds was made public, they were 1,500,000,000 in the red from unfunded liabilities. Newvatican has announced that the situation now is far worse, in fact, "shocking." And that is just the pension fund. The "Vatican Bank" is also in big trouble, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy according to two of its auditors. It is now uncertain whether Newvatican will be able to pay the pensions of lay and clerical employees much longer. Bergoglio called for "sacrifice," then slashed Newvatican's staff. As a result robberies of great art works and vandalism in the Vatican Museums have increased dramatically. Tourists report that St. Peter's Basilica and other locations are filthy dirty, because the cleaning staff had to be cut. The business of Newchurch has gotten so bad that many of its basic functions are not being performed.

So bad is the situation that Bergoglio refuses to announce the exact amount of Newvatican's financial ruin. It is his responsibility for doing nothing while he gallivants around the world preaching heretical oecumenism and engaging in political matters that are completely outside his purview. Newvatican whistleblowers have stated that Bergoglio has done "virtually nothing to address the shortfall" in the 12 years of his Newpontificate since 2013. Instead, Bergoglio, who is no competent manager, but a "greenie" radical, recently decided that instead of redeveloping Santa Maria in Galeria, a property of 4,046,900 square metres, he would give it over to a solar panels. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newvatican's Secretariat for the Economy.]

Traditional Catholics, the Association of Vatican Lay Workers has denounced Bergoglio in an open letter for hiding the status of their pension fund, to which they have been contributing their hard-earned money. Bergoglio has played around with changes in laws and regulations, freezing staff, layoffs, and salary cuts, but these have done little or nothing to improve the situation. In justice the workers are entitled to their pensions, which Bergoglio has spent. As Bergoglio should know, if he ever got a Catholic education, depriving workers of their just compensation is one of the Four Sins that Cry out to Heaven for Retribution. Meanwhile Newvatican is sinking into a "budget black hole," with its expenses outpacing income by tens of millions of dollars annually.

April 11, 2025 - Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Double Major Feast

Francis-Bergoglio's Newvatican Is Now Charging Thirty Pieces of Silver to Enter St. Peter's Basilica
Bergoglio Will Stop at Nothing to Fund His Bankrupt Synodal Newchurch of the New Age

The Corpse of Dead 15-year-old Carlo Acutis
Newvatican's "Millennial" Poster Boy
Outfitted with What Looks Like a Prison Jumpsuit
Who Is Being Outrageously Abused
(Has Newchurch Not Learned Its Lesson?)
As a Loss Leader to Bring in "Cash Cow" Tourists
To Newrome to Beef up Its Bankrupted Coffers
With a Confiscatory "Basilica Tax"

More proof that the faked-up 2025 Jubilee Year declared by the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio is simply a money-making scheme was further demonstrated when Bergoglio's Newvatican announced on April 5, 2025, that it would extort new fees from "pilgrims" to help shore up Bergoglio's Newvatican, which is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The pilgrims will pay through the teeth to get into St. Peter's Basilica, extorted to pay the so-called "basilica tax" for the privilege of being "treated like livestock." Some tourist groups are flatly refusing to pay the confiscatory fees.

Newvatican truly is so desperate to extort funds to pay for its embezzlements and criminal fines assessed by courts for raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting children around the world. It is also committing gross blasphemy by displaying the corpse of a poor dead 15-year old dead boy to rake in more money: Carlo Acutis, whose main title to Novus Ordo con-anization seems to be that he wrote a computer program.

Newchurch was desperate for a "millennial" poster-boy, so it heinously rushed through a fake beatification in 2020 and a pending con-anization (Newchurch "canonizations" are invalid) on April 27, 2025. Only God knows whether Acutis is a true Saint; certainly Newchurch does not know. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]

Traditional Catholics, the new fees are supplemented by new rules, which have caused "long lines, overcrowding, and massive confusion," according to a longtime tour guide, who says that Bergoglio's desperate system has created "two castes of visitors, the tourist and the pilgrim, under which system the tourist is seen more as a cash cow." These cash-cow tourists are relegated to the back door, the Sant'Anna entrance to Newvatican. Isn't that the way Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, always treats its followers?

April 10, 2025 - Ferial Day of Passiontide

U.S. Newbishops Are Now Cut off from Government Aid Owing to Fraud
The Newbishops Had Been Using Government Funds for Illegal Purposes

Not Smiling Any More
Newarchbishop Timothy Broglio, President
Of the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] Newbishops
Has Learned that the Trump Administration
Has Cut off the Gravy Train of Previous Administrations
That Gave to the USCCB 100,000,000 USD
To "Resettle Refugees," Who Turned Out to Be
Illegal Invaders across the U.S. Border
Many of Them Felons as Well
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance
A Newchurcher Himself, Has Denounced
The USCCB for Its Illegal Actions
And Supports the Cutoff

The U.S. government has finally dropped the axe on U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic[ Bishops, which is now cut off from receiving aid to support its illegal activities, for which it is being held to answer in federal court. The USCCB has mendaciously been claiming that it is "resettling refugees," but it turned out that many of these "refugees" were actually illegal invaders into the United States, including a not inconsiderable number of felons.

According to America Magazine, a publication of the Newjesuits, Newchurch in the United States has been receiving 100,000,000 USD from the government for the now-challenged programs. Newchurch will now have to seek funding from elsewhere. But Newchurchers are now onto the game, realizing that they have been lied to for years about where their "special collections" are going, so that well is going dry.

Newarchbishop Timothy Broglio, President of the USCCB, admitted on April 7, 2025, that U.S. President Donald Trump had "forced his denomination's hand." The Trump administration on January 20, 2025, moved to stop the flood of illegal invasion into the United States. That flow, which numbered 8,347 in February 2025, was down 94 per cent from 140,641 in February 2024. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Our Sunday Visitor News.]

Traditional Catholics, it was after the Vatican II Anti-council that the U.S. Newchurch started taking money from the government for its operations. Even U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, a Newchurcher himself, has publicly charged that the USCCB has become too reliant on government funding in a corrupt Newchurch-Government Complex. The Trump administration has courageously stopped the illegal gravy train operated by the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.

April 9, 2025 - Ferial Day of Passiontide

Newchurch Holds "Commie Mess" for Francis-Bergoglio's Marxist Unsaint
Oscar Romero Was Known as a Marxist Liberation Theology Heretic

Oscar Romero, Newarchbishop of El Salvador
Was a Liberation Theology Radical
Associated with Communists and Newjesuits
Who Went So Far as to Assassinate
Right-wing Leaders in Latin America
The Apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio
Who Is a Marxist/Modernist and a Newjesuit
Con-anized Romero in Less than 15 Years
To Make Him Newchurch's First Marxist Unsaint

Does Newchurch have a Communist Unsaint? It may surprise many Newchurchers to find out that it does -- and probably more than one. The apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio con-anized Oscar Romero (1917-1980), the Newarchbishop of El Salvador, in 2018.

Romero was deeply embedded in the Marxist heresy known as "Liberation Theology," which particularly the Newjesuits (as is Bergoglio himself) took up in Latin America. Heretical "Liberation Theology" holds that Newchurch must "liberate" people from their "political problems" and was used to justify the assassination of right-wing political leaders. Some Newjesuits even took up arms to impose their "theology."

Romero had a close connection with leading liberation-theology radicals Jon Sobrino and Eduardo Pironio, a Newchurch bishop of Argentina (as was Bergoglio himself). Pironio was commonly known as a Communist, as were followers of Liberation Theology in general, although sometimes they dabbed on a thin veneer of Christianity to cover over their real beliefs.

Romero concocted the spurious concept of "social sin," holding that capitalism was sinful by nature. He declared that Newchurch was by nature political. When Romero was assassinated at a Novus Ordo dinner table, the Marxist Liberation Theology radicals concocted the story, accepted by the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, that Romero was a "martyr." Martyrdom to what is in dispute.

Even though Romero's con-anization was highly controversial and thus should have been shelved for a century's perspective, Bergoglio, a Newjesuit, a Marxist, and perhaps even a Liberation Theology radical himself, didn't wait even 15 years after the riot that killed Romero to con-anize his fellow Marxist. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Agency.]

Traditional Catholics, on March 24, 2025, the 45th anniversary of Romero's assassination, a Newchurch Mess was staged in the same Novus Ordo chapel, which featured as "co-celebrants" an Anglican bishoppess and leading Marxist political figures, as well as banners featuring political slogans surrounding the Novus Ordo dinner table. These are banned even by Newchurch itself, which was so embarrassed by the fiasco that it issued a condemnatory statement. The Newarchbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar, conveniently hightailed himself out of town, claiming that he "had more commitments than he had planned."

April 8, 2025 - Ferial Day of Passiontide

Newarchbishop of Spain Declares that Spain Is No Longer Catholic
The Spanish (New)bishops Conference Is Selling the Valley of the Fallen Shrine for "Thirty Pieces of Silver"

The Valley of the Fallen Shrine
Built after World War II near Madrid, Spain
The Spanish (New)bishops Conference
Is Selling Its Basilica and Benedictine Monastery
To the Secular Government
Newarchbishop Luis Arguello Told the Conference:
"The Time Has Passed When We Said:
'I'm Catholic because I Was Born in Spain'"
So Far Has Catholicism Fallen
Under The Apostate Newchurch of the New Order
And Its Newpopes Montini, JPII, Ratzinger & Bergoglio

Cardinal Thomas Cajetan said shortly after the Council of Trent: "You know, a time will come when a man will no longer be able to say, 'I speak Latin and am a Christian' and go his way in peace. There will come frontiers, frontiers of all kinds -- between men -- and there will be no end to them." On April 2, 2025, Newarchbishop Luis Arguello told the Newbishops of Spain: "The time has passed when we said: I’m Catholic because I was born in Spain." He went on to say that the Spanish (New)bishops' Conference is essentially a "very bureaucratic NGO [nongovernmental organization]." So far has Catholicism fallen under the apostate Newchurch of the New Order and its Newpopes Unsaint Paul VI-Montini, Unsaint JPII-Wojtyla, Benedict-Ratzinger, and Francis-Bergoglio.

Arguello said that Spain had 23,000 initiation (formerly baptismal) fonts, but now many of them "have no water" because the once-Catholic communities before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) have abandoned their Newparishes. Spanish Newchurchers are currently engaged in a battle against the Spanish (New)bishops' Conference, which is selling to the secular government the Basilica of the Holy Cross and the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross at the Valley of the Fallen Shrine, erected near Madrid after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Agency.]

Traditional Catholics, the Newarchbishop of Madrid, Jose Cobo, is being picketed with signs calling him "Cobo Judas," who is "selling Christ for thirty pieces of silver," the Basilica of the Holy Cross and the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross at the Valley of the Fallen Shrine. These Newchurch bishops since Vatican II long ago lost the Catholic Faith. Their cowardice is to be expected as they were never consecrated as Catholic bishops, but merely "installed" as "bishop-overseers" under the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.

April 7, 2025 - Ferial Day of Passiontide

Newvatican's 2025 Yearbook Shows a Dying Newchurch of the New Order
Presbyters, Newseminarians, Religious Orders, Initiations, and Weddings Declined Yet Again

Continuing Its Precipitous Fall
Since the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965)
The Latest Newchurch Yearbook
Show the Number of Presbyters
Newseminarians, Men and Women Religious
Initiations, and Weddings Declined Yet Again
While Unconsecrated Newbishops
Grow Like Maggots to over Twice the Number
That Existed at the Anti-council

On March 26, 2025, Newvatican's Officium Centrale Statisticum Ecclesiae, issued its 2025 Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, which contains Newchurch's statistics and demographics for 2023, the last year reported. (Newvatican is behind in this, as in other administrative tasks, with its staff slashed on account of its impending bankruptcy.)

The numbers don't look good for Newchurch. Again, the number of Newseminarians, presbyters, men and women in religious orders, Initiations (formerly Baptisms), and weddings all declined, according to Newvatican's own statistics. Initiations (many of them now invalid because of defect of form or intention in Newchurch) have continued to decrease worldwide. The number fell in 25 years from about 18,000,000 to a little over 13,000,000, or more than one-fourth (24.7 per cent).

Even though the number of Initiations is tanking, the number of unconsecrated Newbishop-overseers (Newchurch has not consecrated bishops since its adoption of the invalid (fake) Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968), is growing like maggots, increasing to over 5, 500. The number of bishops a the Vatican II Anti-council was about 2,500. Even there are more than twice as many Newbishops now, the administration of Newchurch is markedly inferior to what it was before the Anti-council. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Service.]

Traditional Catholics, one of the only categories that went up in the 2025 Annuarium were those mostly-married "lay deacons," which the apostate Vatican II Anti-council introduced into Newchurch to make it more like the Protestant lay "clergy," men and women wandering all over the "worship space." If Francis-Bergoglio has his way, Newchurch deaconesses will soon join the men around the Newchurch "table."

April 6, 2025 - Passion Sunday
Semidouble Sunday of the First Class

Newvatican Has Become So Incompetent that It Cannot Protect Its Art Treasures
Widespread Layoffs Have Been Occurring because of Embezzlement from the Top Down

Today's Gospel concludes with the words "Iesus autem abscondit se, et exivit de templo" (John 8:59/DRV). Thus derives Passion Sunday's most striking aspect: the altar crucifix and statues are veiled in the wrappings of violet, the color of penitence and an outward sign of the inward sorrow of the season. Naturally, the apostate Newchurch of the New Order rejects this ancient Catholic practice.

Has the Vatican Obelisk Been Vandalized?
The Two-Millennia-Old Monument
Was Transported from Heliopolis in Egypt to Rome
In A.D. 40 by the Roman Emperor Caligula
Thence It Was Moved by Pope Sixtus V
To the Piazza di San Pietro in 1586
Just after the Dogmatic Council of Trent Had Sat
The Catholic World News Agency Has Reported
That Vandals under Cover of Night
Removed 3 Metres of the Tip

Newchurch has been so racked by embezzlement and mismanagement that it is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, according to its own auditors. As a result, there have been troubling incidents of thefts from the Vatican Museums because security had to be cut and filthy conditions in St. Peter's Basilica because the cleaning staff had to be cut. Now -- triste dictu -- one of the most public and historic monuments of Newvatican may have been vandalized.

On March 31, 2025, a preliminary report indicates that vandals cut 3 metres of stone from the tip of the obelisk. Although the report was carried worldwide by Catholic World News (CWN), an independent conservative news service founded in 1996, there has been a suggestion that the preliminary report, as yet unconfirmed by other press services, may have been an April Fool's prank.

The obelisk that stands at the center of the Piazza di San Pietro, a massive structure carved and erected by the ancient Egyptians. In A.D. 40 the Roman emperor Caligula had it transported from Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome. Pope Sixtus V had the obelisk weighing over 325 metric tons moved in a miraculous operation almost 250 metres from the Circus of Nero to its current location in the Vatican Piazza. The obelisk is over 25 metres high. It is the only one of thirteen obelisks in Rome that has not fallen. Pope Sixtus added an orb and cross atop the obelisk, which extended the structure to 40 metres high.

If this monumental structure, portraying the victory of Christianity over paganism, which has survived for over two millennia unscathed, like so many other cultural works, has been vandalized under its current custodians, Francis-Bergoglio and the Newchurch of the New Order, they will have again failed in their duty Urbi et Orbi.

April 5, 2025 - St. Vincent Ferrer, Confessor
Double Feast

Pseudo-traditionalist Institute of Christ the King Is Expelled from the Newdiocese of Oakland, California
The 1962 New Latin Mess Organization Has a History of Paedophile Crimes and Grand Larceny

Among the Criminal Element
In the Pseudo-traditional Institute of Christ the King
Is Former U.S. Superior Timothy Svea
(Pictured Here in His Prison Jumpsuit)
Who Pled Guilty to Sexually Assaulting Boys
It just Proves the Principle that Anyone Associated
With the Apostate Newchurch of the New Order
No Matter How "Traditionalist" Looking
Will Eventually Become Corrupted as Well
Infected with the Virulent Novus Ordo Virus
That Kills the Souls of Those Who Associate with It

On the heels the renewed shutdown by Francis-Bergoglio of the New Latin Mess of 1962 (which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass), it was announced that the Institute of Christ the King, a pseudo-traditional Newchurch group that had been simulating that the transitional Half New Order New Latin Mess (which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass) for some twenty years in the Newdiocese of Oakland, California, has been expelled from Oakland, effective April 20, 2025. The Institute has also been expelled from another site it operated in Marin County.

Newbishop Michael Barber announced on March 31, 2025, that he was following the decree of "Traditionis custodes" (July 16, 2021) of Francis-Bergoglio and its follow-up rescript (February 21, 2025), which banned, without specific dispensation from Bergoglio himself:

1. using a Newparish church to simulate the New Latin Mass of 1962 (sometimes erroneously called "Extaordinary")
2. erecting a Newparish to simulate the New Latin Mess
3. allowing Newchurch presbyters installed after July 16, 2021, to use the New Latin Mess

This is the latest hit against the Institute of Christ the King, a beleaguered organization that poses as "traditional," but is anything but. First of all, it has no priests, but only Novus Ordo presbyters, who are not ordained by Catholic bishops consecrated in Holy Orders, but merely "installed" as overseers (like Protestant "bishops") under the invalid (fake) Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.

Add to that the fact that long ago the Institute of Christ the King went rogue when members of its Newclergy were convicted on charges of grand larceny paedophilia. It just proves the principle that anyone associated with the corrupt Newchurch will eventually become corrupted as well. The apostate Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, is a virulent virus that invades and kills the souls of those who associate with it. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Weekly/]

Traditional Catholics, it is clear that Francis-Bergoglio and the Newchurch of the New Order are bent on expelling the New Latin Mess of 1962 from Newparishes and other sites as well. The Institute of Christ the King (ICR) and the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) are gradually being suffocated and expelled from the Newchurch structure. But that is only to the good. These groups are not Catholic, but merely arms of the Newchurch of the New Order, as of 2024 transformed into the pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. Good riddance indeed!

April 4, 2025 - St. Isidore, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor
Double Feast

Francis-Bergoglio Resumes Shutdown of Newparish New Latin Messes
As He Ramps up "Traditionis Custodes" Again around the World

Francis-Bergoglio, Now Back in the Saddle
Is Continuing to Shut Down
The Half New Order New Latin Messes of 1962
Which Is Most Certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass
In Accordance with the Provisions
Of Benedict-Ratzinger's "Summorum Pontificum"
The Two Newpopes Cooperated in the Shutdowns
With Ratzinger Laying the Groundwork
And Bergoglio Springing the Trap

If you think Francis-Bergoglio had forgotten his 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes" to shut down the New Latin Messes -- the Half New Order Mess of 1962, think again. Now that he's back in the Newvatican, the shutdowns have ramped up, No tears need be shed. The 1962 Mess so beloved of the Neocon Newchurchers is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, and Newchurch clergy are not priests, but presbyter-ministers incapable of celebrating a valid Mass because they are merely "installed" like Protestant ministers under Newchurch's invalid Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.

As an example, Gregory Parkes, the Newbishop of St. Petersburg, Florida, has decreed that as of July 1, 2025, Epiphany Newparish, of St. Petersburg, where the New Latin Mess was being simulated, will be disestablished, and its Newdiocesan presbyters will be dispersed. Parkes indicated that he was following Bergoglio's directive in doing so. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Newchurch Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida.]

Traditional Catholics, so continues the demolition of the untraditional New Latin Mass by Francis-Bergoglio, following the directive of his predecessor, Benedict-Ratzinger in his 2008 document "Summorum pontificum." That document deftly contained the trap, unnoticed at the time by the Neocon Newchurchers, which Bergoglio now is merely springing.

April 3, 2025 - St. Francis of Paula
Double Feast

A Reader Asks: "Is Newchurch's Latest 'Translation' of the Bible
The New Catholic Bible Safe for True Catholics to Use?"

Newchurch Is Corrupting the Bible Once Again
Not Satisfied with Its 1970 New American Bible
And Its 2011 New American Bible Revised Edition
It Has Now Come out with a New Catholic Bible
Which Is Essentially the Translators'
Paraphase, Not a Translation
And Has Rejected as Its Source St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate
Canonized by the Dogmatic Council of Trent
To Use Other Source Texts Closer to the Protestant Versions
It Is a Product of the Apostate Newchurch of the New Order

Dear TRADITIO Fathers:

What is your opinion on the New Catholic Bible? Is it safe for Catholics to use, or is it just another product of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order?

THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.

The New Catholic Bible, published in 2020, is the latest in the series of corrupted versions issued by the New Order sect. It is the progeny of the flawed New American Bible of 1969, produced shortly after the Vatican II Anti-council. The New Catholic Bible uses what is called the "dynamic equivalence" approach. This kind of translation, really just a paraphrase, rejects the literal meaning of the text and substitutes what the paraphrasers personally want the text to say. Newchurch's New American Bible is another example of this corrupted approach.

The venerable Catholic Douay-Rheims translation and even the respected King James translation is an example of the "formal equivalence" (literal) approach, which stays as close as possible to the inspired writers' mode of expression. The "dynamic equivalence" approach become popular after the Vatican II Anti-council, as it allowed the Newchurch paraphrasers more easily to incorporate Newchurch's heretical notions into their new "translation."

The word "new" in anything religious should immediately sound an alarm bell. Think of the New Latin Mess, the New Sacraments, the New Canon Law, the New Bible, etc., which were the Trojan horses to introduce apostate notions in the fake Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. True Catholics reject outright such fakes like the plague they are. For further information on this topic, click on FAQ05: "What Catholic Resources Do You Recommend?" in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department in the section "Bible," available from the TRADITIO Network's main menu at www.traditio.com.

April 2, 2025 - St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
Double Feast

Traditional Catholic Producer-Director-Actor Mel Gibson Has Announced that Production
On the Sequel to His Blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" Will Finally Begin In August 2025

Mel Gibson's Traditional Catholic Sequel
To His Blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ"
Will Be Entitled "The "Resurrection of the Christ"
And Will Finally Start Production in August 2025
It Will Cover from the Fall of the Angels in Hell
To the Death of the Last Apostle, St. John
And Will Focus on the Events that Occurred
During the Three Days between the Crucifixion
Of the Christ and His Resurrection

The long-awaited sequel to Traditional Catholic producer-director-actor Mel Gibson's 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" will finally begin production in August 2025, as announced on March 26, 2025, by Rome's Cinecitta Studios, where it will be entirely shot. The epic will again be produced by Gibson's own independent film company, Icon Productions.

The sequel is entitled "The Resurrection of the Christ" and will require many theaters and stage constructions. Gibson has revealed that the gamut of the film will be "super ambitious," covering the fall of the Angels in Hell to the death of the last Apostle, St. John. The film will focus on the events that occurred during the three days between the crucifixion of The Christ and His Resurrection. James Caviezel will again star as The Christ.

Gibson snubbed Hollywood to produce "The Passion of the Christ" independently. Gibson courageously persisted in spite of a vile campaign against the Christian film by the extremist group B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), led by Abraham Foxman. Gibson overcame all opposition to produce the biggest-grossing independent film of all time, making 370,000,000 USD, from which he built his Holy Family Traditional Catholic Church in Agoura Hills in Southern California. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]

Traditional Catholics, Gibson 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." This Traditional Catholic, who has publicly denounced the post-Vatican II Newpopes as fakes and apostates from the Catholic Faith, is simultaneously working on a new limited television series on the Christian victory over the Mohammedans at the 1565 Great Siege of Malta. This siege led to the famous naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the outnumbered Christian forces, under the leadership of Pope St. Pius V and with the suffrages of the Confraternities of the Most Holy Rosary, decisively defeated the infidel Mohammedans to thwart for centuries Sultan Suleiman's plan to take over Catholic Europe.

April 1, 2025 - Ferial Day of Lent

King and Queen of England Cancel Their Audience with Francis-Bergoglio
Also Canceled Is the Scandalous Oecumenical "Shivaree" that Had Been Planned in the Sacred Sistine Chapel

A Sickened Francis-Bergoglio
Upon His Return to Newvatican
From Rome's Gemelli Hospital
The Bloated Appearance of His Face
And His Morbid Obesity
Are Likely the Result
Of Taking Steroid Drugs
For a Long Period of Time
To Treat His Lung Disease

On March 25, 2025, two days after Francis-Bergoglio returned to the Newvatican, King Charles and Queen Camilla of England canceled their Newpapal visit. The highly-publicized visit was scheduled for April 8, 2025.

Perhaps Providence intervened, as the event was supposed to be similar to that when heretic "Unsaint" Newpope JPII-Wojtyla scandalously allowed an image of the Buddha to be placed on top of the Novus Ordo tabernacle at the 1986 Assisi Oecumenical Conference. Bergoglio had planned a "oecumenical service" in the sacred Sistine Chapel, in which he was going to push his "green" paganism in concert with the king, who is the head of the heretic Church of England. The king is also known to be a "greenie" extremist and perhaps not even a committed Anglican Christian, but toying with Buddhism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]

Traditional Catholics, the king and queen decided to cast Bergoglio aside and proceed with their state visit to Italy. The canceled visit with Bergoglio was designed to "mark a significant step forward in relations" between the apostate Newchurch and the heretic Church and Church of England. Now it has been canceled.

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