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Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I keep hoping that somehow Newchurch will stop its Modernist push, especially this "synodal" nonsense, which was introduced by Bergoglio-Francis and is being pushed even harder by Prevost-Leo. It sounds like warmed-over Protestantism to me. Is this hope for the conversion of Newchurch in vain and naive after sixty years of evidence to the contrary?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
Hope is not a virtue unless it is hope in God. Newchurch is not making a "push" here or there, shifting popes like deck chairs on the Titanic? Not at all. Newchurch is in its essence and in its foundation at the Vatican II Anti-council in 1964 an apostate organization, much like the Protestant sects. It must be ripped out at the root. In fact, these days, Newchurch seems even worse than these, having overtly introduced outright paganism into its "liturgies" and "doctrine."
By the design of God when the Primatial See was moved from Greece (Antioch) to Rome, the Roman Catholic Church carries down the philosophy of the Romans, who were not mere speculators, but a practical people. The Greeks may have taken their time ruminating in philosophical speculations, but to the contrary the Romans built bridges, roads, and aqueducts, and administered the world with justice and peace. The true Roman Catholic Church used to do that, but Newchurch took over in 1964 and now is nothing more than a Leftist political club.
The Church Fathers regarded Rome's great epic poet Vergil as a prophet of Christianity. With inspiration did Vergil write of the divine mission of Rome, carried on by the true Roman Catholic Church, giving us the quintessential statement of this principle of Romanitas, or Roman-ness:
Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera,
credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore voltus,
orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus
describent radio, et surgentia sidera dicent:
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento;
hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem,
parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Others will forge breathing bronzes more smoothlyTHE NEWCHURCH OF THE NEW ORDER, WHICH WAS FABRICATED AND GIVEN ITS CONSTITUTION IN 1964 AT THE VATICAN II ANTI-COUNCIL, IS NEITHER ROMAN NOR CATHOLIC. IT IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. IT IS A FRAUD, A FAKE, AN APOSTATE SECT AND HAS NO DIVINE AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER.
(I believe it at any rate), and draw forth living features from marble.
They will plead law-suits better and trace the movements
of the sky with a rod and describe the rising stars.
You, O Roman, govern the nations with your power- remember this!
These will be your arts. to impose the ways of peace,
To show mercy to the conquered and to subdue the proud.
(Aeneid, VI:847-853)
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Now that the Newchurch of the New Order has a new Pseudo-Newpope, would you expect Bernie Fellay, who is still pulling the strings at the Neo-SSPX behind Davide Pagliarani, to attempt yet another deal to unite the Neo-SSPX united to the apostate Newchurch? Of course, we are long past the era of the true Neo-SSPX and its saintly founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who understood that Newchurch is not the Catholic Church and condemned it like the Protestant sects.
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
Time will tell how far and how fast the Neo-SSPX will fall, but Prevost-Leo might not be so easy a nut to crack. Right now, if you strip off the pseudo-traditional haberdashery from Prevost-Leo, he is turning out to be a Bergoglio-Francis on steroids, just as we TRADITIO Fathers had predicted. So far he seems to be following the pattern of the Ratzinger, leader of the Modernist heretics at the Vatican II Anti-council and author of the Oecumnist Herersy, who tried to cover up his apostasy from the Catholic Church with Santa Claus hats. The clueless Neocon Newchurchers with their corrupted Vatican II "1962 Mess" bought this ruse hook, line, and sinker.
Remember always that the Newchurch of the New Order and its Pseudo-Newpopes are engaged in a vaudeville show, pretending to be "Catholic," while laying aside his miter to play political activist for the Leftist/Marxist/Modernist agenda. Already Prevost is prioritizing the paganistic Great Green Hoax, which was Bergoglio's beloved baby mercilessly propagandized in his 2015 Encyclical Letter "Laudato Si'."
The Newchurch of the New Order, renamed the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age in 2024 by Bergoglio, is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. It fails all four marks of the Church: one, holy, catholic, apostolic. The does not teach Catholic doctrine, it does not worship with the true Mass, and it certainly does not believe in Catholic morality. It is a sham. The good news is that the true Catholic Church is to be found still in those thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories around the world, who remain courageously independent of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order.
St. Gallen, Switzerland, the Newdiocese that gave its name to the "St. Gallen Mafia" that connived the election of the Marxist/Modernist Bergoglio-Francis from, of all places, South America. Prevost-Leo has now appointed for St. Gallen, effective May 28, 2025, a presbyter, Beat Grogli, who publicly supports priestesses and bishopesses for Newchurch. The Newcons must be in a state of shock that the latest Pseudo-Newpope Prevost is already appointing Newbishops more demented than were appointed by Bergoglio.
Of course, it doesn't make any difference to Grogli that he is embracing heresy. He has already embraced apostasy from the Catholic Faith by his association with the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Grogli also gives "blessings" to sodomitic "couples," and urges them to "come out" and attend Novus Ordo "homosexual liturgies." He also supports "divorce and remarriage." In the St. Gallen cathedral church that he runs, women read the Gospel and gives sermons while Grogli sits vested in a court jester's hat to ridicule Catholicism. Switzerland's Newbishops are so lunatic at this point that they elected Grogli their President. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost-Leo has been outed as unquestionably an apostate from the Catholic Faith. He is rapidly becoming known as "That Kook from America." Wearing a more traditional stole doesn't cut it. That is just part of the vaudeville show that he puts on to fool the clueless Newchurchers, particularly the Neoncons. Traditional Catholics aren't fooled!
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - The more a thing changes, the more it is the same thing. Prevost-Leo couldn't wait to practice Newchurch's Oecumenical Heresy within days of his election as the Pseudo-Newpope of the Newchurch of the New Order on May 8, 2025. Prevost, the woke, globalist, socialist, Modernist is pursuing the heretical policies of his predecessors Ratzinger-Benedict and Bergoglio-Francis in forwarding, with even more fervor, the Vatican II Anti-council's Oecumenical Heresy.
It was due to Ratzinger-Benedict that the Catholic Church was degraded from being the "one true Church of Christ," the Catholic dogma, and became just one of many sects, like Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism. This Oecumenical Heresy is a grave sin against the First Commandment of God. Just as the Neocon Newchurchers were tricked by Ratzinger and Bergoglio, they seem already to be falling for the same inanity being shoveled out by Prevost.
Prevost couldn't wait to bend the knee to the Eastern Orthodox schismatics. He announced that he will visit Islamist Turkey near the end of November 2025 to hobnob with the usual group of schismatics, heretics, infidels, and pagans to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the First Oecumenical Council in Nicaea there, even though most of these don't adhere to the council! Prevost will also visit the headquarters of the schismatic Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, who represents far fewer members than the Russian Orthodox Patriarch, who has rejected the Pseudo-Newpopes of Newchurch outright. Turkey is 98 per cent infidel Islamist. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, so, Prevost-Leo will continue the practice of the Newchurch Pseudo-Newpopes in gallivanting around the world on junkets on Newchurch's dime. These Newpopes (falsely) claim to be the Bishop of Rome, but they get out of Rome as much as possible to suck in the sycophany of the world. John XXIII never left the environs of Rome. Then the first Pseudo-Newpope Montini-Paul VI broke tradition by traveling to New York to speak at the United Nations and give up the papal tiara. JPII-Wojtyla openly admitted that he hated Rome. He who hates Rome hates the true Roman Catholic Church of Jesus Christ.
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