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On June 9, 2025, Newbishop Stephen Dami Mamza of Yola, Nigeria, was refaced as he publicly tried to defend his embezzlement of Newchurch funds, probably mostly from the collection plate, to build a new mosque for Infidel Muslims. His apologia fell flat on his congregations, who were enraged that he should use their collection money to support a false religion, ironically just as false as their Synodal Newchurch of the New Order.
Mamza used the tired old "oecumenical" defense. He committed the sin of embezzlement (stealing) "to foster interfaith dialogue and peaceful coexistence." That is pure Vatican II Anti-council hogwash. It sound more like a quotation from the political syncretism of a United Nations committee meeting. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic Culture.]
Traditional Catholics, embezzlements like this one are rife in Newchurch, as the media daily recount the number of presbyters, Newbishops, and Newcardinals caught in the crimes, but few Newchurchers know of them because Newchurchers are abysmally ignorant of what is going on in their own sect around the world. As we have said many times, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, not in morality, not in doctrine, and not in liturgy. Newchurch is even more fake than the Protestants.
(Luke 1:62-63/DRV, from the Gospel of the Feast)
Brazil is the most populous country in South America and used to have a large Newchurch population. No more. In just the last decade its Newchurch population decreased by almost 10 per cent, so that now barely one-half of the population identifies as Newchurchers. Brazilians are so turned off of Newchurch that greater and greater numbers are becoming "nones," people of no religious affiliation.
A recent sacrilege is exemplary of the scandals that Newchurch has caused. An Protestant Anglican ministress strode right up to the altar -- rather, Novus Ordo dinner table -- and proceeded to "concelebrate" the "service" with the new Newarchbishop. She hobnobbed with the Newchurch presbyters around the dinner table in St. Anthony's Newcathedral, Chapeco, doing the "deconsecration" with them and taking the fake cookie to munch on (she probably gulped down a slug of grape juice as well). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, this steep decline of Newchurch in Brazil has serious consequences on Newchurch in all of South America. Brazil's 8,500,000 square kilometers is almost half of the entire continent's landmass and makes it the fifth-largest country in the world. The Brazilian Newbishops are panicking that their countrymen are becoming "dechurched" before their eyes.
500 years ago, on February 3, 1525, was born the Catholic Church's greatest composer, the Italian-born Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Although the authentic sacred music of the Church is the chant named "Gregorian" after its holy compiler, Pope Gregory I the Great (540-604), Gregorian chant inspired music for the Catholic Church that blossomed in subsequent centuries. Organum, the Notre Dame School, Ars Antiqua, Ars nova, all flourished in the Middle Ages leading into the Renaissance at the turn of the 16th century.
The problem was that this music, known as polyphony because it used many harmonic lines instead of the single musical line of the Sacred Chant, gradually got out of control: too florid, too operatic, and not fit for the Holy Mass and Divine Office. In fact, the Fathers of the great dogmatic Council of Trent (1545-1563) seriously considered banning Sacred Polyphony from the Church entirely.
But Palestrina changed the minds of the Council Fathers by a single salient example. He offered the Council the Missa Papae Marcelli, the most divine, sublime, perfect Mass ever written. Using the best of polyphonic style, sublime, pure, and clear, he so captivated the Fathers that they relented and allowed a place for polyphony. Although the Renaissance saw many fine polyphone Church composers, like Josquin des Pres, Thomas de Victoria, and Orlandus de Lassus, and William Byrd, to this day no one has equaled the purity of Palestrina who has been dubbed Princeps Musicae, the Prince of Music, whose compositions never failed to elevate its sacred text, not overcome it.
Traditional Catholics, no culture on the face of the earth, now or before, ever attainted the heights of divine music as did Catholic Western Civilization. The guardians of that sacred heritage are Traditional Catholics, who spurn the trash "music" of the Newchurch of the New Order, which corrupts the minds and souls of Newchurchers. That explains a great deal about why everything about Newchurch is so vulgar. To borrow an aphorism from the computer world: "Garbage in, garbage out."
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
What is the proper posture for the congregation at the Sanctus of a Traditional Latin High Mass. One parishioner insists that we should kneel at the sound of the bells. She said that it is the same for Low Mass and High Mass: that the congregation should kneel at the Sanctus, but we have been standing while singing the Sanctus and kneeling after the singing. She said that all her life (she is 85), the congregation knelt at the Sanctus in both Low and High Mass even in Europe.
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
There are actually no rubrics in the Roman Missal for the congregation at a fully Traditional Latin Mass, only for the priest. The congregation's postures are determined by custom, which may vary from place to place. That having been said, for the congregation to sing at a "Dialogue" Mess is not the traditional practice. That practice was introduced in the 1950s, when the true Mass was starting to be corrupted by Novus Ordo notions. The traditional practice is for the High Mass ordinary and propers to be sung by a men's Gregorian schola.
For further information on this topic, click on the TRADITIO Network's Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments department in the section "Mass" for the file "Postures for the Congregation at High and Low Mass," available from the TRADITIO Network's main menu at www.traditio.com.
For the historical and liturgical arguments why the so-called "Dialogue Mess" is not traditional, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department in the file "DIALOGUE.PDF - Dialogue Mass," available from the TRADITIO Network's main menu at www.traditio.com.
When the film The Pope's Exorcist was released in 2023, the Church's Chief Exorcist, the most famous exorcist and demonologist of the 20th century, Traditional Catholic priest Fr. Gabriele Amorth, came to the attention of the general public. The power of this Traditional Catholic priest, who spurned the Newchurch establishment, was nevertheless eminently regarded in the highest echelons of Newchurch, which feared to touch him. Amorth who died in 2016 at the age of 91, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on May 1, 2025.
Fr. Amorth was quite outspoken about his rejection of the Newchurch of the New Order. He refused to use Newchurch's "New Ritual" for exorcisms. He said that the Novus Ordo ritual was completely impotent against the Devil, so he used only the traditional Rituale Romanum from the 1940s. He also spurned the vulgar tongues in exorcisms. He said that the Devil paid no attention to the prattle of vernacular languages and feared only the Latin language.
Fr. Amoth's power was so strong that Newvatican would not dare interfere with him and thus said nothing about his exclusive use the Traditional Catholic Latin rites. Whenever a difficult case of Satanic influence gained power in Newvatican, it was Gabriel Amorth to whom the leaders of Newchurch turned. By various reports, including those from the eminent Vaticanologist Fr. Malachi Martin, indicated that after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), the number of demonic possessions in Newvatican skyrocketed. It is well known that during the Anti-council, the Modernist apostates were conducting Black Masses on Newvatican grounds.
It is entirely possible that the apostate Pseudo-Newpope of the Anti-council, Montini-Paul VI (1963-1978), was among the tainted. Fortunately, John XXIII, who personally was quite traditional in doctrine, morality, and liturgy and rejected on his deathbed the Anti-council, which had been taken over by the Freemasons and Modernist heretics. He never signed a single one of the Anti-council's documents, and even the New Latin Mess, which was promulgated under his papacy, was, as he himself publicly announced, was not his work, but that of his predecessor Pius XII, who was not as traditional as generally though when it came to liturgical matters. John XXIII said that it was only because it was the work of Pius XII, whom he imprudently revered, that he even allowed that New Latin Mess of 1962 to be implemented.
Fr. Amorth performed tens of thousands of exorcisms over his life only in the Traditional Latin rite that predated the Vatican II Anti-council. Many times he proved the existence and power of the Devil and his demons. Amorth openly warned about the diabolical power of Ouija boards, astrology, magic and other common occult practices that the pagan Newchurchers to whom he ministered were thoughtlessly attracted. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, although Fr. Gabriel Amorth nominally worked under the aegis of Newchurch, he had been ordained under the Traditional Roman Catholic Sacrament of Holy Orders in 1954, before the corruptions introduced to the Traditional Latin Mass by Pius XII-Bugnini. It seems that in practice Fr. Amorth rejected the Newchurch of the New Order, which replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church in 1964 by the decree of the Vatican II Anti-council. That Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
On June 5, 2025, Prevost-Leo met with leaders of the Neo-catechumenal Way, a lay sect associated with heretical Charismaticism, which has Its roots in Protestant Pentecostalism. During the meeting he encouraged the leaders to continue pushing their heretical sect. Charismaticism is a particularly virulent mania infecting the Newchurch of the New Order. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
The sect is associated with such other cult-like, mind-controlling organizations and programmes as the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD, which was perfectly traditional before Vatican II, but afterwards was corrupted), Taize, "Oecumenism," Marriage Encounter, the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), Renew, Focolare, Cursillo, Legionnaires, of Christ/Regnum Christi, Communion and Liberation, Miles Jesu, Wicca (Gaia), and Life Teen. The Neo-catechumenal Way denies many Catholic doctrines, such as:
Traditional Catholics, the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is turning out to be every bit a Modernist heretic like his Newchurch predecessors, albeit he deceptively covers it over with fancy haberdasherie and a less-abrasive personality than Bergoglio-Francis. But they are cut from the same cloth. Prevost is more dangerous in this regard because while Bergoglio was a wolf, Prevost is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
On June 11, 2025, Newchurch in Ireland, whose children since the Vatican II Anti-council in the 1960s have been suffering rape, sodomy, and other sex crimes, as well as physical abuse, at the hands of presbyters and Newbishops, reported a record 385 incidents in 2024, a whopping 52 per cent increase in just one year. This number was the highest since the Irish Newchurch began keeping records in 2009.
It is interesting to note that 88 per cent of the incidents involved members of religious institutes, who run orphanages and homes for blind and deaf children. The report stated that six of the fingered Newchurch clergy are still "in active ministry." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, it seems that Newchurch's National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church [Sic] in Ireland needs a lot more safeguarding going on, as Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues.
In yet another move toward the Oecumenical Heresy ("we all worship the same gods"; "all religions are true") in the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, Newchurch's Church of the Holy Apostles in Virginia Beach, Virginia, hosted in its "sanctuary" the "installation" by a heretic Protestant bishopess of another Protestant Episcopalian heretic to become a priestess and appointed her as "co-pastor" there.
The blasphemy and sacrilege occurred in February 2025 with the explicit permission of the local Newchurch bishop, who had previously permitted the "installation" of another priestess as bishopess of the heretic sect. It continues under the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo. The Newmonsignor-chaplain personally attended the sacrilege. The Newparish is recognized jointly by the Newchurch diocese and the Episcopalian sect's diocese and features a regular fake "joint liturgy." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order founded at the Vatican II Anti-council in 1964 became a Protestant, and even worse, a pagan sect, also associated with the Freemasons. These cases of religio mixta, or mixed religion, follow Newchurch's new 1964 Constitution, which defines Newchurch as an apostate "oecumenical" sect. The "institutional" Church has not been the Catholic Church since that time. It has lost the true Catholic Mass, the true Catholic Sacraments, and the true Catholic priesthood, and has become nonthing more than a purveyor of Protestant services and Protestant ministers.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
What can be done about crying infants and toddlers at Holy Mass? I find them disruptive to the solemnity and meditation at Mass Should they even be there at such a young age?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
We agree that infants and toddlers should not be brought to church until they can remain quiet throughout the Mass. There is no obligation to have them there, and when they are uncontrolled, they can ruin the prayerful aspect that Holy Mass is supposed to have for the congregation.
Some churches may have a schola or choir that has worked hard to prepare Gregorian chant or other sacred music for the Mass, only to have their work, and the congregation's attention, disturbed by a crying infant. The priest may have spent time preparing a fruitful sermon, which then cannot be properly attended to by the congregation because of the disturbing cries of an infant.
Some churches have a "crying room," which is soundproofed from the general congregation. However, that configuration is not usually found these days and is not available at chapels and oratories. Some families arrange to have one parent stay at home with the infant, perhaps alternating weeks at Mass, or arrange to attend at different Mass times, or get a babysitter or relative to look after the infant while the parents attend Holy Mass.
On June 10, 2025, the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops reported that in 2024 there were 902 charges of rape, sodomy, and other sexual assaults by Newchurch bishops and presbyters against 855 child victims, as Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, which came to public attention in 2002, has not stopped, even though there is supposed to be a "zero tolerance" policy on such crimes. A total of 717 Newbishops and presbyters were fingered and perpetrators in the crimes.
The USCCB also reported "several cases" of non-compliance by Newdioceses in violation of its Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. One Newdiocese was still not completing required background checks. Another failed to constitute the required review board for the cases reported by the children. {Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, although the total number of crimes reported had decreased from the previous year, the fact that still some 1,000 paedophile crimes are still being reported in the most recent year after more than twenty years indicates that Newchurch's "zero tolerance" policy is substantially propaganda and has never been fully implemented. Since the Vatican II Anti-council, which in 1964 replaced the Catholic Church with a Newchurch of the New Order, renamed in 2024 by Bergoglio-Francis the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, Newchurch has lost its priesthood, its Sacraments, and its Mass and is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
The Pseudo-Newcardinal of Washington, D.C., in the United States, a known Leftist-Modernist has been in office hardly five months before announcing major cutbacks and layoffs in the capital Newarchdiocese. Actually, Robert McElroy is not entirely to blame. The Newarchdiocese under his predecessor, Wilton Gregory, who had been fingered more than once for fiscal mismanagement, had been operating at a 10,000,000 USD deficit for each of the past five years. Some of the cuts are the consequence of large financial settlements because of the plethoric sexual predations of Theodore McCarrick, a previous Newcardinal there.
McElroy wants to "streamline" the Newarchdiocese; 25 per cent of the positions will be eliminated. "Streamline" is reminiscent of the so-called "aggiornamento" that began in 1950s under Popes Pius XII and John XXIII, which eventually led to the replacement in 1964 of the Catholic Church by the apostate Newchurch of the New Order. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, what Newcardinal McElroy doesn't mention is that attendance at the New Mess is off, and collections and donations are way down, partially as a result of financial frauds and scandals at Newchurch organizations such as Catholic Charities, which has been exposed as neither Catholic nor a charity, having been implicated in fraud. Newchurch's sins have certainly been catching up with it. These pseudo-Newbishops and Newcardinas may think that they can get away with their corruption, but the justice of God inevitably catches up with them, even in this world, if not in the next.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
What are your thoughts on the increasing number of people in recent years leaving the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order Church to join Eastern Orthodox sects?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
First of all, the number is probably not as great as you think. The population of Eastern Orthodox in western countries, in the United States, for example, is just 2.7% of the number in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. The largest number is that of Newchurchers becoming disgusted and leaving entirely, probably around 25 per cent in the last twenty years alone. The huge Newarchdiocese of New York, for example, numbering a purported 2,500,000 Newchurchers, attracted only two Newseminarians and will install only four presbyters in 2025.
Usually, the Newchurch experience turns Newchurchers off of religion, any religion, entirely. There are a few who try desperately to grasp anything they can get, including Eastern Orthodox sects and even Protestant sects, unaware that there are thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories that remain traditionally Catholic, not affiliated with the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Official Traditional Catholic Directory department, provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses.
Unfortunately, the Eastern Orthodox are not a viable alternative. Like the Newchurch of the New Order, they have given up a lot of their Faith and Tradition and sold out to Modernistic elements. In any case, the Eastern Orthodox are schismatic, and no true Catholic can join them. For further information on this topic, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department, in the section "Eastern Rite 'Option.'."
You'd think the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order would have learned its lesson by now. It tries to be friends with every heretic, schismatics, infidel, and pagan in sight. It changes its doctrines, morality, and "liturgy" to suit them. But there is no reciprocity. The heretics, schismatics, infidels, and pagans hate the true Catholic Church, even the fake Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Take just one case. While Newchurch tries to make friends with the Jews, the Jews have responded to it hatefully, even spitting on Christians in Jerusalem and elsewhere. The Israeli government was entirely unresponsive to Christians' complaints on this score -- until, that is, some powerful Evangelical Christian groups that invest large amounts of money in Israel threatened to pull out.
Take another case. On June 4, 2025, a group of Newchurchers staged a "eucharistic pilgrimage" in Dallas, Texas. Evangelical Protestants tried to obstruct the "pilgrimage" and vilified the "monstrance." What the Protestants didn't realize is that Newchurch is essentially a Protestant sect now. Newchurch's "New Mess" has been changed to fit invalid Protestant models by more than two-thirds. Newchurch's clergy are not ordained priests since 1968, but merely "installed" as Protestant-style ministers. The true Catholic Church survives today not in the "institutional" apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, but in the thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories around the world.
Thus, what is in the "monstrance" is not the Most Holy Eucharist, but a fake, the same as the Protestants receive at their invalid "communion services." This so-called National Eucharistic Pilgrimage of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is walking from Peoria, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News sources.]
Traditional Catholics, the protests would be blasphemy if the Newchurch weren't now a Protestant. sect. The clueless Newchurchers have not realized yet that the organization to which they belong is not the Catholic Church, but the Newchurch of the New Order, founded in 1964 at the apostate Vatican II Anti-council, which is no better, and often worse, then the heretic Protestant sects. Newchurch has lost the true Catholic Mass, true Catholic priests, and true Sacraments. It should not be the Protestant Evangelicals that are protesting, but true Catholics, who have seen the "institutional" Catholic Church replaced by a fake sect embracing Protestantism and even outright aganism.
On June 5, 2025, the Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo revealed how he hopes to solve Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, which has continued since its public exposure in 2002. He plans to call on the corrupt secularist United Nations for help. That organization has itself been the subject of so much corruption and scandal that the Newchurch holocaust is bound to get even worse!
Hit from all sides by charges of hypocrisy, ineffectiveness, and cover-up, the Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis set up a Commissio Pontificia pro Tutela Minorum (Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors) in 2014, but since that time he failed to approve the Commission's bylaws or to appoint its members, so that at his death in 2015, the commission had done essentially nothing except to put up a web site that went nowhere.
In a meeting with Prevost, the commission reported that it still had not finished a draft of its bylaws in over ten years and gave no specific date by which its task would be completed. Meanwhile, the commission spent its time arguing about "governance and working methods." In any case, the commission has been given no authority to root out from Newchurch the criminal paedophile presbyters, Newbishops, and Newcardinals, who even Bergoglio himself admitted had penetrated the highest echelons of Newchurch's administrative bodies. The commission admitted that it still had no idea of what, if any, punishments, Newchurch had meted out to its paedophile Newclergy.
The commission did admit that it is relying for assistance from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and from an Protestant Pentecostalist group known as Focolare. Although the most celebrated crimes in Newchurch have occurred in the United States, Europe, and Australia, the misguided commission is focusing its efforts, such as they are, on Tonga, Zimbabwe, and Costa Rica. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Our Sunday Visitor.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost-Leo is simply continuing an administrative farce that goes nowhere. No heads of Newchurch criminals have rolled. A month before Prevost was elected Pseudo-Newpope on May 8, 2025, the Arch-paedophile Newcardinal Theodore McCarrick was still wandering around under the de-facto protection of Newchurch. Compare the criminal inaction of Wojtyla-JPII, Ratzinger-Benedict, Bergoglio-Francis, and now Prevost-Leo to how Pope St. Pius V handled sodomite clergy in his day. In his bull "Horrendum illud scelus" [That Horrific Crime], the Pope-Saint stripped clergy criminals of any Church affiliation and turned them over to the secular criminal courts, where the punishment was severe, even up to death. That is how a true pope acts -- with justice and courage in protection of the innocent!
Traditionally, deacons have been clergy in Major Orders studying to become priests. In an effort by the apostate Newchurch to introduce laymen in 1967 to replace its presbyters (in 1968 Newchurch stopped ordaining priests and went to "installing" presbyter- ministers), after the style of the heretic Protestants. The U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops' own report of June 4, 2025, exposed the lie. Although Newchurch said that these lay Newdeacons would be used in remote areas around the world, it turns out that close to half -- a whopping 39 per cent -- of all lay Newdeacons worldwide are in the United States!
These lay Newdeacons are not even members of the clergy. Moreover, they are not celibate. Obviously, this was another ruse to ape the heretic Protestants in order to get non-celibate clergy into the Catholic Church, against tradition and practice going back to the early Church. For further information on this topic, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department, available from the TRADITIO Network's main menu (www.traditio.com), in the section "Priestly Celibacy."
An estimated 20,000 of the world’s 51.000 lay Newdeacons (39 per cent) operate in the Newdioceses of the United States, which constitutes only 6% of the world’s Newchurch population. Like the number of Newchurch presbyters, the number of lay Newdeacons is decreasing because not enough men want to commit to a corrupt Newchurch of the New Order to replace the number of dying and leaving. Far from being placed in remote locations, it turns out that the most lay Newdeacons are assigned to the richest and largest Newdioceses: Chicago, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York; San Antonio, Texas; and Houston, Texas. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurch statistics show how these lay Newdeacons were a ruse from the beginning, as 93 per cent of them are married. Lay Newdeacons are obviously a ploy to get around the celibacy requirements for real clergy required in the real (Traditional) Catholic Church. Neither are these men are not going to the remote areas around the world. Instead, they are staying in the richest area of the United States!
(Acts 2:1-2, from the Epistle of the Feast)
The citizens of Paderborn, Germany, filed into their cathedral to celebrate its 1,250th anniversary, expecting a solemn commemoration. What they failed to realize was that Paderborn Cathedral in Germany had been taken over in 1964 by the Newchurch of the New Order, founded at the Vatican II Anti-council to replace the Catholic Church. What these clueless Newchurchers actually got was what might be called the "Naked Chicken Mess," in which near-naked liturgical "performers" conducted the "service" dressed as plucked chicken carcasses in diapers.
The "service" was intended to mock the Most Holy Eucharist -- which Newchurch lost in 1969 by the Providence of God when it dumped the Traditional Latin Mass and substituted a fake (invalid) "New Mess," based on Protestant, Jewish, and Pagan models. In 1968 it had already dumped the priesthood and substituted a "prebyterate," in which henceforth Protestant-style ministers officially called "presbyters" were not ordained, but merely "installed" in a fake (invalid) Protestantized New Ordinal. The "service" was conducted to a blasphemous song titled “Fleisch ist Fleisch” (“Flesh is Flesh”).
A number of Neocon Newchurchers signed the usual petition of protest. In response, Newarchbishop Udo Bentz issued the usual expression of regret "if any religious feelings were hurt." Of course, the mendacious Udo didn't intend to hurt anyone; he said. There is nothing new in this. Similar blasphemies, sacrileges, and desecrations have been going on in Newchurch since 1964. For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Novus Ordo Service Photo Gallery department in the section, available from the TRADITIO Networks main menu (www.traditio.com). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the European Conservative.]
Traditional Catholics, after sixty years, Newchurchers, especially Neocon Newchurchers, cannot plead ignorance. They are part of the problem. They have already given up the Catholic Faith, but will still swoon over a word of Latin injected into the corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass. Their protests are entirely hypocritical as they continue to kowtow to the apostate Newchurch of the New Order with all of its doctrinal, moral, and liturgical corruption. These Neocons are reminiscent of the beggar boy in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, who whines, "Please, sir, I want some more." And Newchurch is only too happy to give them more: fake Messes, fake Sakraments, and the whole hellish banquet of the apostate New Order sect.
On May 31, 2025, the holy Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a number of Newchurchers at a White Sox baseball game in Chicago, Illinois, the original hometown of Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, dressed up as fake Newpopes in red Novus Ordo presbyters' chasubles and white Newbishops' miters, as Prevost has now become the butt of mockery.
Meanwhile, the Prevost-Leo Newpapacy has pushed the apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's Newpapacy all the farther. Prevost has done absolutely nothing to re-establish the Catholic Faith in the Synodal Newchuch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. He has done nothing to correct Newchurch's doctrinal apostasy and immorality. He has done nothing to stop the rape and sodomy of children by Newchurch's paedophile presbyters and Newbishops. He has done nothing to clean the Mafia out of the Vatican bank. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by MSN News.]
Traditional Catholics, the newly-minted apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has, nevertheless, had plenty of time to create "photo ops" in a Novus Ordo vaudeville show that has outdone even his apostate predecessor Bergoglio-Francis. Like a magician using sleight of hand, Prevost will use an antique stole here or there to bamboozle the Neocon Newchurchers, but there is no denying that the doppelganger Provost is -- literally -- worshipping at the tomb of Bergoglio.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Could you explain what significance Rufus and Alexander have, who are mentioned in St. Mark's Gospel and St. Paul's Epistle to the Roman?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
Rufus and Alexander were the sons of Simon of Cyrene, who helped carry Our Lord's cross on the way to Calvary. All three Synoptic Gospels relate the event: Matthew 27:32, Mark 15:21, and Luke 23:26. Sts. Mark and Luke add that they came "from the country" (Latin de villa; Greek ap' agrou).
St. Mark mentions Rufus and Alexander by name in his Gospel (15:21). They were presumably members of the Christian community in Rome. The name Rufus, meaning red-haired, is Latin, not Greek. St. Mark (15:21) is thought by some to have written his Gospel originally in Latin, not Greek (the version that has come down to us is in Greek), so St. Mark may have had a particular familiarity with the member of the Christian community in Rome. St. Paul also refers to Rufus in his Epistle to the Romans (16:13) as an established member of the community there.
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.
(Aeneid, VI:847-853)
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.
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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