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JULY 2025

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July 11, 2025 - St. Pius I, Pope & Martyr
Simple Feast

Debate over the Corrupted New Latin Mass of 1962 Simmers Again
After the "Re-leak" of Documents Already in the Public Domain

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Hannibal Bugnini & Montini-Paul VI

The Two Modernist Conspirators
Who Destroyed the Catholic Mass
Hannibal Bugnini and Montini-Paul VI
On His Deathbed Pope John XXIII
Wanted to Stop the Vatican II Anti-council
But after His Death Bugnini and Montini
Proceeded to Implement the Council's
Directions to Destroy the True Mess
The Already-corrupted 1962 Mess
Lasted only Two Years
Before the Novus Ordo Mess
Began Being Implemented in 1964

As usual, the Neocon Newchurchers have been behind the times when they recently made a kerfuffle about certain "re-leaked" documents concerning the Half New Order Vatican II New Latin Mess of 1962, which were already released to the public two years ago. Supposedly, the reported reaction by Newbishops in the documents was negative, but a little less negative than was originally reported.

Who cares? The New Latin Mess of 1962, as we have many times reported in these Daily Commentaries, was a ploy by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini to slide the clueless Neocon Newchurchers into the full-blown invalid (fake) New Mess of 1969, Newchurch's Ordinary Mess. How do we know that? Because Bugnini, who was appointed by the apostate Newpope Montini of the Anti-council to be head of the Vatican II Liturgical Commission, himself has told us so.

Bugnini proudly admitted his ploy using the corrupted 1962 New Latin Mess in his detailed, 976-page tome published in 1990. That was the work in which he admitted: "We must strip from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren, that is, for the Protestants ... to create a worship service that any Hindu, Buddhist, or Protestant could attend and feel perfectly at home." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]

Traditional Catholics, as the Modernist Revolutionaries at the Vatican II Anti-council had planned, this corrupted New Latin Mess lasted exactly two years, until 1964, when the first changes of the Novus Ordo "liturgy" were introduced into the Un-Roman Missal after Pope John XXIII had died the previous year and could not stop its implementation.


July 10, 2025 - Seven Holy Brothers, Martyrs. Sts. Rubina & Secunda, Virgins & Martyrs
Semidouble Feast

Prevost-Leo Seems to Be Planning to Dump the "New Mess" and Replacing It with a Worse "Synodal Mess"
He Has Announced a Three-year Plan to Synodalize (Paganize) the Newchurch of the New Order a la Bergoglio-Francis

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Pachamama Worship

The Apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis
And His Newcardinals Bow Their Heads
As He Leads Worship of the Nude Pagan
Fertility Goddess Pachamama
Directly in Front of the High Altar
Of St. Peter's Archbasilica
Bergoglio's Protege Prevost-Leo
Has Now Announced an Extension
Of Bergoglio's Plan to Paganize Newchurch
And Its Implementation by 2028

The late apostate Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is to replace the Newchurch of the New Order on steroids with a good dollop of paganism, is proceeding full steam ahead under Bergoglio's protege and successor, the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, who announced on July 7, 2025, a three-year rollout plan. The paganized Synodal Newchurch already recognizes Messes worshipping the pagan deities Pachamama and Atacama, as well as Aztec and African demigods.

The Synodal Newchurch is preparing for deaconesses, even priestesses, and a non-celibate.Newclergy. Throughout the process Newchurch has consulted non-Catholics and pagans about the implementation. Thus, the corrupt precedent of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) is being followed, in which the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Montini-Paul VI (r. 1963-1978) set up a committee of Protestants to advise him on the implementation of the invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969, which Newchurch calls its Ordinary Mess.

Now Prevost has built upon Bergoglio's Neo-Modernist revolution by forming two new Synodal committees: on the liturgy and on bishops. A New Synodal Mess was already rolled out in October 2024, to graft pagan ideas and practices, called "liturgical tribalism," onto the Newchurch Mess. Such sacrilege had been tried before, but Pope Benedict XIV (r. 1740-1758) condemned it in two papal bulls and required that priests take an oath never to attempt such sacrilege again. Nevertheless, it resurfaced again at the Vatican II Anti-council in section 38 of its liturgical constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]

Traditional Catholics, it seems that Prevost-Leo may be veering into outright blasphemy by attributing to the Holy Ghost such sacrilege, heresy, and blasphemy. Prevost was a participant in Bergoglio-Francis's 2024 Synod and is known to be in league with key leaders of the Synod. Yet this apostate "synodality" has been vehemently condemned by many of Prevost's own prelates, such as Cardinal Joseph Zen, Cardinal Gerhart Muller, and quondam Newpapal Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Vigano.


July 9, 2025 - Ferial Day

One, just One, Exemption for the New Latin Mess Has been Granted by Newpope Prevost-Leo
And That One only Temporarily and with LOTS of Strings

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Michael Sis

Newbishop Michael Sis
Was Hit between the Eyes
When Newvatican Told Him
That His New Latin Mess Request
Was Limited to Two Years
With No Possibility of Renewal
And He Had to Promise to Wean Off
The Attendees during that Period
To Go Exclusively
To the Invalid (Fake) New Order Mess

The Neocon Newchurchers' hope that the latest Pseudo-Newpope, Prevost-Leo, would approve more New Latin Messes of 1962 -- the corrupted form that was to be a stepping-stone to the full-blown New Order Mess of 1969, Newchurch's "Ordinary Mess -- seem to have gone up in smoke. Newvatican has approved one, just one, exemption from the 2021 "Traditionis custodes" ban, and that exemption was granted to a small church in San Angelo, Texas, for only two years and with LOTS of strings.

The exemption was granted on May 28, 2025, and announced on June 27, 2025. The exemption specifies that the New Latin Mess of 1962 must be phased out within two years, during which time Newbishop Michael Sis is to "promote the full appreciation and acceptance" of the Novus Ordo (New Order) liturgical books imposed after the apostate Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). The exemption cannot be renewed after the two-year period. Newbishop Sis promised Prevost that he would comply. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]

Traditional Catholics, the Neocon Newchurchers and their phony New Latin Mess of 1962 have been thwarted once again, now by Newpope Provost-Leo. These clueless Neocons really have to wake finally and smell the coffee after sixty years of lies, get themselves out of the apostate Newchurch once and for all, and go to a Traditional Roman Catholic church, chapel, or oratory entirely independent of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.


July 8, 2025 - St. Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal, Widow
Semidouble Feast

Newchurch Newsaints Are Now a Dime a Dozen
As Prevost-Leo Has Fingered a Crowd of Almost 200 in One Day

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Prevost-Leo

The Newchurch of the New Order
Being an Apostate Sect
Has No Power to Designate Catholic Saints
And, in Any Case, Has Gutted
The Long-standing Traditional Process
Of Canonization into a "Con-anization"
Now Newpope Prevost-Leo Has Fingered
Another 174 All in One Day

The Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo continued on his merry way to drag Newchurch down into something worse than Protestantism. One of the many ways that he and his Pseudo-Newpope predecessors have been accomplishing their apostate goals is to name crowds of people as "saints." But, as St. Thomas More said of King Henry VIII, who tried to divorce his legitimate Catholic wife, "He hath not the competency." Neither does Newchurch have the competency to recognize anyone as a true saint, any more than does the Lutheran or Episcopalian sects, because Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, having been founded in 1964 at the heretic Vatican II Anti-council to replace the Catholic Church.

Even if that were not the case, Newpope JPII-Wojtyla in 1983 gutted the long-standing tradition of the true Catholic Church with respect to the rigorous process for scrutinizing canonizations used since Pope Urban VIII in 1640. Instead, Wojtyla instituted a new system that treats possible "saints" more for their Modernist political views than for their "heroic sanctity," which was the traditional qualification. Newchurch dumped the immemorial requirement that a Newchurch "saint" mist be of "heroic virtue," so now Newchurch has "con-anized" even Communists, like Oscar Romero.

The true Catholic Church carefully investigated individual candidates, usually for many centuries to ensure, as much as humanly possible, that no mistake was made. Now Prevost-Leo, in one day on June 20, 2025, designated en masse 174 individuals for eventual "con-anization." In the whole 2,000-year history of the true Catholic Church, only about 2,000 Saints were recognized. It is no surprise that the bulk of Prevost's new designees were involved in World War II and in the Spanish Civil War. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]

Traditional Catholics, in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order now, everyone's a Newchurch "saint," just as everyone in Newchurch gets a "white" funeral just like the Protestants, for whom everyone goes to Heaven, even if they kill their mother. That is, if a Newchurcher even bothers with a funeral instead of burning his bodies to a crisp like the pagans and Freemasons, or dissolving them in lye or turning them into compost -- the latest methods of disposing of "the temple of God" (1 Corinthians 3:16/DRV). Not to worry, though. Almighty God knows who his Saints are. He doesn't need an apostate Newchurch and Pseudo-Newpope to tell him!


July 7, 2025 - Sts. Cyril & Methodius, Confessors of the Church
Double Feast

Newpope Prevost-Leo Creates a New Scandal by Praising a Modernist Heretic Theologian
Who Was a Driving Force behind the Apostate Vatican II Anti-council

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Hans Urs von Baltasar

Hans Urs von Baltasar
A Modernist Swiss Theologian
And a Colleague of Josef Ratzinger
Both Were Declared
Under Suspicion of Heresy
By Pope Pius XII
Both Greatly Influenced
The Apostate Vatican II Anti-council
Now Prevost-Leo Has Praised
The Modernist Heretic von Baltasar
As a "Great Theologian"

Showing once again that he is an apostate Pseudo-Newpope following in the footsteps of his mentor Bergoglio-Francis. the current Newpope Prevost-Leo in his June 9, 2025, Novus Ordo "homily," liberally praised the heretic theologian Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) as a "great contemporary theologian."

Balthasar, a Swiss Newjesuit, was declared under suspicion of heresy by Pope Pius XII and the Holy Office and subsequently banned from teaching. He was a close associate of Josef Ratzinger, later to style himself "Benedict XVI." Ratzinger was also declared under suspicion of heresy by Pope Pius XII and the Holy Office. Ratzinger's book, Introduction to Christianity (1968) was banned because of heresy by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic Culture.]

Traditional Catholics, Hans Urs von Baltasar and Josef Ratzinger, along with such Modernist heretics as Louis Bouyer (1913-2004), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), S.J.; Yves Congar (1904-1995), O.P.; Henri De Lubac (1896-1991), S.J.; Hans Kung (1928-2021), and John Courtney Murray (1904-1967), S.J., greatly influenced the Vatican II Anti-council, even though Pope Pius XII and Pope John XXIII silenced some, revoked the teaching license of others, and even excommunicated a few of this Modernist group, which has been highly praised by the Pseudo-Newpopes starting with JPII-Wojtyla and now including the Prevost-Leo.


July 6, 2025 - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Semidouble Sunday

The Newdiocese of Camden, New Jersey, Is Overruled by the Supreme Court
A Special Grand Jury Investigation Will Proceed against Its Newchurch Clergy

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Mothers Weep

Mothers Weep as Sex Crimes
Against Their Children
By Presbyters in New Jersey
Are Revealed
The Newdiocese Is Now the Subject
Of a Special Grand Jury Investigation
A 2016 Grand Jury Investigation
In Neighboring Pennsylvania
Netted 300 Paedophile Presbyters
Who Had Sexually Assaulted
Over 1,000 Children

The Newdiocese of Camden, New Jersey, fought hard against it, but on June 17, 2025, the New Jersey Supreme Court overruled the Newdiocese and allowed the state to empanel a Special Grand Jury to investigate charges of rampant sex crimes against children perpetrated by New Jersey presbyters.

Newdiocesan officials had long mouthed the usual Newchurch platitudes that they intended to "do the right thing," but that did not include an open investigation of the crimes going on in the Newdiocese and other Newdioceses in New Jersey. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]

Traditional Catholics, neighboring Pennsylvania empaneled a grand jury in 2016 and blew the lid off the seething corruption in the Newchurch of the New Order. Two years later 300 presbyters were exposed as child predators who had sexually attacked over 1,000 children. Newchurch in Pennsylvania has yet to recover. Now Newchurch's crimes in its continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust are once again being exposed to the public. No wonder attendance at the fake (invalid) New Mess is going down the tubes, and as many as half the Newparishes around the United States, and elsewhere, are being shut down.


July 5, 2025 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Confessor of the Church
Double Feast

Prevost-Leo Institutes a New New Mess after just Two Months
This One Is Tainted with the Paganism of Pantheism and Earth Worship

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
A Mess for Creation

Newpope Prevost-Leo Has Instituted
A New New Mess
Essentially Invoking the Goddess
Of Ecology and Environmentalism, Gaia
As It Worships a Thing (Creation)
Rather than the Creator
It Is Barely-concealed Paganism

Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has already been exposed as a radical "greenie," with heavily panthiestic (pagan) doctrines. So, it is not surprising that just two months after his election, he has imposed a new New Mess on the New Order missal, Missa pro Custodia Creationis. The new Mess will be integrated into the Novus Ordo missal under the section Missae pro Variis Necessitatibus vel ad Diversa.

Essentially, the new Mess is an invocation of the Goddess of Ecology and Environmentalism, Gaia. It constitutes the worship of a thing (creation) rather than of God (the Creator) and is thus barely-concealed paganism.

Prevost has called on two big guns to do the rollout of the new Mess on July 3, 2025: Newcardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, and Newarchbishop Vittorio Viola, Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship. The theme of the new Mess will be "ecological conversation," not conversion to Jesus Christ. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News Service.]

Traditional Catholics, it is reported that Newchurchers and even the general public are getting wise to the perversion of the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. They are mocking this new Mess as "incense for the rain forests" and a "collection for 'biodiversity.'"


July 4, 2025 - Octave Day of the Sacred Heart
Double Major Feast

Prevost-Leo Has Brought Back the Blasphemous "Twisted Serpent" Crucifix
Associating It with the Pseudo-Newpapacy on the Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Twisted Serpent Crucifix

The Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo
Has Brought back the Blasphemous
"Twisted Serpent" or "Bent" Crucifix
That Has Scandalized even Newchurchers
It Has Satanic Associations
It Is in Blasphemies Like This
That We Can See the True Intent of Prevost
Not in His Duplicitous Words
Or His Delusive Haberdashery

On the Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul on June 29, 2025, the Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo blasphemously brought back the ghastly "Twisted Serpent" or "Bent" Crucifix, which has Satanic associations and sources in heretical Protestant charismaticism. Thus, he associated it officially with the apostate fake Newpapacy of the Newchurch sect. After the Protestantized "service" that he celebrated on that feastday, he stood before the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary holding the Twisted Serpent in her face while he sang the Salve Regina.

The Twisted Serpent crucifix consists of a bent, or broken, crucifix with a distorted figure of The Christ, which has scandalized even Newchurchers. It was introduced by the First Pseudo-Newpope, Montini-Paul VI, who promulgated all sixteen documents of the Vatican II Anti-council and founded the Newchurch of the New Order on September 21, 1964, to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church.

The traditional papal crosier does not have a crucifix at all, but merely a simple Latin cross, known as a ferula. In contravention of this tradition, the Newpopes started using a rough-hewn staff fabricated by Lello Scorzelli, commissioned in 1963 by Montini. This ghastly crozier was used for the first time by Montini blasphemously on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1965, at the official closing of the Vatican II Anti-council.

All of the Pseudo-Newpopes following Montini -- Luciani-JPI, Wojtyla-JPII, Ratzinger-Benedict, and Bergoglio-Francis -- all used it. In fact, Ratzinger-Benedict had the temerity to use it at his own Newpapal "installation" on April 25, 2005. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News Service.]

Traditional Catholics, it is in blasphemies like this that we can see the true intent of Prevost-Leo, not his duplicitous words or his delusive haberdashery. Any notion that this man will be even "conservative" has in the two months since his election been decisively dashed. But, after all, the Newpapacy itself is fake, a rejection of the Catholic office since the founding of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order in 1964, as the Newchurch of the New Order is clearly based not in the Angelic, but in the Satanic.


July 3, 2025 - St. Leo II, Pope & Confessor of the Church
Semidouble Feast

Chaos in Newvatican: Prevost-Leo Is Pelted with Projectiles
The Honeymoon Is over for the Latest Pseudo-Newpope

From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Newvatican Caribinieri

Police Are Highly Concerned
After a Projectile Hurled
From the Crowd in St. Peter's Piazza
Hit Prevost-Leo in the Head
The Pseudo-Newpope Is Already Controversial
As a Protege of the Marxist-Modernist
He Has Deeply Involved Himself
More in Leftist Secular Politics
Than in Anything Catholic

It seems that the honeymoon is already over for the latest Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo. The crowds in Newvatican are becoming increasingly unruly and are now pelting the apostate Newpope with objects. The latest incident occurred on June 26, 2025, when a projectile, which fortunately was not hard, gave Prevost a good bop on the head. The Newvatican gendarmerie are becoming more and more concerned that a more dangerous attack on Prevost may be in the offing.

It is Prevost himself who is stirring up this animus. What is he doing walking around unruly crowds? Real popes used the sedia gestatoria (portable throne), and then only in St. Peter's Basilica. Far from being the more "conservative" Newpope that the Neocon Newchurchers were hoping for, Prevost has turned out to be a flaming political Leftist and Modernist heretic worse than Bergoglio-Francis. Oh, sure, he might sing the Regina Caeli in Latin every once in a while, but that is only a part of the vaudeville show that he and his Newchurch predessors put on to deceive their clueless membership.

Traditional Catholics, every day Prevost-Leo spends much of his efforts not on affairs having to do with religion, but on Leftist greenie politics wading in on secular matters of relations between secular countries, and meeting with rock stars and movie celebrities -- activities that are totally outside the papal brief, even if the unordained, unconsecrated Prevost were a true pope.


JULY 2, 2025 - VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE SECOND CLASS

'The Visitation

"The Visitation" (ca. 1643)
By Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674)
Oil on Canvas, 112x98 cm

Exsurgens autem Maria in diebus illis,
abiit in montana cum festinatione, in civitatem Juda:
et intravit in domum Zachariae, et salutavit Elisabeth.

[And Mary rising up in those days,
went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda.
And she entered into the house of Zachary, and saluted Elizabeth.]


(Luke 1:39-40/DRV, from the Gospel of the Feast)

JULY 1, 2025 - MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE FIRST CLASS

'The Visitation

"Crucifixion" By Lovis Corinth (1858-1925)
After the Altarpiece at Tolz (1921-1922)
Drypoint, 30x24 cm

Sed unus militum lancea latus eius aperuit,
et continuo exivit sanguis et aqua.

[But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side,
and immediately there came out blood and water.]


(John 19:34/DRV, from the Gospel of the Feast

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