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Any notion that the Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is even a conservative Newchurcher is out the window. On July 9, 2025, the Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith, Newcardinal Victor Fernandez, announced that Prevost has confirmed Bergoglio-Francis's 2023 decree "Fiducia supplicans," which permits gay and lesbian "couples" to be formally "blessed" by presbyters and Newbishops.
Prevost has apparently gotten power mad since becoming Newpope. He hadn't been so open about approving homosexuality and lesbianism before, but now he has no one to contradict him in Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. It is looking more and more as if Prevost was Bergoglio's corrupt Modernist "mole" pick for Newpope. The fact that a virtual unknown won election as Pseudo-Newpope after only three ballots, the same number that it took to elect well-known Pius XII, indicates that the fix was in. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by MSNews.]
Traditional Catholics, it is being bandied about in Newrome that the unknown Prevost was elected to put on a pseudo-conservative show to try to get money coming back into bankrupted Newchurch coffers from large numbers of Newchurchers who have cut off their donations because of Newchurch's apostasy from the Catholic Faith and because of its ever-continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. So far, however, he has not been getting as much acclaim as Newchurch expected, perhaps because Newchurchers are now a bit smarter after being bamboozled by Bergoglio.
On July 8, 2025, co-founder and longtime editor-in-chief of LS News, a Neocon Newchurch news service, was fired for treason against Prevost-Leo. John-Henry Westen dared to question the Catholicity of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age and its current Pseudo-Newpope, Prevost-Leo, disciple of the late Bergoglio-Francis. Westen was right: Prevost is just as much an apostate from the Catholic Faith as was his mentor. If there was any thought that Prevost would be different from the apostate Bergoglio, the last two months have confirmed that thought.
Prevost is in fact worse, albeit he dresses up his apostasy in fancy haberdashery and vaudeville stage effects. Unlike Newchurch leaders, Westen didn't rape and sodomize children. He didn't embezzle funds. No, he had just enough Catholicity left in him to call out Prevost for the anti-Catholic fraud he is with his Bergoglian "Synodal" Newchurch. Westen condemned Prevost's new pagan Missa pro Cura Creationis. He condemned Prevost's appointments of corrupt Modernist Newbishops.
It is remarkable that it took Westen so long to figure out that the Neocons are not a resistance to the apostate Newchurch, but a handmaiden of the apostasy, as is the Fellayite Neo-Society of St. Pius X (NSSPX), the bought Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) and Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS), and the no-longer-"extraordinary" New Latin Messes of 1962, which were merely a ploy to move the Neocon Newchurchers into the full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newchurch news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, LS News and John-Henry Westen were not traditional Catholic. They were Neocon from the start, supporting the corruption and apostasy of the Newchurch of the New Order and its Newhierarchy, which are most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. The Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, as Bergoglio-Francis and Prevost-Leo have rebranded it, is a complete bully to its own members, just as is the Fellayite Neo-SSPX. Prevost has already been associated with sex-crime cover-ups, oecumenical sellouts, and Leftist/Modernist doctrine. At least Bergoglio was direct. Prevost is more insidious, covering up his anti-Catholic extremism with effete haberdashery and vaudeville stage effects. The Synodal Newchurch may soon be wishing for Bergoglio back!
As Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated, with Prevost-Leo doing nothing to stop it, the latest criminal presbyter pled guilty on April 25, 2025, to stealing over 40,000 USB from the collection plate to play video games on his cell phone (probably provided to him by Newchurch). Late as ever, Newchurch took another two months to start a Newcanonical case against the thief.
The presbyter-pastor in Pennsylvania was dubbed by police the "Candy Crush" presbyter, after the name of one of the video games on which had gambled. The case has been described as "heartbreaking," after an "astronomical amount of Apple transactions" were discovered on the Newparish's credit card when the presbyter's own credit cards had been maxed out.
But the presbyter didn't confine himself to stealing from the collection plate for gambling on Candy Crush. He was an equal opportunity thief. He also gambled on Wizard of Oz slots, Cash Frenzy slots, Mario Kart Tour, Pokemon GO, Credit Sesame, Willy Wonka Slots, and Vegas Casino. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newchurch news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, no wonder the latest Pew Landscape Religion Study showed that the Newchurch of the New Order, now renamed the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, is sinking fast, as even the vast majority of Newchurchers have now realized that Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust is not being stopped by Newchurch leaders, but that Newchurch is now permanently corrupt.
On June 17, 2025, the respected Pew Research Center produced its latest Pew Landscape Study on Religion. Its picture of Newchurch in the United States shows a rapidly failing organization, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. It shows that the Vatican II Anti-council's apostasy from the Catholic Faith and Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust have driven most once-Newchurchers out of the Newchurch sect. Here are a few facts from the latest study:
Traditional Catholics, one piece of good news from the Pew Landscape Study found that now 62 per cent of Newchurch realize that Newchurch is corrupt and that its Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust is a "continuing problem," not a past occurrence, as Newchurch has been falsely trying to make it out to be. It seems that the blind Newchurchers have begun to regain their sight!
Newjesuits, the order to which the late apostate Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis belonged, since around the time of the Vatican II Anti-council became Marxist/Modernists and lost the Catholic Faith. But even before that, the order was seriously troubled. In fact, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order completely in his 1773 Bull of Abolition, Dominus ac Redemptor. The Jesuits were dispersed for a period of over forty years around the time of the American Revolution.
The corruption of the modern-day Newjesuits, who are perpetrators of murderous Liberation Theology, is documented in exquisite detail in Fr. Malachi Martin's 1988 The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. Martin, a noted Vaticanologist and best-selling author, once a Newjesuit himself, detailed the crimes of the Newjesuits and their holding of Satanic Messes within the walls of the Newvatican itself during the Anti-council.
It took a Protestant mother on June 17, 2025, to blow the whistle on the modern-day Newjesuits by exposing the fact that the instructors at the Newjesuit Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, were requiring students to view a sexual-bondage video by a female "influencer" and then "try it themselves." In addition, after reading a required autobiography of a sadomasochist, students were forced to write their own "comprehensive sexual autobiography" and a description of their own genitalia, to be read aloud by another student in class.
The Newjesuit instructors and administrators refused to permit alternative assignments to those students who were morally outraged and thought -- falsely -- that a Newchurch university would have "tolerance for traditional or religious worldviews." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Newjesuit Santa Clara University is under the "authority" of the Pseudo-Newbishop of San Jose, California, Oscar Cantu, who himself is under investigation for covering up sex-crimes at his previous posting in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Pseudo-Newpopes after the Vatican II Anti-council have openly supported such perversions, Bergoglio-Francis being the worst as a member of the perverted Newjesuits himself and having been involved in a number of sexual scandals in Argentina, where he operated before become Pseudo-Newpope.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.'"
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.
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.
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