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Newchurch is "synodal" only when it wants to be. Typical for the Newchurch, which does not observe its own laws. Although Newvatican procedure provides that a monastery be suppressed only after consultation with the Newdiocesan bishop, Newvatican ignored this procedure and had the only Carmelite monastery in Georgia in the United States shut, and its nuns scattered to the four winds.
Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis hated the conservative Newchurch Carmelites with a passion because they are contemplative rather than Leftist/Modernists. So, Our Lady of Confidence Carmelite Monastery was shut down without notice and without explanation. On July 17, 2025, Newbishop Stephen Parkes, of Savannah, Georgia, denied that he had anything to do with the closure. The order can directly from the Newvatican.
Those familiar with the case say that the Newvatican, teetering toward bankruptcy, is taking over millions of U.S. dollars in funds and property of the Carmelites to bolster its precarious situation. Newvatican is now expanding the shutdown to other religious orders, such as the Dominican Monastery of the Most Holy Annunciation in Tuscany, Italy, whose nuns have barricaded themselves in the monastery and refuse to leave. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Carmelites of Savannah have subsequently turned their backs on the corrupt Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, and are building a new, autonomous Carmel monastery in Florida. Newchurchers who tried to donate to this project via the Newdiocese's corporation indicate that their donations amounting to 1,500,000 USD have "disappeared" and were not forwarded to the new Carmel in Florida. Typical for the Newchurch, which does not observe God's laws either.
On July 24, 2025, the Newarchbishop of Detroit, Michigan, fired two prominent Newchurch theologians for daring to question Bergoglio-Francis's heresies. Ralph Martin and Eduardo Echeverria were professors for 23 years at Newchurch Major Seminary.
When Newarchbishop Edward Wiesenberger, a Bergoglio-Francis appointee, was asked for the cause of the firings, he intimated that the two Newtheologians were too conservative. Wiesenberger has shut down the Half New Order Vatican II New Latin Mess of 1962 in line with Bergoglio's 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes." He has also prohibited the simulation of the full-blown invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "Ordinary" New Mess (Novus Ordo) of 1969 facing away from the congregation (ad orientem).
Ralph Martin was a consultor to Pseudo-Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict and has been host of a program on the conservative Newchurch cable station, EWTN, although that network has become increasingly Leftist in recent years. Eduardo Echeverria criticized such heretic statements by Bergoglio as that "Hell is empty" and "salvation is universal." He wrote in a 2015 book that Bergoglio "has contributed to the current crisis in the Church -- doctrinal, moral, and ecclesial" and "has a tendency for demeaning Christian doctrine and moral law." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, this latest Newchurch scandal led to public statements revealing why few now wish to work for apostate Newchurch. "Newbishops come and go, and you'll eventually end up working for a bad one and have your whole life derailed," said one Canadian former employee.
On July 12, 2025, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo continued building a record as a facilitator of paedophile presbyters. In an act that is reminiscent of his corrupt predecessor, Bergoglio-Francis, Prevost appointed Presbyter Carlo Capella to a senior diplomatic position in Newvatican's prestigious Secretariat of State, even though Capella had been convicted by a Newvatican court on the charge of "possession and distribution of child pornography with the aggravating circumstance of its large quantity."
Capella served five years in the Newvatican prison and was fined 5,000 USD, though prosecutors had asked for a heavier sentence up to 12 years. Capella was neither dismissed nor deposed nor laicized, which are the normal penalties provided for in the law.
Bergoglio had given Capella diplomatic immunity in order that he could escape prosecution for his crime in the United States, where he had been posted at the Newpapal nunciature. Canadian authorities issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Capella on similar charges, but Bergoglio spirited Capella off to the Newvatican before he could be arrested by civil authorities. Officials in the Newvatican's diplomatic section were "shocked," saying "This is over the limit, no one understands how this decision was made" by Prevost. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic Culture.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurch under Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is just as deaf, dumb, and blind as before. The specious excuse for Prevost's unexplainable action was "mercy." But Prevost could have shown "mercy" to the perverted presbyter by sending him off to an isolated monastery in the Alps with only St. Bernards for company -- no kids!
The Canon Law of the Catholic Church, the laws that govern its entire operation, was built up over the better part of two millennia, based upon tradition, precedent, papal decrees, and other traditional sources. In 1917 those precedents were assembled under one cover and issued as the Codex Iuris Canonici, compiled mostly under Pope St. Pius X and promulgated after his death by Pope Benedict XV.
When the Vatican II Anti-council replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church with its Newchurch of the New Order -- which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church -- and gave it a new constitution in 1964, the traditional Canon Law had to be thrown out and replaced with an new Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Code. That goal was finally achieved by the apostate Newchurch with the publication of the New Order Code in 1983.
Now that 1983 New Order Code has become obsolete for Newchurch, because in 2024 the Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis declared that the Newchurch of the New Order had become the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, an even more Protestant sect based on voting synods to determine doctrine and practice, in the same fashion as the Protestant synods operate. The Synodal Newchurch is also becoming outwardly pagan, with New Order Messes worshipping pagan deities, such as the fertility goddess Pachamama and the sun god Atacama. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, the plan for a "wholesale 'synodal' revision" of the New Order Code of Canon Law was teased in the Newpapal newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. on July 14, 2025. The new Code is to "extend far beyond a codification of recent synodal practice." The function of the "bishop of Rome," no longer the "pope" or "vicar of Christ, is to be rethought from an "oecumenical" perspective, in which all religions, including schismatic, heretical, infidel, and pagan religions, are recognized essentially as equally valid. The Newchurch clergy, having already lost the priesthood, are to be further watered down a la the Protestants. The Newpapal announcement concludes: "That is the future that awaits" Newchurch.
With the news that the largest Newchurch diocese in the United States has been secreting criminals, including many possibly violent criminals, in its churches, attendance at the fake (invalid) Vatican II Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess (Novus Ordo) has plunged by at least 50 per cent in two months. The criminals had committed the felony of illegally entering the United States, and many of these criminals had committed other serious crimes, such as murder, rape, and child-trafficking. They were found to be hiding out in Los Angeles's Newchurches and Newchurches in other Newdioceses in Southern California.
Newchurchers have consequently been leaving the Novus Ordo Mess in droves, not wanting to expose themselves to the physical risk -- not to speak of the risk to their souls by being present at an apostate Mess, which is most certainly NOT Catholic OR a valid Mass. The situation has gotten so bad that Southern California Newbishops on July 9, 2025, excused Newchurchers from going to the Novus Ordo Mess. The same phenomenon has been occurring in Southern California's San Bernardino and San Diego Newdioceses. Southern California is said to have as many as 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Newchurchers.
It has also been revealed that Newchurch has illegally been providing illegal "sanctuary" to, and even employing, criminal aliens However, the U.S. government has not been entering Newchurches to arrest the criminals. Steve Bannnon, a former White House Counsellor to the President, hit the nail on the head in explaining why the Newchurch has been secreting illegal criminals in its churches: "You know why? Because [the Newchurch has been] unable really to come to grips with the problems in the (New)church. They need illegal aliens. They need illegal aliens to fill the churches. It's obvious on the face of it." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Washington Examiner.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurchers of Southern California should pause and take advantage of this opportunity once and for all to get out of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, posing falsely as the Catholic Church. The Newchurch that is infamous for its continuing support of its presbyters who commit vile sex crimes against children has now been caught secreting illegal criminals as well, some of whom are grievous felons from Latin America, Africa, and other locations. Meanwhile, so-called Catholic Charities is being prosecuted for fraudulently using government money to house and support criminal aliens.
On July 17, 2025, the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) has been removed from the southerneastern French Newdiocese of Valence and its simulation of the New Latin Mess, i.e., the Half New Order Vatican II Anti-council's Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass. This action was taken in accordance with the 2021 Decree "Traditionis custodes," when the FSSP had refused to concelebrate the Maundy Thursday "Chrism Mess," which was fabricated in 1956 in a lead-up to the New Latin Mess of 1962 and to Newchurch's "Ordinary" Novus Ordo full-blown invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Mess of 1969.
The Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) had required such "Chrism Messes," a corruption in themselves, to be simulated with multiple presbyters. In addition, the FSSP was removed for not cooperating with the local Newdiocesan bishop and attempting to create a "Newparish within a Newparish." This charge has been made against other FSSP sites, which were cut back substantially in 2021 and banished to FSSP priories only. The FSSP had already been removed from the Newbasilica of Fontaine-lès-Dijon. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, in Toulouse, France, some Newchurchers have openly questioned the validity of the New Mess of 1969. They are right about that, but it is not just the Novus Ordo Mess, but Newchurch's Newsacraments, its Newdoctrine, and its Newmorality that are apostate from the true Catholic Church. There are many independent Traditional Latin Mass sites in France not affiliated with Newchurch. Why these Newchurchers long ago didn't get out of the fake Newchurch of the New Order, since 2023 the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, long ago is a puzzlement. Could it be that these Newchurchers just as much apostates from the Catholic Church as their Newchurch presbyters, Newbishops, and Newpopes?
Newchurch's Latin Patriarch, Newcardinal Pierrebattista Pizzaballa on July 17, 2025, charged the government of Israel with probable anti-Christian bigotry, calling the attack by an Israeli tank on the historic Holy Family Church in Gaza, which killed three people and wounded nine to be "deliberate." Israel had claimed that the attack on Newchurch's only Newparish there was a "mistake."
Pizzaballa doesn't buy that explanation. He believes that the attack was a "deliberate act of retaliation," as Christian leaders had recently chastised Israel settlers for attacking a Christian town on the West Bank. Pizzaballa condemned the Israeli attack targeting of innocent civilians and a church. Israeli settlers have also been attacking Christians.
Israeli citizens had been spitting on Christians in Jerusalem, and the government had done nothing about it until Evangelical leaders, who had been doing extensive charitable work there, told the Israel government that unless the spitting stopped, they were withdrawing their charities from Jerusalem. Money talked, and the government, which had been indolent up to that time, put a stop to the spitting incidents. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by World News.]
Traditional Catholics, at the same time Israel has recently been flooding the West with slick media advertising for Christians to send money for piteously-depicted "holocaust survivors." Yet at the same time Israelis in Jerusalem were spitting on Christians. There certainly cannot be that many "holocaust survivors" left alive at this point. Israel itself should certainly be able to feed the few remaining. Yet it is Christians who are being dunned for large sums of money. Is Israel engaged in some kind of duplicitous scam toward Christians?
It turns out already that Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is just as naive as his predecessor Bergoglio-Francis. Communist China has the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order wrapped around its finger. Bergoglio entered into a concordat with Communist China in 2018 and renewed it in 2020, 2022, and 2024. Communist China has consistently broken the concordat, and Bergoglio was too much of a Marxist/Modernist himself to do anything about it.
Newchurch's presbyters, nuns, and Newchurchers have continued to be arrested if they don't join the atheist Communist Party of China and its Patriotic Catholic Church, which is a wing of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, but which is controlled by the Communists, not the Newpopes.
Since Prevost-Leo became Newpope on May 8, 2025, the atheist Communist Party of China intensified its crackdown on Newchurchers who have not joined the Communist Party. It has arrested Newchurchers, closed almost all their places of worship, arrested their Newbishops, and used terror and coercion upon them. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by News China.]
Traditional Catholics, in 2018 Bergoglio-Francis, who on several occasions indicated that he was not sure that he was in fact a pope, turned over his power to appoint Newbishops in China to the atheist Chinese Communist Party. So, Newchurch bishops in China are now Communist Party Members selected by Dictator Xi-Jinping. So far Bergoglio's disciple Prevost-Leo has followed the same pro-Communist policy as his mentor, Bergoglio-Francis.
After being tagged with 153 sex crimes against children, the Newdiocese of Fresno, California, on July 8, 2025, became the 39th Newchurch diocese to throw in the towel and declare bankruptcy. That constitutes almost one-quarter of all the 176 territorial western dioceses in the United States. Child victims' advocates excoriated Newchurch bishop Joseph Brennan for his attempt to evade accountability for the crimes to provide full compensation to the child victims because bankruptcy robs victims of exposing the corruption of Newchurch and focuses instead upon property and opens the opportunity for the Newdiocese to conceal funds.
Brennan said that he was desperate to "ensure the continuation of our ministry within our diocese." He seemed to be less interested in doing justice to the children whom Newchurch clergy had raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted. One of the children's attorneys stated that the victims were "forever scarred" from Newchurch clergy's crimes. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Los Angeles Times.]
Traditional Catholics, in 2021 the Newdiocese had already released a list of 63 Newchurch clergy who were fingered in the paedophile crimes, most perpetrated after the apostate Vatican II Anti-council, when the Catholic Church was replaced as the "institutional" Church by the heretical and immoral Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. To date, 1,800 individual children's lawsuits have been filed against Newchurch. Newchurch elementary and high schools, charities, and cemeteries could be affected.
On July 5, 2025. Neo-SSPX personnel were accused of theft of church property, when it tore an altar and holy-water font from the floor and ripped sacred art from the walls of the Church of La Vendarede in southern France. They took church furniture, pews, statues of Saints, and even whole confessionals "without the necessary official authorizations." Fifteen Neo-SSPX personnel, led by a Neo-SSPX priest-presbyter, entered the premises to appropriate them for their own Neo-SSPX church in Vaucluse.
Faithful in the city were shocked at what appeared to them to be sacrilege and vandalism, the desecration of a holy place.. Neo-SSPX officials claimed to have had the permission of the municipality, but that claim is so disputed that the French Prosecutor's Office announced on July 9, 2025, that an investigation has been opened against the Neo-SSPX for "theft, damage, and breach of trust." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Midi Libre.]
Traditional Catholics, the Neo-SSPX under the Fellay regime (with Davide Pagliarani his current puppet as Superior General) has compiled a record for despotic actions. The Neo-SSPX not infrequently acts like the proverbial bull in a china shop. It appears that in this case if it had acted in a Christian way, the backlash, including contemplated criminal charges of theft against the Neo-SSPX, would not have occurred.
On July 9, 2025, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo committed the Mortal Sins of Idolatry, Blasphemy, and Sacrilege by sending his Newpapal Nuncio to Canterbury, English, to simulate a fake (invalid) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Vatican II "New Mess" in once-Catholic Canterbury Cathedral, whither 5,000 pilgrims each week to travel to worship the true God, as was described in Geoffrey Chaucer's famous Middle English literary classic, Canterbury Tales (1387-1400).
In this now-Protestant cathedral, stolen from the Catholic Church in 1538 by the Protestant heretic English King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547), Prevost's Nuncio's blasphemous Novus Ordo Mess spit in the face of St. Thomas a Becket of Canterbury, who was martyred in 1170 by agents of King Henry II while pontificating at Divine Office as Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the U.K. Independent Catholic News.]
Traditional Catholics, the First Commandment of God does not exist in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. It continues to commit idolatry, blasphemy, and sacrilege with its fake (invalid) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Vatican II "New Mess." Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo fully supported the idolatry/blasphemy/sacrilege by sending his Newpapal greeting to the event. To add the requisite silliness to the event, Newvatican sent its cricket team, including presbyters and Newseminarians, dressed in bright yellow jumpers.
On July 7, 2025, Newarchbishop Guy de Kerimel, of Toulouse, France, named a convicted rapist presbyter as the Newchancellor of his Newarchdiocese. Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has not said a word. So much for Newchurch's fabled "Zero Tolerance" Policy for sex crimes by its Newclergy. Presbyter Dominique Spina raped a 16-year-old boy in a Newchurch high school, where the presbyter acted as the boy's "spiritual director," a well-known ruse used by paedophile presbyters. Spina served four years in prison for his vile crime. Yet he is still working for the Newarchdiocese. He was not expelled from Newchurch for his crime.
Another irony in the situation is that the rapist presbyter was put in charge of all marriage in the Newarchdiocese. This arrangement continued for over a month before it was revealed in the regional French newspaper. The Newarchbishop didn't dare make it public knowledge.
The clueless Newchurchers of Toulouse were said to have "expressed outrage," but, of course, they did nothing except babble. What they should have done was to leave the apostate Newchurch of the New Order and withdraw all financial support from it. The rapist presbyter would be out by the next day!
What is even more vile is that Newarchbishop Kerimel defended his action by claiming that it was "merciful" to expose Newchurch children to a paedophile presbyter. It then turned out that presbyter Spina was never expelled from Newchurch, but had actually been re-employed by the Newarchdiocese after his conviction and release from prison. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, you know that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is a fraud because the rapist paedophile presbyter was not only re-employed by the Newdiocese but also was allowed to play patty cake with the fake Novus Ordo "eucharist" cookies and Kool-Aid. Thus, even Newchurch shows that its "eucharist" is fake; otherwise, the presbyter would not be allowed anywhere near it.
The Newarchbishop even violated Newchurch's own relaxed Newcanon Law, which requires Newchancellors to be "of unimpaired reputation and above all suspicion." Of course, no word has come down from on high from Prevost-Leo, who has already gained a reputation of being worse than Bergolio-Francis on the multitudinous sex crimes perpetrated by his Newchurch presbyters, Newbishops, and Newcardinals.
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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