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We knew that the Newchurch of the New Order was leaking like a sieve, but now we know that the situation is worse than Newchurch was letting on. Fully 90 per cent of "cradle Catholic" have left Newchurch since the Vatican II Anti-council, which in 1964 replaced the Catholic Church with its fabricated Newchurch of the New Order as the "insitutional Church." Moreover, these deserters didn't find one of the many Traditional Catholic communities available independent of the Newchurch, but simply dropped out, like pagans spending their Sundays shopping and watching sports on television.
The General Social Study, conducted by St. Mary's University, found that the number of dropouts from Newchurch in the United States is increasing. In 1973, about a decade after the Anti-council, only 34 per cent were attending the fake (invalid) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "Ordinary" New Mess. By 2002, about three decades later, only 20 per cent were attending. By 2022, two decades later, only 11 per cent were attending. And even those numbers are regarded as inflated.
There is a huge "values gap" now. Before the Anti-council Catholic morality and mainstream American morality were very close. Now, Newchurchers have adopted the vulgar morality of the pagan milieu around them. Moreover, Newchurch's Heresy of Oecumenism ("all religions are true"; "we all worship the same gods") has thoroughly corrupted the Newchurch, just as the apostate revolutionaries had panned. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, when young people look to their parents for an example, they find that their parents are more connected to the pagan culture than even they themselves are. That all happened before. In the fifth century, when Rome fell, Catholics were denounced by the popes for becoming more pagan than the barbaric society around them. It took some seven centuries for the Catholic Church to restore itself in the High Middle Ages.
A video widely circulated puprortedly from June 15, 2025, at St. Michael's Newchurch in Dallas, Texas, is said to show a crucifix above a Newchurch altar bursting into flames in the shape of The Crucified and, three seconds later, going out without signs of a fire. The video is full of contradictions and is likely to have been engineered by artificial intelligence.
There seem to be more and more of these concocted "miracles," as Newchurch becomes increasingly desperate to reverse the overwhelming exodus from the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. The New Order eucharistic dinner table below had begun smoking at its base. Whatever may have happened here, if anything, what we do know is the disputed incident was supposed to have taken place during a blasphemous, sacrilegious, and idolatrous Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Newchurch Mess, which is itself a mockery of the true Mass.
This incident, if true, could be interpreted as a Divine warning against the serious offenses against God taking place in the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. Our Lord Himself in Sacred Scripture warned us that fake "miracles" can be used by Satan to deceive: "For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect" (Matthew 24:24/DRV). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Daily Faith Ministry.]
Traditional Catholics, if you believe the Texas incident, here is another one for you: the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Wojtyla-JPII is shown in an apparition apparently burning in Hell. Photographs were widely circulated at the time from witnesses in a crowd of thousands at Beskid Zywiecki, close to Wojtyla's birthplace at Katowice, southern Poland, on April 2, 2007, the second anniversary of his death.
After the death of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the original Traditional Catholic Society of St. Pius X, the Society was taken over by the recreant Bernie Fellay, given a new constitution, and reorganized as a Neo-SSPX, with the goal of placing the Society under the apostate Newchurch of the New Order. When the sellout was almost signed, senior bishop Richard Williamson's actions blew up the deal.
Since that time Fellay has been selling out more and more to the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, putting its confessions and marriages under the aegis of Newchurch, yet no recognition from Newchurch was forthcoming. Fellay has even been employing unordained Novus Ordo presbyters at some of the Neo-SSPX sites. So now it seems that the latest Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's regime is calling a spade a spade.
On August 15, 2025, Newcardinal Anders Arborelius, of Stockholm, Sweden, denounced Fellay when he visited Sweden uninvited as acting "contrary to [New]church law" to foment "division and discord." The Newcardinal warned Newchurchers not to attend Neo-SSPX services. He said that Neo-SSPX sacraments, such as Baptisms and Confirmations, are not to be registered as legitimate. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by English News.]
Traditional Catholics, since 1994 Bernie Fellay has been trying to play both sides of the fence, balancing blowback from his members who are loyal to Archbishop Lefebvre's original Traditional Catholic SSPX and his ambitions to receive purple slippers from Newrome as dictator over the Newchurch pseudo-traditionalists. All of Fellay's machinations over the last thirty years have led to naught. Instead, he is now being embarrassed by being publicly outed by Prevost-Leo's new Newpapal regime.
Presbyter Thomas Rosica was a big muckamuck in Bergoglio-Francis inner circle. Inter alia, Bergoglio appointed him to his Newvatican Sex Summit. Now it turns out that Roscia was himself committing sexual assault, with some plagiarism and extortion thrown in for good measure. On August 7, 2025, a Canadian court refused to dismiss charges against Rosica, saying that Newvatican's prosecutions of such crimes are "inadequate" and that the crimes are well beyond narrowly doctrinal and ecclesiastical, but "of interest to all Canadians."
Rosica was well known in media circles. He ran Star+Light TV in collaboration with the Newvatican Press Office for two decades. It was there that he got into trouble with "serial plagiarism." Moreover, while Rosica was Chief Executive Officer for Newvatican's World Youth Day in Toronto, an event that has consistently been associated with sex crimes, he was accused of extorting sexual "favors" from a young clerics whom he was "mentoring." Yet Newchurch continued to appoint Rosica to supervise Newchurch events. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, presbyter Rosica tried mightily to get the Canadian court to transfer his case to Newvatican for adjudication, undoubtedly knowing that he would be given a mere slap on the wrist, whereas the Canadian court would extract far more severe penalties. But, to its credit, the Canadian court wouldn't buy his specious prevarications and is poised to drop the boom of justice upon him.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
On the August 15, 2025, feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I went to a Mass that I thought was the Traditional Latin Mass. I use the fully traditional 1945 St. Andrew Daily Missal, recommended in your FAQ5: What Traditional Catholic Resources Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department, in the section "Mass -- Handmissals."
I was surprised when I discovered that the priest was using not the Traditional Latin Mass formulary titled "Gaudeamus Omnes," but a "modernized" one titled "Signum Magnum." These two Mass formularies are completely different, even the Gospels. How is it possible, and which Mass is fully traditional one?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
The traditional Mass formulary for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is titled "Gaudeamus omnes" from the first words of its Introit. This is the traditional one that goes back to the early Church. The Feast of the Assumption was "modernized" in 1951 and in 1960-1962, with the introduction of novel texts in place of the traditional ones that had been used since the early Church. The inferiority of the "modernized" texts, i.e., the "Signum magnum" formulary introduced in 1951, was denounced by traditional liturgical scholars. The venerable Fr. John Hunwicke, for example, minced no words when he called it "a modern composition, a dollop of dogma followed by a platitude."
The "modernized" version has none of the grace and elegance of ancient traditional form "Gaudeamus omnes," but smacks of the simplistic Latin that Pius XII dared to incorporate in his 1945 "New" Psalter, which was widely denounced by traditional liturgical scholars for its defective Latin. The Cistercian Abbot Primate, for example, publicly criticized Pius XII for perpetrating this corruption in place of St. Jerome's elegant Vulgate Latin. The abbot openly stated: "But it is not even LATIN!"
Fully traditional priests reject the "modernized" formulary "Signum magnum" and adhere instead to the traditional formulary "Gaudeamus omnes." This and other corruptions introduced in 1950s were intended to "dumb down" the faithful for the introduction of corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962, followed in fact just seven years later by the full-blown fake (invalid) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969, still the "Ordinary" Mess of the Newchurch of the New Order. The Neocon Newchurchers, who use the corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962, are stuck with the untraditional and defective "Signum Magnum." Note that the so-called 1962 Mess is not pre-Vatican II nor traditional. It is, in fact, the corrupted form used at the Vatican II Anti-council itself.
Pseudo-Newpope for not even three months, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo on August 12, 2025, showed his true colors -- as if he hadn't already. And those colors are the colors of the rainbow flag. On October 24-26, 2025, Prevost will receive eight members of the pro-LGBTQ+ organization We Are Church, now officially recognized by Prevost. The "gay" group will officially participate as such on Prevost's "synodal teams and participatory bodies" and desecrate the Holy Door as they pass through.
We Are People advocates for Newchurch priestesses and bishopesses, "gay marriage," and an incorporation of open sodomites into Newchurch. Prevost has already approved the continuance of "blessings" to sodomite "couples." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by MSN News.]
Traditional Catholics, any Neocon Newchurcher hoping that Prevost would be better than Bergoglio had better think again. Prevost is just as much an apostate from the Catholic Church as his Pseudo-Newpope predecessors going back to Montini-Paul VI, who by his fake and blasphemous Newpapal decrees replaced the Catholic Church with the apostate Newchurch of the New Order starting in 1964. Prevost, In less than three months, is turning out to be worse than Bergoglio, though admittedly he has better haberdasherie!
After the death in 1992 of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the original Traditional Catholic Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Bernie Fellay, the last-choice fill-in during Lefebvre's 1988 consecrations at Econe, Switzerland, took over the Society and gave it new bylaws constituting a Neo-SSPX and making him "Dictator" Superior, reporting only to two underling "advisors." From that point Fellay made it his goal in life to sell out the Society to the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, in 2024 having become the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age..
Over the next decade Fellay pushed his agenda to the point that it was widely rumored in 2012 that the Neo-SSPX would be welcomed into Newchurch, and Fellay would wear the purple slippers as Dictator of All Newchurch (Pseudo) Traditionalists. That was too much for the Society's senior Bishop, Richard Williamson, who then abandoned the Neo-SSPX, as a result of which the assimilation of the Neo-SSPX into Newchurch at that time collapsed.
In the interim, Felly has been cozying up to the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Newchurch, allowing the Pseudo-Newpopes to dictate to his Neo-SSPX and even involving his Neo-SSPX in Newchurch's invalid (fake) Protestantized "sacraments." On August 13, 2025, it got to the point that Newvatican's official Jubilee 2025 web site has now acknowledged Fellay's Neo-SSPX participation in an August 21 Oecumenical Pilgrimage with the apostate Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Iubilaeum 2025.]
Traditional Catholics, it is truly traitorous that Bernie Fellay has been selling out his Neo-SSPX to the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which Archbishop Lefebvre publicly denounced as "not the Catholic Church." Newchurch's doctrinal, moral, and liturgical heresies, particularly under the late Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis and the current Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, have grown only much worse than they were at the death of the Archbishop in 1992.
On August 10, 2025, Newpope Prevost-Leo has banned in its entirety, after their appeal to Newvatican, the pseudo-traditionalist Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, also known as the Transalpine Redemptorists. The Sons had operated New Latin Mess of 1962 sites in Scotland, New Zealand, and the United States. In 2024 a Newvatican Inquisitor had been dispatched to the community, the usual first step in suppressing New Latin Mess groups. The Sons were originally part of Bernie Fellay's pseudo-traditionalist Neo-SSPX. That was bad enough, but then they made the fatal mistake of putting themselves directly under the Newchurch of the New Order, by whom they have now been banned.
The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer are headquartered on the island of Papa Stronsay in the North Sea off the Scottish coast, where they have a monastery. The saga of Traditional Catholic resistance against the corruptions in the Mass and Sacraments after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) on Papa Stronsay was cinematically depicted in the 1973 film "The Catholics," starring Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard, Raf Vallone and Cyril Cusak, based on Brian Moore's novel, "The Catholics,"
Sheen plays a Newvatican emissary who travels to a remote island off the coast of Ireland, where stands a monastery whose monks refuse to celebrate the "New Mess," but use a Mass Rock to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass for the people. Sheen is eventually converted, while the monastery's abbot, played by Trevor Howard, knuckles under to the Newvatican and is stricken with agony over his loss of Faith. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register..]
Traditional Catholics, the banning of this pseudo-traditionalistic group should prove beyond doubt that Bergoglio-Francis's 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes," essentially banning the New Latin Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, is still alive and well under his disciple and successor Prevost-Leo. Newchurch's plan is, as always, to exterminate all pseudo-traditionalist groups within Newchurch and to establish exclusively the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Synodal Church of the New Age.
It is no surprise that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is attracting few presbyters now and that most Newseminaries are closing down. What young man wants to serve a fabricated Protestant-Masonic-Pagan sect that doesn't even ordain priests any longer? (In 1968 Newchurch stopped ordaining priests when, after the Vatican II Anti-council, it adopted an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal that merely "installs" presbyters, like Protestant-style -ministers.
So, Newchurch, whose barque is sinking fast, has had to start bailing. It has now begun to haul its unconsecrated Newbishops down into the Newparish trenches. On August 9, 2025, Douglas Lucia, Newbishop of Syracuse, New York, became the first guinea pig. No more chancery tower for him. He now has to work for his bread by servicing not one or two, but three Newchurches, which have lost their presbyter-pastor. Lucia indicated that services would be scaled down to operate "within the means we possess." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, not only is Newchurch starving for presbyters, but it is starving for teachers at its few remaining Newseminaries. Thus, the Newparish presbyter-pastor was moved to the Newseminary. The Newdiocese indicated that the Newbishop had to be tapped because presbyters were scarce, facing age, health, emotional and spiritual problems. The number of Newchurch bishops is growing like locusts, however. There are now a scandalous 5,340 of them, yet since the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) the Newchurch population in Syracuse itself has sunk by half, from 394,099 to 203,340.
The history of embezzlements and financial scandals that have beset the Pseudo-Newpopes since the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-165) continue to dog the latest one, Prevost-Leo. The latest charge is that Newvatican engaged in a money-laundering dodge. The accuser is someone who should know the truth. Libero Milone, an auditor with a worldwide reputation, had been appointed by Bergoglio-Francis in 2015 to expose the corruption of the Vatican Bank.
Milone did just that, implicating Newvatican's police chief and the Sostituto, or Deputy Secretary of State. For Milone's honesty, Bergoglio, who was himself at the time fingered as masterminding the 2014 London Real Estate Scam, which lost almost half a billion USD of Newchurchers' donations to Newvatican, fired the auditor.
Milone charged that Bergoglio used a "skeleton key" to conceal money-laundering. Use of this software key, one of Newvatican's many corrupt practices, allowed Newvatican to manipulate and edit bank transfers illegally. If confirmed, this illegal practice could freeze Newvatican out of the international banking system. Already in 2013 Newvatican had been hit with a temporary freeze imposed by the European Union for money-laundering. ATMs in Vatican City had been shut down. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Politico.]
Traditional Catholics, Newvatican's auditor Milone had reported the corrupt financial practices to Bergoglio-Francis, to the Secretary of State, to Newvatican's chief justice official, and to Newvatican's internal watchdog, but no investigation resulted. Financial corruption was reported as far back at the administrations of the Newpope of the Vatican II Anti-council, "Unsaint" Montini-Paul VI and "Unsaint" Wojtyla-JPII, when Newvatican was being investigated for laundering Mafia profits in conjunction with the Italian Freemasons and other such organizations. Newvatican at the time admitted its "moral involvement" in the corruption.
The Newdiocese of Buffalo, New York, still in bankruptcy since February 29, 2020, has thus far had to pay 150,000,000 USD to the 900 child victims of sex crimes "perpetrated against them by clergy, religious, lay employees, and volunteers" and has had to sell off its downtown headquarters. This judgment was the second largest in any bankruptcy case to date. 39 of 176 Newdioceses in the United States have gone bankrupt because of their paedophile sex crimes.
On August 7, 2025, the Buffalo Newdiocese eliminated over one-fifth of its employees and is cutting their work to just four days a week and reducing vacation time severely. In addition, it has sold off its so-called Catholic Center. The Newdiocese's ratio of Newseminarians to Newchurchers and its ratio of possibly-invalid infant "initiations" (formerly, Baptism) to Newchurchers have tanked to the bottom 10 per cent of the United States. Buffalo's Newbishop Michael Fisher was too embarrassed to speak to the press and public to explain what was going on. Instead, the information had to be leaked from a confidential letter Fisher sent to employees. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, in 1959, just before the Vatican II Anti-council destroyed the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church and replaced it with the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, Buffalo had 265 Catholic parishes. Now the Newchurch of the New Order in Buffalo has only 118 Newparishes -- a decline of over half. The story is the same for virtually all Newdioceses in the United States and many other countries around the world. Newchurch is dying fast, thank God, so that the true Church can be re-established.
On August 5, 2025, Lionsgate Studios, one of the world's largest film-distribution companies, has announced the release of Traditional Catholic producer-director Mel Gibson's long-awaited sequel to his 2004 "The Passion of the Christ," the highest-grossing serious independent film for years afterward . Gibson has stated that he expects "The Resurrection of the Christ," to surpass the former film and leave viewers "awed" and "breathless." From "The Passion of the Christ," Gibson ended up grossing 610,049,000 USD and used part of the proceeds to build his independent Traditional Catholic Holy Family Church in Agoura Hills, Southern California.
"The Resurrection of the Christ" will cover the fall of the Angels before Genesis to the death of the last Apostle, St. John. It will be released in two parts. The first part, focusing on the Harrowing of Hell, will be released on Good Friday, March 26, 2027. The second part, focusing on Christ's appearance to his Apostles after His Resurrection, will be released on May 6, 2027, Ascension Thursday. Jim Caviezel will again play the role of Jesus, as he did in the original film. Gibson is expected to use literary license to enliven the film, as he did in the original. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the The National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Gibson used part of the 610,000,000 USD proceeds of the original film to build his independent Traditional Catholic Holy Family Church in Southern California, which is vehemently independent of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and which Gibson detests as a fraud, as did his noted father, Hutton Gibson. They both have outed the Newpopes of the Newchurch of the New Order as apostate pseudo-popes. Gibson recently taught the world this truth on the "Joe Rogan Experience," the world's most popular podcast at 15,000,000 listeners.
Newarchbiishop Mario Iceta, of Burgos, Spain, has evicted a community of Traditional Poor Clare (Franciscan) nuns in Spain from their monastery in Belorado. Newvatican has increasingly persecuted traditional-leaning religious orders, which remain too popular and too traditional for the apostate Newchurch. Recently, Traditional Carmelite nuns were thrown out of their monastery in Georgia, United States.
On August 1, 2025, the Spanish government, which is becoming increasingly anti-religious, sided with the eviction by the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. The court decision also specifies that the Poor Clares cannot even purchase the monastery, as they are too great a threat to the Marxist/Modernist programme of the post-Vatican II Newchurch.
In a "Catholic Manifesto," the nuns detailed their position that Newchurch had illegally and invalidly usurped the See of St. Peter, using "contradictions, double and confusing language, ambiguity, and loopholes" to deny the Catholic Faith. The community declared that it "is leaving the Conciliar Church [Synodal Newchurch of the New Order], to which it had belonged, to become part of the Catholic Church." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, these courageous Traditional Catholic Poor Clares are determined not to be thwarted in their adherence to the Traditional Catholic faith. The nuns have severed all ties with the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, and have placed themselves under a Traditional Catholic bishop, who has remained independent of the apostate Newchurch. These traditional nuns are not the first to have left since the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Newchurch replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council. Nor will they will not be the last. These courageous nuns are a shining example for other Newchurchers to leave the apostate Newchurch entirely and to revert to the true Catholic Faith.
For almost 500 years the relics of St. Thomas More of England have been imprisoned by the heretic Anglicans since the Saint was beheaded by the excommunicate English King Henry VIII on July 6, 1535. The Saint's reputation remains so great in England that even the Anglicans on July 17, 2025, admitted that they were considering exposing the Martyr's head for the quincentenary of his martyrdom.
The head was placed by Henry, whom More had faithfully served as Chancellor of England, on a spike atop London Bridge, but was later rescued by his daughter and buried in the family vault in St. Dunstan’s Church, Canterbury. The rest of the Saint's body lies in an unknown location in the crypt of the Anglican St. Peter ad Vincula chapel in the Tower of London, where he was imprisoned before his beheading. The head was last seen in the vault in 1997. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, the saga of the five-time-divorced and murderous Henry VIII and later his bastard daughter Elizabeth I is truly one of the nadirs of human history. Against the villainy and tyranny of these corrupt monarchs stands the uncompromising morality of Thomas More, who won the hearts of the English people, even to this day. Together with the Rotterdam priest Erasmus, More was one of the two greatest lights of the late 15th-early 16th century Renaissance. More's legacy lives on, even as in our day the leaders of the Anglican sect have fallen into ignominy from their moral depravity and paedophilia.
To add to the recent Daily Commentary on the decline of the number of Christian-majority countries, I note that, some years ago, the Province of British Columbia became the first Province in the Dominion of Canada to lose not only its Christian majority but even a religious majority. In other words, Christians and members of all other "organized" religions (e.g. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jews), in sum no longer constitute a majority of the population. The majority of British Columbians are not atheists or agnostics but call themselves "naturalists." That is, they believe in a god who is Mother Nature, just as was pushed by the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis in his 2015 Encyclical Letter "Laudato Si'."
They like to believe that, somehow, they will go to a blissful afterlife to be with their mother, nature, where they will be happy forevermore. Of course, they will first have to be ground up into compost, the new "natural" way of disposing of the Temple of God. Even having their body cremated to a crisp isn't natural enough for these people.
Meanwhile, in the last census done in Canada (2021), it was discovered that all Christians combined are just over fifty percent of the population. By now (2025), given the current rate of decline of religion, Ontario has also lost its Christian majority. Naturalism is popular there also and in Alberta. Newfoundland is the most Christian Province in Canada. Over 95 percent of its people still count themselves as Christian, and the number is also high in the three low-population Maritime Provinces, somewhat lower in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. A majority of Quebeckers still consider themselves to be Catholic, but they don't believe much of what the true Catholic Church teaches. They are rainbow pagans in practice.
In Europe, countries such as the Czech Republic and the Netherlands have long ago converted to "Naturalism." Most of the people there are now practical pagans, and other countries are rapidly following suit. There are holdouts in countries such as Poland, Hungary, and especially Malta, but Malta, the most Catholic country in Europe, is nevertheless moving in the same direction. In 2011, for example, divorce was legalized in Malta, and "gay marriage" was legalized in 2018.
The percentage of citizens who regard themselves as atheist or agnostic has indeed grown, but not by much. People don't much fancy the consequences of atheism. They want to believe that they can party on in the world to come, like the Evangelicals and Leftist Protestants.
In any case, it's over for Newchurch and for the heretical denominations of the so-called Reformation, and the decline has begun also for the Easterner Orthodox. The Catholic Church, now in the catacombs, to use Pius XII's term, of thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories around the world, courageously independent of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, will arise from the ashes in God's good time.
In an act that smacks of the paedophilia for which the Newchurch of the New Order has become so famous, it has come to light that Newchurch has hacked up the cadaver of the 15-year-old. Part of his hair and fingernails were ripped out to send to a Newparish in Argentina, where the late Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis had reigned as Newarchbishop of Buenos Aires. Only God knows what other body parts are floating around the world.
But it didn't work out anyway, as someone stole the body parts. Acutis is set for con-anization as a Newsaint of Newchurch on September 7, 2025. It is all an exercise in futility, as the Newchurch of the New Order, being most certainly NOT the true Catholic Church, has no power to canonize anyone.
The theft had occurred on July 25, 2025, perpetrated by a couple who broke the glass case containing the bpdy parts. It is no surprise that Newchurch is incompetent to guard religious items supposedly in its care. Even in the Newvatican itself, there have in recent years been thefts of priceless religious art, sometimes perpetrated by Newchurch clergy themselves. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch likes to degrade its Newsaint by preferring to represent him "in jeans and sneakers." Newchurch even put him in a glass coffin in what looks like a prisoner's jumpsuit. All this is Madison Avenue-style desecration. Newchurch is really desperate these days, as it is losing membership hand over fist, particularly young members, and the monetary collections that go with that membership.
On July 30, 2025, the respected Pew Research Center reported that France, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay are now no longer majority Christian countries. The decline is ascribed to "religious disaffiliation," a movement away from religion to "nones." Younger people in particularly are religiously adrift, looking in vain for some vague notion of "spirituality." Atheism is growing, and infidel and pagan sects like Islam are seeing a revival in countries like Indonesia, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
Other contributing factors are the decline in Christian birthrates, the failure of Christian parents to instill religious values in their children, and the Red China Virus retreat into cell phones in lieu of person-to-person contact. In addition, Newchurch's continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust have driven Newchurchers out of churches in France, Ireland, and the United States. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newsweek.]
Traditional Catholics, the Pew Research Study predicts that in the next decade, Canada, Estonia, Belgium, Germany, Chile, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and even Spain are expected to lose their Christian majorities. And more of those Christians will be CINOs, Christians in name only, people who call themselves Christian, but never attend church, never read the Scriptures, and don't know Christian doctrine.
In just the two months since his election on May 8, 2025, as the Pseudo-Newpope of the Newchurch of the New Order, Prevost-Leo has confirmed that he is no true pope. In fact, he is acting as if he considers himself to be a rock star than anyone religious.
On July 29, 2025, he had summoned a horde of youthful "influencers" on antisocial media to a shivaree in Newvatican and played the rock star to the clueless youth, who gyrated in pagan dance moves like heretic Pentecostalist snake-dancers as he was driven around St. Peter's piazza in his "popemobile -- no sedia gestatoria for this Modernist! The press declared it a "rock star's welcome" and a veritable "woodstock," referring to the 1989 drug- and sex-besotted youth rally in New York. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost addressed the youth and didn't even mention Jesus Christ or Catholicism, but spouted only the mantra of secular "world peace." He emphasized "humanism," not Catholicism. If he had put on a business suit, he could have been mistaken for the secular head of the United Nations.
Canada, which has been the site of some of the worst sex crimes against children by Newchurch presbyters and Newbishops, is plunging in attendance at the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "Ordinary" New Mess of 1969 and in the collections that it used to bring in. Thus, Newchurch has become desperate to replace the lost funds, so it has taken to selling off many of its Newchurches to become bars and restaurants, gymnasia ("nudity places"), and theaters. The same sacrilege has been occurring in the United States and elsewhere.
The latest example of this sacrilege was the sale of Notre-Dame-du-Perpetuel-Secours (Our Lady of Perpetual Help) Newchurch in Montreal. Before Newchurch took over the "institutional" Catholic Church in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council, attendance at the church was in the thousands for the Traditional Latin Mass. Just before the sellout that number had sunk to just a few. The traditional church, built in 1906 in the Neo-Romanesque style, boasts stained-glass windows depicting Biblical scenes in vivid detail. Newchurch has sold off the church to become "repurposed" into sacrilegious purposes. The nave was transformed into a venue for degenerate rock concerts, and the confessionals and pews were turned into bars.
Newchurchers and other pagans now gyrate to pink and purple neon laser lights, while a pagan African band blasts its vulgar "music" in the space where the heretic eucharistic dinner table used to be. The former Newchurch has become the site of "fetish parties," which organizers touted as "Montreal’s most kinky, freaky, and sexy Halloween events." No surprise there, Newchurch itself is run by degenerate presbyters, Newbishops, and Newpopes, who have not a gram of Catholicism in them. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press, July 27, 2025.]
Traditional Catholics, to sacrilege, Newchurch has added blasphemy. It calls the "repurposed" Newchurch part of a "sacred mission." Even the new owners of the former church admitted: "There is less faith." That's putting it mildly. The Newchurch of the New Order is and has never been Catholic, but a paganized apostate sect, worse even than the Lutherans or Presbyterians, who have at least some shred of Christianity left.
Since 476 France has been called la fille aînée de l’Église (the eldest daughter of the Church) because the Frankish King Clovis I first embraced Catholicism in that year. No longer. Now the French, paganized by the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, founded in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church, are burning down their historical traditional Catholic churches. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the latest example of such an arson attack on a traditional Catholic Church, this a very famous one designed by the famous Gustav Eiffel, was perpetrated on July 24, 2025, against Notre-Dame-des Champs-Church (Our Lady of the Fields) in Paris, built 149 years ago. It is now shuttered "for an indefinite period" after being torched by a fire in a side chapel dedicated to St. Joseph. There have been 50 cases of arson against French churches in 2024, a one-third increase over the previous year.
Now Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is sending out Joel Osteen clones to trying to lure young people into the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. Osteen poses as the leading (heretic) Evangelical preacher, who is disavowed by most Evangelical ministers, as he teaches a modern corruption of the anti-Christian Calvinist "Prosperity Gospel." In fact, he talks a great deal about prosperity, but not much about the Gospel. He prances around on a concert stage always Bible-less.
But the late Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis deeply loved him. In fact, he invited Osteen to his table in the Newpapal dining room while snubbing the Neo-SSPX's Superior Bernie Fellay at a lower table. Prevost, being a disciple of Bergoglio, also loves Osteen or his type. So on July 28, 2025, Prevost engaged 1,000 antisocial-media "influencers" to lure the clueless into the newly-reminted Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. These influencers are dubbed "hot," i.e., good-looking. Newchurch under Prevost has become a slick Madison-avenue deceit. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by MSN News.]
Among these Novus Ordo "deceivers" are:
Traditional Catholics, although Bergoglio-Francis presented himself as a bit of a slouch, Prevost-Leo presents himself with a well-manicured haberdasherie, perhaps provided by the elite Chicago clothiers he once knew. Horribile dictu, Newvatican has issued a calendar titled "The Gorgeous Men of God," featuring such a disgusting depictions of men whom the clueless Newchurchers think to be "priests." The press blurb didn't indicate, but it would not shock us if the calendar included presbyters in various states of disrobing. But that is par for the anti-Catholic Newchurch.
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