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On September 23, 2025, one of the few remaining bishops in Newchurch who was consecrated, in 1966, in the Sacrament of Holy Orders passed to his eternal judgment. Gilberto Pereira Lopes, of Sao Paulo, Brazil died at the age of 98. Newchurch in 1968 stopped ordaining priests and consecrating bishops when it adopted an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal. Now Newchurch merely installs invalid (fake) presbyter-ministers and Newbishops, like the heretic Protestants.
There are now only seven validly-consecrated bishops remaining in Newchurch who were consecrated bishop before June 18, 1968. Two of these seven are centenarians, and one is the oldest bishop in the Church, the only one left to have been consecrated bishop during the pontificate of John XXIII. Francis Cardinal Arinze, at 92, is by far the youngest of the seven left.
There are a number of other Traditional Catholic bishops, who are independent of the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. It is in these and the other Traditional Catholic clergy and the laity who attend their Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories, by whom Our Lord, in these troubled times, is maintaining His true Catholic Church.
On September 29, 2025, the TRADITIO Traditional Roman Catholic Network celebrates its 31st anniversary. TRADITIO was the first Traditional Roman Catholic site to appear on the internet and was founded on the Feastday of the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, September 29, 1994. We were here even before Newvatican was, even before Amazon.com was!
We thank the Lord for our more than 34,000,000 readers over these past 31 years and for our hundreds of dedicated correspondents from all over the world, who keep us current on everything going on in the bowels of Newvatican, in the inner sancta of various traditional organizations, and at Traditional Latin Mass sites around the world. TRADITIO was determined by an Alexis-Amazon statistical survey to be the most read fully Traditional Roman Catholic web site on the World Wide Web.
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Everyone by now knows the dirty secret: Newchurch's "New" Canon Law of 1983, imposed by the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Wojtyla-JPII in place of the traditional Code of Canon Law of Pope St. Pius X, is not only heretical, but toothless. The Order went out to all Newparish presbyters, Newparochial vicar, Directors of Newschool, and Newcatechists.
Newarchbishop Jorge Lozano, the recent Secretary General of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council and a good friend of the late Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis, on August 27, 2025, ordered that all children and adults preparing to receive their First Novus Ordo Cookie, as well as altar servers and serveuses, must stand, not kneel, and grab the invalid (fake) cookie into their filthy hands, not take it in their mouth, as commanded since the popes of the second century under pain of Mortal Sin. Thus, the option provided by the spurious New Canon Law to munch the cookie in the mouth is vitiated. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is not just apostate and fake; it is laughable. It claims to have rules and does not follow them. It claims to teach catechism and instills only apostasy. It claims to have a Mass and Sacraments, but has invalidated them into powerless, graceless counterfeits. The Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, a toothless apostate from the Catholic Faith will do nothing. That is why Newchurchers should get out of the fake Synodal Newchurch before they lose their souls forever in apostasy, immorality, and heresy. They can plead ignorance no longer.
As the French say, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. If the Bergoglio-Francis regime was bad, it is turning out that the Prevost-Leo regime is even worse, albeit better concealed with fancy haberdashery. The latest victim of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is Italian presbyter-pastor Leonardo Pompei, a former Secretary of the Italian Bishops' Conference, who was suspended on September 3, 2025, for stating that the decrees of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) are "contrary to the Catholic Faith and incompatible with Catholic Tradition."
Pompei has been barred from wearing clerical dress, identifying himself as a presbyter, and using social media or YouTube, to express his rejection of the "New Mess." He referred to the similar case of presbyter Enzo Boninsegna, who was forced out of Newchurch when he objected to the Italian Newbishops' approval of sacrilegiously doling out the Novus Ordo cookie in the hand. Presbyter Pompei is well known in Italy, where he has posted hundreds of YouTube videos urging true Catholics to reject Newchurch's apostasy from the Catholic Faith. Now the courageous Fr. Pompei has gone independent of the apostate Newchurch to resume his podcast around the end of September.
Right in Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's backyard, increasing numbers of Italian presbyters are rejecting the fakery of the Synodal Newchurch. Earlier in 2025, presbyter Natale Santonocito publicly rejected the legitimacy of the apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis and was excommunicated from Newchurch. Presbyter Francesco D'Erasmo has also publicly rejected Newchurch's apostate doctrine. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic Herald.]
Traditional Catholics, the clueless Neocon Newchurchers, who try to play both sides of the fence with the apostate Newchurch, as long as they can have a veneer of conservatism, have yet to understand that Newchurch and its Newpopes want no part of them. If they speak the truth and reject the Anti-council, they will be expelled from Newchurch society, as was presbyter Pompei. Increasing numbers of Newchurch presbyters around the world since the Vatican II Anti-council are waking up to the fact that their "presbyterate" (Newchurch in 1968, one year before the "New Mess," stopped ordaining priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders and adopted an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal) is invalid, as are the "New Mess" and New Sacraments of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order.
It is ironic that New Orleans, Louisiana, has a major-league football team named the Saints, as what is going on in New Orleans, as far as the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is concerned, is anything but saintly. The Newarchdiocese and its Newarchbishop Gregory Aymond have been embroiled for five years already in a sex-crimes scandal that is one of the worst.
Newbishops always try to cheat child victims of sexual assaults by their presbyters out of a just recompense -- a very mortal sin against justice -- and Aymond was playing that game too. But the victims stood strong, so Aymond decided to do the "charitable" thing and sell off his Christopher Homes, a property that serves the poor and senior citizens with affordable housing, in order to up the recompense fund to 230,000,000 USD for the 660 child victims. So, after having victimized the assaulted children, it is now the seniors and the poor who are being victimized. Only the corrupt Newchurch could think of such a thing. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newdiocese of New Orleans has been in bankruptcy since 2020. The 350,000,000 USD per child victim now being proposed by Newarchbishop Gregory Aymond is a mere one-eighth what a victim in a similar case received after a jury trial, 2,400,000 USD, so the child victims once again are being victimized.
When U.S. conservative organizer and speaker Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, at age 31, while engaging in public debate at Utah Valley University, a large segment of the United States was shaken to its foundation. His memorial service, held Sunday, September 21, the Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, drew crowds of over 100,000 to the NFL stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where Kirk's Turning Point USA organization was headquartered.
A significant part of Kirk's conservatism was based in Protestant Pentecostalism, but in recent months he indicated that he was considering converting to Catholicism -- but not to the Newchurch of the New Order. On his July 22, 2025, podcast with Michael Knowles, a Neocon Newchurcher, Kirk said that three things were stopping him from converting. Two of these were the doctrine of transubstantiation (in which most Newchurches don't believe anyway) and certain elements of Mariology. These problems he indicated that he could work through, but the third one was a deal-breaker. In his own words: "I can't get over the idea of this Marxist [Prevost-Leo] who calls himself the head of your [New]church being a representation of Christ the Lord." Kirk's widely-acknowledged common sense drew him to the obvious conclusion. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by TPUSA.]
Traditional Catholics, just think: if Charlie Kirk had lived long enough to convert to Traditional Catholicism, operating independently of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church and is Marxist, contrary to the teachings of the Church, he could have brought more souls into the true Catholic Church beyond what even Archbishop Lefebvre could have envisioned. How many other possible converts to the true, traditional Catholic Church have been dissuaded by the fact that the Newchurch they erroneously think is the Catholic Church is headed by Marxist Newpopes? Kirk's persuasive force that spoke particularly to youth could have been the death-knell of Newchurch and signaled the restoration of the true, Traditional Catholic Church. Kirk's assassin killed more than a powerful conservative political voice in the United States and even around the world.
The Newchurch diocese of Oakland, California, has been so stingy in paying off the child victims sexually assaulted by its paedophile presbyters that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court may force Newbishop Michael Barber to face litigating individually each of the 350 cases brought by children against him. On September 11, 2025, Newbishop Michael Barber's best offer amounted to 165,000,000 USD, or 470,000 USD per child, regarded as a joke, as it is hardly enough for the destroyed lives, medical bills, burial expenses (as many children committed suicide), and psychological and physical problems preventing the children from ever working. Yet Barber's thought was not for the children, but himself. He threw up his hands and claimed that he had been "bled dry." He has been denounced for stalling in giving the child victims their justice.
Meanwhile, the Oakland Newdiocese owns a controversial "Christ the Light" Newcathedral, which cost some 200,000,000 USD, a good percentage of that purloined from the school budget, after the former Newbishop swore that he would not even build a new cathedral. Its construction was met with strong criticism from the community for its ghastly architecture incorporating pagan Hindu themes. Barber could sell off the downtown monstrosity and net for the child victims more from this one property than he is offering through the bankruptcy court. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the San Jose Mercury News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Michael Barber is accused a hiding funds, a typical ploy by Newchurch when it is faced with paying off child victims of its paedophile crimes. Barber refuses transparency concerning Newdiocesan funds, while reports of sex crimes against children by his presbyters continue to mount. Oakland may well be forced to sell off most of its assets, including Our Lady of Loudes at Lake Merritt, which used to be the Newdiocese's cathedral, until the Newbishops hurled themselves into bankruptcy to build the ghastly and unnecessary Newcathedral.
It seems that the Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's new interview book, released on September 18, 2025, by Elise Ann Allen as Leon XIV: Ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, contains a shocking heresy (one among many). He sounds like a politican, not the Newpope he isn't, when he said to the interviewer:
I do understand that this is a very hot-button topic and that some people will make demands to say, "We want the recognition of gay marriage," for example, or "We want recognition of people who are trans," to say this is officially recognized and approved by the [New]church. The individuals will be accepted and received.... I think that the [New]church's teaching will continue as it is, and that's what I have to say about that -- for right now.
Prevost thus teases a coming change in Newchurch for a change in the moral doctrine to accept sodomy/LGBTQXXX, which involves one of the Four Biblical Sins that Cry out to Heaven for Retribution. Even if Prevost were a true pope, no pope has the power to overrule Scripture. Not even an oecumenical council can overrule Scripture, as the invalid Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) purported to do. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Penguin Peru.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost-Leo supports a serious heresy known as "development of doctrine," which took over the Vatican II Anti-council. The Catholic doctrine is that the two fonts of revelation are Sacred Scripture (the "Bible") and Sacred Tradition and that not even a true pope has the power to touch these, as they come from Christ. As the Dogmatic Vatican I Council (1870) decreed (Dei Verbum, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation): "This Magisterium is not superior to the Word of God, but is its servant. It teaches only what has been handed on to it." It is through this heresy that Pseudo-Newpopes Prevost-Leo, Bergoglio-Francis, Ratzinger-Benedict, Wojtyla-JPII, and Montini-Paul VI have fabricated their Synodal Newchurch of the New Age that opposes Christ and is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, not even a Christian church.
Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has decided now about the New Latin Mess of 1962, which is a Half New Order aberration of the Traditional Latin Mass, not the true Traditional Latin Mass coming ultimately from Sts. Peter & Paul and canonized by the dogmatic Council of Trent. In an interview around the September 18, 2025, release of Elise Ann Allen's Leon XIV: Ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, Prevost says that the people that want a "Latin Mess" can already use the Latin form of the full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Vatican II New Mess of 1969, which is the ordinary Mess of Newchurch since that time.
So, Prevost has taken a pass on the New Latin Mess. He says that even the Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962 is "polarizing" and "complicated," a "political tool" used by Neocon Newchurchers who won't accept the Vatican II Anti-council. He indicates that he has more important things to worry about and is postponing indefinitely any consideration of lifting Bergoglio-Francis's 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes," which essentially suppresses the New Latin Mess in Newparishes and limits public celebration by the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS), and the like. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Penguin Peru.]
Traditional Catholics, oh, yes, Prevost-Leo may do the odd jaw-flapping for the sake of "synodality" appearance, but that will be just to pull the wool over the eyes of the clueless Neocon Newchurchers. The real situation remains the same. To get the true, valid Traditional Latin Mass (1950), you have to follow Our Lord's prescription (Matthew 10:14) to go forth out of the Newchurch sect, shake off the dust from your feet, and go to a church, chapel, or oratory that has remained ruggedly independent of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
On September 11, 2025, a Novus Ordo Eastern-rite liturgy was simulated in St. Stephen's Newcathedral in Vienna, Austria, to conclude a congress of Eastern Newchurchers in Europe. The congress's motto, Unitas in Diversitate, is the moniker of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), which ended up destroying the Traditional Latin Mass of Sts. Peter & Paul, canonized in perpetuity by the dogmatic Council of Trent.
Newcardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna effused over the "magnificence" of the Novus Ordo Eastern liturgy, but couldn't say anything about that most magnificent precedential rite of the Catholic Church, the Traditional Latin Mass, because as an apostate of the Newchurch sect, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, Schonborn rejects the true Catholic Church's Traditional Latin Mass. He was also the principal author of the heretical "New Catechism" published in 1997 to replace the Catholic Catechism, authored principally by St. Charles Borromeo and issued with the authority of the dogmatic Council of Trent.
Moreover, the Eastern rite so praised in Vienna by Schonborn was not even the true Byzantine Greek rite of St. John Chrysostom. It is a Novus-Ordoized version, simulated in vulgar Ukranian, just as invalid (fake) as the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo liturgy, which is most certainly not a valid Catholic Mass. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic Culture.]
Traditional Catholics, since the Vatican II Anti-council, the traditional Eastern Rites have abandoned their Catholic and Apostolic valid form in Biblical Greek and the Syriac languages, substituting a vulgarized, Novus-Ordoized worship service. This situation is found particularly in the United States. For example, after the Anti-council Newchurch forced the Maronite Eastern Rite to conform to anti-Catholic aberrations. Thus, the Novus Ordo Eastern rites must be shunned as invalid fakes, just as much as the Novus Ordo "New Mess."
Even Newchurchers, especially Newclergy, don't believe in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. We know this by their actions defiling their own cookies and Kool-aid, which are without doubt fake and diabolical. The latest statistics show that more than even four out of five Newchurchers do not believe that these are the body and blood of Christ.
One recent proof among many that the whole Newchurch is an utter fraud occurred when presbyter-pastor Travis Clark used his Newparish's eucharistic dinner table at Sts. Peter & Paul Newchurch in New Orleans, Louisiana, to film himself having sex with his two invited dominatrices, whose "professional" names are Satanatrix and Empress Ming. But it gets worse. This Newchurch presbyter, who is certainly not unique given the spate of similar court cases since the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), urinated, among other things, into a Novus Ordo "communion chalice."
On September 6, 2025, a Louisiana judge found the presbyter guilty of obscenity and ordered the obscene videos destroyed. The presbyter eventually served jail time. Someone walking past the Newchurch at night saw the light on, discovered what was going on inside, and turned the "priest" pervert and his two dominatrices in to the police. The Newarchbishop involved, Gregory Aymond, had bankrupted his Newarchdiocese just months earlier.
Newchurch is rotten right through with perverts in its Newclergy, including presbyters, Newbishops and Newcardinals. Astonishingly, this Newchurch presbyter-pastor tried to justify his perversions by saying that he was "lonely" during the Red China Virus lockdowns! Meanwhile, his dominatrices, whom he had solicited, claimed that they were filming in a "private location" (the Newchurch) and that their privacy had been invaded by the passerby looking in an open window! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Guardian.]
Traditional Catholics, now we clearly see how the Providence of God has seen to it that His Mass and Sacraments have been protected. The cookies and Kool-Aid that pass for "communion" in Newchurch are no more sacramental than the donuts and coffee passed around after the New Order Mess, which replaced the true Mass in Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, in 1969. The presbyter is no more a priest than the Protestant minister down the street. Newchurch has not ordained priests since adopting a Protestantized New Ordinal in 1968, but merely "installs" invalid (fake) presbyter-ministers like the Protestants.
September 26, 2025, marks the one-year anniversary of the late Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's junket to Belgium. Now it turns out that Bergoglio, far from being the poor pseudo-"pope" he made himself out to be for propaganda purposes, actually was a profligate spender who has driven the Belgium Newchurch to the verge of bankruptcy, just as Bergoglio and his Newchurch predecessors have done to their own Newchurch.
Just as Bergoglio passed down his profligacy to the Belgium Newbishops, so the Newbishops are trying to pass down Bergoglio's profligacy to the their lay Newchurchers. The Newbishops have announced the hackneyed gimmick of a "special collection" on their laypeople for September 21, 2025. If they are smart, the Newchurchers won't contribute a penny to Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, but will walk out for good and find an independent Traditional Catholic Church having nothing to do with the apostate and corrupt Newvatican and its Newpopes.
On his junket Bergoglio hobnobbed with the king and queen of Belgium. The expense of the "show" broke the bank, which is still overdrawn to the tune of almost 1,000,000 USD, after the Belgian Newchurchers had already coughed up 2,350,000 USD. Newvatican requires that all travel expenses not only of Newpapal hangers-on but also of all the journalists that accompany the entourage be paid for by the national Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Bergoglio-Francis's Newpapal junkets are expensive because of the exorbitant cost of security for the apostate Newpope, which comprises a posse of no less than 65 security guards It seems that there are numerous assassins out to get him! He should have given up this extravagant and nonsensical travel -- the first Pseudo-Newpope Montini-Paul VI was the first in recent years to leave Rome -- and clean up the stink of the Augean Stables, which Newvatican has become under the pseudo-Newpopes.
As the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo continues to push hard his pro-sodomite agenda, in addition to appointing several sodomite Newbishops, he prominently and publicly met for half an hour on September 1, 2025, with the notorious pro-sodomite presbyter James Martin, of Chicago, Illinois, complete with a full panoply of photographs. Prevost confirmed his strong support for continuing his predecessor Bergoglio-Francis's pro-sodomite programme, which is designed to accept homosexuality and to homosexualize the Newchurch clergy. Presbyter Martin left the audience deliriously happy with Prevost's, who also gave his approval for Martin's pro-sodomite march as part of the fabricated Newchurch "Jubilee."
Bergoglio famously said about sodomy "Who am I to judge?" Naturally he would say so, because Bergoglio was a Pseudo-Newpope and ignored the teaching of the Catholic Church that sodomy is one of the Four Biblical Sins that Cry out to Heaven for Retribution. Bergoglio's and now Prevost's support for sodomy have led to a reported increase in the number of sex crimes committed by their paedophile Newbishops and presbyters, which have gone on essentially with impunity. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, four days earlier Prevost had received a notorious Newchurch "nun," Lucia Caram, known for her heretical and pro-sodomite public statements. But apparently "Sister" Caram, was too hot a potato to be listed on the official schedule of audiences, so Prevost met with her secretly -- but the press got the dope on two schmoozing in private anyway.
As Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust is alive and well under under the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost Leo, presbyter Andrew Showers (Newchurch has not ordained priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders since adopting an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal in 1968), Director of Worship for the Newdiocese of Madison, Wisconsin, and Newparochial Vicar of Our Lady of Guadalupe Newparish, was caught red handed in a police sting operation. The perverted presbyter tried to have sex with a 14-year-old girl -- the crime of statutory rape of a minor -- unaware that the "girl" was actually an undercover police officer. Showers is 37 years of age.
Showers arranged the rape through the anti-social media site Reddit. He had already been the subject of a police investigation in 2021 for trying to proposition a middle-school girl during the Newchurch non-sacrament of "reconciliation." (Since 1973 Newchurch dumped the Confession and the Sacrament of Penance and replaced it with an invalid (fake) non-sacrament of "reconciliation.) The penalty for that ecclesiastical crime is immediate and automatic excommunication, but Bergoglio-Francis, as usual, did nothing to stop his criminal presbyter.
Police reported that Showers came prepared for the rape of the minor. He had with him a Viagra tablet, commonly used by those who have sexual difficulties. After being advised by the undercover police officer that he was speaking with a 14-year-old "girl," Showers nevertheless spent the next 18 days messaging the "girl" about explicit sexual matters, sent her a nude photograph of himself, and proposed various types of sex with the intention to turn the "girl" into a sex slave.
Showers was arrested on August 24, 2025, and charged with child enticement, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, and attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child. He faces up to 40 years in the state penitentiary and up to a 100,000 USD fine. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Our Sunday Visitor.]
Traditional Catholics, presbyter Showers is another one of Newchurch's numerous perverted clergy. No word from Prevost-Leo's Newvatican, of course. Prevost has already appointed as Newbishops several individuals accused of sex crimes, so the corruption just goes on in Newchurch worse than before.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Do I have to pray the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, not the Rosary, daily in order to gain the privileges of wearing the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY
You are correct. If you were enrolled in the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which you would have been if you were formally invested with the scapular for the privileges, you became a quasi-Carmelite Tertiary and accepted the obligation of praying the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis) as the Carmelites do, not the Rosary. The Little Office supersedes the Rosary in this case. All this should have been explained to you before you accepted the obligations of investiture.
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a beautiful short Office and is readily available in Latin (and vernacular languages). Many Traditional Catholics have found the Little Office to be even more fruitful than the Rosary for them in its variety and close connection with Holy Mass and the Church's official prayer, the Divine Office (Officium Divinum).
For further information on the Little Office, For further information on this topic, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department, in the section "Brown Scapular." For further information on obtaining a copy of the Little Office, click on FAQ05: What Traditional Catholic Resources Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department, in the section "Liturgical Books for the Traditional Roman Rite."
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Women are supposed to wear head coverings at the true Catholic Mass as a sign of reverence and humility before God, but is there any significance to the color worn? I have seen black worn at Requiem Masses, usually white otherwise. I have also seen numerous other colors.
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
It is correct that women should have their head covered in church, as prescribed in Canon Law (1262.2), based upon St. Paul's instruction in his First Letter to the Corinthians (11:6). There is no indication of the color of the covering, which is simply a matter of choice or local custom.
That having been said, black does seem particularly appropriate for funerals; white, blue, or some other muted color for other occasions. We have known some women who coordinate their head covering, and even their apparel, with the liturgical color of the day: white for Easter, red for Pentecost, violet for Lent, blue for Marian feasts, etc.
It is now well known that on August 20, 2025, Fellay paraded with his Neo-SSPX troupe in a "pilgrimage" in Newrome, officially recognized for the Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's fabricated "Jubilee Year." Fellay's Neo-SSPX then joined in praying syncretistically with the Novus Ordo by the niche tomb of the apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis. He repeated the same travesty at St. John Lateran archbasilica and St. Peter archbasilica on succeeding days.
Now it has come to light that Fellay was engaged in just one of a number of these Newchurch "pilgrimages," which also included an LGBTQXXX "pilgrimage" that was preceded by a blasphemous rainbow-colored cross. And Fellay didn't even get an audience with Prevost for his loyalty to Newchurch. Yet Prevost did officially give an audience to the notorious sodomite promoter Presbyter James Martin and his female counterpart, the Novus Ordo "nun" Lucia Caram. On September 5, the Rainbow Cross was formally enthroned at Newvatican's Church of the Gesu for the "Jubilee" while a meeting at Newvatican was held, titled "Listening to the Experiences of LGBTQ Catholics [Sic]."
Bernie Fellay's Neo-SSPX has once again displayed that it is not a traditional group at all, but merely an arm of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age wearing antique clothes to conceal its infidelity to the Catholic Faith, just as its leader, Prevost-Leo does, for the same reason. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Charisma.]
Traditional Catholics, to what is the loyalty of Fellay & Co directed? To a blasphemous, sacrilegious, idolatrous Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. The original traditional SSPX's founder, Archbishop Lefebvre, denounced this Newchurch as a fake sect, as "Conciliar Rome." The Neo-SSPX is most certainly NOT Archbishop Lefebvre's original traditional Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). It a fake knockoff of the SSPX, just as Prevost's Synodal Newchurch is a fake knockoff of the Catholic Church.
On September 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump instructed prosecutors in Washington, D.C. to seek the death penalty for murders in that nation's capital. Representatives associated with the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] Bishops immediately pushed back against the death penalty. When in 1964 the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church, one of its anti-Catholic campaigns was against the death penalty, which has been a constant teaching from Biblical times until the Newchurch takeover.
The Pseudo-Newpope JPII-Wojtyla even tried to codify opposition to the death penalty in his code of New Canon Law. He circulated drafts in vulgar tongues opposing the death penalty, but the outcry against his anti-Catholic teaching was so loud that he retreated from that position in the official Latin version of 1983.
The teaching of the Catholic Church from the earliest centuries, as represented, e.g., in the writings of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Alphonsus Liguori, all Doctors of the Church), as well as in the Encyclical Letter Casti Conubii of Pope Pius XI and the 1952 Ce Premier Congess of Pope Pius XII is that society has the authority to inflict punishments upon its members, and even to deprive a criminal of his life, for the necessity of the common good. The dogmatic Council of Trent decreed: "[Well founded is] the right and duty of legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Our Lord Himself confirms this power of capital punishment in the interview with Pilate before His crucifixion:
Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee? Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, UNLESS IT WERE GIVEN THEE FROM ABOVE (John 19:10- 11/DR).
Even the Good Thief St. Dismas, crucified next to Christ, recognizes the justice of capital punishment when he tells the Bad Thief Gestas:
Dost not even thou fear God, seeing that thou art under the same sentence? AND WE INDEED JUSTLY, FOR WE ARE RECEIVING WHAT OUR DEEDS DESERVED (Luke 23:40-41).
Traditional Catholics, the "woke" cultural Marxist Synodal Newchurch of the New Order rejects legal capital punishment, which the Church Fathers and Popes have confirmed for two millennia. Rarely, however, do the Pseudo-Newpopes ever raise their voices against Jewish, Muslim, and atheist countries when they go on extra-legal capital-punishment rampages.
If you were a true Catholic pope, and you were naming a World Day of Prayer, what purpose would you designate for it? That mankind would take a day to adore the one, true God? That Newchurchers, Protestants, Muslims, Buddhists, pagans, and atheists would convert to the true Catholic Faith? That prayers and works be offered to repair for sin against the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus?
Maybe you would, but these purposes are far from the mind of the latest Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo. The successor to Bergoglio-Francis seems even more cut off from the Catholic Faith than his predecessor, who took pride that his best friends were atheists. Prevost's best friends are just as bad: pantheists, pagan nature worshippers.
Prevost, like his predecessor Bergoglio, has dedicated September 1 to the worship of what amounts to a pantheistic nature god, fully in consonance with the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. In this he joins the "Oecumenical" sect of the heretical/schismatical Patriarch of Eastern Orthodoxy. So the whole September 1 shindig is one of syncretism ("we all worship the same gods"; "all religions are true"), vehemently condemned by the Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, for Prevost-Leo, the "greatest crisis" in the world is not that of sin against the Sacred Heart, but some fabricated politicized "ecological crisis," to which he has even dedicated a new fake (invalid) New Order Mess and simulated that Mess not in a church, but in a garden!
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
If Catholics should seek an understanding of the true Faith by giving precedence, after Sacred Scripture (the Bible) and Tradition, to the Apostolic Fathers and early Fathers of the Church as being closest to the time of Christ and His Apostles, could you recommend a resource for the teachings of the Fathers? I would really like to learn about the Apostolic Fathers and their interpretations of Scripture.
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
Indeed the Apostolic Fathers and early Fathers of the Church from its foundation by Christ to about the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great circa A.D. 600 are an amazing source for the interpretation of Scripture and Tradition. The Apostolic Fathers are those disciples taught by the Apostles themselves in the early 2nd century. The study of the successive Fathers up to 600 is called Patristics, from "pater," the Latin word for "father." Unfortunately, many Catholics are entirely ignorant of this rich resource.
There are many approachable sources for the teaching of the early Fathers. One general introduction can be found in Boniface Ramsey's "Beginning to Read the Fathers," preferably the first edition, not the "revised" edition of 2012.
If you want to look at the actual writings of the Apostolic Fathers themselves (2nd century), there are number of translations available online for free. One of the best sources is the Harvard University Press Loeb Classical Library edition entitled The Apostolic Fathers in two volumes, which has the original Greek text and a facing English version. The venerable first edition has been in print since 1912, edited by Kirsopp Lake, an eminent British scholar and classist, and so there may be a free PDF copy online. Stay away from the "revised" 2003 edition, which was revised by the self-proclaimed "agnostic atheist" Bart Ehrman.
If we want to know what the Apostles and their disciples, who were closest to Our Lord, taught, we should want to peruse these writings rather than consult confused modern authors.
Under the latest Pseudo-Newpope, Prevost-Leo, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age has gotten downright cuckoo. No wonder Newchurch is going bankrupt, and its members are abandoning it and no longer contributing to collections. A recent case in point: the so-called "Catholic University of America" in Washington, D.C. has put the teaching of theology on the back burner and committed some 4,000,000 USD to "study beauty." Perhaps this is just as well, as the theology it would have taught is not Catholic, but Newchurch heresies.
The university on August 30, 2025, admitted that the beauty study is not religious, but merely "spiritual" -- whatever that nebulous term means. Why, then, is the university converting the academic money for an admittedly non-religious purpose? [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, it has become clear that Newchurch is converting monies donated for religious purposes to secular purposes, and silly ones at that. The most salient example of such a conversion, which is morally wrong as outside the intent of the donors, is the money going to "Catholic Charities," an arm of Newchurch, which is diverting charitable monies into Leftist political causes, such as sheltering criminals from the law. The moral of these stores is: no one should contribute a cent to any agency of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. It is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, and the funds may be spent on immoral, if not illegal, projects.
I would like to report to your readers on the increasingly sorry state of Neocon Newchurchers and, sad to say, even some traditionalists, in Fatima, in Portugal in general around the world. The most significant issue currently is APPARITIONISM, defined as an excessive belief in purported miracles, private devotions, and apparitions. In place of the true Catholic faith, which comes public to all from Sacred Scripture (the Bible) and Sacred Tradition, such people presume to find a basis of faith in private revelations (if they are even that), a grave error that smacks of superstition, which is a sin against the First Commandment of God and the Virtue of Religion.
Here in Fatima and elsewhere in Portugal, I have observed people wearing half a dozen or nire medals and scapulars, as if they were mere jewelry or the amulets of a pagan Egyptian. In doing so, these people turn the use of legitimate sacramentals into superstition. It becomes impossible for them to practice all those devotions "worthily, attentively, and devoutly" if they attempt to engage in too many.
They forget that each sacramental is associated with very specific devotional obligations. For example, the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, commonly called the Brown Scapular, requires strict chastity and the daily recitation of the Officium Parvum B.M.V (Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Those invested with the scapular must not harbor pagan notions, which would bring down on them the wrath of the same virgin to whom they are supposed to be dedicated. In some cases, we have people here who attempt to substitute their indispensable worship of their Redeemer at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by saying a mere private prayer, even the Rosary. Such an attitude is not a blessing, but an affront to the Most Blessed Virgin.
As a result, I have observed that even those who used to practice private devotions are falling by the wayside because they have lost the foundation of the Catholic Faith and its practice: the True (Traditional Latin) Mass and True Sacraments. I have observed the number of faithful here at Fatima and in Portugal noticeably declining, as it is throughout Europe and in other locales around the world.
Blase Cupich, Newcardinal of Chicago, Illinois, bosom buddy of Bergoglio-Francis and now Prevost-Leo, is one of the worst Modernist/Leftist/Apostates in Newchurch. He openly supports sodomites and heretics. Now the fat has hit the fan, and it is a mess.
Presbyter David Ryan sexually assaulted a child in 2020 at a youth home and was reinstated by Cupich in less than a year. Ryan committed another sexual assault in 2022 and was reinstated again in 2023. In 2025 Ryan committed a third sexual while he was assistant executive director of an orphanage ministry and was suspended again on July 29, 2025. The youth home was the subject of 30 charges of sex crimes against children.
One of the child victims, an 11-year-old boy, charged that Ryan and another presbyter turned him into a "sex slave." A raped 14-year-old boy died by suicide, having hanged himself in a shower. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Chicago Tribune.]
Traditional Catholics, Corrupt Cupich has done everything he can to favor his paedophile presbyters instead of cleaning out his filthy Newarchdiocese like a Hercules cleaning out the Augean stables, from top to bottom. Newchurch and its leaders are so publicly corrupt that the question has become: why do the clueless Newchurch laypeople even dare to enter Newchurch doors and thereby themselves become morally responsible for the filth? It is clear beyond any doubt that Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, together with is phony Ordinary Mess and New Latin Mess, is fake and most certainly NOT the Catholic Church any more than Martin Luther's apostate sect is.
On August 12, 2025, a study, "Demography of the Catholic [Sic] Church," released from the Demographic Observatory of the University of Madrid, revealed a growing crisis in the Newchurch of the New Order in Spain. The statistics show that Spaniards are massively abandoning Newchurch, that the number of Newseminarians is collapsing fast, and that administration of the Novus Ordo Mess and non-sacraments is in drastic decline.
Until the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), when the Newchurch of the New Order replaced the "institutional" Catholic Church, Spain had historically been one of the strongest Catholic countries in the world. The study points out as the main causes of the collapse the abandonment of Catholic tradition after the Anti-council by the Pseudo-Newpopes and the replacement of traditional Catholic doctrine by a Modernist/Leftist/Apostate ideology.
Fewer than 1 in 5 Spaniards practice the Newchurch sect. Attendance at the heretical New Order service introduced in 1969 has dropped by two-thirds in the last 50 years, with fewer than 17 per cent attending regularly. In 1971 almost 100 per cent of newborn Spaniards were baptized. That number has now dropped to fewer than half for the New Order "initiation" rite, as it is now called. Newchurch weddings have dropped by 87 per cent to fewer than 20 per cent.
The Newchurch clergy is also disappearing fast. Since the Anti-council 40 per cent have been lost, with the average age of the remaining Newclergy being over 65. Only 79 presbyters were "installed" (Newchurch has not ordained priests since adopting the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968) for the entire country since the Anti-council. The number of those applying to Newseminaries has plummeted by 80 per cent in the last decade. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Complicit Clergy.]
Traditional Catholics, some of the most Catholic countries of all before the Vatican II Anti-council, such as Spain, Ireland, and Poland, are now rejecting the Newchurch sect in large numbers. It took about half a century for the facts to sink in, but many Newchurchers have finally come to the realization that they have been duped by a fake Newchurch sect, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, and by Pseudo-Newpopes, who are most certainly NOT Catholic popes, but servants of the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
August 11, 2025, was a day of reckoning for Joseph Brennan, Newbishop of Fresno, California, who is enmeshed in an ugly bankruptcy being supervised by a United States federal court. At a marathon hearing lasting hours, Brennan was ordered to produce financial details of the scandal in open court in response to 153 lawsuits of child victims of sex crimes by Newchurch presbyters.
Added to the difficulties already being faced, Brennan had been "debanked" by Wells Fargo during the process, and Pseudo-Newpopes Bergoglio-Francis and Prevost-Leo had dragged their feet in giving the necessary authorization. During the hearing it was revealed that five presbyters who had been fingered by the child victims had mysteriously not been placed on the list of accused. One of these is still employed by the Newdiocese and is still working with children. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by KVPR Fresno.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch has again been caught in outright lies. The fabled "Zero Tolerance Policy" announced by Ratzinger-Benedict and Bergoglio-Francis has been proven in open court to have been essentially a fraud, a public-relations scheme. We can only hope that the uncompromising justice which Newchurch has denied to the child victims will be meted out, in full, to the criminal Newchurch clergy involved.
Along with all its other aberrations, corruptions, and heresies, the Vatican II Anti-council on December 4, 1963, six months to the day but one after Pope John XXIII died (John XXIII did not approve one single document of the apostate Anti-council), adopted its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, "Sacrosanctum concilium," which was intended by its revolutionary framers to destroy the Traditional Latin Mass.
An Appendix entitled "Declaration of the Second Vatican [Anti-]Council on the Revision of the Calendar" indicated the Anti-council's readiness to change the traditional method of calculating the date of Easter, decreed by the First Oecumenical Council of Nicaea in the year 325. That Council settled once and for all contradictory opinions and excommunicated anyone who would dispute the Council's decree. There had been no problem since then until, that is, the apostate Vatican II Anti-council's Appendix of 1963.
All of the Pseudo-Newpopes of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, especially Bergoglio-Francis and now Prevost-Leo, have been pushing a change in the traditional date to please the schismatics of the East, but now the East's own Oecumenical (as he calls himself) Patriarch, Bartholomew of Constantinople, has put the kybosh on the whole question and proclaimed: "only another oecumenical council can modify the calculation of the date of Easter." Because of the current corrupted state of the Church, there can be no valid oecumenical council. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, most of the Eastern Orthodox don't even use the same calendar as the West. They retain the Julian calendar, which was enacted by the Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 B.C., a man before his time, but which is now thirteen days behind the Gregorian calendar, in which Pope Gregory XIII in A.D. 1582 corrected serious astronomical errors in the Julian calendar that had accumulated over a millennium and a half.
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