DAILY COMMENTARIES FROM THE TRADITIO FATHERS
SEPTEMBER 2025

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September 2, 2025 - St. Stephen, King of Hungary, Confessor
Semidouble

Newbishop Grilled by Federal Court about His Role in the Bankruptcy
Of the Newdiocese of Fresno and Forced to Turn over Financial Records

Newbishop Joseph Brennan of Fresno
Hangs His Head in Shame
After an Hours-long Grilling
In a U.S. Federal Court
About the Pending Bankruptcy
Of His Newdiocese
Because of 153 Lawsuits by Child Victims
Of His Presbyters

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.

September 1, 2025 - St. Giles, Abbot
Simple Feast

Greek Orthodox (Oecumenical) Patriarch Nixes Newchurch's Attempt
To Change the Traditional Date of Easter Going back to A.D. 325

The Revolutionaries of the Vatican II Anti-council
Even Tried to Change the Traditional Date of Easter
Which Goes back to the Year 325
At the First Oecumenical Council of Nicaea
Bergoglio-Francis and Now Prevost-Leo
Are Still Pushing the Issue
Intending Apparently to Move the Date of Easter
To Accord with the Eastern Schismastics
But Now It Is the East That Has Thwarted the Plans
Of the Pseudo-Newpopes
Of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age

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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