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The truth is starting to spread that Prevost-Leo is not the pope because his Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is not the Catholic Church, any more than the arch-heretic Martin Luther's church is the Catholic Church, as he claimed. This is the position that TRADITIO has held for years. It avoids all the theological haggling about sede-vacantism. It is a much bigger issue than that. Now more and more are recognizing this obvious, simple truth.
On November 13, 2025, the whole matter blew up after Prevost received a gay " couple" very publicly in audience in front of the world's cameras. This couple presented themselves to Prevost as "married," and the apostate Newpope didn't blink an eye endorsing sodomy. Sodomy is one of the Four Biblical Sins that Cry out to Heaven for Retribution. By publicly endorsing this "marriage," Prevost has earned the penalty prescribed by St. Paul for those who "consent to them that do" these grave sins: death (Romans 1:32/DRV). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Vatican News Service.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost's perversion earned the ire of noted Newarchbishop Carlo Vigano, who called the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order a "fraud." He proclaimed: "The conciliar and synodal church IS NOT the Catholic Church, in communion with which we have sworn to live and die." He called Prevost a "betrayer," who Is demolishing the Church from within and pushing souls into eternal damnation." He called upon the Newchurch clergy laity to challenge that betrayal.
On November 17, 2025, Newarchbishop Edward Weisenburger, of Detroit, Michigan, announced to the press that over the next two years there will be massive shutdowns of Newparishes in Detroit. Sunday Mess attendance has fallen to a mere 150,000 Newchurchers. Only about 500 Newchurchers show up at all for any Detroit Newparish Mess whatsoever during any given week. Before the Vatican II Anti-council ended in 1965, the number of Catholics who attended Sunday Mass in Detroit was close to 1,000.000. That is a loss of 85 per cent!
Weisenburger says that many Newparishes are unable to sustain themselves, so many of the remaining 209 Newparishes will have to be eliminated. The Newarchdiocese, as is the case with many Newdioceses across the United States and the world, has lost many presbyters as well, by resignation, retirement, or death. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Click on Detroit.]
Traditional Catholics, now, a generation after the devastating apostate Vatican II Anti-council, whose purpose was to destroy the true Catholic Church, anyone with eyes can see the diabolical consequences of that Anti-council realized. Thank God, there are thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories not associated with the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. which maintain the true Mass and Sacraments, doctrine, and morals of true Catholicism, before they were corrupted starting in the 1950s.
Since the apostate Newchurch of the New Order replaced the Sacrament of Penance in 1973 with a non-Sacramental Protestantized "Rite of Reconciliation," more like a psychiatrist's couch, confessions in Newchurch have tanked. It seems that St. Peter's Basilica in Newrome has thrown in the towel and has started to replace confessionals with "listening spaces," open to Newchurchers, as well as Protestants, Jews, Muslims, pagans, and atheists. Presbyters, nuns, or even laypeople are provided for "dialogue" (a favorite word of Newchurch) and "spiritual accompaniment" (whatever that means).
Supposedly, the purpose is to allow the individual "a time to speak freely about his own thoughts and concerns," to "help free the heart from the burden, the pain, and the doubts that life entails." What a bunch of Newchurch malarky! Very few people take Newchurch seriously any longer. That is why it is closing its Newchurches down right and left for lack of use. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Info Vaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch "authorities" at the basilica claim that all the confessionals have not been replaced -- yet. But Newchurch is famous for sneaking the camel's nose under the tent that rapidly becomes the reality before anyone can say abracadabra. Ironically, Newchurch provides the "listening space," but the individual must provide his own couch!
On November 12, 2025, it was announced that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order has paid out to child victims of its Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust over 5,000,000,000 dollars, with much more to come. Newchurch has entered a crisis of its own fault that is threatening its very existence. Some Newdioceses are virtually shutting down. In many Newdioceses half the churches are being permanently shuttered.
All this because Newchurch clergy engaged, and are still engaged, in a Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust and because Newbishops, Newcardinals, and Newpopes engaged. and are still engaged, in a massive cover-up of these crimes. Since 2004 almost half of 39 bankrupted Newchurch dioceses in the United States are still in bankruptcy proceedings, and their assets, including church buildings, are being liquidated. Newbishops have been pilloried for using the bankruptcy proceedings to avoid paying the child victims as much as they deserve for having their lives ruined. The Newbishops have also "fought like Hell" to avoid disclosing information about their own complicity and that of other Newchurch officials, all the way up to the Pseudo-Newpopes.
California is the epicenter for corrupt Newdioceses in bankruptcy. Six of its twelve Newdioceses are in bankruptcy. The "Dirty Trio" are Los Angeles (Newbishop Jose Gomez), San Francisco (Newarchbishop Salvatore Cordileone), and Oakland (Newbishop Michael Barber). San Francisco in particular has attracted vitriol for its attempts to hang onto 2,000,000,000 USD worth of expensive Bay Area real estate instead of using it to pay off the claims of many hundreds of child victims. Oakland claims that it will be dead broke by December 2025, yet it had over 200,000,000 USD to spend on a grotesque and unnecessary new Novus Ordo "cathedral" that features Christ looking like an extraterrestrial. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Pseudo-Newpopes have done nothing but aggravate the child victims' situation. Oh, they talk a good game about they enabled, mishandled, and covered up "deep wounds" and "sexual violence." But it's all talk and no action. JPII-Wojtyla, Ratzinger-Benedict, Bergoglio-Francis, and now Prevost-Leo have all evaded responsibility by merely appointing do-nothing Pontifical Commissions. Yet the principle of the law is: Respondeat superior -- the top man is ultimately responsible.
The number of fake "apparitions" is getting so bad in the Newchurch of the New Order that even its Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith has been forced into stamping out the fakes. Of course, Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church and so is increasingly subject to things unCatholic, including fake "apparitions."
On November 12, 2025, Newchurch's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith declared the "apparition" of Dozule, France, to be a fake. So bad was it that the "seeress," Madeleine Aumont, had made a significant mistake in doctrine. The whole thing was apparently a scheme to get the town of Dozule to build a giant cross and a "shrine of reconciliation," whatever that means. Aumont said that the town had better work fast because "Jesus announced his imminent return." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, although the head of the dicastery, Newcardinal Victor Fernandez, is a rank Modernist heretic, he at least got this point correct, when he declared: "No cross, no relic, and no private apparition can replace the means of grace established by Christ" nor be considered a "universal obligation." That goes for Traditional Catholics too, who sometimes elevate "apparitions" over Sacred Scripture. That is outright heresy.
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 "Apparitions, Miracles, Private Revelations, and Visions."
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
When exactly does the season of Christmas begin and end? I see that some books say that the season extends even as far as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary on February 2 or to Septuagesima.
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
For liturgical purposes, the Nativity Season (Tempus Natalicium) extends from First Vespers of the Nativity, December 25, through the Hour of None of the Octave Day of the Epiphany (January 13).
The Nativity period comprises Nativity Time (Tempus Nativitatis), which extends from First Vespers of the Nativity through the Hour of None of January 5, the Vigil of the Epiphany, and Epiphany Time (Tempus Epiphaniae), which extends through January 13, the Octave Day of the Epiphany, inclusive.
The importance of the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord on January 6 should not be overlooked. It outranks Christmas and is older than Christmas. In fact, Epiphany was ranked among the greatest solemnities of the Church at least a century before Christmas began to be celebrated. Coming from the Greek word "epiphaneia," meaning "appearance," the feast is commemorated in the West especially for the appearance of Christ to the Gentiles, personified by the Magi, who were royal astrologers from Babylonia.
Candlemas (also known as the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary) on February 2 falls in the period after Epiphany Time, on February 2. Traditionally, Christmas trees and decorations are left up at least through the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6. Some even extend this practice through Candlemas.
Contrary to the unfounded hopes of Neocon Newchurchers that Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo would lift the severe restrictions enacted by the 2021 Decree "Traditionis Custodes" on the Half New Order Vatican II New Latin Mess of 1962, Prevost has decided not to abrogate the decree, but to enforce it even more widely. On November 14, 2025, Apostolic Nuncio and Newarchbishop Miguel Maury Buendíamade the announcement of Prevost's decision. The U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops has published the announcement, for the United States, which has worldwide effect.
An official at Newvatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship [Sic] confirmed that, as is already the policy, any new such Messes, which are most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, are prohibited, and the limited number of existing such Messes will be reviewed every two years and may not be continued. The Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), the Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS) and the like organizations are prohibited from establishing any new such Messes. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the USCCB.]
Traditional Catholics, when the 2021 decree was issued, it provided that the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess was the "the unique expression of the 'lex orandi' of the Roman Rite [sic]," and that other forms, including the New Latin Mess, were sidelined. Prevost-Leo has now made it clear that he fully supports that decree and will enforce it to the hilt.
A new Gallup Poll, released November 13, 2025, confirms that the United States is rapidly become a faithless nation that cares not about the things of God. Such a monumental trend easily explains why, outside the truly faithful, society and the family are at such a low ebb. The United States once outshone Europe and the rest of the world in its religious foundations and practice. Now, according to the poll, more than half of Americans admit that they are irreligious in their daily lives. That number is a shocking 17 per cent drop in faith -- 66 per cent to just 49 per cent -- in just the last five years. "Such large declines are rare," Gallup researchers admitted.
The United States is now in the company of Italy, Greece, Chile, Turkey, and Portugal,as being the most religiously-failing nations of the world. Yes, Italy, the Pseudo-Newpopes' own backyard, has been sinking fast since the apostate Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) and the apostate Newpopes took over. An unprecedented number of churches, some 15,000, many of them run by the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, have been slammed shut. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newsmax.]
Traditional Catholics, Christians have fallen from 78 per cent of the American population twenty years ago to 62 per cent. 30 per cent identify religiously with nothing, including God. Young women in particular, enticed by lesbianism and other destructive tendencies, are increasingly shunning God, although more young men are actually finding God. In 1958, just before the devastating Vatican II Anti-council, three-fourths of Catholics attended Holy Mass every Sunday. Since the counterfeit Novus Ordo Mess took over in 1969, that number has fallen to well below 10 per cent. Newchurch has been exposed to all as the enemy of religion. Even the Newpope who promulgated every heretical document of the Vatican II Anti-council, Montini-Paul VI, admitted that he had allowed the "fumus Satanae," the smoke of Satan, to enter the house of God. Now that rancid smoke is known as the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
It seems that everything about the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is being exposed as a joke. Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Even Newchurch teachers admit that children are being admitted to munching the invalid Novus Ordo cookie before they can even recite the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be This is true for prayers in the vulgar tongues, let alone in the Church's language, Latin, as many Saints and even the apostate Vatican II Anti-council, strongly encourage.
Newchurch teachers admit that even junior-high-school students are ignorant of the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and Gloria Patri in any language. Paganized parents are not teaching their children the prayers, even though they are willing to spend upwards of 10,000 USD a year to send their children to Newchurch schools. When Newchurch teachers ask parents whether they are teaching basic prayers to their children, whether the parents are praying with their children, even whether they parents themselves are praying, the answer is often silence.
Newchurch teachers also indicate that even by the time Newchurch children are of an age to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation -- which, ironically, is clearly invalid in the Newchurch form -- they still don't know the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, or Gloria Patri in any language. "They know no prayers at all!," say the teachers. The teachers try to get parents to pray with their children, but most of the parents are now so paganized themselves that they don't pray at all. They are actually worse than pagans, as pagans generally do pray. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Our Sunday Visitor.]
Traditional Catholics, worse than that, Newchurch teachers have revealed that Newchurch children don't even know what a crucifix is. The parents don't tell them, and there usually isn't even one in their home. Why should anyone wonder why the Newchurch of the New Order is going down the drain so fast, when even the parents are apostates!
On November 9, 2025, the Newchurch bishops of the United States lost a big one. A Newchurcher, David O'Connell, from Sacred Heart Newparish in East Providence, Rhode Island, has sued the entire U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops "for fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of fiduciary duty." O'Connell charged that the Newbishops as a group had lied to their congregations when soliciting donations to the Peter's Pence collection to go to "the poor and needy." The money was funneled away from the local Newparishes off to Newrome, where the money had actually been used not for the poor and needy, but to shore up the sinking corrupt Newchurch administration, which was nearing bankruptcy. The suit has now been entered in the name of all Newchurchers, numbering in the millions, who donated money to the Peter’s Pence collection.
The USCCB appealed to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals to dismiss the Newchurch's suit, claiming that the court had no jurisdiction. The court disagreed and ordered the case, O'Connell v. U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, to proceed unobstructed. The USCCB's petition to have the whole court hear the case en banc was denied on November 9, 2025. The case against the USCCB will now continue. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Review.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch has often been caught embezzling donations, by lying about the purposes for which they were supposed to be spent, then redirecting the donations to short up the corrupt Newchurch administration headquartered with the apostate Pseudo-Newpopes in Newrome. Thank God for the courage of Mr. O'Connell, who didn't just sit back and grumble, but started a large class-action lawsuit against the Newbishops for their connivance in embezzling from their own Newchurchers. What if Mr. O'Connell wins, and Newchurch and its Pseudo-Newpopes are ordered to refund hundreds of millions of dollars of their ill-gotten goods? It could be, once and for all, the end of the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. True Catholics can only hope.
On November 7, 2025, the Newarchdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, announced that it is dramatically reducing the number of Sunday Messes that it is offering. Its 161 Newparishes will be reduced by 83 per cent to just 28. The "draconian" action was explained by Newchurch as a consequence of the fact that very, very few young men want to be presbyters
Newchurch has not ordained priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders since 1968, when it adopted a Protestantized New Ordinal and turned priests into the equivalent of Protestant ministers, officially called by Newchurch "presbyters." At the time of the Vatican II Anti-council, Dubuque had 562 priests. After seventy years of the counterfeit Newchurch, that number has dropped to 85 presbyters. Within the next 7 years that number will drop to 59. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newarchdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa.]
Traditional Catholics, attendance at Novus Ordo Messes has plummeted 46 per cent in Dubuque in the last 20 years, a drop-off that is mirrored in other Newchurch dioceses. Attendance at Sacraments has virtually disappeared because Newchurch no longer has valid Sacraments. It no longer has priests, and the former Sacraments have been modified to invalidity. Baptisms have been turned into invalid "initiations," as if one were joining the Freemasons. Communion has been turned into cookies in the hand. Extreme Unction has been turned into a mere blessing of the sick. The counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, is itself sick and is rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Thank God.
When Germans tuned in to ZDF TV to see the regularly-scheduled Sunday Vatican II New Mess, they got a shock. Instead of the usual invalid, apostate Protestant-Masonic-Pagan service, they were treated to the simulation of a live "Queer Mess." The presbyter appeared dressed in "queer" colors and sporting a wedding ring and feminine bracelet.
Moreover, the Mess was simulated an All Souls Day, November 3, 2025. At least that is what the traditional Catholic liturgical calendar provides, as November 2 fell this year on a Sunday, and Masses of the Dead are, almost without exception, liturgically prohibited on Sundays. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by ZDF Television.]
Traditional Catholics, the German Newchurch is known for its heresies and its paedophilia, but this television broadcast has pushed the boundaries yet again. The Synodal Newchurch of the New Age has now grown even beyond the Newchurch of the New Order. It is now fully homosexualized. Of course, these "presbyters," never ordained as priests since Newchurch adoption of the invalid Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968, are simply "playing church" like the heretic Anglicans. And we all know what has happened to that Church: 80 per cent of its clergy and members around the world last month left it and went over to traditionalist Global Anglican Church. The remaining 20 per cent remaining England, face empty churches, half of which have already been left to rot in the English countryside.
Germany has long had an intimate relationship with Christmas. Who can forget its picturesque snow-covered churches, the heavenly Gregorian chant emanating from its cathedrals, and its world-famous Christmas markets? Now many of the churches are sparsely attended, the Gregorian chant is stilled in favor of Novus Ordo "modernist" music, and the Christmas markets have closed down. A salient factor in these closures is the two recent apostate Pseudo-Newpopes, Bergoglio-Francis and Prevost-Leo. These two Modernist-Marxists have gone on a binge, forcing Germany to import hordes of militant Islamic "migrants," who have undermined once Christian Germany. The case is similar to that of the United States, which under the previous Leftist regime, admitted felonious illegal aliens, who destroyed, the social structure.
One consequence of the Marxist Newpopes' machinations is the widespread cancellation of Christmas markets, known throughout the world, and of many other Christmas customs. The cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist Islamic attacks would break budgets throughout Germany, so the markets have been canceled. The markets in both small towns and large cities once drew family, friends, and out-of-town visitors.
The former Chancelloress from Marxist East Germany, Angela Merkel, although a nominal Lutheran, fell hook, line, and sinker for Bergoglio's push to open Germany's borders to, as Pope Pius XI called it, "the darkness of Islamism." That push is now being carried on with a vengeance by his disciple, Prevost-Leo. These "migrants" supported by Bergoglio and Prevost, are not "migrants" any more than the barbarian German hordes that invaded Rome in the fifth century and overturned that great civilization, which propagated the Roman Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Zero Hedge.]
Traditional Catholics, at Christmastime in 2015, right in front of Cologne Cathedral, over one thousand Christian women were raped by Muslim terrorists. The new Chancellor of Germany has tried to stem the tide, but he has had to fight not just the infidel Islamic hordes, but the Pseudo-Newpopes as well. Bergoglio-Francis hailed from Marxist Argentina, and Prevost-Leo hails from Marxist Peru. They cannot keep their polluted hands off Christian countries in Europe, any more than the Marxists could keep their hands off the True Mass and the True Church at the Vatican II Anti-council, which overturned the Catholic Church and replaced it with a counterfeit Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Newchurch of the New Order.
Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust just keeps going on. The apostate Pseudo-Newpopes are uninterested in stopping it. As long as they get theirs, they don't care. Prevost-Leo is just as bad in this regard, if not worse, than his predecessors. It started with the presbyters, then spread to the Newbishops, then to the Newcardinals, then to the Newpopes. Now even the Newchurch laypeople have been infected with the corruption.
Federal prosecutors on November 5, 2025, arrested a Newchurch director in the Newdiocese of Kansas City, Missouri, with embezzling more than 150,000 USD from the Newdiocese's scholarship fund. Ironically, this was the Bright Futures Fund, which offers tuition assistance to needy students in the Newdiocese's schools. But the hypocritical Newchurchers don't care about the children. In Newchurch, it's always "me first." Again, ironically, the staffer worked as Director of "Stewardship" for the Newdiocese while he was stealing from the Newdiocese's own children. He faces up to twenty years in prison and a 250,000 USD fine. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, obviously Newchurch is lying when it continues to state that it has "strengthened security and oversight." The staffer had been embezzling the Newdiocese's funds for some five years while the Newbishop stood by twiddling his thumbs. Newbishop James Johnston Jr. of the Newdiocese should be sharing the cell with him. If the Newbishops were incarcerated, the embezzlement in Newchurch would stop overnight!
On October 20, 2025, the apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo named a paedophiliac as the new Newbishop of Albany New York. He is to be "installed" on December 5, 2025. Who is this Mark O'Connell, so representative of Prevost's record of corrupt appointments in the barely five months since he became Newchurch's Pseudo-Newpope?
In July 2021 O’Connell voted at the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] [New]bishops to hand out the Novus Ordo cookie to those who publicly rejected Church teaching. At the time two prominent U.S. politicians publicly encouraged abortion and the public funding thereof: then U.S. President J.R. Biden and then U.S. House Speaker N.E. Pelosi. O'Connell falsely declared: "It is not up to me to deny anyone" the Novus Ordo cookie.
In a January 2018 interview, O'Connell encouraged homosexuals to join the Newchurch of the New Order. He proudly pontificated that he is "not prejudiced" and that "We have lots of homosexual members in our [New]church." He implied that Newchurch should adopt policy that is friendly to "trans" people using wrong-sexed bathrooms.
O'Connell full-throatedly supports Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's apostate "Synodal" Newchurch of the New Age. He lauded Prevost-Leo as a follower of the late Newpope's "Synodal" heresy. O'Connell himself stated: "I’m doing my best to be synodal.”
Not satisfied to corrupt just the religious realm, O'Connell wants to destroy the secular state as well. He is a champion for "illegal aliens," who violate truly Catholic teaching by violating the legal boundaries of countries, a teaching clearly articulated by the Church's Universal Theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Mark O'Connell's predecessor, Howard Hubbard, turned Albany into a cesspool of sex crimes against children. He was eventually forced out and then "married" a woman in an invalid civil ceremony. So bad did the situation become that the Albany Newdiocese went bankrupt in 2023. Now Newpope Prevost-Leo has appointed as Albany's new Newbishop a many who seems to be treading the same immoral path. In Newchurch, now calling itself the Synodal Newchurch, from Newpope to Newpope it just gets worse and worse, never better.
The corruption of the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, is spreading now into the religious media. On October 30, the U.S. District Court announced that Our Sunday Visitor editor Gerald Korson had been jailed and is awaiting trial for possession of child sex-abuse material and inducing a minor to engage in explicit conduct for the creation of child pornography involving many children. In other words, Korson was running a child-sex pornography ring.
Korson was originally released from custody, but subsequently more damning evidence led to his indictment by a federal grand jury on felonies involving coercion of numerous child victims. He was then jailed until trial because of the "strong weight of evidence against him" and his posing a "serious danger to the community." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic Culture.]
Traditional Catholics, Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publishing company operating out of Huntington, Indiana, which prints a Newchurch national weekly newspaper, numerous other Newchurch publications, and those Newparish throwaway bulletins. OSV was once the most popular Catholic newsweekly of the twentieth century. Now it too, along with numerous other Newchurch publications, has been infected with the filth of moral corruption.
On November 2, 2025, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo violated ancient Catholic Tradition by daring to simulate an All Souls' Day Mess on a Sunday. Traditionally, Sunday is always a joyous feast of the Lord's Resurrection, even in Advent and Lent, and never is the All Souls' Day Mass to be celebrated on that day. Most Requiem Masses are also forbidden on Sundays. That principle explains why Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories in accordance with longstanding tradition and the Traditional Catholic calendar, transfer All Souls Day to the following Monday when it would otherwise fall on a Sunday.
But the Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. It rejects the penitential aspect of the Catholic Requiem Mass and embraces the Protestant "everyone goes to Heaven" heresy of Universal Salvation. In Newchurch, even unrepentant murderers get a "white" funeral. No wonder Prevost so seriously violated Catholic Tradition. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]
Traditional Catholics, while he was at it, Prevost-Leo yet again visited and laid flowers at the tomb of the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis, to "do homage" to his predecessor and mentor, Prevost is cut from the same cloth as Bergoglio and his carrying on the establishment of his pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Just since 2020 nearly 4,625 children have been raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted by presbyters in Italy, as documented in a report issued on October 16, 2025. In addition to the presbyters, some "nuns," religion teachers, and laypeople were also implicated in the crimes. Newchurch in Italy, in the Pseudo-Newpopes' backyard, has been intransigent in refusing to own up to its rampant crimes. Only one-third of the Newdioceses in Italy even bothered to respond to a plan to control their criminality.
Newchurch in Italy is under the Newpopes' direct authority as patriarch, but none of the Newpopes has lowered the boom on the crimes, engaging rather in cover-ups of those crimes. Bergoglio-Francis maintained that stopping sex crimes against children was his highest priority, but his "Zero Tolerance" policy turned out to be just so much talk, as he refused at length even to organize and staff his Child Protection Commission. Prevost-Leo has merely carried on the do-nothing policy of his mentor Bergoglio. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Reuters.]
Traditional Catholics, the most shocking statistic of all is the fact that the Pseudo-Newpopes have defrocked barely one per cent of their criminal presbyters. Morally speaking, the Newpopes have become the criminals themselves under the legal maxim: "Respondeat superior," the superior bears the responsibility for his underlings.
In 1965 the Pseudo-Newpope Montini-Paul VI signed the apostate Vatican II Anti-council's Declaration "Nostra aetate" embracing "oecumenism" toward pagan sects. "We all worship the same gods" and "All religions are true" went far beyond the Christian sects into worshipping elephants, multi-armed goddesses, sun-god worshippers, and the ghosts of ancestors. In 1986, under the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Wojtyla-Paul II, the idol of Buddha was placed atop the Tabernacle at an "Oeucmenical" shivaree in Assisi.
No one has given more support to this debased concept than the current Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, who, on October 28, 2025, the feastday of the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude, personally participated in pagan worship in a so-called Vatican Peace Pageant, complete with dancing witches, occult idols, and a priestess wearing the evil-eye, as well as false gods and ghosts. Ironically, but deliberately, all this took place at the Arch of Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to recognize the Christian religion and ban its persecution. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican Media.]
Traditional Catholics, the Catholic Church has consistently condemned worshipping together with non-Catholic, infidel, and pagan sects. The Mortal Sin is called Indifferentism ("we all worship the same gods") and Syncretism ("all religions are true"). But Newchurch proclaims in "Nostra Aetate": "We reject nothing that is true and holy in these religions" -- what, for God's sake, is true and holy in the worship of elephants and ghosts? This is most certainly NOT Catholic. Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
On Halloween 2025 the Newdiocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, went bankrupt after being deluged with lawsuits against its Newclergy for sex crimes against children. Already 85 have been filed, with more coming. Alexandria brings the total of U.S. Newdioceses now bankrupt because of sex crimes to one-quarter of the total 176. In 1950, before the Vatican II Anti-council, Alexandria had 95 parishes. Now, it has only 50 Newparishes, having lost half to the corruptions of the Anti-council.
Newbishop Robert Marshall Jr. mouthed the usual platitudes of a formulaic apology, as he saw his 16,700,000 USD assets go down in flames in the bankruptcy. The shyster Newdiocese hedged its bets by individually incorporating each of its Newparishes so that the compensation to the child victims would be reduced to the minimum possible. No wonder that the Newdiocese, which boasted over 1,006,000 Catholics before the Anti-council, has been reduced to a mere 370,000, a drop of almost two-thirds! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newdiocese has already been reeling from the loss of significant numbers of presbyters, Newseminarians, and laypeople at Novus Ordo Messes. A plan is currently being executed that will slam shut many of the Newdiocese's parishes. During the previous week the back of the Newarchdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana, was broken under a 230,000,000 USD bankruptcy penalty. Raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting children has cost Newchurch severely. Its numbers are shrinking dramatically year by year -- perhaps to the point of a deserved extinction to that the true Catholic Church, now operating independently of the counterfeit Newchurch, may arise from the ashes of the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
The 2025 Pew Research Religious Landscape Study has found that Newchurchers routinely lie by up to 13 per cent when asked by an interviewer their frequency of attending the Newchurch Mess. And Newchurchers are bigger liars than Evangelical Protestants. The number of Newchurchers in the United States is often given as 50,000,000. Now, it seems that number may be more like 43,500,000.
Accounting for the percentage of lying, the study would indicate that only about 25 per cent of Newchurchers attend the Newchurch Mess. 28 per cent never attend the Novus Ordo service at all But even that number may be grossly overstated. Even the Gallup Poll's numbers are challenged as high. When a statistician and research team counted cars in Newchurch parking lots, they found that Newchuchers over-reported their actual Mess by twice as much as actual, or more. That would bring the number to about 10 per cent, much like the mainline Protestants. By way of comparison 66 per cent of Mormons attend services weekly. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Pew Research Center.]
Traditional Catholics, in 1958, at the death of Pope Pius XII, the Gallup Poll reported that 74 per cent of Catholics attended the Traditional Latin Mass weekly. In the last two decades, the number of U.S. adults identifying as Catholic declined from 25 per cent to 20 per cent. No wonder that in the last two decades, the number of U.S. adults identifying as Catholic has declined from 25 per cent to 20 per cent -- and falling.
Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's former colleague in the Peruvian Newepiscopate, Newbishop Reinhold Nann. claimed on July 1, 2024, that he was in ill health and resigned as Newbishop of Carvaveli, Peru. He was known as a Modernist/Leftist, who ran a "blog" that chastised Newclerics who objected to the "synodal path" of Newchurch.
But then he revealed that on October 17, 2024, he had contracted a civil marriage with his Peruvian concubine. Nann said that he had told the Newvatican about his situation, but Newchurch took no action against him for breaking his vow of celibacy. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by German News Service KNA.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Nann said that he was depressed by "the abysses, tragedies, abuse, mediocrity, and lies” that he constantly faced as a member of the Newchurch clergy, the higher, the worse. He claimed that there were "tens of thousands" of Newchurch presbyters breaking their vows. With 5,340 Newbishops in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, the problem is just getting worse, rising among the Newclergy to infect Newbishops, Newcardinals, and even Newpopes.
On October 18, 2025, Newvatican released new statistics on the state of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, and it is again not good. The number of presbyters and Newseminarians has sunk again. But, not to worry, the number of paedophiliac Newbishops being appointed has markedly increased once again. At the time of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), there were 2,625 Catholic bishops. Now there are now 5,340 Newbishops a whopping 203 per cent increase!
Newchurch is all chiefs, no Indians. The Pseudo-Newpopes appoint more and more Newbishops so that they can play Leftist politics for the Newpopes in the secular world. If Newchurch were a corporation (which it is), it would be implementing massive layoffs in management. Moreover, Newchurch is now bloated to the point of bankruptcy, as two of its Chief Auditors have told the press. Because the number of Newchurch presbyters is markedly decreasing, there is no need for such a bloated number of Newbishops. Although the population of the world has reached almost 8 billion, the number of presbyters is only 2/5 of a million. The greatest losses occurred in Europe and the Americas. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, add to those statistics the fact that the number of men in religious orders is continuing to decrease, particularly in Europe and the Americas. The number of women in religious orders is also continuing to decrease, again particularly in Europe and the Americas. Newchurch's future continues to be bleak, as particularly revealed by the fact that the number of Newseminarians is also continuing to decrease, so that the outlook for replacing the enormous number of presbyters resigning, retiring, and dying is far from being replaced.
Increasingly showing that he is an Ultra-leftist and Modernist apostate, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo on October 17, 2025, appointed a comrade Ultra-Leftist and Modernist "activist," a presbyter Josef Grundwidl to replace outgoing Newcardinal Christoph Schonborn, Newarchbishop of Vienna, Austria. Schonborn was also a Leftist-Modernist apostate, the author of the heretical Catechismus Ecclesiae Catholicae (Catechism of the Catholic [Sic] Church) of 1997, so often quoted by Neocon Newchurchers in ignorance of its heresies. So desperate was Prevost to appoint Grundwidl that he appointed a presbyter instead of a Newbishop, who couldn't take office until he was "installed" as a Newbishop (Newchurch stopped ordaining priests in 1968 when it adopted a Protestantized New Ordinal).
Grunwidl is known as a supporter of the "installation" of deaconesses, priestesses, and bishopesses. He also wants to dismantle the current structure to make the Newchurch of the New Order into the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. He also wants women appointed to the College of Newcardinals. He wants to break celibacy for presbyters and hand out the conterfeit Novus Ordo "cookie" to divorced and "remarried" Newchurchers, as well as Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and Pagans. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has shown himself to be nothing more than an apostate from the Catholic Faith, a Modernist heretic, whose interest is not religion, but world politics. He should have run for Secretary-General of the United Nations. He has no business pretending to be a "pope." He is far more dangerous than Bergoglio-Francis, who had a dyscholic personality and was widely hated. Prevost, to the contrary, conceals his apostasy under a twisted smile and upgraded haberdashery. Thereby he is far more dangerous than the transparent bumbler, Bergoglio.
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