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Is it possible that Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo could be a worse Marxist/Modernist than his mentor, Bergoglio-Francis? The evidence is quickly piling up in this direction, as shown by his recent appointments of Ramon Bejarano to be Newbishop of Monterey, California; of Ronald Hicks to be Newarchbishop of New York; and of Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez to be Newbishop of Palm Beach, Florida, near the summer/winter White House at Mar a Lago, Florida. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Ramon Bejarano is known for being a homophile. He celebrated an LGBTXXX :"Pride" Mess featuring a drag queen, who gave the "homily." He has apologized for causing "trauma" to sodomites. He spoke out for allowing pro-abortionist former U.S. President J.R. Biden munch the (fake) Novus Ordo cookie.
Ronald Hicks was associated with Prevost in Chicago. He is associated with Prevost's Marxist/Modernist beliefs and has stood with illegal aliens, who are rioting in Chicago, with the national guard on the verge of being dispatched to maintain law and order.
Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez has also stood with illegal aliens and appears as just another secular politician in Newchurch clothes.
Traditional Catholics, Prevost's latest troika of appointments for his Synoldal Newchurch of the New Age are anything but true and valid bishops. They are, like him, wanna-be Marxist Modernist politicians. The troika isn't even consecrated, merely "installed" like Protestant Newbishops under Newchurch's invalid (fake) Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968, not the bimillennial traditional Ordinal of the Catholic Church.
The record is now clear beyond doubt. "Catholic Charities," an arm of the Newchurch of the New Order in the United States, is not involved in religious activities, but in embezzling U.S. government funds to suborn illegal activities, what are called "major grant violations." The latest violator caught red-handed is chapter of the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, which is slated for suspension from receiving any government funds for a period of six years. The fake charity has been run by Newchurch "Sister" Norma Pimental, its Executive Director.
"Sister" Pimentel had been warned for months by the government, but remained persistent in her embezzlement. Funds have been going to illegal alien criminals, and Pimentel may also be referred for criminal prosecution. On December 1, 2025, her suspension was announced. Pimentel and her staff are said to have submitted 248 fraudulent bills to the government.
The Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo associated himself personally with the crimes when he praised and suborned "Catholic Charities USA," which is currently facing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) charges in U.S. Federal Court. Prevost has supported "Sister" Pimental in her corrupt activities. She has also been charged by the Texas Attorney General for operating illegal "stash houses." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Fox News.]
Traditional Catholics, "Catholic Charities" is neither Catholic nor a charity, but rather a corrupt sieve for money-laundering for illegal purposes, as admitted even by the Pseudo-Newpopes. No donations can morally be given "Catholic Charities," as now the strong presumption can now be made that donors become involved in mismanagement and embezzlement.
As charges of sex crimes against children skyrockets against the Newarchdiocese of New York, Newcardinal Timothy "Laughing Cow" Dolan, who has run the corrupt Newchurch operation there since 2009, was forced on December 8, 2025, to accept mediation to settle the claims of 1,300 child victimes against presbyters and Newchurch employees there.
Dolan is being forced to liquidate 300,000,000 USD in real-estate assets, including a Newarchdiocesan headquarters in Manhattan. Staff is being laid off, and 10 per cent of the operating budget is being cut. Dolan has to pay through the teeth because the insurance company has refused to pay on sexual misconduct claims. The company charged that Dolan has covered up the crimes against children for years and refuses to reveal the details of his malfeasance. The policy does not provide compensation for knowingly colluding in "a pattern of abuse persisting many years, thus "rewarding criminal conduct." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Reuters.]
Traditional Catholics, just as Newcardinal Dolan is being forced to face the music, he is also being forced to leave his post. His newly-named successor, Ronald Hicks, an associate of Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, who has also been implicated in covering up sex crimes in Peru where he served since 2014, has been appointed to succeed the "Laughing Cow." As Newchurch's corrupt pattern continues, the victimized children should get ready for even worse treatment from Hicks and Prevost.
The first question would be: What is a "Protestant" Christmas carol? A carol whose music was composed by a Protestant? A carol whose text was composed by a Protestant? A carol that contains a Protestant heresy?
The Catholic Church has been generous when it comes to the music it uses, recognizing the power and beauty of music to lift the soul, whatever its provenance, as long as there is nothing heretical or vulgar in the text, such as the Modernistic "trash music" that is so often encountered these days. Melodies themselves are devoid of theology. The chorale preludes of Johann Sebastian Bach for organ, for example, were used long before the Vatican II Anti-council as preludes, interludes, and postludes, even though some of them were based on Lutheran motifs, although others were based in Gregorian chant melodies.
Two of the greatest composers used in the Catholic Church were Protestants, or nearly so. Bach was a Lutheran (although some suspect that he was a Catholic in the closet for employment's sake), and yet there would be no objection to singing the "Gloria in Excelsis" from his beloved High Mass in B-minor, by common consent of musicologists the most sublime work ever composed. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was identified as a Catholic, though he was undoubtedly a Freemason. Yet his Masses were played regularly at the court of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg.
Not only Protestant librettists but even Catholic librettists can slip into theological error. The popular carol "Silent Night," which every Christmas at St. Catherine's Basilica at Bethlehem, built over the site of the manager where the Holy Infant was born as our Redeemer, is sung in its original Latin form. Yes, the librettist Joseph Mohr, a Catholic priest, after all, wrote the original in Latin, not in German, as a recent discovery of his manuscript has proven. A common vernacular version contains a heresy in one of one of the verses. The verse "Jesus, Lord at thy birth" contains a heresy because Jesus became Lord not at His birth, but at His conception.
So, as long as a carol (or other piece of sacred music) is not obviously associated with a Protestant heresy, do praise God "with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles" (Ephesians 5:19/DRV). As St. Augustine of Canterbury observed: "Qui bene cantat, bis orat" (he who sings well, prays twice)!
On December 8, 2025, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Donald Trump became the first U.S. President to issue an official proclamation on that holyday with an eloquent paean to the Blessed Virgin, who was declared under this title as the Patroness of the United States of America in 1792, already 62 years before Pope Pius IX's formal definition of the dogma in 1854. Trump publicly acknowledged the "distinct role Mary played in our great American story" and proclaimed:
Today, I recognize every American celebrating December 8 as a holyday honoring the faith, humility, and love of Mary, mother of Jesus and one of the greatest figures in the Bible.... On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Catholics celebrate what they believe to be Mary’s freedom from original sin as the mother of God.... [She] heroically accepted God’s will with trust and humility. Mary’s decision forever altered the course of humanity.
Not even Catholic president J.F. Kennedy, let alone self-proclaimed "devout Catholic" pro-abortionist Newchurcher President J.R. Biden, issued such a proclamation. Yet this is not the first time that Trump has recognized the traditional Catholic Faith, or stood up for it in the face of the errant Pseudo-Newpopes. Trump seems to have a particular affection for the Traditional Catholic Faith, although he originally called himself a Presbyterian after his father, then left the Presbyterian sect and in 2020 just called himself a Christian. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, so truly traditional and Catholic was Trump's proclamation that the unCatholic U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops was caught flatfooted. It took them three days to respond to the original announcement of the proclamation. Not too quick on the uptake those apostate Pseudo-Newbishops!
You know what scares the Hades out of Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo? Not the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) or the Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS) or even Bernie Fellay's Neo-Society of St. Pius X (Neo-SSPX). These are merely lapdogs to the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order to one degree or another. No, it is Traditional Catholic bishops priests who remain courageously independent of the Newchurch.
That is why Prevost, who on his recent Newpapal junket to the Near East had no problem schmoozing with the schismatic Oecumenical Orthodox and the Infidel Islamists, recently "excommunicated" independent Bishop Anthony Ward from the Synodal Newchurch. Bishop Ward doesn't care; he wants no part of the apostate Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. After all, Prevost is himself, as an apostate (albeit a fancily-dressed one!) from the Catholic Church, ipso facto excommunicated and therefore is not a pope and cannot excommunicate anyone. St. Robert Bellarmine, one of the greatest theologians of the Catholic Church, put it about as simply as it can be: "Papa hereticus depositus est," an heretical pope is deposed. The Latin verb form indicates that by his heresy his deposition has already been accomplished; no further action is necessary.
Prevost's target was Bishop Anthony Ward, who, unlike many of Prevost's Newcardinals, Newbishops, and presbyters, is not a paedophile. He is a Traditional Roman Catholic who wants nothing to do with the counterfeit Newchurch and its apostate Newpopes. He was the founder in 1977 of a Traditional Catholic religious community, the Servants of the Holy Family.
[Later information indicates that Ward's consecrating bishop may not have been consecrated in the valid Traditional Catholic rite of Holy Orders. In that case, Ward would be in the same invalid situation as the Newclergy in the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), the Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS), and the like, but, unlike those Newclergy organizations, at least Ward has openly rejected the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order.]
Bishop Ward, like the great anti-heretical bishops of the early Church (Athanasius Basil, Martin, Augustine Eusebius) and like Christ Himself, pulls no punches. On November 15, 2025, Ward declared himself "loyal to the true [Traditional] Catholic Faith." He proclaimed: [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Agency.]
I have not and will not obey commands from the kangaroo court composed of heretics, schismatics, Freemasons, representatives of the most vile sinful perversions, enemies of the cross of Christ, of whom the majority of bishops -- particularly in the United States -- no longer believe in the real presence of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus, Christ in the Eucharist.
Traditional Catholics, Traditional Catholic Bishop Anthony Ward, who refuses to serve the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, is just one of a number of similar Traditional Catholic bishops around the world who maintain valid apostolic succession and support the numerous Traditional Catholic priests around the world, also remaining independent of the apostate Newchurch. While unconsecrated (invalid) Newchurch bishops increase like ants -- there are now well over 5,000 of them -- and spread the poison of the apostate Newchurch, the much smaller number of consecrated (valid) independent Traditional Catholic bishops have a power far greater than their numbers. Remember the great Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre? He made the Pseudo-Newpopes shake in their scarlet slippers!
St. Lawrence Press has announced that this year's edition of the Ordo Recitandi for saying the Traditional Latin Mass and Traditional Divine Office in the fully Traditional Roman Rite (1950), i.e., without the serious corruptions injected between 1951 and 1962, has been flying off the shelves. There has been something like 175 per cent increase in orders in the last decade. So popular has the true Traditional Latin Mass (1950) become that within three days the first print run was sold out, and a second print run is now in circlation. Also, Amazon.com has taken on the Ordo and now conveniently fulfills all orders, duty free and tariff free.
This St. Lawrence Press's Ordo Recitandi is by far the world's best annual Ordo. It is not for the counterfeit New Mess of 1969, nor for the corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962, nor for the Bugnini corruptions introduced in the 1950s and 1960s, but for the fully Traditional Latin Mass (1950). The New Latin Mess of 1962 was merely a ruse to usher in the full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Mess of 1969. The Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), the Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS), the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), and other Newchurch-associated organizations were duped by using the 1962 aberrant rite, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass.
The Ordo Recitandi contains the necessary directions for those who wish to say the Divine Office and Mass of any day in the Traditional Liturgical Year according to the fully Traditional Roman Rite (1950). The Ordo Recitandi details those changes which arise due to the interaction of the Temporal and Sanctoral cycles for each day of the year. In addition the Ordo Recitandi contains detailed information concerning the celebration of the various classes of Votive Masses, e.g. Masses of External Solemnities and the rubrics for the Forty Hours. The Ordo Recitandi follows the format of Roman Ordines that were produced for the Universal Calendar in the late 1930s following the fifth editio post typicam of the Roman Missal that was promulgated by the Sacred Congregation of Rites in 1939. The Ordo Recitandi is by tradition written entirely in Latin.
The fact that this Ordo sold out within three days of its publication and that a second run had to be printed this year to meet the increased demand is a most encouraging development. It indicates that that New Latin Mass of 1962, which was taken over and mangled by the Newchurch of the New Order, is becoming increasingly rejected for the corruption that it is. The St. Lawrence Press and its expert Rubricarius is to be commended for making this annual Ordo available to real Traditional Catholic priests and laypeople who have not sold out to the fraud of the New Latin Mess of 1962. For ordering information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Traditional Liturgical Calendar department.
On December 1, 2025, on his Newpapal junket to Turkey and the Near East, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo showed the continuing apostasy of the Pseudo-Newpopes. In a scene that was clearly reminiscent of Pseudo-Newpope JPII-Wojtyla, whom Newchurch considers a "Newsaint," Prevost almost literally re-enacted the scene of One World Oecumenism ("we all worship the same god"; "all religions are true"), standing in Beirut with Schismatics and Infidels, just as Wojtyla had done at the infamous Assisi Conference of 1986, where an idol of the Buddha was placed atop a tabernacle that was supposed to be Catholic.
Prevost pushed the false One World Religion and even heretically omitted the Filioque from the Nicene Creed that he recited with the Eastern Orthodox Schismatics. Then he stood with the Islamists in Beirut's Martyrs Square, honoring Lebanese who fought in the civil war. But, unmentioned by Prevost, it was also the place where Christians died under Islamic rule. Yet Prevost persisted in saying that Newchurchers and Islamists worship "the one god," but "the one God” professed by the Islamists explicitly denies the Most Holy Trinity, rejects the Incarnation, and condemns the Cross. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Radix.]
Traditional Catholics, Islam rejects every central dogma of the Catholic faith. The apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo preaches Syncretism, the "Kumbaya" heresy, condemned by the true Catholic Church. It is this heresy that allows Prevost's Newchurch to worship the pagan fertility goddess in the Pachamama Mess and the pagan sun god in the Acatama Mess.
Newvatican's latest annual financial report for 2024, released December 3, 2025, showed that Newvatican is still in deficit to the tune of 51,800,000 USD and still on the verge of bankruptcy, as its auditors have publicly announced. However, the Association of (New)vatican Lay Employees, representing Newvatican's own employees, has charged that Prevost-Leo's own Secretariat of the Economy has cooked the books. The Association views the report "with skepticism," stating the Newvatican had sold off real property to produce artificial gains on the report and camouflage long-term budget shortfalls. The Newvatican employees' pension fund is seriously underfunded. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, Pseudo-Newpopes have been playing this game for years, trying to cover up the fact that they have spent Newchurch into bankruptcy. At least three public auditors have confirmed this fact. Among other things these Newpopes gallivant around the world on personal junkets at great expense to the treasury, They are supposed to be bishops of Rome, but if they really were, they would stay there and fix not only the financial but also the moral and doctrinal problems in their Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. As it is, their Newchurch is sinking into bankruptcy, vice, and collapse.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
As with so many other traditionalist groups that inadvisedly attached themselves to Newchurch, the local Newchurch bishop shut down the New Latin Mess that used to be here. Are there any resources with whom we might connect to open a discussion about how we could bring a Traditional Catholic priest here to support the needs of our small Traditional Catholic community?
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
The important thing to be aware of is that rite is secondary to the Faith. The Newchurch of the New Order, now called the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. It was founded and given its constitution in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council. It holds all manner of heresies and is clearly no different from the Lutheran Church and other apostate organizations.
Some people understand this fact, but because they want the so-called "Latin Mass" (an ambiguous and deceptive term), they hold their noses, use Novus Ordo (=Protestant) churches, and place themselves under the control of the counterfeit Newchurch institution. They thus become part of the problem and suffer the fruits that you are even now seeing, with Newchurch bishops and popes, no better than secular politicians, playing political games with the spiritual lives of their Newchurchers.
Also, you need to be aware that service of 1962 is NOT the Traditional Latin Mass. It is not the "Tridentine" rite. It a significant corruption of it, which is properly termed the "New" Latin Mass, which goes along with Newchurch's "New" Sacraments, "New" Doctrine, "New" Morality, "New" Bible, "New" Catechism, "New" Canon. It is a product of the Vatican II Anti-council, which sat in 1962. Its author (the Freemason Annibale Bugnini) wrote a thousand-page book explaining that the purpose of all the liturgical "reforms," including the 1962 service, was to lead up to a service that would be acceptable to Protestants. The 1962 Protestantized service was not meant to last, but to deceive and to serve as the stepping stone to the full-blown New Order service of 1969, which is completely invalid, in addition to being simulated by persons who are not Catholic priests, but are "installed" (that is the official term Newchurch uses) like Protestant ministers under the invalid Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.
It's a lot to take in, we know, if you have not researched these matters before, but as a practical matter, we can mince it down to this: what you need to find is an independent Traditional Catholic priest who has nothing to do with the Newchurch of the New Order, which was renamed in 2024 by Bergoglio (Francis) and his follower Prevost (Leo) as the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. Among other things it officially holds "Messes" worshipping Pachamama, the pagan fertility goddess (in Mexico) and Acatama, the Aztec sun god (in Peru). For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's "Traditional Catholic Priests Wanted and Available" department. As far as we are aware, these are all independent of Newchurch.
These are highly unusual times and difficult to understand for those who do not know the history and have been misled. It may well be that Our Lord has done you a favor by eliminating the previous situation and allowing you to get a fresh start, outside of the Newchurch of the New Order, which is sinking before our very eyes. This too could be part of the Divine plan and has its Biblical prologues. e.g., in the Machabees of the Old Testament. These days call upon true Catholics to exercise both wisdom and courage in equal measure, but the rewards are great for those who do.
"Thou shalt not steal." Even a schoolchild knows this Commandment, but not the Newchurch of the New Order, which poses as the Catholic Church, but is most certainly NOT. On November 21, 2025, Catholic Charities was outed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for having taken 1,500,000 USD in taxpayer funds for charity, but instead the organization used the money to assist illegal invaders, including violent felons, to violate the law. In other words, Catholic Charities, which is neither Catholic nor a charity, embezzled the money. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by KSBW TV 8.]
Traditional Catholics, the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops was already being investigated for another embezzlement case. The U.S. Newbishops were accused of racketeering and corruption for serving as bagmen for the bankrupted Newvatican to collect money for "Peter's Pence, which is supposed to serve the most desperately poor and victims of natural disasters. Instead, as Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis openly admitted, he redirected (aka "embezzled") the money to shore up his bankrupted Newvatican administration.
Newarchbishop Georg Ganswein came out on December 9, 2025, to push the notion of Novus Ordo "beatifying" Josef Ratzinger, who called himself Benedict XVI. Ganswein is also pushing the idea of not even waiting the five years required by the Newchurch of the New Order before any such process to start. It is interesting that no one has promote this notion about "beatifying" Ratzinger except Ganswein, who was his personal secretary. Ganswein was also Bergoglio's personal secretary, but when Ganswein published a book upon the death of Ratzinger, December 31, 2022, which contained harsh criticisms of Bergoglio, Bergoglio expelled him from Newrome and exiled him to Germany without portfolio.
All of this is just so much Newchurch nonsense. In the last 700 years before the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, supplanted the true Catholic Church in 1964, only three popes had been considered holy enough to be canonized: Pope St. Celestine I in 1313, Pope St. Pius V in 1712, and Pope St. Pius X in 1954. But after the apostate Newchurch took over, con-anizing Pseudo-Newpopes became de rigeur to cover up their apostasy and corruption, with all subsequent "popes" either con-anized or pending con-anization ("con" meaning a scam, a counterfeit). Of course, all these actions are null and void, as the Newchurch of the New Order, now renamed the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Agency.]
p> Traditional Catholics, if Newchurch were to proceed with Ratzinger, he would be the first Newpope who was Nazi accomplice. He became a voluntary, not a required, member of the Hitlerjungend and then served on a Nazi military battery, whose function was to shoot down Allied planes in World War II. These facts are not disputed, as they were admitted in Ratzinger's own autobiography. The deep corruption of Newchurch is simply stunning!
Reports in December 2025 have shown that a "notable number" of newly-installed presbyters (Newchurch has not ordained priests since 1968 after adopting a Protestantized New Ordinal that merely "installs" invalid presbyter-ministers like the Protestants) are leaving the Newchurch shortly after their "installation." Some of them are suffering nervous breakdowns or even committing suicide because of an interior conflict between the true Faith and the empty New Order counterfeit.
One young presbyter in the San Francisco, California, Newarchdiocese described simulating the New Order Mess as "painful." He felt isolated and ignored by his Newarchbisop, Salvatore Cordileone, and his staff, so he left just a few years after his "installation." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, young ex-presbyters will admit that they know a "notable number" of their peers who have abandoned the Newchurch presbyterate. A significant problem is that they feel "overworked," as the Newchurch presbyter-to-lay ratio becomes higher and higher when presbyters die, retire, or just leave. In addition, the young presbyters must face the reality that Newchurch resources are becoming fewer and fewer as one-quarter of Newdioceses have gone bankrupt. Young presbyters encounter more and more of their peers who, as they term it, are "messed up and broken" by the New Order sect.
Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is at it again. On November 19, 2025, from his personal vacation castle, Castel Gandolfo, he again pushed illegal invasion of countries in violation of Catholic teaching, including that of the Universal Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. The apostate Newpope speaks out of both sides of his mouth, doing lip service to national laws, but fomenting violations of those very laws. But he himself has nothing to worry about. He has the ancient Aurelian Wall 20 metres high, 4 metres thick, and 19 kilometres long to protect him!
Prevost, who claims to be an American, but took up Peruvian citizenship in 2015, now seems to have a particular hatred of his native country and is pushing the Marxist/Modernist "borderless" agenda, also espoused by his U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops. Yet not one of his American Newbishops has encouraged illegal invaders to take advantage of the very generous offer of the U.S. government of a free flight back to the illegal's country of origin, a 1,000 USD donative for expenses, and the possibility of future legal re-entry. Ironically, his same USCCB is now being charged in U.S. Federal Court for money-laundering funds from the government for illegal purposes in respect to the illegal invaders. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Le Monde.]
Traditional Catholics, the Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, while he chastises other countries for protecting their citizens and deporting criminal illegal invaders, refuses to admit illegals into his own country, the Newvatican. Oh, no, that would affect tourism, and he must keep tourist dollars flowing in, in order to prevent his whole Newchurch operation from finally sinking into the bankruptcy that is pressing on its horizon.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Newchurchers have become more and more upset by the constant changes that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is making, most of which dispose of traditional rites (if there are any left) and weaken the Catholic principles that we were taught to live. Is Newchurch likely to become like the Eastern Church, divided between two brands of apostasy, "High" (New Latin Mess) and "Low" (New Order Mess) Church, like the Anglican/Episcopalians or the Lutherans?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT THE NEW LATIN MESS OF 1962 IS NOT THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS. It is a fake, concocted by the proto-Newchurch's liturgical head, the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, as he himself admits in his thousand-page book, to snooker Neocon Newchurchers into thinking that they were getting the real Traditional Latin Mass. They weren't. The 1962 Mess was an experimental, transitional Mess that was gone even before the "New Mess" of 1969 took over. To this day Newchurch rejects the real Traditional Latin Mass before the corruptions of the 1950s and 1960s deliberately leading to the New Order Mess of 1969. It is already shutting down even most of the fake New Latin Messes of 1962 in accordance with the 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes."
Even aside from the serious corruptions contained in the New Latin Mess, that Mess is being simulated within the context of the apostate Synodal Newchurch. The sermons, or as Newchurch now calls them, "homilies," are controlled by the Marxist/Modernist Newbishops, the liturgical calendar is Protestantized-Novus Ordoized to one degree or another, the Messes are often conducted in Modernist Newchurch buildings, etc. And, what is worse, Newchurch has no valid "eucharist," because the persons simulating the New Latin Mess have merely been "installed" as presbyter-ministers by those very Newbishops, who themselves have never been consecrated in the Catholic Sacrament of Holy Orders, but merely "installed" like Protestant bishops.
All of Newchurch, whether in Latin, English, Swahili, or any other language, is no different from the heretic Protestant church down the street. Ironically, some of the more traditional Protestant churches, though still heretical, are closer to true Catholicism than the Newchurches that falsely continue to call themselves "Catholic" to maintain their ever-diminishing power and money. The statistics show that Newchurch is sinking fast: Mess attendance down to single digits, thousands of once-Catholic church buildings closing permanently, no young men to speak of entering the paedophiliac Newseminaries, religious orders collapsing or already defunct.
The New Latin Mess under the control of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is not the solution. It is a problem, an apostate wolf in sheep's clothing. That is why true Catholics have gotten as far away from Newchurch as they can, seeking one of the many Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, or oratories that have remained entirely independent of the fake Newchurch and that maintain valid Catholic Masses and Sacraments.
Although there is no record of Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo meeting with a Traditional Catholic, he prominently and publicly meets with schismatics, heretics, pagans, Newchurchers, atheists, paedophiliacs, and pro-abotionists. On November 25, 2025, he posed for public pictures in the Newapostolic palace with rabid pro-abortionist, pro-LGBTQXXX U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. Klobuchar is a Congregationalist heretic. Congregationalism, which includes Klobuchar's so-called United Church of Christ, also emphasizes Leftism, "social justice" (a concocted construct of the Left), the "ordination" of ministresses, and immoral Wokeism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Amy Klobuchar has one of the most immoral voting records in the United States Senate. Yet Prevost was quick to give her an audience of thirty minutes, which he entirely denies to Traditional Catholics. Naturally, Klobuchar, whose Congregationalism traditionally regards Prevost as the "whore of Babylon," issued empty words about Prevost being a "true moral force."
Traditional Catholics, the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost's predecessor, Bergoglio-Francis, publicly praised and prominently met with Ex-U.S. President J.R. Biden and Ex-U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, both pro-abortion, pro-gay self-proclaimed "devout Catholics," so devout, in fact, that many Newdioceses denied them the Novus Ordo cookie and Kool-Aid. These Pseudo-Newpopes are indeed no moreally better than the crooked politicians whom they fawn over. The notion that they could be true Roman Catholic popes is mortally offensive to the true Catholic Faith.
What if you held a "unity conference," and only a few united to show up? That is essentially what happened to Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, who summoned the Eastern Orthodox to unite with him in Nicaea (modern Iznik, Turkey), to mark the 1700th anniversary of the First Oecumenical Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325. Most Orthodox rejected the apostate Newpope's summons and boycotted the event, which was devised to receive the Orthodox into "full communion" with the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
The Eastern Orthodox were too smart to fall for this ploy. Their sect rejects Traditional Catholicism, as does the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and its Pseudo-Newpopes. They reject the Filioque in the Creed. They reject the traditional date of Easter. The last time the Orthodox tried to unify with Rome, and the bull "Laetentur Caeli" was read out in the massive cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the people reacted with fury against the Orthodox bishops who had signed the union, which was thereby vitiated. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Hellinscope.]
Traditional Catholics, while Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo and the so-called "Oecumenical" Patriarch, Bartholomew I, schemed toward a false union, the overwhelming majority of the Orthodox world, including Russia, Serbia, Jerusalem, Antioch, Romania, Bulgaria, and Georgia, condemned and boycotted the event entirely. Yet the mostly anti-Christian press of the Western world has barely covered the fact that most Orthodox have rejected Modernist/Marxist Prevost's "unity conference." In fact, most Eastern Orthodox do not recognize the so-called "Oecumenical" Patriarch, with whom Prevost is primarily dealing. So the Eastern Orthodox have literally spit on him, as they did on Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis on his visit to the Middle East in 2014.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
A friend said that a crucifix, small or big, must have the inscription INRI upon it; otherwise, it should not be used. Is that correct?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
You are right to be skeptical of "friends" who purport to be knowledgeable about things beyond their ken. In fact, the official definition of a crucifix is "crux quae imaginem Crucifixi habet," a cross that bears the image of the Crucified. The addition of Pilate's titulus, or inscription, INRI, standing for "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews, is commendable, but not required. As you have indicated, the small size of a given crucifix, such as that on a Rosary, may prevent the addition of the inscription.
On November 24, 2025, Chinese Newcardinal Joseph Zen, aged 93, who has stood up courageously against persecution by the Newpopes and the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, has charged that Pseudo-Newpopes Bergoglio-Francis and his disciple Prevost-Leo have Zen charged that Newchurch has become like the Anglican/Episcopalian Church, "committing suicide with the world" and "producing "chaos and division." Zen went on to reject the Synodal Newchurch's final document, terming it "ambiguous and experimental."
Ironically, on October 16, 2025, after King Charles III appointed Sarah Mullally as the first Archbishopess of that Church in contravention of Scripture, an international traditionalist group called the Global Anglican Communion, comprising some 80 per cent of Anglicans worldwide, formally rejected Mullally and the Church of England and declared that it is henceforth the authentic Anglican Communion. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newcardinal Zen is known for his rock-solid anti-Communism. He deplored the Communist Chinese takeover of Hong Kong from the British and chastised Bergoglio for selling out to the Communist Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping. Zen also condemned Prevost for permitting an LGBTXXX "pilgrimage" inside St. Peter’s Basilica. Prevost knew of this event beforehand, yet issued no condemnation afterward. Zen called for public reparations of prayer and fasting to be made for Prevost's sinful action.
On November 25, 2025, Ana Diaz publicly charged Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo in a Newvatican court with suborning paedophile sex crimes against her and her sisters by an intimate of Prevost. The presbyter in question had been quietly "dispensed" from the presbyterate, in a pattern that is quite common with the Newpopes, who never admit the crimes or publicly denounce them. When the victim found out about Prevost's "dispensation," she became outraged and went public.
Diaz has taken her case to a Newvatican court (which Prevost controls absolutely) to get justice for herself and her sisters against "all ecclesiastical officials who participated in or were responsible for these acts of negligence," which were never even minimally instigated by Newchurch. She has also demanded a "personal audience" with Prevost. Díaz further exclaimed that "it is incomprehensible that instead of seeking the truth and repairing the victims, the decision was made to close the case through a papal grace that frees the abuser from facing the responsibility that corresponds to him, leaving us in a vulnerable situation with no reparation, where the only thing offered to us is payment for therapy." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo hasn't been in office even six months, and already rumblings of his involvement in paedophile sex-crime cover-ups of his intimates in Peru have started to surface. Ana Diaz and her sisters are only the latest victims. Prevost has plenty of time to meet with Hollywood celebrities, vulgar rock musicians, and pro-abortion politicians, but we bet he won't find time to meet with the child victim, Ana Diaz.
Already Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has drawn international condemnation for laying a wreath on the tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on November 27, 2025. Prevost ignored all the history of Ataturk's atrocities and venerated the dictator at the start of his first Newpapal junket, to Turkey. Ataturk established in 1923 a "New Turkey," devoid of the historic Christian communities there, whom he expelled, slaughtered, and exterminated.
Owing to Ataturk's atrocities, Christians have disappeared from Turkey and Asia Minor. Today Christians number only about 0.2 per cent of the population in Turkey. Winston Churchill referred to Ataturk's "vast massacre of its Christian population" in the name of establishing "Turkey for Turks." The city of Nicaea, where under the leadership of Constantine the Great, the first council of the Catholic Church was held in A.D. 325 and produced the Nicene Creed, today has no Christians left.
Curiously, many of these Christians whom Ataturk slaughtered were schismatic Greek Orthodox, the very group to which Prevost has been playing the sycophant in the name of "oecumenism." Nevertheless, Ataturk was just sensible enough to replace Turkey's Arabic-based writing with a far more efficient Roman Latin-based script, through which Roman culture had permeated the Roman Empire and its decendants in the known world, and to convert Turkey's archaic measurement units into the scientifically-based Greco-Romano-Gallic Metric System. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Breitbart.]
Traditional Catholics, Ataturk engaged in the ethnical cleansing of Armenians and Greeks by large-scale exterminations and atrocities. He committed numerous atrocities as President of "New Turkey" and was often called "Dictator," admired in his time by Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Yet this is the man whom Pseudo-Newpope Prevost chose to highlight and venerate on his first Newpapal junket. It marks Prevost's pseudo-papacy with the stench of ignominy from its outset.
On November 17, 2025, apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo summoned a fourth commission to push the notion of deaconesses for his Synodal Newchurch. He will keep trying until he flips one of these commissions to give him the answer he wants, not the right answer. His agents point to "critical tensions regarding clericalism and male chauvinism." These terms were invented by the Pseudo-Newpopes to help them eventually dump clergy altogether in their Synodal Church (which itself is an heretical Protestant notion) and insert male and (mostly) female lay ministers like the heretic Protestants into what Newchurch calls the "leadership."
Apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo and his Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is bound and determined to install deaconesses in Newchurch, even though no fewer than three previous Newchurch commissions have found that installed deaconesses never existed in the Catholic Church. Deaconesses are, however, a confirmed part of the heretic Anglican-Episcopalian sect, however, which in short order followed the installation of deaconesses with that of presbyteresses and bishopesses. It is once again the principle of the camel's nose under the test. Get the deaconesses in, and the presbyteresses and bishopesses will soon follow. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Reporter.]
Traditional Catholics, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost and his Synodal Newchurch have called for "greater participation of all components of the People of God -- especially women and families --in the formation of ordained ministers." That is what the Synodal Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, now calls what were once priests, but in 1968 stopped ordaining priests altogether, instead "installing" what were called "presbyters" (ministers), who are just as invalid as heretic Protestant ministers. At this point there is really no difference between the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and the heretic Protestant Churches. They are both apostate sects.
The painting represents the moment immediately preceding the crucifixion of St. Andrew, at which Saint is stripped of his clothes while the torturers arrange the wooden poles from which he will be hung, as St. Andrew was tied and not nailed to the decussate cross, so as not to resemble in any way the sacrifice of Jesus.
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