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On January 19, 2026, three Modernist/Marxist Newcardinals in the United States took it upon themselves to go ultra vires and issue a political statement President D.J. Trump's foreign policy in Venezuela, Ukraine, and Greenland. The three bad actors are: Robert McElroy, Newarchbishop of Washington, D.C., who brought his former Newdiocese of San Diego, California, into bankruptcy for the second time; Blase Cupich, Newcardinal of Chicago, Illinois; and Joseph Tobin, Newarchbishop of Newwark, New Jersey.
Their straying far afield into an area that is purely political and none of their business has been roundly criticized by the conservative press. Already it has backfired. Newsmax, for example, one of the leading U.S. cable news networks, openly questioned what business these Newcardinals have making political statements.
The apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, whom the three Newcardinals fingered as the instigator of their statement, has also been criticized for his straying into politics while his own Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is turning off more and more of his residual Newchurchers, at the same time that their Newchurches are being shut down right and left, and no young man wants to become a Novus Ordo presbyter (Newchurch having stopped ordaining Catholic priests in 1968, when it adopted an invalid (fake) Protestant New Ordinal merely to "install" presbyter-ministers). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the New York Times.]
Traditional Catholics, recent polls show that Newchurch is losing what little credibility it had left. A majority of U.S. Newchurchers support President Trump's efforts to restore law and order, particularly against criminals who illegally cross the boarder and rioters who have broken federal law by disrupting church services. Attendance at Newchurch's New Order Messes have sunk into the single digits while their Newchurches are being sold off right and left at a pittance to become bars and restaurants.
We know that the Newchurch of the New Order was established in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council in no insignificant measure by the intrigues of the Freemasons. The man who was appointed to head the Anti-council's Preparatory Commission on the Liturgy, Hannibal Bugnini, is commonly held to be a Freemason. A reputed handwritten note from the Masonic Worshipful Grandmaster at Rome is extant praising Bugnini for his efforts, which destroyed the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church and sent the true Catholic Church into the "catacombs" of thousands of independent Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories around the world.
Newchurch is, thus, quintessentially Masonic. On January 20, 2026, the Freemasons, believed to be the world's largest secret society, reported that, like the Synodal Newchurch, their numbers are markedly dwindling. From the 1950s Masonic membership in England has dropped from "several hundred thousand" to 170,000 members. In the United States, membership has dropped over the same period from 4,100,000 to fewer than 900,000. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Freemasons are now seeking new recruits via Facebook and antisocial media. That hasn't worked for Newchurch, nor is it likely fare any better for the Freemasons. Undoubtedly some ignorant Newchurchers will apply, thus incurring automatic excommunication, because Freemasonry is a "complete Anti-Church, where all the theological and moral foundations of the Catholic Church are turned into their opposite." From the eighteenth century Freemasons have been infiltrating the Church to the point that many of the bishops at the Vatican II Anti-council were tainted by its goal of "de-Christianizing" the world.
In September 2025 Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo appointed Cristina Perrella to be President of Newvatican's Fine Arts Academy, the first woman president in the Academy's history. In 2020 Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis had already appointed her a member of the Academy. Perella has had little experience with Church institutions and is not even a practicing Newchurcher. She describes herself as "not religious," yet she will be organizing art exhibitions, lectures, and cultural events for Newchurch. One of her exhibitions included "neon-light pop-art."
She wants Newvatican to "embrace contemporary art ... a frontier of experimentation." She is also known as a feminist and a moral relativist, believing that "things are never black and white." She has been criticized for promoting LGBTQXXX, sadomasochism, and fetishism themes as a Newchurch functionary. She is committed to "moving beyond boundaries." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, according to the Latin proverb, "Corrptio optimi pessima. And it certainly has been the case that the corruption starts from the top, from the best things, so it is no surprise that the corrupt Newchurch has thoroughly corrupted the most beautiful religious art, music, and architecture through the centuries into trash.
As Holy Week approaches early in 2026 -- Palm Sunday falls on March 29 -- it is an appropriate time to remember that Pius XII perpetrated a major corruption of the most venerable and ancient rites of the Catholic Church, the rites of Holy Week. Some of these rites had been untouched since the early Church and are so ancient that parts of them still contain Biblical Greek. It is this same anti-traditional corrupted form that came to be used in the 1962 New Latin Mess that the Neocon Newchurchers use, which Traditional Catholics refuse to use.
It was the Modernist radical Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, whom Pius XII himself had appointed in 1948 to his position as General Secretary of his Liturgical Reform Commission who, operating under Pius XII's aegis, "modernize," i.e., corrupted Holy Week. Bugnini already had in mind then the substitution of the true Mass with the full-blown invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969, which Newchurch still uses as the cornerstone of its Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
The responsibility of Pius XII, whom even some Traditional Catholics fallibly regard as the "Last Traditional Pope," for this execrable corruption of the Church's most sacred rites, cannot be swept under the rug. Neocon Newchurchers don't like to admit it, but Pius XII was a liturgical radical. After all, under Pius XII's authority and often personal encouragement, Bugnini was allowed to implement the following anti-traditional actions that led directly to the Novus Ordo "liturgy" after the Vatican II Anti-council:
This sad tale of the post-war period under Pius XII when the Traditional Latin Mass and Divine Office were bowdlerized to become the Novus Ordo of the late 1960s is expertly handled in Carol Byrne's 300-page study entitled Born of Revolution: A Misconceived Liturgical Movement, published by Holyrood Press of Middleton, Delaware, in 2020. Dr. Byrne hits the nail on the head in her astonishing summary of what happened liturgically under Pius XII:
The success [of the liturgical radicals] in gaining the ear of Pope Pius XII was the precondition for that control-by-committee which would be the hallmark of all future developments in the liturgy. Many will be shocked to discover that these radical reforms were effectively given the power [by Pius XII] to dictate the reforms on the basis of their own views, which were rife with negative connotations against the traditional liturgy.
Traditional Catholics, as you began preparing your Lenten reading, put Dr. Byrne's book on your list and avoid like the plague the 1962 New Latin Messes around, which were designed to destroy your Traditional Catholic Faith, especially at the time of the year's Holy Week.
It is not a widely known fact, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops (USCCB) itself doesn't publish the statistics, but government records indicate that the Newbishops are so strapped for presbyters, even with Newchurches closing right and left, that they are desperate to import aliens to service Newchurchers in the United States. Some of the aliens don't even speak English. They certainly don't speak Latin!
Even though the U.S. Newchurch has been shutting down Newparishes right and left, it is so desperate that it has been importing aliens by the thousands to run Newchurch, especially in rural U.S. Newdioceses. The USCCB has admitted that many Newdioceses rely so heavily upon alien clergy that if it cannot import aliens to run its Newchurches, it would have to close most Newparishes.
On January 14, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it was waiving the full one-year period that R-1 temporary religious visa holders are required to spend in their native country before applying for return after five years in the U.S. The change does not increase the quota of aliens to be admitted, but only shortens the period before R-1 holders can reapply.
So desperate was Newchurch that after the USCCB had often criticized the Trump administration for simply enforcing immigration laws that the USCCB President, Newarchbishop Paul Coakley, personally got off his derriere and went to Washington, D.C., to plead for a change. He spoke on January 12 to Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and even had a walk-by with President D.J. Trump.
Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has paused alien visa processing for nationals of 75 countries, such as Somalia, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, and Yemen, who try to game the visa system by illegally applying for welfare after arriving in the U.S. Aliens are required to be self-supporting. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newsweek.]
Traditional Catholics, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is falling apart in the United States and elsewhere. The number of Newseminarians in the United States is so low that most Newseminaries have been closed and consolidated into just a few regionally, whereas before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) every diocese had its own seminary. Young men don't want to waste their lives serving the pagan oecumenical god of the Newchurch.
On January 11, 2026, the Italian Newbishops' Conference's own official newspaper, Avvenire, wrote in support of affirming "transgenderism" for children and "desisting" from teaching against it. The article stated that Newchurchers "should commit themselves to promoting the recognition and accompaniment of same?sex-attracted and transgender persons," as the Newbishops themselves proclaimed at their recent "synodal" assembly.
The head of the Conference, Newcardinal Matteo Zuppi, a papabile, is a strong promoter of LGBTQXXX in Newchurch, even though studies show that 90 per cent of so-called gender dysphoria in children resolved into acceptance of their biological sex. Nevertheless, there is still a "rush toward transition." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Avvenire.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch under the Pseudo-Newpopes is obviously moving toward an increasing acceptance of LGBTQXXX. Bergoglio-Francis already caused a scandal by permitting the "blessing" of sodomitic "couples" and held weekly meetings with "transsexuals." whereas he denied such meetings to Neocon Newchurchers.
Newcardinal Arthur Roche, Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's and Prevost-Leo's appointee as Prefect of Newchurch's Dicastery on Divine Worship, is a strong advocate of Bergoglio-Francis's 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes," severely limiting use of the New Latin Mess of 1962, concocted by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini to serve as a very temporary stepping stone to the full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Mess of 1969, Newchurch's ordinary Mess to this day.
Roche, who has already turned 75, will complete his five-year term on May 27, 2025. Newcardinal Vittorio Viola is Deputy Prefect, a nasty man equally hostile to the New Latin Mess, will complete his five-year term on the same date, but he is only 60 years old. It is likely that Prevost will appoint Roche to a second term, but if, for some reason that doesn't happen, his younger deputy Viola is next in line.
In either case, it's a complete disaster for the Neocon Newchurcher sellouts who want to compromise with Newchurch's corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962. It is clear at this point that Prevost, Roche, and Viola are dedicated to imposing severe limitations and even elimination of the New Latin Mess. Fortunately, there are several true Traditional Catholic bishops, many Traditional Catholic priests, and many Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories that have courageously remained independent of the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Since Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) popes have not carried a pastoral staff, commonly known as a crozier, which bishops carry. Since the popes have universal jurisdiction, they did not want to use a symbol that implied limited territorial jurisdiction. All that changed with Pseudo-Newpope Montini-Paul VI after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). Pseudo-pope Montini broke tradition and took up a ferula, a crucifix on a staff, but not just any crucifix. He used a ghastly crucifix, which was not even a traditional crucifix.
Montini used this untraditional papal ferula for the first time on December 8, 1965, at the official closing of the Second Vatican Council. JP I-Luciani, JPII-Wojtyla, and Ratzinger-Benedict all used it. In fact, Ratzinger used it at his Newpapal "installation" on April 25, 2005 (Ratzinger was never crowned as a pope). This crucifix is modeled after the "Bent Crucifix," or, as some call it, the "Twisted Serpent," which has Satanic associations and sources in heretical Protestant charismaticism. It consists of a bent, or broken, crucifix with a distorted figure of the Christ. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]
Traditional Catholics, enter Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo. He rejected tradition and introduced a new papal staff on January 6, 2026, during Newchurch's version of the closing of the Holy Door. Prevost outdid his predecessors in novelty. His ferula uses a new "Bird Crucifix," modeled after the heretically-tinged "Resurrection crucifix," showing not the Christ Who suffered on the cross to redeem mankind, but flying away like a bird, released from nails of the cross. Count on the Pseudo-Newpopes to introduce novelties that are a mockery of the true Catholic Faith. But, of course, they are not true popes, nor true Catholics.
After the conclusion of Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's "Extraordinary" Consistory January 7-8, 2026, Il Giornale, one of Italy's top newpapers, published a copy of the "secret" report that Prevost had commissioned Newcardinal Arthur Roche, whom Prevost appointed Prefect of Newchurch's Dicastery for Divine Worship, prepare for the consistory. The report was not delivered because the Newcardinals voted by a large majority to bump questions of the liturgy off the agenda altogether.
Roche's report, now public, turns out to be a hit piece against the Vatican II Anti-council's New Latin Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, but a planned stepping stone to the fake (invalid) New Order Mess of 1969, which is still used by the Newchurch of the New Order. The report comes out staunchly in favor of Pseudo-Newpope's 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes," which essentially suppressed the New Latin Mess.
Roche's report is a wing dinger. Obviously speaking for his boss, Prevost, Roche starts off with the lie that "the liturgical reform desired by the Second Vatican (Anti-)Council is ... in full harmony with the truest sense of tradition." You see, in the apostate Newchurch white is black, and black is white. That is the relativist Modernist heresy so condemned by Pope St. Pius X. Roche concludes that the New Latin Mess is being promoted by those (Neocon Newchurchers), who lack the true Catholic faith.
Roche, Prevost, and the Synodal Newchurch plan a complete purging of Newserminaries from New Latin Mess types and propagandizing strongly for the Modernist heresy. He indicates that "Traditionis custodes" will be imposed mercilessly. He proclaims: "We cannot return to that ritual form that the conciliar fathers [of the Vatican II Anti-council] ... felt the need to reform." The New Mess is now to be the ONLY expression of Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Il Giornale.]
Traditional Catholics, the Neocon Newchurchers are -- excuse the expression -- screwed. For over fifty years they have been compromising with the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age to get some crumb, that being the New Latin Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT even the Traditional Latin Mass. They should never have become pawns of the apostate Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Now they have brought upon themselves the just penalty for their cowardice in failing to stand up for the true Catholic Faith.
Presbyter Nestor Sanchez has disappeared. He is being hunted by Joliet, Illinois, police for rape, but can't be found. It is unclear whether he ran away or whether Newchurch is hiding him somewhere. It was reported on January 10, 2026, that a Joliet, Illinois, sheriff's deputy sent to find him swore in court: "I have made a diligent search and inquiry and am unable to find said defendant."
Although the Joliet Newdiocese published a public notification that Sanchez is suspended, he is still listed as the Pastor of St. Mary's Newchurch. In that capacity the married woman, an employee of the Newdiocese, swore that Sanchez met with her "under the guise of providing spiritual guidance." When the meeting took place, The woman says that Sanchez locked the doors to his vehicle and drove the woman to a secluded location deep in Forest Woods Forests Preserve nearby the church and there raped her. She immediately reported the rape both to the police and to Ronald Hicks, the Newbishop of Joliet. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by MSN.]
Traditional Catholics, curiously, Newbishop Hicks just happens to have been appointed by Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo to become Newarchbishop of New York. Hicks had tried to whitewash the incident by claiming that it involved consensual sex, a conclusion that even the police rejected. Hicks also fired the woman, an act that violated even Newchurch's policies, such as they are. Hicks is now on the hook for negligent supervision, retaliation, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Prevost has already racked up a reputation for appointing corrupt Newbishops and then becoming involved in the cover-up of sex crimes. The plot thickens.
Neocon Newchurchers since the 1970s have been pushing the "New Latin Mess" of 1962, sometimes called "Extraordinary," a term that has been deprecated by Newchurch. This 1962 Vatican II Mess is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, but was deliberately intended to be a deliberate stepping stone to the full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969. Pseudo-Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict issued a directive in 2008 that allowed the use of the New Latin Mess in restricted circumstances within Newchurch, but Ratzinger warned that the permission was only temporary and would soon expire. In 2021 Bergoglio-Francis, referring to Ratzinger's expiration date, pulled the pin on the New Latin Mess and virtually suppressed it.
Instead, the Neocon Newchurchers allowed themselves to become cuckolded into this fraud, making themselves promoters of the Newchurch of the New Order, its fake (invalid) Messes, and its fake (invalid) Non-sacraments, instead of rejecting the lie of Newchurch outright and attending only the Traditional Latin Mass outside of the apostasy of Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
The Newchurchers' abortive desire was that the latest Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo and his Newcardinals would postpone the expiration date and lift the restrictions at the Newconsistory of January 7-8, 2026, at Newrome. What the Neocons suffered instead was a direct slap in the face when Prevost and his Newcardinals rebuffed them by a large majority of the 170 Newcardinals by voting to dump the topic from the agenda altogether! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Neocon Newchurchers were described as "discouraged and disappointed." The Newconsistory was described as appearing to be "in perfect continuity with the Synods and the thought of [Bergoglio]-Francis,” which virtually suppressed the New Latin Mass. Even among the few Newcardinals for whom this topic was an issue, none of them made any effort to have it added to the agenda now -- or ever.
Traditional Catholic producer-director Mel Gibson announced on January 9, 2026, that he had begun shooting in Italy the principal photography of his film, "The Resurrection of the Christ," the highly-anticipated sequel to his 2004 blockbuster, "The Passion of the Christ," one of the largest-grossing independent films of all time.
Gibson has been very careful with the sequel, waiting twenty years to get the script just right, checking with traditional Catholic theologians and historians for accuracy. The Italian part of the filming is taking place in Rome's Cinecitta Studios, as well as ancient southern Italian locations. The final script is wide-reaching, including the Fall of the Angels and other broad themes, as well as the Resurrection itself.
The film is so comprehensive that it will be released in two parts, on Good Friday and Ascension Thursday 2027. Gibson's own Icon Productions is producing the epic, and noted Lionsgate will distribute it. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Greek City Times.]
On December 30, 2025, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age got a new presbyter -- and she is a priestess. Tina Thompson is "tethered," as she says, to the Newchurch, which has not told her anything to the contrary. Newchurch has for years been dabbling with the idea of deaconesses, so this case would be a natural next step. She claims to have "abided by apostolic succession."
Even if that were the case, Thompson, from a Traditional Catholic perspective, is no true priest (or whatever she calls herself) because only men are called to the priesthood. This dogma goes back to Our Lord Jesus Christ, His Apostles, and His true Catholic Church. For that matter, it goes back even before the coming of the Messias to the Jewish temple. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Lawrence Times.]
Traditional Catholics, Shawn McKnight, the Newarchbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, may be trying to play both sides of the fence. He took no action at the time of the Tina Thompson's "installation" or since. A few peeved Neocon Newchurchers are speaking out, but these are the same hypocritical Neocons who have accepted the invalid (fake) New Order Mess, the invalid (fake) New Order non-sacraments, and the apostasy of the Newchurch of the New Order, now the Synodal Church, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Once again the Neocon Newchurchers have been hoisted by their own petard!
It is well known that the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) corrupted the Mass into a Mess and the Sacraments into Non-sacraments, but it also corrupted the arts, including sacred music and sacred architecture. Churches built before the Anti-council were, for the most part, inspiring works of art; afterwards they became unartistic trash, looking like Quonset huts rather than sacred buildings. Now Newchurch has taken its architectural corruption another step backward with -- the "cardboard" church.
Prague, Czechoslovakia, will build a new Newparish building with 3D printing technology, essentially cardboard. As usual, Newchurch is not listening to its own members. The use of 3D printing for the church that they will have to look at and pay for is none of their business. Instead, it is a "professional technical issue to be decided by experts,": who described it as a "jigsaw" process. Newchurch will spend 10,000,000 USD for the incipient monstrosity.
The architects specifically rejected a traditional church because of "today's modern conditions." The architectural firm's experience is in building "Protestant prayer halls." The firm announced on December 30, 2025, that the shape of the Newchurch will not be the traditional basilica form, but -- an ark. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the OSV News.]
Traditional Catholics, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia) used to boast an 80 per cent Catholic population. Since 1964 under the control of the Newchurch of the New Order, that percentage has fallen to under 10 per cent. It is the Vatican II Anti-council's corruptions like these, in art, music, and architecture that have contributed to the rejection of the Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Newchurchers in the troubled Newdiocese of Buffalo, New York, have risen up against their Newbishop, Michael Fisher, publicly charging him as a "swindler." Fisher swindled the clueless Newchurchers in the Newparish of St Raphael in Niagara Falls, New York, into coughing up extra money for capital improvements to their Newparish, which he had already planned sell off to the heretic Baptists. Fisher perpetrated a fraud by not telling is Newchurchers that he was bilking them. Moreover, Fisher committed sacrilege by administering on the day beforehand the invalid (fake) New Order Non-sacrament of Confirmation at the Newparish.
St. Rapahel's Newparish is described as "one of those post-Vatican II washing-machine agitators/floppy beach hat architectural disasters." Yet Fisher extorted 250 USD from each Newparish family for a "paint job." He had already extorted the Newparishioners with a ten per cent tithe and with numerous special collections for insurance premiums and heating oil. Then he sold their church out from under them to the heretic Baptists.
Even the St. Raphael Newpastor admitted publicly that he had "failed and misled" his Newparishioners. Newbishop Fisher had already presided over the destruction of the Newdiocesan seminary, wracked by sex crimes. One has to wonder by what mania these Newparishioners were still attending the phony (fake) New Order service and putting their money into the corrupt Newchurch collection plate. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, corrupt as are Newbishop Michael Fisher and the other Newbishops of the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, the real criminals in these scenarios are the Newparishioners themselves, who enable the corruption by their attendance at fake (invalid) Messes and donations to the Newchurch collection plate. By colluding in the fraud, they themselves are just as guilty. They should immediately "shake the dust from their feet" Matthew 10:14/DRV) and find the nearest Traditional Catholic church, chapel, or oratory that is independent of Newchurch.
Germany, the largest country in Europe, is demolishing Newchurches at a rate of over 100 in just the last two years. After Newchurch replaced the true Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), the Newchurch population fell by 20 per cent to the present day.
The German (New)bishops' Conference reported on December 31, 2025, that in 2025 at least 46 Newchurches were profaned, i.e., sold off or demolished and turned over to secular use. 66 Newchurches had already been profaned in 2024, so well over 100 Newchurches have been profaned in just the last two years. This is twice the number of Protestant church that have closed. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch is rapidly collapsing while the apostate Pseudo-Newpopes play their political games and take no notice of their Newchurch's demise. In effect, the Newpopes since Vatican II have been whistling through the graveyard while their Newchurch of the New Order, in 2024 renamed the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, rapidly disappears. It appears that the Newpopes really don't care. Nor should the Newchurchers themselves, who should abandon the sinking ship immediately and find the nearest Traditional Catholic church, chapel, or oratory that is independent of the Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
On Christmas night 2025 Newchurch in Germany decided to broadcast the Holy Infant as an extraterrestrial monster. The German apostate Pseudo-Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict was known to be firm a believer in extraterrestrials. From St. Maria Newchurch in Stuttgart, the Infant was depicted as encased in a membranous sac like the pernicious exterrestrials depicted in the 1956 science-fiction movie "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." This blasphemy was excused by Newchurch as "art."
Even the "dumb" animals recognized the Infant-God, but Ratzinger-Benedict, whom Newchurch incredibly regards as a great theologian, in his incredibly-witless 2012 book Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives couldn't even conclude from the presence of a manger (animal feeding-trough) that there were any animals in the cave! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newchurch news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, Ratzinger-Benedict's German Newchurch has bought its Newpope's asininity hook, line, and sinker, and has embraced the unicorn-worshipping Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. The true Catholic Church brought to the world over two millennia such inspiring art, music, and architecture. The Newchurch of the New Order and such apostate Pseudo-Newpopes as Ratzinger-Benedict have brought only blasphemous garbage. Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. As the High Priest Caiphas proclaimed: "What further need have we of witnesses?"
Neocon Newchurchers, those who compromise with Newchurch to eke out an anti-traditional New Latin Mass here and there, are being completely shafted by the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's appointments of Newbishops. Prevost is appointing a raft of Modernist/Marixst who hate the Traditional Catholic Faith. The latest of these is Newmonsignor James Misko, appointed by Prevost on December 22, 2025, to run Newchurch in Tucson, Arizona, into the ground.
Misko has compiled a clear record of hating the Traditional Catholic Faith. He has ripped out kneelers so that Newchurchers must take the invalid (fake) Novus Ordo cookie into their filthy hands and drop the crumbs on the floor to be trodden underfoot. It is clear that Newchurchers by their actions prove that they don't believe their Novus Ordo "eucharist" is valid.
Misko is a virulent opponent of the New Latin Mess, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, and a backer of Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes." In Austin, Texas, whence Misko came before Tucson, he canceled the New Latin Mess at the Newcathedral and substituted its sister rite, the invalid Novus Ordo Mess in Latin -- it might as well have been simulated in Swahili! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost-Leo is a sly fox, just like Herod the Great, to whom Our Lord Himself gave that moniker. His haberdashery is more conservative than that of his fellow South American predecessor, but it is all a cover-up. Prevost is just as Modernist/Marxist as Bergoglio, actually even more. Neocons need to wise up. They're being played for the fools they are.
The Apostate Pseudo-Newpopes, especially Bergoglio-Francis and Prevost Leo, have tried to change Biblical teaching -- and it hasn't worked according to a December 2025 poll by the Modernist Newchurch EWTN television network. A majority of their own U.S. Newchurch have disowned them, particularly on the deportation of illegal aliens and the death penalty. The Newchurchers support the government's efforts to deport illegal aliens, whereas Newchurch bishops generally have been supporting their lawlessness.
The Newchurchers also support the carrying out of the death penalty for grave crimes, such as murder. Pseudo-Newpope Wojtyla-JPII tried to change the Biblical and immemoral Catholic teaching in favor of capital punishment in the "New" Catechism of 1992. However, the pushback from Newchurchers was so strong in favor of the traditional teaching that Wojtyla collapsed and published the traditional Catholic teaching in the official Latin version of the "New" Catechism.
A majority of U.S. Newchurchers also reject Newchurch's "New" Cathechism and Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's anti-Biblical and anti-Catholic 2018 amendment that the death penalty is "inadmissible." Ironically, those Newchurchers who attend the invalid (fake) New Order Mess are more against the Newbishops than those who are less regular attendees. 95 per cent of the Newbishops have the opposite opinion from Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and, remarkably, from their own Newchurchers. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Natioinal Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo was so shocked by the Newchurchers continuing belief in the traditional Biblical and Catholic teaching that he tried to rally "all people in the United States to listen to [the Newbishops]" on the matter. It didn't work. No wonder attendance at Newchurch Messes is continuing to tank badly. The Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Michael Barber, Newbishop of Oakland, California, is being squeezed into a corner. Like so many Newchurch dioceses he was inundated by lawsuits by children raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted by his Newdiocese's presbyters. (The Newchurch of the New Order stopped ordaining priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders in 1968 and now merely "installs presbyters" like Protestant ministers in an invalid Protestantized rite.) So, Barber thought that he'd take the easy way out by declaring bankruptcy in 2023, a typical manoeuver to avoid responsibility. In bankruptcy he offered a paltry 165,000,000 USD to be divided among the over 350 child victims to be paid over a period of five years.
The U.S. Bankruptcy court on December 12, 2025, laughed at the offer and threatened to dismiss the bankruptcy case entirely, as Barber was not seriously trying to find a resolution. In that case, the Newdiocese corporation would be left to fall into dissolution, being smacked with 350 individual lawsuits. The Newdiocese would drown in legal fees alone, and the Newdiocese corporation would cease to operate.
Barber announced that in that case he would have no operating funds by at the end of 2025. Faced with the dissolution of his Newdiocese corporation, he upped the ante to 242,000,000 USD. The child victims' lawyers laughed at that offer, saying: "Everyone knows it’s not fair, everyone knows it’s not morally right, and everyone knows it is just plain inadequate." Moreover, Barber has been dragging his feed on proposed enhanced child-protection protocols required by the bankruptcy court. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by NBC News.]
Traditional Catholics, about all Newbishop Michael Barber has is to repeat is Newchurch's usual canned apology "for any harm it may have done." It is reported that Newchurch's Oakland Newdiocese, like the San Francisco Newarchdiocese, which is also in bankruptcy, is flush with highly-valued real estate, which it refuses to sell to pay the child victims a just recompense for Newchurch's grievous sins and crimes against them. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Newchurch and its Newclergy from the Pseudo-Newpope on down just get more corrupt by the day.
Have you ever wondered why half the Newchurches in the United States and in other locales are being slammed shut and sold off to become bars, restaurants, and night clubs? There are many reasons, but most of them end up at the foot of the incompetent Newbishops that the Pseudo-Newpopes of the Synodal Church of the New Order have been appointing.
Newbishop Earl Fernendes, of Columbus, Ohio, is just the latest to excuse illegal criminals from attending the fake (invalid) New Order Mess. Pseudo-Newbishops who had already done so are Newbishop Michael Martin, of Charlotte, North Carolina; Newcardinal Robert McElroy, of San Diego, California; Newarchbishop Jose Gomez, of Los Angeles, California; Newbishop Alberto Rojas, of San Bernardino, California; Newbishop Kevin Vann, of Orange, California; Newbishop Joseph Brennan, of Fresno, California; and Bishop Ramon Bejarano, of Monterey, California. There may be others.
These Newbishops are driving their Newchurch into oblivion. As during the Red China Virus period, studies show that once Newchurchers go, they rarely come back. No wonder Newchurch "Mess" attendance -- which includes its satellite New Latin Messes -- are in the single digits and going down. Newpastors around the country are reporting that one-quarter their congregation attended weekend M[e]ss," and that term includes the silly "Golf Mess" on Saturday afternoons.
Why aren't these Pseudo-Newbishops urging their Newchurch to obey the law and urging them to take the U.S. government's offer that these illegal criminals can go back to their homeland with the government providing free transportation and a 1,000 USD bonus in their pocket? Newchurch bishops are thereby just as criminal as the alien lawbreakers whom they are supporting, according to St. Paul's principle enunciated in his Epistle to the Romans 1:32. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the irony is that very few Newchurchers give a thought to any Sunday Mess "obligation." Of course, whether they know it or not, the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Mess is not a valid Catholic Mass, so, far from having any "obligation" to attend it, they are to the contrary prohibited from eve attending it, under pain of sinning against the First Commandment of God. It seems that Providence may be acting to prevent at least some of this blasphemy, sacrilege, and idolatry by shutting New Order services.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
In accordance with charity and the Fifth Precept of the Church to contribute to the support of the Church, what amount is considered to have met this obligation by one's tithing? Should it be given to the physical church one goes to, or can part of it also go to other Traditional Catholic organizations (obviously, not Newchurch or organizations affiliated to it such as so-called Catholic Charities). Now I give some to the physical church that I go to, some in stipends for Masses to be said by Traditional Catholic priests, and some to Traditional Catholic organizations, such as Traditioinal Catholic nuns in need, But what about secular charities?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.Traditionally, tithing has been considered to be 10 per cent of one's income, in recognition that all we possess comes "from above, coming down from the Father" (James 1:17/DRV). That is an amount that one can strive for. Individual circumstances (joblessness, heavy financial obligations, etc.) would adjust that figure.
Given the great need in these times of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories, which neither receive nor want funding from the Pseudo-Catholic Newchurch corporation, we would recommend that majority of your charity go to the Traditional Catholic church, chapel, or oratory that provides you with the Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments of the True Church. That is your first obligation, and you should be as generous as possible; otherwise, you may lose your site. A small remainder could be donated to Traditional Catholic causes such as those you mention.
Secular causes in such times as these can reasonably be left to the secularists, especially because secular organizations have other sources of funding, as from the government, endowments, etc., and have been exposed as anti-Catholic, fraudulent, or spending far too much on administration. Such organizations include Red Cross, March of Dimes, United Way, so-called Jewish-Christian coalitions, Salvation Army, and most others.
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