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A desperate Davide Pagliarani, fronting for the Bernie Fellay faction of the Neo-SSPX, replied by letter to Newvatican's request to cancel his episcopal consecrations previously announced for July 1, 2026, without Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's mandate as follows:
While I certainly rejoice at a new opening of dialogue and the positive response to my proposal of 2019, I cannot accept the perspective and objectives in the name of which the Dicastery offers to resume dialogue in the present situation, nor indeed the postponement of the date of 1 July [for the episcopal consecrations].
The Neo-SSPX has placed itself in a vice. It wants to be schismatic from the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order without being named so. It is all part of the hypocrisy and duplicity of the Neo-SSPX since its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre died in 1991, and Bernie Fellay reorganized it as a Neo-SSPX and took over in 1994. But now time is up: the Neo-SSPX is down to two older bishops, Fellay and Alfonso de Galarreta, and Fellay's foolish gambit of unifying with Newchurch has failed disastrously.
So, Pagliarani-Fellay are still playing the same duplicitous game. They have to proceed with the consecrations, or their organization will be thrown into an existential crisis. But, like drug addicts, they still cannot kick the apostate Newchurch out once and for all, as their founder, Archbishop Lefebvre, wanted to do before his death. Given the content and tone of the Pagnliari-Fellay letter, which essentially accuses the post-conciliar Newchurch of apostasy (as did the Society's founder Archbishop Lefebvre), it seems that Pagliarani is daring Prevost to Novus Ordo "excommunicate" the whole lot of the Neo-SSPX. Newpope Prevost-Leo and his hand-picked lieutenant Victor Fernandez, Prefect of Newchurch Doctrine, will likely be forced to Novus Ordo "excommunicate" Pagliarani, Fellay, Galarreta, perhaps also other two Neo-SSPX officers, Christian Bouchcourt and Franz Schmidberger, who also signed the letter
Pagliarani attempts to argue that there is some contradiction because Newvatican accepted the Communist Chinese "bishops" that Dictator Xi Jinping appointed, but will not recognize the Neo-SSPX. But the Neo-SSPX has gone much farther: now openly calling the Newchurch of the New Order essentially apostate from the Catholic Church because of its breaking from Catholic Doctrine and Sacred Tradition. But even now, the hypocritical Neo-SSPX still wants a seat at the Novus Ordo table.
Yet, in spite of all of that, Pagliarani-Fellay et al. are still playing at negotiating with Newchurch and still recognize the apostate Newpopes, whom their own letter essentially calls apostates and not true popes. The Neo-SSPX has been caught now in so many contradictions of its own that it has cooked its own goose. If Pagliarani-Fellay were honest, they would cut off all contact with the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, in 2024 reorganized into the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. Archbishop Lefebvre planned to do that, as he indicated in his final interview in 1991, a few months before his death.
Traditional Catholics, It is sad to realize how much Archbishop Lefebvrre's original Society of St. Pius X lost when Bernie Fellay became its Superior-Dictator in 1994, rejected the Archbishop's warning, and foolishly proceeded to work for 24 years toward unification with the apostate Newchurch. How much could have been accomplished if the Society had elected a Superior after the mind of the Archbishop, cut itself off from what the Archbishop called "Conciliar Rome," i.e, not the Catholic Church, and used its multi-millions of funds salted away in secret Swiss bank accounts instead to develop a truly traditional, massive outreach over the intervening 30 years.
Whatever happens at this point, the Synodal Newchurch has won against the Pagliarani-Fellay Neo-SSPX by forcing it, as it has over the last 30 years, into never-ending controversy and chaos both inside and out. The Society's resources will continue to be eaten up by this controversy when, outside of Newchurch, it could actually take a giant step toward restoring the true Catholic Church, which the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order most certainly is NOT -- just as Archbishop Lefebvre said.
Newchurch presbyter Mark Ford, was indicted by a New Orleans, Louisiana, Grand Jury on February 5, 2026, on nine counts involving aggravated rape of a physically-disabled boy and restraining him to prevent his resistance; sexual assault on two other boys; and kidnapping boys between ages 12 and 14. The charges are so serious that Ford faces life imprisonment.
Presbyter Ford used a Newchurch program, God's Special Children, that he founded for disabled youth to give him an opening to approach the boys. The boy disabled boy whom he raped was autistic with a degenerative spinal condition and was mourning the death of his father and grandmother, when Ford started showing him pornography. The boy tried to resist, at which time the presbyter is accused of attacking him on several occasions and threatening him if he were ever to tell.
New Orleans is exploding with paedophile crimes by Newchurch presbyters to the extent that the Newarchdiocese declared bankruptcy when sued for over 300,000,000 USD. Even a Newchurch lay female teacher at the Archdiocese's Academy of the Sacred Heart has been arrested for sexually assaulting a schoolgirl. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Guardian.]
Traditional Catholics, it must be remembered that presbyters are not priests. Newchurch stopped ordaining priests in 1968, when, one year before the New Mess was rolled out, Newchurch dumped the Catholic rite of ordination and substituted for it a Protestantized rite of "installing presbyters," who are equivalent to Protestant ministers. As to the female lay teacher, it seems that Lesbians are getting their shot at crime in Newchurch too. We can take at least some solace in the fact that the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
According to sworn witnesses Pseudo-Newpope Francis-Bergoglio masterminded every step of the London Real-estate Fraud of 2014, which lost Newchurch close to half a billion U.S. dollars. The scandal eventually came to involve the London courts and an accomplice hanging from a London Bridge. Culpability for the fraud had to be shifted from Bergoglio, of course, so Newcardinal Angelo Becciu became the scapegoat after Becciu personally fingered Bergoglio as making all the final decisions during weekly or more frequent meetings. Becciu has fought for his innocence every step of the way since the case opened in 2021.
Bergoglio had publicly promised to stay out of the trial, but he couldn't resist. Newvatican court testimony showed that Bergoglio in fact issued four secret decrees that gave prosecutors against Becciu carte blanche to investigate Becciu in ways that were described in court as "reminiscent of a fascist state." The corrupted Newvatican court, which answers to the Newpope, was so embarrassed by the evidence presented that it asked defense attorneys not to mention Bergoglio by name.
The main prosecutor was caught in a series of internet chats, in which he admitted the secret plot to target Becciu, involving the Newvatican police, prosecutors, and Bergoglio himself. Because of Bergoglio's interference, defense lawyers are now arguing that Becciu cannot receive a fair trial in an absolute dictatorship, where the Newpope has ultimate control over the proceedings, not the court itself. In addition, Bergoglio issued four secret decrees that allowed prosecutors unlimited wiretapping and permission to violate existing laws. These secret decrees were never published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the register of Newvatican's official acts. Even Newvatican's own legal experts have denounced Bergoglio for his secrecy.
On February 5, 2026, defense attorneys argued that the whole trial should be thrown out because of Bergoglio's secret decrees, which allowed cellphones and laptops to be seized without a court order and allowed witnesses to be imprisoned in the Newvatican barracks for ten days without a court order. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, the puppet Newvatican court is now in a bind, seemingly forced to declare the illegal evidence inadmissable and to declare that Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis committed an injustice against God by violating Divine Law pertaining to the dignity and rights of individuals. When the smoke clears, Walter Scott's verse, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive," may end up being Bergoglio's epitaph.
In what has been called the impending "Dirty Schism," the German (New)bishops' Conference is on the verge of leading 20,000,000 Newchurchers away from the Newchurch of the New Order into the "Synodal Way" (Synadoler Weg), the Modernist Movement, which is Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's Synodal Newchurch of the New Age on steroids. The Synodal Way advocates priestesses and homosexuality, inter alia. LGBTXXX activists employed by Newchurch itself are essentially executing a hostile takeover of the German Newchurch and are working ceaselessly to have their heresies validated. The same phenomenon is going on in the U.S. Newchurch.
In the "Dirty Schism" the German Newbishops would not engineer a formal coup, but a de facto one. Prevost would essentially look the other way and allow by his inaction the schismatic Newbishops to govern de facto most of Germany's Newdioceses and implement the most radical anti-Catholic doctrines. The clueless Neocon Newchurchers may as well give up any hope even for their corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962. They are already being repressed into silence and impotence, as they are in the United States.
Things are supposed to come to a head at a Synodal Assembly to be held March 9-11, 2026. There are expectations that the Synodal Way would engineer widespread de facto implementation of heretical doctrine and liturgy -- just as heretical as Prevost's Synodal Newchurch -- throughout most of Germany's Newdioceses. Newchurch will suffer this schism because the Pseudo-Newpopes have consistently failed, to this day, to address its Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is now caught in a vice. The extreme Modernists on the left are threatening him with a schism that could affect 20,000, 000 Newchurchers in Germany. On the other side stands Bernie Fellay's extreme Neo-SSPX Incorporated, which has for years duplicitously been playing both sides of the fence. Fellay is certainly willing to sell out to the Newchurch of the New Order, but he does not want to bend the knee to Newrome in order to keep total control over his Neo-SSPX Corporation and the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars stashed away in its secret Swiss bank accounts. The next year promises to be explosive for the Synodal Newchurch and Prevost.
Newpope Prevost-Leo, like his Newchurch predecessors, corrupts Church doctrine to make it fit his political goals. His predecessor Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis was caught in the same scheme. Bergoglio thought that he would teach U.S. President D.J. Trump some phony Newchurch theology when he told the President that he should "build bridges, not walls." At the time, the President was trying to stave off the mass invasion into the United States by some 20,000,000 illegal aliens, many of them felons, mentally insane, drug dealers, and child traffickers.
When the President was confronted by a reporter about Bergoglio's statement, the President smiled and retorted, "That's a strange thing for him to say. He has a big wall around his country." The President thus gave Bergoglio a lesson in Roman history, as Bergoglio is the beneficiary of the Aurelian Wall, an almost-impregnable wall around the Vatican built by the eponymous third-century Roman emperor to a height of 8 metres and a thickness of 3.5 metres. Bergoglio and his successor Prevost themselves have yet to take in one illegal alien, because it would ruin Newvatican's tourist business!
On February 3, 2026, Prevost, dittoing Bergoglio, taunted the President about not letting in a mass of criminal illegal aliens. When a reporter asked U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson about Prevost's statement, Johnson, a brilliant constitutional attorney and a Southern Baptist, was ready to give the Pseudo-Newpope a lesson in chapter 13 of St. Paul's Letter to the Romans. Without batting an eye, Johnson stated: "It is Biblical, and it is right" for a country to prevent illegal border invasions. Then Johnson gave Prevost a theological dissertation from Scripture: [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Raw Story.]
Borders and walls are Biblical. From the Old Testament to the New, God has allowed us to set up our civil societies and have separate nations.... What's also important in the Bible is that assimilation is expected and anticipated and proper.... The civil authorities are given authority under Scripture to maintain order. Romans 13 says that the civil authorities are God's agents of wrath to bring punishment upon the wrongdoer. And it says, if you do right, you have no fear of the civil authorities, but those civil authorities are necessary.
Sovereign borders are Biblical and good and right, and they're just because — it's not because we hate the people on the outside; it's because we love the people on the inside. We should love our neighbors ourselves as individuals, but as a civil authority the government has to maintain the law. And that is Biblical, and it's right, and it's just.
Traditional Catholics, it is rare that government officials will stand up so forcefully, cogently, and eloquently to a Marxist/Modernist Newpope of the apostate Newchurch. Yet Speaker Johnson has done so, and Bergoglio was thus relegated to silence. President Trump has done so, and Prevost was relegated to silence. It is no surprise that these Pseudo-Newpopes are proven as deficient in Catholic theology as they are in Catholic doctrine, liturgy, and morality.
It is far worse than you thought. The Newchurch of the New Order is going into a total collapse. As one common example, the Newdiocese of Oakland, California, posted a video of its Sunday service on February 15, 2026, what it called the "Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time," as Newchurch in its 1969 Calendar disruption suppressed the ancient pre-Lenten penitential season of Septuagesima, which goes back to St. Benedict in the sixth century.
When the presbyter entered to simulate the New Order Mess, there were fewer than 50 Newchurchers in the 2008 multi-million dollar Newcathedral of Christ the Light that was built to seat almost 2,000! Oakland, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Stockton in Northern California, entered bankruptcy and, like them, will likely be forced by the courts to auction off properties to satisfy judgments in favor of the children whom they have raped, sodomized, and assaulted. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Newdiocese of Oakland, California.]
Traditional Catholics, this is true story of the collapse of the Newchurch of the New Order, now renamed the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, that is never told over the false propaganda spread by the huge Newvatican media machine. The counterfeit Newchurch is in big trouble, not only in the United States, which once had one of the largest Catholic populations, but throughout the world. Now Newchurch's sins are catching up with it. Even Newvatican itself is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, as recent surveys show. Newchurchers are deserting in droves the false doctrine, liturgy, and morals of Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
The true Catholic starts off Lent right by making a little extra effort to assist at Holy Mass on Ash Wednesday and receive the Blessed Ashes. Let's face it. Most days we put ourselves first. We put our own convenience first. Although we claim to be Christians and Catholics, we think very little about God.
Ash Wednesday gives us an opportunity to practice our beliefs, to put God first. If that involves a little inconvenience to ourselves to start off the penitential season of Lent right this year, so be it. We will worship the God we profess at the sacred Traditional Catholic Latin Rite of Ash Wednesday, not in some counterfeit version that you may see reported around you this day in Newchurches, but in their untouched, traditional form.
In Traditional Catholic chapels, churches, and oratories around the world, which remain independent of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic church, the Ash Wednesday service begins with the Hour of None, the ninth hour, of the Traditional Catholic Latin Divine Office. None is followed by the traditional Catholic rite of the Blessing of the Ashes, and then the imposition of the Blessed Ashes upon us. The rite concludes in the most appropriate way, the celebration of the fully-traditional (1950) Traditional Latin Mass for this special day, which initiates the forty days of the penitential season of Lent.
At the meeting on February 12, 2025, in Newvatican between Newcardinal Victor Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (Newchurch) Faith, speaking for Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, and the Superior General of the Neo-Society of St. Pius X, Davide Pagliarani (generally held to be a puppet for Bishop Bernie Fellay), Fernandez told Pagliarani that if the Neo-SSPX didn't withdraw its threat to consecrate new bishops on July 1, 2026 for the Neo-SSPX, against Prevost's will, all Neo-SSPX talks with the Newvatican are off. Newvatican is becoming impatient with the Neo-SSPX's problems that "just go on forever."
Fernandez also warned the Neo-SSPX that if it persisted with the consecrations, it would be in schism, with presumably the penalties provided in Newchurch's New Code of Canon Law. If the Neo-SSPX cancels the consecrations, Fernandez will discuss possible dialogue, the purpose of which would be for Newvatican to tell the Neo-SSPX how it would have to change its theology in order to be recognized by the Newchurch of the New Order. That dialogue would be on Newvatican's terms, requiring acceptance of the Vatican II Anti-council's heresies.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that the Dicastery had previously sent out an interpretation of the 2021 document "Traditionis custodes," which severely limited the Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962, decreeing that no installations (formerly ordinations) of presbyters (formerly priests) or ordinations (formerly consecrations) of bishops could be simulated using the traditional Catholic Pontificale Romanum.
Thus, in the highly-unlikely case that if Newvatican were to buy into the new consecrations, they would have to be simulated in the Novus Ordo form, which even many in the Neo-SSPX holds to be invalid. This decree also pertains to the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), the Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS), and similar organizations. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Religious News Service.]
Traditional Catholics, this is all déjà vu of 1988, when Pseudo-Newpope Wojtyla-JPII led Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the original SSPX, along to excommunication from Newchurch. In 2012 Pseudo-Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict dangled recognition, which was all "sound and fury signifying nothing." Newvatican has all the cards and has boxed the duplicitous and hypocritical Fellay & Co. into a futile corner.
On February 4, 2026, the Dutch Catholic [Sic] Institute for Ecclesiastical Statistics published the stunning news that Sunday Mess attendance at the Newchurch of the New Order in the Netherlands had sunk almost to zero. Not even 3 per cent of Newchurchers bothered to attend any Mess.
Infant Baptisms, now called "Initiations" in Newchurch, have tanked 86 per cent, from 42,411 in 2000 to only 6,100 in 2024. Between 2023 and 2024 alone, initiations dropped by 7 per cent. Children receiving the invalid Novus Ordo First Cookie dropped by the same percentage.
The overall number of Newchurchers fell by 33 per cent in the same period. 52 per cent of Netherlands are Christian, so Newchurchers have become a mere drop in the bucket there, as in many other Western European countries. Nor are Newchurchers marrying each other as much. One in five marriages involved a Newchurcher with a Protestant heretic, a Jew, or a pagan. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, at this rate, Newchurch is dying in Western Europe, whose culture, once the height of Catholicism, is becoming Islamic or atheist. The statistics show that the United States and Canada, among many other countries of the world, are headed in the same direction.
One of the smartest Catholics, Fr. Malachi Martin (1921-1999), author of the devastating critique of the Newchurch Jesuits entitled The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, proclaimed already in 1990: "We may have to face finally a false pope." The famed exorcist had also reported that during the Vatican II Anti-council satanic Black Messes were conducted in the Newvatican.
In 1963, Fr. Martin exposed the Newchurch of the New Order as being infiltrated by Satan. In 1990, Fr. Martin denounced the Newchurch for its corruption and the loss of Faith among its clergy. He also questioned whether the papacy in his time was still valid. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Is he really pope? Is he really Peter? Is he really the 263rd successor of Peter [purportedly JPI-Luciani], the 264th pope [purportedly Wojtyla-JPII]? Or what happened? Has he lost his faith? Why isn’t he doing something about it?
Traditional Catholics, in his bestseller Windswept House, Fr. Martin correctly wrote: "He [Satan] is doing as much damage as he can. But he has been installed in the structure of the Church formally by Catholic [sic] Satanists." Bad as the Newchurch clergy are, it is the laypeople who support and perpetuate their apostasy and corruption. Fr. Martin concluded that the Pseudo-Newpopes had no power to break the influence of Satan within their Newchurch of the New Order. That is why the Newchurch must be completely abandoned by true Catholics, and the true Catholic Church be sought out in Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories that have no connection whatsoever with Newchurch.
What Catholics seem to have forgotten in the commercialism of this Holy Martyr's feastday is that February 14 is not Valentine's Day -- it is SAINT Valentine's Day. Its origins are not a day dedicated to romantic sentimentalism, but to love of God -- to the death.
The Roman priest Valentine was imprisoned for courageously professing his Catholic Faith, and helping other Catholics to do so, during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus about the year 269. St. Valentine, who sent letters of encouragement ("valentines") in the Catholic Faith from his prison cell, was eventually martyred by beating and beheading. Far from representing romantic sentimentalism, the red color and the hearts that are so prevalent this day recall the fact that St. Valentine gave his body's red heart and his life's red blood as a Martyr for his Catholic Faith.
As St. Augustine writes in the Traditional Catholic Divine Office for this day: (Sermo 44 de Sanctis): "In cuius glorioso agone duo nobis praecipue consideranda sunt: indurata videlicet tortoris saevitia, et Martyris invicta patienitia" [In whose glorious agony two things must especially be considered by us: namely, the hardened brutality of his torture, and the unconquered patience of the Martyr].
Traditional Catholics, instead of sentimentality on this day, the true Catholic should be recalling how much blood the millions of courageous Catholic Martyrs shed to purchase that precious Catholic Faith for us -- a Faith that today is being persecuted not only by governments, but by the Newchurch of the New Order, founded in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council -- which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. So, save the candy and flowers for secular Mother's Day and let February 14 be unsullied by sentimentality, but devoted to devout prayer for the intercession Martyr-Priest, who gave his life for the True Faith. There is no better Saint to invoke in our own time against the faithlessness exhibited even by many who call themselves Catholic.
On February 3, 2026, the case against all U.S. Newbishops for fraud against their own Newchurchers relating to Peter's Pence collections has been going on for six years. Now at the U.S. Appeals Court, it's not looking good for the Newbishops, who have lost attempt after attempt to get the lawsuit dismissed. Now the Newbishops have tried a desperate "Hail Mary" pass to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal, the case remains for final disposition at the Appeals Court and the process of discovery, including the revelation of internal communications, will commence. The class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] (New)bishops (USCCB) was originally filed in 2020.
Traditional Catholics, the lawsuit charges that the Newbishops routinely ask Newchurchers to donate to Peter's Pence, which is supposed to go to Newvatican "to help victims of war, oppression, natural disaster, or disease," but instead Newvatican has fraudulently invested the money on luxury condominium developments and Hollywood movies. The aggrieved Newchurchers of the United States claim that the USCCB is so tenaciously resisting the lawsuit because it doesn't want the court's discovery to expose its "ecclesiastical affairs."
We tell a tale of two priests. Both Gommar DePauw and Bp. Fulton Sheen received the triple licensate (Canon Law, Doctrinal Theology, and Moral Theology) from the prestigious (at that time) Louvain Catholic University of Belgium. Both attended the Vatican II Anti-council, Fr. DePauw as a Peritus (Expert), Sheen as a Bishop.
Fr. DePauw, known as the Tower of Trent, immediately realized that the Anti-council had been taken over by the Modernist heretics, probably contrary to the wishes of Pope John XXIII, who was dying of stomach cancer at the time. Fr. DePauw promptly left the Anti-council for New York, where he founded the Catholic Traditionalist Movement.
By his periodical, "Sounds of Truth and Tradition," by his LPs, cassettes, and CDs and by his radio programs that broadcasted the true Mass all over the United States and Canada, he taught a whole generation of Catholic that they were right: their Catholic Faith had been taken away from them by the Newchurch of the New Order created at the Vatican II Anti-council in 1964.
Bp. Sheen, on the other hand, was taken in by the Modernist Anti-council and became its spokesman from the beginning. He was deceived by his close relationship with the apostate Pseudo-Newpope of the Anti-council, Montini-Paul VI. But Sheen was too smart not to realize eventually that he had been taken for a ride. He tried to backtrack in part from the Anti-council in his later years, preaching on its defects (as did Montini).
Sheen as a televangelist in his early days did preach the Catholic Faith, particularly in his many books and in his widely-watched television program, "Life Is Worth Living." But like many American clerics, he was touched with the incipient heresies of the Anti-council.
On February 9, 2026, Newchurch announced that, in spite of many objections, it would beatify Fulton Sheen (1895-1979). He was appointed by Pope Pius XII as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York (1951-1966), until he incurred the wrath of the powerful Cardinal of New York, Francis Spellman, a close friend of Pius XII.
Sheen's corpse was then transferred to Rochester, New York, by the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Montini-Paul VI. By all accounts he made a mess of this appointment and wanted to abdicate within a year. Montini forced him to stay on until 1969. Sheen spent much of his time in Rochester on political activities relating to the Vietnam War. He attempted to give away Rochester's St. Bridget's Parish and School to the U.S. Government. The pastor there castigated Sheen for his attempt, and a local protest against Sheen soured the deal and led to Sheen's abdication in 1969.
When Newchurch originally tried to start Sheen's con-anization process, the Archdiocese of New York refused to unentomb Sheen's corpse, which lay in the crypt of St. Patrick's Cathedral there. In 2019 a secular court overruled the wishes of Sheen's family and released his corpse to his native Peoria, Illinois. But his Novus-Ordo beatification was again held up when the Newbishop of Rochester stopped the process because he was afraid that Sheen would be named in the final report of an ongoing investigation into clergy sex crimes in New York for allegedly witnessing and covering up a Newchurch sex crime. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, television personalities are not automatically Saints, any more than are apostate Newpopes. Whether Sheen is a Saint, only God knows. It is certain that the apostaete Newchurch of the New Order does not know. Because of its apostasy from the Catholic Faith, the Newchurch of the New Order has no power to beatify or canonize anyone. The corrupt and apostate Newchurch has already "con-anized" known Communists.
The Newchurch of the New Order has learned nothing since its corruption was exposed in 2002 in the Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. Newmonsignor Terrence Fitzgerald, longtime Vicar General (No. 2) of the Salt Lake City, Utah, Newdiocese, took it upon himself to burn personnel documents of paedophile presbyters that "could cast clergy in a poor light," viz., in paedophilia.
The Newdiocese has confirmed Fitzgerald's crime. In fact, Fitzgerald admitted what he had done to several presbyters in the Newdiocese. Then Newbishop Oscar Solis became a participant in the crime. He admitted to a presbyter that although his investigation confirmed his Vicar General's destruction of documents, he would never make the results of the investigation public. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Salt Lake Tribune.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Solis refused to suspend Fitzgerald, giving him little more than a private reprimand, although even Newchurch Canon Law provides for a Newbishop to remove faculties from a criminal presbyter who destroys church records. Thus, Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated under the regime of Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo.
Not satisfied with the blasphemies, sacrileges, and idolatries of the "approved" Messes in honor of Pachamama, the nude pagan fertility goddess, and of Atacama, the pagan sun god, Newchurch announced on February 6, 2026, that a "Harry Potter" Mess will be added to the Novus Ordo mix, to be simulated in Germany on February 28, 2026.
The Mess will emphasize the Heresy of Oecumenism, with Potterheads desecrating the Sacred Heart Church in Westphalia with occult imagery, complete with magic wands and magicians' costumes. In the promotional materials for the Mess, occultists are particularly encouraged to attend in magicians' costumes. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Neocon Newchurchers have belatedly objected to the desecration, but it is they who have willingly embraced the blasphemy, sacrilege, and idolatry of the New Mess of 1969 to take over their churches. The Neocon Newchurchers have been countered by the local Newarchdiocese, which justified the Mess as in line with Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's initiatives of evangelization and secularization.
Blase Cupich, Newcardinal of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the most far-left of the apostate Newchurch Newcardinals. Yet he is strongly connected in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. He was an intimate of the late Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis and has strong connections with the current Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, who hailed from Chicago before he moved to Peru and took out citizenship there.
After Cupich returned from the Newconsistory in January, he issued a bellicose statement against the New Latin Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass. On January 27, 2026, he pontificated the heresy that the Sacred Liturgy is "not a static reality, but a living reality" defined by "cultural adaptation." This is the Vatican II Anti-council's Oecumenical Heresy, by which Newchurch rejects Sacred Tradition, together with previous true popes and councils. Newchurch is no longer Roman, and is certainly not Catholic.
Cupich has been a de facto spokesman for Bergoglio-Francis, and now for Prevost-Leo. Given the report hostile to the New Latin Mass circulated at the consistory by the Prefect of the Dicastery for (Newchurch) Divine Worship and the recent coolness exhibited toward the Neo-SSPX by Victor Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (Newchurch) Faith, the New Latin Mess is in deep trouble in Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Infovaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, Newcardinal Blase Cupich can be said to be speaking for Pseudo-Newpope Prevost when he proclaims that the Novus Ordo Mess of 1969, still the "ordinary" Mess of Newchurch, is now the single rite of Newchurch, replacing other rites, particularly the Traditional Latin Mass, which he says endangers the very nature of Newchurch. The Novus Ordo Mess is viewed as a tool to control Newchurch members. Questioning it is perceived as a threat.
On January 29, 2026, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo gave his full-throated endorsement to the Doctrinal Note "Mater Populi Fidelis" of his Dicastery of the Doctrine of the (Newchurch) Faith, which militated against the use of the titles "Co-redemptrix" and "Mediatrix of All Graces" for the Blessed Virgin Mary. These titles have been a point of contention among theologians because they might imply that the Blessed Virgin Mary is in some way equal to God. The Latin does not imply that, but English and other vulgar tongues do.
Mary is not a goddess; she was never anything but human. To worship her -- and all too many "Catholics" do -- as a goddess constitutes idolatry, a grave sin against the First Commandment of God. Because the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has failed to educate its followers in proper Catholic doctrine, but deliberately tries to keep them ignorant so that it can manipulate them more easily, Newchurchers frequently fall into heresies in ignorance. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, The Doctrinal Note, now personally approved by Prevost, bans the use of the two titles in Newvatican documents or liturgical texts. The Neocon Newchurchers who hold to these titles and recognize Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo as legitimate have now been cuckolded. Ipse dixit: their own Pseudo-Newpope has now spoken, so in conscience they must stop their opposition to their leader. Their only choice is the right one: to abandon the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and return to the true Catholic faith at those churches, chapels, and oratories that have remained entirely independent of the counterfeit Newchurch.
On January 27, 2026, Newchurch's own Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) revealed in its new survey how the "spirit of Vatican II" killed religious vocations in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. The annual survey for 2025 includes women and men who professed perpetual vows in the United States.
82 PER CENT OF NEWCHURCH COMMUNITIES HAD NO PERPETUAL PROFESSIONS AT ALL IN 2025. 10 PER CENT REPORTED ONLY 1 PROFESSION. 8 PER CENT REPORTED ONLY 2 TO 9 PROFESSIONS. 28 PER CENT OF THESE WERE NOT EVEN AMERICANS, BUT CAME FROM AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA.
Other salient statistics from the survey: [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Zenit Press Service.]
Traditional Catholics, plummeting as is the number of men entering the dwindling number of Newseminaries, the situation with the Newreligious in the New Order is truly disastrous. Some sixty years after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), religious life in the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order has virtually disappeared. Now even the once-large orders, like the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and Jesuits, are sinking fast. Many religious orders that were thriving before the Anti-council, have now closed up shop and disappeared. These orders are, of course, no longer Catholic, as the Newchurch of the New Order itself is not the Catholic Church, so Newchurch orders' attraction to young men and women is virtually nil.
Not many years ago there was no university more identified as Catholic than Notre Dame, of South Bend, Indiana. No longer. Over the last years it has produced vulgar plays like the "Vagina Monologues," expelled conservative presbyters, and given honorary degrees to outspoken abortion advocates.
On February 1, 2026, Notre Dave University announced the appointment of Susan Ostermann as Director of its Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, just four years after the previous president of the university publicly condemned her pro-abortion activist views in a Chicago Tribune article. Ostermann has published numerous articles justifying abortion as "saving women's lives." She has described denial of abortion to be "violence against women," "sexual abuse," and "racist." She also spoke on a panel for trans-sexuality. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Irish Rover.]
Traditional Catholics, Notre Dame has recognized its anti-Catholic hypocrisy by refusing to comment on the substance of Ostermann's pro-abortion advocacy. Notre Dame is just one of many examples of once-Catholic universities that have been corrupted to anti-Catholicism by its association with the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which most certainly is NOT the Catholic Church.
On 2 February 2026, the Superior General of the Neo-SSPX, Davide Pagliarani, who is generally held to be merely a puppet of Bernie Fellay, the previous head, announced that in fear for its continuing existence, the Neo-SSPX would consecrate new bishops for itself on July 1, 2025, with the number and names of the consecrandi currently unknown. Most of the clueless religious press will try to compare this act to that of the original SSPX's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, but that comparison is specious. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
In 1994, after the death of the SSPX's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Fellay reorganized the SSPX into a Neo-SSPX with the adoption of new bylaws, which turned the organization into a dictatorship, to be run by Fellay for a scandalous 24 years (1994-2018), at which point Fellay installed Pagliarani to be his puppet. In 1974 Lefebvre declared that the Newchurch of the New Order, now the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, was in reality NOT the Catholic Church, but a "Conciliar Church," bound at the hip to the apostasy of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965).
In 2012, Fellay promulgated for his Neo-SSPX a new doctrinal policy, in which the Archbishop-Founder's principles were rejected and a push began to join the apostate Newchurchm which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Fellay's Neo-SSPX is, first and foremost, a corporation that its trying to save itself, not the Catholic Church. It has massive monies on deposit in secret Swiss bank accounts and extensive real-estate holdings, which allowed it to build in 2023 a monster of a "cathedral" in St. Marys, Kansas, essentially in the middle of nowhere.
Fellay is planning the consecrations merely to maintain the existence of the Neo-SSPX, whose two remaining bishops are aging rapidly, one of whom is even now ill. Fellay has not changed the 2012 Modernist-bent doctrines of his Neo-SSPX, which still holds, contrary to Catholic doctrine about what the true Catholic Church must be. Accordingly, Fellay's Neo-SSPX maintains inter alia::
Traditional Catholics, in fact the Neo-SSPX announcement does not proclaim true Catholic doctrine, but smacks of the language of the Anti-council and of megachurch corporate "religion." It is likely that the new Neo-SSPX bishop(s) will be spokesmen for the Neo-SSPX corporation, which will remain friendly toward the apostate Synodal Newchurch and still seek to join it.
The Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's regime continued the wreckovation of the Newvatican Curia by appointing, on January 19, 2026, new consultants to drive Newchurch's Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. These individuals include polytheists, Pachamamans, and Feminists. The dicastery has pastoral and doctrinal authority for the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. This assortment includes 19 syncretists, pagans, feminists, and the like.
Among the new consultants is Emilce Cuda-Argentine, an intimate of the apostate Newcardinal in charge of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (Newchurch) Faith, who has tried to downplay abortion as a doctrinal matter, posing it as just another "social issue."
Then there is Monica Santamarina, Genera President of the World Union of Catholic [Sic] Women's Organizations, an ardent feminist, who wants laywomen to have representation and quotas in the process of defining doctrine for the Synodal Newchurch.
Also appointed is Mary Teresa Barron, who avers that women "feel a call to the priesthood." Apparently, she is unaware that Newchurch stopped ordaining priests in 1968 when it adopted a Protestantized Ordinal merely to "install" presbyters, who are equivalent to Protestant ministers.
Another of Prevost's new consultants is Sofía Nicolasa Chipana Quispe, of the Community of Wise Women and Theologians of Abya Yala, who promotes prayer to the nude fertility goddess Pachamama, whom apostate Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis installed in front of the high altar of St. Peter's Archbasilica. "We are not Pachamama; we belong to Pachamama," she says. Catherine Cornille, of Boston College, is another syncretist who promotes pagan (some say atheist) Buddhism and Hinduism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, like all agencies of the Newvatican, the Dicastery for Religious Dialogue has nothing to do with Catholicism, and the Synodal Newchurch of which it is a part is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. The dicastery is a bastard child, conceived in 1964 at the apostate Vatican II Anti-council, which corrupted just about every Catholic doctrine you can think of, including the necessity of staying clear of heretics, schismatics, pagans, atheists, and the lot. Newchurch has become infected to the bone with a proud apostasy from the Catholic Faith.
As we have written before, if you want to know what the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Order will become, just look at the Protestant Anglicans of the Church of England. Historically, Newchurch has followed the apostasy and corruption of the Anglican sect in lockstep.
The appointment of Sarah Mullally as the first female Anglican Archbishopess of Canterbury and leader of the heretic Church of England, has caused public outcry and backlash. In 2025 the traditionalist GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference), said to represent some 80 per cent of Anglicans around the world, formally dissociated itself from the Church of England and rejected Mullally as an apostate from the Christian faith.
When Mullally was installed on January 28, 2026, according to the rite, the presiding bishop asked whether there was any objection to her being installed. Paul Williamson, a respected Anglican presbyter, exercised his right to object and peaceably stood up to proclaim, "I object." He then began to state the canonical reasons for his objection, that Mullally had covered up sex crimes in her position as bishop of London. Immediately security guards grabbed and manhandled Williamson, handcuffed him, and pushed him down the stairs.
The presiding bishop publicly proclaimed the lie that "no one had appeared in opposition" to Mullally’s appointment. Williamson, when he at that point stood up to object, stated that, to the contrary, he had indeed submitted a formal objection, which had been ignored by the Anglican hierarchy. The Church of England installation rite allows for a time at which objections can be presented.
The fact that a proper canonical objection from a member of the clergy was publicly precluded and occasioned a violent expulsion of the clergyman from the site simply shows how corrupt the Anglican sect is. The incident, broadcast live, was seen by millions. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, like the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, the Anglican sect is being ripped apart by internal divisions between conservatives and leftists. Mullally herself is an apostate from the Christian faith, supporting the installation of priestesses, liberalized sexual morality, and the blessing of "gay" and lesbian "marriages." Before the world the Anglicans, just as the Newchurchers, who profess "brotherly" love, have been exposed as hypocrites when they manhandled their own presbyter simply for peaceably exercising his rights. The corrupt Mullally has remained mute through the whole contretemps. Dux femina facti.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I appreciate your recommendation of Carol Byrne's outstanding book, Born of Revolution: A Misconceived Liturgical Movement, Vol. 1: Active Participation (Holyrood Press, 318 pp., c. 2020), which documents all the modernizing changes that Pius XII, whom many traditional Catholics wrongly think was completely traditional, made to the Sacred Liturgy during his tenure. In the TRADITIO Network's Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments department in the section "The Descent into the Black Hole of the Liturgical 'New Order,'" you note that in 1953 Pius XII modernized the Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis (Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Could you indicate what those modernizations were?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
In the 1950s, a decade in which he adopted many Modernistic changes, such as those gutting the ancient, traditional Holy Week, Pius XII approved a new version of the Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis with three additional seasons and with changed prayers, readings, and Saints' feasts. In that same decade, Pius XII also introduced, inter alia, the following corruptions of the Traditional Latin Mass, Traditional Divine Office, and traditional disciplines:
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