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Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo took one step too far into secular politics and earned censure for ultra vires meddling from the United States Ambassador to the Newvatican, Brian Burch. Prevost has been kvetching against the just enforcement of national borders, a position that has also earned him criticism from Italy and Germany, among other nations. Burch pointed to the catastrophe of wide open borders under the J.R. Biden administration, even though Biden, an abortion supporter, defined himself as a "devout Catholic." Biden let millions of illegal alien criminals into the United States, a goodly number of them felons and terrorists, during his presidency (2021-2025).
Biden's successor as president, D.J. Trump, appointed Burch, knowing that he was a conservative Newchurcher. Burch's criticisms of Prevost were especially stinging because the Newpope was born in the United States, although he spent much of his time in Peru and became a Peruvian citizen in 2014. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register]
Traditional Catholics, it may have been Burch's putting Prevost in his place about arrogantly stepping onto secular turf that led Prevost to decline the invitation from U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, also a conservative Newchurcher, to come to the United States for the bisesquicentennial of the United States' founding. The hypocritical Prevost also declined the invitation of the U.S. President to join the newly-constituted international Board of Peace.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I have seen reports that the Fellayite Neo-SSPX in Tokyo is having its attendees sit on the floor on their heels or crossing their legs in the Buddhist manner. There are no kneelers, chairs, or altar rail there. Do these liturgical innovations represent the introduction of heretical Vatican II "inculturation" in the East?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
It does not surprise us. Fellay's Neo-SSPX has compiled a record of introducing practices coming from the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) and its Marxist/Modernist aftermath, especially in the East where Western eyes don't see them. Even in the latest contretemps with the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, the Fellayite Neo-SSPX still retains its connection with the counterfeit Newchurch and its spurious "authority" structure.
One of the multitudinous heretical teachings of the Vatican II Anti-council was that of "inculturation." In In Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), sections 38 and 40 provided:
Provision shall be made, when revising the liturgical books, for legitimate variations and adaptations to different groups, regions, and peoples.... In some places and circumstances, however, an even more radical [profundior] adaptation of the liturgy is needed.
This is just one of the passages in the Anti-council's documents that the late conservative writer Michael Davies in 2003 called liturgical "time bombs," which were used to destroy the Catholic Faith in the "institutional" Church, i.e., the Newchurch of the New Order. This "inculturation," closely associated with the Heresy of Oecumenism (we all worship the same gods; all religions are true) has led to outright idolatry, blasphemy, and sacrilege, such as the outright worship in Latin America of the nude pagan fertility goddess Pachamama, whose idol the apostate Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis placed in front of the high altar of St. Peter's Archbasilica in Newrome and demanded that his Newcardinals bow before it in adoration, with their backs turned to the high altar.
Traditional Catholics, if the Fellayite Neo-SSPX were truly Catholic, it would immediately cut all its ties with the Newchurch of the New Order, renamed by Bergoglio-Francis in 2024 the "Synodal Newchurch of the New Age." Until the Neo-SSPX does so, it is not to be taken seriously as a traditional Catholic corporation, and its hypocrisy to the Catholic Faith will become even more magnified before the eyes of the world. It makes no difference whether the Neo-SSPX consecrates more bishops or not. Its problems are much more serious than that with its record since 1994 of bending the knee not to Jesus Christ, but to the apostate Newchurch of the New Order.
On February 15, 2025, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo showed his anti-traditional colors again, using transgendered girls to serve him at the pagan altar of the New Order in Ostia outside Newrome. It was another anti-traditional Pseudo-Newpope, JPII-Wojtyla, who introduced this sacrilege into his Newchurch of the New Order. The "altar girls" were joined by "Eucharistic ministresses."
This is just another example of Prevost's far out "liturgies." Oh, yes, he'll sing the occasional Pater Noster in Latin, but that's just to fool the clueless Neocon Newchurchers -- and they buy it hook, line, and sinker. Newchurch does not have true altars, any more than Beelzebub's pagan altars are true altars. Remember, the Newchurch of the New Order, now the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, but a Protestant-Masonic-Pagan counterfeit. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Infovaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, is Prevost-Leo softening up his cultists to get ready for priestesses of the Novus Ordo, just as the Protestant Anglican-Episcopalians have implemented? They have gone so far as to "install" a woman as heretic Archbishopess of Canterbury, leading a split in the Anglican Church to the extent that 80 per cent have rejected the pretendress and her sect. The Church of England is collapsing and most likely will be disestablished after Charles III passes the crown to his son, who appears to be an atheist, or at least an agnostic.
Some Newchurchers thought, naively, that they could escape the corruption of the West by fleeing to the Eastern rites -- and just as invalid. Little did they know that the Eastern rites in Newchurch are just as corrupt as the Western rites. Now news comes that sex crimes and embezzlement have been spreading into the Newchurch's Eastern rites. Newchurch Chaldean Newbishop Emanuel Shaleta, of San Diego, California, has now been caught red-handed in double dipping. Not only has he been involved in sex crimes, but he has been embezzling Newchurch monies as well. Yet Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo is taking his sweet time accepting Shaleta's abdication and punishing his crimes. Even the Chaldean Patriarch wants to see Shaleta remain.
It seems that Newbishop Shaleta took his management firm's 40,000 USD rent check and cashed it into his personal possession, in the process embezzling the amount, which was supposed to go for assistance to the poor. Another 30,000 USD in Mass stipends was also embezzled. But much more appears to be involved, with estimates reaching as high as 1,000,000 USD of Eastern-rite funds embezzled. As of February 25, 2026, San Diego police have opened an active investigation into Shaleta's embezzlements.
So, what did Newbishop Shaleta do with the money? It seems that he took it across the border to a Tijuana, Mexico, brothel involved in human trafficking, known as "The Hong Kong Gentlemen's Club." Shaleta was apparently also shacking up with a woman, with whom he shared a personal bank account. He was observed on several occasions in her house ot alone with three children (no more need be said on that account). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the California Post.]
Traditional Catholics, here we go again! Prevost-Leo's Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is down in the mud, with the Pseudo-Newpope so far refusing to expel yet another one of his corrupt Newbishops. Even an Eastern patriarch has been trying to get Prevost to let the corrupt Newbishop scot free. Prevost has been head of the Synodal Newchurch for less than ten months, and already he has dragged Newpapal collusion into sex crimes and embezzlement to new depths.
On February 15, 2026, Newbishop Jose Antonio Satue Huerto, appointed by Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo as Newbishop of Malaga, Spain, just five months before, has endorsed counterfeit "blessings" of "gay couples" as "a step forward" for Newchurch.
As long as Satue was endorsing "gay marriage," he took the opportunity to endorse homosexuality as a whole, though his statement was slightly weasel worded. He said that he endorsed sodomitic relationships in an "era of change." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, if we didn't have Pseudo-Newope Prevost-Leo's number by now, our minds would be boggled at the cesspool of Newbishops he has been appointing. These are men that openly deny the Catholic teaching, not to speak of Natural Law. At this rate, the Prevost pressure-cooker is about ready to burst, and the well-haberdashered Newpope is likely to have a full-blown scandal explode on him.
On February 18, 2026, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo chose to focus on converting to Islam and basically blew off Ash Wednesday. The document issued on that date praised infidel Islam and Ramadan for Lent, placing Ramadan on the same level as Lent. "Christians observe this period of fasting and devotion alongside you [Islamists] during the holy season of Lent."
Then Prevost gave his Ash Wednesday sermon -- or was it an Islamic Ramadan sermon? He emphasized "economic, cultural, political" sin, which he redefined as "fighting the system ... as you ae a victim of the system." It apparently never occurred to Prevost that HE is the system, the corrupt Synodal Church of the New Age!
The focus of Prevost's Ash Wednesday is not one's personal sins against God, but politics. Then comes a spate of quotations from the Vatican II Anti-council, which in 1964 replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church with the Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. In 2024, that body was renamed the "Synodal" Newchurch of the New Age. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]
Traditional Catholics, gone are the bedrock Catholic Quattuor Novissima, the Four Last Things, to be meditated upon during Lent: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell. The ashes of Ash Wednesday symbolize for apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo the destruction of the world by those opposing the political Green Scam.
The Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is breaking all the rules. It is sinking so fast and is so desperate for personnel that it is now assigning Newbishops to two Newdioceses instead of the traditional one. These consolidations are becoming more the rule since Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis consolidated the Newdioceses of Achonry and Elphin in Ireland, which, once the most Catholic of countries, is now staunchly anti-Newchurch.
Showing that the Prevost-Leo Newpontificate is merely a continuation of the Bergoglio-Francis one, Prevost has now consolidated two more Newdioceses in Ireland. The Newvatican Press Office announced on February 23, 2026, that the Newdioceses of Killala and Tuam were being consolidated under Newarchbishop Francis Duffy in persona episcopi. [Some information for this Commentary was provided by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, the latest statistics show Newchurch sinking badly. Newparishes around the world are being closed, and there are not enough personnel to run the smaller number that remain. Thus occur these "consolidations" of Newparishes and Newdioceses. There is no indication that this trend will not continue to accelerate.
Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has appointed a paedophile cover-up artist as Newarchbishop of Denver, Colorado. James Golka colluded with Prevost in covering up the so-called "Chiclayo Case" OF three children sexually assaulted by paedophile presbyter from Prevost's former stamping grounds in Peru. This appointment continues Prevost's corrupt practice of promoting those loyal to him who collude to cover up paedophile crimes by Newchurch clergy.
One case in point was that of three sexually-assaulted children from Chiclayo, who were being represented by canon lawyer Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue. Within a month of Coronado-Arrascue's engagement by the child victims, Golka saw that Coronado was gotten out of the way on obviously trumped-up charges, which were found by even Newchurch's own delegate to be "a joke ... very poorly done, many errors, a lot of superficiality." Meanwhile, the real paedophile presbyter essentially went free. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]
Traditional Catholics, James Gorka, now installed as Newarchbishop of Denver, is pushing the Bergoglio-Prevost anti-Catholic ideology: the Novus Ordo cookie for the "divorced," radicalization of the Novus Ordo "liturgy," and the Heresy of Oecumenism ("we all worship the same gods"; "all religions are true"). Meanwhile, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo cuts a good haberdashery, but it is becoming clear that he is neck deep in paedophile collusion, especially involving his former collaborators in Peru and his intimates in the Newchurch hierarchy.
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