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We've all heard of the sacrilege of Newchurchers being turned into bars and restaurants, but now Newchurch turned some of its remaining churches (many have been permanently closed) into World Cup viewing rooms and pasta bars, with the pews being reoriented to face the World Cup projection screens, which have been borrowed from the Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
After the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), silence, prayer, sacred Latin, Gregorian chant, kneeling, attention, fear of God, and holy sacrifice were tossed out by the Newchurch of the New Order. The altar, first converted to a dinner table, has now become a podium for the TV projection screen. Newchurch is trying to compete with the stadium and the television room. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Complicit Clergy.]
Traditional Catholics, while the blasphemous Newchurchers are in the TV room (formerly, the church). Newchurches are serving wine and pasta in the nave, as at the Newcathedral of St. James in Innsbruck, Austria, where "Pasta per Tutti" is offered in place of the once Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There the Newfranciscans are behind this move. Needless to say, St. Francis would vomit his successors out of his mouth. Is it any wonder that attendance at the counterfeit "New Mess" is sinking like a rock into the single digits, and Newchurches are being closed right and left because there are no collections to support them?
While counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo gallivants around the world visiting schismatic and infidel churches and temples with his slippers off, sex-crime judgments against his Synodal Newchurch of the New Order are soaring in what is being called a renewal of Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, which has never really stopped since the Vatican II anti-council.
Judgments against Newchurch in the United States alone over the period July 2024 to June 2025 soared by 82 per cent to 483,534,316 USD according to the U.S. (New)bishops' Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection. That is an increase of 61 per cent in the 2023-2024 period. The sex-crime holocaust is spreading particularly among Newchurch religious communities, which soared by 297 per cent in 2024-2025. That percentage is actually much higher because 39 per cent of religious communities were too embarrassed to report. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, two particularly interesting statistics were revealed. The vast majority (87 per cent) of Newdiocesan presbyters' victims were boys aged 10 to 14. Whereas approximately the same percentage (83 per cent) of Newchurch religious victims' were boys aged 15 to 17. However, the tide is turning. In the most recent period 70 per cent of the victims were girls.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
It may be good to be tolerant of others' beliefs, but Edward Weisenberg, the Newarchbishop of Detroit, Michigan, could have been less profuse in his praise and less obvious in his approach when he said on June 5, 2026, at the Al-Hasanain Mosque:
From the moment I drove onto this beautiful property [mosque] today, I very fully felt the sense of the divine presence.... All churches, all mosques, all synagogues, all places where God reaches out and touches with His finger are sacred. This is a truly wonderful and sacred place.... There is no place, I think, that I feel more at home.
Then he "blessed" the mosque. What are Catholics to think? Will they at last consider quitting Newchurch because the Newarchbishop showed them that another religion is acceptable?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
Indeed there have been many who have quit the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order because of these and other scandals. Islamists are defined theologically as Infidels, the same category that includes the Jews. Newchurch is awash in the sin of Indifferentism against the First Commandment of God: we all worship the same gods; all religions are true. All of the apostate Newpopes from Montini-Paul VI through Prevost-Leo have preached this heresy. Bergoglio-Francis even gave it his "imprimatur" in the 2023 decree "Ecclesia supplicans," and Prevost-Leo even took off his Newpapal slippers in submission to enter a mosque on his recent Middle East junket.
Edward Weisenburger, the apostate and counterfeit Newarchbishop of Detroit, Michigan, is someone anyone that any true Catholic should shun. He has canceled even the New Latin Messes in Detroit (the New Latin Mess of 1962, even though they are not even the Traditional Latin Mass, but merely the Half Novus Ordo stepping-stone to the full-blown invalid (fake) New Mess of 1969, invalidly simulated by unordained Newchurch presbyters.
Wiesenberger has left behind himself a morass of paedophile crimes by presbyters in his various Newdioceses. He has banned good police officers from grabbing the fake Novus Ordo cookie and imposed on his Newchurchers the mNRA Covid vaccine, which medical authorities have now found can cause heart attacks, vascular complications, and other serious conditions, even death, years after the original injection. Weisenberger is a militant follower of the heresies of the counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo, who, during his recent junket to the Middle East, entered the infidel mosque and even took off his Newpapal slippers to do so. Doesn't that indicate that even he doesn't believe he's a real pope?!
By the way, be careful with the word "tolerant." Its basic meaning, certainly in Catholic theology, is not positive, but negative. From its Latin origin "to tolerate" it means "to endure, to put up with," not, as Newchurch has corrupted it to become, "to allow without reservation." The Synodal Newchurch of the New Order has corrupted its meaning -- as it has in so many other cases -- to mean something entirely anti-Catholic.
The Synodal Newchurch of the New Order these days is publicizing a conversion or two, but what it is not publicizing is conversions away from itself. On June 5, 2026, Newchurch lost a big one when Mark Brennan, Newbishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, submitted himself to Rabbi Joshua Lief for a Jewish "blessing." The travesty took place at Temple Shalom during the Shabbat (Sabbath) service. Brennan is well known for his embrace and promotion of the Oecumenical Heresy.
There have been scandals when Newchurch bishops have embraced Protestantism, but at least that heresy is Christian. Jews are technically Infidels, non-Christians. This is the sin of Indifferentism against the First Commandment of God: we all worship the same gods; all religions are true. All of the apostate Newpopes from Montini-Paul VI through Prevost-Leo have preached this heresy. Bergoglio-Francis even gave it his "imprimatur" in the 2023 decree "Ecclesia supplicans." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Complicit Clergy.]
Traditional Catholics, ten days later, the apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo simulated a volte-face by "blessing" the United Jewish Appeal Federation, in Newvatican's Consistory Hall, of all places. He used the Vatican II Anti-council's heretical document "Nostra aetate" to justify his unspeakable "blessing." Thus did Prevost-Leo confer a purportedly-Christian sacramental upon Infidels. That is outright sacrilege.
On May 30, 2026, every Newparish in the Newdiocese of Buffalo, New York, was ordered to go into bankrupcy. Buffalo has been awash for decades in paedophile scandals for years, involving the active involvement of the Newbishops, who desperately tried to cover them up, but were suborned and outed by Newdiocesan officials whistleblowers. Newbishop Michael Fisher gave the order purportedly "to reach a settlement with survivors of sexual abuse."
Newchurch in Buffalo faces a 150,000,000 USD payout to settle 800 cases of presbyters raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting children. The Newdiocese has had to lay off 22 per cent of its staff. 80 Newchurches have already been shut down. However, the whole plan would be vitiated if just one Newparish pastor had the guts to say "NO!" The consequences of the crimes and the subsequent bankruptcies are to be borne by each and every Newparish.
Many Newparishioners consider the Newbishop to be lying to them about having to bankrupt his Newparishes. One victims' advocate states that the Newdiocese could easily pay the settlement without taking a dime from Newparishioners, laying off employees, or negatively affecting the Newparishioners, who are innocent of the crimes. The Newdiocese has what amounts to a slush fund of some 4,000,000,000 USD, which is almost 30 times the amount of the proposed settlement, which Newcardinal Timothy Dolan, of New York, attempted to secret in a separate fund. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, it is interesting that the Newbishop and the Newclergy of the Newdiocese have said precious little about the horror of their crimes against the children. All their talk is of credit ratings, banks, and lawyers. All the while the paedophile sex crimes had gone on under the previous Newbishops. As always, it is the innocent who have to pay for the crimes of the Newprelates and presbyters of Newchurch.
Newchurch's own Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University on June 9, 2026, released a shocking chart of the fall of the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church exactly in 1964 at the point the Newchurch of the New Order was founded at the Vatican II Anti-council and given its constitution by the decree "Lumen gentium" and its counterfeit and invalid "New Mess" by the decree "Sacrosanctum concilium."
In the United States in 1900, both the Catholic population and the number of Catholics who attended Mass at least weekly numbered some 10,000,000. Both numbers rose almost in parallel until 1964, when Mess attendance started plummeting as the vulgar tongues and Protestantism were introduced into what was essentially, according to its authors, a service designed to be acceptable to heretical Protestants. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Complicit Clergy.]
Traditional Catholics, now for the kicker. In 2025, with the claimed Newchurch population rising to over 70,000,000, attendance at the counterfeit and invalid New Order (Novus Ordo) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan service sunk to what it was in 1900, 125 years earlier, barely 10,000,000. And all indications are that that number is high by at least half. These statistics explain clearly why Newchurches are shutting down right and left.
The founder of the original traditional Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) was a smart and practical man. After the death of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, when the SSPX was reorganized by Bernie Fellay into a Neo-SSPX and given new Novus Ordo-friendly bylaws, Fellay showed himself "dumb as a rock" in his efforts to get his Neo-SSPX to accept the Newchurch of the New Order and to earn his purple slippers from the counterfeit Newpopes.
Fellay and his puppet successor as Superior General, as they call themselves, have shown themselves to be as "dumb as rocks," having learned nothing from the venerable Archbishop or from their practical experience of the last 30 years. What did they expect? They have been selling their souls to the apostate Newchurch for years. Time and time again, Fellay was lied to and bested by Newchurch. In 2018, since Fellay's inexperienced marionette Davide Pagliarani took over, things have gotten even worse. Pagliarani is so clueless that he admits he is "astonished" by counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's refusal to speak to him about the "schismatic" Neo-SSPX episcopal consecrations scheduled for July 1, 2026.
Yet Prevost is an apostate who worships (yes, we have published the photographs) the murderous pagan fertility goddess Pachamama and venerates the infidel Mohammed by worshipping in his mosque and taking off his Newpapal slippers in submission. Prevost is pushing even harder than his equally apostate successor Bergoglio-Francis for a paganized Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. Yet Pagliarani dares to call Prevost "Holy" Father and post his photograph in every Neo-SSPX church, while Prevost continues to suborn ever-increasing paedophile crimes on the part of his Newclergy. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Complicit Clergy.]
Traditional Catholics, Neo-SSPX Superior General Pagliarani even went so far as to describe Bergoglio-Francis as "affable," even though he describes his rule of Newchurch as "disastrous." Pagliarani seems particularly piqued that Prevost-Leo won't talk to him. Is the real problem here one of pride? In contrast to the humble Archbishop Lefebvre, Pagliarani apparently wants the world to know that he is the equal Prevost, and Fellay wants Prevost to award him the longed-for purple slippers. Pagliarani and Fellay seem ready to sell their souls to the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch's apostasy to satisfy their own avarice.
It seems that all of counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo effort's at propagandizing his apostate Marxist/Modernist regime as the greatest thing since sliced bread is not working. After only a year under the Prevost regime attempting to enshrine the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age in place of the Catholic Church, his favorability in an Economist poll ending June 1, 2026, showed that his favorability has sunk to 55 per cent favorable and 45 per cent other than favorable, making him one of the most unpopular popes of modern times.
It is no surprise that supporters of the radical Leftist Kamala Harris, former U.S. Vice President, supported the counterfeit Newpope by a whopping 84 per cent. 63 percent of supporters of current conservative U.S. President Donald Trump did not have a favorable opinion of Prevost-Leo. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Economist.]
Traditional Catholics, it is clear that the general public is well aware that Newpope Prevost-Leo, head of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, is a radical Leftist, strongly associated with what Catholics know as the Modernist Heresy, which Pope St. Pius X defined as "omnium haereseon conlectum," the synthesis of all heresies.
What do you do when the rector and provost of a noted once-Catholic university is outed as sexual predators of his young students? In Newchurch you cover it up, of course. That is what an investigative report released May 28, 2026, revealed about Presbyter Thomas King's rectorate of once-famed, now notorious Notre Dame University of South Bend, Indiana. King was outed as having sexually assaulted his male students for over 17 years. King was functioning under the regime of the Unsaint Newpope JPII-Wojtyla from 1980 to 1997.
The report included some horrifying details of the crimes that this presbyter (Newchurch has not ordained priests since adopting the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968) committed. King has been charged with raping one student in the shower and sexually assaulting 15 other students. King added sacrilege to the assaults by denuding his victims, then spraying their bare chest, face, and back with Novus Ordo "holy water."
Victims had been reporting Presbyter King's assaults to Notre Dame officials for years, but response was minimal because of the cover-up. King also "operated" at nearby Holy Cross College until 2007. The investigative report indicated that "boundaries were routinely disregarded." The male dormitory where King perpetrated his crimes was closed in 2021 when some reports of the crimes became public. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Rector King was not the only Newchurch presbyter who was perpetrating crimes against the students. The investigative report fingered three other presbyters, including the Notre Dame provost. Notre Dame, for this and so many other reasons, is certainly not the once-Catholic institution portrayed in the idyllic film, "Rudy" (1993).
The counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order, fabricated in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council, thought that there was no end to how long it could pull the wool over the eyes of its Newchurchers, with its counterfeit Newpopes, its counterfeit "New Mess," its counterfeit "New Sacraments," its counterfeit unordained presbyters. It has taken sixty years for the truth to take hold, but more and more Newchurchers, of the comparatively small number that remain, are finding it hard to deny the truth that Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Reports are coming in from Newvatican that even some of those who meet the counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo personally are not buying his fakery. His propaganda machine, funded by up to a billion USD for a state-of-the-art communications center in Newvatican, keeps pumping out sanguine stories about the man who blesses icebergs in the name of global warming and genuflects to the idol of the murderous pagan fertility goddess Pachamama, whom he installed in the garden of the Newpapal villa at Castel Gandolfo.
Many of these visitors to Newvatican are Newseminarians, who are becoming increasingly few, formerly taken in by the propaganda, but now coming face to face with the reality that they are serving a false god in Newchurch. Some of these Newseminarians are Neocons, believing the historical teaching of the Church, but now realizing that Prevost is denying those teachings one by one. Sin has become virtue, and virtue has become sin with Prevost.
The once-dreaded position of sede-vacantism, the belief that the See of Peter has been vacant since the election of Unsaint Newpope Montini-Paul VI in 1963, has become all too believable in the face of rampant apostasy from the Catholic Faith by the Newpopes. The counterfeit Newchurch that they pretend to run lacks all Four Marks of the true Church. It is not one, but diverse. It is not holy, but perverted. It is not catholic, but differs from place to place. It is not apostolic, but rejects the teachings of the Apostles in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, as it did in the terrible time of the Arian heresy, when St. Jerome tells us that the vast majority of bishops were heretics, the true Catholic Church still exists, and will always exist, now in the thousands of faithful churches, chapels, and oratories around the world that tenaciously hold to the Traditional Catholic faith, Mass, Sacraments, doctrine, and morality.
The Newpopes are thieves, the Newcardinals are thieves, the Newbishops are thieves, the presbyters are thieves. Now the Newdeacons have joined in the thievery of the collection plate as Newchurch's Great Sex and Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated. No wonder so many Newclergy are being imprisoned and so many Newparishes are being shut down.
Newdeacon John Sommer on May 13, 2026, pled guilty to embezzling more than 1,500,000 USD from Christ the King Newparish in Tulsa, Oklahoma. effectively robbing the collection plate and poor box. He perpetrated the embezzlements from 2011 to 2025. That's a cool 100,000 USD every year! Sommer was nothing if not crafty. He falsified the Newparish records to conceal his embezzlement. Newchurch clergy are experienced in cover-ups, having perfected their technique in covering up their ongoing rampage of sex crimes against children in the decades after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965).
And what did the Newdeacon do with the ill-gotten goods? The federal indictment answers that question: "online romances and cryptocurrency investments into his private accounts." Given that he involved himself in U.S. federal crimes like bank fraud, he can expect to spend decades in the federal penitentiary. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Tulsa News.]
Traditional Catholics, where was his Newbishop David Konderla? Where were the Newdiocesan auditors? Were they in on the embezzlement? What is Newchurch teaching its clergy in its counterfeit Newseminaries? By the way, there will be no Novus Ordo "excommunication" for this thief. Newbishop Konderla was kind enough merely to put him on a "leave of absence" -- paid vacation!
The list of crimes that will get you expelled from counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's Synodal Newchurch of the New Age has been extended. Those crimes do not include sex crimes against children by Newchurch bishops and presbyters, nor does it include embezzlement of Newchurch funds. No, it includes only being a Traditional Catholic and those who rejects the validity of the apostate Newpopes after John XXIII. And now it includes believing that demons could take the guise of extraterrestrials, also known as space aliens.
When one Newmonsignor/Newexorcist Stephen Rossetti offered the theory that demons could take the guise of extraterrestrials or UFOs, he was straightaway expelled on June 3, 2026, by apostate Newcardinal Robert McElroy, of Washington, D.C. Rossetti stated that there was "no doubt in his mind that many, if not most, of these UFO sightings are in fact demons." But when push came to shove, Rossetti wasn't all that convinced about what he was saying. As soon as McElroy expelled him, he groveled to the counterfeit Newcardinal and withdrew his video concerning the matter. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, if that is the case, German "rationalist" apostate Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict's status could be in jeopardy, as he was obsessed with "space aliens." It is remarkable how most of the counterfeit Newpopes fell into this obsession. Perhaps, having realized that they had made a complete mess of their Newchurch, they wanted to try again on poor, defenseless extraterrestrials! This obsession with extraterrestrials was planted at the Vatican II Anti-council, with the Modernist Germanic theologians discussing extraterrestrial life. A more rational position was taken by conservative Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, who opined: "I think a Christian is sitting pretty if his faith never encounters more formidable difficulties than these conjectural phantoms."
It is amazing about how many things the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order has lied to its Newchurchers. Supposedly, those who wish to grab the counterfeit (invalid) Novus Ordo cookie have been told that they have the option of standing or kneeling. So, imaginative Newbishops have figured out a workaround to force their Newchurchers to stand with their filthy hands out to receive the counterfeit Novus Ordo cookie.
Take Jose Quiros, Newbishop of San Jose, Costa Rica, who came up with the brilliant move of banning on May 13, 2026, all kneelers from his Newchurches. Novus Ordo cookie grabbers may kneel, but the must do so on the cold, hard floor. "Do not provide kneelers," he ordered, along with Michael Martin, Newbishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, and many other Newbishops. His argument, which makes sense from the Newchurch point of view, in view of the fact that Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, is that "the presence of kneelers could lead some faithful [sic] to think that receiving communion [sic] on one's knees is the only form established by the Church."
Moreover, kneelers are uncharitable, Newbishop Quiros says, as they could be "an obstruction for the elderly with mobility problems." Newbishop Quiros doesn't explain how this practice was not a problem during the last 2,000 years of the existence of the true Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, the banning of kneelers in Newchurches is becoming more common, as the apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo continues to tighten restrictions on anything reminiscent of the true Catholic faith. Meanwhile, the clueless Newchurchers are forced constantly to fight their little internal battles within Newchurch with their prize the possibility of munching a Novus Ordo cookie, which isn't even the Most Holy Eucharist, given that Newchurch has not ordained priests in the valid Sacrament of Holy Orders since 1968 nor since 1969 does it celebrate a Catholic Mass, but merely simulates a counterfeit (invalid) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Mess in service of the apostate Synodal Newchurch religion.
Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated under counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo, in spite of the fact that Newchurch wants, mostly by silence, to bamboozle the public into thinking that it is over. But no, every day a new sex crime or embezzlement is perpetrated by a Newchurch bishop or presbyter, deacon or religious.
On May 23, 2026, Pastor-presbyter Richard Storey was arrested, booked, and charged with felony theft of 160,000 USD from the collection plate and poor box of his Kansas City, Kansas, Newparish, Cure of Ars. Storey faces four years in the state penitentiary. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Pastor-presbyter Storey had already been forced out of his pastorate amid "a criminal investigation involving [Fr. Storey] concerning another adult." Newarchbishop Shawn McKnight did not comment on that curious statement by police about an accomplice, although at least McKnight was responsible enough to conduct an audit, which discovered the theft. Do we even have to wonder what the pastor-priest known as the Cure of Ars, St. John Vianney, would say about such a crime?
The Leftist/Marxist/Modernist Newchurchers are frustrating to be sure, but they make no bones about their apostasy from the Catholic faith. What you see is what you get. But more frustrating are the Neocons, both lay and clergy, who sell out to the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order as long as they get a membership card and -- just maybe -- a little nook or cranny in the back of some Modernist Newchurch.
You know the kind we mean: Newchurchers like Newcardinal Robert Sarah, Newcardinal Ray "Bully" Burke, and Newbishop Athanasius Schneider. We can also include the Neo-Society of St. Pius X's Bernie Fellay and Alfonso de Galarreta, who, even when faced with a counterfeit "excommunication" from Newchurch, still will not denounce that organization's apostasy from the Catholic faith. They are, to use the old expression, "All talk and no action" as opposed to the Roman virtue of "Facto, non verbo."
Newcardinal Sarah has served as a Newbishop for Newchurch since 1979 -- 47 years. He has seen it all since the Vatican II Anti-council. In 2010 he was elevated to Newcardinal and served as head of no less than three curial dicasteries for the Newpopes. But it is only since his retirement in 2021 that he has really spoken out -- let alone done anything -- about what on May 4, 2026, he called the "paganism" that his infiltrated Newchuch, reducing its counterfeit "liturgy" (Novus Ordo Mess) to "entertainment." When he had power in Newchurch, he did nothing. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the irony of the situation is laughable when Newcardinal Sarah claims: "This paganism is recognizable by several signs: the blurring of the sense of sin, discomfort with the affirmation of revealed truth, the trivialization of the liturgy, a fascination with worldly categories, and the forgetting of the Church’s supernatural purpose. When God is no longer first, even within the Church, everything else is corrupted." We all know that this description characterized from the beginning the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order, fabricated in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council. It did not arise just in the last five years. Was Sarah too caught up in high office that he turned a blind eye to what he now calls "recognizable" in retirement?
Novus Ordo cookies and Kool-Aid instead of Holy Communion. Novus Ordo "initiations," sometimes administered by squirt guns, instead of Baptisms. Now Newchurchers will now be tricked with Synodal Listening Spaces instead of Confessionals. These Synodal Listening Spaces will be "staffed by trained lay pastoral workers." None of this is Catholic. None of this is valid. It is all counterfeit. It is all graceless and worthless.
When apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo goes to Madrid, Spain, June 6–12, 2026, he has allowed confessionals to be replaced by Synodal Listening Spaces. Actually, Newchurch did away with confessions in 1973 when it replaced the traditional Sacrament of Penance with a new, non-sacramental Rite of "Reconciliation," in which provision was made to substitute confessions with psychiatrist's couches, a sign that "Reconciliation" was not religious, but secular, in the counterfeit Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]
Traditional Catholics, even the counterfeit Newchurch presbyters (since its adoption of the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968 Newchurch has no longer ordains priests, but merely "installs" Protestant-style ministers) have been kicked out. Newchurch rejects Catholic doctrinal concepts like grace, sin, priesthood, and absolution. Newchurch has not explained just how many "lay staffers" will be listening in at these Synodal Listening Spaces. Since there is no sacramental confession in Newchurch, there is no unbreakable Seal of the Confessional. Anyone listening in can chat up someone else's revelations.
For those true Catholics who have concluded that the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess is as nutty as a fruitcake, the Newchurch of the New Order does not fail to hang itself by its own petard. On Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2026, Newchurch presbyter Carlos Costale "consecrated" fruit salad as a replacement for the usual Novus Ordo cookie at Our Lady of Mercy Newchurch in Rio Cuarto, Argentina. The fake "eucharist" was supposed to represent the fruits of the Holy Ghost: an apple for love, a banana for joy -- you get the "clownish" idea.
Of course, this wasn't a Mass; the Novus Ordo is an invalid counterfeit Mess. The man wasn't a priest; he was a counterfeit presbyter like a Protestant minister The "eucharist" was not Holy Communion, but fruit salad. There is nothing Catholic about the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. It and its clergy, including its counterfeit Newpopes, are blasphemous, sacrilegious, idolatrous, and apostate from the Catholic Faith.
Traditional Catholics, of course there were the usual outrage and protests, without any effect. Naturally, the counterfeit Newbishop of the Newdiocese did nothing. The only way to get rid of these blasphemous, sacrilegious, idolatrous, and apostate actions is to treat them like the deadly cancer they are. Rip away the cancer root and branch. True Catholics should get as far away as possible from Newchurch with its counterfeit Newpopes, presbyters, Messes, sacraments, immorality, and heresy.
The Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has incurred the hatred of an increasing number of people in the United States since 2020. Physical attacks against Newchurch in the last five years is markedly accelerating. Vandalism, which used to be a rarity when the Catholic Church was traditional and respected, is now becoming commonplace. Even Newchurchers are angry at their paedophile Newbishops and presbyters, and some are taking it out on their own Newchurches. Newchurchers are also angry at the Newbishops' widespread Newchurch shutdowns to pay off court-ordered judgments in favor of children raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted by Newchurch presbyters and bishops.
Since 2020, there have been at least 563 physical attacks against Catholic churches in the United States: arson, spray-painting, property damage, theft, destruction of statues, and disruption of the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess." Such physical attacks on Newchurches affected 43 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. In only about 30 per cent of the cases have the perpetrators been caught and arrested. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by CatholicVote.]
Traditional Catholics, the true Catholic Church, which the Newchurch replaced as the "institutional" Church in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council, had been traditional and respected. Physical ttacks against Newchurch began and has been accelerating since, especially in the last five years. It seems that the more Newchurch, renamed in 1964 by the apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis the "Synodal Church," goes Leftist, Woke, and apostate from the Catholic Faith, the more it is being physically attacked by Newchurchers and others out of the hatred it insills.
There is a fable that still goes around in clueless Neocon Newchurch circles that Josef Ratzinger, who appropriated to himself the name Benedict XVI, was some kind of "traditionalist god." He wasn't. He was the leader of the Modernist heretics at the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), which gave the Newchurch its New Mess, New Bible, New Catechism, New Music, New Canon Law, and all the other frauds deceptively tagged with the term "Catholic." He remained a Modernist, particularly associated with Protestant heretics, for the rest of his life.
As a peritus (expert) at the Anti-council, Ratzinger himself had his bishop introduce the most notorious heresy perpetrated by the Anti-council on the Newchurch of the New Order that it created in 1964 to replace the Catholic Church. That heresy was OECUMENISM: we all worship the same gods; all religions are true. Ratzinger shrewdly accomplished this end by changing one word in the Latin text of the Anti-council's so-called Dogmatic Decree on the Church, Lumen gentium.. Here is the story of how Ratzinger perpetrated this heresy upon Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
In accordance with teaching from Apostolic times, Pope Pius XII in his Encyclical Letter "Mystici corporis Christi" pronounced: "The Roman Catholic Church is (est) the one mystical body of Christ." Ratzinger connived to have that changed at the Anti-council to: Unica Christi Ecclesia ... subsistit in Ecclesia catholica.... [The sole Church of Christ ... subsists in the Catholic Church....] A German Protestant, Pastor Schmidt, proposed to Fr. Josef Ratzinger, who was hanging around the bars of the Anti-council drinking beer with his fellow heretic Karl Rahner and other such ilk, gave the Protestant's proposal to his principal, Cardinal Frings of Cologne, who introduced it as an amendment to the original draft of the decree. This type of fraud was typical of Ratzinger. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Infovaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, Josef Ratzinger hailed from Regensburg, Germany. That was his native diocese. On May 23, 2026, the Newbishop of Regensburg, Rudolf Voderholzer, announced that in the years after Ratzinger perpetrated his fraud, Newchurch had collapsed in Regensburg. "Only 28 per cent believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." By their fruits, you shall know them (Matthew 7:16/DRV). And Ratzinger was one of the biggest fruits of all -- theologically, that is.
Naive young Neocon Newchurch men are entering Newseminaries not prepared for what they find there. They finds messes sauvages ( "wild liturgies"), They find there widespread teaching of heresies, particularly in the documents of Prevost-Leo and the other apostate Newpopes. They have been propositioned and even assaulted by sodomite presbyters, Newbishops, and even Newcardinals, like the notorious Theodore McCarrick, whose specialty was raping young men in Newseminaries.
These young men once believed in the papacy. They studied and prayed to such greats as St. Pius V and St. Pius X, but then the come to study the apostate Newpopes Paul VI-Montini, JPII-Wojtyla, Ratzinger-Benedict, Bergoglio-Francis, and Prevost-Leo. Many of these young men come to the conclusion that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Traditional Catholics, these young men have learned that the Newpopes publicly contradict the faith with widespread heresies like. "Fiducia supplicans" approving the "blessing" of sodomites, even in sodomitic marriages, "Amoris laetitia" approving the admission of bigamists to the fake Novus Ordo cookie and Kool-Aid. Thus, they come to believe that the Newpopes are counterfeit, and their Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is counterfeit. They abandon the Newchurch seminary, and as a result another group of Newparishes is shut down permanently, as there is no presbyter coming to keep it open. It may be, after all, that this is exactly the plan of Providence.
Brandy Daniels (sound like a prostitute's name, doesn't it?) has so many strikes against her. She is a self-proclaimed proud Lesbian, she is "married" to another Lesbian, and she claims to be a heretic Evangelical "pastor." And yet it has just now come to light that the Newchurch University of Portland, Oregon, has employed her officially for the last six years as an associate professor to teach "Queer theology" (whatever that is) and transsexualism. In addition, she is Co-director of the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies department at the Newchurch university.
One of the heresies that she teaches is that Biblical passages condemning homosexuality are not to be taken literally. That is certainly not the teaching of the true Catholic Church. Rather, sodomy is one of the Four Biblical Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance. Daniels is slated to publish her first book in November 2026: How Not to Be Christian: Identity, Formation and the Future in Feminist Theologies. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurch university, which dares to call itself "Catholic" has shown its apostate stripes before. In 2002 its Theology and Religious Studies Department chairman compared those who denounced homosexual acts as a grave sin against the Natural Law to the Roman soldiers who nailed Christ to the cross. This same chairman ended the school's requirement that theology students take a course on Biblical texts and replaced it with a requirement to take immoral courses such as "Queer Theologies" and "God Our Mother." One must question the sanity of those parents who pay large amounts of tuition to train their children in such immoral trash.
The Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is again fighting for its life as on May 26, 2026, the United States Supreme Court, ironically consisting of 67 per cent Newchurchers, refused to dismiss the federal case against all the U.S. Newchurch bishops, some 300 of them, in the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] Bishops [Sic]. The whole body of bishops has been charged with fraud, in that the bishops gave "homilies" encourage contributions to Peter's Pence, a corrupt fund run by the Newpopes. The bishops told their Newparishioners that the funds would go to the most desperate poor and victims of natural disasters. In fact, the Newpopes have been spending the funds on shoring up their bankrupted administrative operations in Newvatican.
The U.S. Newbishops have been mendaciously attempting to claim that this case is one of First Amendment rights protecting religion, whereas it is in fact a case of fraud. Legally, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution cannot be used as a defense to fraud. Curiously, the Newbishops are not attempting to defend themselves by claiming innocence from the fraud. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Washington Examiner.]
Traditional Catholics, earlier, both a federal district court and a federal appeals court had reached the same conclusion: the U.S. Newbishops have to stand before the bar of justice for any fraud that they perpetrated. The evidence is indicating that the U.S. Newbishops and the counterfeit Newpopes colluded in deceiving their Newchurchers that Peter's Pence is a charitable fund, whereas it is in fact a money-laundering operation to keep the foundering Newchurch aflot.
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