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Newchurch authorities from counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo will never tell you the truth, but their Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is going down the privy while they whistle through the graveyard playing political games. Meanwhile, Newbishops like Pietro Fragnelli, of the Newdiocese of Trapani, Sicily, have to deal with the fallout.
As the presbyter count has fallen below 100 for 200,000 Newchurchers, Fragnelli in desperation appointed on August 16, 2026, a female as Vice Chancellor to administer the Newdiocese, as few men want to be counterfeit presbyters (Newchurch has not ordained priests in Holy Orders since adopting a Protestant ordinal in 1968), and the Newseminaries are empty.) The female Vice Chancellor will be assisted by four female "catechists."
Because Newchurch is so corrupt and apostate that presbyters are leaving like flies on a carcass, the counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis constituted a new position of "catechist" to take over eventually the role of presbyters and even Newbishops. These "catechists" will have authority over Newchurch clergy, in clear violation of Sacred Scripture. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, right in Prevost-Leo's backyard, Italy, Newchurch has been facing a deep and long-lasting crisis in its clergy. Presbyters are retiring, dying, and leaving in huge numbers. Few young men dare to enter a Newchurch seminary, where they can be sodomized by senior Newclergy. Italy is now having desperate trouble keeping basic services running for the Synodal Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Sometimes Newchurchers think that they can escape the corruption and apostasy of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order if they flip to an Eastern-rite Newchurch. It turns out that the Eastern rites in Newchurch are just as corrupt and apostate as the Western rites. (For further information on this topic, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department, in the section "Eastern Rite Option.")
Now we have the case of a Ukrainian-rite presbyter, Gregory Madeya, who claimed that he "wasn't paid enough," so he stole over 740,000 USD from three Newchurches, Newchurch organizations, and even his own mother. He was charged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 24, 2026, with theft from local Newchurches, the Knights of Columbus and his own elderly mother. Madey was charged with stealing since 2018 from the collection plate collection funds, fundraising proceeds, and donations. According to police, Madeya spent the money on prostitutes, luxury trips, gambling, and expensive cars.
Although the Eastern-rite Newbishop of Pittsburgh remained mute on the crimes, Pittsburgh's Attorney General was outraged, stating: "It is unconscionable to see a supposed man of God exploiting not only the churches he served, but his own mother. This defendant abused the trust of those around him and left them to recover from mammoth financial losses." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by WPXI Pittsburgh.]
Traditional Catholic, presbyter Madeya was also reported to have purloined a gold chalice worth 20,000 USD. Cell-phone records indicate that presbyter Madeya may have also been involved with narcotics. He tried to hide in Florida, yet it was not the Eastern Newchurch Neweparchy (Newdiocese) that caught him, but the long arm of the secular law, which is now extraditing him to Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust goes on unabated, in the Eastern rites as well as the Western rites.
On September 3, 2026, Traditional Catholic producer-director revealed more about the content of his new film, "The Resurrection of the Christ," to be released in two parts on traditional Ascension Thursday, May 6, 2027, and May 25, 2028. The film will depict the post-resurrection period of the Church and the Roman Empire in which it operated, as well as the experiences of The Christ's followers. This is the long-awaited sequel to Gibson's 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ."
Gibson says that "The Resurrection of the Christ" will include dramatizing in shocking reality the traditional Church teaching about Hell, relying upon heavily upon the Catholic Tradition of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, as well as taking inspiration from such works as Dante Alighiero's Inferno. The film will depict the different realms of Hell, such as the Limbus Patrum, or Limbo of the Just and the Hell of the Damned, as well as the Fallen Angels, and the genesis of Satan. These are teachings that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has heretically tried to downplay, if not reject outright. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Christian Post.]
Traditional Catholics, Mel Gibson states that he will not depart from Traditional Catholic orthodox doctrine, but expects many to be surprised by some of the revelations. It will be the first time many Newchurchers will have been introduced to these teachings of the true Catholic Church, with which traditional Catholics are already quite familiar. He hopes that, in the end, "The Resurrection of the Christ" will be "inspiring, uplifting."
Even the "Underground" Newchurch is turning against the apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo. The "Underground" Newchurch comprises Newchurch clergy and laity who had been standing by the Newpopes and the Newvatican against Dictator Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party. But first counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis and now his disciple and successor Prevost-Leo have done a volte-face and sold out to the Communists, leaving their own Chinese Newchurchers in the violent clutches of the Communists. Bergoglio signed a Concordat with the Communists first in 2018 and renewed it biennially.
Now the courageous "Underground" Newchurch, which has refused to join the Communist-operated Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, has had enough of Newvatican's sellouts. By August 28, 2026, they are said to have consecrated in secreto at least ten Newbishops for the Underground Church without Prevost's "mandate." They are afraid that they will lose Apostolic succession when the Communist persecutions escalate. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World Report.]
Traditional Catholics, to the scandal of the "Underground" Newchurch, Prevost-Leo has now given in to appointing Communists as Newbishops for Red China. It doesn't do any good. Xi and the Communists are advancing the policy of "sinicization," which forces religions to adapt to Chinese culture, as well as to Communism and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has seized almost all of the underground chapels of those who refused to join the Chinese Patriotic Association. The CCP bans minors under 18 from receiving religious formation or participating in activities inside places of worship. Churches are closed, and a few secret services are held in some homes.
On August 13, 2026, counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo appointed one Umberto Longo, associated with Italy's Grand Orient Masonic Lodge, to the Newpontifical Commission for Historical Sciences. He is addressed in Masonic publications as "Fratello" (Brother). By canon law Freemasons and their associates are ipso facto excommunicated from the Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newpope Prevost-Leo has in only a little over a year established a record of appointing Protestants and Freemasons, and has opened his Newvatican boards and commissions to Jews, Infidels, pagans, and the like. No surprise here. The apostate Newchurch preaches the Oecumenical Heresy from the Vatican II Anti-council: we all worship the same gods, all religions are true.
Ireland used to be known as one of the most Catholic of countries. The Vatican II Anti-council killed that. In just ten years, between 2015 and 2025, "initiations" (Newchurch's term for what true Catholics for 2,000 years have called Baptisms) fell by 30 per cent, in Dublin 40 per cent. Irish births fell by only a little over half that amount. Even most of the remaining "initiations" in Newchurch could be invalid because of defect of matter, form, and intention, as even Newchurch itself has admitted in several cases.
The Irish are justly enraged against Newchurch for suborning the rape, sodomy, and other sexual assaults against Irish children, particularly orphans, the blind, and the deaf, by Newchurch cardinals, bishops, and presbyters. It got so bad that the Prime Minister stated on the floor of parliament that he could not protect the life of counterfeit Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict, who wanted to visit the isle, because the Irish were so angry at his subornation of paedophile crimes that he might be assassinated. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, more and more Irish are checking the "No Religion" box on the census form. Attendance at the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess has gone down the tubes. The counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is merely suffering God's justice for its crimes and for being apostate from the Catholic Faith, just as are the Anglicans in Britain and the Lutherans in Germany. Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
It had to happen eventually. The counterfeit Newpopes have been trying to cover up their Newclergy's sex crimes against children for so long that they thought they would get off personally from being involved in Newchurch's Paedophile Scandal. But on September 2, 2026, the personal secretary of counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo himself was fingered as being the "disciple" of a notorious Peruvian presbyter paedophile implicated in raping girls as young as nine years of age.
Edgard Rimaycuna, who has served as Prevost's personal secretary, with direct access to His Unholiness since before the beginning his Newpapacy, was outed by Peruvian journalist Santiago Roncagliolo in his 2026 book, El Pastor de los Lobos (The Shepherd and the Wolves), as a disciple of Eleuterio Vasquez Gonzalez, who is known by the monicker "Lute," and has been declaimed by numerous children as young as age nine of raping them.
The journalist wrote that Prevost "informed him of everything he did" and that "Prevost was proud of his [Gonzalez's] achievements." Prevost himself was a close associate of the paedophile Gonzelez and used him to do "evangelization and vocations." Prevost promised Gonzalez that when he became Newpope, he would take Gonzalez's disciple, Rimaycuna, with him to Newrome and make him his personal secretary. As good as his word, Prevost appointed Rimaycuna as his personal secretary immediately after his election on May 18, 2025, and subsequently named him a Chaplain of His (Un)holiness and made him a member of his Newpontifical Household in November 2025. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, to add insult to insury, it was Prevost himself, as Newdiocesan bishop, who was in control of the Gonzalez rape investigation. Just one month before Prevost became Newpope, Newvatican's canonist on the case concluded that Prevost's investigation had been "a joke," "badly conducted and superficial," and "contained numerous errors." Yet Prevost ended up as the counterfeit Newpope. Something is definitely rotten in Prevost-Leo's Newrome.
In his General Audience of August 26, 2026, counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo indicated that he will further suppress the New Latin Mess of 1962, which is not even the Traditional Latin Mass. He declared: "The liturgical reform promoted by the Second Vatican (Anti-)council is thus firmly rooted in the living tradition of the Church." It is quite the opposite, trying in fact to destroy root and branch Tradition in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order.
Prevost went on to denigrate the Traditional Latin Mass with the old saw that the people don't "participate." He pontificated: “The participation of the faithful cannot be passive.” For the last two millennia, participation at the Traditional Latin Mass has been not passive, but vigorously interior.
Prevost seems to be quite ignorant of Pope St. Pius X's clear distinction between participatio actuosa and participatio activa, a distinction that is crystal clear in the Latin, but is wiped out by the Modernists in the deliberately misleading term "active participation." The true teaching of the Catholic Church (not Prevost's apostate Newchurch, obviously) is that participation at Holy Mass is "actuated," that is, internal, by interior prayer and meditation. It is not necessary for the congregation to caterwaul trash music accompanied by banging pianos or to follow the screamed orders of lay ministresses directing "responses" or the like. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Vatican News Service.]
Traditional Catholics. for even a counterfeit Newpope to claim that for 2,000 years Catholics have not been "participating" at the Traditional Latin Mass is beyond ridiculous. During those two millennia some 260 true popes have been participating. Over 2,000 canonized true have been participating. Billions of faithful Catholics have been participating. What Prevost is falsely pontificating about is certainly not Catholicism, but heresies from a counterfeit Newpope and his counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Some people say that the salvation of Newchurch could depend upon lay deacons, purportedly because they can marry. Apparently not. Newdeacon Kenneth Goedeke, of the Baltimore. Maryland, Newarcdiocese was the latest to be arrested, on August 6, 2026, for two counts of solicitation of sex with a minor under 16 years old. The ill-starred Newdeacon arranged the solicitation with an undercover detective. Goedeke faces thirty years in prison and a fine of 75,000 USD.
Lay deacons, which we here call Newdeacons, are a concoction of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). Counterfeit Newpope Montini-Paul VI instituted them in 1967, just two years after the close of the Anti-council. They can marry or not as they choose. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch deacon Goedeke, aged 45 and "installed" as a Newdeacon in 2023, was posted by the Newarchdiocese of Baltimore to Newparishes and Newparochial schools, where he had the opportunity to do his sexual solicitation. The Newarchdiocese claims that he passed a "thorough employment screening." It appears the Newchurch's screening of its predator paedophile Newclergy is still as incompetent as ever.
Newchurch dioceses in the United States is a personnel crisis. Newbishops are shutting down Newparishes right and left because there are no presbyters to staff them. The escape route in the past had been the importation of foreign-born presbyters, but the U.S. Government has virtually put an end to that scam as a result of visa violations and security risks by those “who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security and public safety, incite hate crimes, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes."
Even Newchurchers are surprised to learn that most of the foreign-born presbyters are coming not from Ireland or even Europe, but from Nigeria! Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Denver, Colorado; Lincoln, Nebraska; Fairbanks, Alaska; Sioux City, Iowa; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Ogdensburg, New York; Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and San Francisco, California are among the Newdioceses that are in jeopardy. But, even so, it is becoming more difficult to retain and recruit foreigners. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, it is clear that Newchurch is assisting aliens in using the R-1 religious visa to skirt U.S. immigration laws. In many Newdioceses, a significant percentage of presbyters come from foreign countries because young men don't want to waste their lives by attending Newchurch seminaries, where they are confronted with heresy, sodomy, and other criminal activities on the part of the Newclergy there and where there have been no valid ordinations since 1968, when Newchurch adopted an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal. Moreover, apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo and his Newpope predecessors have not lifted a finger to purge their Newchurch of such crimes. Who can blame young men for staying away, as the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church?
The Newchurch of the New Order often portrays itsself as infinitely more "loving" that the big, bad Traditional Church before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). Don't you believe it! Capuchin Newbishop Juan Rodolfo Laise's cadaver is still waiting after seven years for the gravestone due it. Since his death in 2019 and still in 2026, his rotting cadaver in the cemetery of San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, has been waiting for Newchurch to replace the simple funeral notice paper that lies upon his grave.
You see, Laise was "too traditional" for the counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis, who loved atheists, transsexuals, infidels, pagans, and the like, but had no love in his soul for his fellow Argentinean Newbishop. What was Laise's grave sin that followed him after his death? He did not permit the Novus Ordo cookie to be grabbed into filthy hands. (Of course, this was not Holy Communion because the Novus Ordo Mess is invalid, and its presbyters have not been ordained priests since 1968. Laise himself was never consecrated as a bishop, but merely "installed" as a Newbishop.) [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Laise had objected to the 1996 request of the Argentine Bishops' Conference for an indult to receive the Novus Ordo cookie in the hand because he considered such an indult to be "fraught with risks for the faith" of ordinary Newchurchers (as if their faith hadn't been compromised already by Newchurch). He prohibited the practice in his Newdiocese of San Luis. Apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis saw other Modernist Newbishops get headsones, but not Laise.
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