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The U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] Newbishops were slammed by a number of their own Newchurch "influencers" for enthusiastically promoting the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) on September 21, 2026. The Newbishops, through their Committee on Oecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, made no mention in their message of Jesus Christ as the Messias of both Jews and Gentiles.
One of the critics expressed her denunciation of the USCCB's message in these words: "Catholics do not wish people a 'meaningful' observance of a sacrifice Jesus Christ already completed. His Body and Blood were shed once to atone for sin. The High Priest entered the sanctuary and offered Himself on the altar, a perfect sacrifice, once for all." From a Catholic perspective, Jews are considered infidels, like the Islamists, because they do not recognize Jesus as The Christ (Anointed) and savior of the world.
Another critic observed: "Celebrating Yom Kippur is an implicit rejection of Christ and His messianic dignity. All the signs and ceremonies of the old Judaism are fulfilled in Jesus Christ, having pointed towards him in the Old Testament. Stop promoting Judaizing and mortal sin!" [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Seventeenth Oecumenical Council of the Church, the Council of Florence, declared observing Old Testament rites to be anathema, mortally sinful. In its decree "Cantate Domino" the Council clearly decreed:
[The Church] believes, professes, and teaches that the legal prescriptions of the Old Testament or the Mosaic law…, once Our Lord Jesus Christ Who was signified by them had come, came to an end… Whoever, after the passion, places his hope in the legal prescriptions and submits himself to them as necessary for salvation and as if faith in Christ without them could not save, sins mortally… after the promulgation of the Gospel they cannot be observed without loss of eternal salvation.
But as the Newchurch of the New Order is apostate from the Catholic Faith, it is no surprise that the U.S. Newbishop would be awash in heresy.
On September 29, 2026, the TRADITIO Traditional Roman Catholic Network celebrates its 32md anniversary. TRADITIO was the first Traditional Roman Catholic site to appear on the internet and was founded on the Feastday of the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, September 29, 1994. We were here even before Newvatican was, even before Amazon.com was!
We thank the Lord for our more than 35,000,000 readers over these past 32 years and for our hundreds of dedicated correspondents from all over the world, who keep us current on everything going on in the bowels of Newvatican, in the inner sancta of various traditional organizations, and at Traditional Latin Mass sites around the world. TRADITIO was determined by an Alexis-Amazon statistical survey to be the most read fully Traditional Roman Catholic web site on the World Wide Web.
In their Daily Commentaries, the TRADITIO Fathers do not just copy news reports or the uninformed notions of johnny-come-lately "bloggers" in secular and religious publications, who in fact have very little background or understanding of the Traditional Catholic Movement. Nor is the TRADITIO Network enslaved to any particular organization's viewpoint. Instead, the TRADITIO Network provides the hard-hitting, independent analysis and perspective of over half a century of Roman Catholic experience, even from before the Vatican II Anti-council.
The TRADITIO Network is avidly read within the highest bowels of at Newrome and Menzingen (Neo-SSPX). In addition to the Daily Commentaries from the TRADITIO Fathers, lively commentary on Church news from the traditional perspective, TRADITIO's other sixteen departments provide over a terabyte of resources and materials for its readers to study and learn about the Traditional Roman Catholic Faith.
We are particularly appreciative of the many thousands of messages that we have received from Newchurchers of the New Order, including former "1962 Mess" Neocons in Newchurch, who say that they have been converted to the fully-traditional Roman Catholic Faith because of TRADITIO's uncompromising, independent commentaries and materials. The TRADITIO Network is one of many means through which Our Lord appears be working out the Traditional Catholic Restoration of the 21st century.
Dom Leonardo Maria Pompei, of Latina, Italy, a popular "traditionalist" online influencer, is an honest man. After twenty years of practicing the Novus Ordo and accepting the officialdom of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, he saw the light, repented, and became an independent Traditional Catholic priest. He stated that he will no longer simulate the invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo Mess of 1969. He openly stated that he now has no communion with the counterfeit Newchurch and its Newpopes. After a Novus Ordo "trial," in which Fr. Pompei did not participate, he was "excommunicated" from the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch for his courageous faithfulness to traditional Catholicism
Dom Pompei rightly considers Newchurch most certainly NOT to be the Catholic Church and will henceforth have nothing to do with it. He has remained faithful to traditional Catholic doctrine, morality, liturgy, and the teachings handed down through the true Church. He has not abandoned Catholicism or embraced heresy. He has continued preaching traditional Catholic teaching and has denounced the apostate of the Synodal Newchurch on his popular internet program. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Corrispondenza Romana.]
Traditional Catholics, Dom Pompei contends that it is not he, but the Synodal Newchurch, which has departed from the Catholic faith, liturgy, and ecclesiastical constitution received from the Apostles. In effect, the charge of schism has been turned upside down. Thus, he has rightly rejected any hierarchical association with the Synodal Newchurch to become independent of it. What other choice does he as a faithful Catholic have? All Newchurch presbyters and laity should join him in rejecting the apostate and counterfeit Newchurch and Newpopes.
Further evidence that Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict was not a full-throated proponent of the New Latin Mess of 1962 and did not intend his 2008 motu proprio "Summorum pontificum" to last more than a few years (as he himself said in his accompanying letter) was released by the (New)vatican Press Office on September 22, 2026 On that date Newpope Prevost-Leo approved the awarding of the 2026 Ratzinger Prize to John Cavadini, professor at Newchurch's Notre Dame University of South Bend, Indiana, an outspoken critic of Ratzinger and his document.
Ratzinger's "Summorum pontificum" was the deceptive document that purported to give certain opportunities to the corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962. It was never fully implemented because of defects in its process and was rescinded by Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes." Ratzinger himself, in his letter accompanying the release of the document, indicated that he expected it to last only a few years, until the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo Mess of 1969 could take over completely.
Cavadini has argued that Ratzinger, with his document, hypocritically undermined his own theory of the "hermeneutic of continuity" (an unCatholic concept whose meaning could be stretched like a Vatican II rubber band) and that by giving recognition to the New Latin Mess of 1962, Ratzinger went against his own principles. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, actions speak louder than words. Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo will personally make the formal presentation of the award in the Apostolic Palace, confirming his own rejection, and that of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, of "Summorum pontificum" and of the corrupted New Latin Mess of 1962.
On September 6, 2026, counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo announced his plans to pilfer the Newchurch collection-plate to blow on a 117,000,000 USD project to "green" the Newvatican, which covers not even one square kilometer. By "green" is not meant plant vegetation, but buying into the discredited "global warming" scam, which has reduced the financial resources of Europe into chaos in the false effort to go "carbon neutral." It is all part of the Newpopes' paganization of their Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
The counterfeit Newpope Prevost is so radical that he has tried to falsify Catholic doctrine to fabricate "Environmental" mortal sins, which he denounces far more than abortion and sodomy, rape and murder, perpetrated by illegal invaders into Europe and elsewhere. Prevost's cockamamie notion was inspired by Prevost's mentor, the ignominious Bergoglio-Francis in his radical Leftist 2015 encyclical letter "Laudato si'," which concludes with a thinly-veiled Latin poem to the pagan goddess Nature. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Reuters.]
Traditional Catholics, the hypocracy of the Leonine project is that in order to build the fabled agrovoltaic plant, Prevost-Leo will have to appropriate productive agricultural land outside of his Newvatican for a plant that will produce a mere 5 per cent of the power that efficient plants in the United States using the latest technology can even now produce. Bergoglio-Prevost's Synodal Newchurch of the New Age -- most certainly NOT the Catholic Church -- is not just heretical and immoral, but is ignorant of science. Yet that's nothing new. Just ask St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church, who called out Galileo on his faulty astronomy in his theory of the tides.
Newvatican's Central Office for Church Statistics has released its official figures revealing the "stunning collapse" of Newchurch in France. An embarrassment for counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo, the numbers came out a week before he was to make a Newpapal junket to that country on September 25-28, 2026.
From the time that the nation of Francis originated with the Treaty of Verdun (843) out of the division of the Holy Roman Empire of Blessed Charlesmagne. France was called la fille ane de lglise (the eldest daughter of the Church) because the Frankish King Clovis I first embraced Catholicism in 496.
Some of the statistics that Newvatican was embarrassed to reveal, comparing the situation in 1980, which had already deteriorated as a result of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), to that in 2024, a period of less than 25 years include the following: [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, these figures further confirm the obvious fact that the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order is rapidly reaching extinction level. But no tears need be shed, as Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Therefore, its demise should be hastened, not slowed, so that, in the words of Our Lord, "even the elect be not deceived" (Matthew 24:24/DRV).
Right in apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo's backyard, in Como, Italy, on August 20, 2026, two Buddhist monks chanted mantras from the pulpit of the Newparish temple of San Martino there. To give "authenticity" to the blasphemy and sacrilege, the Newparish presbyter-pastor personally participated wearing Novus Ordo vestments.
The Newparish pastor stated at the "funeral" that the dead woman had found her "salvation" in Buddha, "the Enlightened One." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, after the scandal became highly publicized, the Newcardinal of Como, Oscar Cantoni, caught flatfooted, sputtered all over himself to try to excuse himself from the blasphemy and sacrilege held under his authority, but Cantoni's excuses fell flat as he waited a full ten days to address the scandal. Maybe he was coordinating his response with counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo so as not to offend the pagan Buddhists!
Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo is being openly praised by "gay" publications for appointing openly homophiliac Newbishops, who push the sodomite and transsexual agenda, for which act he has been hailed by sodomite organizations. By August 25, 2026, Prevost's four latest appointments of the Newchurch Lavender Mafia were "installed" as Newbishops. These are counterfeits, not Catholic bishops, as they were not consecrated as Catholic bishops under the traditional Roman Pontifical, but merely "installed" in the invalid Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968 as "overseers" (episcopi).
The notorious quadriga comprises James Checchio, who heads the Newarchdiocese of New Orleans; Ramon Bejarano, who heads the Archdiocese of New Orleans; Bishop Ramon Bejarano, who heads the Newdiocese of Monterey, California; Christian Wurtz, who heads the Newdiocese of Eichstatt, Germany; and Thomas Hennen, who heads the Newdiocese of Baker, Oregon.
It was Bejarano who invited a "drag queen" speak in favor of "gay" marriage at a Novus Ordo "Pride" Mess. Wurtz endorsed "blessings" for sodomite "couples" and called sodomy, one of the four Biblical Sins that Cry out to Heaven for Retribution "not sinful." Checcio was a supporter of the ignominious Newcardinal Theodore McCarrick, of Washington, D.C., who sodomized children and young Newseminarians up and down the East Coast of the United States. Hennen supported making accommodations to "sexual and gender minorities." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, thus does Prevost push the agenda of the Lavender Mafia, described as "a clandestine network within the Newchurch hierarchy that protects and advances a homosexual ideology while masquerading under the banner of compassion." Meanwhile, the apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo continues to appoint more and more members of the Lavender Mafia to top Newchurch positions.
After four centuries the Newchurch Visitation "nuns" are abandoning their convent in Nevers, France, on September 14, 2026. The Visitation order was founded in 1610 by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jeanne de Chantal. Its famous chapel was built in 1639. This convent was world renowned as that where St. Bernadette Subirous, the visionary of the apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes, entered after the last apparition.
The story became widely known through the 1943 film, "Song of Bernadette," starring Jennifer Jones in the title role. The picture and its four leading actors were all nominated for Academy Awards. The film was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Franz Werfel and produced in play form on Broadway. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Le Catho.]
Traditional Catholics, the Nevers convent had sunk to enclosing just four Novus Ordo "nuns" after having thrived, even through the French Revolution, for four centuries. It seems that even the Blessed Mother has retreated from the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order.
Newcardinal Francis Leo, of Toronto, Canada, has been consulting with counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo about applying the restrictions of the 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes" in Toronto. Consequently, it has been announced that as of September 20, 2026, the half Novus Ordo New Latin Mess of 1962 will be slashed in Toronto and replaced by the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969.
This news confirms what we already know, that Prevost plans to erase the corrupted New Latin Mess 1962 and force its supporters to attend the full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo New Mass of 1969. One of the current New Latin Messes will be converted to a Novus Ordo Mess in Latin with vernacular Novus Ordo music.
In addition, the traditional Latin sacraments are being suppressed as well in favor of the Novus Ordo "sacraments." All of the Novus Ordo vernacular "sacraments" are invalid (counterfeit), except in a limited cases for Baptism (which the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order calls "Initiations") and Matrimony. Eucharistic dinner tables (as the Novus Ordo officially terms them) will be turned around to face the congregation, as in Protestant services.
Traditional Catholics, this suppression of the New Latin Mess in Toronto will affect only about 1,000 Neocon Newchurchers, and that number includes those from the Newchurch-excommunicated Neo-Society of St. Pius X. None of these Messes is the Traditional Latin Mass, and they are being simulated -- except in the case of some Neo-SSPX ones -- by unordained presbyter-ministers, not Catholic priests. Toronto is the most important see in English Canada by far. What is happening there is just another harbinger for the suppression of the New Latin Mess worldwide.
True Catholics must have nothing to do with Newchurch and its counterfeit Messes and counterfeit "sacraments," and find a Traditional Catholic church, chapel, or oratory that is entirely independent from the apostate and counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Do Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories post the flag of the Vatican in their sanctuaries? Wouldn't doing so be the height of hypocrisy? Are any flags even permitted in the sanctuary?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
As a matter of general law for centuries, only religious flags are permitted in Catholic churches. The flag of the Vatican City State (Citta del Vaticano) is not properly a religious flag, as it represents not a religion, but a governmental entity, the Vatican City State, most recently incorporated in 1929 in the Lateran Protocol between Pius XI and Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini.
Violation of the general law in certain areas, like the missionary country of the United States of America, were countenanced locally, and often included the display in the sanctuary of the national flag. Such practices were never without scandal, as there is no cause for non-religious flags to be displayed in the sanctuary of God. Even in the Newchurch of the New Order, the custom, in the limited places where it existed in violation of the general rule, seems now to have gone into desuetude.
We are not aware of the presence of such flags in the sanctuary in the case of truly Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories, that is, those not associated with the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order, since 1994 officially called the Synodal (New)church, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
If you have seen such an example, you would have every right to question the hypocrisy that it entails. It is ironic that the Vatican City State flag contains among its insignia the papal tiara, which Montini-Paul VI gave away in 1965 at the end of the Vatican II Anti-council, at the time when the apostate Newchurch of the New Order was initiated to replace the Catholic Church as the institutional Church.
Newpope Prevost- Leo's Newvatican has announced that as of September 12, 2026, it has slashed extraordinary temporary permissions for the half Novus Ordo New Latin Mess of 1962. Temporary two-year approvals had been given in extraordinary cases so that reticent Newdioceses could force their Newparishioners into the invalid Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969 in accordance with 2021's decree "Traditionis custodes." Many of these temporary extraordinary permissions are now expiring.
Newvatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship [sic] announced that in 2025 it had granted only 34 temporary permissions for the 3,172 Newdioceses in the world, constituting only 1.0 per cent of the Newdioceses. In 2023 and 2024, the Dicastery had granted 55 temporary permissions, constituting 1.7 per cent of the Newdioceses, a decline of 40 per cent between 2024 and 2025.
In accordance with the 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes," New Latin Masses cannot legally be simulated in a Newdiocese without the extraordinary temporary permission of the Newvatican Dicastery. Newbishops who fail to get such permission and still permit such Messes are in breech of Novus Ordo Canon Law and subject to punishments exacted by Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, in accordance with "Traditionis custodes," all Newchurchers are to be moved to the counterfeit New Mess within two years. This enforced movement to the Novus Ordo was also envisioned by the 2008 motu proprio "Summorum pontificum." Newchurch is clearly executing these decrees. As a consequence of their duplicity in accepting the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, the Neocon Newchurchers have been hoisted by their own petard yet again.
If Newchurch wants to empty out its Newparishes, which are already teetering at only about 5 per cent attendance at the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo service, Newarchbishop Charles Thompson, of Indianapolis, Indiana, has shown the way: excuse murderers, rapists, and other criminals from Sunday Mess. He is the seventh Newbishop to engage in colluding in lawlessness, joining the Newarchdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Newdioceses of Columbus, Ohio; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Charlotte, North Carolina; San Bernardino, California; and Nashville, Kentucky.
Thompson apparently thinks that many of his Newchurchers are criminals because they fear "tightening of immigration-enforcement measures." Instead of colluding in lawlessness, which is certainly not in accordance with traditional Catholic theology, Thompson should be encouraging the criminals in his congregations to do the honest, Catholic thing and turn themselves in to the authorities.
Curiously, Thompson wrote his "decree" in Spanish, encouraging illegal invaders to escape the law. Perhaps the U.S. government should arrest him for conspiring to break the laws of the United States. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Our Sunday Visitor News.]
Traditional Catholics, there are still many millions of illegal invaders, many of them felons, insinuating themselves into cities and towns across the United States. In June 2025 alone, 43,000 such illegal alien felons were apprehended and sent back to their countries of origin or imprisoned. Two other Newbishops have called for "dignity" within prison walls for those who have murdered, raped, and otherwise assaulted U.S. citizens. None of the Newbishops have called for "dignity" toward the innocent citizens -- men, women, and children -- who have been murdered, raped, or otherwise assaulted these felons.
On September 10, 2026, details were revealed about counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's ban of the New Latin Mess of 1962 from St. Peter's Archbasilica. This ban prevented Neocon Newchurchers from holding the Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem Mess in St. Peter's. The pilgrimage originally set for October 2026 is barred from simulating the New Latin Mess there. The Mess was to be simulated there by the Neocon Newbishop Athanasius Schneider, who was never ordained as a Catholic priest or consecrated as a Catholic bishop. He was merely "installed" under the invalid Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968 as a Novus Ordo presbyter-minister and as a Novus Ordo Newbishop "overseer."
It seems that the foolish Neocon organizers beat their breast so loudly about last year's New Latin Mess in St. Peter's that Prevost's officials barred the Mess this year. The organizers were derided in high Newvatican circles as "gloating." This rebuke was aimed primarily at Newcardinal Ray "Bully" Burke, who tried to pull a fast one on Newvatican officials in 2025. The sashaying Burke is known for consecrating a man as a "nun" when Newbishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in a scandal known as the Immaculate Deception. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost-Leo had one of the highest officials at Newvatican, the Sostituto (Deputy) Secretary of State, pass along the Newpapal denial to the Neocons. It seems that once again the Neocon Newchurchers, who pander the New Latin Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, have been hoisted by their own petard. Prevost is now sending clear signals that he intends to suppress further the New Latin Mess.
The counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has concocted a new Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Mess "Pro Custodia Creationis" (For the Care of Creation). The stated purpose of the new Mess is not conversion of pagans to Christ, but conversion of Newchurchers to pagan "ecology" (political environmentalism).
The apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo personally simulated this counterfeit Mess September 1, 2026, at his Castel Gandolfo enclave. The official Newchurch Latin text of the Mess was published on June 8, 2025. Prevost emphasized in his "homily" the unfaithfulness of humanity "in safeguarding Nature (creation) and caring for the dignity of each person." He emphasized "contemplation of Nature ... (as) a first step towards an authentic Ecological Conversion." Not conversion to Jesus Christ, but to paganism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Reporter.]
Traditional Catholics, Newpope Prevost-Leo is clearly submerged in paganism. The center of the Catholic Faith is Jesus Christ and conversion to His faith and teaching. That is the farthest thing from Prevost's mind and the mind of the Newchurch establishment. Prevost merely carries on the heresies of his mentor, the apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis, who was so proud of hisscreed 2015 "Laudato si," which initiated the official worship of the Nature Goddess in the Synodal Newchurch.
What sect has an official Mess to worship the pagan demon goddess Pachamama? What sect has an official Mess to worship the pagan Aztec Sun God, Acatama? What sect now has an official Mess "Pro Cura Creationis" to worship the Goddess of Nature? If you answered: the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age headed by the counterfeit, apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo, you win the prize!
To one degree or another, all of the Newpopes since Montini-Paul VI have officially and/or personally advanced the worship of pagan gods. Now it is official. With the publication on August 21, 2026, of the document "Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Trinitarian God," Newchurch's International Theological Commission embraced Paganism and the Modernist heresy, formally condemned by the dogmatic First Vatican Council.
For its inspiration Newchurch has revived the heretical ideas of the condemned Newjesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who attempted to apply the disputed Darwinian Theory of Evolution to God. Because the world is always evolving, there can necessarily be no unchanging doctrine. All is eminently changeable (Modernism); moreover, the world itself is divine (Paganism). The Heresy of Modernism was condemned by Pope Pius IX, Leo XIII, and especially Pope St. Pius X. The latter called this heresy "omnium haereseon conlectum," the aggregation of all heresies, which he called the most virulent heresy in the history of the Church. It was the founding principle of the Vatican II Anti-council, which destroyed the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church.
The crackpot de Chardin concocted a new philosophy, called panentheism, the basis of which had already been condemned and anathematized by the First Vatican Council in 1870 in the dogmatic decree "Dei Filius." Panentheism bears strong resemblances to the kooky philosophies of the Hippie age and Woodstock. de Chardin was silenced in 1925 by the Holy Office and banned from publishing on religious matters on account of his promoting the Modernist heresy.
Later, de Chardin was condemned by Pope Pius XII and Pope John XXIII, as his panentheism would essentially deny Creation, Original Sin, and Redemption. It has also led to Newchurch's flawed notion of "sins against creation." Panentheism merges the heresies and errors of pantheism, communism, and environmentalism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch is getting into historically dangerous territory. In proclaiming "indisputable" the notion that the universe is in continuous evolution and that space and time evolve along with it, Newchurch is diving into the same astrophysical errors for which the ill-starred Galileo Galilei suffered. It seems that Is Newchurch going into its second childhood, resuscitating the theologies and practices of the previous "kooky" generation, which gave us the "philosophies" of the Hippies and Woodstock.
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, Newbishop 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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