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On Friday, April 10, 2026, Traditional Catholics gained a new Traditional Carmelite Monastery in High Springs, Florida, completely unconnected with the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and its Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo. The community will base its spiritual life on the Traditional Latin Mass and the Traditional Latin Divine Office.
You may remember Foundress and Mother Superior Loretta-Maria and her contemplative nuns were unceremoniously throw out onto a Savanah street by Pseudo-Newpopes Bergoglio-Francis and Prevost-Leo. But what goes around comes around. The contemplative Carmelites have now thrown Newchurch out from their new carmel (monastery). Traditional Catholics have generously supported the traditional nuns with land and funds for the building of the new carmel, which will be entirely autonomous of Newchurch control.
The Mother Superior has commenced the building of what is described as "a stunning cloister and chapel complex of Our Lady of Sorrows, complete with a rectory and guesthouse." To support themselves, the nuns will grow a vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, as well as raise chickens, keep bee hives, and raise livestock on the 40,000 square-metre property. The nuns will continue to sell rosaries, scapulars, and handmade religious items. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, in addition to the current three professed nuns and two novices, the Mother Superior has been contacted by several hermit nuns, as well as several young and late-vocation women. It just goes to show what progress can be made in the Traditional Catholic Faith, once all ties to the Counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age and its Pseudo-Newpopes are abandoned.
The hypocritical Synodal Newchurch of the New Order just can help stepping on its own toes. Newchurch lost its clergy in 1968, when it stopped ordaining men to the Catholic priesthood and adopted an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal, which was capable only of "installing" presbyter-ministers," who are not priests. In 1972 the Counterfeit Newpope Montini-Paul VI did away in Newchurch with the Four Minor Orders (Porter, Lector, Exorcist, Acolyte) and the Major Order of Subdeacon as superfluous.
Now the Newcardinal of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Hollerich, on April 13, 2026, has proposed restoring the Subdiaconate -- not for men, but specifically for women. The rub is that the Subdiaconate is a Major Order, to which traditionally only a man can be ordained with his promise of lifetime celibacy. The corrupt plan of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is clear: follow the heretic Anglicans and "install" subdeaconesses, deaconesses, priestesses, and, finally, archbishopesses. The Anglicans did that in January 2026 by installed Sarah Mullaly as the heretic Archbishopess of Canterbury. As a result, 80 per cent of the remaining Anglicans are abandoning that sect and joining the traditional Anglican Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic Herald.]
Traditional Catholics, Jean-Claude Hollerich is not just one of the "anthill" of 243 superfluous Newcardinals, but is the Ant King of the Synodal Newchurch Anthill. He is Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's General Secretary of the Synod of the Newchurch of the New Order. He wants to "install" not just female Subdeaconesses, but full Deaconesses as well, a move that even three of Newchurch's own study groups have rejected as violating Apostolic Tradition. But Synod King Hollerich says that now it is an "open question." The Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT either Catholic or Apostolic, but an apostate Counterfeit Church with no power or authority than Martin Luther's Lutheran Church.
Love him or hate him. U.S. President D.J. Trump from his half century of business acumen is an excellent judge of character. One might almost think that he has been an avid reader of these TRADITIO Commentaries when on Low Sunday, April 12, 2026, he cut Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo off at the knees -- the first time that a U.S. President has had the guts to call out a Newchurch Counterfeit Pope for what he is instead of playing the usual diplomatic game:
I'm not a fan of pope [sic] Leo. He's a weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy. "Leo [sic] should get his act together as pope [sic], use common sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a great pope [sic], not a politician. It's hurting him very badly and, more importantly, its hurting the Catholic [Sic] Church.
The U.S. President has Prevost's number. These Counterfeit Newpopes have no standing in secular politics, as the Vatican I Council dogmatically declared. The Counterfeit Newpopes' Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is collapsing around their ankles. A pointy hat doesn't give them magical powers; that works only for Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice. The U.S. President is exactly right: these Counterfeit popes are at best Radical Leftists and at worst quasi-Communists.
Prevost bleeds more for Radical Islamic "civilization" than he does for Catholic Western Civilization. His vision of "peace" is completely anti-Catholic. He hasn't once denounced the Muslim Ayatollah's proven desire to manufacture nuclear weapons to bomb Christian Western Civilization into extinction. Who knows? Maybe Prevost has capitulated to the Infidels because they -- before the U.S. President destroyed the Muslims' military capability -- had the power to obliterate Newvatican from the face of the earth. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by USA Today.]
Traditional Catholics, Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo pretends to be a Catholic pope, but is instead an apologist for Muslim Radical Infidels. Just as Counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis installed a statue of the Arch-heretic Martin Luther in the Newvatican, Prevost has a "worship room" set up in the Vatican Library for the Infidels to worship Mohammed when the Muezzin's Arabic screams from the Roman minaret, approved by Counterfeit Newpope JPII-Wojtyla: "la illahi illa allah, wa muhammed rasula alla [There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His prophet].
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I have been praying for quite a few years with the Monastic Diurnal, in Latin and English published by St Michael's Abbey. A new eighth edition was issued in 2020. Having returned recently to the fully Traditional Latin Mass of 1950, Is this book is truly in accord with Traditional Catholicism?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
This book is a Benedictine diurnal; thus, it contains only the day hours and lacks the Hour of Matins, including the Hours of Prime, Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. This is not the Roman Divine Office, but the Benedictine Office, which has a substantial number of differences from the Roman Office in the layout of the Hours.
This issuance uses the 1963 edition of the Benedictine Office, so it would include the equivalent Modernist changes that were introduced during the 1950s and 1960s into the Roman Office. It also has an updated table of movable feasts, meaning that the Calendar is not the fully Traditional Roman calendar of Sundays, feastdays of Saints, and ferial days, but includes the Modernist corruptions introduced in 1956, 1960, and 1962.
At least this issuance uses St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, not the ghastly "Pius XII New Psalter," of which we have warned in previous Daily Commentaries.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I think that I viewed a sacrilege on Good Friday. At my supposedly "traditional" site, the priest distributed Communion to the congregation. I understood that on Good Friday only the priest receives Communion.
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
In the fully traditional Catholic rite of Good Friday, only the priest receives the one remaining Host, which is ceremonially processed to the main altar from the Altar of Repose, to which it was ceremonially processed at the end of the rites on Maundy Thursday.
There was a corrupted rite introduced by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini and his Reformation Committee in 1956 that is -- shockingly -- used by the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and even some churches that call themselves "traditional." This corrupt 1956 rite was published as being a stepping stone to the Half New Order Mess of 1962 and the Fully New Order Mess of 1969, currently used in the apostate Synodal Newchurch. The post-1955 rites should be shunned by all true Catholics.
Just five days after Newbishop Johann Bonny, of Antwerp, Belgium, announced that he would "install" non-celibate men as presbyter-ministers, Claude Hollerich, Newcardinal of Luxembourg, announced that he considers the "installation" of women as priestesses as inevitable in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age (which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church). Hollerich claims that 90 per cent of Newchurch women have the same heretical notions as he does. And Hollerich is not just any Newcardinal, but the Chairman of the 2024 Synod on Synodality, called by the previous Counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis and confirmed by the current Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo.
Newcardinal Hollerich, blinded by his apostasy from the Catholic Church, pontificated: "I cannot imagine in the long run how a church can survive if half of the people of God suffers because they have no access to ordained ministry.": Is the man ignorant of the history of true Catholic Church, which has survived without priestesses for two millennia, in accordance with the teaching and practice of Christ? Such a notion flies in the face of even Newchurch's own Unsaint Unpope JPII-Wojtyla's supposedly "definitive" 1992 pronouncement. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Synodal Newchurch is going down the same sump hole as the Anglican Church of England, which in January 2026 installed an Archbishopess of Canterbury of to run that heretic sect. In the Synodal Newchurch, as in the Anglican sect, the teaching of Christ and His true Church have no real authority. It is all a matter of the heretics voting on any and all ridiculous changes in doctrine. As a result, a conservative Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), which is said to constitute 80 per cent of the Anglican Church, has denounced the "institutional" Anglican Church as a counterfeit and has de facto taken over the Anglican Church. They do not recognize the "institutional" Anglican Church. They say: "We are the Anglican Church." The situation bears a strong resemblance to what is happening in the dying Synodal Newchurch with independent Traditional Catholics abandoning the Counterfeit Synodal Newchurch as not Catholic.
Ralph Wilgen's seminal 1967 book, The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber: The Unknown Council, demonstrated that the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), like the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century, was initiated from the Leftist/Modernist countries of Northern Europe, particularly Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, the same countries that today are embracing the extremist Leftist/Modernist Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, currently headed by the Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo.
As the Synodal Newchurch continues to disintegrate, Johann Bonny, Newbishop of Antwerp, Belgium, on March 20, 2026, announced that he will "install" non-celibate men as Newchurch presbyter-ministers, starting in 2028. (Newchurch has not ordained valid Catholic priests or bishops since 1968, when it adopted an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal.) The apostate Newbishop (all Newchurch bishops are apostates, as they all embrace, to one degree or another, the apostate Newchurch) pontificated: "The question is no longer whether the (New)hurch can ordain married men as pr(esbyters), but when it will do so, and who will do it." And Bonny wants to be the first.
For the true Catholic Church, the requirement of priestly celibacy was solemnly proclaimed by the Council of Nicaea, the First Oecumenical Council, in the year 325. Canon No. 3, unanimously approved by the Council Fathers, admitted of no exceptions whatsoever. The Council considered that the prohibition imposed thereby on all bishops, priests, and deacons against having a wife as absolute. All subsequent Councils that have addressed the subject have renewed this interdiction. In accordance with the Council of Nicaea, Pope Siricius, in the year 385, condemned clergy not observing celibacy to deposition from priesthood. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Johann Bonny stated that the Synodal Newchurch does not have a prayer of surviving without a non-celibate clergy because Newchurch can no longer staff its Newparishes. "There is an historical shortage of local pr(esbyters) in many (New)dioceses," and the number of Newseminarians has fallen to "just above zero." Yet Protestants have a non-celibate clergy, and their sects are dissolving just as fast as the Newchurch sect. Newbishop Bonny readily admits that a non-celibate clergy is just the first step. The next step for Newchurch will be to "install" deaconesses, priestesses, and bishopesses. Why is this happening? The Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is in its death throes. It is disintegrating from within, its members are abandoning it in record numbers, and its leadership, who are apostates from the Catholic faith, are trying to destroy it root and branch. True Catholics long ago abandoned Newchurch as a counterfeit and most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Newchurch in Europe's largest country is crashing like a tidal wave, according to March 17, 2026, statistics from the German Bishops' Conference. In 2025, over half a million Newchuchers "deregistered," refusing to pay the Kirchensteuer (church tax). Those deregistering must be quite committed to do so, as it requires going through an administrative process called Kirchenaustritt (religious disaffiliation). Tt also means that they cannot marry in Newchurch and are barred from the Novus Ordo pseudo-sacraments.
They are also denied a Newchurch funeral unless they have repented before death. Many Germans choose to remain officially registered as part of the Church and pay he tax, even if they rarely attend. Novus Ordo Mess attendance has, accordingly, sunk to below 7 per cent.
The number of Installations to the Newdiocesan presbyterate is even bleaker. Germany boasts almost 85.000,000 citizens. The number of presbyters installed in 2025 was only 25. The number of Initiations (formerly Baptisms) and marriages declined sharply. The number of Newparishes fell below 9,000 for the first time, as so many have been closed. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Catholic Herald.]
Traditional Catholics, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age just keeps getting worse and worse. The figures are so bad that Newchurch has been engaging in extraordinary propaganda, commissioning effusive articles highlighting the odd Newchurch or two here and there that may have seen an increase, which are a drop in the bucket. This is just another Newchurch fraud: it's like trying to bail with a bucket the tidal wave after the Titanic (Newchurch) hit the iceberg (its demise) However, Newchurchers are increasingly recognizing that they have been duped by the Counterfeit Newchurch with its the Counterfeit Newpopes and abandoning Newchurch, which is MOST CERTAINLY NOT the Catholic Church.
Another Newchurch almost-"saint" goes down in ignominy, as Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) is exposed in a March 18, 2026, New York Times investigative report as a paedophile. The Newarchdiocese of Los Angeles, California, canceled its annual commemorative New Order Mess after the bombshell revelation.
The apostate Newchurch of the New Order rushed to set up an annual Mess to him starting in 1995. The disgraced U.S. President J.R. Biden even erected a statue to the paedophile in the White House. The equally disgraced U.S. President B.H. Obama recognized a Cesar Chavez Day annually on March 31, 2010. The investigation found that union leaders knowingly connived with the paedophile "for years."
San Francisco changed the name of its Army Street thoroughfare to Cesar Chavez Street in 1995 and barely survived a vote of the citizens, who may finally get their way, as the street may be named back because Chavez has been exposed as having lived a pattern of sexually assaulting numerous girls for years. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Cesar Chavez, a darling of the paedophiliac apostate Newchurch of the New Order, purported to be New Order "Catholic, whose morals were corrupted for years by attendance at the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess." He was lauded by the apostate Newchurchers alongside Communist Dorothy Day and Unsaint Oscar Romero, another Communist con-anized by the Counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis.
Newchurch in Germany has learned nothing from the persistent episodes of paedophilia and homosexual pandering with which it has been consumed in the period after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). So, the corrupt German (New)bishops' Conference proceeded to appoint a sex predator its "Victims Board," which is supposed to protect victims of sex crimes, not perpetrate those crimes.
Presbyter Wolfgang Rothe had sodomized a young Newseminarian and after child pornography and photographs depicting homosexual activity involving (New)seminarians and staff emerged, he was forced to step down as Vice Rector of the Munich, Germany, Newseminary. He had turned the Newchurch seminary essentially into a brothel, turning out homosexual paedophiles to become Newchurch presbyters (Newchurch has not ordained Catholic priests in Holy Orders since adopting a Protestantize New Ordinal in 1968).
Traditional Catholics, eventually, the Newseminary was shut down when Vice Rector Wolfgang Rothe ironically claimed to have himself been a victim of Counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's Newpapal Inquisitor at the Newseminary, Newbishop Klaus Kung. Rothe publicly "blessed" over 100 homosexual "couples" in accordance with Bergoglio's 2023 Declaration "Fiducia Supplicans." Yet he has suffered no sanctions at all from Newchurch, but continues to be a presbyter in good standing and a public advocate for sodomite causes.
Whether Bernie Fellay's Neo-SSPX decides to proceed with episcopal consecrations on July 1, 2026, or not, the Society is already being treated as second-class citizens by the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. Near Turin, Italy, a Lenten pilgrimage of Neo-SSPXers was barred on Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026, from entering Our Lady of Sorrows shrine. Apparently, Newchurch "authorities" had approved an announcement of the pilgrimage and then changed their mind.
The pilgrimage stretched over several kilometres and was going to say merely a few devotional prayers in the shrine, not offer a Mess, whether fully Novus Ordo or Half Novus Ordo (New Latin Mess of 1962). It is clear that Newchurch detests even the New Order-leaning Neo-SSPX, whereas Newchurch's "welcome, inclusion, dialogue, and mercy" is copiously bestowed upon Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and pagans. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, it is to this Synodal Newchurch of the New Order to which Bernie Fellay's Neo-SSPX obstinately remains attached, whereas it should long ago have abandoned any association with the apostate Newchurch. This is the rotten fruit that the Neo-SSPX has harvested after its deplorable sycophancy to the counterfeit Newchurch. Fellay's Neo-SSPX, re-founded in 1994 with new bylaws and policies that rejected the direction of the founder of the original Society of St. Pius X, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, now operates as a willing handmaiden of the Synodal Newchurch.
You Neocon Newchurchers out there, forget all the hullabaloo about the corrupted Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962, which isn't even the Traditional Latin Mass. Forget about the decree "Traditionis custodes," which essentially suppresses the New Latin Mess. Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is working on two new apostatical options for you.
Your first option will be the Messa Mixta, the Mixed (up) Mess. This is a merging of the full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order (Novus Ordo) Mess with the Half Novus Ordo New Latin Mess of 1962. This last corruption was introduced on March 25, 2025, by -- shockingly -- the Newbenedictine Abbot of Solesmes, once known for its great scholarly work on Gregorian chant. No longer. No Solesmes simulates the counterfeit (invalid) Novus Ordo Mess, albeit in Latin. The Half Novus Ordo of 1962 and Full Novus Ordo of 1969 Messes would be merged. The calendars would also be merged, so that the Novus Ordo Newsaints, like Communists Oscar Ramirez and Dorothy Day, would be forced on the Neocon Newchurchers.
Your second option will be the Messless Mess, a truncation of the counterfeit (invalid) Novus Ordo Mess after the Gospel. No Offertory, no Consecration, but sometimes with pre-manufactured cookies and Kool-Aid. On April 1, 2026 -- appropriately on April Fools' Day -- NewcardinalRainer Woelki revealed that in Germany, the largest country in Europe, the counterfeit (invalid) Novus Ordo Mess is commonly being replaced since the Vatican II Anti-council with what the Newchurch calls the "Liturgy of the Word," which ends with the Gospel. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the horror of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age beyond belief. No true Catholic can have anything to do with its apostasy. No compromise with it is possible, just as no compromise in God is possible.. The Novus Ordo Mess is a counterfeit and an idolatrous, blasphemous, and sacrilegious fraud, contrary to the First Commandment of God. The Half Novus Ordo New Latin Mess of 1962 is a counterfeit and a fraud, admittedly advanced by Newchurch to lead Newchurchers on to the 1969 apostate Mess. No true Catholic can have any part with either.
The number of Newchurch seminarians has been plummeting since the Vatican II Anti-council and the advent of the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order to replace the Catholic Church as the institutional Church in 1964. And the situation has gotten far worse in the last 13 years, during which the decline of Newseminarians has markedly accelerated, according to the Annuarium Pontificium for 2026, released on March 30.
The 2026 edition indicates a marked acceleration in the continuing decline worldwide of almost 3 per cent in just the last year recorded, 48 per cent worse than the previous year. Newchurch now has barely 100,000 presbyters for the entire world. That is not enough to replace the number of presbyters who are retiring, leaving, and dying. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch is suffering even more church closings and bankruptcies to compound the ones already in place. Young men are choosing not to waste their lives in the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, by playing chief waiter at the Novus Ordo dinner table as Protestantized presbyter-ministers instead of offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at the Traditional Catholic altar as priests. In any case, the counterfeit Newchurch has not ordained any priests since 1968 when it adopted an invalid Protestantized New Ordinal, only counterfeit presbyters-ministers, who are no better than Protestant ministers.
On Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026, Israeli police blocked Newchurch's Newcardinal Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and presbyter Francesco Patton, the Custos (Guardian) of the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to conduct Novus Ordo Palm Sunday services. The ban was described as "unprecedented" in centuries. The Newchurch personnel claimed that they had complied with all imposed restrictions. The Israeli government was denounced for denying freedom of worship. So far Israeli authorities, who reject Christianity, have remained mute about the incident.
Israeli authorities have consistently refused to protect the historic rights of Christians in the Holy Land. Recently, there were numerous incidents of Israelis spitting on Christians on the sidewalk. Normally, misguided Protestant Evangelicals and Pentecostalists support the anti-Christian Israeli government, but this was too much.
After numerous please to the government, leading Protestant Evangelicals, like Franklin Graham, told the government that if the spitting didn't stop, Israel could kiss goodbye the lavish amounts of money that Evangelicals pour into Israel. The Netanyahu government immediately reneged and stopped the spitting. The Israeli government has canceled 2026 Newchurch Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday services as well. Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, even U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, an outspoken Evangelical supporter of the Israeli government, called out Israeli authorities for their actions in this incident. Reportedly, even Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo was piqued at the Israelis, to whom he usually panders scandalously.
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