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On October 6, 2024, the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio announced that he had appointed twenty new voting Newcardinals for Newchurch (which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church), to be "installed" December 8. Thus, he has packed the number to some 140. His own canon law limits the number to 120. But the "Dictator (New)pope" Bergoglio has never cared about the law. His goal is obvious: to perpetrate "election interference" in his Newchurch so that his own candidate wins post mortem.
One Newcardinal appointed by Bergoglio surpassed the age of 80 on October 10; and another will be deprived of his vote on Christmas Eve. Six more of the Newcardinals who were appointed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI will pass the age of 80 over the course of 2025. By the end of 2024, 79 per cent of all the Newcardinals will be Bergoglians. That will bring the percentage of Bergoglians in Newchurch's College of Newcardinals to over 80. So much for the clueless Neocon Newchurchers' hopes for a more "conservative" heretic as Newpope!
One of the New voting newcardinals is the notorious homerast Timoty Radcliffe, former leader of the Newdominicans and a wild radical. None of the Newcardinals is from the United States (Bergoglio hates Americans) and only one is even from North America, a continent that includes Mexico, Canada, and all of Central America. The one exception is the new and inexperienced Newarchbishop of Toronto. He is only 53 years old and will therefore be a voting Newcardinal for the next 27 years. Yet again, the Newarchbishop of Montreal, Christian Lepine, was passed over. Bergoglio clearly dislikes him.
A fair number of the Newcardinals hail from Bergoglio's personal bailiwick, South America, one each from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Some are from places where there are few if any Newchurchers. Bergoglio also threw in the Newarchbishop of Iran, Dominique Joseph Mathieu, at just the time that bellicose Iran is readying nuclear weapons and sending ballistic missiles against the Holy Land and international shipping through the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. So much for the phony "Peace" Newpope!
It seems that the All-just God has it in for the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio. Bergoglio thought that he could get away with his rampant crime and corruption, but now all his evil deeds have come back to bite him, like the Serpent's pointed tail to his derriere. Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, the nearly half billion USD real estate fraud in London from his Newchurchers donations, his Newvatican teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, and now his illegal takeover of the 700-year-old traditional charitable organization, the Sovereign Order of the Knights Templar, which was eventually metamorphosed into the Knights of Malta.
On October 7, 2024, the very day commemorating the day on which Our Lady is said to have vanquished other enemies of the Church at the miraculous Battle of the Bay of Lepanto, the Knights of Malta, having a prodigious 700-year record of courage and charity beginning with its actions during the Holy Crusades, have sued the pretender Newpope Bergoglio for his illegal takeover of their organization. The Knights Templar/Knights of Malta, to this day, had been regarded internationally as independent and sovereign, even having separate representation at the United Nations -- that is, until Bergoglio illegally took over the organization. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Dagens News US.]
Traditional Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio, known throughout Europe as the "Dictator Pope," illegally took over the Knights of Malta in 2022. The courageous Knights are, therefore, seeking justice against Bergoglio in the form of financial restitution and restoration of properties. Bergoglio's Newvatican, as confirmed by several Newchurch auditors, is already on the brink of bankruptcy. Bergoglio has had to order Newvatican's budget to be stripped to the bone. A judgment for the Knights to any degree could be the final nail in the coffin for the pretender Newpope.
Newchurch and its pretender Newpopes thought that they could get away with their rampaging presbyters raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting children. But God's justice apparently had other plans. In the United States, Newdioceses are falling like bowling pins into bankruptcy, and the rate is increasing, not decreasing, as Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated.
On September 30, 2024, the Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, became the 39th Newdiocese to topple. It became the second Newdiocese to fall in the month of September 2024 alone, the Newdiocese of Norwich, Connecticut, having fallen on May 29, 2024. The Newdiocese of Sacramento, California, had already fallen on April 1, 2024, and the Newdiocese of Fresno, California, on May 29, 2024.
Burlington had suffered its fourth wave of children's lawsuits for sex crimes and could no longer put off the inevitable. 31 new lawsuits had just been entered by the child victims. Newbishop John McDermott mouthed the usual pro-forma apology to the victims and shed the pro-forma crocodile tears, but obviously nothing had really been done to stop the crimes. Burlington had spent its remaining funds in settlement and had liquidated its 130,000-square-meter chancery building for 10,000,000 USD and its Camp Holy Cross for 4,000,000 USD. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, former Newbishop Salvatore Matara in 2006 had slyly incorporated each Newparish separately so that the child victims would not have access to these properties. So much for Newchurch's fake handwringing. Current Newbishop John McDermott didn't even bother to pay for insurance. Pure and simple, Newchurch is running a scam, by which children sexually-assaulted by Newchurch presbyters and bishops can't even get the full settlement to which they are entitled in justice.
Bankrupt and desperate for money, the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio made a junket to one of the smallest countries in Europe, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Its per-capita Gross Domestic Product is 130,000 USD, increased by the number of billionaires who reside there. The latest Newpapal junket took four days, September 26, 2024, to September 29, 2024.
Noteworthy is the fact that the Newchurch population in Luxembourg is markedly dwindling. When the duchy was Catholic, the monarch was known as "Rex Catholicissimus." No longer. Newchurch's continuing Great Sex and Embezzlement Holocaust has largely emptied the magnificent cathedrals and village churches, such as Luxembourg's late-Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame. Monthly attendance at the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order New Mess has plummeted into the single digits, as has the number of new presbyters installed (since adoption of the 1968 New Ordinal, Newchurch has not ordained priests, merely installed presbyters "to preside over the assembly," like Protestant ministers). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Traditional Catholics, in Luxembourg, as well as Belgium, which was also included in the junket, Francis-Bergoglio was greeted with coolness, particularly at the University of the Louvain, once Catholicism's greatest university, alma mater of, in pre-Vatican II years, Fr. Gommar DePauw, the founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement in 1964, and Newarchbishop Fulton Sheen. Both countries despise Bergoglio's Newchurch, which has raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted children throughout Europe. His publicity meetings and "photo ops" with the few child victims who condescend to be with him have done nothing to erase the vile crimes that Newchurch and its pretender Newpopes have perpetrated, and continues to perpetrate, upon Europe's children, as well as its women and men
On September 26, 2024, the respected Pew Research Center released the results of its latest study of Newchurchers in the Western Hemisphere, specifically the United States, Argentina (Francis-Bergoglio's former Newarchbishopric), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
The Newchurchers, who adhere to the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Newchurch of the New Order, founded in 1964 at the apostate Vatican II Anti-council -- which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church -- in large numbers reject Catholic teaching on the ordination of priestesses, celibacy of presbyters, homosexuality, and artificial contraception. The heretical and anti-Catholic beliefs were most prominent in Argentina, where Bergoglio was Newarchbishop of Buenos Aires, at 86 per cent, followed by the United States at 83 per cent. Over half of U.S. Newchurchers now approve of "gay" marriage.
The apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio's popularity has sunk in just ten years, as, for example, in his native Argentina, from 98 per cent in 2013 to 74 per cent in 2023. In the U.S., which never liked him as much, his popularity has fallen from 85 per cent to 75 per cent.
Traditional Catholics, the Pew Research Study confirms the fact that Newchurchers are not Catholic, and in many cases fail to meet the standards even of Protestants. Moreover, it must be remembered that even most Newchurchers who were conservative have left, so these numbers reflect the Leftist remnant. Large numbers have left in recent decades as their once traditional churches are being closed, in some Newdioceses at a rate of 50 per cent or more. Many others have left because of Newchurch's continuing Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust.
The Newarchdiocese of Denver, Colorado was stunned by the news that ten of the leading members of its Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (Sodality of Christian Life), known as a (pseudo-)traditionalist group, operating within the Newarchdiocese, were adjudged to be paedophile criminals and expelled for "severe crimes" and "abuse of power," as Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated.
On September 25, 2024, the Superior General of the Sodality, the Newarchbishop associated with the Sodalitium internationally, two Regional Superiors, one presbyter, and two formators were expelled. Several officials affiliated with the corrupt Newchurch EWTN cable television network were also expelled. The Sodality had completely pulled the wool over the eyes of the clueless Denver Newarchbishop, Samuel Aquila. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, this is not the first instance of a Newchurch group identifying itself as "traditionalist" and pandering the Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962 to have turned out to be a front group for unspeakable crimes. One recalls the notorious Society of St. John the Evangelist of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which ran a sham fundraising operation while operating a school. The presbyters involved bamboozled the Newbishop there, James Timlin. Eventually, the group fled the United States and set up shop under another Newchurch bishop in Paraguay, who knowingly accepted the paedophiles. The corrupt Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, deliberately continues to perpetrate the same sins and crimes as ever.
When the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio returned from his profligate Newpapal junket to the South Pacific on September 14, 2024, he received a rude awakening. He told the reporters on the return plane of his secret Concordat with Communist Dictator Xi Jinping: "The result is good." In fact, Bergoglio's efforts to play patsy with the murderous Communist Dictator of China has exploded into a thousand pieces.
Within days of Bergoglio's return to Newrome, Red China ordered the removal of crosses from Christian churches and their replacement by images of the new god: Xi Jinping. Statues of the Virgin Mary have also been removed. The Chinese Communist Party has now taken "total control" over Newchurch in China and has begun forcibly to "eradicate religious elements" from the beleaguered country.
The remnants of Newchurch have been forced to enroll in the Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church [sic] in Chine, which is under the direct control of the Communist government. Those Newchurchers who resist are arrested en masse and imprisoned as "cultists" under Chinese law. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.
Traditional Catholics, in 2018 Bergoglio entered into a naive concordat with Xi, which the Communist Dictator has torn up, just as Adolf Hitler tore up the Czech agreement with naive British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. According to the concordat Xi was supposed to get Bergoglio's permission to appoint Newchurch bishops, but Xi has ignored the concordat and designated several Communist "bishops" on his own authority. Bergoglio's Newbishops have now been banished. The improvident Bergoglio has been left dangling in front of the world with enough egg on his face to fry a giant omelet!
The Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) was hastily accepted in 1988, when Newpope JPII-Wojtyla panicked at Archbishop Lefebvre's sua sponte consecration of four traditional bishops for the original traditional Society of St. Pius X. JPII-Woytla, then later Benedict-Ratzinger, and certainly Francis-Bergoglio clearly did not want the FSSP, even in its hobbled state, to continue indefinitely. It was supposed to pass away, with its Half New Order New Latin Mess of 1962, into the sunset, and the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Mess of 1969 was supposed to supplant it. Yet it shuffled along, though pruned back by Bergoglio's decree "Traditionis custodes" of 2021.
Now the death-knell is once again tolling for the Fraternity. On September 28, 2024, Bergoglio dispatched his Newpapal inquisitors to find a reason to axe it. Bergoglio has sent Inquisitors to other conservative Newchurch organizations, and the result has always been the same: they are either suppressed or severely curtailed. Newvatican admits that it is not investigating anything specific, but is doing a complete vetting. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the temporary "Decretum" of February 11, 2022, which allowed the FSSP to operate, albeit on a more limited basis, after "Traditionis custodes," is beginning to look, as we said at the time, as if it isn't worth the paper it was scribbled upon. Of course, Newvatican would downplay any problems in public, as it likes to operate in the dark, then apply the guillotine in one fell swoop. That has been the "Dictator (New)pope" Bergoglio's invariable modus operandi.
Bernie Fellay's Neo-Society of St. Pius X is more secretive even than Francis-Bergoglio's Newvatican. Thus, only on October 1, 2024, did the NSSPX reveal that one of its only three remaining bishops, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, biographer of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, fell down the stairs at the NSSPX's principal seminary in Econe, Switzerland, after the Angelus three days earlier, on September 28, 2024. Tissiered suffer a cerebral haemorrage as a result. Tissier is 79 and has been ill for some time, struggling with instability, which likely caused the fall. He now lives at the Econe seminary, but apparently did not have suitable assistance provided.
Tissier was one of Archbishop Levebvre's first collaborators in 1969, and helped found the original traditional SSPX. After the Archbishop's death in 1991, Fellay changed the bylaws of the SSPX to allow him to turn it into a Novus Ordo-friendly Neo-SSPX. To the present time Fellay & Co. have not denounced the apostate, charged paedophile Newpope Bergoglio, but have continued to seek entry into his Newchurch of the New Order, in 2025 to become the openly pagan New Age Synodal Church.
The Neo-SSPX is trying to downplay the serious of the incident, claiming that Tissier's haemorrage is not life-threatening, but the world has seen vividly how U.S. President J.R. Biden, who suffered two cerebral haemorrages, was seriously brain affected with eventual onset of apparent dementia. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by sources within the Neo-SSPX.]
Traditional Catholics, a time of reckoning is rapidly approaching for the Neo-SSPX. It lost its senior bishop, Richard Williamson, in 2012. Now a second bishop may be lost. Only Fellay and Alfonso Galarreta would be left. Fellay is a sellout to the New Order sect and will not proceed with a new consecration without Bergoglio's permission, and, if Fellay should ever get it, it will be at the price of becoming even more of a Novus Ordinarian than he is now. Last time he tried to join the Newchurch of the New Order, he lost up to one-fifth of his priests and numerous Neo-SSPX laymen.
Yes, it's true, On November 27, 2024, Newchurch is going to impose yet another "translation" of the New Mass upon the English-speaking countries of the world. The New, New Mess will hit the English-speaking world on the First Sunday of Advent. And it's all so pointless. Newchurch lost the true Mass in 1969 when it substituted the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan invalid, i.e., fake, New Mess in the vulgar tongues. That is why there is a growing desire for a return to the Traditional Latin Mass, which is valid, and One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, bearing the marks of the true Church.
And this new "translation" is considerably different from the one that was introduced in 1973. Newchurch is warning its ever-dwindling congregations to get used to a big change. Newchurch's officials have begun to lay the groundwork for the shock that the few remaining Newchurchers will experience. These Newchurch officials basically admit that more Newchurchers will walk out because of never-ending changes. More Newchurches will close. More Newchurch schools will close. Good riddance!
Not only the fake and invalid Novus Ordo Mess will be changed but also the "Lectionary," the Novus Ordo book that contains the "readings" for its Mess. This book in 1969 threw out the traditional Epistles and Gospels read from apostolic times and substituted for them the Protestant "readings" on a three-year cycle instead of the traditional Apostolic one-year cycle. A big part of the changes will consist of confusion between male and female pronouns. By fiat of Francis-Bergoglio, Newchurch has to be "transsexual friendly." Who knows when Newchurch will begin to call God "she"!
And to put the cherry on top of the dung heap, even the wording of the non-sacrament of "reconciliation," formerly the Sacrament of Penance, will be mucked with. Not that it makes any difference. Newchurch did away with the Sacrament in 1972 when it dumped Confession and substituted a form of Protestant "reconciliation." Confessionals have substantially disappeared in favor of open arrangements or psychiatric couches. Since 1968 Newchurch has not ordained priests to hear confessions when it substituted a Protestant-style "installation" of presbyters. The power to forgive sins in the name of Christ, which was specifically conferred upon priests before 1968, was specifically removed from the post-1968 "installation" of "presbyters." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.
Traditional Catholics, wasn't it Divine when, before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), virtually the whole world prayed in Latin, the true Church's Sacred Tongue, consecrated by the martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome. Wasn't it Divine when each year the familiar Epistles and Gospels going back to Apostolic times returned each year as familiar friends? Wasn't it Divine when one could go to confession to a priest instead of telling one's sins to a presbyter out in the open and not even get valid absolution? Newchurchers may as well leave the corrupted Newchurch entirely. It is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Its Mess is fake. Its presbyters are fake. Its non-sacraments are fake. Its doctrine is fake. And most certainly its pig-sty morality is fake.
As if lay deacons weren't bad enough -- one of the Vatican II Anti-council's innovations -- Francis-Bergoglio now wants to push deaconesses. ?We already know that the (New)pope is very much in favor of deaconesses," said Bergoglio's representative. Twice already two special theological commissions has rebuffed Bergoglio, telling him that deaconesses are contrary to (what is left of) Tradition. But the "Dictator (New)pope" is bound and determined to be as anti-traditional as possible. No surprise there: he is, and has been since his days with the Newjesuits in Argentina, an apostate from the Catholic Faith. It is clear now that the fix is in for deaconesses.
So back the question goes to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (New Order) Faith, now headed by Bergoglio's Modernist/Marxist toady, Newcardinal Victor "Tucho" Fernandez. Bergoglio apparently intends to shoehorn deaconesses into the final Synod on Synodality in October 2025, which will replace the Newchurch of the New Order with Bergoglio's Synodal Church. The agenda item is entitled "On Theological and Canonic Questions around Specific Ministerial Forms" and includes the questions of deaconesses because of "a growth in the pastoral responsibilities entrusted to them [women] in all areas of the life and mission of the (New)church." That sounds like presbyteresses is the next step. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Catholic Church teaches that the diaconate is one of the Holy Orders, which are reserved by Divine law to men. In reality, Newchurch lost its Holy Orders in 1968, when it adopted the fake (invalid) Protestantized New Ordinal. Since then, Newchurch doesn't have priests, any more than the Anglican/Episcopalians or the Presbyterians do.
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