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It seems that "Minus, Serius" ("too little, too late") is the motto of the Newchurch of the New Order, since 2024 the Synodal Newchurch of the Age. "Communion" rails are reappearing now in a few Newchurches, even though Newchurch doesn't have Communion. In 1969 Newchurch adopted an invalid (fake) Protestantized New Mess, which is incapable of consecrating the Body and Blood of Christ, any more than can the Protestant services. A year earlier, Newchurch had dumped the Sacrament of Holy Orders and stopped ordaining priests and consecrating bishops, merely "installing," like the Protestants, invalid presbyter-ministers and episcopal "overseers."
In addition to the fake Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Mess and presbyters, the new "communion" rails are specifically made to accommodate grabbing the Novus Ordo cookie in the hand. So, it makes no difference whether there is a rail, when there is no valid "communion" at it. Newchurch has no valid Catholic Mass, no valid Catholic priests. It's like the Anglican sect, which sometimes puts on an empty show of "smells and bells," pretending to be a Mass. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Cardinal Henry Manning (1808-1892), of Westminster, England, got it right when he said, as he passed an Anglican church: "He [Christ] is not here." Manning should know. Like Cardinal John Newman (1801-1890), his great contemporary, Manning had left the Anglican Church to join the (Traditional) Catholic Church.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Shouldn't the priest at a Low Mass enunciate the Latin texts loudly enough for the congregation to hear? A friend of mine is complaining because she wants to hear the beautiful Latin texts of the Mass and pray with them using her handmissal. Can't a microphone be used to assist those priests with soft voices?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
There are three levels of voice used by the priest at the fully Traditional Latin Mass according to the rubrics: the high, the middle, and the low. There would be no objection to using a microphone for the first two, which include the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, Kyrie, Gloria, Collects, Epistle, Gradual/Alleluia, Gospel, etc. Use of a microphone for the priestly prayers to be said in a low voice, e.g., the Offertory prayers and the Sacred Canon could be objectionable.
The priest is obligated to speak up for those Latin texts to be heard in a high voice. Many priests don't seem to (be able to) do this. They ineptly mumble, a practice condemned by the rubricians. A good example would be the broadcasted Masses of the Neo-SSPX, almost all of whose priests-presbyters at the Delwyn, Virginia, seminary chapel mumble their way through. Even people like Bernie Fellay are guilty of this practice. With all the millions and millions of dollars that the Neo-SSPX has salted away in Swiss bank accounts, you'd think that they could provide suitable microphones!
One practical solution for your friend would be to sit as close to the front pew as possible. Also, she should attend High Masses, where the Latin texts are chanted aloud in Gregorian chant.
Salvatore Cordileone, Newarchbishop of San Francisco, California, fought tooth and nail to keep secret the minutes of his Sex Crimes Panel's meetings on paedophile presbyters, but a U.S. Federal Court on April 15, 2025, ordered the 175 pages of secret minutes released to the report. What they showed was shocking. Cordileone and his panel allowed over half of the accused paedophile presbyters referred to them to return to Newparishes across the Newdiocese, listed "with full status." One of the presbyters had been accused of paedophile crimes on five separate occasions.
Cordileone is the only Newbishop in the United States who refuses to publish a list of "credibly-accused" paedophile presbyters because doing so, he says, would "stir up controversy"! The minutes show that the Newarchdiocese was far more concerned about protecting paedophile presbyters than the child victims. Never before have records of this kind been released to the public. And Cordileone himself "almost always" personally attended the meetings, so he cannot plead ignorance before the court.
No wonder the San Francisco Newarchdiocese fell into bankruptcy in 2023 when it faced 537 lawsuits for sex crimes. Cordileone & Co. were very generous with Newchurchers' collection money, "regularly visiting the paedophile presbyters and paying them off with monthly pension payments, housing stipends, and therapy reimbursements."
Cordileone's Sex Crimes Panel is composed exclusively of Newchurchers, with no outside members. Members must be "in full communion" with the apostate Newchurch of the New Order. All members are appointed by Cordileone personally. Cordileone's personal staff determines whether complaints are even referred to the panel, in quite a "sweetheart deal" for paedophile presbyers.
Even then, the panel makes only recommendations. Cordileone is always the final determiner on whether criminal presbyters are removed and referred to civil authorities for prosecution. All of this took place while the mendacious Newarchdiocese claimed to have "Zero Tolerance Policy" against paedophile presbyters. it has been speculated that, outside of venality and hypocrisy, the motive for allowing the paedophile presbyters to remain in their Newparishes is that the number of Newchurch presbyers is sinking so low that there would not be enough presbyters left to staff the Newarchdiocese. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by San Francisco Chronicle.]
Traditional Catholics, while Newchurch talks about "love," behind the scenes Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, is practicing the most perverted morals, forgetting Our Lord's severe punishment provided for such crimes: "But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6/DRV).
Here in Newrome the body of Francis-Bergoglio isn't even yet cold in the grave, and already the conclave politics are in full swing, as Newchurch prelates have lost the Catholic Faith and have become mere secular politicians.
I note that exactly 80 per cent of the 135 voting Newcardinals (108) to do the electing of the next pretender Newpope of the Newchurch of the New Order are appointees of Bergoglio, whereas a candidate needs only two-thirds plus one (91) to elect a Newpope. Thus, the pseudo-traditionalists and Neocon Newchurchers are bound to be disappointed in any hope that they have for even a "conservative" Newpope.
Even if the Newcardinals of Benedict-Ratzinger (22 in number) and JPII-Wojtyla (only 5 in number) were real Cardinals, they would fall far short of the 91 votes needed to elect a Newpope of the Newchurch or of the 45 votes needed to block any unacceptable candidate. It is thus easily possible for the Bergoglias to elect a pagan Newpope for the paganized Newchurch.
If the pseudo-traditionalists and Neocon Newchurchers want to play the visions give, there is a "seeress" who prophesies that the next and the last pope will be chosen directly by St. Peter himself when he is sent down to earth in the last days. There will then be a true pope and also a great Catholic emperor, both of whom will reign until they are destroyed by the Antichrist. Or whatever. Fortunately, we are not required to believe ANY such nonsense. Instead, we must have faith that Our Lord will solve this problem in his own good time, so that we can concentrate on what is really important: the salvation of our own souls.
History is history. We can't be Polyannas about the truth. Our Lord, Who as God is All Truth, spoke in the New Testament more about truth than he did about "love" (in the bad English translations). The Traditional Latin Mass begins with truth, Latin veritas, "emitte lucem tuam et VERITATEM tuam") and ends with truth ("plenum gratiae et VERITATEM"). We can do no less than follow Our Lord's example.
In addition to the being a rabid practitioner and proponent of the Modernist and Oecumenist ("we all worship the same gods; all religions are true") heresies, an apostate from the Catholic Faith, and a self-admitted Marxist, what is the legacy that Francis-Bergoglio has left? Here are just a few examples of his corruption, following in the footsteps of his post-Vatican II predecessors:
Those who think that yet another corrupt Newpope will save the Newchurch of the New Order, need to think again. Bergoglio stacked the deck, so that over four out of every five current Newcardinals were appointed by him. The fix is in. We have presented the details of this cabal in the reports published in previous Commentaries from TRADITIO's Roman Correspondent. Our prediction is that the next Newpope will be even worse, just as JPII-Woytla was worse that Paul VI-Montini, just as Benedict-Ratzinger was worse than Woytla, just as Francis-Bergoglio was worse than Benedict-Ratzinger. Therefore, what can we predict about the next Newpope?
The next Newpope will be even shrewder than Bergoglio, who was at least transparent in his apostasy. The next Newpope will be more like the Modernist heretic Newpope Ratzinger, who covered over his Modernist poison with a frosting of pseudo-traditionalism -- yet the man never once as Newpope simulated even that Half Novus Ordo Vatican II New Latin Mess of 1962! Newchurch is the Titanic, and it pointless to rearrange the deck chairs. Because the Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, it doesn't make any difference who the next Newpope is. We have faith that it is the Lord who in due course will straighten out his true Church. Man has certainly failed.
It would be a good time to turn off the television for the next month and instead spend time researching the history of the Church. Whoever the next leader of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order is, our obligation as Traditional Catholics remains the same: to shun the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, which Francis-Bergoglio in 2024 degraded further into the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. None of this is, by any stretch of the imagination, Catholic. Only those who knowingly wish to delude themselves can even fancy that it is.
At 05:35 UT (07:35 in Rome), Jorge Maria Bergoglio, aka "Francis," late head of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, as he himself called it, aka the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, passed to his eternal judgment. We do not judge his soul; that is only for God. St. Peter (2 Peter 3:9/DRV) taught: The Lord ... [is] "not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance." Unfortunately, Bergoglio, a rabid practitioner and proponent of the Modernist and Oecumenist ("we all worship the same gods; all religions are true") heresies, an apostate from the Catholic Faith, and a self-admitted Marxist, gave no sign of public repentance before his death.
Moreover, Bergoglio was never even ordained as a Catholic priest, but merely "installed" under the invalid New Ordinal of 1968, to be a presbyter, like a Presbyterian minister. He was never even consecrated as a Catholic bishop, but merely "installed" under the invalid New Ordinal of 1968, to be a Protestantized episcopal "overseer." He never said a valid Catholic Mass in his life, only the invalid (fake) Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order Mess of 1969 and its successors.
As with the death of his predecessors, the Unsaint JPII-Wojtyla and JPI-Albino, the circumstances of the death were lied about to the world. Bergoglio's physicians knew the truth, and to the degree that they could, within medical ethics, tried to tell the public, but Newvatican covered the truth up, as is its standard operating procedure. Bergoglio was sent home from the hospital after 38 days to die, not to recover. Newvatican would roll him out briefly on a few occasions to maintain the ruse, even implicating the Novus Ordo convert, J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States to Bergoglio's hated U.S. President Donald Trump, in the kabuki that the Newvatican staged.
The Newvatican did not immediately release the details of Bergoglio's death, which appeared to be sudden, even though he was supposedly recovering from double pneumonia. The death certificate subsequently filed by Bergoglio's personal physician indicated that Bergoglio died from a stroke, coma, and irreversible cardiovascular collapse. For the first time the certificate revealed that Bergoglio had been suffering from hypertension and Type II diabetes, which were contributing factors. Given his morbid obesity long before his recent lung problems, the finding of these latter conditions is not surprising.
Already secular and Newchurch media are shoveling out a never-ending cascade of praise for the apostate Newpope. Every Tom, Dick, and Harriet, totally ignorant of the true Catholic Faith, will deluge you with clueless opinions until you want to eructate. They will treat Bergoglio as a politician, as that is all they know, and indeed that is what he was, a Leftist politician, not a true pope. Don't fall for it. Ironically, these voices will include Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and Protestants, even Evangelicals, who hate the true papacy, yet will say that Bergoglio was a god who walked the earth!
Does anyone seriously doubt that Francis-Bergoglio will become the next Unsaint-Unpope, probably even before the heretical Modernist leader at the Vatican II Anti-council, Benedict-Ratzinger? Even the Neocons and Bernie Fellay's Neo-SSPXers will join in, to a certain extent, hoodwinked by Ratzinger into the spurious New Latin Mess of 1962, a purely "transitional" Mess lasting only seven years, to the Full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969 and thereafter.
In accordance with Francis-Bergoglio's 2021decree "Traditionis custodes," all New Latin Messes, i.e., the Half New Order Vatican II Mess of 1962, are being banned of July 1, 2025, in all Newparishes of the Newarchdiocese of Detroit, Michigan. Francis-Bergoglio forbids Newdiocesan bishops from allowing such simulations. All 1962 Sacraments are also banned.
Some Newdioceses were granted exceptions for a year or two, but on February 20, 2023, the axe fell when Bergoglio decreed that Newbishops did not have the authority to allow exceptions. All such exceptions then expired, and only he could grant the rare future exception. Other Newdioceses that were operating under an exception, such as Savannah, Georgia, and Albany, New York, announced that their exceptions had expired with Bergoglio's 2023 decree, and all Newdiocesan New Latin Masses were canceled. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, a handful of Newbishops thought that they could fly under the radar to get around Francis-Bergoglio's ban, but they have been whipped by Bergoglio. It must be remembered that the "1962 Mess" is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, but a corruption of it, engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini. It was intended only as a stepping stone for just a few years until the invalid (fake) full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess of 1969 could be imposed on Newchurch, simulated by unordained (fake) presbyter-ministers, merely installed under the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968 like Protestant ministers.
A new Pew Research Study released on March 26, 2025, shows that Christians are losing the battle to the Pagans. First of all, one out of every five adults around the world has abandoned his childhood faith, Christians most of all. The highest losses are in South Korea (50 per cent), Netherlands (36 per cent), United States (28 per cent), and Brazil (21 per cent). Most of those lost have become "nones," i.e., those who have no religion at all.
Christianity in Western Europe has the highest net loss of believers, the losses being highest in Italy, Germany, France, Poland, and Spain, which had traditionally been staunch Catholic countries before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). In Italy, in the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio's backyard, more than one out of every four (28 per cent) have abandoned the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age (Novus Ordo), which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Traditional Catholics, while once-Catholics defect from the Synodal Newchurch, which has apostatized from the true Catholic Church, and Leftist "Christians," like the Lutherans, Methodists, Anglican/Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Congregationalist, defect from the Protestant denominations, the Infidels (Jews and Islamists) and the Pagans (Hindus) had the highest retention rates. The Pew Research Study confirms what is obvious to all: the world is becoming more pagan, more immoral, and more violent, and the true Traditional Catholics Faith has been relegated to the catacombs once again, just as Pope Pius XII predicted that it would. No surprise there: Francis-Bergoglio and his predecessor Newpopes after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) long ago sold out to the pagans.
On April 10, 2025, Francis-Bergoglio left his sickbed, wrapped himself in a striped bedsheet, and had himself wheeled to the tomb of Pope St. Pius X in the Confession under the High Altar of St. Peter's Archbasilica, desecrated since 1964 by the invalid (fake) blasphemous, idolatrous, and sacrilegious Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess (Novus Ordo) deriving from the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965).
Ironically, Pius X was most noted for his vigorous work for what he designated from the beginning of his pontificate to be his life's work: to extirpate the heresy of Modernism from the Catholic Church, which, at base, is the rejection of objective goodness (morality), beauty (the Mass and Sacraments), and truth (doctrine). Bergoglio is the absolute worst incarnation of this heresy. If Pius X were alive today, he would excommunicate Bergoglio on the spot as an unrepentant apostate from the Catholic Church.
Two days later, Bergoglio had himself transported in a wheelchair to St. Mary Major Archbasilica. Ironically, this basilica houses the body of Pope St. Pius V displayed under a side altar. Pius V decreed the Traditional Latin Mass be "in perpetuity" the only Mass celebrated in the Roman Rite (with minor exceptions for a couple of minor variants of it). Bergoglio has egregiously violated the decree of the dogmatic Council of Trent, instead hawking and simulating the fake "New Mess."
Bergoglio has already announced that he will break even with Newchurch practice of being buried in the Confession of St. Peter's Archbasilica. Bergoglio doesn't want to lie with his fellow Newpopes and instead has ordered that his corpse be buried in St. Mary Major Archbasilica. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Reuters News Service.]
Traditional Catholics, what are we to make of these curious excursions? Heretical Modernists like Bergoglio like to put on these hypocritical displays occasionally to fool the clueless Newchurchers to make it appear, for a moment, that they might be Catholic. They're not. One wonders whether Bergoglio knows something that he's not telling even his fellow leaders in the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
In November 2024 Bergoglio announced to the College of Newcardinals that Newchurch's financial situation was desperate, given its financial liabilities in courts around the world for its paedophile crimes and for funds embezzled by Newchurch officials. No wonder Francis-Bergoglio declared a "jubilee year" and plans to display the corpse of a poor 15-year-old dead boy in a ghastly "con-anization" extravaganza to bring tourists into Newvatican. Bergogliio has announced yet another commission to get donations, but that well is increasing dry, as donors are fed up with the paedophile crimes and embezzlements and the revelation that donations, such as Peter's Pence, that are supposed to go to the poor Bergoglio has been immorally converting to his own uses.
In 2015, the last year in which an audit of Newvatican's Pension and Health Funds was made public, they were 1,500,000,000 in the red from unfunded liabilities. Newvatican has announced that the situation now is far worse, in fact, "shocking." And that is just the pension fund. The "Vatican Bank" is also in big trouble, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy according to two of its auditors. It is now uncertain whether Newvatican will be able to pay the pensions of lay and clerical employees much longer. Bergoglio called for "sacrifice," then slashed Newvatican's staff. As a result robberies of great art works and vandalism in the Vatican Museums have increased dramatically. Tourists report that St. Peter's Basilica and other locations are filthy dirty, because the cleaning staff had to be cut. The business of Newchurch has gotten so bad that many of its basic functions are not being performed.
So bad is the situation that Bergoglio refuses to announce the exact amount of Newvatican's financial ruin. It is his responsibility for doing nothing while he gallivants around the world preaching heretical oecumenism and engaging in political matters that are completely outside his purview. Newvatican whistleblowers have stated that Bergoglio has done "virtually nothing to address the shortfall" in the 12 years of his Newpontificate since 2013. Instead, Bergoglio, who is no competent manager, but a "greenie" radical, recently decided that instead of redeveloping Santa Maria in Galeria, a property of 4,046,900 square metres, he would give it over to a solar panels. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newvatican's Secretariat for the Economy.]
Traditional Catholics, the Association of Vatican Lay Workers has denounced Bergoglio in an open letter for hiding the status of their pension fund, to which they have been contributing their hard-earned money. Bergoglio has played around with changes in laws and regulations, freezing staff, layoffs, and salary cuts, but these have done little or nothing to improve the situation. In justice the workers are entitled to their pensions, which Bergoglio has spent. As Bergoglio should know, if he ever got a Catholic education, depriving workers of their just compensation is one of the Four Sins that Cry out to Heaven for Retribution. Meanwhile Newvatican is sinking into a "budget black hole," with its expenses outpacing income by tens of millions of dollars annually.
More proof that the faked-up 2025 Jubilee Year declared by the apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio is simply a money-making scheme was further demonstrated when Bergoglio's Newvatican announced on April 5, 2025, that it would extort new fees from "pilgrims" to help shore up Bergoglio's Newvatican, which is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The pilgrims will pay through the teeth to get into St. Peter's Basilica, extorted to pay the so-called "basilica tax" for the privilege of being "treated like livestock." Some tourist groups are flatly refusing to pay the confiscatory fees.
Newvatican truly is so desperate to extort funds to pay for its embezzlements and criminal fines assessed by courts for raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting children around the world. It is also committing gross blasphemy by displaying the corpse of a poor dead 15-year old dead boy to rake in more money: Carlo Acutis, whose main title to Novus Ordo con-anization seems to be that he wrote a computer program.
Newchurch was desperate for a "millennial" poster-boy, so it heinously rushed through a fake beatification in 2020 and a pending con-anization (Newchurch "canonizations" are invalid) on April 27, 2025. Only God knows whether Acutis is a true Saint; certainly Newchurch does not know. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, the new fees are supplemented by new rules, which have caused "long lines, overcrowding, and massive confusion," according to a longtime tour guide, who says that Bergoglio's desperate system has created "two castes of visitors, the tourist and the pilgrim, under which system the tourist is seen more as a cash cow." These cash-cow tourists are relegated to the back door, the Sant'Anna entrance to Newvatican. Isn't that the way Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, always treats its followers?
The U.S. government has finally dropped the axe on U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic[ Bishops, which is now cut off from receiving aid to support its illegal activities, for which it is being held to answer in federal court. The USCCB has mendaciously been claiming that it is "resettling refugees," but it turned out that many of these "refugees" were actually illegal invaders into the United States, including a not inconsiderable number of felons.
According to America Magazine, a publication of the Newjesuits, Newchurch in the United States has been receiving 100,000,000 USD from the government for the now-challenged programs. Newchurch will now have to seek funding from elsewhere. But Newchurchers are now onto the game, realizing that they have been lied to for years about where their "special collections" are going, so that well is going dry.
Newarchbishop Timothy Broglio, President of the USCCB, admitted on April 7, 2025, that U.S. President Donald Trump had "forced his denomination's hand." The Trump administration on January 20, 2025, moved to stop the flood of illegal invasion into the United States. That flow, which numbered 8,347 in February 2025, was down 94 per cent from 140,641 in February 2024. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Our Sunday Visitor News.]
Traditional Catholics, it was after the Vatican II Anti-council that the U.S. Newchurch started taking money from the government for its operations. Even U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, a Newchurcher himself, has publicly charged that the USCCB has become too reliant on government funding in a corrupt Newchurch-Government Complex. The Trump administration has courageously stopped the illegal gravy train operated by the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Does Newchurch have a Communist Unsaint? It may surprise many Newchurchers to find out that it does -- and probably more than one. The apostate Newpope Francis-Bergoglio con-anized Oscar Romero (1917-1980), the Newarchbishop of El Salvador, in 2018.
Romero was deeply embedded in the Marxist heresy known as "Liberation Theology," which particularly the Newjesuits (as is Bergoglio himself) took up in Latin America. Heretical "Liberation Theology" holds that Newchurch must "liberate" people from their "political problems" and was used to justify the assassination of right-wing political leaders. Some Newjesuits even took up arms to impose their "theology."
Romero had a close connection with leading liberation-theology radicals Jon Sobrino and Eduardo Pironio, a Newchurch bishop of Argentina (as was Bergoglio himself). Pironio was commonly known as a Communist, as were followers of Liberation Theology in general, although sometimes they dabbed on a thin veneer of Christianity to cover over their real beliefs.
Romero concocted the spurious concept of "social sin," holding that capitalism was sinful by nature. He declared that Newchurch was by nature political. When Romero was assassinated at a Novus Ordo dinner table, the Marxist Liberation Theology radicals concocted the story, accepted by the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, that Romero was a "martyr." Martyrdom to what is in dispute.
Even though Romero's con-anization was highly controversial and thus should have been shelved for a century's perspective, Bergoglio, a Newjesuit, a Marxist, and perhaps even a Liberation Theology radical himself, didn't wait even 15 years after the riot that killed Romero to con-anize his fellow Marxist. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, on March 24, 2025, the 45th anniversary of Romero's assassination, a Newchurch Mess was staged in the same Novus Ordo chapel, which featured as "co-celebrants" an Anglican bishoppess and leading Marxist political figures, as well as banners featuring political slogans surrounding the Novus Ordo dinner table. These are banned even by Newchurch itself, which was so embarrassed by the fiasco that it issued a condemnatory statement. The Newarchbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar, conveniently hightailed himself out of town, claiming that he "had more commitments than he had planned."
Cardinal Thomas Cajetan said shortly after the Council of Trent: "You know, a time will come when a man will no longer be able to say, 'I speak Latin and am a Christian' and go his way in peace. There will come frontiers, frontiers of all kinds -- between men -- and there will be no end to them." On April 2, 2025, Newarchbishop Luis Arguello told the Newbishops of Spain: "The time has passed when we said: I’m Catholic because I was born in Spain." He went on to say that the Spanish (New)bishops' Conference is essentially a "very bureaucratic NGO [nongovernmental organization]." So far has Catholicism fallen under the apostate Newchurch of the New Order and its Newpopes Unsaint Paul VI-Montini, Unsaint JPII-Wojtyla, Benedict-Ratzinger, and Francis-Bergoglio.
Arguello said that Spain had 23,000 initiation (formerly baptismal) fonts, but now many of them "have no water" because the once-Catholic communities before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) have abandoned their Newparishes. Spanish Newchurchers are currently engaged in a battle against the Spanish (New)bishops' Conference, which is selling to the secular government the Basilica of the Holy Cross and the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross at the Valley of the Fallen Shrine, erected near Madrid after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Agency.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newarchbishop of Madrid, Jose Cobo, is being picketed with signs calling him "Cobo Judas," who is "selling Christ for thirty pieces of silver," the Basilica of the Holy Cross and the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross at the Valley of the Fallen Shrine. These Newchurch bishops since Vatican II long ago lost the Catholic Faith. Their cowardice is to be expected as they were never consecrated as Catholic bishops, but merely "installed" as episcopal "overseers" under the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.
On March 26, 2025, Newvatican's Officium Centrale Statisticum Ecclesiae, issued its 2025 Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, which contains Newchurch's statistics and demographics for 2023, the last year reported. (Newvatican is behind in this, as in other administrative tasks, with its staff slashed on account of its impending bankruptcy.)
The numbers don't look good for Newchurch. Again, the number of Newseminarians, presbyters, men and women in religious orders, Initiations (formerly Baptisms), and weddings all declined, according to Newvatican's own statistics. Initiations (many of them now invalid because of defect of form or intention in Newchurch) have continued to decrease worldwide. The number fell in 25 years from about 18,000,000 to a little over 13,000,000, or more than one-fourth (24.7 per cent).
Even though the number of Initiations is tanking, the number of unconsecrated episcopal "overseers," (Newchurch has not consecrated bishops since its adoption of the invalid (fake) Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968), is growing like maggots, increasing to over 5, 500. The number of bishops a the Vatican II Anti-council was about 2,500. Even there are more than twice as many Newbishops now, the administration of Newchurch is markedly inferior to what it was before the Anti-council. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic News Service.]
Traditional Catholics, one of the only categories that went up in the 2025 Annuarium were those mostly-married "lay deacons," which the apostate Vatican II Anti-council introduced into Newchurch to make it more like the Protestant lay "clergy," men and women wandering all over the "worship space." If Francis-Bergoglio has his way, Newchurch deaconesses will soon join the men around the Newchurch "table."
Newchurch has been so racked by embezzlement and mismanagement that it is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, according to its own auditors. As a result, there have been troubling incidents of thefts from the Vatican Museums because security had to be cut and filthy conditions in St. Peter's Basilica because the cleaning staff had to be cut. Now -- triste dictu -- one of the most public and historic monuments of Newvatican may have been vandalized.
On March 31, 2025, a preliminary report indicates that vandals cut 3 metres of stone from the tip of the obelisk. Although the report was carried worldwide by Catholic World News (CWN), an independent conservative news service founded in 1996, there has been a suggestion that the preliminary report, as yet unconfirmed by other press services, may have been an April Fool's prank.
The obelisk that stands at the center of the Piazza di San Pietro, a massive structure carved and erected by the ancient Egyptians. In A.D. 40 the Roman emperor Caligula had it transported from Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome. Pope Sixtus V had the obelisk weighing over 325 metric tons moved in a miraculous operation almost 250 metres from the Circus of Nero to its current location in the Vatican Piazza. The obelisk is over 25 metres high. It is the only one of thirteen obelisks in Rome that has not fallen. Pope Sixtus added an orb and cross atop the obelisk, which extended the structure to 40 metres high.
If this monumental structure, portraying the victory of Christianity over paganism, which has survived for over two millennia unscathed, like so many other cultural works, has been vandalized under its current custodians, Francis-Bergoglio and the Newchurch of the New Order, they will have again failed in their duty Urbi et Orbi.
On the heels the renewed shutdown by Francis-Bergoglio of the New Latin Mess of 1962 (which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass), it was announced that the Institute of Christ the King, a pseudo-traditional Newchurch group that had been simulating that the transitional Half New Order New Latin Mess (which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass) for some twenty years in the Newdiocese of Oakland, California, has been expelled from Oakland, effective April 20, 2025. The Institute has also been expelled from another site it operated in Marin County.
Newbishop Michael Barber announced on March 31, 2025, that he was following the decree of "Traditionis custodes" (July 16, 2021) of Francis-Bergoglio and its follow-up rescript (February 21, 2025), which banned, without specific dispensation from Bergoglio himself:
This is the latest hit against the Institute of Christ the King, a beleaguered organization that poses as "traditional," but is anything but. First of all, it has no priests, but only Novus Ordo presbyters, who are not ordained by Catholic bishops consecrated in Holy Orders, but merely "installed" as episcopal "overseers," like Protestant "bishops"), under the invalid (fake) Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.
Add to that the fact that long ago the Institute of Christ the King went rogue when members of its Newclergy were convicted on charges of grand larceny paedophilia. It just proves the principle that anyone associated with the corrupt Newchurch will eventually become corrupted as well. The apostate Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, is a virulent virus that invades and kills the souls of those who associate with it. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by The Weekly/]
Traditional Catholics, it is clear that Francis-Bergoglio and the Newchurch of the New Order are bent on expelling the New Latin Mess of 1962 from Newparishes and other sites as well. The Institute of Christ the King (ICR) and the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) are gradually being suffocated and expelled from the Newchurch structure. But that is only to the good. These groups are not Catholic, but merely arms of the Newchurch of the New Order, as of 2024 transformed into the pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. Good riddance indeed!
If you think Francis-Bergoglio had forgotten his 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes" to shut down the New Latin Messes -- the Half New Order Mess of 1962, think again. Now that he's back in the Newvatican, the shutdowns have ramped up, No tears need be shed. The 1962 Mess so beloved of the Neocon Newchurchers is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, and Newchurch clergy are not priests, but presbyter-ministers incapable of celebrating a valid Mass because they are merely "installed" like Protestant ministers under Newchurch's invalid Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.
As an example, Gregory Parkes, the Newbishop of St. Petersburg, Florida, has decreed that as of July 1, 2025, Epiphany Newparish, of St. Petersburg, where the New Latin Mess was being simulated, will be disestablished, and its Newdiocesan presbyters will be dispersed. Parkes indicated that he was following Bergoglio's directive in doing so. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Newchurch Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida.]
Traditional Catholics, so continues the demolition of the untraditional New Latin Mass by Francis-Bergoglio, following the directive of his predecessor, Benedict-Ratzinger in his 2008 document "Summorum pontificum." That document deftly contained the trap, unnoticed at the time by the Neocon Newchurchers, which Bergoglio now is merely springing.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
What is your opinion on the New Catholic Bible? Is it safe for Catholics to use, or is it just another product of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
The New Catholic Bible, published in 2020, is the latest in the series of corrupted versions issued by the New Order sect. It is the progeny of the flawed New American Bible of 1969, produced shortly after the Vatican II Anti-council. The New Catholic Bible uses what is called the "dynamic equivalence" approach. This kind of translation, really just a paraphrase, rejects the literal meaning of the text and substitutes what the paraphrasers personally want the text to say. Newchurch's New American Bible is another example of this corrupted approach.
The venerable Catholic Douay-Rheims translation and even the respected King James translation is an example of the "formal equivalence" (literal) approach, which stays as close as possible to the inspired writers' mode of expression. The "dynamic equivalence" approach become popular after the Vatican II Anti-council, as it allowed the Newchurch paraphrasers more easily to incorporate Newchurch's heretical notions into their new "translation."
The word "new" in anything religious should immediately sound an alarm bell. Think of the New Latin Mess, the New Sacraments, the New Canon Law, the New Bible, etc., which were the Trojan horses to introduce apostate notions in the fake Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. True Catholics reject outright such fakes like the plague they are. For further information on this topic, click on FAQ05: "What Catholic Resources Do You Recommend?" in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) department in the section "Bible," available from the TRADITIO Network's main menu at www.traditio.com.
The long-awaited sequel to Traditional Catholic producer-director-actor Mel Gibson's 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" will finally begin production in August 2025, as announced on March 26, 2025, by Rome's Cinecitta Studios, where it will be entirely shot. The epic will again be produced by Gibson's own independent film company, Icon Productions.
The sequel is entitled "The Resurrection of the Christ" and will require many theaters and stage constructions. Gibson has revealed that the gamut of the film will be "super ambitious," covering the fall of the Angels in Hell to the death of the last Apostle, St. John. The film will focus on the events that occurred during the three days between the crucifixion of The Christ and His Resurrection. James Caviezel will again star as The Christ.
Gibson snubbed Hollywood to produce "The Passion of the Christ" independently. Gibson courageously persisted in spite of a vile campaign against the Christian film by the extremist group B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), led by Abraham Foxman. Gibson overcame all opposition to produce the biggest-grossing independent film of all time, making 370,000,000 USD, from which he built his Holy Family Traditional Catholic Church in Agoura Hills in Southern California. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Gibson is almost the only significant producer left that can produce major-release films depicting courage and faith, including 1995's "Braveheart," 2000's "The Patriot," and 2006's "Apocalypto." This Traditional Catholic, who has publicly denounced the post-Vatican II Newpopes as fakes and apostates from the Catholic Faith, is simultaneously working on a new limited television series on the Christian victory over the Mohammedans at the 1565 Great Siege of Malta. This siege led to the famous naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the outnumbered Christian forces, under the leadership of Pope St. Pius V and with the suffrages of the Confraternities of the Most Holy Rosary, decisively defeated the infidel Mohammedans to thwart for centuries Sultan Suleiman's plan to take over Catholic Europe.
On March 25, 2025, two days after Francis-Bergoglio returned to the Newvatican, King Charles and Queen Camilla of England canceled their Newpapal visit. The highly-publicized visit was scheduled for April 8, 2025.
Perhaps Providence intervened, as the event was supposed to be similar to that when heretic "Unsaint" Newpope JPII-Wojtyla scandalously allowed an image of the Buddha to be placed on top of the Novus Ordo tabernacle at the 1986 Assisi Oecumenical Conference. Bergoglio had planned a "oecumenical service" in the sacred Sistine Chapel, in which he was going to push his "green" paganism in concert with the king, who is the head of the heretic Church of England. The king is also known to be a "greenie" extremist and perhaps not even a committed Anglican Christian, but toying with Buddhism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the king and queen decided to cast Bergoglio aside and proceed with their state visit to Italy. The canceled visit with Bergoglio was designed to "mark a significant step forward in relations" between the apostate Newchurch and the heretic Church and Church of England. Now it has been canceled.
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