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The Newdiocese of Buffalo, New York, which, like so many other Newchurch entities, thought that it could get off scot free after raping, sodomizing, and otherwise sexually assaulting children, will now have to pay the piper, in this case the child victims of its sex crimes. The U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Court is ordering the perpetrator Newdiocese, along with its Newparishes and affiliates, to pay out a whopping penalty of 150,000,000 USD for the sex crimes of its presbyters, religious, lay employees, and volunteers. The court has also ordered the Newchurch headquarters to be auctioned off.
A chastened Michael Fisher, Newbishop of Buffalo, issued on April 22, 2025, the usual prattle, trying to paper over with a mendacious apology the unforgivable crimes that were perpetrated against the child victims for years and were covered up by Newchurch officials. The penalty was "the second-largest contribution by a bankrupt Roman Catholic institution and its affiliates in any Roman Catholic [sic] bankruptcy case to date." Several months previous, the Newdiocese of Rockville Center, New York, had paid out to its child victims the largest bankruptcy penalty in U.S. history, 323,000,000 USD.
Traditional Catholics, it was the Newarchdiocese of Los Angeles, California, however, that broke the bank by paying out the largest non-bankruptcy settlement in U.S. history, 1,000,000,000 USD, to the multitudinous child victims of sex crimes by its Newclergy. Most of these crimes were committed under the aegis of the discredited and demoted Newcardinal-Newarchbishop there from 1985 to 2011, the infamous Roger Mahoney. And yet Newchurch still continues to pander to and cover up for its paedophile Newclergy, while issuing meaningless press statements of mendacious "apology." No apology can make up for the destruction of the child victims' lives. Many of them have committed suicide. Newchurch is incorrigible.
St. Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, who ended the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire in the year 313, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to find the actual Cross on which Our Lord was crucified. When she had cleared away the site, she discovered three crosses. Near one lay the title with the inscription recorded by St. John in his Gospel (19:19): "Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum." Thereupon, the empress of the world fell upon her knees to worship, says St. Ambrose, "not the wood, but the King who had hung upon the wood."
On April 28, 2025, Newvatican announced May 7, 2025, as the start date of its spurious conclave, to elect a leader for its Newchurch of the New Order, founded on November 21, 1964, at the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) and in 2024 transmogrified by Francis-Bergoglio into the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. It should be clear to all by now, except the most clueless, that the Newchurch after the Vatican II Anti-council is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, as it does not believe, practice, or teach the Catholic Faith, any more than Martin Luther's sect does. In effect, Newchurch is just another Protestant sect -- and worse. (Remember, Luther called his sect the "Catholic Church" too.)
Fortunately, Our Lord's promise of the indefectibility of the true Catholic Church is continues as thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories around the world maintain the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Faith of two millennia. For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Official Traditional Catholic Directory department, provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses, available from the TRADITIO Network's main menu (www.traditio.com).
Thus, the leaders of this Newchurch are not true popes, nor will their successors be. The announced conclave is merely a charade, as every one of the 135 voting Newcardinals is a member of the non-Catholic Newchurch and professes all the heresies against the Catholic Church that the Protestants profess -- and more, foremost among them the Cardinal Heresy of Modernism, which Pope St. Pius X in his hard-hitting Encyclical Letter, "Pascendi Dominici Gregis" of 1907 called "collectum omnium hereseon," the collection of all heresies.
Thus, the pseudo-traditionalists and Neocon Newchurchers are bound to be disappointed in any hope that they have for even a "conservative" Newpope to lead their Newchurch, as 80 per cent of the 135 voting Newcardinals (108) are appointees of Bergoglio to carry on radical Newchurch, whereas a candidate needs only two-thirds plus one (91) to elect a Newpope. Truly, Newchurch will simply be putting on yet another vaudeville show and once again rearranging the deck chairs on its foundered Titanic.
So, it would be a good time to turn off the television on this "conclave" for the next month. What point is there in listening to ignorant blabbing from the secular press, lay Newchurchers, and heretic Newchurch clergy, standing before the television cameras in their fancy duds that they never wear in their own churches? Instead, spend time learning the history of the Church. Even Traditional Catholics are unaware of what has actually happened in the past. Whoever the new leader of Newchurch will be, our obligation as Traditional Catholics remains the same: to shun completely the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, or Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, or whatever they will call it tomorrow, as the fake pretender it is.
The new May 1 Feast of St. Joseph the Workman ("Worker" in genderless "modernized" English) was widely reviled in the Church at the time by the highest authorities, and was derisively called the Feast of "Joe the Worker" or the "Pseudo-feast of San Giuseppe Comunista" by the Romans and others, as it fell on Communist May Day. The traditional Sacred Congregation of Rites rejected Bugnini's new feast, and there was open opposition in the Church to it. Opposition to the new feast was so strong that the Sacred Congregation of Rites refused for four years to formulate the Gregorian-chant Mass and Divine Office for the new feast.
From the early Church the Holy Apostles Philip and James the Less (brother of St. Jude Thaddeus) have shared the same feast day, May 1, because the relics of the martyrs were solemnly translated from New Rome, i.e., Constantinople, by Pope Pelagius I to the Church of the Holy Apostles at Rome, where they still rest. St. Philip brought the Catholic Faith to Scythia. St. James the Less was Bishop of Jerusalem and wrote the Epistle in the New Testament. He was martyred by the Jews by being thrown from the pinnacle of the Temple.
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