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On August 12, 2025, a study, "Demography of the Catholic [Sic] Church," released from the Demographic Observatory of the University of Madrid, revealed a growing crisis in the Newchurch of the New Order in Spain. The statistics show that Spaniards are massively abandoning Newchurch, that the number of Newseminarians is collapsing fast, and that administration of the Novus Ordo Mess and non-sacraments is in drastic decline.
Until the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), when the Newchurch of the New Order replaced the "institutional" Catholic Church, Spain had historically been one of the strongest Catholic countries in the world. The study points out as the main causes of the collapse the abandonment of Catholic tradition after the Anti-council by the Pseudo-Newpopes and the replacement of traditional Catholic doctrine by a Modernist/Leftist/Apostate ideology.
Fewer than 1 in 5 Spaniards practice the Newchurch sect. Attendance at the heretical New Order service introduced in 1969 has dropped by two-thirds in the last 50 years, with fewer than 17 per cent attending regularly. In 1971 almost 100 per cent of newborn Spaniards were baptized. That number has now dropped to fewer than half for the New Order "initiation" rite, as it is now called. Newchurch weddings have dropped by 87 per cent to fewer than 20 per cent.
The Newchurch clergy is also disappearing fast. Since the Anti-council 40 per cent have been lost, with the average age of the remaining Newclergy being over 65. Only 79 presbyters were "installed" (Newchurch has not ordained priests since adopting the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968) for the entire country since the Anti-council. The number of those applying to Newseminaries has plummeted by 80 per cent in the last decade. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Complicit Clergy.]
Traditional Catholics, some of the most Catholic countries of all before the Vatican II Anti-council, such as Spain, Ireland, and Poland, are now rejecting the Newchurch sect in large numbers. It took about half a century for the facts to sink in, but many Newchurchers have finally come to the realization that they have been duped by a fake Newchurch sect, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, and by Pseudo-Newpopes, who are most certainly NOT Catholic popes, but servants of the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
August 11, 2025, was a day of reckoning for Joseph Brennan, Newbishop of Fresno, California, who is enmeshed in an ugly bankruptcy being supervised by a United States federal court. At a marathon hearing lasting hours, Brennan was ordered to produce financial details of the scandal in open court in response to 153 lawsuits of child victims of sex crimes by Newchurch presbyters.
Added to the difficulties already being faced, Brennan had been "debanked" by Wells Fargo during the process, and Pseudo-Newpopes Bergoglio-Francis and Prevost-Leo had dragged their feet in giving the necessary authorization. During the hearing it was revealed that five presbyters who had been fingered by the child victims had mysteriously not been placed on the list of accused. One of these is still employed by the Newdiocese and is still working with children. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by KVPR Fresno.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch has again been caught in outright lies. The fabled "Zero Tolerance Policy" announced by Ratzinger-Benedict and Bergoglio-Francis has been proven in open court to have been essentially a fraud, a public-relations scheme. We can only hope that the uncompromising justice which Newchurch has denied to the child victims will be meted out, in full, to the criminal Newchurch clergy involved.
Along with all its other aberrations, corruptions, and heresies, the Vatican II Anti-council on December 4, 1963, six months to the day but one after Pope John XXIII died (John XXIII did not approve one single document of the apostate Anti-council), adopted its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, "Sacrosanctum concilium," which was intended by its revolutionary framers to destroy the Traditional Latin Mass.
An Appendix entitled "Declaration of the Second Vatican [Anti-]Council on the Revision of the Calendar" indicated the Anti-council's readiness to change the traditional method of calculating the date of Easter, decreed by the First Oecumenical Council of Nicaea in the year 325. That Council settled once and for all contradictory opinions and excommunicated anyone who would dispute the Council's decree. There had been no problem since then until, that is, the apostate Vatican II Anti-council's Appendix of 1963.
All of the Pseudo-Newpopes of the apostate Newchurch of the New Order, especially Bergoglio-Francis and now Prevost-Leo, have been pushing a change in the traditional date to please the schismatics of the East, but now the East's own Oecumenical (as he calls himself) Patriarch, Bartholomew of Constantinople, has put the kybosh on the whole question and proclaimed: "only another oecumenical council can modify the calculation of the date of Easter." Because of the current corrupted state of the Church, there can be no valid oecumenical council. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, most of the Eastern Orthodox don't even use the same calendar as the West. They retain the Julian calendar, which was enacted by the Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 B.C., a man before his time, but which is now thirteen days behind the Gregorian calendar, in which Pope Gregory XIII in A.D. 1582 corrected serious astronomical errors in the Julian calendar that had accumulated over a millennium and a half.
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