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What if you held a "unity conference," and only a few united to show up? That is essentially what happened to Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, who summoned the Eastern Orthodox to unite with him in Nicaea (modern Iznik, Turkey), to mark the 1700th anniversary of the First Oecumenical Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325. Most Orthodox rejected the apostate Newpope's summons and boycotted the event, which was devised to receive the Orthodox into "full communion" with the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Age.
The Eastern Orthodox were too smart to fall for this ploy. Their sect rejects Traditional Catholicism, as does the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and its Pseudo-Newpopes. They reject the Filioque in the Creed. They reject the traditional date of Easter. The last time the Orthodox tried to unify with Rome, and the bull "Laetentur Caeli" was read out in the massive cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the people reacted with fury against the Orthodox bishops who had signed the union, which was thereby vitiated. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Hellinscope.]
Traditional Catholics, while Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo and the so-called "Oecumenical" Patriarch, Bartholomew I, schemed toward a false union, the overwhelming majority of the Orthodox world, including Russia, Serbia, Jerusalem, Antioch, Romania, Bulgaria, and Georgia, condemned and boycotted the event entirely. Yet the mostly anti-Christian press of the Western world has barely covered the fact that most Orthodox have rejected Modernist/Marxist Prevost's "unity conference." In fact, most Eastern Orthodox do not recognize the so-called "Oecumenical" Patriarch, with whom Prevost is primarily dealing. So the Eastern Orthodox have literally spit on him, as they did on Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis on his visit to the Middle East in 2014.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
A friend said that a crucifix, small or big, must have the inscription INRI upon it; otherwise, it should not be used. Is that correct?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
You are right to be skeptical of "friends" who purport to be knowledgeable about things beyond their ken. In fact, the official definition of a crucifix is "crux quae imaginem Crucifixi habet," a cross that bears the image of the Crucified. The addition of Pilate's titulus, or inscription, INRI, standing for "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews, is commendable, but not required. As you have indicated, the small size of a given crucifix, such as that on a Rosary, may prevent the addition of the inscription.
On November 24, 2025, Chinese Newcardinal Joseph Zen, aged 93, who has stood up courageously against persecution by the Newpopes and the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, has charged that Pseudo-Newpopes Bergoglio-Francis and his disciple Prevost-Leo have Zen charged that Newchurch has become like the Anglican/Episcopalian Church, "committing suicide with the world" and "producing "chaos and division." Zen went on to reject the Synodal Newchurch's final document, terming it "ambiguous and experimental."
Ironically, on October 16, 2025, after King Charles III appointed Sarah Mullally as the first Archbishopess of that Church in contravention of Scripture, an international traditionalist group called the Global Anglican Communion, comprising some 80 per cent of Anglicans worldwide, formally rejected Mullally and the Church of England and declared that it is henceforth the authentic Anglican Communion. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newcardinal Zen is known for his rock-solid anti-Communism. He deplored the Communist Chinese takeover of Hong Kong from the British and chastised Bergoglio for selling out to the Communist Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping. Zen also condemned Prevost for permitting an LGBTXXX "pilgrimage" inside St. Peter’s Basilica. Prevost knew of this event beforehand, yet issued no condemnation afterward. Zen called for public reparations of prayer and fasting to be made for Prevost's sinful action.
On November 25, 2025, Ana Diaz publicly charged Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo in a Newvatican court with suborning paedophile sex crimes against her and her sisters by an intimate of Prevost. The presbyter in question had been quietly "dispensed" from the presbyterate, in a pattern that is quite common with the Newpopes, who never admit the crimes or publicly denounce them. When the victim found out about Prevost's "dispensation," she became outraged and went public.
Diaz has taken her case to a Newvatican court (which Prevost controls absolutely) to get justice for herself and her sisters against "all ecclesiastical officials who participated in or were responsible for these acts of negligence," which were never even minimally instigated by Newchurch. She has also demanded a "personal audience" with Prevost. Díaz further exclaimed that "it is incomprehensible that instead of seeking the truth and repairing the victims, the decision was made to close the case through a papal grace that frees the abuser from facing the responsibility that corresponds to him, leaving us in a vulnerable situation with no reparation, where the only thing offered to us is payment for therapy." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo hasn't been in office even six months, and already rumblings of his involvement in paedophile sex-crime cover-ups of his intimates in Peru have started to surface. Ana Diaz and her sisters are only the latest victims. Prevost has plenty of time to meet with Hollywood celebrities, vulgar rock musicians, and pro-abortion politicians, but we bet he won't find time to meet with the child victim, Ana Diaz.
Already Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has drawn international condemnation for laying a wreath on the tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on November 27, 2025. Prevost ignored all the history of Ataturk's atrocities and venerated the dictator at the start of his first Newpapal junket, to Turkey. Ataturk established in 1923 a "New Turkey," devoid of the historic Christian communities there, whom he expelled, slaughtered, and exterminated.
Owing to Ataturk's atrocities, Christians have disappeared from Turkey and Asia Minor. Today Christians number only about 0.2 per cent of the population in Turkey. Winston Churchill referred to Ataturk's "vast massacre of its Christian population" in the name of establishing "Turkey for Turks." The city of Nicaea, where under the leadership of Constantine the Great, the first council of the Catholic Church was held in A.D. 325 and produced the Nicene Creed, today has no Christians left.
Curiously, many of these Christians whom Ataturk slaughtered were schismatic Greek Orthodox, the very group to which Prevost has been playing the sycophant in the name of "oecumenism." Nevertheless, Ataturk was just sensible enough to replace Turkey's Arabic-based writing with a far more efficient Roman Latin-based script, through which Roman culture had permeated the Roman Empire and its decendants in the known world, and to convert Turkey's archaic measurement units into the scientifically-based Greco-Romano-Gallic Metric System. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Breitbart.]
Traditional Catholics, Ataturk engaged in the ethnical cleansing of Armenians and Greeks by large-scale exterminations and atrocities. He committed numerous atrocities as President of "New Turkey" and was often called "Dictator," admired in his time by Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Yet this is the man whom Pseudo-Newpope Prevost chose to highlight and venerate on his first Newpapal junket. It marks Prevost's pseudo-papacy with the stench of ignominy from its outset.
On November 17, 2025, apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo summoned a fourth commission to push the notion of deaconesses for his Synodal Newchurch. He will keep trying until he flips one of these commissions to give him the answer he wants, not the right answer. His agents point to "critical tensions regarding clericalism and male chauvinism." These terms were invented by the Pseudo-Newpopes to help them eventually dump clergy altogether in their Synodal Church (which itself is an heretical Protestant notion) and insert male and (mostly) female lay ministers like the heretic Protestants into what Newchurch calls the "leadership."
Apostate Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo and his Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is bound and determined to install deaconesses in Newchurch, even though no fewer than three previous Newchurch commissions have found that installed deaconesses never existed in the Catholic Church. Deaconesses are, however, a confirmed part of the heretic Anglican-Episcopalian sect, however, which in short order followed the installation of deaconesses with that of presbyteresses and bishopesses. It is once again the principle of the camel's nose under the test. Get the deaconesses in, and the presbyteresses and bishopesses will soon follow. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Reporter.]
Traditional Catholics, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost and his Synodal Newchurch have called for "greater participation of all components of the People of God -- especially women and families --in the formation of ordained ministers." That is what the Synodal Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, now calls what were once priests, but in 1968 stopped ordaining priests altogether, instead "installing" what were called "presbyters" (ministers), who are just as invalid as heretic Protestant ministers. At this point there is really no difference between the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and the heretic Protestant Churches. They are both apostate sects.
The painting represents the moment immediately preceding the crucifixion of St. Andrew, at which Saint is stripped of his clothes while the torturers arrange the wooden poles from which he will be hung, as St. Andrew was tied and not nailed to the decussate cross, so as not to resemble in any way the sacrifice of Jesus.
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