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The Newchurch of the New Order has learned nothing since its corruption was exposed in 2002 in the Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. Newmonsignor Terrence Fitzgerald, longtime Vicar General (No. 2) of the Salt Lake City, Utah, Newdiocese, took it upon himself to burn personnel documents of paedophile presbyters that "could cast clergy in a poor light," viz., in paedophilia.
The Newdiocese has confirmed Fitzgerald's crime. In fact, Fitzgerald admitted what he had done to several presbyters in the Newdiocese. Then Newbishop Oscar Solis became a participant in the crime. He admitted to a presbyter that although his investigation confirmed his Vicar General's destruction of documents, he would never make the results of the investigation public. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Salt Lake Tribune.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Solis refused to suspend Fitzgerald, giving him little more than a private reprimand, although even Newchurch Canon Law provides for a Newbishop to remove faculties from a criminal presbyter who destroys church records. Thus, Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated under the regime of Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo.
Not satisfied with the blasphemies, sacrileges, and idolatries of the "approved" Messes in honor of Pachamama, the nude pagan fertility goddess, and of Atacama, the pagan sun god, Newchurch announced on February 6, 2026, that a "Harry Potter" Mess will be added to the Novus Ordo mix, to be simulated in Germany on February 28, 2026.
The Mess will emphasize the Heresy of Oecumenism, with Potterheads desecrating the Sacred Heart Church in Westphalia with occult imagery, complete with magic wands and magicians' costumes. In the promotional materials for the Mess, occultists are particularly encouraged to attend in magicians' costumes. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Neocon Newchurchers have belatedly objected to the desecration, but it is they who have willingly embraced the blasphemy, sacrilege, and idolatry of the New Mess of 1969 to take over their churches. The Neocon Newchurchers have been countered by the local Newarchdiocese, which justified the Mess as in line with Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's initiatives of evangelization and secularization.
Blase Cupich, Newcardinal of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the most far-left of the apostate Newchurch Newcardinals. Yet he is strongly connected in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. He was an intimate of the late Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis and has strong connections with the current Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo, who hailed from Chicago before he moved to Peru and took out citizenship there.
After Cupich returned from the Newconsistory in January, he issued a bellicose statement against the New Latin Mess of 1962, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass. On January 27, 2026, he pontificated the heresy that the Sacred Liturgy is "not a static reality, but a living reality" defined by "cultural adaptation." This is the Vatican II Anti-council's Oecumenical Heresy, by which Newchurch rejects Sacred Tradition, together with previous true popes and councils. Newchurch is no longer Roman, and is certainly not Catholic.
Cupich has been a de facto spokesman for Bergoglio-Francis, and now for Prevost-Leo. Given the report hostile to the New Latin Mass circulated at the consistory by the Prefect of the Dicastery for (Newchurch) Divine Worship and the recent coolness exhibited toward the Neo-SSPX by Victor Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (Newchurch) Faith, the New Latin Mess is in deep trouble in Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Infovaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, Newcardinal Blase Cupich can be said to be speaking for Pseudo-Newpope Prevost when he proclaims that the Novus Ordo Mess of 1969, still the "ordinary" Mess of Newchurch, is now the single rite of Newchurch, replacing other rites, particularly the Traditional Latin Mass, which he says endangers the very nature of Newchurch. The Novus Ordo Mess is viewed as a tool to control Newchurch members. Questioning it is perceived as a threat.
On January 29, 2026, Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo gave his full-throated endorsement to the Doctrinal Note "Mater Populi Fidelis" of his Dicastery of the Doctrine of the (Newchurch) Faith, which militated against the use of the titles "Co-redemptrix" and "Mediatrix of All Graces" for the Blessed Virgin Mary. These titles have been a point of contention among theologians because they might imply that the Blessed Virgin Mary is in some way equal to God. The Latin does not imply that, but English and other vulgar tongues do.
Mary is not a goddess; she was never anything but human. To worship her -- and all too many "Catholics" do -- as a goddess constitutes idolatry, a grave sin against the First Commandment of God. Because the Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has failed to educate its followers in proper Catholic doctrine, but deliberately tries to keep them ignorant so that it can manipulate them more easily, Newchurchers frequently fall into heresies in ignorance. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, The Doctrinal Note, now personally approved by Prevost, bans the use of the two titles in Newvatican documents or liturgical texts. The Neocon Newchurchers who hold to these titles and recognize Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo as legitimate have now been cuckolded. Ipse dixit: their own Pseudo-Newpope has now spoken, so in conscience they must stop their opposition to their leader. Their only choice is the right one: to abandon the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and return to the true Catholic faith at those churches, chapels, and oratories that have remained entirely independent of the counterfeit Newchurch.
On January 27, 2026, Newchurch's own Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) revealed in its new survey how the "spirit of Vatican II" killed religious vocations in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. The annual survey for 2025 includes women and men who professed perpetual vows in the United States.
82 PER CENT OF NEWCHURCH COMMUNITIES HAD NO PERPETUAL PROFESSIONS AT ALL IN 2025. 10 PER CENT REPORTED ONLY 1 PROFESSION. 8 PER CENT REPORTED ONLY 2 TO 9 PROFESSIONS. 28 PER CENT OF THESE WERE NOT EVEN AMERICANS, BUT CAME FROM AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA.
Other salient statistics from the survey: [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Zenit Press Service.]
Traditional Catholics, plummeting as is the number of men entering the dwindling number of Newseminaries, the situation with the Newreligious in the New Order is truly disastrous. Some sixty years after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), religious life in the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order has virtually disappeared. Now even the once-large orders, like the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and Jesuits, are sinking fast. Many religious orders that were thriving before the Anti-council, have now closed up shop and disappeared. These orders are, of course, no longer Catholic, as the Newchurch of the New Order itself is not the Catholic Church, so Newchurch orders' attraction to young men and women is virtually nil.
Not many years ago there was no university more identified as Catholic than Notre Dame, of South Bend, Indiana. No longer. Over the last years it has produced vulgar plays like the "Vagina Monologues," expelled conservative presbyters, and given honorary degrees to outspoken abortion advocates.
On February 1, 2026, Notre Dave University announced the appointment of Susan Ostermann as Director of its Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, just four years after the previous president of the university publicly condemned her pro-abortion activist views in a Chicago Tribune article. Ostermann has published numerous articles justifying abortion as "saving women's lives." She has described denial of abortion to be "violence against women," "sexual abuse," and "racist." She also spoke on a panel for trans-sexuality. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Irish Rover.]
Traditional Catholics, Notre Dame has recognized its anti-Catholic hypocrisy by refusing to comment on the substance of Ostermann's pro-abortion advocacy. Notre Dame is just one of many examples of once-Catholic universities that have been corrupted to anti-Catholicism by its association with the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which most certainly is NOT the Catholic Church.
On 2 February 2026, the Superior General of the Neo-SSPX, Davide Pagliarani, who is generally held to be merely a puppet of Bernie Fellay, the previous head, announced that in fear for its continuing existence, the Neo-SSPX would consecrate new bishops for itself on July 1, 2025, with the number and names of the consecrandi currently unknown. Most of the clueless religious press will try to compare this act to that of the original SSPX's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, but that comparison is specious. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
In 1994, after the death of the SSPX's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Fellay reorganized the SSPX into a Neo-SSPX with the adoption of new bylaws, which turned the organization into a dictatorship, to be run by Fellay for a scandalous 24 years (1994-2018), at which point Fellay installed Pagliarani to be his puppet. In 1974 Lefebvre declared that the Newchurch of the New Order, now the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, was in reality NOT the Catholic Church, but a "Conciliar Church," bound at the hip to the apostasy of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965).
In 2012, Fellay promulgated for his Neo-SSPX a new doctrinal policy, in which the Archbishop-Founder's principles were rejected and a push began to join the apostate Newchurchm which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Fellay's Neo-SSPX is, first and foremost, a corporation that its trying to save itself, not the Catholic Church. It has massive monies on deposit in secret Swiss bank accounts and extensive real-estate holdings, which allowed it to build in 2023 a monster of a "cathedral" in St. Marys, Kansas, essentially in the middle of nowhere.
Fellay is planning the consecrations merely to maintain the existence of the Neo-SSPX, whose two remaining bishops are aging rapidly, one of whom is even now ill. Fellay has not changed the 2012 Modernist-bent doctrines of his Neo-SSPX, which still holds, contrary to Catholic doctrine about what the true Catholic Church must be. Accordingly, Fellay's Neo-SSPX maintains inter alia::
Traditional Catholics, in fact the Neo-SSPX announcement does not proclaim true Catholic doctrine, but smacks of the language of the Anti-council and of megachurch corporate "religion." It is likely that the new Neo-SSPX bishop(s) will be spokesmen for the Neo-SSPX corporation, which will remain friendly toward the apostate Synodal Newchurch and still seek to join it.
The Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo's regime continued the wreckovation of the Newvatican Curia by appointing, on January 19, 2026, new consultants to drive Newchurch's Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. These individuals include polytheists, Pachamamans, and Feminists. The dicastery has pastoral and doctrinal authority for the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. This assortment includes 19 syncretists, pagans, feminists, and the like.
Among the new consultants is Emilce Cuda-Argentine, an intimate of the apostate Newcardinal in charge of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (Newchurch) Faith, who has tried to downplay abortion as a doctrinal matter, posing it as just another "social issue."
Then there is Monica Santamarina, Genera President of the World Union of Catholic [Sic] Women's Organizations, an ardent feminist, who wants laywomen to have representation and quotas in the process of defining doctrine for the Synodal Newchurch.
Also appointed is Mary Teresa Barron, who avers that women "feel a call to the priesthood." Apparently, she is unaware that Newchurch stopped ordaining priests in 1968 when it adopted a Protestantized Ordinal merely to "install" presbyters, who are equivalent to Protestant ministers.
Another of Prevost's new consultants is Sofía Nicolasa Chipana Quispe, of the Community of Wise Women and Theologians of Abya Yala, who promotes prayer to the nude fertility goddess Pachamama, whom apostate Pseudo-Newpope Bergoglio-Francis installed in front of the high altar of St. Peter's Archbasilica. "We are not Pachamama; we belong to Pachamama," she says. Catherine Cornille, of Boston College, is another syncretist who promotes pagan (some say atheist) Buddhism and Hinduism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, like all agencies of the Newvatican, the Dicastery for Religious Dialogue has nothing to do with Catholicism, and the Synodal Newchurch of which it is a part is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. The dicastery is a bastard child, conceived in 1964 at the apostate Vatican II Anti-council, which corrupted just about every Catholic doctrine you can think of, including the necessity of staying clear of heretics, schismatics, pagans, atheists, and the lot. Newchurch has become infected to the bone with a proud apostasy from the Catholic Faith.
As we have written before, if you want to know what the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Synodal Newchurch of the New Order will become, just look at the Protestant Anglicans of the Church of England. Historically, Newchurch has followed the apostasy and corruption of the Anglican sect in lockstep.
The appointment of Sarah Mullally as the first female Anglican Archbishopess of Canterbury and leader of the heretic Church of England, has caused public outcry and backlash. In 2025 the traditionalist GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference), said to represent some 80 per cent of Anglicans around the world, formally dissociated itself from the Church of England and rejected Mullally as an apostate from the Christian faith.
When Mullally was installed on January 28, 2026, according to the rite, the presiding bishop asked whether there was any objection to her being installed. Paul Williamson, a respected Anglican presbyter, exercised his right to object and peaceably stood up to proclaim, "I object." He then began to state the canonical reasons for his objection, that Mullally had covered up sex crimes in her position as bishop of London. Immediately security guards grabbed and manhandled Williamson, handcuffed him, and pushed him down the stairs.
The presiding bishop publicly proclaimed the lie that "no one had appeared in opposition" to Mullally’s appointment. Williamson, when he at that point stood up to object, stated that, to the contrary, he had indeed submitted a formal objection, which had been ignored by the Anglican hierarchy. The Church of England installation rite allows for a time at which objections can be presented.
The fact that a proper canonical objection from a member of the clergy was publicly precluded and occasioned a violent expulsion of the clergyman from the site simply shows how corrupt the Anglican sect is. The incident, broadcast live, was seen by millions. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, like the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, the Anglican sect is being ripped apart by internal divisions between conservatives and leftists. Mullally herself is an apostate from the Christian faith, supporting the installation of priestesses, liberalized sexual morality, and the blessing of "gay" and lesbian "marriages." Before the world the Anglicans, just as the Newchurchers, who profess "brotherly" love, have been exposed as hypocrites when they manhandled their own presbyter simply for peaceably exercising his rights. The corrupt Mullally has remained mute through the whole contretemps. Dux femina facti.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I appreciate your recommendation of Carol Byrne's outstanding book, Born of Revolution: A Misconceived Liturgical Movement, Vol. 1: Active Participation (Holyrood Press, 318 pp., c. 2020), which documents all the modernizing changes that Pius XII, whom many traditional Catholics wrongly think was completely traditional, made to the Sacred Liturgy during his tenure. In the TRADITIO Network's Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments department in the section "The Descent into the Black Hole of the Liturgical 'New Order,'" you note that in 1953 Pius XII modernized the Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis (Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Could you indicate what those modernizations were?
THE TRADITIO FATHERS REPLY.
In the 1950s, a decade in which he adopted many Modernistic changes, such as those gutting the ancient, traditional Holy Week, Pius XII approved a new version of the Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis with three additional seasons and with changed prayers, readings, and Saints' feasts. In that same decade, Pius XII also introduced, inter alia, the following corruptions of the Traditional Latin Mass, Traditional Divine Office, and traditional disciplines:
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