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One of the signs that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT Catholic is that it is not pro-family. It winks at sodomy and other sex crimes by its presbyters against children, turns a blind eye to abortion, encourages transexuality in confused children, and shrugs off its presbyters' illicit affairs with women (not to speak of men) in its Newparishes.
A recent case in point. A lawsuit for over 1,000,000 USD in damages has been entered against Newchurch in Brownsville, Texas, by a husband and father who charges that a presbyter there had a 15-year illicit affair with his wife, a Newparishioner. The affair caused a divorce and neglect of her five children. The immoral presbyter was so evil as to became known as "El Diablo," the Devil. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Progress Times.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch has learned nothing from its continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. The Newdiocese of Brownsville did exactly what has driven Newchurch dioceses into bankruptcy, has forced the shutdown of a majority of its Newparishes, and has thrown a number of its presbyters into prison: transferring miscreant presbyters to another Newparish, where they can continue their predations.
It seems that the world has figured out that Prevost-Leo is a pretender to the counterfeit Newpapacy, who has no authority. Recently, the Transalpine Redemptorists have cut him off, the Neo-Society of St. Pius X is about to cut him off, and now his own Newcardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga, of the Central African Republic, refused on April 25, 2026, Prevost's command for him to abdicate.
Nzapalainga was created a Newcardinal by Newpope Bergoglio-Francis in 2016 at the age of 49, becoming at the time one of the youngest Newcardinals. Newchurch in Central Africa is now in an uproar, as Newvatican has been as clear as mud about why Prevost is attempting to force Nzapalainga to abdicate. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Katolisches.]
Traditional Catholics, the counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's impotence is now apparent for the whole world to see. His fancied "ecclesial unity" and "fraternal cooperation" are now shot to Hades. He has been powerless to expel the Newcardinal. Instead Prevost has created three new Newdioceses to get around the determined Newcardinal. But, as the legal maxim goes, possession is nine-tenth of the law, and the Newcardinal has the money and the people.
Any notion that the counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo will reverse for Newchurchers all of the immoral doctrines of his predecessor Newpope Bergoglio-Francis was blown out of the water on May 4, 2026, when Prevost's own Dicastery of the [New Order] Faith, issued a confirmation of the Bergoglio-era 2023 decree Fiducia supplicans, which introduced the blessing of "homosexual and other irregular couples," as well as "couples of all gender identities," such as transsexuals. The only unnatural and immoral relationships that seem to be excluded from Newchurch blessing are polygamy and bestiality.
The dicastery was at pains to state that such "blessings" are not "a form of moral legitimization to a union that presumes to be a marriage or to an extra-marital sexual practice ... nor to those who claim the legitimization of their own status." Yet here it is. As usual with the apostate Newchurch and its officials, the words do not match the actions. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, even prominent Newcardinals have publicly stated that Bergoglio's, and now Francis's, sodomitic blessings "contradict Catholic teaching and lead to heresy ... containing a denial of Catholic doctrine." In other words, the Newpopes are apostates from the Catholic Faith, and the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order that they head is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
As the scandal of "Catholic Charities," which is neither Catholic (it is Newchurch) nor a charity (it is a pass-through for embezzling funds), continues, Newchurch supervisor Leah Stewart for the "charity" has been arrested on April 17, 2026, in the Newdiocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, on charges of embezzling funds intended for disaster victims. So much for the "charitable" Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. The Newchurcher made numerous purchases for herself from charitable funds. She was also charged with money laundering, as "Catholic Charities" is currently being investigated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation for acting as a "pass-through" organization in embezzling government funds.
Stewart spent the money on purchases for herself, money that was supposed to be going toward housing and financial assistance for disaster victims in the recent hurricanes. She racked up a passel of personal expenses at the expense of the disaster victims: food for herself, her automobile insurance, her mobile phone bills, hotel rooms for her personal vacations, and repairs for her high-end Mercedes-Benz automobile. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by WBTV3-Charlotte.]
Traditional Catholics, why anyone would put a dime into a Newchurch collection plate is inexplicable after widely-reported fraud and embezzlement by Newchurch from the Newpopes on down. These Newchurchers are not even contributing to the support of the Church because the Synodal Newchurch of the new Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, but an apostate Counterfeit sect. If you doubt that, just ask the Transalpine Redemptorists!
These days one has to wonder where counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's loyalties lie. They certainly aren't with the Christian West, but, like his Marxist predecessor, counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis, with atheistic Communist China in the East, which have been increasingly cracking down on Newchurchers and Christians in general in a programme called "Sinicization," derived from the Latin word for China.
Ever since Bergoglio and now Prevost sold out to the atheistic Communists in the 2018 Condordat, with biennial renewals thereafter, the Red Chinese have implemented against Newchurch communities ideological control, strict surveillance, and travel restrictions. The government has destroyed thousands of Christian churches, invaded homes to destroy crucifixes, and arrested, tortured, and imprisoned Christians who resist.
In these tyrannical actions, Communist China has had no more staunch ally than the Newvatican, and the last two Marxist Newpopes in particular. Bergoglio openly admitted to his own Marxist sympathies, and Prevost since 1985 worked in Communist-leaning Peru, in which country he took out citizenship in 2015.
In addition, the Concordat essentially turned over the appointment of Newbishops to the atheistic Communist government. These Newbishops are now instrumental in forcing Red China's 12,000,000 Newchurchers to convert to the state-run Chinese Catholic [Sic] Patriotic Association and to pledge allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party. When Bergoglio was harshly challenged for his complicity with Communism, he simply blew off the criticism. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Human Rights Watch.]
Traditional Catholics, so bad has the situation become that the courageous, if misled, Newchurchers have stated that Newvatican itself has become just as bad as the Communists in persecuting them. Instead of taking atheistic Communism on, as did Pope Pius XII in his 1949 Decree Against Communism, which excommunicated Catholics who professed or actively supported communist doctrine as apostates from the Christian faith. The counterfeit Newpopes presumably fall under that condemnation and remain excommunicates from the Catholic Church.
The secret is out, and it has shocked the Newchurch in New York, from which the truth has been hidden for years. Newarchbishop Ronald Hicks announced at an emergency meeting on April 17, 2026, that so many presbyters and Newbishops have gone on paedophile sex binges, condoned by the corrupt Newchurch hierarchy, as a result the Newarchdiocese has racked up 1,000,000,000 USD in judgments against it. The now-deadbeat Newarchdiocese cannot pay the tab for its crimes, which has only itself to blame for its demise.
Hicks announced that unless the billion dollars can be purloined from its own parishes, schools, and churches, the Newarchdiocese is going down for the count. In the last two years the Newarchdiocese has been selling off its real estate and cutting expenses, including its headquarters building on First Avenue and its New York Palace Hotel, but the amount recovered is pitifully short of the total needed to save the Newarchdiocese from its sex crimes. Bankruptcy is the final "nuclear option" that would lead to the demise of the Newarchdiocese. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, the final nail in the coffin of Newchurch in New York is a lawsuit entered by Chubb Insurance, which refuses to pay off for Newchurch's paedophile sex crimes because the Newarchdiocse knew about the crimes for years and covered them up. As the Newarchdiocese has discovered, an All-just God's justice eventually roots out even the most secret crimes. None of the corrupt Newchuchers -- Newbishops, presbyters, or laymen -- will escape it.
On May 2, 2026, the break of Traditional Catholics from the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Order took its latest step as the Transalpine Redemptorists declared that all the post-Vatican II Anti-council's Newpopes (Prevost-Leo, Ratzinger-Benedict, Wojtyla-JPII, Luciani-JPi, and Montini-Paul VI) are not, in fact, popes of the true Roman Catholic Church, but pretenders. The Redemptorists join Traditional Catholic priests, bishops, and organizations that have in the years since 1964 declared invalid the Newchurch of the New Order, which was formed at the Vatican II Anti-council in that year to replace the "institutional" Church and drive the true Catholic Church "into the catacombs," as Pope Pius XII predicted would happen.
This is not properly called a"schism" any more than is the Lutheran sect, as the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Rather, the Newchurch sect is apostate from the Catholic Faith and lacks the four required marks of the true Church: "unam, sanctam, catholicam, et apostolicam Ecclesiam" (one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church). The true Catholic Church remains now in the thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories around the world and with the Traditional Catholic clergy who will have nothing to do with the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch.
Inside reports now indicate that Prevost is likely to Novus Ordo "excommunicate" from his Newchurch the bishops of the Neo-Society of St. Pius X, which ironically was reorganized in 1994 after the death of the SSPX's original founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, into a New Order-bound organization. Two of the Neo-SSPX bishops have died, and the other two are in their later years. Without new bishops the Neo-SSPX will die. Of course, it cannot be said that since the death of Abp. Lefebvre, the Neo-SSPX remained truly traditional under the regime of Bernie Fellay and his puppet Davide Pagliarani. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
The Redemptorists apologized to true Catholics for knuckling under and reconciling in 2012 with the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order. They proclaimed: "There has been a great mistake on our part to think that the hierarchy of the Novus Ordo [Newchurch of the New Order] was sufficiently Catholic for us to operate under its command." Already by October 2025 the Redemptorists had come to regret their reconciliation. They accused Newchurch of betraying the Catholic Faith and now offer only the Traditional Latin Mass and Traditional Latin Sacraments totally outside of the Synodal Newchurch.
Deo volente, the Redemptorists' rejection of the Synodal Newchurch and its Newpopes as being counterfeit will serve as a courageous example to the Neocon Newchurchers, who mouth a corruption of traditionalism, but don't have the guts to cut the cord completely with the fake Synodal Newchurch.
The apostate Counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis proclaimed that God created heretic religions, and it didn't much matter what religion one followed. On April 9, 2025, the apostate Counterfeit German Newbishop Ludger Schepers, of Essen, Germany, took that heresy one step farther into the moral plain and proclaimed that sodomy is "part of God's plan of creation." He also rejects the doctrine of two sexes, male and female, and accepts whatever "identity" people want to claim.
Newbishop Schepers should know. He is the designated "Queer Affairs Representative" of the German Bishops' Conference. He advocates the "diversity" of sexes: homosexual, transgender, intersex, et al. He demands that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order accept "queer people" and include "all genders," whatever those may be. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, it is clear that Newbishop Schepers has never read the Bible, particularly the first chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Or maybe he has, but he wants to make up his own religion, as the Arch-heretic Martin Luther did. And Schepers is not alone. The Counterfeit Newpopes since the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) all hold these apostate beliefs to one degree or another.
The Newchurch diocese of Oakland, California, currently in bankruptcy, is the latest to announce substantial shutdowns of operations. The initial tranche of shutdowns announced by Newbishop Michael Barber on April 28, 2026, is 12 Newparishes and one Pastoral Center. More are likely to come.
The Newdiocese faces estimated civil judgments 100,000,000-500,000,000 USD. Oakland joins San Diego, Stockton, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, and Fresno in California in going bankrupt and shutting down operations. On April 22, 2026, a jury awarded a 16,000,000 USD verdict against the Newdiocese to a 10-year-old "altar" boy, who was twice sexually assaulted by an Oakland paedophile presbyter. This verdict is expected to set off a series of similar awards.
Oakland has been beset by a remarkable level of financial mismanagement. Former Newbishop John Cummins racked up an extravagant expenditure of over 200,000,000 USD in 2005 to build an unnecessary monstrosity of a Newcathedral, disparagingly called by locals Christ the Extraterrestrial because of its giant glass-and-aluminum image looking like an alien on the back wall.
Oakland and its Newbishops have also been awash with corruption of all sorts, mainly hundreds of paedophile sex crimes perpetrated by the Newdiocese's presbyters, leading to enormous financial judgments against the Newdiocese. Disgusted by the Newchurch corruption, Oakland Newchurchers, as in other Newdioceses, have largely stopped attending the New Mess. At a recent Sunday service at the Newcatheral, only about 50 showed up. Newparochial school enrollment has sunk, and the number of presbyters has shrunk to the lowest level yet. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the San Francisco Chronicle.]
Traditional Catholics, with Oakland Newchurchers seething that mismanagement and Newclerical crime has brought about the shutdown of their churches, Newbishop Michael Barber seemed to blow off concerns about the shutdowns. "While we love our local church buildings, the church has never been solely a building." It's just that attitude that has been driving Newchurchers away from the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. And, you know, for all the platitudes that Newbishops like Barber prattle, the truth of the matter may be that they don't really care at all if their Newchurch goes under.
On October 4, 2025, Newchurch went to the dogs -- literally. Newchurchers, 80 per cent of whom, as many surveys have shown, do not believe that the Newchurch "eucharist" is a valid sacrament, were caught giving the Novus Ordo cookie to their dogs at the invalid, Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Counterfeit New Mess. This latest sacrilege took place in the Newdiocese of Chur, Switzerland. The Newbishop there has announced on April 17, 2026, after a cursory investigation that no sacrilege had taken place, and so excommunications will not be imposed.
Newbishop Joseph Bonnemain concluded essentially that the Newchurchers who committed this objectively sacrilegious act were too stupid to know what they were doing. And whose fault is it but that of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which deliberately keeps its followers ignorant of Catholic teaching? Sacred Scripture even addresses this sacrilege literally: "Nolite dare sanctum canibus" [Give not that which is holy to dogs] (Matthew 7:6/DRV). [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the key to the apostasy of Newchurch is to look at what its sectarians, from the Counterfeit Newpope on down, do, not what they say, most of which is doubletalk meant to confuse. Here the Newchurchers, trained by the words of the Newpope and his Newbishops, have gotten the message: Newchurch no longer has the Catholic Sacraments. Novus Ordo "sacraments" are meaningless and graceless, fit only for dogs. And that is the simple truth of the matter: Newchurch is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Day by day, it becomes clearer and clearer that Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo was a plant by the Bergoglians to push the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, into a level of apostasy that could not be believed even in May 2025, when he was elected to head the Synodal Newchurch. Recently, he tried to become an Eastern Orthodox schismatic on his junket of November 2025 to Turkey, when he met with the schismatic so-called Oecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. The Eastern Orthodox are still wary of Newchurchers, so nothing concrete came out of the meeting, though Leo really wanted a membership card in the Orthodox sect.
So, on April 20, 2026, Prevost took his apostasy another step further by granting to the heretic new Archbishopess of Canterbury, Sarah Mullalley, an official audience and inviting her to conduct a blasphemous "blessing" in St. Peter's Archbasilica at the very tomb of St. Peter, whose authority she and Prevost reject. Prevost sent her off with a congratulatory letter for her\ election as the first female Archbishopess of Canterbury, which became a heretic see since its takeover in 1534 by the mad King Henry VIII.
Prevost made no reference to the fact that, firstly, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church Anglican orders are "absolutely null and utterly void" by decree of Pope Leo XIII in his Papal Bull "Apostolicae curae" and, secondly, the ordination of women is impossible and contrary the teaching and practice of Christ Himself. 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 Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), said to represent some 80 per cent of Anglicans around the world, formally dissociated itself from the Church of England and rejected Mullally as being an apostate from the Christian faith. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
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." Newpope Prevost-Leo is in virtually the same situation, as his Newchurch has been falling apart from plummeting attendance and closing of Newseminaries; from paedophile presbyers, Newbishops, and Newcardinals; and from counterfeit (invalid) "liturgies," some of them staged in St. Peter's Archbasilica itself!
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 author of the Epistle in the New Testament.
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