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Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated under counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo, in spite of the fact that Newchurch wants, mostly by silence, to bamboozle the public into thinking that it is over. But no, every day a new sex crime or embezzlement is perpetrated by a Newchurch bishop or presbyter, deacon or religious.
On May 23, 2026, Pastor-presbyter Richard Storey was arrested, booked, and charged with felony theft of 160,000 USD from the collection plate and poor box of his Kansas City, Kansas, Newparish, Cure of Ars. Storey faces four years in the state penitentiary. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Pastor-presbyter Storey had already been forced out of his pastorate amid "a criminal investigation involving [Fr. Storey] concerning another adult." Newarchbishop Shawn McKnight did not comment on that curious statement by police about an accomplice, although at least McKnight was responsible enough to conduct an audit, which discovered the theft. Do we even have to wonder what the pastor-priest known as the Cure of Ars, St. John Vianney, would say about such a crime?
The Leftist/Marxist/Modernist Newchurchers are frustrating to be sure, but they make no bones about their apostasy from the Catholic faith. What you see is what you get. But more frustrating are the Neocons, both lay and clergy, who sell out to the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order as long as they get a membership card and -- just maybe -- a little nook or cranny in the back of some Modernist Newchurch.
You know the kind we mean: Newchurchers like Newcardinal Robert Sarah, Newcardinal Ray "Bully" Burke, and Newbishop Athanasius Schneider. We can also include the Neo-Society of St. Pius X's Bernie Fellay and Alfonso de Galarreta, who, even when faced with a counterfeit "excommunication" from Newchurch, still will not denounce that organization's apostasy from the Catholic faith. They are, to use the old expression, "All talk and no action" as opposed to the Roman virtue of "Facto, non verbo."
Newcardinal Sarah has served as a Newbishop for Newchurch since 1979 -- 47 years. He has seen it all since the Vatican II Anti-council. In 2010 he was elevated to Newcardinal and served as head of no less than three curial dicasteries for the Newpopes. But it is only since his retirement in 2021 that he has really spoken out -- let alone done anything -- about what on May 4, 2026, he called the "paganism" that his infiltrated Newchuch, reducing its counterfeit "liturgy" (Novus Ordo Mess) to "entertainment." When he had power in Newchurch, he did nothing. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the irony of the situation is laughable when Newcardinal Sarah claims: "This paganism is recognizable by several signs: the blurring of the sense of sin, discomfort with the affirmation of revealed truth, the trivialization of the liturgy, a fascination with worldly categories, and the forgetting of the Church’s supernatural purpose. When God is no longer first, even within the Church, everything else is corrupted." We all know that this description characterized from the beginning the counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order, fabricated in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council. It did not arise just in the last five years. Was Sarah too caught up in high office that he turned a blind eye to what he now calls "recognizable" in retirement?
Novus Ordo cookies and Kool-Aid instead of Holy Communion. Novus Ordo "initiations," sometimes administered by squirt guns, instead of Baptisms. Now Newchurchers will now be tricked with Synodal Listening Spaces instead of Confessionals. These Synodal Listening Spaces will be "staffed by trained lay pastoral workers." None of this is Catholic. None of this is valid. It is all counterfeit. It is all graceless and worthless.
When apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo goes to Madrid, Spain, June 6–12, 2026, he has allowed confessionals to be replaced by Synodal Listening Spaces. Actually, Newchurch did away with confessions in 1973 when it replaced the traditional Sacrament of Penance with a new, non-sacramental Rite of "Reconciliation," in which provision was made to substitute confessions with psychiatrist's couches, a sign that "Reconciliation" was not religious, but secular, in the counterfeit Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]
Traditional Catholics, even the counterfeit Newchurch presbyters (since its adoption of the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968 Newchurch has no longer ordains priests, but merely "installs" Protestant-style ministers) have been kicked out. Newchurch rejects Catholic doctrinal concepts like grace, sin, priesthood, and absolution. Newchurch has not explained just how many "lay staffers" will be listening in at these Synodal Listening Spaces. Since there is no sacramental confession in Newchurch, there is no unbreakable Seal of the Confessional. Anyone listening in can chat up someone else's revelations.
For those true Catholics who have concluded that the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess is as nutty as a fruitcake, the Newchurch of the New Order does not fail to hang itself by its own petard. On Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2026, Newchurch presbyter Carlos Costale "consecrated" fruit salad as a replacement for the usual Novus Ordo cookie at Our Lady of Mercy Newchurch in Rio Cuarto, Argentina. The fake "eucharist" was supposed to represent the fruits of the Holy Ghost: an apple for love, a banana for joy -- you get the "clownish" idea.
Of course, this wasn't a Mass; the Novus Ordo is an invalid counterfeit Mess. The man wasn't a priest; he was a counterfeit presbyter like a Protestant minister The "eucharist" was not Holy Communion, but fruit salad. There is nothing Catholic about the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. It and its clergy, including its counterfeit Newpopes, are blasphemous, sacrilegious, idolatrous, and apostate from the Catholic Faith.
Traditional Catholics, of course there were the usual outrage and protests, without any effect. Naturally, the counterfeit Newbishop of the Newdiocese did nothing. The only way to get rid of these blasphemous, sacrilegious, idolatrous, and apostate actions is to treat them like the deadly cancer they are. Rip away the cancer root and branch. True Catholics should get as far away as possible from Newchurch with its counterfeit Newpopes, presbyters, Messes, sacraments, immorality, and heresy.
The Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, has incurred the hatred of an increasing number of people in the United States since 2020. Physical attacks against Newchurch in the last five years is markedly accelerating. Vandalism, which used to be a rarity when the Catholic Church was traditional and respected, is now becoming commonplace. Even Newchurchers are angry at their paedophile Newbishops and presbyters, and some are taking it out on their own Newchurches. Newchurchers are also angry at the Newbishops' widespread Newchurch shutdowns to pay off court-ordered judgments in favor of children raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted by Newchurch presbyters and bishops.
Since 2020, there have been at least 563 physical attacks against Catholic churches in the United States: arson, spray-painting, property damage, theft, destruction of statues, and disruption of the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess." Such physical attacks on Newchurches affected 43 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. In only about 30 per cent of the cases have the perpetrators been caught and arrested. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by CatholicVote.]
Traditional Catholics, the true Catholic Church, which the Newchurch replaced as the "institutional" Church in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council, had been traditional and respected. Physical ttacks against Newchurch began and has been accelerating since, especially in the last five years. It seems that the more Newchurch, renamed in 1964 by the apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis the "Synodal Church," goes Leftist, Woke, and apostate from the Catholic Faith, the more it is being physically attacked by Newchurchers and others out of the hatred it insills.
There is a fable that still goes around in clueless Neocon Newchurch circles that Josef Ratzinger, who appropriated to himself the name Benedict XVI, was some kind of "traditionalist god." He wasn't. He was the leader of the Modernist heretics at the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), which gave the Newchurch its New Mess, New Bible, New Catechism, New Music, New Canon Law, and all the other frauds deceptively tagged with the term "Catholic." He remained a Modernist, particularly associated with Protestant heretics, for the rest of his life.
As a peritus (expert) at the Anti-council, Ratzinger himself had his bishop introduce the most notorious heresy perpetrated by the Anti-council on the Newchurch of the New Order that it created in 1964 to replace the Catholic Church. That heresy was OECUMENISM: we all worship the same gods; all religions are true. Ratzinger shrewdly accomplished this end by changing one word in the Latin text of the Anti-council's so-called Dogmatic Decree on the Church, Lumen gentium.. Here is the story of how Ratzinger perpetrated this heresy upon Newchurch, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
In accordance with teaching from Apostolic times, Pope Pius XII in his Encyclical Letter "Mystici corporis Christi" pronounced: "The Roman Catholic Church is (est) the one mystical body of Christ." Ratzinger connived to have that changed at the Anti-council to: Unica Christi Ecclesia ... subsistit in Ecclesia catholica.... [The sole Church of Christ ... subsists in the Catholic Church....] A German Protestant, Pastor Schmidt, proposed to Fr. Josef Ratzinger, who was hanging around the bars of the Anti-council drinking beer with his fellow heretic Karl Rahner and other such ilk, gave the Protestant's proposal to his principal, Cardinal Frings of Cologne, who introduced it as an amendment to the original draft of the decree. This type of fraud was typical of Ratzinger. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Infovaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, Josef Ratzinger hailed from Regensburg, Germany. That was his native diocese. On May 23, 2026, the Newbishop of Regensburg, Rudolf Voderholzer, announced that in the years after Ratzinger perpetrated his fraud, Newchurch had collapsed in Regensburg. "Only 28 per cent believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." By their fruits, you shall know them (Matthew 7:16/DRV). And Ratzinger was one of the biggest fruits of all -- theologically, that is.
Naive young Neocon Newchurch men are entering Newseminaries not prepared for what they find there. They finds messes sauvages ( "wild liturgies"), They find there widespread teaching of heresies, particularly in the documents of Prevost-Leo and the other apostate Newpopes. They have been propositioned and even assaulted by sodomite presbyters, Newbishops, and even Newcardinals, like the notorious Theodore McCarrick, whose specialty was raping young men in Newseminaries.
These young men once believed in the papacy. They studied and prayed to such greats as St. Pius V and St. Pius X, but then the come to study the apostate Newpopes Paul VI-Montini, JPII-Wojtyla, Ratzinger-Benedict, Bergoglio-Francis, and Prevost-Leo. Many of these young men come to the conclusion that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church.
Traditional Catholics, these young men have learned that the Newpopes publicly contradict the faith with widespread heresies like. "Fiducia supplicans" approving the "blessing" of sodomites, even in sodomitic marriages, "Amoris laetitia" approving the admission of bigamists to the fake Novus Ordo cookie and Kool-Aid. Thus, they come to believe that the Newpopes are counterfeit, and their Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is counterfeit. They abandon the Newchurch seminary, and as a result another group of Newparishes is shut down permanently, as there is no presbyter coming to keep it open. It may be, after all, that this is exactly the plan of Providence.
Brandy Daniels (sound like a prostitute's name, doesn't it?) has so many strikes against her. She is a self-proclaimed proud Lesbian, she is "married" to another Lesbian, and she claims to be a heretic Evangelical "pastor." And yet it has just now come to light that the Newchurch University of Portland, Oregon, has employed her officially for the last six years as an associate professor to teach "Queer theology" (whatever that is) and transsexualism. In addition, she is Co-director of the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies department at the Newchurch university.
One of the heresies that she teaches is that Biblical passages condemning homosexuality are not to be taken literally. That is certainly not the teaching of the true Catholic Church. Rather, sodomy is one of the Four Biblical Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance. Daniels is slated to publish her first book in November 2026: How Not to Be Christian: Identity, Formation and the Future in Feminist Theologies. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurch university, which dares to call itself "Catholic" has shown its apostate stripes before. In 2002 its Theology and Religious Studies Department chairman compared those who denounced homosexual acts as a grave sin against the Natural Law to the Roman soldiers who nailed Christ to the cross. This same chairman ended the school's requirement that theology students take a course on Biblical texts and replaced it with a requirement to take immoral courses such as "Queer Theologies" and "God Our Mother." One must question the sanity of those parents who pay large amounts of tuition to train their children in such immoral trash.
The Synodal Newchurch of the New Order is again fighting for its life as on May 26, 2026, the United States Supreme Court, ironically consisting of 67 per cent Newchurchers, refused to dismiss the federal case against all the U.S. Newchurch bishops, some 300 of them, in the U.S. Conference of Catholic [Sic] Bishops [Sic]. The whole body of bishops has been charged with fraud, in that the bishops gave "homilies" encourage contributions to Peter's Pence, a corrupt fund run by the Newpopes. The bishops told their Newparishioners that the funds would go to the most desperate poor and victims of natural disasters. In fact, the Newpopes have been spending the funds on shoring up their bankrupted administrative operations in Newvatican.
The U.S. Newbishops have been mendaciously attempting to claim that this case is one of First Amendment rights protecting religion, whereas it is in fact a case of fraud. Legally, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution cannot be used as a defense to fraud. Curiously, the Newbishops are not attempting to defend themselves by claiming innocence from the fraud. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Washington Examiner.]
Traditional Catholics, earlier, both a federal district court and a federal appeals court had reached the same conclusion: the U.S. Newbishops have to stand before the bar of justice for any fraud that they perpetrated. The evidence is indicating that the U.S. Newbishops and the counterfeit Newpopes colluded in deceiving their Newchurchers that Peter's Pence is a charitable fund, whereas it is in fact a money-laundering operation to keep the foundering Newchurch aflot.
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