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To paraphrase Shakespeare, something is rotten in the Newchurch Kingdom of Sweden. You know things must be bad when on June 27, 2026, the Newchurchers themselves called for an outside investigation of their only Newdiocese and its Newbishop, Newcardinal Anders Arborelius. The Swedish Newchurchers themselves compiled a two-part report on the corruption, which has been described as "very accurate." The report is based upon documentation and testimony from hundreds of Newchurchers across the Newdiocese, proving "a pattern of corrupt governance at the highest levels."
The Newdiocesan clergy have described themselves as "desperate" because Arborelius and his Newchancery have apparently been expelling conservative Newchurcher pastors, whom they believe to be disloyal or threatening to Synodality. The Newparish pastors are being fired without notice and without cause in secret star-chamber proceedings. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newchurch news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, so, the corruption continues under counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's regime. These aggrieved Newchurchers and Newclergy should long ago have abandoned the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and let that corrupt organization fail, so that the true (traditional) Catholic Church, which will survive until the end, can once again take control of the "institutional" Church for the first time since the Vatican II Anti-council's new 1964 Constitution that fabricated the Newchurch to replace the Catholic Church.
Newchurchers in Washington, D.C., are accusing Newcardinal McElroy of leading souls to Hell by "presiding" over a "Black Mass" on June 20, 2026, featuring a sodomite (LGBTQXXX) agenda. He claimed only to be following counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo's latest statement that "the unity or division in the (New)church should not revolve around sexual matters."
McElroy has called for the Novus Ordo cookie to be handed to publicly-active sodomites, lesbians, and transsexuals. To justify this sacrilege, McElroy maintained Prevost's gobbledegook that "sexual activity does not lie at the heart of the hierarchy of truths." Such a statement shows only abysmal ignorance of Christian morality as clearly expounded in the New Testament. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Newchurch news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, true to his beliefs, when Newcardinal McElroy had been informed by a noted psychotherapist about sex crimes of McElroy's paedophile predecessor, Newcardinal Theodore McCarrick, McElroy refused to investigate the crimes. McCarrick was later charged by secular authorities with the crimes that McElroy had not investigated. It seems that the D.C. Newchurchers have a point about their apostate Newcardinal.
All England is enraged at counterfeit Newchurch bishop David Oakley, of Northampton, England, who has been charged on June 24, 2026, with the double rape of a girl under age 16. Oakley joins the ranks of scores of apostate Newchurch bishops who have raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted children under the counterfeit post-Vatican II Anti-council's Newpopes.
Oakley came within the sights of the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Team in September 2025. Police reported that the rapes occurred while Oakley was a Newparish presbyter. After the original incidents Oakley was given assignments at another Newparish and a Newcollege seminary with the opportunity to continue his predations. Oakley knew that the police were coming after him and went on a leave of absence before his case became public. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, Newbishop Oakley was personally selected for the post by apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis in 2020 at the same time that Bergoglio was making empty press statements, but actually doing nothing, about Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. This is par for the course in the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. Newpope Prevost-Leo XIV has followed the same do-nothing policy while making empty press statements. Obviously, Newchurch is suborning these crimes, particularly in its upper clergy, none of whom have been ordained or consecrated in the Sacrament of Holy Orders since 1968, so they the more easily fall into these deadly sins.
On June 27, 2026, apparently without realizing the irony, the apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo gave an address to children at a summer camp, while standing beside an large inflatable of the RMS Titanic, which sank after striking an iceberg with two-thirds of its passengers perishing. The image could not have represented better the shipwreck of the Newchurch of the New Order, founded at the Vatican II Anti-council in 1964 to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church, upon the rock of the very Modernist heresy that Pope St. Pius X predicted could soon overwhelm the true Church, if nothing were done to prevent it.
Instead, the counterfeit Newpopes of the Newchurch, renamed in 2024 the Synodal Newchurch, thoroughly imbued personally with the Modernist heresy -- Montini-Paul VI, Luciani-JPI, Wojtyla-JPII, Ratzinger-Benedict, Bergoglio-Francis, and now Prevost-Leo -- have done everything possible to destroy the Catholic Church by replacing it with the Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Nechurch news sources.]
Traditional Catholics, these poor Newchurch children may never know the true Catholic Church, unless they have had the fortune to attend one of the many thousands of Traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories around the world led by Traditional Catholic priests who have remained entirely independent of the counterfeit Newchurch and its apostate Newpopes.
235, 208, 196 -- the annual number of Newchurch presbyters to be "installed" in the Novus Ordo in once-Catholic Poland has now sunk below 200 in 2025. Those numbers compare to 650 priests actually ordained in the Sacrament of Holy Orders in 1960 before the Vatican II Anti-council. 130 of the presbyter-ministers will be Newdiocesan, 68 in Newreligious orders. Seven Polish Newdioceses will have no Novus Ordo presbyters "installed" at all.
Poland, like most other countries in the world, has seen a steep long-term decline in the number of installations of Novus Ordo presbyter-ministers. Since adoption of the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968, Newchurch has not ordained priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders, but merely "installed" presbyter-ministers, like the Protestants, in a counterfeit, non-sacramental rite. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, Poland used to be one of the most Catholic of countries before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) founded a Newchurch of the New Order, now the Synodal Church, to replace it in 1964. Even the notoriety of an apostate Newpope from Poland, Wojtyla-JPII could not turn around the decline. Poland has been particularly hard hit by sex crimes perpetrated against children by Newchurch presbyters, documented in the 2019 film "Tell No One," which practically every Pole has now seen and which has caused many Poles to leave the Newchurch of the New Order.
Although much is being made of the advent of priestesses in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, on June 22, 2026, Newchurch's statistical arm in the United States, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate out of Newjesuit Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., revealed yet another scam to displace presbyters (since adoption of the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968, Newchurch has not ordained priests in the Sacrament of Holy Orders, but merely "installed" presbyter-ministers, like the Protestants, in a counterfeit, non-sacramental rite).
In 1967, the apostate Newpope Montini-Paul VI imposed upon the Newchurch of the New Order the use of married deacons, so-called "permanent" deacons. This scam was supposed to be spread worldwide, but it took hold particularly in the United States, which, having only 6 per cent of the Newchurch population of the world, accounts for 41 per cent of the world's Newdeacons.
These Newclergy are replacing presbyters especially in the Newdioceses of Chicago, Illinois; Galveston-Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; San Antonio, Texas, and New York, New York. Although Catholic clergy are supposed to be celibate, a full 91 percent of these Newdeacons have broken that rule and shacked up. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
Traditional Catholics, the purposes of this Newchurch scam is clear. Most Newseminaries have closed, as young men are not interested in devoting their life to an apostate Newchurch with Protestantized counterfeit (invalid) "sacraments." A full 96 per cent of these Newdeacons are 50 years of age or older. They skip Newseminary altogether and function almost immediately like Protestant ministers. Best of all, they can shack up to their heart's content!
While Salvatore Cordileone, Newarchbishop of San Francisco, California, parades around in the guise of a Neocon Newchurcher, his Newarchdiocese is sinking fast into to the muck of San Francisco Bay. Since 2012 he has been responsible for the vile goings-on in the city by the bay, which is now in bankruptcy and is as of July 29, 2029, on the hook for some 400,000,000 USD in sex-crime payouts. For the ten years before that he was Newbishop of Oakland, California, just across the bay. Oakland is currently on the hook for some 250,000,000 USD in sex-crime payments. Cordileone started his Newarchbishopric with a drunk-driving arrest, which put at risk the lives of his own mother and a presbyter.
Cordileone has been trying to sweep his never-ending scandals under the rug while posing as a Neocon, but his muck just won't go away. The San Francisco Weekly exposed the paederasty involving Newchurch presbyters that has been going on just down the hill from the Newcathedral on the hill, derisively known to the locals as "St. Mary Maytag" because its ghastly architecture reminds them not of anything religious, but of a Maytag washing-machine agitator.
Meanwhile, Cordileone sits on some 2,000,000,000 USD in lucrative Marin County properties, but instead of selling these off to recompense the children whom his presbyters and other officials have raped, sodomized, and sexually assaulted, Cordileone has been strong=arming his Newparishes, Newparochial schools, and other Newarchdiocesan entities to absorb the cost. In 2023 there were pending more than 500 lawsuits filed against the Newarchdiocese, mostly from children violated by presbyters. The current number will exceed that. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, Newarchbishop Cordileone has been hit with one of the largest sex-crime payouts in U.S. Newchurch history. He cries crocodile tears for the violated children, following the standard script that has now been perfected by the U.S. Conference of Catholic [sic] (New)bishops, which itself is being sued for fraud in the collection of so-called "Peter's Pence" monies for the counterfeit Newpopes. Cordileone and Newchurch are desperately trying to make it seem as if such crimes are all in the past, but a casual perusal of any daily newspaper or internet feed puts those attempts to the lie.
First rip out the kneelers. Now rip out the altar rails. As the Synodal Newchurch's war on traditional practices continues, Robert McElroy, Newcardinal Newarchbishop of Washington, D.C., has ordered that no altar rails be installed in the U.S. capital Newarchdiocese. (Actually, there are no altars either, as the Novus Ordo Mess is not by its definition a sacrifice ) By hook or crook, every Newchurcher will be forced to grab the cookie and swill the Kool-Aid, which is not even the Body and Blood of Christ, as the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order service and its Protestantized presbyter-ministers are not even validly Catholic.
At a presbyters' meeting on June 17, 2026, the reason given for the ban is that kneeling for the cookie could "turn into a widespread practice." Newchurch certainly doesn't want that! The norm in the United States, readily approved by Newvatican, is to stand. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, wants to wipe out any notion that the Novus Ordo cookie and Kool-Aid are the Body and Blood of Christ. Rather, as 80 per cent of Newchurchers already believe, it is the Protestant heresy of a mere "symbol." And about that they are correct.
It seems that Newpope Prevost-Leo is already getting tired of being the counterfeit Newpope of the Synodal Newchurch and is again angling to become Secretary General of the United Nations. He rarely talks in any depth about the true Catholic Faith, the Blessed Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Angels, or the Saints. His latest screed, on June 16, 2026, found him hawking Leftist politics instead of the Catholic Faith, from which he is an apostate.
There he was, posing as a pope of the Catholic Church, at the Tenth Austrian World Summit in Vienna giving a talk on "sustainability and climate change," in accordance with his non-encyclical "Magnifica humanitas." He pushed the Vatican II Anti-council's corrupted dignity of man and failed to mention the Absolute Dignity of God. He wants to legislate a new climate tax on "wealthy nations." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, Prevost-Leo's ideas got a tongue-lashing from the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, who, thouogh he seems to be a smart man, has fallen hook, line, and sinker for the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, to which he converted in 2019 and which stands for everything that he doesn't believe in. He is another one of those people who has basically good conservative values, but has switched off his brain when it comes to religion, as has anyone who falls for the mindless Newchurch. Maybe he'll be smart enough to figure it out one day and convert to the Traditional Catholic Church.
Counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo on July 2, 2026, "excommunicated" from his Synodal Newchurch of the New Age virtually everyone in the Neo-SSPX for "schism," one day after four new bishops were consecrated for that organization, reorganized as Newchurch friendly in 1994 by Bernie Fellay & Co. from the original Society of St. Pius X founded in 1970 by traditional Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The Novus Ordo "excommunication" is automatic (latae sententiae) and immediate and pertains to:
It is notable that for such an important document, the modern Newvatican is so incompetent that it cannot even write its official documents in the Catholic Church's official language of Latin. When Wojtyla-JPII "excommunicated" from Newchurch the venerable Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on July 1, 2026, for the same reasons, his document "Dominus Marcellus Lefebvre" was issued in Latin [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Vatican Press Office.]
Thus, just as Newpope Prevost-Leo had threatened, the entire Neo-SSPX organization has been "excommunicated" from Newchurch down to the Porters, sisters, brothers, tertiaries AND EVEN THE ADHERING LAITY. Just as the TRADITIO Fathers have long predicted, the Neo-SSPX would be hoisted by its own petard when it chose to play the sycophant to the apostate Newchurch and its counterfeit Newpopes and violated the principles of its founder, the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who advised Fellay's Neo-SSPX to have "nothing to do with the Conciliar Church," that is the Newchurch of the New Order founded in 1964 at the Vatican II Anti-council and in 2024 renamed the Synodal Newchurch.
Traditional Catholics, it is clearer than ever that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. The Traditional Catholic priests and bishops who have remained entirely independent of the counterfeit Newchurch have been proven all too correct in their assessment that Newchurch is no better than, e.g., the heretical Lutheran sect, and is often far worse.
The Neo-Society of St. Pius X (Neo-SSPX), a Novus Ordo-bent reorganization by Bernie Fellay of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's original traditional Catholic Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), is a double-edged sword
The episcopal consecrations of four new Neo-SSPX bishops on July 1, 2026, were beautifully executed. Moreover, for a change, it was professionally filmed and audio-recorded for posterity. This rite, entirely in Latin, may never be seen again in this way. The Latin texts were pronounced quite audibly and competently by the principal consecrating bishop, Alfonso de Galarreta, and the other sacred ministers. Thank God, the principal feed didn't have that persistent annoying commentary that marks so many liturgical rites. (There are secondary feeds in French and English available if you desire that cacophony.)
The Gregorian schola was well trained, and everything in the six-hour service was sung in Latin Gregorian chant. The organists were quite competent, with even a Bach Prelude and Fugue for the processional. The throne on which Bp. de Galarreta sat and the vestments worn by the bishops were those used at the 1988 consecrations by Archbishop Lefebvre. In contrast, the recordings that come out of the Neo-SSPX's Dillwyn, Virginia, Neo-SSPX seminary, are technically compromised, and the priests who say the Mass there often mumble their way through, with bad miking to boot.
Contrasting with this sublime rite itself, representing the true Catholic Faith, the other edge of the sword was Bernie Fellay's sermon. Although, for political purposes, he dares to keep referring to the founder of the original Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) when it was fully traditional, Fellay, after all these years still doesn't get it. In a 1974 address, just ten years after the Vatican II Anti-council founded the Newchurch of the New Order to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church, Fellay, in no uncertain terms, called Newchurch an imposter, a counterfeit, the "Conciliar Church," not the Catholic Church, which he called "Eternal Rome."
In the fifty years since the Archbishop's discerning analysis, Fellay, who was Superior Dictator from 1994 to 2018, pulls the strings behind the scenes as General Councilor, still doesn't get it. He keeps trying to cling to the counterfeit Newchurch, renamed in 2024 the Synodal Newchurch, which parallels the Arch-heretic Martin Luther's Lutheran Church. Fellay continuously spurned the Archbishop Lefebvre's sage advice.. He never stopped trying to join the apostate Newchurch of the New Order.
Traditional Catholics, to this day, Fellay doesn't get it. The sagacious Archbishop Lefebvre got it. In his parting advice of June 12, 1988, within a year of his death on March 25, 1991, the Archbishop told the priests of the Society that they should have nothing further to do with the counterfeit Conciliar Church in Newrome and denounced the Modernist heresy underlying all the Vatican II Anti-council's documents. He stated that the see of Peter is occupied by "anti-Christs." As the years pass, the Archbishop's words ring true, as the counterfeit Newchurch sinks into apostasy and sheer craziness.
Newchurch's continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, has captured another religious order as its victim. The Christian Brothers, once known for their excellent teaching, are now on the brink of financial collapse because of the consequences of its sex crimes against children.
On June 23, 2026, the Christian Brothers' Oceania province has faced so many lawsuits from sexually-violated children that the remainder of its assets, 216,000,000 USD will be forfeited in addition to the 480,000,000 USD that it has already forfeited. In 2011 the Congregation of the Christian Brothers Institute in the United States went bankrupt. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Canberra Times.]
Traditional Catholics, the Christian Brothers have admitted that the number and extent of its sex crimes against children has accelerated, not declined, over the past decade. Newvatican has tried to sell the myth that its sex crimes against men, women, and children is under control. It isn't. Newchurch is the same moral cesspool that it always has been since the time of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965).
One would have to laugh if it weren't so pathetic. It is all too obvious by this point that the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order and its counterfeit Newpopes are most certainly NOT Catholic. Ironically, it has now turned out that Pseudo-Newpope Prevost-Leo has appointed as his Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the (New)faith a Protestant, Newcardinal Victor Fernandez, who has several times confirmed in writing that he is a Protestant heretic.
Universal salvation, the Protestant heresy that everyone goes to Heaven, has been declared in writing by Doctrinal Prefect Victor Fernandez. This heresy also denies Hell and Purgatory, which are dogmata of the Catholic Church and confirmed biblically. Everybody gets a counterfeit "White Mess" funeral because everybody is saved: impenitent murderers, impenitent sodomites, especially of children, impenitent embezzlers, and the like. For Prevost, Fernandez, and the other counterfeit Newprelates, God's Decalogue simply does not exist.
Like the Arch-heretic Martin Luther, Fernandez has written a 46-page document, in which he falsely interprets St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 9-11 as teaching universal salvation, a heresy. He adds that his own belief is that "everyone will be saved." How does he know this? Because he tells that he is a mind-reader of God: "[I] know God and His specific plans." Somehow it seems only too appropriate that the apostate Synodal Newchurch of the New Order should have a Kreskin as its doctrinal head. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, Catholic doctrine from the Apostolic age teaches that men must work out their own salvation in accordance with God's grace and their consequent good works. The apostate Newcardinal Fernandez has formally preached this heresy as early as 1995 and as late as 2023. He has developed this belief in his pornographic works, which have been recently rediscovered and republished.
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