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To Traditional Catholics June 26, 2026, was the Feast of St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To Newbishop Jose Mazuelos Perez, of Las Palmas, Spain, it was Sodomite Pride Day, when the counterfeit Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo Mess was attended by a nude procession of 400-500 sodomites.
Newbishop Perez was all in on it, endorsing the sodomite procession that blocked the entrance into the Newcathedral Mess. Even the Dean of the Newdiocese was blocked from entering. Those Newchurchers that were able to get in were "exposed" to the nude sodomites in the procession. "I have no problem," said Perez, an appointee of the counterfeit Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict, no traditionalist he! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, even apostate Newpope Prevost-Leo got into the act. The locus of the Newcathedral and sodomite procession was the same as that where Prevost had met on June 11, 2026, with Newbishops, presbyters, Newdeacons, Newreligious, Newseminarians, and others affiliated with his counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Age, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church. Apparently, the "Prevost Effect" was just the opposite of Catholicism as it inspired not reverence for God, but desecration.
As the Newchurch Closure Firestorm continues unabated, the Diocese of Crookston in Minnesota has announced that numerous Newparishes will be slammed shut from August through October 2026. Newbishop Andrew Cozzens announced that the causes of the closures are the same as those in Newdioceses across the United States, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]:
Traditional Catholics, the Newchurch buildings may be razed or sold in the secular real-estate market to become bars, restaurants, mosques, and the like. As other Newchurch bishops in the same condition, Newbishop Cozzens blasphemously implied that "the Holy Ghost guided the process," whereas in fact it is the apostates of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Age and its Vatican II Anti-council that have caused the Newchurch Closure Firestorm.
Violence has broken out at the Benedictine Notre-Dame de Bellaigue Abbey in Virlet, France, formerly run by the Fellayite Neo-Society of St. Pius X. The Abbey had left the Neo-SSPX to follow the Resistance Movement originally founded in 2012 by Bishop Richard Williamson (ob. 2025), the Neo-SSPX's senior bishop at the time, who left the Society in a contretemps with then Superior Dictator Bernie Fellay, to found a movement resisting Fellay's policy of selling out to the Newchurch of the New Order.
The details are unclear at this time about the genesis of the incident, but one version is that eleven Neo-SSPX-leaning monks had still remained as moles within the abbey and eventually engaged in an internal power struggle to wrest control of the abbey back for the Neo-SSPX. In the process, according to this version, the Neo-SSPX monks abducted Resistance Abbot Placide on June 24, 2026, and savagely beat him up.
Placide had sent an E-mail to the abbey's monks announcing his resignation, but the Resistance-affiliated monks smelled a rat and suspected that the Neo-SSPX moles still within the abbey had intimidated the abbot into resigning and were holding him hostage. The Resistance monks called in the French gendarmerie, who initiated an massive search operation. Two days later Abbot Placide was found, severely beaten, and subsequently the French prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation for kidnapping and false imprisonment. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Twenty Minutes.]
Traditional Catholics, if this version of the incident is correct, it it would simply confirm the extent to the Neo-SSPX, which has gained a notorious reputation of wielding a heavy hand against its own members, both clergy and laity, under Bernie Fellay, would be willing to go to maintain power. In the meantime, the French authorities are working to get to the bottom of the incident, and Abbot Placide is recovering to resume his role as the Resistance abbot.
Sacred Scripture teaches that there are three Sacred Languages, as inscribed upon the Cross of Christ: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
Latin early became the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. There is evidence of this fact in the inscriptions at Pompeii, which were etched into history at the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. It is the language in which the precedential Mass has been celebrated. It is the language of the official Bible of the Catholic Church, St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate. It is the language of the Church's Sacred Music, Gregorian Chant. It is the language of the Church's theology, particularly the principal summation of that theology in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica. It is the language of Church historians from the first century on. It is the language of Canon Law. It is the language of the official Magisterium of the Church.
Catholic clergy are required to be competent in the Church's language. Many serious laypeople have studied it as well, and pray private prayers in it as numerous Saints have recommended. However, an August 8, 2026, survey by Il Tempo of the 240 Newcardinals of the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order has found that 65 per cent of them are substantially ignorant of the Church's language. No wonder that they are cut off from the Sacred Tradition of the Church and have fallen into apostasy.
Vulgar tongues change. The meaning of vernacular words change. For example, there have been 500 English translations of the Bible. Latin, on the other hand, is stable and can express complex thought with precision and durability. Before the Vatican II Anti-council fabricated the Newchurch of the New Order to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church, Pope John XXIII clearly understood the importance of the Latin language for the Church and wrote one of the best explanations of the perpetual necessity of Latin for the Church in his 1962 Apostolic Constitution, Veterum sapientia, solemnly promulgated in front of the Cardinals before the commencement of the Anti-council. John XXIII pointed to the dignity, stability, and universality of the Latin language that enshrined the unity of the Catholic Church. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, no wonder the counterfeit Newchurch clergy are so cut off from Sacred Tradition and could not even simulate a 1962 Mess if they tried, let alone a fully Traditional Latin Mass. Pope Pius XII was prophetic when he proclaimed: "The day the Catholic Church abandons her universal tongue of Latin is the day before she returns to the catacombs." That day is now here. The true Catholic Church in the catacombs.
For years the sycophant Neocon Newchurchers have been complaining that there aren't enough New Latin Messes being provided by the Newchuch of the New Order. Now they're getting what they asked for, but not what they expected. They still haven't figured out that Newchurch doesn't really care about them So now Michael Sis, the Newbishop of San Angelo, Texas, who couldn't be borthered before, announced on August 10, 2026, that he was finally "approving" a New Latin Mess -- not where it might be needed, but in the same neighborhood as an already-established New Latin Mess offered by the Fellayite Neo-SSPX!
Counterfeit Newbishop Sis has no more interest in the salvation of souls than the Jewish rabbi or the Muslim imam down the street. Sis still couldn't bring himself to offer a real alternative: his fake (invalid) New Latin Mess will be simulated only monthly. Sis will drag his poor Newchurch congregants into yet another violation of Tradition, as the Mess will be simulated at 15:00, whereas traditional Catholic church law requires a true Mass to commence not later than midday. Sis's "sin Mess" is, in effect, a Saturday Golf Mass held on a Sunday. Moreover, he views this temporary New Latin Mess "as a means toward promoting" the Full-blown invalid Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Mess.
Sis's niggardly Mess, in additional to being simulated only once a month, will have to jam into a small Novus Ordo church the Neocon Newchurch population not only from San Angelo, but also from Luccock, Amarillo, El Paso, Texas, and even Las Cruces and southeastern New Mexico. In spite of Sis's claiming that this new Mess is in line with Newchurch authorities, he is in fact violating the provisions of the 2021 decree "Traditionis custodes," which bans the New Latin Mess at Newparishes.
Thus, all that Newchurch is doing in this and similar cases is engaging in a spitting contest, i.e., playing power games, with the Neo-SSPX. This "New Latin Mess," the Half New Latin Mess of 1962, is not even the Traditional Latin Mass, which is absolutely prohibited in the Synodal Newchurch of the New Order. Moreover, the New Latin Mess is simulated by unordained presbyter-ministers, as Newchurch since 1968 has used an invalid Protestantized Ordinal and merely "installs" presbyter-ministers, like the Protestants.
Yet the counterfeit Synodal Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church, is the counterfeit Church that which the Neo-SSPX wants to join and to which plays the sycophant. None of this has anything to do with the real Catholic Church. The Neo-SSPX is only marginally better than the Synodal Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LS News.]
Traditional Catholics, your only Catholic response is to tell Newbishop Michael "Sinful" Sis thanks, but no thanks, wipe the dust off you shoes, and never again enter an heretical Synodal Newchurch. Instead, go to one of the truly Traditional Catholic church listed in the Official Traditional Catholic Directory, Listing All Traditional Latin Masses and Traditional Resources for North America. linked in the heading of this page.
When you hear about Newchurch's Newcanon Law, don't you believe it. It is a book that, for all intents and purposes, sits on a shelf ignored. A recent case in point. On July 22, 2026, a Newbishop, Wolfgang Bischoff, of the Newarchdiocese of Munich and Freising, Germany, which the counterfeit Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict used to run, gave a joint "homily" (these are post-Vatican II Anti-council fabrications that replace sermons) with a laywoman.
Such an act is specifically banned by Newchurch's Newcanon Law. Moreover, the woman is the head of the Newarchdiocese's Women's Commission, who should have known better. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic Herald.]
Traditional Catholics, to make the ecclesiastical crime even worse, Newvatican's own Dicastery for Divine Worship specifically confirmed the ban to the German (New)bishops' Conference shortly before the violation occurred as "against the very nature of the liturgy." A contumelious act of schism by the Newbishop against counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo? If so, the Newbishop was not excommunicated for it.
On the heels of a July 3, 2026, raid on the house of a presbyter in the Buffalo, New York, Newdiocese, who had been putting a deadly poison into the Novus Ordo "communion" chalice, the Newdiocese has almost put itself out of business, being forced to sell off its major properties, including its headquarters, paying a price of 150,000,000 USD for its presbyters' continuing crimes against children.
The so-called Catholic Center on Main Street was sold off on July 21, 2026, together with two large city-center parking lots. The Newdiocese admitted that Newchurch Mess attendance had fallen off so much that "the office space was far more than what was needed in recent years for the Catholic Center staff and its operations." The proceeds will go to the settlement fund to pay off what is only a small part of the court-ordered settlement. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by WGRZ-TV Buffalo.]
Traditional Catholics, the child victims of Newchurch's predator presbyters have had to wait this long for any restitution as Newchurch bishops covered up and dragged their feet on owning up to their crimes. By this point many of the child victims are dead, as many victims of these crimes commit suicide rather than go on living. Yet Neocon Newchurchers bang the drum for unborn abortion victims and look the other way from the born children who have been raped, sodomized, and otherwise sexually assaulted by Newcardinals, Newbishops, and presbyters, supported by the counterfeit Newpopes of the New Order, including the current Prevost-Leo.
Christopher Saunders, 76, Newbishop of Broome, Australia, was put on trial July 21, 2026, for 26 counts of sodomizing young aboriginals at tobacco- and alcohol-fueled sex orgies personally hosted by the Newbishop at his official residence. The contraband was purchased with Newchurch funds.
Saunders hosted sex orgies for young aboriginal men on Newchurch properties across northwestern Australia. Saunders accosted boys from 16 on up, luring them to his Newbishop's residence with gifts. A 200-page secret Newvatican report was leaked in 2023 and led to Saunder's arrest in 2004 by Australian police and the trial that began in July. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Western Australia Today.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust continues unabated, as these rapes of children during sex orgies staged at Australia's Newbishop's official residence with Newchurch funds. Each counterfeit Newpope just becomes worse than the last. These counterfeit Newbishops have never been consecrated, but merely "installed" as Protestant-style Newbishops in a Protestantized rite. No wonder they are devoid of any sacramental grace and assault the most vulnerable populations. They should be locked up, and the key thrown away, but counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo stands by and essentially cheers them on.
By July 16, 2026, the Newjesuits have announced that five of its communities have closed in Spain within just the last three months, as the radical leftist Newjesuits in Spain and around the world are heading toward extinction. The Newjesuits may leave Spain entirely as they have announced that they cannot maintain their presence with current personnel.
Among the closures is that of Murcia, which had been in operation for five centuries. It was founded in 1555, during the lifetime of the Spanish founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius of Loyola, himself. The Newjesuit provincial announced that "the reduction in the number of available religious" did not allow continuance. The community of Santiago de Compostela, the famed pilgrimage site from the Middle Ages on, is slated to close, as well as three other communities. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by InfoVaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, Newchurch's religious orders are disappearing: Newjesuits, Newdominicans, Newbenedictines, Newfranciscans, and the like. Many have disappeared already. Few young men want to give their lives to a counterfeit Newchurch of the New Order, which is most certainly NOT the Catholic Church of St. Ignatius or of any other true Catholic for 2,000 years. Moreover, the chance of Newseminarians being raped and otherwise sexually assaulted by Newchurch clergy from presbyters to Newcardinals is a very real possibility to which smart young men abhor exposing themselves.
On July 29, 2026, published August 3, 2026, Newcardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery of Divine Worship has announced that Newpope Prevost-Leo has approved verbatim -- "not a single comma was changed" -- the document presented to the last Cardinalatial Consistory. That document decrees that "the Novus Ordo is the sole expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite." That document also confirms the virtual ban on the use of the New Latin Mess of 1962 decreed in the 2021 Decree "Traditionis custodes." This decree includes barring such Messes from Newparish churches and prohibiting the public announcement of such Messes.
Roche announced that Prevost had no intention of changing Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's virtual ban on the 1962 Mess, as provided in his 2021 Decree "Traditionis custodes." The New Latin Mess is NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, but a corrupt and modernized form of the Traditional Latin Mass, was used for only seven years (1962-1969) as a stepping stone to the invalid (counterfeit) full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan New Order (Novus Ordo) Mess of 1969. "We cannot go back to that ritual form." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic Herald.]
Traditional Catholics, Newpope Prevost-Leo has approved the rescission of Newpope Ratzinger-Benedict's 2008 "Summorum pontificum," a badly-composed document that allowed Newbishops to shut down the 1962 Mess diocesan-wide around the world. Even Ratzinger in his preface to his 2008 document specifically stated that it was intended to last for only a few years as a crutch until the Newocon Newchurchers got used to the Novus Ordo once and for all.
On July 8. 2026, two Springfield, Massachusetts, Newbishops were fingered in a paedophile sex-crimes lawsuit, which is set to cost Newbishops Christopher Weldon and Joseph Maguire 10,000,000 USD.
The child victim charges the two with forcing numerous sex acts upon him in the Newdiocesan orphanage when he was 4-5 years old. Newbishop Weldon had already settled a similar case in 2023 brought by an "altar boy." Even the Springfield Newdiocese had to admit that the charges were credible. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by WWLP News.]
Traditional Catholics, the two Newbishops are said to have been so vile as to tell the little boy that he'd better not tell on them because "God will not forgive you." Such blasphemy on the part of the Newbishops is not the first time that this ploy has been used on children by Newcardinals, Newbishops, and presbyters to scare assaulted children out of their wits. The children are thus completely traumatized, and their lives are ruined.
Does counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo even know he's supposed to be Catholic? No, it seems that he has contracted Oecumenical Fever worse even than his mentor, Bergoglio-Francis. Prevost is all over the map with Protestants, Jews, Infidels, and Pagans, while he despises true Catholicism.
On July 29, 2026, Prevost put on a so-called "Canticle of Peace" concert at his Castel Gandolfo castle featuring Protestantism's No. 1 hymn, "Amazing Grace." Tenor Andrea Bocelli, a Newchurcher, blasted out the Protestant hymn with full choir. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by MT Times.]
Traditional Catholics, this event was held in the gardens at the castle, now called Borgo Laudato si', named after apostate Newpope Bergoglio-Francis's encyclical letter that made the green environmental movement into a god and even included a Latin poem praising the goddess of nature. You see, the Vatican II Anti-council's Oecumenical Heresy (we all worship the same gods; all religions are true), pushed particularly by Bergoglio and Prevost, includes paganism, pantheism, and even atheism.
A Newcardinal appointed by counterfeit Newpope Bergoglio-Francis has been accused by five women of assaulting them and abuse of authority. He subsequently withdrew from the exercise of his office on July 7, 2026. Newcardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, Newarchbishop of Rabat, Morocco, was a radical Modernist apostate in Bergoglio's inner circle.
Romero actively participated in the Newconclave that elected Bergoglio's protege, counterfeit Newpope Prevost-Leo, an even more radical Modernist apostate. He has stated: "The far left is still too far to the right for me." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Infovaticana.]
Traditional Catholics, In what could be considered a payoff for Romero's politicking for him at the Newconclave, Prevost appointed him to the powerful Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life, which has control over the Fraternity St. Peter (FSSP), the Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS), the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP), and other pseudo-traditionalist organization reporting to the Prevost regime.
On July 30, 2026, scholars announced that they had found two previously-unknown Latin sermons of St. Augustine of Hippo, the Great Father and Doctor of the Church, who with St. Paul of Tarsus and St. Thomas Aquinas of Rocca Seca, constitute the Sacred Trinity of Catholic Theologians. It is rare that such a finding is made after so many centuries.
This discovery of immense importance was made in the Cistercian Monastery of Pelplin, Poland. These Latin sermons were discovered within a 12th-century codex written in a Gothic hand from original 5th-century works of St. Augustine. They include a new take on the problem of evil, what is known in theology as theodicy, the justice of God. The subject is one that is still challenging theologians to this day: why the All-Good God permits evil.
St. Augustine examines the case of Saul, Israel's first king, who consulted with the Witch of Endor, as recounted in the 28th chapter of the First Book of Kings. Saul consults the necromancer to summon the prophet Samuel for a prophecy. St. Augustine suggests a new explanation for this episode, that Saul may ultimately have repented and been redeemed. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
Traditional Catholics, the Great Father and Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine of Hippo, never ceases to amaze!
By now the counterfeit "hierarchy" of Newchurch has been thoroughly infected with apostasy. A case in point: Newcardinal Timothy Radcliffe, who is also Master General of the Newdominicans, on July 2, 2026, openly simulated a Mess to celebrate the "gay" marriage of two males. Sodomy is one of the Four Biblical Sins that Cry out to God for Retribution. A herd of Newbishops and presbyters couldn't wait to crowd around the Novus Ordo eucharistic dinner table.
This blasphemy took place at Holy Apostles Church in London, England. Radcliffe was, of course, not excommunicated. The two males feted had engineered the founding of Westminster's "homosexual pastoral ministry." The counterfeit Newcardinal himself delivered the "homily," after which all of the apostate Newclergy, each in turn, sacrilegiously asked for the blessing by the Most Blessed Trinity on the two.
Traditional Catholics, all this was in accordance with the execrable 2023 decree "Fiducia supplicans." And, to top it off, Newcardinal Radcliffe is Prevost's official preacher to the Synod of his Synodal Newchurch of the New Age. He is the one filling all the Synodal lemmings with Prevost's apostasies.
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