An Irish priest prays for Trump’s death at Mass, Abp. Vigano exposes Leo’s political operation, silence as polygamy is floated in a cathedral, and Francis’ own biographer admits Leo is Francis 2.0
The joke about Donald trump being taken is scurrilous, a Venial sin ...perhaps worse since it was used in a church...perhaps in front of the Blessed Sacrament if our Lord resides in that tabernacle? Saint Paul would not approve as in Ephesians 5:4.
Pinko is a pejorative term for a person on the left of the political spectrum. The term has its origins in the notion that pink is a lighter shade of red, a color associated with communism. Thus, pink could describe a "lighter form of communism", purportedly promoted by supporters and believers of socialism who were not themselves actual or "card carrying" communists. Estimates of deaths caused by communist regimes range from 10-20 million to over 100 million, with some sources suggesting as high as 148 million. "Pink or red, you'll be dead."
US sanctions have killed 38 million civilians in other countries just since 2003!!! We are no better than the communists. In fact the errors of Russia have taken control over out govenrment. We have socialism running us already!
A point very well-taken. How does a so-called "Christian country" effect a collective punishment on non-combatants, like the young, old, infirm, and sick? DC and its politicians have been doing this since 1918--all for power, greed, and leverage over populations. It has brought me to tears more than once. These creatures occupying seats of power today--inhuman; they are monsters.
Your second point that "socialism running us already." I have absolutely no idea who is running the US government. The standing joke is Iran is ready, willing, and able to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the current war--but Iran does not know who controls US policy!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. From Robert Prevost worshiping a false idol to his protesting of Ronald Reagan says it all.
He was most likely indoctrinated into communism as a young adult just like Francis was in Argentina. And the modernist, globalist machine put these two on the fast track to the top job. I don’t recognize either of these posers as pope. The last pope was Benedict as far as I’m concerned.
He’s definitely a socialist, communist, Marxist, Liberation theology heretic and apostate. By defined Church teachings, there is no way he can be a true pope. The SSPX should take note.
I remember reading this article many years ago about the origins of Liberation Theology. I have no idea if it is true but would not doubt it either. Liberation Theology may be an example of how the Soviets did their ideological subversion of countries per defector Yuri Bezmenov. Check out his interview on YouTube. You will see the same thing happening in our society but the question is who is behind that?
I spent nearly four years in the seminary. We had liberal priests and nuns on the faculty who openly taught Liberation theology as though it was defined doctrine.
In 1974, some communists gave some American teens a presentation on liberation theology. It was obvious even to a Protestant like myself that it was not Christians, since every thing supernatural was discounted. In this it is similar to the historical critical method on Bible interpretaton in that everything supernatural is denigrated and discounted.
To learn more about the NO, see Work of Human Hands: A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI by Fr Anthony Cekada, which covers the history & development of both the Traditional & the New Mass, especially the latter, the key individuals involved in the destruction of the TLM, and their stated intentions:
If Catholics would read this book, or at least see the video summary, many would never return to the Mass of Paul VI.
BTW, "Saint" Paul VI was a crypto-Jew (his mother was a false convert Jew & he wore the ephod of the Jewish High Priest), a Freemason, & an unchaste homosexual. The destruction he wrought was done intentionally. See novusordowatch.org/paul-vi, especially Fr Luigi Villa's writings there on him.
Spoken like an irrational cult member. Division is what separates diseased from healthy.
If your skin has gangrene, are you going to declare that the diseased skin is just as good as the healthy skin?
Who's going to do the dividing?
In Matthew 10:34-36, Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.
Jesus does not endorse wickedness or degeneracy. No matter how "piously" it is packaged. Popes Urban II and Innocent III would be calling for an internal Crusades to cut out the liberal gangrene and save the Church.
How many heresies, blasphemies, and acts of apostasies will you stand for just so you can “stay inside the church”? At what point will you stand up and defend the Lord, and obey The First Commandment?
Indeed. They wrap themselves in ignorance of what the Synodal church say...its a NEW religion, with none of the traditional of the true Catholic church. Going against the magisterium of the saints and imposing obedience on the lemmings to come full circle: they wrap the blanket of ignorance around themselves...here their thoughts "i am in the true church, I am in the true church, i am obediently in the new church" and outside a chime rings unheard by those convincing themselves that Jesus changed his mind on sodomy and chastity and sacrifice "next stop hell".
"Not recognizing the Pope" would have put one outside the Church, before Vatican II; after the Council of disastrous memory, the borders for the Church have been expanded to include non-Catholic sects, such as the Orthodox and Lutherans, under the vague concept of "Partial Communion". Here is a small excerpt from Pope Francis in 1/25/15 In the Phillipines, where he denounces efforts of Catholics to convert Protestants and instead tell Catholics that we are all "united"
This mystery of love is the deepest ground of the unity which binds all Christians and is much greater than their historical divisions. To the extent that we humbly advance towards the Lord, then, we also draw nearer to one another.
while I admire your calm and reasoning posts, I reject the premises and conclusions that lead to you abandoning the sacraments and advising others to do so.
thanks again; I am not going to "buy what you are selling"; instead of spending so much time and effort attempting to convince people to stop practicing their faith, spend more on practicing your own.
I hear it does not, but that so many, including conservative ones that take shots at Latin Mass goers as wanting a return to a golden age that never was, have never bothered to clean up the mess from the “Spirit of Vatican 2” (Pope Benedict’s adjustments were like a band-aid on a shark bite that was bitten into Pope John 23rd’s indult and the intentions of both popes) makes me wonder if it mattered whether the documents or the Mass attached to which defected from Church teaching or not. Vatican 2 might have been the Trojan horse with termites inside that would eat the horse too.
"Francis opened the doors. Leo is organizing the rooms behind them."
There's the money quote. It echoes the "descent into hell" of the past 60 years. Wojtyla's pretentious "personalism" philosophy opened the door to "theological anthropology" courses in seminaries and Ratzinger's manufactured separation of Augustine from Aquinas provided the rationale for the elimination of Thomism and scholasticism from Catholic seminary curricula.
Did they envision the destruction they unleashed? I doubt it. They were just "useful idiots" for the long-standing freemasonry agenda (and Communist infiltration of the Church). Even then, "conservative" priests cheered them on as stalwarts of Catholic orthodoxy. "Conservatism" has conserved nothing except the nothingness of nihilism for a very long time - and Trad Inc has embraced it.
When I first read about that, I was very perplexed (obviously a lot younger) as to why a Pope would be doing something like that. I must admit I seriously didn't want to investigate any further - seemed very ....er.....creepy. For the record, I still haven't read a word of it.
It is very creepy indeed, especially as "interpreted" by some of the big money Catholic, Inc. apologists. Between that and the diary of "Saint" Faustina, I first started wondering about the whole post-V2 edifice.
He did that & everything else he did as a Judeo-Masonic asset & agent of Satan, even his apparent Marian devotion & promotion of the rosary. It's the principle of conceding a battle in order to win a war. And that war involves making people think that he's a valid pope & that the V2 church is the Catholic Church.
Nicely said. Cuts right to the chase. Only differ from you in that they did envision a form of destruction and like most revolutions throughout history only failed to appreciate how far it would go.
I think that one of the things all these anti-tradition, woke agendas - both spiritual and secular - never anticipated was the internet, which would slowly unveil all plots and evil agendas. It obviously also a became a tool for evil forces as all technology has done from time immemorial.
It’s not surprising that Fr. Walter Ciszek was removed from the process for beatification. Prevost was rooting for the communist side that held him captive and tortured him. Gotta love the post-conciliar Church. I trust almost none of their choices for the beatification process…
Unfortunately hardly any of the Conciliar Church are in a position to lecture that African gentleman who wants polygamy regularised.
We have already had Fiducia Supplicans in 2023 giving the green light to homosexual partnerships, even if the forked tongued protest that the priest is just blessing the two individuals, not the actual sodomy.....or whatever.
We had Cardinal Hollerich, Prince of the Church, Relator of the 2022 Synod, telling us that we need to rewrite Church teaching on homosexuality.
And he is free to carry on in his comfortable career.
As are the various African bishops who have produced this report discerning the way ahead for polygamy and pastoral practice in African parishes. It looks like that old mockery of the guy who was simultaneously running with the fox and hunting with the hounds.
I suspect that the classic journalistic advice "Follow the money" applies. African priests, many of whom will be cohabiting, are not going to upset any donors. Just as American and European priests are not going to put off even more of their shrinking congregations by lecturing them on contraception.
My family has been long involved with Catholics in Cameroon and helped build a Catholic church there. The Catholic tradition in that country and many African nations is far more aligned (in our personal experience) with pre 1955 than the western world. Africans in general and their adherents to tradition are problematic for modernists. Yes, they do have cultural problems that the modernists attempt to exploit to weaken their resolve, no doubt. But overall our experience has been that the Christian faithful in Africa reject disorder (and particularly sexual disorder) on a larger scale than here in the west.
And mention also Amoris Laetitia, which in a footnote, endorsed by this and that episcopal conference, allows for Catholics divorced and then "remarried" outside the Church to receive Communion. Serial polygamy is therefore tolerated by the Church; why not polygamy, all your wives at once?
That is very true. And, long before Amoris Laetitiae, I saw the de facto tolerance of new "partnerships" in various parishes, both in England and in Michigan. Don't ask, don't tell.
I am so old that I can remember when priests used to visit parishioners homes, have meals, bless the house and family, etc. It was far more difficult to feign ignorance of your parishioners' sexual arrangements. Now the priests don't have the time.
In 1999 I recall my parish priest in Detroit explaining to a couple that he had never known the local marriage tribunal refuse a petition of nullity......provided that the unhappy couple had been wise enough to let Father advise them about the exact form of words to put on the application form. It was just divorce by another name.
Surely it will be OK if a priest pastorally blesses the husband and his several wives as individuals and not as a married group, provided that they do it after mass and the priest is back in his casuals??
His fake accent tells me he wants to be a citizen of the world like Obama. And don't tell me his accent comes from living in Peru. I've lived in South America, and I never came back with an accent. More importantly, it's not the Peruvian accent. It's a fake accent because he has no roots in anything except falsity and globalism.
One does have to wonder……… what if John XXIII had actually done what Our Lady said instead of shelving the 3rd Secret. The meeting at Metz? The promise to the enemy to refrain from any condemnation of communism?
Mother knows best.
So here we are, observers but not helpless observers. A lady at our Oratory makes rosaries. Yesterday after Mass I called her “The Armorer of the Oratory”. We’re in the final battle and we have a weapon and we’re soldiers of Christ. Use the weapon. Pray the rosary daily.
Great post, Chris! Wherever did you get that photo of Leo at the communist march? His face is unmistakeable even at that early age. (I was 31 in 1983, so that means Prevost was at least 30, and a priest at the time.) We need to know and understand where this man came from, the views that shaped him, and exactly what he's bringing into the Church so he can be thoroughly examined and judged whether he is fit to be the moral leader of the Catholic Church. Thank you for your astute research and outstanding writing.
Not a good look, barely a month after pachamamagate. Perhaps Axelrod was tapped by the Vatican to restore ¨brand Leo¨. Maybe a Nobel peace prize to spite Trump? Desperate times, desperate measures.
Considering that the majority of the 70% who SELF-IDENTIFY as Catholics neither practice the Faith nor believe its teachings and therefore minimally impact the nurturing of vocations, the presence of any active clergy is surprising.
* 25% of Irish priests and religious passed away in a 3 year period between 2019 and 2022.
* The average age of Irish priests is now 70.
* The average age of female religious is now 80.
* 13 men entered the seminary in Ireland in 2025. Not all will reach ordination and of those who do reach ordination, not all will still be in ministry in 10 years.
* Approximately 41% of Catholics who attended Sunday Mass before COVID-19 had not returned as of 2023.
Define robust. Given 70 % of Ireland is supposedly Catholic and abortion and gay marriage had over 60 % approval when passed, what does that say to you about "robustness"?
Things are getting serious. You are able to encapsulate what many Catholics are seeingand perceiving. Personal anecdotes are vaguely interesting, but every single Catholic is using discernment, and it matters how we decide where truth is. For myself, my husband, its not possible to express our repulsion at Leo the dirty commie. Sorry, but this is the absolute wrong time for niceities or gentility. The church and the faith are threatened in the most extreme way. We must put aside historic pleasantries and learn to be blunt. He's a vile interloper, more dangerous than hateful old bastard Francis. Rhis one is cuter, slicker, but he's just as vicious.He knew very well traditional Catholics were holding their breath over the Latin Mass. Yet he said NOTHING and allowed the bans to continue. That is abject cruelty of the highest order. He's no lover of Christ, the faith, or the flock. He's evil, and he's doing evil. We can silently detach ourselves which we may have to do anyway, but Ill not keep my mouth shut nor hold back any longer. He's a disordered bastard like the men he surrounds himself with.
"The modern clerical class loves to pose as tender. In practice, its tenderness is highly selective. Endless sympathy is available for public adulterers, liturgical innovators, synodal bureaucrats, pagan-friendly tribal dignitaries, and every activist cause that flatters modern liberalism. Toward Trump, toward nationalist politics, toward anyone who resists the progressive reshaping of the West, the pastoral smile often gives way to a sneer." Hilarious! This is true..from pastors controlling their fiefdom to the cardinals and even now the pope.
Red, pink, communists? The Vatican has a secret agreement with China. China is a hybrid system where the ruling Communist Party (CCP) uses market mechanisms to achieve socialist goals. As of 2026, this model has shifted toward even more centralized "party-state" control while simultaneously relying on a robust private sector for innovation.
"./. the approved assumptions of the post-Christian ruling class." Chris, did you mean "post-Catholic"? Approval of Chinese Communist Party members as Bishops in the Catholic Church and and threatened excommunication for Bishops of the SSPX seems IMHO to be a clear line in the sand as to what this Vatican team has in mind. They want to be that "ruling class".
The joke about Donald trump being taken is scurrilous, a Venial sin ...perhaps worse since it was used in a church...perhaps in front of the Blessed Sacrament if our Lord resides in that tabernacle? Saint Paul would not approve as in Ephesians 5:4.
Anyone surprised Leo is a commie pinko?
Not I .
But what is “ a pinko “.
Pinko is a pejorative term for a person on the left of the political spectrum. The term has its origins in the notion that pink is a lighter shade of red, a color associated with communism. Thus, pink could describe a "lighter form of communism", purportedly promoted by supporters and believers of socialism who were not themselves actual or "card carrying" communists. Estimates of deaths caused by communist regimes range from 10-20 million to over 100 million, with some sources suggesting as high as 148 million. "Pink or red, you'll be dead."
Such a comprehensive reply, thank you.
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US sanctions have killed 38 million civilians in other countries just since 2003!!! We are no better than the communists. In fact the errors of Russia have taken control over out govenrment. We have socialism running us already!
A point very well-taken. How does a so-called "Christian country" effect a collective punishment on non-combatants, like the young, old, infirm, and sick? DC and its politicians have been doing this since 1918--all for power, greed, and leverage over populations. It has brought me to tears more than once. These creatures occupying seats of power today--inhuman; they are monsters.
Your second point that "socialism running us already." I have absolutely no idea who is running the US government. The standing joke is Iran is ready, willing, and able to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the current war--but Iran does not know who controls US policy!
Interesting - the phrase was used so much that I've been using it for decades without realizing the meaning of pink!! Thanks!
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. From Robert Prevost worshiping a false idol to his protesting of Ronald Reagan says it all.
He was most likely indoctrinated into communism as a young adult just like Francis was in Argentina. And the modernist, globalist machine put these two on the fast track to the top job. I don’t recognize either of these posers as pope. The last pope was Benedict as far as I’m concerned.
He’s definitely a socialist, communist, Marxist, Liberation theology heretic and apostate. By defined Church teachings, there is no way he can be a true pope. The SSPX should take note.
I remember reading this article many years ago about the origins of Liberation Theology. I have no idea if it is true but would not doubt it either. Liberation Theology may be an example of how the Soviets did their ideological subversion of countries per defector Yuri Bezmenov. Check out his interview on YouTube. You will see the same thing happening in our society but the question is who is behind that?
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=24842&utm_source=chatgpt.com
I spent nearly four years in the seminary. We had liberal priests and nuns on the faculty who openly taught Liberation theology as though it was defined doctrine.
In 1974, some communists gave some American teens a presentation on liberation theology. It was obvious even to a Protestant like myself that it was not Christians, since every thing supernatural was discounted. In this it is similar to the historical critical method on Bible interpretaton in that everything supernatural is denigrated and discounted.
The last pope - at least visible pope if one takes the vitiated 1958 conclave into consideration - was Pius XII as far as I’m concerned.
novusordowatch.org/john-xxiii
If you don’t believe Christ is Truly Present in Both the NO Mass and the TLM Mass -you are a cause for Division.
-know who it is that “divides”.
To learn more about the NO, see Work of Human Hands: A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI by Fr Anthony Cekada, which covers the history & development of both the Traditional & the New Mass, especially the latter, the key individuals involved in the destruction of the TLM, and their stated intentions:
sggresources.org/products/work-of-human-hands-by-rev-anthony-cekada
youtube.com/watch?v=KN7oftiL4XY (chapter summaries, continuous)
youtube.com/watch?v=JdfUm_c8gCs&list=PLDA085477E90AC096 (individual chapter summaries with repeated intro)
If Catholics would read this book, or at least see the video summary, many would never return to the Mass of Paul VI.
BTW, "Saint" Paul VI was a crypto-Jew (his mother was a false convert Jew & he wore the ephod of the Jewish High Priest), a Freemason, & an unchaste homosexual. The destruction he wrought was done intentionally. See novusordowatch.org/paul-vi, especially Fr Luigi Villa's writings there on him.
A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
Spoken like an irrational cult member. Division is what separates diseased from healthy.
If your skin has gangrene, are you going to declare that the diseased skin is just as good as the healthy skin?
Who's going to do the dividing?
In Matthew 10:34-36, Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.
Jesus does not endorse wickedness or degeneracy. No matter how "piously" it is packaged. Popes Urban II and Innocent III would be calling for an internal Crusades to cut out the liberal gangrene and save the Church.
A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
NO and TLM Masses are valid.
A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
Sorry for you… will pray for your return to the Church
Popular opinion of lifelong Novus ordos hardly counts.
Uh oh….we have someone who dismisses opposing views because they see their own firmly held beliefs as the only truth.
Oh wait. Didn’t you just do the same thing? Huh…
Nope
You are way on the wrong side of this. Anyone born befor3 1982 knows the NO is bogus and gay.
‘I don’t recognize either of these posers as pope.’
Puts you outside the Church….which is sad… will pray for your return
How many heresies, blasphemies, and acts of apostasies will you stand for just so you can “stay inside the church”? At what point will you stand up and defend the Lord, and obey The First Commandment?
Where is it written that one’s opinion of the validity of any Pope excommunicates you? Where?!
I see this now as extortion. We put the "church" ahead of Christ.
Look up schism and penalty…. It’s plane as day
It is plain (illiterate) as day: opinions of the faithful do not incur excommunication latae sententiae.
Which church? I would not want to be in the false church.
Indeed. They wrap themselves in ignorance of what the Synodal church say...its a NEW religion, with none of the traditional of the true Catholic church. Going against the magisterium of the saints and imposing obedience on the lemmings to come full circle: they wrap the blanket of ignorance around themselves...here their thoughts "i am in the true church, I am in the true church, i am obediently in the new church" and outside a chime rings unheard by those convincing themselves that Jesus changed his mind on sodomy and chastity and sacrifice "next stop hell".
Catholic Church brother
"Not recognizing the Pope" would have put one outside the Church, before Vatican II; after the Council of disastrous memory, the borders for the Church have been expanded to include non-Catholic sects, such as the Orthodox and Lutherans, under the vague concept of "Partial Communion". Here is a small excerpt from Pope Francis in 1/25/15 In the Phillipines, where he denounces efforts of Catholics to convert Protestants and instead tell Catholics that we are all "united"
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20150125_vespri-conversione-san-paolo.html
This mystery of love is the deepest ground of the unity which binds all Christians and is much greater than their historical divisions. To the extent that we humbly advance towards the Lord, then, we also draw nearer to one another.
Some things you may not know about Francis, and the V2 church in general:
novusordowatch.org/francis
Louis,
while I admire your calm and reasoning posts, I reject the premises and conclusions that lead to you abandoning the sacraments and advising others to do so.
Louis,
thanks again; I am not going to "buy what you are selling"; instead of spending so much time and effort attempting to convince people to stop practicing their faith, spend more on practicing your own.
I hear it does not, but that so many, including conservative ones that take shots at Latin Mass goers as wanting a return to a golden age that never was, have never bothered to clean up the mess from the “Spirit of Vatican 2” (Pope Benedict’s adjustments were like a band-aid on a shark bite that was bitten into Pope John 23rd’s indult and the intentions of both popes) makes me wonder if it mattered whether the documents or the Mass attached to which defected from Church teaching or not. Vatican 2 might have been the Trojan horse with termites inside that would eat the horse too.
"Francis opened the doors. Leo is organizing the rooms behind them."
There's the money quote. It echoes the "descent into hell" of the past 60 years. Wojtyla's pretentious "personalism" philosophy opened the door to "theological anthropology" courses in seminaries and Ratzinger's manufactured separation of Augustine from Aquinas provided the rationale for the elimination of Thomism and scholasticism from Catholic seminary curricula.
Did they envision the destruction they unleashed? I doubt it. They were just "useful idiots" for the long-standing freemasonry agenda (and Communist infiltration of the Church). Even then, "conservative" priests cheered them on as stalwarts of Catholic orthodoxy. "Conservatism" has conserved nothing except the nothingness of nihilism for a very long time - and Trad Inc has embraced it.
Then there's JPII's notorious "Theology of the Body."
chiesaviva.com/430%20mensile%20ing.pdf, p. 81 ff.
When I first read about that, I was very perplexed (obviously a lot younger) as to why a Pope would be doing something like that. I must admit I seriously didn't want to investigate any further - seemed very ....er.....creepy. For the record, I still haven't read a word of it.
It is very creepy indeed, especially as "interpreted" by some of the big money Catholic, Inc. apologists. Between that and the diary of "Saint" Faustina, I first started wondering about the whole post-V2 edifice.
He did that & everything else he did as a Judeo-Masonic asset & agent of Satan, even his apparent Marian devotion & promotion of the rosary. It's the principle of conceding a battle in order to win a war. And that war involves making people think that he's a valid pope & that the V2 church is the Catholic Church.
novusordowatch.org/john-paul-ii
Nicely said. Cuts right to the chase. Only differ from you in that they did envision a form of destruction and like most revolutions throughout history only failed to appreciate how far it would go.
I think that one of the things all these anti-tradition, woke agendas - both spiritual and secular - never anticipated was the internet, which would slowly unveil all plots and evil agendas. It obviously also a became a tool for evil forces as all technology has done from time immemorial.
Like the Hermeneutic of Continuity?
It’s not surprising that Fr. Walter Ciszek was removed from the process for beatification. Prevost was rooting for the communist side that held him captive and tortured him. Gotta love the post-conciliar Church. I trust almost none of their choices for the beatification process…
the leadership is pro-communist.
Thanks very much, Chris.
Unfortunately hardly any of the Conciliar Church are in a position to lecture that African gentleman who wants polygamy regularised.
We have already had Fiducia Supplicans in 2023 giving the green light to homosexual partnerships, even if the forked tongued protest that the priest is just blessing the two individuals, not the actual sodomy.....or whatever.
We had Cardinal Hollerich, Prince of the Church, Relator of the 2022 Synod, telling us that we need to rewrite Church teaching on homosexuality.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/quick-reads/top-eu-cardinal-calls-change-church-teaching-gay-relationships
Though he seems to have made more nuanced, though even more confusing, noises since 2022.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/09/10/cardinal-hollerich-i-would-not-define-church-sexual-morality-so-narrowly/
And in 2026 Cardinal H is telling us that the Church cannot continue without women priests.
https://thecatholicherald.com/article/cardinal-says-church-cannot-continue-to-exist-without-womens-ordination
And he is free to carry on in his comfortable career.
As are the various African bishops who have produced this report discerning the way ahead for polygamy and pastoral practice in African parishes. It looks like that old mockery of the guy who was simultaneously running with the fox and hunting with the hounds.
https://www.aciafrica.org/news/20869/challenge-of-polygamy-catholic-bishops-final-report-offers-structured-discernment-future-of-pastoral-care-in-africa
I suspect that the classic journalistic advice "Follow the money" applies. African priests, many of whom will be cohabiting, are not going to upset any donors. Just as American and European priests are not going to put off even more of their shrinking congregations by lecturing them on contraception.
My family has been long involved with Catholics in Cameroon and helped build a Catholic church there. The Catholic tradition in that country and many African nations is far more aligned (in our personal experience) with pre 1955 than the western world. Africans in general and their adherents to tradition are problematic for modernists. Yes, they do have cultural problems that the modernists attempt to exploit to weaken their resolve, no doubt. But overall our experience has been that the Christian faithful in Africa reject disorder (and particularly sexual disorder) on a larger scale than here in the west.
And mention also Amoris Laetitia, which in a footnote, endorsed by this and that episcopal conference, allows for Catholics divorced and then "remarried" outside the Church to receive Communion. Serial polygamy is therefore tolerated by the Church; why not polygamy, all your wives at once?
That is very true. And, long before Amoris Laetitiae, I saw the de facto tolerance of new "partnerships" in various parishes, both in England and in Michigan. Don't ask, don't tell.
I am so old that I can remember when priests used to visit parishioners homes, have meals, bless the house and family, etc. It was far more difficult to feign ignorance of your parishioners' sexual arrangements. Now the priests don't have the time.
In 1999 I recall my parish priest in Detroit explaining to a couple that he had never known the local marriage tribunal refuse a petition of nullity......provided that the unhappy couple had been wise enough to let Father advise them about the exact form of words to put on the application form. It was just divorce by another name.
Surely it will be OK if a priest pastorally blesses the husband and his several wives as individuals and not as a married group, provided that they do it after mass and the priest is back in his casuals??
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His fake accent tells me he wants to be a citizen of the world like Obama. And don't tell me his accent comes from living in Peru. I've lived in South America, and I never came back with an accent. More importantly, it's not the Peruvian accent. It's a fake accent because he has no roots in anything except falsity and globalism.
Yes I too am taken aback when I hear the Pope speak. I thought he was raised in Illinois rather than… whatever accent it is that he’s using.
Pray that God gives us a holy pope.
One does have to wonder……… what if John XXIII had actually done what Our Lady said instead of shelving the 3rd Secret. The meeting at Metz? The promise to the enemy to refrain from any condemnation of communism?
Mother knows best.
So here we are, observers but not helpless observers. A lady at our Oratory makes rosaries. Yesterday after Mass I called her “The Armorer of the Oratory”. We’re in the final battle and we have a weapon and we’re soldiers of Christ. Use the weapon. Pray the rosary daily.
good words.
Great post, Chris! Wherever did you get that photo of Leo at the communist march? His face is unmistakeable even at that early age. (I was 31 in 1983, so that means Prevost was at least 30, and a priest at the time.) We need to know and understand where this man came from, the views that shaped him, and exactly what he's bringing into the Church so he can be thoroughly examined and judged whether he is fit to be the moral leader of the Catholic Church. Thank you for your astute research and outstanding writing.
alleged pope leo 14 is indeed more dangerous than alleged pope francis 1.
quite the picture: weak seminarian robert prevost at a communist italian rally; courageous father walter cisek evangelizing communist soviet russia.
Not a good look, barely a month after pachamamagate. Perhaps Axelrod was tapped by the Vatican to restore ¨brand Leo¨. Maybe a Nobel peace prize to spite Trump? Desperate times, desperate measures.
“The faithful in attendance reportedly booed. Good for them.”
The most reassuring line in the article. This is where I will stand.
"A priest in Ireland..........."
They still have priests in Ireland? And there were people actually present in the Church? Stop the presses!
Considering that about 70% of the Irish population is Catholic… seems perfectly reasonable
Considering that the majority of the 70% who SELF-IDENTIFY as Catholics neither practice the Faith nor believe its teachings and therefore minimally impact the nurturing of vocations, the presence of any active clergy is surprising.
Any recent polls on how "Catholic" the Catholic Irish population is?
I read that there are more bishops in Ireland than seminarians. I think in the entire country …..70 seminarians.
Ireland is going the way of the rest of Europe.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/study-irish-catholicism-robust-despite
"Robust" Irish Catholicism:
* 25% of Irish priests and religious passed away in a 3 year period between 2019 and 2022.
* The average age of Irish priests is now 70.
* The average age of female religious is now 80.
* 13 men entered the seminary in Ireland in 2025. Not all will reach ordination and of those who do reach ordination, not all will still be in ministry in 10 years.
* Approximately 41% of Catholics who attended Sunday Mass before COVID-19 had not returned as of 2023.
Define robust. Given 70 % of Ireland is supposedly Catholic and abortion and gay marriage had over 60 % approval when passed, what does that say to you about "robustness"?
Things are getting serious. You are able to encapsulate what many Catholics are seeingand perceiving. Personal anecdotes are vaguely interesting, but every single Catholic is using discernment, and it matters how we decide where truth is. For myself, my husband, its not possible to express our repulsion at Leo the dirty commie. Sorry, but this is the absolute wrong time for niceities or gentility. The church and the faith are threatened in the most extreme way. We must put aside historic pleasantries and learn to be blunt. He's a vile interloper, more dangerous than hateful old bastard Francis. Rhis one is cuter, slicker, but he's just as vicious.He knew very well traditional Catholics were holding their breath over the Latin Mass. Yet he said NOTHING and allowed the bans to continue. That is abject cruelty of the highest order. He's no lover of Christ, the faith, or the flock. He's evil, and he's doing evil. We can silently detach ourselves which we may have to do anyway, but Ill not keep my mouth shut nor hold back any longer. He's a disordered bastard like the men he surrounds himself with.
"The modern clerical class loves to pose as tender. In practice, its tenderness is highly selective. Endless sympathy is available for public adulterers, liturgical innovators, synodal bureaucrats, pagan-friendly tribal dignitaries, and every activist cause that flatters modern liberalism. Toward Trump, toward nationalist politics, toward anyone who resists the progressive reshaping of the West, the pastoral smile often gives way to a sneer." Hilarious! This is true..from pastors controlling their fiefdom to the cardinals and even now the pope.
Red, pink, communists? The Vatican has a secret agreement with China. China is a hybrid system where the ruling Communist Party (CCP) uses market mechanisms to achieve socialist goals. As of 2026, this model has shifted toward even more centralized "party-state" control while simultaneously relying on a robust private sector for innovation.
An AUS Professor's take on it:
https://coffeeandamike.substack.com/p/new-podcast-with-professor-steve?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=2748331&post_id=194757638&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&r=pc7nv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
"./. the approved assumptions of the post-Christian ruling class." Chris, did you mean "post-Catholic"? Approval of Chinese Communist Party members as Bishops in the Catholic Church and and threatened excommunication for Bishops of the SSPX seems IMHO to be a clear line in the sand as to what this Vatican team has in mind. They want to be that "ruling class".