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Thank you for all your prayers and support. The encouragement you've shared, along with the many testimonies of how this ministry has impacted lives, has been deeply moving. We are excited to announce that we are coming back! Our social media content, blog, and online deliverance sessions will be returning. We're also introducing several new offerings, including content featuring Gina Witt, Director of Healing Ministries. Another team member, Grady Connolly, will also be sharing digital and written content highlighting the beauty of the Catholic faith around the world, inspiring stories, and resources related to deliverance and exorcism. On September 1,...

Lampedusa Migrant Production: The Gospel According to PR StuntsAgain, Lampedusa serves a Vatican backdrop for a media driven message where visuals overshadowed the realities of illegal migration reality.More Production than PilgrimageThe papal immigration road show is on the move again, as Leo hopscotched from the Canary Islands to beleaguered Lampedusa Island peddling his globalist sentimentalist slop, “this is a place where gestures speak louder than words. But for gestures to be human, they need a heart.” Lampedusa, the Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea is Europe’s primary entry point for illegal migrants crossing from North Africa. It tees up poignantly...

Cardinal Burke: Synodality ‘has to be stopped’ and thoroughly reexaminedCardinal Raymond Burke urged Pope Leo XIV to halt the synodality process, calling it ‘iniquitous’ and observing it lacks definition and historical precedent in the Church. In a wide-ranging interview after Pope Leo XIV’s second extraordinary consistory of cardinals held June 26-27, Cardinal Raymond Burke delivered a forceful critique of the Vatican’s ongoing emphasis on synodality, calling for it to be halted and subjected to rigorous study.“We have to insist that this whole synodality business stop,” the cardinal declared. “And there be a very serious study done of the whole matter...

Why many traditional Catholics believe the SSPX is answering Our Lady’s callOur Lady in Fatima, Akita, La Salette, and Good Success foretold the confusion, division, and moral collapse now visible in the Vatican's standoff with the SSPX.In moments of confusion and division within the Church, many faithful Catholics turn to the messages Our Lady has given over the centuries.These private revelations – approved ones like Fatima, Akita, La Salette, and Good Success – are not articles of faith, but they have offered comfort and warning to generations facing crisis. Today, as tensions between the Vatican and the Society of Saint...

Leo XIV is continuing Pope Francis’ war against traditional CatholicsPope Francis’s 2021 motu proprio ‘Traditionis Custodes’ marked the opening shot in a campaign against Catholic tradition that has only intensified under Pope Leo XIV.Catholics of goodwill see it. The machinations have been well-documented. Popes Francis and Leo have each steered the holy Barque of Peter into a war footing; a war in which the Vatican is the aggressor.It is not a war “against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Ephesians 6). Nor is it a...

Suicide is Canonized, Another Latin Mass is Banned, and an Openly “Gay” Priest Gives Lectures on “Living Queer.” Meanwhile the SSPX is in “Schism.”A suicide memorial, Lutheran worship in a Catholic sanctuary, a suppressed Latin Mass, and the boundaries of Leo XIV’s open-door ChurchChicago’s Pastoral CanonizationOn June 26, the Archdiocese of Chicago dedicated a memorial called At Peace near the main entrance of Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois. The memorial offers families affected by suicide a place for prayer, remembrance, and mourning. Bishop Lawrence Sullivan described it as a visible sign that grieving families remain within God’s loving...

The SSPX Appeals to Rome: Will Pope Leo XIV Practice the Synodality He Preaches?The Society of St. Pius X has formally appealed Rome's excommunication decree, setting up one of the most consequential canonical disputes in decades. Attorney Robert Morrison examines why this legal challenge places Pope Leo XIV's own teachings on ecumenism, religious liberty, and synodality under unprecedented scrutiny—and why the Vatican's response may shape the future of the traditional Catholic movement.On July 13, 2026, the General House of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) announced that it had submitted a preliminary recourse to the Dicastery of the Doctrine...

Antisemitism has gone global. In one country after another, Jews are being excoriated over Israel’s conduct of the war in the Middle East. Israel stands accused of genocide, of baby-killing, of deliberately starving the citizens of Gaza. October 7, 2023 — the slaughter of some 1,200 Israelis and the dragging of roughly 250 hostages into the tunnels of Gaza — is now brazenly repositioned as payback for Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Never mind that two million Arab citizens live inside Israel in peace and prosperity, with seats in the Knesset, judges on its Supreme Court, and doctors in every...

Connect The Dots: Leo Somewhat Too Near To Another Alleged Homosexual Molester, And Promoting To Bishop A Promoter Of SodomyYou might remember yours truly writing this less than one year ago. As time goes by, it seems that Leo keeps finding himself in strange “situations”. Take this one here: the resignation of a Bishop accused of homosexual behaviour. If you read the full text, you discover the following: a) The two had worked together for a long time, and were both occupied in various roles in the Peruvian Episcopal Conference. I dare to say you get to know people with...

TRIBUNE. The Failure of Leo XIVThere was a time when excommunication could bring an emperor to his knees or cause an entire nation to apostatize. But excommunication is no longer what it once was, and that is the work of the very Church that today wields it against the FSSPX. History knows these diminished echoes, those tragedies that repeat themselves as farces, as Marx described when he identified Napoleon III as a ridiculous imitation of his uncle. Nor is Leo XIV Gregory VII. But if farce is already a fairly appropriate term to describe this case, with Tucho Fernández, carrying...

SSPX community in Charlotte acquires 26 acres for church expansion projectThe world-famous architect James McCrery will be designing a church complex for the SSPX community of Charlotte, North Carolina.SSPX community of St. Anthony's, Mount Holly, North Carolina“This milestone was achieved as the result of a 3-year search over a 3,000 square-mile search area that included analysis of more than 1,300 properties,” said Jim De Piante, project manager for the new St. Anthony’s church. “We hope this first step in our master plan to build a beautiful and spacious church complex on the property will ensure that the Catholic faithful will...

The 8-Year Betrayal of Chinese CatholicsNo one can fail to see the irony of the excommunication of the SSPX in view of the renewed Vatican deal with the CCP and their ongoing consecrations of bishops without papal oversight or pre-approval.Last Thursday marked the eighth anniversary of the secret provisional agreement between the Holy See and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regarding the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. (CCPA). Designed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin in 2018, with the blessing of Pope Francis, the agreement recognizes the supreme authority of the CCP to appoint bishops and suppress and/or establish...

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[Catholic Caucus] Catholic parents demand German archbishop rescind pro-LGBT ‘sexual education’The Archdiocese of Hamburg last year implemented ‘sexual education’ curriculum for all Catholic schools that promotes homosexuality and transgenderism, and now parents are fighting back.Catholic parents in the Archdiocese of Hamburg are calling on the archbishop to reverse pro-LGBT “sexual education” curriculum for Catholic schools.The “Parents’ Network for Child Protection and Prevention” reached out to the then-apostolic nuncio to Germany, Archbishop Nikola Eterović, and the chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), Bishop Heiner Wilmer, regarding the dispute over the heterodox framework for “sex education” in Catholic schools in the...

Archdiocese of Madrid invited LGBT activists to participate in event with Pope Leo'Christians of Madrid Homosexuals' demanded their inclusion within the Church 'as first-class Christians' and to marry 'without distinction.'A group of LGBT activists took part in an event with Pope Leo XIV in June upon the invitation of the Archdiocese of Madrid.On June 7, the women’s portion of CRISMHOM (“Christians of Madrid Homosexuals”) joined an event hosted by Pope Leo called “Weaving Networks with the Worlds of Culture, Art, the Economy and Sport.” It was joined by artists, athletes, business leaders, and academics “to discuss how to continue to...

8 Million in Federal Charity Fraud, Abortion Funding through the CCHD by the U.S. Conference of Catholic BishopsThe Lepanto Institute has uncovered millions of dollars funneled by the Catholic Bishops of the U.S. to abortion groups, in what may amount to the serious federal crime of charity fraud.Through research conducted over the last several years, Lepanto has exposed what amounts to nearly $8 million, over just the last 5 years, in grants from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) going to groups that support or promote, sometimes very explicitly, abortion, contraception, euthanasia, homosexuality, and LGBT ideology, contrary to...

VIDEO AT LINK............. Sara and Tiana Samson have committed no crime, and neither have their parents. Swedish prosecutors said so themselves. Yet three and a half years after social workers pulled the two Romanian girls out of a classroom in Hässleholm, the Swedish state still refuses to give them back, and the reason it has offered the world is that their family went to church too often. On Friday, that scandal arrived on American soil. A crowd of Romanian-Americans gathered outside the Swedish Embassy in Washington to stand with Daniel and Bianca Samson, the Christian parents who have been separated...

SSPX Excommunications & the Vatican’s Plan to Cancel CatholicismForty years after Archbishop Lefebvre's consecrations, history is repeating itself—but the stakes are even higher. Michael Matt was there in 1988, and he believes the Vatican's latest excommunications are only one front in a wider campaign against Catholic Tradition. Before another generation of faithful Catholics is divided, hear what he says.he SSPX consecrated four new bishops on July 1, 2026. The next day, the Vatican declared the bishops excommunicated, reviving one of the most painful conflicts in modern Catholic history.Michael Matt lived through the first SSPX consecrations in 1988. There is no...

Episcopal Consecrations: What Fr. Pagliarani Told the Members of the Society of Saint Pius XPreparing Hearts for the Episcopal ConsecrationsA Message to the Faithful and Friends of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius XDear faithful and friends,As we prepare for the episcopal consecrations, scheduled for 1 July in Écône, we wish, exceptionally, to make available to you an editorial that the Superior General addressed to the members of the Society on 7 March.This text does not revisit the question of the consecrations themselves, but is devoted to recalling the spirit in which they must be prepared for and lived: a...

Leo Winks at Divorce While His Bishops Support Gay Blessings and Women “Co-Presiding” at the Altar. Meanwhile, the SSPX is in “Schism.”The Camera Saw ItCardinal Timothy Radcliffe now wants the London event to shrink.According to the reports, he told AdVaticanum that he gave no blessing, had no prior awareness that blessings would be given, and that the Eucharist at Holy Apostles was private. He also rejected the interpretation that the Mass celebrated a homosexual relationship.The camera says otherwise.The event marked fifty years of “friendship, partnership, and commitment” between Julian Filochowski and Martin Pendergast. The church was full enough for about...