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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...

The SSPX Excommunication Reveals the Synodal Church’s Final Break with Catholic TraditionIf the Synodal Church is the future Rome now demands, what becomes of immutable Catholic truth? The Vatican's punishment of the Society of St. Pius X marks something far more significant than a canonical dispute over bishops. It reveals a Church increasingly unwilling to tolerate Catholics who simply hold fast to what the Church always taught.In her recent Substack article, A Textbook Case of the Displacement of Judgment: The Diocese of Cubao on the SSPX, an author writing by the name of Katharia evaluated a pastoral letter from the...

‘It’s a trap!’ How the Latin Mass will be used to domesticate Trads in the Synodal ChurchOnce everyone is put into their cage, a hybrid Novus Ordo Mass in Latin could be announced.Editor’s note: This essay is reprinted from the Radical Fidelity blog on Substack.Long before the SSPX consecrations and the consequent excommunications, I and others — unlike Trad. Inc. — warned with monotonous regularity that the overarching issue is not the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) alone, but the new Vatican II religion issuing from Rome.We have stated repeatedly that there could be no compromise over the liturgy while adhering...

A systematic dissection of the Vatican’s legal framework reveals what independent canonists and traditionalists view as a deep-seated crisis of consistency within modern Catholic governance. When the theological and legal arguments used against the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) are laid bare alongside the treatment of the Eastern Orthodox amd protestants, the structural defense provided by Rome (that it is merely maintaining public order and guarding the sacred nature of the sacramental contract) it effectively implodes under the weight of its own internal contradictions. What remains is a system that appears to onlookers not as a defense of immutable...

Stonewall Pride Mass draws Catholics for message of faith, inclusion, hopeWorshippers pray at a Pride Mass organized by Out at St. Paul's, the LGBTQ+ ministry of St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan, at the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park in New York, steps away from the Stonewall Inn, June 25, 2026.Surrounded by rainbow flags and packed shoulder to shoulder with more than 150 worshippers, Christopher Park in New York's Greenwich Village became an open-air sanctuary at the start of New York's Pride weekend. Catholics, allies and visitors gathered for the 2026 Annual Pride Mass on June 25 at the...

Cardinal Robert McElroy is offering a different explanation for his decision to remove Monsignor Stephen Rossetti as an exorcist for the Archdiocese of Washington, saying the move was not prompted by the priest’s controversial comments about UFOs but by concerns over the public nature of his ministry. According to LifeSiteNews, McElroy addressed the issue during a June 29 interview with Catholic News Service at the Pontifical North American College, which was published on July 8. The cardinal said his decision “wasn’t touching on the question of UFOs,” despite earlier statements from the archdiocese that cited Rossetti’s remarks about UFOs as...

Homosexual Jesuit praises Pope Leo for continuing Francis’ LGBT support'One of the first things Pope Leo did was he said, ‘No, I have no intention of going backwards when it comes to the LGBTQ community,' Fr. Bryan Massingale said.An avowed homosexual Jesuit priest who is known for his pro-LGBTQ activism within the Catholic Church praised Pope Leo XIV for continuing Pope Francis’ “welcoming overtures and advances” to homosexuals, lesbians, transgender and non-binary people. Fr. Bryan Massingale, a theology professor at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York City who is proudly openly gay, said in a recent video interview that he...

Priest in Cdl. Tobin’s diocese urges Church to ‘lift up LGBTQ people’ after celebrating ‘Pride Mass’Father Alexander Santora, pastor of Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken, New Jersey, ignored Catholic teaching on homosexuality while encouraging the Catholic Church to embrace 'pride.'Father Alexander M. Santora, the pastor of Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken, New Jersey, who recently celebrated the parish’s ninth annual blasphemous “Pride Mass,” wrote an article reflecting on how his parish has “lifted up” so-called “LGBT Catholics,” encouraging other parishes to follow suit.In a June 18 op-ed for the Daily Journal headlined “My church lifts up...

Your plastic driver's license is getting a digital upgrade. Twenty states and Puerto Rico now offer some kind of digital driver’s license. The technology allows you to share a minimum level of information to prove identity by tapping your phone on a reader or scanning a QR code . Some states allow digital IDs and drivers licenses to be added directly into your mobile wallet. Others offer a state-backed mobile app. But privacy experts have concerns around digital security and government data collection, warning that frictionless identification could lead to things like increased surveillance pricing. PBS News’ Tim McPhillips spoke...

Eight years after Vatican-China deal, persecution of faithful Catholics intensifiesThe Vatican's secret deal with China has empowered the Chinese Communist Party's war on religious freedom that Rome needs to address.“Nobody has any illusion about the Chinese Communists Party’s determination to eliminate all religion.”~Bishop James E. Walsh, Maryknoll Missionary to China, 1948, imprisoned for 12 years by the CCP.(Elizabeth Yore) — The Patriotic Chinese Catholic Association was established in 1957 by the authority of Mao Zedong, and under the control of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the CCP with the goal to bring Catholicism into alignment...

Austrian diocese with ‘Rainbow Ministry’ officially supports LGBT ‘pride’ paradeThe Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt openly expressed its support for the Pride Parade in Villach, which took place on July 4.An Austrian Catholic diocese has officially supported a local LGBT “pride” parade.“On the eve of the Pride Parade in downtown Villach, the team from the diocesan Rainbow Ministry hosted a prayer service at St. Michael’s Chapel in Villach Sankt Martin,” the diocese said on its website.During the service, it was emphasized that “You are you!”, implying that no repentance was needed from people who engage in same-sex relations or who identify as...

Écône: A Sign of Contradiction? - by Côme de Prévigny Écône: A Sign of Contradiction?by Côme de Prévigny*It has been repeated with evident satisfaction over the past few days: "The matter is settled. The schism is consummated. There is nothing more to expect from the SSPX." Very well. Granted. We should have turned the page by now. And yet the file stubbornly refuses to close and continues to occupy a prominent place in the news.The extraordinary shockwave that has shaken social media and Catholic circles reveals, on the contrary, an affair far from resolved. Episcopal consecrations without a pontifical mandate...