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[Catholic Caucus] The Catholic Tradition No Longer Concealed by Memories Denied Grateful for this insightful analysis via Facebook that aligns closely with many of my own experiences and diagnostics. A bishop’s remonstrance to his young priests urging they never allow the young people to see the “old Mass”, for fear they would prefer it to the new, comes to mind. The denial and concealment the enemies of the Faith used for many years is no longer possible with the collective access and common memory provided by the Internet.“A curious cultural phenomenon is unfolding within the modern Catholic Church: the generation...

Breaking: Pope Leo’s Vatican asks Catholics to ‘esteem’ other faiths The Vatican has asked Catholics to 'esteem' other faiths in its latest document on interreligious dialogue and 'fraternity.'The Vatican has asked Catholics to ‘esteem’ other faiths in its latest document on interreligious dialogue and “fraternity.”The document, signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF); Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity; and Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, appeared this morning.Entitled “A Journey of Hope: Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity...

The International Theological Commission’s “Caring for Our Common Home” goes beyond Laudato Si’ by naming environmental destruction a direct offense against the Creator On September 2, the International Theological Commission published a major new text (so far only in Italian) on the theology of creation, ecology, and human responsibility. Titled Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God, the more than 29,000-word document was approved by a majority vote of the Commission in July, presented to Pope Leo XIV, and authorized for release by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Czerny announced as first recipient of Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal The recently retired prefect of the Vatican’s human development office will receive the award from the pope on Oct. 13. Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, former prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will be honored as the first recipient of the Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal in October.Father Peter Donohue, OSA, president of Villanova University, made the announcement at a Vatican press conference on Sept. 14.The medal, established by Villanova University and named after Pope Leo XIV, recognizes individuals who have worked toward ecological...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Toronto Oratory’s Latin Masses to be curtailed Sept. 20: reports Weekly Traditional Latin Masses at the Toronto's Holy Family and St. Vincent de Paul churches will no longer continue, according to two long-established blogs, and traditional-form sacraments will end immediately. Beginning Sunday, September 20, the weekly Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) at the Toronto Oratory’s Holy Family and St. Vincent de Paul churches will no longer continue as weekly celebrations of the 1962 Missal, according to two long-established Toronto blogs with deep ties to the churches in question.Each parish would instead be required to offer one Novus Ordo...

[Catholic Caucus] 10 Italian bishops attend national conference on LGBT ‘pastoral ministry’ The meeting presented initiatives already operating in several Italian dioceses.Italy’s Catholic bishops gathered to discuss the integration of LGBT-identifying people and their families into ordinary diocesan life.On September 4, nearly 200 pastoral workers and around 10 bishops gathered at the General Curia of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Rome for Italy’s first national conference dedicated to “pastoral ministry with homosexual and transgender people.”The meeting, titled “Good Practices in Pastoral Ministry with Homosexual and Transgender People,” presented initiatives already operating in several Italian dioceses, while also examining the...

[Catholic Caucus] Kraków was John Paul II’s diocese. Now a trans activist helps plan its future 'I am changing the Church from inside,' said the trans activist, a formerly married father of one. Pope John Paul II’s Polish diocese is embracing gender ideology, even going so far as to welcome a gender-confused “trans” activist into its synodal process.The Archdiocese of Krakow released its Report of Synodal Work, marking the conclusion of the first stage of the Second Pastoral Synod. Both were influenced by 54-year-old trans activist Maria Minakowska (born Marek Jerzy Minakowski). The document proposes creating pastoral “safe havens” for...

Leo XIV appoints Archbishop: “The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow.” Leo XIV appoints Archbishop: “The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow.” Today, Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Mario León Dorado, 52 — a T-shirt guy and an adherent of the heretical Abu Dhabi program — as Coadjutor Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco. Born in Madrid, Dorado joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1996 and was ordained a priest in 2001.He has served as Apostolic Prefect of Western Sahara since 2013.“The Church is called to disappear”In September 2022, he...

[Catholic Caucus] Synod reports call for ‘gender equality’ in Church governanceThe Synod documents emphasize the implementation of ‘gender equality’ and ‘co-responsibility’ in workplaces and the participation of consecrated laywomen in the election of bishops and chaplains.The Synod issued two new reports this week that include promoting “gender equality” across all positions within the Catholic Church.On September 8, the General Secretariat of the Synod published two final reports proposing changes to relations between bishops, consecrated religious, ecclesial associations and the Holy See, including a recommendation that diocesan faithful participate in preparing the reports bishops submit before their official visits to Rome.The...

Bishop Schneider: Synodality is a ‘code word to undermine Catholic doctrine’ Bishop Athanasius Schneider pointed out that the word ‘synodality’ is purposely ambiguous and is used in a 'cunning' attempt to promote moral relativism within the Church.Bishop Athanasius Schneider warned that “synodality” is a “cunning code word used to undermine Catholic doctrine.”In an interview published Thursday with AdVaticanum that discussed Our Lady’s title of Co-Redemptrix, the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass, and interreligious contact, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan gave his view on the meaning of “synodality.” Schneider suggested that the meaning of “synodality” has deliberately been kept...

Letter from a Catholic Mother About the TLM Which clergy will defend real Catholicism as the stakes increase? Below is a letter I received from a mother of a large family. She and her husband gave me permission to publish it. I am keeping them anonymous, as well as their bishop and diocese.The TLM community in my diocese is suffering greatly. We are still mourning the loss of our Latin Mass; that school of holiness, valor, beauty, and love. It was our identity; the light of our families and the means of constant conversion in which we were all deeply...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Proves the “Prophets of Doom” Correct: Has the Church Abandoned the Reign of Christ? The “prophets of doom” were supposed to be wrong. But what if they saw exactly where Vatican II was taking the Church? Leo XIV’s latest catechesis on Gaudium et Spes reveals a Church increasingly concerned with water, poverty, pollution and worldly peace, while the old Catholic proclamation of Christ the King has quietly disappeared.On September 2, Leo XIV began his series of catechism lessons on Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes. Oddly, he opened...

[Catholic Caucus] St. Pius X: Defending Tradition Without Abandoning the Church On the feast of St. Pius X, Catholics face a familiar battle: defending the integrity of the Faith while remaining faithful to the Church and the Papacy. In an age of Modernism, TLM restrictions, and deepening divisions, the great pope's example offers a powerful lesson in truth, charity, and Catholic fidelity.On September 3, the 1962 Roman Calendar exhorts Catholics to commemorate St. Pius X, a pope whose very name has become a banner for those who believe the one true Catholic Faith must be preserved and defended in its...

SSPX Barred from Marian Shrines While Interfaith and LGBTQ Events Are Welcomed In the last two weeks, the SSPX has been barred from two of Europe’s most famous Marian shrines: Lourdes and Mariazell. But interfaith prayer and LGBTQ-themed events have been welcomed... Who or what exactly is being protected here?The Irony of The Vatican’s Logic of Exclusion: When Those Who Defend the Blessed Virgin Mary Are Barred from Her Shrines There is a bitter irony unfurling in the Catholic Church in 2026, one that explicitly exposes the contradictions at the crux of its present institutional crisis. Within the span of...

Pope Leo’s Rimini Meeting: Everyone Is Welcome, Except Traditional Catholics Pope Leo’s Rimini Meeting was presented as a celebration of friendship, dialogue, and the search for truth among peoples. But what happens when Catholics insist that Catholicism is NOT merely one path among many? Let's examine Pope Leo XIV’s Rimini address, false ecumenism, and why Traditional Catholics have no place at the modern Vatican’s “friendship circle”.Leading up to Leo XIV’s August 22, 2026 visit to the Rimini “Meeting of Friendships Among Peoples,” Vatican News provided the background for the event:“The history of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples, also known...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: ‘I hate to see them pained’: Cardinal Radcliffe on traditional CatholicsEXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe speaks to AdVaticanum about Britain’s Catholic revival, the appeal of the faith to young people, synodality, growing Dominican vocations and his sympathy for Catholics attached to the Traditional Latin MassThe first English Dominican cardinal since the convert Cardinal Philip Howard in the 17th century, and the first Englishman ever to serve as Master of the Order of Preachers, Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is a symbol of Catholicism’s resurgence in the United Kingdom after centuries of persecution. Like St John Henry Newman before him, he...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV summons world’s bishops to entrench ‘heretical’ Amoris Laetitia Pope Leo considers the highly controversial Amoris Laetitia a guiding text for the Church, elements of which many consider to be heretical.Pope Leo XIV has called upon the presidents of the world’s Episcopal Conference to meet in Rome in October in order “to examine and discuss the teachings of Amoris Laetitia and how to proclaim the Gospel to families today,” according to a report from Vatican News. Earlier this year, Pope Leo praised Amoris Laetitia as a guiding text for the Church and signaled his intention to honor...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo approves his seventh bishop for Chinese Communist ‘Catholic’ church The Vatican reported that the new bishop of Datong was appointed ‘under the framework of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China.’A bishop of Datong was consecrated in China today with the approval of Pope Leo XIV under the controversial Vatican-China deal. Pope Leo XIV appointed Paolo Liu Honggang Bishop of Datong in Shanxi, China, on August 10, “following the approval of his candidacy under the framework of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China,”...

[Catholic Caucus] Chinese Underground Church Consecrated 10 Bishops without Papal Mandate After the 2018 Sino-Vatican agreement “terrible things happen to Catholics” in the Fujian province, an anonymous Chinese bishop who is unaffiliated with the Chinese state church ‘Patriotic Association’, told Anthony Clark for CatholicWorldReport.com on August 23.The bishop speaks of a “state of emergency”.As government influence over the bishops increases, “the integrity of the Catholic faith will suffer.” To “assure the survival of China’s Church,” new bishops have been “secretly consecrated.”The bishop says the faithful question Rome’s genuine concern for their “spiritual well-being” when the Holy See approves government-selected bishops...

Synodalism Marches On: Martyrs Need Not Apply To be "written in blood," meant (and still means) to make binding. God himself called the New Testament, written in His blood, an everlasting testament.Martyrs are now passé—for the Synodalist Church, that is. Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process.Who would die for that?For the Synodalist, truth is an antediluvian embarrassment—and so are martyrs.To the chagrin of faithful Catholics, the Synodal Church marches forward. Any religion worth its salt cringes at the sandbox therapeutics of this comedy parading as Catholicism.Our...