Why (Not) Sedevacantism? Answering Objections and Concerns

Highly informative, pleasantly non-polemical…

Why (Not) Sedevacantism?
Answering Objections and Concerns

On Aug. 8, 2025, Anthony Abbate of Avoiding Babylon published a 12-minute video on Twitter/X in which he shared some thoughts about why he does not think Sedevacantism is the right position to adopt in these incredibly difficult and confusing times.

Realizing that addressing Anthony’s points and answering his objections could not reasonably done on Twitter, yours truly decided to respond at sufficient length on an episode of the Catholic Family Podcast with Kevin Davis.

We played Anthony’s video in full, pausing it occasionally to react and provide commentary as needed.… READ MORE

Church of Inclusion: SSPX Pilgrimage Listed in Vatican Jubilee Calendar

Vatican extends courtesy to Lefebvrists…

Church of Inclusion:
SSPX Pilgrimage Listed in Vatican Jubilee Calendar

The Vatican’s jubilee logo (left) and the FSSPX coat of arms

The Novus Ordo Church is currently in the midst of a jubilee year, which opened on Dec. 24 of last year and will conclude this coming Jan. 6. It is being observed under the motto Peregrinantes in Spem (“Pilgrims of Hope”). The silliness of its logo is matched only by the creepiness of its mascot:

‘Pope’ Francis, at whose direction the 2025 Jubilee was put together, had been advocating for a ‘Big Tent’ Church for years — his motto was “everyone, everyone, everyone!”… READ MORE

Altars Are For Sacrifice, Tables Are For Meals: Behold 14 Dreadful Novus Ordo ‘Altars’

Altar-ing the Faith…

Altars Are For Sacrifice, Tables Are For Meals:
Behold 14 Dreadful Novus Ordo ‘Altars’

The following is a collage of fourteen table-like constructs that are used in Novus Ordo churches as ‘altars’ on which supposed Catholic priests perform what they call the ‘Eucharistic celebration’ — the Novus Ordo counterpart to the Holy Catholic Mass.

As the ‘New Mass’, as it is often called, is not the Sacrifice of Calvary but merely a Eucharistic meal service, it makes sense that the Neo-Modernists prefer to use tables, even though they may still call them ‘altars’ (to feign some continuity with the past) and indeed still use some real altars for their false Mass as well.… READ MORE

Austrian ‘Bishop’ Says Showing Trump on a Cross Is ‘Perverse’ – But Admires Crucified Frog!

‘Bp.’ Glettler suddenly discovers evil of blasphemy…

Austrian ‘Bishop’ Says Showing Trump on a Cross Is ‘Perverse’ – But Admires Crucified Frog!

‘Bishop’ Hermann Glettler in 2024 (image: IMAGO/Bildagentur Muehlanger via Alamy)

Few Novus Ordo bishops have a more blatant record of appreciating, promoting, and defending blasphemy than ‘Bishop’ Hermann Glettler of Innsbruck, Austria. Indeed, until this week, one might have said that there has apparently never been a depiction of blasphemy he didn’t like.

But one would have been wrong.

It turns out that the Austrian blasphemer has now found a piece of blasphemy he does consider offensive and unacceptable: It is the ‘artwork’ Saint or Sinner?… READ MORE

Was Cardinal John Henry Newman a Modernist?

Pope St. Pius X himself weighed in…

Was Cardinal John Henry Newman a Modernist?

On July 31, 2025, the Vatican announced that Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890), whom ‘Pope’ Francis invalidly declared a saint in 2019, will be named a Doctor of the Church by ‘Pope’ Leo XIV later this year:

We may suppose that there is a reason why Leo XIV and his fellow-Modernists want to have Cardinal Newman honored as a Doctor of the Church, and it’s probably not because they want to promote the celebrated convert’s theological defenses of Catholicism against Anglicanism and other heresies.… READ MORE

Leo XIV Denies Another Miracle, Says Christ Invited the Deaf-Mute to Choose to Speak Again!

Prevost ‘catechizing’ his flock…

Leo XIV Denies Another Miracle, Says Christ Invited the Deaf-Mute to Choose to Speak Again!

‘Pope’ Prevost on May 12, 2025 (image: Shutterstock/ErreRoberto)

Exactly one month has passed since Robert Francis Prevost — stage name: ‘Pope Leo XIV’ — denied Christ’s Miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves. He did so by reinterpreting it in typical Modernist fashion as a ‘miracle’ of sharing: “…the real miracle performed by Christ was to show that the key to overcoming hunger lies in sharing rather than in greedily hoarding”, the false pope declared in a message to the FAO Conference in Rome on June 30, 2025.… READ MORE

NEWS DIGEST July 28, 2025

Chronicling the unending infernal chaos of the Vatican II Church…

July 28, 2025

Nun-DMC? Novus Ordo nun stuns with beatboxing talent

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What could possibly go wrong? Tone-deaf Vatican turns to ‘hot priests’ to spread faith on social media.

Former Novus Ordo monk becomes ‘woman’. He should talk to ‘Bishop’ John Stowe of the diocese of Lexington — he might be able to become a ‘nun’ there now.

Nothing to see here, just a bunch of Novus Ordo seminarians from Denver involved in a bizarre (apparently fake) blood oath ceremony involving the seminary vice-rector, a dagger, and a mysterious man in a yeti costume.… READ MORE

Don Bruno Unleashed: Meet Italy’s Eccentric Wedding Singer Priest

He has a microphone, and he’s not afraid to use it…

Don Bruno Unleashed:
Meet Italy’s Eccentric Wedding Singer Priest

His name is Rev. Bruno Maggioni. He is a well-known and popular Novus Ordo priest in northern Italy who is famous for his effusive dancing, clapping, and singing during the wedding ceremonies he officiates — even in church, even before the tabernacle, even while fully vested.

Long-time readers of this blog may remember that we covered ‘Fr.’ Bruno before, back in 2014. Eleven years later, at age 67, he’s still at it.

In fact, just three months ago he appeared on a program on Italy’s public TV channel RAI as the “priest who sings Ricchi e Poveri in church”.… READ MORE

Vatican II Star Theologian Boasted of Having Urinated on Holy Office Building – Not Once But Twice!

Yves Congar’s utter disdain for Catholic orthodoxy…

Vatican II Star Theologian Boasted of Having Urinated on Holy Office Building – Not Once But Twice!

On Sep. 26, 2012, former-Jesuit-turned-journalist Robert Blair Kaiser (1931-2015) published a blog post in which he related a colorful story concerning the French Dominican Fr. Yves Congar (1904-1995), one of the Neo-Modernist star theologians at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) whom ‘Pope’ John Paul II made a ‘cardinal’ in 1994.

Kaiser began: “I often wondered whether the story was true. Did Congar really pee on the wall of the Holy Office? I’d heard the story from one of my theologian friends at the Council, but I’d never been able to confirm it”; and then happily informed the reader: “Yesterday, on the tenth day of my 3-week lecture tour in India, I got the kind of independent second source that makes a story reportable.”… READ MORE

Leo XIV to Eastern Orthodox: ‘Rome, Constantinople, and All Other Sees Not Called to Vie for Primacy’

Nothing to see here, just a little HERESY…

Leo XIV to Ecumenical Group with Orthodox: ‘Rome, Constantinople, and All Other Sees Not Called to Vie for Primacy’

‘Pope’ Leo XIV in Castel Gandolfo on July 13, 2025

Today at Castel Gandolfo, the ‘Holy Father’ Robert Prevost (‘Pope Leo XIV’) received in audience participants in a so-called Orthodox-Catholic ecumenical pilgrimage from the United States. The Vatican has published some photos here.

Aside from the usual ecumenical blather about “restoring full unity among all Christ’s disciples” — as if one could be a disciple of Christ without belonging to His flock, which is the Roman Catholic Church exclusively — ‘Pope’ Leo dropped a bombshell regarding papal primacy.… READ MORE

The Church of Leo XIV: Heresy, Perversion, Sacrilege (TRADCAST EXPRESS 212)

A podcast that’s informative, witty, and compelling…

The Church of Leo XIV: Heresy, Perversion, Sacrilege
(TRADCAST EXPRESS 212)

‘Pope’ Leo XIV on May 12, 2025, at the Vatican
(image: Alessia Pierdomenico / Shutterstock.com)

Our latest podcast episode, TRADCAST EXPRESS 212, was published on July 12, 2025, and it covers a number of crazy news stories that document the insanity of the Vatican II Church, now under new management with Leo XIV.

Specifically, we look at Leo XIV’s expressed desire to make converts — for the environment, of course; the Vatican’s interest in World Kiswahili Language Day; the German diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart’s publication of prayers for the blessing of perverted relationships; the ‘papal’ nuncio to the United Kingdom’s celebration of a Novus Ordo Mass at the Anglican Cathedral of Canterbury; and the Society of St.… READ MORE

LEO WATCH with Bishop Donald Sanborn – Episode 2

Bp. Sanborn tears down Prevost’s facade…

LEO WATCH, Episode 2

“What is commonly called the multiplication of the loaves”

For over two months now, the Vatican II Church has been under new management. Since May 8, Robert Francis Prevost has been running the show as ‘Pope Leo XIV’.

The popular FRANCIS WATCH podcast program has thus become LEO WATCH, and it had its debut on June 3.

LEO WATCH is produced by Roman Catholic Media on a monthly basis. A second episode was broadcast live on July 10 on YouTube.

As with its predecessor FRANCIS WATCH, in the new LEO WATCH, host Stephen Heiner is joined by sedevacantist Bishop Donald J.… READ MORE

Leo XIV Debuts New ‘Mass for Care of Creation’ at Castel Gandolfo, Calls for Ecological Conversion

After Vatican publishes new votive Mass formulary…

Leo XIV Debuts New ‘Mass for Care of Creation’ at Castel Gandolfo, Calls for Ecological Conversion

With the approval of ‘Pope’ Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and under the leadership of ‘Cardinal’ Arthur Roche, the Vatican’s so-called Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has authorized a new votive Mass.

It is the so-called ‘Mass for the Care of Creation’ (Missa pro custodia creationis), for which the prayers and texts were published on July 3, 2025. They are being added to the section of the Novus Ordo Roman Missal (‘Sacramentary’ in the United States) that contains Mass formularies ‘for various needs and occasions’ (pro variis necessitatibus vel ad diversa):

Eager to try it out, Leo XIV announced that he would use it for the first time on July 9.… READ MORE

Why You’re Not Novus Ordo Anymore: Liturgical ‘Resurrection Dance’ at Easter Vigil

Novus Ordo insanity example #512,009

Why You’re Not Novus Ordo Anymore:
Liturgical ‘Resurrection Dance’ at Easter Vigil

As proof that the Second Vatican Council truly ushered in a ‘New Springtime’, a ‘New Pentecost’, and a ‘Great Renewal’, we offer a video clip of an extraordinary ‘Resurrection Dance’ performed at the hell-hole known as ‘Holy Spirit Parish’ at Newman Hall, part of the University of California at Berkeley.

Uh… enjoy!

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For more information on this obviously unholy place, see our post from 2014, in which we take a closer look at the ‘sanctuary’ of this ‘Catholic church’:

One wonders just what these people think they are accomplishing with such dimwitted choreography, aside from making utter buffoons of themselves.… READ MORE

Leaked Vatican Documents Undermine Francis’ Stated Rationale for Suppressing Traditional Latin Mass

Journalist publishes ‘overall assessment’ of bishops’ survey results…

Leaked Vatican Documents Undermine Francis’ Stated Rationale for Suppressing Traditional Latin Mass

On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, the highly-credible Vatican reporter Diane Montagna published internal Vatican documents 0n her blog that purportedly demonstrate that ‘Pope’ Francis did not quite tell the (whole) truth when he claimed in an accompanying letter that his decision to issue the motu proprio letter Traditionis Custodes on July 16, 2021, was based on alarming feedback he had received from the world’s bishops. Traditionis Custodes is the Apostolic Letter which greatly limits the permitted use of the 1962 Missal (‘Traditional Latin Mass’) and cancels out Benedict XVI’s 2007 motu proprio letter Summorum Pontificum.… READ MORE