Substantial Change in Essential Words: ‘Cardinal’ Müller Botches Priestly Ordination for French Latin Mass Community

Changing a single letter in one word of a long prayer may not seem like a big deal, but when that letter changes the definition of a word that is needed for the proper meaning of a prayer which is supposed to confer the sacred priesthood on the men over whom it is prayed, then the matter is most serious.

Catholics understand how much of a difference a single letter can make. Our Blessed Lord Himself hinted at it when He said that “till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall be lost from the Law till all things have been accomplished” (Mt 5:18; Confraternity transl.).… READ MORE

Vatican Chief Ecumenist: ‘No Salvation Outside the Church’ Is Meant For Catholics!

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‘Cardinal’ Kurt Koch (b. 1950), pictured above, is prefect of the Vatican’s so-called Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.

The German Novus Ordo theologian Jan-Heiner Tück (b. 1967) is editor of the German-language edition of Communio, an international Neo-Modernist rag originally founded in 1972 by representatives of the less progressivist wing of the ‘New Theology’ (specifically, by Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Joseph Ratzinger).

On July 2, 2026, a day after the Lefebvrist Society of St.… READ MORE

What If the SSPX Used Amoris Laetitia Logic to Defend its Unauthorized Ordination of Bishops?

If it weren’t for double standards, some people would have no standards at all.

Take the post-Catholic Vatican, for example. While preaching, on the one hand, that religious diversity is a gift from Almighty God, they also want people to believe that what is taught and believed by the Lefebvrist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is not among those ‘divine gifts’ conferred on humanity (unlike Hinduism or Islam, for instance).

On this web site we have been demonstrating for many years that both the SSPX and the Novus Ordo Vatican are wrong in their respective theological positions, so what you are reading in this post is not to be construed as a defense of the Lefebvrist position.… READ MORE

Two Videos: A Sedevacantist Take on the Vatican-SSPX Drama

With all the news and developments of recent days, we want to make sure the following two videos won’t ‘go under’: Yours truly appeared twice on the Catholic Family Podcast to comment on the recent consecration of bishops for the Lefebvrist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in Econe, Switzerland, as well as on the (predictable) reaction from the Vatican.

Although the Society accepts Leo XIV as a true Pope and professes submission to him, they nevertheless went ahead and consecrated four new bishops this past Wednesday not only without Leo’s authorization but against his explicit prohibition.… READ MORE

A Critical Look at the SSPX’s Substitute ‘Apostolic Mandate’ Read During their Unauthorized Episcopal Consecrations

During the ordination ceremony, Fr. Foucauld Le Roux read a special declaration in place of the ‘papal mandate’ they didn’t have

The traditional Roman rite of episcopal consecration begins with the reading of the so-called ‘Apostolic mandate’ (Mandatum Apostolicum) that authorizes and orders the bishop’s ordination that is about to be carried out. Such an Apostolic mandate can only come from the Holy See, that is, from the Pope, hence it is also referred to as a papal or pontifical mandate.… READ MORE

Leo Drops the Hammer: SSPX Excommunicated for Schism, Two Sacraments Henceforth Invalid

As expected, the ‘Holy See’ today published a decree declaring the latae sententiae excommunications incurred by the bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, both the consecrator Alfonso de Galarreta and the co-consecrator Bernard Fellay, as well as the newly-consecrated bishops Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, and Marc Hanappier, for the crime (acc. to Novus Ordo Church law) of having consecrated bishops without papal mandate. A separate ‘explanatory note’ was also released.

Although this event had been announced months in advance, the Vatican did not trouble itself to ensure that the two brief documents published against the FSSPX be translated into other languages in time for publication.… READ MORE

Vatican-SSPX Showdown: Lefebvrists Consecrate Four New Bishops Without Permission

VIDEO: Novus Ordo Watch/Catholic Family Podcast on the SSPX Excommunications

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Podcast: The SSPX and the ‘Legitimate’ Exercise of the Papacy
(TRADCAST EXPRESS 227)

Our latest podcast episode, TRADCAST EXPRESS 227, was published on June 25. It is 28 minutes long and deals with the big news that broke the day before: that the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX or FSSPX), founded in 1970 by Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, had sent ‘Pope’ Leo XIV an open letter and, along with it, submitted a lengthy profession of faith that specifically opposes modern errors:

• “Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV and to the Cardinals of the Holy Church”, FSSPX.news

Spanish Novus Ordo Priest Laicized by Leo XIV for Rejecting Francis as Heretical Pseudo-Pope

Francisco José Vegara Cerezo, pictured above, is a Novus Ordo priest in the diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. Or rather, he was. The Church of Infinite Dignity, Limitless Mercy, and Perpetual Inclusion has decided that he is being expelled from the clerical state. This means that, for all intents and purposes, he is to be considered an unordained layman again.

The diocesan Novus Ordo bishop under whom this is happening is José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre (b. 1961). Munilla had referred the case of the Rev.… READ MORE

On the SSPX, the Old Covenant, and No Salvation Outside the Church: A Refutation of George Weigel

The well-known Novus Ordo lay theologian George Weigel has published an article against the Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX or SSPX) in the neo-conservative First Things magazine.

First Things was founded in 1989 by Rev. Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009), a name that was once a familiar one in ‘orthodox’ Novus Ordo circles but that seems to have largely disappeared from public discourse in the last decade or so, at least online. Neuhaus was a convert to the Novus Ordo religion from Lutheranism and supported Hans Urs von Balthasar’s blasphemous “hope” that all people will go to Heaven.… READ MORE

‘Archbishop’ of Detroit Feels ‘Divine Presence’ at Mosque Opening, Says It’s a ‘Truly Wonderful and Sacred Place’

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The largest Muslim house of worship in the United States has just opened its doors in the city of Dearborn, Michigan. It is officially known as the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque and is part of the Islamic Institute of America.

The Arab American News, a local newspaper in Dearborn, reports:

Hundreds of community members, religious leaders, elected officials and dignitaries gathered in Dearborn Heights earlier this month to celebrate the grand opening of the new headquarters of the Islamic Institute of America (IIOA) and the inauguration of the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque, a $16 million project that community leaders describe as one of the largest and most significant Islamic developments in Michigan in recent years.

Pope Pius IX vs. Patriarch Joseph VI Audu:
The Full Text of the Encyclical Quae in Patriarchatu

His Beatitude Mar Joseph VI Audo (1790-1878) was the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon (in what is now Iraq) from 1848 until 1878.

His tenure was turbulent, as he at times ‘recognized’ but ‘resisted’ the authority of the Apostolic See. Patriarch Audo (or Audu) insisted on having autonomy in appointing and consecrating bishops, without or even against the approval of the Supreme Pontiff, and he acted accordingly. He also considered himself to have jurisdiction over the Syro-Malabar Church in India.… READ MORE

A Creepy and Bizarre Temple:
Leo XIV Visits Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona

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Robert Prevost, commonly known by his stage name ‘Pope Leo XIV’, has been on an extended ‘apostolic journey’ to Spain, which began on June 6 and will conclude on June 12.

On June 10, Leo XIV visited the basilica known as Sagrada Família in Barcelona. Its full official name is Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (‘Basilica and Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family’). It was designed by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926).… READ MORE

Novus Ordo Bishop Receives Rabbi’s Blessing at Jewish Temple

Mark Edward Brennan (b. 1947) is the outgoing Novus Ordo bishop of the diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia. He is currently in his ‘lame duck’ period, one might say: His resignation was officially accepted on May 1, but his successor, who was appointed the same day, has not yet taken over. The installation of ‘Bishop’ Evelio Menjívar-Ayala (b. 1970) is scheduled for July 2.

This past Friday, on June 5, 2026, the Most Rev. Mark Brennan was in attendance at the Shabbat Shalom Friday evening service at Temple Shalom in Wheeling, to be honored by the presiding rabbi, Joshua B.… READ MORE

LEO WATCH, Episodes 8 and 9

“It is not the Church that attracts, but Christ”

“We are one! We already are! Let us recognize it and…make it visible!”

Since May 8 of last year, the Rev. Robert F. Prevost has been running the Vatican II Church as ‘Pope Leo XIV’.

The sedevacantist podcast program LEO WATCH evaluates Leo’s public actions and teachings from the perspective of traditional Roman Catholicism, that is, that which the entire world knew to be Roman Catholicism until the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.

LEO WATCH is produced by Roman Catholic Media on a monthly basis.… READ MORE