NEWS DIGEST December 31, 2025

Chronicling the unending infernal chaos of the Vatican II Church…

December 31, 2025

Here’s a quick video clip for your ‘Sedevacantists are Protestants!’ files…

Chicago-born ‘Bishop’ Ronald Hicks, currently ordinary of Joliet, appointed new ‘Archbishop’ of New York, replacing ‘Cardinal’ Timothy Dolan. Interestingly enough, Hicks’ former diocesan chancellor in Joliet just ‘married’ his boyfriend.

Put on your surprise face: American Novus Ordo bishops green-light ‘gay-washed’ new Bible translation. (There’s a follow-up here.)

If there’s one ‘spirit’ that doesn’t need ‘reviving’, this one would be it.

They’re all ears now: Vatican opens ‘listening space’ in St. Peter’s Basilica for ‘encounter’ with visitors.… READ MORE

Merry Christmas, Quick Break, and What’s Ahead for 2026

“This day is born to you a Saviour” (Luke 2:11)…

Merry Christmas, Quick Break, and What’s Ahead for 2026

“God Himself will come and will save you.” (Isaias 35:4)

Dear Readers, Friends, and Supporters of Novus Ordo Watch:

An eventful year is coming to a close. It was a year that saw one of the greatest apostates of history go to his particular judgment. It was a year that saw his successor continue in his footsteps and double down doctrinally while keeping a pleasant and aesthetically-pleasing outward appearance.

It’s been a year of blessing for Novus Ordo Watch. Thanks to the kindness and generosity of supporters, there has been lots of funding, and this means we are able to step things up a bit.… READ MORE

Vatican Preacher Pasolini: Christ ‘Reveal[s] to Each Person His or Her Own Truth’

Advent meditation for Leo XIV and the Roman Curia…

Vatican Preacher Pasolini: Christ ‘Reveal[s] to Each Person His or Her Own Truth’

False prophet in a Capuchin’s habit: Roberto Pasolini, OFM Cap.

The Capuchin Modernist Rev. Roberto Pasolini (b. 1971) is the current ‘Preacher of the Papal Household’. Jorge Bergoglio, aka ‘Pope Francis’, chose him last year to replace the insufferable Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, who had turned 90 that year, and who had held the position since 1980.

Pasolini’s appointment has been controversial from the beginning. The reason? It won’t come as a surprise to most, but he has been caught preaching some unorthodox ideas concerning homosexuality.… READ MORE

Bergoglio’s Marriage Annulment Rules Ten Years Later: ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Novus Ordo Style

Fast, free family wrecking!

Bergoglio’s Marriage Annulment Rules Ten Years Later:
Operation Warp Speed Novus Ordo Style

by Francis del Sarto

On May 15, 2020, the United States government launched Operation Warp Speed. Its goal? To manufacture and distribute an injection that would purportedly immunize citizens from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Operation Warp Speed is a fitting name for the accelerated procedure to obtain marriage annulments introduced by the Vatican II Church ten years ago by Argentinian apostate Jorge Mario Bergoglio (aka “Pope Francis”).

Not that the “annulment” process needed a push, mind you. In 1968 there were only 338 declarations of nullity issued in the entire United States.… READ MORE

Podcast: Christ the King Dethroned (TRADCAST EXPRESS 219)

They have uncrowned Him!

Podcast: Christ the King Dethroned
(TRADCAST EXPRESS 219)

The world’s highest statue of Christ the King is located in Swiebodzin, Poland
(image: Shutterstock)

Our latest podcast episode, TRADCAST EXPRESS 219, has been published. Its main topic is the dethronement of Christ the King by the Vatican II Church, but the 23-minute program also includes discussion of other topics:

  • As expected, the Vatican fails to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the encyclical Quas Primas of Pope Pius XI, which is a thorn in the side of the Neo-Modernists
  • The Social Kingship of Christ explained and contrasted with the Vatican II Church’s idea of Christ the King
  • Vatican celebrates 60 years of ecumenical dialogue with Methodists
  • What did Leo XIV just say?
… READ MORE

How the Vatican Celebrates 100 Years Since Pope Pius XI’s Encyclical Quas Primas on Christ the King

Novus Ordo Watch takes a look…

How the Vatican Celebrates 100 Years Since Pope Pius XI’s Encyclical Quas Primas on Christ the King

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Encyclical Quas Primas, issued by Pope Pius XI (r. 1922-1939) on Dec. 11, 1925. This magisterial document establishes the annual liturgical feast of Christ the King, to be celebrated on the last Sunday in October, and it sets forth the doctrine regarding Our Lord’s reign over every aspect of our lives and the duty of all individuals, families, societies, and nations to acknowledge Him as King and subject themselves to the sweet yoke of His Law.… READ MORE

Bad Theology, Invalid Episcopacy: Fr. Anthony Ward Consecrated by Novus Ordo Bishop, Dismisses Vatican Excommunication

Theology has consequences…

Bad Theology, Invalid Episcopacy: Fr. Anthony Ward Consecrated by Novus Ordo Bishop, Dismisses Vatican Excommunication

Fr. Anthony Ward (b. 1948) was ordained a priest for the Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX) by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on Apr. 14, 1973. Four years later, he left the Society and established the Servants of the Holy Family (Servi Sanctae Familiae) in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

On Nov. 16, 2025, Fr. Ward announced that he had secretly been consecrated a bishop in the traditional Roman rite by ‘Archbishop’ Telesphore George Mpundu (b. 1947), retired ordinary of Lusaka, Zambia. The ceremony took place on Mar.… READ MORE

Pope Pius XII Against Modern Errors on the Church

Papal address of June 24, 1939…

Pope Pius XII Against Modern Errors on the Church

Image credit: © KEYSTONE Pictures USA via Alamy

One of the main services Novus Ordo Watch tries to render to the public is the making available of, or raising awareness concerning, Catholic magisterial texts that are not widely known or have not before been published online in English. There is a wealth of pre-Vatican II papal teaching ‘on the books’ that, unfortunately, is largely unknown even to traditional Catholics; thus we are trying to do our part to help remedy this situation. Thankfully, with recent advances in technology, discovering, translating, and spreading it has become easier and easier.… READ MORE

LEO WATCH with Bishop Donald Sanborn – Episode 6

Bp. Sanborn dismantles Prevost’s facade…

LEO WATCH, Episode 6

“The Death and Resurrection of Jesus are the Foundation of Integral Ecology”

Since May 8 of this 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. A sixth episode was broadcast live on Nov.… READ MORE