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.

He should tell the Jews and other unbelievers about that sometime: ‘Pope’ Leo says without Christ, life becomes ‘wandering without a goal’.

Would you like to meet the weightlifting Novus Ordo nun? Didn’t think so.

Vatican nuncio to United States knows exactly what is needed in the future: More Vatican II, of course!

Non-Catholic prime minister of Armenia receives Novus Ordo Communion at St Peter’s Square. Maybe he just decided to make use of Canon 844 §3 in John Paul II’s Code of Canon Law….

That figures: ‘Cardinal’ Blase Cupich wants shoddy Novus Ordo liturgy because the poor!

Nothing to see here, really: Leo XIV Promotes African Novus Ordo Bishop who Thanked Francis for “Updating the Gospel”.

In traditional Catholic moral theology, this is a mortal sin: John Paul II donated $200,000 for construction of world’s largest Orthodox cathedral.

In ‘full communion’ with Leo XIV: “Bishop Francesco Savino of Cassano all’Jonio [Italy] says in [an] interview that people in same-sex relationships ‘should not be denied the opportunity to be loved and to love, even on an intimate, sexual level, because denying them this, denying them their right, I repeat, is simply wrong’.” See, he does believe in right and wrong, he just inverts them! “Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter” (Isaias 5:20).

Not unrelated to the above? “A whistleblower archdiocesan priest whom Cardinal Robert McElroy has asked the Vatican to laicize has alleged that McElroy has been involved in three homosexual affairs over the years before being appointed archbishop of Washington.”

Variations on a theme: “A priest in the Cathedral of San Isidro in Argentina blessed two lesbian women dressed as brides, a traditional missionary priest [has] reported.”

Interim report of the Synod on Synodality: One blogger has done the unthinkable and attempted a rough translation from the original synodalish! (Don’t try this at home!)

Dangerous “High Church Modernism”: How Dr. Peter Kwasniewski combines traditional Catholicism with occultist and esoteric ideas.

‘Green’ technology at work: Leo XIV’s electric car fails to start. Hey, at least the Vatican is still giving environmental tips: From LED lamps to lawn clippings.

A fitting successor to the quasi-Satanic Christoph Schönborn: Leo XIV appoints Josef Grünwidl new ‘Archbishop’ of Vienna. (Here’s some background.)

This will barely elicit a yawn anymore: Brazil now has a bishop heading its LGBT+ ministry.

Great news: Modernist ‘Franciscan Media’ is shutting down for good! They used to be known as ‘St. Anthony Messenger’ until 2011.

The state of ‘Catholic’ higher education in 2025: Novus Ordo university tells employees to add gender pronouns to email signatures.

No, it’s not because he believes in the story of Noah’s Ark: Head of German Novus Ordo Bishops demands rainbow flag be hung in parliament. (But wait, there’s more!)

Is a pattern emerging yet? “A Diocese in Germany has dismissed a diocesan judge for remarks criticising and warning about homosexuality, especially in relation to the Church.”

More of the same? Prevost appoints Novus Ordo bishop linked to ex-‘Cardinal’ McCarrick and Hellboy James Martin to New Orleans archdiocese.

Thanks to Bob Prevost from Chicago (aka ‘Pope Leo XIV’), a woman now rules over Vatican City State. Speaking of which: In Minnesota, this ‘ordained’ female Lutheran pastor teaches at a Novus Ordo seminary and school of theology.

They said we needed Vatican II so Catholic churches wouldn’t turn into museums before long. They were right. Now they’ve become gyms instead.

Study finds priests aligned with ‘Pope’ Francis are more likely to approve of sodomy. Wow, they needed a study to figure that out?!

Leo XIV Taps Homosexual Chef for Castel Gandolfo. What, he couldn’t find a straight guy to cook for him? Hey, at least the restaurant will be eco-friendly!

When sexual perverts in Argentina march against President Javier Milei, guess whom the local ‘Catholic’ diocese supports….

Good luck with that: An Open Letter to Leo XIV to rescind same-sex blessings and Amoris Laetitia.

That figures: Hellboy James Martin finds heretical blasphemy in new book on Christ’s Childhood ‘fascinating’!

Hey, at least they don’t advocate for the Traditional Latin Mass: Jesuit university trains students at transgender center that indoctrinates 5-year-olds.

Italian Novus Ordo priest suspended after YouTube broadcast criticising Vatican II. Had he criticized all the other councils instead, he would have gotten a pay raise.

Got a friend or acquaintance who’s a Protestant? This book can help: The Devil and Martin Luther: The Shocking Truth About Luther’s Conversations with Hell, Incredible Blasphemies, Diabolical Heresies, His Terrifying Possessions, and the Reformation’s Darkest Scandal by Michael DiSalvo.

Interested in weighing the pros and cons of the Material-Formal Thesis regarding Apostolic succession? There’s the Thesis web site (pro) and also the Contra Thesis web site (con).

Tidbit from 1926: Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange on Indifferentism and Liberalism, and the Opposite Doctrine of the Church.

Pope Gregory XVI on the importance of refusing Catholic rites and public prayers for deceased non-Catholics.

No ecumenism here: Pope Benedict XIV (r. 1740-1758) shows why the courage of heretical sects’ ‘martyrs’ proves nothing.

Sister Lucy Truth has released a new video: The Fatima Files – The Priest Who Knew Too Much.

Louie Verrecchio cautions against Peter Pelican and the Bright Red Line.

Steven Speray explains why the Feeneyites are wrong again.

Fr. T.J. Ojeka helps people discern the true Catholic Church in a time of apostasy.

And this handy little Modernist Claptrap Generator will help Leo XIV’s speechwriters to crank out new content in no time!

And one for the road…