NEWS DIGEST January 29, 2026

Chronicling the unending infernal chaos of the Vatican II Church…

January 29, 2026

If you can endure it: “Fr. Mike Being Unhinged for 5 Minutes Straight”…

Put on your surprise face: Theologian who denies Christ’s resurrection to lecture at Spanish Novus Ordo seminary. No, it’s not ‘Cardinal’ Gerhard Müller….

There aren’t enough millstones: The newspaper of the Italian Novus Ordo bishops defends Transgenderism in children.

Archdiocese of Brisbane, Australia: ‘Mary, Mother of Mercy’ church “includes anti-Christian features, including Masonic symbols and indigenous mythology. Pagan and occult features were built into the church’s design and the opening ceremony exemplified the parish’s focus on paganism with a smoking ceremony and allusions to the four principal elements of alchemy.”

Watch out, here comes Mr. Grünwidl! New Vienna archbishop’s ‘ordination Mass’ features women in key roles, altered rituals. (Full video here.)

This says a lot about what’s considered ‘normal’ these days: Archlayman Georg Gänswein says with Leo XIV, “normality” is returning to the Vatican.

German branch of the Novus Ordo Sect continues its decline. With a total of only 1.3 million people going to ‘Mass’ every Sunday, the ‘Catholic Church’ in Germany is all but gone. (And no, charismatic ecumenical conferences for the young won’t help re-establish real Catholicism.)

For some, it’s apparently big dramatic news that Leo XIV would praise a document he himself had approved and ordered to be published in the first place.

Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey: Novus Ordo priest commits suicide, receives ecclesiastical burial anyway.

Sounds like a threat: Top Asian cardinal says ‘no one is exempt’ from synodal path for Church.

Under Leo XIV, the Vatican is once again publishing official attendance numbers at ‘papal’ events. (Francis had ordered a stop in 2017 after his attendance numbers were habitually embarrassingly low!)

Are you looking for Voodoo dances and rituals in a Novus Ordo church? You’ll need to head to Brazil for that.

Novus Ordo Diocese of Joliet, Illinois: Vicar General Reportedly Attends Former Diocesan Chancellor’s Gay ‘Wedding’. Where’s the local bishop? He’s busy getting ready to be installed as the new Archbishop of New York!

For Vatican News, the climate causes the weather. Hint: Look up the definition of ‘climate’.

Austrian Novus Ordo bishop co-authors book with Muslim cleric on ‘choosing love’. Not unrelated: ‘Pope’ Francis kisses hand of Muslim imam in Indonesia. (Yes, the image is real.)

Click at your own risk: Brazilian Novus Ordo bishop dances to wild Latin rhythms with youth.

So… what have the Novus Ordo bishops of Sicily been up to lately? Looks like they met with LGBT groups and urged their sheeple to ‘move beyond closed attitudes’.

Semi-trad presbyter Alcuin Reid responds to ‘Cardinal’ Arthur Roche’s consistorial memorandum against the Traditional Latin Mass. Oddly, he appears to claim that the Second Vatican Council did not issue any teachings, only “prudential decisions” or “policies”. A convenient argument for him perhaps, but hardly factual. Antipope Paul VI on Jan. 12, 1966: “In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided any extraordinary statements of dogmas endowed with the note of infallibility but it still provided its teaching with the authority of the Ordinary Magisterium which must be accepted with docility according to the mind of the Council concerning the nature and aims of each document.” Does the Rev. Reid docilely submit to the council’s doctrinal errors?

For your ‘Sedevacantists are just a bunch of Protestants!!’ stack of files: Vatican official praises Lutheran text as model for ‘Christian unity’ ahead of 2030 commemoration.

That ‘poor church for the poor’? Well, ‘Pope’ Francis definitely contributed his part to making it a reality.

Jesuit Hellboy James Martin publishes book about…. himself!

Spain was once a Catholic nation (and it wasn’t that long ago): “The Archdiocese of Madrid, Spain, recently allowed an LGBT advocacy group to train its seminarians.”

Nothing to see here: ‘Abortion care’ still covered by ‘Catholic’ Loyola University Chicago. Somewhat related: In 2024, a report was released according to which “about 150 Catholic hospitals in the United States provided ‘pediatric sex-change services’ between 2019 and 2023, including 33 Catholic hospitals that performed so-called gender-reassignment surgeries on minors.”

The Francis Effect: Massive decline of Novus Ordo ‘Catholicism’ in Latin America since 2013/14.

A kinder, gentler Lefebvrism: Society of St. Pius X now discourages conditional re-confirmations for those confirmed by a Novus Ordo bishop.

Perhaps more dialogue and encounter needed? Vatican rejects claims of widespread worker discontent after internal survey.

Well-known Vatican reporter John L. Allen, Jr., dies at 61. Before founding and working for Crux, Allen wrote for the infamous über-liberal National Catholic Reporter from 1997 until 2014.

The Archlayman of Santa Fe, New Mexico, knows how to “put love into practice”: Why, by listening to sodomites, of course!

Just published! On 876 pages, pseudonymous recognize-and-resist author Dominic J. Grigio publishes mammoth work against Francis’ reign of error: The Disastrous Pontificate: Pope Francis’ Rupture from the Magisterium. [Note: Novus Ordo Watch earns a small commission if purchased through this link.]

Very well done: A gifted young man raised in a Traditional Latin Mass environment (presumably indult) publishes The Catholic Cartoon.

Accused of ‘Antisemitism’, Louie Verrecchio reveals that his wife is Jewish.

A sedevacantist writer warns of the New Age/occult heretic ‘Fr.’ Richard Rohr, OFM.

Louie Verrecchio explains why spiritual deception can damn a soul to hell. (If it couldn’t, why would the devil bother?!)

Dominic Caggeso, author of Divine Poetry, offers a cautionary and skeptical view of Padre Pio.

Former Novus Ordo Jesuit (now real Catholic priest) Fr. James Marshall delivers a magnificent sermon on the proper order of Catholic home life.

A blogger wonders why some ‘traditional Catholics’ think they can dine at the table of demons.

And The WM Review explains what we can learn from bad online reactions to the sedevacantist Sisters of St. Thomas Aquinas in Brooksville, Florida.

And one for the road…