Penance for Your Eyes: St. Konrad ‘Catholic’ Church in Offenbach, Germany

Wait till you see the tabernacle!

Penance for Your Eyes:
St. Konrad ‘Catholic’ Church in Offenbach, Germany

(image: Rudolf Stricker/Wikimedia Commons)

Wherever you may be in the Western world, if you ever notice an architectural monstrosity that you can’t quite identify, a good rule of thumb is: If it’s too ugly to be a library, a medical office, or a government building, then it’s probably a Novus Ordo church.

Take, for example, the ‘Catholic’ church of St. Konrad in the German town of Offenbach, near Frankfurt, in the state of Hesse. It’s an eye magnet, and not in a good way.… READ MORE

Now Fully Transcribed and Searchable: The Explosive Vatican II Diaries of Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton

The inside story of the struggle for orthodoxy…

Now Fully Transcribed and Searchable: The Explosive Vatican II Diaries of Mgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton

Long-time readers of this blog may recall that we have promoted the Mgr. Fenton diaries before. This time, however, there is a major difference: The diaries have now been transcribed electronically and can be downloaded as typewritten, searchable PDF files. If interested, please read on.

It’s been 57 years since the passing of one of America’s finest Catholic theologians: Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton (1906-1969). Some of his many works have been reprinted and/or are available online:

Mgr.… READ MORE

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

A little mistake can make a big difference…

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

[UPDATE 15-JUL-2026: We have put together a brief video illustrating this case here]

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.… READ MORE

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

You can’t make this stuff up…

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?

Those pesky ‘irregular situations’…

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

Unauthorized ordinations, schism, excommunication…

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

The Lefebvrists’ alternate reality…

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

Priests and laity affected as well…

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