Leo XIV’s New Pastoral Staff: Bent Cross with Ascending Christ ‘No Longer Bound By the Nails of the Passion’!

When hideous art meets bad theology…

Leo XIV’s Strange New Pastoral Staff: Bent Cross with Ascending Christ ‘No Longer Bound By the Nails of the Passion’!

(image: YouTube screenshot/Vatican News)

For the Feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2026, Robert Prevost — the false pope from Chicago who is now known as Leo XIV — showed up with a new pastoral staff, also called a crozier or ferula.

In a blog post reporting on the new ‘papal’ staff, Vatican News quotes an explanation given by the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff:

The pastoral staff of Pope Leo XIV “presents Christ no longer bound by the nails of the Passion, but with His glorified body in the act of ascending to the Father.

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Leo XIV Holds Extraordinary Consistory: Semi-Trads Between Hope and Disappointment

All cardinals called to Rome for 2-day meeting…

Leo XIV Holds Extraordinary Consistory:
Semi-Trads Between Hope and Disappointment

‘Pope’ Leo XIV on May 12, 2025 (Shutterstock)

In November of last year, it became known that ‘Pope’ Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) was convening an extraordinary consistory of cardinals for Jan. 7 and 8, 2026. The well-founded rumor was confirmed by the Vatican with an official announcement in December.

A consistory is essentially a meeting of the Pope with his cardinals. It is a very traditional convention in the Catholic Church, and one that has been retained by the Novus Ordo Sect (Vatican II Church):

A Consistory, which comes from the Latin “consistere” meaning “stand together,” is a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals.

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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?
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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

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

No Unity, No Faith: Leo XIV Introduces His Ecumenical Super-Church

Prevost tries to reduce Catholic dogma to Nicene Creed…

No Unity, No Faith:
Leo XIV Introduces His Ecumenical Super-Church

In our prior post on ‘Pope’ Leo XIV’s newly-released ‘apostolic letter’ on the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, In Unitate Fidei, we provided a critical examination of much of its content:

In the last article of this pseudo-magisterial document, n. 12, the false pope speaks of the “ecumenical value” of Nicea. It is this we will now take a closer look at:

Finally, the Council of Nicaea is relevant today because of its great ecumenical value.

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No Unity of Faith: Leo XIV Releases ‘Apostolic Letter’ Filled with Ecumenical Bilge and Other Errors

For 1700th anniversary of Council of Nicea…

No Unity of Faith: Leo XIV Releases ‘Apostolic Letter’ Filled with Ecumenical Bilge and Other Errors

This past Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, on the occasion of the Novus Ordo feast of ‘Jesus Christ, King of the Universe’, the current false pope in Rome, Bob Prevost from Chicago (‘His Holiness Leo XIV’), released a new ‘apostolic letter’ regarding the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicea, in which the Catholic dogma of the Most Holy Trinity was defined:

Ironically entitled In Unitate Fidei (“In the Unity of Faith”), it claims the Council of Nicaea of 325 as the joint heritage of all ‘Christians’, by whom he means all the baptized who believe in the Trinity, regardless of what their religious affiliation is (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, etc.).… READ MORE

Michael Matt: ‘Christ is the Head of the Church, Not the Pope!’

Still trying to uphold the Faith by denying it…

Michael Matt: ‘Christ is the Head of the Church, Not the Pope!’

On Nov. 13, 2025, the recognize-and-resist flagship The Remnant published an editorial by its editor, Michael J. Matt, entitled “Latin Mass Returns to Pope’s Basilica”. It had also appeared two weeks earlier in the newspaper’s Oct. 31 print issue.

“This, obviously, is the beginning of the loosening of restrictions on the Latin Mass, a step in the right direction”, Matt opens optimistically, and no doubt he felt even more vindicated when he was able to post this added note to the online version of the article:

Since the following editorial appeared in The Remnant Newspaper’s October 31st issue, news has reached us that further permissions for the traditional Latin Mass being offered in the Basilica of Saint Peter are now in the works.

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Leo XIV Warmly Receives ‘Married’ Sodomite Couple in Audience

Changing attitudes first, eh?

Leo XIV Warmly Receives ‘Married’ Sodomite Couple in Audience

Sometimes events unfold so rapidly that the semi-trads’ expert commentary is refuted by the time it gets published. The last 24-48 hours are a good example of that.

Just as the Rorate Caeli blog was trying to pin the Nov. 8 public Novus Ordo confirmation of a ‘married’ sodomite celebrity (in the presence of his ‘husband’ as well as the infamous Hellboy James Martin) at St. Paul the Apostle’s ‘Catholic’ Church in New York on Vatican II and ‘Pope’ Francis only — while being conspicuously silent regarding Francis’ successor — ‘Pope’ Leo XIV essentially said, “Hold my beer.”… READ MORE

Sixty Years of Vatican II: Church and Synagogue After ‘Nostra Aetate’

Six decades of rupture, not continuity…

Sixty Years of Vatican II:
Church and Synagogue After Nostra Aetate

On Oct. 28, 2025, the Novus Ordo Sect celebrated the 60th anniversary of its apostatical document Nostra Aetate, issued by ‘Pope’ (and now, naturally, even ‘Saint’) Paul VI as part of the so-called Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). The document styles itself a “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions”. We already critiqued some of its contents a few days ago:

For over 1,900 years the Roman Catholic Church had spoken of other religions quite simply as false, pernicious, and diabolical instruments of damnation.… READ MORE

Mayhem Unfolds as Leo XIV Decides Against Marian Titles ‘Co-Redemptrix’ and ‘Mediatrix of All Graces’: An Overview

Vatican issues doctrinal statement…

Mayhem Unfolds as Leo XIV Decides Against Marian Titles ‘Co-Redemptrix’ and ‘Mediatrix of All Graces’: An Overview

Victor Manuel Fernandez, author of Heal Me With Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing, presents the new doctrinal note

[UPDATE 10-NOV-2025: More links to resources added]

The same ‘Pope’ Leo XIV who in a recent sermon declared that “[n]o one should impose his or her own ideas”, has just done that very thing by approving a new doctrinal document put out by the Dicastery for the Destruction of the Faith (DDF).

The text, entitled Mater Populi Fidelis (‘Mother of the Faithful People’), was written and presented by the Vatican’s ‘Mouth-Healer’, the notorious Argentinian mystical porn author ‘Cardinal’ Victor Manuel Fernandez (see image above), who has been in charge of the Vatican’s doctrinal department since 2023:

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LEO WATCH with Bishop Donald Sanborn – Episode 5

Bp. Sanborn dismantles Prevost’s facade…

LEO WATCH, Episode 5

“No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it together”

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 fifth episode was broadcast live on Oct.… READ MORE

Sixty Years of Vatican II’s Declaration on Non-Christian Religions: A Reality Check on ‘Nostra Aetate’

Six sorrowful decades…

Sixty Years of Vatican II’s Declaration on Non-Christian Religions: A Reality Check on Nostra Aetate

Bob Prevost from Chicago, here playing ‘Pope Leo XIV’, chats with other non-Catholics in the Vatican on Oct. 28, 2025
image: Vatican Media/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images)

These days the Novus Ordo Sect is celebrating 60 years of the Second Vatican Council‘s declaration Nostra Aetate on the Church’s relationship to non-Christian religions. It was solemnly promulgated by the false pope Paul VI on Oct. 28, 1965, with these words:

Each and all these items which are set forth in this Declaration have met with the approval of the Council Fathers.

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Gagging the Gospel: Leo XIV Offers Warmed-Over Greeting Card Spirituality to Interreligious Audience

Generic ‘love conquers death’ message that works for any religion…

Gagging the Gospel: Leo XIV Offers Warmed-Over Greeting Card Spirituality to Interreligious Audience

Not Catholic? No problem! Then Mr. Prevost has a non-Catholic message for you…

On Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025, an event called the ALS Walk for Life was held in Chicago, Illinois. It describes itself thus: “The ALS Walk for Life is the biggest ALS gathering in the Midwest. We’re building teams, raising funds for essential care and research, and turning the tide in the fight against this disease.”

ALS stands for ‘Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis’ and is also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.… READ MORE

LEO WATCH with Bishop Donald Sanborn – Episode 4

Bp. Sanborn tears down Prevost’s facade…

LEO WATCH, Episode 4

“We have to change attitudes before changing what the Church says.”

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For just over five months now, the Vatican II Church has been under new management. Since May 8, Robert Francis Prevost has been running the show as ‘Pope Leo XIV’.

The popular FRANCIS WATCH podcast program has thus become LEO WATCH, and it had its debut on June 3.

LEO WATCH is produced by Roman Catholic Media on a monthly basis. A fourth episode was broadcast live on Sep. 25 on YouTube.

As with its predecessor FRANCIS WATCH, in the new LEO WATCH, host Stephen Heiner is joined by sedevacantist Bishop Donald J.… READ MORE