Using false theology to refute false theology won’t work…
Is Leo XIV Correcting Francis?
Against the Magisterial ‘Vibe Shift’ of Eric Sammons
Mr. Eric Sammons, magisterial vibe shift detector
Eric Sammons, the editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine, has once again cranked out some foolish and dangerous claims about the Catholic Faith.
In the June 3, 2025 episode of his Crisis Point Podcast, entitled “Pope Leo Contradicts Pope Francis”, he suggests that when Popes correct a teaching of their predecessors, they do so not openly or directly but by means of a ‘vibe shift’. This does not pose a problem for the Catholic magisterium, he maintains, because papal teaching isn’t truly magisterial of itself; rather, only subsequent repetition by future Popes and acceptance by the Church as a whole, drawn out over a long period of time, renders a papal teaching genuinely magisterial.… READ MORE
Yesterday, a 5-minute extract from the episode was published on YouTube with the no less intriguing title, “The Antichrist: Warnings from the Early Church”.… READ MORE
Pope Pius XII on the Unchanging Orthodoxy of the Papal Teaching Office
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 and spreading it has become easier and easier.… READ MORE
Address of His Holiness Pope Pius XII to Newlyweds on the Perpetual Teaching of the Living Peter, January 17, 1940
There exists in Rome an ancient and pious practice, which even the most illustrious personages have more than once performed, for newly married couples to make a devout visit to the Patriarchal Basilica of the Vatican, to repeat their Catholic beliefs and to implore perseverance in the faith for their new homes. And you, dear sons and daughters, through a particularly happy coincidence, have come here on the very eve of the day on which the Church celebrates the Feast of the Chair of St.… READ MORE
Catholics must assent to what the Pope teaches – period.
The Binding Force of Papal Teaching:
A Pre-Vatican II Theologian Explains
Fr. John F. Cronin (1908-94) was an expert on Catholic social teaching
For about six decades now, many Catholics of good will have been subjected to great deception and falsehood from two angles: On the one hand, the Novus Ordo religion that emerged in the Vatican with the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), and on the other hand, the good-faith but nevertheless often theologically-flawed attempts to resist that new religion while nevertheless recognizing the ‘Popes’ who have imposed it as legitimate Popes.… READ MORE
Can the Church of Christ be found also in heretical sects?
On the True Church of Christ:
Trent Horn and Vatican II vs. Roman Catholicism
On Mar. 4, 2024, the professional Novus Ordo apologist Trent Horn of Catholic Answers had a discussion with a Calvinist on his Counsel of Trent YouTube channel. Entitled “Calvinism and Catholicism”, it was a roughly 100-minute chat with the YouTuber known as ‘Redeemed Zoomer’. The video, which can be found here, has received over 192,000 views so far.
As a loyal Novus Ordo adherent, Horn of course presented the teaching of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), not the teaching of the Catholic Church during the 1,900 years before that.… READ MORE
Great news, everyone! We have published another full-length episode of our popular TRADCAST podcast program. As always, it is loaded with real traditional Catholicism, insightful commentary, hard-hitting refutations of various errors, and razor-sharp analysis. Our content is typically challenging but is always delivered in an accessible way — and with an occasional relieving touch of humor, so necessary in our chaotic and bizarre times.
The first segment of TRADCAST 038 begins with a look at the Vatican’s new guidelines for discerning alleged apparitions and mystical phenomena.… READ MORE
Segment 1 — The Vatican’s new guidelines for discerning alleged apparitions and mystical phenomena. Eric Sammons and that pesky question of whether Francis professes the Catholic Faith. The Remnant promotes Pope Pius IX’s encyclical Qui Pluribus but rejects its teaching on the Papacy.
Segment 2 — Some news stories you may have missed. ‘From the Jorge’s Mouth’: Francis prays for souls in Heaven, ignores those in purgatory; Francis sends heretical note of condolence on the death of a Bulgarian Orthodox archbishop. Can the Vatican ban the Traditional Latin Mass? A misleading Crisis Magazine article and ‘Bp.’
Taylor Marshall and Quo Primum: Did Pope St. Pius V Really Grant a Perpetual Right to the Traditional Mass?
There are a number of urban legends floating around the traditionalist Catholic world that simply will not die.
One of the more popular ones is the claim that in his 1570 bull Quo Primum, Pope St. Pius V granted to all Catholic priests of the Roman rite the perpetual right to offer Holy Mass according to the rite he was then promulgating, which is today known as the Traditional Latin Mass; and that no subsequent Pope has the authority to withdraw that permission or revoke that right.… READ MORE
a Catholic priest, moral theologian, and Papal Missionary of Mercy. He serves as the Pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish in Indian Land, South Carolina and is an Adjunct Professor of Theology at Belmont Abbey College. He has author [sic] several books and digital programs on the moral and spiritual traditions of the Catholic Church.
Infinite Human Dignity? A Look at the Mixed Reactions to the Latest DDF Declaration
With its release of the declaration Dignitas Infinita on Apr. 8, 2024, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Destruction of the Faith has added more fuel to the fire of disagreement and confusion that has been raging in the Vatican II Church.
From all sides, reactions have been pouring in, and they vary widely, even within the various ideological groups. From the new document being hailed as a “dramatic” statement that is nothing short of a “masterpiece” to it being “quite possibly the most wicked statement possible” on the subject, any and all opinions are represented in the spectrum.… READ MORE
The Limits of Papal Power: Contrasting Traditional Catholic Teaching with the Recognize-and-Resist Distortion
Detail taken from “Homage by Catholics to Pope Pius IX” by Wilhelmus Petrus van Geldorp (1871)
The semi-traditionalist pundits of our day love to pontificate (pardon the pun) on the limits of the Papacy. The Pope can’t just do whatever he pleases, they (rightly) point out and thereby (wrongly) feel vindicated in their theologically disastrous position of recognizing Jorge Bergoglio as Pope (Francis), while nevertheless resisting his magisterium, his acts of governance, his canonizations, and his liturgical prescriptions where they believe these deviate from what he ought to be teaching and legislating.… READ MORE
Unofficial Attitudes or Official Teachings?
How Eric Sammons Again Distorts the Papacy
The web site of Crisis Magazine informs the visitor that the online publication is “Orthodox. Faithful. Free.”
Free though it may indeed be, who vouches for its purported orthodoxy and faithfulness? Why, the people who operate Crisis Magazine, of course. In other words, it is a self-endorsement, nothing more than an advertisement. (Hans Küng didn’t think of himself as a heretic either, by the way.) If they are indeed as orthodox and faithful as they claim to be, why do they not get an endorsement — a digital imprimatur of sorts — from the local Novus Ordo bishop of the diocese in which they operate, or at least a nihil obstat from the diocesan censor?… READ MORE
Video: Sedevacantism Debate
with SSPV Clergy and Indult Traditionalists
top left to right: Rev. Brian Harrison, Bp. Clarence Kelly bottom left to right: Fr. William W. Jenkins, Count Neri Capponi
A reader of this web site recently found a real treasure buried on an old VHS tape: a debate on Sedevacantism between Society of St. Pius V (SSPV) clergy and ‘mainstream’ traditionalists.
The length of the recording is 2 hours 43 minutes. The exchange must have taken place around 1995. The participants were Bp. Clarence Kelly and Fr. William Jenkins for the SSPV, versus ‘Fr.’… READ MORE
‘Pope’ Francis Green-Lights Blessings of Sodomite Couples
The so-called Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a document today that essentially allows Novus Ordo priests to bless sinful unions. In particular, it permits the blessing not simply of sodomitic individuals but precisely of couples. Of course the same goes for heterosexual couples who are in an adulterous union or otherwise ‘irregular situation’.
Entitled Fiducia Supplicans, the document has been published by the Vatican press office in Italian, French, English, German, and Spanish:
@Catholicizm1 Hey Anthony, thank you for your thoughts here, expressed sincerely and charitably. I'd like to react to them and share my perspective on these things, though of couse I can't pack all that into a tweet, and I'm actually away from home right now anyway. So hopefully by late next
Latest from whacko Novus Ordo Land: "Church spaces should become living spaces!" - https://cathcon.blogspot.com/2025/08/modernists-now-cry-out-for-theology-of.html
Vatican II Revisited: The Errors and Ambiguities of the Second Vatican Council - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLJwQyuma6Q This is an introductory episode to the series featuring someone who used to be a big council "splainer" and defender.
Mr. Eric Sammons, magisterial vibe shift detector
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