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:

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Vatican-SSPX Showdown: Lefebvrists Consecrate Four New Bishops Without Permission

Schism, excommunications, and the aftermath…

Vatican-SSPX Showdown: Lefebvrists Consecrate Four New Bishops Without Permission

VIDEO: Novus Ordo Watch/Catholic Family Podcast on the SSPX Excommunications

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Podcast: The SSPX and the ‘Legitimate’ Exercise of the Papacy (TRADCAST EXPRESS 227)

Lefebvrists tinker with profession of faith…

Podcast: The SSPX and the ‘Legitimate’ Exercise of the Papacy
(TRADCAST EXPRESS 227)

Our latest podcast episode, TRADCAST EXPRESS 227, was published on June 25. It is 28 minutes long and deals with the big news that broke the day before: that the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX or FSSPX), founded in 1970 by Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, had sent ‘Pope’ Leo XIV an open letter and, along with it, submitted a lengthy profession of faith that specifically opposes modern errors:

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On the SSPX, the Old Covenant, and No Salvation Outside the Church: A Refutation of George Weigel

Novus Ordo theologian stumbles over perennial Catholic truth…

On the SSPX, the Old Covenant, and No Salvation Outside the Church: A Refutation of George Weigel

The well-known Novus Ordo lay theologian George Weigel has published an article against the Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX or SSPX) in the neo-conservative First Things magazine.

First Things was founded in 1989 by Rev. Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009), a name that was once a familiar one in ‘orthodox’ Novus Ordo circles but that seems to have largely disappeared from public discourse in the last decade or so, at least online. Neuhaus was a convert to the Novus Ordo religion from Lutheranism and supported Hans Urs von Balthasar’s blasphemous “hope” that all people will go to Heaven.… READ MORE

Podcast: The Visibly False Church of Leo XIV (TRADCAST EXPRESS 226)

A true church with false teachings?

Podcast: The Visibly False Church of Leo XIV
(TRADCAST EXPRESS 226)

Our latest podcast episode, TRADCAST EXPRESS 226, was published on May 23. It is 29 minutes long and deals with two separate but related topics.

First, we focus on a curious phrase with which Robert Prevost (‘Pope Leo XIV’) described the Holy Eucharist recently. In his May 10, 2026 Regina Caeli address, he said: “As he turns the bread and wine into a living expression of his love, Christ says: ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments’ (Jn 14:15)”.… READ MORE

The Church’s Mystical Passion: What It Is (and Isn’t)

Video discussion on Kokx News…

The Church’s Mystical Passion: What It Is (and Isn’t)

More and more people are adopting the idea that the profound changes to the Roman Catholic religion that have occurred since roughly the time of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) can only be explained by positing that the Catholic Church has been sharing mystically in the Passion of her Divine Founder.

The Church being the Mystical Body of Christ, it is rather fitting that she should resemble her Invisible Head in all things, not excluding a period of intense suffering, persecution, and (at least apparent) ‘death’ before He returns to judge the living and the dead.… READ MORE

Now in English: ‘Catechism of Timely Truths Opposed to Contemporary Errors’ by Bishop de Castro Mayer (1953)

Vatican II condemned in advance!

Now in English: Catechism of Timely Truths Opposed to Contemporary Errors by Bp. Antônio de Castro Mayer

On Jan. 3, 1949, Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer (1904-1991) became the local ordinary of the diocese of Campos, Brazil. He had been appointed coadjutor by Pope Pius XII ten months earlier.

In 1953, His Excellency issued two important documents in his diocese, one entitled ‘Pastoral Letter on the Problems of the Modern Apostolate’, the other ‘Catechism of Timely Truths Opposed to Contemporary Errors’. Although they have been available in Portuguese and French for a long time, it is only now that they are finally available in English, under one cover — including also a set of specific guidelines Bp.… READ MORE

Conservative Novus Ordo Bishop Warns of ‘Tradwives’ Trend!

Stefan Oster of Passau releases video statement…

Conservative Novus Ordo Bishop Warns of ‘Tradwives’ Trend!

The Most Rev. Stefan Oster (b. 1965) is the counterfeit ‘Roman Catholic bishop’ of the diocese of Passau, Germany. A perpetually-professed Salesian since 1999, he was appointed to his current role by the false ‘Pope’ Francis in 2014. Oster is considered ‘conservative’ by comparison with his mostly über-Modernist colleagues; and although that is surely accurate, it doesn’t say a whole lot, as we will now see.

In an elaborate statement published by him on Feb. 26, 2026 on his personal blog and also released as a video, Bishop Oster warns against the (clearly politically-incorrect) surge in young women who present themselves online as happy and fulfilled ‘tradwives’, or as aspiring to become such.… READ MORE

Vatican II Revisited: Louie Verrecchio Dismantles the Conciliar Documents

Former Novus Ordo apologist takes council to task…

Vatican II Revisited:
Louie Verrecchio Dismantles the Conciliar Documents

This past December 8 marked the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), that ominous assembly that is the magisterial ground zero for ‘modern Catholicism’ — an attempt to do the impossible and reconcile Catholicism to the secular modern world by means of an aggiornamento (“updating”) of the Catholic religion.

The result was a diabolical counterfeit Catholicism that embraces, in one way or another, many of the errors the Catholic Church sternly condemned until the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958: ecumenism, religious liberty, Sillonism, collegiality, subjectivism, liberalism, Modernism — the list is long and the errors are deadly.… READ MORE

Bergoglio’s Marriage Annulment Rules Ten Years Later: ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Novus Ordo Style

Fast, free family wrecking!

Bergoglio’s Marriage Annulment Rules Ten Years Later:
Operation Warp Speed Novus Ordo Style

by Francis del Sarto

On May 15, 2020, the United States government launched Operation Warp Speed. Its goal? To manufacture and distribute an injection that would purportedly immunize citizens from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Operation Warp Speed is a fitting name for the accelerated procedure to obtain marriage annulments introduced by the Vatican II Church ten years ago by Argentinian apostate Jorge Mario Bergoglio (aka “Pope Francis”).

Not that the “annulment” process needed a push, mind you. In 1968 there were only 338 declarations of nullity issued in the entire United States.… READ MORE

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

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

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