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A Very Different Church: Leo XIV and the ‘Week of Prayer for Christian Unity’ - https://novusordowatch.org/2026/01/different-church-leo14-week-prayer-christian-unity/ Blatant heresy in Vatican’s material for ecumenical prayer week… but will anyone care?
What we can learn from bad reactions to the 'sede' Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas online - https://www.wmreview.org/p/what-we-can-learn-from-bad-reactions?hide_intro_popup=true
Guess what: Vatican says indulgences are "encounter with God"! - https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-01/year-saint-francis-indulgence-assisi.html For these people, everything is either an encounter or a journey. Considering how many words the Vatican has put out since the 1960's, it's astonishing how limited their vocabulary actually
The Archlayman of Washington, 'Cardinal' Robert McElroy, wants to "reverse the avalanche of young people leaving the Church" - https://www.cathstan.org/local/in-interview-cardinal-mcelroy-says-consultations-with-laity-and-priests-input-led-to-goals-for-pastoral-action-in-archdiocese-of-washington
Padre Guilherme: The Vatican II Religion's DJ Priest - https://thecatholicherald.com/article/padre-guilherme-the-dj-priest
Interesting perspective, @catholicpods, but subject to the same flaws in the Old Testament ecclesiology of some trads. Thi…
Looks like the annual washing of prisoners' feet has ended: Leo XIV restores Holy Thursday 'Mass of the Lord's Supper' to Cathedral of St. John Lateran - https://www.silerenonpossum.com/en/fine-delle-trasferte-leone-xiv-riordina-settimana-santa-ed-esercizi-della-curia/
Truth in advertising? Michael Lofton categorizes his 'Reason & Theology' account on X as "Entertainment & Recreation". https://x.com/NovusOrdoWatch/status/2011920320580456879/photo/1
Unfortunately @FrAquinasOP doesn't distinguish between a) being out of communion with the Roman Pontiff, and b) denying th…
A Very Different Church: Leo XIV and the ‘Week of Prayer for Christian Unity’ - https://novusordowatch.org/2026/01/different-church-leo14-week-prayer-christian-unity/ https://x.com/NovusOrdoWatch/status/2011908750383423553/photo/1
Semi-trads love to quote Benedict XVI from his letter accompanying the release of Summorum Pontificum: "What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful." Do they not
@StephenKokx It seems to me that the semi-trads' criticism of the "controlled nature" of the consistory is essentially the same objection the progressivists had at the very beginning of Vatican II with regard to the drafts prepared by the commissions.
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, never shy to let everyone else know what they should be doing and thinking, is very impressed with his own opinions, so in his latest he clarifies: "...I see no inherent reason why Church authority may not permit something that is evil; I mean, we saw it https://x.com/NovusOrdoWatch/status/2011849539150336310/photo/1
Leo XIV tries to console relatives of victims of New Year's Eve party fire in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, by suggesting they're all on their way to Heaven - https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/pope-leo-xiv-meets-parents-and-families
But of course! Prevost sends his best wishes on anniversary of leftist rag 'La Repubblica' - https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-01/pope-press-freedom-la-repubblica-50th-anniversary.html
'The Remnant' blasts the "mainstream Church".... That must be the one Michael Matt says he will never leave! https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/8072-why-today-s-men-are-repulsed-by-the-mainstream-catholic-church
"The most theologically serious claim, however, lies in Cardinal David’s assertion that the ordained do not have a “mo…
Interesting attempt at a distinction between the "sede" Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas @QasOnline and the false sects of Ort…
"For Pope Leo XIV, Christian unity is not just an ideal, but an imperative" - https://www.osvnews.com/for-pope-leo-xiv-christian-unity-is-not-just-an-ideal-but-an-imperative/ Interesting. For Catholics, it's a fact.
The consistorial address of the Vatican's osculatory healing expert 'Cardinal' Victor Manuel Fernandez of the Dicastery for the Destruction of the Faith has been leaked. https://blog.messainlatino.it/2026/01/news-esclusiva-testo-relazioni-roche-fernandez-baggio-al-concistoro.html Courtesy @messainlatino. https://x.com/NovusOrdoWatch/status/2011497295276081172/photo/1
@PonderHart I thank you for your feedback, but it is you who have misunderstood my criticism - perhaps due to my not being clear enough. When I said that "to say no one can stop you from assisting at an unlawul (sorry, 'underground') Mass is idiotic", I was taking issue with Dr. K's idea
Leo XIV may just issue an 'Apostolic Constitution', but in favor of the Novus Ordo worship service. Oh wait, 'Saint' Paul VI did that already in 1969! ("Missale Romanum")
NEW: Bishop Schneider has asked Pope Leo XIV to issue an Apostolic Constitution on the Latin Mass.
+Schneider suggests that such a text would fully remove restrictions on the traditional rite.
He met with Leo in December
Full report on @PelicanCatholic, found in comment below https://t.co/OWBeYBm0ZR
Leo's mosaic portrait ready for Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls - https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-01/mosaic-of-pope-leo-xiv-for-basilica-of-st-paul-outside-the-wall.html
Leo XIV in his catechesis on Vatican II's Dei Verbum, on the purpose of prayer: "...we are required to speak with God, not to communicate to him what He already knows, but to reveal ourselves to ourselves". https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/audiences/2026/documents/20260114-udienza-generale.html Inaccurate. This kind of self-revelation may be a
Lebanon divided over 'DJ Priest' - https://newdailycompass.com/en/lebanon-divided-over-dj-priest
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