Miscellanea

On the tendency of the rebounded to declare the sede vacante

The so-called transalpine redemptorists—known as Transalpine Redemptorists—are a traditionally-minded community that, after an initial period in the orbit of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, was regularized during the pontificate of Benedict XVI and incardinated in a diocese in New Zealand. At that moment they accepted an interpretation of the Second Vatican Council in light of Tradition and compatible with their charism. Their austere life and strict liturgical sensibility had not prevented them from remaining within the ecclesial structure. Until now. A disciplinary intervention motivated by internal denunciations, pointing to extreme practices in communal life, has precipitated an abrupt shift also on the doctrinal plane.

Leo’s Coming Humanist Encyclical: The Gospel of Magnificent Man

Leo XIV prepares an encyclical on AI, peace, and international law while Amoris Laetitia remains untouched, sacrilege is indulged, and former compromisers begin to admit the obvious.

Task Force: Biden’s DOJ Persecuted Traditional Catholics

Washington profiles traditional Catholics, Germany turns seminaries into therapy labs, Rome hands families a compost bin, and the daughters of the Carmelites of Compiègne prepare to leave forever

Bishop Eleganti on the old rite, Islam and the future of the Church

Bishop Marian Eleganti speaks to AdVaticanum on the appeal of the traditional liturgy, Islam and the Society of St Pius X. Eleganti addresses the fallout of the Second Vatican Council, the place of the old rite and the pertinent questions facing the Church in the West

Exemplary letter from young Catholics against the techno spectacle at the anniversary of Francis

The Portuguese priest DJ and the massive celebration for the anniversary of the death of the antipope Francis, in complicity and participation of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, in the Plaza de Mayo and in front of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, prompts young Catholics to raise their voices.

The Church's omertà on pedophiles: "We must judge ourselves among ourselves"

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi explains why bishops do not report priests' sexual abuse to the civil authorities, confirming that for the Church sexual violence is merely a sin

On Consecrated Hosts Given to Dogs

Abomination in the Diocese of Chur (Switzerland)

A Swiss bishop absolves 3 women who gave consecrated hosts to dogs, denying sacrilegious intent. For A-M. Valli, it is a sign of a Church that has lost the sense of the sacred: the Eucharist profaned, no excommunication, only a liturgical retreat. Faith in the Real Presence vanished, Communion reduced to a "gadget".

Assisted suicide might cause even worse suffering after death

Those who support physician-assisted killing acknowledge that humans have souls while falsely claiming to know that suffering ends for those souls by killing the body.

Lest He Tear You to Pieces: A Short Message to the Synodal Spawn who are Breathing Threats of Excommunication Against the Faithful

I do not come to beg mercy from those who relentlessly wound and abuse the Bride of Christ while claiming to govern her.

Fernández prepares a schism decree amid possible FSSPX consecrations in July

The Vatican is preparing to declare a schism if the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX) consecrates new bishops without pontifical mandate on July 1st in Écône. The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, already has a decree ready to respond to this scenario, while Rome also organizes a pastoral response to welcome those who abandon the Fraternity.

The ignored victims of Santarsiero: exposed by the accused while the Church neither confirms receipt of nor acknowledges their complaint

A formal complaint against Bishop Antonio Santarsiero Rosa was filed at the Apostolic Nunciature in Lima on March 26, 2026, yet the victims have received no acknowledgment from ecclesiastical authorities.

Mullally in Vatican, the pseudo-blessing that should have been avoided

By receiving the Anglican primate, Leo XIV mentioned the «new problems» that have arisen between Rome and Canterbury, one of which was right in front of him: the so-called archbishop fresh from the spectacle of "blessing" steps away from Peter's tomb while a bishop made the sign of the cross, in defiance of sacramental truth.