Novissima

The Virgin Mary Discusses with a Skeptical Farmer in 1886

A Timely Warning

Cardinal Brandmüller warns modern synodality draws on Protestant model

Cardinal Walter Brandmüller has questioned the Church’s modern understanding of synodality, warning that it risks blurring the authority given to bishops through Holy Orders.

China raises a member of the Council of Bishops to the episcopate with Roman approval, a body the Vatican does not recognize

In 2007, when Benedict XVI explained why Rome could not recognize the Council of Bishops as an episcopal conference, one of the reasons was that it was composed of illegitimate prelates and excluded clandestine bishops recognized by Rome. Francis, and now Leo XIV, have betrayed Chinese Catholics, upended the entire system, and yielded to the CCP, allowing it to decide on appointments, thereby creating a de facto Church in China, subordinate to the regime.

Leo’s Pontifical Academy for Life: Catholics Can Morally Assent to “Imperfect Laws” Allowing Assisted Suicide

Meanwhile, a communist-friendly bishop for China, a rainbow synod in Kraków, women religious helping choose bishops, and “Many Paths” interfaith religion in Goa.

Bishop consecrated to fill Chinese diocese vacant for 25 years

The CCP has a new 'bishop' of the official church consecrated with the agreement of the antipope Leo. The historic betrayal of China's Catholics deepens further under Leo, following 'Francis'.

Vatican document revives the heretical ideas of Teilhard de Chardin

'Caring for Our Common Home' endorses 'panentheism' as a new way to understand God’s relationship with the world, an idea previously rejected by the Church.

"By divinizing the cosmos and presenting humanity as self-redeeming through collective evolution, the new magisterium risks erasing the need for grace and redemption, reduces Christ to a moral exemplar, and transforms the Church into a socio-political institution rather than a salvific one."

The Knave in the Nave, the Asp in the Apse

Incinerated churches, beheaded priests, bloodshed during mass, desecration of the sacred, Catholicism is up in flames, as its edifices are hollowed out by the enemies of the faith.

Another insightful article by Elizabeth Yore on the state of disarray within the Catholic Church. One cannot help but think that this deterioration is not accidental, but directly linked to the rise to power of a new anti-papal lineage at the Vatican—now spanning thirteen years.

Aparecida in celebration for the mosaics covering those in Lourdes

The pope approves in France the covering of the works by Marko Rupnik, who is under trial for abuse, but blesses the solemn inauguration in Brazil of the basilica façade signed by the Centro Aletti

It seems that the right hand of Pope Leo XIV does not know what the left hand is doing, yet the Church of Rome does not appear concerned about clarifying anything to the faithful or even to the clergy. And yet, no explanation comes to mind.

The Resignation of Benedict XVI

A Carnival Jest

In these days, much is being said about the new book by Msgr. Viganò, in which the authoritative spokesman for the FSSPX writes that all «postconciliar popes are in a state of schism with the papacy» and considers them «enemies of the papacy». Personally, I consider John Paul II and Benedict XVI to be saints, and I strongly advise Viganò’s anti-papal and anti-council adversaries not to read this article. I have already addressed the issue of Benedict XVI’s resignation in my 2025 book, but since the Chair of Peter continues to be occupied abusively amid the total indifference of cardinals and bishops—including Viganò—it is by no means superfluous to revisit the topic.

The Lute Case and All Its Implications (Closely Touching Prevost)

The so-called Lute case (the nickname of Father Eleuterio Vásquez González, parish priest of the Chiclayo diocese in Peru) remains a subject of debate, not only within the Church. Vásquez was accused of sexually abusing three underage sisters, whom he allegedly had spend the night with in a parochial residence in the highlands. The complaints were filed directly with the then Bishop of Chiclayo, Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV; subsequently, in November 2025, the Vatican granted Father Lute a dispensation from the clerical state (a favour, not a sanction). However, the lawyer representing the victims, canonist Father Ricardo Coronado Arrascue, has been barred from acting on their behalf.

Is the Vatican complicit in persecution of China’s Catholics?

New revelations about secret consecrations of Underground bishops in China prove that the Sino-Vatican deal has firmly failed in achieving its aim.

The revelation that bishops are being secretly consecrated for the Underground Church in China is groundbreaking, since it undermines the entire narrative given by the Holy See regarding its dealings with the Communist state. The Vatican must now reject its 2018 deal with China or else risk being knowingly complicit with the persecution of Catholics, if it not doing so already.

CATHOLICS ENGAGE IN SPIRITUAL DENIAL

Will abuse victims ever see justice?