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Fr. Robert McTeigue: Summa Contra Traddies?

Is “shut up, he explained” really a strategy for parenting, teaching, or governing the Church? In the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas, Father McTeigue imagines a Summa Contra Traddies that actually answers objections instead of dismissing them.
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A Letter From Hell

A woman who thought of herself as a decent Catholic on earth explains why she is now in hell.
Sister Claire was a German nun who lived in the first half of the 20th century. But before that, she worked at a business firm with a woman named Annette. Annette died in a car accident in 1937 in Southern Germany. Many years later, after the death of Sister Claire, a mysterious account of Annette telling Sister Claire that she had gone to hell was found in the papers of the convent.
Before you write this off as loony, know that the diocesan Curia of Trier, Germany authorized its publication before the Council. Furthermore, this “Letter from Beyond” (as it was originally called in its publication) was promoted by Fr. Bernardino Krempel C.P., a doctor of theology. You may be surprised while reading the following account of hell how well it lines up with what other mystics and saints said about the afterlife, including the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
As you read it, notice that Annette was …

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A Globalist Bishop in Canada

In Quebec, one of Pope Leo’s first moves was to promote Monsignor Martin Laliberté as coadjutor of Saint-Jean–Longueuil, effectively naming him the next bishop. The Vatican’s own news noted that Leo XIV made the appointment on February 11, 2026. Laliberté is the very model of the postmodern cleric. In a December 2023 pastoral letter “En marche, ensemble” he mocked the very idea of a Church “returning” to its former glory. He declared that “Rêver à un âge d’or fictif… est illusoire” – that dreaming of some fictitious Golden Age of the Faith is pure illusion. In other words, any hope of going “backwards” is condemned as naïve. He went on to praise perpetual change: “la dimension institutionnelle et structurelle de notre Église est et sera appelée à se modifier. Elle l’a fait tout au long de l’histoire…c’est certain que…c’est pas grave.” The structures of the Church must keep evolving, he insisted, and even if that is “difficult…it is not a tragedy”.
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Synodal Rome Demands SSPX Suspends Plans for Episcopal Consecrations

And so the ecclesial drama of the year got underway in all earnestness earlier today, with Cardinal Victor Manuel “Heal-me-with-your-mouth” Fernández making the first demand on behalf of the Modernist cabal occupying Rome.
In a statement released by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Fernández, it is said that “a cordial and sincere meeting took place at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith between the Prefect, His Eminence Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, and the Superior General of the SSPX, Rev. D. Davide Pagliarani, with the approval of the Holy Father Leo XIV.”
The Dicastery’s statement warns that episcopal consecrations without papal mandate would constitute a decisive rupture in ecclesial communion and carry grave canonical consequences.
At the same time, the Dicastery proposes renewed theological dialogue, focusing on distinctions such as that between the act of divine faith and “religious assent of intellect and will,” as well as the degrees of …

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Spanish Bishops Turn Marriage Prep Into A Cheesy Video Game

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Does the Parish You Hate, Hate You?

South of Minneapolis the Great Plains begin. One of our members once worked for a construction company there. The owner was a devout Catholic who had built a business repointing the mortar on old church buildings. The business thrived because the Plains are dotted with such churches: built, furnished, funded, founded, and shaped by Catholic Bohemian immigrants over one hundred and fifty years ago.
They are filled with memorials, intentional and otherwise, of the fact that these buildings were built and peopled by men and women who felt that this parish was the heart of their community, and that they had a meaningful kind of ownership in it.
Throughout the American Midwest, and every other part of America where Catholicism has roots and a history, churches are littered with physical evidence that reminds us of a time when parishioners were actively involved in shaping the parish. Not just the church ladies: the whole community shaped the parish into what it was.
There are plaques saying …

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Catholics’ Support for Trump’s Agenda Has Not Changed, In Spite of Relentless Attacks by Bishops

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German Parish Sponsors Ecumenical Service Inspired By Harry Potter

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BRAVO! Bishop Kevin Rhoades Condemns Notre Dame’s Appointment of Pro-Abortion Director

Statement of Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades on Appointment of New Director of the Liu Institute at the University of Notre Dame
There has been much news coverage, controversy, and outcry in response to the recent appointment of Associate Professor Susan Ostermann to director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Having now read many of the op-ed pieces co-authored by Professor Ostermann, I must express my dismay and my strong opposition to this appointment that is causing scandal to the faithful of our diocese and beyond. Professor Ostermann’s extensive public advocacy of abortion rights and her disparaging and inflammatory remarks about those who uphold the dignity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death go against a core principle of justice that is central to Notre Dame’s Catholic identity and mission.
In nearly a dozen op-eds (co-authored with another abortion activist, former Notre Dame Professor Tamara Kay), Professor …

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Leo Has Plenty Of Time To Meet With Heretics, But No Time For SSPX

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SODOM HALL: How Seton Hall University and NJ’s Catholic Political Elite Protected Sexual Predators for Decades

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Betrayal at the Altar: Trans Marriages and Queer Traditions in a Crumbling Church

In late January 2026 a shockwave rippled through Argentina’s Catholic community. At the Our Lady of Pompeii parish in Corrientes, a local priest (after consulting Archbishop José Adolfo Larregain) publicly blessed a couple who both identify as transgender. Solange Ayala, a biologically male LGBT activist “presenting as a woman,” and his partner Isaías (a biologically female homosexual presenting as a man) completed a standard Catholic marriage preparation, the priest asserts. The ceremony was celebrated using the names by which they are publicly known, and photographs and videos went viral across media.
This was no private blessing. It was treated as a valid sacrament of marriage. The archbishop’s judgment was blunt: biologically, one is male, the other female, so “there was no canonical impediment” to the marriage. In other words, the bishop certified that because the couple are opposite in body, the Church’s formal requirements were met, even though both publicly present as the …

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WATCH: Unearthed 1990 Prophecy – We Have a False Pope

A newly resurfaced 1990 prophecy reveals Malachi Martin issuing urgent warnings about a coming “false pope” and spiritual deception foretold in the Third Secret of Fatima. He recounts how John Paul II called all bishops to begin weekly Holy Hours to stop Satan’s grip on the clergy and ensure the secret’s contents were never fulfilled. According to confidant Robert Marro, Martin was made a cardinal in pectore during the Cold War and tasked with safeguarding the Church’s mission if the Vatican fell. Marro also claims Martin was tortured behind the Iron Curtain and later became a renowned exorcist and Vatican insider. Together, these accounts paint a picture of a spiritual warrior battling apostasy at the highest levels of the Church.
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WATCH: Why the Liturgy Was Changed, and What We Lost

In this episode of Catholic Unscripted, Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert are joined once again by Brian Williams to explore the Catholic liturgy, the changes of the modern era, and what has been lost in the process.
Drawing on theology, history, and lived experience of parish life, the conversation examines how the liturgy shifted in the decades following the Second Vatican Council, why beauty and reverence were sidelined, and how music, language, and posture shape belief itself.
Rather than treating liturgy as a matter of personal taste or nostalgia, this discussion addresses worship as something received, not invented — and asks whether the Church can recover a sense of continuity, sacred order, and transcendence in an age shaped by utility and informality.
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Lepanto Institute Calls for Pope Leo to Laicize New Mexico Priest over Homosexual ‘Domestic Partnership’

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USCCB’s ‘Open Borders’ Czar Accuses Speaker Johnson Of Using Scripture To Undermine ‘Human Dignity’

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Golka Appointment: Leo Rewarding a Cover-Up

Leo XIV has quickly rewarded loyalists who protect fellow clerics. He accepted the resignation of Denver’s Archbishop Sam Aquila and installed James R. Golka as his successor. Golka, appointed Bishop of Colorado Springs by Francis in 2021, was noted by Spanish media for sharing “similar ideological leanings as Pope Francis.” In other words, Leo’s pick is very much a continuity candidate, not a reformer. Yet Golka’s record is far from virtuous. He was at the center of a scheme to silence abuse victims and protect the powerful. This openly partisan elevation confirms the worst fears of Catholics: the post‑conciliar papacy rewards loyalty and cover‑ups rather than truth and charity.
Long before his Denver promotion, Bishop Golka entangled himself in the controversial case of Ricardo Coronado‑Arrascue, a Peruvian canon lawyer who dared represent abuse victims. Coronado had served as judicial vicar and chancellor under Golka in Colorado Springs. In May 2022, Coronado resigned those posts …

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On A Day He Should Be Celebrating Sheen, Cupich Decides To Attack Trump

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SSPX: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Cure

I am still working my way through the repercussions of the recent announcement by the SSPX that they will consecrate new bishops this year with or without the Pope’s agreement. The consequence of this action is automatic excommunication for the consecrator and the one being consecrated. The justification from the SSPX is that there is an existential crisis in the Church which justifies this act of disobedience. Talks are ongoing between the Vatican and the SSPX and we should all pray that an agreement is reached.
The crisis diagnosed by the Priestly Society of St Pius X is not imaginary. It is not a rhetorical invention, nor merely the product of wounded sensibilities or aesthetic preference. A dramatic collapse in belief, a weakening of sacramental reverence, the evaporation of vocations in many parts of the world, moral confusion among clergy and an aggressive marginalisation of inherited liturgical forms are real phenomena. They are measurable, visible, and painful. Any Catholic who …