Those sympathetic to the Society of St. Pius X will remind you that the Church has never formally declared the SSPX to be in schism. Arguably, this may be true. But the 1988 episcopal consecrations carried out by Archbishop Marcel...
Recent videos uploaded to YouTube have revealed that on March 20, 2025, Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, celebrated a public Mass at Mary, Mother of the Light Maronite Catholic Church in Tequesta, Florida. The Mass...
Today, the Diocese of Fort Worth published a PDF file containing three documents regarding the Carmelite monastery in Arlington: A statement from Bishop Michael Olson on the suppression of the monastery; a letter from Sr. Simona Brambilla, MC, secretary of...
On October 8, 2024, Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais died, at the age of 79. He was one of the four bishops consecrated illicitly and against the express will of Pope St. John Paul II by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and...
Honestly this situation can hardly get more ridiculous. Assuming this isn’t a parody (and there’s no reason to think it is), Mel Gibson has entered the fray with an open letter expressing his support of the disgraced and freshly-excommunicated schismatic...
[Updated June 21] On June 20, 2024, the disgraced former apostolic nuncio to the US, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, posted on X that an “extrajudicial trial for schism” against him is scheduled to begin today at 3:30 p.m., at the...
[Updated May 6, 2024] Bishop Strickland has used his social media once again to promote an anti-Catholic cause. This time, he promoted a schismatic group in his home state. In my recent article about a rumored Vatican document about discerning...
It is not new for Catholics to grumble about a perceived lack of “backbone” from the pope. The failure of the pope to remove bishops who have gone rogue, to defrock priests deemed heretical, or to excommunicate openly schismatic leaders...
The question most Catholics have in response to the decision of Pope Francis to remove the Vatican privileges of Cardinal Raymond Burke will not be, “why did he do this?” but “what on earth took him so long?” The Pope...
In the past several days, a letter from Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to the German bishops has generated significant buzz, as it seems the Vatican has finally begun to take concrete action towards specific aspects of the German...
Late on Tuesday afternoon (EST), the transcript and video of Bishop Joseph Strickland’s October 31 address to the Rome Life Forum were shared on the LifeSiteNews website. In this speech, the controversial bishop of Tyler, Texas expressed radical views even...
October 31st marks Reformation Day, which is the anniversary of the day in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. It marks the beginning of one of the greatest spiritual disasters against...
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