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| Pope Leo XIV appoints anti-Traditionalist scholars to Vatican theological body |
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Posted by: Stone - 2 hours ago - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Pope Leo XIV appoints anti-Traditionalist scholars to Vatican theological body
The 24 new members include a critic of the SSPX who questioned Church teaching on baptism,
as well as advocates of progressive approaches to ecumenism and interreligious dialogue.
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Oct 20, 2026
This article was updated on October 21, 2026
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Pope Leo XIV has appointed 24 new members to a key Vatican theological advisory body, including theologians who have challenged traditional teachings on baptism, attacked the Society of St. Pius X, and advanced progressive approaches to Catholic doctrine.
On October 19, the Holy See Press Office announced the appointment of 24 new members to the International Theological Commission for the five year 2026-2031 cycle. The new appointees were selected from a list presented by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and include Austrian dogmatist Jan-Heiner Tück; Islamic dialogue specialist Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan; and progressive theologians such as Fathers Khaled Anatolios and Tiago de Fraga Gomes.
“Can the old doctrine of the necessity of baptism for salvation be maintained so strictly after the Shoah and Vatican II? Can concern over eternal loss of salvation be cited as a theological argument for keeping the canon that allows children in danger of death to be baptized against their parents’ will today?” Professor Jan-Heiner Tück asked in a 2023 interview.
On September 8, 2023, Professor Jan-Heiner Tück publicly urged Pope Francis to revise Canon 868 §2 of the Code of Canon Law, which explicitly says that “an infant of Catholic parents or even of non-Catholic parents is baptized licitly in danger of death even against the will of the parents.”
Aligning himself with liberal and Jewish criticism, according to which consent is morally superior to the meaning of the sacraments, Tück openly questioned whether the Catholic Church can continue to teach that baptism is strictly necessary for eternal salvation following the Second Vatican Council. He urged Rome to abandon traditional sacramental dogma to avoid offending non-Catholic sensibilities.
Tück also conducted a campaign against the Society of St. Pius X. He publicly labeled the SSPX’s canonical position a “schismatic act” and a “parallel church,” demanding that the Vatican force traditionalists into unconditional submission to Vatican II’s decrees on ecumenism, religious liberty, and interreligious dialogue. Rejecting any partial recognition of the council, Tück warned of an “osmotic permeability” between traditionalist circles and right-wing political groups.
Media outlets frequently describe Tück as a “conservative” theologian because he defended male-only ordination against radical German Synodal Way proposals, opposed the posthumous rehabilitation of notorious heretic Hans Küng, and criticized the lack of clarity in Pope Francis’s responses to the well-known dubia submitted by Cardinals Walter Brandmüller, Raymond Burke, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Robert Sarah, and Joseph Zen.
However, Tück’s theological positions suggest that what now passes for “conservatism” is often little more than a hollow label applied to forms of progressivism that have merely fallen out of fashion. While maintaining a veneer of traditional terminology on isolated institutional points, Tück fully embraces the core tenets of neo-modernism: he demands absolute submission to Vatican II’s ecumenism, attacks the Traditional Latin Mass, seeks to alter canon law, and dismisses defenders of Catholic moral dogma.
Another problematic appointment concerns Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan, dean of the Theological Faculty of the Institut catholique de Paris. She is the first layperson dean of the local Theologicum and is a prominent advocate of interreligious dialogue with Islam and Eastern non-Catholic confessions. Having directed the University’s institute for Islamic encounter and ecumenical studies, Vivier-Muresan’s published academic work focuses on “opening up to the other believer” and advancing synodal governance, actively replacing Catholic missionary conversion with pan-religious dialogue.
Father Khaled Anatolios, a Melkite Greek Catholic priest and theology professor at the University of Notre Dame, publicly lauded Pope Francis’s “hermeneutics of mercy” as his most constructive legacy.
Anatolios argued that pastoral compassion should override objective moral norms, providing academic justification for the systematic dilution of Catholic moral theology under the guise of pastoral accompaniment. “Even those who would fault [Pope Francis] for what they consider to be misapplications of this hermeneutic should give him credit for his passionate articulation of it,” he claimed.
Spanish theologian Father Ángel Cordovilla Pérez celebrated the new appointment as an opportunity to enshrine synodality, integral ecology, and the 10th anniversary of Amoris laetitia into official papal documents.
In a 2025 academic research project, Brazilian Father Tiago de Fraga Gomes explicitly promoted the “nouvelle théologie,” the heterodox evolutionist cosmology of Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and a “misericordious” pastoral paradigm that replaces fixed natural law with subjective discernment for couples in “irregular” unions.
A “fundamental theological movement that preceded the Second Vatican Council was the nouvelle théologie, of which French theologians were the main representatives, among them Jean Daniélou, Henri de Lubac, Maurice Blondel, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, seen … as inspirations,” Gomes’s research reads. In particular, “Pierre Teilhard de Chardin made the attempt to reconcile faith and science; with an evolutionary positioning of the world and humanity, he inspired a new and broader intelligibility of the human condition, even in its religious dimension.”
Speaking about Amoris laetitia and Francis’s willingness to introduce divorced and “remarried” couples to Holy Communion, the research also states: “The logic that the Pope understands is that of the ecclesial capacity to adopt mercy as the sole and essential pastoral paradigm, since its source is the Gospel and the practice of Jesus. On the other hand, it is true that alongside this paradigm … there is also that of stricter pastoral care, founded on a set of convincing and objective answers to human dramas, the fruit of a cold office morality.… Here lies the possibility of integration into ecclesial life, whether through participation in groups and activities, or even sacramentally. It is necessary to look at the subjectivity of the person, to draw them closer to, and never distance them from, salvation in Christ.”
Established by Pope Paul VI in 1969 to institutionalize collaboration between bishops and theologians following the Second Vatican Council, the International Theological Commission consists of a maximum of 30 scholars appointed for five-year terms to conduct specialized studies for the pope and the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Far from safeguarding Traditional Catholic doctrine and morality, the commission has repeatedly served as an engine for doctrinal innovation. Notably, on August 21, 2026, the commission published “Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Trinitarian God,” a theological document that legitimized Teilhardian evolutionism and “panentheism,” the heretical belief that God and the created universe interpenetrate and evolve together.
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| Medical journal retracts COVID shot paper over ‘fabricated data’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 2 hours ago - Forum: COVID Vaccines
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Medical journal retracts COVID shot paper over ‘fabricated data’
Science Translational Medicine admitted that a study claiming that COVID shots produced protective antibodies actually contained fake data and ‘falsified images.’
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Oct 20, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [not all hyperlinks included from original]) – A peer-reviewed medical journal has announced the retraction of a paper that purported to show that the COVID-19 shots produced antibodies protective against future infection, now admitting that it contained “fabricated data” and “falsified images.”
Science Translational Medicine, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published in 2022 a paper titled, “SARS-CoV-2 S2–targeted vaccination elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies.” Leading the team of authors was Kevin W. Ng of London’s Francis Crick Institute, which funded the study.
The paper said it “tested whether antibodies targeting the more conserved S2 subunit of the spike protein could confer protection against infection with distinct coronaviruses” and supposedly found that “S2-targeted vaccination produced antibodies in mice that could neutralize diverse alphacoronaviruses and betacoronaviruses. These antibodies had increased breadth relative to antibodies elicited by full-length spike protein vaccination, suggesting less repertoire focusing.”
On October 14 of this year, however, Science Translational Medicine published a retraction notice that a Crick investigation had determined the presence of “fabricated data” and “falsified images” for which Ng was responsible and “admitted responsibility.”
“Further, the existence of data fabrication casts doubt on some other experiments presented in the paper, for which primary data and samples are unavailable, precluding post hoc verification,” the notice added. It noted that most of the paper’s authors concurred with the retraction, but two (Maria Greco and Hisashi Arase) did not respond.
The Epoch Times notes that Ng and some of the same authors were also connected to another paper retracted by the journal Nature in January, as well as a third paper which has not yet been retracted but which Nature amended with a disclaimer in September that “concerns have been raised regarding the reliability of data presented” in it.
Originally billed as vital (and sometimes even mandatory) to quashing COVID-19, the shots were quickly met with skepticism as they failed to prevent infection and, more importantly, were connected with a large body of evidence raising concerns about their safety.
The federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports 39,260 deaths, 223,046 hospitalizations, 22,583 heart attacks, and 29,299 myocarditis and pericarditis cases as of September 25, among other ailments. VAERS submission are not proven cases on their own, but, in 2022, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers recognized a “high verification rate of reports of myocarditis to VAERS after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination,” leading to the conclusion that “under-reporting is more likely” than over-reporting.
An analysis of 99 million people across eight countries published in the journal Vaccine in 2024 “observed significantly higher risks of myocarditis following the first, second and third doses” of mRNA-based COVID shots, as well as signs of increased risk of “pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis,” and other “potential safety signals that require further investigation.” In April 2024, the CDC was forced to release by court order 780,000 previously undisclosed reports of serious adverse reactions, and a study out of Japan found “statistically significant increases” in cancer deaths after third doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 shots and offered several theories for a causal link. Most recently, studies published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases and International Journal of Medical Science raised the possibility of the shots carrying risks of not only respiratory diseases but even kidney injury.
Democrats are largely united in favor of all vaccines, but the response among Republicans has been conflicted, in part due to the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed (OWS) initiative having prepared and released the COVID shots in a fraction of the time that any vaccine had ever been developed and tested, which President Donald Trump has refused to disavow, as he considers the record-breaking delivery of the shot a signature achievement of his first presidency.
So far, Trump’s second administration has rolled back several recommendations for the shots but not yet pulled them from the market. The administration has largely settled on leaving the current shots optional but not supporting work to develop successors and limiting recommendations to those deemed in “high-risk” groups for COVID itself. But whether it gets to the bottom of the original shots and their cover-up remains to be seen.
In a July 2025 interview, since-resigned U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary asked for patience from those unsatisfied by the administration’s handling of the shots, insisting more time was needed for comprehensive trials to get more definitive data. The FDA has begun acknowledging child deaths caused by the shots, but at the same time the Trump Justice Department is in court arguing against the revival of a whistleblower’s lawsuit against Pfizer.
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| Holy Mass in Pennsylvania [Philadelphia area] - November 15, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-19-2026, 07:31 PM - Forum: November 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Mass of the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany]
w/ Commemoration of the Feast of St. Albert the Great
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Date: Sunday, November 15, 2026
Time: Confessions - 4:00 PM
Holy Mass - 5:00 PM
Location: Clarion Hotel
76 Industrial Highway
Essington, PA 19029
Contact: rosamystica3329@gmail.com
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire -November 8, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-19-2026, 06:59 PM - Forum: November 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Octave of All Saints
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2026
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - November 1, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-19-2026, 06:53 PM - Forum: November 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - All Saints Day
w/Commemoration of the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, November 1, 2026
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - October 25, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-19-2026, 06:51 PM - Forum: October 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of Christ the King
w/Commemoration of the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, October 25, 2026
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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