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| The Catholic Trumpet: Not a Lack of Valid Bishops—A Lack of Doctrine, a Lack of Faith |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-03-2026, 08:37 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Not a Lack of Valid Bishops—A Lack of Doctrine, a Lack of Faith
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted] | February 2, 2026
On 2 February 2026, Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Neo Society of Saint Pius X, announced that new episcopal consecrations will take place on 1 July 2026.
- “To the Novus Ordo Missae correspond a new catechism, a new priesthood, new seminaries, a charismatic Pentecostal Church—all things opposed to orthodoxy and the perennial teaching of the Church. This Reformation, born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever. The only attitude of faithfulness to the Church and Catholic doctrine, in view of our salvation, is a categorical refusal to accept this Reformation.” –Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Declaration of November 21, 1974
- “The entire tradition of Catholic Faith must be the criterion and guide in understanding the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, which, in turn, enlightens - in other words deepens and subsequently makes explicit - certain aspects of the life and doctrine of the Church implicitly present within itself or not yet formulated conceptually.” –Bishop Fellay, Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012
- “The Society of St. Pius X regrets sincerely that this spirit of opposition has led to an episcopal consecration…The Society of St. Pius X denounces this episcopal consecration of Fr. Faure, which, despite the assertions of both clerics concerned…All the declarations of Bishop Williamson and Fr. Faure prove abundantly that they no longer recognize the Roman authorities, except in a purely rhetorical manner. –Communique of the General House of the Neo Society of St. Pius X concerning the episcopal consecration of Fr. Jean-Michel Faure - Menzingen, March 19, 2015
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Not a Lack of Bishops, Not a Lack of Valid Bishops—A Lack of Doctrine, a Lack of Faith
The decisive issue is doctrine, not only bishops. The Neo SSPX remains Neo SSPX because it still formally holds the 2012 doctrinal positions, and those positions have never been retracted.
21 years of well-documented collaboration with the enemies of the Catholic Church culminated in the formal adoption of a new doctrinal line. These doctrines were submitted to Rome on April 15, 2012 and later codified in the General Chapter statement of July 14, 2012. From that moment forward, the SSPX founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ceased to exist within that organization, regardless of appearances.
The positions in question can not actually be disputed. They are documented, public, and have never been condemned and/or retracted by Bishop Fellay and the NeoSSPX leadership:
• Vatican II is merely tainted with error, not a rupture
• The New Mass was legitimately promulgated
• Vatican II can be interpreted in the light of Tradition
• The 1983 Code of Canon Law is accepted without distinction
This is a new theology. Once accepted, resistance is no longer possible in principle.
No episcopal consecration can reverse a doctrinal surrender.
Consider examples of episcopal compromise and failure:
- Bishops who compromised at Vatican II: ~2,000+ bishops.
- The Conciliar Church today: ~5,000+ "bishops" worldwide.
- Arian Crisis: hundreds of compromised bishops.
- Schismatic and heretical Eastern Orthodox: 1000+ bishops historically and continuing today. Anglican schism: 100+ bishops and "bishops."
- Past 15 years of Neo-SSPX bishops: +Galerrata, +Fellay, +Tissier.
- Neo-SSPX operating inside Rome: Conciliar “Bishop” Huonder scandal.
- Schismatic Orthodox bishops.
- Old Catholic bishops and "bishops."
- Sedevacantist bishops and "bishops."
- “Bishop” Pfeiffer. Other independent sect bishops.
- Fake Resistance bishops of Bishop Williamson. Most recently: consecration of “Bishop” Anthony Ward (Servants of the Holy Family).
Catholic Resistance to error and heresy is not defined by bishops alone; it is determined by fidelity to the true Faith and authentic Catholic doctrine, as revealed by God and preserved by the Church.
Consecrating bishops inside the Conciliar framework does not restore resistance.It preserves an institution that has already conceded the doctrinal battlefield.
That is why the 2026 announcement is decisive not for what it says, but for what it does not say.
There is:
• No rejection of Vatican II
• No condemnation of the New Mass
• No denunciation of the Conciliar Church
• No repudiation of the 2012 Declaration
• No condemnation or even acknowledgment of the hundreds of well-documented acts of compromise, doctrinal change, and concessions that have been systematically recorded in the now Neo-SSPX
• No return to Archbishop Lefebvre’s doctrinal line
Instead, the language is careful, diplomatic, pastoral, and institutional, continuity with the Conciliar Church and not rupture.
+Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre vs Neo SSPX: opposite attitude and principles
+Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated bishops to resist the Conciliar Church.
The Neo SSPX consecrates bishops to survive alongside, and within this Conciliar Church (to which they no longer recognize the distinction).
Those principles are opposites. +Lefebvre acted against Modernist Rome in order to preserve Catholic doctrine. Neo SSPX acts with doctrinal concessions already granted, operating in lockstep with Modernist Rome, in order to preserve organizational continuity.
This is why questions about Rome’s involvement, permissions, sanctions, or future lifting of censures are secondary.
Once doctrine is surrendered, Rome does not necessarily need to control the process. The boundaries have already been internalized.
The appearance of independence is therefore sufficient for this next phase.
Apostolic succession without doctrine is empty continuity
New bishops do not equal true resistance.
Apostolic succession without doctrinal integrity is sacramental form without Catholic substance.
The SSPX survives as Archbishop Lefebvre founded it only where:
• Vatican II is rejected as a complete and entire rupture
• The New Mass is refused as evil and harmful in itself
• The Conciliar Church is recognized as a new religion opposed to Tradition, to Eternal Rome
That continuation does not exist within the Neo SSPX.
It exists outside it.
+Archbishop Lefebvre’s SSPX survives today only in the True SSPX Resistance, carried on by priests who refused the 2012 doctrinal betrayal and have not submitted to the Conciliar framework in exchange for peace, recognition, or institutional survival.
Bishops can be multiplied indefinitely. Without doctrinal resistance, nothing is restored.
The conclusion? The 2026 announcement proves only one thing.
The Neo SSPX is still Neo SSPX.
No amount of wrongfully ordered episcopal activity can change that fact.
Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for Us.
-The Catholic Trumpet
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| FSSPX Announces Consecration of New Bishops on July 1, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-03-2026, 08:21 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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FSSPX Announces Consecration of New Bishops on July 1, 2026
gloria.tv | February 2, 2026
The Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X (FSSPX) has announced that on 1 July 2026, they will consecrate new bishops without the Vatican's approval. This follows their request to Pope Leo XIV in August, to which they did not receive a satisfactory response.
Full Statement
On 2 February 2026, the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, the Reverend Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, during the ceremony of the taking of the cassock which he presided over at the International Seminary of Saint-Curé-d’Ars in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, France, publicly announced his decision to entrust the bishops of the Fraternity with the task of proceeding with new episcopal consecrations, on 1 July next.
Last August, he sought the favour of an audience with the Holy Father, making known his desire to present to the Holy Father, in a filial manner, the current situation of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X.
In a second letter, he explicitly expressed the particular need of the Fraternity to ensure the continuation of the ministry of its bishops, who have been travelling the world for nearly forty years to respond to the many faithful attached to the Tradition of the Church and desirous, for the good of their souls, that the sacraments of Holy Orders and Confirmation be conferred.
After having long matured his reflection in prayer, and having received from the Holy See, in recent days, a letter which does not in any way respond to our requests, Father Pagliarani, in harmony with the unanimous advice of his Council, judges that the objective state of grave necessity in which souls find themselves requires such a decision.
The words he wrote on 21 November 2024, for the fiftieth anniversary of the historic declaration of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, are more than ever the reflection of his thought and intentions:
"It is only in the Catholic Church as it has always been, and in her unchanging Tradition, that we have the guarantee of possessing the Truth, of being able to preach it, and of being able to serve her. […]
The Society [of Saint Pius X] is not primarily seeking its own survival. It primarily seeks the good of the Universal Church and, for this reason, the Society is, par excellence, a work of the Church, which, with unique freedom and strength, responds adequately to the specific needs of an unprecedentedly tragic era.
This single goal is still ours today, just as it was fifty years ago. That is why, without any spirit of rebellion, bitterness, or resentment, we pursue our work of forming priests, with the timeless Magisterium as our guide. We are persuaded that we can render no greater service to the Holy Catholic Church, to the Sovereign Pontiff and to posterity (Abp. Lefebvre, Declaration of 21 November 1974)."
In the coming days, the Superior General will provide further explanations regarding the present situation and his decision.
“Nos cum Prole pia benedicat Virgo Maria.
May the Virgin Mary bless us, together with her divine Son.”
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| Fr. Hewko's Sermons: Purification of B.V. Mary [Reception of Cassock] 2/2/26 |
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 02-01-2026, 09:43 PM - Forum: February 2026
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Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary [Reception of Cassock]
February 2, 2026 (NH)
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Prayers for Vocations
O God, Who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, send forth, we beseech Thee, labourers into the harvest: inspire many young people with the generous desire of devoting their lives to Thy service; grant that there may be a great increase in the number and sanctity of vocations to the priesthood and to the religious life, so that Thy Holy Name may be glorified and many souls may be brought to know and serve Thee, the One true God, and Him Whom Thou hast sent, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord.
O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, may all the love of Thy Sacred Heart be with Thy Priests and Religious in their life and work. Amen.
Jesus, Divine Master, Thou hast said: "The harvest is great but the laborers are few". Behold me here, Lord, ready to take up Thine invitation "to pray to the Heavenly Father to send good laborers into His harvest ".
Jesus Divine Master, make me more aware of the need to crusade for vocations. Raise up Priests who will be the salt of the earth , the city placed on the mountain top for the salvation of mankind, Redeemed by Thy Blood.
Give to Thy Church more men and women Religious whose communities will be a centre of light and warmth, a fount of grace and prayer-life. Instill in all the members of Thy Church an awareness of their own calling. Help them reach out and persevere in that holiness of life to which all men are called.
Help me Lord, who pray to Thee, to be faithful to the calling for which Thou hast chosen me, particularly in those moments of stress, discouragement and lack of faith.
O Mary , the "chosen one of God" pray with us, pray for us, and for all those who are called by God.
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Lord Jesus, High Priest and universal Shepherd, Thou has taught us to pray, saying: "Pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His harvest ". Therefore, we beseech Thee, graciously to hear our supplications and raise up many generous souls who, inspired by Thine example and supported by Thy grace, may Conceive the ardent desire to enter the ranks of Thy sacred ministers in order to continue the office of Thy one, true Priesthood.
Grant that the continual promotion of religious institution, true piety, purity of life, and Devotion to the highest ideals, may prepare the groundwork for good vocations among youth. May the Christian family, as a nursery of pur and pious souls, become the unfailing source of good vocations, ever firmly convinced of the great honor that can rebound to Our Lord through some of its numerous offspring.
Come to the aid of Thy Church, that always and everyplace He may have at Her disposal the means necessary for the reception, promotion, formation and mature development of all the good vocations that may arise.
For the full realization of all these things, O Jesus, Who art most zealous for the welfare and salvation of all, may Thy graces continually descend from heaven to move many hearts by their irresistible force; first the silent invitation, then generous cooperation and finally perseverance in Thy holy service. Amen.
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| Pope Leo XIV Moves Above the Papal Apartment, Under the Roof |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-31-2026, 08:35 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo XIV Moves Above the Papal Apartment, Under the Roof
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gloria.tv | January 30, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is expected to return to the Apostolic Palace, but not to the former papal apartment, reports the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Friday.
He plans to move into a top-floor attic-style apartment located one level above the papal residence. It is barely visible from the outside.
The apartment is described as being located above the papal apartments, on the uppermost level between the 'Third Loggia' and the roof. It is situated in a self-contained section of the palace.
Inside the new apartment are bedroom, kitchen and bathroom, a fitness room, a small private chapel and a roof terrace. On the terrace, there is a replica of the Lourdes grotto, placed there during the pontificate of John Paul II.
Despite repeated expectations that the move was imminent, no specific move date has been set.
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| Vatican confirms controversial restaurant plan for St. Peter’s Basilica terrace |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-31-2026, 08:33 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican confirms controversial restaurant plan for St. Peter’s Basilica terrace
Several prelates, speaking anonymously, expressed reservations about the idea of groups of visitors eating and drinking above the tomb of St. Peter.
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Jan 30, 2026
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican has confirmed plans to expand a refreshment area into a restaurant on the terrace of St. Peter’s Basilica, with a possible opening in 2026 to coincide with the basilica’s 400th anniversary.
On Thursday, Italian newspaper Il Messaggero revealed the existence of top‑secret works on the terrace of St. Peter’s Basilica involving the construction of a bistro. Today, amid strong misgivings from priests and bishops about the appropriateness of treating the heart of Catholicism this way—right above the tomb of the first Pope—the Vatican confirmed the plans.
The Holy See said that work is under way to expand the existing refreshment point on the main terrace above St. Peter’s Basilica into a larger bistro-style facility, using former storage rooms once occupied by the Sampietrini, the workers responsible for the daily care and maintenance of the Basilica. The stated aim is to manage increased visitor numbers, and the Vatican will potentially inaugurate the project either by Easter 2026 or for the 400th anniversary of the Basilica’s consecration on November 18, 2026.
In an official statement the Vatican said: “In order to respond to increased visitor flows, an expansion of the surface area of the terrace accessible to pilgrims is under consideration. This would help to ease the concentration of visitors inside the Basilica and foster a climate of greater recollection. In this context, some spaces would be made available to expand the small refreshment point already in place.”
The project concerns the large terrace above the nave of St. Peter’s Basilica, just behind the statues of the apostles. Once closed to the public, it now offers wide views over Rome and forms part of the route for visitors climbing to the dome.
The work is being carried out under strict confidentiality by the Fabric of St. Peter, the body responsible for the maintenance and administration of the Basilica. Internal Vatican sources cited by Il Messaggero reported that furnishings and materials have already arrived on site, indicating that construction is at an advanced stage, although no definitive completion date has been officially announced.
Allegedly the canons of St. Peter’s Basilica were not formally informed about the project. “The works had been kept strictly secret by the Fabric of Saint Peter and the archpriest,” Il Messaggero reported.
Responsibility rests indeed with Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of the papal basilica, vicar general of the Pope for Vatican City State, and president of the Fabric of St. Peter. An Italian Conventual Franciscan created cardinal by Pope Francis in 2020, Gambetti oversees decisions concerning access, visitor management, and the use of internal and adjacent spaces within the Basilica complex.
The confirmation of the project has prompted internal debate among local clergy. Several prelates, speaking anonymously, expressed reservations about the idea of groups of visitors eating and drinking above the tomb of St. Peter. One priest told Il Messaggero: “It would be unthinkable to have something like this on the roof of a synagogue, at the Western Wall, above the Kaaba in Mecca, or on the terrace of Westminster.”
Gambetti has also faced criticism in connection with a series of grave profanations that have occurred there in recent years. On January 17, an unidentified man climbed onto the altar of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament and violently threw candlesticks, the monstrance, and the altar cross to the ground while the Blessed Sacrament was exposed for perpetual adoration, prompting an immediate penitential rite of reparation.
On October 10, 2025, a drunken man stripped naked and urinated at the same altar. An immediate reparatory rite was not initially planned and was only carried out following direct intervention by Pope Leo XIV. Earlier incidents include a Romanian citizen who, on February 7, 2025, climbed onto the same altar, threw candlesticks to the ground, and removed the altar cloth, without a penitential rite being performed; and a naked man who climbed onto the Altar of the Confession and shouted a pro-Ukraine message on June 1, 2023.
Cardinal Gambetti’s five‑year term as vicar general for Vatican City, and therefore as archpriest of the Basilica, is set to expire on February 20. At that time Pope Leo XIV will decide whether to extend his term or appoint someone new.
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| An Ignored Message by Fr. Victor Mroz OFM |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-30-2026, 11:19 AM - Forum: Uncompromising Fighters for the Faith
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An Ignored Message
by Fr. Victor Mroz OFM
gloria.tv | January 30, 2026
"... America's problems are not basically political but moral. The root causes of our misery have not been removed. As a nation, we continue to turn our backs on God and His Commandments. We pay God lip service through pious words, then continue our wicked deeds: such as the continued wholesale slaughter of the innocents through millions of abortion murders of the helpless unborn in their mother's wombs. And all other crimes are growing rapidly, as statistics show. God will 'not be mocked forever.
Unless this nation turns to repentance and comes back to God and His laws through prayer, penance and Christian principles of living, we will eventually face a day of frightful reckoning. When I see the people reading the daily papers and magazines I am sorry for them. They seek to understand the present situation through the Marxist, leftist, naturalistic or humanist opinions and propaganda of the secular press. Even if they read so-called Catholic or diocesan papers they still are not told the total truth. In many cases, I think, the editors of the present post-Vatican era in the Conciliar Church are just blind people, trying to lead the blind sheep.
They will never admit it but they are infected with so many diseases such as Modernism, naturalism, false ecumenism and other "isms". One World Government, the Welfare State, even plain Socialism and Communism seem all right to them. How many "Catholic" writers and Popes sing hymns of praise to the United Nations although we know that that international body is but a conspiratorial tool of communism to subject the world to satanic slavery?
Our Blessed Virgin Mary in her message to the three children at Fatima in 1917 said: "If the world does not amend its evil ways, there will be a great chastisement ... "The Blessed Virgin went so far as to name the instrument of God's punishment for mankind: Russia! This she said in 1917, before the Communist revolution in Russia had even surfaced! Who could know that a bunch of Bolsheviks would multiply into a worldwide Beast of the Apocalypse? But she said this: "Its errors will spread throughout the world and nations will be annihilated ... "
Wars are punishments for sins, said the Blessed Virgin, but the Church leaders did not make efforts to spread the Fatima Message. They were not bothered with it .They still appear indifferent now. Although catastrophe is closer every day, the leaders of the Conciliar Church remain silent at best, or actively participate in this evil work. I am quite sure they won't heed these warnings of Our Lady and tell the people the truth...
It was on May 13, 1917 that the Blessed Mother for the first time appeared to three children in a field called Cova da Iria near Fatima, north of Lisbon, Portugal. It happened that, during that apparition and the five subsequent ones each month on the same date until October 13, the Blessed Virgin urged frequent recitation of the Rosary, asked for penance and mortification for the conversion of sinners, called for devotion to her Immaculate Heart, asked that Russia be dedicated to her Immaculate Heart by the Pope with the world Bishops, and that the faithful make a Communion of reparation on the first Saturday of five consecutive months. The apparitions of Fatima were declared authentic 13 years later, in 1930, after seven years of canonical investigation by Pope Pius XI, who also authorized the devotion to Our Lady of Fatima under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary.
In October 1942, the middle of World II, Pope Pius XII dedicated the world - and what a world it was already then becoming! - to Immaculate Heart of Mary, but very few Bishops joined him and Russia was not clearly mentioned. Only ten years later, in 1952, in the first apostolic letter ever addressed directly to the peoples of Russia, the same Pope dedicated in a special manner to the Mother God… The first part [of the Fatima message] dealt with a vision of hell, the second promised the conversion of Russia if people would amend their lives; and the third part was the one that is known as “The Secret of Fatima” which the Blessed Virgin ordered not to be opened until 1960. Pope John XXIII, who was the Pope in 1960, read the Message, but decided not to publish it. When I was in Rome, in May 1976, I asked my good friend and classmate Father Flavian Slonimski, who was a Prefect of the Apostolic Penitentiary for many years and still is an apostolic confessor at St. Peter’s Basilica, why the Pope was keeping the Third Secret to himself. He told me bluntly: "Because there are in it too many horrible things"…"
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| Pope Leo doubles down on Vatican rejection of ‘Co-Redemptrix’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-30-2026, 10:51 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo doubles down on Vatican rejection of ‘Co-Redemptrix’
At a time of apostasy, impurity, and confusion, the faithful do not need a diminished Mother.
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Pope Leo XIV
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Jan 29, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — On Thursday morning, Pope Leo XIV publicly praised a Vatican document that has already sparked one of the most serious Marian controversies in decades.
Addressing the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pope commended the doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis, issued under the extremely controversial Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, infamous for his books on kissing [etc.].
Leo praised the Fernández document, saying it “encourages popular Marian devotion, deepening its biblical and theological foundations, and at the same time offers precise and important clarifications for Mariology.”
While many suggested that it was only Fernández who issued the document, the Pope has now doubled down on his support after having originally permitted its publication and signing it.
But a growing number of faithful Catholics—bishops, priests, theologians, and even the Pope’s own former flock—say those “clarifications” do something very different.
They say the document diminishes the Blessed Virgin Mary, restricts time-honored Catholic language, and effectively repudiates doctrines that popes, saints, and the universal Church have taught for centuries.
Remember what the document actually says. Mater Populi Fidelis declares that the Marian title “Co-Redemptrix” is “always inappropriate,” and it discourages the title “Mediatrix of All Graces,” claiming it is not clearly grounded in revelation and risks confusion.
[Read more here.]
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