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| Pope Leo begins a new catechism series dedicated to Vatican II |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-12-2026, 10:21 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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The Conciliar Church attempting, once again, to promote the many errors of Vatican II (cf. SiSiNoNo: The Errors of Vatican II). There has been no 'return to tradition' thus far in this pontificate. Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV's conversion!
Pope Leo begins a new catechism series dedicated to Vatican II
Pope Leo on Wednesday praised the ‘liturgical reform’ launched by Vatican II that laid the groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae, the new Mass.
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Sculpture on St Peter's basilica door: Vatican II council
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Jan 8, 2026
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Pope Leo XIV announced Wednesday that he is beginning a catechesis series to “closely” study the Second Vatican Council, which many priests and scholars have affirmed to be in need of correction.
“We are beginning a new catechesis series dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and to a fresh reading of its Documents,” Leo wrote in an X post. “The Council’s Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey.”
“Closely studying the Council documents will help us to be attentive interpreters of the signs of the times, and to proclaim the Gospel to all,” Leo said Wednesday during his general audience.
In Leo’s strong support for Vatican II, he aligns himself with Pope Francis, who described the Council as “a visit of God to His Church,” and as “irreversible.”
The pope has not given further details thus far on the forthcoming “catechesis” of Vatican II. However, during his general audience on Wednesday, he highlighted aspects of the Council that he highly esteems.
For example, Leo praised the “liturgical reform” launched by Vatican II, which laid the groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae, the new Mass. The Council “set in motion an important liturgical reform by placing at the center the mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the entire People of God,” Leo said in his general audience.
Liturgist and author Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has pointed out that the idea articulated in the Second Vatican Council’s Sacrosanctum Concilium that “In the restoration and promotion of the sacred liturgy, this full and active participation by all the people is the aim to be considered before all else” is backward.
“It cannot escape our notice that this text turns things on their head,” Kwasniewski remarked in 2019. “Where Pius X had said that what should be ‘provided for before everything else’ is the ‘sanctity and dignity of the temple,’ Vatican II says that ‘the aim to be considered before all else’ is ‘full and active participation by all the people.’ In doing so, it inverts the hierarchy of goods. Now the worship of God and its right condition becomes secondary to the people’s involvement.”
Pope Leo also on Wednesday lauded Vatican II for being responsible for a Church committed to “seeking the truth through the way of ecumenism, interreligious dialogue and dialogue with people of good will,” as if the Church needs to seek truth outside of Herself. The idea that the fullness of the truth is not found within the Catholic Church is heretical.
Leo’s description of the Second Vatican Council during his general audience and in his social media post as the “guiding star” of the Church’s path suggests he sees this council as surpassing in importance every other council of the Church, which is especially significant given that Vatican II appeared to contradict previous magisterial councils in certain respects.
Prelates such as Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò have pointed to errors in the Second Vatican Council regarding religious freedom and other religions, and in doing so have been supported by many priests and scholars.
For example, Bishop Schneider has said Lumen Gentium is “wrong” and errs by suggesting that Christians and Muslims participate together in the same act of adoration when it states that “Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God.”
It errs because Muslims worship on a natural level, at the same level of anyone who adores God with the “natural light of reason,” whereas Christians adore God on a supernatural level as His adopted children “in the truth of Christ and in the Holy Spirit.”
“This is a substantial difference,” Schneider observed. He explained that the use of the phrase “with us” represents a relativization of the act of adoration of God and also of Christians’ “sonship.”
In addition, Muslims reject the Trinity, which they consider to be an idolatrous idea. Christ made clear that “whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me” (Luke 10:16) and “no one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).
Schneider criticized texts suggesting that Buddhists and Hindus can attain illumination on their own, without “the grace of Christ,” as a heresy. Nostra Aetate claims that “in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery,” and that Buddhism “teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination.”
The German prelate has also criticized Dignitatis Humanae for putting forth “a theory never before taught by the constant Magisterium of the Church, i.e., that man has the right founded in his own nature, ‘not to be prevented from acting in religious matters according to his own conscience, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.’”
Archbishop Viganò agreed with Bishop Schneider in his criticism of the Second Vatican Council, noting that Vatican II’s formulation of religious freedom “contradict[s] the testimony of Sacred Scripture and the voice of Tradition, as well as the Catholic Magisterium which is the faithful guardian of both.”
It is also noteworthy that Vatican II’s Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio, condones “prayers in common” with our “separated brethren” in “certain special circumstances, such as the prescribed prayers “for unity,” and during ecumenical gatherings.”
However, the Councils of the Church have repeatedly made clear that Catholics cannot pray with heretics or schismatics, let alone those of other religious practices:- “One must neither pray nor sing psalms with heretics, and whoever shall communicate with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church, whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.” — Council of Carthage
- “No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics.” — Council of Laodicea
- If any ecclesiastic or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews or to the meeting houses of the heretics to join in prayer with them, let them be deposed and deprived of communion. If any bishop or priest or deacon shall join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from communion. — II Council of Constantinople
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| Leo XIV Appoints Archbishop of Cape Town - Considers Protestants Part of the Church |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-12-2026, 09:13 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo XIV Appoints Archbishop of Cape Town - Considers Protestants Part of the Church
gloria.tv | January 12, 2025
Pope Leo XIV named Monsignor Sithembele Anton Sipuka, 65, as Archbishop of Cape Town on January 9. He succeeds Cardinal Stephen Brislin, who was transferred to Johannesburg in October 2024.
Early Life and Formation
Sithembele Anton Sipuka was born on April 27, 1960, in Idutywa (Dutywa) in the Eastern Cape. Before entering seminary, he worked for two years as a post office clerk.
He was ordained a priest in 1988 for the Diocese of Queenstown, six years before the end of apartheid.
In 1992, he was sent to Rome to study at the Pontifical Urban University.
Rising Star in the Church
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Sipuka as Bishop of Mthatha. The diocese is rural, located in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, and has fewer than 40,000 Catholics.
Cape Town, by contrast, is one of South Africa’s most prominent sees, with approximately 280,000 Catholics.
From 2019 to 2023, Bishop Sipuka served as President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
In July 2025, Pope Leo XIV appointed him a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.
Leadership of Ecumenical Council of Churches
In October 2024, Sipuka was elected President of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), becoming the first Catholic—let alone a bishop—to hold that office.
The SACC is an ecumenical body with deep historical roots in the anti-apartheid political struggle. The organization is highly left-wing political, ideologically driven, heavily dependent on foreign funding, and has been accused of mismanaging donor funds and excluding faithful evangelicals.
The notorious homosexual activist Desmond Tutu, who held the title “Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town,” was its most famous official and served as General Secretary of the SACC.
Ecumenical Preaching and “Rainbow” Imagery
In June 2025, Monsignor Sipuka preached a homily as SACC President at an ecumenical prayer service held in the Protestant Grace Bible Church in Soweto.
He began with what he called a “beautiful imagery”: “Archbishop Tutu famously described our country as a ‘rainbow nation.’”
In the same homily, Monsignor Sipuka attributed a unique political and reconciliatory role to the South African Council of Churches: “Our task as the Church is to help people envision and believe in possibilities they can't currently see, where racial reconciliation actually works, and where justice and peace coexist.”
Monsignor Sipuka abused the term “the Church” including Protestants also on other occasions.
At a meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Johannesburg in June 2025, Sipuka expressed hope that “the Church can still act as a bridge-builder, a voice for the voiceless, and a bearer of Christ’s good news to a world in desperate need.”
Paganism and Ancestral Cosmology
His former Diocese of Mthatha is overwhelmingly Xhosa-speaking, rural, poor, and deeply shaped by ancestral cosmology.
Practices commonly reported even among clergy include participation in ancestral rituals at funerals and pagan healing practices known as amagqirha or ubungoma.
Throughout his years as bishop, Monsignor Sipuka tolerated these practices.
In January 2022, the South African bishops began study groups examining the pagan rite of ubungoma.
In January 2023, Bishop Sipuka told a local radio: “Now we are dealing with Ubungoma, which we hope to complete the research by the end of this year and then hopefully by next year maybe we can be able to give some direction.”
During the bishops’ conference in August 2025, Bishop Sipuka finally stated—verbally only—that: “traditional practices like ubungoma offer spiritual power that competes with our loyalty and obedience to Christ.”
Catholic priests in South Africa largely ignored the bishops’ warning and continued engaging in pagan practices.
In September 2025, the territorial bishops of the KwaZulu-Natal region attempted to enforce the decision and announced punishments for priests involved in pagan rites.
Bishop Sipuka’s see, Mthatha, lies in the Eastern Cape. This territory did not take action against ubungoma.
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| The Recusant: SSPX Watch - Epiphany 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-10-2026, 02:30 PM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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Taken from The Recusant #65 Epiphany 2026
SSPX Watch
Fr. Henri Wuilloud moved to Britain
Long-time readers might remember the name of this priest. Ordained in 1998, from 2004 to 2016 he was the District Superior of Switzerland, and from 2016 District Superior of Africa, making him a member of the Chapters of 2006, 2012 and 2018. A liberal and a keen supporter of Bishop Fellay he is also, we gather, that man’s nephew. As District Superior of Africa, he used his position to openly encourage SSPX faithful to go to two Ecclesia Dei priests approved-of by modern Rome, one of whom had jumped ship from the SSPX to the Institute of Christ the King some years before, the other a military chaplain who also said the New Mass, praising the latter as “a man of sound doctrine” in the SSPX’s African district newsletter! He also used the district newsletter to make fun of anyone who might have a problem with this new arrangement or view it as Trad-ecumenism, as we reported at the time (Issue 49, p.31).
In the summer July/August Ite Missa Est we learn that he has now stationed here, at Bristol. Why he is now being sent to our shores, and more to the point, why as a simple priest and no longer a superior is anyone’s guess. Perhaps it is nothing too serious: it may be that his English needs improving. Or might it simply be a case of nepotism no longer being possible since his uncle is no longer Superior General..?
SSPX Episcopal Consecrations latest
The most recent SSPX British District newsletter contains the following news arising from last October’s visit to our country by the SSPX Superior General, Fr. Davide Pagliarani:
Quote:“In addition to meeting the priests and brothers individually, the Superior gave two talks. One of the matters addressed in these conferences was the forthcoming consecration of new bishops. Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops in 1988 for the survival of Tradition, because the Pope and the bishops were openly acting to the detriment of the Faith and of the flock by hiding the Catholic Truth and, worse still, placing heresy and other errors on a level with this Truth. The situation forty years later is worse. … It is for this reason that, sooner or later, the current Superior General of the Society will have to imitate Archbishop Lefebvre’s prudent, courageous and fully justified decision to conse
crate bishops. Let us pray for him that the Holy Ghost may guide him and his assistants in this matter.”
Sooner or later? Some would say it’s already 15 or 20 years too later, but ‘better late than never’ perhaps. If a new SSPX episcopal consecration does end up somehow taking place (and that is a big “if”!), further questions suggest themselves. How many bishops-elect will there be, and who will they be? Who will the consecrating bishop be, and who will his coconsecrators be? What are the chances that this will be done in defiance of modernist Rome, versus done with Rome having a say in all of the above? Even if Rome has no say whatsoever and no conciliar priests or bishops representing the Vatican are present at any stage of the proceedings, how much confidence can anyone have that the new bishops will be chosen for their zeal for the Faith as opposed to their unquestioning corporate loyalty? So our advice to our SSPX readers is not to go getting your hopes up!
In any case, we feel justified in maintaining our original prediction: the SSPX leadership will never have the courage to repeat 1988. If they had the courage, they would have done it already. Either it will be a ceremony vitiated with conciliarists and their dubious holy orders, or it simply won’t ever happen at all.
1st Jan. - “Feast of the Circumcision”..?
Two years ago these very pages (Recusant 61, p.55) pointed out a change in the SSPX liturgical calendar so small if you blink you’ll miss it. The first day of January, Traditionally the feast of the Circumcision and a Holy Day of Obligation and yet since 2008 the British District newsletter had it listed simply as “Octave Day of the Nativity, 1st class”. The December 2025 newsletter has it down as “(Feast of the Circumcision)” - in parentheses and with no mention of it being a Holy Day of Obligation. The January 2026 newsletter, however, has added to this the words “Traditional Holy Day of Obligation.” Well: bravo Fr. Sherry, or whoever made that change. You’re almost there! Now just remove the word “Traditional” and you’ll be back to where you started! And yes, this is, of course, only a little thing but still, credit where credit is due…
SSPX Supporting U.N. NGOs..?
From Germany comes an interesting tale, but one which we were able to verify fairly easily, and so can you. Look up an organisation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland called “Christian Solidarity International” and then in connection with it, look up a young German Novus Ordo priest called Fr. Peter Fuchs (not to be confused with Fr. Martin Fuchs, who left the SSPX for the Resistance in January 2014!).
Their own website (www.csi-int.org) lists their activities in bullet points, the first of which is that Christian Solidarity International “campaign for religious liberty and human dignity”. They are particularly concerned for places such as Armenia, Nigeria, the Sudan and Syria. To be fair to them, many of their goals sound eminently worthy: liberating “people who are abducted, enslaved or imprisoned because of their faith,” for instance, even if they don’t specify which “faith” (and really, when the name is “Christian Solidarity” and not “Catholic Solidarity” how sure can anyone be that we aren’t talking about Protestants, or Greek Orthodox?). Its Wikipedia entry tells us that CSI has: “... consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council.”
And what about Fr. Peter Fuchs, what is his connection? On the “About us” (“Our Identity”) page of the CSI website, Fr. Peter Fuchs is listed as one of the six members of the “International Coordinating Committee”. Fr. Fuchs is also a priest stationed at one of the most important SSPX priories in Germany, namely Munich where he says daily Mass despite never having been conditionally ordained. In April 2025, he visited the SSPX girls’ school Schoenenberg to give a talk promoting CSI and raise funds for them. He was billed as “Geschäftsführer von CSI -Deutschland” (“Managing Director of CSI Germany”). Faithful in the German SSPX District have been encouraged to donate to support CSI almost as though it were an apostolate of the SSPX. Is this now normal?
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| Pope Leo opens first consistory with strong emphasis on synodality, Vatican II |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-08-2026, 08:55 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo opens first consistory with strong emphasis on synodality, Vatican II
Sources told LifeSiteNews that key roles in the opening phases of the consistory were assigned to figures closely aligned with the approach of Pope Francis.
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Pope Leo XIV celebrates mass at the Beirut waterfront on December 2, 2025, in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Jan 7, 2026
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Pope Leo XIV opened his first extraordinary consistory with an agenda centered on synodality, liturgy and the legacy of the Second Vatican Council.
On Wednesday, January 7, Pope Leo began the first extraordinary consistory of his pontificate at the Vatican, convening cardinals from around the world in the Paul VI Hall and the New Synod Hall to reflect together, advise the Pope, and discuss key themes like synodality and liturgy through a program centered on small working groups and plenary interventions.
In his general audience held earlier the same day, Leo said that the Second Vatican Council “has helped us to open ourselves to the world and to grasp the changes and challenges of the modern age in dialogue and shared responsibility,” adding “we must still more fully realize ecclesial reform in a ministerial key.”
According to details published by Il Giornale, registration for participating cardinals began at midday Tuesday in the atrium of the Paul VI Hall. The first working session formally opened at 3:30 p.m. in the New Synod Hall with a moment of common prayer, followed by an address from the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, and introductory remarks by the Pope.
The consistory is organized into three sessions over two days. The first session concluded at 6:45 p.m. with a papal address and prayer. On Thursday morning, the cardinals are scheduled to celebrate Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St Peter’s Basilica before beginning the second session, which includes reports from working groups and a limited period for discussion scheduled for midday. After a communal lunch with the Pope, the third and final session begins at 3:15 p.m. The consistory is set to close at 6:45 p.m. with a concluding papal address and the chanting of Te Deum.
The working method relies heavily on small discussion groups, from which collective reports will be presented to the assembly. This format mirrors the one adopted during the 2022 meeting of cardinals on the reform of the Roman Curia. At that time, the use of small groups rather than extended plenary interventions was a point of concern for some members of the College, as it limited opportunities for individual cardinals to address the entire body. The groups were organized primarily by language, a criterion that drew mixed reactions.
The initial convocation letter sent on November 7, 2025, by Cardinal Re did not specify the use of working groups, and cardinals reportedly received the detailed program only shortly before the consistory began.
Free interventions — once central to older consistories — have been reduced now to less than 60 minutes in the second session and approximately 45 minutes in the third. Internal Vatican sources told LifeSiteNews this organizational model has generated “significant discontent” among several cardinals who fear it restricts open discussion.
Sources also told LifeSiteNews that key roles in the opening phases of the consistory were assigned to figures closely aligned with the theological and pastoral approach of Pope Francis. Messa in Latino identified them as Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe O.P., who was scheduled to deliver the opening meditation at 3:30 p.m.; Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, moderator of the second session; and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, moderator of the third session. These three cardinals belong to the faction within the progressive wing of the College closest to Francis’ sensibilities, reflecting an apparent continuity with the previous pontificate.
Hours before entering the consistory, Pope Leo addressed approximately 7,000 faithful during the first general audience of the year in the Paul VI Hall, as reported by Vatican News. He announced a new cycle of catecheses entitled The Second Vatican Council through its Documents, aimed at rediscovering “the beauty and importance of this ecclesial event” and encouraging its practical implementation.
In his address, the Pope highlighted the Council’s vision of the Church as a “mystery of communion” and referred to its liturgical reform, ecumenical commitment and engagement with the modern world. Quoting Pope Paul VI and citing Pope Francis, Leo stressed the need to interpret the “signs of the times” and to continue a process of ecclesial reform, themes that closely mirror those proposed for discussion during the consistory.
In the same general audience, Leo explicitly recalled the liturgical reform initiated by the Second Vatican Council, stating that the Council “set in motion an important liturgical reform by placing at the center the mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the entire People of God.”
Referring to the theological and liturgical reflection that marked the 20th century and culminated in the Council, the Pope presented this reform as an integral part of conciliar renewal, linking it to a broader ecclesiology of communion and to the Church’s engagement with the modern world.
This article has been updated.
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