LEO SETS CATHOLICS UP FOR UNION WITH ANGLICANS

To comment please open your gmail account or use my email address, FB Messenger or X. Protestants are advised that anti-Catholic rants are not published on this page except to elucidate Catholic doctrine.

A 20 year-old cartoon from The Remnant Newspaper

The whole world's been billing and cooing about Leo XIV and Charles III praying together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. "Particularly special," said the Royal Family on X. Comentators said it was "historic ... ecumenical ... a landmark act of unity". 

Catholics - especially women, and in this effeminate age even men - who dote on the Royals thought it was wonderful. The sight of the king's mistress enthroned with her lover beneath Michelangelo's glorious "Last Judgment" in that venerated sanctuary might have been hard to swallow, but probably because they'll never forget Diana, like so many have forgotten the Sixth Commandment. 

Novus Ordo Catholics are inured to ladies in what's supposed to be literally a sanctuary reserved only to priests and male acolytes, and admission to Communion for so-called Catholics living in adultery like Joe Biden, softens the Church up for lowering the bar on that doctrine definitive tenenda (to be held definitively).

Just as the bar has sunk out of sight in the heretical Anglican sect. Mark these words: this "historic" service for "Care for Creation", the mutual flattery of swapping pompous titles, and the uber globalists' cosy chat on "commitment to the protection of Nature & concern for environment” is setting up the one true Church for further normalization of sin, and a merger with Anglicanism, followed by unification of denominations into a One World religion.

Uber globalists - Charles was Klaus Schwab's ally in the Great Reset lockdown

Pope Leo XIV received today King Charles III and his concubine Camilla as if they were a couple. Her husband Andrew Parker Bowles was not invited.

The Pope, the King and their servants held an ecumenical prayer service in the Sistine Chapel. This is the first time that a British monarch and a pope have prayed together in the chapel since 855.

Charles attended as the King and as Head of a heretical group called 'Church of England'.

It is hard to ignore the fact that the Anglican Church split due to a British monarch's insistence on the right to divorce and remarry.

Actually it was an annulment Henry wanted. He wouldn't have sought a divorce. Henry was a devout Catholic.  

During the visit, Leo XIV and King Charles III declared themselves honorary brothers. These new titles symbolise closer ties, making Leo XIV a Papal Brother of St George's Chapel at Windsor and Charles III a Royal Confrater of St Paul Outside the Walls.

 

However, exchanging honorary titles and participating in a joint prayer service does not address the significant doctrinal differences between Catholicism and Anglicanism. 

By way of contrast: In October 2001, Pope John Paul II granted a private audience to the Mexican president, Vicente Fox, and his concubine Martha Sahagún, who were both divorced Catholics. They were, however, received separately.Unthinkable Before Amoris Laetitia – Leo XIV Received Divorced Remarried British Royals – Gloria.tv

 

Did Leo rebuke Charles for marrying a divorcee, as John the Baptist rebuked Herod? 

 

King Charles III prayed alongside Leo XIV in the Sistine Chapel during a state visit to the Vatican – a gesture unprecedented since England’s schism from Rome.

 

The king and queen were seated next to Leo XIV, with the Anglican Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell co-presiding over the ecumenical service of psalms and readings.

 

The theme of the service was “Christian unity” and was based on Sext (the midday prayers in the Divine Office).

 

Watch on YOutube here: https://youtu.be/pzSozqRiX1M

 

After the ceremony, Leo XIV and the king left the sanctuary together, exchanging a few words as they did so.

 

Among those present was Cardinal Vincent Nichols of the Archdiocese of Westminster, who was seated next to Rosie Frew, the Moderator of the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly. Frew was dressed in a Roman collar, and the two could be seen talking together in the chapel before the service.

 

The earlier meeting and service

 

Earlier in the day, Leo XIV received the royal couple in audience and discussed “matters of common interest,” including “environmental protection and the fight against poverty,” and “the need to continue promoting ecumenical dialogue.”

 

The king and queen also took part in another ecumenical service at the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls, led by Cottrell and Cardinal James Michael Harvey of the Basilica itself, with many of the same dignitaries mentioned taking leading parts.

 

At this earlier service, the king and queen were again seated in the sanctuary on thrones that bore the royal coat of arms and the words from the Gospel of St. John, Ut unum sint (“That they may be one”).

 

“The throne will remain in the apse of the Basilica,” reported Vatican News, “and will be used in the future by the king himself and his heirs and successors.” The king was also awarded the honorary title of “Royal Confrater,” with Cardinal Harvey claiming that Charles was being welcomed not just as a head of state but also as a “brother.”

The king bestowed upon Leo XIV the title “Papal Confrater” of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, and the “Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Bath.”

The king would have paid more than lip service by bestowing upon 'Leo XIV' the unimaginable wealth appropriated by Henry VIII and his robber barons, although 'restored' would be a more accurate term for the return of stolen property.

The English ‘Reformation’

Better known to Catholics loyal to Christ the King as the English 'Deformation'. 

As the king of the United Kingdom, Charles III is the “Supreme Governor of the Church of England.”

 

In the 1530s, King Henry VIII’s Parliament passed laws bringing England into schism with the Catholic Church. Communion was restored in the 1550s by his daughter Queen Mary, but broken again by Queen Elizabeth I in 1558. Since the break with Rome, no reigning British monarch has prayed in public with a Pope.

 

The English were obliged to attend Anglican services or face crippling fines. Many Catholic priests were executed as “traitors” during this period.

 

It took several centuries before civil rights were fully restored to Catholics and the practice of the Catholic religion made legal. To this day, British law prohibits the monarch from being a Catholic and requires a series of Protestant oaths at the coronation ceremony.

 

The king also recently visited the Birmingham Oratory. However, none of this indicates an imminent conversion to the Catholic faith. Charles III has made visits to many other religious sites, and has previously expressed his sympathy with “Guénonian traditionalism” (or “perennialism”).

 

While some aspects of perennialism may appeal to Catholics, it posits a “transcendental unity of religion” – namely, that all “traditional religions” are manifestations of single, “true religion” prior to each of them.

This philosophy, which is incompatible with the Catholic Faith, is at the root of Charles’ interest in interfaith activities.

 

Criticism

 

The Vatican described the encounters as a “historic step for Christian unity,” while critics on both sides warned that such symbolism risks obscuring doctrinal division rather than healing it.

 

Rev. Kyle Paisley, the son of Rev. Ian Paisley and a Free Presbyterian minister, condemned the state visit and ceremonies. Paisley claimed that the King was not “being true to his oath” and said that he should abdicate.

 

“The Protestant faith historically and theologically is a world apart from Catholicism,” he said, adding that “I don’t for the life of me see how he can engage in that kind of corporate worship … It gives the impression that it’s not essentially different.”

And what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

 

For similar reasons to those raised by Paisley, Catholic theology warns that communicatio in sacris (the communication in sacred things) with non-Catholics is, in many cases, gravely immoral.

Speaking exclusively to LifeSiteNews, Theo Howard of The Two Cities Podcast said:

Of all the countless postconciliar grave scandals committed by the hierarchy, communicatio in sacris is perhaps the one faithful Catholics have become most numbed to.

 

Nevertheless, at the sight of the present King, his mistress and several ministers of the Anglican sect being invited to actively take part in Catholic worship, faithful English Catholics cannot but hear the cries of the English martyrs, of Margaret Clitherow or William Hart, or those words of St Cuthbert – “But hold no communion with those who err from this unity of the Catholic Faith”.

 

One of the roots of the contemporary agony of the Church was the deliberate abandonment of Thomistic philosophy. In response to Henry VIII’s Catholic work ‘In Defence of the Seven Sacraments’, Luther scathingly called him “Rex Thomisticus” (the Thomistic King). It was Pope Leo X who then granted Henry the title Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith), which the monarch continues to style himself to this day.

 

May we respond to these outrages by praying more ardently than ever, that our King, or his successors, convert to the true faith – and that Rome itself be cleansed of Modernism, so that the British King may worthily pray in union with the Catholic Pope, and that what Luther said in scorn may be borne with pride.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/pope-leo-holds-service-with-charles-iii-head-of-church-that-canceled-catholicism-for-centuries/

•    

  

  
  

  
  
  

Sts Crispin and Crispinian, please pray for the Church

LEO GRANTS TLM PAROLE AND AN ANKLE BRACELET

To comment please open your gmail account or use my email address, FB Messenger or Z. Protestants, this topic may be above your pay grade.

 New TLM shrine at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Cleveland, showed "unstoppable growth" of the TLM

The conciliar, Novus Ordo, post-Bergoglian-turned-Prevostian Synodal Vatican has put the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) on a two-year parole in Cleveland, Ohio - after its Bishop Edward Malesic had asked for five. 

But those scant two years of parole come with an ankle bracelet attached. That Catholics "attached to the anterior ritual form (be led) towards full appreciation and acceptance of the liturgical books renewed by decree of the Second Vatican Council.” In other words, the faithful must be converted willy-nilly to Vatican II and its attendant ambiguities and consequent heresies. 

For what crime was the TLM sentenced? you may ask. For proclaiming the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, for preaching the Gospel of Christ, feeding faithful Catholics starved of spiritual sustenance, filling their pews with young families, the plate with their cash and the conciliar church with envy. 

Leo and Co are resorting to standover tactics to substitute their global, Ape Church for the Mystical Body of Christ. But in spite of Bergoglio's ruthless Traditionis Custodes, the Traditional Latin Mass has proved to be unstoppable.  

Old St Mary's Chinatown DC, before the Latin Mass was taken away

Old St Mary's Chinatown one year after it lost the Latin Mass

From Cleveland to the Sistine Chapel, mercy is granted only to those who first confess Vatican II.

 

It’s a familiar pattern: every “concession” from Rome arrives with a leash attached. Every word of compassion conceals a doctrinal condition. Every token nod toward tradition serves to remind you who is boss.

 

This week’s Vatican stories form a single portrait of the post-conciliar Church: a faith administered on parole, a mercy that demands ideological compliance, and a gospel repackaged as therapy.

 

The Latin Mass on Parole

 

The headlines sounded merciful: “Vatican grants two-year extension for Latin Mass in Cleveland.”

 

The faithful in Akron and Cleveland exhaled, grateful that the Mass of their forefathers had not been stamped out entirely. Yet the truth came, as it always does, not from Rome but from a parish email leaked to social media.

 

The bishop, it turns out, had asked for five years. He was granted two—and only on the condition that the clergy “lead the faithful attached to the anterior ritual form towards full appreciation and acceptance of the liturgical books renewed by decree of the Second Vatican Council.” The Vatican even recommended that one of the traditional Masses be replaced by a Novus Ordo in Latin.

 

 

 

So the “extension” is really an ultimatum: learn to love Vatican II or lose your Mass. The faithful are allowed to kneel only long enough to be re-educated. The Old Rite survives, not as a legitimate expression of the Roman faith, but as a behavioral-correction program. This is not mercy; it’s management. It’s the same technique used with every dissenting remnant: appease, isolate, retrain, and eventually dissolve.

 

The post-conciliar Church never simply forbids; it “accompanies” you until you stop resisting.

 

Charles and Camilla at the Vatican

While Cleveland’s faithful are told to rediscover their enthusiasm for Vatican II, the head of that same conciliar Church prepares to host an ecumenical “prayer for the care of Creation” in the Sistine Chapel. King Charles III will join him under the slogan of “ecological conversion.”

 

Archbishop Viganò captured it succinctly: two “supreme authorities” of their respective modern churches, united not by faith in Christ but by the “environmentalist and neo-Malthusian ideology of the World Economic Forum.”

 

Leo will reportedly gift Charles a seat inscribed Ut unum sint—“that they may be one.” But one in what? Certainly not in the Catholic faith once defended by the martyrs whom Henry VIII butchered. The unity on display is the new conciliar unity: emotional, horizontal, and completely un-evangelical.

 

It is the Church of atmospheric fellowship, where conversion is environmental and salvation means sustainability. The Sistine Chapel becomes a kind of interfaith greenhouse: Michelangelo’s Last Judgment presiding over a climate summit.

 

Mercy for the Planet, Silence for the Martyrs

 

 

Secretary of State Parolin

 

While the Vatican choreographs its ecological pageant, the Secretary of State assures the world that the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria “is not a religious conflict.” Cardinal Parolin, ever the diplomat, explains that the violence is “a social one,” the result of “disputes between herders and farmers.”

 

But the facts defy him. 

 

Between January 2023 and December 2024, Nigeria suffered a surge in religiously motivated violence, particularly in the North and Middle Belt. Armed groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) led coordinated assaults on churches, villages, and clergy. In Plateau and Benue States alone, thousands were displaced and hundreds killed, including over 1,100 Christians, among them twenty priests, within a single month after the 2023 presidential inauguration. During Christmas 2023, joint attacks by local and foreign militants left nearly 300 dead; by June 2025, another 200 displaced Christians were massacred in Benue.

 

Church leaders describe the campaign as deliberate, a jihadist strategy to expel Christian populations. Radicalized Fulani herdsmen, aided by Islamist militias, continue systematic attacks and land seizures. Even Catholic schools have been assaulted, such as the 2024 attack on a Christian high school in Makurdi, where blasphemy accusations and witchcraft-related killings inflamed the violence. Dozens of clergy have been kidnapped or murdered, while regional hisbah police enforce Sharia restrictions in northern states, defying constitutional law.

 

Yet Parolin tells us this is about “social tensions.” The same Vatican that can detect “microaggressions” against the environment cannot recognize a genocide against its own flock. When the blood of martyrs cries from the ground, Rome hears only the “cry of the earth.”

 

Universities Without Faith

 

Eduardo Peñalver: 'The Church erred'

 

From diplomacy to academia, the same decay spreads. Georgetown University, once the proud flagship of Catholic scholarship, has chosen a new president who publicly rejects the Church’s teaching on homosexuality.

 

Eduardo Peñalver announced years ago that he “takes inspiration” from “committed gay couples” and believes the Church “erred” in her moral teaching. That alone should have disqualified him. Instead, it qualified him.

 

The Jesuits call him “an exceptional leader steeped in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition.” And indeed he is, if that “tradition” means perpetual dissent disguised as dialogue. The universities that were meant to defend the faith now produce administrators who deny it with a smile. Their theology departments churn out relativism as readily as their cafeterias serve fair-trade coffee.

 

Once the faith leaves the sanctuary, the classroom quickly forgets it ever existed.

 

The Synodal Mood of Rome

 

Leo’s own addresses this week were minor variations on the same theme. Speaking to the Portuguese College, he praised the “polyphony of unity” and “listening to what the Spirit inspires in each believer.” The words sound harmless, even poetic. Yet beneath the glow lies the same synodal anthropology: revelation as conversation, truth as tone, the Church as a focus group for the Holy Spirit.

 

But the deeper signal came in his General Audience on the Resurrection.

 

The Therapeutic Resurrection

 

The grotesque, distorted, sculpture of the Resurrection in Paul VI Audience Hall

“The resurrection of Jesus Christ,” Leo began, “can heal one of the malaises of our time: sadness.” What follows is not apostolic preaching but cognitive-behavioral therapy. Christ’s victory over death becomes a “gentle reminder when the going gets tough.” The two disciples of Emmaus are not witnesses to divine revelation but patients learning perspective.

 

The Resurrection, in his telling, is no longer the cosmic reversal of sin and death, it’s the emotional recovery of disappointed men. It “changes our outlook,” he says, “filling the void of sadness.” Gone are the thunderclaps of Easter morning, the stone rolled away by angelic power. Gone the triumph over Satan, the promise of our own glorified bodies. What remains is a moral of resilience.

 

Where Scripture proclaims “If Christ be not risen, your faith is vain,” Leo offers something closer to “If Christ be not risen, you might feel sad—but take heart.” The event that once shattered the pagan world is rewritten as a mood enhancer, a wellness narrative for the spiritually fatigued.

 

This is the last mutation of Vatican II religion: revelation reduced to therapy, miracle to metaphor, resurrection to reassurance. A Church that once declared “He is risen indeed” now whispers, “He will make you feel better.”

 

Conclusion: The Faith That Comes With Conditions

 

Across these stories, Cleveland, the Sistine Chapel, Nigeria, Georgetown, Rome itself, the pattern repeats. Every grace is conditional, every truth emotional, every miracle interpretive. The Mass is extended only if it promotes Vatican II; unity is celebrated only if it ignores doctrine; persecution is acknowledged only if it’s not too religious; and the Resurrection is preached only if it comforts rather than converts.

 

A faith so managed cannot convert the world because it no longer believes the world needs converting. The shepherds have become therapists, and the Gospel, a group session. But the empty tomb still waits outside their window, unmanageable, untamed, and gloriously true.

https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/romes-latin-mass-concessions-come?img=https%

 

St Severinus of Cologne, prominent opponent of the Arian heresy




St Severinus of Cologne, please pray for the Church

GOLDSMITH, LUXON YOU'RE ELECTED TO GOVERN - DO IT

 To comment please open your gmail account or use my email address, FB Messenger or X.

"Tikanga is mumbo-jumbo", says NZ webcaster Sean Plunkett. 'Tikanga' is Maori spirituality, and in calling this spade a spade Plunkett sings like a canary in the Kiwi coalmine. New Zealand's Broadcasting Authority has come after him in a power and revenue grab that mimics the UK's Office of Communications and Australia's Esafety Commissioner bids for control of the media and the message, to make it Marxist.

A government is elected to govern. The bureaucracy is not the government. Someone please tell Paul Goldsmith that as far as Media and Communications in New Zealand go he, as Minister, and not Broadcasting Authority CEO Stacey Woods (a Labour stooge, they say), is the government. 

Explain to Mr Goldsmith also that the judiciary - who he's happy to let decide whether or not New Zealand enjoys free speech - is not the government either. Or perhaps Prime Minister Luxon, who sympathises with Mr Plunkett, could explain things to Mr Goldsmith. Otherwise it'll be up to the electors to tell Messrs Goldsmith and Luxon the facts of the matter in a year's time. At the election.

 

From Barrie Saunders at Bassett, Brash and Hide:   

 

Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith's handling of the BSA power grab follows 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re broadcasting, which have consistently betrayed their rhetoric about supporting competition and private enterprise. 

The National Party Holland/Holyoake government of 1949-1957, did nothing of consequence to roll back the Savage/Fraser Labour governments nationalisation of radio. No private radio under National then nor any TV at all.

TV came in 1960 courtesy of the Nash Labour government. The only sensible thing I recall about the Holyoake National administration after it won the election late 1960, was to convert the old NZ Broadcasting Service into the more independent NZ Broadcasting Corporation.

 

When David Gapes and co wanted to set up private enterprise radio and they were blocked. They decided to broadcast from a boat but the National Party Minister Scott attempted to physically block the boat from leaving Auckland. Fortunately that failed and so we had one private broadcaster. The law was ultimately changed but getting a radio licence was very difficult and expensive.

I well recall a hearing in Wellington where Robin Cooke QC (Later Lord Cooke) was vigorously challenging Radio Windy's case, presumably on behalf of the NZBC. The so called private enterprise government had made getting a licence as hard as possible.

 

The second TV channel also had a convoluted history. It could have had a private enterprise channel if entrepreneur Gordon Dryden had been successful in his advocacy but the incoming Kirk government favoured it being state owned, and Dryden was awarded NZ$50,000 compensation for the shabby way it was handled.

It was Roger Douglas in the Kirk Rowling government of 1972/5 that decided to split then two channels into two competing corporations - TV1 and TV2. This happened after Kirk died on August 31, 1974. It meant we had two news teams around the country and a new radio entity Radio NZ with commercial and non commercial stations.

 

Not acceptable to National Party leader Rob Muldoon who swept to victory late 1975 and declared he didn't want two cameras on him at press conferences and so in 1980 the two channels were merged into one - Television New Zealand.

 

The Lange/Palmer/Douglas government of 1984-89 introduced many reforms which included broadcasting. This opened up the opportunity for private TV and in late 1989 TV3 commenced broadcasting as the first private enterprise TV in NZ. Pay TV operator Sky came later in 1990. The new Act created the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) as a check on the then powerful broadcasters particularly TVNZ and RNZ.

Early this year the Ministry of Culture and Heritage issued a discussion paper on media which included statement to the effect that as the Broadcasting Act 1989 did not cover internet radio like entities such as The Platform, the Broadcasting Standards Authority's (BSA) scope should be extended to them.

 

 

The Linkedin profile of the BSA's Chief Wokester, Stacey Wood.

The advantage is seen to be consistency of regulation.Instead of waiting for the government to decide on whether to proceed down this route the BSA decided existing law did give them jurisdiction over The Platform and presumably Reality Check Radio. This is extraordinary. One might have thought Minister Goldsmith would have said as we do not believe it has that authority it should await a government decision. 

But no, according to Kiwiblog he told RNZ's Media Watch programme: "That's in the media reform package that went out for consultation .... and the government's yet to make final decisions. There is a lot of noise about it at the moment. Of course if you are in the sector you want to draw attention to yourself and so a lot has been said.

 

"I don't think our democracy is under threat, but it's an interesting little exercise. I think there's a very small group in that category. They're within their rights to test that and it may well go to the courts. I'm happy to let that flow through the system and see how it goes".

 

I hope the Minister will regret these words because they won't be career enhancing.

What he is saying is that if The Platform has to spend $100,000 or more testing this through the courts, with the taxpayers also including big costs, he is happy with that. Truly disgraceful in my book.

 

BSA Chief Executive Stacey Woods - an Ardern apparratchik 

 

What the Minister and so many regulators don't understand is the commercial consequences of their actions. Small businesses such as The Platform often live from hand to mouth. They have no desire, or time or the money for expensive litigation.

 

Only arrogant regulators, of which NZ has far too many, could make such a truly callous and dopey statement. What would happen if The Platform were brought under the BSA? It would be inundated with complaints that The Platform had not acceptably dealt with their complaints lodged to it in the first instance. The Platform has many enemies who would relish the opportunity to kill it with numerous complaints.

The real issue is whether the BSA is needed today. Before this power grab I had argued in a submission to the Ministry it should be disestablished because I could only see mischief from extending its scope.

I have reviewed the BSA's decisions of the last year. Most are dismissed and rightly so. News media do make mistakes and these are sometimes corrected. Often the complaints are about matters of judgement and there is no point in the BSA second-guessing judgements made by journalists working under pressure.

I found no issue of real consequence where the BSA had a very useful social role. The news cycle is so fast that decisions rarely if ever matter in the scheme of things. See the number of times Palestine comes up.

The big media change since the BSA was established is its diversity. No one can regulate it unless they want to emulate Russia or China. This is not hyperbole. Just think about trying to track down commentators on every internet based operation.

Public confidence in mainstream media is around 33% according to AUT. Extending the BSA's coverage to the likes of The Platform and Reality Check Radio will not increase confidence in mainstream media. Their reputation was seriously damaged by its public funding during and since Covid. Rightly so - I am with the 67%.

PM Luxon thinks the BSA has over reached. The Government has four options:
1. Do nothing and see what happens in the courts 2. Extend the scope of the BSA to internet operations.3. Make the BSA voluntary for everyone. 4. Abolish the BSA.
My strong preference is to disestablish the BSA and allow all media entities to decide whether or not to come under a voluntary entity such as the NZ Media Council, which also handles complaints. Self regulation works fine with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

ACT and NZ First have laid put their positions. Is it too much to hope the National Party will end its dismal 80 year record and do the right thing? Or will it be more muddle through?
Further reading: Peter Williams, David Farrar (Kiwiblog), David Harvey (Former judge) and Gary Judd KC, particularly on Radio Hauraki.https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/barrie-saunders-the-bsa-power-grab?utm_campaign=