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| Müller’s Marching Orders to Trad Inc.: A Year of Coordinated Silence |
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Posted by: Stone - 9 hours ago - Forum: General Commentary
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While this news from Anthony Stine is based on an anonymous source — which should be treated with some caution until confirmed — the article below nonetheless makes a compelling case that the meeting did in fact take place, judging at least from Michael Matt's own conduct. - The Catacombs
Selling Us Out Over Sagrantino: Müller’s Marching Orders to Trad Inc.
Anthony Stine’s source, TLM Ryan’s public reversal, Taylor Marshall’s deleted warning,
and Michael Matt’s own words expose a year of coordinated silence sold to traditional Catholics as prudence
Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile [Emphasis - The Catacombs] | Jul 22, 2026
On April 27, 2025, Michael Matt looked into the camera and announced what would happen if the conclave produced another Francis.
“We will resist Francis II to his face.”
He spoke with the confidence of a veteran editor who had survived twelve years of Francis and learned the lesson. Matt reminded viewers that he had resisted Francis “honorably,” with “no regrets,” because resistance belonged to the duty of loyal Catholic sons. Days later, after quoting Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s declaration that Catholics owe no obedience to false doctrine, Matt supplied the conclusion himself:
“So there are the marching orders.”
The line now reads like prophecy with a taste for black comedy.
A little more than a year later, Anthony Stine reported that a highly placed source had described an actual meeting in Rome between Cardinal Müller and prominent traditional Catholic media figures. According to Stine, Müller urged them to stop attacking the newly elected Leo XIV—to surrender, soften their coverage, and give the new pope room.
Stine said his source specifically identified Taylor Marshall and unnamed others as having changed course after Müller’s intervention. Stine added that, as far as he knew, no money changed hands. The apparent inducement was the hope that friendly treatment of Leo might bring relief for the traditional Latin Mass.
An anonymous source deserves careful handling. There is no recording of the alleged meeting, no verified guest list, no admission from Müller, and no confession from the media figures said to have attended. Anyone presenting the report as a fully proved fact would outrun the evidence.
Fortunately, the case no longer rests upon that report alone.
Michael Matt recorded himself before, during, and after the conclave. His own broadcasts trace the whole transformation: the promise to resist; the instant search for encouraging rumors; the elevation of papal clothing and temperament over the new pope’s announced program; the insistence that Leo was changing; the ridicule of journalists who continued examining his record; the public discussion of a possible conclave “quid pro quo”; the demand that Catholics “cool it”; and the premature declaration that the revolution had already lost.
These videos turn an anonymous allegation into something far more serious. They reveal that Matt publicly adopted the exact strategy Stine’s source attributed to Müller, whether the strategy arrived through a private meeting, informal conversations in Rome, or Matt’s own eagerness to believe that Vatican access could purchase a reprieve.
The currency appears to have been influence, respectability, access, and hope for liturgical concessions. Cash would almost have made the arrangement less embarrassing.
Before the Conclave: “We Will Resist”
Matt’s pre-conclave position was admirably clear.
Francis had exposed the revolution. A successor continuing Francis’s program would have to be opposed. The laity possessed an active responsibility beyond prayer. Catholic loyalty required resistance when Roman authorities promoted error. Matt said he had done exactly that throughout the Francis years and felt no regret.
His analysis before the conclave also recognized the institutional facts. Francis had created most of the electors. The conclave was intensely political. The Holy Ghost did not mechanically select the pope. External forces, alliances, personalities, and ecclesiastical factions could influence the result. Criticism of a pope therefore could never be dismissed as criticism of the Holy Ghost.
Matt’s April 2025 programs contained none of the timid uncertainty that would appear after Robert Prevost emerged on the loggia. He spoke of a hostile takeover of the Church. He invoked Müller’s warning that a heretical pope would be catastrophic. He promised to resist another Francis “to his face.” He called the faithful to active resistance and closed by treating Müller’s words as “marching orders.”
That standard matters. Matt later portrayed immediate scrutiny of Leo as rash, immature, un-Catholic, strategically stupid, and driven by clicks. Yet before the conclave, he had already laid out the opposite standard: examine the record, identify continuity with the revolution, and resist openly.
The principle changed only after the man wearing the white cassock changed.
Much more in the rest of the article, here: https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/sell...no-mullers
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| Statue of Our Lady unharmed after church roof caved in during earthquake |
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Posted by: Stone - 9 hours ago - Forum: General Commentary
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Statue of Our Lady unharmed after church roof caved in during earthquake
‘A large part of the church nave has collapsed. ... The statue of the Virgin remains intact,’ Father Henry Díaz explained.
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Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Immaculate Heart of Mary
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Tue Jul 21, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — A statue of the Virgin Mary survived a devastating 5.1 magnitude earthquake unscathed in Peru despite the church’s roof, part of its facade, and its viceregal altars collapsing.
Built in the 16th century, Santiago Apóstol Parish church in the Chupaca province underwent heavy damage on the night of July 18.
“A large part of the church nave has collapsed. You can see huge cracks everywhere and roof tiles that have come loose. The high altar collapsed into the rubble. The statue of the Virgin remains intact,” Father Henry Díaz said.
In an interview with Rotafono, Díaz noted that the church’s “tower is leaning and must be demolished” and lamented that this “architectural gem” had been damaged shortly before the region’s celebration of its patron saint, Saint James the Apostle.
The quake left at least 6 people dead, more than 32 injured, and 50 homes destroyed, according to RPP (Radio Programas del Perú).
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| LGBT event mocking Christianity canceled after Catholics pray Rosary outside |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 09:43 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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LGBT event mocking Christianity canceled after Catholics pray Rosary outside
An LGBT-themed ‘performance’ in a former Catholic church mocked nuns, exorcism, and the Eucharist –
but now future events are canceled and the group hosting them had its lease terminated.
Jul 20, 2026
SYDNEY (LifeSiteNews) — After hundreds of young Australian Catholics knelt and prayed the Rosary outside of a former Catholic church where a blasphemous LGBT-themed performance mocking Christian themes – including the Eucharist – was taking place, future performances have been canceled and the building’s tenant is being evicted.
“Our concern is the recent material publicly promoted by the venue, including imagery and performances that many Christians experienced as a deliberate mockery and misuse of sacred Christian symbols,” the Prodigal Sons, a Catholic group, said in a statement.
“The publicly accessible material included performers dressed as nuns, exorcism parodies, references to ‘unholy water’ and depictions involving Holy Communion,” the group pointed out.
“It’s over. Our lease terminated, our artists canceled, our venue being cleared out,” the founder of the offensively named “Divine Playhouse” said in a statement sent to Star Observer. The performing group was previously named “Unholy Playhouse.”
The group was given three days to clear out.
Pictures posted on X show young Catholic men and women praying and holding Rosaries directly across the street from the church.
“Australian Catholics gathered from across Sydney to pray in reparation for the blasphemous performances taking place at a venue on Kent Street in Sydney’s central business district,” the prayerful protest sponsors explained on Instagram. Their video post continued:
Quote:More than one thousand faithful united in peaceful prayer, carrying Rosaries and lifting their hearts to God in reparation for the public offence against Jesus Christ.
Their response was not one of anger, but of faith — answering mockery with prayer, hatred with charity, and blasphemy with unwavering devotion.
It was a powerful witness that the Catholic faith will not be silenced. When Christians stand together in truth, prayer, and love for Christ, they become a light that no darkness can overcome.
“I believe taxpayers have every right to ask why public money was allocated to a project that many members of a faith community found deeply offensive,” said Chris Nave, who had launched a petition questioning the use of government funding to support the offensive performances.
“This campaign has never been about hatred or attacking individuals. It has always been about accountability, transparency and ensuring that all faith communities are treated with equal dignity and respect,” Nave told nine.com.au.
“Our fight is not against any individuals. It is against what we believe is a mockery of our faith and is against the use of taxpayer money to support it,” Nave said.
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| ‘Irish’ knifeman interrupts Rosary before Mass to stab woman |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 09:39 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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‘Irish’ knifeman interrupts Rosary before Mass to stab woman
The knifeman is said to be a stranger to the woman he attacked but not to the police.
Holy Cross Catholic Church, Tramore, Co. Waterford
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(LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic has been badly injured by a knifeman in her church in Ireland.
The middle-aged woman, who has not been publicly identified, was stabbed by a man this morning, July 21, at around 9:45 a.m. The attack interrupted the morning recitation of the Rosary at Holy Cross Church in Tramore, County Waterford. Parishioners immediately summoned emergency services. The victim, reported as being in her 50s, was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening wounds.
The police apprehended a suspect, currently described as “Irish” and “in his thirties,” at a home nearby.
According to the Irish Mirror, the parish priest, Father Richard O’Halloran, called the attack “random in nature.”
“It has been a very shocking event,” he told the outlet. “However, the people and, indeed, my colleague who was there at the time responded wonderfully well. All the emergency services were called, and they looked after everything that was happening.”
The recitation of the Rosary was to be followed by the 10 a.m. Mass. The attacker is said to be a stranger to the woman he stabbed but not to the police.
The Diocese of Waterford & Lismore has released a statement saying that they are “deeply shocked by a violent incident which occurred this morning during Mass at Holy Cross Church, Tramore.”
Quote:Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured parishioner, and we pray for her full and speedy recovery.
We wish to commend the courage and presence of mind shown by the parishioners who assisted during this frightening incident. We also thank the priests of the parish for their immediate pastoral care and concern, and we express our sincere gratitude to An Garda Síochána, the National Ambulance Service and all emergency personnel for their prompt response.
We ask the people of the Diocese to pray for the injured woman, for everyone affected by this distressing incident, and for the parish community of Holy Cross, Tramore.
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| Fr Pagliarani July 19th Letter: “The Unjust Condemnation Is Immense Humiliation” |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-20-2026, 08:50 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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NB: Before reading poor Fr. Pagliarani's Letter of July 19, 2026 which, it is our understanding, was read across most SSPX pulpits on the same day, we offer just a few reminders of how Archbishop Lefebvre and the 'traditional'-SSPX used to respond to a similar circumstance and compare that to the focus on the 'humiliation' expressed and grieved at in the new-SSPX: - “But the Church against her past and her Tradition is not the Catholic Church; this is why being excommunicated by a liberal, ecumenical, and revolutionary Church is a matter of indifference to us.” (Marcel Lefebvre, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, p.547)
- “I should be very happy to be excommunicated from this Conciliar Church… It is a Church that I do not recognize. I belong to the Catholic Church.” (Interview July 30 1976, published in Minute, no. 747)
- The following excerpts are taken from an 'Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin' written by "the Superiors of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, gathered around our Superior General" a week or so after the 1988 Consecrations, on this same topic of the Conciliar Church:
Quote:“To be publicly associated with this sanction [of excommunication] which is inflicted upon the six Catholic Bishops, Defenders of the Faith in its integrity and wholeness, would be for us a mark of honor and a sign of orthodoxy before the faithful. They have indeed a strict right to know that the priests who serve them are not in communion with a counterfeit church, promoting evolution, pentecostalism and syncretism.” (Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin, July 6, 1988)
“We have never wished to belong to this system which calls itself the Conciliar Church, and defines itself with the Novus Ordo Missæ, an ecumenism which leads to indifferentism and the laicization of all society. Yes, we have no part, nullam partem habemus, with the pantheon of the religions of Assisi; our own excommunication by a decree of Your Eminence or of another Roman Congregation would only be the irrefutable proof of this. We ask for nothing better than to be declared out of communion with this adulterous spirit which has been blowing in the Church for the last 25 years; we ask for nothing better than to be declared outside of this impious communion of the ungodly.” (Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin, July 6, 1988)
-The Catacombs
Fr Pagliarani Letter: “The Unjust Condemnation Is Immense Humiliation”
gloria.tv | July 20, 2026
On 19 July, from Menzingen, Switzerland, Fr Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX), issued another pastoral letter published on LaPorteLatine.org justifying the illicit consecration of bishops against the will of Pope Leo XIV. Key phrases (full letter below).
- "Until the very last day, I hoped for a gesture of goodwill—or at least of simple understanding—from the Holy See."
- "This condemnation, wholly unjust, represents an immense humiliation for people whose only desire is to defend the true Faith and to labor for the salvation of souls."
- " I want you to understand that this profound humiliation, which first affects the members of the Society, has a meaning in the eyes of God that must not escape you."
- "The sanctions are also intended to strike you in a rather cruel way."
- "If, in order to ensure for it the teaching of the true Faith and the administration of the true sacraments, it is necessary to pay the price of such humiliation, then it is worth paying."
- "It is evident that, before God, such a condemnation cannot be valid, for it would condemn what lies at the very heart of the Church's own life."
Full Letter:
Quote:Menzingen, July 19, 2026
Dear Faithful,
A few days after the ceremony of July 1, I wish to address these few words to you.
First of all, I would like to thank you. For several years I have prayed to the Blessed Virgin that she would prepare hearts for this historic event. I must confess that I was deeply moved to see how all of you accompanied the episcopal consecrations with your prayers and your gratitude to Divine Providence.
On July 1, many faithful from all over the world were present at Écône, and they represented all of you. It was a tremendous joy to see them so numerous and so fervent. As you certainly know, a violent storm broke out during the ceremony: "At the brightness of His presence the clouds passed, ... The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice" (Psalm 17 [18]:13–14).
At that moment, my joy only increased. On the one hand, I was the privileged witness of a liturgy of extraordinary beauty; on the other, before my eyes was another sight no less moving: an immense crowd of faithful remaining in place throughout the storm, praying to Our Lady for the new bishops, for the Church, and for the Pope. Among them were elderly women kneeling in prayer, as well as young mothers carrying their infants in their arms. It was the most beautiful image one could possibly give of the Society: faithful animated by an unshakable faith that nothing could disturb; souls for whom the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is truly the center of their lives.
You cannot imagine the consolation I experienced at that moment. The scene has been deeply engraved upon my memory, and I shall never forget it.
Until the very last day, I hoped for a gesture of goodwill—or at least of simple understanding—from the Holy See. But the consecrations have been condemned, and the severity of the sanctions imposed is without precedent. They are directed first against the bishops, but also against the members of the Society. Even the faithful are affected.
This condemnation, wholly unjust, represents an immense humiliation for people whose only desire is to defend the true Faith and to labor for the salvation of souls. Yet I want you to understand that this profound humiliation, which first affects the members of the Society, has a meaning in the eyes of God that must not escape you.
Ultimately, these consecrations were carried out for each one of you, dear faithful. Your souls are the true treasure entrusted to the Society, the treasure it cherishes above all else. A single soul possesses infinite value. If, in order to ensure for it the teaching of the true Faith and the administration of the true sacraments, it is necessary to pay the price of such humiliation, then it is worth paying, because a soul is beyond all price. The feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord—the price of our salvation—powerfully reminded us of this on July 1.
The sanctions are also intended to strike you in a rather cruel way. That is certainly painful, but do not be overly surprised. In the end, it is Tradition itself—which we cherish above all else—that is being excommunicated in all those who embody it. It is evident that, before God, such a condemnation cannot be valid, for it would condemn what lies at the very heart of the Church's own life.
But now, in the midst of this new storm, a question arises: what does Our Lord expect of you now?
It is within the soul of each one of you that the Faith must remain whole and alive. If Providence permits a crisis in which the teaching of the Faith is mysteriously obscured, that same Faith must nevertheless continue to live in souls, despite all the contrary winds that seek to extinguish it. If the outward splendor of the Church's official profession of Faith should disappear, the little candle that each of you received on the day of your baptism must remain burning in your heart and in your mind until your final day. In the end, that is the only thing that truly matters. That little flame is the first thing we received at the beginning of our Christian life, and it is also the only thing we shall keep until the end.
I entrust all of you to the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom the Society of Saint Pius X has been consecrated in a very special way. May she always protect you amid every storm and every difficulty, and may she keep alive that little flame burning in your souls whenever all the contrary winds rage against it.
All graces come to us through her hands. It is she whom we must thank for the grace of these consecrations, and it is she to whom we must pray that the new bishops may become ever more docile instruments of her inspirations and may persevere faithfully until the end.
The Society will never abandon you. Never will your souls lose their value or their worth in the eyes of its priests.
May God bless you!
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