This as reporter by Crux, press title for their full but confusing article. Actually there are a lot of confused people the least of which the odd couple!
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – The wedding of a transgender couple at a church in Pompeya, Argentina, on Jan. 28 has no effect and will be annulled by decree, the local archbishop told Crux.
Solange Ayala, a born-male trans-woman, and Isaías Díaz Núñez, a born-female trans-man, were married at the church of Our Lady of Pompeya in Corrientes according to the Catholic rite. The ceremony was celebrated by Father Fernando Luis Gómez.
Okay, orthodox Catholics would rightly say this is disordered. But, there is a true male pretending to be female and a true female pretending to be male and somehow they had a Catholic wedding in a Catholic Church in Brazil.
There was no deception concerning the pretense of the opposite sex of either person entering a Catholic marriage, even the priest knew and the bishop.
I am not a canonist. I think there is some LGBTQ+++ shenanigans going on here, to push the envelope of Feducia Supplicans—as though no one thought the LGTB1+++ Lobby in the Church would do such a thing. FS is a virus attacking the credibility of the sexual moral teachings of the Church and leading to this Orwellian sort of thing.
Pope Francis sowed was is reaped.
But with that said, biologically we are talking two genders/sexes, male and female at their conception, sex and gender assigned to them by God at their conception.
What canon says they can’t be married in the Church? Perhaps if there was intentional mutilation of their bodies where conception could not happen, that would make a case for nullity?
But what if all is in tact and they simply are transvestites?
I’m glad I’m retired, although I did have something kind of like this years ago and yes it was clearly invalid, but there was a grave deception involved and perpetrated on the victim.
Lifesite news calls it a nothing burger. I beg to disagree. It was an excellent message. You can read the Pillar’s commentary here.
I post the actual video below.
The sadness is that what Bishop Martin has done up to this video is to kick evangelization to the side of the road, as well as love for Jesus, as he stives to micro manage the liturgy and even how the altar is decorated, even when in-line with current practices, include papal practices,
The way he has treated those who desire the TLM is disgraceful as is Traditionis Custodis.
And kneeling for Holy Communion isn’t the greatest threat to Catholic unity—it is the heterodoxy of those who receive Holy Communion and not in a state of grace and approach the Sacrament in a casual way receiving Holy Communion in their hand in a way not prescribed for those receiving in their hand. Shall we talk about all those who walk off with the Host? Those Hosts found on the floor, in hymnals and missalettes and those taken for satanic purposes?
Perhaps with his video, the good bishop is trying to reset his pastoral ministry. He’s made a mess of things in his less than first year.
Even the National catholic Reporter had words of warning for the good bishop:
A common piece of advice to Catholic pastors undertaking a new assignment is to wait, go slow, check out the lay of the land and only then implement change.
Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, who came to the diocese in May 2024, either didn't get that memo or has ignored it.
In a little over a year and a half, Martin has:
Put brakes on the growth of the traditional Latin Mass movement, acting to curtail it in parish life by confining the ritual to a single chapel site in a rural area outside of Charlotte.
Mandated another year in priestly formation at the local seminary, which has been known as a traditionalist enclave. Men seeking ordination must now spend a year teaching religion or another subject in diocesan middle or high schools, and living in a nearby rectory.
Been confronted by a revolt among his younger clergy, who have signed a dubia, a petition to the Vatican, questioning Martin's approach to the traditional Latin Mass and the altar rail edict. About a third of the diocese's active priests signed the petition. A dubia is usually submitted by bishops and is rarely used by diocesan clergy against their bishop.
Rita Ferrone, a liturgist, has a commentary in Commonweal which you can read HERE.
But she thinks that Pope Leo XIV is Pope Francis II. Delusional.
But this is what she thinks are the most import aspects concerning the liturgy:
“The Liturgy in a Synodal Perspective”dated August 28, 2025, has received almost no attention whatsoever. But even a cursory reading of the questions that form the starting point of their investigations shows that the group has not gathered to discuss trivialities. They will be considering complex, challenging questions that, if addressed well, could have an impact on the quality, style, and content of the liturgical experience of Catholics around the world.
The first question concerns ecclesiology. How does our understanding of synodality as an integral dimension of Church life affect how we celebrate liturgy, particularly the Eucharist? The second question concerns how to foster a better realization of the central importance of baptism and Christian initiation, as well as how to enable more active participation in the liturgy. The third concerns “the recognition of the role of women.” A particular issue highlighted here is how lectionaries might better reflect the scriptural witness of women in salvation history.
The fourth question is focused on enhancing liturgical preaching and promoting mystagogical catechesis. The fifth asks “how to continue along the path of a healthy decentralization of liturgical authority” with respect to inculturation and the translation of texts (the reference here is to Pope Francis’s 2017 motu proprio, Magnum principium). Under the umbrella of this question, the group will also consider the oversight and service provided by the Dicastery for Divine Worship concerning these and other liturgical matters (cf. the Apostolic Constitution Predicate Evangelium, 88–97). The sixth and final question is directed toward liturgical formation. The proposal, based on Pope Francis’s teaching in Desiderio desideravi, is that liturgical formation is a mystagogical undertaking intended for everyone—priests, ministers, and the whole people of God—so that all might “recover the capacity to live completely the liturgical action” (Desiderio desideravi, 27).
As for me and my household, maybe 99% of practicing, orthodox Catholics, we are more concerned about encountering Jesus Christ in a transcendent, reverent and sober way. We want a Mass where the black is said and the red is followed. We want a Mass where there is attention to detail, organized, and well rehearsed by musicians and cantors/choirs, servers, readers and if needed Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion.
We want a Mass that looks and sounds like the Installation Mass for the new Archbishop Westminster.
We want a Mass that points to Christ and His salvation for us, freeing us from the fires of hell.
We want a Mass where we can pray and thank God for all He has done in eternity.
We want a Mass that makes clear that the Church is the Church of all ages, to include the Church Triumphant in heaven, the Church Militant on earth and the Church suffering in Purgatory.
We want a Mass that places Christ in the center of the three aspects of the Church encountered at Mass and we want that encounter to be made clear by the care that is taken by both the clergy and laity to show forth the splendor of Christ crucified and risen. Christ the King, we His subjects.
We want a Mass that enables us once we leave Mass, to be proud to be Catholic and to live our faith at home, work and the public square. We want a Mass that helps us to participate fully in the Church in the world in which we live and to believe that the Catholic Church is the true Church to which Christ calls all to be joined for their life on earth and their life in heaven.
Forget Rita’s dribble, we don’t want that, we want Christ!
The Chants are magnificent and splendid Gregorian Chant and the Alleluia Gospel Chant was out of this world!
The Chants are in Latin all of them! The Archbishop prays the Roman Canon (in English). There are no other languages other than English and Latin! This unites all those cultures into a coherent and audible unity!
The Installation Rite prior to the beginning of the Mass, was splendid, dignified and reverent. It exhibted the sobriety of the Roman Rite both in its older, more ancient form, and also required in its modern expression.
There is no applause, hooping and hollering or a feeling that one is celebrating the person being installed rather than the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no showing of the Papal Bull by the one being installed, as though it is his precious Hiesman Trophy, parading around, like a clown, with it throughout the cathedral!
The only applause, and it was quite sober and controlled, was when Cardinal Nichols presented the new Archbishop with the Pastoral Staff, crozier.
The vestments are splendid! It is a modern Mass, with female altar servers and a woman religious as one of the lectors.
This is a Solemn Sung Mass. As such, Archbishop Moth celebrates the Mass by chanting all his parts! He chants the Collect, the Prayer over the Offerings, the Preface Dialogue and Preface and all other parts pertaining to the Celebrant! Thank you Archbishop Moth—this is an example for Pope Leo IV too!
There were some unique aspects to the Installation and I presume a tradition of this English Cathedral. One of the canons actually installs the new Archbishop and the role of the canons is pronounced, which isn’t the case in the USA.
The Papal Nuncio, without theatrics or ad-libbing, reads the Papal Bull from the parchment. He is the one that briefly shows the parchment to the canons and others but remaining in the sanctuary. The parchment is not given to the Archbishop! The Archbishop never takes it or shows it, unlike Archbishop Hicks in New York who made a spectacle of it and himself.
Archbishop Moth celebrates the Mass without any theatrics nor pandering to those in front of him or acting in a way that expresses raw emotions to others.
There is no pandering to the multiplicity of cultures in this London Archdiocese, perhaps more than that which is in New York City. There isn’t a multiplicity of languages employed or different musical expressions of the various cultures. Latin Chant and music unique to the Roman Rite are used! Latin is employed, proper to the Roman Rite! Gregorian Chant is used, proper to the Roman Rite in its revised form!
Pandering to different cultures during a Roman Rite Mass is exactly that, pandering to the laity and pleasing them and their cultural accomplishments. The Roman Rite isn’t about pandering to people and their accomplishments. It is about worshiping God! It is about pleasing and praising Him and lifting our eyes to Him. It isn’t about our narcissism.
I pray that Pope Leo writes an enclical on the Sacred Liturgy and authoritatively promoting the use of both forms of the one Roman Rite and that the revised Rite be in continuity with the older and clearly so! I pray he uses this Installation Mass as an example of how to celebrate the Modern Rite.
The only criticisms I have of the Mass, one problem which is with the revised Order of the Mass, is that after the installation rite and the various greetings offered to the Archbishop in a sober and brief way, the actual Mass begins with the Gloria. It is a mistake not to start this aspect of the ritual with the free-standing Kyrie followed immediately by the Gloria.
The other criticism is the multiplicity of people, as at the Vatican, reading the intercessions of the Universal Prayer. However, it is concluding by all asking for the intercession of Our Lady of Westminster, by praying together the “Hail Mary” which many liturgists, unlike me, would flinch!
But everyone knows that I would prefer formal, brief litanies, from the Missal, not made up, for the Universal Prayer with brief “ejaculations” for the Pope and Church, for the World and World Leaders, For the sick and suffering, the Faithful Departed and needs held silently in the hearts of the Faithful.
My only other gripe, is that the Archbishop takes and places or removes his miter himself! No! No! No! Have the MC do it, please!
Be sure to hear the distribution of Holy Communion. It starts with a splendid “Ave Verum Corpus” followed by the Proper Chant for Holy Communioin in unaccompanied splendid Latin Gregorian Chant! How reverent! This is how the majority of lay Catholics (excluding liturgists) would like to receive Holy Communion. While I don’t care for post-Communion hymns or motets, what is sung after Holy Communion is an English devotional hymn, “Sweet Sacrament Divine”. What a great collective act of thanksgiving by the congregation after Holy Communion. No singing by the laity at Communion, as they are receiving Holy Communion, but a collective post-Communion hymn! Marvelous.
After the chanted Post Communion Prayer, the Archbishop intones the “Te Deum” which is wondrously chanted!
During the chanting of the Te Teum, the Archbishop departs to pray before the Blessed Sacrament I think, then he goes around the cathedral blessing the people, as the Te Deum continues to be sung, so no applause or ruckus noise.
Returning to the sanctuary, the Archbishop stands ad orientem before the altar for the completion of the Te Deum.
Prior to the final Blessing and Dismissal, the papal nuncio offers his remarks, wearing choir dress and beretta. He acknowledges Cardinal Nicols and there is restrained applause but brief, no standing ovation.
Then Archbishop Moth offers some restrained, noble and modest final remarks and thanks.
The Archbishop chants the formal Episcopal Blessing and the deacon chants the dismissal.
Then a great English anthem “Praise to the Holiest is sung by all. I wonder if it of the Anglican Patrimony? But all remain in place for this Anthem until a few verses are sung. then the choir departs behind the servers and finally the Archbishop and entourage but remaining before the altar until its conclusion with the recessional with an organ and brass instrumental fanfare recessional. Magnificent!
I must say that I love the way the six high candles and crucifix, along with the Episcopal candles and six additional candles are placed behind the free standing altar, but appearing as a unit!
Big Benny, who I fear is no longer with us, but a member of this Cathedral, would be well pleased I think. If he is gone, Requiescat in Pacem!
All I have to say about this Splendid Installation Mass is:
WOW! WOW! WOW! I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN TO A CATHOLIC WORSHIP SERVICE! I DIDN’T FEEL THAT WITH ARCHBISHOP HICK’S INSTALLATION!
I can’t imagine that Pope Leo would find fault with what Cardinal Ratzinger stated in such commonsense language in 1988. Can you imagine such a thing?
"Certainly there is a mentality of narrow views that isolate Vatican II and which has provoked this opposition. There are many accounts of it which give the impression that, from Vatican II onward, everything has been changed, and that what preceded it has no value or, at best, has value only in the light of Vatican II.
The Second Vatican Council has not been treated as a part of the entire living Tradition of the Church, but as an end of Tradition, a new start from zero. The truth is that this particular council defined no dogma at all, and deliberately chose to remain on a modest level, as a merely pastoral council; and yet many treat it as though it had made itself into a sort of superdogma which takes away the importance of all the rest.
This idea is made stronger by things that are now happening. That which previously was considered most holy -- the form in which the liturgy was handed down -- suddenly appears as the most forbidden of all things, the one thing that can safely be prohibited.
...All this leads a great number of people to ask themselves if the Church of today is really the same as that of yesterday, or if they have changed it for something else without telling people."
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, address to Chilean episcopal conference, 1988
And then there is this from 1986:
"Pope John Paul II, in 1986, asked a commission of nine cardinals two questions. Firstly, did Pope Paul VI, or any other competent authority, legally forbid the widespread celebration of the Tridentine Mass in the present day?
The answer given by eight of the cardinals in 1986 was that, no, the Mass of Saint Pius V has never been suppressed. I can say this; I was one of the cardinals."
There was another question, very interesting. Can any bishop forbid a priest in good standing from celebrating a Tridentine Mass again? The nine cardinals unanimously agreed that no bishop may forbid a Catholic priest from saying the Tridentine Mass. We have not official publication, and I think that the Pope would never establish an official prohibition ... because of the words of Pius V, who said this was a Mass forever."
-- Cardinal Alfons Stickler, Prefect of the Vatican Archives
POPE LEO’S REVERSALS OF POPE FRANCIS KEEP ON GOING…
Vatican News:
Pope Leo XIV publishes a chirograph abolishing the Pontifical Committee for the World Children’s Day, established by Pope Francis in 2024.
By Salvatore Cernuzio
After placing the Pontifical Committee for the World Children’s Day under the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life last August—changing its status as an entity directly under the Holy Father—Pope Leo XIV abolished the Committee with a chirograph published today, February 13.
This Committee was established by Pope Francis in November 2024 with the task of handling the “ecclesial animation and pastoral organization” of World Children's Day. This was an event that followed in the footsteps of World Youth Day and brought thousands of children from around the world to Rome for an event of music, faith, and testimony.
Responsibility transferred to the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life
The initiative will continue to be celebrated, with the second edition scheduled in Rome from September 25 to 27, 2026, as Pope Leo announced last November.
However, the responsibility for organizing and coordinating the event has now been entirely transferred to the aforementioned Dicastery, led by Cardinal Kevin Farrell. “The Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life is responsible for all matters that were previously under the authority of the Pontifical Committee,” reads the letter.
Promoting synergies and efficiencies
The decision, Pope Leo explains, continues the direction set with the rescript of August 2025 and “aims to further promote synergies and more effective work for the realization of this noble initiative, after having consulted appropriately.”
Pope Leo also abolishes the founding chirograph and the related statute of the Pontifical Committee. Additionally, “any acts and regulations previously adopted” by the Committee are also revoked, and they “cease to have legal effects in both the canonical and civil orders.” Furthermore, the president, vice president, and other members of the Committee will immediately cease their roles.
According to the document, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life will “define the outstanding matters of the Committee” and present “a final liquidation report to the Secretariat for the Economy for approval and for any decision regarding the allocation of the remaining assets.”
The first edition of the World Children's Day took place on May 25, 2024 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, in the presence of Pope Francis and with the participation of over 50,000 children and teenagers, including some from war-torn regions.
This is a great before and after image of a convent chapel renovation:
Certainly the new free-standing altar thrust into the nave captures the mystery, awe and wonder of the liturgies of the Church that the bad, old, nasty pre-Vatican II altar did not. And certainly this kind of renovation demanded by Vatican II for the newly demanded reformed Mass designed by Vatican II is what leads us to have experienced some 60 years after Vatican II a new springtime for the Church.
How do you spell d-l-u-s-i-o-n-a-l?
And whatever is going on here was certainly demanded by Vatican II and not to go along with this is schismatic and pre-Vatican II:
We know that Cardinal McElroy believes that the Church needs to change the Church’s teaching on Holy Orders to allowed women to be ordained. As well he believes that the Church should be inclusive and welcoming of all aspects of the LGBTQ+++ movement and soft-pedal repentance of sexual sins, mocking marriage and mocking God when it comes to the two genders He created in His likeness and image. Yet, the FSSPX does not accept certain teachings of Vatican II. Cardinal Fernandez proposes a way through different levels of adherence to non doctrinal or dogmatic aspects of Vatican II. One way it to ignore those teachings like so many Catholic bishops today ignore actual dogmas and doctrines of the Church.
COMMUNIQUÉ FROM THE GENERAL HOUSE
On 12 February 2026, Reverend Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, was received at the Palace of the Holy Office by His Eminence Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. This meeting had been proposed by the Cardinal following the public announcement, on the 2nd of February, of future episcopal consecrations within the Society of Saint Pius X.
The conversation, held one-on-one at the Cardinal’s request, lasted an hour and a half and took place in an atmosphere that was both cordial and frank. It enabled Father Pagliarani to listen attentively to the Prefect and to clarify the scope of the 2nd of February announcement, as well as the meaning of the steps taken with the Holy See over the recent months.
The Superior General was thus able to present, in person, the current situation of the Society of Saint Pius X and its duty, in the spiritual necessity in which souls find themselves, to ensure the continuation of the ministry of its bishops.
Above all, he [Pagliarani] emphasised the spirit of charity in which the Society envisages these consecrations, as well as its sincere desire to serve both the souls and the Roman Church.
Finally, he renewed his desire that, given the wholly particular circumstances in which Holy Church finds itself, the Society may continue to operate in its current situation – exceptional and temporary – for the good of the souls who turn to it.
For his part, Cardinal Fernández offered a different approach to the question. Relayed in an official communiqué swiftly published by the Holy See, his proposal consists of “a specifically theological path of dialogue, according to a very precise methodology, […] in order to highlight the minima necessary for full communion with the Catholic Church”, which would make it possible “to define a canonical status for the Society”.
These exchanges would seek, in particular, to reach agreement on “the different degrees of adherence required by the various texts of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and their interpretation”. The Cardinal stated orally that, while it would be possible to engage in dialogue about the Council, its texts could not be corrected.
As a prior condition for this dialogue, it is required to suspend the decision regarding the announced episcopal consecrations.
The Prefect of the Dicastery specifically asked the Superior General to present this proposal to the members of his Council and to take the necessary time to evaluate it.
Father Pagliarani will therefore respond within the next few days. He will write directly to Cardinal Fernández and will also make his response known to the faithful.
The Superior General renewed to Cardinal Fernández his wish to be able to meet personally with the Holy Father. He remains very peaceful and is grateful for all the prayers offered. He continues to commend this situation to the prayers of the faithful.
The Orwellian Catholic Church sees this as the major cancer in the Catholic Churrch:
But applauds this as the way for the future Catholic Church:
Mike Lewis of “Where Peter Is”, aka, “Where Francis Was” has a diatribe against the FSSPX but in an Orwellian way, he extends his negativity toward them to all Catholic, clergy and laity, who love the Traditional Latin Mass, aka, Tridentine, Extraordinary, Mass of the Ages.
Lewis certainly commits mortal sins against charity in his diatribe.
I have already written that the greatest problem in the Catholic Church, isn’t the FSSPX or those Tridentine Mass communities in full union with local bishops of the Latin Rite. These communities, while vocal, are small in number.
The greater problem is the disaster of Catholic identity of Catholic education on all levels, but in particular on the university level. So many of these institutions have only a cotton candy facade of Catholic identity. But after you get through the “cotton candy” coating, you find corruption, heresy and moral ambiguity. There is a schism with orthodoxy.
Then we have the German schismatic/heretical sinodal way, where an entire country and a goodly number of the episcopate are creating a new neo-Protestant revolution. But the form of Protestantism they are promoting is post Christianity. It is truly pagan and heretical. This involves an entire country that wants its heretical disease to become a worldwide pandemic. The FSSPX is a gnat compared to this log!
The FSSPX dissents from obedience to certain disciplines of the Church, the most serious, obedience to the Supreme Pontiff concerning the ordination of bishops. But also a dissenting from non-dogmatic aspects of Vatican II.
Yet, in many dioceses and parishes, as the Synod on Synodality revealed in Rome/Vatican itself, there are may bishops, priests and laity who want women ordained to all levels of Holy Orders, the diaconate being the entry pointy for the virus to bring that about. They want inclusivity without repentance, especially in the areas of sexuality, and every corruption promoted by the LGBTQ+++ ideological movement. Jesuitical Fr. James Martin, SJ uses the terms inclusivity and welcome without ever speaking about repentance and a life a Chasity. He wants the sinner and sin embraced and glorified. There are more Catholics who want heretical teachings in the Catholic Church than there are traditional Catholics seeking the exclusive use of the Tridentine Mass and ancillary liturgies and dissent from Vatican II.
Is it too much to ask for an Orthodox Catholic Church and the pope and bishops in union with him to lead us to truth in an organic way but in continuity with the Church of the ages?
The next step is for the FSSPX TO HUMBLY DELAY ANY EPISCOPAL ORDINATIONS. WILL THEY? Time will tell.
DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH COMMUNIQUÉ Regarding the meeting between the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Superior General of the FSSPX
Regarding the meeting between the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Superior General of the FSSPX
On 12 February 2026, a cordial and sincere meeting took place at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith between the Prefect, His Eminence Cardinal Víctor Manuel FERNÁNDEZ, and the Superior General of the FSSPX, Rev. Don Davide PAGLIARANI, with the approval of the Holy Father Leo XIV.
After clarifying some points presented by the FSSPX in various letters, sent particularly in the years 2017–2019 – among others, the question of divine will regarding the plurality of religions was discussed – the Prefect proposed a path of dialogue specifically theological, with a precise methodology, regarding issues that have not yet been sufficiently clarified, such as: the difference between an act of faith and “religious assent of the mind and will,” or the different degrees of adherence required by the various texts of the Second Vatican Council and their interpretation. At the same time, he proposed to address a series of issues listed by the FSSPX in a letter dated 17 January 2019.
The purpose of this path would be to highlight, in the issues debated, the minimum requirements for full communion with the Catholic Church and, consequently, to outline a canonical statute for the Fraternity, together with other aspects to be further explored.
It was reiterated by the Holy See that the ordination of bishops without the mandate of the Holy Father, who holds supreme ordinary power, which is full, universal, immediate and direct (cf. CDC, can. 331; Dogmatic Constitution Pastor aeternus, chaps. I and III), would imply a decisive rupture of ecclesial communion (schism) with grave consequences for the Fraternity as a whole (JOHN PAUL I, Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei, 2 July 1988, nos. 3 and 5c; PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR LEGISLATIVE TEXTS, Explanatory Note, 24 August 1996, no. 1).
Therefore, the possibility of carrying out this dialogue presupposes that the Fraternity suspend the decision of the announced episcopal ordinations.
The Superior General of the FSSPX will present the proposal to his Council and give his response to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In the event of a positive response, the steps, stages and procedures to be followed will be established by mutual agreement.
The whole Church is asked to accompany this journey, especially in the coming times, with prayer to the Holy Spirit. He is the principal architect of the true ecclesial communion willed by Christ.
+Victor Fernandez
Notre Dame University has been pushing its moral envelope toward schism for a long time.
Like the FSSPX, they are doing it again and again and again. While schismatic acts are to be condemned, there are some that are worse than others, like advocating for the genocide of the unborn and criticizing the Catholic Church social teaching on its seamless pro-life moral teachings.
The FSSPX are not as problematic as the German heretical synodal way and the FSSPX isn’t as problematic as Notre Dame University in schism with the pro-life moral teachings of the Holy Roman Church!
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend strongly condemned the University of Notre Dame’s appointment of Susan Ostermann as head of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Citing her advocacy for abortion, Rhoades called the hire a source of "scandal" that damages the university's Catholic identity.
Key details:
Opposition: Bishop Rhoades expressed "dismay" and "strong opposition" to the appointment, noting it causes confusion regarding the school's fidelity to its Catholic mission.
Public Outcry: The Bishop stated that many faculty, students, alumni, and benefactors reached out to him to express shock, sadness, and disappointment.
Call to Action: Rhoades called on Notre Dame leadership to "rectify this situation" before the appointment takes effect on July 1, 2026.
Support: Bishop Robert Barron also criticized the appointment, calling it "repugnant to the identity and mission of that great center of Catholic learning".
