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News Roundup: October 19, 2025

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JMJ

For me there are two key events this month: 

  • First, we have the publication of Pope Leo's first document - Dilexi Te.  I will have a longer post on that one later this month.
  • Second, we have the ceasefire in the Israeli / Hamas war, which I wonder if it will last long enough for me to publish this post on the 19th.

Be that as it may ... here's what I have as of Oct 17th.

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Popes Past Present and Future

News and Views

RORATE CÆLI: Leo XIV makes his first major Curial appointment: Iannone for Bishops -- a Rorate Analysis
Pope Leo XIV and Polyphonic Music - Catholic Family News
Pope Leo remembers Cardinal Mureșan's exemplary witness under persecution - Vatican News
Pope Leo urges Catholics to pray daily Rosary for Peace in October - Vatican News
Pope at Audience: Jesus redeems darkest places of human existence - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV urges European institutions to promote a 'healthy secularism' - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV's First Key Appointment to the Curia | FSSPX News
RORATE CÆLI: A True Evidence of Unity: Leo XIV receives Cardinal Cipriani Thorne -- and the first abrogation of a Francis document
Leo XIV and the Post-Francis Thaw - OnePeterFive

Tradicat: So really there isn't much to go on ... I am still waiting to see what happens when the SSPX requests permission to consecrate 4 or more new auxiliary bishops.

Doctrine and Crisis

Will Pope Leo retain Tucho as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith?
RORATE CÆLI: Pope Leo XIV’s view of “Synodality” in Letter: The Bishop is the Guardian, and the College of Bishops, with the Pope at its Head
RORATE CÆLI: Dilexi Te -- Leo XIV's first Exhortation
RORATE CÆLI: Ratzinger: "The deepest cause of the crisis that has subverted the Church is located in the effacing of the priority of God in the liturgy."

Judas Iscariat in Hell?

Tradicat: I once made a controversial statement by saying that Judas Iscariat was in Hell.  Now with Pope Leo's statement I have been officially vindicated ... so at least there is some sanity in the world.

The Church, The Crisis and the Persecution

Crisis

RORATE CÆLI: The Murder of Charlie Kirk: The End of an Illusion
The End of Illusion: On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Way Forward
RORATE CÆLI: Idiocracy in the Hierarchy
The TLM Returns to Rome…as TC Totters? - Crisis Magazine
RORATE CÆLI: For the Record: extracts from a recent interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah: Fiducia supplicans, a document to be forgotten; it is not possible to prohibit a rite that is over a thousand years old.
RORATE CÆLI: Published Article: Attendance of Traditional Latin Mass strongly correlated with Stronger Belief in the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament
Priests Push to Redefine Sexual Sin and Ordain Women?! - YouTube
LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: Sometimes Ya Just Gotta Laugh. These "Sisters" are a JOKE!
Grounding the State in the Christian Creed - Crisis Magazine
The Remnant Newspaper - "LGBTQ+" SCANDAL in ST. PETER'S: Bishops Launch Act of Global Reparation
Washington state will not enforce law requiring priests to violate Seal of Confession. Really? | Fr. Z's Blog

Tradicat:  Charlie Kirk's death is, to some, a key inflection point. Only, I think it is just the latest death in a long series of deaths in this crisis.  While many that I've met are yearning for an end to the crisis, what I suspect is that things will get worse.

Persecution

RORATE CÆLI: New TLM Suppression: Diocese of Austin axes scheduled Latin Mass at Texas A&M University
RORATE CÆLI: Another Traditional Mass Suppressed: Saint Cecilia’s, in Brooklyn (New York)
China: Clampdown on Online Religious Content | FSSPX News
New Attack on the Church in Syria | FSSPX News
RORATE CÆLI: For the Record: TLM back at upper church of Saint Peter's Basilica on Michaelmas (End of March 2021 Ban)
Pope: “You can say Mass in Latin right now” - OnePeterFive
RORATE CÆLI: Pope Leo XIV Talks About the Traditional Latin Mass (updated with full excerpt)

Tradicat:  My thought is that when (not if) the Pope approves the Tridentine Mass - the real schism in the Church will be in plain view and the civil war will go from cold to hot.

News and Views

LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: Where is Pope Leo Taking the Church?
Pascal's wager - Wikipedia
RORATE CÆLI: Pope Leo XIV’s view of “Synodality” in Letter: The Bishop is the Guardian, and the College of Bishops, with the Pope at its Head
The Rise and Rise of the Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage - OnePeterFive
LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: Retire the Fairy Godmother and Watch your Mailbox for the Invitation
Timeline of Fatima Apparitions1916-1929 - Our Lady of Fatima Parish - Lakewood, CO
The Miracle of Fatima: October 13, 1917 - TAN Direction - Catholic Spiritual Direction From the Saints and Faithful Modern Authors
Fatima’s October 13 Apparition: More Than Meets the Eye| National Catholic Register
Miracle of the Sun - Fatima, Portugal, October 13, 1917, 1:30pm (7:30am CST) - Roman Catholic Man
Miracle of the Sun - Wikipedia
Sixth Apparition (October 13, 1917) | EWTN
The Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima | FSSPX News
Weird Things Happen | Catholic Answers Magazine
RORATE CÆLI: Another Traditional Monastery in France -- the Monks of Le Barroux take charge of the Trappist monastery of Bellefontaine

Tradicat:  Yet another anniversary of the Miracle of Fatima has come and gone.  While, of all things, Pope Francis seems to have made the best attempt to fulfill Our Lady's request.  Yet, it appears that Russia has not provided evidence of the conversion as she attacks and seems to be preparing to attack others. 

I once heard it said that when things are darkest, that is when the Pope and the Bishops in union with him do the full on consecration of RUSSIA to the Immaculate Heart. 

Maybe this is just part of the path to that victory.

SSPX

Rome / SSPX

Rome Pilgrimage 2025

The Integrity of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre | FSSPX News
SSPX reconciliation was close to Benedict XVI’s heart according to Archbishop Gänswein
Archbishop Lefebvre's Consecrations for the SSPX [Video Lesson] | FSSPX News

Tradicat: I wonder if the pilgrimage will be remembered as another milestone in this crisis of the Church, just like the 2000 pilgrimage. Nothing may have happened between Rome and the SSPX, but like many things in this life, we may not know its import for many years.

News and Views

Denmark: The Executive Notes a Decline in Secularization | FSSPX News
Vatican: A New Controversial Appointment | FSSPX News
Sinai Monastery Emerges From a Crisis | FSSPX News
The Traditional Mass Once Again Allowed in St. Peter's | FSSPX News
Switzerland: Bulle Church Bells to Ring at Night | FSSPX News
United States: The Church Will Not Have to Cover the Price of Abortions | FSSPX News
Rome: The New Bishops Have Started Their Term | FSSPX News
In the DRC, the Clergy Sounds the Alarm | FSSPX News
Remains of a Garden Discovered Beneath the Holy Sepulcher | FSSPX News
The Month of July and the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ | District of the USA
United Kingdom: Will St. Thomas More’s Head Be Presented for Veneration by the Faithful? | FSSPX News
The SSPX & the Catholic Pastoral Approach (Part I of III) - OnePeterFive
The Cecilian Movement vs. Pastoral Music (SSPX Philippines, part II) - OnePeterFive
Spanish Philippines and SSPX Manila: Pastoral Music, Part 3 - OnePeterFive
Holy Land: The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Believes in the Trump Plan | FSSPX News
October - The Month of the Holy Rosary | District of the USA
Canada: SSPX National Pilgrimage to Midland | FSSPX News

Tradicat:  Nature abhors a vacuum (link), as humans are created, not evolved, that means that we have certain elements that are inherent in our make-up.  I can think of two.  First, we need a reason to live, a purpose. Second, believing in 'nothing', like atheists is not sustainable.  When a person believes that there is nothing to live for after death, all Christian morality and ethics fall away.

To understand this conflict we need to have a long view. In this case, stronger cultures will eventually overcome the weaker.  Christianity is "weak, divided" by the heresies and schisms but not leaderless. It wouldn't take long for Catholicism's culture to reassert itself.  It provides something that Modern Catholicism can't, something to believe in. 

Accusations and Persecutions

"We Will Push Him Into Schism!" | FSSPX News
Divergence Between Pope Leo XIV and Cardinal Sarah | FSSPX News

Tradicat: The persecution is ongoing and it stretches generations in the past. We have to understand that this war started well over a hundred years ago.  This is just the current battle in a war that God will win. 

World, Wars and Conflict

Business and Economics

There's No Denying the Socialist Roots of Fascism
Nazi vs. Fascist: Is There Really A Difference? - Dictionary.com
Nazi Party - Wikipedia

Tradicat:  With all the accusations of Trump being a Fascist, I wonder if the liberals are the real fascists.  Not that I really like Trump.  Not because of politics, but because of his failings and what he is doing.

Military and Wars

The China threat goes beyond the Pacific, intel chiefs say - Defense One
How the rapid pace of AI connects to China’s threats toward Taiwan - Defense One
China, China, Chi—wait, what? Air Force mulls next steps amid homeland focus - Defense One
Is This Our Best Look At China's Tailless J-XDS Stealth Fighter?

Tradicat: One thing that Trump has done is strip away the civility of the post war period.  Now we are rapidly approaching the point before the First World War, 'Might makes Right'.  The calculus is simple. Those who think they have the power will try to take what they can.

It's like watching a train wreck.

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