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News Roundup: December 22, 2025

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JMJ

Here's my news round-up as of December 22, 2025.

As always, these are simply articles that caught my eye over the month.

There's definitely lots of bad news and the only good news seems to be a theme of Unity from Pope Leo XIV that isn't simply mass conformity to the whims of the Neo-Modernists.  Definitely a small shift, but nothing to get excited about until we see how the Pope's reaction to the SSPX request (that I assume has been sent or is being drafted) for a mandate to consecrate auxiliary bishops.

This remains a rubicon point for Pope Leo XIV.  Will he walk the talk?

Time will tell ... until then

P^3

Popes Past Present and Future

News and Views

RORATE CÆLI: Pope Buries German Synodal Way: the voice of the powerful in the German Church cannot silence the voice of the numerous who are not listened to
Pope Leo XIV and the Creed | District of the USA
Leo XIV in Turkey: Nicaea at the Service of Ecumenism | FSSPX News
Pope Leo XIV and the Creed | District of the USA
Pope Leo: Blessed Virgin Mary, watch over this humanity - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV convenes his first Consistory of Cardinals - Vatican News
RORATE CÆLI: Pope Leo XIV’s first Christmas Address to the Roman Curia: What Unity in the Church means
Pope Leo XIV's motto and coat of arms - Vatican News
Fr. Z's Blog | Formerly entitled: "What Does The Prayer Really Say?" – Clear, straight commentary on Catholic issues, liturgy and life by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf    o{]:¬)

Doctrine and Crisis

“Guarding and Trasmitting the Gift”: Pope Leo on Tradition & Ecumenism - OnePeterFive
RORATE CÆLI: Apostolic Letter IN UNITATE FIDEI of Pope Leo XIV -- On the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea
RORATE CÆLI: Francis-instituted Vatican Commission says NO to Female Diaconate - English Translation of Full Report
The Immaculate Conception in the hearts and words of the Popes - Vatican News
Centenary of Quas Primas, the Encyclical on Christ the King | FSSPX News
Pope Leo XIV and the Creed | District of the USA
RORATE CÆLI: Italian Daily "Il Giornale": Liturgical question at the heart of the Consistory of Cardinals called by the Pope for early January

RORATE CÆLI: Immaculate Mother, the Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix: "Every kind of grace we receive from the treasury of the redemption is ministered as it were from the hands of the Virgin."

The Church, The Crisis and the Persecution

Crisis

RORATE CÆLI: Bishop Mutsaerts on DDF document on Marian Titles: "Cardinal Fernandez causes confusion once again."
RORATE CÆLI: Theological Audacity and Confusion: On the Marian Document
RORATE CÆLI: The Bishops have so much love for neighbor that they applaud themselves -- but some of them don't seem to love their own Faithful
A Response and a Defense of Universal Peaceable Acceptance - OnePeterFive
SSPX and the Resistance - A Comparison Of Ecclesiology
The Blessed Virgin is and Must Be Called Our 'Co-Redemptrix' - Catholicism.org
RORATE CÆLI: French Semi-Official Catholic Daily "La Croix": The "Normalization" of the Latin Mass is Here
RORATE CÆLI: FRIENDS OF CAMPOS: Help Sisters in the only Diocesan Structure in the World Exclusively Dedicated to the Traditional Mass
Proposed Canadian Law Could Condemn the Bible as “Hate Speech” | FSSPX News
Archbishop Gänswein finally speaks out about his shabby treatment by a vindictive Pope Francis. "The centrality of Christ has forcefully returned to the forefront of the homilies and words of the universal pastor of the Church."
Modernist thinks Church should bow down before the spirt of the age and ordain women
Bishop Schneider meets with Pope Leo, shares proposals for 'spiritual good of the Church' - LifeSite

Persecution

RORATE CÆLI: No, there is no news about Leo XIV and Traditionis custodes
RORATE CÆLI: Pope does not intend to revoke Traditionis custodes, will keep granting dispensations — Nuncio to Britain
SSPX in Charlotte plans for new chapel to accommodate growth after Latin Mass suppression - LifeSite

News and Views

Betrayal in Rome: The Fatima Warning - YouTube
KNOWLEDGE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
WISDOM Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Late-term abortions are happening in Canada without a medical reason | National Post
Approved APPARITION: Mary's WARNING of Two Worm-Ridden Popes - YouTube
Russian Trads: Fasting, Spirituality and the attitude towards East - OnePeterFive
The Blessed Virgin is and Must Be Called Our 'Co-Redemptrix' - Catholicism.org
RORATE CÆLI: A Reply to John Lamont: In Defense of Christian Neoplatonism
RORATE CÆLI: Neoplatonism and the Antichrist: Against "Christian Hermeticism" - by Dr. John Lamont
RORATE CÆLI
RORATE CÆLI: Filiae Laboris Mariae, a Semi-Contemplative Community of Sisters in the Kansas City area
LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: "Am I Not Here, I Who Am Your Mother?"
RORATE CÆLI: FRIENDS OF CAMPOS: Help Sisters in the only Diocesan Structure in the World Exclusively Dedicated to the Traditional Mass
RORATE CÆLI: Confirmed by Local Radio: Bishop Ronald Hicks to be named new Archbishop of New York!
RORATE CÆLI: Images of the First Traditional Ambrosian Rite Mass in Decades (in the Basilica of Saint Ambrose) - Milan
Why I Am (Only Sorta) a Traditionalist - Crisis Magazine
Forced unity is not unity.  It’s uniformity. | Fr. Z's Blog

1P5 Flanders and the World

1 My Struggle as Editor of OnePeterFive - OnePeterFive
2 Disembodied Antichrist Community: Good out of Evil? - OnePeterFive
3 One Non-Profit Against SkyNet - OnePeterFive
4 “Orthobros” & the Subtlety of the Fallen Angels Online - OnePeterFive
5 The Darkness Takes Me Alive - OnePeterFive

SSPX

Rome / SSPX

Archbishop Lefebvre's Consecrations for the SSPX [Video Lesson] | FSSPX News
RORATE CÆLI: Pope Leo XIV received in audience today…
Is the Vatican Retreating on the Latin Mass Ban? ━ The European Conservative
RORATE CÆLI: Bishop Rifan of the Apostolic Administration of Campos, exclusively dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass, describes his meeting with Pope Leo XIV
RORATE CÆLI: Pope Leo XIV Extends Apostolic Blessing to SSPX Chapel in North Carolina for Its 25th Anniversary
The SSPX and the question of new bishops
Interview: Cardinal Müller on Europe, Islam, the SSPX and the German Synodal Path
The Mission of the SSPX in 2025 - District Superior Letter | District of the USA
SSPX and the Urgent Need for New Bishops in the Church
The SSPX’s bishops | Maison Générale
Soon-to-be Bishop Christian Bouchacourt of the SSPX? - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum

Accusations and Persecutions

Fr. Bux Refutes Cardinal Cupich on the Liturgy | FSSPX News
SSPX Bishop Fellay calls Vatican's latest Marian document 'pitiful,' 'insult to God' - LifeSite

News and Views

A Live Birth After Abortion Is Not an Exception | FSSPX News
Brazil: Nearly 500 Confirmations Conferred by Bishop Fellay | FSSPX News
The Presentation of the Mother of God | District of the USA
South Africa: SSPX Procession in Johannesburg | FSSPX News
Slovenia: Euthanasia Rejected by Referendum | FSSPX News
Philippines: New Novitiate for the SSPX Oblates | FSSPX News
Texas: Conference for Single Catholics | District of the USA
460 Young People Celebrate Christ the King in Diessenhofen | FSSPX News
Brazil: Over a Thousand Faithful Honor Christ the King in Rio de Janeiro | FSSPX News
Communiqué from the General House of the Society of Saint Pius X | FSSPX News
The Blessed Virgin is and Must Be Called Our 'Co-Redemptrix' - Catholicism.org
Great Britain: Persistent Wave of Conversions to Catholicism | FSSPX News
La fête du Christ-Roi - Laïcité et laïcisme • LPL
Honoring our Aging Priests who have Served in the Vineyard | District of the USA
Communiqué from the General House of the Society of Saint Pius X | District of the USA
Interview: Cardinal Müller on Europe, Islam, the SSPX and the German Synodal Path
Zaitzkofen: Admission of 10 New Members to the SSPX | FSSPX News
The 100th Anniversary of Quas Primas | District of the USA
Ecône: 17 New Members Admitted to the SSPX | FSSPX News
Proposed Canadian Law Could Condemn the Bible as “Hate Speech” | FSSPX News
Poland: Religious Statistics Declining Except for Mass Attendance | FSSPX News

World, Wars and Conflict

Business and Economics

Trump's G20 boycott could make room for Canada to advance other trade talks | CBC News
Sen. Mark Warner calls 28-point plan for Russia-Ukraine truce 'a historically bad deal' - POLITICO
Get ready for a troubling new era for the Canadian economy - The Hub

Military and Wars

Anatasia Zorchinsky’s birth city is Kfar Saba in central Israel | National Post
Trump's plan for Gaza backed by UN Security Council
Trump Gaza plan: Hamas rejects resolution for international stabilisation force approved by UN security council
Zelenskyy says Ukraine has impossible choice as Trump pushes plan to end war | Ukraine | The Guardian
Russia will try NATO regardless of Ukraine peace deal, experts warn
US-Philippine task force to reestablish South China Sea ‘deterrence’
Trump’s national security strategy slams European allies
Capers Biography | Major James Capers

Science+Technology

DENIAL OF DEATH : The Phenomenon of Tumor Neglect EMRA
https://youtu.be/byQmJ9x0RWA

SARS-CoV-2 + Virus'

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH | Substack
LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: Do You Still Think the COVID Vaccine Saved Lives?
BREAKING STUDY: Anomalous Amyloid Microclots Found in 100% of the COVID-19 Vaccinated
Nicolas Hulscher | Author | McCullough Foundation, Dallas, USA
Nicolas HULSCHER | Epidemiologist | Master of Public Health | Research profile
Letter to the editor regarding ‘Autopsy findings in cases of fatal COVID‐19 vaccine‐induced myocarditis’ - PMC
Resolution of Refractory COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Myopericarditis with Adjunctive Rapamycin | Medical Research Archives
Risk stratification for future cardiac arrest after COVID-19 vaccination - PMC
COVID-19 vaccines not shown to have “negative efficacy”, contrary to claim by Nicolas Hulscher - Science Feedback
No, we should not remove COVID-19 vaccines from the market. | by Dr. Jess Steier | Medium
(10) Post | LinkedIn
Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients - Thierry - 2025 - Journal of Medical Virology - Wiley Online Library
(10) Post | LinkedIn
Influenza: Canadian respiratory virus surveillance report (FluWatch+) — Canada.ca

Future Articles

Catholic Traditionalism after Francis - Catholic Outlook



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