Russia infuriates advocates of a new world order because Russia staunchly resists all LGBTQ initiatives, and all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies, clinging instead to the Orthodox truths and dogmas taught by Our Lord and His Church.
We are in a completely abnormal situation: we do not “see” any of the spiritual beings—the angels—that Scripture tells us are far more numerous than we could imagine. Neither the good ones nor the evil ones. Spiritual beings are not directly accessible to our knowledge. But even more troubling is the fact that we do not see God.
Understanding this holy wisdom from Archbishop Lefebvre does not make the crisis go away, but it does help us serve God without feeling “lost and confused” because of what we see from Rome. Perhaps this is why those who seek to perpetuate the crisis in the Church never stop trying to disparage the man who did more than anyone else to oppose the Vatican II revolution and preserve the Traditional Latin Mass.
The English lead singer of the heavy metal band, Black Sabbath – John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne – is dead. Known as the “Prince of Darkness,” Ozzy rose to fame in the 1970s as his Black Sabbath pioneered the metal genre. The rock world rewarded its Prince of Darkness with one induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame and two more into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In this week’s Remnant Underground, Michael Matt discusses phony politicians/pastors and the lies they tell. Why are Catholics in Gaza still being bombed even after Donald Trump campaigned on ending America’s endless foreign wars?
It is remote: combat takes place at a distance, through drones, satellites, and automated systems, without direct involvement of troops on the ground. It is robotic: there is a growing tendency to use machines with autonomous or assisted intelligence in hostile environments, equipped with offensive and defensive capabilities. It is robust: systems are designed to withstand extreme conditions, cyberattacks, and malfunctions, ensuring continuous reliability. It is reduced: equipment is increasingly miniaturized, agile, and precise, involving fewer personnel, fewer resources, and fewer casualties (experimental devices now exist that are the size of birds —or even bees ). It is virtual: a growing portion of conflict now takes place in cyberspace, involving viruses, hacking, and information manipulation.
More than 42.5 million owe more than $1.8 trillion in student loans with millions delinquent on their payments. Perhaps their strategy is to wait for all debts to be paid by Uncle Sam, who has no business being their SLIC daddy. Over the last two generations, SLIC has become the de facto comptroller of our universities by issuing endless loans for hollow degrees.
In this RTV Special, Michael Matt presents Bishop Marian Eleganti’s impassioned exposé of the dangers and deceptions of Synodality at the highest levels of the Catholic Church today. This is the most powerful ecclesiastical takedown of Synodality to date and, as such, needs to be shared far and wide, especially with members of the hierarchy.
The greatest disaster to befall the world has been the uncrowning of Christ the King – the abandonment by much of the world of belief in Jesus Christ as King of all individuals and of all civil authorities. The world may be dying, but there is some good news despite the current, serious collapse of many parts of the Catholic Church. A traditional Catholic renaissance has been growing in recent years, both in the New World as well as in the Old.
For the sake of Christ’s love, stop the overkill of synodal documents. Synodality has become a “hermeneutic” for everything and anything, especially for the co-decision of lay people at all levels. Where are the supporters of tradition, mostly young people and families, in this process? Where is their vote in this much-vaunted, sui generis synodal process? So far, they have been left out. Do not believe that in our part of the world people are satisfied with “listening” and “speaking in the Spirit.” Changes are demanded.
As Undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, Sister Nathalie Becquart now has a mandate to take all the putrid fruits of the Synod and “to implement those fruits with creativity, in the diversity of the context of the local Churches.” She and the Synodal teams are not called to make the local dioceses and eparchies more holy, orthodox, or fervent. Instead (as described below), Sister Becquart wants to compel each local church to experimentally “listen to the Spirit” to determine how to become more Synodal.
In this episode of the Underground, Michael Matt takes questions on some major crackups in religion and politics. First up, LifeSiteNews — what really happened?
On July 11, 2025, the blog Messa in Latino was removed without any prior notice from the Blogspot platform, owned by Google. This is truly alarming because the site was the primary source of unofficial Catholic Traditionalist news, often straight from the Vatican and the Holy See.
The Catholic Church is facing a tragic crisis with a disturbing trend of suicides among her priests globally, a tragic trend that mirrors deep-seated personal struggles and systemic failures that undermine not only individual priests’ vocations/lives but also the divinely instituted ministry of the priesthood itself.
On July 9, 2025, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Mass pro custodia creationis, “for the care of Creation.” This is a new set of prayers and biblical readings officially approved by the Supreme Pontiff on June 8 through a decree of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, signed by Cardinal Arthur Roche.
Catholics throughout the USA were appalled in February 2023 upon hearing the news of a document leaked from the Richmond, Virginia FBI office that targeted traditional Catholics for surveillance. Kyle Seraphim, a former FBI special agent, leaked a memo created by an analyst in the Richmond Virginia FBI Field Office warning that “traditionalist” Catholics posed an extremist threat and could be considered as potential terrorists. The document, which was of a type known as a “domain perspective,” implied that individuals who hold traditional Catholic beliefs were somehow linked with and “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”
Today’s “science” has camouflaged—knowingly or unknowingly—the powers of the occult sciences of the past, which now reemerge unrestrained.
Amid the ongoing war in Gaza, the global debate over Zionism, and the United States’ steadfast support for Israel, a 19th-century theological dispute persists within Protestant circles that mirrors the more considerable geopolitical tensions. The question at hand: Does God still have a particular purpose for the ethnic people of Israel, or has the Church replaced Israel in His divine plan?
By definition, Socialism is “a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.” (Essentially Verbatim: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary ) Is the United of States of America (USA) fast becoming the Union of Socialist States of America (USSA)? Yes!
This is Part 5 in an essential series if one seeks to better understand Israel’s Zionist-backed war in the Middle East, with the ongoing bombing of Gaza and the war with Iran. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here.
So, it finally happened. On this year’s Remnant pilgrimage to Chartres, I was pleased to welcome two American pilgrims – a brother and sister – whose mother and father met each other on a Remnant pilgrimage 25 years ago. As happy as I was to make the acquaintance of the O’Flaherty siblings, I found it startling to recall that both of their parents were younger than I was twenty-five years ago when I’d first welcomed them into The Remnant chapter.
Pope Leo XIV faces a crucial litmus test for international diplomacy and moral leadership as he inherits the Vatican’s controversial bilateral ties with Communist China under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The contentious and clandestine 2018 Sino-Vatican deal wasrenewed most recently for another four years in November 2024, permiting the Vatican and Chinese authorities to jointly oversee episcopal appointments in China’s state-sanctioned church.
As Diane Montagna highlighted in her report on Francis’s fraudulent promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, Rome’s battle over the Traditional Latin Mass continues to hinge on the question of whether Traditional Catholics “reject the Second Vatican Council”. The Vatican II passages below did not “cause” the crisis in the Church, but they and others like them have been used by the Church’s enemies to offend God, lead souls to hell, and cause inestimable harm in the world.
In this episode of The Underground, Michael J. Matt discuses yet another massive scandal inside the Catholic Church. Even the Associated Press has now picked up Diane Montagna’s bombshell report that the Vatican plot to cancel the Latin Mass (Traditionis custodes) was based on fake news invented by the Vatican itself.
