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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s delayed and muted response to Pope Francis’s death is telling of the regime’s attitude towards the Catholic Church. In the hours following Pope Francis’ passing, Chinese state media provided nominal coverage (that could be contrasted with the global outpouring of tribute and critiques from those on the Left and on the Right). In fact, it took the CCP regime almost 24 hours to respond to news of the pontiff’s passing, and it did so only when asked during a regular news conference at its foreign ministry.

Francis’ pontificate was a prolonged penance that presided over a plethora of church closings, declining baptisms, confirmations, marriages, Mass attendance, and a precipitous drop in priestly ordinations.

For centuries, the Catholic Church has asked St. Athanasius’ intercession for defense against heresies and errors that threaten to undermine the True Faith. In particular during this interregnum period of Holy Mother Church (before the upcoming papal conclave on May 7), faithful Catholics can rely on St. Athanasius’ powerful intercession to beg Almighty God for a truly Catholic pope who will reinforce Catholic orthodoxy as revealed by Jesus Christ Himself.

This is Part 4 in an essential series if one seeks to better understand Israel’s Zionist-backed war in the Middle East. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here.

Conclave Countdown…

Days away from the conclave to elect Francis’s successor, serious Catholics fear that it would take a miracle for the white smoke to signal the election of a pope who is Catholic. We offer our prayers and sacrifices for the most favorable outcome, but as we study the list of those cardinals most likely to receive serious consideration, it is evident that very few of them would have been recognized as Catholic by Pope Pius XII or any of his predecessors.

Voting for Parolin or Tolentino today, with all due respect for their persons, means risking handing the Church over to a pontificate that may be refined but powerless and dangerous; perhaps inspired in words but divisive in actions; perhaps diplomatic or poetic but disconnected from the pastoral and geopolitical realities that our time demands.

Eminences, you know that this situation in which the hierarchy of the Church persecutes Traditional Catholics would be comical were it not so tragic. Please elect a shepherd for all Catholics, including those who humbly wish to follow the only Gospel that St. Paul would recognize as Christian.

At exactly noon (Italian time) on April 29, 2025, the sixth General Congregation of the Cardinals came to an end. A few hours later, in an atmosphere suspended between reverence and secrecy, a rumor reached me—a tip-off, if we want to call it that. The kind that makes you jump out of your seat but, for intellectual honesty and professional rigor, must always be taken with caution. It said: “Parolin has already secured the majority. On the afternoon of May 8, white smoke. Pontifical name: John XXIV.”

No matter what happens next week in Rome, the Revolution stands to lose more than it has to gain. If the Cardinals — most whom were appointed by France — go with another radical Modernist, the Church will erupt into civil war, millions will go down into the catacombs again, and the foundation stones of mighty Rome will be compromised. In other words, the Revolution will be totally exposed.

The primary aim of the this major online resource is “to serve as a lasting resource that helps the cardinals know one another.” says Vatican journalist, Diane Montagna. But she added that, in the lead up to the Conclave, it will also help to “inform the media and anyone interested in who could be the next pope.”

Michael Matt joins The Chatter—a popular radio program broadcast in Dubuque and Platteville on FM 98.3 KCRD and hosted by radio personalities Tom Oglesby and Colleen Pasnik. Michael is asked how the Catholic counterrevolution came into being, where Catholic resistance stands today, and why we need to keep hope alive for the future Catholic restoration.

Like Joe ‘The Catholic’ Biden, Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is a Catholic—a strange kind of Canadian Catholic, however, since he actually goes to church. In fact, the pro-abort, pro-gay “marriage” Mark Carney goes to mass every week and doesn’t hesitate to receive Holy Communion. Hallelujah, another ‘Catholic’ is about join the blanket party on what’s left of the bloodied corpse that used to be the glorious Catholic Church in Canada. Well played, Vatican II!

Rigorously conceived and meticulously written with unparalleled erudition, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski’s The Once and Future Roman Rite can be read with great benefit by anyone. I especially recommend it to those who have doubts (which is why I encourage you to gift it to the hesitant), as they will decisively learn from this book why the restoration of the Traditional Roman Liturgy, as well as our participation in it, is—as the author himself puts it—“a matter of life and death, vitality and extinction.”

The dust has yet to settle on news and mourning of Pope Francis’ death and funeral when all eyes are set on the upcoming papal conclave for the election of a new pope. Already, both Catholic and secular media outlets are speculating on which cardinal could possibly be Pope Francis’ successor.

On the eve of the convlave (scheduled to begin on May 7th), Bishop Schneider calls faithful Catholics to pray as though the fate of the world depends on it. Because, come to think of it… it does!

In this episode of The Underground, Michael J. Matt covers the death of Pope Francis and what the world might expect from his successor. The question is—will it be Pius XIII, or Francis II?

No hint of the fear of God, Judgement, salvation, or REPENTANCE, which is at the heart of the preaching and religion of Our Blessed Lord. This is an utterly different emphasis—nay, different religion—of Universalism.

Today, at 8:00 p.m. Rome time, at the Altar of Confession in St. Peter’s Basilica, the rite of the Closing of the Coffin of the Roman Pontiff took place.

The majority of these heterodox Cardinals may openly profess certain truths of the Faith, but they routinely deny the logical consequences of those truths. So we have Cardinals such as “Tucho” Fernández, Cupich, McElroy, Tagle, Koch, Zuppi, Grech, and Hollerich (among many others) tell us that there is no need for non-Catholics to convert, and even less need for Catholics to follow Our Lord’s commandments.

The 20th century had the most Christian martyrs than all the other centuries combined, making the Christian faith the most persecuted religion on planet earth.

It is said that a society may be judged by its treatment of the most vulnerable. This is generally taken to refer to our treatment of unborn children, a significant proportion of whom are slaughtered prior to birth, in a kind of cultural ritual aimed at asserting one’s dominance over one’s circumstances.

Did He really rise from the dead? If He did not, then what’s the point of it all. If He did, then He was God, which means the Church He founded was one. So, which of the 45,000 Christians denominations is the one Christ founded?

Francis was a faithful son of the Vatican II revolution. If he managed to save his soul, then surely he will pray for us to learn the most important lesson of his hostile occupation of the papacy: that all the harm he caused was directly related to the changes set in motion at the Council.