"(LifeSiteNews) —Pope Leo XIV supports the Latin Mass-suppressing document Traditionis Custodes and specifically requested Cardinal Arthur Roche’s document on the liturgy backing Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) restrictions, according to a Spanish publication.
La Razón reported Sunday that it has been “able to confirm” Cardinal Roche distributed this year’s consistory document on the liturgy “at the request of Leo XIV and, therefore, with his approval of its content.”
The outlet also reported that Pope Leo reviewed this document and “Not a single comma was changed.”
The delivery of the text to the cardinals therefore showcased the “position of the new Pope on this issue” and was “not a provocation by Roche” as some claimed, the Spanish outlet concluded.
Leo’s stamp of approval means the pontiff indeed supports the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass. Roche’s leaked consistory text repeated Pope Francis’ claim that the Novus Ordo Missae is “the sole expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.” It further stated that the permission granted to offer the TLM was a mere “concession that in no way envisaged (its) promotion,” and that “we cannot go back to that ritual form.”
La Razón’s report supports Roche’s recent claim that Pope Leo will not restore freedoms for the Traditional Latin Mass.
“No, Pope Leo is not going to change Traditionis Custodes, and he’s not going back to Summorum Pontificum,” the prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments told the British Catholic weekly The Tablet on Wednesday.
Latin Mass suppressionsordered by multiple bishops since Leo took office have already suggested that the pope does not intend to revoke Traditionis Custodes, which has been firmly denounced by clergy and scholars as a repudiation of the perennial practice of the Catholic Church and even of solemn Church teaching.
The document violates the permanent authorization of the traditional Mass confirmed by St. Pius V’s 1570 bull Quo Primum, which declared that this Mass may be used “freely and lawfully” in “perpetuity” and even that the wrath of God would fall upon those who would dare to restrict or abolish it.
“This present document cannot be revoked or modified but remains always valid and retains its full force,” Quo Primum states."'
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Pray for strength and honor -- for we will need it now more than ever... The horrendous restrictions of the TLM under Bergoglio, will get worse, much worse. And I fear we will be forced "underground," as our faithful Chinese Catholics have been sold out and forced underground!
This not hyperbole!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun, and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINES A HORRIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DEATH OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST!
It has happened again, in Nigeria...
The demonically possessed Jihadists continue their vicious assault against Christians -- in this case a Catholic priest, murders him, then leaves him on the side of the road like a piece of trash.
I would take a large bet that the priest who was martyred for the Faith, is right now praying for his murderers!
"AJAOKUTA, Nigeria (LifeSiteNews) — Father Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro, a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Lokoja, Nigeria, was gruesomely stabbed to death with a machete last week.
On July 29, police responded to reports of a lifeless body found on the side of the road, which was later identified as Fr. Oyetoro, who was found with “severe” machete wounds on his head, per Nigerian Tribune. The priest, who served as a priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Egbe, appears to be the latest cleric to be killed in the African country, where Islamic terrorists have brutally persecuted Christians for several decades.
“It is with profound sorrow and in the hope of the resurrection that the Catholic Diocese of Lokoja announces the passing of our beloved priest, Fr Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro, who departed this life on Wednesday, 29th July 2026,” the Diocese of Lokoja said in a statement following the cleric’s death.
The Diocese of Lokoja also called on priests, religious, and the laity to remember the late cleric in their prayers and Holy Masses, while also offering prayers for his family and the entire diocese.
As of this writing, it is not known who murdered Fr. Oyetoro, but the case is now being investigated by the State Investigation Department (SCID).
A 2025 Global Christian Relief (GCR) Red List reportfound that Nigeria is the most dangerous place for Christians in the world. The report detailed how most of the killings in Nigeria occur in northern states governed by Islamic sharia law, where Christians “often live in remote villages in semi-arid landscapes, making them particularly vulnerable to attacks.”
Persecution of Christians in Nigeria began to spike after 1999, when 12 northern states adopted sharia law. The rise of the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2009 marked a dramatic escalation in the attacks. Famously, the group kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls in 2014.
From 2009 to 2022, over 50,000 Christians were killed in the country, according to estimates. A 2024 report found that more than 8,000 Nigerian Christians were killed and thousands more were abducted in 2023, making it the bloodiest year on record for Islamic attacks against Christians in the country.
Recent attacks on Nigerian clerics and laity include the February abduction of Father Nathaniel Asukawaye from the Diocese of Kafanchan, along with 10 parishioners, who were eventually returned in May.
In April, 35 people were abducted, and five were killed in the Christian Ariko village. The attack targeted several churches in the region, including Catholic and Protestant churches.
Another attack occurred on Palm Sunday when Catholics were the target of a mass shooting in Plateau State that left 11 dead."
End of article... But not the end of this ongoing slaughter of Christians/Catholics in the war-ravaged country of Nigeria...
Pray for the Christian population of Nigeria who live in constant fear for their very lives!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun, and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
Another village in Nigeria is attacked and 30 Christian folks are slaughtered, with little response from "security forces" or other government entities!
"Gunmen attackedNaridon village in Kamaru Ward, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, late on the night of Sunday, July 27, 2026, killing at least 30 people, including eight children. Naridon is a border community near Ganawuri in Plateau State. The assailants opened fire indiscriminately on residents, set houses and businesses ablaze, and chased victims who tried to flee into the nearby bush.
Youth leader Ishaya Dawa said the attackers stormed the village shortly before midnight and that the victims were mostly women, children, and the elderly. He added that security personnel did not arrive until the following morning. Photographs from the community showed widespread destruction, with several homes reduced to ashes. Derek Christopher, chairman of the Southern Kaduna Peace and Security Network, said the same community was attacked around this time last year. Seven people were killed in that attack and were buried in a mass funeral.
Resident Raphael Joshua, who was helping care for the injured in the latest attack, said the victims’ bodies had been taken to a nearby hospital while burial arrangements were being made.
Kaduna’s commissioner for home affairs and internal security, Sule Shu’aibu, told the Associated Press he had not yet been briefed on the attack. The AP report was published the day after the attack, meaning a senior state security official was still unaware of a raid that had already killed 30 people roughly a day earlier.
A consistent criticism among Christians is that the government has been indifferent or ineffective in preventing the attacks and that security forces are not only absent during the violence but also fail to respond when called. Government officials issue statements following the attacks, but little changes. No official government statement could be found following the 2025 attack on the same community.
A July 14, 2025, attack on a nearby community underscores the recurring nature of these attacks and the weakness of the government’s response, as well as its inability or unwillingness to protect Christian communities. Approximately 30 to 80 kilometers away, in Bindi-Jebbu village, suspected Fulani militias struck in the early hours of the morning, opening fire on sleeping residents, setting homes and a church ablaze, and looting food.
Death toll estimates ranged from 27, confirmed at the mass burial, to 32 per ICC, with over 2,400 people displaced according to the Berom Youth Moulders Association. Community youth leaders accused a nearby Operation Safe Haven unit, a joint military task force responsible for providing security in Plateau State, of standing by without intervening despite receiving advance intelligence of the planned attack.
Shortly after the 2025 attack, Plateau State Commissioner for Information Joyce Ramnap issued a statement confirming that Governor Caleb Mutfwang had directed security agencies to intensify surveillance and deploy additional troops. Days later, the state government publicly criticized the Army, noting that a military checkpoint located barely 200 meters from the attacked community had failed to intervene. Governor Mutfwang personally visited the community, condemned the killings, and declared, “Riyom will not fall.”
At the mass burial nine days later, the Commissioner for Lands and Survey, representing the governor, said the government had begun a comprehensive review of the state’s security architecture.
Yet less than a year later, another attack has occurred in the same area. Officials have once again issued statements and pledged action, while Christian communities continue to be targeted by violence.
Mr. Sunday Abo is the youth leader of the district in which Naridon is located, within the Chawi Chiefdom of Kamarunchawee. A medical professional by occupation, he is also a farmer and a Christian who was born and raised in the village.
Abo said he visited the scene of the attack and went “through all the houses from number one house to the last house.” He said about eight houses were directly attacked. “About four shops were burned to ashes.” He added that “almost all the houses that were attacked are Christians in the area.”
The district has faced insecurity since 2016, with repeated attacks moving “from one community to the other” within the same chiefdom. He said a neighboring district, Kola Nkwamadji, suffered a similar attack less than a month earlier in which nine people were killed.
According to Abo, roughly 97 percent of the district is Christian, while a small Muslim community makes up about one percent of the population. Asked whether the attackers had ever targeted Muslims, he said, “I don’t think they attacked any of the neighboring Muslim community.” He noted that some members of his own Chawi tribe have converted to Islam and live within the Muslim community, adding that “there is not such an attack” in villages with a religious mix.
Asked who was behind the killings, Abo pointed to Fulani herdsmen who graze cattle in the area. “We stay with this [Fulani], who comes with their cows,” he said. He described recurring friction between the herders and the community, including an unresolved case in which a herder was found dead in the same community shortly before the latest attack. He added that the herdsmen “don’t even stay in the place completely,” but instead come from elsewhere within the chiefdom.
Abo said the persistent violence has tested the community’s faith but has not broken it. “It still motivates us again to stand firm,” he said. He added that villagers who flee after an attack typically return within days.
Critical of the government’s security response, Abo said the community lacks any effective means of obtaining emergency assistance. He said that, in the absence of adequate government protection, “villagers need to work and do the needful,” calling for greater unity among communities and the formation of organized local vigilante groups.
However, he said such groups would require outside support and equipment to be effective. “When they have those, they will be able to at least protect themselves,” he said. According to Abo, the survivors he spoke with no longer expect government assistance and are prepared to defend themselves.
Comrade Joshua Raphael is based in Angwarimi, Kamorowot, in the same ward and local government area as the neighboring community of Naridon, which was attacked. He said residents were asleep in their homes at around 11:45 p.m. when gunfire erupted in Naridon. “We kept communicating, calling, calling, and they kept shooting for up to three hours without any intervention from security,” he said.
Raphael said security forces did not arrive until the next day, when they attempted to conduct an investigation. According to Raphael, the community rejected the effort and chased the security personnel away.
Clergymen then intervened and spoke with residents, after which the community began working alongside security personnel from what he identified as “Operation Oshinkadar in Damakaswa.” He said two vehicles had been arranged to transport the bodies to the mortuary, after which burial plans would be made.
At the time of his interview, Raphael said about 29 people had been killed, seven had been injured, and four shops had been burned. Asked whether he believed the attack was religiously motivated, he replied, “It is a pure Christian community. We don’t even have Muslims around us.”'
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Pray for those persecuted and for the defeat of those Jihadist monsters!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun, and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, is an economist and national security analyst with a focus on China and Russia. He is a graduate of American Military University.
