Still Fighting Battles on Mindanao To "Correct" A "Pope"

Although some believed that the famous case of Hiroo Onoda in 1974 represented the last instance of a Japanese solider holding out in The Philippines as he awaited "official" word from his commanding officer that the Empire of Japan had surrendered to Allied forces to mark the end of World War II, two other soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army, Yoshio Yamakawa and Tuszuki Nakauchi, emerged in 2005 on the Island of Mindanao in The Philippines to seek repatriation to their country sixty years after the surrender of the Japanese Empire to General Douglas MacArthur on September 2, 1945, abord the USS Missouri (Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, but the terms of the surrender were not agreed to until September 2, 1945):

As young conscripts they pledged never to to surrender. Yesterday as old men they emerged from their hiding place in the Philippines - two Japanese Imperial Army soldiers, asking to go home.

Discovered after a chance encounter with a Philippines businesswoman who had friends in Japan, the men reportedly have documents that show they were attached to the army's 30th Division. Until yesterday they had been listed among Japan's war dead.

Word of the exiles became public yesterday, but the efforts to trace their history date from December when a businesswoman from the Philippines rang a friend in Japan to ask for help in getting the men home.

The men are Yoshio Yamakawa 87, and Tsuzuki Nakauchi, 85.

They made contact with the outside world through a 93-year-old former military doctor, Kyodo News reported.

"I also want to go back to Japan but we are worried about a court martial," the doctor reportedly said.

As Japan prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the epic of the lost soldiers is a reminder of 4000 other Japanese military in the Philippines who never accepted surrender and fled to the mountains.

In the years immediately after the war signs posted in many areas warned travellers that Japanese soldiers were still present. They had dug in, ignoring pamphlet drops in 1945 telling them that the war had ended and also eluding American troops and many search parties.

Two years ago Japan authorised a mission to the Philippines to try to find what was thought to be the last five or six soldiers living in exile but it came back empty handed.

Japan's Foreign Minister, Nobutaka Machimura, yesterday said embassy officials from Manila had gone to the island of Mindanao to meet the latest group and that it was almost certain they were Japanese.

"I am glad that they were able to survive for 60 years," said Goichi Ichikawa, 89, who is chairman of a group of army survivors.

The Government has not released information about whether the men had spent the past 60 years in isolation or whether they had set aside their uniforms and taken up lives as ordinary civilians in the Philippines. The men had written their names in Japanese, a Government spokesman said.

News of their possible repatriation to Japan reopens one of the most intriguing mysteries of the postwar years. For the families involved, it is as though these men have returned from the dead.

When another soldier, Shoichi Yokoi, gave himself up in Guam in 1972 after years living in a cave, he said he was the last survivor in a group of three who had stayed together after the war.

At the time he said: "We Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive," according to the Pacific Wreck Database, which lists rediscovered Japanese soldiers and also records the wrecks of aircraft and other military equipment.

The most celebrated case of a Japanese to be found after the war was Hiroo Onoda, who with a small band of men got into sporadic gun fights with villagers and Philippines soldiers.

He gave himself up in 1974 but had to be persuaded that the war was really over. (Surrender after 60 years: two soldiers ask to go home.)

These celebrated cases of Japanese Imperial Army holdouts in The Philippines are quite pertinent as one considers the efforts, certainly well-intentioned, of "conservative" Catholics yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism to "hold out" themselves in various outposts in order to do "battle" for the Faith against this or that "outrage" perpetrated in the name of the Catholic Church by the revolutionaries of the counterfeit church of conciliarism that most people think, very sadly, is the Catholic Church.

It is sad to see well-meaning people continuing to strain at gnats to find “signs of hope” from this or that conciliar “pope” without realizing that these “popes” are only the reflection of and evangelists for a false religion with false doctrines, invalid sacraments, subjectivist moral theology, condemned pastoral practices, and Scriptural exegeses that that are to reaffirm hardened sinners in their lives of wickedness in the name of a false mercy under a slogan called accompaniment.

Once again and principally for the benefit of those who are relatively new to this website and/or those who forget the details of what they read given all the plethora of information that is online, here is a very non-exhaustive list of what the conciliar sect hath wrought:

New Theology
New Religion.
New “Mass”
New Rosary
New Catechism
New Raccolta
New Code of Canon Law
New Roman Missal
New G.I.R.M. (General Instruction to the so-called Roman Missal)
New Ecclesiology
New Sacraments
New Moral Teaching
New Interpretations of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Doctrine along evolutionary, Hegelian principles.
New Canonization Process
New One World Church
New World Order.

What have our true popes taught us about novelties?

These firings, therefore, with all diligence and care having been formulated by us, we define that it be permitted to no one to bring forward, or to write, or to compose, or to think, or to teach a different faith. Whosoever shall presume to compose a different faith, or to propose, or teach, or hand to those wishing to be converted to the knowledge of the truth, from the Gentiles or Jews, or from any heresy, any different Creed; or to introduce a new voice or invention of speech to subvert these things which now have been determined by us, all these, if they be Bishops or clerics let them be deposed, the Bishops from the Episcopate, the clerics from the clergy; but if they be monks or laymen: let them be anathematized. (Sixth Ecumenical: Constantinople III).

They [the Modernists] exercise all their ingenuity in an effort to weaken the force and falsify the character of tradition, so as to rob it of all its weight and authority. But for Catholics nothing will remove the authority of the second Council of Nicea, where it condemns those "who dare, after the impious fashion of heretics, to deride the ecclesiastical traditions, to invent novelties of some kind...or endeavor by malice or craft to overthrow any one of the legitimate traditions of the Catholic Church"; nor that of the declaration of the fourth Council of Constantinople: "We therefore profess to preserve and guard the rules bequeathed to the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, by the Holy and most illustrious Apostles, by the orthodox Councils, both general and local, and by everyone of those divine interpreters, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church." Wherefore the Roman Pontiffs, Pius IV and Pius IX, ordered the insertion in the profession of faith of the following declaration: "I most firmly admit and embrace the apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions and other observances and constitutions of the Church.'' (Pope Saint Pius X, Pascendi Dominci Gregis, September 8, 1907.)

Fourthly, I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same purport. Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical' misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously. . . . The purpose of this is, then, not that dogma may be tailored according to what seems better and more suited to the culture of each age; rather, that the absolute and immutable truth preached by the apostles from the beginning may never be believed to be different, may never be understood in any other way. (Pope Saint Pius X, The Oath Against Modernism, September 1, 1910.)

The counterfeit church of conciliarism is all about novelty, and that in and of itself should prove to the doubting or the unwilling that truth is calling them to recognize and accept the reality that the counterfeit church of conciliarism is false and that its “popes” have been and continue to be heretics who feel no remorse over attempting to alter that which is unalterable, the Catholic Faith.

Yet it is that those in the resist while recognize camp continue to rend their garments and gnash their teeth over the latest “bombshell” news to come from the Vatican in its conciliar captivity or from one of its feudal barons in its fiefdoms across the world, including the “shock” that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV has praised Mater Populi Fidelis, November 4, 2025, which disparaged Our Lady’s titles as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces, even though the document was issued wit his own personal approval. It is kind of remarkable at this late date that Catholics who have websites to “inform” other Catholics about this or that “crisis” within the conciliar sect have such little understanding of the papacy that permit themselves to be “shocked” that a “pope” would praise a document that was issued with his own approval.

Anyhow, here is what Prevost/Leo XIV said while addressing the so-called conciliar Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith:

Your task is to offer clarifications regarding the doctrine of the Church, through pastoral and theological guidance on often very sensitive issues. To this end, over the last two years the Dicastery has published several documents, of which the main ones are: the Note Gestis verbisque, on the validity of the Sacramernts (2 February 2024), which offered clear instructions for resolving doubtful cases relating to their administration; the Declaration Dignitas infinita, on human dignity (2 April 2024), which reiterated the infinite dignity of every human being, seriously endangered nowadays, in particular by ongoing wars and an economy that prioritizes profit; the Norms for proceeding in the discernment of alleged supernatural phenomena (17 May 2024), which enabled the resolution of cases relating to these events, including those concerning the spiritual experience of Medjugorje, to which the Note The Queen of Peace (19 September 2024) is specifically dedicated; the Note Antiqua et nova, prepared in collaboration with the Dicastery for Culture and Education (28 January 2025), which offers an extensive and precise consideration of the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence; the doctrinal Note Mater Populi fidelis, on certain Marian titles referring to Mary's cooperation in the work of salvation (4 November 2025), which encourages popular Marian devotion, deepening its biblical and theological foundations, while offering precise and important clarifications for Mariology; and finally, the doctrinal Note Una caro. In Praise of Monogamy, on the value of marriage as an exclusive union and mutual belonging (25 November 2025), which explores in an original way the property of unity in marriage between a man and a woman. (Audience with participants in the Plenary Session of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith.)

I have utterly no intention of repeating what I wrote about, for example, Dignitas Infinita, April 2, 2024, in Victor Manuel Fernandez's Anthropocentric Decree on Human Dignity: An Overview, Victor Manuel Fernandez's Anthropocentric Decree on Human Dignity, part two, Victor Manuel Fernandez's Anthropocentric Decree on Human Dignity, part three, Victor Manuel Fernandez's Anthropocentric Decree on Human Dignity, part four, Victor Manuel Fernandez's Anthropocentric Decree on Human Dignity, part five, Victor Manuel Fernandez's Anthropocentric Decree on Human Dignity, part six, and Jorge Starts to "Clarify" (Undermine) Dignitatis Infinita, nor do I have any intention of repeating what I wrote about Mater Populi Fidelis, November 4, 2025, in Mater Populi Fidelis: Authored by Antichrist and Propagated by His Conciliar Agents, part one, and Mater Populi Fidelis: Authored by Antichrist and Propagated by His Conciliar Agents, part two.

What I do want to remind readers of in this brief commentary is, to use a quote from Saint Ambrose as found in Father Francis X. Weninger’s On The Apostolical and Infallible Authority of the Pope When Teaching the Faithful, and On His Relation to a General Council:

“The Catholic faith derives so much strength and support from the words of the Apostolic See, that it is criminal to entertain any doubts concerning it.” (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., On The Apostolical and Infallible Authority of the Pope When Teaching the Faithful, and On His Relation to a General Council, Third Edition. New York: Sadlier and Company, 1890; Cincinnati, Ohio: John P. Walsh, 1890.)

It is simply impossible for the Holy See to give us false teaching that must be “exposed” and “criticized” by “gatekeepers,” and it is equally impossible for a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter can say to non-Catholic Christians that “we are one”:

In the passage from the Letter to the Ephesians chosen as the theme for this year’s Week of Prayer, we repeatedly hear the adjective “one”: one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God (cf. Eph 4:4-6). Dear brothers and sisters, how can these inspired words not touch us deeply? How can our hearts not burn within us when we hear them? Yes, “we share the same faith in the one and only God, the Father of all people; we confess together the one Lord and true Son of God, Jesus Christ, and the one Holy Spirit, who inspires us and impels us towards full unity and the common witness to the Gospel” (Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei, 23 November 2025, 12). We are one! We already are! Let us recognize it, experience it and make it visible! (Solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul - Celebration of Second Vespers, 25 January 2026.)

Once again, I have written about this extensively over the years and have written many commentaries Prevost/Leo’s ecomania, but permit me to provide you several familiar antidotes to the “we are one” heresy:

And here it seems opportune to expound and to refute a certain false opinion, on which this whole question, as well as that complex movement by which non-Catholics seek to bring about the union of the Christian churches depends. For authors who favor this view are accustomed, times almost without number, to bring forward these words of Christ: “That they all may be one…. And there shall be one fold and one shepherd,”[14] with this signification however: that Christ Jesus merely expressed a desire and prayer, which still lacks its fulfillment. For they are of the opinion that the unity of faith and government, which is a note of the one true Church of Christ, has hardly up to the present time existed, and does not to-day exist. They consider that this unity may indeed be desired and that it may even be one day attained through the instrumentality of wills directed to a common end, but that meanwhile it can only be regarded as mere ideal. They add that the Church in itself, or of its nature, is divided into sections; that is to say, that it is made up of several churches or distinct communities, which still remain separate, and although having certain articles of doctrine in common, nevertheless disagree concerning the remainder; that these all enjoy the same rights; and that the Church was one and unique from, at the most, the apostolic age until the first Ecumenical Councils. Controversies therefore, they say, and longstanding differences of opinion which keep asunder till the present day the members of the Christian family, must be entirely put aside, and from the remaining doctrines a common form of faith drawn up and proposed for belief, and in the profession of which all may not only know but feel that they are brothers. The manifold churches or communities, if united in some kind of universal federation, would then be in a position to oppose strongly and with success the progress of irreligion. This, Venerable Brethren, is what is commonly said. There are some, indeed, who recognize and affirm that Protestantism, as they call it, has rejected, with a great lack of consideration, certain articles of faith and some external ceremonies, which are, in fact, pleasing and useful, and which the Roman Church still retains. They soon, however, go on to say that that Church also has erred, and corrupted the original religion by adding and proposing for belief certain doctrines which are not only alien to the Gospel, but even repugnant to it. Among the chief of these they number that which concerns the primacy of jurisdiction, which was granted to Peter and to his successors in the See of Rome. Among them there indeed are some, though few, who grant to the Roman Pontiff a primacy of honor or even a certain jurisdiction or power, but this, however, they consider not to arise from the divine law but from the consent of the faithful. Others again, even go so far as to wish the Pontiff Himself to preside over their motley, so to say, assemblies. But, all the same, although many non-Catholics may be found who loudly preach fraternal communion in Christ Jesus, yet you will find none at all to whom it ever occurs to submit to and obey the Vicar of Jesus Christ either in His capacity as a teacher or as a governor. Meanwhile they affirm that they would willingly treat with the Church of Rome, but on equal terms, that is as equals with an equal: but even if they could so act. it does not seem open to doubt that any pact into which they might enter would not compel them to turn from those opinions which are still the reason why they err and stray from the one fold of Christ. (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)

A brief interjection:

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV treats leaders of false religions such as King Charles III as equals, and this “communion of love” is, as I pointed out four months ago in From Teilhard de Chardin to Paul Couturier to Robert Francis Prevost, is what was desired by Abbe Paul Couturier and Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin a century ago even though this false ecumenism had been rejected in uncertain terms by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos:

This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ. Shall We suffer, what would indeed be iniquitous, the truth, and a truth divinely revealed, to be made a subject for compromise? For here there is question of defending revealed truth. Jesus Christ sent His Apostles into the whole world in order that they might permeate all nations with the Gospel faith, and, lest they should err, He willed beforehand that they should be taught by the Holy Ghost: has then this doctrine of the Apostles completely vanished away, or sometimes been obscured, in the Church, whose ruler and defense is God Himself? If our Redeemer plainly said that His Gospel was to continue not only during the times of the Apostles, but also till future ages, is it possible that the object of faith should in the process of time become so obscure and uncertain, that it would be necessary to-day to tolerate opinions which are even incompatible one with another? If this were true, we should have to confess that the coming of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles, and the perpetual indwelling of the same Spirit in the Church, and the very preaching of Jesus Christ, have several centuries ago, lost all their efficacy and use, to affirm which would be blasphemy. But the Only-begotten Son of God, when He commanded His representatives to teach all nations, obliged all men to give credence to whatever was made known to them by "witnesses preordained by God," and also confirmed His command with this sanction: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be condemned." These two commands of Christ, which must be fulfilled, the one, namely, to teach, and the other to believe, cannot even be understood, unless the Church proposes a complete and easily understood teaching, and is immune when it thus teaches from all danger of erring. In this matter, those also turn aside from the right path, who think that the deposit of truth such laborious trouble, and with such lengthy study and discussion, that a man's life would hardly suffice to find and take possession of it; as if the most merciful God had spoken through the prophets and His Only-begotten Son merely in order that a few, and those stricken in years, should learn what He had revealed through them, and not that He might inculcate a doctrine of faith and morals, by which man should be guided through the whole course of his moral life. (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)

Let, therefore, the separated children draw nigh to the Apostolic See, set up in the City which Peter and Paul, the Princes of the Apostles, consecrated by their blood; to that See, We repeat, which is "the root and womb whence the Church of God springs," not with the intention and the hope that "the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth" will cast aside the integrity of the faith and tolerate their errors, but, on the contrary, that they themselves submit to its teaching and government. Would that it were Our happy lot to do that which so many of Our predecessors could not, to embrace with fatherly affection those children, whose unhappy separation from Us We now bewail. Would that God our Savior, "Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth,"[29] would hear us when We humbly beg that He would deign to recall all who stray to the unity of the Church! In this most important undertaking We ask and wish that others should ask the prayers of Blessed Mary the Virgin, Mother of divine grace, victorious over all heresies and Help of Christians, that She may implore for Us the speedy coming of the much hoped-for day, when all men shall hear the voice of Her divine Son, and shall be "careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)

Pope Leo XIII had also sought with urgency the unconditional conversion of non-Catholics to the true Faith, addressing the Orthodox as follows in Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae, June 20, 1884.)

Weigh carefully in your minds and before God the nature of Our request. It is not for any human motive, but impelled by Divine Charity and a desire for the salvation of all, that We advise the reconciliation and union with the Church of Rome; and We mean a perfect and complete union, such as could not subsist in any way if nothing else was brought about but a certain kind of agreement in the Tenets of Belief and an intercourse of Fraternal love. The True Union between Christians is that which Jesus Christ, the Author of the Church, instituted and desired, and which consists in a Unity of Faith and Unity of Government. (Pope Leo XIII, referring to the Orthodox in Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae, June 20, 1884.)

Pope Pius XII reminded us that the only members of the Church of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the Catholic Church, none other:

Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed. "For in one spirit" says the Apostle, "were we all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free." As therefore in the true Christian community there is only one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, and one Baptism, so there can be only one faith. And therefore, if a man refuse to hear the Church, let him be considered - so the Lord commands - as a heathen and a publican. It follows that those who are divided in faith or government cannot be living in the unity of such a Body, nor can they be living the life of its one Divine Spirit. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.)

Well, I am glad that I settled the “we are one” heresy once and for all. (That is sarcasm, please, as I know that very few people even know of this site’s existence.)

In addition to all this, of course, Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is continuing to appoint clones of the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio to episcopal sees within the conciliar sect:

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Cyril Buhayan Villareal as the new bishop of Kalibo in the Philippines, drawing renewed attention to unorthodox theological positions he defended in an academic thesis on marriage and sexuality.

On January 24, Pope Leo XIV appointed Villareal as bishop of the Diocese of Kalibo, located in the central Philippines. The decision has drawn attention over Villareal’s previous academic work in moral theology, in which the new bishop questioned the natural law framework underpinning the Church’s traditional teaching on marriage, sexuality, and contraception.

In his 2011 academic work submitted to the University of Vienna, Villareal wrote that he intended to present “a new way of looking at sexual morality through the Trinitarian love and not anymore through the natural law perspective.”

“On the one hand, there is the magisterium of the Church imposing her teaching on sexuality, which invokes the power of the natural law as springing from the divine law,” he wrote. “On the other hand, the laity clamor about the difficulty of what the Church imposes on them. … The big question then is, why can’t the Church change its teaching on sexuality?”

Villareal suggested that the traditional teaching no longer applies because “times have changed” and babies survive birth at much higher rates than in previous centuries:

In the past, there was the problem of the high rate of mortality among babies. Thus, in that context, it may seem logical that the church should declare that, in the light of the natural law, each and every act should be open to procreation. But times have changed. We live in a completely different world, far different from that of Thomas or even those who lived immediately after him. Now, we have a high rate of survival for babies, and women are employed for financial reasons, for self-fulfillment and in the name of women’s emancipation. Such a changed environment surely affects also the number of children that women would have to bear and rear.

In the introduction to his thesis, Villareal explains that the work is divided into two parts. While the first part presents what he calls “the orthodox teachings of the Church on marriage and sexuality,” the second part elaborates upon “an opposite view from that which the Church upholds.” He states that the overall aim is to arrive at “a more integrated view of sexuality and marriage” by juxtaposing these perspectives.

In doing so, he presents moral reasoning that departs from the classical Catholic moral framework, grounded in natural law and reaffirmed in magisterial documents such as Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI, which teaches the intrinsic immorality of artificial contraception.

The thesis acknowledges that the official teaching of the Church “establishes a close bond between sexuality and procreation and then links the two in matrimony,” highlighting “the inseparability of the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act” as its foundation in natural law. Villareal nevertheless raises the question of whether “the morality of the sexual relation of the spouses in marriage” might be determined “in a new way” so that the Church’s position could be “better understood and accepted.”

Villareal thus seeks to reconcile proportionalist moral theology – a controversial current within contemporary Catholic moral theology – with the classical Catholic moral tradition. (Leo XIV appoints bishop who rejects Catholic teaching on sexuality.)

Just an aside before a brief comment is made about Cyril Buhayan Villareal.

Humanae Vitae did not uphold the Natural Law teaching on human life as it the ends proper to Holy Matrimony that are irreformable as the are indeed to be found in the Divine and Natural Laws (see Fifty Years After Humane Vitae, which is also included in Life, Death, and Truth: Under Attack by Medicine and Law).

Now, here is a very brief memorandum to Cyril Buhayan Villareal: God is eternal and immutable and so are His laws. God does not conform Himself to how people misbehave. He sends them the graces won for us by His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces to conform their lives to His teaching, not the other way around.

To believe as Cyril Buhaya Villareal believes is to disbelieve in the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity.

Now, here is another appointment that would not have taken place before the dawning of the age of conciliarism:

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Sithembele Anton Sipuka as archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, after the prelate previously led a major progressive ecumenical body and has advocated for the liturgical inculturation of a local pagan rite.

On January 9, Pope Leo appointed Sipuka as archbishop of Cape Town after his years of service as bishop of Mthatha, president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference from 2019 to 2025, and president of the South African Council of Churches from 2024.

In October 2024, Sipuka was elected president of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), becoming the first Catholic – and the first Catholic bishop – to hold that position. The SACC is an ecumenical body that brings together a wide range of Christian denominations in South Africa and has a long public history dating to the anti-apartheid era.

The SACC has been historically associated with leftist activism, and among its most internationally known leaders was pro-LGBT Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Sipuka’s election marked a significant moment for the council, given that its presidency had previously been held by non-Catholics.

On June 22, 2025, Sipuka preached a homily as SACC president during an ecumenical prayer service called “National Prayer Day for Healing and Reconciliation” held at Grace Bible Church in Soweto, a Protestant congregation.

According to Sipuka, divisions among Christians are due to the fact that “dividing walls that seem so permanent to us are not permanent to God,” since the “categories that define our conflicts – us and them, insider and outsider, deserving and undeserving – these are human constructions, not divine decrees.”

Furthermore, Sipuka appeared to reduce the Christian notion of redemption to a sociological meaning of liberation: “Your liberation is tied to your neighbor’s liberation. Your welfare is connected to your enemy’s welfare.” He has also used Christianity to justify socialist political ideals: “There cannot be reconciliation without transformation. True reconciliation demands structural change – transformation of our economy so that wealth is shared more equitably.”

On July 3, 2025, Pope Leo XIV appointed Sipuka as a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.

In January 2023, while serving as president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Sipuka gave an interview to Radio Veritas that was later reported by ACI Africa. In that interview, he reflected on earlier efforts at inculturation in Catholic liturgy in South Africa, particularly those that took place in the 1980s.

“Inculturation in terms of the liturgy was stronger in the ‘80s, then it stopped,” Sipuka complained in the interview. “We are doing liturgy as inculturated from those experiences, it has not developed.”

“We are trying to understand it in its traditional context so that we can see how we merge it with faith. The principle is that, in culture, there are a lot of things that are good; so it is not in our view that anything cultural must be thrown away.”

In particular, Sipuka appeared to be interested in merging Catholic liturgy with the local rite of ubungoma, a traditional South African spiritual practice in which a person becomes a healer or diviner through channeling ancestors.

“Now we are dealing with ubungoma,” Sipuka said. “We hope to complete the research by the end of this year and then hopefully by next year maybe we can be able to give some direction.”

For quite some time, South African theologians have been trying to reinterpret this pagan practice in an effort to reconcile it with Catholic theology, for example, by re‑reading the vocation of the prophet Jeremiah as an experience that can be linked to ubungoma. (Leo appoints new Cape Town archbishop who considered adding pagan rite to the liturgy.)

Channeling one’s ancestors is satanic, pure and simple. It is occultic. Such a person hath not the Catholic Faith and is in the grip of the devil himself.

Indeed, how anybody can think that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV believes in the Catholic Faith as It has been revealed by Our Lord Himself and taught from time immemorial is a mystery.

However, I think that part of the reason so many “conservative” and traditionally-minded Catholics within the conciliar structures do not want to admit the obvious is that they are waiting for “Pope Leo” to “liberate” the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition once again, which is probably why Raymond Leo “Cardinal” Burke has been silent about Prevost/Leo’s saying such things as “We are one” to non-Catholic Christians and about his fellow American’s appointments of lavender-friendly men to episcopal sees throughout the world.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV has made it abundantly clear that he is carrying out the “synodal path” that his cartoonish predecessor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, had charted for the conciliar sect, hand he was very open about making the Argentine Apostate’s Evangelii Gaudium, November 24, 2013, his own personal “magna carta” for his false “pontificate” (see An Evangelii Gaudium Primer (or Understanding Robert Francis Prevost's Having Made Jorge's Magna Carta His Very Own) and An Evangelii Gaudium Primer (or Understanding Robert Francis Prevost's Having Made Jorge's Magna Carta His Very Own), part two). Those waiting for the Mass of all ages to be “liberated again” do not seem to understand that having a putative Mass, which is not that in most instances because most of men within traditional communities are not validly ordained priests, means nothing when the “Mass” claims to be “una cum” a “pope” who teaches that which has been condemned by Holy Mother Church and/or is obviously contrary to the Holy Faith. The Faith in all of Its holy integrity is more than the sacraments.

There is no need to fight on "Mindanao" as the conciliar sect is the counterfeit ape of the Catholic Church no matter how few people there are in the world who understand and accept this fact. Truth does not depend upon human acceptance for its binding force or validity.

Let me remind of this simple fact once again:

This cannot get any clearer, can it?

The Gospel passage from yesterday’s Holy Mass, the anticipated Mass of the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, was that of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ calming the seas that rocked the boat on which He was sleeping soundly as His Apostles feared for their lives during the tumult:

At that time, Jesus got into a boat, and His disciples followed Him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves; but He was asleep. So they came and woke Him, saying, Lord, save us! we are perishing! But He said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the sea, and there came a great calm. And the men marvelled, saying, What manner of Man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him? (Matthew 8: 23-27.)

Why have we such little Faith?

Our Lord has entrusted the vanquishing of all heresies to His Most Blessed Mother by means of the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart.

Why do we live in such fear and apoplexy?

Why be so agitated?

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is still Our King and His Most Blessed Mother is still Our Immaculate Queen.

As we seek to make reparation for our own many sins, which have worsened both the state of world and the state of the Church Militant on the face of this earth, may the Rosaries we pray today, Sunday, February 1, 2026, Septuagesima Sunday and the Commemoration of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, help to usher in the Triumph of Our Lady's Immaculate Heart and to bring about the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter and thus of her Divine Son as King over men and their nations.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Beloved, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balathasar, pray for us.

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us.

Dom Prosper Gueranger on the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Two days more, and the happy season of Christmas will be over! This is the vigil of its termination, and lo! there comes to gladden us one of the grandest Martyrs of the year — Ignatius surnamed the Theophorus, (Greek for: “he that carries God” or “he that is carried of God”) Bishop of Antioch. A venerable tradition tells us, that this old man, who so generously confessed the faith before Trajan, was the child whom Jesus took into his arms, and showed to his Disciples as a model of that simplicity, which we must all have, if we would enter into the kingdom of heaven. Today he appears before us, standing near the Crib, in which this same Jesus gives us his own divine lessons of humility and simplicity.

But, in this the Court of our Emmanuel, Ignatius stands near to Peter, the Feast of whose Chair we kept a few days since; for the Prince of the Apostles made him his second successor in his first See of Antioch. From so honored a position Ignatius derived that courage, which made him resist a powerful Emperor even to his face, defy the wild beasts of the amphitheater, and triumph by a glorious martyrdom. As it were to show the supremacy of the See of Rome, Divine Providence willed that he, with his chains upon him, should go to see Peter, (Galatians 1:18) and finish his course in the Holy City, and thus mingle his blood with that of the Apostles. Rome would have been imperfect without the glory of Ignatius’ martyrdom, which is the pride of her Coliseum, rich as it is with the blood of so many thousands of Martyrs.

Ignatius’ character is impetuosity of love for his God. He has but one fear — it is, that the prayers of the Romans will stay the lions from devouring him, and his desire of being united to Christ be thus denied him. Let us admire this superhuman fortitude, which shows itself thus suddenly amidst the pagan world, and let us acknowledge, that so ardent a love of God, and so vehement a longing to possess him, could only have come from the accomplishment of the Mysteries of our Redemption, which showed man how much God loved him. The Crib of Bethlehem, even had there never been the Sacrifice of Calvary, would, of itself, been sufficient to convince us of all this. God comes down from heaven for the sake of his creature, man; he himself becomes Man, nay, a Child, and is laid in a manger! Such miracles of love would have sufficed to save the guilty world; how, then, shall they not have power to prompt men to give their whole heart to their loving God? And would it be too much, if we made a sacrifice of our very lives to repay our Jesus for only that much of his love, which he showed us by being born among us?

The Church gives us, in the Lessons of to-day’s Office, the brief account of our Saint given by St. Jerome in his Book On Ecclesiastical Writers. The holy Doctor has inserted a few sentences from the Martyr’s admirable Epistle, written to the Faithful of Rome. We would have gladly offered the whole of this Epistle to our readers, had it not been for want of space. But the passages quoted by St. Jerome are some of the finest.

Ignatius was the third Bishop of the Church of Antioch, St. Peter the Apostle being the first. During the persecution under Trajan, he was condemned to be devoured by wild beasts, and was sent in chains to Rome. During this voyage, which was made by sea, he had to stop at Smyrna, where Polycarp, the disciple of St. John, was Bishop. From this city, he wrote several Epistles; one to the Ephesians, a second to the Magnesians, a third to the Trallians, a fourth to the Romans. When he had left Smyrna, he addressed an Epistle to the Philadelphians and Smyrneans, and one to, Polycarp himself, recommending to him his Church of Antioch. It is in this last-named Letter, that he quotes from the Gospel, which I have lately translated, a passage bearing testimony to the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I cannot pass by this mention of so great a man, without citing a few sentences from the Epistle, which he wrote to the Romans. “From Syria,” he says, “even unto Rome, I am fighting with wild beasts, both by sea and land, both night and day, for I am fastened to ten leopards, I mean, to the soldiers who have care of me. When I show them a kindness, they grow more brutal. Their injuries are my instruction, but I am not thereby justified. I long for the wild beasts, that are prepared for me, which I heartily wish may rush upon me, and torture me, and devour me, and not be afraid to touch me, as has happened with other Martyrs. Nay, if they refuse to approach me, I will make them come on, I will rush upon them, that so they may devour me. Pardon me, my little children: I know what is for my own welfare.

“Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire, or the cross, or wild beasts, or the breaking of my bones, or the cutting me to pieces, or the shattering of my whole body, yea, all the tortures of the devil — let them all come upon me, only let me enjoy my God.” When he was sentenced to be devoured by wild beasts, and heard the roaring of the lions, his impatience to suffer made him exclaim: “I am the wheat of Christ — let me be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may become the pure bread.” He suffered in the eleventh year of Trajan’s reign. His Relics are at Antioch, in the Cemetery outside the Daphne Gate. (Saint Jerome on Saint Ignatius, as quoted in Matins, The Divine Office, Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, February 1.)

We find the following stanzas in the Menæa of the Greek Church, for the feast of St. Ignatius.

Thou wast called to be the successor of him who is the Prince of Theologians, thou didst follow in their footsteps. Thy rising was in the East, but thou wast manifested in the West, and there, Ignatius, full of wisdom! thou didst shine with the splendor of thy heavenly preachings. Thou didst, indeed, depart from this world, but thou wast taken up to God, wearing on thy soul the rich crown of grace.

Resplendent, as the sun, with the rays of the Holy Ghost, thou didst sweetly illumine the ends of the earth with the brilliancy of thy combat, and the maxims of piety breathed forth so warmly and so truly in thy writings. Thus didst thou, most blessed one! make thyself bread to the Master who, in his ceaseless love, feeds all created things.

O Ignatius! thou that carriest God! by cherishing Christ, thy Love, in thy breast, thou didst give thy blood for him, thus receiving the perfection of the sacrifice of the Gospel of Christ. Hereby, thou wast the wheat of the divine Husbandman; and being ground by the teeth of lions, thou wast made his bread most sweet. O blessed Combatant! pray to him for us.

Most saintly Ignatius! thy soul was firm as is the adamant; for thou didst say to thy Beloved Jesus, with an insatiable longing: “It is not material fire that burns within me — it is the voice of Him, who is the living Water, saying within my breast, Come to the Father!” Therefore, being inflamed by the Holy Spirit, thou didst urge on the lions to take thee quickly from this world, and carry thee to Christ, the object of all thy desires. Oh! pray to him, that he save our souls.

All thy desires were satisfied, glorious Martyr! Thou hast died for Jesus — thou art with Jesus. Rome’s sons and daughters filled the Coliseum; their savage joy made it tremble with their cheers as they saw thee mangled by the lions. It was the hour thou hadst prayed for — thy sacrifice for Him, who had sacrificed himself for thee, is over, and thy soul is buried in his divine embrace! Generous and impetuous lover of Christ! thou wast ambitious to pay thy debt to the Crucified — the death of suffering. It seemed to thee, that thou hadst no right to his kingdom, until thou hadst repaid his Passion by some cruel tortures endured for Him. O worthy companion of Stephen, Sebastian, Vincent, and Agnes! how rich and verdant is the Palm thou holdest over thy Jesus Crib! Canst thou look upon us, weak Christian cowards, and not pity us? Pray for us that we may at least be faithful to our Lord, when we are persecuted by the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil; that we may, at least, give our hearts to his service, if we are not to be permitted to give our bodies to be tortured for his name. Thou wast chosen, when a little child, as the model of the simplicity which our Savior was teaching to his Disciples, and this innocence never left thee: — ask for us from Him, who is the King of Little Children, that one of the graces of the Christmas we have been keeping, may be this holy Simplicity of heart.

Successor of Peter in the See of Antioch! pray for the Churches of thy Patriarchate, that they may return to the true Faith and Catholic unity. Intercede for the holy City of Rome, which thou didst water with thy blood, and which is now in possession of thy sacred Relics, that were saved from the lions’ jaws. Watch over the maintenance of ecclesiastical discipline and order, of which thou hast left such admirable rules in thy Epistles; and obtain for the Church, that all the members of her hierarchy may be united in the bonds of duty and love, that thus she may be beautiful in the strength of her unity, and terrible to the enemies of God, as an army set in array. (Song of Solomon 6:3.) (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, February 1.)

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