On Jan. 31, 2025, ‘Pope’ Francis appointed 52-year-old Rev. Johannes Freitag (b. 1972) as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Graz-Seckau, Austria. He was officially (but invalidly, acc. to traditional Catholic criteria) ordained on May 1 during the Novus Ordo sede vacante period.
In his function as auxiliary in Graz-Seckau, Freitag has been working under ‘Bp.’ Wilhelm Krautwaschl, the local ordinary (more on that fellow later).
On Sep. 29, 2025, the Mexican Novus Ordo news web site Agencia Católica de Noticias (ACN) published an interesting report, one whose veracity we have been able to verify independently: Freitag, the new auxiliary of Graz, has chosen for his personal secretary a man who is officially ‘married’ to his male partner.
But not only that: It turns out that at least as of March 24, 2025 — a mere five-and-a-half weeks before the May 1 ordination ceremony of Bishop Freitag — the now-episcopal secretary was still listed as holding the position of secretary general of Graz’s local Jewish community.
You can’t make this stuff up!
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