Publication: Hiraeth In Exile

Leo’s New Appointment Says “The Church Is Called to Disappear” and Muslim Saints “Intercede” for Us
There are careless phrases, and then there are phrases that tell you how a man sees the Church. “The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow.” ...

Leo’s “Church of Welcome” Bans SSPX Pilgrims from Assisi and the Old Mass from St. Peter’s
A hundred or so traditional Catholics walked into Assisi last Sunday carrying wooden crosses, a statue of Our Lady, banners of St. Pius X, and the sort of religious baggage ...

Leo’s Pontifical Academy for Life: Catholics Can Morally Assent to “Imperfect Laws” Allowing Assisted Suicide
Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro heads the Pontifical Academy for Life. Leo appointed him president barely three weeks after his election in May 2025, despite Pegoraro’s already public record of treating contraception ...

Diocese of Erfurt Hosts Ecumenical Clown Drag Rainbow Service Inside St. Severi Catholic Church
On September 5, an ecumenical “rainbow service” took place inside the Catholic St. Severi Church ahead of the city’s Christopher Street Day march. Rainbow flags appeared throughout the church. Participants ...

Minnesota Bishop Warns Catholics Away From The SSPX As He Takes Away Their Mass
There was something almost quaint about the scene in rural Minnesota. A few Catholics gathered at the Opole Pub on August 29 to discuss bringing the traditional Latin Mass back ...

Leo Rewards Bishop Who Offered Coca Leaves To Pachamama
Sixteen days. That was the interval between Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera carrying coca leaves into a ritual offering to Pachamama and Leo naming him coadjutor archbishop of Cuzco. The word ...

Leo Builds The Pink Palace Designed By Francis
Female prefects now govern religious orders and help choose bishops. Mallorca stages dance inside the Assumption liturgy while Belgium sends Rome a Pride-marching ambassador. Vaticano in rosa. The Vatican turns ...

The Pachamama Church Prepares for Leo XIV
A woman stands over an arrangement on the floor in Cusco. Coca leaves have been passed around. The participants close their eyes and breathe as instructed. August, she tells them, ...

German Bishop Says Rome Forbids Lay Homilies — Then Says He Won’t Stop Them
Will Bishop Kohlgraf be excommunicated for his outright defiance of Rome's ruling? Peter Kohlgraf has managed to compress the ecclesiastical crisis into three sentences. The Bishop of Mainz was asked ...

The Church of Permission
How Rome turned the ancient Mass into a revocable favor, branded the SSPX schismatic for refusing the cage, and enlisted Trad Inc. to keep Catholics waiting inside it. A Catholic ...

Czech Bishop Spills The Beans: Only The Novus Ordo Can Build a Synodal Church
Bishop Tomáš Holub of Plzeň has provided the theological explanation Cardinal Arthur Roche left unstated. Roche told traditional Catholics that Pope Leo XIV would retain Traditionis Custodes and refuse to ...

Cardinal McElroy Approves Of Women Preaching At DC Church
Documentary note: I have examined a photograph of a Jesuit letter, not the physical original. The names, offices, and parish information appearing on it correspond with public records. The letter ...

Leo XIV Approves Another Communist-Vetted Prelate
Joseph Chang Yanfeng was consecrated Bishop of Chifeng on July 22 after Leo XIV approved his candidacy under the secret Vatican–Beijing agreement. The Vatican announced the appointment in the bloodless ...

You Will Know Them By Their Fruits
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost tests every prophet, every reform, and every Catholic life by the harvest it leaves behind. The Murderer in the Narrow Street John Gualbert had been ...

Cardinal Celebrate Homosexual Men’s 50 Years of ‘Partnership’ with ‘Catholic’ Mass
Two homosexual men celebrated a “Mass of Thanksgiving for 50 Years of Friendship, Partnership, and Commitment in the Pursuit of Justice” at Holy Apostles Church in London. About 150 relatives ...

Écône Did Not Create the Crisis. It EXPOSED It.
Rome created the emergency and now denounces the ambulance for driving on the grass. On July 1, 2026, Écône did what Rome spent months warning it not to do. Four ...

Dialogue for Constantinople, Excommunication for Écône
Leo had time for ecumenical guests. He had time for global speeches, institutions, delegations, and dialogues. The one group facing imminent canonical annihilation received the papal hand at the eleventh ...

When Pentecost is Rebranded as PRIDE
The report from Saltillo is almost impossible to read as an isolated abuse. On Pentecost Sunday, Bishop Hilario González García of Saltillo reportedly celebrated Mass with LGBT groups at San ...

“Gay” Priests? The Canon Lawyer Says Yes. The Catholic Priesthood Says No.
“Can gays be priests?” Two smiling men. A clean podcast set. A soft modern Catholic aesthetic. The title promises that a canon lawyer will “explain the rules.” The description says ...

The SSPX Professes the Catholic Faith and Rome Calls It Schism
The profession’s most powerful section may be its rejection of modern religious humanism. The Society of Saint Pius X sent Leo XIV and the cardinals a profession of Catholic faith ...

Leo Stands Before Inflatable Titanic Representing the Barque of Peter Since Vatican II
The Titanic is an image of confidence after collision. That is the present Church. The postconciliar structure still speaks in the voice of authority, still claims the mantle of Peter, ...