Leo to the Bishops and Clergy of Argentina: "Lío" means making the "Gospel of Jesus Christ resound everywhere."

(In Buenos Aires: "We the Youth Want the Traditional Mass.")

Address to the Bishops, Clergy, Religious, and Seminarians of Argentina

Leo XIV

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption

Córdoba, Argentina

November 10, 2026

Dear brothers and sisters, all of you in Christ Jesus:

I would like to begin by thanking Cardinal Rossi for his words, as well as those who have shared their testimonies, and all of you for the affection with which you have received me. I am very glad to be with you today: you of the consecrated life, seminarians, priests, all the baptized who have given their lives to the service of the Lord and of his people.

During this last song, many of you had your hands in the air; perhaps to greet me, perhaps to accompany the singing. These are the hands that Jesus is looking for, and he wants your hands in order to continue his mission.

Archbishop Héctor Agüer: Rest in Peace

The best Argentine prelate of the past few decades, Archbishop Héctor Agüer, Emeritus of La Plata, died today. The history of the Church would have been very different if he had been the one made Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Cardinal by John Paul II.

Tensions Among Roman Dicasteries Over the Decree of SSPX Excommunication

Translated from the French original here, courtesy of FSSPX News.

The schism remains elusive, but divisions are spreading to Rome itself. Four months after the consecrations in Écône, the condemnation of the Society of Saint Pius X is becoming a headache for the Vatican.

The decree of excommunication issued in the wake of the episcopal ordinations in Écône is now causing difficulties within the Roman Curia itself. In an investigation published on October 30, 2026, by the German Catholic daily Die Tagespost, journalist Guido Horst reveals that the Dicastery for Legislative Texts has repeatedly attempted, in collaboration with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, to resolve the legal contradictions contained in the documents of July 2. But these efforts were thwarted by a lack of cooperation from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who seems unwilling to revise the texts published under his authority.

New Numbers for Catholicism in Latin America: The Collapse Continues (Brazil has lost its Catholic majority)

 On the occasion of the papal visit to three South American nations this week, the Chile-based research institution Latinobarómetro has just released its newest numbers on Catholicism in Latin America. 

Leo in Argentina: "What place do children yet unborn occupy in our decision-making? "

Buenos Aires, November 8, 2026

The common good that authority is called to serve must also be discerned concretely in the circumstances of everyday life. Here, the family, the basic unit of society, plays an essential role. Within the family, each individual learns to discover that his or her life is linked to that of others and is responsible for them. At home, we learn to care for the weak, to forgive, to share and to remain close to those in need; in the family too, many men and women receive the first seeds of faith.

A fundamental element of the common good is the capacity to earn a living through one’s own work. This land knows well and esteems the efforts of all those who work for a living, in the countryside and in the cities, in shops and factories, in schools and in hospitals, as well as those who start businesses and those who work to support their families, day after day. Work enables men and women to provide for their loved ones, to develop their abilities and to feel that they are participating in the building up of their homeland (cf. Dilexi Te, 115). For this reason, efforts should be made to promote whatever creates opportunities, stimulates private initiative and ensures that economic growth also benefits those who are disadvantaged. Here I think of families facing an uncertain future, the unemployed, the elderly who for years contributed to society, and all those who, despite hard work, nonetheless struggle to meet their household’s needs.  ... 

“When I went on crusade”: A young man reports on the Luján TLM pilgrimage in Argentina

This article was sent to Rorate by a young man who participated in the recent 17th annual pilgrimage of traditional Catholics in Argentina—their version of the Chartres pilgrimage, so to speak, taking place in the middle of August. We are glad to publish it and to bring more attention to the youthful strength of the traditional movement in that great country. -PAK

Life, Life, Life -- the Pope in Uruguay: "The unborn already belong to the human family."

 

Uruguay is the most secularized nation in Latin America -- it was the first to liberate abortion in the 1930s, forbidding it again. During the Francis years, all hell broke loose: abortion became legal again there, as a prelude to its liberalization in Argentina years later. And now euthanasia has become legal.

So it is brave for the Pope in his addresses to speak again, and again, and again on life:

A Response to Prof. de Mattei on the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage and the Role of Bishop Schneider — by Stuart Chessman

Tacitus and Aristotle

First published at The Society of St. Hugh of Cluny Blog, reprinted here with permission.

No sooner had I put my pen – or my keyboard – down then I saw this post on Rorate Caeli from Professor Roberto de Mattei.[1] I believed I had already said all that I had to say on the subject of the Rome pilgrimage. But when Prof. de Mattei’s article was quoted with apparent approval by other traditionalist sites, I felt obliged to respond.

Prof. de Mattei presents his article as the product of dispassionate, objective reflection, sine ira et studio. But as Heinrich von Treitschke sagaciously remarked: “How much misuse is made today of the saying sine ira et studio – a maxim which its author was the last person to follow.” [2]

The same can be said of Prof. de Mattei’s post, which is anything but impartial.

The Latin America Leo XIV will meet: Francis-Collapse of Catholicism

 Leo XIV arrives in Uruguay today for a 12-day visit to the region, including his predecessor's Argentina and his own former mission nation of Peru.

It will be the first papal visit to Argentina since John Paul II. For some secret personal reason that has never been made clear, Francis was the first pope in centuries not to visit his own homeland (all the Italians before John Paul II obviously were in it, and John Paul II and Benedict XVI both included their nations among their first apostolic voyages). Leo XIV himself, a naturalized Peruvian, will already in this trip visit one of his homelands, and it should not take long for him to be back in his native United States.

In the decades following the last papal visits to Uruguay and Argentina, both nations have secularized so much they become pioneers of abortion in South America.

For this trip, we repost our text from earlier this year on the collapse of Catholicism in Latin America during the Bergoglio Pontificate:

Cardinal Ranjith in Major Interview: The West Needs to Return to its Liturgical Roots:

 

TRIBUNE CHRÉTIENNE: Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith: "Young People Want to Change the Way Europe Views Christianity"

Interview by Philippe Marie 

Tribune Chrétienne

November 6, 2026

In a lengthy exclusive interview granted to Tribune Chrétienne, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith offers a reflection on the dechristianization of Europe and the challenges facing the Church. Faced with the rise of political Islam, he calls on Catholics to rediscover their own spiritual identity rather than favor confrontation. He sees in the exceptional mobilization of young people during Pope Leo XIV's journeys to France and Spain a sign of hope for the renewal of Christianity. He also addresses the traditional liturgy, doctrinal controversies, the Islamist attacks of Easter 2019 in Sri Lanka, and relations between the Holy See and China.

Tribune Chrétienne: France and much of Europe are undergoing a profound dechristianization. Viewed from Asia, how do you explain this decline?

The Latin Mass and the Struggle for Power in the Vatican

by Serre Verweij

When Pope Leo was elected, many traditionalists were initially cautious or did not know what to expect. Then, in his first real interview (with Crux), Pope Leo declined to stand behind Traditionis Custodes; next, his nuncio in the United Kingdom told bishops that they could request exemptions from Traditionis Custodes and that these would be granted automatically, while the persecution of traditionalist religious communities and of bishops who refused to enforce Custodes fizzled out.

Considerations on the Traditional Pilgrimage to Rome -- by Roberto de Mattei

Considerations Sine Ira et Studio on the Ad Petri Sedem Pilgrimage

Roberto de Mattei

Now that the polemics that arose in the heat of the moment have settled, let us attempt to offer some dispassionate considerations, sine ira et studio, as the Romans used to say, on the fifteenth Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem, held in Rome from October 23 to 25, 2026.

Traditional Ordination in the Cistercian Monastery of Vyšší Brod, Czech Republic

 

13 years ago, Rorate reported on the choice made by the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod, in the Czech Republic, for a more Traditional form of liturgy.

Sermon for All Saints

The Feast of All Saints 2026

Fr. Richard Cipolla

Carmelite Convent - Danbury, Connecticut 

After this I saw a great multitude which no man cold number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands: and they cried out with a loud voice saying: “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb”.