I was thinking about this last night and honestly, the candidates don’t even need Byron Donalds to debate if he doesn’t want to. I feel the other 3 or 4 candidates should just hold their own debate and invite Byron and if he doesn’t want to come leave his spot open for everyone to see. The candidates need name exposure and to highlight themselves not expose Byron. In fact, I think Byron wouldn’t do as bad as everyone thinks. He has a lot of practice in front of cameras on Fox News and a debate with him may actually backfire. Set up two debates, invite him and leave it empty and this will showcase the other candidates.

For a while, I have watched some Nigerian Novus Ordo “mainstream Catholics,” clergy and faithful alike, such as @frjamesa, @FriarJ and @UcheMaryOkoli, speak about sedevacantism in a way that clearly shows they do not understand what that term means or why the people who hold to that position do so. Whether they do so out of wilful ignorance or genuine misunderstanding, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Consequently, we have prepared a series of simple but in-depth explanations of what sedevacantism really is, as a response to an objector to that position. Day 1: Why We Are Sedevacantists Before we address the individual points, let us restate why we are sedevacantists. Although we call ourselves sedevacantists, we are simply Roman Catholics who believe the papal office is vacant, and that those who have occupied it in recent years have been impostors, leading what is actually a New Church with a new religion; a new religion clearly defined by a rejection of several dogmas of Holy Mother Church and the embracing of several heresies and errors expressly condemned by the same Holy Mother Church. A New Church that: a. Contrary to the teaching that outside the Roman Catholic Church no one can be saved, teaches that non-Catholic churches are means of sanctification used by Christ, and acts accordingly toward them. b. Contrary to the prohibition by the Church of active participation in religious worship with non-Catholics, encourages and fosters a false ecumenism that recognises common prayer and worship with non-Catholics, and recognises heretics as true shepherds of souls. c. Contrary to the express condemnation of the Church that no false religion has a right to be freely practiced, teaches that civil governments commit evil by restraining the free and public expression of false religions within their states. d. Contrary to the dogma that the pope alone enjoys supreme and universal authority over all Christians, teaches that in addition to the pope, the entire college of bishops also possesses this supreme power, so that the pope is obliged to accept whatever this college, as a body, teaches. We are sedevacantists - Roman Catholics - because we profess the True faith in its totality. We believe Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and committed to her all the means of salvation, and outside her, NO ONE CAN BE SAVED. As Roman Catholics, we have seen the Church condemn those who rejected her authority and continue to pray for their conversion: Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Eastern Orthodox, Jews, pagans, and so on. That cannot, therefore, be the Church of Christ, the Mystical Body, if it contradicts what the Church has taught must be believed for centuries. Okay. Let us agree that a new religion has been formed. How is the Church still visible if for decades she has been without a pope, without a hierarchy, and all we see are several groups of people who claim to be traditional Catholics but who do not all agree on the same thing? SEE YOU ON DAY 2!

Archbishop Viganò publishes letter to Leo : “I declare that I am not a schismatic!” lifesitenews.com/opinion/arc…

Hey all you lovely elderly folks living in @thevillages, how do you like your pal Byron now?

Seems like a great opportunity for a debate!

JUST IN: Abp Viganò publishes letter he sent to Pope Leo in January. - He rejects idea that he is schismatic: “In the face of the excommunication unjustly imposed upon me, I declare that I am not a schismatic! By the grace of God, I am and will remain a devout son of the Holy Roman Church and a faithful subject of the Roman Pontificate” - Says the Vatican officials in the trial against him were “unable to refute a single one of the arguments I presented. But it was enough for them that I dared to criticize Vatican II and Jorge Mario Bergoglio to condemn me to excommunication for the crime of schism” - Asks Leo to denounce issues from Francis papacy & to defend doctrine: “I ask you to exercise your supreme Authority to confirm the brethren in the Faith. I ask you to confirm me in the Faith: please do so.” - Writes that Vatican II was “intended to be used to revolutionize the entire ecclesial structure and subvert it in all its components: in doctrine, liturgy, discipline, canon law, and especially in its hierarchical constitution” - Renews request to meet Leo in order to tell him “in person some matters of the utmost importance relating to my apostolic Ministry and the need to ensure its continuity and future.” Full text on @CarloMVigano

Absolutely. I'm frankly sorry that I ever fell into the idea that the only "true" Catholicism is this boutique thing for aesthetes. As time's gone on, I'm thankful for what the Latin Mass taught me -- but I lately think it was only my door into the wider Church. The humble simplicity of the regular Parish Church and the quiet & gracious Mass one so often finds within it has nourished me lately. It has called me to a Franciscan mentality, to dream of a life without pomp and circumstance, where my little preferences fall away and there is only Christ in the Eucharist and nothing else. I'm shocked with myself. This feels "naughty" to the Trad in me. Yet it feels incredibly right in my heart. I harbor absolutely no ill feelings toward the fancier Liturgies, and still adore the Latin Mass too; I've simply veered away from the idea that I was somehow "better" (or even better off per se) than the rest of the Church for my preference of the Latin Mass. When it's done RIGHT -- and it isn't always -- the vision of the Mass and the Church that was promulgated during the Second Vatican Council can be deeply mystical in its radical simplicity and poverty... I now have no choice but to acknowledge this. I'll still go to the TLM sometimes, but I must grant that the wider Church isn't hopelessly wrong for embracing a simpler way of worship...

Talked to Jesus today. Turns out He’s still pro-life. You can’t follow Christ and stay silent on the killing of the innocent!

Every time you write about these churches you make me think of some family I have close to your area. They are just the most loving, plain, ordinary Catholics you will ever meet - and they’re the backbone of a parish like this. They have served God their entire lives - and someone’s idea that the Mass they attend isn’t elevated enough and therefore their faith should be discounted (or something) is just nuts to me.

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This interview is from January 30, 2026. Governor DeSantis, the Republican grassroots, and conservative legislators had been fighting for months against the RINOs in the state legislature because they were adamant in opposing strong immigration measures that had been proposed by Governor DeSantis. Byron Donalds kept quiet for months as the RINOs in the legislature opposed the strong measures proposed by governor DeSantis. Donalds stayed quiet as the legislature's weak immigration bill was debated and even passed by the state legislature. Donalds stayed quiet while governor DeSantis was out there fighting against it everyday trying to get a stronger bill passed. Donalds stayed quiet while the Republican grassroots was calling out the legislature and fighting against the weak bill and supporting governor DeSantis's stronger measures. Donalds stayed quiet as conservative legislators fought against the weak bill. This interview was the first time and ONLY TIME Donalds spoke regarding the bill and this was only after governor DeSantis promised to veto it. He was asked, and he had no choice but to respond. Listen to his weak response. 1) He didn't really take a strong stance against the RINO's weak bill. He didn't even say he opposed the bill or that they should pass governor DeSantis's stronger measures. He just criticized one aspect of it. He only criticized the part that would have given power to the Commissioner of Agriculture. That was the only part of the bill that wasn't controversial to oppose and that's why he chose to focus on that one aspect. Actually, there were bigger problems with the legislature's weak bill such as it didn't require state and local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws and it didn't stop catch and release and the legislature was refusing to add these strong enforcement measures. As a matter of fact, Notice that in the interview Donalds doesn't mention any of that. 2) He says in the interview that the legislature and governor DeSantis needed to quickly come to an agreement. But, he didn't give a clear answer as to what that agreement should be. He was only concerned that the agreement needed to be reached quickly to make it easier on the federal government and Congress because the Democrats were going to criticize them about not having enough beds for the illegal aliens. Byron Donalds was a gubernatorial candidate at the time. It was a moment that tested his ability to stand with Floridians in favor of a strong bill to implement real immigration enforcement and deportations. It was a moment to show what he would have done if he were the governor of Florida in DeSantis's place. It was moment to show if he was strong enough to stand up to RINOs and the establishment in the legislature. He failed the test miserably! He didn't speak up until he had no choice and after he tested in which direction the wind was blowing. He took no stance against a weak bill. He showed he's just another politician. He showed he's weak and unable to stand up against RINOs in the state legislature. He proved that he doesn't listen to the base. Most importantly, he failed to LEAD! Thank God our governor at the time was DeSantis because thanks to his leadership, he vetoed the weak bill and ensured that the legislature pass a strong immigration bill that, by the way, without it, we would have never had Alligator Alcatraz. The 🧵 in the comments section includes a side by side comparison of the weak legislature's bill and governor DeSantis's strong proposal. It also includes the veto signed by governor DeSantis.