https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-retracted-s2-vaccine-paper-covid-shots TradWatch en 2026-10-20T20:41:47Z LifeSiteNews says a retracted paper claimed COVID shots gave protective antibodies. The paper tested an experimental vaccine in mice https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-freemasonry-latae-sententiae-excommunication TradWatch en 2026-10-20T15:39:39Z LifeSiteNews says Catholics who join a Masonic lodge are automatically excommunicated. Membership is forbidden and gravely sinful, but the current law sets no automatic excommunication https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-africa-catholics-surpass-europe-fides-2026 TradWatch en 2026-10-20T13:34:39Z LifeSiteNews says Africa now has more Catholics than Europe. The Vatican’s mission agency figures say so, though one gloss in the article is wrong https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-schneider-coredemptrix-ordinary-magisterium TradWatch en 2026-10-20T11:35:08Z Bishop Schneider says the Ordinary Magisterium taught the titles “Coredemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces”. Popes used them; the Vatican now calls the first always inappropriate https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-fetal-microchimerism-abortion-cells-persist TradWatch en 2026-10-20T08:35:25Z LifeSiteNews says a baby’s cells can stay in the mother for decades, even after a pregnancy that does not end in birth. The research supports that https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-vigano-hierarchy-silent-french-riots-ulrich TradWatch en 2026-10-20T07:35:17Z Archbishop Viganò says the Church hierarchy “remains silent” on the French riots. The Archbishop of Paris condemned the violence the same day https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-swiss-guard-sack-of-rome-147-guards-500th TradWatch en 2026-10-20T06:36:20Z InfoVaticana says 147 of 189 Swiss Guards died defending Clement VII in the 1527 Sack of Rome. That matches the Guard’s own account https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-ripperger-silenced-denver-one-year-fast TradWatch en 2026-10-19T18:39:18Z LifeSiteNews says Fr. Chad Ripperger was “silenced” and ordered to cease all public ministry. The archdiocese describes a request for a year’s break from public speaking, which he accepted https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-leo-recovery-vatican-general-audience-assisi-date TradWatch en 2026-10-19T15:35:37Z InfoVaticana on Leo XIV’s recovery: the schedule is right, but Assisi is 27 October, not November https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-georgia-martyrs-beatification-savannah TradWatch en 2026-10-19T14:33:23Z InfoVaticana on the Georgia Martyrs’ beatification: date, place and legate are right https://tradwatch.org/analysis/lifesite-koovakad-spirit-of-assisi-ordinary-magisterium TradWatch en 2026-10-19T12:36:17Z LifeSiteNews on Cardinal Koovakad and the “Spirit of Assisi”: the quote is right, the account of “ordinary Magisterium” is not https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-st-michael-prayer-sacrosanctum-concilium-canon-214 TradWatch en 2026-10-19T10:35:49Z InfoVaticana on the Knoxville St Michael prayer request: its Church texts are real, one is cited without its condition https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-felanitx-christ-the-king-1934-democratic-memory-law TradWatch en 2026-10-19T10:35:44Z InfoVaticana on the Felanitx Christ the King: 1934 and the law’s 1936–1978 scope are right https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-leo-first-angelus-after-surgery TradWatch en 2026-10-19T09:34:25Z InfoVaticana’s account of Leo XIV’s first Angelus after surgery matches the text https://tradwatch.org/analysis/return-to-tradition-st-michael-prayer-leonine-history TradWatch en 2026-10-19T09:33:14Z Return to Tradition on the St Michael prayer: the 1964 date is right, the vision story needs context https://tradwatch.org/analysis/return-to-tradition-rosito-redefine-family-amoris-communion TradWatch en 2026-10-19T08:40:11Z Return to Tradition on Prof. Rosito: his address mentions neither Communion nor redefining the family https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-leeds-middlesbrough-hallam-merger-figures TradWatch en 2026-10-19T08:37:33Z InfoVaticana’s figures on the proposed Yorkshire diocesan merger match the bishop’s report https://tradwatch.org/analysis/infovaticana-new-pentecost-octave-of-pentecost-suppressed-1969 TradWatch en 2026-10-19T08:35:42Z InfoVaticana on the lost octave of Pentecost: the dates are right