Interviews

Bishops Schneider and Strickland emphasized conscience, courage, and faith amid modern crises, urging resistance to unjust mandates, devotion to guardian angels, and refusal to close churches, drawing strength from early Christian and martyr examples.

Bishop Schneider condemns transhumanism as sinful pride against God, insisting only God creates and defines human nature. He believes such efforts will fail and that true spiritual values will return.

Bishop Schneider praised the strong Catholic faith he saw in U.S. youth and families. His motto Kyrie eleison signifies universal need for God’s mercy and unity between Eastern and Western Christian worship.

Bishop Schneider insists pro-abortion politicians must never receive Communion, calling it sacrilegious and spiritually harmful. He urges priests to refuse them out of love, protecting them from further grave sin.

Bishop Schneider criticizes the Novus Ordo and Pope Francis’s Moto Proprio, emphasizing the Traditional Latin Mass's spiritual depth and rising appeal among youth, calling it evidence of the Holy Spirit’s work.

Bishop Schneider warns the Synodal Path erodes Church doctrine and tradition. He defends the Traditional Latin Mass and urges a Christ-centered renewal in worship, detailed in his forthcoming book The Catholic Mass.

Bishop Schneider defends conscience-based vaccine exemptions, asserting the immorality of abortion-tainted vaccines. He affirms Catholics’ right to resist unjust directives, emphasizing fidelity to life and God’s law over human mandates.

Bishop Schneider confirms the Third Secret’s authenticity, interpreting it as a call to penance amid Church crisis and moral ruin, stressing fidelity, prayer, and devotion over speculation about unrevealed content.

Bishop Schneider condemns Traditionis Custodes for marginalizing traditional Catholics and disrupting liturgical unity. He defends the Traditional Mass, urges resistance, and foresees its growth as a divine work.

Bishop Schneider highlighted the importance of Catholic tradition, criticized moral laxity, and urged faithfulness amid confusion. He sees hope in traditional movements and calls for public witness, prayer, and doctrinal clarity.

Bishop Schneider affirms Pope Francis as the true Pope, citing Benedict’s own words. He calls claims of Benedict’s continued papacy false, urging Catholics to trust God, accept trials, and live faithful, prayerful lives.

Bishop Schneider warned that a forced global vaccine using aborted baby cells signals the apocalypse and must be resisted. Archbishop Vigano urged Catholics to defend faith, support faithful priests, and obey God.

Bishop Schneider denounces secularism, doctrinal confusion, and religious pluralism. He urges Catholics to resist modern errors, recover the supernatural, pray, and study traditional catechisms to remain faithful in dark times.

Bishop Schneider condemns idolatry at the Amazon Synod, opposes inculturation that blends paganism with Catholicism, defends denying Biden Communion, rejects married priests, and calls the Eucharist central to renewing Church life.

Bishop Schneider supports the ban on women’s ordination, rejects pluralism as willed by God, denies formal papal heresy, and opposes married priesthood as a practical, not divine, solution.

Bishop Schneider maintains that a heretical pope cannot be deposed, urging fidelity to tradition and proposing fraternal correction rather than judgment. He critiques exaggerated papal authority and revolutionary liturgical reforms.

Bishop Schneider criticized the Vatican abuse summit for ignoring root causes like homosexuality and relativism. He raised concerns to Pope Francis and defended priestly celibacy against proposed changes in the Amazon.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider recalls his Kyrgyzstan childhood, his parents’ hidden Catholic faith under Soviet rule, his meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, and gratitude for God’s guidance, faith, and both earthly and heavenly mothers.

Bishop Schneider criticizes Communion in the hand and certain Amoris Laetitia interpretations, warning they undermine marriage’s indissolubility and the Church’s faith, urging a return to reverence and apostolic tradition.

Bishop Schneider reaffirms Catholic teaching on marriage, criticizes Amoris Laetitia interpretations allowing Communion for the remarried, and calls Catholics to resist confusion with faith, tradition, and fidelity to Christ, not personalities.

Bishop Schneider says reverent liturgy draws souls to God. He urges Catholics to remain faithful and loving, despite restrictions on the Traditional Mass, seeing suffering for tradition as a path to restoration.

Bishop Schneider supported the cardinals' “dubia” on Amoris Laetitia, stressing the need for doctrinal clarity to protect Church teaching on marriage, confession, and the Eucharist from confusion and misinterpretation.

Bishop Schneider declared contraception always immoral and unchangeable by any pope. He called on Catholics to uphold Church teaching firmly, quoting Scripture to resist errors, even if voiced by Church authorities.

Bishop Schneider affirms SSPX’s fidelity and urges their canonical recognition, criticizing overemphasis on Vatican II. He highlights their respect for papal authority and traditional Catholic doctrine, worship, and sacramental life.

Bishop Schneider says claiming nearly everyone goes to heaven contradicts Christ. Ignoring the real risk of hell is irresponsible and sinful, akin to failing to warn someone approaching a dangerous cliff.

Bishop Schneider says U.S. ecumenism hides truth. Following Jesus and the apostles, clergy must speak God’s truth clearly with love, like a doctor addressing spiritual and moral illnesses responsibly.

Bishop Schneider asserts clergy fear addressing homosexuality due to ideology. Respecting persons, he insists homosexual acts oppose God’s will, advocating clear, courageous teaching while defending common sense and divine truth.

Bishop Schneider says clergy fear truth-telling because of media, personal, or career consequences. He calls this egoism, contrasting it with saints’ sacrifice, noting God will reveal all motives at judgment.

Bishop Schneider cites four Church crises, including Arianism, papal corruption, the Western Schism, and today’s relativism. He stresses God’s renewal through humble faithful, guided by the Holy Spirit, despite challenges.

Bishop Schneider says clergy fear false media attacks ruining reputations. He urges courage, recalling Saint Thomas More’s choice of eternal truth over temporary safety, stressing eternity outweighs worldly approval or position.