Bishop Schneider met with the Pope, presumably to request that he liberate the Traditional Latin Mass and not appoint bishops who are veritable heretical wolves.

This article from last July sheds light on the topics discussed by the bishop with Leo XIV in their recent meeting:

Mons.  𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐮𝐧 𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐚 𝐋𝐞𝐨́𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐞 “𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐚  𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews 07/16/2025

Bishop Schneider urged Pope Leo XIV to ‘protect’ the lay faithful who are being ‘persecuted’ by the suppression of the Traditional Latin Massendt of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima brought up the TLM crackdown prompted by Pope Francis’ document 

Traditionis.“It is an injustice. We must publicly say this,” said Bishop Schneider, the auxiliary of the Diocese of Astana in Kazakhstan. He pointed out that the TLM suppression is particularly unjust during a time when, as under Francis, the top levels of the Church declare the importance of listening to all the lay faithful and accepting their “proposals and desires,” as he noted.

“But only one category is punished, and marginalized. These are the faithful priests who only wish to pray and to celebrate Mass, to assist Mass, and it was done during… almost a millennium, and by the saints,” he said. 

When asked what the Holy Father should do in response, Bishop Schneider urged him to “protect” his “daughters and sons” who are being “persecuted” by the bishops throttling access to the TLM, such as in the Archdiocese of Detroit, where as of July 1, TLMs were banned in all of its 28 parish locations and delegated to a mere four locations.

“This is unbearable. It is a great injustice towards good faithful who only desire to pray as did their forefathers,” lamented Bishop Schneider. “Nothing more. Who love the pope, who love their bishop.”

The prelate declared that it is “urgent” for the pope to protect the faithful who are being treated as “second class” Catholics and called upon the faithful to pray for Pope Leo “that he may recognize this injustice” and “have the courage” to free the Latin Mass through an act of his magisterium.

Bishop Schneider pointed out that Pope Pius V had “solemnly canonized” the Traditional Latin Mass in his bull Quo Primum, which declared in an “extraordinary” way that “no one can be forbidden, even in future,” to offer the Tridentine Mass. 

Quo Primum ordains that, “in perpetuity,” the Missal of the Tridentine Mass “is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment, or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used” and that “this present document cannot be revoked or modified, but remains always valid and retains its full force.”

Quo Primum ordains “in perpetuity,”

The Astana bishop expressed hope that Pope Leo XIV stop the “persecution” of the TLM, something Catholics have implored him to do in a letter campaign. Leo XIV has not yet responded or given any indication he will recognize the authority of Quo Primum by declaring Traditionis Custodes invalid. Instead, by granting a TLM in Texas a two-year extension, he appears to be recognizing the dictates of Traditionis Custodes.

Wendt continued on to ask if Bishop Schneider thought it was fair to “evaluate” Leo XIV by his clerical appointments, something he began to participate in as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.

The bishop said that by appointing bishops “who are promoting confusion and ambiguities or even errors which were known before the appointment,” that is, “dubious candidates, ambiguous candidates or openly heterodox candidates,” the pope is “opening the door” to let “wolves” enter into the flock.

Orthodox Catholics and clergy such as Bishop Joseph Strickland have already raised concerns about the doctrinal fidelity of clerical appointments of Leo XIV, including for example his appointment of Bishop Shane Mackinlay, who has publicly expressed support for the possibility of “ordaining” women to the diaconate, as archbishop of Brisbane.

Bishop Schneider believes God will hold every pope to account “about his appointments.”

Father Pio said

 

MESSAGE FROM OUR LADY OF AKITA TO SISTER AGNES

October 13, 1973

"My dear daughter, listen carefully to what I have to tell you. You will inform your superior."

After a short silence:

"As I told you, if men do not repent and amend their ways, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the flood, such as has never been seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and wipe out a great part of humanity, both the good and the bad, without exception for priests or the faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only weapons they will have left will be the rosary and the sign left by my Son. Recite the prayers of the rosary every day. With the rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops, and the priests."

"The work of the devil will infiltrate even the Church to such an extent that cardinals will be pitted against cardinals, bishops against bishops. Priests who venerate me will be despised and will face opposition from their fellow priests... churches and altars will be plundered; the Church will be filled with those who accept compromises, and the devil will pressure many priests and consecrated souls to abandon the service of the Lord.

"The devil will be especially relentless against souls consecrated to God. Thinking of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sorrow. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no forgiveness for them.

"Speak courageously to your superior. He will know how to give each one the strength to pray and to perform acts of reparation."

"It is Bishop Ito who leads your community."

"  And she laughed and then said:

"Do you still have something to ask? Today is the last time I will speak to you with a living voice. From now on, you will obey the one who sends you and your superior.

"Pray the Rosary often. Only I can still save you from the approaching calamities. Those who place their trust in me will be saved."

WHERE ARE YOU GOING, LADY?

The Mother of God emerges from heaven in all her majesty. A cherub carries her on his wings, wings of varied colors, like those of the birds of Mexico. Millions upon millions of angels precede her, formed in immense squadrons. Celestial music resounds throughout the universe, and the Angels of the Americas sing the march of redemption: that song of which David speaks in Psalm 110: Redemptionem missit populo suo (He sent redemption to his people).

As she passes, the stars that populate the immensity of the firmament bow before the firstborn of all creation.  The sun descends to bathe her in its rays, and the stars come to adorn her sea-green mantle... She is not preceded by lightning and thunder, as in times past when the God of Sinai appeared; but by the moon, a sign of peace and covenant, the covenant she comes to celebrate with a people who will be hers forever.

The angelic choirs ask in wonder: Quae est ista? 'Who is this most beautiful Virgin, whose complexion is dark and whose hair is as black as that of the daughters of Cuauhtémoc and Moctezuma? Whose waist is as slender as the palm trees of Anáhuac and whose eyes are as chaste as those of the doves of our lakes?'

They ask: 'Where are you going, Lady? Are you going to Rome, the Eternal City?' And Mary answers them: 'No'—'Are you going to Greece, the ancient homeland of science and the fine arts?'  "No." "Are you going to Spain, mistress of the seas, the richest in the world?" "No." "Are you going to Jerusalem, that beautiful captive, once sung of by David and Solomon, and now with its hair disheveled and its brow in the dust?"

"Are you going to Nazareth, to Mount Carmel, your former and beloved home?"

"No. I am going to an unknown corner of the world, which will be called Mexico. I am going to the simple nation of the Opatas, who live in Sonora under tents of chimborazoan hides, and to the nation of the Huastecas, who live in thatched huts under the palm trees of Potosí. I am going to the nation of the Otomites, who have no houses and sleep in hammocks, like the orioles that hang their net-like nests from the cypress trees of Querétaro."  I am going to the nation of the Tarascans, who practice their mechanical arts in Michoacán and the Sierra of Guanajuato. I am going to the nation of the Aztecs, who dwell in the lakes of Tenochtitlan, in Zacatecas, Jalisco, and Colima, and who, to the sound of their drum and their teponahuaxtli, and in the sweetest of languages, will sing me the praises of the New Testament.

I am going to the nation of the Totonacs, who are white, live on the slopes of Orizaba and Acultzingo, and practice circumcision, like those Israelites taken captive by Salmanazar, who were lost in the ice of Russia. I am going to the nation of the Mixtecs, who in Oaxaca build temples in the Etruscan style and cultivate cochineal, more precious than the murex of the Greeks.  I am going to the nation of the Chiapanecas, who live in Chiapas, who claim to be the inhabitants of the New World and descendants of a venerable old man who built a very large boat to save himself and his family from a global flood. I am going to the nation of the Chichimecas, who live in the miserable shacks of Jalostitlán, Teocaltiche, and Comanja.

From all these and many other nations with diverse languages, customs, beliefs, and governments, I am going to form a single family: one very great, very holy, very dear thing called the Fatherland; and I will be the Protector and the Mother of that new Fatherland. I carry the likeness of all Mexicans in the pupils of my eyes; I carry all their sorrows in my heart and their names written on my right hand. I am going to rescue their souls from sin and their bodies from brutality.

'I will not dwell in the marble palaces of Venice, nor in the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada, but on a barren mountain. I will live upon the rocks like a dove, to pray and move the Eternal One on behalf of my people, who until now have been wandering and unfortunate. I will not speak with Charles V nor with Francis I, but with an Indian, who has nothing more than a rough cloak, made from the fiber of his fields. On that cloak, which is the cradle of his children, I will imprint my likeness. And this likeness, which they will venerate in ecstasy, will be the token I leave to the Mexicans of my eternal love.'

 

THE ATHEIST SEEKS TO SIN WITHOUT REMORSE

 

DECEMBER 8: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Mary, whenever she has turned her maternal gaze upon the earth, in Lourdes, as in the apparitions of the Miraculous Medal, in La Salette, in Fatima, has shown herself solicitous and loving toward her children, poor sinners. She, in the wondrous grotto of Massabielle, before revealing herself—"I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION"—asked the innocent Bernadette for prayers and penances for sinners. Oh! You are truly all beautiful, O Immaculate Mary, and full of Mercy.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RECONCILE CHRIST WITH BELIAL

 

“Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to Freemasonry or its affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. All familiarity must be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide behind the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the desire to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. Such men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the godless state.”

POPE LEO XIII, Encyclical “Custodi di quella Fede”, no. 15, December 8, 1892.

Taken from Poco y Católico.