Jenny Holland

Wednesday, 4th of January, Anno Domini, 2026.

Hanwell here at the helm.

This is the week in Christendom in review, which we do every Wednesday evening with our usual expert commentators on these things, Jenny Holland, Frank Walker.

Jenny, you picked the video there for the cold open today because you had a specific observation you wanted to make on that, right?

So in synthesis, your theory of the case is that the elites are off doing one crazy modernist stuff on the one hand, but the youth, the next generation, the future of the church is actually tuning out.

And because it's tuning out, it's actually getting on with the nitty gritty of making the church grow, as we saw in that opening video.

Jenny, stay with us because you've got a story coming up later on in the show on exorcism, which is something that it always has ears pricking up.

Though Frank Walker, when I saw this headline break this week, I thought to myself, this is a story for Frank Walker.

And it's something that we spoke about by chance, like two weeks ago, because we said of the SSPX,

is serious, if the Society of Pope St.

Pius X is serious about protecting tradition, sacred tradition, it will need to get its act together and start consecrating new bishops.

And that is the story that broke this week.

Why don't you give us the lowdown

on what's happened, not specifically starting with the news, which is the consecrations, to say for our largely evangelical audience what the SSPX is, two minutes, right, what the SSPX is, why it was excommunicated under John Paul II, and the importance for the society of what it is seeking to do.

to do the consecrations.

And then later on in the show, you're going to talk about your favorite theme and my favorite theme, which is Trad Inc., just exposing themselves for their pure performative custodian of tradition.

But first of all, what is the SSPX, the Society of Pope St.

Pius X.?

Okay, so let me synthesize this.

For basically, since the earliest centuries of the church, the canon of the mass, the essential core of the mass, when the priest, I'm sorry, Protestants, got to say this, when the priest confects, is it confects?