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| The Rosary and the Immaculate Heart, Fatima’s two last remedies for the world |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-23-2024, 07:42 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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The Rosary and the Immaculate Heart, Fatima’s two last remedies for the world
Sister Lucy of Fatima said the Immaculate Heart of Mary would be our refuge,
and that the Rosary can resolve any problem, no matter how difficult.
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M. J. McCusker/ WM Review | Mar 01, 2022
Delivered at numerous pro-life rallies across Ireland in 2018. Edited for publication.
It is not unusual for those fighting for any length of time in the pro-life, pro-family movement to be subject at certain times to the temptations of hopelessness and despair. It can often seem as though we are constantly fighting a losing battle, as country after country falls away from the Catholic faith and the natural law and embraces the mass-killing of unborn children, the killing of the elderly and disabled, and the destruction of the structure of family designed and willed by God. In the face of this unparalleled collapse of western civilisation, many members of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church chose to defect from the faith, and from the Church, and chose instead the path of collaboration with evil.
It is common to reassure ourselves, and others, with the following assertions “the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church” or “Our Lady has already crushed Satan’s head”. These assertions are absolutely true, and are the foundations of our confidence, yet unless they lead us to clarity about the actions we are to perform in the present moment they may not be sufficient to deliver us from the temptation of despair. It is important therefore to form some clear resolutions on which to ground our combat for Christ.
In this context it is interesting to note that in recent years, and especially during the centenary year of 2017, a growing number of men and women in the pro-life, pro-family movement are becoming convinced that we must return to the message of Our Lady of Fatima and take seriously her warnings, her requests and her promises.
In 1957 Sister Lucy met with Fr Augustin Fuentes, a Mexican priest who had been appointed postulator of the cause of beatification of her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the two other seers of Fatima.
She told him:
Quote:“[T]he devil is in the mood for engaging in a decisive battle against the Virgin. And a decisive battle is the final battle where one side will be victorious and the other side will suffer defeat. Also, from now on we must choose sides. Either we are for God or we are for the devil. There is no other possibility.”
She continued:
Quote:“God is giving two last remedies to the world. These are the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These are the last two remedies, which signifies that there will be no others.”
In his letter to the Ephesians St Paul wrote:
Quote:“[D]raw your strength from the Lord, from that mastery which his power supplies. You must wear all the weapons in God’s armoury, if you would find strength to resist the cunning of the devil.
“It is not against flesh and blood that we enter the lists; we have to do with princedoms and powers, with those who have mastery of the world in these dark days, with malign influences in an order higher than ours.
“Take up all God’s armour, then; so you will be able to stand your ground when the evil time comes, and be found still on your feet, when all the task is over.” (Eph 6:10-13)
In this spiritual combat with diabolical forces, God has given us two particular last remedies from his “armoury” – the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart.
Sister Lucy explained:
Quote:“[I]n the plans of Divine Providence, God always, before He is about to chastise the world, exhausts all other remedies. Now, when He sees that the world pays no attention whatsoever, then as we say in our imperfect manner of speaking, He offers us with ‘certain fear’ the last means of salvation, His Most Holy Mother.”
The message of Fatima is about God sending His Most Holy Mother to warn of the consequences, both for individuals and societies, of our rebellion against Him. By returning to Fatima that we can more fully understand the significance of the two means of victory that God has given to us in our age.
Our Lady appeared at Fatima six times to the three shepherd children, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco. The apparitions culminated in the great miracle of the sun on 13 October 1917 in which more than 70,000 people witnessed the sun dancing in the sky before plummeting to earth and then returning to its place in the heavens. This great public miracle was a guarantee of authenticity of the visions and message that Sister Lucy was chosen to transmit to the world.
This message concerned the need for mankind to turn back to God in prayer and penance. On 13 June 1917 Our Lady revealed to the children the terrible personal consequences of sin when she showed them a terrifying vision of Hell. She then continued by warning of the devastating consequences that sin has for society as a whole. She said:
Quote:“You have seen Hell — where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them God wants to establish throughout the world the devotion to My Immaculate Heart.
“If people will do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. The war is going to end.
“But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse war will break out in the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that it is the great sign that God gives you, that He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father.
“To forestall this, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.
“If they heed My requests, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she shall spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecutions of the Church; the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated; in the end, My Immaculate Heart shall triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted, and a period of peace will be given to the world.”
Mankind has not responded fully to Our Lady’s message.
“Another and worse war” did break out during the reign of Pius XI. And shortly after the apparitions at Fatima ceased the Communists seized power in Moscow and, from the beginning, waged war against the family and against the Church. In Soviet Russia divorce was legalised in 1918 and abortion in 1920. The first sex education programmes, explicitly designed in order to destroy the family and uproot the Catholic faith, were introduced in Hungary in 1919 by the Bolshevik regime of Bela Kun. This “sexual revolution”, first implemented in Russia in the 1920s, has become dominant in the west since the 1960s. It is one of the primary manifestations of the errors of Russia which Our Lady came to warn us about.
When we look back from our vantage point in 2018, we can see that Our Lady’s warnings regarding Russia could not have been more accurate. Russia “shall spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecutions of the Church”. That one sentence is quite an accurate summary of the history of the twentieth century. In the decades following the Russian Revolution Communist governments were established across the world, and invariably worked for the destruction of the family and of the Church. Countries that escaped Communist regimes have fallen victim instead to insidious subversion, to “cultural Marxism”, the attempt to advance Communism by what one its proponents called “the long march through the institutions”, that is, through the subversion of institutions – schools, universities, charities, governments departments, international organisations, using every means at their disposal to advance atheistic materialism and to expel God from the life of individuals and of society. There is hardly an institution in the west today that has not been subverted to at least some degree in the cause of this revolution, including, tragically, many of the structures of the Catholic Church.
In response to these evils Our Lady called for prayer and penance. And the form of prayer that she urged continuously was the Holy Rosary. At every single apparition at Fatima she requested that the Rosary be said every day. And, after the great miracle of the sun, she revealed herself under of the title Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
In 1957 Sister Lucy said to Fr Fuentes:
Quote:“The Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary. She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world or of the religious communities, or even of the life of peoples and nations, that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary we will save ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.”
If we consider how many saints have urged us to pray the rosary, and how much they extolled its great power, how much more encouraged should we be by Sister Lucy’s words that “the Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary.”
The second of the great means of deliverance that we have been given is devotion to the Immaculate Heart.
Sister Lucy described the essence of this devotion very simply:
Quote:“… devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our Most Holy Mother, consists in considering Her as the seat of mercy, of goodness and of pardon, and as the sure door by which we are to enter Heaven.”
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart can be practised in a wide variety of different ways and can be introduced into every area of our lives. However, there are two particular acts that have been specified by Our Lady, one that can be practised by all the Catholics, the other which is reserved to the pope.
Our Lady called on us all to make reparation for offences against her Immaculate Heart through the practice of the five First Saturdays.
This practice consists of carrying out the following acts on the five consecutive First Saturdays with the intention of making reparation for offences against her Immaculate Heart:
- Going to Confession
- Receiving Holy Communion
- Praying at least five decades of the Rosary
- Meditating on one or mysteries of the Rosary for at least fifteen minutes.
Through this devotion Our Lady has given us a simple means of making reparation for sin and of participating in her victory over Satan. This devotion leads to deeper participation the fullness of the Church’s liturgical and sacramental life, leading souls as it does to the practice of regular confession, frequent reception of Holy Communion and the practice of mental prayer.
Our Lord, in a later apparition, told Sister Lucy that it was to be practiced on five First Saturdays because there are five principal offences against his mother’s Immaculate Heart:
- Offences against her Immaculate Conception
- Offences against her virginity
- Offences against her motherhood
- Offences against her sacred images
- And the offence caused by those who turn her children away from devotion to her.
The second practice requested by Our Lady at Fatima is the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart by the pope in union with all the bishops. Pope Pius XII consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart, and no doubt many extraordinary graces have been poured out on the world as a result of those consecrations.
Our Lord told Sister Lucy that the consecration of Pius XII in 1942 had obtained the shortening of the Second World War. Yet the consecration requested by Our Lady has not yet been done according to her specific requirements. When it is Russia will be converted as Our Lady promised.
In 1936 Sister Lucy, already troubled by the lack of response to Our Lady’s message, asked Our Lord why he didn’t just convert Russia anyway, even without the consecration. Our Lord’s answered her in a vision and said:
Quote:“Because I want My whole Church to acknowledge that consecration as a triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary so that it may extend its cult later and put the devotion of the Immaculate Heart beside the devotion to My Sacred Heart.”
Our Lord desires that the salvation of the world will come through His Mother’s Immaculate Heart and that we should acknowledge and glorify her for it.
The great sin of the human race in recent centuries has been that man has exalted himself into the place of God. We have placed our trust not in God but in science and technology, political ideologies, economic theories, or, now, even in “New Age” mysticism. All of our attempts at building an earthly utopia, a world without God, have failed and will fail and, in the end, we will be saved from ourselves not by any great or impressive human achievement, but by a simple prayer offered by Christ’s vicar on earth:
Quote:“[I]n the end, My Immaculate Heart shall triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted, and a period of peace will be given to the world.”
But by God’s power, not man’s.
Sister Lucy warned us already in 1957:
Quote:“… the most Holy Virgin is very sad because no one has paid any attention to Her Message, neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on their way, but without giving any importance to Her Message. The bad, not seeing the punishment of God actually falling upon them, continue their life of sin without even caring about the Message. But believe me, Father, God will chastise the world and this will be in a terrible manner. The punishment from Heaven is imminent.”
And she urges us:
Quote:“… we should not wait for an appeal to the world to come from Rome on the part of the Holy Father, to do penance. Nor should we wait for the call to penance to come from our bishops in our diocese, nor from the religious congregations. No! Our Lord has already very often used these means, and the world has not paid attention. That is why now, it is necessary for each one of us to begin to reform himself spiritually. Each person must not only save his own soul but also help to save all the souls that God has placed on our path.”
“The devil does all in his power to distract us and to take away from us the love for prayer; we shall be saved together or we shall be damned together.”
So let us now turn with renewed hope and confidence to Our Lady, trusting that by making use of the means that she has given us, we will soon participate in the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart!
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| Left-wing research paper includes ideas on manipulating conservatives into eating less red meat |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-23-2024, 07:36 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Left-wing research paper includes ideas on manipulating conservatives into eating less red meat
The authors suggested nuancing the language to make eating more artificial foods palatable.
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(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included]) — Professors seeking to know how to manipulate people into eating less red meat have released a study on the subject.
Three professors and one Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California published their findings in Climatic Change magazine on August 12. Over 5,000 Democratic, Republican, and Independent Americans were surveyed for the report.
Working under the presumption that red meat is “a major contributor to climate change,” the study wanted to know if changes in language might induce ordinary citizens to reject red meat and eat more “climate-friendly” foods.
The study begins by noting that “people’s attitudes can be influenced by … variations in terminology.” It adds that Americans are most familiar with the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” The more partisan-infused phrases “climate justice” and “climate emergency” are not as well known.
The paper ultimately found that a willingness to eat less red meat fell along partisan lines, with Democrats being more eager to deny themselves the nutrient dense food, which is chock full of vitamins and proteins that aid in muscle growth. Republicans, on the other hand, were “often unresponsive” to changes in terminology.
The paper concludes that “climate change communications may therefore need to go beyond terminology.” It recommended that “effective communication strategies include using compelling everyday language, presenting clear graphs, emphasizing social norms, and making climate-friendly actions the default.”
It added that “efforts to reach Republicans may require messages from Conservative spokespeople, and involving the private sector in climate change mitigation.”
Reducing red meat consumption while promoting fake food and plant-based protein is a top priority for organizations like the World Economic Forum and the Club of Rome. Western oligarchs like Bill Gates as well as U.S.-based companies like Tyson are also investing billions in the movement by pouring money into synthetic eggs and lab-grown chicken, all in the name of purportedly fighting climate change.
But farmers in the Netherlands and a growing number of European countries are refusing to go along with the efforts. In December 2023, Italy’s lower and upper chambers of Parliament passed a bill that bans artificial food for public consumption.
The growth of imitation meat and genetically modified crops has caused many health experts as well as concerned citizens and chefs across the world to worry about the future of food and its impact on human beings.
While groups like the World Economic Forum have long touted them as alternatives that can help curb climate change, others argue they are a tool global elites use to seize control of the food chain and poison human beings with toxic ingredients to ensure a sick population so Big Pharma and the medical industry can reap massive profits.
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| New study traces Shroud of Turin to time of Jesus in first-century Middle East |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-23-2024, 07:31 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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New study traces Shroud of Turin to time of Jesus in first-century Middle East
The new finding that the Shroud of Turin’s fabric is consistent with linens found in Israel during the first century is further evidence that it is the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
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TURIN, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — Researchers have newly traced the Shroud of Turin – long believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ – to Israel during the time of Jesus, discrediting previous theories that the Shroud is only a medieval forgery.
Italian scientists used a wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) method to examine the shroud’s cellulose fibers, yielding data that is “compatible with the hypothesis that the Turin Shroud is a 2000-year-old relic,” the study concluded.
The research team, led by Dr. Liberato De Caro, found that the cellulose in the shroud had a breakdown pattern consistent with other linens from Israel that date back to the first century.
“The data profiles were fully compatible with analogous measurements obtained on a linen sample whose dating, according to historical records, is 55-74 AD, found at Masada, Israel [Herod’s famous fortress built on a limestone bedrock overlooking the Dead Sea],” reads the study, published in the journal Heritage.
According to the researchers, the nature of the cellulose breakdown suggested that the Shroud of Turin was likely kept at a temperature of about 72.5 degrees Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of 55 percent for about 13 centuries before it was brought to Europe.
Preserved in the royal chapel of the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Turin, Italy, since 1578, the shroud was thought by some to have been manufactured between 1260 and 1390 after researchers examined the cloth in 1988 using radiocarbon dating.
However, when the team compared the shroud with linens made between 1260 and 1390 AD, their X-ray determined aging did not match up.
In addition, particles of pollen that come from the Middle East were lodged in the linen fibers, appearing to exclude the possibility that the shroud originated in Europe, according to Dr. De Caro.
He said that the error of the 1988 dating is likely due to contamination of the fabric, which he said is a normal occurrence.
“Fabric samples are usually subject to all kinds of contamination, which cannot be completely removed from the dated specimen,” he said, according to the Daily Mail. “If the cleaning procedure of the sample is not thoroughly performed, carbon-14 dating is not reliable,” he added.
The research team dated the shroud’s fabric at Italy’s Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council, where another group of experts said in 2017 they found evidence that the shroud bore the blood of a man who suffered intensely.
They had identified the substances creatinine and ferritin, found in the blood of victims who suffer severe traumas, such as torture.
It is noteworthy that the shroud’s bloodstains show a man who was scourged on his back, crowned with thorns, and stabbed in the side, all consistent with Scripture’s account of Jesus Christ’s Passion and death.
Scripture also describes how Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus in a linen cloth after he died, and placed him in a tomb: “And Joseph taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth. And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument, and went his way.” (Matthew 27:59-60)
An image of Jesus Christ based on the Shroud of Turin, rendered by AI, has recently gone viral.
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| Archbishop Viganò Interview w/ Il Messaggero - August 20, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-22-2024, 06:38 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Interview by Franca Giansoldati
published in 'Il Messaggero' newspaper on August 20, 2024 (p. 10)
Taken from here.
1. A step back in time: in 2011 Pope Ratzinger implored you to accept being appointed as Nuncio to the United States, leaving the role of the Governorate where you were cleaning it up internally. You had clashes with Cardinal Bertone, then Secretary of State, whose name is linked to the scandal of the misappropriation of funds from the Bambino Gesù [Hospital] even though he was never investigated. What did Benedict XVI say to you? How did things go that day, and what were the main reasons for the disagreement with Bertone?
To speak of a “disagreement” seems euphemistic to me. Thirsty for power, unscrupulous, manipulative, and contiguous to Masonic circles: this is the portrait of Cardinal Bertone, to whom Benedict XVI was unfortunately subjugated. Bertone did everything he could to remove me from the Secretariat of State, because in my very delicate role I prevented him from promoting “his” candidates, men of his circle, who were corrupt and often sexually perverted. He managed to transfer me to the Governorate on July 16, 2009, where in my action to combat the vast network of corruption I had discovered the role and complicity of the Secretary of State himself in covering, supporting, and promoting the malfeasance and in making personal profit from it. Benedict XVI told me – during the private audience granted to me on April 4, 2011 – that he wanted to appoint me President of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See, but Bertone (with the complicity of Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate, who was also involved in the network of corruption) imposed himself forcefully on the Pope and obtained my expulsion from the Roman Curia.
Aware of this plot hatched to the detriment of the Holy See and Benedict himself, and knowing that the Pope’s will that I continue to “clean up” was being subverted (while my removal would have nullified the work done and left the corrupt unpunished), I initially tried to resist, not without great difficulty, since I was precluded from having any direct access to the Pope.
Thus, after a long inner travail, a personal letter from Benedict XVI convinced me to accept the nomination to the United States. He wrote to me: “I would like to tell you that I have been reflecting and praying about your condition after the latest events. The painful news of the death of His Excellency Msgr. Pietro Sambi has confirmed me in the conviction that your providential position at this time is the Nunciature in the United States of America. Furthermore, I am certain that your knowledge of this great country will help you to take on the demanding challenge of this work, which in many ways is decisive for the future of the universal Church.”
2. Bertone still lives in the “famous” apartment in the Vatican, while you, when your mandate in the United States ended, had your apartment in the Curia taken away. A further humiliation. Here too: how did things go, and how do you explain it?
The apartment I was assigned was located in the Santa Marta Hospice, known as Santa Marta Vecchia (not to be confused with the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ) where the priests who worked in the Secretariat of State were housed and where I had already lived for eleven years. It was John Paul II who made it available to me when I returned from Nigeria. The then Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano sent me a letter in which he specified that the reason for this assignment desired by the Pope was “so that you may reside permanently in the Vatican.”
On the same day of my seventy-fifth birthday, in January 2016, I received a letter signed by the then Substitute Becciu in which I was informed that Bergoglio ordered me to leave my apartment immediately, also denying me the possibility of residing in the Casa San Benedetto prepared by Benedict XVI for retired Nuncios. The justification given to me was that there was a need for that apartment for the heads of the Dicasteries. As far as I know, it remained vacant for at least the next seven years, and perhaps it still is today. This was clearly a vindictive action, because Bergoglio wanted to get rid of those who knew too much and those who, being neither blackmailable nor corruptible, were therefore not able to be manipulated. Bergoglio also knew that I would not be deceived by his lies, since I was amply aware of them.
The important thing, however, was to get me away from the Vatican, and this is what happened. With today’s eyes, however, I thank Providence for this expulsion: had I remained within the Vatican walls, I do not think I would have been able to enjoy the necessary freedom to express myself and to denounce Bergoglio and his accomplices.
3.Recently, the court of Enna [in Sicily] sentenced the priest Don Giuseppe Rugolo, arrested in Ferrara in April 2021, to 4 years and 6 months in prison for attempted aggravated sexual assault against a minor. The investigations revealed disturbing cover-ups: how can this attitude be reconciled with the supposed “zero tolerance” for cases of sexual abuse by the clergy affirmed by Pope Francis?
In 2019, Bergoglio promulgated the Motu Proprio Vos Estis Lux Mundi, later amended in 2023, in which he established that a Bishop who covers up a case of sexual abuse by one of his priests must be removed and prosecuted. This document was intended by Bergoglio to give credence to the “zero tolerance” narrative. The sequence of scandals that have come to light even very recently demonstrate that this is in reality a mere facade operation, which also has the immediate effect of taking cases of this type to Rome, allowing them to be controlled and – indeed – covered up.
Faced with the detailed complaints of the young Antonio Messina for acts committed between 2009 and 2013 in Piazza Armerina by Fr. Giuseppe Rugolo, who was still a seminarian at the time, the Curia and the Roman Dicasteries contacted by the victim and her parents in 2016 did not take any action. Bishop Rosario Gisana actually moved to cover up the case and offered the victim 25,000 euros to hush everything up. In a wiretap that was made public, Bishop Gisana admitted: “The problem is also mine because I covered up this story… oh well; never mind; we’ll see how we can get out of it.” Fr. Vincenzo Murgano, the priest who had suggested to Antonio Messina that he should just “forget” the violence, has been responsible for the service for the protection of minors of the Diocese of Piazza Armerina since 2019.
Transferred to Ferrara in 2019 for “treatment,” Fr. Rugolo was assigned by Archbishop Giancarlo Perego to the pastoral care of the faithful, thus exposing young people to the risk that the priest would repeat his crimes. Archbishop Perego, informed of “a proceeding against Fr. Giuseppe for an episode prior to his ordination,” declared that “[Bishop Gisana] showed me that this incident had already been evaluated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and that it absolutely did not constitute a limitation to his presence with us.” Perego’s responsibilities are therefore the same as Bishop Gisana’s, since he could not have been unaware of the reasons for the transfer of the Sicilian priest to his diocese. Yet in the summer of 2020, Archbishop Perego even allowed Fr. Rugolo to organize a camp for teenagers in the parish of Vigarano Mainarda. The trial documents show that between March 2020 and January 2021, Fr. Rugolo accessed pornographic sites with the search term “teen” at all times of the day and night, with an average of at least 60 per day, while he met with local young people and hosted a former student of his from Enna in a hotel in Ravenna.
Last December 2023, when Fr. Rugolo and other accomplices were sent to trial during the criminal trial conducted by the Court of Enna, Jorge Mario Bergoglio publicly expressed his appreciation for the work of Bishop Gisana: “Well done; this bishop, well done. He was persecuted, slandered, and he was firm, always, just, a just man. For this reason, that day when I went to Palermo, I wanted to stop first in Piazza Armerina to greet him; he is a good bishop.” With this public act he heavily interfered in the autonomy and independence of Italian judges, using the authority and prestige of the Papacy – which Bergoglio usurps – to shamefully cover up the corruption of his protégés.
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, so eager to impose excommunications on those who denounce the modernist coup underway in the Church, obviously remains silent. Its Prefect, Tucho Fernández, is a pornographer and author of obscene heretical and erotic pamphlets – including La pasión mística [The Mystical Passion] and Sáname con tu boca [Heal Me With Your Mouth] – and it is clear that such a figure has no intention of shedding light on scandals in which both he and his Principal have shown a disturbing contiguity, protecting and even promoting the culprits. How likely is it that Bishop Gisana and Archbishop Perego will be tried by Fernández, when it is actually Bergoglio should be the first defendant in this and other similar criminal cases? Dog doesn’t eat dog!
The Catholic Church is in the same situation as many governments: it is held hostage by a subversive network of corrupt and perverted people who have reached the top of the institutions and are capable of silencing all the scandals in which they are complicit. When the horrors committed by this global criminal organization, especially crimes against minors, come to light, those responsible will have nowhere to hide.
4. And so we come to the schism: how are you experiencing this moment full of tensions?
During these very days, citizens in Great Britain are protesting against the government, whose policies of ethnic replacement through the continuous flow of illegal immigrants make peaceful coexistence impossible and cause an exponential increase in crime. The police have orders to repress all demonstrations and to protect the gangs of violent non-EU citizens, mostly Muslims, ready to establish Sharia law manu militari in England. In practice, the British government, in order to make the English people disappear according to the globalist agenda, promotes and finances uncontrolled immigration while repressing and taxing its own citizens.
The situation in the Church is very similar – in Rome, too, there is a government that wants to replace its Hierarchy and the people of the faithful by “unloading” – so to speak – into the very bosom of the Church a mass of people who lead lifestyles objectively incompatible with Catholic Faith and Morals, but whom Bergoglio’s synodal Church considers as the main interlocutors and whom it welcomes in the name of inclusiveness and “todos todos todos!” Those who are naïve think that the Hierarchy acts in this way out of a zeal for charity that is perhaps excessive and human pity for migrants. Those who observe reality without blinders understand that the ultimate goal of Bergoglian immigrationism is to create division in the ecclesial body, knowing what the results are also by looking at the precedent of what is happening in civil society.
This project of ethnic (and in this case, religious) substitution acts on two fronts: on the external front, it makes us believe that in order to belong to the Church it is not even necessary to believe in the Son of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and that all doctrinal and moral differences can be overcome in the name of an impossible brotherhood (just as globalist governments make us believe that it is possible to welcome hordes of Muslims into Christian nations without devastating consequences on the social fabric). The insistence of Bergoglio and almost all the bishops on welcoming immigrants is part of this divisive action. On the domestic front, however, Bergoglio abuses the authority of the Papacy (which he usurps) in order to remove from the Church those Catholics who have remained faithful, so that he can eliminate any internal opposition to his subversive plan.
Those who denounce the Bergoglian coup and more generally the globalist coup d’état must be silenced. The excommunication against me, even if manifestly invalid and null and void, constitutes a form of repression of dissent and should serve as a deterrent for others. I am convinced that I would have gravely failed in my duties as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles if I had continued to remain silent, as unfortunately all my confreres do.
5. The Vatican claims it declared you to be in schism because in some of your statements you have denied the authority of the Pope. How do things now stand?
Schism is a sin against the unity of the Church. It is carried out at the moment when a baptized person refuses to submit to the authority of the Roman Pontiff and to remain in the communion of faith and charity of the Catholic Church. But what happens if on the Chair of Peter there is – instead of a Pope who defends and governs the Church – there is a usurper who systematically demolishes her, and who is chosen and appointed by fraud by the St. Gallen Mafia for this very purpose? The Catholic Church is presently occupied by an extraneous body that superimposes itself on her and obscures her, similar to an eclipse: this extraneous body is not the Church, but the anti-church of the False Prophet, and as such it is not possible to be in communion with it. Catholics belong to the Catholic Church, not to its conciliar and synodal counterfeit of which Bergoglio is the head. It is Bergoglio who is in a state of schism with the Church of which he claims to be Pope, and as a heretic and schismatic he does not have nor can he exercise any power, nor demand any obedience.
I reiterate, however, that the use of the judiciary for political purposes that we witness in the civil sphere, especially in the United States of America, is mirrored in the ecclesiastical sphere through instrumental and specious canonical sanctions. And I know for certain that the excommunication against me was desired directly by Bergoglio, who is so arrogant and brazen in his action that he rewarded with an ecclesiastical office the official who carried it out, appointing him archbishop: we are well beyond simony.
6. Where do you live? In Switzerland, in the United States, or near Viterbo?
After my memorial about Cardinal McCarrick was published in August 2018, a contact of mine from the United States warned me that my life was in danger: for this reason I do not reside in a fixed place. I don’t want to end up like Cardinal Pell, nor my predecessor in Washington, the Apostolic Nuncio Pietro Sambi (who strenuously confronted McCarrick so much that you could hear his screams throughout the Nunciature as he rebuked the predatory Cardinal). Archbishop Sambi died in circumstances that have never been clarified, after a trivial operation at John’s Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (which is connected to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum in Davos). McCarrick disappeared for a month in 2011 – simultaneous to the death of the Nuncio – and did not attend his funeral. The death certificate issued to Msgr. Jean-François Lanteaume, Chargé d’Affaires at the Nunciature, did not explain the causes of the Nuncio’s death, nor was an autopsy ever carried out on Archbishop Sambi.
7. What are your thoughts on the accusation that you have rejected the Second Vatican Council?
The accusation of having “rejected the Second Vatican Council” has nothing to do with schism, because if anything it touches on questions of the Magisterium and not on canonical discipline. The accusation is specious: there are cardinals and bishops who deny solemnly defined truths of the Faith without Bergoglio ever lifting a finger against them; indeed, they receive his applause.
I would like to draw attention to a fundamental and very important element. We must understand that “the masterstroke of Satan,” the sworn enemy of the Church, has occurred by his appropriating authority and abusing the power connected with her, so that his disintegrating action has had all the appearances of at least formal legality. The Second Vatican Council was to be the juridical instrument with which to place the dynamite at the very foundation of the Church, and then detonate it later. It had to look like a Council, it had to give the idea of having the same authority as the Council of Nicaea or Trent, but at the same time it could not define as truths to be believed any heresies that the Magisterium had already condemned. Thus those errors were insinuated by means of equivocation – deliberately imprecise formulations which at the right moment could serve as a basis on which to implement the revolution. People continue to speak of “the Council,” but we should have the honesty to recognize that for the “conciliar church” born with Vatican II there is only one “council,” which surpasses in authority and importance all the other twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church.
The anomaly is represented by this Council, because it was used for a subversive purpose, under the formal appearance of a solemn act of the Church and with the authoritativeness (as well as the authority) of the Pope and the Council Fathers. The purpose of Vatican II was to create the doctrinal premises – not necessarily explicit and indeed often hidden in ambiguous formulations – to revolutionize the Church, Protestantizing and secularizing her, so as to be able to ferry her towards the syncretistic union of all religions. And this is the project of Freemasonry: the ecumenical and inclusive Religion of Humanity.
The Second Vatican Council has spread through the Church like a cancer. It has committed the entire ecclesial body – in every order and degree, in its institutions and structures – to the subversion of its divine constitution. The new Catechism, the new Code of Canon Law, the new Mass, the new Sacraments, teaching in seminaries and universities, preaching in parishes, the action of Catholic associations, religious life in convents and monasteries: everything has been tampered with and reshaped according to the conciliar paradigm. The results are there for all to see.
For this reason, just as the authority of the Pope cannot be used to destroy the Papacy, so the magisterial authority of a Council cannot be maliciously used to destroy the Church. It ipso facto loses its authority, since it overturns its rationale, that is, its ultimate end. My rejection of the Council is therefore motivated precisely by the fact that this Council contradicts the infallible Magisterium and all twenty previous Ecumenical Councils.
8. It is said that you want to create a parallel Church, a bit like Archbishop Lefebvre did. What plans do you have for the future?
Archbishop Lefebvre never wanted to build a parallel church, but rather he always testified to his fidelity to the one Church of Christ and to the Papacy. Archbishop Lefebvre continued doing the same things he had done as a bishop until before the Council: it is the “conciliar church” that changed doctrine, morals, liturgy, and discipline. He continued to ordain priests, to give them a traditional formation, and to ensure the celebration of the Apostolic Mass.
Today, fifty years later, the subversive plan denounced by Lefebvre is even more evident, and the answers that were valid then today require a new approach. Although it was evident that Popes such as Paul VI or John Paul II were modernists, it was unthinkable to hypothesize their explicit intention to destroy the Church. Today Bergoglio has dispelled all doubts and shows himself as an inimicus Ecclesiæ fiercely determined to carry out the task assigned to him and that he himself had set for himself.
I am convinced that my action – and that of every pastor who has at heart the souls entrusted to him – must today be broader and must be addressed not only to young vocations, but also to the “recovery” of the many good priests and religious – as well as, of course, the lay faithful – who understand the very serious crisis triggered by the Council. In times of war, so to speak, anyone who is able to fight must unite and enlist, even if they have not attended a military academy. All these souls who love the Lord can be accompanied with charity to re-embrace the Catholic Faith in its integrity and to consciously reject the conciliar revolution and its disastrous consequences.
Founding a parallel church is the dream of all heresiarchs: a true Catholic, even more so if he is a bishop, remains in the one Church and continues to serve her, even if he is the only one left to do so. I try to do and preach what the Church has always done and taught, because this is what I have solemnly sworn, and what the Lord commands me. On the other hand, today no honest Catholic can deny that the Hierarchy has completely sold itself out to the powerful of the world, and that its betrayal is a scandal even to those who are not believers.
9. What should be our response to this rupture?
We are going through a period of very serious crisis in the Church and in society. The authorities of all institutions are now carrying out the will of the globalist elite and obey supranational powers. We are witnessing a deep and almost unbridgeable rift between those who govern – both the State as well as the Church – and the citizens or the faithful. We may say that on the one hand the social pact that is the basis of the recognition of the authority of the State has failed, and on the other the bond of obedience to Christ on the part of those who exercise authority in the Church has also been destroyed. In practice, the rulers of the State have rebelled against Christ the King and the exponents of the Catholic hierarchy have rebelled against Christ the High Priest: their authority has been usurped. It is necessary to heal this wound by restoring to Christ His Universal Lordship.
10. Throughout all these years of tensions, has Pope Francis ever picked up the phone to call you, or has he ever sent you letters or messages through an intermediary?
I have never received private communications of any kind from Bergoglio (nor from any Vatican authority). In public, the Argentine Jesuit has had no qualms about insulting and slandering me. In a 2019 interview with Valentina Alazraki for the Mexican broadcaster Televisa (here), Bergoglio publicly lied, denying the conversation that he had with me on June 23, 2013. He even went so far as to obsessively claim to know nothing about McCarrick:
“I knew nothing about McCarrick, of course, nothing. I have said so several times; I didn’t know anything; I had no idea. And when [Viganò] says that he spoke to me that day, that he came . . . I don’t remember if he spoke to me about this, if it’s true or not. I have no idea! You know that I knew nothing about McCarrick, otherwise I would not have been silent.”
I cannot fail to mention Bergoglio’s recourse to slander, in an attitude that betrays a cowardly soul willing to discredit the honesty of the interlocutor rather than refute his accusations.
This occurred after the publication of my testimony on my return from the trip to Ireland, when Bergoglio told the journalists present:
“You all read [Viganò’s] communiqué carefully and make your own judgment. I will not say a word about this. I believe that the communiqué speaks for itself, and you have enough journalistic capacity to draw conclusions. It is an act of trust: when some time has passed and you have drawn conclusions, perhaps I will speak. But I would like your professional maturity to do this job: it will do you good, really. That’s okay.”
A year later, responding to the Mexican Vatican journalist Alazraki, he returned to the subject:
“This case of Viganò, I hadn’t read the entire letter; I saw a bit of it . . . And I already know what it is, and I have made a decision: I trust in the honesty of journalists. And I said to you, “Look, you have everything here, study and draw your own conclusions.” And this you did, because you did the work, and in this case it was fantastic. I was very careful not to say things that were not there, but then a judge in Milan said them, three or four months later, when he convicted him. . . . I kept silent, because if I had spoken I would have been throwing mud. So that journalists could find it out. And you have discovered it, you have found all that world. It was a silence based on trust in you, journalists. Not only that, but I also told you, “Hold it; study it; that’s all.” And the result was good, better than if I had started to explain, to defend myself. You judge the evidence in hand.”
Bergoglio tried to make me look like a dishonest man and a thief, referring to my painful and personal family events, which involved my brother priest (who was afflicted by a stroke and manipulated by unscrupulous lawyers), whom I did not want to attack by challenging an unjust sentence, preferring instead to follow the Gospel command (Mt 5:40). The accusations against me were widely disavowed by all my brothers and by the evidence of the facts (here).
As is typical of the nature of tyrants, Bergoglio has an implacable hatred for me, not only for what I have revealed about him, but also and above all for what I am still able to reveal. By excommunication he wanted in a certain way to condemn me to death, but the truth cannot be killed.
It is now understood that Bergoglio does not want to solve the crisis of which he is the architect: he wants to make it irreversible, because his purpose is to create division: divide et impera.
11. You have accused Pope Francis of having ignored the rumors relating to the homosexuality and abuse of minors by Cardinal McCarrick, who was later convicted of pedophilia, reduced to the lay state, and expelled from the College of Cardinals. The Vatican only took action in 2017 after an accusation that was considered credible. Why didn’t it act earlier? What concrete evidence was there?
As Delegate for the Pontifical Representations, I dealt with the McCarrick case myself, and since then I have asked for his dismissal from the Cardinalate. My direct superiors are responsible for not having taken due account of my judgment based on incontrovertible testimony. Obviously, McCarrick’s work was convenient for someone in the Secretariat of State, starting with the huge sums raised through the Papal Foundation that the Cardinal had set up in the United States. I remember well a comment made to me by the Argentine Leonardo Sandri, then a Monsignor with whom I shared the same office for eleven years when we were both secretaries of the Substitute: “But this McCarrick is always here!” Sandri later became the Substitute, and it was precisely to him that I delivered my Note detailing McCarrick’s misconduct, but ambition and the prospects of advancing his career led him to keep quiet and cover up the scandals. The fact that he repeatedly expressed to me his bad opinion of Bergoglio – “That man is a madman!” – did not prevent him from becoming his accomplice anyway.
Bergoglio owes his “election” to McCarrick: McCarrick himself declared this during a conference at Villanova University where on October 11, 2013 he affirmed that he had favored the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio during the General Congregations prior to the Conclave held a few months earlier, and that he had spoken about it with “a very influential Italian gentleman” (here) who supposedly confided to him how in the space of a five-year period the new Pope would “reform” – that is, revolutionize – the Church.
McCarrick also had strong connections with members of the Democratic Party and assiduously frequented the White House during the Obama-Biden administration, but also under previous Presidents. McCarrick was involved, for example, on behalf of the American government in negotiations with the Iranian Ayatollahs for the development of nuclear weapons.
And that’s not all: McCarrick worked closely with the then White House Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough, in the management of the Alliance for Prosperity desired by President Obama, which in 2014 alone – under the guise of a humanitarian action – facilitated the trafficking of 65,000 unaccompanied children who were transferred to the United States across the Mexican border, as White House stenographer Mike McCormick revealed.
Finally, Bergoglio also made use of McCarrick to make the secret agreement between the Vatican and China, which was strongly desired by both the Jesuits and the democratic establishment.
Bergoglio’s extraordinary action of removing McCarrick’s status as Cardinal and dismissing him from the clerical state served to save Bergoglio’s “reputation.” But these sanctions were not decided after a fair trial: the witnesses were not given the opportunity to name McCarrick’s accomplices, and no judge was ever able to impose any compensation for the victims, because Bergoglio arrogated to himself the right to declare the cause res judicata, without ever disclosing the official decree, which is also a public act. The administrative measure decided on by Bergoglio was intended to hide the network of complicity in which he was and is personally involved, and this is exactly what happened.
The reason why the Vatican only acted in February 2019 (i.e., six months after the publication of my August 2018 Memorial) is that the scandal was no longer manageable, despite the fact that McCarrick’s crimes had been known for decades. The paradox arose with the publication on November 10, 2020, of a substantial Report on McCarrick drawn up by Attorney Jeffrey Lena and costing the Holy See millions, in which he falsely goes so far as to say that I was the one responsible for the failure to timely initiate canonical proceedings against McCarrick (here).
12. As a bishop and pastor of souls, would you like to leave a message to our readers?
Holy Scripture warns us about the reign of the Antichrist that will be established throughout the world in the last times, and about the role of the False Prophet in manipulating the masses. It is difficult not to see the preparation for all this in the globalist ideology that embodies the synarchic project of Freemasonry and in the total subservience to it of the leaders of the Bergoglian church. And here we are not speaking of abstruse questions, but of the very foundations of the Catholic Faith: the uniqueness of the Church as an instrument of salvation, her mission for the conversion of souls to God, and the need to restore the social Kingship of Christ as the only safeguard against all tyranny, both temporal and spiritual.
Before the Second Coming of Our Lord, the Church, which is His Mystical Body, must go through her own Passio in a ferocious persecution: Sacred Scripture clearly tells us this, in particular the Book of the Apocalypse of Saint John. This should help us to understand the importance of bearing witness to Christ and denouncing the false prophets who try to persuade us to come to terms with the world.
13 August 2024
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2024, 05:43 AM - Forum: Appeals for Prayer
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Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
In your charity, please pray for the soul of Mr. Jack Pfeiffer who passed away on August 20, 2024. Mr. Pfeiffer is father to Frs. Timothy and Joseph Pfeiffer.
Mr. and Mrs. Pfeiffer gave shelter and cared for two traditional priests for many years who were abandoned by the Conciliar church in the 1970's for their adherence to Tradition, Fr. Urban Schneider and Fr. Hannifin.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
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The De Profundis - Psalm 129
Out of the depths I have cried unto Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark our iniquities: O Lord, who can abide it?
For with Thee there is mercy: and by reason of Thy law I have waited on Thee, O Lord.
My soul hath waited on His word: my soul hath hoped in the Lord.
From the morning watch even unto night: let Israel hope in the Lord.
For with the Lord there is mercy: and with Him is plenteous redemption.
And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio owes his ‘election’ to McCarrick |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2024, 05:40 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio owes his ‘election’ to McCarrick
In a new interview given to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò asserts that Francis 'owes' his 2013 election to the once-influential but now-laicized ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
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DEDHAM, MA - SEPTEMBER 03: Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick leaves the Dedham courthouse after pleading not guilty during his first appearance for sexual assault charges on on September 3, 2021 in Dedham, Massachusetts.
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Aug 21, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — In a new interview given to journalist Franca Giansoldati of the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò claims that Francis “owes” his 2013 election to disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
In the interview, published by Il Messaggero on Wednesday morning, Viganò was asked, “You have accused Pope Francis of having ignored the rumors relating to the homosexuality and abuse of minors by Cardinal McCarrick, who was later convicted of pedophilia, reduced to the lay state, and expelled from the College of Cardinals. The Vatican only took action in 2017 after an accusation that was considered credible. Why didn’t it act earlier? What concrete evidence was there?”
In response, Viganò answered, “As Delegate for the Pontifical Representations, I dealt with the McCarrick case myself, and since then I have asked for his dismissal from the Cardinalate.”
“My direct superiors are responsible for not having taken due account of my judgment based on incontrovertible testimony,” Viganò alleged. “Obviously, McCarrick’s work was convenient for someone in the Secretariat of State, starting with the huge sums raised through the Papal Foundation that the Cardinal had set up in the United States.”
“I remember well a comment made to me by the Argentine Leonardo Sandri, then a Monsignor with whom I shared the same office for eleven years when we were both secretaries of the Substitute: ‘But this McCarrick is always here!'” Viganò continued. “Sandri later became the Substitute, and it was precisely to him that I delivered my Note detailing McCarrick’s misconduct, but ambition and the prospects of advancing his career led him to keep quiet and cover up the scandals.”
Viganò then stated that Francis “owes his ‘election’ to McCarrick: McCarrick himself declared this during a conference at Villanova University where on October 11, 2013 he affirmed that he had favored the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio during the General Congregations prior to the Conclave held a few months earlier, and that he had spoken about it with ‘a very influential Italian gentleman’ (here) who supposedly confided to him how in the space of a five-year period the new Pope would ‘reform’ – that is, revolutionize – the Church.”
Viganò also claimed to the outlet that the reason Francis laicized McCarrick in February 2019 was because “the scandal was no longer manageable, despite the fact that McCarrick’s crimes had been known for decades.”
“The paradox arose with the publication on November 10, 2020, of a substantial Report on McCarrick drawn up by Attorney Jeffrey Lena and costing the Holy See millions, in which he falsely goes so far as to say that I was the one responsible for the failure to timely initiate canonical proceedings against McCarrick (here),” Viganò concluded.
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| Viganò accuses Italian cardinal of connection to Freemasonry, says he ‘subjugated’ Benedict XVI |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2024, 05:33 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Viganò accuses Italian cardinal of connection to Freemasonry, says he ‘subjugated’ Benedict XVI
In a new interview given to Italian newspaper I l Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of being connected to Freemasonry and having 'subjugated' Benedict XVI.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Aug 21, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — In a new interview given to journalist Franca Giansoldati of the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of being connected to Freemasonry and having “subjugated” Benedict XVI.
In the interview, published by Il Messaggero on Wednesday morning, Viganò was asked, “A step back in time: in 2011 Pope Ratzinger implored you to accept being appointed as Nuncio to the United States, leaving the role of the Governorate where you were cleaning it up internally. You had clashes with Cardinal Bertone, then Secretary of State, whose name is linked to the scandal of the misappropriation of funds from the Bambino Gesù [Hospital] even though he was never investigated. What did Benedict XVI say to you? How did things go that day, and what were the main reasons for the disagreement with Bertone?”
In response, Viganò answered, “To speak of a ‘disagreement’ seems euphemistic to me. Thirsty for power, unscrupulous, manipulative, and contiguous to Masonic circles: this is the portrait of Cardinal Bertone, to whom Benedict XVI was unfortunately subjugated.”
“Bertone did everything he could to remove me from the Secretariat of State, because in my very delicate role I prevented him from promoting ‘his’ candidates, men of his circle, who were corrupt and often sexually perverted,” Viganò alleged.
“He managed to transfer me to the Governorate on July 16, 2009, where in my action to combat the vast network of corruption I had discovered the role and complicity of the Secretary of State himself in covering, supporting, and promoting the malfeasance and in making personal profit from it. Benedict XVI told me – during the private audience granted to me on April 4, 2011 – that he wanted to appoint me President of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See, but Bertone (with the complicity of Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate, who was also involved in the network of corruption) imposed himself forcefully on the Pope and obtained my expulsion from the Roman Curia,” he added.
Continuing, Viganò asserted that becoming “[a]ware of this plot hatched to the detriment of the Holy See and Benedict himself, and knowing that the Pope’s will that I continue to ‘clean up’ was being subverted (while my removal would have nullified the work done and left the corrupt unpunished), I initially tried to resist, not without great difficulty, since I was precluded from having any direct access to the Pope.”
“Thus, after a long inner travail, a personal letter from Benedict XVI convinced me to accept the nomination to the United States,” Viganò concluded.
According to Viganò, Benedict XVI’s letter read:
Quote:I would like to tell you that I have been reflecting and praying about your condition after the latest events. The painful news of the death of His Excellency Msgr. Pietro Sambi has confirmed me in the conviction that your providential position at this time is the Nunciature in the United States of America. Furthermore, I am certain that your knowledge of this great country will help you to take on the demanding challenge of this work, which in many ways is decisive for the future of the universal Church.
LifeSiteNews has written to Cardinal Bertone to ask if he has any response to Viganò’s accusations. This article will be updated should Bertone respond to Viganò’s claims.
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| Francis-appointed bishop to offer pro-LGBT Mass for heterodox group advised by Bishop Stowe |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-20-2024, 07:51 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Francis-appointed bishop to offer pro-LGBT Mass for heterodox group advised by Bishop Stowe
Bishop John Iffert of Covington, Kentucky will preside over a Mass in his diocese for the dissident support group
Catholics Embracing ALL God’s Children.
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Aug 19, 2024
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included]) — A bishop appointed by Pope Francis in 2021 to lead the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky will offer an LGBT Mass later this month for an organization associated with heterodox Bishop John Stowe.
On August 28 at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Bishop John Iffert will say Mass for a dissident Catholic “support group” named Catholics Embracing ALL God’s Children. The group participated in the Cincinnati Pride Parade in 2024.
The Mass has been announced in the St. Joseph’s bulletin as well as in the diocese’s newspaper. It is being marketed as an event where “all are welcome.”
Iffert gained notoriety earlier this year when he stripped Fr. Shannon Collins and Fr. Sean Kopczynski of their faculties to offer public Masses.
Collins and Kopczynski are founding members of the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist, a public association of the faithful that was erected by Iffert’s predecessor, Roger Foys, in the Covington diocese in 2019, though the two had been in the diocese since 2011.
One of the churches Collins and Kopczynski had overseen was Our Lady of Lourdes, which operated as “quasi-parish” beginning in 2016. They had been granted permission to exclusively offer the Traditional Latin Mass by Foys, who was favorable to their mission.
Iffert canceled Collins and Kopczynski in January 2024 after they refused to concelebrate a Novus Ordo Mass with him and after they said they would not recant a sermon wherein Collins remarked that the Novus Ordo liturgy preserves “literally nothing of the (Latin Mass).”
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During an appearance on Raymond Arroyo’s EWTN program The World Over, German Cardinal Gerhard Müller was asked for his thoughts on the situation.
Müller replied that some bishops “look to Rome and then say to the Holy Father, ‘I suppressed these people, and therefore I look for the reward of being promoted, being named archbishop, or cardinal.’ This (is the) childish behavior of some bishops.”
Catholics Embracing ALL God’s Children is overseen by Fortunate Families, a Lexington-based dissident organization founded in 2004. Stowe, the heterodox bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, serves as an ecclesial adviser for the group, and ultra-liberal Jesuit priest James Martin is listed as an honorary board member.
Stowe has spoken at Fortunate Families conferences in the past. In 2022, he appointed the organizations’ pro-LGBT executive director to attend the Synod on Synodality in Rome.
In recent months, Stowe has doubled down on referring to a 39-year-old woman who calls herself a man and lives as a “diocesan hermit” as “Brother Christian Matson.” Matson attended Martin’s LGBT-affirming Outreach conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. Liberal Cardinal Wilton Gregory said Mass for the gathering, which was endorsed by Pope Francis.
In June, Stowe served as retreat director for the dissident Association of U.S. Catholic Priests. The group supports “women priests,” the normalization of homosexuality in the Church, pro-LGBT political policies, and numerous other positions at odds with immutable Catholic teaching.
After Iffert offers his sacrilegious Mass on August 28, there will be a reception in the basement of St. Joseph’s. The Diocese of Covington borders the Diocese of Lexington to the north.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Cupich’s DNC speech confirms ‘blood pact’ between ‘deep state’ and ‘deep church’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-20-2024, 07:45 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: Cupich’s DNC speech confirms ‘blood pact’ between ‘deep state’ and ‘deep church’
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò called out Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago for his endorsement of Kamala Harris and the Democrat platform, describing the prelate as having supported 'the cult of perversion, disease, sterility, poverty, death.'
Aug 20, 2024
Editor’s note: The following note has been taken from a post by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to X (formerly Twitter), originally published on August 20, 2024.
(LifeSiteNews) — The scandalous endorsements of Blase Cupich and the heretical ultra-progressive Jesuits in favor of Harris and Walz and the radical Left woke agenda confirm the blood pact between the globalist Deep State and the Bergoglian Deep Church.
What typifies them is the cult of perversion, disease, sterility, poverty, death: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic manipulation, mutilation and gender transition, health dictatorship, destruction of the social fabric, ethnic replacement, civil war.
“Let the dead bury their dead.” (Luke 9:60)
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| Fourth Apparition of Fatima- At Valinhos - August 19th, 1917 |
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Posted by: SAguide - 08-19-2024, 12:39 PM - Forum: Our Lady
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At Valinhos - August 19th, 1917
Gratefully adapted from Our Lady of Fatima Chapel email:
The six apparitions of Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima all occurred on the 13th of each consecutive month, except for the one in August. This was because the Administrator of the district of Ourem, a Mason, had kidnapped and imprisoned the children on August 13th. This is well documented in an earlier post: The Day the Freemasons Promoted Fatima. Although the little shepherds were prevented from keeping their meeting with Our Lady on that day, nevertheless, it is estimated that between three and five thousand souls showed up at the Cova da Iria.
At Valinhos
On the following Sunday afternoon of August 19th, Lucia, Francisco and his brother John had brought their flocks to a family pasture in Valinhos, which was less than a quarter of a mile from their homes in Aljustrel Jacinta was not with them, because she was being treated for the lice she had picked up while being held captive in jail. Lúcia began to get a premonition that Our Lady was about to appear, and since Jacinta was not with them, she sent the older brother, John, to fetch her. It is an especially touching detail that Our Lady patiently waited until Jacinta arrived before making her appearance.
In this visit, Our Lady once again told the children that she wanted them to continue coming to the Cova da Iria on the 13th of next month. She stressed the importance of obedience to her requests, the ramifications of offending her, and the great importance of praying and making sacrifices for sinners, as well as demonstrating a tender and motherly love:
“In the last month, I will work a miracle so that all may believe. If you had not been taken away to the city, the miracle would have been even greater. Saint Joseph will come with the Child Jesus, to give peace to the world. Our Lord will come to bless the people. Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Sorrows will also come.”
Then Our Lady said very sadly:
“Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray for them.”
The Mother of God Offended
“If you had not been taken away to the city, the miracle would have been even greater.”
“By this public act, acting in the name of the authority he held over a tiny part of the nation, he had affronted and outraged the Mother of God. Thus, he contributed to drawing down upon his country a just divine punishment. Without this odious act, shamelessly committed by the competent public authority, would the great miracle of October 13th have been seen in all of Portugal? It is quite possible. What a lesson! What terrible responsibility for the unworthy authorities who deprive their people of the choice graces with which God wishes to fill them!”
What a lesson indeed! What terrible responsibility for secular authorities – and even more so for ecclesiastical authorities! It is most appropriate to apply Frère Michel’s line of reasoning to those Church authorities of today, who woefully lead astray their confused and unwitting flock, who continue to outrage God and ignore His Blessed Mother. How should we think God will repay this insult?
However, just as scandal and the abuse of graces can affect so many souls, in converse, our faithful prayers and sacrifices can affect many souls as well. This is nothing but Church teaching on the Communion of Saints we so profess in every Credo. As Frère Michel notes:
“It is an unfathomable but also an admirable mystery, that such a close communion associates all the members of the human family with one another, for their salvation or for their loss.”
Make Sacrifices for Sinners
“Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray for them.”
These final words pronounced by Our Lady, while looking very sad, were certainly the request which made the most profound impression on the three little seers and the ones which they heroically and perfectly followed.
Here we see an affirmation that the eternal salvation of many souls really depends upon our prayers and sacrifices! Again, this is in perfect conformity with our basic Catholic catechism.
Thus, following the apparition of August 19th, the three children strove to find new ways to make sacrifices to offer Jesus, for His love, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the offenses against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
What a terrible scandal that these small children promptly obeyed and yet, after more than one hundred years, so many Catholics have actually turned a deaf ear to Our Lady’s simple requests. But doesn’t it always seem to be the way these things work? After centuries of prophecies, only a small handful of the Chosen People actually obeyed and followed Christ their Savior; and look what those few accomplished!
We too can accomplish great things, simply by obeying the Angel of Fatima, who instructed: “Make of everything a sacrifice!” and by obeying Our Blessed Mother, who asks us for the daily Rosary and little acts of reparation. With our daily Rosary and sacrifices, we can obtain the grace for the conversion of sinners and even the Church’s restoration. In reality, it is a special blessing to be here right now, living in the midst of this great Crisis of Faith. What an opportunity to comfort Our Lord and our Blessed Lady; to make such a real difference in the eternal lives of so many souls. Do not doubt it – the Church will be restored, for Our Lord does His best work when the devil thinks he is winning.
Think back over Christ’s Passion and Death and notice the current parallel with His Mystical Body the Church. See how horribly He suffered and all the humiliation He endured. See the utter hopelessness of His suffering, by the world’s standards. Look at the tragic finality as Our Lady held her Divine Son’s Sacred Body in her arms at the foot of the Cross.
And yet, we know that this great tragedy was the means by which the enemy’s reign was defeated. By His Death, we are born to eternal life and by the devil’s current attacks on the Church, what appears to be his victory - by the same world’s standards - he is, in reality, being vanquished. Our Lord triumphs over Satan by His suffering and obedience; and we shall do the same. We are called not just to prayer and penance, but to a joyful prayer and penance! Such joy comes from complete trust in Our Lady. Indeed, from the very beginning of Sacred Scripture, God has revealed the outcome: “She shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.”
Father Gabriel Amorth, Vatican exorcist, and close confidant of Padre Pio once told us: “We exorcists venerate Mary with all the impetus of our hearts, of our affections, of our desires. This is how He wants it, He who established that we receive everything by means of Mary. This is the experience that all exorcists learn first-hand.”
[i]And so, we too, in order to protect ourselves and those entrusted to us, we must be consecrated to Our Lady, wear our scapular and of course, pray our daily Rosary with faith that this most perfect Mother, given to us by Our Lord Himself, will save us from the demonic infestation of these tragic days. Let us prepare today to renew our Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary on this coming Thursday, for the glorious feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Edited from the Fatima Center & Return to Fatima
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| Ireland: Catholic priest ambushed, stabbed multiple times in ‘frenzied’ attack |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-16-2024, 11:36 PM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Catholic priest ambushed, stabbed multiple times in ‘frenzied’ attack
Father Paul Murphy, a 52 year old Chaplain with the Irish Army, was stabbed outside Renmore Barracks, Galway in the West of Ireland at around 10:45 p.m. last night. Thankfully, he has survived.
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Fr. Paul Murphy, Irish Army Chaplain (credit: Catholic Arena / X)
Catholic Arena / X
Aug 16, 2024
(LifeSiteNews [adapted]) — A Catholic priest, who serves as a chaplain in the Irish Army, was ambushed and stabbed “multiple times” in a “frenzied attack” on Thursday night in Galway, Ireland – which saw Irish soldiers open fire in response. Initial reports said a “teenage male youth” had been detained, who reportedly “uttered statements about Irish military involvement in the Middle East.”
Virgin Media News issued the following report on the violent assault today:
Father Paul Murphy, a 52 year old Chaplain with the Irish Army, was stabbed outside Renmore Barracks, Galway in the West of Ireland at around 10:45 p.m. last night as he arrived for duty in his car.
Fr. Murphy was seriously injured, but survived the attack – sending a message from Galway’s University Hospital as he awaits surgery.
He thanked people in a Facebook post on Friday for their “prayers, love and concern.”
I’m doing okay: just awaiting surgery. All will be well.
According to the Irish Mirror, police are investigating whether the incident was terror related.
Quote:The Special Detective Unit of An Garda Síochána [Irish police] is involved in this investigation. One line of enquiry is to establish if this attack had a terrorism motivation.
Irish Mirror journalist Paul Healy reported details of the attack:
Quote:It is understood Fr. Murphy was sitting in his car waiting for the barracks gates to open when the attacker approached him.
Sources say the chaplain lowered his window and the attacker immediately stabbed him multiple times.
Healy goes on to recount how Fr. Murphy tried to escape, stating:
Quote:The gates of the barracks then opened and Fr. Murphy is understood to have driven forward in an effort to get away from the stabber.
The attacker however clung onto the vehicle and continued to try and attack Fr. Murphy.
Irish soldiers then “fired a number of warning shots,” Healy said, adding that a search of the suspect’s home saw evidence which may explain the motive.
Quote:Sources say Gardaí [police] have since searched the suspect’s address in the Galway area and a number of items of interest, including radicalized ‘literature’ were recovered.
There are now concerns that the teenager became radicalized online and that he had a specific grievance and plan to target Defence Forces members.
Healy further reports that “online social media posts” made by the suspect are now being reviewed.
The suspect, described as “Irish” and said to be 16-years-old, “remains in detention and is being questioned in a Gardaí station in the North Western region,” according to the Irish Examiner.
Their report says how “sentries overpowered the youth and detained him” until police arrived, noting that, “Fr. Murphy was provided with first aid at the scene before being taken to hospital where he received further treatment.”
A soldier who had served with Fr. Murphy on a tour of duty in Lebanon responded with shock and words of admiration for the Padre.
Brendan Cruise said on X:
I was fortunate enough to have served in Lebanon with Fr Paul Murphy who was the battalion padre. He was absolutely brilliant on the tour, he had time for everyone & a smile for all. Wishing him a full recovery.
Simon Harris, the Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister] said his “thoughts are with the victim” and thanked the Defence Forces and Gardaí for their action and response in a post on X.
Irish users of the social media platform responded angrily, with many holding Harris and the government responsible.
One user replied to Harris saying, “You’ve brought terror back to this Island, after we fought 800 years to live in peace.”
Others noted the Godlessness of the modern Irish state, remarking the deliberate omission of the fact that the victim is a Catholic priest and that no prayers were being offered by the leader of the Catholic nation.
“Very telling you won’t say a Catholic priest was attacked and you offer no prayers for him.”
Attacks on Catholics and their places of worship have been on the rise in Ireland. A spate of anti-Catholic crime in County Donegal over the summer saw many churches burgled, with damage and attempted arson occuring. One church in Lifford had been targeted three times in six weeks.
The Protestant Church of Ireland has also been targeted, with historic and “irreplaceable” mummies damaged following a break-in and attempted arson in St Michan’s Church, Dublin in June.
The vandalism, according to Dublin Live, is believed to have ruined the mummified remains of five Catholics “including an 800-year-old artifact known as ‘The Crusader.'” A Romanian national was found guilty of the damage.
Yet the attacks have also been linked to hate speech – not online – but made by Irish politicians themselves.
In April, reporting on arson attacks on two County Meath churches, Catholic Arena alleged:
Quote:Hate speech by politicians against Catholics has been a major factor in the recent rise in crime against Catholic.
The attempts to burn down these two churches came shortly after an Irish Member of Parliament (TD) was “mocked for her Catholic faith” by her fellow members during a speech given in the Parliament itself, known as the Dáil.
Gript reported on March 23 how Deputy Carol Nolan’s warning that mass migration policies of the Irish government had created chaos in the country.
“We have an immigration system and an immigrant homeless situation that are nothing short of spiralling social sabotage,” Nolan said.
“This Government has no answers for one simple reason, it is because it does not ask the right questions and it does not listen.”
Nolan was reportedly “sniggered at” at by members she referred to as “communists,” who she says derided her and other members for their Christian faith – whilst refusing to acknowledge the chaos their open borders policies were causing.
“I could hear the comments and the muttering – some TDs were definitely mocking our Catholic faith”
Nolan claimed the anti-Catholic rhetoric emerged over Ireland’s referendum on abortion, when she says was targeted for being pro-life. She explained:
Quote:Unfortunately, I had this trouble before the abortion referendum, and when I called for a ‘No’ vote [to legalising abortion]…so it’s not the first time I have borne the brunt of that type of sentiment.
Nolan said:
Quote:I would get a lot of it, and I got a lot of it because it was evident I was pro-life and because of my beliefs.
She remained defiant in the face of this “bullying,” saying Parliament refused to reflect a majority of Irish people whose lives and livelihoods in tourism have been blighted by uncontrolled mass migration.
“In advance of Holy Week, we will take no lectures from the hard left and the looney left who will not face the people.”
The comments in the Irish Parliament came weeks after a priest’s house was set ablaze “intentionally” in Kildare, destroying outbuildings at St Brigid’s Cathedral.
The attacks on the Catholic faith and on Christianity in Ireland have now seemingly escalated to the attempted murder of a priest. Prayers for Ireland, and for the restoration of its leadership to Christ are urgently needed.
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| Canadian government warns country to prepare for new virus far worse than COVID |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-16-2024, 07:12 AM - Forum: Health
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Canadian government warns country to prepare for new virus far worse than COVID
Dailymail.Com [adapted] | 14 August 2024
The Canadian government has issued advice warning citizens to prepare for a hypothetical new virus that could lead to food and fuel disruptions.
The Centre for Occupational Health and Safety rolled out a second edition of their Flu and Infectious Disease Outbreaks Business Continuity Plan Handbook.
The guide provides information for employers on what to prepare for in the face of another pandemic.
In the new edition, released in June, they focus on a 'hypothetical virus', that they warn could trigger further disruption that Covid-19.
It states that 'based on trends from past pandemic flu, there may be a higher average number of illness and deaths in age groups different than what we typically see during annual flu seasons.'
The guide also warns employers must be ready for a scenario like an disease outbreak or a pandemic which forces people to stay home.
It says: 'If there is a pandemic, how many people will be off work? It is impossible to determine with certainty.
'Estimates vary because no one will know for sure how ill the new virus will make people, how fast it will spread, or how many people will not go to work, until it happens.'
A future pandemic 'will come in two or three waves about three to nine months separating each outbreak', it adds.
The hypothetical virus could also last in these cycles for as much as two years, the report warns.
It adds that people should brace for disruptions like reduced labor, supply chain issues and shifts in consumer demand.
Among those disruptions include telecommunications, banking, water, gasoline, medicine and food.
It comes after American Dr Anthony Fauci recommended that people start wearing masks again due to a rise in Covid cases.
The number of infections is increasing as part of another summer surge - even though hospitalizations and deaths from the virus remain at historic lows.
The 83-year-old told people with comorbidities and seniors 'you should be wearing a mask' in crowded places.
He also revealed he had contracted Covid about two weeks ago. It was his third Covid infection and he has been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times.
World Health Organization officials warn that if the virus continues to spread, it could lead to new mutations and severe infections that evade vaccine protection and therapeutics.
Deaths have been generally on the rise since May, but began declining the week ending July 20. They currently hover at around 500 per week, compared to more than 25,000 in the fall of 2020.
Dr Fauci's face mask guidelines have long been criticized as people claimed they did not work to prevent the spread of Covid.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Contribution to the e-book “Globalisti Assassini” |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-15-2024, 11:14 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Omnis potestas a Deo
Contribution to the e-book “Globalisti Assassini” published by Visione editore
Taken from here.
Having recourse to assassination as a tool to eliminate a political opponent, awakens in us a sense of rebellion that comes from the deepest fibers of our being, from that sense of violated justice that is the same that we feel in the face of the impunity of the guilty, the violent arrogance of his crimes. Unicuique suum tribuere: giving each what is due to him sums up the foundation of the natural Law that we see betrayed both by the failure to punish the guilty and by the persecution of the innocent and the weak. In this violation we see the abdication of the authority that in every human society is precisely responsible for administering Justice in the name of Christ, Lord and Universal Judge.
But what justice can there be, where the authority itself not only does not punish the wicked and does not reward the good, but where it is actually the first to encourage evil and impede good? The origin of this inversion is the necessary consequence of a much worse reversal of the social order, namely the rejection of Christ as God, King, and Lord. It is the Revolution, that is, the institutionalization of Lucifer’s Non serviam, and along with it the reversal of the concept of Good and Evil.
The child who is killed in the womb, the woman who is raped, the sick person abandoned to die by the doctor, the shopkeeper who is robbed, the elderly person who is beaten, the citizen who is oppressed by unfair taxes, the student who is corrupted by the teacher – these are all faces of a general injustice that cries out for vengeance in the sight of God precisely because it is in God that each of us finds the supreme Guarantor of Justice. This request for vengeance – that is, for the restoration of violated Justice – is even stronger when the evil that we see committed in broad daylight is not only not punished, but is even encouraged; while those who resist, those who do not accept subversion, those who continue to believe that there are immutable and eternal principles to which to adhere, are persecuted by the authorities. The teacher who is fired for not wanting to refer to a male student with a feminine pronoun, the student who is expelled for having stated in class that there are only two sexes, the doctor who is laid off for having refused to administer a lethal serum to a patient, the scientist who is removed for not having endorsed the climate fraud, the priest who is removed from his parish for having condemned the doctrinal and moral deviations accepted today – these are the first victims of the Revolution. There is no room for these people in the overturned society, just as there was no room for criminals and the wicked in the society ordered under the Law of the Gospel.
When we try to make sense of what is happening around us today, we must have the courage to recognize the betrayal of human authority with respect to the supreme Authority of God. Without this betrayal, nothing that is happening would even be imaginable. And so it is from the restoration of a healthy authority that conforms to the will of God that we must begin to rebuild society.
The failed assassination attempt on President Donald J. Trump is the latest in a long series of similar episodes through which corrupt governments eliminate people they consider an obstacle to the pursuit of their plans: whether it is a former President of the United States, a Prime Minister or a former “inconvenient” collaborator, nothing changes. Not to mention the “suicides” and fatal accidents of those who, with their testimony, could have convicted leading figures of the deep state or the globalist lobby.
The cowardice of the murder committed by a hitman makes clear the injustice of an action against an “enemy” with whom one does not accept a fair confrontation, from which he would emerge victorious. The modus operandi is the one that every tyranny has used against its opponents: ridicule (the opponent is a buffoon not to be taken seriously), pathologization (he is a madman who should be locked up in a mental hospital), criminalization (he should be put in jail) and moral or physical elimination (he must not exist: he is a non-person without rights). Anyone who undermines the System – especially if he has an authority that comes from the evident reasonableness of his arguments that risks opening the eyes of the masses – is made the object of this progressive ostracization precisely because he reveals the corruption of power and the intolerant lie that fuels it. Donald Trump must therefore be “put in a bullseye” – according to the expression used by Joe Biden five days before the attack – and when he is hit or injured, the moral responsibility does not lie with the person who created the climate of violence or with the hitman, but with the victim who “asked for it,” and who actually exploits the aggression suffered to his own advantage.
In the past years, other political leaders – and not only them – have been subjected to this instrumental and specious criminalization: think of Gabriel García Moreno, Enrico Mattei, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Aldo Moro, Bettino Craxi, Silvio Berlusconi, Jair Bolsonaro, Robert Fico, Viktor Orbán and many others. What do they have in common? Their standing against the system that would have them be mere executors of orders from a subversive power that controls everything. Media attacks, summary trials, and the threat of retaliation have become the norm, a norm that seems to want to extend to murder, in the name of the survival of tyranny and the preservation of the power of the Lodges that guide it.
Evil cannot tolerate Good, just as lies cannot tolerate Truth, just as darkness cannot tolerate Light. Yet it pretends that Good is conciliatory and inclusive, that Truth welcomes error, that Light allows itself to be obscured. Truth is accused of intolerance, Justice is accused of cruelty, and honesty and rectitude are mocked and discredited. And this contradiction – which overturns the primacy of what is True and Good and Just in favor of what is false, evil, and unjust – is possible only where the masses have been convinced that they have no intangible principle for which to fight and die. This ensnared society has come to believe that a mother can kill her child in the womb, that the elderly and the sick can be killed by the doctor, that the pervert and the pedophile can be left free to corrupt and violate without this arousing the indignation and reaction of anyone.
In the name of a false and hypocritical peace, force is exercised by the bad guys against the good guys, but it becomes intolerable oppression when the good guys invoke force to render the bad guys harmless. Thus the father of a family who shoots the thief who breaks into his house at night ends up in prison, while the rapist and the criminal are left free to continue to cause harm. Whoever defends the borders of their Homeland is a dangerous nationalist, while whoever invades it to subjugate or devastate it must be invited and financed. Whoever cures the sick must be laid off, whoever exterminates the population with pseudo-vaccines is awarded honors. Whoever does not submit to gene serums must be punished and deprived of work, while whoever submits by compromising their own and others’ health must be rewarded. Whoever denounces the global coup d’état is accused of conspiracy, and whoever organizes the conspiracy continues to demolish their own country with impunity. It is the world turned upside down. It is the upside-down, perverted, and rebellious world that the Revolution wants. It is the kingdom of the Antichrist, the father of lies, the murderer from the beginning.
That the world is subject to Satan, who is its prince, is part of the mystery of iniquity that sees the Civitas Dei opposed to the civitas diaboli. But until now, as a sign of contradiction, the Catholic Church has always strenuously and courageously fought the prince of this world and his seductions. For sixty years now, however, the Citadel has been eclipsed by the false church, by that deep church that is to the ecclesial body what the deep state is to the State: a cancer that slowly kills the institution from within, that spreads to all its members, that destroys its organs. This disintegrating action has brought Her worst enemies to the top of the Hierarchy, reaching the point of usurping the Throne of Peter and abusing the sacred authority of the Vicar of Christ to contradict the teaching of Christ himself. Thus, just as in the order desired by God the Lordship of Jesus Christ unites in itself the temporal and spiritual power, so in the infernal chaos of Satan the tyranny of the Antichrist will have to unite in itself the deep state and the deep church, so as to be able to exercise absolute control over humanity. A false prophet, at the head of a false humanitarian and philanthropic church, will support the synarchy of the New World Order, just as in the societas christiana the Pope ratified the authority of the Catholic Sovereigns.
Today that totalitarian and dystopian project has almost come to full completion. The emissaries of the World Economic Forum and other supranational bodies of Masonic origin are ostentatiously at the head of all Western governments and can avail themselves of the collaboration of the Bergoglian church, which has made all its demands its own. How could one think that the voice of those who for years have been denouncing this coup and the betrayal of the Catholic Hierarchy would be spared from the ferocious ostracism that strikes anyone who does not support the plans of the inimica vis? It was only a matter of time. And so we see the authority of the Church – usurped to be used against the Church – moving against an Archbishop and former Apostolic Nuncio, accusing him of nothing less than schism for having denounced the heresies and deviations of the Argentine Jesuit and for having rejected the Second Vatican Council that paved the way for him. A show trial no less grotesque than those that in the civil sphere have been brought against those political leaders who have similarly denounced the looming threat of globalism.
The lie on which the action of the deep state and the deep church is based is the same: to make people believe that authority, once the umbilical cord that binds it to the sovereign Authority of Christ has been cut, can maintain its legitimacy by virtue of an asserted self-referentiality that absolutizes earthly authority, leading it inexorably to tyranny. Omnis potestas a Deo, Sacred Scripture teaches us (Rom 13:1). This means that if the power of those who govern on earth – both in temporal and spiritual matters – does not exercise its authority not only in the name of God but also in accordance with His will, then it has no legitimacy. And this is, ultimately, the protection against any tyranny that Our Lord wanted to give to earthly institutions, so that they do not degenerate into totalitarianism.
Obedire oportet Deo magis quam hominibus. We must obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29). Whoever commands and whoever obeys – in the State just as in the Church – must have in Christ the King and High Priest as the foundation of their authority and their obedience. Outside of Christ, everything is necessarily chaos and disorder, and as such has no legitimacy: neither the arrogance of those who usurp His Scepter, nor the rebellion of those who believe themselves exempt from His Universal Lordship.
The world is preparing for a great awakening, an unveiling (in the etymological sense of the term “apocalypse”) of the lie that has eclipsed the Truth for too long. When what we have had before our eyes appears to us for what it really is and not for how it is presented to us, everything will acquire meaning, also and above all in an eschatological key. It will not be reality that changes, but our understanding of it. Only Our Lord, Lux mundi, can illuminate the darkness of this dark night both for those He has placed in authority and for those who are hierarchically subject to it.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
July 16, 2024
Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily in the Assumption of Mary Most Holy into Heaven |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-15-2024, 11:07 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Profer lumen cæcis
Homily in the Assumption of Mary Most Holy into Heaven
Taken from here.
The Great Pontiff Pius XII proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption into heaven of Mary Most Holy on November 1, 1950, with the Bull Munificentissimus Deus:
Quote:«After we have poured forth prayers of supplication again and again to God, and have invoked the light of the Spirit of Truth, for the glory of Almighty God who has lavished his special affection upon the Virgin Mary, for the honor of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages and the Victor over sin and death, for the increase of the glory of that same august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. »
These solemn words constitute the last dogma defined by the Holy Church, before the painful eclipse that has now obscured the Bride of the Lamb for more than sixty years. The end of that glorious Pontificate marked the beginning of a Calvary that today is approaching its conclusion. The passio Ecclesiæ, the passion of the Mystical Body, modeled on the Passion and Death of its Divine Head, is a mystery that we have always believed concerned the individual members of the Church – according to the words of the Apostle, in my turn I complete in my flesh what is still lacking in the afflictions of Christ for his body, which is the Church (Col 1:24) – but that the events we are now witnessing show us in its social and ecclesial dimension. It is the entire Mystical Body that must suffer, die, and rise again, in order to triumph together with the immortal King of the ages.
The Virgin Mary is mystically associated with the Passion of Her Divine Son: as the New Eve, she suffered and endured the pains of Christ, the New Adam, deserving the title of Co-Redemptrix. Her glorious Assumption into heaven in body and soul is for us a reason for joy and consolation, not only for this privilege that the Lord wanted to reserve – among other privileges – for his own Mother; but also because She, Mother and Queen of the Church, is a figure of that heavenly Jerusalem, beata pacis visio, which is the Church itself. In Her we see the will of God accomplished, in the humility and obedience by which Jesus Christ bore witness to the Eternal Father, and that the Church makes her own in the profession of the One Faith and in the bond of Charity.
The Virgin of the Assumption merited not to know the corruption of the body, just as Our Lord did not know it. The Eastern Tradition, since the first centuries, shows us an uninterrupted faith in this truth: the depictions of the dormitio Virginis show us the Blessed Mother on her deathbed, surrounded by the Apostles, while Her soul – a young soul like that of a child – is welcomed into the bosom of the Holy Trinity.
But if the Virgin Mary is a figure of the Church; if She is its Mother to the point of having given birth to us into Grace by the pains that She mystically suffered together with the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ; if She is her Mistress and Queen by grace, for having redeemed us by virtue of the merits of the Co-Redemption, we can hope that the Church herself will see herself in some way assumed into heaven, as in the vision of Saint John: I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Rev 21:2). And who is she, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, if not the Mater Ecclesiae, the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God and our Mother? It is She, in the power of Her most holy humility and immaculate purity, who sums up in Herself the vision of the beloved Apostle. She is the one who rises like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army in battle array (Song of Songs 6:10). She is the dwelling place of God among men (Rev 21:3): the bride of the Lamb (Rev 21:9), whose splendor is like that of a very precious gem, like a crystalline jasper stone (Rev 21:11); she has no need of the light of the sun, nor of the light of the moon, because the glory of God illuminates her and her lamp is the Lamb (Rev 21:23).
The Holy Church, like her Queen, is a holy city that gathers its children from every part of the world and from every age: There will in no way enter into her anything impure, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life (Rev 21:27). Whoever is victorious will inherit these goods; I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowards and the unbelievers, the vile and murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death (Rev 21:7-8).
The vision of Patmos shows us the Church triumphant, which in this is similar to the Virgin Mary. But on this earth the Church – which is militant as the conqueror of all heresies – does not yet know eternal glory and must face the terrible trials that await her not only during her pilgrimage through the centuries, but also and above all in the end times, when the persecution of the Antichrist will rage against her in the illusion of conquering her. And while the Church appears mocked, humiliated and struck to death – just as the Savior was mocked, tortured, and killed – her Ministers flee, hide, and deny knowing the Galilean. Alone, together with Saint John, the Sorrowful Virgin remains at the foot of the Cross, to complete in her own most pure flesh what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ. And in this silent testimony, in which the pain of the soul incomparably surpasses physical suffering, Mary Most Holy is an example to those who, in these terrible moments of crisis and apostasy, remain at the foot of the cross from which the Holy Church hangs, dying. They too – and we with them – suffer in seeing the Mystical Body crucified, following in the footsteps of its Head. And we must all take as our guide the Mother of God, our model, the star that shows us the painful way of the Cross as the only path to the glory of the beatific vision.
Let us not be surprised if the enemies of Christ also seek to obscure the Virgin Mary: they fear her more than the Lord, because they know that it is to Her, and to no other creature, that Providence has entrusted the Church and every baptized person – Auxilium Christianorum – and that it will be She who will destroy the Synagogue of Satan.
Let us pray, dear brothers, that this passio Ecclesiæ may open the eyes of the lukewarm who are still sluggish in their spiritual drowsiness. Let us ask the Virgin of the Assumption to restore sight to the blind – profer lumen cæcis, we sing in the ancient hymn Ave Maris Stella – so that they may see and understand that the one true Church of Christ cannot have peace with the world, because it does not belong to her and is indeed her enemy. So that they may see and understand that the cowards and the unbelievers, the vile and the murderers, the immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars (Rev 21:7) cannot take part in the banquet of the Lamb unless they convert, repent, and repair the evil they have committed. And if the deception of the Enemy has forged a counterfeit of this unique Ark of salvation, our response cannot be to flee or hide, but rather to remain close to the dying Lord and to His Most Holy Mother, like Saint John.
We confidently await the blessed day when the Lord will return in glory to recapitulate all things in Himself, to definitively restore His Universal Lordship. He will repeat to the Church the words He addressed to the Most Holy Mary: Arise, my Beloved, my Beautiful One, and come away! O my dove, who art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the ravine, show me your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, your face is lovely (Song of Songs 2:13-14).
It will be then that we will see the Immaculate Virgin, the Woman clothed with the sun and with the moon under Her feet, crowned with twelve stars (Rev 12:1) descend from heaven like the heavenly Jerusalem, to trample with Her virginal heel the head of the ancient Serpent (Gen 3:15). Her humility will conquer the rebellious pride of Satan; Her purity will crush the impure spirit; Her faithfulness will conquer betrayal and apostasy. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
15 August MMXXIV a. D.ñi
In Assumptione B.M.V.
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Posted by: Stone - 08-15-2024, 03:59 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Assumption: Panama Archbishop Invites to Visit Pagan Temples
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gloria.tv | August 15, 2024
Monsignor José Domingo Ulloa, Archbishop of Panama invites to an inter-religious event on today's Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. It is called "Afternoon of the Temples".
Participants will be able to visit twelve temples between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. The temples offer different cultural activities, including music, architecture, culture, history and most important: gastronomy. There are also folkloric dances, lectures on religious beliefs and pagan rituals.
The event was celebrated for the first time on August 15, 2023.
Monsignor Ulloa calls the afternoon "a reflection of our religious diversity, which unites and strengthens us as a nation".
The event is being organized in collaboration with Hindus, Muslims, Methodists and Rabbi Gustavo Kraselnick, a homosexual activist.
The Assumption is the anniversary of the founding of Panama City.
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