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The St. Michael Prayer was an Antidote to Freemasonry

The St. Michael Prayer was an Antidote to Freemasonry

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Most of the information in this article comes from a fascinating book, ‘Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer to St. Michael’. The book looks at various accounts of the origin of the prayer as well as its significance.

Pope Leo XIII famously composed the prayer to St. Michael after seeing a vision in which God gave the devil permission to have free reign over the earth from the mid-twentieth century. The date of that apparition is traditionally given as October 13, 1884 – coincidentally, that is exactly 140 years ago today. This date is significant for several reasons, none of which should be a surprise to my readers. October 13, as well as being the anniversary of Leo’s apparition, it is the date of the miracle of the sun at Fatima (1917) and of the final apparition of Our Lady at Akita (1973).

Some sources believe that Leo’s decision to write the prayer coincided with his increasing concern over the influence of Freemasonry on the Catholic Church. His predecessor, Pius IX, had ordered a set of prayers to be prayed by priest and faithful after Low Mass for the protection of the Church. Leo inserted the prayer to St. Michael into that set of prayers – a practise which continues today in traditional parishes – requesting this from his priests in his classic encyclical against Freemasonry, Humanem Genus.

Leo issued continued warnings to his priests to be increasingly vigilant with regard to dangers both within and without the Church. As well as the St. Michael prayer, Leo composed an exorcism prayer just for priests which is based on the St. Michael prayer as well as a longer version of the St. Michael prayer to be used by the laity.

Statue of Giordano Bruno at the Campo de ‘Fiori in Rome.
SOURCE: Livioandronico2013 via Wikimedia Commons

Leo’s strong condemnations of Masonry drew the ire of the secret societies against him. In particularly egregious incident, the Masons erected a statue of an infamous heretic in Rome. The heretic, Giordano Bruno had been condemned and executed under the Inquisition in 1600.

Bruno was a hero to the Freemasons and other subversive groups and the statue’s sculptor went on to become the Grand Master of the Grand Orient lodge of Italy. By erecting Bruno’s statue, the Masons were in effect thumbing their noses at Pope Leo. Leo’s response was to release another encyclical, Dall’alto dell’Apostolico Seggio, condemning the Freemason’s act. The date of issue was October 15, 1890, just two days after the mysterious and highly significant date of October 13th.

[As an aside, Giordano Bruno was posthumously rehabilitated by the highly suspect Cardinal Angelo Sodano in the year 2000! As another aside, and this is very strange: St. Michael is a saint who is perversely venerated by the Masons, who think of him as the ‘planetary angel of the sun.’]

One reason why Pius and Leo sought to engage extra help from the archangels can be found in the records of exorcists. During exorcisms performed after their pontificates, demons admitted that there had been ‘unusually numerous and strong invasions by diabolical spirits on the earth’ during Pius’ pontificate. One exorcist wrote:

In their battle against the Church, the demons use the wicked people as their allies. They have succeeded in enlisting a large number of people under their banner.

“We have the will of the people on our side,” they say.

The demon ‘Caesar’ leads their forces to stir up governments against the Church. “The people are our trusty storm troops”, he stated.

The Masons are among the main supporters of the demons. Lucifer admits that they are his ‘dearly beloved children’ and calls them his ‘representatives on earth.’

The exorcist continued:

Once they are defeated, the time will come when the members of the secret societies will be humiliated. The Virgin will destroy the secret societies. She has already set herself against them.

So we can see that before Modernism infiltrated the Church, Freemasonry was identified as being Her fundamental enemy, leading Pius to institute extra prayers after Mass for the protection of the Church and leading Leo to compose some very powerful new prayers invoking the great St. Michael.

IMAGE SOURCE: detail from James Powell and Sons of the Whitefriars Foundry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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The Church of the 'Divine Synarchy'

The Church of the ‘Divine Synarchy’

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This is the English translation of a section of Pierre Virion’s “Mystery of Iniquity.” Taken from the Third Edition, and released during the 1970’s, M. Virion masterfully traces the crisis in the Catholic Church back to the plans of the Synarchists.

“The development of the revolution within the Church – for it is indeed a revolution – is linked to the march of international political events. Here we are in the presence of a politico-religious complex combining in its entirety the decadence of doctrinal and institutional Catholicism with the projects of a world government which, in the end, as we have said elsewhere, would be itself, at least visibly, only a universal super-church integrating national churches. In each of these two fields, parallel processes are oriented towards the same goal, so that if one is are in a hurry to follow a political trajectory ordered to their globalism, the others, under the guise of ecumenism, but in reality with a view to a versatile and Masonic dogmatic opening, are busy perfecting this revolution. 

Progress is such that they speak openly about this world government. Le Monde of February 16, 1967, citing as an example: “the rapprochement in ecumenism of the Christian churches said something about it” in advance, like Perrette in the fable, the unhoped-for advantages: no more starving people, no more epidemics, friendly exchanges and a limitation of births. 

Georges Hourdin, in Croissance des Jeunes Nations (n° 61) quoted by the Courrier Communautaire Autaire of 15 January 1967, had a geopolitical program that was more informed about the great synarchical groups: “We must accept to group the states into large regional confederations, then into a world government. It is then necessary, and very quickly, to plan births and savings”.

The pill, which, as we can see, holds a large place in globalist diplomacy, also has the good fortune to be the link between and the ecumenism of the clerics of the new Church. But this is only a small side of the homogeneity of the system, which means that the building of the New Church, as widely open to all the faithful of multiple denominations as the world government is to all the peoples of the earth, so desired, so long awaited, whose Church of Holland is today enthusiastically presented to us like the prototype, or a politico-religious enterprise.

Holland

This will be seen by reading, in Le Figaro, the articles of Abbé Laurentin on “The Dutch Catholicism of Mutation”. For him, “Holland has been a country open to the freedoms of intelligence since the first hurricanes of the sixteenth century”. He forgets to tell his readers that this was so because Holland was then a hotbed of Rosicrucians and sects. In our day, The Masonic centres are Harlem and The Hague, where, we are told, some good Fathers are forgotten, but its activity has not been weakened. That could explain this. 

But what interests the Abbé so keenly is the sudden outburst of “Christian energies”. Let us read it, in fact (emphasis added): “The first symptoms were noticeable as early as 1950. They were linked to the economic and intellectual development that changed the condition of the Dutch Catholics. The phenomenon took on considerable proportions shortly before the opening of the Vatican Council. It catalysed research and provoked immense hope, but became a disappointment from the second session of the Council”. (Le Figaro 19/2/1967)

Doesn’t Father Laurentin know that one should never talk about ropes in the house of a hanged man? So what happened “from 1950 onwards”? We remember the ‘Schumann Bomb’ which initiated the constitution of the European Coal Community in public opinion. Thus began the reputation that the ‘Father of Europe, a title’ Robert Schumann shared with Jean Monnet, whose international synarchic power and financial relations were in direct proportion to the discretion with which it surrounded them. 

Germany

Immediately, the Études of the Jesuit Fathers, in their June issue, sounded the trumpet in favour of the ‘Christian-European epic.’ Mr Robert d’Harcourt extolled in a couplet on ‘German Realism’ the profound views and talents of Mr. Adenauer. It was reported that the Chancellor, proud of the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in this affair, affirmed that, by his decisive influence, it had accompanied Robert Schumann at the London Conference and that it thus became “a factor with which international policy must count”. This “must count” was not a figure of rhetoric. 

Let us not reproach Mr Adenauer for having wanted to create Europe and, to do so, for having used forces and the audience party, the Christian Democratic Party. But from the beginning, the company had partners who were neither on its side nor in its own designs and party whose successes he attributed in 1946 to the assistance of the financier, Pferdmenges, communicated to his European peers a a dynamism led by other powers, those of the ‘Europe of the Bankers’, less zealous than he was for the cause of the Roman Church. Pferdmenges was a pious Protestant who belonged to the Salomon Oppenheim Bank of Cologne, former president of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Bankers’ Association of this city. Having helped Mr. Adenauer to form a powerful party, he was raised by him to the rank of Grand Cross.

Bankers & Bilderbergers

Pferdmenges was chairman of the Rheinische-Westfälische Credit Bank in Cologne and vice-chairman of seven associations attached to the Dresdner Bank. His death did not put an end to other support, including that of a friend Adenauer and his financial advisor: Mr. Abs, a Catholic, it seems. With Mr. Abs, we entered a circle very similar to that of the Dresdner Bank, but more powerful than he, that of the Deutsche Bank, which owns the Rheinische-Westfälische Bank in Düsseldorf. 

With Mr. Abs, again, we had full access to the ‘World Understanding’ through the channel of the famous Bilderbergers in whose meetings he took part assiduously and recently again in Cannes with a line-up of German financiers. Mr. Abs presiding over the destinies of the Western and especially of the Rhine-Westphalia Group enjoys both the confidence of the Anglo-Saxons and holds the threads that connect powerful cosmopolitan consortiums from the Hambros Bank of London, the Lazare Bank and the International Bank of London. Luxembourg, well known to Mr. Van Zeeland, Bilderberger, too, up to the Dutch giant A. K. U. and its trusts, several of which are chaired by Mr Abs and which, as everyone knows, more or less discreetly finance the so-called right-wing parties with a tendency to Catholic or Protestant. Among the Catholic organs are Volkskrant (175,000 copies), the Tydg and its chain of four daily newspapers (114,000 copies), of which there is much talk in these times of the ‘National Council’. In these perspectives, it is conceivable, in fact, as Abbé Laurentin says, that the “economic condition” of the Dutch Catholics have changed.

Luxembourg

The Schumann-Adenauer-Monnet-Gaspéri movement was born in Luxembourg. It also settled in Strasbourg. Let’s say everything immediately: the main and always discreet craftsman was Jean Monnet. The ‘Schumann bomb’ was full of hard-hitting arguments, so powerful that in Christian Democratic circles one could perceive the repercussions as far as Strasbourg where “from 1950 various personalities either in their capacity or representing different Catholic movements belonging to eleven countries “established a Catholic Secretariat for European Problems (SCPE) previously founded in Luxembourg and which defined itself as follows:

 “A technical body made available to organisations and Catholic personalities interested in European problems. Its essential purpose is therefore to establish networks between them information and documentation. The SCPE will inform and inform interested persons of the projects which may be carried out in the Discussion in the bodies called upon to work for European unity. In addition, it will prepare the files and themes of study that will facilitate the examination of European problems involving the Christian conscience and requiring the study and presence of Catholics”. 

The presidency was devolved to the president of Italian Catholic Action, Mr. Vitorino Veronese, who in 1957 became president of UNESCO celebrated the tercentenary of Comenius, the famous Rosicrucian of the sixteenth century. The direction remained with M. Baumgartner, former finance minister with whom we remained in the orbit of the Bilderbergers. Dr. Roesen, President of the Commission to the Katolikentag was delegated by the German Catholics.

The Fingerprint of Synarchy Emerges

In 1951, the Documentation Catholique listing the various European movements presented with advantage the impetus given by the Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi and the action of M. Van Zeeland. This evocation of an authentic synarchic lineage should not make us forget that, in addition, Mr. Van Zeeland “passed through more than one place to dispose of a manoeuvring mass in impressive dollars “added to the presidency of the “Economic League for European Cooperation” of which Mr Giscard d’Estaing was vice-president. The same year, the “Comité de la rue de Penthièvre” led by Mr. Boutémy, secretary general of the French Employers’ Association. He too, it was said, had “considerable funds, not all of which were of French origin, and acted energetically in connection with the international organisation led by the former Belgian minister, Mr Van Zeeland, to promote a federal status for Europe” (J. Hammer). 

In the same year again, in the year of elections, the Communists, hardly suspected of recognizing miracles, were to observe with astonishment that, with tripartism buried, their former Christian Democrat allies had suddenly become Europeans and Globalists. It was a fine piece of work in which a technical body, as the Catholic Secretariat of Strasbourg was called, was not unknown. He had undoubtedly made available to “organisations”, “personalities”, his networks, his documentation, his files and its themes of study, but the rest? His own budget must have been very heavy and such successes are expensive. The rest could not have been neglected.

On 6 March 1953, in Strasbourg, at the Congress of the ‘Europe of the Six’, what political and financial authority other than that of M. von Brentano, Minister for West Germany, could in terms almost identical to those of the Synarchic Pact, better specify the action taken? 

“The mission received from the six Foreign Ministers and the acceptance of a task that we are now leading to its conclusion, constitute a kind of silent revolution; public opinion has taken note of this work, without, however, grasping its significance”. And the result was there, vast as the ‘Europe of the Six’, as deep as the mass of the MRP of which Robert Schumann was a member and leader of the “Movement of Christian Workers for Europe” sitting in the CFTC. 

Sub-Plot to the Vatican II Council

It is therefore understandable that in such a wide environment, in such a favourable atmosphere, in a system as well as to the immense design of politicians, in a pool of people who are as well chosen in terms of its dimensions, its resources and security, the intellectuals of the Catholic Secretariat for Europe have been able, happy as fish in water, to deepen their ‘study themes’ and push their projects. In the European and globalist perspectives, the new theology perceived, now certain of achieving this, distant to the continental measure of Christian confessions and the depths of an ecumenism defying formulations of strict Catholicity. As the occultist Abbé Mélinge predicted, liberal Protestants and broad-minded Catholics could apply “at common expense” for the construction of a new church. At common expense this was, it seems, quite the case.

But if the revolution of the politicians was silent, that of the theologians was not silent enough to be able to carry the masses along in the wake of the New World and discreet enough that one did not realise the work in which one was busy in order to to try to pass on to the future Council, supported by well-known Eminences and Excellencies, the plans prepared during the “that long maturation which has led French, German, Belgian and other theologians to prepare Vatican II from afar.” (Courier January 1967). “The phenomenon took on considerable proportions shortly before the opening of the Council” (Laurentin, Le Figaro, 19-2-1967), but The effort did not relax during the sessions. It is not to the peri-conciliar literature rising like an outbreak of revolution in the press, nor to the declamations with a great deal of costly publicity of the theologians of the future that we only think. There were also in Rome, a whole organisation which constituted an instrument of propaganda and formidable pressure, offering them round tables and crossroads, which could print on the spot and distribute to the Fathers their talks and their “themes of study.”

The Masons’ Chilling Plans for Three World Wars

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Fr. Eustace Eilers (1902-1957) was a Passionist priest from Alabama who was well-known for his stance against Freemasonry. During the papacy of Pius XII, Eilers was part of a network of priests who were concerned about an infiltration by Illuminati members into the Vatican. This group began an investigation spanning Rome and the US, focusing particularly on certain men close to the Pontiff, who, as Piers Compton wrote in The Broken Cross, ‘surrounded the Pope so closely that he was spoken of, half humorously, as being their prisoner.’

Compton continued, “That the hand of the illuminati was certainly involved became clearer when Fr. Eilers, who announced that he was publishing those facts, was suddenly found dead, presumably one of those sudden heart attacks that, when dealing with secret societies, so often precede promised revelations.”

This background on Fr. Eilers is by way of lending credibility to the following extract from the book, The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled. That book was written by Cardinal Caro Y Rodriguez of Chile in 1925 and was highly recommended by Fr. Eilers. It contains much revealing information about the Craft. Cardinal Rodriguez explained that 99% of Masons have no idea about who controls their Brotherhood, and that it is in fact the Illuminati who are at the top.

As evidence, Cardinal Rodriguez quotes from a letter written by Albert Pike to Guissepi Mazzini on August 15, 1871 (note the Marian feast-day.) Mazzini was said to have carried on the work of Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati:

“The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.”

“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.”

“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction…will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

As can be seen, not only were the wars planned by the Masons, but so was Communism, the State of Israel, the Great Apostasy, and the rise of Luciferianism. Of course, we do know that the conspirators will never attain their ultimate goal, that of enthroning Satan and eliminating God from the mind of men. However, it is quite horrific to see how close they are to attaining their goal and what the cost has been – and will be – in terms of human lives and souls.

NOTE regarding the use of the word ‘Nazism’ in the plan for the Second World War. Having had a look at the origins of the word, it is clear that it was in usage in parts of Europe in Albert Pike’s time, where it meant ‘national’ or alternatively referred to ‘ignorant locals’. Since Hitler’s National Socialist party had not been established in 1870, it is likely that Pike planned to use an orchestrated world war to, among other goals, rid Europe of any form of nationalist and patriotic movements.

SOURCES: https://godskingdom.org/blog/2006/09/outline-of-prophetic-history-part-2/

https://passionistarchives.org/biography/father-eustace-eilers-c-p-holy-cross-province-1902-1957/

Piers Compton, The Broken Cross/ https://chroniclesmagazine.org/society-culture/the-strange-origin-of-the-word-nazi/

Pope’s ‘Deadly Sins’ are Straight from the Masonic Playbook

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It’s almost Synod time again: the second session is only weeks away, and the Vatican propaganda machine is letting us know what to expect. As usual, the agenda is full of Masonic mumbo-jumbo which will unfortunately be responsible for aiding and abetting many of the faithful on their path to Hell.

The Synod will begin with a ‘penitential liturgy’ which will include testimonies from three people (it is unclear whether or not these people are Catholic) and which will be geared towards young people. The first speaker is to be a victim of abuse; the second a victim of war and the third is a victim of ‘indifference to migrants’. This will be followed by a sort of general confession of ‘sins’ in which we have all apparently taken part.

Here are the sins – there are notably EIGHT of them: (is some kind of one-upmanship at play here?)

  1. sins against peace
  2. sins against creation
  3. sins against Indigenous populations and migrants
  4. sins of abuse
  5. sins against women, family and youth
  6. the sin of ‘using doctrine as a stone to be hurled’
  7. sins against poverty
  8. sins against synodality – the lack of listening and communion.

The inclusion of ‘sins against synodality’ continues to make the Church into a laughing-stock. Any respect She had left in the eyes of the world after decades of abuse scandals and cringey aggioramento has dissolved under the watch of Pope Bergoglio.

As can be seen, the greatest human rights abuse of all time, abortion, is not included – even though Bergoglio has said it is ‘just as bad‘ as sins against migrants. Of course, Bergoglio is no stranger to hypocrisy; even as he decries sins of abuse, he continues to harbour sex offenders within the very heart of the Church and to gaslight the faithful as an abusive father of the very lowest kind.

This information came from a press conference, and according to the Secretary-General of the Synod, Cardinal Mario Gresch, the Catholic Church is in a ‘dynamic of conversion.’ (Pretty accurate if he means conversion from the True Church to the Ape of the Church.)

In a specious snippet of predictive programming, Gresch reminded the world that the Pope has said, ” the main protagonist of the Synod is the Holy Spirit.” Easy to claim, not so easy to prove.

The relator-general of the synod, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, told the Vatical press conference that the number of official non-Catholic attendees will increase due to ‘the great interest that the sister churches’ have in the Synod. Who exactly are these ‘sister churches’? How is it possible for the Catholic Church, one True Church, to have ‘Sisters”? Does he not mean heretical churches? Sects? Idolators?

Additionally, it was announced that the Synod will be attended by two bishops from China; this is presumably an attempt to legitimise the disastrous Sino-Vatican deal.

The Synod will be preceded by a two-day retreat with the sodo-cleric, Timothy Radcliffe and Benedictine Mother Ignazia Angelini. Mother Angelini’s community is part of the worldwide Subiaco Cassinese Congregation. The Australian monastery of this Congregation is at New Norcia in Western Australia and is a notorious haunt for LGBTI Catholics. As can be seen in the image below, Mother Angelini has a link with Bergoglio’s patrons, the St. Gallen Mafia.

Here is Mother Angelini’s community with the late Cardinal Martini – founding member of the St. Gallen Mafia.

The retreat begins on October 1st and the Synod proper begins on October 3rd, which according to this occult ritual calendar, are Satanic high-days. Coincidence? I think not.

Another Masonic-inspired event during the Synod will be the ecumenical prayer-meeting on October 11th (the 62nd anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.) It looks as though everything is gearing up for another diabolical Assisi event. The Synod will finish at the end of October, just as occultists are preparing for their great feast of Halloween.

In order to make a direct connection between the Synod and Freemasonry, one need look no further than the Alta Vendita – that Masonic blueprint set down around 150 years ago and which was published for the faithful by Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII.

In planning the infiltration of the Catholic Church (for that is the precise strategy found in the Alta Vendita) the document tells Masonic adherents to “Leave old people and those of a mature age aside; go to the youth, and if it is possible, even to the children… ” This is EXACTLY what Bergoglio and his cronies have said they are planning for the Synod – and what they have in fact been up to for years.

The Masons knew that by gradually descralizing the culture, they would eventually end up with a Pope “according to their needs”; one who would be “more or less imbued with the [revolutionary] Italian and humanitarian principles that we are going to begin to put into circulation…”

The Alta Vendita advises “You wish to establish the reign of the chosen ones on the throne of the prostitute of Babylon; let the clergy march under your standard, always believing that they are marching under the banner of the Apostolic keys…. lay your snares …. in the sacristies, the seminaries and the monasteries rather than at the bottom of the sea…”

Is this not precisely what we see with the upcoming Synod: homosexualist leaders who are infecting seminaries and monasteries with their perverse doctrines; attempts at revising the education of priests; and weak bishops who believe they are promoting the rights of God even as they remain silent in the face of apostasy?

Is Cardinal Gresch’s “dynamic of conversion” anything other that the total revolution called for by the authors of the Alta Vendita?

Prophecy is being fulfilled before our very eyes. The reigning Pontiff is proceeding to play his part in the globalist coup as warned by Our Lady at La Salette:

All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds.

Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us!

SOURCES: https://www.usccb.org/news/2024/second-synod-session-open-penitential-liturgy. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-09/synod-presentation-2nd-session-grech-hollerich-ruffini.html. Timothy A. Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Roncalli and the ‘Aliens’.

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This is an extract from the book I’m working on: The unofficial title is “Synarychy: How John XXIII opened the door to Freemasonry and the New World Order.”

Finally, and perhaps the most bizarre story of all, John is said to have spoken with an alien at Castelgandalfo in 1961. His longtime secretary, Cardinal Loris Capovilla, also claimed to have witnessed the meeting.

The story was first published in an Argentinian online news service in 2014, (and later shared at Tradition in Action here) and the author was a ‘psychic’ named Luis Sartori.

Sartori was related to Capovilla, who was the first cousin of his maternal grandmother. Sartori claimed he had a written testimony from his relative who wrote that the incident took place when he and Pope John were walking in the gardens of Castelgondolfo, the papal holiday residence, in July 1961.

Capovilla wrote that they saw “a craft above our heads. It was oval and had flashing blue and amber lights.” The craft set down “on the grass on the south side of the garden. A strange being emerged from it: it looked like a human except that it was surrounded by a golden light and had elongated ears. His Holiness and I knelt down. We didn’t know what we were seeing, but we knew it was not of this world, so it must have been a heavenly event.

“We prayed and when we raised our heads, the being was still there. That was proof that we had not had a vision. The Holy Father stood up and walked toward the being. The two of them talked for about 20 minutes. They did not call me, so I stayed where I was and could not hear anything they said. Finally the being turned around, walked toward the ship and left.”

“His Holiness returned and told me that the children of God are everywhere; sometimes we have difficulty recognizing our own brothers.”

Sartori concluded by writing that “…. the Church accepts the existence of extraterrestrials and has even set up, together with NASA, in some very secret place, some kind of secret research center to follow the movements of these beings and their ships night and day.”

Sartori adds some interesting commentary; namely that, Pope Roncalli had regular communications with Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary and that this has been common knowledge since 1959. According to Sartori, the heavenly apparitions gave John prophecies about the future. Curiously, this lines up with the statements made by Carpi in his book, although it is always possible that this claim originated with Carpi himself.

The entire incident including Capovilla’s testimony is exceedingly strange and its veracity is let down by several weak links in the chain of information. Yet, it is significant that so many equally bizarre stories swirl around the figure of Pope John. Also significant is the theory that alien communications are in fact manifestations of the demonic. If it is true that John was involved in the occult, then direct communication with demons is hardly surprising. That a demon would disguise itself as an alien when meeting with men who fully believed in extra-terrestrial creatures is also unsurprising.

It brings to mind comments made by Constance Cumbey, an evangelical Protestant lawyer, in her 1983 book, Hidden Dancers of the Rainbow. In it, she wrote:

“If there has been a single Catholic Pope who permitted the New Ager’s plan to take root within the Roman Catholic Church, it was Pope John XXIII, who is spoken of reverentially by New Agers and ‘Catholic’ modernists.” (p. 160.)