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The Hideous Context of Bergoglio’s ‘Pro Life’ Comments.

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Last week the Pope made his way back from a trip to Oceania and during an in-flight press conference, gave some comments that have been interpreted as bolstering his pro life credentials. However, the whole quote in context is genuinely disgraceful: the Pope equated the great crime of abortion, that sin which cries to heaven for vengeance with the wholly legitimate activity of ejecting illegal immigrants.

As reported by Vatican News, Pope Francis responded to a journalist’s questions about the upcoming US presidential election:

Anna Matranga (CBS News)

Your Holiness, you have always spoken in defence of the dignity of life. In Timor-Leste, which has a high birth rate, you said you felt life pulsing and exploding with so many children. In Singapore, you defended migrant workers. With the US elections coming up, what advice would you give a Catholic voter faced with a candidate who supports ending a pregnancy and another who wants to deport 11 million migrants?

Both are against life: the one that throws out migrants and the one that kills children. Both are against life. I can’t decide; I’m not American and won’t go to vote there. But let it be clear: denying migrants the ability to work and receive hospitality is a sin, a grave sin. The Old Testament speaks repeatedly of the orphan, the widow, and the stranger—migrants. These are the three that Israel must care for. Failing to care for migrants is a sin, a sin against life and humanity.

I celebrated Mass at the border, near the diocese of El Paso. There were many shoes from migrants, who ended poorly there. Today, there is a flow of migration within Central America, and many times they are treated like slaves because people take advantage of the situation. Migration is a right, and it was already present in Sacred Scripture and in the Old Testament. The stranger, the orphan, and the widow—do not forget this.

Obviously the primary error here is that the Pope is equating ILLEGAL immigration with LEGAL immigration. It is true that migration was common in Old Testament days and it is still common today: nations should gladly accept a sensible number of immigrants who commit to assimilating and contributing to the common good.

But when Moses took the Israelites to the Promised Land, they were doing the Will of God. They were bringing with them what was, at that time, the true religion, unlike today’s illegals who are anything from Marxist infiltrators to child sex traffickers to practitioners of Voodoo and Santeria. The Israelites weren’t given debit cards and free housing and we can be fairly sure they didn’t resort to eating the locals’ pets. So the Pope is creating a false equivalence here and ignoring the multiple ways mass illegal migration is tearing at the fabric of western societies.

Then, abortion. Science says that at one month after conception, all the organs of a human being are present. Everything. Having an abortion is killing a human being. Whether you like the word or not, it’s murder. The Church is not closed-minded because it forbids abortion; the Church forbids abortion because it kills. It is murder; it is murder!

And we need to be clear about this: sending migrants away, not allowing them to grow, not letting them have life is something wrong, it is cruelty. Sending a child away from the womb of the mother is murder because there is life. And we must speak clearly about these things. “No, but however…” No “but however.” Both things are clear. The orphan, the stranger, and the widow—do not forget this.

The first thing to note here is that, in mentioning two of the sins that cry to heaven – the cry of the ‘orphan, stranger and widow’ and abortion – the Pope omits two other very relevant ones: sodomy and the failure to pay a just wage. Both of these are widely known to be rampant with the Vatican’s walls under hhis pontificate.

Secondly, not content with saying imported thugs should be given the same treatment as genuine migrants in his first response, the Pope now says imported thugs as just as important as unborn babies.

So the tuberculosis-carrying murderers, rapists, and drug-pushers deserve the same protections as vulnerable babies in the womb? What a regrettable comment from a Successor of St. Peter who is basically saying that both actions are mortally sinful. (If he believes in mortal sin, which is doubtful.)

In your opinion, Your Holiness, are there circumstances in which it is morally permissible to vote for a candidate who is in favor of abortion?

In political morality, it is generally said that not voting is ugly, it’s not good. One must vote. And one must choose the lesser evil. Which is the lesser evil? That lady or that gentleman? I don’t know; each person must think and decide according to their own conscience.

Wrong again, Holy Father. While Catholics MAY deem it prudent to vote for the pro-abortionTrump under the current circumstances, they MAY NOT vote for a pro-abortion candidate of the magnitude of Kamala Harris under any circumstances. (Here is Fr. Ripperger’s opinion on voting for the lesser evil.) And there always remains an option to vote third party as matter of principle.

So what at first glance appears to be a strong defence of life, is in reality merely an excuse for the Pope to bang on about one of his his favourite causes: the mass migration that globalists are using as a tool to smash national identity.

This is yet another pawn being moved on the global chessboard to create a New World Order, with Pope Francis cheerfully playing his part. The Introit from today’s Mass in memory of the martyrs, Sts Cornelius and Cyprian seems particularly apt:

“…O God , the heathens are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple…” Psalm 78.

A Providential Good News story

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this morning, without an article ready to publish, i was overwhelmed with discouragement at having to present yet another post containing an Apostate pope in a funny hat or a freemason prelate expelling a faithful priest or any similarly dismal theme.

Lo and behold, this sweet testimony, full of hope and gratitude, arrived in my inbox. It originated here.

NOTES in square brackets [ ] added by yours truly.

Cara Veronica,

On June 19, 2024, a sad day to remember, the last Latin Mass was celebrated in St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Melbourne). More than 850 faithful were present.

On Wednesdays of every week of the year, an ancient mass was celebrated in that church, attended by hundreds of young people.

The document to suppress it was sent by the Vatican and signed by Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola. In it they apologized, saying that since there is an anti-traditional climate in Rome, it is not appropriate for the Cathedral to continue with the usual Mass. Words that really make no sense…

Now, that one has been suppressed, only two parishes remain that celebrate the traditional mass. Among these is mine, which has the authorization for another 2 years. Then we will have to ask for permission again, which we fear will not be granted. Let us pray intensely that the Lord will come to free us soon, Veronica! It was too much pain for us! What a disappointment! What an outrage!

We are all infinitely sorry, also because that Holy Mass was attended by many young people: students, seminarians and young workers. For them it was the only ancient, midweek Mass they could attend. 

Already in 2021, after receiving the first order from Rome, the archbishop had forbidden all parishes to celebrate in Latin. Then we do not know what happened: suddenly he gave permission to the Cathedral to celebrate it and on Wednesdays it was very popular. At least 500 [NOTE: a slight exaggeration – by a factor of 10] faithful attended each time. Its suppression was a real scandal! Let us entrust ourselves to the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, Veronica, and pray that Her Immaculate Heart will soon triumph.

In my parish, as I was saying, one of the two still authorized to celebrate the ancient rite of the Saturday mass,*  by Grace, the Sunday mass is reformed, but in Latin** and is solemn.  [NOTE: Most Masses in this parish are Novus Ordo, offered ad Orientem; there is a weekly TLM as permitted by the local Ordinary.] Between incense, blessings and Gregorian chants, many are the young people and large families, with many children, who attend it, even coming from very far away. There are those who travel hundreds of kilometers by car to be there, on holidays.

The solemn Mass lasts about an hour and a half. Many women, like me, wear the veil and 90% of the faithful and more, receive Communion on the tongue. 

Our parish priest is an exemplary priest. Very young, but with a traditionalist background.

Upon his arrival, a new air was breathed. Softer, more sacred. He made a radical counter-revolution, abolishing all modernist customs and practices and restoring a certain material and spiritual discipline.

First he removed the altar girls and placed the Tabernacle back in the center, from a lateral position where it had previously been placed. He removed an ugly table, placed in place of the Altar, installing another, worthy of the name. He put back the kneelers to receive Holy Communion on the tongue and began to use the plate under the chin again, during His distribution. With him the sign of peace immediately became a distant memory and he began to distribute Holy Communion personally, completely excluding extraordinary ministers.

Needless to say, the priest wears a cassock and I noticed that the toes of his shoes are bent upwards, so much time is spent kneeling. God bless him and confirm. He has already bought the balustrades [altar rails] that will be installed soon.

During the lockdown he never abandoned or neglected the faithful. He heard confessions for more than 3 hours on Saturdays, when other churches were closed. He even installed an automatic dispenser for holy water, instead of taking it away. So great is his zeal, that he always found a solution for every problem that arose.

The Church in Australia has changed in recent years, but it has not reached the negative extremes of Italy: for example, no priest has ever thought of refusing Communion to the faithful, because they want to receive it on the tongue and kneeling . [NOTE: this does, in fact, sometimes happen in Australia, unfortunately.] The Our Father has not changed either and normally everyone kneels during the Consecration.

We know well that in particular everything depends on the priest and in general we notice a certain awakening among them.

The young consecrated people are very devoted and lovers of the two-thousand-year-old tradition of the Catholic Church.

Let’s hope so, Veronica.

A big hug to you. Thank you

Silvia, da Melbourne (Australia)

While there are some who say that the reverent Novus Ordo is “part of the problem”, I say, along with St. Pio of Pietrelcina, that in times like these, we must take the good wherever we find it. Thank God for this woman and for her blessed little parish which is evidence that God never abandons His Church.

BCE was invented by a Freemason

‘BCE’ was invented by a Freemason

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There has been much criticism of a decision by the Vatican to issue a document which included the dating system ‘BCE’ rather than the customary ‘BC.’ The document in question was a letter from the Pope about the usefulness of literature; he included two dates to exemplify St. Paul’s ‘evangelical discernment of culture’ (whatever that is.).

Although some historians believe that BCE (before the common era) is not meant to be an insult to Jesus Christ (BC of course refers to ‘before Christ’), a look into the origin of the term shows that this is unlikely to be the case. That is because the inventor of BCE was a Mason and as such was influenced by anti-Christian ideology.

The origins of the Christian dating system of BC and AD can be traced back at least as far as the 6th century, when a monk tabled the dates of Easter in reference to anni Domini nostri Jesu Christi, that is, “years of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 

The system was popularised by the Venerable Bede, who was active in the 7th century. Bede’s works included the phrase, ante incarnationis dominicae tempus, meaning ‘before the time of the incarnation of the Lord’ as well as anno ab incarnatione Domini, meaning ‘in the year from the incarnation of the Lord’ and anno incarnationis Dominicae, meaning ‘in the year of the incarnation of the Lord.’ Bede’s dating system became standard by the time of Charlemagne and was abbreviated over time to the two letters now in use.

BCE, however, was brought into use much later by the scientist, Johannes Kepler. Kepler, a German, lived from 1571 to 1630 and was ostensibly a Lutheran. He is known for his contributions to the study of planetary motion and celestial mechanics; his three laws governing planetary motion are still used today by astronomers.

As well as studying astronomy, Kepler was also an adept in astrology – something omitted from modern school textbooks!

Kepler is said to have been initiated into Freemasonry in 1620 at Prague’s Bohemian Union Lodge.

Kepler, left, shown with a compass.


SOURCE: Ludwig Günther, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In his book, Eclogae Chronicae, published in 1615, Kepler used the terminology anno aerae nostrae vulgaris (in our common era.) Kepler offered no explanation for the change, and it was repeated here and there over the next couple of hundred years, in several non-English-speaking parts of Europe.

1708 marked the first time the phrase ‘common era’ was used in an English book, The History of the Works of the Learned. By the mid 19th century, CE and BCE had come into common use, popularised by Jews who did not want to honour the salvific birth of Christ. Nowadays, BCE and CE continue to be promoted by atheists who refuse to ‘privilege Christianity,’ as well as by those who do not wish to offend non-Christians.

Thus when a Pope decides to use BCE instead of BC, he reveals a Masonic preference for religious indifferentism or worse: that the Incarnation and birth of Jesus Christ were not the pivotal events in the history of mankind.

SOURCES: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/12/05/a-history-of-the-common-era-bce-ce-dating-system/

https://www.learnreligions.com/bc-vs-bce-which-should-we-use-250186

https://esotericfreemasons.com/most-famous-modern-day-freemasons

Bergoglio's Visitor Flashes Occult Credentials

Bergoglio’s Visitor Flashes Occult Credentials

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The meeting itself was scandalous enough: a semi-naked man in the Vatican’s official reception room, ostensibly to promote the Pope’s upcoming trip to Papua New Guinea. The topless man is Mundiya Kepanga, an environmental activist and Papuan tribal chief who was in Rome last May.

But worse than his state of undress was the message he sent through Vatican channels: Kepanga overtly flashed this hand gesture, used by occultists such as the Illuminati and by practitioners of magical yoga, in full view of the video cameras of media outlet Rome Reports. It could not have been more obvious.

Screenshot: the entire video may be accessed here.

Despite his traditional clothing, Kepanga is a man of the world: he travels, appears in documentary films and attends UNESCO and COP events. (Take a look here at his selfie in front of the Statue of Liberty.)

Kepanga told the Pope that the main concern of his nation is deforestation, but omitted to mention the actual problems confronting the people of New Guinea: Chinese interests undermining the nation’s sovereignty, anti-life organisations Like Marie Stopes international working with the Catholic Church to inflict contraception and abortion on the people; systemic government corruption and of course, high levels of superstition and paganism, including such practices as cannibalism and headhunting.

Kepanga with his clothes on. Note the plastic water bottle and disposable cups: standard issue hypocrisy for the modern environmentalist.

SOURCE: Totocach, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Kepanga’s Huli tribe, while not known to be cannibals, believe in a number of pagan gods, performing rituals and sacrifices they believe enable them to harness divine powers; they are particularly fond of sacrificing pigs in order to gain protection or some other benefit from their gods. These ‘gods’ are, of course, demons, thus it seems that Kepanga is accessing demons to gain power. Indeed, sorcery and witchcraft are the part of everyday life for the Huli people. Yet Kepanga is clearly into more than that: his gesture reveals that he part of a contemporary occult society – one he felt compelled to acknowledge and promote from the very centre of Catholicism.

As we know, paganism and occultism pose no obstacle for this Pope. In fact, they are openly welcomed and are the only form of traditionalism being promoted currently in the Vatican. The ‘backwardism’ of the traditional liturgy is condemned but what could be more ‘backwardist’ than a twenty-first century environmental activist wearing indigenous fancy-dress?

Bergoglio has entertained a steady stream of occultists, sodomites and witches, flaunting their meetings via his official media outlets. So the question remains: why would a Pope applaud these practices – unless they are part of his religion?

Viganò Suggests Bertone is ‘Contiguous’ to Freemasonry

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In his recent interview with Franca Giansoldati, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Cardinal Tarscisio Bertone of having Masonic sympathies. Bertone, who is still alive, was Secretary of State to Benedict XVI and he continued in that position for the first seven months of Francis’ pontificate.

Like Pope John XXIII, Cardinal Bertone’s coat-of-arms includes a tower, which according to Masonic heraldry, represents the Masonic temple.

Bertone is widely regarded as one of Benedict’s ‘gatekeepers’, one who controlled the flow of information to the Pope; he admitted to knowing months in advance of the Pope’s decision to resign. Bertone’s farewell address to Benedict, flatters the Pope for his decision, even though elsewhere he said he did not agree with it:

“All of us have realized that it is precisely the deep love that Your Holiness has for God and the Church that prompted you to make this act, revealing that purity of mind, that strong and demanding faith, that strength of humility and meekness, along with great courage, that have marked every step of your life and your ministry…”

Cardinal Bertone’s Farewell Address to the Holy Father

According to Viganò, it was Bertone who exerted pressure on Pope Benedict to have Viganò removed from the Secretariat of State and subsequently transferred to the US as Nuncio. All of this was aimed at stopping Viganò from exposing financial corruption in the Vatican. Viganò was also abruptly evicted from his Curial home the day he turned 75, and denied an alternative within the Vatican walls.

Alarmingly, he suggests that his predecessor as Nuncio, Cardinal Pietro Sandri, was murdered for opposing then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Said Viganò:

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.

So, what is known about Bertone and does he have Masonic form?

Bertone’s unusual handshake – SOURCE: Freemasonry Watch

We know that he was part of the ‘Old Guard’: that ‘mafia’ of prelates at the highest levels in the Vatican, who ran things behind the scenes before Bergoglio’s new gang came to town. Parolin is one of these, as was Sodano.

Bertone was responsible for making influential appointments within the Curia, the most notable of which was Cardinal Becciu’s appointment as sostituto in 2011. He also appointed Alberto Perlasca as head of the administrative office of the Secretariat of State in 2009. Perlasca monitored all the department’s financial transactions – including the ill-fated London Sloane Avenue deal and both he and Becciu went on to become central figures in the Vatican financial corruption trial.

Bertone himself is no stranger to accusations of financial misappropriation. In 2015, he was at the centre of the Vatileaks 2 scandal when it was revealed that he had used funds from the Bambino Gesù Foundation to renovate his large apartment in Vatican City. The apartment was apparently designed to house Bertone, his secretary and three nuns and included a rooftop entertainment area; half a million US dollars was diverted from the Bambino Gesù to pay for the renovations. In addition, there was corruption involved in the tendering process and a long-time friend of Bertone was given the contract for the job.

Although the case was mentioned in 2017 during the complicated Vatican finances trial, no charges were laid against Bertone, nor was he even called as a witness – Bertone repeatedly has claimed that Pope Francis sanctioned the renovations. The only conclusion given at the trial was that the Bertone affair was ‘anomalous.’

Yet that event pales into insignificance with older accusations that Bertone was involved in a misappropriation of Vatican funds to the tune of USD $15 million. Somehow this incident was never properly investigated and news articles about it have been scrubbed from the internet.

Bertone is also implicated in serious moral failings within the hierarchy. He knew at least as early as 2008 that Theodore McCarrick had slept with seminarians and although he was one of those responsible for placing sanctions on McCarrick, did nothing to enforce them. Also, despite his integral role in the McCarrick case, Bertone was not mentioned in the McCarrick Report.

But without a doubt, the most serious affair Bertone has been involved in was the deception surrounding the Third Secret of Fatima. Bertone, along with then-Cardinal Ratzinger and others, fabricated the interpretation of the Third Secret which was announced to the world in 2000. Their interpretation said that the ‘bishop in white’ who was murdered actually referred to the attempted assassination of John Paul II, that predictions of a chastisement actually referred to the Church’s ongoing opposition by the world and so on. Bertone met with Sr. Lucia on three occasions, claiming she approved their false interpretation as well as the inadequate Consecration made by Pope John Paul II. (For anyone with doubts: where are the fruits of this Consecration?)

It is difficult to fathom the magnitude of this betrayal by Bertone, Ratzinger, John Paul II and their clique. To firstly ignore and then misrepresent Our Lady is treachery of the most hideous kind.

If, as Archbishop Viganò suggests, Bertone is at the very least least, adjacent to Freemasonry, then this only adds insult to the injury of Holy Mother Church. Bertone should be added to the list of prelates who need our prayers: at 89, he has not much time left for conversion, and without it, an eternity in hell awaits him and all those who profit from their status in the Church or go so far as to mock the Mother of God.

IMAGE SOURCES: White House Image/Lawrence Jackson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Summary of Occult Principles

Summary of Occult Principles

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Taken from The Way Down and Out by John Senior.

Occultists tend to believe and act upon the following related notions:

  1. The universe is one, single, eternal, ineffable substance.
  2. This substance manifests itself as spirit, fire or light.
  3. It further manifests itself Demiurge of Logos which orders the created light into the visible world by means of numerous intermediaries likewise emanations from the One.
  4. All things progress be dialectical oppositions. The created universe is composed of paired ‘opposites’ – male-female, light-dark – which generated their own equilibrium or harmony. The creative triad thus formed is then considered as contained in the One, uncreated, ineffable, and thus the universe is seen as a four-fold unity.
  5. Things above are as they are below because, since mind and matter are one, the imagination is real, and any analogy it conceives is as good as ‘scientific’ proof of correspondence.
  6. Since all things are one, a ‘science’ of interference can be established whereby knowledge of the spiritual can be gained by study of the material, and vice versa, as in contemplation of the created universe in mysticism, manipulation of the created universe in alchemy.
  7. The human body is especially taken to be the image of creation. The universe is taken to be, in fact, a living man.
  8. Since men are created by sexual means, sex is an attribute of the divine. The original source is said to separate into male and female parts and, by cohabiting with itself, creates.
  9. Since man is the prototype, man is capable of realising in himself all things. He is capable of becoming God because he is God without ‘realising’ it. In the sex act, man realises his own female nature and becomes symbolically androgynous – becomes one flesh – and therefore whole.
  10. The task of man is therefore self-realisation. To know thyself is everything.
  11. Self-realisation is the progressive discovery of the layers of the psyche which is not mere ego but at least seven separate things including the universal substance.
  12. Certain supermen, having achieved self-realisation, turn back to their unrealised fellows. These are the bodhisattvas, the masters, the guardians, the founders of religions who veil the ultimate in terms suitable to time and place.
  13. Thus all religions are variations on a single transcendent unity.
  14. Ordinary men can become supermen by arduous practice, by grace and/or by virtue of their past experience.
  15. The superman is appraised of his possibilities for illumination, accidental or induces state in which heat, fire or a light surround him and he sees ineffable and profoundly moving truth of the oneness of the universe.
  16. The supermen, according to principal nine, is often sexually androgynous as symbolised by tonsure, circumcision, peculiar dress.
  17. Since the self-realised bodhisattva wants to communicate something of the higher truths to those not able to understand it, he uses symbols in his teaching and in this way affects the less-developed mind on its unconscious levels. He thus not only turns the ego inward so that it may explore as much of the self as possible, but fosters the growth of the soul itself. Symbols are efficacious even when you do not understand them. Ot rather, in the discursive sense, the symbol can never be understood. The symbol is the meeting ground between the ego and the ineffable.
  18. Ziggurats, pyramids, mysteries, myths, alchemical processes, astrological creams – these are symbolic systems of yantras.
  19. To facilitate the work of self-realisation, adepts have often organised brotherhoods, such as Rosicrucians, Pythagoreans and so on. Initiation into these orders is often considered a prerequisite of the necessary extraconsciousness and is usually a ceremony in itself efficacious in producing such states of mind.
  20. All things live according to pulse, or breath, or rhythm, which expresses itself in time as cycles of birth, growth, and decay, as Magnus Annas in the life of worlds, as birth, death and resurrection in men.
  21. In the cycles, both collectively and in history and individually in men, all souls must eventually be all things. The task of the individual man as we know him, of the times as we live them, is to leave things as they seem in order to discover the unknown, which is often symbolised as a descent into hell.

IMAGE SOURCE – ‘WITCH BURNING” – Wikimedia Commons