Kathy Clubb is a mother and writer whose articles have appeared at The Remnant, LifeSite News, Family Life International, and Endeavour Forum. She is the author of "Latina Rosarii, the Latin Primer for the Reluctant". Her book, "An Unjust Law" is due for release in late 2025.
Be silent no more! Cry out with one hundred thousand tongues. I see that, because of this silence, the world is in ruins, the Spouse of Christ has grown pale; the color is taken from her face because her blood has been sucked out, that is the blood of Christ, which is given as a free gift and not by right – St. Catherine of Siena
In the 3rd century BC, King Pyrrhus of Greece went to war against the Romans. Initially, his forces were victorious, but the casualties they sustained were so high that Pyrrhus was unable to win a more decisive later battle. From this historical failure is derived the term, Pyrrhic victory, which has come to mean a victory which is hollow: one which loses more than it gains.
Two thousand years later, Italy is again the scene of a Pyrrhic victory; mainstream traditionalist media is claiming a triumph while also sustaining great losses, both of credibility and of personal integrity.
A deal with the devil
The Tridentine Mass of the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage held in St. Peter’s Basilica was hailed by some as the sign that Pope Leo is welcoming tradition into the Vatican. It was a product of the “Zip It” policy which promised to “see no evil” in return for access (for some) to the Latin Mass.
With a huge crowd of faithful Catholics and a number of high-ranking prelates in attendance, the liturgy was accompanied by an exorcism prayer offered by Cardinal Ernest Simoni. Cardinal Simoni, aged 97, had been tortured and imprisoned for 28 years in Albania for refusing to renounce his faith.
Without casting shade on the piety of the Cardinal, it must be asked whether a single exorcism prayer could be sufficient to cleanse St. Peter’s from the multitude of abuses she has endured over the past decade. Surely a solemn reconsecration would be necessary before traditionalists could dare to offer Mass inside St. Peter’s walls?
The Vatican’s liaison was Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who was also in attendance on the day. Zuppi has been assisting at traditional liturgies around Rome for a number of years, one example being the Pontifical Mass he offered for Laetare Sunday with the FSSP in 2014.
Yet, Zuppi is so closely aligned with the promotion of sodomy that his presence at these Masses should be a source of scandal to traditional Catholics.
The pilgrimage of sodomites which entered the Basilica last month, organised with the explicit support of Cardinal Zuppi, was only the latest in a series of his sodomy-related scandals.
It seems ironic that the same voices that condemn collegiality among the bishops are insisting traditionalist Catholics unite under a milquetoast banner of love, in an effort to secure their Latin Masses. This tactic is flawed and will lead, in some cases, to the most tragic of consequences that can befall a Christian: the loss of his eternal soul.
Much of the current appeal to unity is based in emotion and not reason; there is little substance in the arguments which are often ad hominem (“You’re all sedes!” or “You hide behind your avatars!”) or straw men (“You say the Mass doesn’t matter!”)
Yet the most obvious weakness is the appeal to an obsolete tactic: that of tolerance in the face of an extremely devious enemy. While it may be argued that it was this approach which led to the widespread availability of the traditional Latin Mass under Pope Benedict’s Summorum Pontificum (I would posit that it did not), relying on previously-used tactics for their own sake is a great weakness for anyone engaged in a war.
The ancient military strategist, Sun Tzu, set out his approach to defeating an enemy in his treatise, The Art of War and warned against re-using a previous tactic because it worked in the past.
His advice to military commenders has been relied upon for centuries. He wrote:
Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.
Sun Tzu – On the Art of War, #28-31
Reassess Tactics
Sun Tzu wrote these words more than 2500 years ago and they still ring true. “Let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.” Applying this to the current crisis in the Church, we could say that during the pontificate of Pope Francis, many conservative, but Modernist prelates began to wake up to the fact that there was, in fact, a crisis and that Bergoglio was not its cause, but merely its symptom. That process, sometimes slow but at other times more rapid, of realising that something devastating happened at the Second Vatican Council was evident, as these good men began to piece together the pattern of revolutionary infiltration and indoctrination which led the Church to the sad state in which She finds Herself today.
Sun Tzu
Now that we have another Pope spouting the same heresies and errors, albeit in a more smooth and sophisticated manner, it is simply not reasonable to give the conservative Novus Ordo prelates ane more time, allowing them to gradually come to the conclusion that is evident to those with eyes to see: this is the time to declare strongly, clearly and without equivocation, the fundamental teachings of the Catholic Church.
This is the time to boldly draw attention to the errors being taught by Pope Prevost and his Synodal mouthpieces with calm and simplicity.
Avoid the strong
Sun Tzu recommended that strategists “avoid what is strong and strike at what is weak.” In the case at hand, what is “strong” is the Pope’s popularity, a perceived belief that the Church is back on track and, it must be said, the universal relief that Pope Francis is dead. Thus in order to avoid “what is strong”, conservative prelates should be maintaining the state of high alert which existed under Bergoglio, exposing the reality that the Church is still in grave danger, that souls are threatened and that aesthetics do not compensate for heterdox teaching.
This obligation extends to those traditionalist commentators who, having accepted the strategy of appeasement as laid out by Cardinal Burke, are now refusing to call out Pope Leo for his errors and have taken to chastising those who do have the fortitude to expose him.
When we add our approval of the new Pope’s actions and words to that already given by the mainstream Church and the world at large, we only magnify the errors and soothe guilty consciences, putting souls at risk of eternal damnation.
Attack the weakness
The tactic of attacking an opponent’s weakness is so obvious that it should require no explanation, yet this is precisely what the group we have come to know as “Trad. Inc.” has decided to avoid doing.
The great weakness of Pope Prevost is that he is literally speaking heresy. When he says that “we have to change attitudes before we even think about changing what the Church says about any given question”, this needs to be called out as heresy.
When he says that it is “highly unlikely” rather than impossible, that doctrine on sexuality will change, this needs to be called out as heresy.
No amount of incense, lace or Latin can make up for errors like these. (For an excellent appraisal of the Pope’s disastrous Crux interview, see this video by The Catholic Esquire.)
Swallowing the Bait
Many are overjoyed that Cardinal Burke is to offer a Latin Mass in St. Peter’s during the upcoming Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage. We are told that this is a sign that God has not abandoned His Church (But who says that He has? The neo-counter-revolutionaries certainly do not.) This permission is somehow seen as a gift, an olive branch being held out to traditionalists by the new Pope, as a sign of his good will.
But what has Sun Tzu to say about such a thing? He suggests caution unless the intentions of the enemy are known.
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbours. Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy.
Sun Tzu – On the Art of War, #32-33
The permission given for the Latin Mass does indeed have the appearance of bait intended to harm the traditionalist movement and it is not only “anonymous podcasters” suggesting there is a problem. Respected priests like Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea and Fr. Murr have also expressed their disappointment and fears about the Mass. Fr. Murr even said that St. Peter’s needs to be re-consecrated due to the Pachamama incident, this need being compounded by the more recent appearance of a sodomite pilgrimage group within its walls. (Alas, I have lost the reference video for this comment by Fr. Murr. The link will be added when I track it down.)
Pope Francis with the Pachamama idol in St. Peter’s Basilica
The ancient Roman poet, Virgil, had his own warning for cases like this one: “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”. This was a reference to the Trojan Horse, a Grecian gift to the ancient city of Troy, which was filled with soldiers who then infiltrated and utterly destroyed the city and its inhabitants.
It’s worth pointing out that the term, “Greek love”, was used as a euphemism for sodomy by Classical scholars, which brings us back to one of the major themes of this pontificate and a red flag for anyone wishing to make peace with it: homosexuality. Pope Leo’s appointments and those of Pope Francis which Prevost has left in place are an ongoing source of scandal to the faithful.
St. Paul points out exactly what should be our attitude to sodomites and those who tolerate them or condone their sin:
“For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? (2 Cor 6: 14-16)
Scripture would seem to preclude offering Mass in a Church which has been defiled by pagan worship and a depraved, sacrilegious pilgrimage. It only adds to the scandal for Cardinal Burke and the Summorum Pontificum organisers to offer a TLM under such circumstances, yet we are told this is a sign that we are “winning”.
Ignorance of the enemy leads to a defeat
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu – On the Art of War, #34
There is no question that, at some point in the future, the Church will rise again and our enemies will be thwarted. It shows a lack of faith in Our Lady’s promise of Her Triumph to believe otherwise. Yet until that day comes, the Church Militant will continue to suffer and will, most probably, experience an escalation in suffering and persecution, which only by the grace of God, we will be able to endure. This could be thought of the way that Catholics “know themselves.”
To say that the rallying of Traditionalist troops around a well-meaning, but Modernist, prelate like Cardinal Burke is a sign of the coming Restoration is not only delusional, but it is dangerous. Failing to point out Leo’s errors endangers souls – perhaps not the souls of Traditionalists who are better catechised, but the souls of those countless Novus Ordo catholics – the “normies”, who trust in the pope and uncritically accept what he teaches.
Narcissistic revolutionaries thrive on the tolerance produced by misplaced charity. The silence of Trad. Inc. is a fruit of “knowing oneself but not knowing the enemy.” According to the philosophy of Sun Tzu, such a situation leads to a defeat for every victory.
It may well be that those aligned with Burke will see their Masses protected or restored, but the price of this “victory” could be enormous. Doubtful Catholics who once had the opportunity to be challenged by the Resistance movement, who were provoked to investigate Vatican II and its errors and to question mainstream Catholic narratives, are now being confirmed in their sin by the silence of Trad. Inc.
It is not only sodomites who are at risk of this: when we consider that most Catholics today live in habitual mortal sin via the use of contraception, failing to confess honestly, making sacrilegious Communions, denying dogma such as the Real Presence and extra ecclesiam nulla salus, it offends against charity to allow them to believe that doctrine can change.
Silence is tantamount to saying “to hell with the rest of the Catholic world as long as we have our Masses.” That is the defeat which will be the cost of any perceived victory: a rejection of supernatural charity which will lead to the widespread loss of souls.
It’s a little like the Golden Rule (Those who have the Gold Make the Rules) except that in this case, those who think they are greater get to decide what is good.
For when traditional Catholic commentators were told to “zip it” rather than criticise the current papal aberrations, the “good ” involved was not the good of the Church nor was it the salvation of souls. Rather, the apparent “good”, decided by the “greater” ones, was their attempt to secure for themselves their Latin Masses. This, it seems, would be in return for a very small fee: keeping quiet about Leo and his papacy’s remarkable similarity to that of Bergoglio.
The Greater Good must be contrasted with the Common Good, which is actually the Catholic position.
Whereas the Common Good must take the needs of everyone into account, the Greater Good always involves the sacrifice of some for the sake of the whole. This principle is never more consequential than in the matter of salvation, where every individual’s soul needs to be considered.
For to remain silent when Pope Leo unashamedly continues the agenda of Bergoglio and his conciliar and post-conciliar predecessors does put souls at risk – of despair, of error and of deception.
One is reminded of the words of Our Lady of Buen Suceso of the Purification at Quito, Ecuador, where she said several times that ” that one who should speak will fall silent”.
If “the one”, presumably the Pope, falls silent then it is not surprising that other Catholics who should speak out would also follow suit. That is, those traditional Catholic commentators who were so quick to point out Bergoglio’s errors and who did so much good in alerting the faithful during his reign, fell silent when it came to Prevost.
Thankfully, it does appear that the ‘zip it” crowd already have egg on their faces and that some, at least, have begun to rethink their ill-fated strategy.
One commentator, notorious for his self-promotion, has already backtracked somewhat. This is the same man who made a video prior to the conclave in which he said that the election of Prevost would be the worst possible scenario for the Church. After the conclave, he scrubbed that video and refused to call our Pope Leo’s errors. (Thanks to Novus Ordo Watch, the original video can be found here.)
It should be mentioned that this backtracking coincided with the release of his latest book which he unashamedly promoted during his first foray into criticism of the new Pope. Perhaps he realised that the book’s target audience included those Catholics who are feeling dazed and confused by the traditionalists’ Zip-It policy.
Another Zip-it proponent has also begun to loosen his lips to allow some initial criticism of the shameful desecration of St. Peter’s during the James Martin crowd’s pilgrimage. Yet another has put out a strident blogpost, explaining that this LGBT pilgrimage crossed his bright line, allowing criticism to spring forth from his keyboard. We are assured that his wait-and-see policy was born, ever so ‘umbly, out of charity alone.
Don’t forget, these are the men who until now, gave Leo a pass when the red flags first began flying. They remained quiet when footage emerged of a talk he gave, praising the evil Cardinal Bernadin. Likewise, when Leo de facto canonised Bergoglio, the most prominent traditionalist commentators had nothing to say. The pagan Mass for Creation? Silence. Scandalous appointments? Crickets.
If the Great Unzipping really has taken place, it will be interesting to see what the future holds for the likes of Chris Jackson, Steven Kokx and The Catholic Esquire. They have done the heavy lifting during this wait-and-see phase of the new papacy, unflinchingly calling it as they have seen it, rather than kowtowing to the compromise directive issued, as has become all too clear, from the doyen of Trad-dom, Cardinal Burke.
For it is difficult to draw any other conclusion than this: that Burke was the middle-man in a mutually beneficial transaction between wealthy traditionalists and Modernist Rome.
Consider: a group of rich, traditionalist Catholics pulled their purse-strings closed under Bergoglio, thereby making a significant impact on the Vatican’s bottom line. Remember, Rome is in a quite desperate financial situation these days.
Those same wealthy Catholics had been suffering under Bergoglio. His outrageous behaviour caused them a loss of prestige and influence as they were no longer ‘in’ with the papacy, in the same way they had been under John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
In order to restore their reputations as the Catholic elite, it would be necessary to find a new Pope who matched their sensibilities – of aesthetics, anyway. Doctrine doesn’t matter when one has a private chapel with any number of cancelled priests willing to provide bespoke Latin Masses.
And so a deal was struck: in return for the flow of money to Rome, the mild-mannered Prevost would have to be elected. He looked the part and fluently spoke the correct languages: English and Latin. It would fall to Cardinal Burke to do the lobbying prior to the conclave.
If all this seems a bit far-fetched, it should be remembered that Steve Bannon said from the beginning that the conclave was “rigged”.
Additionally, some months ago, Anthony Stine, on Return to Tradition, cited an article from a big legacy media outlet in the US, which revealed that a secret meeting took place in Rome prior to the conclave. It was apparently attended by wealthy Italian and American Catholics who promised to send money to the Vatican if an American was elected Pope.
Remember also that the Italian news outlet, Corriere della Sera, confidently reported that Prevost was seen entering Cardinal Burke’s apartment on April 30 for ‘a top-secret summit’, even though this was strenuously denied by reliable reporters like Diane Montagna and Ed Pentin.
From whom is it likely that Montagna and Pentin receive their Vatican-insider information? Could it be from Cardinal Burke himself? Is it possible that the journalists were set up – no doubt for the Greater Good?
From where did Montagna receive the results of the bishops survey that shows Bergoglio had lied about the Latin Mass being unpopular with the hierarchy? Could those documents not have been leaked by Cardinal Burke himself?
Why did they not come out during Bergoglio’s reign? It was certainly possible to have arranged it.
Was it because such a revelation would have only hardened Bergoglio’s heart against the traditional Mass? Leaked under Prevost, however, the latter would potentially have the opportunity to play the Good Guy and rescind Traditiones Custodes, or at least, not bother to see it enforced.
Where does the so-called Trad Inc. fit into the picture? Well, if they want their Masses secured, and hopefully Traditiones Custodes rescinded, they would have to toe the line. No more criticism of Rome, no more bad press for the Pope. The rest of Christendom would then have to take its chances with the mish-mash of heresy, sodo-liturgies and Modernism going on outside the small enclaves of tradition. This would appease the Catholic elite by making the papacy look reasonable once more and start the coffers flowing to Rome.
Rome would have its income restored; the wealthy Catholics would have their prestige restored; Trad Inc. would have its Masses restored. At least, that was the plan, with Cardinal Burke as the lynch-pin. He was to be truly cardinalis. (Latin for ‘pivotal’).
There were two sticking points in this plot – other than whatever small murmurings came from the consciences of those involved. One is the yearning for truth that exists in the soul of every person of good will; the other is the fact that silence in the face of outrage has a limit.
Many traditional Catholics knew that this silence was unnatural and so sought their news from the few honest reporters, like those mentioned above. And this website, although very small, should be included among those who has tried to expose Pope Leo’s agenda from Day 1. (eg here.)
Now that Trad Inc’s floodgates of histrionics appear ready to open, releasing a barrage of complaints against Pope Leo onto the faithful, we should all be cautious as we begin again to consume their commentary. For they abandoned faithful Catholics in a time of need, no less than the shepherds whom they like to so roundly denounce as having abandoned the faithful.
The public’s trust in Trad. Inc. has been severely eroded and without a clear apology, the damage may be irreparable.
This article examines the heinous pedophile, Clarence Osborne, who played a prominent part in an international sex-ring which extended to all the way to the highest levels of the British government.
[For an example of the obfuscation that arises when attempts are made to investigate Masons protecting pedophilia networks, see this disgraceful series of responses from Boris Johnson, former PM of Britain. At the time of the investigation, he was the Mayor of London.]
FROM QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT HANSARD:
Brisbane Court and Hansard reporter Clarence Henry Osborne who gassed himself in his car on September 12, 1979, was found to have committed sexual assaults against 2,500 under age boys–not one of them had reported him to the police.1
Paedophile Clarence Henry Howard-Osborne’s files could have ‘brought down government’
March 19, 2016 1:00am by MATTHEW CONDON, COURIER MAIL
FOR years he had lived quietly and alone in his simple, post-war austerity home on the corner of Eyre Street and Orb Lane in Mount Gravatt East, 12km south-west of Brisbane CBD. The single-level house sat on a generous block. It had a small front patio of red brick, a garage down the side, and two separate sheds in the deep backyard. It was in that yard that neighbours often saw their neighbour running fitness classes with young boys. In one of his sheds he had gym equipment, and in the other photographic gear. He liked taking pictures and almost always carried a camera. On weekends, too, he enjoyed nothing more than cruising down to the Gold Coast in his green car, or hanging out at the nearby Garden City Shopping Centre.
He was a world-class stenographer and his name was Clarence Henry Howard-Osborne. To an outsider, Howard-Osborne, known as plain Clarry Osborne, was nothing more or less than a mild eccentric, a perfectionist, a man who did not suffer fools gladly. Given he was a leading shorthand writer for the Queensland courts and later state parliament, he appreciated order. But as he lived unobtrusively in Eyre St – from at least the early 1960s – he harboured an extraordinary secret within the walls of that plain house.
In the spring of 1979, a suburban Brisbane mother accidentally overhead her young son talking about being photographed in the nude by a man. When she later pressed him for details, he volunteered that a person named Clarry Osborne had taken pictures of him and other boys.
Some weeks later, the mother mentioned the incident involving her son to a friend at a social function. As it turned out, the friend was married to a Queensland police officer. That officer – not a member of the force’s Juvenile Aid Bureau, the unit that might be expected to handle such matters – decided to have Osborne put under surveillance.
He was duly caught photographing boys in bushland near Mount Gravatt. Clarence Osborne Osborne was taken by police to Eyre St. There, they discovered thousands of pictures of naked children, hundreds of hours of tape-recorded conversations with boys and a meticulously organised filing cabinet filled with index cards bearing the details of his victims, from their names, ages and addresses, to their physical measurements.
It was later estimated that Osborne had been involved with more than 2500 under-aged males over a 20-year period. Police took Osborne back to headquarters in the city for questioning. They also confiscated three carloads of materials – a fraction of Osborne’s sordid trove of information.
Investigators were initially bewildered by the magnitude of the case. Here was a short, stocky, 61-year-old man, recently retired, who, if his own documents were to be believed, might go down in history as one of the world’s worst serial paedophiles. And his playground was southeast Queensland.
Down at headquarters, police noted that Osborne was remarkably cooperative. But what might they charge him with? It would take months to go through the photographs, index cards, tape recordings and pornographic material. The Juvenile Aid Bureau and the legal department would have to be consulted. So that evening in September 1979, detectives drove Osborne back to Eyre St.2
“The best way”
That night, Osborne wrote a note explaining he had been questioned by police and that “this was the best way”. He took some of his files and burned them in an incinerator in his backyard. He then went into the garage down a driveway on the northern side of the house, hooked a hose up to the exhaust pipe and into the cabin of his green car, started the engine and pressed “record” on the audio equipment he had rigged inside, used countless times to capture his illicit conversations with boys and the sounds of their sexual trysts.
Osborne then recorded his own last words: “I’ve been sitting here ten minutes and I’m still alive…”
Incredibly, Osborne and his voluminous files were never thoroughly investigated by police. According to officers who viewed the Osborne material at the time, the names on the index cards, so dutifully recorded by Osborne, were not only those of the boys he had seduced, but adults – members of the judiciary, the legal profession, politicians, academics, and even police officers – with sexual interests in children.
One former officer said the Osborne material was enough “to bring down the [then Queensland] government overnight”. The officer said when he suggested the Osborne case deserved a thorough investigation, despite the fact that Osborne himself was dead, he was warned off by a senior officer and told to leave the matter alone.
MacMillan added: “My understanding is the case went as high up as the premier’s [Joh Bjelke Petersen’s] office because of who Osborne was.”
Renewed interest
By the early 1980s the Osborne case had been all but forgotten, and many of the diminutive stenographer’s secrets were presumed lost with him. Except a retired Queensland police officer with a conscience and a phenomenal memory, who wanted to pursue Osborne at the time – and was warned off by senior officers, and who received a death threat after he pushed the paedophile investigation too far – only to be drummed out of the force, never forgot the case. And in breaking his silence, he would link Osborne to an international paedophile ring, and the child abuse scandal currently rocking Westminster in the UK.
Clarence Henry Howard-Osborne was born in Brisbane on May 26, 1918. His father was James and his mother Anna Elizabeth (née Orth). Osborne had twin sisters, Anna and Irene, and a brother, Leonard. The family worshipped at the Church of the Latter-Day Saints in Woolloongabba, in the city’s inner south.
For a man who would develop powerful secrets, Osborne appeared to have had a need to communicate in his childhood. He was constantly submitting adolescent writings to newspaper competitions, and regularly winning shilling prizes and passes to the movies.
Living with his parents at 88 Dunellan St, Greenslopes, he was also an active youth. He once listed his favourite sports as tennis, cricket and swimming, and his hobbies as reading, writing and sketching. Osborne would later run a gymnasium. But he felt stifled by the family’s devotion to Mormonism.
A book on Osborne, The Man They Called a Monster, by criminologist and academic Dr Paul Wilson, exposed Osborne’s frustration. Wilson wrote that in a manuscript Osborne had penned about his own life, “Osborne constantly referred to his own very strict puritanical upbringing and often described his own childhood as being for this reason ‘hypocritical’.
He stated that he was born into a very repressive religion and was not allowed to play with children outside the particular church to which he belonged. He had a brother two years older than himself from whom he was emotionally distanced, but he often wrote warmly about the very cordial relationship he had with his twin sisters who were four years older. Osborne did not feel close to any other female figures, including his mother, whom he described as ‘strict’ and ‘aloof”.”
Osborne attended the State Commercial High School (on the campus of what would ultimately become the Queensland University of Technology), and later attained an associate certificate of accountancy from the University of Queensland. During wartime, he joined the civilian militia.
In 1940, the Osborne family made the papers again. This time it was reported that Clarry’s sister, Anna Elizabeth, was leaving Queensland for Salt Lake City in the United States to marry a Mormon elder, as was her cousin, Dorothea Darlene Orth. Anna’s mother refused to comment on the nuptials to the Brisbane Truth. “My daughter is too dear to me to discuss her affairs in public,” she “protested pleasantly”. “I would really rather not have anything to say.”
Ultimately, Osborne became an accomplished shorthand writer. His skills attracted the attention of the Pitman shorthand school in London, which often deferred to him for advice. By the 1960s he was a top government court reporter. On the side he bred budgerigars and remained a fitness fanatic.
“He told everyone”
During the 1970s, Osborne was a familiar face around Parliament House. Political staffers remembered his outgoing personality, and his obsession with holidaying in Thailand. And a trainee shorthand co-worker recalled Osborne’s most peculiar hobby.
“He used to take and develop his own photos -8 by 10s [20cm x 25cm] – of the boys he went with,” remembers the co worker. “He would show these photographs around at work. I saw hundreds of them. There were even pictures of babies. He was on about it every day in the office, about picking up hitchhikers and rooting them. He was a little muscular fellow, had plenty of money and was very clever.”
Complaints over Osborne’s behaviour were lodged. Two secret inquiries were held by the Public Service Board in 1973 into Osborne, and as a result, the chief court reporter was moved to the Hansard bureau at Parliament House where his contact with young people was monitored.
The Paul Wilson Connection
In 1976, Osborne went to the University of Queensland campus at St Lucia in Brisbane’s inner west to pay an unexpected visit to criminologist Wilson. He had brought with him paperwork and photographs. “Osborne said that he had come to see me because of my reputation as a civil libertarian, and because he was sure I would respect his rights to privacy,” Wilson later wrote. [Editor’s note: In 2016, Paul Wilson was convicted of sexually abusing a child around the period he was in contact with Osborne.]
Criminologist and author, Paul Wilson
Osborne was worried that a pornographic film of men having sex that he had purchased by mail order from Denmark had been seized by Australian Customs, and that if the police got involved, they might seize his “research” – the filing cabinet, photographs and audiotape of his sexual relations with more than 2500 boys.
“He was certainly close to his material and several times called it his ‘life work’ and continually worried about the Commonwealth Police taking it away from him and posterity,” Wilson later wrote. “Over the next two months I met Osborne on several Occasions and each time he brought me new material to look at. Transcripts, tape- recordings and his manuscript documenting his own life were freely given to me and supplemented by face-to-face conversations of how he had met the young men in his life and why he acted as he did.”
In the meantime, Osborne was found dead the day after he was questioned by investigators in September 1979. On Thursday, September 20, a small death notice appeared in The Courier-Mail: “Osborne, Clarence Henry, of Eyre Street, Mount Gravatt. Passed away at home 12.9.79. Sadly missed friend of John and Pauline and ‘Uncle’ of Peter and Geoffrey. There will be no funeral service as requested.”
In the winter of 1980, almost a year after Osborne had gassed himself at Mount Gravatt, a Juvenile Aid Bureau detective in the city branch headed down to the storeroom to retrieve a fresh police notebook. The detective had had several years’ experience in the JAB in North Queensland and was known as a straight, reliable and effective investigator. He could not know that that routine trip for some stationery would change his life.
Police work
In the storeroom, he noticed dozens of boxes on the shelves marked “Osborne”. “Within those boxes were all these index cards… I recognised names… it was quite obvious there were members of the judiciary, the legal fraternity, there were politicians, it was the top end… there were no bloody truck drivers and bricklayers amongst them,” the retired officer, who requested anonymity, said.
“I remember making an off-the-cuff comment to one bloke there that if this ever became public, the whole of George Street would just slide into the river, you know? It would just bring the whole government undone. It was all there.”
The officer, respecting protocol and the chain of command, approached a superior.
“I went to this inspector and I said to him – I’ve just come across all this stuff in the Clarry Osborne exhibits in there,” he recalled. “I said it’s like Pandora’s box, [and] is anybody doing anything about it? I said I’ve read some of the stuff very briefly and it’s just a goldmine of information.”
He said the inspector replied that he was to do nothing about it, “just sit on it and use it later on to further your career”. The officer was nonplussed. Regardless, he began to secretly return to the storeroom, read the files and smuggle out copies of photographs. The following year, another young detective was transferred into the JAB. The officer developed a trust and rapport with the newcomer, and they were soon digging through the Osborne files together.
“But we both realised we had to do it on the quiet, we had to sneak the stuff out,” he said. “We found magazines. There were German issue magazines. There were American magazines. And the thing that was very disturbing about them was that the Brisbane kids [photographed by Osborne] were appearing in the German magazines… then we’d find a copy of the same magazine in English … and it was almost like a tourist guide for paedophiles.
“They could come to Brisbane and meet these kids. And this was all arranged through bloody Clarry. We discovered that the motto of the paedophile group over there was – ‘sex before eight [years old] before it’s too late’.
Spartacus magazine, run by John Stamford.
“One of the German magazines was named Spartacus and it was the codename of an international underground paedophile network. It was run by a bloke called John Stamford out of Amsterdam. He originated from the UK and I think sort of got himself in a bit of strife there and went over to Amsterdam and he was running this network, and Clarry Osborne was part of that.”
Spartacus was in fact published by former British Catholic priest {Editor’s note – apparently he had been a seminarian, but was not ordained] and pedophile Stamford, who had fled the UK for Amsterdam in the early 1970s after being convicted of sending obscene literature through the post.
John Stamford
Stamford also ran the Spartacus Club, part of the British-registered Spartacus International. The company described itself as “general publishers of trade and business directories, periodicals, newspapers and journals”.
Through the 1970s Stamford also appeared regularly in the press as an advocate for gay rights, and was a leading member of what was known as the Paedophile Information Exchange. It was founded in 1974 as a pro-paedophile activist group. In addition, PIE had a “contact page”, a bulletin where members placed advertisements. They were required to quote their membership number, general location and their sexual predilections.
PIE managed the replies through a private post office. As Osborne was sitting down with Wilson at UQ on the other side of the world, PIE was causing a storm in the UK. Several members were charged with conspiring to corrupt public morals, and details of the outfit emerged during court proceedings. It was described as “sick and a force of evil”.
Media coverage of PIE intensified through the late 1970s, as did the group’s attempts to push its message, which included the abolition of the age of consent. And its contact point in Australia was Osborne.
“Clarry had been operating for so long that he virtually became the guru of paedophiles,” the officer said. “All of the paedophiles that we looked at were all in there [in the Osborne files], and that was only scratching the surface. They all came from Osborne’s system.”
Shut down
In the end, the officer and his partner were on the brink of launching a major sting. Through a contact, they planned to open a post office box in Fortitude Valley and infiltrate the international paedophile ring.
“[The contact] was going to open a post office box for us so that we could use Clarry’s code number and start communicating with Stamford in Amsterdam, to get more code numbers and contacts and stuff like that,” the officer said. “We were getting to the point… like I said, we didn’t know who to trust… it was making you feel you were being scrutinised, that people were watching you. The tension was just unbelievable. We took some of the Osborne files one day and we read them on a hill in Dayboro [46km north-west of Brisbane]. We couldn’t get caught with it.
“It got to the point where we actually said to each other, don’t be surprised if they find one of us dead in the Brisbane River… that’s how bad it was getting.”
The officer also found a bullet in the drawer of his desk at the Juvenile Aid Bureau. He took it as a death threat. In the end, his investigation petered out, having met with constant obstructions. His attempts to crack the Osborne case would haunt the rest of his police career, and he would retire “medically unfit” at the age of only 46.
International network
Convicted child abuser, Jimmy Saville, in 1998
More than three decades later, the impact of PIE continues to play out in Britain via its Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse, announced by Home Secretary Theresa May in mid-2014 following the scandal surrounding late entertainer Jimmy Savile and his abuse of hundreds of children.
The statutory inquiry, expected to take five years, recently announced 12 separate investigations as a part of the overall inquiry. They include child exploitation by organised networks, and allegations of child sexual abuse linked to Westminster, the British Parliament.
News article from 2013: “Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman, her husband, home affairs spokesman Jack Dromey, and former health secretary Patricia Hewitt – were alleged to have supported the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) during their time with the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) in the 1970s and early 1980s.”
Last year it was revealed Thatcher did not want a senior diplomat linked to PIE and paedophilia named. In January last year, a file compiled in 1980-81 was released to Britain’s National Archives which revealed that the then British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, did not want a senior diplomat linked to PIE and paedophilia named.
Former British PM, Margaret Thatcher
The late Sir Peter Hayman had been accused by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in parliament in March 1981 of sending pornographic material through the post. Hayman had come to the attention of police in 1978 after a package of sexually explicit correspondence, addressed to a Mr Peter Henderson of Notting Hill, was found on a London bus. Henderson was Hayman’s pseudonym with the Paedophile Information Exchange. Hayman died in 1992.
The Independent newspaper later wrote of Dickens: “Eighteen years after his death… the backbencher’s reputation as a political lightweight is being revised in the wake of a Scotland Yard investigation which is exhuming a scandal long buried in the Westminster of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership.
New evidence suggests that Dickens stumbled upon an Establishment paedophile ring in the early 1980s – and that his efforts to expose a cover-up left him in fear of his life. Dickens told fellow MPs that after warning of the existence of the network, he had received threatening phone calls and been burgled twice. He also claimed he had been placed on a ‘hit-list’, he told the House of Commons in a little-noticed speech.”
Incredibly, a part of that same massive ring had taken root in Brisbane, Queensland, courtesy of Clarence Osborne. Equally astonishing is that the extensive Osborne files were never properly investigated, despite the best efforts of a handful of honest officers. The boxes of material sat for years in the JAB storeroom under lock and key. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.
Questions remain
In Osborne’s wake remain a number of serious questions. Why did the Queensland police never look into the expansive Osborne material given that his notorious activities were known to some officers prior to his suicide in 1979? How did the Osborne material, given its global reach, manage to evade the serious scrutiny of various subsequent inquiries, including the Fitzgerald and Kimmins inquiries? And why hasn’t Australia’s current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse not examined historic links with government and institutions such as the police?
For the officer who lost his career over the Osborne material, there’s nothing left but regrets. “It would have gone worldwide,” he recalled. “The connections were there. If there had been a proper team put in place, there’d be arrests, there’d be bloody suicides all over the bloody place. In the end we could do no more.
“I think they were glad to see the back of us anyhow. And it all happened in our own backyard.”
As Pope Leo’s papacy progresses, his role in advancing the Revolution is becoming clearer: make Modernism more palatable by gently “developing” his predecessor’s radical and destructive anti-Catholic doctrine. This is an opinion echoed by Atila Sinke Guimarães from Tradition in Action. He writes:
…. what the Conciliar Church needs now, more than anything else, is to have a long period to digest the progressivist “conquests” that Francis won for it. The aim is not to deny what he did. It is to “reinterpret” it under a more moderate light in order to make the average Catholic assimilate his legacy in small and less repulsive doses.
This attempt at reinterpretation is precisely what we are seeing from conservative Catholic circles – despite Bergoglian loyalists assuring us that Prevost is cut from the same cloth as Pope Francis. For example, there is an attempt to promote “Pope Leo’s version” of Liberation Theology, which is supposedly less extreme than the original version. Then there was the case of the conservative Catholic publication from Melbourne that wrote of its hopes to see the new Pope’s “interpretation of the application” of Synodality.
These are the hopes and dreams of naive Catholics who fail to understand the scope of the Crisis and the momentum it has gained: Prevost is not the Pope who is going to save the Church, any more than Trump was the politician “chosen by God” to save the free world.
Critical Reading of Scripture
Despite his smiling photo-ops and calm demeanour, Pope Leo has shown on more than one occasion that he is intent on applying critical theory to the Word of God. This includes playing down Christ’s miracles, by suggesting that the deaf-mute of the Gospels chose not to speak. “Just as it can sometimes happen to us, perhaps this man chose not to speak anymore because he did not feel understood; he chose to shut off every voice because he had been disappointed and wounded by what he had heard.”
This is a followup to previous occasion when Prevost suggested that the miracle of the loaves and fishes wasn’t so much about the sovereign power of God as it was about natural charity:
“However, when we read the account of what is commonly called the “multiplication of the loaves” (cf. Mt 14:13-21; Mk 6:30-44; Lk 9:12-17; Jn 6:1-13), we realize that the real miracle performed by Christ was to show that the key to overcoming hunger lies in sharing rather than in greedily hoarding.
False Ecumenism
Prevost has shown his tolerance for the errors of non-Catholics on many occasions since his election. Possibly the most concerning of these meetings was with representatives of the Eastern Orthodox church, which some Catholics hope will soon reconcile with Rome.
Yet, as pointed out by the WM Review, unless the Eastern orthodox church recognises the primacy of the Roman Pontiff, such a reconciliation can only take place if the Catholic Church embraces error. Specifically, these errors comprise the “redefinition of the Church’s property/note of unity, redefinition of the supernatural virtue of faith, redefinition of the nature of the papacy and constitution of the Church.”
Prevost’s record on clerical sex abuse
The new Pope’s tolerance of clerical sex abuse is another marker which confirms that, morally, he is little different from Bergoglio. An article from May in the Chicago Sun Times points to Prevost’s role as a prominent leader within the Augustinians and suggests that he helped cover for an alleged clerical sex offender. In the article, Prevost is accused of “perceived inaction on improving transparency in his order over sex abuse.”
More than that, the article points to a previous one from the same news outlet that claims “while he was in charge of the Augustinians in Chicago in 2000, allowed an accused pedophile priest to live at a South Side monastery without telling a nearby Catholic elementary school the man was there. Indeed, church records assert there was no school nearby when there was.”
There are other abuse-adjacent claims by the website against Prevost: none of them directly accuse him of abuse, but rather, point to a repeated lack of transparency and accountability.
This leads to another point that should have been raising red flags from the beginning of Prevost’s pontificate: why has the media been so quiet? As a whole, mainstream generally can’t move quickly enough to cover a story with even the faintest scent of a cover-up of abuse by Catholic priests. Yet Prevost’s role in a number of these affairs has largely been ignored until now.
This case, now back in the news, was known prior to Prevost’s election as Pope, yet until now received little media coverage. The details of this case are conflicting and even sketchy, yet that has never proven to be an obstacle for the media, who in Pope Leo’s case, continually assume his innocence.
Then there is this case, where the Pope is allowing Cardinal Carlos Castillo of Peru to remain in his position past retirement date, despite his track record of covering for sodomites in his seminary. As has been mentioned in these pages before, Prevost, as former head of the Dicastery for Bishops, knows all there is to know about the hierarchy, yet continues to promote or tolerate anti-Catholic prelates.
Jubilee of Youth
The Jubilee of Young People, which has just taken place in Rome, is the perfect of example of the way Pope Leo is continuing the Modernist agenda of the previous Popes under the appearance of orthodoxy. Catholic media hailed the Pope’s presence at Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, attended by up to a million young Catholics, as an indicator of the Church’s return to its glorious past.
Yet all conciliar and post-conciliar popes have led liturgies like this one. Images of all of them holding monstrances can be found online: all of them had moments of giving the appearance of a truly holy Pope, despite their many deviations from tradition on other occasions.
Without being too cynical, the question should be asked: what young Catholic would not want to attend an event like this one – a holiday in Rome, usually subsidised by the Archdiocese or family and friends, full of emotional experiences but without any substantial impetus for conversion to a holy life?
The truth is that large gatherings are the norm at events like this one, and that huge numbers for objectively excellent practices like Adoration and confession, while giving the appearance of a wholesome Catholic atmosphere, are not themselves indicators of a Catholic revival.
This is evidenced by the Jubilee meeting for Catholic “influencers”, most of whom attended the Holy Sacrifice of Mass in t-shirts and shorts. Despite being extolled as representatives for Catholicism, the majority of these “influencers” were not event aware of how to pray the Pater Noster in Latin.
Along with the trappings of tradition at the official events, Modernist novelties could also be found; novelties that undermined the reverence and decorum necessary for flourishing of true piety. There was the ubiquitous rock concert in St. Peter’s Square, which some thought was perfectly fine because the altar had been removed.
Then there was the strange group of ‘Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist’: they looked for all the world like neo-pagan priestesses, yet they distributed the Sacred Species at the Pope’s Mass. SOURCE
Events included a liturgical dance-show in front of the altar in the piazza near St. Peter’s. The group danced to Scripture being read in Italian by a woman. While their dress is quite modest by today’s (admittedly very low) standards, it does not reach the higher standards expected by anyone taking part in any form of liturgy. That is not to suggest that liturgical dance can ever be anything other than an embarrassing and inappropriate display of post-conciliar emotionalism.
Perhaps Leo’s papacy can be summed up in the image of Luce, which remains omnipresent throughout the Eternal City.
What appears to be Catholic, and even quaintly so, is in reality something sinister and dangerous to souls.
Like Luce, the Jubilee mascot with ties to the occult, and which was created by an artist who is a promoter of LGBTI rights (and a sex-toy vendor), the Vatican may seem newly orthodox, returning to tradition and appealing to young people.
Yet, the truth is that underneath the lace and Latin lies a cesspool of corruption and heresy, sodomy and vice, and that Prevost is the man of the hour, handpicked by the most corrupt men of all, to make Modernism palatable to unwitting Catholics. Please, dear friends, read the signs of the times and don’t be taken in by this latest Modernist deception.
Fr. Michael Weninger is a priest who has been mentioned several times on this website, as he is one of the few ecclesiastical freemasons who makes no secret of his dual allegiance. (See articles here and here.)
Fr. Weninger, a former diplomat who entered the priesthood late, has never renounced his membership in Freemasonry, which scandalously has even been encouraged by his superiors. He is famous for publishing a book in 2019 called Lodge and Altar, which is based on his doctoral thesis. He studied under Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran at the Pontifical Gregorian University which casts some doubt on Tauran’s own allegiance to the Catholic faith. Weninger also works under the Cardinal at the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Fr. Weninger addresses the French National Grand Lodge
A Scandalous Conference
Last month, Fr. Weninger, gave an address at the French National Grand Lodge at which he again attempted to affirm a compatibility between Freemasonry and Catholicism. The lecture can be found here on Youtube, but as both the video and transcript are in French, it’s necessary to rely on translated reports for this article.
The Spanish website, Infovaticana, tells us that according to Fr. Weninger, the “Great Architect of the Universe” is synonymous with the God of the Bible, and that this is the same God “to the Yahweh of the Jews, to the Allah of the Muslims and to the Trinity of the Christians.” This is perfectly consistent with the heresy of indifferentism which is a hallmark of Freemasonry.
The priest also stated that “a Catholic Freemason is no longer excommunicated for the mere fact of his membership in Freemasonry” – an error he shares in common with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Note that Weninger limits this apparent compatibility to Anglo-Saxon lodges; despite the Church making no exceptions to their centuries-old condemnation of Masonry.
Infovaticana suggests that the timing of Fr. Weninger’s address suggests that it is a test to the limits of the new pontificate’s authority – and to date no condemnation of the talk or of the Judas-priest’s dual allegiance has been issued by Pope Leo.
False Interpretation of Canon Law
Fr. Weninger makes his claim of compatibility based on the removal of the penalty of excommunication for Masons from the 1983 Code of Canon Law even though then-Cardinal Ratzinger confirmed that “Membership in them remains prohibited. The faithful who belong to Masonic associations are in a state of serious sin and cannot approach holy communion.”
Even Pope Francis, through Cardinal Fernandez, re-affirmed the ruling in 2023 when he stated that “Active membership in Freemasonry of a faithful is prohibited, due to the incompatibility between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry.”
Weaponised Confusion
The French media outlet, Tribune Chretienne, com made some insightful comments about Fr. Weninger’s address:
Note that during this same conference, an anonymous speaker testified to a word received during a confession, which alone sums up the constant teaching of the Church: “I absolve you of all your sins, you can do whatever you want, except… don’t go to Freemasonry. “ A revealing sentence which says a lot about the perceived seriousness of this belonging with regard to the Catholic faith.
Father Weninger took the liberty of concluding his intervention with “So be it”, which is not trivial. This expression, [the] liturgical translation of the Christian “Amen”, traditionally concludes a prayer, a blessing or a proclamation of faith. Using it to close a relativistic presentation on the compatibility between the Gospel and an initiatory organization based on secrecy and the rejection of Christian dogma demonstrates the confusion he wants to create to accredit his speech. This amounts to giving a liturgical anointing to a word which contradicts the Magisterium.
As Serge Abad-Gallardo, a former converted Freemason, recalled in a direct criticism addressed to Father Weninger: “Masonic principles are incompatible with Catholicism: they profess doctrinal relativism, refuse all revealed truth and reject the Kingship of Christ. Freemasonry claims to replace faith with human reason. However, man cannot save himself.“
Ecclesiastical Freemasonry 
