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.”
Last week in the country town of Myrtleford, two Anglican women, one of whom is a gay Anglican ‘priestess’ joined the Catholic priest in the sanctuary during a public Novus Ordo Mass.
The Mass, part of the town’s annual Italian Festival, was offered in the grounds of St. Mary’s Church on a temporary stage and was dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua. When asked by a stunned attendee why the priestesses were near the altar during Mass, a local (who happened to be an ex-nun) stated that “we do everything together here in Myrtleford”!
Taken from the Festival website.
The eye-witness, a faithful Catholic, was shocked to see the two women consuming the Sacred Host, despite belonging to the Anglican faith. Although neither woman played an active role in the Mass, the ‘priestess’ was given a chalice to hold while Holy Communion was being distributed. She also addressed the crowd after Mass was finished.
According to the eye-witness, “One of them was trying to touch everything and finally got her hands on the incense. The priest cursed before reading the Gospel. He said “mannaggia miseria!” (This means ‘damn it’ in Italian).
Anglican priestesses in the make-shift sanctuary as the priest goes to distribute Holy Communion.
Close-up of the Anglican priestess with the chalice.
The ‘priestess’ is Moira Evers, a known lesbian and LGBTQ activist. In an article posted when she was appointed parish priestess in Myrtleford, Evers said she wanted people to ‘see the church as a place of safety.’
Moira Evers on being made parish priestess at Myrtelford’s Anglican church.
The priestesses in ‘cappae nigrae’ before the Mass
Evers after celebrating an Anglican ‘Fabulous Pride Mass’ in 2016. SOURCE
Evers is controversial even within the Anglican church because of her involvement with a same-sex advocacy group who expressed support for a Satanic Mass. There are also reports of members of her former congregation at Buderim leaving the parish because of her pro-LGBTQ stance.
The parish priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church is Fr. Tony Shallue. There seems little hope of him being disciplined over the liturgical abuse as St. Mary’s is located in the Diocese of Sandhurst, which is overseen by Bishop Shane Mackinley. This is the same bishop who is notoriously allowing a three-month exhibition of a pagan idol related to witchcraft to remain in Bendigo’s Sacred Heart Cathedral, despite massive pushback from Catholic clergy and the faithful.
It is being widely reported that the Italian Grand Lodge has released a very positive farewell statement after the passing of Pope Francis, entitled, “Francis, the Pope of the Least”. (Reproduced below)
This is, of course, no great surprise considering how closely Bergoglio followed the pattern set down by the Masons in the Alta Vendita almost two hundred years ago: “…a Pope according to our needs…” During his life, Masons regularly thanked Bergoglio for his contribution to their aims. In fact, most of his programme, from Synodality to his new-fangled mortal sins, were completely in line with Masonic principles.
What is a surprise is how few realise that this appreciation is just standard fare for the Masons in regard to the conciliar popes. For example,
In June 1963, Mexican Freemasons glowingly farewelled Pope John XXIII 1
After the death of Paul VI, French and Italian Masons spoke of him favourably 2
“To us, it is the death of him who made the condemnation of Clement XII and of his successors fall. That is, it is the first time – in the history of modern Freemasonry – that the Head of the greatest Western religion dies not in a state of hostility with the Freemasons.”
During his life, John Paul II was granted an award for his dedication to promoting human fraternity by Portuguese Masons – he declined it, however.3
Australian Freemasons also honoured John Paul II for his leadership qualities4:
“John Paul II’s most outstanding leadership quality was his ability to create real presence in those who looked to him. The capacity for a leader to make those who follow them believe that the person to whom they aspire can understand, listen and comfort them in a manner that is enriching; is a quality not to be underestimated.” (Note the reference to the Real Presence – remember Masons prize mocking God above all!)
Sometimes the praise went in the other direction, for example when John Paul I praised a Mason, who was also known to be a satanist! (Read the article here.)
Now for the latest praise of a post-conciliar Pope by the Masons: a statement on the death of Francis from the Grand Lodge of Italy. The Mason’s mention of Bergoglio’s “path free from dogmas” is perhaps ironic given how dogmatic he was in regard to eliminating tradition.
Francis the Pope of the least
The Grand Lodge of Italy of the ALAM joins the universal condolences for the disappearance of Pope Francis, a pastor who, with his magisterium and his life, has embodied the values of brotherhood, humility and the search for planetary humanism .
The Grand Lodge of Italy of the Ancients, Free, Accepted Masons joins the universal condolences for the passing of Pope Francis, a shepherd who, with his magisterium and his life, embodied the values of brotherhood, of humility and of the search for a planetary humanism. Coming from the “end of the world”, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been able to change the Church, reporting the revolutionary teaching of St. Francis of Assisi to the topicality of history.
In this moment of mourning, our Communion intends to pay homage to the vision of Pope Francis, whose work is characterized by a profound resonance with the principles of Freemasonry: the centrality of the person, respect for the dignity of each individual, the construction of a community of solidarity, the pursuit of the common good. His encyclical Brothers all represents a manifesto. Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood it is the triple value asset of Freemasonry. Overcome divisions, ideologies, unique thinking to recognize the richness of differences and build a humanity united in diversity, this was ardently wanted by Francis, the same design pursued by the Grand Lodge of Italy.
Pope Francis has been able to combine faith and reason, complementary dimensions of human experience, renewing the Anselmian principle of “credo ut intelligam” (I believe so that I may understand). A faith capable of questioning itself, of welcoming doubt and of dialoguing, which we also find in the Masonic initiatory method, founded on a path free from dogmas, substantiated by incessant search for truth.
Francis’ pontificate placed in the center the last, together with the planet care and a an ethics of development based on human dignity. This too is found in the Masonic construction of the “Inner temple”, based on tolerance, solidarity and resistance against hatred and ignorance, and finds a profound correspondence in the pastoral care of Bergoglio, which with his “sweet revolution”, showed that humility and dialogue are instruments of authentic strength. In the wake of the “Francesco Economy ” and the vision of one “common home ”, there Masonry supports the commitment to a sustainable, fair and supportive future.
In this time crossed by serious critical issues, the Grand Lodge of Italy finds itself in Pope Francis’ appeal for a “planetary consciousness”, which recognizes humanity as one community of destiny. We honor his memory by continuing to work for an ethics of the limited, for respect for the other and for the construction of a temple based on solidarity, freedom of thought and universal brotherhood.
Luciano Romoli Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Italy of the A.L.A.M. Rome, April 22, 2025
A reader has supplied some concerning information about a parish in his state of Queensland: St. James at Coorpooroo in Brisbane. St. James has published its ‘Reconciliation Action Plan’ to implement indigenous ‘dialogue and accompaniment’ and includes adding Welcome to Country ceremonies to parish events as well as adding pagan elements into Masses throughout the year. Worst of all, the plan is based on guidelines that come straight from the notorious Archdiocese of Brisbane, meaning that similar plans are being rolled out all across Queensland.
St. James published its plan online and the document is reproduced below. As you can see, it involves lots of bureaucratic jargon (e.g. ‘stakeholders’, ‘actions’ and ‘deliverables’) and woke appeasement (‘reconciliation’, ‘truth-telling’ and ‘listening’) but mentions absolutely nothing about evangelising or Catholic formation.
Catholics are expected to ‘learn’ from indigenous Australians and put up with pagan additions to their Masses while celebrating imaginary indigenous feast days. St. James plans to hold events to mark at least four of the following victimhood days: Sorry Day, Close the Gap, Coming of the Light, Apology Day and Mabo Day.
Also mentioned is the anti-Christian Statement from the Heart document: four weekly sessions are planned to discuss this Marxist-inspired hymn to Gaia.
Cui Bono?
As is to be expected, local, urbanised Aboriginals will benefit financially from the parish programme: multiple plaques to honour the Indigenous have been purchased by the parish; Welcome to Country ceremonies are planned (presumably led by paid activists); indigenous businesses will be prioritised by the parish. There is no mention of assistance going to those indigenous Australians living in rural areas who are truly victims of poverty, often surrounded by violence, addictions and sexual abuse.
The Plan was officially launched during Sunday Mass on February 9th. The Mass was preceded by a pagan smoking ceremony, and the Entrance Procession was accompanied by music from the indigenous instrument, the didgeridoo, as well as ‘cultural significant statements, artwork and symbols’. This means that pagan symbols and representations of mythological beings were brought into the church during the Liturgy.
From the parish website.
Reconciliation
The entire ‘Reconciliation’ movement is based on the lie that white settlers stole the land of Australia from deeply spiritual natives, violently imposing their imperialistic culture and faith on them. This Noble Savage myth is perpetuated in schoolrooms and universities around the country and is unfortunately promulgated by many of our bishops as well.
Of course, when the British arrived in Australia with their ships, tools, seeds, uniforms and Christian (albeit Protestant) faith, the indigenous inhabitants still running around in animal skins, eating each other and worshipping lizards. Yet, our hapless prelates insist that they have something to teach Catholics about spirituality and culture.
Of course, at the root of all this talk of reconciliation and dialogue is the complete absence of faith among the majority of the Australian hierarchy. They simply do not believe in the tenets of the Catholic Faith, especially not, it would seem, in the necessity of repentance and sanctification through the sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ. They are simply well-paid bureaucrats who exploit the prestige of Catholicism while subverting its truths.
One leading proponent of this error is Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane (who is, by the way, a friend of the disgraceful Marco Rupnik.)
Coleridge and Rupnik.
Archbishop Coleridge published the ‘Reconciliation’ roadmap (see below) on the Archdiocesan website, along with an expression of gratitude for the contributions made by indigenous Australians.
The Archdiocese of Brisbane acknowledges the Traditional Custodians who have walked and cared for this land for thousands of years and their descendants who maintain their spiritual connection and traditions. We thank them for their continual cultural and spiritual connection to Country as expressed through their history, music, language, songs, art and dance.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge
The lizard has pride of place.
Archbishop Coleridge with some highly-urbanised Noble Savages.
Preparing for a smoking ceremony
Pagan Practices
Smoking ceremonies have been mentioned on this site many times: they are rituals common to many different pagan traditions, including American Indians and Australian Aboriginals. The smoke is meant to ‘cleanse’ an area from ‘evil spirits’.
These rituals are unfortunately very common at Australian Novus Ordo parishes and are usually performed prior to Mass, outside the church building. The Archbishop of Melbourne infamously allowed one to be performed at the main altar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 2021 during Mass.
The Archdiocesan guidelines mention other occult practices like ‘deep listening’ – a kind of meditation, an emptying of the mind; and worship of mother-earth. Yet, somehow Catholics are expected to believe that these are merely cultural and not spiritual practices.
Prior to the RAP launch at St. James’, the friend who sent me this information emailed the Archdiocese of Brisbane, expressing his disapproval for the proposed smoking ceremony. He received this reply from an anonymous Archdiocesan employee:
“Please be advised the invitation states that the smoking ceremony on this occasion is to ‘culturally bless the launch of the RAP’ and thus is not intended as a spiritual action.”
Hmmm, sure. Just like this blessing of water, as found among the St. James materials isn’t intended to be spiritual: “Each time we perform these ancient rituals of a water blessing we connect our spirit with those of our ancestors –their spirit is reborn and becomes strong within us around us.“
Are we expected to believe that this “Presentation of Gifts at Offertory Procession – Mother Earth” is also not intended to be spiritual?: “We enjoy the physical and spiritual connections to Mother Earth, waters and environment. The physical and spiritual connections are the necessary elements of our life’s energy.”
The saddest part of this is that the average pew-sitter thinks that syncretism is perfectly acceptable and that it is Tradition which poses the greatest threat to their faith.
In a previous article, we looked at how the occult world reveres a false ‘St. Michael’, ascribing powers and roles to him which are at odds with (Catholic) reality. This article looks at how devotion to the false ‘St. Michael’ may have been the basis of a tragic series of events which took place in Australia several years ago. The incident has the hallmarks of a government-created psychological operation, possibly including mind-control and which was crowned by a dedication to what was undoubtedly the occult ‘St. Michael.’
The Wieambilla Saga
In December, 2022, at the height of the coronavirus hysteria, a deadly siege took place in country Queensland. This event was unusual for Australia as it ended with the deaths of six people: three property-owners, branded as the attackers; their neighbour; and two young police officers. As details emerged in the mainstream media, the property-owners were revealed to be ‘anti-vax conspiracy theorists’ who had meticulously planned the police officers’ execution.
Four police officers had gone the remote property in Wieambilla, west of Brisbane, to search for a certain Nathaniel Train, who had been reported as missing in New South Wales several months prior to the shooting.
When the police arrived at the property, they were ambushed by three civilians and sprayed with gunfire; two officers died almost immediately and a neighbour who had come to investigate a burning vehicle was also shot dead. One police officer was wounded, and the fourth, a woman, escaped and raised the alarm.
This was followed by a six-hour siege during which sixteen special operations police made numerous attempts to neutralise the trio. Late that night, they succeeded in killing the three civilians.
The slain attackers were two brothers as well as the wife of one brother who had previously been married to the other. The three were said to have been influenced by an American You-tuber named Donald Day who was later arrested. Day was known for his survivalist mentality and expectation of an imminent Second Coming. The Trains fully expected that they could at any time be raided by police and have to defend their property. They nicknamed their front gate as the “Rubicon” and Nathaniel Train had indicated he expected to die from “suicide by police.”
Police incompetence
It was later revealed that Nathaniel Train had made multiple threats via email of violence against any police who presented at the property and that there was a warrant out for his arrest on firearm charges. Yet despite this, the New South Wales police failed to alert their Queensland counterparts of the potential danger posed by the Trains.
For their part, Queensland police failed to connect an arms cache perviously found in a nearby creek with the Trains. The Superiors also sent inexperienced officers, like lambs to the slaughter, to conduct a welfare check which ended in their deaths.
Mind Control?
As the public learns more and more about the prevalence of government-instigated mind-control, it is becoming increasingly reasonable to suspect that this is a factor in high-profile events like the Wieambilla massacre. Some of the clues to look in a case of mind-control for include: accusations of mental illness; indications of sexual and other abuse; indications of programming and ‘handlers’; changes in personality. The Wieambilla event meets those criteria.
An expert witness at the inquest, forensic psychiatrist Andrew Aboud, claimed that the trio suffered from a rare psychiatric disorder known as ‘shared delusions’ and that they may not be morally culpable for their actions.
The coroner reported on a conversation between the three, which had apparently been recorded in a hospital, in which Nathaniel said “he had dreams about fighting police and shooting them to get through COVID-19 border closures.” Putting aside the question of how such a recording was made, and by whom, it is possible that what Nathaniel believed to be a dream was a suggestion or order with which he had been programmed.
It must also be admitted that what we think about during the daytime often recurs in our dreams, and the Trains obviously spent a great deal of time considering and planning for such a situation.
An accusation of sexual abuse by Nathaniel Train against his parents was made not long before the massacre. This accusation was revealed by a childhood friend of Nathaniel’s, who happened to be a researcher for a media outlet, some six months after the killings. This source also claimed that Nathaniel’s actions did not fit with his personality.
The following detail, revealed at the inquest, gives further credence to the influence of mind-control, suggesting that a phone may have been used as a trigger or to give instructions and that the Trains in some way rebelled against their handlers.
On top of the gate that the four junior police jumped over, 120 metres away from the spot where they were fired at by the hidden shooters, one of the Trains had glued a mug, a photo provided to the inquest showed. It was emblazoned with the phrase: “Have a nice day”. Inside the mug was a smashed iPhone with a single word scrawled across it in scratchy handwriting: “FUCKWITS”.
If this was not related to any form of mind-control, then what could it mean? It seems like a very deliberate action without an obvious meaning.
Then there is the footage from the slain female police officer, said to have been taken just before she was killed by Nathaniel Train. Some say Train looks as though he is enjoying the prospect of killing; to me, it looks as though his face shows concern.
Bodycam screenshot.
“Conspiracy Theorists”
Nathaniel Train had been a public school principal. who had left his job over ‘concerns over the school’s education policy’. He had apparently suffered a heart attack while working at the school and while it isn’t clear if he actually took the COVID vaccine, part of his grievance seems to have been related to the school’s mandatory vax policy.
After the inquest, in August 2024, the media began to describe the Trains as religious extremists, and conspiracy theorists who rejected the COVID vaccine. One report mentions:
“…. anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown narratives, climate engineering and Sovereign Citizen conspiracies, conspiracies about microchips, the New World Order and Great Reset, the Illuminati, antisemitic conspiracy theories and more. Gun control conspiracy theories appear to feature heavily, as will be discussed further below. It does not appear that he was a believer in QAnon, however, referring to it as a ‘psyop’ in a post in January 2021.”
Several media reports mentioned that the Trains’ worldview included being ‘caught in a battle between good and evil’, and as pointed out in the article on the fake St. Michael, occultists ascribe a vital role to their false angel in this cosmic battle:
“The pavement (of the Lodge), alternatively black and white, symbolizes the Good and Evil principles of the Egyptian and Persian creeds. It is the warfare between Michael and Satan, Light and Darkness, Freedom and Despotism, Religious Liberty and the Arbitrary Dogmas of a Church that thinks for its votaries and whose Pontiff claims to be infallible.”
Albert Pike
Occult References
A careful reading of media reports gleans several occult references; for example, the ABC honed in on this New Age reference to the ‘blue angel.’ According to this source, the coloured light ray which New Agers associate with the angel St. Michael is blue.
A floral tribute to the dead police officers, describing them as ‘blue angels.’
Another report stated that the police now regard the shooting scene as ‘sacred ground’ and that the Police Union was considering buying the property. This is an extraordinary statement, as no such comment was made when other officers – some 800 in Australia’s history – were killed in the line of duty.
Bodycam footage from the police yielded some images of interest to our study. One example is this tattoo of planets on a police officer’s arm.
Some occult systems assign one of the seven Archangels to each planet (the ancients believed seven planets revolved around the earth, including the sun and moon. ‘St. Michael’s’ planets are the sun and Mars.)
The date of the massacre was December 12, 2022; that is 12/12/2022. The number 12 is sacred in many occult systems, including astrology and alchemy, while the number 2 represents the idea of duality so prevalent in the occult. Note also that the digits themselves add up to 12: 1+2+1+2+2+0+2+2 = 12.
It is worth noting that in addition to the significant numbers involved in this case, colours also made an appearance. A report from August ’24 explained how the police assigned colours to the property during their operation.
Media reported that the Police Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) assigned colours to the property during the mission.
The photograph above shows the colours red, white, black, green. While one could never be sure of their meaning it’s possible to hazard a guess using explanations from the occultist, Manly Hall. Thus, green represents nature; black represents death – which must come before transformation takes place; white, red (and yellow) are “the three principal colours of the alchemical, Hermetical, universal medicine after the blackness of its putrefaction is over.”1
The Trains were killed on the ‘red’ side of the house.
The False St. Michael
The culmination of the initial media barrage surrounding the Wieambilla incident was a police press conference at which the Queensland Police Minister, Mark Ryan, faced the media and prayed the St. Michael prayer. Ryan’s recitation of the prayer was seen by many as the sincere effort of a faithful Catholic to bring solace to a grieving police force; he referred to St. Michael as their patron saint.
The strange thing is that there’s little evidence Mark Ryan is in fact a faithful Catholic. In 2018, he voted to decriminalise abortion in his state of Queensland and reiterated his support for abortion prior to last year’s state election. In 2020, Ryan was behind a law forcing priests to break the seal of confession. So given his shaky Catholic credentials and the red flags flying over anything related to the Wieambilla murders, it is far more likely that Mark Ryan was referencing the fake St. Michael when he addressed the people of Queensland.
Conclusion
While we may not have a clear understanding of the hidden meaning behind the siege and murders, on the natural level it is easy to see elements of the government’s agenda playing out in the wake of the incident. That agenda includes restriction the gun ownership, vilifying anyone who questions the vax, accusing Christians of religious extremism, and the authorities’ sacred cow – censorship.
In light of recent attempts in Australia to censor the internet, particularly social media, a comment from one expert witness at the inquest is highly significant: “Associate prof Josh Roose of Deakin University raised another theory – “algorithmic radicalisation”, a process where a social media algorithm is programmed to radicalise a viewer by showing them increasingly extreme material.” from The Guardian.
Thus the principle becomes clear – when all else fails, blame the algorithm.
Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, p 204. ↩︎
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