Some good news, finally, from the Vatican on the Rupnik case: it was announced that the notorious abuser of 30 nuns and occult-artist will soon be subject to an independent investigation.
Cardinal Fernandez, unusually this time the bearer of good news, reported that the panel “is made up of judges who are all independent and external to our dicastery” in order “to dissolve the idea that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith or the Holy See had any interest or were subject to pressure. People were chosen who would not give rise to any suspicion.”
It is certainly to be hoped that the individuals comprising the panel and will actually be independent and not secret minions of Rupnik’s – a man whose reach seems to be enormous.
Rupnik’s victims are pleased at the move, and their lawyer said “will certainly cooperate fully in reconstructing the facts and seeking the truth. We hope that this case will be concluded as soon as possible and that it will finally bring comfort to the victims.”
The news outlet responsible for bringing so much of the details of the Rupnik case to out attention is Silere non possum. This group interviewed victims and traced many appointments in the Dicastery for Communications back to the influence of Rupnik. This explains why Rupnik’s disturbing artwork continued to be promoted by the Vatican for years after his abuse was made public.
For reference, a timeline is given below to show how long the Vatican has known that Rupnik is an abuser and blaphemer: the first credible accusations were brought to the Jesuit’s attention back in 1995.
The Rupnik Timeline
1995: first allegations1 against Rupnik reported: secret investigation led by Mgr. Daniele Libanori, SJ
2016, April: Pope Francis celebrates Mass for the Aletti Centre.
2020: Rupnik is quietly excommunicated, latae sententiae, for having absolved in confession a person with whom he had engaged in sexual relations.
2020: excommunication is lifted almost immediately.2
2021: investigation by Vatican into Rupnik’s Aletti community
2021, Dec: news of Rupnik’s investigation, latae sententiae excommunication and its subsequent lifting were published by Italian outlet Silere non possum.
2022, May: Rupnik preaches a clergy retreat in Italy.
2022, Dec: Rupnik suspended by Jesuits
2023, June: Rupnik expelled from the Jesuits for refusing to obey restrictions
2023, October: Diocese of Koper in Rupnik’s native Slovenia announces that it incardinated Father Rupnik in its diocese In August.
2023, October: After pushback over Rupnik’s incardination in Slovenia, Pope Francis lifts statute of limitations, allowing DDF to investigate him.3
2024, August: evidence that Pope Francis continues to hang Rupnik’s art in his apartment.
2025, Jan: evidence that Pope Francis keeps another Rupnik artwork in his study.
2025, Feb: retired bishop of the Diocese of Koper says that the priest “continues his work all over the world.”
2025, June 2025: Vatican News removes artwork by Rupnik from its website
2025, July: DDF announces Rupnik will be investigated by an independent panel
His alleged victim reported: “After my first complaint, nobody helped me, neither the Community, nor the Archbishop of Ljubljana then, nor the spiritual director of Fr. Rupnik with whom I spoke trying to explain what had happened. All of them, even the Jesuit superiors of Fr. Rupnik and those who became aware of the facts, decided to cover everything with a blanket of silence.”↩︎
According to Cardinal Fernandez, this practice happens “much more often than one might imagine.” ↩︎
The Vatican said the decision was made after “the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors brought to the pope’s attention that there were serious problems in the handling of the Father Marko Rupnik case and lack of outreach to victims.” ↩︎
A recent article on this website reported on a scandalous ‘artwork’ being exhibited at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo. Despite the statue’s creator publicly and explicitly explaining that the inspiration for his work was witchcraft, tarot cards and occult philosophy, the Bishop responsible for the Cathedral refused to have the image removed.
Massive pushback from the laity and other clergymen in the form of letters, phone-calls, emails and petitions did not have the desired effect as Bishop Shane Mackinlay and his Diocesan bureaucrats confirmed that the idol would remain in the Cathedral for the duration of the exhibition: an entire three months.
The occult-inspired art work in Bendigo Cathedral
However, at some point during the past week, three unknown individuals decided to take matters into their own hands and quietly removed the disgusting image from Sacred Heart. A picture circulating on social media shows the spot where the idol had formerly been placed; its clay foundation, its sheer covering and the information stand remain.
The former site of the hideous idol inside the Cathedral.
The artist, Ben Wrigley, confirmed the theft on his Instagram page (while also showing his ignorance of the Commandments – the directive not to steal is Commandment number 7.)
Transcendence Wand #4 was reported to me this afternoon as having been stolen from inside the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo, today by three men.
This work depicts the transcendence of being bound by the dense material world. Of the lightness of being. The veil symbolises the gossamer thing significance of moving from the gross self to illuminated being and becoming closer to god. One of five interconnected works representing five stations of life. L The significance of the transgression of these three men is palpable. The eighth commandment – thou shall not steal and from a place of worship. I look forward to having it returned.
To date, there has been no official statement from either Bishop Mackinlay or the Diocese of Sandhurst regarding the idol’s removal.
It is gratifying to know that there are still men within our ranks of the calibre of Saint Boniface who will refuse to allow holy places to be defiled by pagan images. Our prayers this week should include some for the vigilantes’ protection and well as for the conversion of Bishop Mackinlay to the Catholic faith.
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.
UPDATE: a petition to have this idol removed from Bendigo Cathedral can be found here. Please sign it and share!
An art installation based on tarot cards and witch’s wands is currently on display in a Catholic Cathedral in country Victoria. It comprises a hideous figure reminiscent of a Buddhist idol, covered with a sheer cloth and sprouting five ‘flames’ which seemingly mock the Five Wounds of Christ.
The bizarre idol inside the Cathedral
A Pagan Pilgrimage
Artist, Ben Wrigley, designed the artwork as part of his pagan ‘pilgrimage’ around the town of Bendigo. Participants are encouraged to visit five stations where his art is installed and there to meditate on five points in human life: conception at LaTrobe University (‘amoeba’); birth at St. John of God hospital (‘matter becoming’); adulthood/consumerism at the Old Church on the Hill (‘bowl of plenty’); death at a cemetery (‘river of tears’); and the next life at Sacred Heart Cathedral. This final station is designated ‘transcendence’ and will, as the artist states ” ….resonate within the sacred space, embodying the tension between the earthly materiality and the spiritual.”
Each of the pilgrimage sites hosts an artwork which is meant to embody a milestone of human existence and all of the pieces are made from the same 100-year-old pine tree. Trees are of great significance in the esoteric world, with the pine among those particularly valued since the occult version of Our Lord – the ‘Saviour-God’ or ‘World Martyr’ – is worshipped under the appearance of the pine.
Linked to Tarot Cards
The name of the pilgrimage is ‘The Wands,’ which is a reference to tarot cards: wands correspond to the suit of clubs, cups to the suit of hearts, swords to spades and coins to diamonds.
The pilgrimage is a said to be a metaphor for one particular card, the Five of Wands. According to tarot practitioners, the Five of Wands represents conflict among different groups who disagree; each person represents a different tribe or group. Some tarot traditions interpret the conflict as being good-natured and even merely ‘for show.’
A traditional Five Wands tarot card.
A more modern representation of the Five Wands card.
The Cathedral Installation
Inside the Cathedral, there is an information panel to explain the artist’s rationale for creating the idol. In his words, it represents an ‘enlightened one’ who appeared to him in a dream and who is so resplendent that it needs to be covered.
We are born into matter. dense and needy, hungry. While there is much to be enjoyed, and loved and cherished, there is much pain and suffering; and to practise being ‘held in the hand of God’, to have faith, we can find incremental enlightening along the way. To transcend, to ascent, we can experience being lighter.
This work, Transcendence, is representative of achieving, of becoming fully enlightened beings. Very few achieve this state and to look upon them is too much for one’s mind, our dense selves, hence they are veiled, ethereal. This veil also represents the gossamer thin line between ignorance and understanding. One hand up and one hand down, as above and so below, or ‘as it is in heaven so it is on earth.’ The mound they float above is the matter of which we are born. “We are made of clay”, says John O’Donoghue1, and the lotus has its roots in the mud and our ascension is up, towards enlightened.
We are of the earth, we are made of earth, the earth is us.
This image of ‘Transcendence’ came to me as a vision in a nocturnal dream, replete with flames and colour. Concave feminine and convex masculine. Unlike the other four wands, Transcendence is figurative and detailed. I have been faithful to the image I received, for this is the work, to be present to the gifts and trust, the Great Mystery, to God.
The information panel inside Sacred Heart cathedral.
The idol has similarities with Baphomet, as it exhibits both male and female characteristics (“Concave feminine and convex masculine”), and its hands are positioned in the familiar ‘as above, so below’ gestures.
In his explanation, Wrigley also references “The Great Work” (” … for this is the work…”) which is perhaps the key to his entire exhibition. In the esoteric world, the ‘Great Work’ is to discover one’s destiny and to achieve unity with the infinite. The tools employed in doing this work include meditation, Western ceremonial magic, Hermetic Qabalah, yoga and tarot. Collectively, these tools are known as ‘magick.’ Aleister Crowley described the Great Work as “the uniting of opposites …. the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego.”
The idol in Bendigo’s Cathedral clearly illustrates the principles of the Great Work. Its hand gestures and androgyny exemplify the uniting of opposites – not to mention the attempt to unite Catholicism with diabolical mysticism – while, as an ‘enlightened one’, the statue represents unity with the divine. The ‘Third Eye’ symbol on the idol’s brow is a further indication of achieving union with the infinite, thus providing an initiate access to hidden knowledge.
A close-up of the idol’s face taken from the Wands’ website. The sexual overtones in the ‘Third Eye’ symbol are quite clear.
All of this should have been enough to alert the Diocese of Sandhurst, in which the Cathedral is situated, to the diabolical nature of the art installation. Yet, Shane McKinley, Bishop of Sandhurst, claims to have been unaware of the artwork’s occult themes until parishioners pointed out a reference to witchcraft on the official website of the Five Wands pilgrimage.
When describing Ben Wrigley’s use of the fallen pine-tree, the website originally included this statement: His work began with a fallen 100-year-old pine tree, which he saw as a living, breathing entity much like the divination tools used by witches and warlocks who traditionally craft their wands from live trees with the tree’s permission.
The words in bold have now been removed from the Wands website. Bishop McKinley acknowledges the witchcraft reference in the standard response his Diocese is emailing to concerned Catholics. He writes:
” ….the wording that promoted these concerns was not included in the information provided to the Diocese prior to the artwork’s installation and is not part of the signage accompanying the artwork itself. The wording was only present on the website of the overall project. In order to avoid any further confusion or concern about the artwork’s inspiration, the artist has now removed this wording from the website….”
If the good Bishop thinks that by removing a few words he can change the nature of the sacrilegious display in his Cathedral, then he is severely deluded. The very look of the idol itself is enough to alert the most casual Catholic observer as to its unsuitability for a Catholic church.
The late John O’Donoghue was an ex-Catholic priest and New Age writer. ↩︎
It was big news last week that the CIA has admitted to its operatives using occult powers to detect what they believed to be the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant.
The Ark is, of course, the unique receptacle mentioned in the Bible in which the Ten Commandments were once housed. The Ark’s design was dictated to Moses by God Himself, as recorded in the Book of Exodus.
This project was known as Sun Streak and was part of the CIA’s wider Stargate Project. The report explains how specially-trained operatives used what they call ‘remote viewing’, otherwise known as clairvoyance or ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) to find the Ark. The operatives said the Ark was in the Middle East and ‘protected by entities’ who possessed a ‘unknown’ power.
According to the CIA, the location revealed by the remote viewer was not examined to ascertain the truth of the claim, and the official story is that the remote viewing project no longer exists – although that should be taken with a grain of salt.
Recreation of the Ark of the Covenant
Christians have long believed that the Ark does still exist, with some suggesting it is hidden in Ethiopia. It seems likely that the Ark will remain hidden until such time as God wants it revealed, and it seems equally unlikely that it will be an immoral government agency, using what is probably demonic power, which will find the precious Ark.
The first file below is the report on the alleged finding of the Ark of the Covenant, which was declassified in 2000.
The second file below is the CIA’s official analysis of the entire Stargate programme, which includes descriptions of how the experiments were conducted and evaluated.
When Calvin Robinson and I crossed paths on X a few days ago, our exchange exemplified the frustration many Trump-questioners are having with the Trump cheerleaders. Try to explain your concern that Trump is bringing about a repackaged Great Reset and you receive the same kind of disbelief or even disrespect formerly reserved for those trying to question the mRNA injection.
Fr. Robinson (or is it Mr. Robinson?) posted about the ‘Catholics for Catholics’ event held at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s luxury country club, which was ostensibly to gather prominent Catholics to offer prayers for America, including for the President’s conversion. The idea was objectively a good one, but the optics and the execution left much to be desired.
According to Robinson, this is an effective method of ‘evangelising and discipling’ Trump. Bear in mind that tickets for this black tie cost $1200-$1500 USD!
Speaker list, including Michael Flynn and Roger Stone.
Regardless of what anyone thinks about the effectiveness or otherwise of such a strategy, there were a couple of highly unsavoury characters involved. Mike Flynn and Roger Stone, who are also part of the planning committee, gave addresses on the night yet their backgrounds make their involvement extremely problematic.
Mike Flynn
General Mike Flynn was National Security Advisor to Donald Trump during his first term. He is now a Senior Advisor for the group ‘Catholics for Catholics’. However, Flynn’s Catholic credentials are highly questionable, as shown by his behaviour in both the moral and spiritual realms.
Mike Flynn speaks at the Mar-a-Lago event
Firstly, his moral failings are quite evident. Although there is much mis and disinformation surround Trump’s Russian collusion controversy, it is a matter of fact that Flynn twice pleaded guilty in US federal district courts to lying to the FBI. Not a great look for a Catholic no matter how you spin it.
Then, in late 2024, Flynn responded to a question about the possibility of executions of political rivals under the next Trump administration by laughing and saying that “The gates of hell — my hell — will be unleashed.” Whether meant literally or not, those are unsettling words.
But it gets worse.
In 2021, Mike Flynn prayed at a Kenneth Copeland prayer meeting – Copeland is a Protestant televangelist with a huge international following. Flynn’s prayer, although it contained elements of Catholic terminology, was not a Catholic prayer. It had more in common with the prayers of theosophists, particularly Alice Bailey’s Great Invocation, which according to a former occultist, is meant “to call the power of the Hierarchy of Mahatmas, Angels, and other cosmic forces into action to further the evolution of mankind as well as save it from self-destruction.”
One American cult that had it roots in theosophy was the I AM movement. I AM was part of the ‘name it – claim it’ groups that popularised the idea that Christians weren’t meant to suffer and could make good things happen simply by telling God what they wanted. This is not any different from the New Age ‘manifesting’ spells which have become so common these days.
I AM proponents “believed in an Ascended Master called The Great Divine Director”. The head of the cult was a woman known as Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who often recited her own version of the Great Invocation and it is this version that Flynn prayed, almost verbatim at the Copeland event.
Below is a video which compares Flynn’s prayer to that of Prophet.
In the video to the right, you can find a snippet from an interview where Flynn says he carries the occult prayer around in his pocket – yet, he makes it sound as though this is the Catholic prayer to St. Michael the Archangel – in his words, it’s a “rendition of that prayer.” (To learn about the false St. Michael of the occult, click here.)
This is patently untrue yet Flynn received more backlash from Protestants than from mainstream conservative Catholics.
The second video shows how concerned many Christians were about Flynn’s demonic prayer.
Is this really the kind of Catholic who should be invited to a ‘prayers for America’ event?
Mike Flynn responds to me noticing that he led a Christian congregation in a prayer based on theosophy, an occult belief system that influenced the Nazis and a series of fascist cults.
— Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴☠️🇺🇸 (@jimstewartson) October 6, 2021
Roger Stone
Roger Stone is another speaker whose presence should be a source of embarrassment to the attendees of the Catholics for Catholics event. Stone has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTI rights for decades.
This 2017 article, written by a gay republican, explains how Stone was one of the first members of the Advisory Council of GOProud, an advocacy group for gay Republicans. The author, who was the founder of GOProud, also mentioned Trump’s longtime support for the gay community and claims that Stone was behind a push for former Presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, to support same-sex ‘marriage.’
The article also states that Stone told an LGBTI activist that he was “trysexual,” by which he meant that he had “tried everything.”
Back in 2010, Stone attended a Pride parade in New York, when campaigning for a candidate for governor who was a prostitutes’ ‘madam’, Kristin Davis. Davis, also known as “Manhattan Madam” had once supplied prostitutes to disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Well, someone must have twigged that Stone’s past would not help the Catholic cause at Mar-a-Lago: pictures of Stone taken at the Pride parade have recently been scrubbed from the Internet. A few weeks ago, they were circulating on social media, shared by outraged former-Trumpers.
One was quite disgusting, with Stone being licked by the “Manhattan Madam” who, from memory, was dressed very scantily. When I tried to find the picture for this article, the image at left is all the best I could do. It has been removed from every news article related to the incident! Even the image I saved on X has disappeared along with the post.
No Presidency Without the Catholic Vote
After the ‘Catholics for Catholics’ event, Stone made a comment which confirmed just how crucial it was to get Catholics on board with Trump’s second presidential run. He explained in an interview with Newsmax why it is that there has been such an effort to endear Trump to Catholics.
He said, “It has actually been the fundamental basis of every Republican victory at the presidential level for the last 50 years. When we lose the Catholic vote, we lose the White House.”
The hubris of Trump receiving a scapular, Trump tweeting special messages on Catholic feast days, Melania photographed near a statue of Our Lady – it all makes sense given how necessary Catholics were to his success. All it took was a little marketing tailored specifically for conservative Catholics to make them forget that Trump removed protections for the unborn and for traditional marriage from the Republican platform and that he is, still proudly, the “Father of the Vaccine.”
And it is worth remembering the silence of most Catholic commentators on Trump’s more recent, very alarming acts: promoting arch-technocrat Larry Ellison and his mRNA cancer vaccines, threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, supporting Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza, making American taxpayers fund IVF and much more.
One final point of note is that both Roger Stone and Mike Flynn have been suspected of being the identities behind the Q-Anon phenomenon. Both men certainly know a lot about Trump and a lot about marketing. Whether or not it is true, these men are far from conservative Catholics and should absolutely no involvement with anything marketed to Catholics.
Their presence was a disgrace and only adds to the unsavoury air surrounding everything Mar-a-Lago. Don’t forget, it’s only a few weeks since a fundraising auction at Mar-a-Lago included a hideous goat statue which was covered in fake $100 bills featuring Trump’s image and the blasphemous words, “In Trump We Trust”. Some may argue that this fundraiser was nothing to do with Trump himself, but given that he autographed the statue, that position is hard to justify.
So, pray for Trump, by all means. He and his administration certainly need it. His Catholic supporters just need to think twice about how and where that is done and to do some homework about the shady agendas of some of their so-called fellow ‘Catholics’.
Ecclesiastical Freemasonry 