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Habemus (Lavender) Papam

Published on May 9, 2025 by Kathy Clubb2 Comments

“James Martin likes him.”

That was all we needed to hear to know that the Cardinals have just elected Francis II. Sure, he might speak Latin beautifully and he might be great at football and his papal name – Pope Leo XIV – sounds quite hopeful.

But Cardinal Robert Prevost is no traditionalist, nor even a conservative when it comes to the things that really count. He is fully committed to “Synodality”, open border migration and LGBT rights. That last one is the most concerning of all, because it means that the moral current flowing through the Vatican will remain contaminated for years to come.

Prevost is such a big hit with the gay Mafia that, prior to the Conclave, conservative news outlets were accused of running a campaign against him. If, by campaign, one means revealing Provost’s ties with sexual abuse cover-ups, then that is certainly true. The arch-Liberal journalist, Austen Ivereigh, was said to be nervous that damning evidence about Prevost was being released so close to the voting, but he need not have feared. As InfoVaticana explains, “Prevost was their man, the candidate in whom they had placed all their hopes.”

“They” refers to the lavender Mafia: in the US, that includes Cardinals Wuerl, Cupich and McElroy, with their ebullient frontman Fr James Martin of “Building Bridges” fame. You can hear what Martin had to say about Prevost <a href="http://<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">Pope Leo XIV! <a href="https://t.co/y9lFvPsNQe">pic.twitter.com/y9lFvPsNQe</a></p>— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1920557966396129771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8">here.

James Martin’s book featuring an occult-inspired rainbow.

The College of Cardinal website provides more details on our new Pope: “views close to Pope Francis”; prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops; “very close to Francis’ vision regarding the environment, outreach to the poor and migrants, and meeting people where they are”; with his views on the blessing of same-sex couples being uncertain:

Although he expressed reservations about “sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel,” Cardinal Prevost showed less clarity about Fiducia supplicans, stressing the need for national bishops’ conferences to have doctrinal authority to interpret and apply such directives in their local contexts, given cultural differences. He therefore did not fully endorse nor reject the document.

In her recent article calling for the next Pope to expel homosexualism from the ranks of the clergy, Dr. Janet Smith specifically mentioned Robert Prevost as one of those who was highly suspect:

It is impossible to estimate how many of the cardinals participating in the conclave have either been accused of being active homosexuals or of covering up for homosexuals. SNAP (The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) submitted to Cardinal Parolin a list of six of the papabile cardinals who have “either enabled or concealed sexual abuse committed by Catholic Clergy”: Péter Erdő from Hungary, Kevin Farrell from the United States, Victor Manuel Fernández from Argentina, Mario Grech from Malta, Robert Francis Prevost from the United States, and Luis Antonio Tagle from the Philippines. A rainbow cloud hangs over the heads of the cardinals from the United States, either for their own suspected homosexual activities or for cover-up of abusive homosexual priests. [emphasis added]

Prevost’s pro-life and other conservative-sounding quotes are already being circulated in the jubilant post-conclave atmosphere. Links are being fabricated between Leo XIV and the lion-hearted Leo XIII, connections made with the date of Prevost’s election (a lesser-known feast of St. Michael) and that mighty angelic defender of the Church.

While it is always possible that the graces of state may kick in and Prevost could surprise everyone by imitating St. Michael or embodying another Leo XIII, at this point in history it is far more likely that Christ and His Church are being mocked yet again by occultists and sex-magicians who have co-opted St. Michael – and Leo XIII – for their own ends.

So pray for the new Pope, as is the obligation of every Catholic. Offer prayers for him at every Mass – if only to gain indulgences for the souls in purgatory – but don’t expect a ‘new springtime’ in the near future. Put your head down, ignore the papal propaganda and work out your salvation in fear and trembling.

Yet Another Pope Beloved by the Masons

Published on April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 by Kathy ClubbLeave a comment

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

Blatant Occultism in Bendigo Cathedral

Published on April 21, 2025April 23, 2025 by Kathy Clubb1 Comment

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.

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 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. ↩︎

CIA Occultists & the Ark of the Covenant

Published on March 31, 2025 by Kathy ClubbLeave a comment

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.

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.

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Fernandez Approves Gender Mutilation

Published on March 28, 2025 by Kathy Clubb1 Comment

From the New Daily Compass & translated from Italian by AI.

During a conference organised in mid-February by the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Cologne in Germany, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, made a video contribution. This report was then incorporated into a document entitled The Ontological Dignity of the Person in Dignitas infinita Some clarifications. This document aims to explain some of the conceptual points contained in the Declaration Dignitas infinita published by the same Dicastery in March 2024.

Fernández’s document was drafted to respond to some criticisms, but raises several critical issues of its own. One of these is undoubtedly the question of medical treatments aimed at so-called ‘gender reassignment’. The document, which denounces gender ideology, recalls the condemnation of such interventions already present in Dignitas infinita, but if in Dignitas infinita the condemnation was absolute, that is, it allowed no exceptions, in the recent document signed by Fernández there appears one that is decisive. Fernández writes: “We don’t want to be cruel and say that we don’t understand the conditioning of people and the deep suffering that exists in some cases of “dysphoria”, which manifests itself even in childhood. When the document [Dignitas infinita] uses the expression “as a rule”, it does not exclude the possibility that there are cases outside the norm, such as severe dysphoria, which can lead to an unbearable existence or even suicide. These exceptional situations must be assessed with great care”.

Let’s focus our attention on the part where the Prefect refers to the Dignitas infinita and quotes the the words ‘as a rule’. Let’s look at the relevant passage in Dignitas infinita: “Any operation to change the sex of a human being normally risks jeopardising the unique dignity which the person possesses from the moment of conception. This does not exclude the possibility that a person with genital anomalies, whether present at birth or developed later, may choose to undergo medical treatment to correct these anomalies. Such intervention would not constitute gender reassignment as we use the term here (60).

In essence, Dignitas infinita is right to say: no to interventions on the reproductive system when the aim is to try unsuccessfully to change sexual identity. Yes to the same interventions when they are aimed at confirming sexual identity, that is, when they are therapeutic, modifying the reproductive system in order to bring it into line with genetic data, which is the primary reference for understanding which sex a person belongs to. In fact, in certain pathologies, the reproductive organs may not correspond morphologically and to varying degrees to the person’s XY or XX chromosomes. This explains why Dignitas infinita uses the phrase “as a rule”: it wants to affirm that in the majority of cases (as a rule) such interventions are to be condemned, except for those that are therapeutic in nature.

As already mentioned, Fernández refers in his document to the expression “as a rule”, which is present in Dignitas infinita. We have seen that this expression is used by Dignitas infinita in relation to genital surgery. It is therefore reasonable to assume that Fernández also uses it in relation to these. So, if we re-read Fernández’s text, we discover that he considers these interventions to be illegal, except in cases of severe dysphoria and, implicitly, in cases of therapeutic treatment. Therefore, the Prefect considers such interventions legal even in the case condemned by Dignitas infinita, that is, when they are used to contradict sexual identity, provided that the dysphoria is severe and involves serious risks for the person. Therefore, the prohibition does not concern, as in the case of Dignitas infinita, the moral nature of the act – treatments to “change” sex – but only the condition that motivates the intervention: no to those interventions where the dysphoria is mild. In short, for the Prefect, the “change” of sex is morally acceptable when the dysphoria is severe. But surgical interventions that contradict the genetic sex are intrinsically evil acts and remain so regardless of the conditions that motivate them. This is why Cardinal Fernández has accepted the principle of “yes to sex reassignment”. Once the principle has been accepted, logical consistency will take us from borderline cases to common cases, from the exceptional to the normal.

This is why Fernández refers inappropriately to the “normal” contained in Dignitas infinita: in fact, he refers to it in order to legitimise sexual “change” in a sense that is the opposite of that indicated by the Dignitas infinita document itself. The latter declares that genital surgery is generally reprehensible, except when it is performed for therapeutic purposes; Fernández declares that genital surgery is generally reprehensible, except when it accentuates dysphoria (and when the purpose is therapeutic).

Conclusion: the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith qualifies the transsexual condition as morally acceptable.

Mar-A-Lago MEGA Mistake

Published on March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Kathy Clubb4 Comments

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.

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.

Instead of an explanation, he tells us that he carries the occult prayer in his wallet. 🤔 https://t.co/jZc2DKXpCa pic.twitter.com/bQHf26Hiyz
— 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’.