An international pedophile ring with ties to QLD

Published on August 27, 2025August 27, 2025 by Kathy ClubbLeave a comment

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN UPDATED FOR LEGAL REASONS.

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.]

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.

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.”

Facebook page for survivors of abuse at TSS: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063789480833

More information here: https://goodnessandharmony.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/paedophile-clarence-henry-howard-osbornes-files-could-have-brought-down-government-2/

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/cb9ee569-ca11-453b-bbc3-38d3893c8e82/&sid=0128 ↩︎
Courier Mail: Paedophile Clarence Henry Howard-Osborne’s files could have ‘brought down government’ (behind paywall) ↩︎

The World’s Most Prominent Ecclesiastical Freemason

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

Fr. Michael Weninger is a priest who has been mentioned several times on this website, as he is one of the few ecclesiastical freemasons who makes no secret of his dual allegiance. (See articles here and here.)

Fr. Weninger, a former diplomat who entered the priesthood late, has never renounced his membership in Freemasonry, which scandalously has even been encouraged by his superiors. He is famous for publishing a book in 2019 called Lodge and Altar, which is based on his doctoral thesis. He studied under Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran at the Pontifical Gregorian University which casts some doubt on Tauran’s own allegiance to the Catholic faith. Weninger also works under the Cardinal at the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Fr. Weninger addresses the French National Grand Lodge

A Scandalous Conference

Last month, Fr. Weninger, gave an address at the French National Grand Lodge at which he again attempted to affirm a compatibility between Freemasonry and Catholicism. The lecture can be found here on Youtube, but as both the video and transcript are in French, it’s necessary to rely on translated reports for this article.

The Spanish website, Infovaticana, tells us that according to Fr. Weninger, the “Great Architect of the Universe” is synonymous with the God of the Bible, and that this is the same God “to the Yahweh of the Jews, to the Allah of the Muslims and to the Trinity of the Christians.” This is perfectly consistent with the heresy of indifferentism which is a hallmark of Freemasonry.

The priest also stated that “a Catholic Freemason is no longer excommunicated for the mere fact of his membership in Freemasonry” – an error he shares in common with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Note that Weninger limits this apparent compatibility to Anglo-Saxon lodges; despite the Church making no exceptions to their centuries-old condemnation of Masonry.

Infovaticana suggests that the timing of Fr. Weninger’s address suggests that it is a test to the limits of the new pontificate’s authority – and to date no condemnation of the talk or of the Judas-priest’s dual allegiance has been issued by Pope Leo.

False Interpretation of Canon Law

Fr. Weninger makes his claim of compatibility based on the removal of the penalty of excommunication for Masons from the 1983 Code of Canon Law even though then-Cardinal Ratzinger confirmed that “Membership in them remains prohibited. The faithful who belong to Masonic associations are in a state of serious sin and cannot approach holy communion.”

Even Pope Francis, through Cardinal Fernandez, re-affirmed the ruling in 2023 when he stated that “Active membership in Freemasonry of a faithful is prohibited, due to the incompatibility between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry.”

Weaponised Confusion

The French media outlet, Tribune Chretienne, com made some insightful comments about Fr. Weninger’s address:

Note that during this same conference, an anonymous speaker testified to a word received during a confession, which alone sums up the constant teaching of the Church: “I absolve you of all your sins, you can do whatever you want, except… don’t go to Freemasonry. “ A revealing sentence which says a lot about the perceived seriousness of this belonging with regard to the Catholic faith.

Father Weninger took the liberty of concluding his intervention with “So be it”, which is not trivial. This expression, [the] liturgical translation of the Christian “Amen”, traditionally concludes a prayer, a blessing or a proclamation of faith. Using it to close a relativistic presentation on the compatibility between the Gospel and an initiatory organization based on secrecy and the rejection of Christian dogma demonstrates the confusion he wants to create to accredit his speech. This amounts to giving a liturgical anointing to a word which contradicts the Magisterium.

As Serge Abad-Gallardo, a former converted Freemason, recalled in a direct criticism addressed to Father Weninger: “Masonic principles are incompatible with Catholicism: they profess doctrinal relativism, refuse all revealed truth and reject the Kingship of Christ. Freemasonry claims to replace faith with human reason. However, man cannot save himself.“

Pope Leo’s Pachamama Mass

Published on July 16, 2025July 17, 2025 by Kathy Clubb1 Comment

On July 9th, Pope Leo offered his first Mass “for the Care of Creation”. The Mass contained many clues that show his agenda is no different from the human-centred goal of his predecessor, Pope Francis. Significantly, the press conference announcing the Mass featured Cardinal Michael Czerny, the man who promotes the Integral Ecology of Liberation Theologian, Leonardo Boff and Archbishop Francesco Viola, the man who wears Annibale Bugnini’s ring.

Firstly, I’d like to present an alternative view to mine, that is, a traditional Catholic’s interpretation of this Mass as being entirely orthodox and in line with the correct Catholic approach to creation. It seems solid, ending with the comment: “The keystone of the entire homily lies in the final sentence: ‘Only a contemplative gaze can change our relationship with created things’,” then providing a thoughtful explanation of what this means for faithful Catholics.

The only problem is, Pope Leo’s ‘contemplative gaze’ quote is taken from Laudato Si – that is, straight from the mouth of Papa Bergoglio. When one reads the entire sermon, it becomes obvious that Pope Leo is not, in fact, as the author suggests, referencing the traditional teaching on creation. Rather, he is continuing Francis’ mission which is none other than that of the subversive forces who gave us the Pact of the Catacombs. Clues such as ‘cry of the earth and cry of the poor’ abound, as do multiple references to Pope Francis and his pantheistic encyclical, Laudato Si. (For a complete analysis, see this article at Novus Ordo Watch.)

Apart from the obvious display of devotion to Pope Francis, there may be even more to this Mass than first appears. For this, it must be viewed through the lens of occult symbolism and so some speculation is in order.

Borgo Laudato Si Gardens

The Mass for Creation took place at the Borgo Laudato Si (The “Praised be” Village) – the immense gardens of the Pope’s holiday residence, Castel Gandolfo. Pope Francis had this turned into a tourist attraction, meant to provide some income for the cash-strapped Vatican whilst educating the public about ‘integral ecology’ (worshipping the environment). Remember, this is the vision that would have us believe that “justice and peace will only dwell on the Earth” when everyone has access to clean water.

The gardens made the perfect setting for a pagan ritual: that is, outdoors, in a grove. Groves were condemned by God throughout the Old Testament for their relationship to paganism and the prophets were often instructed to destroy these places where adulterous Israelites would gather to worship false gods.

The Dicastery for Integral Human development posted this to social media with the following caption: ‘Only a contemplative gaze can change our relationship with #Creation and bring us out of the ecological crisis’.
But, it must be asked, where is Christ in this scenario?

Groves and the Divine Feminine

Is the statue behind the altar Our Lady? It’s certainly possible and at least she is dressed more modestly than Papa Bergoglio’s false Mary, undoer of knots. But in the current context, I’d like to explore another possibility: that this female figure represents a pagan goddess: Pachamama or perhaps Isis.

The Hebrew word for ‘grove’ is ‘Asherah’ which can also mean a sacred tree or wooden pole or totem which was worshipped as an idol. The name ‘Asherah’ (or ‘Ašratu’ in Akkadian), can also denote the pagan goddess of groves who was worshipped by the Phoenicians, the Akkaddians, the Hittites, and the Canaanites. Ashrerah was considered to be the ‘Queen of Heaven’ and is sometimes identified with the ‘Divine Feminine’.

The Queen of Heaven archetype appears often in pagan belief systems. For example, in Egyptian mythology the Queen of Heaven was Isis, the sister-wife of Osiris, sometimes known as the ‘World Virgin’. Isis is the personification of Nature and like other types of this goddess is associated with fertility.

As a mother-goddess who was and is blasphemously believed by some to be the consort of God, Asherah can be equated with the Pachamama of South America. Pachamama, as we know, is identified with Mother Earth and with the Divine Feminine. A common offering to Pachamama is the gift of flowers, especially yellow ones, and these can be seen on the altar at the Pope’s Mass of Creation – in violation of the GIRM (General Instruction on the Roman Missal).

Yellow flowers, a common offering for Pachamama, were placed on the altar, in violation of the GIRM.

Asherah/Isis was goddess of motherhood, and wisdom and as such may also be identified with ‘Sophia’ – the personification of wisdom. In Gnosticism, Sophia plays a fundament role, as she is an aspect of god and an agent of chaos and confusion which can only be countered by the ‘gnosis’ of ‘Jesus Christ’ which humans require to escape the physical world and return to the spiritual one.

To see a statue of a woman placed prominently behind the altar during the outdoor Mass of Creation, hands crossed over her chest in the gesture of Osiris and surmounted by a triangle (an important occult/Masonic symbol ) makes one wonder if this is not meant to represent Our Lady, but rather the anti-Mary World Virgin who is known as Ashrerah, Isis, Sophia or Pachamama.

Wisdom Between Two Pillars

The placement of the figure of Isis/Pachamama between two pillars provides further material for discussion as this is a specific arrangement in the occult with its own meaning:

The World Virgin is sometimes shown standing between two great pillars–the Jachin and Boaz of Freemasonry–symbolizing the fact that Nature attains productivity by means of polarity. As wisdom personified, Isis stands between the pillars of opposites, demonstrating that understanding is always found at the point of equilibrium and that truth is often crucified between the two thieves of apparent contradiction.

Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of all Ages

Another interpretation of the setting of a female icon of Wisdom between two pillars comes from the Tarot. In this system, the woman is associated with the mythical ‘Pope Joan’ – a false female Pope! Surely, that’s not the message being conveyed here!?!

Opposing Forces

As has been repeated often among these pages, the Great Work of the occultist is to access gnosis in order to reconcile opposing forces. The placement of the female goddess figure between the two pillars echoes that principle. It is repeated in the elegant reflective pool which appears in front of the altar, a perfect embodiment of the principle of ‘as above, so below‘.

The reflective pool expresses the principle of ‘as above, so below’

The occult pectoral cross

For the occasion of the Mass of Creation, Pope Leo wore a pectoral cross decorated with an image of the Good Shepherd. While this appears at first to be the same cross was worn by the infamous Cardinal Bernadin (see article here) on closer inspection, this doesn’t seem to be the case. A separate article studies these crosses and may be found here.

Despite any differences in the crosses, it’s worth noting for our purposes that in the original version of this cross – the one worn by Cardinal Bernadin and Pope Francis – the ‘Good Shepherd’ was modelled on the Egyptian god, Osiris and that as mentioned above, the wife of Osiris was the goddess, Isis.

Conclusion

Rather than merely hijacking the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to promote the prevailing, disordered, emphasis on the environment, there were enough red flags here to indicate an occult ritual took place under the guise of, or in conjunction with, the liturgy.

Although we may never know the truth, it is educational to decode the hierarchy’s clues which were hiding in plain site in what at first appears to be a tranquil and thoroughly Catholic scene.

To see Mass offered outdoors in a lush grove, near twin pillars that are surmounted by a triangle, close to a reflective pool with all being overseen by the divine feminine should fill us with horror, rather than delight. It is yet another sign of the new papacy’s agenda: to present Modernism with a smile and to lure Catholics into nature worship using the tantalising bait of aesthetics.

An associate of Father Isaac Mary Relyea, made an interesting point on their Youtube channel : he said the name, Mass for the “Care of Creation” immediately reminded him of the “Cremation of Care” ritual performed at Bohemian Grove. Hmmm. Another ritual in an infamous grove. That certainly is food for thought.

This article has been updated.

SOURCES: This site (non-Catholic); Sophia (Wikimedia); The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. (affiliate link.)

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Pope Leo & Bergoglio’s occult-inspired pectoral cross

Published on July 14, 2025 by Kathy ClubbLeave a comment

In my recent article about Cardinal Bernadin, I referenced a pectoral cross he often wore which showed his allegiance to the occult and to other nefarious characters in the hierarchy. That article cited information from Rosicrucians which explained that their esoteric version of the ‘Good Shepherd’ was indicated by arms crossed over the chest.

Cardinal Fernandez and Pope Francis have also worn this same cross: in Bergoglio’s case, he wore it first as Archbishop and Cardinal of Argentina.

Crossed arms are also found in Masonry and in its offshoot, the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis), and were inspired by the Egyptian god, Osiris.

First sign in the Super-Excellent Master Mason Degree (Richardson’s Monitor of Freemasonry)

As an aside, celebrities seem to be as fond of being photographed making this gesture as they are of making the Illuminati ‘one-eye’ sign and devils’ horns.

Cardinal Fernandez pictured wearing the same cross at this year’s conclave.

Pope Francis wearing the occult-inspired cross.

The shepherd with arms crossed, slightly elongated body and background of lines or ridges – from the maker’s website.

Another shot of the cross showing the shepherd’s face looking straight ahead.

Pope Leo, as Robert Prevost, was apparently apparently photographed wearing the occult-version. I say ‘apparently’, because the photograph on the left is so outrageous that I had waited to see solid proof that it was not photoshopped. That is, proof was wanting until the photograph on the right was sent to me. It came from a Spanish website called Religion the Free Voice and shows Prevost againt wearing the occult-inspired pectoral cross.

Here is a picture of Pope Leo XIV, taken on the day of his ‘Mass for Creation’. As can be seen, he is wearing a pectoral cross bearing an image of the Good shepherd.

However, there is something very significant about his cross. As the closeups show, this doesn’t appear to be identical with similar crosses worn by Pope Francis, or Cardinals Bernadin and Fernandez: it has been changed slightly.

Zoomed-in image of the cross from the picture above.

Here is Leo’s cross again, at even closer range.

What say you, friends? Is this the same cross? In all truth, it appears not to be. The shepherd appears to have only one arm crossed over his breast – his left arm – and his body is a little shorter than in the Bergoglio/Bernadin version. The robe is raised slightly on the right-hand-side (the shepherd’s left) as if he is walking. The Holy Ghost dove is in the same position but the vertical lines/ridges in the background have been removed, or are at least not so prominent. In contrast to the other cross, the shepherd’s head seems to be oriented downwards and slightly towards his right.

What does is all mean? Is Leo playing the players? Has he tapped in to the graces of his new state as Pontiff of the Holy Catholic Church? While I’d like to think this is the case, here is a different theory (as presented to me by my son.) If this ‘Good Shepherd’ is inspired by a god of Ancient Egypt, we must cast our minds back to that period.

We know that at times, ancient Egypt was governed by Pharaohs who demanded that they be worshipped as gods, but this wasn’t always the case. There was a time known as the First Intermediate Period during which the Pharaohs ruled in a more ‘synodal’ style. They shared power with the nomes, who were the rulers of a series of city-states called nomarchs. Most notably, this time came after the more authoritarian period of the Old Kingdom – and was later followed by another time of absolute rule by the Pharaohs.

Is it possible that the updated version of the pectoral cross indicates that the authoritarian rule of Bergoglio has given way to Leo’s ‘synodal’ path of cheerfully allowing bishops to implement whatever degree of orthodoxy or error they desire in their own dioceses? (For that is precisely what synodality entails.) Is this cross the symbol of the next phase of the revolution?

No matter what is the meaning of this strange development, please, PLEASE, dear Catholics, choose a simple daily penance to offer to Our Lady that this Pope will consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart and end the confusion which reigns around us. As I’m fond of saying: he doesn’t have to believe, he just has to do it!

Virgo potens, ora pro nobis!

Who was Cardinal Bernadin?

Published on June 23, 2025 by Kathy Clubb1 Comment

Joseph Bernadin is remembered among traditionalists as one of the most notorious members of the American hierarchy, whose evil legacy is still being felt in the Catholic Church. This brief overview aims to explain why knowing the truth about Bernadin is particularly relevant to our times.

Background

Born in 1928, Joseph Bernadin was, according to the Chicago Tribune, the “son of an immigrant stonecutter.” He grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, which perhaps not coincidentally, was home of the Palladian Rite created by renowned Freemason, Albert Pike.

Ordained in the early 1950’s, Bernadin quickly rose through the ranks and was made a Monsignor by Pope John XXIII in 1959, at the age of only 31. He was Archbishop of Cinncinati from 1972 to 1982, then Archbishop of Chicago until his death in 1996. In 1983, Bernadin was raised to the Cardinalate by John Paul II.

As President of the USCCB, he exerted an enormous influence on the Church in the United States: during the 1970’s Bernadin promoted Communion in the hand, altar girls and toleration for homosexuals in the Church. He was a hero to the young Barack Obama and was viewed by the Church in the US as the progressive leader of a faction opposed to the relatively conservative “John Paul II Bishops.”

Charleston

Bernadin served as a priest in Charleston for fourteen years. The Charleston Diocese at this time was a hotbed of scandal due to the prevalence of homosexual clergy. Many of those were later charged with sexual abuse, including a former roommate of Bernardin, Monsignor Frederick Hopwood. In 1993, after Hopwood was accused of sexually abusing over 100 boys, then-Cardinal Bernadin acted to have the records of the case sealed and arranged for an out-of-court settlement for the victims.

Writer Richard Sipe documented evidence of Bernadin’s own penchant for young seminarians while the latter was Assistant Chancellor for the Diocese of Charleston.This included testimonies from priests who “partied” with Bernadin and the seminarians as well as at least one seminarian who said he had been “forced into a sexual relationship with Bernadin and other American prelates.”

Bernadin himself was officially charged with several counts of abuse. Although he denied the claims, one victim, who later died of AIDS, was compensated by the Chicago Archdiocese by around USD $3 million.

The “Boys Club”

Things were even more scandalous when Bernadin became Archbishop of Chicago. During his tenure there, Bernadin was implicated in a homosexual network known as the “Boys Club”. This group became known, not only for their homosexual activity but also for their involvement in occult rituals and sexual abuse of impoverished young boys.

A whistleblower who wanted to leave the group was murdered in 1984. Although the victim was apparently unknown to Cardinal Bernadin, the latter arrived unnannounced on the scene soon after the brutal murder to question police; the crime remains unsolved.

In 2014, it was revealed that Bernadin and another Cardinal, John Cody, had covered up thousands of abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Chicago during the 1990’s. They routinely moved abuser-priests from parish to parish, allowing them to maintain access to children.

Pectoral Cross

Bernadin is known to have worn the occult-inspired pectoral cross for which Bergoglio was infamous. Cardinal Fernandez has also been pictured wearing this cross.

[Note: Photographs of Cardinals Martini and Prevost (now Pope Leo XIV) wearing the same cross have circulated on social media but at the time of publication I wasn’t able to find these. I’ll update the article if I come across them again.]

The cross is thought to be representative of a Masonic gesture: the folding of arms across the chest.

Although the Masonic Encyclopedia claims that Christian icons of the Good Shepherd often have crossed arms, this seems not to be the case.

Rather, it is a gesture beloved of Rosicrucians: “The Good Shepherd Sign in Rosicrucian Knight´s masonic chapters consists of crossing arms over the chest, stretching hands with joined fingers and palms on the nipples, and opening eyes to heaven while bowing. This represents reason and immortality. This position can be reflected through the skull and crossed bones.“

Seamless Garment & Common Ground

Cardinal Bernadin coined the phrase ‘seamless garment’ in the 1970’s and this ideology has been adopted by the Church at the highest levels since that time. The ‘seamless garment’ philosophy is that Catholics must hold a ‘consistent life ethic’ meaning that they must oppose war, poverty, inequality, environmental decline and a host of other problems as passionately as they oppose abortion.

Pope Francis famously promoted this ideology when, along with his condemnations of abortion, he also condemned the death penalty.

Not long before his death, Bernadin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, a project dedicated to ‘Reconciliation and Peacemaking’, interreligious dialogue and the ‘consistent life ethic’. Bernadin’s Common Ground project, with its focus on dialogue and ecumenism, can be seen as a forerunner of Pope Francis’ destructive ideology of ‘synodality.’

Ritual Sexual Abuse

Like many of the worst of our 20th and 21st century abusers. Bernadin was also said to have been involved in sexual abuse rituals. The most famous case is that of the woman known by the pseudonym, ‘Agnes’.

In the 1990’s, ‘Agnes’ came forward with allegations that she had been raped by Cardinal Berndadin when she was 11 years old. Agnes repeated the claims to investigators and Church officials, as well as in a sworn deposition and affidavits.

According to Agnes, the rape was part of a satanic ritual which was attended by both Bernadin and Bishop Russell of Charleston. Agnes’ father was in attendance and he presented her to be abused along with her pet dog. This incident famously formed the basis for the depraved Black Mass scene in the Malachi Martin’s novel, Windswept House.

Bernadin received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton in 1996

Death of Bernadin

Perhaps the most significant proof of Bernadin’s loyalties came at his funeral: the Windy City Gay Men’s Chorus sang at his wake in the Cathedral at his request. According to reports, “The chorus’s director said that they regarded the invitation as a sign of approval by the Church, and accepted enthusiastically.”

Not only that, Freemasons wearing their full regalia acted as guard s of honour, standing by Bernadin’s coffin. Bernardin was posthumously awarded the Fraternal Order of Masons’ Masonic Order of Galilei Award, which he had agreed to accept prior to his death.

A Disturbing Tribute

A concerning connection took place more recently, as Bernadin and his approach to ethics were lauded by then-Cardinal Prevost in 2023. Prervost gave an address given at the Catholic University of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, saying, “..a catholic cannot claim to be pro-life just to take a stance against abortion while at the same time saying they are in favour of the death penalty.”

This is merely further proof that Bernadin’s influence has not diminished over time and that his views remain highly regarded by Progressives both inside and outside the Church.

SOURCES: Bishop Accountability / The Guardian / False Rape Timeline / Masonic Encyclopedia – Cambridge Centre for the Study of Western Esotericism / Catholic Culture / National Catholic Register / Chicago Tribune

The Alta Vendita

Published on June 15, 2025 by Kathy ClubbLeave a comment

To aid in the distribution of this valuable document, I’ve published it below as a downloadable file. The following is taken from the booklet’s frontispiece:

This little bombshell exposes the truth about the once secret papers of the Alta Vendita, which lay out a Masonic blueprint for the subversion of the Catholic Church. The booklet quotes the actual Alta Vendita document, examines how far the Masonic plan has succeeded, cites Papal denunciations of Freemasonry and gives advice on how Catholics should respond to this grave spiritual danger.

We are making this booklet available to as many people as possible and hope to distribute it world-wide. The issue is the salvation of souls and peace in the world.

Published at the request of John Vennari by The Fatima Center.

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