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href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/03/masonic-symbolism-in-liturgical-design/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull is-content-justification-center" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-right:var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal));padding-bottom:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-left:var(--wp--style--root--padding-left, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal))"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <div style="height:7px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled, to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it.”</p> <p>Albert Pike, former Sovereign Grand Commander</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p>The Masonic infiltration which has penetrated very deeply into the heart of the Church is often reflected in the layout of modern churches. The designs which reveal Masonic influence track closely with the liturgical changes that took place after the Council, and which were first exposed by Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci in their historic <em>Intervention</em>. Their letter to Pope Paul VI, and its attached document compiled by a group of theologians, became known as the <em>Ottaviani Intervention.</em>That document lists the main problems detected in Pope Paul’s New Order of the Mass:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>definition of the Mass (supper, memorial, assembly instead of Sacrifice)</li> <li>purpose of the Mass (community/fraternal charity instead of Sacrifice and worship)</li> <li>essence of the Mass (thanksgiving – actually a fruit instead of the Mystery of Calvary continued)</li> </ul> <p>With regard to liturgical design, these changes were achieved by</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>reducing the main altar to a table</li> <li>eliminating the sanctuary and placing the altar in the midst of the people</li> <li>omitting specifically Catholic elements</li> <li>inverting the roles of priest and laity </li> <li>eliminating hierarchical structure</li> <li>implicitly denying the Real Presence</li> <li>having the priest face the people to support the idea of narrative rather than sacrifice</li> <li>providing limitless options to undermine unity</li> <li>using ambiguous designs and art </li> <li>focussing on ‘paschalism’ to the exclusion of other communications of grace</li> <li>promoting “archaeologism”, condemned by Pope Pius XII, to suggest that the Church has somehow lost Her way in more recent times.</li> </ul> <p>It is easy to see how these novel elements in design are closely aligned with Masonic principles of liberty, equality and fraternity.</p> <p>Traditionally, the design of a church symbolises the exclusive and hierarchical nature of Catholicism. The Sacrifice of the Mass takes place in a dedicated area, the Sanctuary, which is only entered by males. Only an ordained priest may offer the Mass, and steps surrounding the altar denote his ascent on behalf of the people towards the Triune God.</p> <p>By contrast, the egalitarianism of Masonry sees the altar moved to the midst of the people, with the priest mingling among them. Steps no longer appear, and on some churches, the altar is even placed at a lower level than the congregation.</p> <p>Specifically Catholic elements such as statuary, side altars, traditional motifs in stained glass windows, artwork and textiles point to a Church which believes Herself to be the One True Faith. These must be jettisoned in favour of the more universal “spiritualism” found in Masonry.</p> <p>In line with the Masonic need for secrecy and misdirection, ambiguous patterns and symbols create confusion, replacing clear catechesis with mystical suggestions. In accordance with the Masonic principle of liberty, these creative details invite the designer or congregation to express their individuality, rather than being subservient to traditional themes and motifs.</p> <p>The principle of fraternity is expressed when a church’s design emphasises a merely human charity – an assembly of people gathered to pray for the poor or to build up the their community. Any reference to the Mass as a Sacrifice, or focus on the Real Presence of the Lord in the tabernacle is eliminated. Similarly, artwork reminding parishioners of their eternal destination is replaced by representations of the corporal works of mercy.</p> <p>Some specific examples of these principles are found in the churches shown below.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Saints Peter and Paul, in Bulimba, Brisbane. [Queensland, Australia.] </h3> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-attachment-id="6691" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6691" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp3-1.jpeg" data-orig-size="450,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="P&amp;P3" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp3-1.jpeg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp3-1.jpeg?w=450" width="450" height="300" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp3-1.jpeg?w=450" alt="" class="wp-image-6691" style="width:647px;height:auto" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp3-1.jpeg 450w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp3-1.jpeg?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp3-1.jpeg?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Saints Peter and Paul, in Bulimba, Queensland, Australia</figcaption></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull is-content-justification-center" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-right:var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal));padding-bottom:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-left:var(--wp--style--root--padding-left, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal))"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <p></p> <div class="wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img data-attachment-id="6695" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6695" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp2-1.jpeg" data-orig-size="250,375" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="P&amp;P2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp2-1.jpeg?w=200" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp2-1.jpeg?w=250" width="250" height="375" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp2-1.jpeg?w=250" alt="" class="wp-image-6695 size-full" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp2-1.jpeg 250w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pp2-1.jpeg?w=100 100w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"> <p>As explained in <a href="http://www.bulimbacatholic.com/our-church.html">notes</a> about the church’s interior found on the parish website, this layout represents the theology wherein the assembly, that is the congregation, is the celebrant of the liturgy. Thus the priest loses his preeminent place and merges with the people. This was one of the concerns raised in <em>The Ottaviani Intervention </em>and represents the Masonic principle of egalitarianism. </p> <p>Focus on the priest , as a man, actually increases in this layout and the people are forced to stare at each other. </p> </div></div> <p>According to the <a href="http://www.bulimbacatholic.com/our-church.html">notes,</a> both the altar and the ambo are cubes, each carved from a single block of marble and decorated with arches. Notably, the <em>Le Guide du Paris Maçonnique</em>, explains that the perfect cube, the cut stone and the arches are all “inherently Masonic.” [As related in <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Unholy-Craft-Freemasonry-Roots-Christophobia-ebook/dp/B01N4L85K1">Unholy Craft: Freemasonry and the Roots of Christophobia</a></em>.]</p> <p>As an aside, the priest in question held, as a fundraiser for the Church’s renovations, a Black and White Ball. It is a small point but interesting in the context of this discussion.</p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"></div> </div> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Another example of a cube-shaped altar can be found in <a href="https://gloria.tv/post/UcizeSAV3G212mPpdpggGWrwH">this</a> German church. Made of red marble, the altar was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop of Munich, Rupert Graf zu Stolberg, at the St. Michael Church in Niederaudorf.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="8001" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/11/03/masonic-symbolism-in-liturgical-design/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp" data-orig-size="1080,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp?w=760" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="1024" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-8001" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rnoblxwiza7d9csvoi0uwvltnq8snx2homu3bvv.webp 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure> </div> </div> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">St. Patrick’s at Parramatta, Sydney. [New South Wales, Australia.]</h3> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="6665" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6665" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png" data-orig-size="1021,560" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2024-07-16 at 1.27.34 pm" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png?w=760" loading="lazy" width="1021" height="560" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png?w=1021" alt="" class="wp-image-6665" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png 1021w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.34-pm.png?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, Australia</figcaption></figure></div></div></div> <p></p> <p>This rather sparsely-decorated cathedral has been described by visitors as a ‘barn’ or a ‘basketball court’. The shift from Catholic, theocentric liturgical design to a Masonic, anthropocentric one is very clear here: there is no tabernacle in the main body of the church, and the lectern faces over the altar to the crucifix on the back wall. What looks like a floating storm cloud, <a href="https://architectureau.com/articles/designing-australias-sacred-spaces/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">is said</a> by the designer to embody “a sublime narrative of spiritual life.” </p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="6667" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6667" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png" data-orig-size="1010,641" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2024-07-16 at 1.27.58 pm" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png?w=760" loading="lazy" width="1010" height="641" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png?w=1010" alt="" class="wp-image-6667" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png 1010w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.58-pm.png?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px" /></figure> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img data-attachment-id="6669" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6669" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png" data-orig-size="1009,657" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2024-07-16 at 1.29.57 pm" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png?w=760" loading="lazy" width="1009" height="657" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png?w=1009" alt="" class="wp-image-6669" style="width:379px;height:auto" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png 1009w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.29.57-pm.png?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px" /></figure> </div> </div> <p>The altar is a very egalitarian square. While not ugly, the fish and decoration shown at the entrance to the Adoration chapel, are ambiguous: they in no way point to the reality of the Real Presence only a few feet away.</p> <p>The ‘presider’s chair’ is brutalist and situated near a rather grotesque crucifix. Notably, the arms of the cross are incomplete. </p> <p>The tabernacle, like its decorations, is quite ambiguous: it is difficult to discern what we are looking at. The arms on the cross surrounding the Sacred Host are of the same length – a common occult representation of a cross which is commonly found in Rosicrucianism.</p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"><div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="6662" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6662" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.04-pm.png" data-orig-size="482,552" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2024-07-16 at 1.27.04 pm" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.04-pm.png?w=262" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.04-pm.png?w=482" loading="lazy" width="482" height="552" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.04-pm.png?w=482" alt="" class="wp-image-6662" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.04-pm.png 482w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.04-pm.png?w=131 131w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.27.04-pm.png?w=262 262w" sizes="(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px" /></figure></div></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"><div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-attachment-id="6663" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6663" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.26.06-pm.png" data-orig-size="479,719" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2024-07-16 at 1.26.06 pm" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.26.06-pm.png?w=200" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.26.06-pm.png?w=479" loading="lazy" width="479" height="719" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.26.06-pm.png?w=479" alt="" class="wp-image-6663" style="width:296px;height:auto" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.26.06-pm.png 479w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.26.06-pm.png?w=100 100w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screen-shot-2024-07-16-at-1.26.06-pm.png?w=200 200w" sizes="(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px" /></figure></div></div> </div> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull is-content-justification-center" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-right:var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal));padding-bottom:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-left:var(--wp--style--root--padding-left, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal))"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Banyo Seminary Chapel, Brisbane. [Queensland, Australia.]</h3> <p></p> </div></div> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="6680" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6680" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg" data-orig-size="960,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Banyo-Seminary-Chapel1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg?w=760" loading="lazy" width="960" height="640" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg?w=960" alt="" class="wp-image-6680" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg 960w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banyo-seminary-chapel1.jpeg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Banyo Seminary, Queensland, Australia</figcaption></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull is-content-justification-center" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-right:var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal));padding-bottom:calc( 0.5 * var(--wp--style--root--padding-right, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal)));padding-left:var(--wp--style--root--padding-left, var(--wp--custom--gap--horizontal))"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <p></p> <p>Another example is this chapel in a dioscesan seminary in Australia. Again we see the altar and ambo have been brought into the midst of the congregants. No sanctuary, as such, exists. Congregants are left with little choice but to look at each other, instead of being able to gaze unimpeded at the Holy Sacrifice unfolding before them.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-attachment-id="6673" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/?attachment_id=6673" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lodge.png" data-orig-size="550,345" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Lodge" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lodge.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lodge.png?w=550" loading="lazy" width="550" height="345" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lodge.png?w=550" alt="" class="wp-image-6673" style="width:713px;height:auto" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lodge.png 550w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lodge.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lodge.png?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">A typical Masonic lodge layout</figcaption></figure></div> <p>If we compare the three new churches above to the typical layout of a Masonic temple, we are at once struck by some obvious similarities. In the lodge, chairs are arranged in rows with the people facing each other. A table, known as the Table of the Book, is situated between the rows of chairs. In this layout, the focus is on man, which is a fundamental problem in new church designs as well.</p> <p>Where once the focus of the Mass was clearly on God – as the faithful, along with the priest, faced the high altar with tabernacle and a prominent crucifix – these modern designs place the emphasis firmly on man. This novelty takes on a more sinister aspect with the introduction of occult-inspired details, such as the cube-shaped altar. In that case, what could be put down to mere ideological influence is clearly exposed as an attempt to <em>replac</em>e the object of worship: Christ for Antichrist.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <div style="height:7px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/masonic-architecture-in-catholic-churches/" rel="category tag">Masonic architecture in Catholic Churches</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/albert-pike/" rel="tag">Albert Pike</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/banyo-seminary/" rel="tag">Banyo Seminary</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/culture/" rel="tag">Culture</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/freemasonry/" rel="tag">Freemasonry</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/liturgical-design/" rel="tag">Liturgical design</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/st-patricks-parramatta/" rel="tag">St Patrick's Parramatta</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/sts-peter-paul-bulimba/" rel="tag">Sts Peter & Paul Bulimba</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/vatican-ii/" rel="tag">Vatican II</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-7947" class="post-7947 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-catholic-clergy-known-masons tag-cardinal-bea tag-fatima tag-featured tag-freemasonry tag-john-xxiii tag-malachi-martin tag-modernism tag-vatican tag-vatican-ii tag-windswept-house"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/freemasonic-influence-in-papal-conclaves/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="Freemasonic Influence in Papal Conclaves" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="7962" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/freemasonic-influence-in-papal-conclaves/fm-conclaves/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="FM Conclaves" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fm-conclaves.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/freemasonic-influence-in-papal-conclaves/" rel="bookmark">Freemasonic Influence in Papal Conclaves</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/freemasonic-influence-in-papal-conclaves/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-10-27T17:56:39+11:00">October 27, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/freemasonic-influence-in-papal-conclaves/#comments">2 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Unpublished Testimony of Fr. Malachi Martin, Taken from L’Eglise Eclipsee. TRanslated from the French by online translation tool.</h4> <p><em>Malachi Brendan Martin S.J. </em>: <em>July 23, 1921 ~ †July 27, 1999  Born in County Kerry, Ireland, he studied at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. There he received doctorates in Semitic language, archeology and Oriental history. He then studied at Oxford and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. </em></p> <p>Ordained as a priest on August 15, 1954, he was a Jesuit priest in Rome from 1958 to 1964, and carried out certain delicate missions for Cardinal Augustine Bea, for whom he was private secretary, and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI.  Relieved in 1964 by Paul VI of his vows of poverty and obedience at his own request, he moved to New York and became an international author of bestsellers, fiction and non-fiction. One of his favourite subjects is the Third Secret of Fatima, about which he spoke at length in his works. He recalls that what is most frightening is that it is apocalyptic and corresponds to the eschatological texts of the Holy Scriptures.</p> <p>We approach this study through the testimony of Father Malachi Martin,  who was extremely kind enough to sign his declarations. As he was secretary to Cardinal Bea, and the latter played a major role in the founding of the new “conciliar church”<sup data-fn="34369b6a-3b62-441f-b914-2a2fd686c2ff" class="fn"><a href="#34369b6a-3b62-441f-b914-2a2fd686c2ff" id="34369b6a-3b62-441f-b914-2a2fd686c2ff-link">1</a></sup>, as well as in the execution of the plan by enemies of the Church, his testimony is both of great interest and extreme seriousness. This is why we will avoid mentioning the names of the people directly concerned by this investigation; except, of course, Father Malachi Martin himself.  Some told us they didn’t really agree with some of the Father’s statements.  We point out that it is necessary to distinguish, in this testimony, the events he relates from his personal opinions, which we are not obliged to follow. What seemed important to us in the context of this work are the objective facts that it reports. </p> <p>It all started with an article entitled “Is the Pope Cardinal Siri?” » signed L.H. Rémy, of which here is the reproduction:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“In one of his writings, Prince Scortesco, first cousin of Prince Borghese, President of the Conclave having elected Montini to the Supreme Pontificate, gives the following information concerning the conclave of June 21, 1963: “During the Conclave, a cardinal left the Sistine Chapel, met the representatives of B’naï B’rith<sup data-fn="a8c4d7c5-c3f2-4f97-8129-849e94892b6c" class="fn"><a href="#a8c4d7c5-c3f2-4f97-8129-849e94892b6c" id="a8c4d7c5-c3f2-4f97-8129-849e94892b6c-link">2</a></sup>, announced to them the election of Cardinal Siri. They responded by telling him that the persecutions against the Church would resume immediately. Returning to the conclave, he had Montini elected.” </p> </blockquote> <p>Visiting Monsieur de la Franquerie in November 1984, with my friend Francis Dallais, we spoke again about this serious problem. Monsieur de la Franquerie, in 1963, was in close contact with numerous Roman prelates, and he confirmed to us that he had heard confidences from reliable and well-informed people who had knowledge of these facts. </p> <p>To find out for sure, e decided to go see Cardinal Siri in Genoa.  Monsieur de la Franquerie, having had the opportunity in the past to meet him and have friendly conversations with him, wrote to him to ask for an audience which the cardinal granted us on the Friday following Ascension 1985. </p> <p>This is how on May 17, 1985, we found ourselves at my home in Lyon: Monsieur de la Franquerie and Francis Dallais. The evening was wonderful. I admit that I am sensitive to the very old French charm of our dear Marquis and that we spent, until very late in the night, unforgettable moments listening to him tell us his memories of a fruitful life and well filled. Whether it is his memories of Monsignor Jouin, Marshal Pétain or Pius XII, Monsieur de la Franquerie is inexhaustible and fascinating.</p> <p>The next morning we left early for Genoa where the Cardinal was waiting for us around 10 a.m. and granted us a two-hour audience. We were received with great attention in the magnificent Episcopal Palace of Genoa. The Cardinal, who speaks French very well, was warm, attentive and had a courtesy typical of these people, great in office, but even more so in heart. </p> <p>A dialogue then began between these two respectable people in a diplomatic language that I did not know and which is of a charm, of a delicacy, the fruit of the education of hundreds of years, and unfortunately disappeared from our days. </p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"><div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="7963" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/freemasonic-influence-in-papal-conclaves/giuseppe_cardinal_siri/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg" data-orig-size="836,1208" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Giuseppe_Cardinal_Siri" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg?w=208" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg?w=709" loading="lazy" width="709" height="1024" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg?w=709" alt="" class="wp-image-7963" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg?w=709 709w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg?w=104 104w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg?w=208 208w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/giuseppe_cardinal_siri.jpg 836w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Giuseppe Cardinal Siri</figcaption></figure></div></div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <p></p> <p>They talked about several current or past problems, useless to recount today. As far as we are concerned, we had agreed the evening before to first talk about the exit, during the Conclave, of Cardinal Tisserand. Recalling this story, Cardinal Siri’s reaction was clear, precise, firm and indisputable: “No, no one left the Conclave.” He can only testify to what he saw and not to what might have happened in his sleep or behind his back. But what caught our attention was this firmness, this categorical ‘no’ from the Cardinal. </p> <p></p> </div> </div> <p>Moments later, when asked if he had been elected pope, his reaction was completely different. He began by remaining silent for a long time, he raised his eyes to the sky with a grin of pain and sorrow, clasped his hands and said, weighing each word with gravity: “I am bound by secrecy.” Then, after a long silence, heavy for all of us, he continued: “I am bound by secrecy. This secret is horrible. I could write books on the different conclaves; very serious things have happened. But I can’t say anything.” </p> <p>Let’s think. If he had not been elected pope, he would have said it with as much promptness and firmness as the previous question. Having been elected, he could not say it, bound by secrecy, and, not being able to lie, he took refuge behind this secret. </p> <p>In fact, it turns out that someone close to me who knew him closely assured me that the Cardinal told them that he had been elected pope twice: in place of Paul VI, and Wojtyla. The first time he refused, the second he was forced to refuse under threat of schism!</p> <p>We three witnesses were left very shaken and practically convinced of his election. </p> <p>And then serious questions arise. Did he resign? Was he forced to resign? What about these elections? What heavy secrets weigh on him? During the last Synod, he stayed a few hours and left. Despite his advanced age and the fact that he was over 75, he did not resign and it was not demanded. So? </p> <p>As he was the last cardinal appointed by Pius XII, we leave it to historians and theologians to study this problem in depth and respond to it. We simply leave this grave testimony<sup data-fn="83b12454-ea85-4c93-ad64-d52459eba8a4" class="fn"><a href="#83b12454-ea85-4c93-ad64-d52459eba8a4" id="83b12454-ea85-4c93-ad64-d52459eba8a4-link">3</a></sup>. In the week following the publication of this article, Monsieur de la Franquerie received two telephone calls from Rome, proving that even a small, very confidential magazine was read in the Vatican. The correspondents wanted to know if the article was serious, which Monsieur de la Franquerie confirmed to them. </p> <p>The article was then translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian and distributed everywhere, so much so that one day a priest asked for a meeting with the director of the magazine. This priest was sent by Father Malachi Martin, a Jesuit, living in New York.</p> <p>He met him to let him know from Father Malachi Martin, present as an interpreter at the last conclaves (speaking several languages), that what he had written was true. He supplemented this information with an important element: namely that Malachi Martin had to translate a message intended for Cardinal Siri, which contained exactly this sentence: “If you accept the pontificate, we will retaliate against your family.” </p> <p>During May 1996, one of our friends, who was in the United States for a few months, took the opportunity to go see Father Malachi Martin. He took the initiative to ask him a few questions in writing. Here is the report of the visits, the questions and the answers as they reached us.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">First interview on June 3, 1996 in New York </h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“Malachi Martin lives in the United States. He always says his Mass, confesses and sees people. He is seventy-five years old and in his right mind.</p> <p>I introduced myself as a friend of friends of the Marquis de la Franquerie. This was enough for him to put things in perspective. (…) Almost by himself, he told me about the Conclaves he experienced. I asked him two or three questions. He told me that Cardinal Siri was indeed elected pope in place of Paul VI and John Paul II and that he refused twice because of threats made against him and his family. He came from a great family from Genoa. During the two Conclaves, none of the cardinals went out. These threats were made to him by another cardinal. </p> <p>I didn’t dwell too much on the subject and we talked about the crisis in general. Then, on his own, while he was talking about John Paul II, about the fact that he did not govern and that he did not believe in his infallibility, that the Church was governed by the bishops. He told that ultimately all this posed serious problems: that all the ordinations of priests by John Paul II were invalid and that the faithful were lost. </p> <p>I asked him the question again: “So you say that all of this is invalid?” He answered me with great simplicity and assurance: “But yes, since the sacrament was changed at the Council”<sup data-fn="5c79acf0-b455-4331-aac5-95cabc14acb0" class="fn"><a href="#5c79acf0-b455-4331-aac5-95cabc14acb0" id="5c79acf0-b455-4331-aac5-95cabc14acb0-link">4</a></sup>.</p> <p>So I told him that we should write all this down and he told me that he is writing a new book on this subject. At the same time he dedicated his latest book to me in English, which will be translated into French: “Windswept House”. </p> <p>“Then we talked about this and that. He told me that the Abbot of Nantes had come to see him and asked him to insert a page about his community and himself in one of his books, but that he had to refuse. He knew Mgr Guérard des Lauriers, Mgr Ngo Dhin Thuc and many people. </p> <p>I asked him what he thought of the consecrations carried out by Mgr Ngo Dhin Thuc. He thiinks they are completely valid. He believes that there are currently some 57 bishops who have been consecrated in this way. He asked me if Bishop Williamson is a “sedevacantist” at heart or not. I told him that in any case, he is, as are others, but that he doesn’t say it and that Bishop Fellay claims to have relations with “undeclared sedevacantists”. He invited me to come back and see him – which will happen very soon.”</p> </blockquote> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Second interview of September 12, 1996 in New York </h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“In my last story I forgot to mention that Cardinal Ottaviani had probably been blackmailed in his last days so that he would accept the <em>Novus Ordo</em>, otherwise he would not be given the last sacraments. </p> <p>This Thursday evening, Malachi Martin had prepared the written answers to the questions that I had asked him in writing by mail some time before. This with the aim of possible publication. He warned me that our interview will not be long because he was to receive a prelate from Rome in an hour. </p> <p>John Paul II signed an official document authorizing a Conclave to depose the pope on grounds of physical incapacity or health. So much so that we only talk about the Conclave in Rome… but the next one will be worse and so will the situation! </p> <p>In addition to the written responses, we took up some of them orally.  In particular the question of the Conclave. He described to me again how Cardinal Siri’s refusal happened: “After having been elected Pope and having read a paper which had just reached him, in an envelope, from the rank of cardinals, one of the three cardinals presiding the Conclave approached to ask him according to the consecrated words if he agreed to be pope. At that moment, Siri stood up stiff as a stick and pronounced the Latin phrases of refusal in an impersonal and cold tone as if he were forced.  The reason he gave for his refusal was <em>propter metum</em>, that is to say ‘because of fear’.” At this moment, Malachi Martin told me that, canonically, this way of responding could have been a reason to invalidate the Conclave<sup data-fn="cf9ba88e-f310-40fa-9fb7-84dee9579f9f" class="fn"><a href="#cf9ba88e-f310-40fa-9fb7-84dee9579f9f" id="cf9ba88e-f310-40fa-9fb7-84dee9579f9f-link">5</a></sup>. </p> <p>I asked him: “Who did this paper come from?” </p> <p>He answered me: “It came from the cardinals, probably from Cardinals Villot and …..<sup data-fn="8c9165d0-b05d-4d0e-ac8a-49cc4859673a" class="fn"><a href="#8c9165d0-b05d-4d0e-ac8a-49cc4859673a" id="8c9165d0-b05d-4d0e-ac8a-49cc4859673a-link">6</a></sup>..In any case it was the expression of the refusal of the Special Lodge. This Lodge is reserved in Rome for cardinals in close contact with the Grand East. John XXIII and Paul VI were part of the Special Lodge.”</p> <p>I asked him to confirm: “Was John XXIII a Freemason?” He replied: “On the membership of John XXIII in Freemasonry, all the proofs are in the Vatican archives, jealously guarded by Cardinal Sodano.  He himself saw photos taken by his driver revealing John XXIII frequenting Parisian dressing rooms.” The rest of our conversation was a bit of a repetition of the answers he had written. Due to lack of time we stop there. We must meet again the following Tuesday.”</p> </blockquote> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Third interview of September 17, 1996 in New York </h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“This will be our last meeting before my return to France. Malachi Martin told me again that we are only talking about the Conclave in Rome, that everyone is looking for votes and that the Freemasons are agitating very actively within the special Lodge reserved for cardinals, but in liaison with the rest of Freemasonry via the Grand East and the Grand Master of Italy whose name he does not remember.</p> <p>He told me that he spoke several times to John Paul II about these pressures (from Freemasonry) and the errors of Vatican II, but that he told him that it was nothing and that he made fun of it. </p> <p>I asked him: “Does John Paul II consider himself pope?”. He answered me: “He even doubts whether he is pope and he behaves more like a bishop than like a pope.” </p> <p>We then talked about Mgr Thuc, Mgr Mac Kenna then he read and signed the translation of his responses into French in order to be able to ask that they be published. I asked him for some details on the reason for Cardinal Siri’s first refusal and how it happened. He replied that it was the same process each time (for Paul VI and John Paul II). </p> <p>Then I asked him what he meant by “advancing issues on Ecumenism and Judaism”. In fact, he was simply an intermediary between John XXIII and Cardinal Bea. Finally, after he gave me his blessing, we parted with the intention of remaining in correspondence.”</p> </blockquote> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Questions asked of Malachi Martin (September 1996) </h2> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Subject: Traditionalism </h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Q. Do you know the so-called <em>Cassiciacum</em> thesis written by Mgr Guérard des Lauriers? What do you think? Do you consider that today the “pope”<sup data-fn="ef695cb7-6019-449c-9ff1-f6cbf276e744" class="fn"><a href="#ef695cb7-6019-449c-9ff1-f6cbf276e744" id="ef695cb7-6019-449c-9ff1-f6cbf276e744-link">7</a></sup> is a usurper, no longer has authority and should either convert or be deposed?</p> <p style="line-height:0">A. I don’t know <em>Cassiciacum</em><sup data-fn="bf80bda4-c515-4933-a922-0c0d6e05e372" class="fn"><a href="#bf80bda4-c515-4933-a922-0c0d6e05e372" id="bf80bda4-c515-4933-a922-0c0d6e05e372-link">8</a></sup>.</p> <p>Q. The Society of Saint Pius X<sup data-fn="b13ff037-6b91-4f1d-b7f8-fb063901dd20" class="fn"><a href="#b13ff037-6b91-4f1d-b7f8-fb063901dd20" id="b13ff037-6b91-4f1d-b7f8-fb063901dd20-link">9</a></sup> signed a recognition of the legitimacy of John Paul II before the diaconate. It gives the practical instructions to pray publicly for him and to say “<em>Una cum famulo tuo papa nostro Joanne Paulo</em>” at Mass. What do you think of that? </p> <p style="line-height:0">A. The Society is confused about the papacy. </p> <p>Q. Do you think that the consecrations performed by Mgr Ngo Dinh Thuc are valid? </p> <p style="line-height:0">A. The consecrations of Mgr Ngo Dinh Thuc are valid.</p> <p>Q. What do you think of the fight between Mgr Lefebvre and Mgr de Castro Mayer? </p> <p style="line-height:1.5">A. I think that Mgr Lefebvre and Mgr de Castro Mayer were fallible heroes but heroes. </p> <p>Q. Do you know the book by Arnaldo Xavier da Silvera “The new Mass, what to think of it?” Is it true that he was murdered? </p> <p style="line-height:0">A. I don’t know anything about Arnaldo Xavier da Silvera. </p> </blockquote> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Subject: Conclaves </h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Q. Was Cardinal Siri elected pope twice? When ? One might think that his refusal comes from him alone. Why did he refuse and give way to Paul VI then to John Paul II? Some have asked Cardinal Siri; he did not respond and remained silent. You say there was pressure. Which ones and how do you know? From which cardinal do these pressures come?  We saw black smoke at the Conclave electing John Paul II. Was it because Cardinal Siri had been elected and refused? </p> <p>A. That Siri, twice in his old age, was elected pope is an undeniable fact to those who know what happened. All that Siri himself conceded was that fear of retaliation was the determining factor in his behaviour. The pressure on him not to accept the pontificate did not come from a single cardinal. Simply Siri was not acceptable to the progressive faction and its bosses. Yes, there was confusion after a vote at the October 1978 Conclave.</p> <p>Q. You did not attend the Conclave electing John XXIII but you say that he kindly carried out his personal propaganda. Is this true? Why would he want to be pope? </p> <p style="line-height:1.6">A. Angelo Roncalli was always a missionary with his intention of becoming pope.  He had an entirely Modernist agenda for the Church<sup data-fn="1c7cc9c9-76fa-459e-be54-6701f78f3ebf" class="fn"><a href="#1c7cc9c9-76fa-459e-be54-6701f78f3ebf" id="1c7cc9c9-76fa-459e-be54-6701f78f3ebf-link">10</a></sup>.</p> </blockquote> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Subject: The Popes </h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Q. Was John XXIII an initiate? Some documents refer to him as “brother”. What do you think? </p> <p style="line-height:0">A. Yes, he was initiated by Vincent Auriol<sup data-fn="30160db5-6385-4750-a945-95046ca1fd96" class="fn"><a href="#30160db5-6385-4750-a945-95046ca1fd96" id="30160db5-6385-4750-a945-95046ca1fd96-link">11</a></sup>.</p> <p>Q. Does the encyclical <em>Pacem in Terris</em> contain heresies? Does it fall under the infallible Magisterium? </p> <p style="line-height:1.5">A. This should belong to the universal Ordinary Magisterium, but it is a Modernist document.</p> <p>Q. Should we consider John XXIII as a legitimate pope? Should we follow his liturgical reform? </p> <p style="line-height:0">A. He was validly elected. No, we should not follow his liturgical reform. </p> <p>Q. Did Paul VI have Jewish origins? What do you think of the thesis of the survival of Paul VI saying that he was replaced by a double? </p> <p style="line-height:1.5">A. No one really knows all of Montini’s ancestors. No, Paul VI was never replaced by a double. </p> <p style="line-height:1.4">Q. Did John Paul II have Jewish origins? Was he a heretic before his election?  Some Masonic documents acclaimed him because he recognized “the right to make mistakes.” Do you think he is perfectly aware of what he is doing? </p> <p style="line-height:1.5">A. John Paul II, no, as far as I know, has no Jewish ancestors, but who really knows<sup data-fn="9a06fff2-9f5a-401f-b193-9119de424976" class="fn"><a href="#9a06fff2-9f5a-401f-b193-9119de424976" id="9a06fff2-9f5a-401f-b193-9119de424976-link">12</a></sup>? He is perfectly aware of what he did. He is not aware of the mistakes he has made. </p> <p>Q. Was John Paul I assassinated? For what ? </p> <p>A. We cannot explain the events surrounding the death of John Paul I by ordinary means. Powerful people didn’t like him as pope. </p> <p>Q. What do you think of the reform of the psalms by Cardinal Bea under Pius XII?  What do we think of the institution of the Easter liturgy at midnight by Pius XII? </p> <p>A. I think all their changes were harmful. </p> <p>Q. Which pope is guilty of obscuring the message of Fatima?</p> <p>A. Pope John XXIII. </p> <p>Q. Who are the current “papabile” cardinals? Can we hope for a return to order after John Paul II? What future do you envision for the papacy and therefore for the Church? </p> <p>A. The future of the papacy: the hierarchy of the Church is extremely gloomy.<sup data-fn="0f7a0420-2519-4cec-9e97-387fb049e6b6" class="fn"><a href="#0f7a0420-2519-4cec-9e97-387fb049e6b6" id="0f7a0420-2519-4cec-9e97-387fb049e6b6-link">13</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Subject: Vatican II</h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Q. Does the Second Vatican Council include formal heresies? Which ones? </p> <p>A. Certain parts of certain documents contradict past statements of the Roman Magisterium. For example, about religious freedom, papal primacy and infallibility; about the purpose of marriage, about the role of Jews, about the Church in the world. </p> <p>Q. Does the Second Vatican Council fall under the Ordinary Universal Magisterium? Is it infallible? </p> <p>A. Explicitly, Paul VI and the bishops of the Council denied the infallibility of the Second Vatican Council. If it had reflected the Tradition of the Roman Magisterium, it would have been part of the Ordinary Universal Magisterium, but it did not do so. </p> <p>Q. Should the Second Vatican Council be declared a robbery, in the same way as the Council of Ephesus? Can we interpret the Council in the light of Tradition? </p> <p>A. What the Roman Magisterium will ultimately do regarding Vatican II is what everyone hopes. Ultimately the pope will have to correct Vatican II and its documents in light of the fixed teaching of the Roman Magisterium – which won’t happen very soon. If you want to interpret Vatican II in the light of Tradition, you will have to reform its main documents completely<sup data-fn="130b338b-a965-4f05-a7f2-da67728e135a" class="fn"><a href="#130b338b-a965-4f05-a7f2-da67728e135a" id="130b338b-a965-4f05-a7f2-da67728e135a-link">14</a></sup>.</p> </blockquote> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Subject: Relations at the Vatican </h3> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-6 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:50%"> <p></p> <p>Q. You were Cardinal Bea’s secretary and therefore probably followed his interviews. What do you think of him? Cardinal Bea is said to have been at the origin of Ch.4 of the <em>Schema on Ecumenism</em> concerning the Jews<sup data-fn="f47ec63a-acda-4813-9a92-2bcdd2a0e207" class="fn"><a href="#f47ec63a-acda-4813-9a92-2bcdd2a0e207" id="f47ec63a-acda-4813-9a92-2bcdd2a0e207-link">15</a></sup>, which rejects the guilt of the Jewish people in the crucifixion. What do you think? Did you participate in the writing of this text? </p> <p>A. Cardinal Bea was busy introducing as many progressive doctrines and policies as possible. He was the leading hand in the <em>Schema on Ecumenism</em>. I refused to follow what John XXIII and Bea proposed about the role of the Jewish population. </p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:50%"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="7967" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/27/freemasonic-influence-in-papal-conclaves/cardinalbea/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cardinalbea.jpg" data-orig-size="591,887" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="CardinalBea" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cardinalbea.jpg?w=200" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cardinalbea.jpg?w=591" loading="lazy" width="591" height="887" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cardinalbea.jpg?w=591" alt="" class="wp-image-7967" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cardinalbea.jpg 591w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cardinalbea.jpg?w=100 100w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cardinalbea.jpg?w=200 200w" sizes="(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Augustin Cardinal Bea</figcaption></figure> </div> </div> <p>Q. It is said that you have spent your entire career in the Vatican. Is this true? In what position? </p> <p>A. No, I was appointed professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1958. From there I became an assistant and advisor to Cardinal Bea. </p> <p>Q. What was your role during the Council? Did the “observers” participate in the writing of the “New Mass”?</p> <p>A. During the Council, my role was to be “behind the scenes”, pushing forward plans on Ecumenism and Judaism. Six Protestant clergymen (out of a total of eight consultants) wrote the <em>Novus Ordo</em> under the direction of Mgr.  Annibale Bugnini. Unless very special care is exercised, the <em>Novus Ordo</em> is invalid. </p> <p>Q. Was Mgr Bugnini initiated into Freemasonry? </p> <p>A. Yes, Bugnini was a member of the Lodge<sup data-fn="c9adf15e-2958-4b6c-85d3-5559b8eb288d" class="fn"><a href="#c9adf15e-2958-4b6c-85d3-5559b8eb288d" id="c9adf15e-2958-4b6c-85d3-5559b8eb288d-link">16</a></sup>.</p> <p>Q. All your books are released in novel form with imaginary names.  Why is that ? Have you had death threats? </p> <p>A. Not all of my books are in the form of a novel; only three of them. I have published sixteen books. </p> <p>Q. Did you know Carlo Falconi? What do you think of him? In his book <em>Seen and heard at the Council</em>, he said: “An otherwise trustworthy thirty-third degree assured me that Montini was a Freemason. For my part, I don’t believe it.”  What do you think?</p> <p>A. I did not know Carlo Falconi personally.  Yes, for a certain period, Montini was a member of the Lodge, as was John XXIII.  </p> </blockquote> <p>What matters in this testimony – disregarding the fact that these maneuvers may have rendered these conclaves invalid – is that the election of these conciliar pontiffs is due to enormous manipulation by the servants of the Masonic sect.</p> <p>Let us thank Father Malachi Martin for his courage. His accusations raise serious questions that only theologians and canonists can resolve. How did we get to this? </p> <p>The reader will have understood: what Father Malachi Martin reveals is the culmination of a long conspiracy. Indeed, what does he say?</p> <p>“Siri was not acceptable to the progressive faction and its bosses.”  “We cannot explain the events surrounding the death of John Paul I by ordinary means.” “Powerful people didn’t like him as pope.” </p> <p>Who are the “bosses” of this progressive faction plaguing the Vatican? Who are these “powerful people”? How did they come to dominate in the Vatican, to the point of being able to manipulate Conclaves? </p> <p></p> <p>FOOTNOTES</p> <ol class="wp-block-footnotes"><li id="34369b6a-3b62-441f-b914-2a2fd686c2ff">This is the name that Cardinal Benelli used to designate the church resulting from the Council. Cardinal Wojtyla, in his book “Sign of Contradiction”, gives it the name “post-conciliar church”. <a href="#34369b6a-3b62-441f-b914-2a2fd686c2ff-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="a8c4d7c5-c3f2-4f97-8129-849e94892b6c"> “<em>B’naï B’rith</em>, which means ‘Sons of the Covenant’ in Hebrew, is the first world Jewish organization. It is at the same time the oldest, the most numerous and undoubtedly the most influential. Founded in 1843 in the United States, this para-Masonic secret society exclusively reserved for Jews includes more than 550,000 Brothers and Sisters in around fifty countries” (<em>The Warriors of Israel</em>, Facta, 1995, p. 415). Also read the remarkable work by Mr. E. Ratier: <em>Mysteries and secrets of B’naï B’rith</em>. <a href="#a8c4d7c5-c3f2-4f97-8129-849e94892b6c-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="83b12454-ea85-4c93-ad64-d52459eba8a4"><em>Under the Banner</em>, July/August 1986. <a href="#83b12454-ea85-4c93-ad64-d52459eba8a4-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="5c79acf0-b455-4331-aac5-95cabc14acb0">The question of the possible invalidity of the post-conciliar rite of the sacrament of orders is dealt with in the magazine “Forts dans la Foi”. Rama P. Coomaraswamy, MD: “The Anglican drama of the post-conciliar Catholic clergy”, n° 9/10, 2nd quarter 1990. <a href="#5c79acf0-b455-4331-aac5-95cabc14acb0-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="cf9ba88e-f310-40fa-9fb7-84dee9579f9f">L’Osservatore Romano of 03/21/1989 reports a comment by Father Betti about the new formulas of the profession of faith (a chapter should be written to comment on them). He says among other things: “The second category concerns the truths and doctrines that the Magisterium proposes in a definitive manner although they are not divinely revealed. To these truths must correspond to a total assent, even if it is not an assent of faith, because they are precisely not proposed as divinely revealed. For example, the legitimacy of a Roman Pontiff: his election is a historical fact. It could even be theoretically tainted by an electoral defect. It is not the fact in itself which is divinely revealed, but it is so linked to Revelation that the Magisterium can pronounce in a definitive manner on the legitimacy of this or that Pope. Otherwise, the Church would have remained for this or that period without a legitimate leader, without a successor to Peter. This extract would almost seem a response to the testimony published three years before, in 1986 in “Under the Banner”. <a href="#cf9ba88e-f310-40fa-9fb7-84dee9579f9f-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="8c9165d0-b05d-4d0e-ac8a-49cc4859673a">The second name is difficult to grasp. In order to avoid an error we prefer not to transcribe it. <a href="#8c9165d0-b05d-4d0e-ac8a-49cc4859673a-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="ef695cb7-6019-449c-9ff1-f6cbf276e744">In quotation marks in the original. <a href="#ef695cb7-6019-449c-9ff1-f6cbf276e744-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="bf80bda4-c515-4933-a922-0c0d6e05e372">We do not know why Father Malachi Martin did not answer the second question. <a href="#bf80bda4-c515-4933-a922-0c0d6e05e372-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="b13ff037-6b91-4f1d-b7f8-fb063901dd20"> The Society of Saint Pius X was founded by Mgr Lefebvre in 1970. <a href="#b13ff037-6b91-4f1d-b7f8-fb063901dd20-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="1c7cc9c9-76fa-459e-be54-6701f78f3ebf">By evoking this expression of “missionary” Father Malachi Martin means that Cardinal Angelo Roncalli was acting to become Pope. By the word “agenda” he means that he had a modernist program. We will come back to this later. <a href="#1c7cc9c9-76fa-459e-be54-6701f78f3ebf-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="30160db5-6385-4750-a945-95046ca1fd96">This is an initiation into Freemasonry. Let us note this extract from Father Mouraux’s magazine: “Nuncio in Paris, Mgr Roncalli received at an open table Edouard Herriot and Vincent Auriol, notorious freemasons and politicians who carried out persecutory action against the Church. In the warmth of a banquet, he said to them one day: “What separates us is of little importance”. All his happiness seemed to be that of the table where he wanted above all to please” (Bonum Certamen 122, p. 7). <a href="#30160db5-6385-4750-a945-95046ca1fd96-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="9a06fff2-9f5a-401f-b193-9119de424976"> Emilia Kaczorowska, the mother of John Paul II, was Jewish. <a href="#9a06fff2-9f5a-401f-b193-9119de424976-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="0f7a0420-2519-4cec-9e97-387fb049e6b6">Note from AC – Fr. Martin had read the Third Secret of Fatima, which is widely believed by traditionalists to have predicted the Crisis. He knew in the 1990’s where the Church was heading. <a href="#0f7a0420-2519-4cec-9e97-387fb049e6b6-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="130b338b-a965-4f05-a7f2-da67728e135a">We can note that “totally reforming the main documents” of Vatican II necessarily amounts to rejecting the Council, the good parts of which served to push through the bad ones. <a href="#130b338b-a965-4f05-a7f2-da67728e135a-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="f47ec63a-acda-4813-9a92-2bcdd2a0e207">During the Council a brochure was distributed to the Council Fathers entitled <em>Judeo-Masonic action in the Council</em>. After having given several proofs that chapter 4 presented to the Council was of Jewish origin, we find this on page 10:<br> “If we want definitive proof that chapter 4 of the <em>Schema on Ecumenism</em> presented to the Council by Cardinal Bea — who personally defended this thesis – is from a Judeo-Masonic source, we find it in the pages of the important French newspaper <em>Le Monde</em>, of November 19, 1963: “The international Jewish organization <em>B’naï B’rith</em> has expressed its desire to establish closer relations with the Catholic Church. The said Order has just submitted to the Council a declaration in which the responsibility of all humanity in the death of Jesus Christ is affirmed. If this declaration is accepted by the Council, declared Mr. Label A. Katz, President of the International Council of <em>B’naï B’rith</em>, the Jewish communities will study the means of cooperation with the authorities of the (Catholic) Church.”<br> In presenting his draft decree in favor of the Jews – completely contrary to the Gospel – His Eminence Cardinal Bea took care not to properly inform the Fathers of the Council of the origin of his theses and to specify to them they were suggested by the Masonic Order of <em>B’naï B’rith.</em><br><em> </em>Let us also add this letter from Cardinal Villot to Cardinal Marty of December 22, 1977: “…The Holy Father is indeed well aware of the sincere and fruitful relations that his venerated predecessor Pope John XXIII maintained with Jules Isaac. He also appreciates the happy consequences that these reports have had for subsequent orientation of the relations of the Catholic Church with Judaism, relations which found ecclesial expression in number 4 of the declaration <em>Nostra Aetate</em> of the Second Vatican Council, as well as in other manifestations which preceded it deated or followed” (<em>The Churches before Judaism</em>, Ed. du Cerf, Paris, 1980, pp. 181 and 182). <a href="#f47ec63a-acda-4813-9a92-2bcdd2a0e207-link">↩︎</a></li><li id="c9adf15e-2958-4b6c-85d3-5559b8eb288d">We therefore know, as it is confirmed by this testimony, that the “New Mass” is the work of Protestants and Freemasons. Should we be surprised to find, for example, cabbalistic formulas in the Offertory?<br>To know the thoughts of Protestants on the subject of the mass, let us read what Luther, founder of this sect, wrote: “We declare in the first place that our intention has never been to absolutely abolish all worship of God, but only to purge that which is in use, of all the additions with which it has been soiled: I am speaking of this abominable Canon, which is a collection of muddy lacunae; we made the Mass a sacrifice; we added offerories. The Mass is not a sacrifice or the action of the priest. Let us look at it as a sacrament or as a testament. Let us call it blessing, eucharist, or table of the Lord, or Lord’s Supper, or Memory of the Lord. Let us give it any other title we wish, provided that we do not sully it with the name of sacrifice or action” (Werke, t. xi, p. 774). “When the mass is overthrown, I think we will have overthrown the papacy” (Contra Henricum Angliae Regem, Werke, t. x; sec. ii).<br> <a href="#c9adf15e-2958-4b6c-85d3-5559b8eb288d-link">↩︎</a></li></ol> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/catholic-clergy-known-masons/" rel="category tag">Catholic clergy - known Masons</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/cardinal-bea/" rel="tag">Cardinal Bea</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/fatima/" rel="tag">Fatima</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/featured/" rel="tag">Featured</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/freemasonry/" rel="tag">Freemasonry</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/john-xxiii/" rel="tag">John XXIII</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/malachi-martin/" rel="tag">Malachi Martin</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/modernism/" rel="tag">Modernism</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/vatican/" rel="tag">Vatican</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/vatican-ii/" rel="tag">Vatican II</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/windswept-house/" rel="tag">Windswept House</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-7800" class="post-7800 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-catholicism tag-archbishop-timothy-costelloe tag-australia tag-bishop-anthony-randazzo tag-bishop-shane-mackinlay tag-featured tag-pope-francis tag-synodality tag-vatican-ii"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/australian-bishops-are-in-the-synodal-way/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="Australian Bishop are in the Synodal Way" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="7821" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/australian-bishops-are-in-the-synodal-way/synod-aus-bishops/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Synod-Aus Bishops" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/synod-aus-bishops.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/australian-bishops-are-in-the-synodal-way/" rel="bookmark">Australian Bishops are in the Synodal Way</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/australian-bishops-are-in-the-synodal-way/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-10-21T09:52:08+11:00">October 21, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/21/australian-bishops-are-in-the-synodal-way/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Even though they missed out on the red hat, three of Australia’s bishops remain happy to carry water for the Synod.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">One of them is Shane Mackinlay, bishop of Sandhurst, who is representing the Bishops Conference at the Synod in Rome. According to McKinley, <em>Fiducia Supplicans</em> was a <strong>direct result </strong>of the Synod. He <a href="https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/56707-bischof-erlaubnis-fuer-segnung-homosexueller-paare-ergebnis-der-synode">told</a> a press conference that although the Pope didn’t act synodally by issuing the heretical document, that’s fine by him:</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“As with many things Pope Francis has done in the last year, he did not wait for the final document. He has already responded to things that were raised in the discussions and in the final report last year.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">This is despite the Pope stating that he would absolutely not be making a decision on same-sex unions before the second Synod sessions. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">According to Mackinlay, “<em>Fiducia supplicans</em> is a significant step forward … and then I think those of us from the West are not so surprised that in some other parts of the world it is received differently and has a different kind of priority.” </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Yes, it is received differently because ‘in some parts of the world’ the Bishops are actually Catholic! Mackinlay is so popular in Rome that he was elected for the second time as the Oceania representative for the Commission for the Final Document of the Synod – quite the appointment.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Another Synod apparatchik is Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, no <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2021/12/05/why-did-the-bishop-buy-the-lodge/">stranger</a> to these pages. As Archbishop of Perth and president of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Costelloe is completely onboard with the Synod’s agenda of re-imagining Catholicism. He couldn’t hide his enthusiasm for heterodox novelty when he told <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-10/synod-forum-primacy-and-synodality-in-a-communion-of-churches.html">Vatican News</a> that it was great to have priests, women, and lay people usurping to role of the Bishops by being given full voting rights instead of having a ‘back row seat’.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“It shows us the equality and unity of all. Unity is communion of mind and heart, of spirit and action, and of faith at the service of the Church’s evangelising mission.” </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">This ‘unity’ is nowhere to be found either at the Synod or outside of it, of course. The persecution of traditional Catholics and the clamouring voices of dissenters from the Faith are evidence of that.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Archbishop Costelloe also explained that the so-called ‘conversation in the spirit’ “serves to free oneself from prejudices. The Synod must convert us from a competitive approach to a spirit of listening because in this way it will be of real and effective help to the Pope.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He posed a few more rhetorical questions: “Should the Synod office be restructured in favour of the local Churches? If so, how? And could the reports become documents to be published?”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Now, don’t worry too much if you don’t have the answer to these questions. Something tells me that the Synod Fathers (and Mothers) already have the answers – pencilled in from Day 1.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The third Australian Synod mouthpiece is<a href="https://www.bbcatholic.org.au/news/latest-news/obsession-over-women-s-ordination-harmful-bishop-randazzo-says"> Anthony Randazzo</a>, Bishop of Broken Bay diocese, who seems to have mastered the art of verbally giving with one hand while taking with the other.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">One the one hand, Randazzo criticises those who are ‘obsessed’ by the issue of women’s ordination. But look at the reasons he gives as objections to it:</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Those issues become all-consuming and focusing for people, to the point that they then become an imposition on people who sometimes struggle simply to feed their families, to survive the rising sea levels, or the dangerous journeys across wild oceans to resettle in new lands.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay website reports that while Randazzo has ‘no problem with the topic of women’s ordination being discussed and studied at the Synod’, he thinks it should be poor women and not wealthy, well-educated ones who call for it. What? So now the disobedient notion of ordaining women is only wrong when it is attached to white privilege?</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Maybe someone needs to tell His Grace that the Amazonian women are way ahead of the curve. They are <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/amazon-cardinal-lays-hands-to-confer-ministry-on-women-going-to-celebrate-a-sacrament/?">already </a>receiving a para-liturgical blessing from their Cardinal before beginning their ‘ministry’ of distributing the Sacraments. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">How anyone can think this matter was not laid to rest in the past with an <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19940522_ordinatio-sacerdotalis.html">infallible</a> statement is beyond me.</p> <p></p> <p></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/catholicism/" rel="category tag">Catholicism</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/archbishop-timothy-costelloe/" rel="tag">Archbishop Timothy Costelloe</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/australia/" rel="tag">Australia</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/bishop-anthony-randazzo/" rel="tag">Bishop Anthony Randazzo</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/bishop-shane-mackinlay/" rel="tag">Bishop Shane Mackinlay</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/featured/" rel="tag">Featured</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/pope-francis/" rel="tag">Pope Francis</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/synodality/" rel="tag">Synodality</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/vatican-ii/" rel="tag">Vatican II</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-7602" class="post-7602 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-synarchy tag-europe tag-featured tag-freemasonry tag-jean-monnet tag-martinism tag-pierre-virion tag-rene-laurentin tag-robert-schumann tag-synarchy tag-vatican-ii"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/03/the-church-of-the-divine-synarchy/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="The Church of the 'Divine Synarchy'" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="7607" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/03/the-church-of-the-divine-synarchy/divine-synarchy/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Divine Synarchy" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/divine-synarchy.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/03/the-church-of-the-divine-synarchy/" rel="bookmark">The Church of the ‘Divine Synarchy’</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/03/the-church-of-the-divine-synarchy/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-03T19:13:31+10:00">October 3, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-06T11:11:08+11:00">October 6, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/10/03/the-church-of-the-divine-synarchy/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">This is the English translation of a section of Pierre Virion’s “Mystery of Iniquity.” Taken from the Third Edition, and released during the 1970’s, M. Virion masterfully traces the crisis in the Catholic Church back to the plans of the Synarchists.</h4> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“The development of the revolution within the Church – for it is indeed a revolution – is linked to the march of international political events. Here we are in the presence of a politico-religious complex combining in its entirety the decadence of doctrinal and institutional Catholicism with the projects of a world government which, in the end, as we have said elsewhere, would be itself, at least visibly, only a universal super-church integrating national churches. In each of these two fields, parallel processes are oriented towards the same goal, so that if one is are in a hurry to follow a political trajectory ordered to their globalism, the others, under the guise of ecumenism, but in reality with a view to a versatile and Masonic dogmatic opening, are busy perfecting this revolution. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Progress is such that they speak openly about this world government. <em>Le Monde</em> of February 16, 1967, citing as an example: “the <em>rapprochement</em> in ecumenism of the Christian churches said something about it” in advance, like Perrette in the fable, the unhoped-for advantages: no more starving people, no more epidemics, friendly exchanges and a limitation of births. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Georges Hourdin, in<em> Croissance des Jeunes Nations</em> (n° 61) quoted by the <em>Courrier Communautaire Autaire</em> of 15 January 1967, had a geopolitical program that was more informed about the great synarchical groups: “We must accept to group the states into large regional confederations, then into a world government. It is then necessary, and very quickly, to plan births and savings”.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The pill, which, as we can see, holds a large place in globalist diplomacy, also has the good fortune to be the link between and the ecumenism of the clerics of the new Church. But this is only a small side of the homogeneity of the system, which means that the building of the New Church, as widely open to all the faithful of multiple denominations as the world government is to all the peoples of the earth, so desired, so long awaited, whose Church of Holland is today enthusiastically presented to us like the prototype, or a politico-religious enterprise. </p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Holland</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">This will be seen by reading, in <em>Le Figaro</em>, the articles of Abbé Laurentin on “The Dutch Catholicism of Mutation”. For him, “Holland has been a country open to the freedoms of intelligence since the first hurricanes of the sixteenth century”. He forgets to tell his readers that this was so because Holland was then a hotbed of Rosicrucians and sects. In our day, The Masonic centres are Harlem and The Hague, where, we are told, some good Fathers are forgotten, but its activity has not been weakened. That could explain this. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">But what interests the Abbé so keenly is the sudden outburst of “Christian energies”. Let us read it, in fact (emphasis added): “The first symptoms were noticeable as early as 1950. They were linked to the <strong>economic</strong> and intellectual development that changed the condition of the Dutch Catholics. The phenomenon took on considerable proportions shortly before the opening of the Vatican <strong>Council.</strong> It <strong>catalysed research</strong> and provoked immense hope, but became a <strong>disappointment </strong>from the second session of the Council”. (<em>Le Figaro</em> 19/2/1967)</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Doesn’t Father Laurentin know that one should never talk about ropes in the house of a hanged man? So what happened “from 1950 onwards”? We remember the ‘Schumann Bomb’ which initiated the constitution of the European Coal Community in public opinion. Thus began the reputation that the ‘Father of Europe, a title’ Robert Schumann shared with Jean Monnet, whose international synarchic power and financial relations were in direct proportion to the discretion with which it surrounded them. </p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Germany</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Immediately, the <em>Études</em> of the Jesuit Fathers, in their June issue, sounded the trumpet in favour of the ‘Christian-European epic.’ Mr Robert d’Harcourt extolled in a couplet on ‘German Realism’ the profound views and talents of Mr. Adenauer. It was reported that the Chancellor, proud of the role of the Federal Republic of Germany in this affair, affirmed that, by his decisive influence, it had accompanied Robert Schumann at the London Conference and that it thus became “a factor with which international policy must count”. This “must count” was not a figure of rhetoric. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Let us not reproach Mr Adenauer for having wanted to create Europe and, to do so, for having used forces and the audience party, the Christian Democratic Party. But from the beginning, the company had partners who were neither on its side nor in its own designs and party whose successes he attributed in 1946 to the assistance of the financier, Pferdmenges, communicated to his European peers a a dynamism led by other powers, those of the ‘Europe of the Bankers’, less zealous than he was for the cause of the Roman Church. Pferdmenges was a pious Protestant who belonged to the Salomon Oppenheim Bank of Cologne, former president of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Bankers’ Association of this city. Having helped Mr. Adenauer to form a powerful party, he was raised by him to the rank of Grand Cross.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Bankers & Bilderbergers</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Pferdmenges was chairman of the Rheinische-Westfälische Credit Bank in Cologne and vice-chairman of seven associations attached to the Dresdner Bank. His death did not put an end to other support, including that of a friend Adenauer and his financial advisor: Mr. Abs, a Catholic, it seems. With Mr. Abs, we entered a circle very similar to that of the Dresdner Bank, but more powerful than he, that of the Deutsche Bank, which owns the Rheinische-Westfälische Bank in Düsseldorf. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">With Mr. Abs, again, we had full access to the ‘World Understanding’ through the channel of the famous Bilderbergers in whose meetings he took part assiduously and recently again in Cannes with a line-up of German financiers. Mr. Abs presiding over the destinies of the Western and especially of the Rhine-Westphalia Group enjoys both the confidence of the Anglo-Saxons and holds the threads that connect powerful cosmopolitan consortiums from the Hambros Bank of London, the Lazare Bank and the International Bank of London. Luxembourg, well known to Mr. Van Zeeland, Bilderberger, too, up to the Dutch giant A. K. U. and its trusts, several of which are chaired by Mr Abs and which, as everyone knows, more or less discreetly finance the so-called right-wing parties with a tendency to Catholic or Protestant. Among the Catholic organs are <em>Volkskrant</em> (175,000 copies), the <em>Tydg</em> and its chain of four daily newspapers (114,000 copies), of which there is much talk in these times of the ‘National Council’. In these perspectives, it is conceivable, in fact, as Abbé Laurentin says, that the “economic condition” of the Dutch Catholics have changed.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Luxembourg</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The Schumann-Adenauer-Monnet-Gaspéri movement was born in Luxembourg. It also settled in Strasbourg. Let’s say everything immediately: the main and always discreet craftsman was Jean Monnet. The ‘Schumann bomb’ was full of hard-hitting arguments, so powerful that in Christian Democratic circles one could perceive the repercussions as far as Strasbourg where “from 1950 various personalities either in their capacity or representing different Catholic movements belonging to eleven countries “established a Catholic Secretariat for European Problems (SCPE) previously founded in Luxembourg and which defined itself as follows:</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size"> “A technical body made available to organisations and Catholic personalities interested in European problems. Its essential purpose is therefore to establish networks between them information and documentation. The SCPE will inform and inform interested persons of the projects which may be carried out in the Discussion in the bodies called upon to work for European unity. In addition, it will prepare the files and themes of study that will facilitate the examination of European problems involving the Christian conscience and requiring the study and presence of Catholics”. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The presidency was devolved to the president of Italian Catholic Action, Mr. Vitorino Veronese, who in 1957 became president of UNESCO celebrated the tercentenary of Comenius, the famous Rosicrucian of the sixteenth century. The direction remained with M. Baumgartner, former finance minister with whom we remained in the orbit of the Bilderbergers. Dr. Roesen, President of the Commission to the Katolikentag was delegated by the German Catholics.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Fingerprint of Synarchy Emerges</h3> <p class="has-medium-font-size">In 1951, the Documentation Catholique listing the various European movements presented with advantage the impetus given by the Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi and the action of M. Van Zeeland. This evocation of an authentic synarchic lineage should not make us forget that, in addition, Mr. Van Zeeland “passed through more than one place to dispose of a manoeuvring mass in impressive dollars “added to the presidency of the “Economic League for European Cooperation” of which Mr Giscard d’Estaing was vice-president. The same year, the “Comité de la rue de Penthièvre” led by Mr. Boutémy, secretary general of the French Employers’ Association. He too, it was said, had “considerable funds, not all of which were of French origin, and acted energetically in connection with the international organisation led by the former Belgian minister, Mr Van Zeeland, to promote a federal status for Europe” (J. Hammer). </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">In the same year again, in the year of elections, the Communists, hardly suspected of recognizing miracles, were to observe with astonishment that, with tripartism buried, their former Christian Democrat allies had suddenly become Europeans and Globalists. It was a fine piece of work in which a technical body, as the Catholic Secretariat of Strasbourg was called, was not unknown. He had undoubtedly made available to “organisations”, “personalities”, his networks, his documentation, his files and its themes of study, but the rest? His own budget must have been very heavy and such successes are expensive. The rest could not have been neglected.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">On 6 March 1953, in Strasbourg, at the Congress of the ‘Europe of the Six’, what political and financial authority other than that of M. von Brentano, Minister for West Germany, could in terms almost identical to those of the Synarchic Pact, better specify the action taken? </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“The mission received from the six Foreign Ministers and the acceptance of a task that we are now leading to its conclusion, constitute a kind of silent revolution; public opinion has taken note of this work, without, however, grasping its significance”. And the result was there, vast as the ‘Europe of the Six’, as deep as the mass of the MRP of which Robert Schumann was a member and leader of the “Movement of Christian Workers for Europe” sitting in the CFTC. </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Sub-Plot to the Vatican II Council</h2> <p class="has-medium-font-size">It is therefore understandable that in such a wide environment, in such a favourable atmosphere, in a system as well as to the immense design of politicians, in a pool of people who are as well chosen in terms of its dimensions, its resources and security, the intellectuals of the Catholic Secretariat for Europe have been able, happy as fish in water, to deepen their ‘study themes’ and push their projects. In the European and globalist perspectives, the new theology perceived, now certain of achieving this, distant to the continental measure of Christian confessions and the depths of an ecumenism defying formulations of strict Catholicity. As the occultist Abbé Mélinge predicted, liberal Protestants and broad-minded Catholics could apply “at common expense” for the construction of a new church. At common expense this was, it seems, quite the case.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">But if the revolution of the politicians was silent, that of the theologians was not silent enough to be able to carry the masses along in the wake of the New World and discreet enough that one did not realise the work in which one was busy in order to to try to pass on to the future Council, supported by well-known Eminences and Excellencies, the plans prepared during the “that long maturation which has led French, German, Belgian and other theologians to prepare Vatican II from afar.” (<em>Courier</em> January 1967). “The phenomenon took on considerable proportions shortly before the opening of the Council” (Laurentin, <em>Le Figaro</em>, 19-2-1967), but The effort did not relax during the sessions. It is not to the peri-conciliar literature rising like an outbreak of revolution in the press, nor to the declamations with a great deal of costly publicity of the theologians of the future that we only think. There were also in Rome, a whole organisation which constituted an instrument of propaganda and formidable pressure, offering them round tables and crossroads, which could print on the spot and distribute to the Fathers their talks and their “themes of study.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size"></p> <p></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/synarchy/" rel="category tag">Synarchy</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/europe/" rel="tag">Europe</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/featured/" rel="tag">Featured</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/freemasonry/" rel="tag">Freemasonry</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/jean-monnet/" rel="tag">Jean Monnet</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/martinism/" rel="tag">Martinism</a>, <a 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href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/17/was-john-xxiii-really-initiated-into-the-rosicrucians/" rel="bookmark">Was John XXIII Really Initiated into the Rosicrucians?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/17/was-john-xxiii-really-initiated-into-the-rosicrucians/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-08-17T13:02:50+10:00">August 17, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-06T11:18:11+11:00">October 6, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/17/was-john-xxiii-really-initiated-into-the-rosicrucians/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">stories of pope John’s occult involvement abound, but it is only recently that i have begun to take them seriously. some of you may think i am foolish for even considering the prospect. </h4> <p class="has-medium-font-size">As time has gone on and I have undertaken more research, this accusation seems somewhat more credible than it first appeared to be. Certainly, to my knowledge, Rome has never put out a statement denying the story of John’s occult initiation.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The following is taken from Pier Carpi’s <a href="https://archive.org/details/les-prophe-ties-du-pape-jean-xxiii/page/n5/mode/2up">‘Les Propheties du Pape Jean XXIII’,</a> which was written in the late ’70’s. Along with the alleged prophecies is an account of the Rosicrucian initiation ritual apparently undertaken by Angelo Roncalli when he was stationed in Bulgaria. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">I present it here for you in the interests of pursuing the truth about Pope John, the Council and the influence of the occult on the Church during the twentieth century. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">We pick up the story at a conversation between Carpi and an occultist. (The text has been run through an online translation tool so may be a bit rough in places.)</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The old man took up the document and put it back in the azure blue napkin. “I must not add anything to that. You will have understood the fundamental importance of this table. It constitutes a real restoration of the esoteric tradition that allows the initiates to be free initiators. To choose their disciples, to to form the chain — down through their descendants.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">I knew the tradition but I knew nothing about this document and the reality of the meeting between the three masters in Paris. The old man put down his napkin, got up and went to the window, set aside the white curtains that hid the night, as if he was looking for someone or something in the darkness. He turned around, stood and looked at me. “The evening I met you in Saint-Léon, I told you about the books of ‘T’ and ‘M’.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“You told me that, like my other friend, you had read them in a dream”. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“If it can be called a dream. Alas! We must use secular terms that betray the content of our thought. However, I feel that we understand each other. If I am here, it is because I have something else to show you, something that needs to be disclosed, that must be made public. But, before I demonstrate it to you, I must tell you the facts.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He returned to his seat, took up his napkin, which he pressed still more tightly against him and stared at me intensely: “I have to tell you about a man that everyone knows. Angelo Roncalli.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size"> “John XXIII?” </p> </blockquote> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Here we pause to consider the motivation Carpi may have had for writing a book about John XXIII. By this time, John had been dead for almost fifteen years so it could not undermine his papacy. Carpi does not attempt to taint John’s legacy: from the point of view of an occultist, the book actually benefits John’s image. This leads us to wonder if Carpi had no other motivation than to tell the truth.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He hesitated for a moment, his eyes half-closed: “Jean,” he murmured. “1935 ….. Life was not easy for Angelo Roncalli, Archbishop of Mesembria, delegate in Turkey. Like all other religious, he was made to wear civilian dress, because of persecutions. Under constant surveillance, it was difficult for him to move: the spies were everywhere. Yet all those who approached him at that moment found in him a great serenity, which was not only that joy which he knew so well how to transmit, especially in difficult times.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“It was precisely at this time that his first contact with the unknown world took place. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“That evening Angelo Roncalli hastily retired to his apartments, as if he had an appointment. He lay down on his bed after undressing without the help of anyone – he had always done so and was to continue to do so, even when he became pope. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Before turning off the light, he looked at the pictures on the walls, images of the extended family. He closed his eyes and, while continuing his prayer, all the faces encountered that day flashed through his mind, especially those of the most humble people. Could he have expected it? More faces, smiles, sad eyes. Then sleep invaded him. But he would never know if it was really sleep. He had an appointment with the old man of sleep.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Six nights in a row he had seen him. It was the seventh. The most important and perhaps the last. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“He appeared; old, very white hair, thin face, dark skin, eyes sweet and piercing. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">” “Will you be able to recognize me?” he asked. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">” “Always, master.” </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Then, suddenly, the sacred books of ‘T’ and ‘M’ appeared in his hands. He leafed through. Inscribed on paper, knowledge, the words of knowledge, in a a language that Angelo had never known, never read before. But from his first rendezvous with the old man, in a dream which was perhaps not a dream, Angelo had known how to decipher it.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“He read and everything became simple. God, how simple everything was, how clear everything was! If the other men might have known, the world could have been very different. But Angelo realised it was not given to everyone to know, because these things could be dangerous. Only a few could give them a correct meaning, use them to the good of all. In malevolent hands, they could become terrible weapons against man.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“The two books closed. An intense light illuminated their covers on which were inscribed the two silver letters in relief – a light like the one Angelo felt within him. Impalpable, intransmissible by the poor instruments at man’s disposal; for millennia, has man not renounced forces, powers, and knowledge to replace them by a way as difficult as it is useless?</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">” “Now you are ready,” said the old man. “And you’re on your way. I came because you called me. Now you know. But you still have a lot to learn, to see, to live. That’s why we’ll see each other again.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">” “I’m waiting for you, master.” </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“The old man smiled. “Will you be able to recognize me?” </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“He repeated the same question three times. Three times Angelo gave the same answer. Then he woke up. He was alone in his room. He got up from the bed, went to the table, took some sheets of paper of paper and a pencil. He tried to write down what he had read in the books of knowledge. But his hand remained inert, his mind empty.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“It was not possible. Words did not exist. Yet he had something in him – something that no one, could ever erase. That light had made him another man. He knew that the dream would never happen again. That the old man would return, but in reality. What else awaited him? He was not afraid because he knew he was on the the right way, that of the Good. He put down the pencil and thought.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“He thought of the saints, the mystics, the men of faith, of the Church, men of truth and of peace. He took pleasure in remembering St. John the Evangelist, St. Anthony, St. Albert the Grand, St. Teresa, St. Francis. He rose, stopped in front of the crucifix, knelt down and prayed to the Virgin Mary for a long time.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“She too had an apparition. Was it not in a dream that her destiny was fulfilled, when someone appeared to the sleeping Joseph to explain to him, in very simple words, the greatest of mysteries of faith, of all humanity?</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“He felt happy. And for the first time that night, he knew that someone was praying for him, in a big secret way.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The old man had finished his story. I looked at him: “They met?” I asked. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He confirmed it. Seven days later, to be exact. Angelo Roncalli celebrated the sacraments in his humble house, before an even more humble community. While the others were going to work before lunch, Angelo went downstairs. In the hallway, sitting on a chair, stood the old man of his dream. No one had heard him knock or ring. But Angelo didn’t even wonder how he could have gotten in. He approached him and kissed him, as one embraces a brother who returns after a long absence. He invited him to his table but the other shook his head, smiling: “We must sit at a completely different table,” he said. Angelo looked at him. As the old man of his dream had asked him, he had immediately recognized him, and he listened.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Are you ready?”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“I don’t know”. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Then you are.” Leave everything and follow me. He followed him, without telling anyone. For a long time they marched through the deserted city. The old man stopped in a small narrow square, with its low houses. He who, until then, had guided Angelo, turned and said: </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Since you are ready, since you will soon be my equal, since the path we have to follow will be the same, you know it too. It is now up to you to lead me.”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Angelo hesitated, looking around him. The man encouraged him:</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Let’s go”. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He advanced and chose without hesitation an alley, and entered it. Behind him, he could hear the footsteps of the old one. He stopped in front of a door of rough wood. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Is it there?” he asked. The other smiled. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Push the door, it’s only half closed. Climb up the stairs and don’t wait for me”. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Angelo let himself be led by the voice he felt within him. He climbed two small staircases in almost total darkness, found himself in front of a new door, even smaller and lower than the other, and pushed it. It was ajar and he knew it. He entered. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The room was large and pentagonal. The walls were bare. There were two large windows, closed. In the middle of the room, there was a large cedar table, also pentagonal. There were three chairs, leaning against three of the walls. On the chairs, a linen tunic, coloured belts and envelopes sealed with red. On the table, a Bible opened at the beginning of the Gospel of Saint John. There was a flaming sword with silver hilt; a censer; coloured ribbons; two bronze candelabra with three branches, each bearing three red candles. Then the magical and esoteric symbol of the Order to which Angelo would shortly be initiated. Under the symbol, there were three crossed roses, made of fabric. One white, one red, one black. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The only dim lighting came from the three candles lit on one of the two lampposts. The others were extinguished. Angelo stood in front of the table. He looked at these objects, which, since he had read the sacred books in his dream, meant many things to him. He hardly dared to touch them. He began to read the first chapters of the Gospel of St. John, which had always fascinated him; he had, moreover, penetrated its most secret keys.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He detached himself from it when he heard light footsteps behind him. It was the master, who smiled. He had recently entered the room, behind him the door was closed. He wore a long linen tunic – the protective fabric of any initiation ceremony – down to his feet. Around his neck, there was the magic symbol of the Order, in silver, hung at the end of a chain fromTemplar knots. With his hands gloved in white, his head bare, he approached, and without ceasing to smiled, placed a hand on Angelo’s right shoulder:</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Kneel, on your right knee only”. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Angelo obeyed, and the ceremony began. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The master gave the meaning of each object, explained their symbolism. He took sealed envelopes, opened them and read their contents. On a sheet of blue paper were the ancient regulations of the Order. He opened another envelope, handed the sheet of paper to Angelo, who read what it said: seven questions.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“Do you feel able to answer them?” the master asked him. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Angelo replied in the affirmative and gave him back the paper. Then with the help of a candle, master lit the candles of the second candelabra.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“These lights are for the masters of the past who are among us”. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He put incense in the censer, purified the room by its four corners: then he turned three times and at each turn waved it three times. He returned to the table, and placed his hands on the profane man’s head and began to speak. He told him the mysteries of the Order. He asked questions. He received answers. At last the old master bent over him.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“As you know, we call each other by the name we have chosen. Each one thus signs his freedom, his work program, the new link in the chain. What will your name be?”</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The layman did not hesitate: “John.”</p> </blockquote> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Here, we pause to consider the name that Angelo Roncalli chose for himself on being elected as Pope. It was John XXIII. That name had in fact been used once before: by an antipope in the fifteenth century. That John XXIII was eventually <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_John_XXIII">tried</a> for  “piracy, rape, sodomy, murder and incest” with “the more scandalous” charges being “suppressed”!! </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">We continue our narrative, making note that the ‘peculiar and complex ritual’ is the great Secret of the Rosicrucians, something so depraved and unnatural that it cannot be mentioned outside of the brotherhood.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“John”, repeated the master. And he then undertook the peculiar and complex ritual of the initiation ceremony.</p> <p>Finally, he put his sword on the neophyte’s head. At that moment, some new, elusive thing happened in John, something exploded in him. He was quite stunned and confused while reaching the height of serenity and happiness. </p> <p>“What you are experiencing at this moment, Brother John, many others have experienced before You: Myself, the masters of the past, the other brothers around the world. That thing, call it Light, but it has no name”.</p> <p>The master helped the disciple to his feet, kissed him seven times, and exchanged fraternal greetings with him. Then he taught him the secret words, the signs of recognition, the touching, the ritual of group work. Verbally, according to tradition.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">He then taught him the daily rites to be performed at three very specific moments of the day — which correspond to the three points of the operation of the sun — and in the most great secret, a Greek sentence and gestures to repeat. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">“At these three moments precisely,” explained the master, “our brothers and sisters all over the world make the same gestures, say the same sentence. Their strength is great, it comes from afar and is goes very far. Day after day, it acts on humanity. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Finally, the master took the last envelope, opened it, and read its contents to John. On a sheet of paper was inscribed the formula of the oath: an oath not to reveal the secrets of the Order, to follow tradition, to always act for good, to be always strong, to help the brethren and the unfortunate, to respect above all the law of God and his ministers.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Without hesitation, John signed at the end of the formula. He was animated by great strength. Near his signature, he wrote the number and the acronym that the master indicated to him. These two elements codified his initiation and rank. The master took the sheet back, folded it seven times, and asked the disciple to put it with the tip of his hand onto the flaming sword. This was done. </p> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The master brought the sword close to the candelabra where it was burning the candles for the masters of the past; the fire licked the paper. In a few seconds, the Oath was taken, reduced to ashes which the master scattered. “You have sworn, John, but know that the freedom of the brothers is far superior to all oaths. Today, you really know what freedom is. He kissed him again. John began to cry.</p> </blockquote> <p class="has-medium-font-size">The last consideration I will present here is that even if the described events did not not involve Angelo Roncalli, they do offer us an insight into the diabolical world of the mystery religions. We catch a glimpse of the mindset of those involved: their disdain for true religion, their arrogance in believing that the occult offers a solution to life’s problems that is superior to that of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Way, Truth and the Life.</p> <p>IMAGE CREDIT: Abzeronow, CC BY 4.0 <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</p> <p></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/the-essence-of-freemasonry/" rel="category tag">The Essence of Freemasonry</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/angelo-roncali/" rel="tag">Angelo Roncali</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/book-excerpt/" rel="tag">Book Excerpt</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/featured/" rel="tag">Featured</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/freemasonry/" rel="tag">Freemasonry</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/john-xxiii/" rel="tag">John XXIII</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/occult/" rel="tag">Occult</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/pier-carpi/" rel="tag">Pier Carpi</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/rosicrucianism/" rel="tag">Rosicrucianism</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/vatican-ii/" rel="tag">Vatican II</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-7064" class="post-7064 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-masonic-infiltration-of-the-church tag-fatima tag-featured tag-freemasonry tag-john-xxiii tag-pachamama tag-paul-vi tag-vatican-ii tag-virgin-mary"> <div class="featured-image"> <span> <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/12/the-anti-marian-current-at-vatican-ii/"><img width="940" height="627" src="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=940" class="attachment-toujours-featured size-toujours-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=940 940w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=150 150w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=300 300w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=768 768w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" data-attachment-id="7080" data-permalink="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/12/the-anti-marian-current-at-vatican-ii/anti-mary/" data-orig-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png" data-orig-size="1200,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Anti-Mary" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/anti-mary.png?w=760" /></a> </span> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/12/the-anti-marian-current-at-vatican-ii/" rel="bookmark">The Anti-Marian Current at Vatican II</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><span>Published on <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/12/the-anti-marian-current-at-vatican-ii/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-08-12T11:34:56+10:00">August 12, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-08-12T11:37:08+10:00">August 12, 2024</time></a></span></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/author/anonymouscath/">anonymouscath</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2024/08/12/the-anti-marian-current-at-vatican-ii/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>It is widely acknowledged among traditionalists that the Second Vatican Council contained many elements which were designed to appease non-Catholics. This is most obvious in the changes which were later made to the Mass and the failure to condemn Communism at the time of the Council itself. However this non-Catholic appeasement also worked in an extraordinary way against devotion to the Mother of God, who was in many ways directly insulted by the progressive Council Fathers.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>While the main reason for this was the all-pervading Masonic ecumenism of the Council, two lesser motives were also at work. One of these is a Modernist trend toward denigrating miracles. Modernists do not mind acknowledging Our Lady as an historical fact; after all, there is little doubt that She was a real person who existed in time and gave birth to Jesus Christ. Other religions and cults also venerate the mother of their prophets. But Modernists are less tolerant of miracles associated with Our Lady: Her apparitions, Her messages and especially Her appearance at Fatima.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>A second factor at play is the significance placed on the female type by occultists. The ‘Sacred Feminine’ is important to the Rosicrucians, for example, where Our Lady is blasphemously referred to as one of the ‘Great Women Initiates.’ The Pachamama incident at the Amazon Synod was another reference to this female type. Pachamama is a version of Gaia, the earth goddess, who is venerated by Wiccans and climate worshippers as well as by tribalist pagan cults.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>These motives led the progressive element among the Council Fathers to downplay or ‘cancel’ the Mother of God in three main ways. The first was in regard to the proclamation of Our Lady as Mediatrix. There had been a movement among orthodox prelates to have the Mother of God honoured by the proclamation of the Fifth Marian dogma: that She is Mediatrix of all Graces. Many bishops and countless faithful were optimistic that this would be proclaimed by John XXIII at the Council, but the good bishops’ campaign was thwarted at every opportunity. Petitions in favour of the proclamation were not delivered to the correct authorities and speeches bordering on blasphemy against Our Lady were delivered during Council sessions.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>The second insult was in regard to Fatima. Readers will recall that the Virgin Mary, through her messenger, Sr. Lucia of Fatima, asked that the Third Secret be revealed by the year 1960, that is, at the latest, under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII. It is known that John read the Secret in August 1959 by which time, preparations for the Council were well underway. After reading the message from Our Lady, John stated, “This does not concern the years of my pontificate.”</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>These are remarkable words, considering that several sources claim the Secret refers to an evil Council! It is worth remembering that the convening of an ‘evil Council’ was also among the predictions made by the occultist and Synarchist, the false priest Roca.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>Even if the Secret contained no reference to a Council, John deliberately disobeyed the Mother of God by failing to make its details public. He further added to the disobedience by failing to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart and formally promulgate First Saturday devotions.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>To further disrespect Our Lady, Pope John insulted Her in his Opening Speech to the Council in October 1962. The speech, which had heavy input from Cardinal Montini, the future Paul VI, contrasted John’s highly optimistic aggiornamento with the attitude of the so-called ‘prophets of doom’. This was a clear reference to the children of Fatima who carried Our Lady’s message, as well as to those conservative bishops and Cardinals who were concerned about threats to the Church and to the world at large. John XXIII criticised those who dwelled on ‘ruin and calamity’, echoing the words of the Fatima seers who saw in a vision that ‘the Holy Father crossed a large city half in ruins.’</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>The insults to Our Lady did not end there, however. The final part of the campaign to denigrate the Mother of God was the denial of the dangers of Communism. It is well-documented that John XXIII made a secret pact with the Communist-run Russian Orthodox Church prior to the Council. John, always anxious to boost his ecumenical credentials, wanted Russian Orthodox ‘observers’ at Vatican II. The Orthodox agreed – but only on condition that there was no condemnation of Communism from the Council. Encouraged by Montini, John went even further, ensuring there was no mention of Communism at all, despite many petitions from the prelates present.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>As the Abbe de Nantes wrote, “The greatest Council of all time (supposedly) would therefore remain deaf and blind to the greatest phenomenon of inhumanity of all time: the global expansion of Bolshevism. Thus did it secretly lend its aid.”</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>Once Montini was elected Pope after the death of John XXIII, this anti-Mary agenda became even more clear. Throughout 1964 particularly, there were many attempts by the more conservative prelates to have Russia consecrated to the Immaculate Heart in the presence of all the world’s bishops. There could have been no better time for such an event as the Bishops were already gathered in Rome for the Council’s next session.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>But instead of taking the opportunity to consecrate Russia while all the world’s bishops were present, Paul VI ignored the pleas of the hundreds of Bishops who heeded Our Lady’s warnings. By the end of 1964, however, as Pope Paul could see the damage already being wrought by his reckless Council, he made one small concession: Paul ‘recalled’ the Consecration made by Pius XII in 1942, while declaring Our Lady “Mother of the Church”.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>Of course, this feeble response could in no way be said to fulfil the requests made by Our Lady at Fatima.</em></p> <p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400"><em>So it was that Popes John and Paul presided over a Council during which there was a concerted effort to insult, disrespect and denigrate the Mother of God. By refusing to condemn atheistic Communism, the Progressive Popes took the insult even further by refusing to acknowledge the greatest danger posed to the world, one which had precipitated a Divine visitation to earth in the form of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima.</em></p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading has-small-font-size"><strong><em>REFERENCES:</em></strong></h4> <h4 class="wp-block-heading has-small-font-size"><strong><em>“vatican council II and the fatima revelations” by the</em></strong><a href="https://crc-internet.org/our-doctrine/catholic-counter-reformation/john-paul-i-the-pope-of-the-secret/3-vatican-council-ii-and-the-fatima-revelations.html?r=fatima"><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>Contre Reforme Catholique</em></strong></a></h4> <h4 class="wp-block-heading has-small-font-size"><a href="https://fatima.org/news-views/timely-reflections-on-the-third-secret/">Timely Reflections on the Third Secret | The Fatima Center</a></h4> <h4 class="wp-block-heading has-small-font-size"><a href="https://fatima.machado-family.com/vol3/#calibre_link-1672">The Whole Truth about Fatima – Vol III</a></h4> <p class="has-small-font-size">IMAGES: Lothar Wolleh, CC BY-SA 3.0 <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons; <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Our_Lady_of_Fatima_1968.jpg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Our_Lady_of_Fatima_1968.jpg</a></p> <p></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links">Categories <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/category/masonic-infiltration-of-the-church/" rel="category tag">Masonic Infiltration of the Church</a></span><span class="sep">•</span><span class="tags-links">Tags <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/fatima/" rel="tag">Fatima</a>, <a href="https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/tag/featured/" rel="tag">Featured</a>, <a 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