Join us in a novena of reparation for IDF sacrilege in Lebanon

by T. Stanfill Benns | May 2, 2026 | Blog

+Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop+

Prayer intention for May, Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary

“For all those who impiously blaspheme thee Blessed Mother, not knowing what they say… obtain for them from Almighty God the grace of conversion.” (Raccolta)

Novena of Reparation for IDF insults to the Holy Face

St. Therese of Lisieux had a special devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and the Infant of Prague. Jesus’ Holy Face was smashed by IDF (Israeli) soldiers recently invading Lebanon, and for this a reader has begun a crusade to make reparation. He requests that all may: “Please unite with us in a Novena to St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face to end the Zionist/Epstein cabal, torturing and murdering children and smashing the Holy Face. We will pray May 6-14, Ascension Day.

MIRACULOUS INVOCATION TO ST. THERESE

O glorious Saint Therese, whom Almighty God has raised up to aid and counsel mankind, I implore thy Miraculous Intercession. So powerful art thou in obtaining every need of body and soul our Holy Mother Church proclaims thee a “Prodigy of Miracles . . . the Greatest Saint of Modern Times.”

Now I fervently beseech thee to answer my petition [mention here] and to carry out thy promises of spending Heaven doing good on earth . . . of letting fall from Heaven a Shower of Roses.
Henceforth, dear Little Flower, I will fulfill thy plea “to be made known everywhere” and I will never cease to lead others to Jesus through thee. Amen.

Petition: O dear St. Therese, so devoted to the Infant King, beg the Holy Child to cast down this Satanic cabal now enslaving the world and free the suffering innocents they hold captive, that He may then reign in their stead as our King.

St. Therese Prayer in honor of the Infant of Prague

O Eternal Father, Thine only Son, the dear Child Jesus, is mine, since Thou hast given Him to me. I offer Thee the infinite merits of His divine childhood, and I beg Thee, in His name, to open the gates of heaven to a countless host of little ones, who will forever follow this divine Lamb. Amen.

Beware of the influencers condemning Zionism

In lamenting the Noahide law issue last week, I provided a link to a Substack feed for a Jana Bennrun. I hope readers understood it was only for attribution purposes. After corresponding with her, I must ask readers to please not subscribe to her feed, view her videos or read her articles. Her anti-Catholic animus emerged quite quickly following the release of my last blog.  But I have to say I am not surprised. As with Candace Owens (who given her Novus Ordo alliance would obviously have issues with Bennrun too), I keep trying to make inroads regarding the views presented by these people, educate them a little and see if it is information they lack or whether they are working a different agenda. So far it has always been the latter. And that tells us something.

Working from different platforms — but all headed, seemingly, in the same direction — they are using their exposure of Zionism as a means of attempting to gather “Christians” into a malleable mass able to abolish Zionism and Freemasonry, and they are doing this from many different fronts. This without crediting the Church for being the first to warn against these evils.  And not only do they fail to credit the Church, or, in some cases, even view these entities from a spiritual perspective, they pointedly ignore the fact that the organizations THEY belong to are the original promoters of both evils — Zionism with the Novus Ordo and Freemasonry with the Protestants, agnostics and atheists. They fail to mention that Zionism and Freemasonry are simply different tentacles of the octopus, thoughtlessly brushing this inconvenient truth aside.

I would like to officially point out to those referring to themselves as Christians and pretending to defend the faith that they don’t even know what the word faith really means. If it wasn’t for the Catholic Church, they would never have been able to even call themselves Christians in the first place! They have contributed to the creation of the very monsters we find ourselves fighting today, so they should be on the Internet warning others about them. But while they repeatedly broadcast their devotion to truth and proudly proclaim that they are promoting it, it is only THEIR particular brand of the truth they are promoting. They steadfastly refuse to plunge into the very depths of the abyss of errors to acknowledge the fact that it is the Church that long ago warned about all these things and prescribed the remedy — the acceptance of pre-1959 Catholicism as the one, true Church. For really it is authority over others that they want, the right to direct others and be seen as the defenders of the Christian faith, a faith and a body that can never think and believe as one without the papacy.

Even in these last throes of our final existence on earth they cannot, will not see it, and we know why. Yet we keep approaching them, correcting them, just in case. Wherever we see evidence of this psyop, we will call it out. For deliberately or unwittingly, they are all working for the creation of a one-world religion to replace the one, holy Catholic apostolic Church which once gloriously ruled from Rome. It is reminiscent of the attempt to create the tower of Babel, the first attempt at world government. Babel is Hebrew for Babylon and its end will be the same. In the meantime, these podcasters and Internet stooges will continue to “babble-on,” contributing some good information with the rest of the slop they sling, just enough to make it palatable for those not wise to what they are up to. Are we angry, as they claim, because we have been “dethroned”? No, because there is no need to be. Christ promised to be with us until the very end — US, the one true Church — and He is ever true to His promises.

A diabolic, schizophrenic generation

We have referred to this quote before but it bears repeating here because it explains how even prior to the psychological warfare unleashed on U.S. Catholics in 1953 by the CIA, a mental state existed among Catholics that made them even more susceptible to being led astray. In 1945, C.J. Woolen wrote an article for the December Homiletic and Pastoral Review entitled “A Schizophrenic Generation.” The article held that already in post-war America a condition existed among Catholics that effectively minimized sin and evil living by attributing its cause to a mental illness which Woolen calls the “split mind,” or schizophrenia, known also today as the dissociative state. The predilection for this schizophrenia, he observes, is present in us all and needs only a conscious assent to take hold and completely replace any pre-existing ego state. Described effectively enough by St. Augustine in his City of God, the citizen sojourning in this vale of tears simply makes the decision to set his sails for a different port — the River Styx adjacent to Satan’s kingdom rather than Heaven’s safe harbor. A sort of convenient amnesia following this radical change masks any uncomfortable pangs of conscience, making the transition a smooth one.

Woolen noted that this condition was known even to the pagans, and quotes from Aristotle’s The Republic to prove it is the age-old struggle between good and evil, literally as old as Adam. In modern times, man’s final descent into the pit of deliberate unknowing began with Liberalism then Americanism and concluded with secular humanism, the belief that man can become a god himself, perhaps even greater than the Triune God. The Liberals were the first to master the art of dissembling for public consumption while intending by narrow mental reservation not to believe or comply with certain teachings of the Church. Will Herberg in Protestant, Catholic, Jew coined a great term for it: “…religious narcissism,where the individual and his psycho-spiritual state is made to concentrate on its own navel.”

In other words, “It is not man who serves God, but God who is mobilized to serve man.” And faith is only a “sure fire way to get what we want.” Religion, then, is not a standard by which Catholics order their allegiance to America, family, the community, their jobs etc., but vice versa. Civic and social allegiances dictate the role religion will play in most people’s lives. This results in what Herberg described as an incurable “civic idolatry.” This lifestyle, led by those he labels as “other-directed” individuals constitutes an inversion of the natural order that perfectly accommodates the schizophrenic mentality. And isn’t that what we see today, both in the extreme MAGA mentality and mindless allegiance to the Zionist cause?

“The Christian, if he is to be faithful, has no choice but to be heroic,” Woolen stated towards the end of his article. The numbing process of denial, psychiatry, prescription and psychotropic drugs are modern choices for dulling the pain of living in a materialistic world where fidelity to the Catholic ideal means loss of earthly goods, the patient enduring of pain, admission of guilt and indifference to human respect. Catholic Action, coupled with the “world exorcism,” Woolen advised could have provided the solution decades ago, but that time has long since passed. No faithful bishops, as a united whole, cared to relieve the sheep of this terrible danger to their souls. There are now only lay people to plead for this exorcism for it seems the only solution to our present state. But perhaps there is yet a way to practice Catholic Action, although it would need to be done with great care, one-on-one, and in very limited cases.

Hope for a slim Protestant minority?

Several readers have expressed the belief that a select minority of Protestants could be brought to the true faith if there was some way it could be explained to them in a way they could accept and understand. They have even observed that certain Protestant families seem to them to be more “Catholic” than some of the Traditionalists they know. One reader even pointed out that some of them probably are the products of fallen away Catholic families, which means they have still retained a modicum of Catholic sense. And it seems that in a way God has given us an open door to appeal to those who seem attracted to the faith, or at least are curious as to why we do not attend “church” or accept the “pope” in Rome. I say this because many of the things that were most strongly objected to in the past no longer exist, and this gives us an opportunity to explain why. But the daunting nature of this task is easily seen when the following is carefully considered.

Pope and hierarchy — This would be the most difficult obstacle to overcome. Any convert to Catholicism must first accept unequivocally, with firm, irrevocable assent the Scriptural primacy of the popes, the binding nature of nearly two centuries of their teachings until the death of Pope Pius XII and understand that those teachings fully bind us yet today. It should be demonstrated from papal teaching that nearly every evil we suffer from today was long ago condemned by the popes and had world leaders obeyed, we would not now be suffering from the evils that afflict the world today. It must be carefully explained that shortly before he died, Pope Pius XII entrusted the spread of the faith to the laity, who in the absence of the hierarchy were commanded to assume all their duties. Then VAS would be brought in and the false election explained, meaning that valid hierarchy no longer exist.

No extraordinary jurisdiction — This leads in directly to the mission Christ conferred only on the Apostles by valid ordination/consecration and the valid transference of jurisdiction in a continual unbroken line, until the coming of Antichrist. Christ confers jurisdiction only through validly consecrated bishops approved by the Pope who then “lend” (delegate) their jurisdiction to the priests.

The Latin Mass and Transubstantiation — As long as the Mass existed, Transubstantiation existed: Catholics received the true Body and Blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine. But the Prophet Daniel tells us the Continual Sacrifice will cease, and sacrifices among the Jews were not continual. The early Fathers of the Church, also the Doctors, authoritatively teach that this refers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. And it has ceased because there is no one able or worthy to offer it because valid consecration of the bread and wine requires that the one consecrating is validly ordained and possesses jurisdiction.

Sola Scriptura — Tradition, “…the word of God transmitted orally from Christ to the Apostles concerning faith and morals — not written but transmitted orally from Christ to the Apostles and from them to their successors down to us“— must be accepted as de fide. “The principal instruments by means of which divine tradition has been conserved are the professions of faith, the sacred liturgy, the writings of the Fathers, the practice of the Church, the acts of the martyrs, and archaeological monuments. Its organ is the living magisterium of the Church, (the Roman Pontiff and the bishops, united with and subordinate to him),” (Dictionary of Dogmatic Theology, Pietro Parente, Antonio Piolanti, Salvatore Garofolo, 1951).

The Sacraments — All the sacraments will exist eternally because they were instituted by Christ, but only marriage and Baptism are available to us today. Infant Baptism only must be insisted upon, unless new converts are adults not certainly baptized.

Honoring the Blessed Mother, the Angels and the Saints — This is part and parcel of Tradition and the teachings of the ordinary and extraordinary magisterium.

Justification, Purgatory, et al — Only the saints are certainly in Heaven. We cannot assume that anyone else is in Heaven or Hell.  Faith without works is dead. Without good works and sincere intent to obey the commandments and the teachings of the Church, we cannot be saved. We must diligently pray for the souls in Purgatory, as the correct version of Holy Scripture, the Douay-Rheims, states. Even the Jews prayed for their dead.

Home church — One article reports that, “As of 2023, an estimated 6–12 million Americans worship regularly in house churches — a number that has grown steadily since the early 2000s as believers seek the relational depth modeled in Acts 2:46, where the early church met “from house to house.” And the article also notes that home or house churches are especially appealing to younger people.

The numbers of this movement are important because it directly contradicts any notion that worshipping privately from home is eccentric or cultistic, and the movement is predicted to be growing by 8-10 percent annually. The establishment of house churches is a natural companion to homeschooling, and statistics show that 3,408,000 children were homeschooled in the U.S. in 2025. This provides a broad base to work from, and gives hope that in the midst of the false Christianity now prevailing, some sincere individuals might consider Catholicism. But a Catholic structure and supervision of these converts would need to be diligently attended to by the individuals instructing them.

Holy Office Instruction

The above is only a brief summary of what would need to be established in order to build a framework for conversion. We must remember that catechumens were often instructed for two years or even longer in the days of the early Church, and yet were considered to be baptized Catholics by desire if they died during that time period. Unlike those days, some of these Protestants today have already been validly baptized, but the instruction was lacking. Others would need conditional Baptism. But at least it would be a concerted effort to save their souls, an heroic act of charity. Below is a summary from an Instruction of the Holy Office regarding The Ecumenical Movement, how any contact with non-Catholics from a conversion standpoint must be conducted.

“All should be on guard lest, on the false pretext that more attention should be paid to the points on which we agree than to those on which we differ, a dangerous indifferentism be encouraged, especially among persons whose training in theology is not deep and whose practice of their faith is not very strong. For care must be taken lest in the so-called irenic spirit of today, though through comparative study and the vain desire for a progressively closer mutual approach among the various professions of faith, Catholic doctrine, either in its dogmas or in the truths which are connected with them, be so conformed or in a way adapted to the doctrines of dissident sects, that the purity of Catholic doctrine be impaired or its genuine and certain meaning be obscured…

Also, they must restrain the dangerous manner of speaking which generates false opinions and fallacious hopes incapable of realization, for example, to the effect that the teachings of the encyclicals of the Roman Pontiffs on the return of dissidents to the Church, on the constitution of the Church, on the mystical body of Christ, should not be given too much importance, seeing that they are not all matters of faith, or what is worse, that in matters of dogma even the Catholic Church has not yet attained the fullness of Christ, but can still be perfected from outside…The whole and entire Catholic doctrine is to be presented and explained. By no means is it permitted to pass over in silence or to veil in ambiguous terms the Catholic truth regarding the nature and way of justification, the constitution of the Church, the primacy of jurisdiction of the Roman Pontiff, and the only true union by the return of the dissidents to the one true Church of Christ” (Rome, Dec. 20, 1940, AAS 42-142).

And these are just the primary considerations. But before any Catholic engages in Catholic Action, let those who see an opportunity to assist Protestants interested in the faith first be firmly grounded in the interior life, as the popes have taught, and let their own house be in order. That is, let those who have families make certain that all their needs are first attended to, both spiritual and material, for as St. Augustine taught, charity begins at home. And as the Holy Office instruction reminds us, “Nothing more effectively paves the way for the erring to find the truth and to embrace the Church than the faith of Catholics when it is confirmed by the example of upright living.”

This topic needs much discussion and prayer before it can even be considered as something that could be put into actual practice. Please feel free to make any comments or suggestions.