by T. Stanfill Benns | Jan 26, 2026 | New Blog
+St. Paul’s Conversion+
(Catch the new comment a reader made on Robert Robbins’ misogyny HERE. Please keep the Robbins’ in your prayers. Now onto this week’s topic.)
Introduction
As most readers know and some have lamented, I have been following Candace Owens’ coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination from day one. The Zionism angle and her realization that this group corresponds to the Apocalypse quote regarding the Synagogue of Satan intrigued me. Then of course there were the conflicting reports that before his death Kirk had been considering conversion to the Novus Ordo. “Considering” here is the important word. When over the years I have been prompted to pay attention to things like this I have learned not to ignore these promptings; we all know where they come from. Following the guidance of the Holy Ghost is what led me to realize at age 19 I would witness in my lifetime what others had never seen; that Traditionalists were never Catholic; that David Bawden could never have become a pope; that LibTrad pseudo-clergy were invalid.
One reader commented not long ago that Owens was running a psyops and I was being pulled into it. Yes, she is running her own brand of psyops while exposing others, but I realized this was a possibility early on. I simply wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, and no, I am not falling for it. The reason Catholics in the past were pulled into one LibTrad sect and scheme after another is that they did not sit back and evaluate the position of the ones running the scheme — try to figure the angle, point out the pros and cons, make note of any errors. It takes time and some head work, but eventually taking notes and paying attention pays off. Finally all that has paid off now, and a shadowy outline of what may be going on here is emerging. Things could change; there may be some positives, but I highly doubt it. Owens may think she is looking for the truth but I am afraid that her British husband — her priests and their Latin Mass — will make sure she never finds it.
Lately she has been advertising the magisterium AI site, as if AI is any vehicle from which to learn true Catholicism. That was red flag number one. She wants the easy way out, for herself and her readers. You don’t learn the faith from a conglomeration of true and false “papal” documents mashed into a nice little mental sandwich; it doesn’t work that way. This is exactly the reason readers on this site were cautioned about Ludwig Ott’s Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma. But compression of Catholic theological truths is dangerous. The book review on Dr. Ott’s work written by John J. King, O.M.I. for the January 1956 issue of the American Ecclesiastical Review states: “The publication of this volume by Dr. Ott should bolster the argumentation of those who protested the use of the ‘digest’ approach to the study of sacred theology. Dr. Ott has attempted to compress the entire field of dogmatic theology (including fundamental, special and Sacramental dogma) into a single volume of 519 pages… Very often in the scientific exposition of the dogmas of the Church conciseness can be attained only at the expense of clarity and accuracy…”
But it is her failure to provide her listeners with the WHOLE truth that is most disturbing, although we know she cannot do that without questioning her Novus Ordo “faith.” She talks about infiltration of non-believers into the TPUSA organization and other non-Catholic groups; she warns parents to take their children out of even private schools and home school them; she warns of those in the military industrial complex erasing and rewriting history, but she fails to note the beginning of this effort and track it to its initial source. She warns of sex trafficking and pedophilia in the ranks of government and the military, as well as in Protestant sects, but she omits the sex scandals that have rocked the Novus Ordo since the 1960s. These scandals began when what was once the Catholic Church was successfully infiltrated by Modernists and Freemasons, beginning in the late 1800s. She talks of conspiracy facts, but ignores the most glaring conspiracy of all — the usurpation of the papacy from 1958 on.
What may really be going on with Owens became clear recently. She reported in one podcast that TPUSA is now reorganizing, firing a good chunk of employees to head in a “new direction.” And as always happens with such reorganizations, on the heels of these firings follow also a departure of further employees and a realignment of loyalties. A new conservative patriotic group will most likely rise now, she predicted, and while it remained unsaid, it will possibly be headed by Owens herself. This splinter group will cater to conservative Novus Ordo catholics, especially the young among her audience, who have recently flocked to the Latin Mass that she also attends. Disillusioned TPUSA “Christians” will be reminded that Kirk eventually embraced Catholicism and that the Novus Ordo and its Latin Mass should be what they are joining and attending, because it would be what Charlie wanted for them. One of Owens’ dreams might even suggest this. Who killed Kirk and why will eventually fall to the wayside, as the new brand he left in his last days takes shape. This by way of contrast to what Owens rightly characterizes as the corporate Christianity TPUSA now hypocritically promotes.
It is time Owens’ audience hears the rest of the story, or rather the true beginning of the story, and where it really leads. In The Phantom Church in Rome, I touched on the Knights of Malta, an organization that turned the Catholic Church in America on its head and contributed to everything Owens has mentioned as destroying America today in her broadcasts — the military industrial complex, Freemasonry, Zionism, child trafficking, espionage, and much more. It was in an e-book I wrote in 2006, however, that I first addressed this topic at length, and the following excerpt from that book gives the history of what paved the way for events today. Owens presents as though they were just now emerging, something far from the truth. They are part and parcel of her church, the dark past of an American secret society that helped topple the true Church and usher in ecumenism and the false Vatican 2 council. And Owens can’t abandon ecumenism because without it she lacks the hook to draw in former TPUSA members who don’t identify as Catholics. Below we read the real story, the background she failed to provide.
The Sovereign Knights of Malta finance the Church
Once upon a time, Francis Cardinal Spellman, a friend of Pope Pius XII referred to by some as the American Pope, ran his own little kingdom right in the U.S: the Knights of Malta, suspected heir apparent of the Templar legacy. In the early 1950s, Spellman and fellow Cardinals Nicola Canali and Angelo Roncalli, later John 23, were implicated in a money scandal that shook the order in the early 1950s, and eventually came to the attention of Pope Pius XII. Spellman had been accepting thousands of dollars in “contributions” for bestowing knightly titles on American members, and the Vatican was receiving only a minute fraction of the monies collected. The ensuing investigation was little more than a whitewash, author Paul I. Murphy recorded in his La Popessa, a biography of Sr. Pascalina. And not a whisper of conspiratorial conduct issued concerning the knights.
Pius XII trusted Spellman implicitly and this trust may have been his undoing. In appropriating the Knights of Malta for pro-active ventures on behalf of the Church, it seems that Spellman and other Cardinals took advantage of the K of M’s shadow-lands existence as an organization. If no heads turned at Spellman’s recourse to the K of M for financial assistance, it was due to the fact that for centuries the Holy See officially sanctioned the Knights and the Order conducted its activities under the watchful eye of the Church. According to the DeMontor’s Lives and Times of the Popes, this was to ensure that the Hospitallers would not experience the same “fate as the Templars,” (Vol. IV, under Pope John XXII). When the Knights acquired Malta, it appears that the Church agreed to honor a promise made to the Grand Master Follques de Villaret — that the Order would be granted sovereignty so that they might continue to protect the Holy Land. The Church had reason to be concerned — already Pope Gregory IX in 1238 had rebuked the Hospitallers for “living scandalous lives” and betraying their vows of poverty and chastity. He also accused them of being “greedy and corrupt” and in communion with the schismatic Eastern Orthodox.
That the K of M loyally defended the faith for many centuries is a matter of fact, first as Hospitallers and later under the title Knights of St. John, Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta. The Order sent three galleys to fight the Turks during the Battle of Lepanto and distinguished themselves for their bravery. They tenderly cared for the wounded personally and established many hospitals for this purpose. But shortly after Lepanto, the Order deteriorated and eventually fell prey to numerous moral and spiritual disorders. “There can be no doubt whatsoever that after 1530, the Order was no longer independent and sovereign,” (Ernle Bradford). This certainly had some connection to the Protestant Reformation, as all Europe was abuzz with the heresies of King Henry VIII and Martin Luther. The order was expelled from Malta in 1798 by Napoleon, and for some time Czar Paul of Russia held the Grand Mastership.
The Czar established a Russian Orthodox Priory in 1798, although he was not considered the official head of the order. “De facto, though not de jure, Paul I was the 72nd head of the Order,” (Bradford, from the work, A Modern Crusade,). In 1801, Czar Paul was murdered after a falling out with Britain. The British eventually gained control of Malta in 1814 and Bradford states that they “became to all intents and purposes, successors to the Order.” Pope Pius VII approved Grand Master Tommasi in 1803, but from thereon the order entered a lengthy period of inactivity and disorganization. Pope Leo XIII revived the order in 1879, but at this time it was headquartered in Rome and enjoyed relatively limited influence. Prior to this period of inactivity, a schism in the group splintered the knights and would later give rise to speculation concerning which group was rightly descended from the original order.
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta’s official website states that in response to a special request by Pope Pius XI on behalf of the official headquarters of the order in Rome, an American Chapter of the Knights of Malta was created April 28, 1927 with headquarters in New
York. During Pius XI’s reign, the Knights came under fire from the Vatican sometime before World War II, although the reasons for the Vatican’s suspicions remain unknown. From that time on, it seems, there were questions concerning knightly activities. Spellman, who served as the group’s spiritual advisor, undoubtedly quelled such suspicions. The investigation later launched at the insistence of Sr. Pascalina, Pope Pius XII’s housekeeper and assistant, centered on a struggle for control of the group by Spellman and Nicola Cardinal Canali, who urged the Pope to rein in the Knights under Canali’s direction. (One of the issues involved Bp. Angelo Roncalli’s appointment of a 33rd degree Freemason, Marsaudon, to the French K of M Grand Master position.) Pius XII entrusted the K of M investigation to Cardinal Tisserant, not well respected by Sr. Pascalina. Murphy reported that Pius met her objections with the comment that his cardinals were not to be held suspect and should be treated with respect. Nevertheless, Pius XII declined to personally endorse the Knights or grant them any sort of confirmation as an order.
The outcome of this investigation is detailed in the article John XXIII and Masonry – The Pope of the Council, (Sodalitium, Oct.- Nov. 1996): “On November 14, 1951, Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, Grand Master of the Order of Malta died in Rome. Normally, the Knights would have then convened to elect a successor; but they did not do so. They were unable to do so: Pius XII formally forbade them to do so. The Pope appointed a commission of Cardinals [Papal Commission] charged to reform (or suppress) the Order of Malta, and for the rest of the days of Papa Pacelli, the Knights would not have a Grand Master. All of that changed on June 24, 1961. On that date, the feast of Saint John the Baptist, patron of the Order (and of Masonry), John XXIII received the Knights at the Vatican, and to their great satisfaction, publicly issued the Brief by which the Commission of Cardinals instituted by Pius XII was suppressed.”
Author Penny Lernoux asserted that the branch headed by Cardinal Spellman “pledges allegiance to the pope,” (People of God). She noted, however, that neither the pope nor the order’s grand master in Rome “has real control over SMOM’s (Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta) various associations, some of whose members have been involved in fascist plots and CIA covert wars.” Lernoux’s statement is important, because several organizations claiming to be the true successors of the Knights of Malta have been confused with the branch of the Knights created by Pope Pius XI. When referring to the K of M in this section, only the papal order is indicated.
The true origin of SMOM has been obscured by the many splits within the order itself throughout the centuries. The only mention of the Knights Malta made in Arthur Preuss’ book Dictionary of Secret and other Societies refers to the English (Orange) and strictly Protestant branch of this order, headquartered in Philadelphia. Preuss dated the founding of this order back to 1889. It claimed 75,000 members in 1923. The only other reference Preuss made to the Knights of Malta is the Masonic Knights, a rite within the American Knights Templar degree. In his The Knights of the Order, author Ernle Bradford stated that the English (non-denominational) order did not establish itself in America until 1960. A historian for the 1960 group claimed it is “the only Order of St. John which admits Christians of all denominations.” And yet one Malta organization claims to be THE Catholic successor of the (initially Catholic and papal) order, although it holds itself above the pope.
The Knights of Malta and the war years
The diplomatic immunity accorded the papal K of M order, a privilege accorded this group from the time of the medieval ages was especially useful to Church and state during the war years, particularly where espionage was concerned. Had this usefulness been contained to certain necessary activities directly flowing from the war, that would have been one thing. But in many ways, World War II was the coming of age for the Knights, helping them gain a foothold in the brave, New World Order that lie ahead.
Like the Priory, the Knights claim the membership of European nobility, the heads of international finance and business, high-ranking heads of state and military figures, as well as prelates of the Catholic Church. Initially the American knights opposed the New Deal, and at least one of their members, Cardinal Spellman’s good friend Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, opposed the war in Europe. As stated above, the Knights generated millions of dollars for the Church and Cardinal Spellman regularly forwarded these funds to Cardinal Canali in Rome for disbursal. Mgr. Montini performed a like function in using same-source funds for Catholic Action activities, handled by Cardinal Pizzardo. It was said that Pope Pius XII trusted Spellman to keep his Knights in order. During the war years, Spellman also acted as a go-between for the Vatican and the White House, also the American government and other entities. It was Spellman who first advised the Vatican to cooperate with the British-inspired OSS, headed by his old friend William “Wild Bill” Donovan. In terms of the 1958 conclave, this cooperation would prove to be a disaster.
One K of M aristocrat, von Papen, made Hitler’s rise to power in Germany possible. This is yet another indication that generally the Knights favor nationalism and National Socialism versus other forms of government because these can admit of an absolute ruler and constitute the closest thing to monarchy. We also hear echoes in this philosophy of the Gallican liberties, the continuity theory and rule by Divine right. Former teacher-turned-author John Taylor Gatto confirmed that this rule already exists internationally, (whether its source is the K of M specifically, the Priory, the modern-day Illuminati aka Pilgrim Society or some other organization). Describing the ownership of children by the state as “parens patriae,” Gatto credits its origin to the very creation of America’s government. He notes that the principle represents a radical departure from later European views of the family, reflecting instead the power of “old-time, absolute kings,” (“The Under-ground History of American Education”).
Gatto and other authors have observed that this belief that children are owned by the state has a precedent-setting legal history in America dating back to 1796. Gatto pointed out that it is a calculated attempt by the state to manipulate family life, society as a whole and shape the future according to its own agenda, without mentioning the current philosophy of the Department of Human Services nationwide acting “in the best interests of the children.” He also documented the Germanization of American schools following the War of 1812 and generally concluded that beginning with Ben Franklin, the model for America was Prussian National Socialism, the very mode of government preferred by the Knights. And overall, Gatto styles compulsory education as “a global movement.”
This preference for fascism is reflected time and time again in the K of M’s dealings during World War II. The American government suspected the K-of-M-affiliated W.R. Grace Co., a manufacturer of chemicals, of trading with the Nazis during the war. The order was directly involved in “Project Paperclip” following the war’s end, importing hundreds of Nazi scientists and even war criminals into the U.S. from Germany. As an exalted member of the Order, Argentina’s Juan Peron also smuggled Nazi war criminals into South America. Msgr. Montini was the principal contact for the OSS in Rome. Through the offices of the Vatican, he arranged the escape of thousands of German war criminals with the help of Donovan’s organization, working with the order. It was the OSS who set up Germany’s postwar intelligence department, using money from the newly established Central Intelligence Agency in America, another offshoot of the OSS. Pope Pius XII’s medical advisor, Dr. Luigi Gedda, assisted Montini in this effort. Gedda, also the head of Italian Catholic Action, organized committees among Catholic Action cells during the 1948 elections to help secure victory for the Christian Democrats headed by Montini’s father.
In 1948 the Vatican, the Knights of Malta, the OSS and the CIA funded the Italian elections in which the Christian Democrats, Montini’s father’s party, played a key role. Penny Lernoux reports that Montini and Spellman “funneled huge amounts of New York money into clandestine Church activities in Italy,” (People of God); already Montini was building his empire. Alicide De Gasperi, who had worked with the elder Montini and Sturzo to form Populare headed the post-war group. Once again using the hammer of Communism to pound home their message, the various agencies funding the effort were able to secure the election of a Christian Democrat candidate. During a hearing conducted by the House of Representatives in the 1970s, it was reported that overall the CIA funneled $65 million into conservative Italian organizations between 1946 and 1972, (Lernoux). During this same time period the K of M attempted two unsuccessful government takeovers in Europe.
Years later, several K of M members would be found on the rosters of those connected to the Michele Sindona (P2) banking scandal. Sindona was a friend of Montini’s from the 1950s on, “a top financier for the international Mafia, laundering drug profits for the Gambino brothers and their Sicilian counterparts… He [also] functioned as a financial conduit for numerous CIA operations, passing funds, for example, to the Greek colonels before they seized power in 1967. He later channeled millions of CIA dollars to centrist and right-wing political parties in Italy, including the ruling Christian Democrats” (Mother Jones article, 1983 July/August). Cardinal Francis Spellman seems to have been the common denominator in the involvement of CIA and K of M affiliates in P2, according to Lincoln, Leigh and Baigent, (Messianic Legacy). And seeing that Sindona was to Montini what Nogara had once been to Pius XI and XII, only on a more sinister scale, it would not be surprising to discover Spellman was the man behind the scenes who held the purse strings.
K of M rosters are a virtual Who’s Who in American government and business, with a heavy membership emphasis on former directors of the CIA. Many of these same players either founded or joined other spin-off support groups traceable to the OSS, CIA, or K of M. Lincoln, Leigh and Baigent even speculate that the Priory and the Malta knights rival each other for control of top-level operations governing world finance and politics. But the many interconnecting and subsidiary organizations relied upon by these same individuals are as fascinating if not more so than the actual parent organizations. And in many ways, they represent the bigger picture, the completion of some unspoken work understood by the orchestrators, but hidden from public view.
ACUE, Pro Deo and the K of M
In the 1920s, Dr. Joseph Retinger began spreading the gospel of European unity, working with aristocrats promoting a European Economic Community then called Pan Europa. Europeans active in this endeavor included Count Coudenhove-Kalergi (who helped establish the OSS) and later Merovingian descendant Archduke Otto von Hapsburg. A friend of Italian Catholic Action head Dr. Luigi Gedda, Retinger shared sensitive information during the war with Gedda, who in turn passed it on to Montini and the CIA. While his efforts were focused on Europe, others in the U.S. simultaneously pursued similar goals. Following the failure of the League of Nations project promoted by President Woodrow Wilson and Col. House, American financiers, politicians and educators favoring formation of the League founded the Council on Foreign Relations in England, first known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, (Reinventing Government, by Robert Hillmann).
One of the Institute’s projects was the rewriting of American history to reflect global pursuits, gradually leading youth into the one-world, new order lair. In 1948 the American Committee for a United Europe (ACUE) was created to complement Pan Europa’s efforts. Former OSS head Donovan was chairman, future CIA chief Allen Dulles, also a Knight was co-chairman, and George Franklin, director of the Council on Foreign Relations and later instrumental in forming the Trilateral Commission was elected its secretary. (Dulles’ son, Avery, was a “cardinal” in the Novus Ordo church.) The formation of this American committee was entirely in line with the Priory’s goals for a stronger Europe.
In a May 1954 meeting partially financed by the CIA, Retinger, then CIA chief Walter Bedell and former British Special Operations Execution (SOE) director Sir Collin Gubbins, among others, met at the Hotel Bilderberger and founded the Bilderbergers. At about the same time the John Birch Society (JBS) first broke on the American scene. Although no evidence exists to suggest the K of M established the JBS, its creation was in keeping with the non-denominational orientation of the Knights, and many traditional Catholic “priests” later would direct their Catholic followers into its ranks. It oriented its members solely to the political face of the “conspiracy” to the exclusion of its religious origins. All who tried to digress from the stated position of the Birchers and link modern-day manifestations of secret societies to those Pope Leo XIII and other pontiffs condemned were accused of acting as “neutralizers.” This decidedly intolerant attitude only reinforced Traditionalist tendencies to follow blindly and let others do their thinking for them. It defused fears and curiosity concerning the crisis in the Church by explaining it solely in terms of Communist infiltration and nothing else. Later it was revealed that the Birch Society’s top members were high-degree Freemasons.
Prior to World War II, Rev. Felix Morlion established an intelligence agency, The Center of Information Pro Deo in Lisbon, Portugal. Morlion’s agency was actually the brain child of Goncalves Cardinal Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, who requested that Morlion operate it to train his staff in the journalism techniques the priest had developed while instructing Catholic Action members in propaganda techniques. Prior to his Pro Deo work, Morlion operated an anti-Communist, anti-Nazi offensive in Belgium, a press service specializing in film subject matter, and opened an additional Catholic Press Center in Belgium. After he was driven into Portugal by the Nazis in 1941, OSS head William Donovan, who was awarded the Grand Cross of St. Sylvester for his services to the Vatican during WWII by Pope Pius XII, brought Morlion to the U.S. Shortly after the Allied victory in Europe, Donovan and Morlion succeeded in establishing Pro Deo in the Vatican itself, guaranteeing that “The City” would rule as the system of the Beast from Rome.
“Donovan had served as a chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the wartime predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA. Early in the war, in 1941, Donovan had already forged an alliance with the founder of a Catholic intelligence agency, called Pro Deo (Felix Morlion) . The two agencies collaborated during and after the war, to such an extent that eventually they amalgamated. This resulted in the de facto integration of the CIA and of the Vatican intelligence, into a global USA-Vatican apparatus, whose operations now encompassed the globe. The amalgamation operated in favour of the advancement of the Catholic Church in the political fields, at home and abroad. And indeed, in joint USA-Vatican promotion of their respective objectives. It helped in the promotion of Presidential candidates in the USA, and in the promotion of potential papal candidates in the Vatican.
After the war, Morlion dropped his anti-Nazi stance to adopt the anti-Communist hard line. At first his technique drew from the Jocist method of Catholic Action, which relies on the principles observe, judge and act. Later his emphasis shifted to highlight the “business-like spirit of America” to better effect an international redirection of public opinion. Pro Deo’s first shot at the effectiveness of this technique came with the Italian elections in 1948 and the barrage of propaganda aimed at the Italian people for two years prior to those elections. This seems to have been a test run for his new propaganda machine, and it performed well.
Grand Master Mason Albert Pike, in his Morals and Dogma (1871) explains how useful it is to those in power to mold public opinion, a practice we have seen shamefully exhibited (primarily) by the liberal media over the past several decades. Pike writes: “Public opinion is an immense force, and its currents are as incomprehensible as those of the atmosphere. Nevertheless, in free governments it is omnipotent; and the business of the statesman is to find the means to shape, control and direct it. According as that is done, it is beneficial and conservative or destructive and ruinous” (pg. 90). This of course is to be expected from the powers that be whose intent it is to secretly shape and control government before overturning it completely. What Catholics would not expect is to see it inserted by an international Catholic organization into Catholic publications, in any form, and yet this is precisely what happened, and in the name of Catholic Action no less.
The Jesuit Father Robert Graham confirmed that Morlion was a CIA agent. He was quoted in an Italian article from La Repubblica titled “The Pious Friar Working for the CIA”: “Yes, Father Felix Morlion was from the CIA, he was a big point of reference for American intelligence”. And Graham was ranked as one of the most qualified espionage history scholars. (Avro Manhattan, in his 1985 book Murder in the Vatican ). Later it would be Morlion who served as Vatican facilitator in the Cuban crisis. He also was responsible for providing the exact wording in the Vatican 2 document “revising” the Church’s official teaching on the role the Jews played in Christ’s Crucifixion, (How the Jews Changed Catholic Thinking, Look magazine). This alone should have merited a mention by Owens from a Zionist point of view.
Conclusion
Owens can easily find her military industrial complex actors enrolled in the K of M, among them CIA directors. Lernoux lists some of them as William Casey, John McCone, Gen. Alexander Haig, William Simon, Jeremiah Denton. Other military and intel types include James Angleton, George Bush Sr., William Buckley, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Oliver North, Clay Shaw, John Poindexter and Zibignew Brzezinski, to name a few. It has even been rumored that Erika Kirk is a Grand Dame of Malta. Who knows how many more CIA officials are members today. There also are many intersecting points, some of them quite disturbing. And that does not even begin to list the K of M members who are/were captains of industry, which is a lengthy one. David A. Wemhoff reports in his book John Courtney Murray: Time/Life and the American Proposition that Spellman was a CIA informer (p. 20). He also notes that the wife of Time Magazine owner Henry Luce, Clare Booth Luce was a K of M member as well, and that Spellman and Luce were quite close. In one of his magazine’s articles, the author portrayed Spellman as a good guy regarding the subject of Americanism and Pope Leo XIII as the bad guy, for holding a false opinion on the subject (!).
Henry Luce supported Murray, a Jesuit, who was chosen by liberals to promote “the American version of Church-state relations, the very same religious views condemned by the popes of the 19th century” (p. 20). Msgr. John Ryan, Rev. Francis J. Connell and Msgr. Joseph C. Fenton fought him tooth and toenail until their deaths. It was the Protestant elites and an association promoting better relations between Catholics and Jews that pandered to Murray, Wemhoff relates. Imagine that. And Morlion’s Pro Deo was the vehicle that was used to control public opinion among Catholics to promote Murray’s ecumenism, later enshrined at Vatican 2. It was Morlion who wrote How the Jews Changed Catholic Thinking, featured in the Jan 25, 1966 issue of Look magazine, another Luce publication.
And of course, then reigning was the Jew Montini, with his ephod and teraphim fully in view. Zionism and its king were already among us then.
As noted above, the rewriting of history began in the 1920s. The military industrial complex invaded the Church and took over in the 1940s, 1950s. The infiltrators made it appear that the Church began to rot within since they spread their filthy doctrines and sex practices far and wide. It is thought that even Spellman was a homosexual. This war was fought and lost long ago, and we can’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again. If truth is what Owens is really seeking, it cannot be puzzled out from the chaos that surrounds us today. You can’t be a part of the very thing you pretend to be exposing. Christ IS King. But He is not the king of Owens’ kingdom.
by T. Stanfill Benns | Oct 24, 2025 | New Blog
+St. Raphael, Archangel+
Introduction
Readers are probably sick and tired of hearing about the dangers of Feeneyism and we are sick of addressing it. But times and circumstances now exist that did not exist when Feeney was excommunicated in 1953. Then we had a visible Church, a Church which has always taught in Her official documents throughout the ages, Suprema haec sacra most recent among them, that implicit desire could possibly apply even to pagan and non-Catholics in certain cases, not generally. The false dogma that it applied in all cases became the teaching of the Novus Ordo church following the election of John 23 and the official establishment of neo-Traditionalism. Feeneyism is the topic here once again because it must be understood that this heresy is being used as a cover operation for a more generalized campaign to totally discredit the papacy and Pope Pius XII in particular.
This should not surprise those who understand the level of infiltration by Modernists, Communists and secret societies that has taken place over the past 200 years. Their first targets were the Jesuits, the “Secret Service” for the papacy, because this order was closest to and most loyal to the Roman Pontiff. Modern-day conspiracy theorists have made Jesuits past and present the root of all evil, in an effort to deflect the extent of the damage done by secret societies as a loosely connected whole. This is certainly true of the Novus Ordo Jesuits of today. But over the centuries it is the secret societies, not the Jesuits, that have so fine-tuned the art of infiltration and dissemination of error that it now happens undetected under our very noses and not infrequently on a personal level.
Tracking those who insist on papal obedience
Because of my insistence on obeying the teachings of the Roman Pontiff as far back as 1981, I have been specifically targeted by various groups and individuals who took issue with my defense of the papacy and particularly my support for a papal election. The first challenge to my suggestion to elect a pope in 1982-83 came from a British group writing out of London. I was brought to this group’s attention by a Trad “priest” who I had recently left for teaching heresy. One of this British group’s members later became a well-known LibTrad apologist. They ran an actual Gnostic cult that preyed on families in the U.S. and Europe and I was one of its members for a short time — about nine months. They promoted papal teaching to some extent but adamantly opposed a papal election or imperfect council.
Their cruel treatment of children and parents was anything but Catholic and whatever they were they were not Catholic themselves. This experience and other life-changing events I was undergoing at that time made me perfect fodder for the ill-fated David Bawden papal election effort. Bawden was also briefly involved with the British group but later claimed to share my views on the papacy. This, I learned later, however, was only to further his own personal aspirations. He and his convert father, a former (?) Freemason and John Birch Society publicity director, planned his election all along, even though they knew I did not believe David was a fit candidate. They also used shaming techniques at the time of the election to coerce me and a fellow election supporter to “vote” for Bawden when no one else presented as a candidate.
I learned only later of the Masonic connection to the founding of every Traditionalist movement in the United States; of the confirmation of Marcel Lefebvre’s own membership in a Masonic group, (in addition to his ordination and consecration by Lienart) and of the Masonic makeup of the heads of the John Birch Society. I even had a former Bawden “cardinal” inform me that the Bawdens were actually working for and with the Society of Saint Pius X to make certain no validly ordained or consecrated priest or bishop would be elected as pope. For even if elected by the laity, it could appear that such a man was a true pope, even though today the canonical election necessary to validity is an impossibility.
During my time with Bawden, I worked as a reporter under two editors in two different states who identified themselves as ex-military intelligence officers. After leaving Bawden I was shadowed by someone who, unbeknownst to me, was connected with the British people that operated the cult. I later discovered he was indeed still in communication with them. After moving to yet another state, I was approached by someone who wanted to “give me a platform” and make videos and I agreed to this. Later they were taken down and the producer campaigned to discredit me. A reader informed me afterward that this person also was military intelligence.
I will always regret attempting to elect David Bawden as pope, but I will never regret defending the papacy at a time when nearly all LibTrads were demeaning it and questioning it. And if even a master theologian and logician such as St. Vincent Ferrer could err in supporting an antipope and still manage to be canonized, the demonization of those who made what St. Vincent’s biographers described as an error or “mistake” should be seen as nothing more than this: a manifestation of LibTrad fears that a true papacy might be restored.
A more personal surveillance
And the intrusion into my privacy did not end there. Several other people appeared on the scene of my new location, one an ex-law enforcement person and were welcomed into my home, introduced to my family and treated as guests, as a sign of good will. These were people I had corresponded with for a fairly long time over the Internet. They professed to be sincere stay-at-home Catholics, (but then some Feeney sect members do pray at home). Sure enough, over a period of time, all of them denounced the Church’s teaching on the papacy and left to join — you guessed it — the Feeneyites.
I’m sorry but I don’t believe all the above are coincidences. As I have mentioned before, in the majority of cases coincidences are messengers of the truth. Certainly this many coincidences cannot simply be dismissed as happenstance. The fact that Feeneyism has been used by these individuals as their way “out” is quite telling. Also suspicious is the timeline of the arrival and departure of these people. Just as one would depart, another would suddenly arrive. I refused to consider myself a victim but I do believe that all this demonstrates a pattern of deceit, infiltration, an attempt to obtain personal information and to discredit anything presented on this site.
Feeneyism is only a convenient excuse to join the ranks of those bent on destroying the Church’s teaching on the supreme jurisdiction granted by Christ to St. Peter, just as Feeney himself — the first neo-Traditionalist — set out to do. No matter how it manifests, whether from sedevacantist quarters, other LibTrad groups, recusant “Catholics” or the recognize and resist sector — at the top, all are secretly if indirectly linked to an effort to destroy the idea of an infallible papacy possessing supreme jurisdiction. They especially zero in on Pope Pius XII because he put the ax to the root of the tree and brought a screeching halt to everything that attempted to violate papal jurisdiction or Church law during an interregnum.
What to do if approached
Beware of them in your own dealings. They often present as Greeks bearing gifts (the Trojan horse) and present a sad story of some sort. Do not judge rashly but simply distance yourselves, pray and watch. We are entering times when we must protect ourselves and our families from every possible threat to our faith, no matter how innocent it may seem. The devil is a raging lion seeking whom he may devour, and his time is growing shorter. This blog has been difficult to write, but I don’t know how else to warn people of what is fast approaching.
As noted before, if baptism of desire does not exist, this jeopardizes the belief in confession of desire (a Perfect Act of Contrition) and the reception of the Eucharist by desire (Spiritual Communion). Both these beliefs are solidly grounded in the constant teaching of the Church. It must be remembered that Feeney himself headed up a destructive personality cult (see HERE and HERE). Also, shortly before his death, his excommunication was lifted by no less than Paul 6, which tells us where he issued from in the first place. Baptism by desire, (in some cases where water baptism cannot be received by a trustworthy person) and Church membership by desire are crucial to our existence in these times. Those who were busy destroying the Church were certainly aware of this. So Feeney played the dual role of labeling Pius XII as a heretic and casting doubt on the very means of salvation that would remain once the destruction of the Church was accomplished.
We should remember that these infiltration tactics are common practice. In her 2023 work, When the Sickle Swings, Kristen Van Uden quotes one Cuban refugee who explained that “Due to [an] atmosphere of distrust and uncertainty, many Cubans who felt called to resistance preferred to take renegade individual action rather than become entangled with [a] group… It may not have been as effective a strategy as organized resistance but it was safer… This strategy is still employed today as the culture of informing and infiltration still reigns supreme in Cuba.” And sadly it is practiced today even by those pretending to be Catholic.
Conclusion
This is enough about Feeney, an angry little man who served as a prototype for the early Traditionalist groups in this country. If we omit his name from what we see as the result of his teachings concerning the authority of the papacy — the same teachings basically espoused by LibTrads — we can dismiss his stance as a straw man fallacy, something that “…doesn’t accurately reflect the stance that it was originally meant to address… [and] is not directly relevant to the discussion at hand” (effectiviology.com). What IS directly relevant is the demeaning of Pope Pius XII and papal authority modeled by Feeney, not his rejection of implicit desire or his pitiful cult. Those hiding behind the EENS distortion he promoted are really, at heart, deniers of infallibility and supreme papal jurisdiction, just as Feeney himself was.
Just because they adopt this heretical stance doesn’t mean they get to hide behind the hype that now surrounds him, websites that promote Feeney as a sort of folk hero and warning bell for Vatican 2, despite his return to this sect. Take Feeney out of the equation and you have the Pope St. Pius V Society that refuses to accept the changes in the ritual for Holy Week, the promoters of the ridiculous material-formal hypothesis and all the other LibTrad sects. They all operate invalidly, denying that Pope Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis nullified their very reception of Orders during an interregnum and strips them of any and all vestiges of authority.
Secret societies, the Modernists the Communists — the founders of neo-Traditionalism among them — all were working from their inception to destroy Catholic monarchies and the papacy, and they have openly declared as much. Strip the Feeney shroud from those pretending to be “ultra-Catholic” — believing they are cleverly one-upping those already insisting on obedience to everything the popes taught — and you simply have a denial that the Church has the power to determine how Her own age-old teachings on implicit desire are to be believed and understood. From here on out these deniers should simply be recognized as the LibTrad heretics and schismatics they truly are, not Feeneyites.
And if some claim that they are rightly acting on an erroneous conscience, then we should pray for them and recommend them to God’s mercy, all the while condemning everything they teach and do. For this is the teaching of Canon Law under Can. 2200: They are to be judged as heretics and non-members of the Church until the contrary is proven. Therefore pray, watch, and hit out with the stick whenever necessary.
by T. Stanfill Benns | Jul 8, 2025 | New Blog
+St. Elizabeth of Portugal, Widow+
Introduction
In recent blogs as well as numerous articles on this site, it has consistently been pointed out that (a) it is the dogmatic teaching of the Church, not private revelations, on which we must base our assessment of the times in which we live; (b) the views and opinions of so-called experts in the fields of speculative, dogmatic and moral theology, eschatology and other Catholic sciences are without any value at all or are gravely flawed. This is because such supposed experts are either not validly ordained or consecrated, or in the case of secular “experts,” have not been educated in Catholic institutions. And (c) Those bishops who allowed the poison of Modernism to infiltrate their teachings and that of their seminaries abandoned the Catholic faith, and according to dogmatic Church teaching and Canon Law could never be restored to their positions. This occurred long before the death of Pope Pius XII and explains how and why the Church was successfully infiltrated by neo-Modernists, proving Angelo Roncalli could never have been elevated to the papacy.
Even secular writers decry the adverse influence of self-appointed experts, as can be seen in online comments and articles. One such writer recently observed that by introducing mind-altering drugs, both pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs, and food additives that affect brain chemistry, a mental state has successfully been created that more readily accepts a “reality shift” created by influencers and experts. She describes this as mind control tactics effecting an information reality shift, information which is delivered “in special ways, in audio, visual or written format.” The writer goes on to state that this information can be false while appearing to be true, making it difficult for the general population to determine just how much truth, if any, it might contain. We have seen this play out politically for decades.
She then goes on to note that it is the “experts” and “fact checkers,” who are to blame for this — those in the media and elsewhere who at one time were expected to hold public officials accountable, investigate any suspected corruption and collusion and expose it. She blames modern technology for occasioning this reality shift, advising people to stop relying on modern methods of information gathering and delivery. This is why articles on this site repeatedly warn that one must not depend on lengthy videos, podcasts, DVD’s and other non-traditional means of relaying information which LibTrad experts produce and disseminate as education in the Catholic faith. Such dissemination is, quite simply, neo-Modernism at its best, used to warp and redirect enquirers sincerely wishing to learn about the Catholic faith.
Had the election of Angelo Roncalli been investigated as it should have been long ago, the flood of information generated by the contentious LibTrad movements — propaganda intended to herd Catholics into the pre-designated channels — would never have been successful in confusing and deceiving so many of those exiting the Novus Ordo Church in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Roncalli’s disqualification for election on several counts became known in the 1970s, through public statements revealed in his biographies, works by respected Catholic authors and his actions as “pope,” but were suppressed or ignored. This is how clerical “experts,” who never trained in Catholic seminaries and never received valid ordination or consecration, along with the lay “experts” they endorsed, gained control of sincere Catholics.
Nothing illustrates this point better than the article reviewed below, written by Msgr. Joseph C. Fenton. An approved theologian or true expert, personally commended by Pope Pius XII, Fenton here examines a much-neglected document condemning Modernism, issued by Pope St. Pius X. And in examining its contents through his explanation, we see unfold precisely how the Church was infiltrated and subverted. Having just celebrated July 4 in this country, the beginning of a yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the following review also highlights the connection between Modernism and Americanism, something very familiar to Msgr. Fenton. For he and Rev. Francis J. Connell were the only ones to oppose the resurgence of Americanism at the first session of the Vatican Council, after Time/Life publisher Henry Luce, with the with the assistance of Connell’s and Fenton’s nemesis, John Courtney Murray, S. J., helped spread its doctrines throughout the world.
Sacrorum Antistitum and the Background of the Oath Against Modernism
In this article, written for the The American Ecclesiastical Review in October, 1960, Msgr. Fenton translates and explains the introduction and conclusion of Pope St. Pius X’s Motu Proprio Sacrorum Antistitum, or Oath against Modernism, which Fenton terms “the most important, of the three main anti-Modernist pronouncements issued by the Holy See during the brilliant reign of St. Pius X” (the other two being Pascendi and Lamentbili). Fenton begins:
“Quite obviously the greatest danger to the faith of the members of the true Church of Jesus Christ exists when some members of this Church actually teach or even show sympathy for doctrine contradictory to or incompatible with the body of Catholic dogma without receiving any reproof from those whom God has commissioned and obligated to protect the purity and the integrity of the Catholic faith. St. Pius X was acutely conscious of the fact that many influential Catholics were teaching or encouraging erroneous doctrines opposed to the divinely revealed Catholic message long after those erroneous doctrines had been pointed out and condemned by the highest teaching authority within the Church… St. Pius X speaks out very clearly of the existence of a secret alliance or a foedus clandestinum among the Modernists of his day — (a clandestine alliance or secret pact) connected with and inherent in the Modernist movement.
“…The introduction to the Sacrorum antistitum takes cognizance of the fact that most of the genuinely dangerous supporters of the Modernist movement, the men against whose efforts the Sacrorum antistitum and its commands were particularly directed, were priests active within the Catholic Church itself. St. Pius X took cognizance of the fact that such priests were actually perverting their own ministry… No one has ever been as well placed to harm the true Church and to counteract its essential work as a Catholic priest in good standing. If such a man, by his preaching, his teaching, or his writing, actually sets forth the kind of teaching condemned in the Lamentabili sane exitu and in the Pascendi dominici gregis, or if he works to discredit the loyal defenders of Catholic dogma without receiving any repudiation or reproof from those to whom the apostolic deposit of divine revelation has been entrusted, the Catholic people are in grave danger of being deceived.
“The Bishops of the Catholic Church were bound in conscience by the obligations of their office to act energetically against this teaching that contradicted the divinely revealed truth proposed as such by the true Church. The “defence of the Catholic faith” and strenuous efforts “to see to it that the integrity of the divine deposit suffers no loss” are definitely not works of supererogation. These are the duties prescribed by Our Lord Himself for the leaders of the Church, which He has purchased by His blood.”
The danger spread by members of the clergy
Fenton quotes St. Pius X: “For it is no longer a case, as it was in the beginning, of dealing with disputants who come forward in the clothing of sheep. Now we are faced with open and bitter enemies from within our own household, who, in agreement with the outstanding opponents of the Church, are working for the overthrow of the faith. They are men whose audacity against the wisdom that has come down from heaven increases daily. They arrogate to themselves the right to correct this revealed wisdom as if it were something corrupt, to renew it as if it were something that had become obsolete, to improve it and to adapt it to the dictates, the progress, and the comfort of the age as if it had been opposed to the good of society and not merely opposed to the levity of a few men. To counter such attempts against the evangelical doctrine and the ecclesiastical tradition, there will never be sufficient vigilance or too much severity on the part of those to whom the faithful care of the sacred deposit has been entrusted.”
TSB comment: So what makes anyone believe that this war ever ended? LibTrads merely picked up where the neo-Modernists left off. They pretended to keep the Mass while abandoning the papacy, paying only lip service to Canon Law and papal teaching. They ”corrected” papal teaching on jurisdiction with their claim to epikeia and jurisdiction proceeding directly form Christ, in flagrant violation of Mystici Corporis Christi. And this, without ever validly possessing episcopal or priestly orders. Surely, they exceeded the Modernists’ wildest dreams.
Fenton comments: “It is quite obvious that, given the intimate connection between the Church and the faith, a connection so close and perfect that the Church itself may be defined as the congregatio fidelium, the repudiation of the Catholic faith would inevitably lead to the dissolution of the Church. Yet, for the Modernists and for those who co-operated in their work, the immediate object of attack was always the faith itself. These individuals were perfectly willing that the Catholic Church should continue to exist as a religious society, as long as it did not insist upon the acceptance of that message which, all during the course of the previous centuries of its existence, it had proposed as a message supernaturally revealed by the Lord and Creator of heaven and earth. They were willing and even anxious to retain their membership in the Catholic Church, as long as they were not obliged to accept on the authority of divine faith such unfashionable dogmas as, for example, the truth that there is truly no salvation outside of the Church.
Both LibTrad and Novus Ordo pseudo-clergy equally responsible
What these men were really working for was the transformation of the Catholic Church into an essentially non-doctrinal religious body. They considered that their era would be willing to accept the Church as a kind of humanitarian institution, vaguely religious, tastefully patriotic, and eminently cultural. And they definitely intended to tailor the Church to fit the needs and the tastes of their own era… They sought to force or to delude the teaching authority of Christ’s Church into coming out with the fatally erroneous proposition that what is accepted by divine faith in this century is objectively something different from what was believed in the Catholic Church on the authority of God revealing in previous times.”
TSB comment: And both the Novus Ordo and LibTrad sects were wildly successful in doing just that. They abandoned doctrine and focused on the liturgy, each in their own way. LibTrads emphasized the preservation of Catholic culture, an Americanist-style patriotism and the Latin Mass. The Novus Ordoites “humanized” their sacrilegious liturgy, destroyed any meaningful traditions and embraced ecumenism, condemned by the Church. (Back to Fenton)
This Modernistic outlook is precisely what Pope Leo XIII condemned in his teaching on Americanism, Msgr. Fenton notes, quoting this pope: “The principles on which the new opinions We have mentioned are based may be reduced to this: that in order the more easily to bring over to Catholic doctrine those who dissent from it, the Church ought to adapt herself somewhat to our advanced civilization, and, relaxing her ancient rigor, show some indulgence to modern theories and methods. Many think that this is to be understood not only with regard to the rule of life, but also to the doctrines in which the deposit of faith is contained. For they contend that it is opportune, in order to work in a more attractive way upon the wills of those who are not in accord with us, to pass over certain heads of doctrines, as if of lesser moment, or so to soften them that they may not have the same meaning which the Church has invariably held.”
Americanism and Modernism work hand in hand
Fenton continues: “Thus, when we examine the actual texts of the Testimonium benevolentiae and of the Sacrorum antistitum, it becomes quite apparent that Pope Leo XIII and St. Pius X were engaged in combating doctrinal deviations that actually sprang from an identical principle, the fantastically erroneous assumption that the supernatural communication of the Triune God could and should be brought up to date and given a certain respectability before modern society. The men who sustained the weird teachings condemned by Pope Leo XIII, a document which, incidentally, did not denounce any mere phantom body of doctrine, and the men who taught and protected the doctrinal monstrosities stigmatized in the Lamentabili sane exitu and in the Pascendi dominici gregis, based their errors on a common foundation. The false Americanism and the heresy of Modernism were both offshoots of doctrinal liberal Catholicism.
TSB comment: Well we don’t call them LibTrads for nothing! In their own way the leaders of these LibTrad sects especially are just as heretically evil as the Novus Ordo sect they consistently condemn. They are merely flip sides of the same coin. Take the case of a LibTrad “priest” corrected by one of his parishioners about displaying an American flag on the altar — the parishioner’s objections were rebuffed and the flag remained. And of course there was the influence of the Americanist John Birch Society among Traditionalists, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. Some LibTrad clergy even preached Birch propaganda form the pulpit. Today, however, we know the Birch Society was founded and headed by Freemasons. (Back to Msgr. Fenton)
“The first components of liberal Catholicism, during the earlier days of the unfortunate Felicite De Lamenais, were religious indifferentism, some false concepts of human freedom, and the advocacy of a separation of Church and state as the ideal situation in a nation made up of members of the true Church. But, after these teachings had been forcefully repudiated by Pope Gregory XVI in his encyclical Mirari vos arbitramur, a new set of factors entered into this system. These were inserted into the fabric of liberal Catholicism because the leaders of this movement persisted in defending as legitimate Catholic doctrine this teaching, which had been clearly and vigorously condemned by the supreme power of the Catholic magisterium. Most prominent among these newer components of liberal Catholicism were minimism, doctrinal subjectivism, and an insistence that there had been and that there had to be at least some sort of change in the objective meaning of the Church’s dogmatic message over the course of the centuries.
“This common basis of the false doctrinal Americanism and of the Modernist heresy is, like doctrinal indifferentism itself, ultimately a rejection of Catholic dogma as a genuine supernatural message or communication from the living God Himself. It would seem impossible for anyone to be blasphemous or silly enough to be convinced, on the one hand, that the dogmatic message of the Catholic Church is actually a locutio Dei ad homines, and to imagine, on the other hand, that he, a mere creature, could in some way improve that teaching or make it more respectable… The conclusion to the Sacrorum antistitum brings out more clearly than any other statement of the Holy See the fact that Modernism sprang from the same basic principle, as did the false Americanism pointed out and proscribed in the Testem benevolentiae of Pope Leo XIII.
TSB comment: “Catholic” Liberalism begat Americanism and Americanism evolved into Modernism, although both coexisted side by side before Pope St. Pius X’s condemnation of the Modernist heresy. We have commented at length on doctrinal minimism on this site, citing Rev. John F. Cronins as follows: “The great bulk of Church teaching is had through the normal channels of pronouncements by the popes, bishops, and theologians… A “minimist” attitude of accepting only infallible pronouncements is simply un-Catholic.” And as Msgr. Joseph C. Fenton wrote: “Ultimately theological minimalism was a device employed BY LIBERAL CATHOLICS to make the rejection of authoritative papal teaching on any point appear to be good Catholic practice. Sometimes it took the crass form of a claim that Catholics are obligated to accept and to hold only those things which had been defined by the explicit decrees of the ecumenical councils or of the Holy See. This attitude… was condemned by Pope Pius IX in his letter Tuas Libenter (DZ 1683).” (“The Components of Liberal Catholicism,” The American Ecclesiastical Review, July 1958). (Back to Msgr. Fenton)
Investigation of candidates for ordination key
“These four directives are: (1) the strict carrying out of the legislation set down under n. 2 of the first section of the Sacrorum antistitum, (2) the submission by individual seminary professors to their Bishops at the beginning of the scholastic year of the textbooks they are going to use and of the theses they are going to propound, (3) the investigation (obviously by the competent and proper ecclesiastical authority), of the teaching offered in the various courses being given to the seminarians, and finally (4) the making of the Tridentine-Vatican profession of faith and the taking of the Oath against Modernism. The teacher is to sign his name to the Oath he has taken. The context would seem to indicate that it was the mind of St. Pius X that this Oath should be taken every year at the beginning of the academic term.”
Fenton then quotes Pope St. Pius X: “Equal diligence and severity are to be used in examining and selecting candidates for Holy Orders. Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty! God hates the proud and the obstinate mind. In the future the doctorate in theology or in canon law must never be conferred on anyone who has not first of all made the regular course in scholastic philosophy. If such a doctorate be conferred, it is to be held as null and void. The rules laid down in 1896 by the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars for the clerics of Italy, both secular and regular, about the frequenting of universities, we now decree to be extended to all nations. Clerics and priests inscribed in a Catholic institute or university must not in the future follow in civil universities those courses for which there are chairs in the Catholic institutes to which they belong. If this has been permitted anywhere in the past, we order that it shall not be allowed in the future. Let the Bishops who form the governing boards of such institutes or universities see to it with all care that these Our commands be constantly observed.”
TSB comment: Here Pope St. Pius X recognizes the cause of the Modernist mindset: civil universities polluted with liberalism and Modernism. And yet how many among the LibTrad pseudo-clergy and their lay apologists put forth their credentials from these universities as something that places them above the laity and endows them with some sort of credibility?! Even those now calling themselves pray-at-home Catholics point to these credentials as academic achievements the Church would actually endorse. (Back to Fenton)
Catholic cardinals and bishops abandoned the faith
“All of these directives went against the liberal Catholic spirit, of which Modernism was the outstanding expression. All of them were likewise unpopular, as calculated to arouse the antagonism of the enemies who attacked the Church from the outside. All of them were duly denounced and regretted as obscurantist… It was and always will necessarily remain the duty of the bishop to see to it that any individual who teaches or who supports Modernism in any way be excluded from any co-operation in the apostolic task of teaching the divine message of Jesus Christ within His Church. In issuing this decree, St. Pius X was taking cognizance of the basic truth about the teaching work in the Church, which was afterwards brought out so clearly by Pope Pius XII in his allocution Si diligis. This document brings out more clearly than any other in recent years the tremendous responsibility of the bishop in the field of teaching the divine message.”
TSB comment: This definitely being the case, what would Pope St. Pius X have said of a bishop on the Modernist watchlist (Angelo Roncalli) elected as head bishop of the Church, in charge of delivering the divine message and guarding the Deposit of Faith?!!! This was precisely why Pope Pius XI listed him as a suspected Modernist in the first place. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio infallibly teaches that such a man could never become head bishop. (Back to Fenton)
Profession of faith for Catholics demands obedience to Pope, Councils, CANON LAW
“The Sacrorum antistitum likewise contains strict directives about the candidates for Holy Orders. Men who hold Modernistic teachings or who are sympathetic towards the Modernists are not to be ordained… Other dignitaries of the Catholic Church are ordered to take this Oath, along with the Tridentine Profession of the Faith. But it is something intended primarily and immediately for those who are called upon to teach or to direct candidates for Holy Orders. Thus the Oath itself is constituted as a Profession of the Catholic belief. The man who takes this Oath makes his solemn declaration in the sight of God Himself that he firmly accepts and receives all the teachings and each individual one of the teachings “that have been defined, asserted, and declared by the infallible magisterium of the Church, especially those points of doctrine which are directly opposed to the errors of this time.”
“The Oath against Modernism is undoubtedly, up until now, the most important and the most influential document issued by the Holy See during the course of the twentieth century. It is a magnificent statement of Catholic truth, in the face of the errors, which were being disseminated within the Church by the cleverest enemies the Mystical Body of Christ has encountered in the course of its history. “
We have posted on this site for many years now the updated version of the Profession of Faith and Abjuration of Error, (issued by the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office for the U.S. in 1942 to replace the previous profession prescribed by the Holy Office in 1859; Canon Law Digest, T. Lincoln Bouscaren S.J., S.T.D, L.L.B, 1943.) We list it with the Oath against Modernism immediately following, recommending both be made before witnesses and notarized, if possible, when returning to the Church from error or on conversion. For those who dare to suggest that the Vatican Council be “revised,” that Canon Law has ceased to apply to us today, that the decrees of the Council of Trent can be manipulated or interpreted other than they have always been held by the Church, that one can follow LibTrad pseudo-clergy who attempt to interpret the teachings of the popes to justify their errors, need to review exactly what they must vow to believe in order to be considered a Catholic.
“I recognize the Holy Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church as the mother and teacher of all the Churches, and I promise and swear true obedience to the Roman Pontiff, successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ… Besides I accept, without hesitation, and profess all that has been handed down, defined and declared by the Sacred Canons and by the General Councils, especially by the Sacred Council of Trent and by the Vatican General Council, and in a special manner concerning the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff. At the same time I condemn and reprove all that the Church has condemned and reproved.”
No obedience to papal teaching, utter disregard for the Sacred Canons, no respect or reverence for what is taught by the General Councils as a whole and absolutely no acceptance of papal infallibility and the necessity of the papacy as taught by the Church — this is what LibTrad pseudo-clergy cultivate among their followers. Those making this profession of faith who are coming from non-Catholic sects as “Traditionalists” are no more Catholic than the Dalai lama. What they swear on the Gospels is a lie. As Pope Pius XII teaches in his infallible constitution Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis, even during an interregnum NO ONE is permitted to change, even partially, or dispense from the Sacred Canons or usurp papal jurisdiction, which, as mini-popes, LibTrad pseudo-clergy have done for decades. Time is running out for those few individuals sincerely seeking the truth. War or natural disasters at any time could silence the Internet and prevent access to solidly reliable pre-1959 Catholic teaching, and we can see that these unfortunate events cannot be excluded from our immediate future.
Conclusion
A validly ordained Catholic priest who avoided involvement with LibTrad groups wrote to a follower as early as 1979: “At present, if one of us could perform miracles to prove the Church is in apostasy, the Catholics who have been blind since John the 23rd’s reign will claim the miracle is by power of Beelzebub. It has been actually about a year that I do not wish nor try to convert anyone because it is useless. Only at the extreme where I am asked for help do I waste my energy… I am convinced that if people did not see the light in 15 years of Paul 6, they never will… The devil has really had a holiday with private prophecies. Prophecies are vague notions — nothing definite — open to hundreds of interpretations. Satan has made prophecy become ridiculous and a laughingstock especially when the ignorant Catholics were basing their hopes not on the Bible and Bible prophecy but on what one might suspect: hysterics… that salvation would come out of France with the limping nobleman who would lead an army on a horse and subjugate all nations to the Church. How stupid and ridiculous!
“We must not look for chronological order in Bible prophecy especially in the Apocalypse where there is none. Hence the false prophet John 23rd set up the state statute that came alive — humanism and the ecumenism. He opened with the papal key the bottomless pit. Out of it came the beast Paul 6 who destroyed everything Catholic down to the seven sacraments. Tell me what another Antichrist could, if it is not Paul 6, do that would be worse than what Paul 6 did?” (Rev. Gabriel Sparacino, O.F.M, 1911-1987). And as readers well know, this has been my own position for over 40 years. Rev. Sparacino also commented that another validly ordained priest, Rev. John Gentakes, a Passionist, shared his opinions. I would like to remind readers that anything they find on this site is written first, as an obligation to defend the faith; second to create a record of the true teachings of the Catholic Church from papal and conciliar teachings, Canon Law and approved theologians and only third, as a way to lead others to the truth.
As stated here repeatedly, this third reason — that others embrace the truth — cannot be realized without the graces provided by the Holy Ghost. The operation of error has allowed nearly all calling themselves Catholic to believe lies, and Satan is the father of lies. We are all in God’s hands until he grants St. Michael permission to seize the Devil and cast him for all eternity into hell. Through the power of St. Michael, may God soon forever rebuke him we humbly pray!
by T. Stanfill Benns | Apr 3, 2025 | New Blog
+Fourth Thursday in Lent+
Prayer Society Intention for April, Month of the Holy Ghost
“O Holy Ghost, Creator, mercifully assist Thy Catholic Church, and by Thy heavenly power strengthen and establish her against the assaults of all Her enemies.” (Raccolta)
Fr. Doyle’s Reflections on the Passion, Part 4
Gesthemani (cont’d):
“…Our Lord goes back a second time to pray. This time He is even more alone than before. He prays to His heavenly Father, and His heavenly Father turns a deaf ear to His petition. His Apostles are sleeping again, and yet He prays alone. He is now in a state of supreme desolation and yet He prays. He is in a state of complete dereliction but He prays on. Learn from this lesson to pray even under the most adverse circumstances.
Consider the fact that Christ persevered in His prayer. Already He prayed to His Father saying: “Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from Me” (Mt. 26:30).The second prayer of our Lord was a repetition of the first, for He said: “My Father, if this cup cannot pass away unless I drink it, Thy will be done” (Mt.26:42).
The third prayer was couched in the same words – a prayer more fervent, more earnest then any uttered by any man who ever lived on this earth – yet His Father, it seemed, did not listen to His petition. Christ did not grow impatient, He calmly and resignedly adds: “Not My will but Thine be done” (Lk. 22:42).
What a great lesson in this for all of us! If the Son of God must plead three times for the fulfillment of His prayer, and does so without a trace of bitterness, why are we so depressed when our prayers are not immediately answered? St. Monica prayed for eighteen years for her son Augustine’s conversion, but how richly her perseverance was rewarded. “We wait a whole year,” says St. Francis de Sales, “before the seed we sow in the ground bears fruit; and are we more impatient in regard to the fruits of our prayers?”
There is great consolation for all of us in the refusal of the Father to hear the petition of His adorable son. God the Father refused the most perfect, the most precious prayer ever uttered on this earth – but he did so to prove His love for sinful man. For the sake of sinful man He will not answer the prayer of His own Son, because had God acted otherwise, we would have all been lost. See the reason behind God’s refusal to answer our prayers – He always has the greater good in view: From now on, never complain if your prayers are unanswered. Just keep right on praying. Say your rosary today for the grace of perseverance
Our consideration of the triple prayer of our Blessed Lord in the Garden of Olives should have convinced us of the merit and necessity of continued prayer when we are afraid, downcast, depressed, tempted, or forsaken.
There were numerous other occasions when Christ addressed His petitions to His eternal Father and the response was immediate. The raising of Lazarus is a case in point. In the Garden of Olives, however, the Master prayed three times and His prayer was unanswered. We have seen that had God the Father answered Christ’s prayer and “let the cup pass away” from Him, the world might not have been redeemed. When God does not answer prayer, it is for the greater good.
In the Old Testament we read that the prophet Elias, when he asked God to confound the pagan prophets of Baal by a miracle, hardly had spoken his prayer when a miraculous fire came down from heaven and consumed a holocaust set on the altar, and even burned water in the trench. When the same prophet Elias prayed for rain for God’s people, he had to repeat his prayer not once, twice, or three times, but seven times (Kings 18:44).When God refuses to answer prayer it is for a greater good. When He delays the answer, it is to put the endurance of the suppliant to a test.
The Jews in Bethulia prayed all night, desiring the help of the God of Israel when Holofernes besieged their city, but the more they prayed, the more desperate the situation appeared. Yet they persevered, and God sent them a deliverer in Judith. Another important lesson which we can learn from our Lord’s prayer in Gethsemani is this, that all our petitions to God should close with an acquiescence to the divine will. Hear our Lord say in the depths of His agony – “Not my will but thine be done” (Lk. 22:42)” — (end of Fr. Doyle quotes).
Introduction
“… His Apostles are sleeping again” (Fr. Doyle). Even though it has been proven that LibTrad pseudo-clergy were never valid (see VAS article HERE) and that the entire Traditionalist movement was only the continuation of Masonic infiltration to seduce the remaining faithful, some continue to sleep and others stubbornly refuse to believe. A recent discovery below offers further proofs of the Masonic origins of ALL LIB-TRAD SECTS and explains why so many among these sects are anti-Semitic in their views, despite the condemnations of the Roman Pontiffs. Owing to the Nazi persecution, Popes Pius XI and Pius XII bound Catholics to refrain from hatred of the Jews for their part in Christ’s death, and by word and example taught us what our attitude toward them should be.
The CMRI pseudo-bishop Mark Pivarunas, (“consecrated” by the Mexican Thuc bishop Moises Carmona), received an official letter on March 1, 2024, confirming the Masonic origins of the priests serving Traditionalists in Mexico. This jaw-dropping revelation from one of Pivarunas own “priests” seems not to have been addressed by Pivarunas publicly, as a search of the CMRI site shows no mention of the organization, (Los TECOS), in question. While the letter does date the existence of Los TECOS to the early 1900s, it fails to mention that this sect was well known to Fr. Joaquin Saenz y Arriaga, the founder of sedevacantism, who served as chaplain for the group in the 1950s-60s. The translator of one of Arriaga’s works, The New Montinian Church, was quoted in the article HERE, describing Arriaga as a member of yet another secret society common to Traditionalists, this one better geared to the Caucasian population: the Sovereign Order of St. John, Knights of Jerusalem (OSJ).
Wikipedia says under sedevacantism: “The earliest example [of sedevacantism] is from a group of traditionalist Catholics in Mexico associated with the radical right secret society Los TECOS based in Guadalajara, in particular their spiritual director, Fr. Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga, a Jesuit priest, the main figure associated with presenting this. In 1965, at a private meeting in the house of Anacleto González Guerrero (son of the Cristero martyr Anacleto González Flores), Los TECOS leaders proposed the motion that Paul VI (Giovanni Montini) was a crypto-Jew and an illegitimate Pope, that this line should be officially adopted as the position of Mexican traditionalists.” Arriaga also was the author of a widely quoted collaborative work enthusiastically endorsed and sold across the Internet by all manner of Traditionalist groups — The Plot Against the Church, by “Maurice Pinay.” (Anacleto González Guerrero, who corresponded with this author in the early 1980s as Anacleto Gonzalez Flores, later claimed to have written the bulk of the book for Saenz.)
This work blamed primarily the Jews as the masterminds behind the destruction of the Church, as well as the puppet-masters behind Freemasonry. Yet the extent of the influence of certain Jews and their predominance in the Masonic sect and other secret societies has not been determined by the Church. The Plot Against the Church makes no mention of the pleas by both Popes Pius XI and Pius XII to refrain from anything that would amount to the physical persecution of the Jews or lead to their persecution. In their The Hidden Encyclical of Pope Pius XI, (1998) Georges Passelecq and Bernard Suchecky wrote about Pope Pius XI’s last encyclical that was never published, Humani Generis Unitas. This encyclical, written on the eve of WWII, is best summarized below:
- The Church upholds and defends Her right to warn Her children against those actively hostile to the Christian religion, especially, “misguided souls, whether of the Jewish people or other origin, who ally themselves with or promote” revolutionary movements aimed at the destruction of society and the Catholic Church.
- Alternating mildness and zeal on the part of the popes over the centuries in addressing this anti-Catholic attitude does not reflect “any interior change in the Church’s policy,” which is easily found confirmed in “the conduct of bishops…and Her ecumenical councils,” AND ESPECIALLY THE CONDUCT OF THE HOLY SEE.
- Under the specific heading “Anti-Semitism,” Pope Pius XI states: “Such persecutory methods are totally at variance with the true spirit of the Catholic Church.” Quoting a decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office dated March 5, 1928, the pope points to the Church’s professed love for the Jews and desire for their salvation. The decree contains a resolution on the part of the papacy to continue to protect the Jews against unjust oppression and open anti-Semitism.
Pope Pius XII later demonstrated his solicitude for the Jews by his conduct during WWII, saving countless Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. With this and the above in mind, we present the following, which in and of itself should be enough to convince any rational human being that the Traditional movement was only a continuation of the penetration of secret societies into the very heart of the Church. In the late 1990s, letters written and signed by various Mexican authors were sent from Mexico to Traditionalist pseudo-clergy worldwide warning that Los TECOS pseudo-clergy were Masonic and had been form the beginning.
These letters were circulated in 2000 from the office of Fr. Paul Schoonbroodt (1933–2012, a parish priest of Steffeshausen, Belgium), with a written introduction by his secretary Amelia Schmid. They were then forwarded to a friend who forwarded them to me. Although these letters only date back to 2000, the Masonic influence propelling the Traditionalist movement goes back to its very beginning as explained in the link in paragraph 2 above. That they were suppressed should in itself be enough to rouse the followers of LibTrad pseudo-clergy from their sinful sleep. But will it?
Please note that the letters below do not limit the Masonic contamination to the CMRI, or to the group referred to in the Los TECOS letters. In fact in the last two blogs we have seen how such individuals as the Gnostic Rama Coomeraswamy and indirectly, E. Michael Jones, have spread their heresies throughout LibTrad sects. Others, such as the former Protestant minister Gerry Matatics — in a series of interviews with ISOC founder Judith Sharpe, titled The Plot Against the Church, based partly on Saenz’s work — have played their own part in promoting the views of heretics and schismatics. Both Coomeraswamy and Matatics taught students in “Traditionalist seminaries.” One cannot help but wonder if they themselves were not affiliated with the OSJ and Los TECOS or some other unknown secret society, given their activities.
Introduction to the Secret Society, Tecos
“These four “open letters” are not bound by any law of copyright. In fact Bishop Jose F. Urbino Aznar from Merida, Yucatan, exhorts all to read these letters, to broadcast them, to send them to other countries or to translate them so that all concerned would be informed and warned! He writes, at the end of his Letter IV, that, “IF TRADITIONALISTS DO NOTHING, THEY HELP THE TECOS TO INFILTRATE AND SABOTAGE.”
“The purpose of these pages is to war against the presence of “Marrano’s” in Traditionalist Sede-vacantists groups today. These “false brothers” are continuing the work of the Spanish Marrano’s in the 15th Century, and 40 years after the Vatican II revolution in the Church, their aim is to infiltrate, subvert, and over-throw the last remaining bastions of Catholic Traditionalism. The “Tecos” and stemming from it… the “Trento” movements in Mexico, will be studied here but their subsidiaries in other countries have different names: i.e., “Una Voce” in Munich, Germany whose leader is Dr. Eberhard Heller, the editor of the subversive, pseudo-traditionalistic journal, “Einsicht”; and “Trident”, a Czechoslovakian “traditionalist” journal, edited by Dr. Klomineky; it is also affiliated with Tecos.
“Trento is a branch of Tecos. The rank-and-file members of Tecos would appear to be Catholics militating against Freemasonic influences; quite anti-Communist! But its leaders are very wealthy Jewish Freemasons who pretendthey’re Catholics and Mexican patriots. Since Vatican II, they even pretend to be sedevacantist Traditionalists, in order to be better accepted by the latter; alas, they are “MARRANOS”!
“Who are the Mexican Tecos leaders? They stem from two related families: Leano and Alvarez del Castillo. They rule this Secret Society but delegate their power to their subordinates, yet they exert tyrannical control. For example, Bishop Martin Davila Gandara (of the Trento Priests Union) is not free to act independently. Everything he does is controlled ‘down to the last detail’. This bishop and all Trento priests and seminarians are official members of the Tecos! This is a pre-requisite to be lavishly financed by the super-rich family — Leano Alvarex del Castillo. Unfortunately, the hundreds of millions of dollars they possess come from drug-smuggling operations, investments in very luxurious hotels and easiness, illegal confiscation of property (aided and abetted by corrupt police, easily bribed). They are also the main shareholders in the Mexican TELEVlSA TV enterprise, a springboard for Satanical programs. We unconditionally agree to the above.
Signed: Sergio Ruiz Vallejo, Rafael Lira, Jose de Jesus Beecara, R. Alvaro Reyes C.
(All emphasis in this quote and what follows below is added by the author. The four Los Tecos letters detailing the above accusations are available on request.)
Excerpts from Los TECOS letter to Pivarunas
https://archive.org/details/letter-to-bishop-pivarunas-in-english
La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, on March 1, 2024
(Prepared by “Fr.” Hernán Arturo Vergara Monroy)
- This document is prepared at the request of Bishop Mark Antony Pivarunas, as instructed by Father Carlos Borja.
- Due to the gravity of the matter, I request that this issue be handled with absolute discretion, asking the Lord Bishop to safeguard the document to prevent it from being stolen and disseminated, causing serious harm to the spiritual well-being of souls.
- In this document, only a small sample of the matter is discussed…The colloquial name for the sworn organization is “Los Tecos”, but its internal title is “Legion of Anti-Communist Youths of Mexico,” for God and for the homeland,” outwardly promoting values, Catholic faith, and a life centered around God. However, in practice, their actions align with the will of a faceless supreme power, which seems to disregard God’s law.
- The man who appears as the founder of this organization is named Carlos Cuesta Gallardo. He was born in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, on August 22, 1911. His parents were Francisco Luis Cuesta Gallardo and Maria Elena Gallardo Rojas. The family was extremely wealthy, with close relatives holding high positions in the government. Interestingly, there are Hebrew customs within this family, but there remains an absolute silence regarding their genealogy.
- Around 1934, an organization was founded, with one of its ideologues and leaders being Father Manuel Figueroa Luna S.J. The organization operated under catalogued and mandatory methods, including oaths, blind obedience, loyalty, and secrecy. Members swore an oath in the name of God to maintain absolute silence about the organization’s existence, names, agreements, addresses, structure, and programs. They also pledged obedience to the “Army of God.” whose leader remained unknown to almost everyone. According to its main proponents, the organization’s purpose was to counter the Judaeo-Masonic-Communist conspiracy. To avoid detection, members used pseudonyms, ensuring that if internal documents were confiscated by the police, their identities would remain hidden.
- Regularly, young people from the age of twelve are recruited and trained to align their thinking with the Organization. Based on their proselytism efforts, they can ascend to become group leaders. These young people are recruited by seemingly harmless external groups that appear beneficial to initiates. They are then admitted to a preliminary group and after undergoing preparation and testing, they ascend to the base group.
- The concept of “pureza de sangre” (purity of blood) is something that they claim involves separating Jewish, Masonic, or anti-Christian elements.
- MY PROPOSAL IS THAT THE PRIESTLY SOCIETY OF TRENTO SHOULD DISAPPEAR FOR HAVING BEEN BORN IN AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION…
- The banner or emblem of the organization has a double-headed eagle in the center, similar to the symbol of the 33rd degree of Freemasonry. Isn’t this enough evidence of what this organization is? Just like the two Masonic columns that are found in the presbytery of the church of San Agustin, in the little hill of Guadalajara, an emblematic church of the organization.
- They have several oaths, I write only one consigned in the traditional liturgy: *I (name of the oath-taker) swear by God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, creator of the universe and everything that exists, swearing without mental reservations of any kind, to be loyal to God and to the Legion of Anti-Communist Youth of Mexico, never to betray or fight it and to keep absolute secrecy with strangers to said movement of its existence, of the names of the components and leaders, of the matters discussed in its meetings and of everything that relates to it. Just as I will never act within said order accepting slogans, orders or simple suggestions from people or organizations strange to this organization. I also swear by God, to consider the Legion of Anti- Communist Youth of Mexico, as the primary organization in the temporal order subordinating all my political or social activities to the supreme direction of this movement, whatever the place where I carry out my activities, if I do not do so, may the Legion of Anti-Communist Youth of Mexico punish me with the death of traitors.”
- “KEEP ABSOLUTE SECRECY WITH STRANGERS TO THIS ASSOCIATION, OF ITS EXISTENCE, OF THE IDENTITY OF ITS LEADERS AND ITS MEMBERS. OF THE MATTERS DISCUSSED IN ITS MEETINGS AND IN GENERAL OF EVERYTHING RELATED TO IT. ONLY THOSE WHO RECEIVE ORDERS TO REVEAL IT, ISSUED BY THE SUPERIORITY THROUGH THE ORGANIZER-INSPECTOR, MAY REVEAL TO STRANGERS.” (Regulations of the organization, third title, second chapter, article 34, fraction I.)
- “In order that there may be no room for error when it is to be determined which of these pernicious sects are subject to censures, and which are only prohibited, it is certain in the first place that they are punished with excommunication latae sententiae, the Masonic and other sects of the same kind…” Instruction of the Holy Office of May 10, 1884. DZ 1860.
- “THOSE WHO GIVE THEIR NAME TO THE MASONIC SECT OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS OF THE SAME KIND THAT PLOT AGAINST THE CHURCH OR AGAINST LEGITIMATE CIVIL POWERS, INCUR IPSO FACTO EXCOMMUNICATION SIMPLY RESERVED TO THE APOSTOLIC SEE.” Code of Canon Law, Canon 2335.
- Commentary on Canon 2335: “According to an instruction from the Holy Office of May 10, 1884, all associations that require their affiliates to swear an oath of absolute secrecy and to blindly obey everything to leaders are prohibited.”
- THEY EDUCATE AND SYSTEMATICALLY FORM A STANCE OF HATRED AGAINST JEWS FOR BEING JEWS, against Masons for being Masons; In this sense, the truth about the Jewish people must be preached, INSTRUCTING THE TRUTH THAT IS NOT TO INSTILL HATRED OR RESENTMENT, but the knowledge that prevents us from the influence of a people educated in the perversity of the Synagogue of Satan: the seriousness of this system of irrational hatred, is the following: Who can or defines who is a Jew? Well, the organization, which does not present evidence, only the definition in the manner of the Holy Office, in this way, the organization can enrage its addicts with just one order. Finally, it is one more means of manipulation… The organization that operates from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, its leaders and owners, have not explained the legality of the wealth they have, in addition to the fact that, in 1962, the Rockefeller Foundation donated a large amount of money.
(Seminary of the Sacred Hearts)
- …The aforementioned names (Davila Gandara and Perez Gomez) were “piously” subjected to a “brainwashing” in a short time and in a sui generis or Frankenstein preparation, taken to the sacred orders with the tranquility of having the support of the organization. (On Oct. 14, 1998, a two-thirds majority of priests elected Dávila for episcopal consecration. Dávila was consecrated a bishop May 11, 1999, byPivarunasand Dolan in the Temple of the Divine Providence.)
- The missions and churches that were established with the fathers of Manuel Lopez or the Trento priestly society, are precisely places where the organization operates, having the other places, especially the south of the country, as a second level.
- A priest wishes to testify, about how before ordaining him, you, Bishop Pivarunas, took him before Manuel López to perform a ceremony with an oath to obey God in the person of this gentleman, an indispensable requirement for ordination.
- All the seminarians were sent for a month to preparation for the organization, which was actually brainwashing.
- “Strength was confused with contempt, loyalty with servility, obedience to man with disobedience to God, humility with people without the ability to think contrary to the triple authority.
- “Let no one thinks that it is permissible for any reason to give his name to the Masonic sect, if he professes to be a Catholic and values the salvation of his soul as he should.”, (Pope Leo XIII, encyclical Humanum genus, DZ 1859).
- “Apart from these, there are other prohibited sects that must be avoided under penalty of serious guilt, among which we must mainly count all those that require their followers by oath not to reveal the secret to anyone… (Instruction of the Holy Office of May 10, 1884; DZ 1861).
Summary
Vergaro-Monroy and Borja took a great risk in making this information available to the public and for that they should be commended. But Vergaro/Borja do not connect the dots, which go back much further than they are willing to admit — all the way back to Saenz and the founding of Traditionalism. In 1965, Fr. Gommar DePauw founded the Catholic Traditionalist Movement in Long Island, New York. In that same year, Fr. Saenz and Anacleto Gonzalez Guerrero (Flores), already both members of the Los TECOS secret society, founded the sedevacantist movement. Both Saenz and DePauw were members of the OSJ, (Sovereign Order of St. John, Knights of Jerusalem — Shickshinny branch, not Malta branch). The OSJ organization then set up its own Trad mass centers across the U.S., referred to as priories.
Lefebvre, already tagged as ordained and consecrated by a Freemason, was reportedly a member and even the head of the OSJ, both in the U.S. and France. He also is most likely connected with the scandalous “Catholic” secret society The Priory of Sion, (supposedly defunct, but this is only a smokescreen) with his seminary headquartered in Sion, France and all his branch organizations named priories. DePauw, Schuckhardt (original founder of Pivarunas’ CMRI) and other LibTrad sects also designated their various “branches” as priories. This is no coincidence; the Masonic connection is clear.
Probably the most important part of Vergano’s letter is the admission that Los TECOS (and all those infected with its perverse philosophy) “…EDUCATE AND SYSTEMATICALLY FORM A STANCE OF HATRED AGAINST JEWS FOR BEING JEWS, against Masons for being Masons; In this sense, the truth about the Jewish people must be preached, instructing the truth that is not to instill hatred or resentment…” This certainly explains the attitude of LibTrads towards the Jews today, but there is more. According to the Wikipedia article on Los TECOS: “…they built up connections with members of the Arab League, such as the Saudis, with whom they shared a mutual opposition to Zionism and an obsession with “Jewish conspiracies”… While condemning the United Nations in their own private works as part of the “Masonic conspiracy”, they, at the same time, used UNESCO’s World University Organization to build up relations with radical right, anti-communist, anti-masonic and antisemitic forces across the world throughout the 1950s…
“[They then] funneled some of these funds into their own political activities. The biggest windfall was secured in 1962, according to Stefan Thomas Possony, who said that “… Guadalajara UAC received money from the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie Foundations as well as from the Agency for International Development (AID)… Between 1964 and 1974, nearly $20,000,000 worth of grants were passed through these American institutions to the UAG, controlled by Los TECOS. According to a report in the Albuquerque Journal, “they believe they are using Jewish gold to combat the Jews” (end of Wiki quote). And we wonder why our campuses are filled with pro-Palestinian sympathizers and anti-Semitism is rife; why the FBI (rightly) suspects certain Traditionalists of neo-Nazi activities and of promoting anti-Semitism.
As explained in earlier blogs, all these LibTrad groups have common roots: “The Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement or ORCM is a group of priests founded by Fr. Francis E. Fenton acting on the suggestions of Fr. Joaquin Sáenz y Arriaga, S.J., and was the U.S. organization parallel to the Mexican organization Unión Catolica Trento, founded by Fr. Saenz along with Frs. Moises Carmona and Adolfo Zamora. Fr. Fenton was a founding member of the “conservative” John Birch Society, and was on its American Opinion Speakers Bureau” (https://www.liquisearch.com/orthodox_roman_catholic_movement). The John Birch Society itself has been linked to Freemasonry HERE and HERE.
It is important to note that publication of the above documents make such matters notorious according to the 1917 Code. In a Bull issued on Dec. 25, 1925, Pope Pius XI declared: “Those who have notoriously belonged to Masonic sects or other forbidden societies of the like should not be absolved unless they shall have made an abjuration before the confessor, done all the law requires, withdrawn from the sect and repaired the scandal as far as they can” (AAS 17-611). There can now be no absolution but certainly all the other conditions must be fulfilled. Only public withdrawal from the entire Traditional movement itself and the renunciation of any claim to orders whatsoever could satisfy Pope Pius XI’s conditions.
For 26 years the Los TECOS situation has been known to at least some Traditionalist pseudo-clergy and shamefully hidden from view. Not only are the followers of these men aiding and abetting them by allowing them to simulate the sacraments, but they are also cooperating with Freemasons — apostates. It is way past time to do penance and make amends for such egregious crimes and Lent is the ideal time to make these amends to Our Lord, whose sufferings are already so greatly intensified by our sins. If LibTrad followers really want to know who they are dealing with and what the game of their pseudo-clergy is really all about, please watch this short YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMg1Hk2DWHs
See if it doesn’t set off some alarms. What would happen if Traditionalist “priests” and “bishops” now deceiving so many were stripped of their collars and mitres, their churches, their power, their control, which in reality has never existed? Only YOU have the power to shatter the illusion.
by T. Stanfill Benns | Feb 18, 2025 | New Blog
+St. Bernadette Soubirous+
Introduction
A few months ago, in the blog article HERE, I mentioned the exposure of upper-level John Birch Society (JBS) members and their associates as high-degree Freemasons. Recently, a reader brought my attention to Francis’ picture on the January cover of the JBS magazine New American asking the question: “Is the Pope a Communist?” by William F. Jasper. Jasper has been writing for in the affirmative. While this will be received by those in the Novus Ordo sect opposing Francis as a confirmation of their claims that he’s not a true pope, the very fact that the article is belatedly trumpeting this fact should sound alarm bells. Why? Because the Birch Society, established in 1960, certainly did not call out the Communist sympathizers Roncalli (John 23) and Montini (Paul 6) whose conduct in the 1950s (and later their concessions to Communist leaders and governments) made their intentions clear long ago. Even though the idea of a sede vacante had been raised, they never seriously addressed the issue at a time when it was most crucial that it be addressed. And as mentioned in the Francis article, they knew full well that the Church had been infiltrated.
This because those espousing sede vacante then were considered the lunatic fringe, and no one picks up paid members by appearing to consider such theories. Had Traditionalists themselves made the papacy their primary concern and cried foul, this might not have been the case. They had the tools at hand — papal pronouncements, Canon Law, Church history and much more — but they refused to study the matter and arrive at certitude regarding the validity of the 1958 election. The Siri fanatics clouded the matter by insisting their boy was the real pope — another failed attempt to “preserve” the papal line, as demonstrated HERE. Practicing heretical exclusivism, LibTrads championed the liturgy above papal supremacy, as if the liturgy could exist without valid clergy in communion with a certainly canonically elected pope to celebrate it. As we wrote in our last blog, they called themselves Traditionalists because they believe, as the Traditionalists condemned by the Church believed, that: “Human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order” (Catholic Encyclopedia).
Catholics ignorant of their faith and desperate for clergy were oblivious. As stated last week, their Modernist-leaning clergy had already eroded the authority of the papacy to such an extent they scarcely paid attention to the discrepancy. They viewed Traditionalists as the new heads of their Church and the JBS offered them an alternative world view that seemed to agree with the Church’s stand against Communism. This view, however, was Americanist-leaning and skewed. Russia, Russia, Russia was the real terror — no mention of the erosion of morals, the destruction of the Church and her absence as a guiding force on the world stage, or the dangers of Freemasonry and the Illuminati. Instead Catholics were offered the conspiracy of the Bilderbergers, the CFR, the Federal Reserve and world bankers, etc. Any weaving in of the Freemasons and the Modernists, or the real cause of Russia’s errors — schism — was left out of the equation. But then what can one expect with Freemasons running the show?
And this diversion and reorientation successfully distracted Catholics exiting the Novus Ordo from focusing on the purely spiritual nature of the problems in the world. Because their “priests” actively supported and promoted the JBS, they followed right along. But over time, Birch influence seemed to wane with Traditionalists. The Internet was born and more interesting conservative talking heads popped up everywhere. Trad sects abounded in every shape and form imaginable. Now Birchers sense a new opportunity, perhaps — a new exodus from the Novus Ordo they can cash in on. Novus Ordo sect members are calling out Francis as pope, unlike those leaving in the 1960s-1970s, and the JBS is siding with them. So what has changed, and why are they now deciding, after all the damage is done, that the man they are still calling “Pope” is a Communist? Readers can probably guess the answer, but let’s hit the high points.
The Birch Society’s Masonic agenda
Jasper asks, toward the end of his article, “Were American intelligence agencies used to coerce and blackmail “regime change” in the Roman Catholic Church? Is this a key part of the Deep State’s plan to create a Deep Church? It certainly looks that way, as we have reported here in the past.” Here Jasper is referring to his comments on Bp. Vigano’s letter to Pres. Trump in June of 2020: “There are faithful Shepherds who care for the flock of Christ, but there are also mercenary infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be devoured by ravenous wolves. Just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God.” Vigano, the new Lefebvre, was ordained in 1968. His consecrator, Bishop Carlo Allorio, is listed as a Council Father for all four sessions of the false Vatican 2 council. Needless to say, as a member of the Novus Ordo sect Allorio was incapacitated to validly ordain or consecrate anyone, per Pope Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis and the 1917 Code of Canon Law, then in effect. So Vigano, an avid supporter of Benedict 16, is no cleric.
What is the purpose of the JBS in ignoring the blatant Communist affiliations of John 23 and Paul 6 and suddenly recognizing those of Francis now? Well it is quite simple, if one follows the stated intent of the Masonic game plan. The secret societies do not want to wipe out the idea of the papacy. Instead, as they state in the Alta Vendita: “What we must ask for, what we should look for and wait for, as the Jews wait for the Messiah, is a Pope according to our needs… To assure ourselves a Pope of the required dimensions, it is a question first of shaping for this Pope a generation worthy of the reign we are dreaming of. Leave old people and those of a mature age aside. Go to the youth and if it is possible, even to the children. You will contrive for yourselves at little cost a reputation as good Catholics and PURE PATRIOTS…”
That generation raised at least partially in the reign of Pope Pius XII, who fled the Novus Ordo sect in the 1960s and 1970s, will soon be gone. Their children and grandchildren, born following Vatican 2, the advent of the Internet and all modern perversions, will then be all that is left of those who at least identify as Catholic. Scarcely any of them have been imbued with any true Catholic sense, only that false sense conveyed to them by Traditionalists and the false church in Rome. They follow only what their misguided “clergy” tell them, those pretending to retain their titles of cardinals, bishops and priests. They are incapable of independent thought or investigation, unless it tends to the Modernist bent of their leaders. They have no idea of what really happened following the death of Pope Pius XII and seem to have never heard of the Catholic rule of law, the observance of the Sacred Canons contained in the 1917 Code. If they follow any law at all, it is only that of the desecrated 1983 code instituted by John Paul 2.
Most of them are good little patriots; some of them are Americanists. The Birchers saw to that, presenting as “pure patriots.” This is why many conservatives in the Novus Ordo sect and some LibTrads will welcome the endorsement of the John Birch Society, and because of their parents’ and grandparents’ involvement it will be familiar to them and will even pass for “tradition.” The new-churchers enjoy the freedoms granted them by the false Vatican 2 council and have no desire to relinquish them. It normalizes their relationship with their non-Catholic peers and the false charity it exudes makes socializing with them so much easier. They have been rigorously brainwashed into believing that the papacy will exist “unto the consummation,” when this was never taught by the Church. In fact the absence of the papacy and the Mass in the end times has been anticipated by the Fathers and revered Catholic theologians and commentators, who base their teaching on Divine revelation. But of course this does not concur with the Masonic ideal; Masons have no desire to destroy the idea of the papacy, only to pervert and manipulate it.
JBS identified as Masons decades ago
We have often quoted Mary Lejeune, a Catholic writer who passed away in the 1980s, on the JBS. There was some realization of the unCatholic position of the JBS even then, as Lejeune reports in her Sept.-Oct. 1976 newsletter: “The favorable response to my May-June issue re the connection between The John Birch Society and The Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement [founded by Fathers Saenz-Arriaga and Francis Fenton] was absolutely overwhelming! Many, many of the letters and long-distance telephone calls came from Catholic ex-Birchers (I had no idea that there were so many on my mailing list) who related to me the many sad experiences that they had suffered through — once they found out the truth about the JBS and decided to expose said organization. Quite a few had given up in frustration after they found that their sincere efforts to help out were thwarted by certain “cliques” within the Society. One lady asked me if I was aware of the “Zionist infiltration” within the JBS. I am completely aware of this situation (readers have sent me much documentation to this effect) — a situation which causes me great concern since the safety of Catholics, who refuse to leave the Society, is at stake!”
“I am concerned about them because the ORCM organization is run (with few exceptions) by priests and laity who are what can only be referred to as “super-Birchers.” These super-Birchers are thwarting the efforts of people, such as myself, to expose the Masonic and Zionist influence within the JBS (and other “anti-communist outfits like them) in order to protect the Catholic members of the “remnant” who sincerely believe that they cannot live without the Mass and who will go anywhere to attend it… Mr. Welch believes in evolution (some Christian!) As anyone turning to page 140 of his “Blue Book” can clearly see. On page 155 of the same book we find that the Society is both a religion (?) and a revolution. I can believe this since the Birchers tried to “pump” me (however subtly) regarding the so-called “changes in the Catholic Church” since Vatican II.
“As I said previously, I have known about the Masonic nature of the JBS for a long time, but within the last six months or so I have learned a lot more about the deception and hypocrisy which is going on within said Society… Some will claim that these are days of emergency (against a Communist takeover which has already occurred), and that we should ignore our different religious beliefs and fight the battle together. The Novus Ordo “hierarchy” keeps telling the new “People of God” the same thing. Anyone who suggests such a thing to Catholics is putting said Catholics in a position wherein they can quickly become weakened in their faith. Once the faith is weakened, there is a great danger of losing it entirely… Today, dear readers, we are in a spiritual battle, a death-struggle between the real Catholic Church and Satan himself and there isn’t a political organization in existence today which can save the world — especially this country.
“The morals in this country today are so decadent that only the great chastisement from the hand of God can purify it. And let the Birchers not tell me that they write against immorality — indeed they do! But let them clean up their own “closets” in the “upper echelons” before they start preaching to others… The JBS gives hope to the people when there is no hope. The JBS, like some other “anti-communist” preachers around today, have to give people hope, otherwise they would go out of business, and the JBS is a very commercial organization! …America is doomed — not because good people didn’t fight to save her. America is doomed because the Catholic hierarchy (made up of enemies and cowards) robbed the American people (both Catholics and Protestants) of a strong, spiritual leadership.” (End of Lejeune quotes.)
So true Catholics were warned, and some listened even then. But their children and grandchildren certainly have not been warned and are more vulnerable today by far than their parents ever were.
A new “conservatism” is the real goal
Once everything is put into perspective, the JBS’s motives become clear. They deliberately ignored the ”soft” takeover of the papal See in Rome because John 23 and Paul 6 were “normalizing” church relations with Freemasons. Later John Paul 2 walked some of the more egregious abuses of his predecessors back, just enough that it appeared he was anti-Communist, given his Polish origins and work with the underground during World War II. Then Benedict 16 continued this course, appearing even more “traditional,” and the Latin Mass groupies were encouraged. So this is where they picked up, citing their previous articles on Vigano’s “Deep Church.” It doesn’t matter that a much more comprehensive volume (John Courtenay Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition, David Wemhoff, 2015), superior documentation-wise by far to Taylor Marshall’s Novus Ordo work, proves that the election of Roncalli was invalid, owing to lay interference (and the 1917 Code of Canon Law).
Like the LibTrad pseudo-clerics themselves, the JBS wishes to keep the idea of a papal “line” alive at all costs. Sacrificing dogma on the altars of their greed and lust for power, they are happy to violate the laws and teachings of the Church if it advances their own agenda. Nor is there any regard for Catholic teaching, for the Vatican 2 documents on ecumenism only echo the JBS’ own credo — liberty, equality and fraternity. Proof of this can be found on page 11 of The Neutralizers, written by JBS founder Robert Welch: “All we are interested in here is opposing the advance of Communism so that Jews and Christians alike, and Mohammedans and Buddhists, can again have a decent world to live in.” Lejeune nailed it when she wrote that the JBS teaches: “…we should ignore our different religious beliefs and fight the battle together.” This fits right in with the American Proposition — that Catholics have no right to claim the Catholic Church is the one true Church of Christ or evangelize to this effect.
Toward the end of his article, Jasper writes: “The papal throne does seem to be occupied by an individual who fits the description of an apostate socialist/communist. How has this come about? The answer to that burning question would require much more space than is available here. However, it is important to note that the subversion we are now witnessing in the Bergoglian papacy was made possible by more than a century of patient infiltration.” It is how the results of this infiltration are interpreted and who is interpreting them that matters, and the JBS surely knows this. It is why they have waited all this time to address this matter head on, when it is too in-your-face to ignore. They quote Pope Pius XI’s Divini Redemptoris, but they do not cite Pope Pius XII’s 1948 and 1949 condemnations of Communism, which declare those either sympathizing with it or openly advancing it, particularly public officials, as apostates. It is the pope’s judgment, not theirs, that must be the determining factor here.
Francis and all his predecessors back to John 23rd were either Communist sympathizers or active supporters of Communism and therefore are considered apostates. As non-Catholics, none could validly be elected pope, given their affiliations. And yet the JBS fails to acknowledge this, pretending that 100 years (and more) of active infiltration would not contaminate and place into question the entire clerical pool. No, they leave it in the hands of those accepting these men as valid popes, with the exception of Francis. And this because the endgame rules call for a usurper pope who appears to be valid and conservative (by today’s standards only), working with world governments to realize the Masonic dream of a one-world religion. Once the Catholic Church was stripped of every vestige of possible efficacy and sacramental validity, there was no objection to this proposition. In fact it could eventually work hand in hand with a plan that would appear to endorse conservatism and reject the New World Order, purging the existing church in Rome and returning to the “old Church,” under the auspices of a charismatic leader restoring the world to a more conservative state.
This would satisfy both the “Catholic” expectations of restoration and a period of peace, foretold in Catholic prophecy and at Fatima, as well as usher in peace in Israel and the advent of the Jewish Messiah. A new “pope” could even rule from Jerusalem. And this would satisfy the goals of both the secret societies and their JBS satellites.
The JBS and British Israel
The Protestant writer Helen M. Peters states that “[Robert Welch’s] definition of Christianity is British Israel and is not based on the Deity of Jesus Christ at all…” The British-Israel hypothesis is that “Anglo-Saxons are the lineal descendants of the ten tribes of Israel and inherit the wonderful promises made to them. These promises the Anglo-Saxons possess nationally” (Protestant theologian William Hoste). “It thus provides for the world another gospel, which captivates and hypnotizes them with the thought of capturing great earthly blessings for themselves and the British Empire, apart from repentance and faith in Christ, as though He had never died and risen to procure us blessings…” British Israel can be found on the second level of the Masonic pyramid appearing in the original edition of Lady Queenborough’s work, Occult Theocrasy. Concerning the end times, British Israel advocates believe that:
- Before the Second Coming, the Jerusalem temple will be rebuilt.
- The Jerusalem temple, not the Church, is where Antichrist will show himself as God.
- Following the Second Coming, this same temple will exist in Jerusalem, or possibly a new or reconsecrated one.
- During an earthly millennium, animal sacrifices offered at this temple will commemorate Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross.
As I have explained before, it is primarily the British Israel adherents, among them Traditionalists, who expect a millennium and the restoration of Christ’s Church on earth. Traditionalists believe they will be the beneficiaries of this restoration and Fundamentalists believe it will be a Jewish operation that will somehow include Christians, but they are not in agreement on the extent or timing of this involvement. Millenarianism, even in its mildest, spiritual sense, has been condemned by the Holy Office and is entered into the Acta Apostolica Sedis (ASS 36, 1944, 212). The condemnation reads: “The Holy Office issued a decree on July 11, 1941 (in the session held on July 9) which reached the same conclusion in a letter sent to Archbishop Jose M. Caro-Rodriguez in Santiago, Chile: “It is not possible to safely teach systematic millenarianism even if moderated — namely that it is Catholic revelation that Christ, at the resurrection of the just, will return to reign bodily on this earth.”
In an Internet article, B. E. Strauss, identifying as a Catholic layman, observes that: “The consummation of the ages denotes the last of all ages of the world, the age of the Church. This last age consummates the ages that came before, and it is itself consummated by the consummatio saeculi, by the consummation of the (last) age” or actual consummation by fire/end of the world. Strauss points out that the most common interpretation is consummation of the world, not consummation of the ages or centuries, as it should be. He notes that the Church has not said much on this discrepancy. But as noted in previous blogs, there are other indications from magisterial documents that the hierarchical Church is not guaranteed to last “unto the consummation” of the world by fire as previously thought. In order to avoid even mitigated Millenarianism, it is important to not associate the “end of the age or centuries” translation with the meaning that such an age will be succeeded by a 1,000-year period of peace.
Strauss continues: “…The Vatican Council solemnly teaches that the Lord promised shepherds and teachers until the consummation of the age – usque ad consummatio saeculi — which, according to Catholic commentary, BEGINS WITH THE REVELATION OF ANTICHRIST, who is announced to reign before the return of the Lord. Hence, apostolic succession seems to have come to an end already, and we deal with shepherds of vengeance.” The thousand-year reign probably began after the papacy was firmly established in Rome once the major persecutions of Christians subsided. In 445, Emperor Valentinian pronounced that the Bishop of Rome was the law for all. Pope Gelasius I was the first pope to be called Vicar of Christ (492-496). A little over 1,000 years later, Luther tacked his heresies to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, followed by Henry VIII’s defection around 1532. Freemasonry was established in England 200 years after Luther’s revolt but existed secretly from the late 1400s on.
Conclusion
A new world order might mean something different than people are expecting. It could mean that a majority of countries together decide to roll back the clock so to speak, peacefully co-exist, appear to return to a more spiritual existence and more or less live by democratic principles — for a time. But we must remember that “The day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. For all of you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober” (1Thess. 5: 1-6). Any reconstruction of the Church or pretended peace — all will be an illusion. For there is no reconstructing the Church once she has lost Her apostolicity. And there can be no peace without Christ’s true vicar. As Msgr. Van Noort wrote in his Christ’s Church, 1959:
“Just for the sake of argument — even though it cannot actually happen — let us conjure up some church which would bear a merely specific likeness to Christ’s Church; a church which would be like it in all respects except numerical identity. Imagine, now, that the Church planted by the apostles has perished utterly. Imagine whether you make it the year 600, 1500, or 3000-that all its members have deserted. Imagine, furthermore, that out of this totally crumpled society a fresh and vigorous society springs up and then, after a time, is remodeled perfectly to meet the blueprints of the ancient but now perished apostolic structure. Such a process would never yield a church that was genuinely apostolic, that is, numerically one and the same society which actually existed under the apostles’ personal rule. There would be a brand-new society, studiously copied from a model long since extinct. The new church might be a decent imitation. IT MIGHT BE A CARICATURE. ONE THING IT DEFINITELY WOULD NOT BE IS APOSTOLIC.”
Strauss, quoted above, obviously believes Antichrist has already arrived for he says the end of the Church’s age on earth, “BEGINS WITH THE REVELATION OF ANTICHRIST, who is announced to reign before the return of the Lord. Hence, apostolic succession seems to have come to an end already, and we deal with shepherds of vengeance.” That Antichrist will be an identifiable individual is taught by the Church as certain. That he will be accompanied by those who will support and continue his persecution is confirmed by St. John, who teaches there will be “many” antichrists. Only Antichrist could cause the cessation of the Continual Sacrifice, and if this did not indeed happen in 1969, how can anyone explain why nearly all true Catholics who exited the Novus Ordo sect insisted on a return to the Latin Mass?
What Birchers and others advocating for a papal election are doing is supporting the creation of a straw man. A “straw man” is a logical fallacy opposed to the Scholastic method of St. Thomas that occurs when a person rebuts an argument by misconstruing it. The concept itself is taken from the appearance of a scarecrow, which some at first mistake for a real man but is not a real man — it is only a contrived imitation of one. Similarly, in the strawman fallacy, those depicting Francis as a Communist are ignoring the real facts in the case, that John 23 was a Communist, his election was invalid, and Francis is one of a long line of antipopes under Canon Law. An example of a straw man argument is: “I prefer wine to whiskey,” and the straw man promoter falsely concludes: “Then you must hate whiskey.” Likewise the LibTrads, who, when one says the age of the Church and with it, apostolic succession, ended with the invalid election of Roncalli, reply, “Then you are denying indefectibility, because the Church, just as Christ constituted it, will last ‘until the consummation.’”
But as Strauss and others point out, this refers to the consummation of the ages, as stated in the 1869 Vatican Council, not the final conflagration, and the Church did indeed last unspotted until Pius XII’s death. It is quite telling that LibTrads fail to be able to explain how their argument could possibly hold up, given that Christ constituted the Church with St. Peter as its head, and their pseudo-clergy have operated as the true Church without that head since Pope Pius XII’s death. A new conservative “pope,” even if he cleaned house from top to bottom, would be yet another antipope/antichrist, meant to deepen the deception and create yet more confusion. Francis may be breathing his last as we write this: Beware what comes after him. No matter how amazing his successor may appear to be in rivaling Pres. Trump’s swamp clean-up, regardless of whether he is hailed as Trump’s right-hand man on a spiritual level, the con is on. The next straw man can never resurrect the one, true Church, only Her caricature — the lying wonders foretold by St. Paul.
