Ludwig Ott warning and jurisdiction claims refuted again

by T. Stanfill Benns | Aug 6, 2022 | New Blog

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Twice in one week now we have seen certain bloggers, presenting themselves as reliable sources of Catholic information, promoting the work of Dr. Ludwig Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, as the end all, be all of theological sources. But this is far from the truth, which is why you will not find him quoted on this site. Ott is not a trustworthy source of theology and should not be used, certainly, in defending truths of faith. In the January 1956 issue of the American Ecclesiastical Review, we find a book review on Dr. Ott’s work written by John J. King, O.M.I. He 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. The editor of the English edition calls this book ‘the most remarkable work of compression of its kind that I have encountered.’ This may well be; but for all its remarkable qualities, it is not without serious defect. In the process of condensation great care must be taken to avoid all distortion. The formidable task of a work of this sort is to affect not only brevity but also clarity. Dr. Ott has had remarkable success in attaining the first; he has experienced something less than success in his quest for the second. Very often in the scientific exposition of the dogmas of the Church conciseness can be attained only at the expense of clarity and accuracy…

“This has been the case in several sections of Dr. Ott’s book and this despite the obvious scholarship which he brings to his work. The author tells us that his work is intended primarily to meet the needs of students; indeed to be used as a textbook for seminarians. As such it is clearly inadequate. For it is merely a conspectus of theology. Its treatment is positive throughout with only an occasional brief elaboration of the speculative aspect of dogma. Frequent references are given to Denzinger, Sacred Scripture and Journel, but there are few direct quotations from the statements of the magisterium, Scripture and Tradition. Because of its brevity this volume could readily confuse and mislead seminarians. They may well gather enough information to pass an examination, but they certainly would not be schooled in theology according to the mind of the Church. Doctor Ott’s book may be useful on occasion as a quick reference, provided that the inquirer does not expect to receive a complete treatment of any given point; and provided also that he later seeks clarification and amplification in a more detailed source.” (Copies of this review are available on request.)

So it seems that those who are trying to shoot down what is written on this site need to substantially step up their game if they want to be considered credible writers. And what is more important, they need to stop telling people that they can rely on the opinions of theologians versus those of the magisterium, which is exactly what King criticizes Ott for doing. Now you see why so much is quoted from the magisterium here, and from Holy Scripture. And oh, by the way, if you’re going to take my writings out of context, try to properly attribute the quote about this very subject to its proper source (Msgr. Fenton and the theologians Pohle and Preuss), instead of making it appear it is my personal opinion:

“The private theologian is obligated and privileged to study these documents, to arrive at an understanding of what the Holy Father actually teaches, and then to aid in the task of bringing this body of truth to the people. The Holy Father, however, not the private theologian, remains the doctrinal authority. The theologian is expected to bring out the content of the Pope’s actual teaching, not to subject that teaching to the type of criticism he would have a right to impose on the writings of another private theologian” (Msgr. J.C. Fenton,“The Doctrinal Authority of Papal Encyclicals, Pt. II” Sept. 1949, AER). As Revs. Pohle-Preuss write in The Sacraments, Vol. IV: “It matters not what the private opinions of…theologians [are]. It is not the private opinions of theologians but the official decisions of the Church by which we must be guided.” Why would anyone choose to believe theologians over the Roman Pontiff, Christ’s voice on earth? Do they not believe that “He who hears you, hears Me”?

Cardinal Ottaviani and Msgr. Fenton no match for Ott

Msgr. Fenton’s diaries reveal that he and Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani were good friends; he knew the man fairly well. When the decision in Mystici Corporis Christi on the jurisdiction of the bishops proceeding not from God directly but from the Roman Pontiffs was issued, Cardinal Ottaviani later published an important address about it. (Msgr. Fenton reports this in his article just quoted above.) Since Cardinal Ottaviani certainly had the pope’s ear, and was doubtless aware of his intent, we surely can trust what he said in his Institutiones iuris publici ecclesiastici in 1947, as reported by Fenton. Msgr. Fenton notes in his article: “[Ottaviani] tells us [that] up until the present time this thesis had been considered as more probable and even as sententia communis [common opinion of theologians] but that from now on it is to be held as entirely certain by reason of the words of the present Holy Father…

 “Monsignor Ottaviani assumes rightly that the authoritative statement of this thesis in the papal letter raises this teaching from the status of a more probable doctrine to that of a perfectly certain proposition. This observation on the part of Monsignor Ottaviani constitutes a valuable, practical corrective to a certain tendency towards oversimplification and MINIMALISM which had begun to invade some recent judgments on the doctrinal authority of the… encyclical letters.”

Yet in Ott’s work, we find it still listed as only a more probable opinion “(Sent. probabilior).” Already in the late 1800s, Henry Cardinal Manning, in his The Pastoral Office, demonstrated that it was then a common opinion, as Msgr. Fenton notes above.

It seems to be a very clear choice to believe the words of Cardinal Ottaviani, confidante of Pope Pius XII, and Ottaviani’s friend, Msgr. Fenton, over anything a theologian such as Ott, who obviously exhibits minimalist tendencies, might claim. Pope Pius XII’s decision is sententia certa (theologically certain) — implicit in Scripture and Tradition, as this teaching truly is — not probabilior. To deny this is censured as a theological error and constitutes a mortal sin against ecclesiastical faith (Cartechini’s Theological Notes, 1951). Pope Pius XII settled a matter that had been disputed for centuries, and when Rome speaks, the case is closed. Here is an example of Sententia Probabilis, taken from the Internet:

Sententia Probabilis – probable teaching – a teaching that is well founded on good authority yet is open to question. Pious beliefs and tolerated opinions also fall under this note and have the lowest degree of certainty.

1. Example: Judas received Holy Communion at the last supper
2. Denial of any of these teachings is licit provided piety is given to legitimate authority.

Dr. Ludwig Ott’s continued reference to Pope Pius XII’s decision on the bishops’ reception of jurisdiction as only probable clearly reveals his minimalist orientation. On pg. 9-10 of his work we read: “A teaching which is theologically certain is a doctrine on which the teaching authority of the Church has not yet finally pronounced but whose truth is guaranteed by its intrinsic connection with the doctrine of revelation.” But this could be true only when it is not a decision on a controverted matter that settles the question, as Pope Pius XII did with the bishops. Ott’s work was written years after the release of Humani generis and Pope Pius XII’s teaching on the ordinary magisterium and the possibility of infallible statements in encyclicals. Yet still Ott taught in his work that: “Only those …doctrinal teachings of the Church… which emanate from general councils representing the whole episcopate and the papal decisions ex cathedra [are infallible]. The ordinary and usual form of the papal teaching activity is not infallible.”  This contradicts papal teaching.

No wonder Rev. King above warns Catholics that his work has serious defects and cannot be trusted. And now we know why Traditionalists venerate him as their theologian extraordinaire! When a pope has gone to the trouble of making a decision on a certain matter, how can it then still be considered as a probable opinion?

According to Rev. Francis J. Connell, this would be the case only if the subject at issue is expressed by the pope or the Holy Office as something that “…cannot be safely taught… There are many doctrines not contained in the Deposit of Faith but so intimately connected with it that the authority to teach revealed truth infallibly would be rendered in great measure ineffective unless the infallible magisterium extended to them also. On this account it is held as certain by theologians that such doctrines constitute a genuine object of infallibility though indirect or secondary. And when there has been a definitive and official pronouncement on such a doctrine by the infallible magisterium THIS DOCTRINE TOO IS UNCHANGEABLE FOR ALL TIME” (“Does Catholic Doctrine Change,” November, 1947, AER). And here Rev. Connell refers to Pope Leo XIII’s decision on Anglican Orders (DZ 1966) where the pope pronounces that he declares them “invalid and entirely void: in light of the teachings of his predecessors and on Our authority, Our own inspiration and certain knowledge…”

Msgr. Fenton writes in yet another article: “Those who on their own initiative presume to question or to contradict a doctrinal statement proposed authoritatively in a papal encyclical, even in cases where the Holy Father does not make a definitive decision, may well be said to be striving for something MANIFESTLY BEYOND THEIR COMPETENCE. No individual and for that matter no group of individuals within the ecclesia discens can be said to have the competence to dispute with the visible head of the Church militant on a matter connected with the Church’s deposit of divine revelation. At least in an indirect manner, however, every rejection of an authoritative doctrinal pronouncement contained in a papal encyclical is opposed to the theological virtue of faith” (“The Religious Assent Due to the Teaching of Papal Encyclicals,” July, 1950, AER). This tells us who is TRULY competent in presenting the teachings of the Church and who is not.

We would like to close this section with a quote from Pope St. Pius X:

“When we love the Pope we do not dispute whether he commands or requires a thing or seek to know where the strict obligation of obedience lies or in what matter we must obey; when we love the Pope we do not say that he has not yet spoken clearly — as if he were required to speak his will in every man’s ear and to utter it not only by word of mouth but in letters and other public documents as well. Nor do we cast doubt on his orders, alleging the pretext which comes easily to the man who does not want to obey, that it is not the Pope who is commanding but someone in his entourage. We do not limit the field in which he can and ought to exercise his authority; we do not oppose to the Pope’s authority that of other persons — no matter how learned — who differ from the Pope. For whatever may be their learning, they are not holy, for where there is holiness there cannot be disagreement with the Pope” (Allocution, to the members of the Apostolic Union on their 50th anniversary, Nov. 18, 1912).So who loves the pope? Sadly, it would seem that very few at all truly love him today, for very few obey him without question.

What follows is directly connected to the Divine constitution continuum established in the papacy which was meant to be perpetuated in an unbroken chain for the Church to exist.

Jurisdiction, supplied and otherwise

The Vatican Council has defined that the pope possesses the fullness of jurisdiction in the Church, yet it seems that we always find those who quibble with what the pope teaches also in the company of those who question the Church’s teaching on jurisdiction. Accept the faith as it has always been taught and there are no worries; but no one seems able to do that. What we are supposed to believe regarding the Church’s mission on earth and jurisdiction is very clear. It is a de fide teaching of the Church Traditionalists refuse to accept. One of their favorite theologians, Louis Cardinal Billot has summed it up quite nicely:

“For authority [in the Church] comes directly from God through Christ, and from Christ to his Vicar, and from the Vicar of Christ it descends to the remaining prelates WITHOUT THE INTERVENTION OF ANY OTHER PHYSICAL OR MORAL PERSON” (Louis Cardinal Billot, S.J., Tractatus De Ecclesia Christi (Rome: Aedes Universitatis Gregorianae, 1927, Vol. 1. p. 524). This quote comes directly from Cardinal Billot, not some other source; it doesn’t get any simpler than that. Interrupt that chain and all contact with the divine is lost. This Church is a Divine, not a human institution and any meddling with its Divine constitution reduces it to just one more non-Catholic Church, as Rev. Joseph Riley notes below:

“The Church as it was constituted by Christ (Pope, bishops, priests) was established forever as a hierarchico-monarchical society… to remain unchanged until the end of time… NOWHERE IN REVELATION IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE OF ANY INTENTIONS TO PERMIT EXCEPTIONS TO — OR CHANGES IN — THIS CONSTITUTION IN FUTURE HISTORY BY THE USE OF EPIKEIA OR ON ANY OTHER BASIS. MEN ARE FREE OF COURSE TO FOUND OTHER CHURCHES, DIFFERING IN CONSTITUTION AND NATURE… BUT SUCH CHURCHES ARE NOT CHRIST’S… To maintain that Christ had some intention for the future, contrary to that made manifest in the actual establishment of His Church is a refusal to believe in the efficacy of the divine promise that Christ would be with the Church unto the consummation of the world; it is a denial of the [four marks] and indefectibility of this divinely established institution” (The History, Nature and Use of EPIKEIA in Moral Theology, Rev. Lawrence Joseph Riley, A.B., S.T.L., a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the School of Sacred Theology of the Catholic University of America, 1948, p. 330-31).

It is true that the Church must remain unchanged, but it was changed the day Pope Pius XII died and all the cardinals elected a heretic to office, accepted by all the bishops who later formally apostatized from the faith at the false Vatican 2 Council. THAT was the great apostasy, the stars (bishops) falling from heaven (the Church) in the Apocalypse. Without the election of a true pope the Church as Christ constituted it ceased to exist. Because everyone focused on the lack of Mass and Sacraments and refused to address the one element most necessary to the preservation of unity and stability in the Church, the window of time to elect a true pope slowly closed and now cannot be reopened; only a miracle can restore the papacy. This is the truth Traditionalists deny: the necessity of the papacy for the Church to exist at all.

What does Holy Scripture have to say about supplied jurisdiction? A reader recently checked this out and found the following commentary on St. Paul which led to further commentary on the same topic.

Rev. Leo Haydock’s Douay-Rheims Bible commentary

Romans 10:15: “And how can they preach, unless they be sent?” Haydock: Unless they be sent. Here is an evident proof against all new teachers, who have all usurped to themselves the ministry, without any lawful mission, derived by succession from the apostles, to whom Christ said, (John xx. 21.) As my Father hath sent me, I also send you. (Challoner) — The Almighty sends people to preach two different ways. The one is extraordinary by internal inspiration, as was that of John the Baptist, and all the other prophets; in which case, however, extraordinary proofs must be given that they are sent by God; and the other is ordinary, which is derived from Christ, and from the apostles and their successors, whom he has appointed to be his vicegerents on earth. (Estius).

John 10: 1 — “He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.  But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep…” Haydock: In this parable the fold is the Church: the Good Shepherd, and also the door is Christ: the thieves and robbers are false guides; the hirelings, such ministers as seek their own profit and gain, and a good living, as they call it; the wolves, heretics…

John 10: 7-8 — “I am the door of the sheep. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.” Haydock:  All they who came are thieves, meaning those who came of their own accord, without being sent: not so the prophets, who had their mission from God.”

 The Council of Trent, Sess. 23, Ch. 4:

”In the ordination of bishops, priests and of other orders… the consent or call or authority of the people or of any secular power or magistrate is not so required for the validity of the ordination but rather [this Holy Synod] decrees that those who are called and instituted only by the people or by the civil power or magistrate and proceed to exercise these offices and that those who by their own temerity take these offices upon themselves are not ministers of the Church but are to be regarded as ‘thieves and robbers who have not entered by the door’ (Jn. !0:1)” (DZ 960).

“If anyone says that the bishops are not superior to priests… or that orders conferred by them without the consent or call of the people or of the secular power are invalid; or that those who have been neither rightly ordained nor sent by ecclesiastical and canonical authority but come from a different source are lawful ministers of the Word and of the Sacraments, let him be anathema (DZ 967).

 Authentic interpretation of Can. 147

“An ecclesiastical office is not validly obtained without canonical appointment. By canonical appointment is understood the conferring of an ecclesiastical office by the competent ecclesiastical authority in harmony with the sacred canons.” Traditionalists never received an office, for neither Marcel Lefebvre or Bp. Ngo dinh Thuc themselves possessed or could possess an office after resigning their offices from Pope Pius XII and participating in communicatio in sacris with the Novus Ordo church. Certainly heretics are not competent ecclesiastical authorities and the sacred canons requiring the papal mandate and assignment of dioceses for the erection of seminaries all were ignored. The decision of the Sacred Congregation issued June 29, 1950 gives an authentic interpretation of this law, citing the text of DZ 967 above and yet another version of DZ 960, varying slightly from the Denzinger translation:

“Those who undertake to exercise these offices merely at the behest of and upon appointment by the people or secular power and authority, and those who assume the same upon their own authority, are all to be regarded not as ministers of the Church but as thieves and robbers who have entered not by the door…His holiness Pope Pius XII…in order to preserve more inviolate these same sacred principles and at the same time forestall abuses in a matter of such great importance…deigned to provide as follows…” (Canon Law Digest, Vol. 3, T. Lincoln Bouscaren, S.J., 1953; AAS 42-601) And here censures are levied against those who violate this law, reserved in a special manner to the Holy See. So in promoting the heresy of jurisdiction outside the proper ecclesiastical channels, Traditionalists deny the teachings of St. Paul and our Lord in Holy Scripture, the de fide teaching of the Council of Trent, and Pope Pius XII’s teaching on Canon 147, entered into the Acta Apostolica Sedis and binding on all Catholics. (And no, the usurper Francis in Rome and his false and frequent entries into this source do not diminish the weight it enjoyed under Pius XII.)

All Canon Laws remain in force

The wording in all these documents is the same; they all refer to those illicitly (most likely invalidly) ordained and consecrated by those not possessing papal authority to execute these actions, and therefore incapable of obtaining jurisdiction. How many Traditionalists daring to call themselves clergy sin gravely in ignoring the censures for heresy and other censures attached to the various canons, forbidding them to exercise any orders received, if indeed they even received them! And no, Canon Law does not “develop” during an interregnum to exclude these censures, when no true pope or the Sacred Congregations of the Holy Office are able to address questions regarding the law. In their Canon Law Digest commentary on Can. 17, Vol. 5 (1963), the canonists Bouscaren and O’Connor write the following:

“His eminence, the president of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Canons of the Code, Maximus Cardinal Massimi, declared shortly before his death… that it was his personal opinion he no longer preferred to give authentic replies since all the canons were already sufficiently clear in their obvious meaning.  It is interesting to observe that no officially promulgated replies have since been given for the Code of the Latin church since his death [in 1954].” So this very experienced cardinal, the last of his kind, believed that the Code should be taken exactly as it stood, supplemented by the authentic interpretations already given for over 35 years. In an eerie way it almost anticipates the death of Pope Pius XII four years later and seems to echo the very language both he and his predecessor, Pope St. Pius X, employed in their nearly identical papal election constitutions:

“The laws issued by Roman Pontiffs in no way can be corrected or changed by the assembly of Cardinals of the Roman Church while it is without a Pope, nor can anything be subtracted from them or added or dispensed in any way whatsoever with respect to said laws or any part of them” (Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis). The canonists Woywod-Smith and Bouscaren- Ellis all confirm that this means the cardinals “…cannot make any changes in the laws of the Church or dispense from them.” This is based on an ancient law dating back to the 13^th century, according to the footnotes of Pius XII’s constitution. So who do we believe, Pope Pius XII or the bloggers who tell us that such laws no longer apply, or can be ignored or minimalized? Pope St. Pius X’s election law was a codification of ALL papal election law, so are objectors also going to nullify the laws governing papal elections throughout history?

Conclusion

Documents in this author’s possession show that Sedevacantists, at least, knew they should elect a pope and were actually discussing it just before the Thuc consecrations. Plans by Thuc bishops and their supporters to hold an “incomplete council” were in the works as late as 1989. They decided instead to remain a headless band of mini-popes, continually dividing and subdividing over financial and doctrinal issues. These men are not just individuals who might be able to convey the Sacraments during an extended interregnum and therefore can be resorted to safely; they are men who regardless of their true status, must be considered outside the Church and therefore as non-Catholics until a true pope decides otherwise (Canon 2200).

There has not been one scintilla of evidence from a true pope or an ecumenical council that has ever been produced by Traditionalists proving that (a) The pope teaches jurisdiction comes directly from God Himself: (b) It can be supplied to them by anyone other than the pope and (c) They can operate outside the Divine constitution Christ established for His Church during an interregnum. Their few entirely inadequate attempts to justify their use of epikeiaand appeal to supplied jurisdiction, also to discredit papal teaching, will be addressed in position papers currently in progress and soon to be posted to the website.

As shown above, all these teachings are in direct contradiction of papal decrees and the de fide teaching of the Council of Trent. So no, thank you, we will not join you, but will follow St. Thomas Aquinas, who wrote on this topic:

“Such persons as are separated from the Church by heresy, schism, or excommunication, can indeed consecrate the Eucharist..; but they act wrongly, and sin by doing so; and in consequence they do not receive the fruit of the sacrifice, which is a spiritual sacrifice” (Article 7). And further, “But because he is severed from the unity of the Church, HIS PRAYERS HAVE NO EFFICACY” (reply to objection 3 of article 7). “And therefore whoever hears their mass or receives the sacraments from them, commits sin… By refusing to hear the masses of such priests, or to receive Communion from them, WE ARE NOT SHUNNING GOD’S SACRAMENTS; ON THE CONTRARY, BY SO DOING WE ARE GIVING THEM HONOR: BUT WHAT WE SHUN IS THE SIN OF UNWORTHY MINISTERS” (reply, objection 1). That says it all and should be sufficient in silencing these people; but of course it won’t.

Finally we leave you with one more quote on the authority of bishops from Pope Pius VI, Post tibi factum addressed to the Archbishop of Trier in 1782:

“Even in the case where the episcopal authority would come directly from God, as certain doctors claim, nevertheless it must be held for certain and firmly maintained that this authority does not extend of its own right to the faculty of dispensing from the general laws of the Church without the express or at least tacit permission of the superior power which has established these laws. IT IS IN FACT A DOGMA OF FAITH THAT the authority of the bishops, even admitting that it stems directly from Christ, remains dependent on the authority of the Roman Pontiff. Whence it follows that the bishops must ever remain subject to the decrees of the Apostolic See and to the venerable prescriptions of the canons under penalty, if it should happen, that one of them infringed these prescriptions and canons, of being refused the concession in the future. For the same reason it is not less certain that the authority of the bishops can itself be restricted and reduced within certain limits as to its exercise and its use by the superior hierarchical authority.”

THE POPES SPEAK WITH CHRIST’S VOICE; THE BISHOPS DO NOT. AND CERTAINLY DISGRACED AND DISOBEDIENT MEN, NOT EVEN CERTAINLY BISHOPS OR PRIESTS, NEVER COULD BE SAID TO SPEAK FOR HIM.

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Candace Owens, TPUSA and the deepfake psyop

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 19^th 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.

Spiritual survival manual update, Unity Octave prayers

by T. Stanfill Benns | Jan 16, 2026 | New Blog

(Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome.)

+St. Marcellus, Pope, Martyr+

In past blogs we have spoken about the katechon, a Greek word for the restraining power mentioned by St. Paul in 2 Thess. 2: 6-7: “He who withholdeth,” what and who prevents the arrival of Antichrist. LibTrad pseudo-clergy have acted as the katechon for decades, pretending to perpetuate the Church and provide the Mass and Sacraments, so it will appear as though they still exist and Antichrist has not yet come. For if they once admitted that the Mass could no longer be validly offered, then the question of how it could cease would need to be answered, even though that question was raised and answered long ago. And that Antichrist alone could take away the Sacrifice was answered in the same breath as the disappearance of the papacy.  Had Catholics consulted approved sources and not those false christs and hirelings sent to deceive them they would have known this.

It has been pointed out that various political entities are now vying for the katechon title, but the katechon is not a political entity. And he is not future tense, but past tense. For Antichrist has already come and gone; what we see today is the destruction wrought by his antichrist successors in the false papacy and their associates now running the world. But to appear as though one is the restraining power and Antichrist is yet in the future is a useful tool to promote the idea of some man on a white horse, riding in to save the day and promote world peace, the “Great Monarch,” fable we have spoken about before. But private prophecy and pagan fables won’t save us either. Nothing in Holy Scripture speaks of a such a thing.

Why are so many podcasters and so-called intellectuals so anxious to voice opinions about who Antichrist might be?  Is it in order to position their katechon and appear to have prevented his coming? Given the current pseudo-Christian climate, that would not be difficult to do. Or is it because they know full well who Antichrist was and they are trying to see if anyone else has identified him, anyone, that is, who could establish the fact with reasonable certainty that he has already reigned? What is baffling is how so many non-Catholics dedicated to sola scriptura or even those identifying as Catholic believe the Second Coming is just around the corner.  This could scarcely be the case if what precedes Antichrist’s coming has not yet occurred (great apostasy, removing of restraining power or katechon, Antichrist’s actual reign). It is absolutely nonsensical, for if Antichrist is living today, and we must identify him, the katechon has already been taken out of the way. So much for Holy Scripture!

Those trying to determine the meaning of Holy Scripture from political events have it backwards. It is the spiritual happenings in the Church that determine the course of political events in these times. Some think I am playing into the scenarios spun by Candace Owens (and others), but it was my intention from the beginning only to see where she is taking her investigation and it has highlighted quite a few things that needed to be pointed out. I have noted that she missed the real reason Kirk was murdered — his identification of the current “popes” as Commies.  She identifies as (an NO) Catholic who is at odds with Israel and Jewish belief and practice, even identifies Zionists as the synagogue of Satan, yet fails to acknowledge Paul 6 and her church as the reason for Jewish ascendency. I will continue to monitor her podcasts, because I want to see where she is going with all this and correct her errors for those who may be watching. But this should not be taken by readers as any endorsement of her assessment of the chaos, since she takes the political over spiritual approach. Spiritual must come first, because it alone explains the chaos.

Among other things, Owens stresses the alternative reality in which we now live. Alternative reality is defined as: A state of things that does not really exist (Cambridge Dictionary); or any[thing] that deviates from the [Catholic-Ed.] perception of reality” (VocabDictionary). As we have pointed out often in the past, only the laws generated by the scholastics teaching formal logic can put us in touch with reality (Rev. Michael J. Mahony, S.J, Essentials of Formal Logic, 1918). All other presentations of reality are false. This is why false forms of logic among LibTrads have been repeatedly exposed here; they are attempting to justify their alternative reality. Another thing noted by Owens is the omission or change in essential wording regarding historical and other events (“all” for “many; Holy “Spirit” for Holy “Ghost,” etc). But that began long ago in the Church, not the secular world and only accelerated with the false Vatican 2 council. The same can be said of certain pronunciations such as “pahpacy” rather than “paypacy,” first noticeable in the early days among LibTrads. The traditional pronunciation is the latter, as all dictionaries show. I consider it a form of disrespect to pronounce it otherwise.

Why do I bother trying to “interpret” it? Because young people genuinely seeking the truth are listening to her. Some of them are even Traditionalists, and yes, there are pray at home Catholics among her audience.  Owens claims to attend a Latin Mass, and yet we know the Mass ended long ago. She consults her “priests.” She complains of handlers, not realizing her own spiritual advisor is most likely one of them. She mentions CIA psychological warfare ops by name, but fails to mention the CIA’s “Psychological Strategy Plan for the Use of Doctrinal Warfare,” PSB D-33, launched June 29, 1953, on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The program goal was “to breakdown worldwide doctrinaire thought patterns…” and “foster a worldwide understanding and sympathetic acceptance of the traditions and viewpoints of America and the free world… paving the way from deviations from and schisms in totalitarian thought patterns.”  It was to be applied to a group “likely to include priests as commissars” (David Wemhoff, John Courtney Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition, Ch. 33).

This was the prelude to Vatican 2, undertaken during the very year Pope Pius XII found himself near death’s door after being poisoned for months. Coincidence? I don’t think so.  This was the final blow, after decades of Modernist poison had coursed through the veins of the Church and Communists and Freemasons had infiltrated Her ranks. We know that the coming of Christ is near because we have seen all of the signs in Holy Scripture fulfilled.  The only way that the chaos and descent into the pit of depravity in the world today can possibly be explained is by admitting the Holy Sacrifice has ceased, and no longer can any reparation be made on earth for the sins of men. That explains all. But these pseudo-intellectuals want to entertain their own explanations, products of their own Godless minds, so lacking in discernment, true knowledge and spirituality.

Satan is most active now because he knows his time is short. He cannot escape the fact that Christ will come to end it all and send him back to hell forever, bringing to a close his failed attempt to destroy the last vestiges of the Church. For we must be those vestiges, and the only thing left for us to do now is to try and leave our children and grandchildren instructions on what they must believe and how they must conduct themselves after we are gone, at least as far as we are able to assemble them. We cannot anticipate every possible development, but we can give them the basics of the faith to cling to after we have left this earth.

Several years ago, I wrote When There Is No Priest, a Survival Guide for Remnant Catholics. It is in desperate need of updating, and on the request of readers I am slowly accomplishing this. Please review the contents page below and feel free to suggest in the comments section any additions, changes or corrections to any subject you feel should be included.  It is vital that this guide be complete, as a legacy to our children. Many on this site are in their 70s and even 80s. We are the ones who best remember what our Church once was, what She taught and what happened to Her in the 1960s. As Owens notes, the entire history of this country is being rewritten and omitted by the powers that be to introduce the age of Satan. We must do what we can, while we can, to see that a printed copy of the truth is available to all.

Part I — Flocks Without Shepherds —————————-13

How Catholics kept their Faith without clergy, Arianism and St. Hermenegild,

The Protestant Reformation, No Mass or Sacraments on the American frontier,

The Japanese Church, The French Revolution, Kulturkampf, Ruthenians

refused to receive Sacraments from schismatics, Romanians warned by Our

Lady about schismatic priests, Even Orthodox refused to attend Communist

church services, Catholic Uniates in Ukraine, We ARE the Church of today

Part II — The Sacraments and Their Substitutes ———— 32

Baptism

Valid baptism, Illicit Baptism, “Of the Time and Place of Baptism”  

Confirmation ——————————————————————————– 37

Holy Eucharist/Spiritual Communion ——————————————– 38

The Saints on Spiritual Communion “The Spiritual Combat” by Fr. Dom Lorenzo Scupoli “The Blessed Eucharist,” by Rev. Michael Mueller, The Blue Army,

St. Michael and the Fatima children  

Penance/Act of Perfect Contrition ————————————————— 42

Obligation of eliciting the Act of Contrition, Heaven Open to Souls, No

forgiveness with Perfect Contrition a Jansenist heresy

Extreme Unction —————————————————————————- 49

Plenary indulgence at the hour of death, Spiritual and practical aids for the dead and dying *

Matrimony ————————————————————————————- 51

Comments on the matrimonial decrees of the Holy Office, Why Traditionalists kept these decrees from the faithful, circumstances that nullify marriage, what constitutes invalidity, Canon Law provides a remedy, documenting invalidity, separation and divorc 

Part III — The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

Cessation of the Continual Sacrifice

and the Abomination of Desolation ————————————- 63 

The Abomination, what or who is the abomination? The cessation of the Continual Sacrifice, consequences of fruitless sacrifices

But what about the Mass? ————————————————– 73

General comments on the Mass, St. Thomas Aquinas on the Sacraments, dry Mass, home church, history of home church

How do I explain to my family we must say Mass at home?

They Have Taken Away My Lord —————————————– 82

Sacraments, Rule of Conduct, Confession, The Holy Eucharist, Last Sacrament

Part IV — Three Methods of St. John’s Mass ——————- 95

Examination of Conscience,* Methods one, two and three

Part V — The Rosary, Fast and Abstinence, the Scapular — 114

            How to say the Rosary, Fast and abstinence laws, The Brown Scapular

Part VI — Catechetical Instruction and Homeschool ——— 120

Part VII — The Lay Apostolate ———————————— 121

Epilogue ——————————————————————- 124

Appendix I – Child’s Examination of Conscience ————————— 125

Appendix II – Marriage Decree from Canon Law Digest, Can. 1098 — 128

Appendix III – Lay Exorcism and Possession ——————————— 134

Appendix IV – Practical and Spiritual Preparation

for Death and Burial ——————————————————————- 143

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The great king, the Priory of Sion and the mystery of the bees

by T. Stanfill Benns | Dec 3, 2025 | New Blog

+St. Francis Xavier+

Prayer Society Intentions for December, Month of Christ’s Holy Birth

“Eternal Father, I offer to Thine honor and glory for my eternal salvation and for the salvation of the whole world the sufferings of Jesus in the Manger… the cold He suffered, the tears He shed and His tender infant cries.” — Raccolta

Introduction

A reader recently alerted me to a very interesting article on the Tradition in Action site. While this is definitely not a recommended site, the article should be read given the past information provided here on British Israel and its connections to Zionism and Communism. (See it HERE.) The article relates the establishment of a throne in the Vatican for no less than King Charles III of England, whose ancestors slaughtered tens of thousands of Catholics and defrauded them of their property, not to mention the wholesale destruction of Catholic architecture and culture throughout Great Britain. But the full significance of this cannot be understood without a deep dive into the history of Freemasonry and secret societies in general, particularly that society most responsible for the infiltration of the clergy and the establishment of “traditional Catholicism” — The Priory of Sion.

I first sounded the alarm on this organization in my 1990 book, Will the Catholic Church Survive…? where both Angelo Roncalli and Marcel Lefebvre were pinpointed as high-ranking members of the Priory and collaborators in the destruction of the Church. And while the Priory has since been debunked as a non-entity, a fraud and a deliberately created rabbit hole, current events and additional discoveries only serve to confirm it was very much what it was portrayed to be. In the last several years I have pointed out in this blog the fact that every Traditionalist movement founded in this country can be linked to a Masonic sect known as St. John Knights of Jerusalem, and this included Marcel Lefebvre’s St. Pius X Society. As noted in the 1990 book, Lefebvre’s various branches of his Society were called “priories,” as were those of Schuckhardt, Wathen and others. Lefebvre’s seminary was located in the diocese of Sion, Switzerland. He was ordained and consecrated by the Freemason Lienart. The Holy Blood, Holy Grail authors identify him as a Priory member.

Not so well known is Angelo Roncalli’s probable affiliation with the Priory. But certainly his pre-election history — his friendship with French Masonic characters such as Marsaudon, Herriot, Auriol — and his pandering to Freemasons as “pope” was a dead giveaway. Below are excerpts from Will the Catholic Church Survive…? that explain the nature of the Priory, its relation to what we see unfolding today and Roncalli’s role as a member.

The Priory of Sion: a history

“Roncalli’s behavior was consistent with that of a man who had received a mission. Knowing the extent of masonic influ­ence and infiltration in the Vatican, it has undoubtedly crossed the minds of many good Catholics that Brother Angelo was carrying out the orders of the Satanic Pontiff, the equivalent of Pope of all Masonry. Piers Compton, in his book The Broken Cross, relates the alleged initiation of Roncalli into the Masonic lodge of the Rose Croix. Pier Carpi’s book The Prophecies of John XXIII, divulges that Roncalli took the name “Johannes” at his initiation, which apparently took place while he served as Apostolic Delegate to Istanbul, Turkey, in 1935. The connection of Roncalli with the Rosicrucians could per­haps be put aside if it were not for the fact that many of Roncalli’s subsequent actions can be seen to confirm such an affiliation. His remark concerning the unimportance of bap­tism and conversion in the case of the Jews he helped to escape during World War II certainly is in keeping with Masonic doctrine. And his later appointment as Nuncio to France, combined with his anti-Catholic behavior there, pro­vides us with a clue to the source of his Masonic affiliations.

“In his work Satan in the Modern World, Monsignor L. Cristiani quotes the heretic and satanist Giovanni Papini as having written: “…the promised land of Satanism is France.”(!) (p. 164.) How can it be that the eldest daughter of the Church should become the promised land of Satanism? The answer lies in the history of France and the pervasive influ­ence of Albigensianism or Catharism, which took much deeper root there than was ever realized by the Church. That Albigensianism became the basis for Freemasonry is documented in the book Holy Blood. Holy Grail. (Delacourte Press; 1982.) This book presents no less than a believable collection of heretical horrors that is far and away the best exposition and condemnation of the secret societies ever written, although it is presented as a vindication of that particular ruling force of all the secret societies: the Priory of Sion.

“It will be sufficient here to offer a brief synopsis of this organization, its history and its aims, since a detailed analysis of it is beyond the scope of this book. The Priory first came into existence with the creation of the Knights Templar in 1090, by one Godfroi deBoullion. Its official headquarters was Notre Dame du Mont de Sion in Jerusalem. This occurred nine years before the founding of the Knights Templar by Hugues de Payon, a vassal of the count of Champagne. In 1188, the Templar Knights separated from deBouillion’s Order of Zion which then officially changed its name to the Priory of Zion. Its first Grand Master, Jean de Gisor, founded the Rosicrucians (Holy Blood, Holy Grail). The Priory remained a vital and moving force, which operated underground once the Templars were condemned and disbanded, and has grown phe­nomenally in power and influence over the centuries.

“In order to properly understand the premises on which the Priory bases its operation, it is necessary to delve somewhat into the history behind their devilish beliefs. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, relates that the Templars and the Priory were created to protect and reestablish on the throne of France an ancient bloodline. This hideous bloodline is said to be that of Christ and Mary Magdalene. The Priory legend has it that Mary Magdalene escaped to France with Joseph of Arimathea and Jesus, who did not die on the cross, but falsified his entire death and resurrection. (It is reluctantly, and with great sorrow, that we relate such blasphemy and vile heresy, even in way of proof.) This “bloodline” then, supposedly, was continued through the line of Merovingian kings, who ruled from the fifth to seventh century in an area known as the Languedoc.

This area is said to have been the site of a Jewish colony even prior to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, and subsequent exodus of many of the Jews from the Holy Land to other areas of the world. The Merovingian kings were surrounded by mystery. They were never crowned or anointed, but were considered kings as if by divine right, on the advent of their twelfth birthday. They were known as the sorcerer or thaumatergic kings. They were “…occult adepts, initiates in arcane sciences, and practitioners of the esoteric arts …they were said to be capable of clairvoyant or telepathic communication …miraculous curative powers …and bore a distinctive birthmark which distinguished them from all other men, and …which attested to their semi-divine or sacred blood.” (Holy Blood, Holy Grail, p. 210.)

“Although this book keeps the reader in suspense forever, it is not long before it becomes apparent that this “bloodline” the Templars and the Priory protect to this day is heretically presented as that of Christ and Mary Magdalene. Eventually, the Merovingians intermarried with nearly all the royal bloodlines of Europe, which makes their descendants “divine” as well. This inheritance is said to be especially centered in the British, French and German thrones. In fact, British Israelism, currently known as the Aryan Nations or “Identity” movement, can be seen to allude to this fact, since it suggests that the ancient bloodline of David is continued in the succession to Britain’s throne.

“It has been speculated that Hitler was linked to the Priory in some way, and may even have attempted to secede from it, thus bringing the wrath of Europe on his head. But if he attempted to secede, it was not owing to his moral sense, but rather to his burning desire to rule all and be subject to none. The upper echelon Nazis were immersed in the Grail legends and pre-Christian religious practices. (The “Search for the Holy Grail” is a veiled allegory imitative of the Gospel parables. It is used by the degrees of masonry to symbolize the search for man who became God; i.e., the bloodline. This is the mirror reverse of God’s Son, who as God, assumed a human body.) In her book The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, Constance Cumbey relates that Hitler was influenced early in his school years by the abbot of a Benedictine monastery school he attended near his home. The abbot “…was fascinated by the lore of the Albigensians or Cathars, who could probably be accurately classified as early New Agers, in that they believed man could gain the powers of a god.” It was here, Cumbey notes, that Hitler “…was initiated into the finer mysteries of the occult.” (p. 100.) Cumbey further instructs us, on page 102, as to the origin of the “Aryan” nations obsession of Hitler. She writes: “…one of the seven Atlantean races was that of the Aryans …the Aryans were the master race, or supermen of the Atlantean races.”

“As we have already learned, the Jewish settlement to which Mary Magdalene and Jesus “fled,” produced the Merovingian kings and the “bloodline” eventually. The founding of this line of kings has behind it a myth. Sup­posedly, a queen pregnant by her husband went swimming in the ocean and was impregnated a second time by some sort of sea creature. When the child Merovie (founder of the Merovingian dynasty) was born, the blood of both fathers ran in his veins. This could allude to an intermingling of Atlantean blood, for as Cumbey notes, the Atlanteans were known to have “…magical powers over …nature and psychic development.” (p. 100.) This would then account for the psy­chic and healing powers attributed to the Merovingians, who like Samson, wore their hair long and credited it as the secret of their power. (The sea creature might also have been Leviathon, the “sea serpent,” spoken of in Isaias 27:1 and elsewhere, and identified in the Douay-Rheims’s footnote to this text as the Devil.) However it is interpreted, it necessarily implies a link between the New Age and the Priory; Masonry and the New Age, and the Albigenses or Cathars as the progenitors of all the above.

The papacy and the Priory

“Can all this somehow be traced to Roncalli and/or Montini? Cumbey, an evangelical Protestant lawyer, fingered Roncalli in 1983 (Hidden Dancers of the Rainbow), when she wrote: “If there has been a single Catholic Pope who permitted the New Ager’s plan to take root within the Roman Catholic Church, it was Pope John XXIII, who is spoken of reverentially by New Agers and ‘Catholic’ modernists.” (p. 160.) This mammoth conspiracy has obviously covered all bases. Today, it is headquartered somewhere in France, probably the Languedoc region. Its surname indicates that it may have successfully penetrated all of the Catholic sects and factions, for it is given as Chivalry of Catholic Rules and Institutions of the Independent and Traditionalist Union or CIRCUIT, from a Priory publication of the same name. It is also called “The Rose-Croix Veritas.”

“Its meetings and method of operation are shrouded in secrecy, but since 1956, the Priory has been said to have experienced phenomenal growth. It has also been connected with the society known as “Hieron du Val d’Or,” characterized by the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail as being “…more Catholic than the Pope…,” but which, in fact, attempted to fuse Catholicism and Masonic principles. Action Francais, condemned by Pius XI, who placed all books pub­lished by its proponents on the Index, was no less than an attempt to place a Merovingian king on the throne of France. Today’s attempt to consolidate Europe politically and economically into a “United States of Europe,” is but a studied effort to create a modern empire to be ruled by “the descendants of Jesus.”(!)

“From Holy Blood, Holy Grail, we read: “This dynasty could not only occupy a throne of political power, but quite conceivably, the throne of St. Peter,” (p. 385.) Could the occupant of any such throne really be a pope, or would he rule a kingdom other than Christ’s? For those who loudly proclaim that Roncalli was a dear, sweet man and is being libeled; or sneeringly state that “no one can prove” he was a freemason, we would like to observe that masonry operates secretly for a reason. That reason is obvious: no one will then be able to determine who is on the up and up. For our purposes, we must content ourselves with the fact that Roncalli is a heretic, but the following infor­mation should prove he was, without a doubt, more.

1. Since the Priory’s inception, according to Holy Blood, Holy Grail, “…every grand master, on assuming his position, has adapted the name Jean (French for John) …This succession was clearly intended to imply an Hermetic papacy based on John, in contrast (and perhaps, opposition) to the esoteric one based on Peter …Roncalli caused considerable consternation when he chose the name John XXIII, anathematized since it was last used … by an anti-pope … In 1958 (Jean) Cocteau held the grand mastership …(when) Pope Pius XII died …and the assembled cardinals elected Roncalli. …Cocteau did not die until 1963.” (pp. 132-133.) Roncalli was only a transitional Pope, [as arranged by no less than the CIA] and his death coincided with that of Cocteau. If both “thrones” fell vacant at the same time, did Montini alone fall heir to the “throne?” Was the “transition” Roncalli was designated to make the deliverance of the papacy into the hands of the “Satanic Pontiff?” …
2. Roncalli has been said to be obsessed with John the Baptist. Thus, he gave us the reason for selecting the name John as his love for Christ’s cousin. (See “Urbi et Orbi,” Oct. 1958.) Actually, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist are held in high esteem by Freemasons, who Piers Compton reports, make a point of meeting on their feast days (Dec. 27 and June 24). It is said by some that both John the Baptist and John the Divine were Essenes, although the Catholic Church denies this. (See Essenes; Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.) Since the Essenes were a Jewish sect, the Church sees no need to bother with them. …Holy Blood, Holy Grail, however, gives us the real reasons behind Roncalli’s use of the name John on page 55: “…the Templars were infected with the Johannite or Mandian heresy, which denounced Jesus as a false prophet and acknow­ledged John as the true Messiah.”
3. “So Roncalli was honoring Masonic tradition. And Roncalli’s “mission,” mentioned earlier, was to act in a capacity which coincided with the role of his idol, John the Baptist. For Roncalli was the precursor; the voice crying in the modernist wilderness; the one who would prepare the way for the “Rex Mundi.” Further reason for Roncalli’s choice of name as Pope is given by Jean Bardet in his Les Clefs De La Recherche Fondamentale. On page 72, he writes: “…Roncalli…was elected the 28th of October [and] took the name of John XXIII, in honor of France, for John XXIII was the last Pope of Avignon.” According to authors Lincoln, Leigh and Baigent, in their work Holy Blood, Holy Grail, The Hieron du Val d’Or admitted the existence of a hidden pope and his entourage, which of course would include bishops, waiting in the wings to act either as a replacement for or an alternative to the current church in Rome:
4. “’The Hiéron’s agenda was the creation of a new Habsburg and Catholic Holy Roman Empire with a French temporal and spiritual head in the manner of the Grand Monarch, an association of Europeans bound by common law and dedicated to advancing the mission of Christ the King.” (Here they cite sources linked to the “Catholic” secret society Marcel Lefebvre reportedly belonged to, the Priory of Sion.) “They [the Hieron] claim the existence of a secret parallel Catholic tradition called l’Eglise d’Avignon (Church of Avignon), which they trace to the medieval Papacy installed in Avignon from 1309 to 1378. The claim is that it continued in secret with a Pope who represents the esoteric aspects of the Catholic Church. L’Eglise d’Avignon is said to serve as an intermediary between the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox tradition.’
5. This is an interesting comment when we consider that the first John XXIII was elected at Pisa (a council never considered ecumenical by the Church) and was later deposed at Constance. It seems that the plan to unite the papacy and the monarchy was conceived long ago, but was dealt a setback once Martin V was elected at Constance and the papacy permanently established in Rome, once again. Roncalli’s contribution to the “bloodline,” as “pope” was to insert the “precious blood” into the divine Praises that the God-man might become a man-God, as surely it did when Montini (Paul VI) embarked on his campaign to deify man.
6. In St. Malachy’s prophecies, John XXIII is designated as “Pasteur et Nautionner” (Shepherd and Navigator). The official title of the Priory’s Grand Master is “Nautionnier. Whether these prophecies are truly genuine, or clever forgeries as some have suggested, they accurately identified Roncalli’s dual personality while “pope.” And, the objection cannot be made that Roncalli’s identification with Malachy’s “motto” affords him legitimacy, for Malachy’s list contains mottoes for several anti-popes.
7. Roncalli was the first “pope” to contradict the excom­munication of his predecessors for membership in a Masonic sect. His relaxation of this application of Canon Law came with “Pacem in Terris,” which extolled the United Nations and granted a general relaxation of discipline begun at the start of Roncalli’s reign. In her Son of Perdition, C. Lereux relates: “John XXIII …allowed a revision of Canon Law to be expected. While awaiting these ‘new laws,’ everyone proceeded to do and say whatever they wished.” (p. 36.)
8. In June of 1960, Roncalli issued an apostolic letter on the “Precious Blood.” The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grailclaim that he attached “…a hitherto unprecedented significance to that blood. It emphasized Jesus’ suffering as a human being and maintained that the redemption of mankind had been effected by the shedding of His blood … If man’s redemption was achieved by the shedding of Jesus’ blood, his death and resurrection become incidental.” (p. 135.) How strange that Roncalli would attach such significance to the very reason for the Priory’s existence if he was not a member. One would need to be very blind, indeed, to fail to make the connection between Roncalli and Freemasonry in the face of such damning evidence.

The false prophet and the Great Monarch

“It is difficult to see, in light of what we know today, how Roncalli could have been anything OTHER than the false prophet spoken of in Apocalypse 13, vs. 11. E.S. Berry, in his Apocalypse of St. John, writes: “The beast arising from the earth is a false prophet, the prophet of Antichrist …the false prophet …will be endowed with the plenitude of satanic powers to deceive the nations, as indicated by his resemblance to the lamb. The prophet will probably set himself up in Rome as a sort of anti-pope,” (p. 135). Reverend P. Huchede, in his little work The History of AntiChrist, tells us: “…this false prophet will be an individual person … he will not be a king, or a general of an army, but a clever apostate fallen from the episcopal dignity… he will become the first preacher of the false messiah,” (p. 24). C.C. Martindale quotes Father Allo on the false prophet in his commentary on the Apocalypse: “…the false prophet represents that vague, solvent ‘toleration,’ which was then going to become Gnosticism…the lazy, flattering notion that all creeds are finally of a muchness is, indeed, as modern as it was prevalent in ancient but decadent days. There could then, be two ‘foci’ of anti-Christianity–the openly persecuting state and the vague, subservient ‘religion,’ which the state could patronize without damage to itself.” (A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, p. 1206.) (End of Will the Catholic Church Survive…? quotes)

Tying the British and French monarchies into all this, Tim Cohen writes in his Antichrist and a Cup of Tea (1998): “The Priory of Zion has in fact been more an historical tool of the English monarchy and nobility than of the French. It is of significant interest therefore that the Priory of Zion, the Temple Knights and the Rosicrucians, all of which ultimately derive from the earlier Order of Zion, together gave rise to English and French Freemasonry. Moreover in 1348…the order of the Garter became the major control point from which the English monarchy exercised its global influence… The supposed Protocols of the Elders of Zion appears not to be a Judaic work but a modified work of the Priory of Zion possibly having been altered for public consumption with the complicity of the illuminati. Nevertheless with much contrivance the work was later advanced as proof of a Jewish conspiracy…

“From 1188 to the present day, the Priory of Zion has been the benefactor of a struggle for dominance between English and French royalty and nobility. Originally a French-English oligarchical order and secret society from which came the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians, its control came to rest largely with the English side even while a number of its grandmasters resided in France… The Merovingians and the Priory of Zion have long-awaited what the false prophet Nostradamus (also the Protestant John Locke and many Catholic prophecies so-called, which cannot always prove to be reliable) referred to as the ‘great monarch,’ the ultimate Prince of Lorraine and priest-king who would work with the Pope to establish a New World Order.” From what has been said in the opening paragraph of this blog, it appears that the identity of this “great monarch” has now been revealed by the Novus Ordo heresiarch and usurper Leo 14, who apparently has provided a throne for Charles III in what was once the Holy Place itself.

Conclusion

So now we can add to the British Israel mix the “French Connection,” something Candace Owens has recently been exploring in her podcasts after reports emerged that she was threatened with assassination by the French government for her exposure of French first lady Brigitte Macron as a biological man. She also has raised the possibility that Charlie Kirk’s assassination can be traced to French and Israeli operatives. She has noted that there seems to be some association with certain underground group symbols, namely bees, and says she has dreamt of bees. Utah’s state symbol is a beehive, as Owens has mentioned, and the state’s population is predominantly Mormon. According to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism:

“Nineteenth-century leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consciously created symbols to buttress their community. The most persistent of these pioneer symbols was the beehive.” As Tim Cohen notes, “At the highest degrees and levels Freemasonry and its plethora of cult and occult branches, which include Mormonism, Theosophy, the New Age movement and even Anton Lavey’s Church of Satan not only openly deride Christ and his work but explicitly advocate the worship and adoration of Lucifer (Satan) as a means to achieve individual godhood and World Peace.” And there are those who have labeled the New Apostolic Reformation as a sort of neo-Mormonism.

Owens tells us that the Bolsheviks have infiltrated this country and we soon will be at war. She says she does not expect to see her children grow up. She blames the Masonic founding of this country for its demise, telling us her British “priest” informed her about this. She has so much of it figured out. And yet the bees surrounding her in her dreams are frantic little messengers warning that she is caught in the web of the very thing she is trying to expose.

According to online sources, the official emblem of the Priory of Sion is partly based on the fleur-de-lis, which is found throughout Saint Sulpice (a society associated with the Priory). The emblem represents a bee, and the tradition of long-haired kings of France known as the Merovingian dynasty, including Childeric, who was found with 300 gold bees in his tomb.

Roncalli’s invalid election smoothly segued into the ascent of Paul 6 as the next usurper of the papal throne. Who was the successor of Priory Grand Master Jean Cocteau following his death in 1963? Giovanni Battista Montini, and he brazenly displayed the proofs of his Priory affiliation on his coat of arms below. Note the three fleur-de-lis bees. And what is beneath them? The beehive — even Montini’s tiara resembled a beehive, unlike that of previous true popes. The coat of arms tells us the Priory had finally captured the papacy, but that is not all

Owens’ other observations regarding Zionism and its true driving force are also realized in Paul 6. All the answers she is searching for can be satisfied in the spiritual, not the political or secular realm. But the “priests” handling her today will never reveal this. Civil governments would never have toppled had the Church not been destroyed first. Unless the abomination of desolation had entered in as Pope Paul IV predicted in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio in 1559, we would not be witnessing the wholesale triumph of Freemasonry today.

If it is really truth that Owens thirsts for, as she claims — if that is what really matters, as it should matter to all of us — then all avenues must first be exhausted to find it. She owes her listeners the true explanation for why we are facing war, the loss of our freedoms, the annihilation of our religion and culture. Faith alone will survive, Our Lady told the children at La Salette, not a mad scramble of political conspiracies mixed with what passes for that faith. Removing the linchpin that will unleash on the world the real reason why we find ourselves in this predicament is the only pathway to truth. The papal see has been usurped.  Antichrist has come, the Mass has ended, and without Christ offered on our altars daily, as Dr. Nicholas Gihr wrote in 1897, the world is doomed:

“It is by Christ’s Blood in the Mass that the anger of God is daily placated, the vengeance of the Divine judgment disarmed, that He no more curses the earth on account of man, whose mind and thoughts are prone to evil from his youth (Gen. 8:21). When this “Sacrifice for sins” shall be no longer celebrated, then ‘there remains but a certain dreadful expectation of judgment and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries’ (Heb. 10: 26-27).”