by T. Stanfill Benns | Dec 12, 2025 | New Blog
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Introduction
Most Traditionalists assume the Great Monarch prophecies are of Catholic origin, since approved authors writing before 1958 seem to endorse these prophecies as genuine. But doctrine, not prophecy is the bedrock of belief; prophecy and private revelations are proposed for belief on human, not Catholic faith. In fact, Catholics need not even profess belief in revelations of this nature, even when they come from the mouths of saints, and in doing so they commit no sin. Even though a number of saints foresaw the advent of a Great Monarch, many alternate explanations can be offered for their various predictions. Some can be categorized as affected by political interpolations of the various time periods in which these saints lived. Others may easily apply to some other personage not accounted for by the one commenting on the prophecy. Theologians teach that a seer or “prophet” can incorrectly interpret a revelation from God or unintentionally misapply it. Mistakes can be made relaying the message and existing prejudices can affect the transmission of the message, interfering with its accuracy. Mistranslation and misquotation are not uncommon. And errors of the time may be reflected in the prophecy.
Anytime the specific interpretation of a prophecy of any kind interferes with the Church’s ordinary teaching, that prophecy is not to be trusted, Pope Benedict XIV says. To properly evaluate the Great Monarch prophecies, we must keep these exceptions foremost in our minds. The Protestant philosopher John Locke relates that the legend concerning the great monarch-holy pope alliance first began to circulate during the late Middle Ages both in France and Germany, independent of any then-existing “private prophecies.” (Later the visionary Michel Nostradamus popularized the Great Pope/Great King prophecies, possibly owing to his clandestine relations with Satanic members of the royal de Medici family.) Bonnie Prince Charlie’s efforts to regain the English throne and the periodic appearance of pretenders to the throne of France explain the popularity of the Great Monarch predictions.
The Teutonic knights, a German order modeled on the Templars is said to have secretly continued that order in conjunction with their English and French counterparts, the Knights Hospitaller. The Teutonic Knights admitted only racially pure Germans of noble ancestry and cultivated the Great Monarch legend to promote the belief that a long-awaited emperor from imperial Germany was destined to rule Europe. In a similar manner, a French secret society today known as the Priory of Sion was carefully guarding the ancient bloodlines of England and France with the help and approval of certain French prelates. The Priory used the romantic legends of King Arthur’s Court and the Holy Grail to conceal their work in wrappings appealing to the common man. It was these pseudo-Catholic prelates embroiled in the work of the Priory that Our Lady came to La Salette to warn us against.
Ancient history is filled with examples of the anticipation of savior kings allied with holy priests, both in pagan and pre-Christian literature. But it was the Israelites who in Christ’s time looked for a glorious earthly king and therefore rejected Him, even though he was of the Davidic line as Scripture foretold. This is because they preferred the “second Messiah” of their own understanding to the true Messiah sent by God. “For the Jews believed that Zacharias 1:20 foretold two Messiahs, one a suffering Messiah, descended from the tribe of Joseph, Elias and the priest Zadok, and the other a glorious messiah, son of David. The Chosen People of Christ’s time were a carnal people who had little use for suffering; they believed they already had suffered enough. They longed for a return to the time of the kings of earlier Israelitic centuries — not unlike the medievalism of the German people — and their leaders obliged them by creating a projection of a second Messiah to satisfy this longing. Therefore, they denied Christ as Eternal High Priest in favor of this earthly king yet to come.
The Priory and La Salette
In mentioning the Secret of La Salette above, some will point out that the seer Maximin gave a lengthy testimony regarding the Great Monarch. Maximin’s secret, that a Great Monarch will rule in the end times, was never published; he released it only to Pope Pius IX, and now it seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. Easily influenced by others but always a fierce supporter of the apparition, Maximin obviously confided some details to an acquaintance with Monarchist convictions, who then published an unofficial version of the boy’s secret. Although Maximin strongly renounced this publication and forced its retraction, the secret was published as his own by many different commentators. Melanie’s secret was likewise embellished and misrepresented by her own confessor.
It is interesting that there appear to be connections between those who wrongfully published Maxmin’s secret and one of the key figures of the Priory of Sion, Abbe Berengar Sauniere of Rennes le-Chateau in the Pyrenees. Author Philip Coppens says that Sauniere and the founder of the Mariavite schism, the excommunicate Abbe Boullan, both Monarchists, were in contact with each other. Like Sauniere, Boullan had accumulated wealth that no one could quite account for. He was a follower of the Theosophist Madame Blavatsky and also frequented Rosicrucian circles according to Mgr. Cristiani. Boullan lived with a woman, Adele Chevalier, who was a former friend of Melanie Calvat’s.
Sauniere, Coppens relates, was very interested in the Secret of La Salette, as was Boullan. It is even rumored that Sauniere had an affair with a distant actor relative of Melanie Calvat’s. During this same time period another Monarchist, the alleged convert Leon Bloy (championed by Maritain, Montini’s close friend) also was a patron of these same circles. Bloy was obsessed with La Salette throughout his lifetime. Sauniere, Boullan and Bloy all frequented the (Priory) Chapel of San Sulpice; it is impossible to believe that they never connected with each other. Bloy’s curious fascination with La Salette is confirmed by the 1908 publication of his book, She Who Weeps, an anthology of his writings on the apparition. Despite the defense of his friends who swore to his orthodoxy, Mgr. Cristiani calls Bloy nothing less than a Satanist: for his writings reveal that he believed the Holy Ghost and Lucifer were one and the same. That no Great Monarch of a truly Catholic heritage has ever appeared can be explained by what the female La Salette seer Melanie said: that many things would come about only if morals improved and the people did penance. The same message was delivered at Fatima. Needless to say, no penance was done and morals only disintegrated.
Another item worth noting is that all those predicting a Great Monarch place him as ruling prior to the reign of Antichrist. This is evidenced in Rev. Holzhauser’s comments: “The Sixth Age of the Spirit commences with the powerful Monarch and the Holy Pontiff as previously mentioned and will last until the appearance of the Antichrist… Antichrist and his army will conquer Rome, kill the Pope and take the throne. He will restore the Turkish regime destroyed by the Great Monarch. The Jews, knowing from the Bible that Jerusalem will be the seat of the Messiah, will come from everywhere and accept Antichrist as the Messiah.”
Antichrist’s armies did conquer Rome and usurp the papacy, but it was a quiet and totally clandestine takeover. It was known however amongst the secret societies, who broadcast their triumph by popularizing Nero’s Cross, the well-known universal “peace” symbol. According to ancientsymbols.org, “Though the Cross of Nero became known as a peace symbol in the 1960s, it began as a mockery of the Christian Cross and a symbol of Christianity’s failure. [The Saracens in the early centuries A.D. emblazoned it on their shields.] The sign depicts a circle containing an inverted Cross with its anchor shattered, denoting Nero’s idea that world peace might be achieved without Christianity. The Dead Man’s Rune is another name for the emblem.” And of course, since St. Perter was crucified upside down, this also translates to the death of the papacy itself. The peace symbol was first advanced as such for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958.
All this was done to prepare the world for the usurpation of the Holy See and the final war to banish Christianity. By setting up a throne for Charles III in the Vatican, the Roman usurpers are preparing the way for the eventual reign of their version of Antichrist. But as has been stated here before, how could any version of the Man of Sin correspond to Scriptural prophecies today? Paul 6 undoubtedly accomplished all that Holy Scripture attributed to Antichrist. How destroy the Church and Catholic culture now? How dethrone a true pope and take away the true Latin Mass, not the ones falsely celebrated by LibTrad pseudo-clergy and some Novus Ordo outlets? By presenting as the high priest of an apostate religion, as will be seen below.
Should we assume, given the above, that the seers who predicted a Great Monarch were not reliable or that their message was deliberately corrupted? Not necessarily. We have said that the Great Monarch’s arrival was conditional, provided that Catholics performed sufficient prayer and penance, which was not the case. It also is possible that in seeing things as in a vision, some seers saw what appeared to be priests and bishops dressed in clerical garb functioning after the arrival of Antichrist, but who were not actually what they appeared to be. And the enemy used their prophecies to redirect Catholics into the “Traditionalist” sects and other channels. Meanwhile, Paul 6 reigned in Rome as the high priest of Zionism.
Paul 6: True champion of Zionism and false claims of antisemitism
It seems enough to point to the fact that Paul 6 publicly wore the Jewish High Priest’s Ephod or rationale (hanging between each side of Paul 6’s stole in this photo at left), to prove that he indeed was at least an agent or a secret son of some sort to those Jews working in concert with Freemasonry. Was he their Messiah? No one pretends to know Freemasonry’s secrets, but their pyramid boasts Antichrist as its pinnacle. That they considered him a sort of Jewish savior is clear from these links:
https://legallegacy.wordpress.com/2020/10/28/october-28-1965-pope-paul-vi-absolves-jews-of-collective-guilt-for-the-crucifixion-of-jesus-christ/; https://www.ajc.org/news/from-regret-to-acclaim-a-jewish-reaction-to-nostra-aetate; https://mysteriuminiquitatis-2thessalonians2.blogspot.com/2023/08/paul-vi-wearing-jewish-freemasonic.html
What is the significance of the ephod? The Biblehub site relates: “The ephod was a sacred vestment worn by the high priest… serving as a symbol of the high priest’s role as a mediator between God and the people. The ephod was fastened with a skillfully woven waistband and had two shoulder pieces, each set with an onyx stone engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. This design signified the high priest’s representation of the entire nation before God, bearing their names on his shoulders as he performed his duties (Exodus 28:12)… As the high priest wore the ephod, he acted as an intermediary between God and the Israelites, offering sacrifices and prayers on their behalf… In addition to its role in mediation, the ephod was also associated with divine guidance. The high priest used the ephod in conjunction with the Urim and Thummim, mysterious objects placed in the breastpiece of judgment, to discern God’s will in important matters (Exodus 28:30)… Beyond its immediate function, the ephod also appears in other biblical contexts, sometimes associated with idolatry or improper worship. For example, Gideon made an ephod that became a snare to him and his family (Judges 8:27). This misuse of the ephod serves as a cautionary tale about the potential for sacred symbols to be corrupted when removed from their intended purpose and divine instruction.
Paul 6, then, in wearing the ephod, officially announced to the Jews and those among the public who recognized its significance, the Judaization of what once was the Church and the direction of all its corrupted ceremonies and prayers to the benefit of the Jewish people. That it also signified the idolatrous nature of the Novus Ordo Missae at the same time indicates the extent of Montini’s wickedness and that of his fellow conspirators. Jewish officials flocked to Rome to consult with Roncalli and Montini during their time there. As Vicomte Leon de Poncins and many others have fully documented, John 23 and Paul 6 openly schemed with the Jews to so arrange and conduct Vatican 2 that the resulting remodeled “church” could in no way offend their beliefs. The oft-quoted 1966 article in Look magazine, How the Jews Changed Catholic Thinking offers clear testimony to this. The Jews demanded and received the removal of any reference to their guilt in Christ’s death, openly stated during Good Friday services. And it is no coincidence that they were assisted in their quest by none other than Pro Deo University’s Felix Morlion, arch-conspirator and champion of religious liberty.
As a result, the false Vatican 2 council taught that the Jews of yesterday and today, as a whole, cannot be blamed for Christ’s death and are not to be reviled or persecuted by Catholics — they intimated that this was only a reiteration of the teachings of Mit brenunder sorge and other papal documents. It is Paul 6’s insistence that the Jews not be considered as reprobate, i.e., incapable of salvation that compromised the faith. Already John 23 had removed reference to the “perfidious” (unbelieving) Jews in the Good Friday liturgy. Paul 6 strengthened this decision of his predecessor by further revisions, calling for the removal of any references to the “conversion of the Jews,” the existence of a “veil over their hearts” and the need for deliverance “from their darkness.” And this contrary to the commonly accepted interpretation of these Scriptural passages as indicative, at least, of the complicity of the Jewish elders in Christ’s crucifixion.
The primary author of Nostra Aetate, Gregory Baum, was a convert to Catholicism. His father was a Jewish professor, his mother a Protestant. He was ordained to the priesthood sometime in the 1950s and served as an advisor at the false Vatican 2 council. He later left the priesthood and married an ex-nun, all the while proclaiming his bi-sexuality. He was an early proponent of gay rights, (Wikipedia). In promulgating Nostra Aetate, Paul 6 inferred, contrary to the clear teaching of Holy Scripture and the Church for 2,000 years, THAT THE JEWS COULD ANTICIPATE SALVATION WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CONVERSION. This is a clear denial of Scriptural truth. Was he not then their Messiah, by “saving” them from their previous fate?! And certainly John Paul 2 strengthened this notion beyond the Jews’ fondest dreams.
All this is contrary to the truths of faith prescribed by Pope St. Pius X in his Oath Against Modernism which reads, in part: “With a firm faith I believe that the Church, guardian and mistress of the revealed word, was instituted proximately and directly by the true and historical Christ Himself, while He sojourned among us, and that the same was built upon Peter, the chief of the apostolic hierarchy, and his successors till the end of time… I accept sincerely the doctrine of faith transmitted from the apostles through the orthodox fathers, always in the same sense and interpretation, even to us…” And from the Council of Trent: “…No one who distorts the Sacred Scripture, according to his own opinions, shall dare to interpret the said Sacred Scriptures contrary to the sense which is held by holy mother Church, whose duty it is to judge regarding the true sense and interpretation of holy Scriptures, or even contrary to the unanimous consent of the Fathers…,” (DZ 786).
So not only did Paul 6 deny the clear words of Holy Scripture in his pronouncement on the Jews, he also broke with the unanimous opinion of the Fathers and the common and constant teaching of his predecessors, violating that “same sense and interpretation” ever maintained by the continual magisterium. He obliterated Tradition by altering the liturgy and its condemnation of the Jews, but then that paled in comparison to his abrogation of the Latin Mass. But we need not insist that Paul 6 be formally identified as the Jewish Messiah for the prophecies on Antichrist to be fulfilled. Rev. Denis Fahey in his The Kingship of Christ and Conversion of the Jewish Nation identifies this point as only probable, not certain. At least part of this point is fulfilled, however, for Fahey says the Jews will assist Antichrist in setting up his kingdom and certainly this was the case. A probable opinion is not binding on anyone. One, it is only an opinion; two, probability is measured in degrees. Acclamation as their actual Messiah would mean little, Fahey explains, since some 25 men have enjoyed this same distinction over the course of Jewish history. It seems then that even without an actual affirmation, Montini served them well in this role.
Conclusion
The Great Monarch prophecy certainly cannot be fulfilled by King Charles III. It was a conditional prophecy, a grace to be earned only by prayer, reformed morals and penance. But the Zionist goal of seizing the papacy for their own definitely was fulfilled in Montini, the restored high priest of Judaism. Those decrying Bibbi Netanyahu and Zionism, especially members of the Novus Ordo sect, are deluded if they believe the real enemy is any ruler of present-day Israel. The spiritual leader of Israel, the power behind the throne, continues to reign through his successors in Rome. He clearly told us who he was. Anyone seeing this who remains in the Novus Ordo or Traditionalist sects and oppose the aims of Zionism are complicit in the takeover of the Church for not speaking out. Anytime an apostate openly reveals himself as such and the source of his apostasy is not investigated and fully revealed, silence and a lack of due diligence imply consent. The first photo of Paul 6 above has been in existence since the late 1970s. It triggered all of our own research and conclusions.
So those condemning Zionism who present as Catholic, even though they may rightly link it to a worldwide conspiracy — to Freemasonry and the Illuminati — are guilty of obscuring the truth. They may not be fully aware of it or know it at all; they may know it and dismiss it as impossible or capable of a rational explanation. Most likely, if they dismiss it, they do so because they have bought the lie that the Church can never lose her hierarchy, even though the Church Herself has never taught this and Holy Scripture contradicts this false assumption. And that includes those who are exposing the conspiracy behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk and what has developed since his death in September.
The one thing about Kirk that has been missed altogether is the comments he made about Francis and Leo 14 before he died. He styled them as Marxists and unworthy pastors and suggested Catholics should find someone else to lead them. He then joined this observation with a condemnation of Israel’s conduct in the war with Gaza. And that, my friends, is why he was executed. If the significance of these comments is not properly appreciated, the real reason for his death will never be fully explored and exposed. Those advocating for Kirk re-echo his cry “Go max.” It’s time that all of those who really wish to stand for truth not just mouth those words, but actually put them into action. Viva Cristo Rey!
by T. Stanfill Benns | Dec 3, 2025 | New Blog
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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.
- 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?” …
- 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.”
- “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:
- “’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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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).”
by T. Stanfill Benns | Nov 21, 2025 | New Blog
+Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary+
My apologies for not posting sooner, but family obligations and other unexpected events took precedent. The following blog, which is longer than usual, will hopefully make up for the lack of content over the past few weeks. The author quoted at length below describes in detail what we are witnessing, and she wrote her work in 1970. If those trying to keep tabs on the destruction of the Church really wish to understand what is at its very roots, and where we are in apocalyptic time, she explains it well.
Climbing the Masonic pyramid
In the work available on this site, Liberalism’s Shameful Legacy, we explained how the Protestant Reformation destroyed not only the faith of Catholics but Catholic culture, in England as well as in Germany. While we have stated many times that it is not “the Jews” per se that are primarily responsible for the destruction of the Church, it is true, as pointed out by Msgr. Jouin and others, that they have a hand in that destruction and that Zionists rule the worldwide organization that is responsible for the Church’s demise. But Zionists are only a small and radical faction of all world Jewry, and as explained here before, those calling themselves Jews today are more likely to identify with it as a cultural rather than a religious group. It must also be understood that those presenting as Jews today are not the Jews from whom Christ sprang; few of today’s Jews are racial Jews and their religion is not the Torah, but the blasphemous rabbinic Talmud and the Kabbala, which is basically a book of magic.
We are working on a new and updated Masonic Pyramid to demonstrate the progression of Zionist world rule, for we can see that they are at the very top; their rise to power is near completion. When did all this treachery begin? It appears to have surfaced in earnest in 1656 with Oliver Cromwell’s readmission of the Jews to Great Britain ending their banishment in 1290. This after the Reformers murdered “tens of thousands of Catholics” and robbed countless thousands of their land and livelihood. Eamon Duffy’s Stripping of the Altars illustrates in stark detail the obliteration of all that was Catholic in England. In France alone, in the 1600s, four million Catholics died fighting the Protestant Huguenots. And of course the French Revolution successfully destroyed Catholic monarchy in France to replace it with democracy, resulting in an estimated 500,000 deaths. And this does not take into consideration the millions who died for their faith under Communist rule. It has been a religious genocide like no other and yet it is obscured from view by the enemy. The Holocaust and the deaths in Gaza pale by comparison.
It wasn’t long after the Jews were readmitted to Great Britain that Freemasonry was established in 1717. Eighty-one years later, in 1798, the Rothschilds established their first bank in London. As explained by E.C. Knuth, in his Empire of the City (1946): “The Bank of England is in effect a sovereign world power, for this privately owned institution is not subject to regulation or control in the slightest degree by the British parliament. A succinct outline of this situation appears in the Encyclopedia Americana under ‘Great Britain- Banking In.’ This privately owned and controlled institution functions as the great balance wheel of the credit of the world, able to expand or contract credit at will and is subject only to the orders of the City, the City dominated by the fortune of the House of Rothschild and the policies of the house the Rothschild… The fact that the House of Rothschild made its money in the great crashes of history and the great wars of history the very periods when others lost their money, IS BEYOND QUESTION” (emph. Knuth’s).
The plan for world rule
Already we have printed, from Helen Peters’ The Union Jack, the speech of Sen. Joseph McCarthy outlining the history of Britain’s control of America and plan to rule the world, a plan strengthened by our alliance with that country during the two great wars. As Knuth also relates, it was Cecil Rhodes who, the financier and founder of Rhodesia and its diamond industry, (South Africa), who laid out the plant to “Establish a secret society in order to have the whole continent of South America the Holy Land the valley of the Euphrates the islands of Cyprus and Kandia the islands of the Pacific cannot heretofore possessed by Great Britain the Malay archipelago the seaboard China and Japan and finally the United states. In the end Great Britain is to establish a power so overwhelming that wars must cease and the Millennium be realized. Four months after the death of Cecil Rhodes who outlined this ideology of a secret society to work towards eventual British rule of all the world,” provisions were made in his will “designed to bring the United States among the countries possessed by Great Britain.” And from this sprang the Rhodes scholarships, intended to shape philosophical the minds of youth to strive for that goal.
The engineers of this plan for world rule had to work first to manipulate the minds of their potential subjects by influencing their religious beliefs, and this was accomplished in 1909 with the publication of the (King James bible-based) Scofield Bible and its interpretation of end-time events. This occurred not long after the rule of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, an avowed advocate for British Israel (see bottom of pyramid above). Disraeli ruled Britain in 1868, and from 1874-80. It was from this Bible that the Catholic Church first became portrayed as “Mystery Babylon” in line with British Israel teaching. I accounts today for those Protestants who champion Israel or British Israel and continue their work to wipe out the final vestiges of TRUE Catholic belief. It was greatly advanced by the CIA’s successful operation in the late 1940s, early 1950s to propagandize Catholics and direct their beliefs toward ecumenism. Protestant evangelist Helen Peters explains below the process from an objective Christian point of view.
Infiltration of the Church
“In order to look at the blueprint of conquest of the British Empire we look again at the Scofield Bible. We notice a development of a resurrected Roman Empire as a “prophesied” future event. This so-called beast system of ten nations is emblematic of the ten toes of the image in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream according to British Israel. In alliance with this beast system of nations is the Catholic Church (Mystery Babylon) and this “unholy” union is destined to attack Israel (Anglo- Saxondom and the Jews) and in the final battle of Armageddon God will deliver His people whom he has allowed to suffer in the “great tribulation.” The now complete political power of the Empire is setting the world stage to enact what it hopes will be the final drama to usher in the new spiritual-economic order. Though political and military power are under the control and direction of the [British] Empire they must solidify these gains with the establishment of the “spiritual Christian State,” with a show of “Divine deliverance” to an apparently besieged Israel. This enactment of prearranged “prophecy” is designed to unify the spirit of mankind.
“In order to work this fakery the British Empire has infiltrated the Church with its Cabalistic Jews and Masons in order to give the Church the prophetic appearance of the harlot of mystery Babylon so that it can be “prophetically” destroyed. The illumined minds of Masonry visualize the end of their last opposition to their universal Masonic Republic.
“The destruction of the Catholic Church and historic Catholic States is called in British Israel “the burning of the body of the Eagle.” We quote from the book Three Headed Eagle, page 95, by British Israelite A. E. Ferris. “All the nations forming the body of the Eagle, such as France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain, in fact all the Roman Catholic countries, will suffer a terrible judgment under the wrath of God. The annihilation of all Roman government, law, religion, kings, priests, and so on will be so complete that never again will the Roman Eagle appear, nor her heads, wings little wings, etc. This can only be accomplished by an atheistic infidel revolution on the continent. As the author forecast in 1940, the obvious agency to bring this about is the spread of Communism on the high tide of Russian victory prestige. Time will show. But it would seem that the fiery destruction of the 2,000 years old Roman civilization could only be achieved by an atheistic ideology sweeping in. With the moral backing of such a great power as Soviet Russia, such a revolution seems inevitable” (end of Ferris quote).
“The United States of Europe and later the Common Market is the nucleus of the planned “resurrected” Roman Empire. Another rape of Europe is planned with a Neo-Nazi type Germany at the helm of leadership. The German Nation and all Europe should come to the reality of the meaning of another fake nationalism under the sign of the Eagle and the Cross. The blood bath of World War II was a vindication of the blood suckers of the British Empire whose agents directed the proverbial “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” Need we argue the point or shall we look at a destroyed and divided Germany between British Communism and the British controlled “Free World.”
The myth of Antisemitism
“At this point it is good to explain why we use the word antisemite in quotations. The word semitic comes from the root semite which refers to a specific racial lineage from Shem to 70 A.D. when all genealogical records were destroyed. Therefore there can be no proof of any racial purity. Consequently the term antisemitic is a completely false term when used, as it commonly is, to refer to a present-day race, whether they be so-called Jews or Arabs or Anglo-Saxons” (Ed Note: The Jewish convert David Goldstein testifies to this in his 194 work, Jewish Panorama, where he states: “History proves the impossibility of the existence of a Jewish or a Semitic race. Ever since the Chaldean period there has been an infiltration, through marriage, of the blood of many peoples who were not Semites into the bloodstream of Israel which makes the classification of Jews as a distinctive race untenable.” Even some Jewish historians admit this. Currently the Jewish population is estimated to be at least 50 percent Ashkenazi, and these Jews were Khazarian Jews by belief only, possessing no Semitic blood. That the promises made to the Israelites existing in Christ’s time were entirely dependent on them accepting Him as Messiah, and were revoked for their disbelief is proven at length HERE, This site is mentioned here only to point to Scripture verses, not as an endorsement.)
“British Israel propaganda promotes the idea of racial identity or racial heritage and fuses it with nationality to get an admixture or Jewish Christianity which is blasphemous and totally misleading. Sometimes the Jew baiters will apply the term semitic to the Arabs only to promote the same confusion as does those who say the “Jews” are semites. The idea of race in any sense is not Christian any more than nationality or sex is. This does not, in the Christian mind, lend support to the Masonic crime of integrating the races to mongrelize them. Any Christian should strive to preserve his color and integrity but never to confuse race with grace. British Israel is a religion of race the same as was its previous front of National Socialism under Adolph Hitler.”
Peters defines “jew-baiters” as those who “wrangle back and forth about the Jews without exposing the USE of their religion… It is quite obvious that the Jew-baiters use their anti-Judaism in a very controlled manner which is designed to stir up race hatred, civil chaos and mass hysteria. In the main of course the overriding purpose is to establish the British Israel-Jew state under the mantle of Christianity. Likewise the pro-neo-Judeo-Christianity is striving for the same goal. Is this not in harmony with our pincers movement idea of two seemingly opposite forces driving toward each other to form a complete synthesis?
“The Jew-baiters launch their attacks upon the political conspiracy of Jew Communism but not one word against their spiritual conspiracy called the Kingdom of God on Earth. In fact most of the Jew-baiters exhaust themselves promoting the spiritual lie of the Kingdom Message. A search for the meaning of the Jew propaganda will reveal that its hidden purpose is to establish the spirit of Judaism in the name of Christ. While they claim religious tolerance, they seek to dethrone Christ and usurp His kingdom. “Religious toleration” and the idea of “separation of church and state” are blinds behind which there is no toleration and church and state merge. The spiritual state becomes a reality built upon the captive minds which are prisoners to the kingdom propaganda of the Jew-baiters.
Communism only a decoy
“The hard worked “Jew-communism” is a decoy from the Jew Kingdom Message of the Jew-baiters. Jew Communism is a base of operations from which to hammer in the permanent phase of world revolution which is the triumph of the “Christian state.” The focusing of attention on Communism leads to a misunderstanding of its temporary nature as a catalyst to build the kingdom of God. Communism is only a political instrument to prod and direct wars and revolutions in harmony with the master plan of the spiritual plot. Fighting Communism as such promotes the spiritual counterfeit kingdom. Hence the harangues of the Jew-baiters against Communism serve very well this reverse psychology. Communism has been expanded and enlarged so that the final anti-communist reaction will usher in the kingdom of God on earth. “Atheistic Communism must be defeated by the kingdom of God” so says the propaganda of British Israel. (Every time we refer to British Israel, we mean at the same time Anglo-Israel). We would call attention to some of the many books and publications which fall into the Jew-bait ideology which are supposedly distributed to and cater to the deep students of the so-called Communist conspiracy.
“Though many of these “hard core” patriots are unaware, they are prize victims and servants of British Israel. It is these super patriots who are the ideological gestapos of British Israel. They have been moved to the completion of the brainwash and their zealousness in their new education has made of them “Jews” impatient with gradual revolution and militant in their desire for blind revolution. They are seditious with respectability under complete control of the spiritual power of British Israel. Their new education of “what’s behind Communism” has hidden the master plan. Such is the deceit of British Israel that can alienate a nation against itself by changing its spirit.
“We name the following Jew-bait books: Judaism in Action, Waters Flowing Eastward, The Plot Against the Church, (Pinay) The Plot Against Christianity (Dilling), The Secret World Government Behind Communism, The Rulers of Russia (and other works) by Rev. Denis Fahey, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements…, Christ Was Not a Jew, Cause of World Unrest, Proofs of a Conspiracy,… The International Jew, (Ford)… Iron Curtain Over America, Antisemitism…, Trail of the Serpent, Mein Kampf, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich…, The Beast of the Apocalypse…The Talmud Unmasked…, Jewish Ritual Murder, The Jews by H. Belloc, The French Revolution by Nesta Webster.” (Ed. Note: This list has been shortened to represent only the best-known works on this topic. One thing that Peters does not mention is the explanation of who these “Jews” truly are, which we find in Apoc. 2:9: “Thou art blasphemed by those that say they are Jews and are not but are the synagogue of Satan.” Pope Pius IX tells us who this synagogue of Satan is in his Etsi multa, (Nov. 21, 1873):
- ““…Some years past, a most severe war was begun against the Church, its institutions, and the rights of this Apostolic See…
- “Some of you may perchance wonder that the war against the Catholic Church extends so widely. Indeed each of you knows well the nature, zeal, and intention of [these] sects, whether called Masonic or some other name. When he compares them with the nature, purpose, and amplitude of the conflict waged nearly everywhere against the Church, he cannot doubt but that the present calamity must be attributed to their deceits and machinations for the most part. For from these the synagogue of Satan is formed which draws up its forces, advances its standards, and joins battle against the Church of Christ.”
- They would, if possible, completely wipe it out from the world after they had shaken it with frequent blows, ruined it, and overturned it.”
If Peters mentions Fahey here, it is only because he treats those whom he is speaking about as the same type of Jews that lived in Christ’s time, making no distinction in race. Fahey’s works are good, if we keep in mind that the Jews of today are the ones spoken of by Pius IX above.) Peters continues:
Antichrist as a political figure
“The idea of spiritual power as a weapon of power politics is an imposing reality when we see how it has held the unity of the Catholic Church for centuries. This unity through spiritual power has crossed national boundaries while maintaining its direction from Rome. Though Catholics live in many nations their spiritual allegiance (to God) is through the Vatican and it is from this source that flows the administration of the Church. The spiritual unity of Catholicism has expressed itself in political matters in harmony with Church views.
“Another example of this paradox-harmony ideology may be clearly seen in the propaganda of Christ versus anti-Christ. What was once a legitimate concept of Christianity which referred to the spirit of Satan versus Christ has come to be understood through the brain mould of British Israel as two political rulers fighting over control of the nations. This is another example of dividing the same ideology into two fake opposites containing no truth in either. Propaganda competes against itself to control all thought. In the first place the great commission gave Christ all power in Heaven and earth and in the second place the reign of Christ is a reign of grace above all supernatural, and not in conflict with the rule of Caesar or government. It is the concerted attempt of Caesar to be both political ruler and God that brings out the real truth of Christ versus anti-Christ.
“This is precisely the blasphemous usurpation and intrusion of the British Israel plot upon the sovereignty of Christ. The Christ of British Israel is the Cosmic Christ, the collective totality of the human race. Therefore the purpose of the anti-Christ propaganda is the force designed to solidify and unify the “Christ” and the “Christian State.” We must see then that the use of the term antichrist versus Christ is the apostasy of British Israel and conveys its purpose and extends its domain wherever used without clarification. Therefore the myth of Christian Civilization is a front for the somewhat narrower concept of Western Civilization which in turn is the mantle for the plot to establish the “Christian State.” We must know its spirit to understand its purpose which is the treason of British Israel. See Epilogue on anti-Christ.
“The social justice of the British Israel Kingdom of God is not the Gospel of Christ but its movement within the language and form of the decalogue has established a phony Christianity which in essence and in spirit is a genuine hate of Jesus Christ. It is Satanic in its deceit and has beguiled almost the whole of once Orthodox Christianity into its fold. All social and political phenomena is organized to bulldoze humanity into this ultimate triumph of Satan’s Christian State. All is set to appear as “Divine intervention” to save a butchered and bewildered world from itself. Human government has failed says the propaganda and nothing short of the direct intervention of Christ to set up His kingdom will save the world from suicide. It is a union of Church and state with final authority in the God-state. This occult theocracy is the aim and purpose of the propaganda that we hear so much about. It is the “Divine Plan” of Lucifer to merge Heaven and earth and it is the work of British Israel to establish this spirit.
“This is the exact scheme of spiritual control of the British Empire through British Israel. Its counterfeit messiah (to come) is the pope of British Israel. Its domain is the unification of all nations under the control of the “Christian State” and its name is the kingdom of God. It is the mystery of iniquity in the form of Christianity. It is ecclesiasticism with vengeance and it must destroy the Roman Church and to do so it (British Israel), is manipulating the Church into the role of “Mystery Babylon” so that it can be “Divinely” destroyed as an apostate harlot. The sleeping Christians would do well to awaken to the inspiration of their agony. The cliches of religious freedom and brotherhood are fronts for the most diabolical plot of all time.
Nationalism a pretense
“The social justice of the British Israel Kingdom of God is not the Gospel of Christ but its movement within the language and form of the decalogue has established a phony Christianity which in essence and in spirit is a genuine hate of Jesus Christ. It is Satanic in its deceit and has beguiled almost the whole of once Orthodox Christianity into its fold. All social and political phenomena is organized to bulldoze humanity into this ultimate triumph of Satan’s Christian State.All is set to appear as “Divine intervention” to save a butchered and bewildered world from itself. Human government has failed says the propaganda and nothing short of the direct intervention of Christ to set up His kingdom will save the world from suicide. It is a union of Church and state with final authority in the God-state. This occult theocracy is the aim and purpose of the propaganda that we hear so much about. It is the “Divine Plan” of Lucifer to merge Heaven and earth and it is the work of British Israel to establish this spirit.
“The pretense of nationalism is like the fiction called history. Nationalism is nominal and the conflict between pretended nationalisms is the process of synthesis or unification. Prefabricated nationalisms do not serve their subjects; they serve the international chess game of “wars and rumors of wars” to grind the nations into amalgamation. “Out of chaos cometh the new order.” The interplay of events in the natural order are allowed but God has not ordained the deification of the state. The true kingdom of God shall never be the kingdom of earth. Perpetuation of the faith does not mix spirit with matter. The land of Abraham and the people are condemned; it is their faith that makes them whole. It is the circumcision of the heart that separates Heaven from earth in the hearts of men. British Israel would turn us again to bondage with circumcision of the flesh in a God-state glorified earth.
“Right-wing Communism has much to say about the coming of the “Anti-Christ” and the end of the age. According to the plan of British Israel there is to be a Christ and an Antichrist. When we come to understand their spiritual deception, we immediately know that the Christ of the Christian fronts is only another anti-Christ. Historic and orthodox Christianity does not interpret the Bible to instruct t that there is to be a Christ versus anti-Christ end of the age showdown in any political or military confrontation. This Christ versus anti-Christ” and “The Battle of Armageddon” is a notion derived from Jewish perversions of Holy Writ and teaches a completely erroneous Christianity.
We emphasize that Communism is not separate from British Israel. Communism is an instrument of British Israel, held up for us to fight until we can be totally “saved” (destroyed) by British Israel. Communism is called the antichrist by the patriots while British Israel is called Christ. The world is to be punished by anti-Christ forces and saved from it all by a “Christ” sitting on Queen Elizabeth’s throne (removed to Jerusalem) and ruling the New Earth under the Union Jack. (Ed. Note: Tim Cohen in his Antichrist and a Cup of Tea makes a strong case for this British Israel/antichrist “pope” as King Charles III; or will it be the IV? This is where the rule by Divine right heresy enters in, with the British monarchs claiming to be descendants of the King of David, a claim also made for the Merovingian kings of France).
Millennialism and spiritual Communism
“The idea of a civil political government on earth for a thousand years was never mentioned by Jesus, Paul, or any of the Apostles. According to Paul, all who believe not and accept not the Gospel shall be cut off from God for all eternity, but according to Judaic British Israel millennialists the Jewish rejecters of the Gospel and their proselyte millennialists are to be blessed with a thousand years of perfect happiness and prosperity. What a complete twist of the Scripture to support the establishment of a world police state in the name of Christ!
“There is a Social Communism and there is a Spiritual Communism, and when the proper analogy is shown they are one force. Americans are unaware of the existence of this spiritual or “Christian” Communism and that it is the invisible and permanent phase of world revolution. This spiritual or right-wing Communism, or “Christian” Communism, will be shown as we go on in terms of Judeo-Christianity, Fundamental Christianity, World Brotherhood, Millennialism, Zionism and other terms which require for their existence what they term a paradise earth with a political theocracy and a natural messiah. Therefore “Christianity” is political Zionism as expressed by so-called conservatism hence our term “Christian” Communism when referring to the “anti- Communist patriots.” (The Union Jack — end of Peters quotes).
The linch-pin theory
Definition of a linch pin: “The most important member of a group or part of a system, that holds together the other members or parts or makes it possible for them to operate as intended.”
What Peters says above only confirms what has been said on this site from the beginning. In Liberalism’s Shameful Legacy as well as in other articles, it is pointed out that ALL rejection of the papacy, that by LibTrads included, is only an echo of that tormented, evil cry “I will not serve.” There is a City of God ruled by Christ and His vicar, and then there is the City of Satan, ruled by the devil and his archdemons, now let loose on earth. Satan has been cast down to earth as we read in Apocalypse. He intends to rule it as his own kingdom. He is using the ruse of the Chosen People to establish and rule that kingdom under the guise of “Christianity.” Ever the ape of God and His Divine Son, he must establish himself as King. He promises heaven on earth in millennialism, which we have warned against often, a millennialism condemned by Pope Pius XII. This will be a one-world communist state with all rights erased and everything held in common.
We have shown for decades that Antichrist can only be a spiritual entity, not a political figure. For as Peters states, “The kingdom of God is spiritual, not earthly.” And only a figure most like Christ would satisfy Satan’s lust for power to rule as Christ on earth. That could not be any Protestant preacher or political personage, but only the highest spiritual leader recognized as representing Our Lord Himself. We know who has fulfilled the prophecies in this regard. And we also know who has been recognized as the high priest of Zionism by the Zionists themselves. Their priesthood, so to speak has been restored. They await the installment of their Messiah. The Jewish high priest was always recognized as wearing the ephod and teraphim, and if we wish to know the identity of that person, we need only behold him here below.
Conclusion
The investigation of Charlie Kirk’s murder by various podcasters is quite enlightening in that it demonstrates that conservative Christian sects have been hijacked from within, just as was the case with the Catholic Church. This has been accomplished most effectively for the past 150 years, from a British Israel standpoint, by the (Masonic) Mormon church. The Mormon church was the only sect that promoted the creation of Israel as a state. Its founders were Freemasons and its ceremonies are only crude re-enactments of Masonic initiation. It has recently morphed into the New Apostolic Reformation, a sect that has been established in the White House Office of Faith itself, with the plan to create and direct a new nationalistic religion based on Mormonism.
The most internationally proclaimed podcaster among them now condemning Zionism, Candace Owens, recently told her audience that we are being run globally by a gang of pedophiles who wish to enslave us and that faith alone will save us. If this is the commonly accepted “Christian” opinion of where we stand today, it logically follows that all that now needs to be explained is where it began and how we arrived at where we now find ourselves. Owens believes that Charlie Kirk discovered some monumental truth that led to his death. I believe that truth could have been the infiltration of the Church and the imposters that have ruled from Rome since 1958. That this infiltration was accomplished by the CIA among others would not be a foreign notion to Owens’ audience. And that they plotted to intrude an invalid candidate into a papal election, given all the election fraud we have seen over the years, would not surprise them either.
With the truths gathered here over the past 20 years regarding the invalidity of Roncalli’s election and the subsequent invalidity of all the other imposters who followed him; with the testimony and infallible truth of Pope Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis which invalidates all the Masonic infiltrators who posed as traditional “Catholic” clergy, we as Catholics hold the linch pin that will unloose all the secrets held so tightly by the enemy. It remains for those addressing captive audiences to recognize this fact and find the courage to take the final step and make it public. We see all that Peters describes above unfolding around us. It is time for the final unveiling.
by T. Stanfill Benns | Nov 2, 2025 | New Blog
+Feast of All Souls+
Marcel Crozet
November, Month of the Poor Souls in Purgatory
Prayer Society Intention
“Have mercy Lord on all who wait, in place forlorn and lonely state outside thy peaceful palace gate, miserere Domine.” (Litany of the Faithfully Departed)
Introduction
The following excerpts are taken from the little book, The Consolations of Purgatory, by Rev. H. Faure, S.M., 1912, translated by a papal chamberlain to Pope St. Pius X. We have written in the past about the rigoristic teachings regarding the saved and the lost, stemming from the Jansenist heresy, and the despair it has wrought among those struggling today to save their souls. This rigorism also touches on the disposition of the dead and dying and could easily result in a false judgment about their fate, meaning prayers could be omitted for those actually in Purgatory but presumed to have lost their souls because of this false view. Especially in these times, when so many previous helps available to us are lacking, we believe it is more important than ever to rely completely on God’s mercy and do all in our power to relieve the suffering of the souls in Purgatory by our prayers, since they can no longer pray for their own salvation. We now begin Rev. Faure’s comments.
How a Christian should mourn the friends he has lost
“St. Francis of Sales tells us that if we have the misfortune to lose our relations or our friends, we should not give way to excessive sorrow, for this world is too poor a place for us to wish them to remain long in it, and it is so miserable that we ought rather to thank God than be distressed when He removes them from it. We too shall go in our turn, when it shall please God to call us ;and those who depart the first are the happiest, provided that during their lives they have thought of the salvation of their souls. It is the greatest consolation for the children of God, when their relations and friends die fortified by the Sacraments of the Church, and we ought always to take the greatest care that our sick friends are not deprived of this great blessing.
“Yet I do not tell you not to weep,” says the Saint, ‘for it is right that you should weep a little to show the sincere affection you had for the dear departed. In that you imitate Jesus Christ, who wept for his friend Lazarus. We cannot prevent our poor hearts from feeling the condition of this life, and the loss of those who were our dearly-loved companions on earth ; but there should be moderation in the outward expression of our grief, and the tears we shed should not be so much tears of regret as signs of love and compassion. Let us not weep like those who are wholly given up to this present life, and who forget that it is merely a prelude to eternity. Let us adore the secret designs of Divine Providence, and say often in the midst of our tears, “‘Blessed be Thou, O God, for all that pleases Thee is good.”
“Religion does not forbid us to feel the loss of those we have loved ; it does not require of us a callous stoicism which is but pride or indifference. Our Blessed Lord has consecrated affection, and blessed the kindly offices of friendship; in the Church, too, we mourn with all our hearts, but the tears that we shed are sweet, because they are poured out upon the breast of our Divine Master, with the resignation that comes from faith and hope and love. Listen to the plaintive cry of affection which burst from the heart of St. Jerome at the grave of his dear Nepotian: ‘To whom shall I henceforth devote my watchings and labours? To whose heart shall I confide my most secret thoughts? Where is he who used to encourage me in my work by the sound of his voice, which was sweeter to me than the last song of the dying swan? Nepotian can no longer hear me: all around me seems dead. If I try to write, I cannot see the paper for my tears, and my pen refuses to write, as if these inanimate things had a share in my grief. Every time I try to give it a free course, and to scatter a few flowers on the grave of my friend, my eyes are filled with tears, and my grief bows me down to the earth beneath which he lies.” …
“St. Francis of Sales writes to a person in mourning: “‘I have never been able to believe in the pretended indifference of those who do not wish us to be human; but at the same time, when we have paid tribute to the lower part of our soul, we must do our duty to the higher part, where, as on a throne, sits the spirit of faith which should console us in our afflictions, and by those same afflictions themselves. Happy are they who rejoice at being afflicted and thus change gall into honey! God be praised! It is always with tranquility that I weep, always with submission to the will of God; for since Our Lord loved death, and gave it to us as the object of our love, I cannot be angry with death for having taken away from me my sisters or any of my friends, provided that they die in the love of the holy death of Our Saviour. I value this mortal life so little that I never turn to God with more fervent love than when He has smitten me, or permitted me to be smitten.
“Is it not reasonable that the most holy will of God should be done in what we most cherish as in all else? Alas! I am but human; my heart is touched more than I should ever have thought: but I will never rebel against the providence of God, who does all things well, and disposes of everything for the best. What happiness for that soul to have been taken away from the world before malice could pervert its spirit, and to have been lifted from the mire of earth before it was soiled! Of what use is it to live long, asks the author of the Imitation of Christ, when we advance so little? Long life does not always amend us; nay, oftentimes it rather increases our guilt. Let us leave God to gather what He has planted; He takes all in due season.
“We must not only be willing that God should chastise us; but we must be willing that He should do it in the way He thinks best. Let us leave the choice to Him, for it belongs to Him. Moreover, God is a good Father; He knows why He afflicts us, and why He takes away those whom we love. Let us try to look at things as God looks at them and let faith help us in sacrifices which are impossible to nature. Let us say to God from the bottom of our hearts, Lord, let it be as Thou wilt; touch whatever cord Thou wilt in my heart it will make only a sweet harmony to Thee. O Jesus, Thy will be done without reserve, without exception, without limit, on father, mother, daughter, on all and everywhere! Ido not say we must not wish our friends a long life and pray for their preservation ; but we must never say to God, Leave this, and take the other. And if God takes away what is dearest, shall we not still have enough, if we have God? Is not that everything ? Alas! the Son of God, our dear Redeemer, had hardly as much as that, when, having left all for love and obedience to His Father, He seemed to be forsaken and abandoned by Him.”
We must pray for all the departed, and not despair for the salvation of any
“St. Francis of Sales would not have us despair of the conversion of a single sinner till he breathed his last sigh. He went still further and did not like to hear anyone pass an unfavourable judgment even on those who had died after living a bad life. His principal argument was that, as the first grace of justification is not merited by any precedent good work, the last grace, which is that of final perseverance, is not given us for any merit of our own. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor ?’’ (Rom. xi.34). Therefore he bade us hope for the dead person, even though we might have seen him die an unhappy death, because we can but conjecture from outward appearances, by which even the wisest persons may be deceived.
“His biographer, Mgr. Le Camus, Bishop of Bellez, tells us that one day someone was repeating in his presence those solemn words of the Gospel, ‘Many are called, but few chosen ”’ (St. Matt. xx. 16) and remarking that the elect were spoken of as a “little flock”’ (St. Luke xli. 32), and the number of the reprobate as infinite, and so on. The Saint replied: “‘I believe there will be very few Christians damned ” (he was speaking of those belonging to the Catholic Church), ‘because the root of the true faith which they had must sooner or later produce its fruit, which is salvation ; from being dead it becomes alive and works by charity.”
“When he was asked what was the meaning of the Gospel parable of the small number of the elect, he replied: “If we compare the number of Catholic Christians with the rest of the world, including heathen nations, their number is certainly very small, but of this number I believe very few will be lost ;’’ and in support of this opinion he appealed to the goodness of God, being confident that He, having begun a good work in a man — that is, by giving him the faith — would perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus. Was it possible, he asked, that the vocation to Christianity, which was a work of God and a perfect work, leading to the supreme end which is the glory of heaven, should very often fail to produce its effect?
“I added then, says the Bishop, the following reason, which he admitted to be a good one: the mercy of God being above all His works, and surpassing even His justice, it does not appear likely that He would have begun to build up the salvation of the true Christian by faith, which is the foundation, without putting on the crowning stone, which is charity. Although the Church has not pronounced upon this disputed question, the belief in the greater number of the elect seems nevertheless conformable to the true meaning of Holy Scripture. In the twentieth chapter of St. Matthew, the kingdom of heaven is likened to a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. He went out again about the third hour, and again at the sixth, and the ninth, and even at the eleventh hour, and hired men, and sent them to work; and when evening was come, he ordered his steward to pay them their hire, giving to those who had worked but one hour the same as to those who had been engaged from the early morning. These last began to complain, and the Master reminded them that he had paid them the wage for which they had agreed to work and added: “So shall the last be first, and the first last, for many are called, but few chosen.”
“Now, if we wish to understand the meaning of the ‘ast words, we must not separate them from the context, but explain them by the rest oftheparable. Andwhat,asksalearnedtheo- logian, do we see in this parable? Are the majority of the labourers deprived of their wages at the end of the day, and are we to con- clude that the majority of men who work for God on earth will lose their reward in heaven? ‘No; all the labourers in the parable receive the same reward, and the only conclusion we can draw from the sacred text is the inequality of the wages and reward after the toils and hard- ships of life. But, far from being the expression of God’s anger, these words are the manifestation of His mercy towards sinners, and the marvellous efficacy of true repentance.
“In the twenty-second chapter of the same Gospel the kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son, but those who were invited—.e., the Jews—would not come. Then he sent his servants to go into the highways and call to the marriage all they could find ; and his servants gathered together all they could find, both bad and good. These are the Gentiles and barbarians called to the faith of Jesus Christ ;and among all this crowd only one man was rejected, because he had not on a wedding garment. Then the king said to the waiters:‘ “‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.” One only is excluded: here again, then, the number of the reprobate is the smaller number.
“Thus, concludes the learned Bergier (Dict. Theolog. Elect.), if the parables of the Gospel are to be admitted as proofs, we must believe that the greater number, and not the smaller number, will be saved. Jesus Christ compares the separation of the just from the wicked at the Last Judgment to the separation of the cockle from the wheat at the time of harvest (St. Matt. xiii. 24); but in a field that is cultivated with ordinary care, the cockle is never more abundant than the wheat. Again, He compares it to the separation of the fish caught in the net, of which the good were chosen into vessels, and the bad thrown away (ver. 47) ; but what fisherman is so unfortunate as to catch more bad fish than good? Of the ten virgins who went to meet the bridegroom and the bride (xxi. 1), five were allowed to go in with the bridegroom to the marriage; in the parable of the talents (xxv. 14), two servants were rewarded, and only one was punished; and, as we have seen, only one guest was sent away from the marriage feast.
“This is also the opinion of the profound and learned Suarez, the great commentator of St. Thomas: “ Under the name of Christians we may include all those who have the honour to bear the name of Jesus Christ, and profess to believe in Him, although among them many are heretics, apostates, and schismatics, and in this sense we may say it is probable that the greater number will be rejected; and it is thus I understand the more severe opinion. For as there have been always many heretics and apostates, if we add to their number those Catholics who die a bad death, it is evident that they will be far more numerous than those who die well. But if by Christians we understand those only who die in the Catholic Church, it seems to me more probable under the law of grace that the greater number will be saved. The reason is, first, that the greater number of those who die in infancy have been baptized ; and as to the adults, although the majority of men commit mortal sin, yet they repent of their sins and pass their lives alternately sinning and repenting.
“Moreover, there are few who are not prepared for death by the Sacraments, and who do not at least make an act of attrition in detestation of their sins, and that is enough to justify them at once; and the rest of their life is so short that it is easy for them to persevere without falling again into mortal sin. Thus, all things being considered, it is probable that the majority of Christians — that is to say (taking the word in its more restricted meaning), the majority of those who die in the Catholic Church — will be saved. Pensatis omnibus, verisimile est plures ex his Christianis salvari’’ (Suarez, book vi., chap. iii.).
“This distinction removes all difficulty in the interpretation of the sacred text. Many are called, because it is of faith that God will have all men to be saved (x Tim. ii. 4); few are chosen, if we consider the whole human race and the great number of those who do not belong to the Catholic Church. ‘“Vidi turbam magnam quam dinumerare nemo poterat,”’ says St. John in his visions of the Apocalypse (vii. 9). ‘‘I saw a great multitude which no man could number of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and in sight of the Lamb, with white robes, and palms in their hands.”’
“The belief in the greater number of the elect is more in harmony with the infinite goodness and mercy of God, and more likely to encourage and comfort us; but we must not make it an excuse for committing sin, which would necessarily draw down upon us the anger and the curse of God. Thus, then, even when those we mourn have not led very regular or Christian lives, even when they have died suddenly without time to receive the last Sacraments of Holy Church, let us not despair ;let us remember that the mercy of God is infinite — quoniam in saculum misericordia ejus. Who can tell that some good thought, some perfect act of contrition, did not find a place between the last word and the last sigh? Who knows all the secrets of that God who ‘“‘will have all men to be saved” (x Tim. il.4); who “desireth not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live”? (Ezech. xxxiii. 11) ? God Himself says by the mouth of the prophet Isaias: “‘Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. Behold, I have graven Thee in my hands” (Isa. xliv. v.12)…
“St. Gertrude, in her revelations, tells us of a promise made by Our Lord, full of precious consolation in respect of those whose careless lives have given us reason to doubt of their dispositions at the hour of death, and the sincerity of their repentance. ‘While I was reflecting on the fact that many Christians at the hour of death seem to repent more from fear of eternal, punishment than from love of God — for I had heard that no one can be saved without so much love of God as will produce repentance and abandonment of sin — Our Lord said to me: ‘When I see in their agony persons who for My sake have done some good action deserving of reward, I will show Myself to them at the hour of death with a countenance so full of love and compassion that they will repent from the bottom of their hearts for having offended Me during their lives, and will be saved by that repentance. I desire that My chosen ones should recognize this mercy, and give thanks for it among the many gifts that men have received from Me’” (Life of St. Gertrude, book iii.chap. xxx).
“Hope, then, dear sorrowing souls; hope in that God whose mercy “exalteth itself above judgment” (St. Jas. 1i. 13). Trust in Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is so full of love and pity that He cannot bear to let anyone perish, but will go forth, like the Good Shepherd, to search for the lost sheep till His feet are torn and bleeding from the thorns and stones of the road, and when He has found it will lay it on His sacred shoulders, rejoicing. Have you ever heard of love so tender, so compassionate as His? The Gospel tells us He went through Judea doing good ;comforting the afflicted, healing the sick, raising the dead, and repulsed none who came to Him. The prophet Isaias says of Him: “Calamum quassatum non conteret, et linum fumigans non extinguet’’—The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench (Isa. xlii. 3).
“He forgave the penitent Magdalene, and would not condemn the woman taken in adultery; and when His friend Lazarus died, He wept, for He loved him. He wept, too, over the guilty city, when from the summit of the neighbouring hill He contemplated it in its magnificence and its ingratitude, and those sad words showed the sorrow of His fatherly heart : “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not” (St .Matt. xxiii. 37). And as He cannot bear to live far away from those whom He had loved so much, and who put Him to death, He perpetuates the miracle of the Eucharist, and remains the prisoner of the tabernacle, always a victim and a friend, blessing us, and drawing us to Him, the clean oblation continually offered to appease the justice of His Father.
“Go, then, to Him, ye who weep ; go and throw yourselves at the feet of that Jesus who calls you and says: “Come to Me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you (St. Matt. xi. 28). Yes, come to this good Master, this loving and charitable Friend; pour out on His bosom your tears of anguish: He has words to console you, and He will fill your souls with hope that will lift you up, and love that will give you strength to endure all things.
“He awaits your prayers; He encourages and invites them. Perhaps in His merciful charity He has made the salvation of some departed friends depend upon the prayers that you will offer Him after their death: pray, then, pray with confidence, however discouraging may have been the lives of those you mourn. God is so good, so compassionate and merciful, that He will never refuse anything He is able to give; His heart cannot but be touched by your prayer. Pray, and perhaps soon the souls that you love, preserved by your prayers from everlasting fire, will come forth from the place of expiation full of gratitude, and wing their flight to heaven, there to enjoy the presence of God forever. (End of Rev. Faure excerpts)
by T. Stanfill Benns | Oct 24, 2025 | New Blog
+St. Raphael, Archangel+
Introduction
Readers are probably sick and tired of hearing about the dangers of Feeneyism and we are sick of addressing it. But times and circumstances now exist that did not exist when Feeney was excommunicated in 1953. Then we had a visible Church, a Church which has always taught in Her official documents throughout the ages, Suprema haec sacra most recent among them, that implicit desire could possibly apply even to pagan and non-Catholics in certain cases, not generally. The false dogma that it applied in all cases became the teaching of the Novus Ordo church following the election of John 23 and the official establishment of neo-Traditionalism. Feeneyism is the topic here once again because it must be understood that this heresy is being used as a cover operation for a more generalized campaign to totally discredit the papacy and Pope Pius XII in particular.
This should not surprise those who understand the level of infiltration by Modernists, Communists and secret societies that has taken place over the past 200 years. Their first targets were the Jesuits, the “Secret Service” for the papacy, because this order was closest to and most loyal to the Roman Pontiff. Modern-day conspiracy theorists have made Jesuits past and present the root of all evil, in an effort to deflect the extent of the damage done by secret societies as a loosely connected whole. This is certainly true of the Novus Ordo Jesuits of today. But over the centuries it is the secret societies, not the Jesuits, that have so fine-tuned the art of infiltration and dissemination of error that it now happens undetected under our very noses and not infrequently on a personal level.
Tracking those who insist on papal obedience
Because of my insistence on obeying the teachings of the Roman Pontiff as far back as 1981, I have been specifically targeted by various groups and individuals who took issue with my defense of the papacy and particularly my support for a papal election. The first challenge to my suggestion to elect a pope in 1982-83 came from a British group writing out of London. I was brought to this group’s attention by a Trad “priest” who I had recently left for teaching heresy. One of this British group’s members later became a well-known LibTrad apologist. They ran an actual Gnostic cult that preyed on families in the U.S. and Europe and I was one of its members for a short time — about nine months. They promoted papal teaching to some extent but adamantly opposed a papal election or imperfect council.
Their cruel treatment of children and parents was anything but Catholic and whatever they were they were not Catholic themselves. This experience and other life-changing events I was undergoing at that time made me perfect fodder for the ill-fated David Bawden papal election effort. Bawden was also briefly involved with the British group but later claimed to share my views on the papacy. This, I learned later, however, was only to further his own personal aspirations. He and his convert father, a former (?) Freemason and John Birch Society publicity director, planned his election all along, even though they knew I did not believe David was a fit candidate. They also used shaming techniques at the time of the election to coerce me and a fellow election supporter to “vote” for Bawden when no one else presented as a candidate.
I learned only later of the Masonic connection to the founding of every Traditionalist movement in the United States; of the confirmation of Marcel Lefebvre’s own membership in a Masonic group, (in addition to his ordination and consecration by Lienart) and of the Masonic makeup of the heads of the John Birch Society. I even had a former Bawden “cardinal” inform me that the Bawdens were actually working for and with the Society of Saint Pius X to make certain no validly ordained or consecrated priest or bishop would be elected as pope. For even if elected by the laity, it could appear that such a man was a true pope, even though today the canonical election necessary to validity is an impossibility.
During my time with Bawden, I worked as a reporter under two editors in two different states who identified themselves as ex-military intelligence officers. After leaving Bawden I was shadowed by someone who, unbeknownst to me, was connected with the British people that operated the cult. I later discovered he was indeed still in communication with them. After moving to yet another state, I was approached by someone who wanted to “give me a platform” and make videos and I agreed to this. Later they were taken down and the producer campaigned to discredit me. A reader informed me afterward that this person also was military intelligence.
I will always regret attempting to elect David Bawden as pope, but I will never regret defending the papacy at a time when nearly all LibTrads were demeaning it and questioning it. And if even a master theologian and logician such as St. Vincent Ferrer could err in supporting an antipope and still manage to be canonized, the demonization of those who made what St. Vincent’s biographers described as an error or “mistake” should be seen as nothing more than this: a manifestation of LibTrad fears that a true papacy might be restored.
A more personal surveillance
And the intrusion into my privacy did not end there. Several other people appeared on the scene of my new location, one an ex-law enforcement person and were welcomed into my home, introduced to my family and treated as guests, as a sign of good will. These were people I had corresponded with for a fairly long time over the Internet. They professed to be sincere stay-at-home Catholics, (but then some Feeney sect members do pray at home). Sure enough, over a period of time, all of them denounced the Church’s teaching on the papacy and left to join — you guessed it — the Feeneyites.
I’m sorry but I don’t believe all the above are coincidences. As I have mentioned before, in the majority of cases coincidences are messengers of the truth. Certainly this many coincidences cannot simply be dismissed as happenstance. The fact that Feeneyism has been used by these individuals as their way “out” is quite telling. Also suspicious is the timeline of the arrival and departure of these people. Just as one would depart, another would suddenly arrive. I refused to consider myself a victim but I do believe that all this demonstrates a pattern of deceit, infiltration, an attempt to obtain personal information and to discredit anything presented on this site.
Feeneyism is only a convenient excuse to join the ranks of those bent on destroying the Church’s teaching on the supreme jurisdiction granted by Christ to St. Peter, just as Feeney himself — the first neo-Traditionalist — set out to do. No matter how it manifests, whether from sedevacantist quarters, other LibTrad groups, recusant “Catholics” or the recognize and resist sector — at the top, all are secretly if indirectly linked to an effort to destroy the idea of an infallible papacy possessing supreme jurisdiction. They especially zero in on Pope Pius XII because he put the ax to the root of the tree and brought a screeching halt to everything that attempted to violate papal jurisdiction or Church law during an interregnum.
What to do if approached
Beware of them in your own dealings. They often present as Greeks bearing gifts (the Trojan horse) and present a sad story of some sort. Do not judge rashly but simply distance yourselves, pray and watch. We are entering times when we must protect ourselves and our families from every possible threat to our faith, no matter how innocent it may seem. The devil is a raging lion seeking whom he may devour, and his time is growing shorter. This blog has been difficult to write, but I don’t know how else to warn people of what is fast approaching.
As noted before, if baptism of desire does not exist, this jeopardizes the belief in confession of desire (a Perfect Act of Contrition) and the reception of the Eucharist by desire (Spiritual Communion). Both these beliefs are solidly grounded in the constant teaching of the Church. It must be remembered that Feeney himself headed up a destructive personality cult (see HERE and HERE). Also, shortly before his death, his excommunication was lifted by no less than Paul 6, which tells us where he issued from in the first place. Baptism by desire, (in some cases where water baptism cannot be received by a trustworthy person) and Church membership by desire are crucial to our existence in these times. Those who were busy destroying the Church were certainly aware of this. So Feeney played the dual role of labeling Pius XII as a heretic and casting doubt on the very means of salvation that would remain once the destruction of the Church was accomplished.
We should remember that these infiltration tactics are common practice. In her 2023 work, When the Sickle Swings, Kristen Van Uden quotes one Cuban refugee who explained that “Due to [an] atmosphere of distrust and uncertainty, many Cubans who felt called to resistance preferred to take renegade individual action rather than become entangled with [a] group… It may not have been as effective a strategy as organized resistance but it was safer… This strategy is still employed today as the culture of informing and infiltration still reigns supreme in Cuba.” And sadly it is practiced today even by those pretending to be Catholic.
Conclusion
This is enough about Feeney, an angry little man who served as a prototype for the early Traditionalist groups in this country. If we omit his name from what we see as the result of his teachings concerning the authority of the papacy — the same teachings basically espoused by LibTrads — we can dismiss his stance as a straw man fallacy, something that “…doesn’t accurately reflect the stance that it was originally meant to address… [and] is not directly relevant to the discussion at hand” (effectiviology.com). What IS directly relevant is the demeaning of Pope Pius XII and papal authority modeled by Feeney, not his rejection of implicit desire or his pitiful cult. Those hiding behind the EENS distortion he promoted are really, at heart, deniers of infallibility and supreme papal jurisdiction, just as Feeney himself was.
Just because they adopt this heretical stance doesn’t mean they get to hide behind the hype that now surrounds him, websites that promote Feeney as a sort of folk hero and warning bell for Vatican 2, despite his return to this sect. Take Feeney out of the equation and you have the Pope St. Pius V Society that refuses to accept the changes in the ritual for Holy Week, the promoters of the ridiculous material-formal hypothesis and all the other LibTrad sects. They all operate invalidly, denying that Pope Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis nullified their very reception of Orders during an interregnum and strips them of any and all vestiges of authority.
Secret societies, the Modernists the Communists — the founders of neo-Traditionalism among them — all were working from their inception to destroy Catholic monarchies and the papacy, and they have openly declared as much. Strip the Feeney shroud from those pretending to be “ultra-Catholic” — believing they are cleverly one-upping those already insisting on obedience to everything the popes taught — and you simply have a denial that the Church has the power to determine how Her own age-old teachings on implicit desire are to be believed and understood. From here on out these deniers should simply be recognized as the LibTrad heretics and schismatics they truly are, not Feeneyites.
And if some claim that they are rightly acting on an erroneous conscience, then we should pray for them and recommend them to God’s mercy, all the while condemning everything they teach and do. For this is the teaching of Canon Law under Can. 2200: They are to be judged as heretics and non-members of the Church until the contrary is proven. Therefore pray, watch, and hit out with the stick whenever necessary.
by T. Stanfill Benns | Oct 13, 2025 | New Blog
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Introduction
If some basic Catholic principles were better understood, how much easier our life as Catholics would be. We keep returning to the matter of invincible ignorance and the Church’s true meaning regarding this term. In the minds of some, the meaning of this phrase has been unduly expanded as a blanket excuse for the assumed salvation of any and all non-Catholics. Certainly this is the case with the Novus Ordo teaching on the topic and a lax view of invincible ignorance had even come into vogue before the death of Pope Pius XII in some quarters.
The question here is, did what Pope Pius XII taught in this letter issued in the case of Fr. Leonard Feeney differ dogmatically from what had been taught by the Church previously? Fr. Leonard Feeney maintained that the doctrine as taught by Pope Pius XII was unknown as stated prior to the issuance of Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) and Suprema haec sacra (1949). There has even been a question raised regarding the pope’s health and possible mental acuity at the time these documents were written, although Pius XII’s health issues did not manifest themselves until August of 1952 through December of 1953, while Suprema haec sacra was written in 1949. It is true that Feeney was excommunicated in February 1953 during the course of Pope Pius XII’s illness, but this was a natural consequence of his refusal to retract his false interpretation of the salvation doctrine following the release of Suprema haec sacra.
Instead Feeney responded by calling Cardinal Cushing a heretic and accused the Holy Office of scandal and heresy, which implicitly included Pope Pius XII, who was head of the Holy Office. Was Feeney excommunicated solely for his disobedience to the Roman Pontiff? It is assumed that he was, but he actually held as true a heresy which had been condemned by Pope St. Pius V, so it well could be that he also was guilty of heresy. Holy Office proceedings and the full nature of excommunications are protected by secrecy, so it is impossible to know the details of his excommunication. It is enough to know that it is entered into the Acta Apostolica Sedis and therefore must be accepted as binding on the faithful.
So let us review below what older catechisms and theologians taught regarding invincible ignorance, which must exist if one is to be considered capable of possessing the desire to be baptized. Hopefully this will help those still struggling with the poison of Feeneyism to finally understand that to champion him as a martyr for truth is to forfeit their membership in the Mystical Body.
Invincible ignorance
Moral Theology: A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas
and the Best Modern Authorities, Revs. John A. McHugh and Charles J. Callan, 1929
- With reference to the responsibility of the person who is ignorant, there are two kinds of ignorance.
(a) Ignorance is invincible when it cannot be removed, even by the use of all the care that ordinarily prudent and conscientious persons would use in the circumstances. Thus, a person who has no suspicions of his ignorance, or who has tried in vain to acquire instruction about his duties, is invincibly ignorant.
Invincible ignorance, even of what pertains to the natural law, makes an act involuntary, since nothing is willed except what is understood. Hence, no matter how wrong an act is in itself, the agent is not guilty of formal sin (see 249), if he is invincibly ignorant of the malice involved.
356. (b) Christians may be in invincible ignorance of the Law of Christ. For, just as want of a preacher causes a pagan to be invincibly ignorant of the necessity of Baptism, so a lack of instruction in Christian doctrine might leave a baptized person inculpably ignorant.
(b) Subjectively speaking, there may be a just cause for leaving or not entering the Church, namely, the fact that a person, ignorant in this matter but in good faith, believes that the Catholic Church is not the true Church. For one is obliged to follow an erroneous conscience, and, if the error is invincible, one is excused from sin (see 581-583). Examples: A Protestant taught to believe that the teachings of the Church are idolatrous, superstitious and absurd, is not blamed for not accepting them. A Catholic, poorly instructed in religion and thrown in with non-Catholic and anti-Catholic associates, might become really persuaded, and without sinning against faith itself, that it was his duty to become a Protestant.
Instructions on the Commandments and the Sacraments
by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, 1846
“So then, in reality, can he who has not received baptism reach heaven? To this I reply that he also can be saved if he has conceived an ardent desire to be baptized and believes in Jesus Christ as happened to many who when unable to receive baptism supplied its place by their desires… If he is an adult and in the possession of reason, he must have the intention of being baptized and feel sorrow for the sins he has committed.”
“Baptism, therefore, coming from a Greek word that means ablution or immersion in water, is distinguished into Baptism of water [“fluminis”], of desire [“flaminis” = wind] and of blood.
We shall speak below of Baptism of water, which was very probably instituted before the Passion of Christ the Lord, when Christ was baptized by John. But baptism of desire is perfect conversion to God by contrition or love of God above all things ACCOMPANIED BY AN EXPLICIT OR IMPLICIT DESIRE FOR TRUE BAPTISM OF WATER, the place of which it takes as to the remission of guilt, but not as to the impression of the [baptismal] character OR AS TO THE REMOVAL OF ALL DEBT OF PUNISHMENT. It is called ‘of wind’ [“flaminis”] because it takes place by the impulse of the Holy Ghost who is called a wind [“flamen”]. Now it is de fide that men are also saved by Baptism of desire, by virtue of the Canon Apostolicam, ‘de presbytero non baptizato’ and of the Council of Trent, session 6, Chapter 4 where it is said that no one can be saved ‘without the laver of regeneration or the desire for it” (St Alphonsus Liguori: Moral Theology, Bk. 6, nn. 95-7).
TSB comment: Those reading the above must not forget that the Church ascribes to St. Alphonsus a place in moral theology similar to that which She grants to St. Thomas Aquinas. If he pronounces that the belief in Baptism of desire is de fide, it is without doubt this is the case. Also, it is noted by St. Alphonsus that those thus saved may well be consigned to purgatory. What in this explanation of Baptism of desire differs in any way from the teachings of Pope Pius XII on this matter?
The Sincere Christian, Rt. Rev. Dr. George Hay, 1871
“For invincible ignorance to exist, three things are necessarily required:
“1) That a person have a real and sincere desire of knowing the truth. For if he be cold and indifferent about an affair of so great concern as his eternal salvation; if he be careless whether he be in the right way or not; if being enslaved to this present life, he take no note about the next, it is manifest that an ignorance arising from this disposition is a voluntary ignorance and therefore highly culpable in the sight of God…
“2) For one to be in invincible ignorance it is required that he be sincerely resolved to embrace the truth wherever he may find it and whatever it may cost him. For if he be not fully resolved to follow the will of God, wherever it shall appear to him, in all things necessary to salvation; if on the contrary, he be so disposed that he would rather neglect his duty and hazard his soul than correct an ill custom, or disoblige his friends, or expose himself to some temporal loss or disadvantage. Such a disposition must be highly displeasing to God and an ignorance arising from it can never excuse him before his Creator…
“3) He must sincerely use his best endeavors to know his duty, and particularly that he recommend that matter earnestly to Almighty God and pray for light and direction. For whatever desire he may pretend of knowing the truth, if he do not use the proper means for finding it, it is manifest that his ignorance is not invincible but voluntary; for ignorance is only invincible when one has a sincere desire to know the truth with a full resolution to embrace it, but either has no possible means of knowing it or, after using his best endeavors to know it, yet cannot find it.” Nor does a formal doubt excuse, for all are expected to resolve such doubts.
“A person brought up in a false faith, which the Scripture calls sects of perdition, doctrines of devils, perverse things, lies and hypocrisy; and who has heard of the true Church of Christ, which condemns all these sects, and sees the divisions and dissensions which they constantly have among themselves, has always before his eyes the most cogent reasons to doubt of the way he is in.”
Rev. Hay goes on to remind his readers that many are called and few are chosen, and that broad is the path to destruction and narrow is the way to salvation. When asked if he is saying that none who are in heresy and invincible ignorance can be saved, he answers, “God forbid that we should say so! All the above reasons only prove that if they live and die in that state they will not be saved… No man knows or can know what may have passed between God and the soul in his last minutes.”
TSB comment: The means of truly knowing if the Catholic Church is the one true Church today are so complicated and interspersed with rabbit holes, speculation and error, it makes it impossible for many to separate the flyspeck from the pepper, despite their best endeavors.
The Catholic Dogma, Rev. Michael Mueller, pgs. 217-218, 1888:
“Inculpable or invincible ignorance has never been and will never be a means of salvation. To be saved, it is necessary to be justified, or to be in the state of grace. In order to obtain sanctifying grace, it is necessary to have the proper dispositions for justification; that is, true divine faith in at least the necessary truths of salvation, confident hope in the divine Savior, sincere sorrow for sin, together with the firm purpose of doing all that God has commanded, etc. Now, these supernatural acts of faith, hope, charity, contrition, etc., which prepare the soul for receiving sanctifying grace, can never be supplied by invincible ignorance; and if invincible ignorance cannot supply the preparation for receiving sanctifying grace, much less can it bestow sanctifying grace itself. ‘Invincible ignorance,’ says St. Thomas, ‘is a punishment for sin.’ (De, Infid. Q. x., art. 1).
“It is, then, a curse, but not a blessing or a means of salvation… Hence Pius IX said ‘that, were a man to be invincibly ignorant of the true religion, such invincible ignorance would not be sinful before God; that, if such a person should observe the precepts of the Natural Law and do the will of God to the best of his knowledge, God, in his infinite mercy, may enlighten him so as to obtain eternal life; for, the Lord who knows the heart and the thoughts of man will, in his infinite goodness, not suffer anyone to be lost forever without his own fault.’ Almighty God, who is just condemns no one without his fault, puts, therefore, such souls as are in invincible ignorance of the truths of salvation, in the way of salvation, EITHER BY NATURAL OR SUPERNATURAL MEANS.”
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911, on Ignorance
So far as fixing human responsibility, the most important division of ignorance is that designated by the terms invincible and vincible. Ignorance is said to be invincible when a person is unable to rid himself of it notwithstanding the employment of moral diligence, that is, such as under the circumstances is, morally speaking, possible and obligatory. This manifestly includes the states of inadvertence, forgetfulness, etc. Such ignorance is obviously involuntary and therefore not imputable. On the other hand, ignorance is termed vincible if it can be dispelled by the use of “moral diligence”. This certainly does not mean all possible effort; otherwise, as Ballerini naively says, we should have to have recourse to the pope in every instance…
Invincible ignorance, whether of the law or of the fact, is always a valid excuse and excludes sin. The evident reason is that neither this state nor the act resulting therefrom is voluntary. It is undeniable that a man cannot be invincibly ignorant of the natural law, so far as its first principles are concerned, and the inferences easily drawn therefrom. This, however, according to the teaching of St. Thomas, is not true of those remoter conclusions, which are deducible only by a process of laborious and sometimes intricate reasoning. Of these a person may be invincibly ignorant. Even when the invincible ignorance is concomitant, it prevents the act which it accompanies from being regarded as sinful. (Taunton, The Law of the Church (London, 1906); Joseph Rickaby, Ethics and Natural Law (London, 1908); Slater, Manual of Moral Theology (New York, 1908); Ballerini, Opus Theologicum Morale (Prato, 1898); Tapparelli, Dritto naturale (Rome, 1900); Zigliara, Summa Philosophica (Paris, 1891).
What most of those questioning Pope Pius XII’s teaching in Suprema haec sacra are saying is that he added implicit desire to the formula for obtaining salvation, when even St. Alphonsus mentions it in his writings above. They also seem to think that Pius XII is contradicting the constant teaching of the Church by teaching that one can be saved OUTSIDE the Church. But that is not what the pope is teaching either. While insisting that those saved without water baptism are not Church members, so per se are “outside” the Church, the authors above and Pius XII also are quick to note that they belong to the Church in some other way. Yet they are considered to be within Her fold by desire, owing to invincible, ignorance, IF that ignorance is also joined to belief in the primary truths of faith and a sincere love of God obedience to his will.
Documents contained in the Sources of Catholic Dogma cited below further prove that the teaching on Baptism of desire issues from ancient sources. Please remember that their listing there qualifies them as DOGMA, to be believed without any quibbling, not picked apart as though they were never listed there. Coming from the popes and the councils approved by the popes, they need no further comment. These documents are quoted here to demonstrate the Church’s own sense and understanding regarding Baptism of either desire or blood.
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Council of Trent, 1545-1563
Canons on the Sacraments in General: – (Canon 4):
“If anyone shall say that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary for salvation, but are superfluous, and that although all are not necessary for every individual, without them or without the desire of them (sine eis aut eorum voto), through faith alone men obtain from God the grace of justification; let him be anathema.” (Author’s note:Notice this is not limited only to catechumens.)
Decree on Justification – (Session 6, Chapter 4):
“In these words a description of the justification of a sinner is given as being a translation from that state in which man is born a child of the first Adam to the state of grace and of the ‘adoption of the Sons’ (Rom. 8:15) of God through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Savior and this translation after the promulgation of the Gospel cannot be effected except through the laver of regeneration or a desire for it, (sine lavacro regenerationis aut eius voto) as it is written: “Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter in the kingdom of God” (John 3:5) (Editor’s note: Feeneyites argue that the translation of the Trent documents was badly made or falsified, a ruse often used also by heretics past and present. I personally own a copy of the first reliable English translation of the Council of Trent decrees published to correct a previous anonymous translation, “…unfaithful and even ludicrously absurd.” The translator promises in his preface to correct any errors pointed out to him in this second translation attempt, noting: “The edition of the Council used is Le Plat’s copy of the authentic edition published in Rome 1564. Neither time nor labor has been spared to render the translation as faithful a transcript as possible” (J. Waterworth, translator; published May 22, 1848).
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Pope Innocent III, Apostolicum Sedem
“[Regarding] the priest whom you indicated (in your letter) who had died without the water of baptism: Because he persevered in the faith of Holy Mother the Church and in the confession of the name of Christ, he was freed from original sin and attained the joy of the heavenly fatherland. Read (brother) in the eighth book of Augustine’s City of God where among other things it is written, “Baptism is ministered invisibly to one whom not contempt of religion but death excludes.” Read again the book also of the blessed Ambrose concerning the death of Valentinian where he says the same thing. Therefore, to questions concerning the dead, you should hold the opinions of the learned Fathers, and in your church you should join in prayers and you should have sacrifices offered to God for the priest mentioned” (Denzinger 388).
De baptismo flaminis (presbyteri non baptizati) ‘. [Ex ep. “Apostolicam Sedem» ad episc. Cremonensem,” temp. incerti.]
Inquisitioni tuae taliter respondemus: Presbyterum, quem sine unda baptismatis extremum diem clausisse (litteris tuis) significasti, quia in sanctae matris Ecclesiae fide et Christi nominis confessione perseveravit, ab originaU peccato solutum, et coelestis patriae gaudium esse adeptum (ex auctoritate sanctorum Patrum Augustini atque Ambrosii) asserimus incunc- tanter. Lege (frater) super octavo hbro Augustini de civitate Dei, ubi inter cetera legitur: «Baptismus invisibihter ministratur, quem non contemptus rehgionis, sed terminus necessitatis excludit.» Librum etiam beati Ambrosii de obitu Valentiniani idem asserentis revolve.Sopitis igitur quaestionibus doctorum Patrum sententias teneas, et in ecclesia tua iuges preces hostiasque Deo offerri iubeas pro presbytero memorato. (Denzinger/Bannwart edition of the Enchiridion Symbolorum, 1911).
COELESTINUS II 1143-1144. LUCIUS II 1144-1145
(Editor’s note: Did the two popes mentioned here also confirm this dogma? This is the de fide teaching mentioned above by St. Alphonsus. One Feeneyite site denounces this teaching, claiming that all men becoming priests must be confirmed as validly baptized and denies that St. Augustine or St. Ambrose ever taught baptism of desire. But what if this priest’s parents lied about his baptism and he only learned of it later before he could be baptized? Other explanations are also possible. This site even states the letter is a forgery. So if that was truly the case, and a dogma was presented as early as St. Alphonsus’ time and even before as de fide, should we assume that nothing in the Sources of Catholic Dogma can be trusted and simply choose what we wish to believe? Would that not mean the gates of hell had long ago prevailed against the Church?!)
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Pope St. Pius V 1566-1572
Ex omnibus afflictionibus, October 1, 1567: Condemned the following erroneous propositions of Michael du Bay:
– Perfect and sincere charity, which is from a “pure heart and good conscience and a faith not feigned” (1 Tim. 1:5) can be in catechumens as well as in penitents without the remission of sins.
– That charity which is the fullness of the law is not always connected with the remission of sins.
– A catechumen lives justly and rightly and holily, and observes the commandments of God, and fulfills the law through charity, which is only received in the laver of Baptism, before the remission of sins has been obtained” (DZ 1031, 1032, 1033). Editor’s Note: This is the condemnation by St. Pius V that Feeney violated, with his “water baptism only” take on salvation.)
4. Pope Pius IX
Quanto Conficiamur Moerore, 1863:
“…We all know that those who are afflicted with invincible ignorance with regard to our holy religion, if they carefully keep the precepts of the natural law that have been written by God in the hearts of men, if they are prepared to obey God, and if they lead a virtuous and dutiful life, can attain eternal life by the power of divine light and grace.” Editor’s Note: How could they “know” this about invincible ignorance unless it was the result of constant Church teaching?)
5. Catechism of St. Pius X, 1911, Father John Hagan
But if a man through no fault of his own is outside the Church, can he be saved?
If he is outside the Church through no fault of his, that is, if he is in good faith, and if he has received Baptism, or at least has the implicit desire of Baptism; and if, moreover, he sincerely seeks the truth and does God’s will as best he can such a man is indeed separated from the body of the Church, but is united to the soul of the Church and consequently is on the way of salvation.
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Pope Pius XII
…Those who do not belong to the visible organization of the Catholic Church… even though unsuspectingly they are related to the Mystical Body of the Redeemer in desire and resolution, still remain deprived of so many precious gifts and helps from heaven, which one can only enjoy in the Catholic Church.” (Editor’s note: Three things must be fully understood here: 1) Pius XII excludes such people from Church membership; 2) He identifies them as unsuspecting, i.e., invincibly ignorant and 3) he says they are related to the Mystical Body by desire and resolution but does not explain the exact nature of this relationship.)
Conclusion
If the Trent documents on justification were read clear through, it would soon be evident that the main problem with Feeney’s false doctrine on no salvation outside the Church was basically grounded in the nature of grace and how it is received. This is apparent from the condemnation of Michael du Bay by St. Pius V but also is reflected in the dogmatic Bull Unigenitus. There Pope Clement XI in 1713 condemned the proposition by the Jansenist Quesnel which falsely stated that: ‘Outside the Church, no grace is granted,’ (DZ 1379).
In 1690, Pope Alexander VIII had already condemned the Jansenistic proposition of Arnauld that “Pagans, Jews, heretics, and other people of the sort, receive no influx [of grace] whatsoever from Jesus Christ,” (DZ 1295). And of course this is the very grace that Feeney would deny could ever be obtained in sufficient amounts for salvation by those outside the Church. Feeney was denying that God would provide those graces sufficient for the remission of sins to non-Catholics. He was denying the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, that “(A) man can obtain salvation without being actually baptized, on account of his desire for Baptism, which desire is the outcome of “faith that worketh by charity,” whereby God, Whose power is not tied to visible sacraments, sanctifies man inwardly” (Summa Theologica, Part IIIa, Q. 68).
How many Church teachings and authorities must we dismiss to make Feeney the martyr for “Outside the Church, no salvation” his fawning devotees claim him to be? Clearly enough has been presented here (and even more could be provided) to satisfy the rational man regarding the sense in which the Church intended us to understand the requirements for obtaining baptism of desire. And it is that very sense, reiterated by Pope St. Pius X in his oath against Modernism that we must adopt as our own: “Fourthly, I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same sense. Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously.”
Feeney was a Modernist. His teaching was that the sense of what the Church taught had changed over time, that it had never taught but now taught that one could be saved by implicit or explicit desire. The Council of Trent and St. Alphonsus Liguori prove him a liar. St. Thomas contradicts him. But we are supposed to abandon the teachings we are bound to believe and follow those who champion him, men never even trained or approved by the Church? What sort of madness is this?
Msgr. Joseph C. Fenton references an article he terms as excellent, Opinions Concerning Doctrinal Development, by Rev. Charles Sheedy, C.S.C., published in the January 1949 edition of The American Ecclesiastical Review. Rev. Sheedy wrote: “Thus it is clear that there has been progress, development in the dogmatic teaching of the Church, not merely in precision of terms but in actual content and subject matter. Doctrines are taught today as divinely revealed which were not explicitly taught 100 years ago and after the Council of Trent, a whole galaxy of truths entered into the dogmatic teaching of the Church, proposed to the faith of Catholics, not as new dogmas, BUT AS CONTAINED IN THE ANCIENT DEPOSIT.” This was the case with implicit desire and Church membership, as clarified by Pope Pius XII.
“May understanding, knowledge and wisdom progress as ages and centuries roll along, and greatly and vigorously flourish, in each and all, in the individual and the whole Church: but this only in its own proper kind, that is to say, in the same doctrine, the same sense, and the same understanding.” — St. Vincent of Lerin. Msgr. Joseph. C. Fenton, commenting on this statement by St. Vincent points out: “The Vatican Council has used the words of Saint Vincent of Lerin to declare as a matter of faith that the understanding of one man as well as that of the Church as a whole can progress and grow in its grasp of the revealed truth and that this growth always takes place in one and the same sense and meaning (DZ 1800).” It never evolved, nor did Pope Pius XII ever intend it to grow to include any hint of ecumenism; that was the work of the Modernists. And Feeney the excommunicated Jesuit, the founder of modern-day Traditionalism, was one of them.
