Copyright \u00a9 2012 by T. Stanfill Benns (<\/i>This text may be<\/i> downloaded or printed out for private reading, but it may not be uploaded to another Internet site or published, electronically or otherwise, without express written permission from the author.)<\/i><\/p>\n
Most Traditionalists assume the Great Monarch prophecies are strictly of Catholic origin, since many of these prophecies are presented as proof of the Church’s belief in a future deliverer who will save Catholics from complete annihilation. And certainly these prophecies are more appealing today than ever, given the dearth of leadership in this country and the world. But doctrine,<\/i> 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. 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 is not uncommon. And errors of the time may be reflected in the prophecy. Perhaps Catholics can expect a Great Monarch sometime in the future, but this is by no means certain.<\/p>\n
The errors possible among seers are taken from Pope Benedict XIV’s teaching on how prophecy may be misunderstood, misapplied or wrongly recounted. One of the mistakes seers and prophets may make concerning their messages or visions is that a figure in what is revealed to them may appear to be something it is not. For example, St. Malachy (if all the prophecies attributed to him are actually his own) applied several mottoes to “popes” who actually were antipopes. St. Vincent Ferrar and others believed that Antichrist lived in their lifetimes. It is speculated that the man who transcribed Anna Catherine Emmerich’s visions was a Freemason at one time, although the Church has approved Emmerich’s visions. Nevertheless, some of the Traditionalist interpretations<\/i> of those visions today certainly are suspect, especially when used to support the Siri thesis. 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.<\/p>\n
The Protestant historian Clinton Locke, in his work \u201cThe Great Western Schism,\u201d (1900), relates that the legend concerning the great monarch-holy pope alliance first began to circulate during the 14th<\/sup> century, in both France and Germany, independent of any then existing “private prophecies.” (Later the visionary Michel Nostradamus popularized the Great Pope\/Great King prophecies, and although some believe he maintained clandestine relations with Satanic members of the royal de Medici family, Nostradamus was given Catholic burial.) 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. But especially in Germany, the people awaited an emperor who would bring them happiness and prosperity. 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, psychologically preparing Germans to accept Adolph Hitler. In a similar manner, a French secret society known as the Priory of Sion was said to be 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.<\/p>\n Paul Winkler, writing during World War II explains the origin of the Great Monarch legend in his \u201cThe Thousand Year Conspiracy,\u201d (1943). Winkler quotes from Henry Heine’s work “On Germany,” where Heine, in a diatribe condemning the mindset of the Middle Ages, had this to say to the German people in the 1800s: “‘Once the blood again begins coursing through the veins of the German people\u2026their ear will hear only the great voice of one man\u2026He is the man whom the German people awaits\u2026who they have so longed for in their dreams \u2014 you whom our old people have prophesied with burning desire\u2026you who carry the divine sceptre of liberty and the imperial crown without the Cross\u2026It is certainly more than popular legend that Emperor Frederick \u2014 the old Barbarossa \u2014 is not dead\u2026He has taken refuge in the Kyffhaeuser mountains, hiding with his entire court until sometime in the future\u2026'” Winkler comments: “‘The man’ expected by Heine was the subject of common tales in Germany for hundreds of years. They corresponded to a specific Germanic conception of the Messianic idea [minus the trappings of Catholic monarchy]. We can see how the popularity of Hitler in his country can be explained by his endeavor to achieve what the legends forecast\u2026Heine failed to understand thoroughly the dangers inherent in the survival of those purely Germanic superstitions and the legends surrounding the Kyffhaeuser mountains\u2026He did not see that some day all this would turn into a terrific diabolical avalanche running away with itself, and would end in a nightmarish conflagration spread to all parts of the world. Nor could he imagine that against this orgy of the ‘elementary spirits’ the Traditions of the Church\u2026offered a certain resistance and protection.”<\/p>\n As Winkler goes on to explain, although Heine inveighed against a return to the thinking of the Middle Ages he advocated a return to such thinking in the same breath. “Today the same Middle Ages practices of which Heine spoke have placed themselves very much in the foreground,” he continues. “When the average observer speaks about ‘Middle ages practices’ in Hitler’s Germany, he does not realize that the expression he uses is much more than a simple allegorical figure \u2014 that it describes the actual comeback of a period long gone\u2026English feudal concepts have played some part in shaping the conduct of British external and internal affairs\u2026The survival in France of isolated feudal-minded groups was responsible for\u2026the tragic subjection of a now feudally governed France to the sad rule of Berlin\u2026These feudal survivals in many places, including America, constitute a certain danger. We have seen such feudal circles becoming the temporary allies of the Prussian-Teutonics\u2026” And certainly the Priory of Sion and the Teutonic Knights guaranteed the survival of chivalry and medievalism.<\/p>\n Dusty Sklar traces this thinking through to Hitler’s own time in his work \u201cThe Nazis and the Occult,\u201d (1977). Guido von List, a sometime associate of Hitler’s spiritual advisor updated Heine’s sentiments in the early part of the 20th<\/sup> century: “List’s study of Jewish mysticism had taught him the importance of imbuing the people with a Messianic hope. When the world is changing and the old knowledge becomes suspect, it is necessary to herald the coming of a Messiah so that the traditional verities may be adapted to new conditions. List gave the Germans, in effect, the opportunity to become competitors of the Jews for the honor of ‘chosen people.’ The German people\u2026were<\/i> the chosen people, and soon a Fuhrer would arise among them who, in turn, would lead the Messianic nation.” List’s philosophy evolved into the creation of a secret society \u2014 the Armanen \u2014 in 1908, Sklar relates; eight years after the occultist and defrocked Cistercian monk, Jorge Lanz von Liebenfels, founded the New Templars. “Membership was often interlocking, and there was continuous feedback between the cults,” Sklar writes. “Around 1912 a number of members of both cults finally came together under one roof in the Germanen Orden, which prefigured the Nazi Party\u2026Hitler was a reader of [Lanz’ publication] ‘Ostara,’ and met Lanz several times in that period, [a period] he later alluded to as providing him with ‘the foundations of a knowledge’ which was to become so important to him.” That knowledge was practically identical to the theosophy of Blavatsky and later the Messiah-driven British Israelism of Disraeli and others.<\/p>\n 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 Jews who in Christ’s time looked for a glorious earthly king and therefore rejected Christ as heir to the promise, 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<\/b>\u00a0believed that Zacharias 1:20 foretold two Messiahs, one a suffering Messiah, descended from the tribe of Joseph, Elias<\/b>\u00a0and the priest Zadok, and the other a glorious messiah, son of David,\u201d<\/b> (\u201cHow Christ said the First Mass,\u201d by Rev. James Meagher, 1906). Church historians portray the Jews of Christ’s time as a carnal people who had little use for suffering; they believed they already had suffered enough. The Jewish people longed for a return to the time of the kings of earlier Israelitic centuries \u2014 not unlike the medievalism of the German people \u2014 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.<\/p>\n It is this second Messiah the Jews now await, but British Israel\/Identity teaches that European and American Gentiles, not the Jews, are heirs to the biblical promises as the Chosen People, and this would include all rights to the “second messiah.” It offers its adherents unique status as Anglo-Saxon Aryans who, along with the Nazis, they hold superior to all the other races. Anti-Catholic as well as anti-Jew, BI believers hold to the ancient liberties\/continuity theory professed by the Gallicanists\u00a0and their British co-religionists, neatly sidestepping the necessity of the papacy. Group apologists contend that certain European royalty are directly descended from the biblical King David, and are able to rule by Divine right. Move up a few Masonic levels and you have the rest of the story \u2014 these kings are descended from King David because they share the “bloodline of Christ,” a “bloodline” carefully preserved over the centuries by the Priory of Sion. The Priory\u2019s King of Sion, they believe, is designated to rule from Europe, and probably from Britain, as the Merovingian heir. None of this differs much from the Masonically inspired teachings of Mormonism, which may well be a uniquely American manifestation of Priory beliefs.<\/p>\n Authors Lincoln, Leigh and Baigent, who chronicle the history and operation of the Priory insist that, “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was not the work of some Jewish high council, but the blueprint for Priory operations,\u201d (\u201cHoly Blood, Holy Grail,\u201d 1982). Members of the Rose-Croix\u00a0Masons wrote the Protocols, they believe, as early as 1864. To begin with, Victor Marsden, compiler of “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” for republication in 1934, stated that they originated in Paris, and were allegedly found in the home of a Jewish gentleman by one Mlle. Glinka, a Russian citizen. From there they fell into the hands, he said, of Sergei Nilus upon Glinka’s later return to her homeland. For this reason some believe the Protocols were a Tsarist police forgery. The 1934 edition of the Protocols claimed they originated at an International Judaic Congress that convened in Basle in 1897. But Lincoln, Leigh and Baigent refute this, attributing them to one Maurice Cretineau-Joly, who they say was a well-known Rosicrucian and enemy of the Catholic Church, (although he is described in the Catholic Encyclopedia as a polemical religious-political writer who, in his writings professed \u201cunwavering fidelity\u201d to the Church. It was Cretineau-Joly who provided copies of the Masonic blueprint for the destruction of the Church, the Alta Vendita, to Pope Gregory XVI in 1846.)<\/p>\n The conspiracy author Nesta Webster relates that the Protocols later were found to be an updated and much improved version of Cretineau-Joly’s work, giving indication that it came from a source other than the Jews. “The Protocols are a vast improvement on the ‘Dialogues’ of Joly\u2026An international circle of world revolutionaries working along the lines of the Illuminati\u2026offers a perfectly plausible alternative solution to the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Sion,'” (Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, 1924). There are passages in the Protocols to demonstrate they are the work of the Priory, the authors point out. References to the advent of a “king of the blood of Sion,” a “Masonic kingdom,” a king reigning from “the dynastic roots of David,” all culminate in the startling statement that this king of the Jews\u00a0will be “the real Pope of the Universe.” Author Tim Cohen frequently refers to the connection between early American aristocrats and the bloodlines of the present British royal family, tying these connections to the Illuminati, (\u201cThe Antichrist\u00a0and a Cup of Tea\u201d). \u00a0Author Frederic Haberman wrote that this great king of the Davidic line would receive his kingdom from the hands of British royalty, (Tracing Our Ancestors). His book, written in the 1940s, is dedicated to proving that all the kings of England were directly descended from the biblical King David. Will the false “Great Monarch” anticipated by a certain faction of Traditionalists be the one to accept the throne?<\/p>\n It is safe to say that more than any other politico-religious group in America, Traditionalists as a whole possess a medieval-ages mentality. This is demonstrated by their strong attraction to the Great Monarch legends and prophecies, also a longing to return to times when the Church was presumably free from present-day evils. They are joined by a host of like-minded Protestants of British Israel persuasion, who therefore are not opposed to the monarchic ideal. The Priory of Sion with its bloodlines and medieval trappings is the most obvious example of modern-day medievalism. But what Traditionalists forget is that the idea here, as Heine noted is to “carry the sceptre of liberty and the imperial crown\u2026without the Cross<\/i><\/b>.” There will be no re-creation of the Holy Roman Empire. And the reason there will be no re-creation of this Empire is that those promoting the false Great Monarch are determined to enjoy his reign without the guidance of the Roman See, despite their protestations to the contrary. This time travel back to the Middle Ages is intended to relocate Trads somewhere in the late 14th<\/sup> century, where they can rewrite the ending of the Great Schism in favor of their Gallicanist inclinations. With this in mind from a religious standpoint, a careful reading of the above paragraph will reveal an eerie similarity to the trends in Western thought pre-World War II and those of today, only those of today are more deeply entrenched than those same trends 70-75 years ago. This is especially true seeing that many Traditionalists share a common political agenda, with Sufi overtones. As explained elsewhere, Lutheranism was the necessary preparation for Nazism, and it also has served as the chosen soil for the growth of a “Catholic” version of this same evil.<\/p>\n It was Thomas Case, in the 1990s who assayed the Traditionalist sects and found that several clergymen were markedly anti-Semitic, with definite neo-Nazi or British Israel leanings, (Fidelity Magazine, October 1992). He noted that militia groups flourish in the St. Mary’s, Kansas area, home to the SSPX, (this is reportedly known to the local sheriff there). Case flagged the Society’s Fr. Ramon Angles, “Bp.” Richard Williamson, and Fr. Gregory Post, providing specific documentation in each case. He also fingered British Israel promoter Dan Jones of Colorado and Jones’ longtime friend, “Bp.” Oliver Oravec, last known to be living somewhere in Czechoslovakia. Jones’ “Sangre de Cristo Newsnotes” publication unabashedly promoted the Aryan Nations position for years, alongside other articles written by prominent Traditional clergymen. The late Fr. Lawrence Brey, at one time, at least, also professed admiration for the 1930s radio-priest Fr. Coughlin in an article featured in “The Remnant”, and has mixed with many anti-Semitic Traditionalists over the years. Fr. George Musey of Texas expressed neo-Nazi sentiments to several colleagues and followers during the course of his lifetime, a fact witnessed by this author. The openly anti-Semitic publication “Veritas,” now defunct, pumped out anti-Jewish sentiments for decades, although it also furnished the faithful with much good information on the teachings of the Church. If any doubt exists concerning Traditionalists’ anti-Semitic orientation, a quick survey of anti-Semitic literature for sale on various Traditionalist web sites should prove that what is said here is no exaggeration. And some identification of Traditionalists with anti-Semitism has been more public than others, i.e., that of Mel Gibson and his father.<\/p>\n “There is a virulent sickness of hatred and Hitlerism running through the Traditional Catholic movement,” Case wrote. “Society of St. Pius X [priests] in France see Marshall Petain as a hero, and his pro-Nazi Vichy government of World War II as a paragon of virtue. Catholic Traditionalism as a whole in France is imbued with extreme right-wing politics\u2026the historical dream of a restored Catholic Monarchy, allied with pro-Hitler, anti-Semitic fascism.” Case points out that like the Action-Francais movement in the 1930s, condemned by Pope Pius XI, (atheistic) right-wing political interests are absorbing Traditionalists and using them to promote their own hidden agenda. It is no coincidence that there have been recent civil disturbances throughout Europe, especially in France, that revolve around anti-Semitic organizations. And at least one ex-FBI agent, Mike German believes that the biggest terrorist threat in this country is not Islamo-fascism but Aryan Nations fascism. German has spoken internationally on this problem objecting that the FBI will not confront these groups unless they can produce actual evidence of terrorist activity after the fact. He believes that neo-Nazi groups are multiplying in the U.S., and with good reason. One purportedly “Catholic” web site even claimed at one time that the French Monarch has amassed a large army and is only waiting until the time is right to commence the fulfillment of his mission.<\/p>\n Seasoned journalist and WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah reported in his 2005 G2 Bulletins that “The danger posed by the skinhead-Islamist alliance is being compared with the fast-growing menace of Central American street gangs, such as the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, who are now the largest and most dangerous criminal group in several Latin American countries and in the U.S. MS-13, too, has been known to meet with al-Qaida operatives and is believed to be involved in smuggling some into the U.S. across the Mexican border\u2026 Law enforcement officials fear skinheads and neo-Nazis could provide not just additional numbers to the Islamic terrorist cause but also some operatives who would defy profiling efforts\u2026What brings the groups together is a common enemy \u2013 Jews \u2013 and business interests, say law enforcement officials. Neo-Nazi skinheads are deeply involved in drug-running and human smuggling gangs \u2013 two areas of common interest with Islamists\u2026 Al-Qaida, Jamaah Islamiah and Wahabbi groups see nothing wrong in using non-Muslims to further their cause. As the origin of most anti-terror activities focuses mainly on the Middle East and Asia, it is clear a western terrorist could be more successful in penetrating a number of security and defense circles. In cases of a precision attack against individuals or institutions, European or American Caucasian terrorists will be more successful in disappearing from the radar screen\u2026Avi Beker, the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, says in the past two years Jews around the world have experienced the worst anti-Semitism since World War II, primarily because of the effects of the Middle East conflict.\u201d In Canada, the U.S. and Europe, Jews have increasingly been targeted for attacks, according to news reports. And true Catholics may well be next.<\/p>\n While some government agencies seem unwilling as yet to make the connection between Islamo-fascism and neo-Nazism, history shows a definite connection already exists. The History Channel has several times re-aired a series showing the interconnections of Islam and Hitler’s Germany from the 1930s on, with Muslims openly supporting Hitler, propagandizing for him and even sending troops to help win Hitler’s war. Rabbi David Dalin devotes a chapter to this involvement in his defense of Pope Pius XII,\u201d (\u201cPope Pius XII: The Myth of Hitler’s Pope,\u201d 2005). Dalin quotes Kenneth Timmerman who related that no less than the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini began meeting with Hitler in November 1941, the first of several meetings. “He had gone to convince Adolf Hitler of his total dedication to the Nazi goal of exterminating the Jews, and offered to raise an Arab legion to carry out that task in the Middle East,” Timmerman wrote. “The mufti’s close ties to Hitler, and his total embrace of Hitler’s Final Solution, provides the common thread linking past to present\u2026 Today’s Muslim anti-Semitism\u2026feed[s] directly off of Hitler’s Third Reich.” Dalin quotes Adolf Eichmann’s deputy, Dieter Wisliceny, later condemned to death as a war criminal at Nuremburg, who said he was convinced that the mufti played a role “in the decision to exterminate the European Jews.” He insisted that the mufti had repeatedly suggested this “solution” to “Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler.” The mufti groomed Yasser Arafat, a distant relative of al-Husseini, for his own terrorist role, and Arafat later often referred to “our hero al-Husseini.” Egyptian leaders Nasser and Anwar Sadat also came under al-Husseini’s influence. Hebrew University’s Robert Winstrich states in Dalin’s work that there is now an anti-Jewish “culture of hatred” in the Arab Middle East permeating “books, magazines, newspapers, sermons, videocassettes, the Internet, television and radio\u2026that has not been seen since the heyday of Nazi Germany.” Yet at La Salette, Our Lady warned that Hitler would be only a forerunner of Antichrist.<\/p>\n Catholics know that Our Lady appeared at La Salette, France in 1846 to deliver monumental secrets concerning the end times to two shepherds, Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud. These secrets have been the result of furious controversy ever since, and more than one version of Melanie’s secret has been circulated. A work available only in French (D\u00e9couverte du Secret de La Salette<\/span>, published by Librairie Arth\u00e8me Fayard in 2002, recently has been circulated and quoted on this subject. This book has the Nihil Obstat from Abbaye Notre-Dame de Tournay, 13 February 2002, Dom Bernard Billet. The Imprimatur is from \u00c8vry, le jour P\u00e2ques 2002, Mgr. Michel Dubost.) It is purporting to present the currently available version of the La Salette Secret (Lecce version) as the true version. Another work, \u201cThe Woman and the Dragon,\u201d by Maurice Canioni, 2004, published by Delacroix on La Salette also gives the Lecce version of the secret as the authentic version. But why is both a Novus Ordo source and an apparently Traditional source pointing Catholics in this direction? What is important to remember is that:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first work is the product of the Novus Ordo clergy and therefore cannot be trusted. For all its claims to scholarship and the author’s access to “Vatican Archives,” it can be nothing but fatally flawed. Its authors openly admit that the Archives did not contain the handwritten secrets of Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud to Pope Pius IX; these have been “lost.” Obviously more than is known to us today went on in the Vatican concerning this Secret.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The second work is the product of Traditionalists, possible Monarchists, and for these reasons alone it must remain suspect. It may contain some worthwhile information but is no more reliable than the first work.<\/p>\n What has been said elsewhere concerning Maximin’s secret must be summarized here. Maximin is said to have predicted that a Great Monarch will rule in the end times, yet his secret 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.\u00a0 Rev. R. Gerald Culleton’s version of Maximin’s secret, however, mentions nothing about the Great Monarch. While Maximin obviously believed that such a Monarch would arrive, he said it would happen only in God’s good time. Melanie said many things would come about only if morals improved and the people did penance. The Fatima message also made certain assurances contingent on the people’s reform. Any deliberate staging of this king’s arrival is hardly in agreement with the spirit of Our Lady’s messages.<\/p>\n 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, Abbe Boullan, both Monarchists, were in contact with each other. Like Sauniere, Boullan had accumulated wealth that no one could quite account for, (\u201cSatan in the Modern World,\u201d Mgr. L. Cristiani, 1961). 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 also was a patron of these same circles. He was obsessed with La Salette throughout his lifetime. Sauniere, Boullan and Bloy all frequented the 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, (Ibid).<\/p>\n The association of all these figures points to one thing: the Devil was definitely determined to destroy the Secrets of La Salette, a fact that practically guarantees their authenticity. He sent his constituents Sauniere, Boullan, Bloy and others to accomplish this task. All were Monarchists and occultists. All were in a position to falsify the Secret, misrepresent it, discredit it; they did so by their very association with it. It is not too far a reach, we feel, to speculate that all were connected to the Priory. Certainly those following Madame Blavatsky were exposed to British Israel doctrines, including the idea of a pure, Aryan race, (which the Priory also promotes by the careful cultivation of its “bloodline.”) Two of these men were clerics, although Abbe Boullan was excommunicated. Bloy had applied for acceptance into a religious house but was refused. In our own day it would be Abbe Ducaud-Borget and Marcel Lefebvre, also frequenters of San Sulpice (Marcel Lefebvre sent Econe seminarians to San Sulpice on pilgrimage) who would be linked to the Priory. In Lincoln, Leigh and Baigent’s Holy Blood, Holy Grail<\/span>, the authors refer to these clerics as “agents provacateur.” Lefebvre, during his lifetime, never denied his membership in the Priory. Melanie had conveyed Our Lady’s warning that priests and religious would become faithless and unworthy in the site of God, and these men are prime examples. She also warned that a forerunner of Antichrist with his armies would decimate Europe, and nearly every commentator on the Secret believes this prediction was fulfilled in Hitler. Antichrist, then, or at least one of his more ardent followers could be said to resemble Hitler in some way.<\/p>\n The <\/i>(true) spiritual Antichrist, antipope Paul 6, is said to have conspired with Genoa’s Cardinal Siri to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Italy in the last days of the war. “Some of the most wanted Nazi\u00a0war criminals passed from Rauff in Milan, to Bishop Hudal at the Anima in Rome and then on to Archbishop Siri in Genoa. Here they boarded ships and left for new lives in South America\u2026” (\u201cUnholy Trinity,\u201d John Loftus and Mark Aarons, 1992). The underground channeling of these Nazis is referred to by authors Loftus and Aarons as “the Ratlines.” Rabbi Dalin denies the accusations these authors made in their work against Pope Pius XII because they brand him as a Nazi sympathizer and hold him responsible for helping the criminals escape. Those who know Montini’s treachery and Pius’ trust in him prior to 1953 when that treachery was revealed will understand that Montini’s dealings most likely extended to the smuggling operation as well. Rauff and Bp. Hudal may have handled matters for Montini but it would not be the first time that the future Paul 6 approved an operation by insinuating he acted for the Pope. The fact that Cardinal Siri is named in this operation may provide us with a clue as to why he is so revered by Monarchist Traditionalists, who falsely hold he was secretly elected Pope in 1958 (or 1963, depending on which version of this story is consulted). Many of these same Traditionalists despise Pope Pius XII for assisting the Jews, which explains why they would idolize someone who helped high-placed Nazis escape.<\/p>\n The genuine version (or interpretation) of the La Salette Secret places Antichrist’s coming (in all its many phases) prior<\/i> to the chastisement and the coming of the true<\/i> Great Monarch during the promised Fatima peace following<\/i> the chastisement. (This is assuming we have not forfeited that peace and his reign by our wickedness; it seems both the Fatima and La Salette promises hinged on whether Catholics amended their lives and did penance, at least as far as any mitigation<\/i> of the coming chastisements were concerned.) It is not a coincidence that many of those who promote the Great Monarch at the same time condemn the La Salette secret. It is true that a few private prophecies say the Great Monarch will surrender his crown in Jerusalem when Antichrist comes. But either these prophecies are not accurate, or they refer to a line of holy monarchs and the final assault of Antichrist’s revived system at the end of the world against “the camp of the saints,” as Ezekiel foretells. At one time, the “Traditional Catholic” web site that zealously promoted the arrival of a great monarch quoted Yves Dupont’s monograph on this topic to support its presentation, yet failed to include Dupont’s qualifying preliminary remarks. The introduction to Dupont’s piece told readers that “a few introductory lines” were omitted from his work. Dupont’s omitted preface to his Great Monarch monograph \u2014 running to three pages, not just a “few lines” \u2014 is presented below.<\/p>\n “There has been a great number of reported apparitions since 1945. I know many of these and possess a fairly comprehensive documentation on most, but I do not intend quoting any here because these recent reports have either been condemned, or the Church is still examining them. It may be argued that a condemnation from an apostate bishop is worthless but, granted that apostasy has made devastating inroads in the Church, it does not follow that every bishop is an apostate.\u00a0 Further a condemnation issued by an apostate cannot be taken as worthless on this ground alone, for an apostate may still speak truth on occasion.\u00a0 Finally, it must be borne in mind that apostasy can take many forms: there are shades of grey between black and white; a bishop who ignores the decrees of the Council of Trent on the Mass, or other matters, is not necessarily a faithless renegade in all matters; there is such a thing as human weakness bowing to pressure and, if this does not exonerate the fainthearted, it does provide a measure of extenuation.\u00a0 It would be foolish to regard a bishop’s condemnation of a reported apparition as an additional reason to believe in it!<\/p>\n “It is beyond question that some of these recent reports are true, if only for the fact that Our Lady, since 1830, has never allowed a period of 28 years to go by before again visiting the world.\u00a0 As the climax approaches, it is only reasonable to assume that Our Lady will make her appeals more pressing and more frequent. But because the climax approaches, it is also reasonable to assume that the devil will increase his own efforts or the downfall of souls by fabricating false apparitions and working lying wonders. The devil, as we know, is cunning and clever; he may speak truth in order to draw people away from the Church or, on the contrary, he may urge obedience to a bishop or priest he already controls. His intelligence far surpasses our human understanding, and what he does and says may sometimes appear excellent on the surface.\u00a0 In view of this, there is a very real danger in accepting uncritically a reported apparition merely because the eyewitnesses saw extraordinary things. Our suspicion should even be stronger as the messages are the more verbose.<\/p>\n “Admittedly, I have formed my own opinion on some of these post-war reports, as some of my readers well know, but the purpose of this article is mainly to present a collection of prophecies that have either been approved by the Church as worthy of credence (e.g. Anne Catherine Emmerich), or given ample proof of their authenticity (e.g. Zacharias).\u00a0 This is not to say that I have no intention of ever writing a critical study of recent reports, (I have done so concerning Garabandal and Stich), but only that they are not within the scope of this article because they require a different treatment and approach.\u201d (Note: The Emperor Henry who Emmerich is believed to have seen in her visions, however, is said to refer to a European monarch “lame afoot,” who reigned before her visions even began, not to some future personage.),<\/p>\n “<\/b>Some of the prophecies given here have already been cited in my book CATHOLIC PROPHECY in which I gave a general picture of the coming upheaval.\u00a0 The present article bears more specifically on the glorious Age of Peace to come, under the reign of the Great Monarch.\u00a0 <\/b>For this reason, I do not propose to quote at length the prophecies of my previous book but only the passages relating to the Age of Peace and the Great Monarch.<\/b><\/p>\n “Many of these prophecies are French<\/i>, and they make it quite clear that Monarchy will be restored in France.\u00a0 But the restoration of Monarchy will not be a local affair; it will be a worldwide phenomenon. <\/i><\/b>This will mark a near historical epoch and, because of this, many people are finding it hard to believe.\u00a0 The age of republics and Democracies will be over, Communism and Socialism a thing of the past. This age of peace will also be an age of belief and an age of plenty.\u00a0 It will mark the victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and of Christ the King, the revaluation of authority and discipline, and the conversion of the entire world to the Catholic Faith (except for a few pockets of unbelief).<\/p>\n “These conclusions have been drawn from my study of private prophecies, which I began about 30 years ago. These prophecies were made from the very beginning of the Christian Era up to our own time.\u00a0 They originate from virtually every country in the world) non-Christian lands included. The concordance existing between hundreds of different prophecies is truly remarkable. It would be unreasonable to claim that the bulk of these private seers were merely repeating earlier prophecies, which they had themselves read.\u00a0 Such a claim is untenable for a number of reasons: firstly, because communication between various countries was very limited prior to the 19th Century.\u00a0 Secondly, because all writings were in manuscript form before Gutenberg evolved the printing press in the 15th Century. Thirdly, because some of these prophecies were discovered many centuries after they had been written. In a few cases, however, it is known that some prophecies were not made by those who handed them down; and in other cases it is not inconceivable that an old manuscript may have repeated the substance of an earlier one.\u00a0 Thus, the wording of St. Remy’s prophecy, so strikingly similar to that of St. Augustine, may be just relating what St. Remy had heard or read from the writings of St. Augustine which, even in his lifetime, were reproduced in manuscript form in the monasteries of Western Europe. St. Augustine died in 430, and St. Remy was born in 437. In his youth, St. Remy would have been conversant with the writings of St. Augustine.\u00a0 Such cases are few in number. But the final argument lies in the fact that many of the early prophecies have already come to pass in part. Here are some events that were predicted long ago:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ireland occupied by the English for seven centuries.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0 England leaving the Catholic Church in the 16th century.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 The discovery of the Continent of America.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 The French Revolution and the decapitation of the French King.<\/p>\n 5. Modern inventions: the steam engine, the motor car, the aeroplane, submarines, nuclear power, television.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 The rise of the lower classes and the advent of Democracy.<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0 Communism.<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0 The development of literacy, the proliferation of pornography.<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0 Low moral standards, permissiveness, deviations.<\/p>\n 10. Crisis in the Church, new liturgy, apostasy of many bishops.<\/p>\n “This, I might say, is not a comprehensive listing, merely a few examples. But if the first part of these prophecies has come to pass, should we disregard the second?\u00a0 I do not disregard the second part.\u00a0 Here are the events we now can expect:<\/p>\n 1. Civil wars, revolutions, breakdown of authority everywhere.<\/p>\n 2. Military coups even in Western Countries.<\/p>\n 3. An anti-pope in Rome; the developing apostasy becomes universal.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n 4. Persecution of the Church by Communist governments, abetted at first by many of the hierarchy and Clergy.<\/p>\n 5. Complete destruction of the Church’s structures at the hands of the Communists and even those who collaborated with them.<\/p>\n 6. Natural disasters, earthquakes, floods, drought, famines, epidemics.<\/p>\n 7. Cosmic phenomenon, three days of darkness, collapse of Communism.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n 8. More military coups [followed by the] rise of the Great Monarch.<\/p>\n 9. Rebirth of the Catholic Church. New Ecumenic Council, restoration of former disciplines in the Church.\u00a0 A Holy Pope occupies the Chair of Peter.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n 10. Period of peace, faith, plenty.<\/p>\n What comes after this is not the subject matter of this article.”<\/p>\n (The Great Monarch piece then begins.)<\/i><\/p>\n In the course of the presentation that follows, Dupont comments on these prophecies:<\/p>\n “The Empire of the Mohammedans will be broken up (by him).”<\/p>\n (Ven. Holzhauser, 17th Century)<\/p>\n “Greece he will invade and be made King thereof. He will conquer England.”<\/p>\n (Cataldus, 5th Century)<\/p>\n “This Prince shall extend his dominion over the whole world.”<\/p>\n (St. Caesar, 6th Century)<\/p>\n “Invade Greece” and “conquer England” must not be understood with the modern and unpleasant connotation that these terms now have.\u00a0 This Emperor will be anything but “imperialist”.\u00a0 It means, in effect, that he will go to England to help the English people out of their Communist enslavement, and he will land in Greece to expel the Mohammedans.\u00a0 All this will be made clear later in this article\u2026 At this stage, may I caution against dismissing the idea of a Mohammedan invasion in Europe as extravagant.\u00a0 I discussed this point in my first book: the Mohammedan invasion is mentioned in an exceedingly large number of prophecies, and the prophecies are true.\u00a0 The invasion will be made possible because,<\/b><\/p>\n “(a) Soviet Russia, the Beast of the Earth, will give Mohammed, the Beast of the Sea, all the military support she can, hoping thereby to avoid a direct involvement of herself in Western Europe;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “(b) because Western Europe will be in a state of utter chaos at the close of murderous civil wars.<\/p>\n “It was just as “extravagant” to speak of the “Revolt of the Algerians in 1938 when Algeria was regarded as being an extension of metropolitan France, but the revolt did come to pass in the sixties, and Algeria is now independent.)<\/p>\n “Is this the One World government which is currently advocated by Leftist elements?\u00a0 Most definitely not.\u00a0 The One World government will not come about until the revelation of the Man of Sin who, with the Jewish nation fawning at his feet, will impose his tyranny upon the whole world.\u00a0 The “dominion” in question here will not take the form of a centralized autocratic government. Centralization is the very opposite of the principle of subsidiarity which the Church and every genuine Catholic monarch has always supported.\u00a0 Subsidiarity, to be sure, does not exclude supreme authority, or arbitration, but it is undoubtedly the antithesis of autocratism.\u00a0 The word itself is comparatively new but the principle has always been upheld by the Church,” [but this word definitely was not understood by the Church of the past as in the same sense that it is used today by the Novus Ordo Church, nor even necessarily as it was understood by Dupont.]<\/p>\n In assaying what is written above, (if we return to the two 10-point lists of disasters that Dupont says are to come both remotely and proximately), it appears that while Dupont has not come out and said it in so many words, he places the coming of Antichrist prior to the arrival of the Great King and Holy Pope; he has said it without realizing it. While Dupont may have studied and been an expert in the area of prophecy, he evidently did not realize what the Church Herself actually taught concerning the Scriptural prophecies of Daniel \u2014 primarily the cessation of the continual sacrifice and the identification of the abomination of desolation. Clearly Pope Paul IV interprets the abomination of desolation as Antichrist; also heretics, apostates and schismatics parading as true Catholics. In 1559, he wrote in his infallible bull, \u201cCum ex Apostolatus Officio:\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe must see attentively to driving away from Christ\u2019s fold those who, in Our time more consciously and balefully than usual, driven by malice and trusting in their own wisdom, rebel against the rule of right Faith and strive to rend the Lord\u2019s seamless robe by corrupting the sense of the Holy Scriptures with cunning inventions. We must not allow those to continue as teachers of error who disdain to be taught\u2026It behooves us to give fuller and more diligent thought where the peril is greatest, lest false prophets (or even others possessing secular jurisdiction) wretchedly ensnare simple souls and drag down with themselves to perdition and the ruin of damnation the countless peoples entrusted to their care and government in matters spiritual or temporal; and lest it befall Us to see in the<\/p>\n holy place the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet..<\/p>\n \u201cIf ever at any time it becomes clear that any Bishop, even one conducting himself as an Archbishop, Patriarch, or primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, even as mentioned, a Legate; or likewise any Roman Pontiff before his promotion or elevation as a Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, [has strayed from the Catholic Faith or] fallen into some heresy, [or has incurred schism], then his promotion or elevation shall be null, invalid and void. It cannot be declared valid or become valid through his acceptance of the office, his consecration, subsequent possession or seeming possession of government and\u00a0administration, or by the enthronement of or homage paid to the same Roman Pontiff, or by universal obedience accorded him, or by the passage of any time in said circumstances, [nor shall it be held as quasi-legitimate.]\u201d<\/p>\n This also was the opinion of St. Bernard, the last Father of the Church, who lived several centuries before Pope Paul IV\u2019s bull was written. He teaches that it is an anti-pope reigning as a true pope who alone can merit the terrible title Antichrist. In supporting Pope Innocent II, St. Bernard wrote to Hildebert, archbishop of Tours: \u201cBehold, Innocent the Christ, the anointed of the Lord, is \u2018set for the fall and the resurrection of many.\u2019 For they that are of God willingly adhere to him, whilst opposed to him stand Antichrist and his followers. We have seen \u2018the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place,\u2019 (Matt. 34:15)\u2026He has seated himself in the Chair of Peter. The holy place he covets, not for its holiness, but for its height. He has, I say, got possession of the holy place [but] not through the merit of his life. The election whereof he boasts is but a cloak for his malice. To call it an election at all is an impudent lie.\u201d (Rev. Albert J. Luddy, \u201cThe Life and Teachings of St. Bernard\u201d).<\/p>\n Commenting on the meaning of the abomination of desolation, St. Jerome writes: \u201cIt is possible to apply this text easily to either the Antichrist,<\/i><\/b> to the statue of Caesar which Pilate placed in the Temple or even to the equestrian statue of Hadrian, which down to this present day stands on the very site of the holy of holies. In the Old Testament, however, the term abomination is applied deliberately to idols. To identify it further, \u2018of desolation,\u2019 is added to indicate that the idol was placed in a desolate or ruined temple. The abomination of desolation can be taken to mean as well every perverted doctrine. When we see such a thing stand in the holy place, that is in the Church and pretend it is God, we must flee\u2026,\u201d<\/i><\/b> (Breviary Lesson for the 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost).<\/p>\n \u201cThe apostasy of the city of Rome from the vicar of Christ, and its destruction by Antichrist, may be thoughts so new to many Catholics that I think it well to cite the text of theologians in the greatest repute,\u201d (pg. 88). If the Church\u2019s true teaching on this subject was not generally known, it is only because her enemies (who have stated for centuries that the popes of Rome were collective Antichrist) would have used it against Her; also, the Church did not wish to prematurely confuse and alarm the faithful. Manning not only shows that the Church expected such an event; he tells us that there was a definite tradition in the Church for many centuries among scriptural commentators and theologians of great repute favoring this interpretation of end times prophecy. As he stated in his work, \u201cThe True Story of the Vatican Council,\u201d the march towards these times already had begun even before the Council convened. Therefore, Manning simply decided that what was becoming increasingly clear no longer needed to be suppressed.<\/p>\n Henry Cardinal Manning as follows: \u201cThe holy Fathers, who have written on the subject of Antichrist and of the prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know, \u2014 and they are the Fathers both of the East and the West. Of both the Greek and the Latin Church \u2014 all of them unanimously, \u2014 say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of Antichrist, the holy sacrifice of the altar will cease. Manning undoubtedly was aware of St. Francis de Sales and St. Alphonsus\u2019 teaching that the Sacrifice would cease in the latter days. St. Francis writes: \u201cThe revolt and separation must come\u2026the Sacrifice shall cease and\u2026the Son of Man shall hardly find faith on earth\u2026All these passages are understood of the affliction which Antichrist shall cause in the Church\u2026But the Church\u2026 shall not fail, and shall be fed and preserved amidst the deserts and solitudes to which She shall retire, as the Scripture says, (Apoc. Ch. 12),\u201d (\u201cThe Catholic Controversy\u201d). In his \u201cThe Holy Eucharist,\u201d St. Alphonsus stated that: \u201cIt is true [the Mass] will cease on earth at the time of Antichrist: the Sacrifice of the Mass is to be suspended\u2026according to the prophecy of Daniel, (Dan. 12:11).\u201d St. Alphonsus goes on to explain, however, that in reality the Sacrifice and priesthood never will cease since \u201cthe Son of God, Eternal Priest, will always continue to offer Himself to God, the Father, in Heaven as an Eternal Sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n And the arrival of the abomination and the cessation of the sacrifice are almost simultaneous, so that one cannot happen without the other. St. Paul tells us that first the revolt must occur, which began in the 1500s and ended following the false Vatican II council. This must happen before the Man of Sin can be revealed for what he is, and it happened just this way. For when the new Novus Ordo liturgy was officially introduced, the Man of Sin was then unquestionably revealed, and those remaining with him in his schismatic Church were the ones who revolted, not those who refused to accept the changes. Just as Daniel\u00a0 predicted, Paul 6 changed times and laws. He sat in God\u2019s temple pretending he was His vicar, when he was not. St. Paul speaks of he who witholdeth. Who else could this be but a true pope, who did hold in St. Paul\u2019s time, and would later successfully be taken out of the way to allow the Man of Sin to reign?<\/p>\nThe Priory connection<\/h2>\n
Traditionalist neo-Nazis<\/h2>\n
La Salette and the Great Monarch<\/h2>\n
Yves Dupont on the Great Monarch and age of peace<\/h2>\n