What Do You Think About Pope Leo XIV?

In these last few day many people have asked me what I think about the new Pope Leo XIV? As a priest and pastor, one of my most important priorities is to protect the sheep from the wolf, that is, to try to be a “good shepherd” ready to “lay down my life for the sheep” (Jn 10:11; 1Pt 5:1-4), and thus to warn the souls of the many dangers and traps today in this period of the great apostasy before the manifestation of the Antichrist (2Thess ch2) when “if possible, even the elect” (Mt 24:24) will be led astray. Few priests do this today because most priests seek to please people who want to only hear things the way they want things and do not want to hear about the necessity to carry the cross of Christ in their lives and they do not want to hear about the existence of the devil, hell or sin. I responded to them with THREE main points.

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1) The FIRST POINT that I offer is that Jesus told us: “You will know them by their fruits” (Mt 7:15-20). Jesus did not say “you will know them by their leaves”, which would be their nice words!

BUT IT TAKES TIME TO SEE THE ACTUAL FRUITS, so let us wait until we see the actual fruits. Unfortunately very few people today have any idea about the difference between good fruits and bad fruits. Very few Catholics today know their catechism or even the most fundamental tenets of their faith. When I ask priests of my diocese of Perugia, Italy – Does the Truth come from God or from the Church? – they do not know how to respond! This is why the Antichrist will so easily be able to manipulate the great majority of people well immersed into subjectivism. Moreover, the techniques of brainwashing with the TV and mass media have been very highly developed.

People today have been led and brainwashed to not recognize or to outright reject the beam of light from the Light House in our present day storm of confusion, that is, the Truth of God that does not change with the world. If a person speaks nice, they say: “oh how nice”! If a person speaks the uncomfortable Truth, they say: “what an idiot”! Not only has the great majority of Catholics forgotten their catechism and the fundamental principles and Truths of their precious faith, but we are totally surrounded today by the atmosphere of RELATIVISM, which means every person become the source of truth and interpretation of truth, not GOD! Thus we must be reminded that the fundamental criteria of determining good fruits from bad fruits is to bring these fruits before the Truth of God which does not change with the truth of the world which changes continuously according to the whims and arrogance of men. In this way we can see if the fruits are in harmony, or not in harmony, with the documents of the Church and the writings of the saints which are well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC); ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM). The Truth of God sets us free (Jn 8:32). The false truth of the father of lies, Satan (Jn 8:44) offers us pleasure and pride today, but afterwards slavery here on earth and for eternity.

A very powerful weapon of Freemas0nry, together with the various groups of the superrich such as the Bildeb*rger group, in controlling and manipulating the people is SECULAR FEMINISM, which in many ways, has succeeded in putting aside the man as the protector of the family, the Church and society. As God made us, men tend to reason with their INTELLECT and LOGIC whereas women tend to reason with the HEART. Thus women are more susceptible and influenced by nice sounding words and less inclined to distinguish between good fruits and bad fruits, between fruits that lead to the true and lasting good of people or to harming people and even leading people away from God and toward hell. Thus the superrich have spent tremendous amounts of money, that they covertly stole from us, to promote secular feminism, the so-called, nice-sounding, “women’s liberation”, so that it becomes much more difficult for the general public to discover the truth of how we are being SWINDLED and even BRAINWASHED and led to where we do not want to go!!! “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14). Just as we have been brainwashed to seek to be liberated from God and to believe that God is not love but evil, and to believe that God gave us the Ten Commandments for our harm and not for our good, so too, women have been brainwashed to seek to be liberated from men who by the design of God, if they pray, protect their wives, families and society, which today is greatly lacking! It is amazing today how Satan, using his very numerous puppets and the motors of the culture (mass media, schools, religious institutions), have overturned the truth so as to convince the great majority that God is bad and Satan is good. In Sacred Scripture we find that GOD loves his creatures immensely and is the “Prince of Peace” (Is 9:6), whereas SATAN, who rebelled against God and who hates us and wants our total destruction is “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44) and “the prince of the world” (Jn 12:31; 14:30; Rev 12:9)! “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Is 5:20).

Studies have shown that women are MORE EASILY MANIPULATED by the highly controlled mainstream media than men since women are more worried about human respect and being out of step with others. Even in the Catholic Church, secular feminism is at least just as widespread and strong. Women are presented in the mainstream media as the points of reference for guidance and leadership instead of the man as it was in the past from Biblical and Christian tradition.

“THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND DESPERATELY CORRUPT; who can understand it?” (Jer 17:9; Jms 1:26; Heb 3:10; Ps 95:10). This is one of the reasons why Divine Revelation tells us that the husband is the head of the family and the wife is the heart of the family. This is also the reason why Freemas0nry promotes secular feminism so as to overturn God’s perfect design and to obscure the real strategy and goal of the superrich of the world.

Freemas0nry has worked hard to promote “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”. “Political correctness”, of course, is established by Freemasonry which controls the mainstream media. Under the guise of equal rights and false prejudice, has confused and destroyed the God-given roles of men and women for healthy families and a healthy society. Freemas0nry, guided by its hidden master, Satan, knows the power of subconscious suggestion and highly sophisticated manipulation by the mainstream media to reverse the God-given roles of men and women and to put the woman as the head and point of reference on TV shows, newscasts and movies. Today it is very politically incorrect to point this out, and even seen as prejudice and bigotry. People say this is not important, but it is a very important priority of Freemas0nry and the superrich to promote secular feminism. Do we think we are intelligent and Satan is stupid? Unfortunately a great number of women very easily drank this devastating poison of secular feminism which satisfies ones pride, which is the fundamental temptation that Satan offers us.

The NEWSCASTER is supposed to ask questions to bring out what he or she wants to bring out. The man, by nature, will bring out possible dangers to the family and the society. Behold the astuteness of the freemas0ns. The man is also generally more logical, and prone to see the whole picture of where we are being led rather than just the details.

Men are portrayed in the mainstream media as stupid, or macho men like Rambo or the Terminator, but not as virtuous men to look up to. The TV often portrays men as misfits, awkward, cowards, wimps, womanizer, philanderer, skirt chaser, milksop, namby-pamby, fairies and sissies. The saints of God are exactly the opposite, ready to give their lives for God, their neighbor and for the Truth that truly sets us free (Jn 8:32)!

IN GOD’S INFINITELY WISE DESIGNS, the man tends to reason with his head while the woman tends to reason with her heart. Man should listen to the heart but make the final decisions with his head. God created man and woman complimentary, equal in dignity with different roles of mutual service and love, not power and strife as Satan wants and promotes. Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen said: “We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings”.

BY NATURE, GOD HAS GIVEN TO MEN THE VOCATION TO PROTECT THE WIFE, FAMILY AND SOCIETY, while the woman looks at the details of the persons and the family. In God’s plan, the woman inspires her husband and the husband inspires the children and thus the society. Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote: “To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more she is devoted to truth, justice and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”

All the popes up until Pope Francis have told us that we are NOT Catholic if we pick and choose from the Teachings of the Church. POPE JOHN PAUL II (AMONG MANY OTHER OCCASIONS) SPOKE FIRMLY TO THE US BISHOPS AGAINST THIS "PICK AND CHOOSE SMORGASBORD TYPE CATHOLICISM" in LA in his September 1987 visit: "It is sometimes reported that a large number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching of the Church on a number of questions, notably sexual and conjugal morality, divorce and remarriage. Some are reported as not accepting the Church's clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective in their adherence to the Church's moral teachings. It is sometimes claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with being a “good Catholic” and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments. THIS IS A GRAVE ERROR that challenges the teaching office of the bishops of the United States and elsewhere. I wish to encourage you in the love of Christ to address this situation courageously in your pastoral ministry, relying on the power of God's truth to attract assent and on the grace of the Holy Spirit which is given both to those who proclaim the message and to those to whom it is addressed." (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1987/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19870916_vescovi-stati-uniti_en.html).

Even the priests in my diocese of Perugia, Italy did not learn in their seminary formation that THE TRUTH COMES FROM GOD, NOT FROM THE CHURCH. This fallacious formation prepares the way for the false prophet, the false pope, who will transform the Church into a counterfeit church emptied of its divine content. But as Christ intended, the Church is the servant of the Truth, not the Author of the Truth (Jn 14:6). The Church must protect and defend the precious gift of the Truth, not modify or change the truth in a hidden sly way to please the world. Thus no priest, bishop or POPE can change the Truth of Divine Revelation given by God throughout the history of mankind, infallibly explained by the Catholic Church, and is well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC); ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM).

More than 60 years ago, ECCLESIASTICAL MAS0NRY, with the help of many Mas0nic bishops and cardinals, entered into a great number of Catholic seminaries and universities to fundamentally change, in a very sly and hidden way, the theological and philosophical teachings of the Catholic Church. This was done in a very intelligent way, printing many books and pamphlets, including APPEALING TO THE PRIDE OF THE YOUNG STUDENTS in that we can interpret reality and truth according to ourselves, instead of having the humility to seek the proper interpretation according to God found in Divine Revelation explained in the documents of the Catholic Church and in the writings of the saints for 2000 years. In most Catholic seminaries today there is no longer offered courses on logic or metaphysics which helps young seminarians to think logically so as to be able to distinguish between right and wrong; there is instead promoted relativism in a disguised way. For example, these poor seminarians are brainwashed to believe what was condemned by the Church more than 50 years ago, “Situation Ethics”, which is a derivative of modernism. Situation Ethics basically promotes the human subjective interpretation in each situation instead of the Divine interpretation in each situation which can be discovered in the teachings of the Church and in the writing of the saints. Most priests and bishops today no longer know what the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church on faith and morals and thus normally react negatively to someone who tries to explain the most basic tenants of our faith, such as the truth comes from the Creator, not from the creatures, and not even from the Church! To have an idea of how the ecclesiastical mas0nry works, read the messages of Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi, June of 1989.

UNDERSTANDING THIS WELL ORGANIZED AGENDA of the Ecclesiastical Mas0nry, guided by Satan himself who is very intelligent, we can more easily make sense in the confusion and among the many contradictions regarding the perennial teachings of the Church that we have seen coming from the Vatican since March 2013.

2) The SECOND POINT that I offer is that up until Pope Francis (2013) the highly controlled mainstream media has always been against the Catholic Church and against the popes in a sly covert way. Instead for the first time ever, the mainstream media was all in favor of Pope Francis. We are already seeing that the mainstream media, controlled by Freemas0nry, is very happy with Pope Leo XIV, and seeks to praise him in every way possible. One can easily find on the WEB how happy Freemas0nry was with Pope Francis!

Nick Donnelly, after seeing all the praises of Pope Francis by EWTN after his death, published on Facebook on May 6, 2025:

“The propaganda coming from EWTN about Jorge Bergoglio is NAUSEATING. Bergoglio made it clear that actions meant more than words -- his actions often contradicting his words: JORGE BERGOGLIO WAS NOT A PRO-LIFE POPE. Bergoglio praised the notorious abortionist Emma Bonino, who conducted 10,000 illegal abortions & spearheaded Italy's legalization of abortion, as one of Italy's 'forgotten greats.' Bergoglio awarded the Dutch politician Lilianne Ploumen a high papal award the year she raised $500 million to fund abortions to counter President Trump cutting US funding of international abortions. Bergoglio gutted the Pontifical Academy for Life, dispensing with Pope John Paul II's Service to Life, a declaration sworn by members to promote and defend the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, in alignment with the Church’s teachings. As a consequence, Bergoglio appointed pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-contraception members to the debased Pontifical Academy for Life.

“Archbishop Paglia, Bergoglio's appointee as head of the debased Pontifical Academy for Life claimed on Italian TV that abortion was an unquestionable 'pillar' of Italian society. Bergoglio did not contradict him. The Bergoglian Vatican often invited pro-abortion, pro-eugenics politicians and pundits to speak at its international conferences, such as Jeffrey Sacks and Paul R. Ehrlich. Bergoglio adamantly protected militant pro-abortion US politicians, such as Biden and Pelosi, ensuring they continued to receive Holy Communion, despite them seeking to legalize abortion up to birth and allocating billions to abortion provider Planned Parenthood. In response to the Zika disease Bergoglio recommended that couples used condoms. Bergoglio often brazenly contradicted his criticism of trans ideology, once referring to a female pretending to be a male as a 'woman', and often hosting males pretending to be females, including active trans prostitutes. For all his high-sounding words, Jorge Bergoglio's actions supported and promoted the culture of death.”

EWTN does what Freemas0nry does with the mainstream media, by picking out only the words of Pope Francis that are in harmony with the perennial teachings of the Church. This method gives a false impression of the real fruits of Cardinal Bergoglio, which is exactly what Satan wants. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits” (Mt 7:15-20; Lk 6:44). Jesus did not say “you will know them by their leaves”, which would be their nice words!

FREEMAS0NRY STRONGLY PROMOTES POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, and thus conspiracy theorists are seen as out of touch with reality and highly ridiculed, and INTIMIDATED in many powerful ways. This same type of pressure is now even stronger in the Catholic Church. Find my article on the WEB: “RIGID With Christ the Immutable Truth!” Thus few open their eyes to the fact that for years Freemas0nry, guided by its Grand Master, who is guided by Satan, have been working to lead the world to the worst dictatorship in the history of the world (Mt 24), the Great Reset, which in the end, with the help of the One World Religion, headed by the False Prophet, will lead as many people as possible to adore the Antichrist (Rev 13). If one overcomes the great pressure to be politically correct and human respect and human pride, one quickly begins to PUT THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TOGETHER and to understand the motives for what is going on and the brainwashing of the highly controlled mainstream media.

MANY BELIEVE THE FREEMAS0NS ARE SIMPLY A CENTURIES OLD CHARITABLE FRATERNITY. However, the Catholic Church has consistently condemned Freemas0nry more than any other error in its history because it promotes indifferentism, naturalism, communism, and other dangerous philosophies. Mas0nry is working to create a world dictatorship in a subtle and hidden way, the New World Order. Mas0nry has assassinate various presidents of the USA who began to mint money by the government (instead of by the Mas0nic bank, Federal Reserve), such as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and others. For similar reasons, in a sly hidden way, Aldo Moro, Italian prime minister, was killed in 1978; the Red Brigade was only a cover for the real assassins, Freemas0nry.

Those who become 33 degree Mas0ns must swear the oath: “Ordo Ab Chao”, meaning Order out of Chaos. “Ordo ab Chao” is the motive to promote “UNCONTROLED” immigration, as well as undermining commerce and the whole of the structures of societies in a covert and underhanded way using their very numerous bribed Mas0nic politicians and corporate directors! “Mas0nry is a true and specific Satanic Sect. The esoteric studies, up to the 18th degree include spiritism and magic, from the 24th degree one becomes “Militia of Satan”, from the 28th degree to the 33rd degree “Mystical Body of Satan”, this is the reality of Mas0nry” – testimony of Cesare Ghinelli, ex Mas0n. “Satan is the only god of our planet” - H. P. Blavatsky (Mas0n).

Most Mas0ns do not know they are WORKING FOR SATAN until they are brainwashed during at least 24 degrees of Mas0nry. But immediately at the first degree of Mas0nry one must accept religious syncretism, that is the grave error that all religions are equal, which means that Jesus Christ is at the same level with Mohammad or Buddha or any religious founder.

TODAY, FREEMAS0NRY IS IN POWER! Our Lady of Good Success; Quito, Ecuador (January 20, 1610), warned us over four hundred years ago:

“Thus I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century…the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. FREEMAS0NRY, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church… IN THIS SUPREME MOMENT OF NEED FOR THE CHURCH, THE ONE WHO SHOULD SPEAK WILL FALL SILENT.”

Consider also that the great majority of people today, manipulated by the highly controller mainstream media, have willing embrace the easier way of “IGNORANCE IS BLISS”. Thus the great majority of people are led where the puppets of Satan lead them. People do not want to realize that WE ARE THE GENERATION (Mt 24:34) of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21) of which Jesus spoke about, when “if possible, even the elect” (Mt 24:24) will be led astray. We are the generation of the great apostasy of which Saint Paul wrote about in 2 Thess ch. 2 when the Body of Christ, the Church, will go through the passion and crucifixion, as did Jesus 2000 years ago (CCC 675-677)!

https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2023/01/those-who-open-their-eyes-are-labeled.html

Things are beginning to move so fast that the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about six months!

One of the most fundamental and efficacious, yet inconspicuous, strategies of Ecclesiastical Mas0nry in forming their One World Religion is to slowly and imperceptibly PUT ASIDE THE IMPORTANT TRUTHS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH so as to be all together in a type of false ecumenism which results in reductionism to the lowest common denominator of faith and moral values. But Jesus Christ is the Truth (Jn 14:6)! “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Mk 31:31). “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished” (Mt 5:17-18; 24,35).

3) MY THIRD POINT is that Our Lady revealed to Don Stefano Gobbi that the situation would get worse and worse until Our Lady intervenes in a marvelous way. Two weeks before Don Stefano Gobbi died on June 29, 2011, he told Padre Quartilio Gabrieli and another priest that a message that summarizes well what the Church is going through today is the following:

“TO THE PRIESTS OUR LADY’S BELOVED SONS” (October 18, 1975; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/):

“My Adversary will one day think that he is celebrating a complete victory: over the world, over the Church, over souls. It will be only then that I will intervene - terrible and victorious - that his defeat may be all the greater when he is certain in his conviction that he has conquered once for all.

What is in preparation is so extraordinary that its like has never happened since the creation of the world. That is why everything has already been predicted in the Bible. The terrible struggle between me, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and the Red Dragon, Satan, who has now succeeded in seducing many even with the error of Marxist atheism, has already been foretold to you. The struggle between the angels together with my children and the followers of the dragon led by the rebellious angels has already been foretold to you. Above all, my complete victory has already been clearly foretold.

You, my sons, have been called to live through these events. It is now the time for you to know this, that you may be consciously prepared for the battle. This is now the time for me to begin disclosing part of my plan.

First of all, it is necessary that my Enemy have the impression of having conquered everything, of having everything now in his hands. This is why he will be permitted to penetrate even into the interior of my Church, and he will succeed in plunging the sanctuary of God into darkness. He will reap the greatest number of victims from among the ministers of the sanctuary.

This will in fact be a time of great falls on the part of my beloved sons, my priests. Satan will seduce some of them by pride, others by love of the flesh, others by doubts, others by unbelief, and still others by discouragement and loneliness. How many will have doubts about my Son and about me and will believe that this is the end of my Church!

Priests consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, my beloved sons whom I am gathering together for this great battle, the first weapon that you must make use of is trust in me. It is your complete abandonment to me. Conquer the temptation of fear, of discouragement, of sadness. Distrust paralyzes your activity and greatly benefits my Adversary. Be serene; be joyful!”

This message is also indicated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, CCC 675-677, in that just as Christ 2000 years ago was crucified and buried before the resurrection, so too in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), the Body of Christ, the Church, will be crucified and buried before the Church rises again totally purified!

Catholic leaders are so afraid of losing their prestige and their power and their money that they end up doing, in the name of God and supposed religious motives, as does Freemas0nry to destroy the Catholic Church – that is to put aside the Truth of Jesus Christ and offer continual compromises to please the people and to obey their Mas0nic puppet masters!!! The few Catholic leaders who have remained faithful to the Teachings of the Church and have stood up to defend these teachings have been PUT TO SILENCE AND EVEN ELIMINATED in many shrewd ways.

SINCE 2013, THE VATICAN HAS PROMOTED priests and bishops who encourage the culture of death, such as the Gay agenda, transgender, women in governance in the Church. At the same time the Vatican has protected those who have committed grave sexual perversion, such as Father Marko Rupnik and Cardinal Theodor Edgar McCarrick, while silencing in various covert ways those who promote the culture of life and denounce the Gay agenda and the culture of death agenda – that is those who have remained faithful to the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church, the Truth of God!

If the Truth comes from God and not from the Church, why was there no dialogue with the four cardinals, after the publication of Amoris Latitae, who wrote the “Dubia” (November 2016) and their suppressed book “Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church” (October 2014), as well as with many other cardinals and bishops and orthodox Catholic professors since 2013. Why did Pope Francis not respond to these four cardinals, and more recently, why did Pope Francis not dialogue with the five cardinals who wrote another “Dubia” regarding the grave problem of the Synod on Synodality?!? Does the Truth come from Cardinal Bergoglio or from God?!? Is Cardinal Bergoglio following a hidden agenda???

Pope Francis removed (Nov. 11, 2023) the bishop of Tyler, Texas, Joseph Strickland, who had always remained faithful to the Deposit of Faith which does not change with the world, because it is the Truth of God.

Bishop Joseph Strickland strongly rebuked ‘silent’ US bishops in a powerful letter outside the USCCB meeting in Baltimore, warning them that God will punish those who do not speak out against ‘false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican’ under Pope Francis.

Bishop Strickland: GOD WILL PUNISH BISHOPS FOR THEIR SILENCE WHILE POPE FRANCIS DESTROYS THE CHURCH.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/bishop-strickland-god-will-punish-bishops-for-their-silence-while-pope-francis-destroys-the-church/?utm_source=digest-catholic-2024-11-14&utm_medium=email

Cardinal Pell defined the Synod of Bishops called by Francis to deepen the theme of “synodality” and what the Church of the future should be like, a “TOXIC NIGHTMARE”. In the “secret” Vatican memo, Cardinal Pell wrote: “Commentators of every school, if for different reasons … agree that this pontificate is a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe.” Shortly afterwards, Cardinal Pell, who was in good health, suddenly died on January 10, 2023.

During the two Synods on the Family (2014 and 2015) before the publication of Amoris Laetitia (2016), Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna, had the firmest possible words in denouncing the heretical proposals of Cardinal Kasper to allow Holy Communion to remarried divorced couples. Cardinal Caffarra died suddenly on September 6, 2017.

Cardinal Kaspar, strongly promoted by Pope Francis, refuses to respond to one simple question that Cardinal Caffarra repeated many times: “What happens to the first valid and consummated marriage?”

(http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/03/cardinal-caffarra-firm-stance-on.html; http://catholicism.org/cardinal-caffarra-gives-strong-warning-against-kaspers-rovings-on-divorcees-and-communion.html).

Jesus told us clearly regarding matrimony: “What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder” (Mt 19:6)!

The eminent 72-year old Austrian Catholic philosopher Professor JOSEF SEIFERT from the Spanish branch of the International Academy of Philosophy founded by Seifert himself in the Principality of Liechtenstein is perhaps the most dramatic legacy of “Amoris Laetitia.” Because it is precisely for having dared to criticize a passage from this document of Pope Francis in the light of “pure logic” that Seifert has been banished.

https://onepeterfive.com/catholic-scholar-official-persecution-orthodoxy-within-church-begun/

Bishop Dominique Marie Jean Rey (born 21 September 1952) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon from 2000 to 2025. He is a member of the Emmanuel Community, and he is considered one of the more conservative French bishops. He also frequently celebrates Tridentine Mass. Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon has resigned (January 2025), at the request of Pope Francis, ending a controversial chapter in the history of the French diocese.

HOW MANY PRIESTS AND BISHOPS TODAY, for the true good of their flock, have the courage to imitate the saints and the prophets and to do as Saint John the Baptist, the “greatest born of women” (Mt 11:11), who said to king Herod: “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife” (Mk 6:18)? John the Baptist said that Jesus “must increase, but I must decrease” (Jn 3:30). A great number of priests today want to increase before people and thus are not transparent so as to lead people to Christ, the Truth (Jn 14:6), but rather to themselves! They seek followers for themselves instead of following Jesus to Calvary! So many religious leaders and parents seek to please the people entrusted to them without distinguishing and determining if it is a sin or not, if it truly does good to the person or not, today and tomorrow and for eternity! They are not willing to dialogue with anyone not in agreement with themselves while following the Documents of the Church and the writings of the saints. This is false and destructive love; this is misguided compassion! Few religious leaders today have the courage of the first Pope, Peter, the day of the birth of the Church, Pentecost, to say: “You have crucified Jesus” (Acts 4:10), “the author of life” (Acts 3:15), with your grave, mortal sins!

THE FIRST TARGET OF SATAN IS THE TRUE CHURCH, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Priests and bishops, with great responsibility given to them by God, will lead many souls with them to heaven or to hell for all eternity. Our Lady asks us continually to pray for priests and bishops!!! Three years before the publication and great rebellion against Pope Paul’s prophetic encyclical ‘Humanae Vitae’, 1968, which reaffirmed the teaching of Christ regarding the use of artificial means of birth control, in 1965, Saint Michael the Archangel at Garabandal, Spain, sent by Our Lady, said: “Many Cardinals, many Bishops and many Priests are on the road to perdition and with them they are bringing many souls”! Padre Pio said that for this period of great confusion, in this period of the great apostasy before the revelation of the Antichrist (2Thess 2:3), hold on to the documents of the Church and the writings of the saints; do not listen to anything else!

Not only did JESUS WARNED US that in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), that “if possible, even the elect” (Mt 24:24) will be led astray, but also SAINT PAUL TELLS US “Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2Thess 2:11-12). Also the prophet Daniel tells us: “I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?” He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.” (Dan 12:8-10).

Those who persevere in prayer and live their prayer, “THY will be done”, not “MY will be done”, save themselves. Those who do not pray damn themselves! Desired and embraced IGNORANCE is NOT BLISS after death! The people in hell are not able to commit suicide! Here on earth, if we were to see one instant heaven, we would die immediately of joy. If we were to see one instant hell, we would die immediately of terror. God does not show us heaven or hell here on earth so as to RESPECT OUR FREE WILL, otherwise we could not help but choose to do His holy Will.

IF A CATHOLIC STOPS going to CONFESSION at least once a month, and stops praying the ROSARY every day, this Catholic will automatically lose the faith in the Most Holy EUCHARIST, and everything else! The Eucharist is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ!

In this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), “the Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection” (CCC 677). But “IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH!” - Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal, 1917. There will be fulfilled the Protoevangelium (Gen 3:15) – Saint Louis de Montfort!

May God bless you and Mary guide you in this period of the purification of the Church and of the world!

Find on the WEB, using the search engine duckduckgo, to find the various articles.

(The accelerated destruction of the Catholic Church and the revelation of the Antichrist!)

https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2025/01/great-surprises-well-planned-for-2025.html

https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2023/01/those-who-open-their-eyes-are-labeled.html

I am not ticked off, I don’t think that you explained why you do not believe a clear statement by Jesus to eat His Body and Blood for your salvation You didn’t answer: “So followers of protestant beliefs can choose to believe in John 6:35 but ignore John 6: 36 and John 6: 53 that says we need to eat the Body and Blood of Jesus for our salvation?”

You know it's funny that you are so quick to accuse me of not believing the words of Jesus when what you are really talking about is the Catholic version of Jesus' words. And that "version" didn't really get spelled out in your official teaching (transubstantiation) until centuries after all the Apostles were all gone. I HAVE explained numerous times what I believe. Either you don't remember, don't read it when I have or like being able to challenge someone to repeatedly snap to your commands to "EXPLAIN YOURSELF!" at every chance.

Maybe this one time you'll read what I say and stop asking the same loaded questions every time we get on this topic? I do believe completely in what Jesus said. He DID sacrifice His body and blood for my sins and He HAD a real flesh and blood human body. He is fully God and fully human. He is the INCARNATION of Almighty God. He said it is through FAITH/BELIEF that we eat His flesh and drink His blood - when we BELIEVE in His sacrifice for our sins and accept the gift of God which is eternal life in Christ that IS eating and drinking Him AND a participation in His suffering in our place. If Jesus had not died for us, we would have to physically and spiritually die and be separated from God from all eternity. Just as Jesus died ONCE for all, we trust in Him and His sacrifice is forever efficacious. He doesn't have to continuously die over and over. His resurrection from the dead is proof that IT IS FINISHED. Our redemption is complete and we receive that great and precious promise by faith. The bread and wine He taught at the Last Supper was not only an act of faith (a testimony to others) in receiving it, it was a REMEBRANCE of Him just like He commanded. We do SHOW the Lord's death each time we join with others in this community of saints in remembering what He has done for us. He never said the bread had to LITERALLY change into His flesh nor the wine into real blood in order for us to consume Him. He repeatedly said BELIEVE in Him.

And I do think it ticks you off when you come on here and make your arguments by authority (your church leaders said so) and people don't accept that authority. Instead of stating your reasons why you believe and then respectfully acknowledge that everyone who diligently seeks to know God WILL find Him when we seek for Him with all our hearts as HE has promised, you accuse us of not believing Jesus' words. Trust that God is able to reveal the truth to all those who sincerely want to know it and the Holy Spirit will lead them to the way the truth and the life. Don't get hung up just because we may not come to that WAY via your on ramp.

It's interesting that there are so many other verses that Catholics don't take literally.

Like these......

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Matthew 23: 8-10 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

What we object to is when someone, be it Catholic or some other religion, take a verse out of context and use it to support an entire doctrine specific for their church that they created.

The John 6 passage is speaking metaphorically, and yet, in the middle of it all, Catholicism demands that one verse be yanked out and accepted completely literally with no basis at all for justifying a literal interpretation. Additionally, that interpretation of that one verse about eating blood, contradicts the entire body of the rest of Scripture dealing with blood, it's consumption, and atonement.

And yet we're expected to accept and believe that Jesus commanded His disciples to sin at the Last Supper by eating His blood??????

And that after Jesus told us this.

Matthew 5:17-20 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

What we object to is when someone, be it Catholic or some other religion, take a verse out of context and use it to support an entire doctrine specific for their church that they created.

You know, I don't really even care if they want to believe they are literally eating the flesh and blood of Jesus in their Mass. We have religious freedom in this country and people can believe or not believe whatever they want. My objection has always been that Catholicism asserts their sacraments are the ONLY way to salvation and that their priests are the only ones who can bring down Jesus and miraculously turn the bread and wine of the Eucharist into Christ's true body and serve it up for believers to physically swallow so that they "receive" Jesus anew. And it's to be done every time you go to Mass after going to confession first, of course, and doing your penance. They declare that in order to get to heaven you have to believe what they say, confirm that you are literally eating the flesh and blood of Jesus and, along with your good works, you might merit eternal life with Him. Theirs is NOT the good news gospel and because it's not, it is an accursed one that leads people away from Jesus not to Him.

It really doesn't matter if you see the Lord's Supper bread/cracker and juice/wine (elements) as the Real Presence of Jesus - that He is there in spirit but the elements don't literally change, or Christ's presence where the elements miraculously change to His flesh and blood body even though they don't physically appear that way, or that the elements Represent His body and blood but they aren't literally or spiritually changed by the blessing of the priest. What matters is our faith IN Christ and believing the sacrifice of His real body and shed blood was for our sins and that salvation is a gift of God's GRACE and not through our works. We observe this together in REMEMBRANCE of Him as He said we should. Even in Catholicism, you can do everything they say you must do, believe what they say you must believe, but still have no assurance you will go to heaven when you die. To claim you are sure is seen as the sin of Presumption! Imagine that...I commit a sin when I believe God keeps His promise and cannot lie. It shows their faith is in themselves first instead of Jesus.

I left Catholicism because the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to the truth of the gospel - that I HAVE eternal life through faith in Christ and not because I must earn or merit or deserve it by my works and that this precious promise meant I can be assured of my salvation NOW. There's a reason why the Holy Spirit inspired John to write the words:

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. (I John 5:13)

I believe that this assurance changes the whole dynamic of how we relate to God. We love Him because He first loved us. I don't live in fear of damnation and strive to be a "good" person because I don't want to go to hell. I have been changed all the way to my very core/heart and God has written His way of life for me there. I look back since coming to saving faith in Jesus 56 years ago and see how God has molded me. He has always been faithful, merciful and good. I am light years from where I first started. And for someone to come onto these threads and presume I don't believe Jesus' words or that I can't be saved because I don't do "Christianity" like they do, is just so very wrong and disrespectful to God. To me, it says they don't believe in His promise that He rewards those who diligently seek Him, that He will be found when we search for Him with all our hearts and that it is His will that we all come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved. The Holy Spirit will lead us into the truth.

I think you might consider taking a course on logic!!!

No one ends up in heaven by chance. No one ends up in hell by chance. The place where we will spend eternity entails a very radical choice in total freedom.

The problem is “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14). In particular, this “angel of light” takes the form and lie of convincing us that the truth according to us is the truth of God, and the interpretation of the truth or of Sacred Scripture is the truth of the Holy Spirit, when in reality it is OUR truth and OUR interpretation.

“The father of lies” (Jn 8:44) is much more intelligent than we are, and he does not sleep.

If we have the humility to consider the possibility that we could be deceived by “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44), and that we are not the source of all truth and all possible interpretations of the truth, then there is the possibility that we will begin realizing how we might have been deceived in our personal convictions, especially in this period of the great apostasy (2Thess 2:3) when even “the elect will be deceived if possible” (Mt 24:24). Then we might be more willing to listen to others of good will who do not believe as we do.

The choice is ours! Again I repeat:
No one ends up in heaven by chance. No one ends up in hell by chance. The place where we will spend eternity entails a very radical choice in total freedom.

Best wishes for all eternity!!!

Preach it, sister!!!!

Even in Catholicism, you can do everything they say you must do, believe what they say you must believe, but still have no assurance you will go to heaven when you die. To claim you are sure is seen as the sin of Presumption! Imagine that...I commit a sin when I believe God keeps His promise and cannot lie.

What some people call *presumption*, we call *faith*.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Galatians 3:5-6 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

Yes, fear of hellfire is NOT the only motivation to love and obey God.

Love, and thankfulness and gratitude for all He's done for you is another, and actually provides a far better motivation for obedience than fear.

What an affront to God that we should be so terrified of Him zapping us to hell that we toe the line to avoid His wrath, when He already demonstrated how much He loves us through the whole life and death, and resurrection of Jesus.

Romans 5:6-11 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

So don’t blame them for refusing to understand why we don’t need the threat of Hell in order to follow Christ. They very literally can’t understand.

But they COULD understand if they let go of their spiritual pride and humbly came to Jesus for His undeserved grace. I used to fret over the thought that someone might go to hell if I chickened out and didn't share the gospel with them. But then I realized that in God's sovereignty He knows those who are His. Jesus said, "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. (John 6:37) Nobody will be in hell because he/she never had a chance to know the gospel. It is a wonderful thing that God uses His people to proclaim the good news to the lost. However, how a person responds to it determines their eternal destination and is between them and God. He opens the earnestly seeking heart to receive Him. And all those who come to Christ He will never cast out, lose or condemn.

Amen! Our Creator desires that our motivation for living in holiness is based on love and not fear. Those who are scared to death of God CAN'T really love Him the way He wants. Of course we should revere Him - the reverent fear of God is the beginning of knowledge/wisdom (Proverbs 1:7; 9:10) - but He is truly honored and glorified when we love and worship Him out of genuine respect and gratitude. Sometimes the thought that the LORD loves and cares for me and every aspect of my life is just too wonderful to believe, but, it IS what He has told us through His Divinely-revealed word and He cannot lie. How much more will we honor and adore Him when we fully realize this is the truth?

[For my hope is] that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in [unselfish] love, so that they may have all the riches that come from the full assurance of understanding [the joy of salvation], resulting in a true [and more intimate] knowledge of the mystery of God, that is, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge [regarding the word and purposes of God]. (Colossians 2:2,3 Amplified Bible)

Your Lutheran jab, claiming I “pray to Mary more than my Lord,” is a lazy, baseless stereotype that doesn’t hold up. It’s the kind of lazy response that shows your ignorance or bad faith

Mary’s called “blessed” (Luke 1:48, Greek makarizō) and intercedes at Cana (John 2:3-5), always pointing to Jesus: “Do whatever he tells you.” She’s not stealing God’s spotlight—she’s His chosen vessel. Hebrews 12:1 and Revelation 5:8 back the saints’ intercession (Greek proseuchē), including Mary’s. Mock that, and you’re dissing God’s plan.

From the 3rd-century Sub Tuum Praesidium to Ephesus (431) all Christians have venerated Mary as Theotokos, never as God. The Mass worships God alone—Mary’s not on the altar. Trent (1545-1563) shut down any confusion: latria for God, hyperdulia for Mary. Even Luther respected her, so your smear’s just Reformation baggage.

Words Matter: “Pray” (Latin precari) means I’m asking Mary’s intercession, not worshipping her. The Hail Mary says “pray for us” (ora pro nobis), not “you’re divine.” Mixing dulia with latria is your error, not my idolatry.

“More”? Please: The Mass, Our Father, and sacraments dominate my prayer life. Marian devotions? Secondary, all about Jesus—like the Rosary’s focus on His life. Your claim’s pure fiction, no receipts.

Cut the Sneer: Your “what else can you expect?” drips with contempt for the woman who bore my Savior. I honor Mary as Scripture commands, trusting her prayers lead me to Christ. Drop the tired caricature and deal with the truth.

you raised a great point about Nicodemus’ response to Jesus in John 3:4, where he asks, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?” You argue that Nicodemus’ question implies he understood Jesus to mean “born again” rather than “born from above,” suggesting that the Greek term anothen should be translated as “again.”

The Greek word anothen in John 3:3 can mean “again,” “anew,” or “from above,” depending on context. It appears elsewhere in John’s Gospel with the sense of “from above” (e.g., John 3:31, “He who comes from above [anothen] is above all”; John 19:11, “You would have no authority over me unless it had been given you from above [anothen]”). In John 3:3, “born from above” fits the theological thrust of Jesus’ teaching, emphasizing a spiritual transformation by God’s grace, originating from heaven, rather than a mere repetition of physical birth.

Nicodemus’ question in John 3:4 does not necessarily mean he heard “born again” as opposed to “born from above.” Instead, it reflects his confusion about the spiritual nature of Jesus’ teaching. As a Pharisee, Nicodemus was likely familiar with Jewish concepts of physical birth and ritual purification but not with the radical new birth Jesus describes. His question about re-entering his mother’s womb shows he’s thinking literally, missing the spiritual metaphor altogether—whether Jesus meant “again” or “from above.” This misunderstanding is a literary device John uses to prompt Jesus’ clarification in John 3:5: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”

John 3:5 points to Baptism, where we are “born from above” through the Holy Spirit’s action in the sacrament. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1215) teaches that Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration, cleansing us from original sin and incorporating us into Christ’s Body. This aligns with “born from above,” as the grace of Baptism comes from God’s heavenly initiative, not human effort. Nicodemus’ confusion highlights the novelty of this teaching, not a literal endorsement of “born again” as a repeated physical birth.

Ealgeone, you didn’t counter a single point I made, so I’ll take that as conceding that 1 Timothy 3:2 and Titus 1:6 don’t mandate marriage for bishops—only fidelity if married. Your silence speaks volumes. Now, let’s tackle your non-response on celibacy.

I showed you Jesus Himself endorses celibacy in Matthew 19:10-12, praising those who choose it “for the sake of the kingdom” (Greek: eunouchos for God’s sake). Paul doubles down in 1 Corinthians 7:7-8, 32-35, calling the unmarried state superior for undivided devotion to God (Greek: agamos, unmarried). Celibacy isn’t just allowed—it’s exalted. Your claim that it contradicts Scripture is baseless and ignores these clear texts.

The Church’s authority to set disciplines like celibacy comes straight from Christ (Matthew 16:19, “bind and loose”) and the apostles’ example (Acts 15:28-29, setting rules for Gentiles). Celibacy for bishops, rooted in apostolic tradition, was practiced early on—see the Council of Elvira (c. 306). It’s a discipline, not dogma, so your rigid “Scripture-only” lens misses the mark. You’re conflating biblical mandates with Church governance, and it’s a weak argument.

History’s on my side: early Christians, from Jerome to Augustine, saw celibacy as a higher calling, not a contradiction. Your objection lacks evidence and dismisses centuries of tradition. Stop dodging—either engage with the texts and history or admit your critique’s got no legs.

Metmon “Which of the 21 Catholic church councils is the TRUE form of Catholicism”

You claim to be an ex cat and yet you post this which shows zero knowledge of Catholicism?!?!?

Metmom, Your scattershot attack on Catholic authority—questioning the “last true pope,” the “true” Church council, and tossing in the Orthodox for good measure—is a classic Protestant dodge. It’s all noise, no substance.

The Catholic Church doesn’t pick and choose “true” popes or councils like some buffet. Every validly elected pope, from Peter to Pope Francis, holds the keys Christ gave in Matthew 16:19 (Greek: kleis, authority to bind and loose). Every ecumenical council, from Nicaea (325) to Vatican II (1962-1965), carries binding authority when confirmed by the pope, as Acts 15:28 shows the apostles setting precedent. Your “which one’s true?” game ignores the Church’s unbroken continuity, guided by the Holy Spirit (John 16:13).

Vatican II, Vatican I, Trent—all 21 councils—aren’t competing “forms” of Catholicism. They’re developments of the same deposit of faith, addressing different times and challenges, rooted in Scripture and Tradition (2 Thess 2:15, Greek: paradosis). Trent (1545-1563) clarified justification against Protestant errors. Vatican I (1869-1870) defined papal infallibility. Vatican II renewed the Church’s mission in the modern world. They don’t cancel each other out—they build on the same truth. Your attempt to pit them against each other is a strawman.

The “who knows?” shrug is intellectual laziness. The Catholic Church’s authority, rooted in Scripture, Tradition, and history, isn’t up for grabs. Stop throwing darts blindfolded and engage with the evidence—or admit you’re just lobbing cheap shots.

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