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

The confirmation of a notorious heretic to the Cathedra of Saint Gallen in Switzerland;
the appointment of a nun as Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life,
in line with the appointment of a Prefectess by Bergoglio;
the repeated references to the heretical documents of his predecessor and to Vatican II;
the declarations on ecumenism and synodality,
and finally the acceptance of climate fraud;
all place Robert Francis Prevost in evident and disturbing continuity with his predecessor,

and it will certainly not be the stole and mozzetta that will change reality.

You say that the epistles clearly describe a church structure with priests, bishops, etc. Those epistles also say those are to be the husband of one wife, etc., so your own reference undercuts your point regarding celebate leadership of the Catholic Church, right?

I don’t exclude the Catholic Church from Christendom like many here do, but your argument falls on its face.

This pitiful attempt at justifying the non-biblical Immaculate Conception denies the ability of the God to preserve Christ while in the womb.

The irony is that Catholics never think through what they believe.

Yet, they claim that God was able to do for Mary that very thing, preserve her free from sin.

Yet, if Mary had to be sinless for Jesus to not inherit sin and be sinless, then how did Mary be born sinless from sinful parents?

That means that Mary's parents needed to likewise be sinless for Mary to not inherit sin from them and be born sinless.

And what about Mary's parents? Well, then THEIR parents likewise would need to have been sinless to not pass down sin, and so it goes.

So essentially Catholics believe that God could not (or would not) do for Jesus what they claim He did for Mary.

Which again, points to the fact that this is all about elevating Mary.

And yet Jesus had this to say.....

Matthew 11:11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

The structure of religion is core to the Biblical books, all 73 of them, whether written before Christ or after.

Except Rome has added books to the OT canon as defined by Jesus.

In the old testament books we have clear structure in Deuteronomy.

Which in essence is what Rome has rebuilt.

In the New testament we have a clear structure of priests, bishops, etc in the Epistles.

Except no papacy, no college of cardinals, none of the positions Rome claims today.

Every Roman is their own pope today - picking and choosing like a smorgasbord what they will believe or not.

And what pope they think is or was the last true pope.

Or which church council was the last true form of Catholicism.

Vatican 2?

Vatican 1?

The Council at Trent?

Which of the 21 Catholic church councils is the TRUE form of Catholicism?

Who knows?

Then of course, there's the Orthodox who claim THEY are the original form of Catholicism and yet other Catholic church officials have condemned to hell as schismatics.

I cannot argue with a point of view that is beyond knowledge, and even idiots are free to make declarative statements that are beyond both belief and/or proof.

You have proven yourself to be beyond reason.

5 posted on 5/25/2025, 8:20:54 AM by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORIST SAVAGES)

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It’s actually the best religion and truest. One holy apostolic Catholic Church. I feel bad for the fakey other religions like those megachurches that need to bribe people to go with rock bands and Starbucks. And don’t get me started on the ridiculous born again wackadoodles.

6 posted on 5/25/2025, 8:23:33 AM by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )

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Have you two met?

Which of the 21 Catholic church councils is the TRUE form of Catholicism?

Heck; Joseph Smith may have been right when he claimed to have done more to hold the church together than...

Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last.

I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam.

A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I.

The followers of Jesus ran away from Him, but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet. You know my daily walk and conversation.

I am in the bosom of a virtuous and good people. How I do love to hear the wolves howl! When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go.

For the last three years I have a record of all my acts and proceedings, for I have kept several good, faithful, and efficient clerks in constant employ:

they have accompanied me everywhere, and carefully kept my history, and they have written down what I have done, where I have been,

and what I have said; therefore my enemies cannot charge me with any day, time, or place, but what I have written testimony to prove my actions;

and my enemies cannot prove anything against me.

History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 408-409

From the church that claims it never changes.

Vatican 1

Non Roman Catholics condemned as heretics

Vatican 2

Non Roman Catholics who have been properly baptized are separated brethren.

Read 1 Timothy in the entire context not as a verse excerpted. The verse lists qualifications for a bishop’s character (blameless, vigilant, etc.), not a strict requirement to be married. Celibacy is not excluded; the text simply assumes that many candidates might be married and sets a standard for their marital fidelity. In the early Christian era, polygamy was practiced in some cultures, and remarriage after widowhood or divorce was common. The phrase ensures that a bishop, if married, is faithful to one wife, rejecting polygamy or serial remarriage.

You can refer to St. Paul’s other epistles like 1 Corinthians 7:7-8 and 7:32-35, where Paul advocates for celibacy as a state that allows undivided devotion to God. Jesus also speaks positively of those who choose celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom (Matthew 19:12).

“husband of one wife” (Greek: mias gynaikos aner, literally “a one-woman man”) emphasizes fidelity, not a mandate for marriage. The same phrase is used for deacons (1 Timothy 3:12) and elders (Titus 1:6), suggesting a consistent standard against polygamy or remarriage, not a requirement to marry.

the text does not say a bishop must be married, only that if married, he must be faithful to one wife.

The Catholic canon reflects the broader Jewish Septuagint (LXX), widely used in Jesus’ time, which included these books.

The Septuagint, compiled by 200 BC, included the Deuterocanonical books and was the primary Scripture for Greek-speaking Jews and early Christians. When the NT quotes the OT, it often follows the Septuagint’s wording (e.g., Isaiah 7:14 in Matthew 1:23).

Early Christian writers (e.g., Clement of Rome, Irenaeus, Tertullian) and councils (e.g., Hippo in 393, Carthage in 397) consistently included the Deuterocanonical books in their OT canon. These councils formalized what was already widely accepted, not “added” books.

You align with the Jewish Tanakh, finalized after Jesus’ time by non-Christian Jews. This canon excluded the Deuterocanonical books, possibly to differentiate Jewish from Christian Scriptures. However, this post-Christian Jewish canon does not bind Christians, who rely on apostolic tradition.

The Deuterocanonical books are not “additions” but part of the Christian heritage from the start. Their removal reflects a 16th-century innovation, not a return to Jesus’ supposed canon.

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History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 408-409