Anathema sit Bergoglio - Conclusion
Upon reading this, it is essential to consider its terrifying reality in the light of divine revelation. It should escape no one that the present crisis is not of the same nature as those experienced by the Church in the past. It has an eschatological dimension, by the fact that the mystery of iniquity is visibly installed in the holy place.
I repeat, this crisis is not due solely to Francis, even though it is clear that, since his arrival, the events have accelerated at a dizzying pace. No, this crisis is only the culmination of a long war against the Church by Satan and his earthly minions, for the purpose of infiltrating her, occupying her places and institutions, so as to modify her cult and doctrine, emptying it of all substance, transforming it from within into an abominable aping of the Mystical Body of Christ, into a diabolical counterfeit of the Church, a monstrous parody taking her place in the eyes of the world, which will finally show its true face, that of a satanic counter-Church totally consecrated to the service of the Antichrist.
For those who find my analysis excessive, let me cite Pope Leo XIII in his Supplication to Saint Michael the Archangel, contained in the Exorcism against Satan and the other apostate angels, published in 1890, whose prophetic character applies perfectly to the present situation:
«His most crafty enemies have engulfed the Church, the Spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, with sorrows; they have drenched her with wormwood; on all her desirable things they have laid their wicked hands. Where the See of the Blessed Peter and the Chair of Truth have been set up for the light of the Gentiles, there they have placed the throne of the abomination of their wickedness, so that, the Pastor having been struck, they may also be able to scatter the flock. Therefore, O thou unconquerable Leader, be present with the people of God and against the spiritual wickedness which are bursting in upon them; and bring them the victory.»[1]
This prayer helps us to understand what has happened since the election of John XXIII and the convocation of Vatican II, the subversive assembly directed by the modernist parties infiltrated in the Church since the end of the 19th century and charged with getting her in line with the “modern world.” Saint Pius X explained all this perfectly in his admirable encyclical Pascendi on the errors of modernism, published in 1907. The throne of Peter, the seat of Truth, the holy place of the New Covenant, is occupied by men won to the cause of the liberal, progressive and modernist revolutionary sect, and, since their takeover of power at Vatican II, they are tirelessly dedicated to overturn everything, to defile everything, to demolish everything.
This reading of the crisis is also reinforced by the words of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians, with which he explains to them that the Antichrist will sit in the temple of God: a clear allusion to the Chair of Peter, and stating that, in order for this to happen, it is necessary that the obstacle that impedes its manifestation be removed first; and that obstacle can be none other than the legitimate papacy, the foundation upon which Christ instituted His Church. Once pontifical infallibility had been neutralized by the arrival of the modernist impostors on the Throne of Peter, a devastating tidal wave conveying the modernist errors and the most abominable heresies poured into the Church, sweeping everything away in its wake, and thus, having removed the infallible seat of Truth, the requisite condition has come about to make possible the arrival of the Man of Iniquity.
Here, then, is the key text of Saint Paul to be able to understand the present situation, which, in my eyes, clearly corresponds to the latest crisis of the Church, terminal and apocalyptic in nature, that in which the mysterium iniquitatis will reach its climax, and which Our Lord, repeating the expression used by the prophet Daniel, calls “the abomination of desolation in the holy place” (Mt. 24:15):
«Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way.» (2 Thes. 2:3-7)
I would like to present a passage that is very enlightening for our times, taken from the motu proprio Sacrorum Antistitum, promulgated by Saint Pius X on September 1, 1910, in which is found the antimodernist oath that all clerics had to take before receiving major order and also before receiving a professorship or an ecclesiastical office. This oath was suppressed by Paul VI in 1967[2], because it was obviously incompatible with the aggiornamento undertaken by John XXXIII and with his Concilium Malignantium II (as in Ps. 21:17)[3] whose inspiration arose largely from the modernist movement condemned by Saint Pius X in his encyclical Pascendi and in the decree of the Holy Office Lamentabili.
Here is the citation of the antimodernist motu proprio:
«Now it is a fact that we no longer have to deal with, as in the beginning, the adversaries disguised in sheep's clothing, but with declared and ferocious enemies, within the same house, who, having made a pact with the worst enemies of the Church, they seek to destroy the Faith. These are men whose arrogance against the wisdom that comes from heaven is renewed every day, who claim the right to reform it as if you were corrupting; who want to renew it as if old age had consumed it; who want to give it new impetus and adapt it to the wishes of the world, to progress, to the conveniences of the century, as if she were opposed not to the shallowness of a few, but to the good of society.»[4]
This ephemeral triumph of the powers of evil on the earth and in the Church, this momentary and ignominious universal victory of Satan in the persons of the Antichrist and the False Prophet, will be followed by that of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, as the prophet Daniel foretold:
«And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and shall obey him.» (Daniel 7:27)
The great Jesuit exegete, Cornelius a Lapide, commented on this prophetic passage as follows:
«I say that this reign of Christ and of the Saints is certain and will not be only spiritual, as it always was on earth when the Saints suffered persecution and martyrdom, but it will be corporal and glorious, because they will reign gloriously with Christ forever. However, Christ and the Saints will begin this reign on earth after the death of the Antichrist. Then, once the reign of the Antichrist is destroyed, the Church will reign everywhere and there will be only one shepherd and one flock, composed of Jews and Gentiles, because he does not say “above” but “under heaven”, signifying all the earth, all that exists under heaven. Then, soon after, this reign will be confirmed and glorified for all eternity.” (Commentaria in Danielem Prophetam 7, 27)[5]
To conclude, and for the sake of nourishing our hope and not becoming discouraged during this long and painful wait for that glorious day, here are two passages, one from an encyclical of Pius XI and the other from the Apocalypse, which help us understanding it and desiring it with a renewed love:
«We instituted the Feast of Christ the King of All, to be solemnly celebrated throughout the whole Christian world. Now when we did this, not only did we set in a clear light that supreme sovereignty which Christ holds over the whole universe, over civil and domestic society, and over individual men, but at the same time we anticipated the joys of that most auspicious day, whereon the whole world will gladly and willingly render obedience to the most sweet lordship of Christ the King.» (Encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor of Pius XI, 1928)[6]
«And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our God, all ye his servants; and you that fear him, little and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunders, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord our God the Almighty hath reigned. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath prepared herself. And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications of saints. And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are true.» (Apocalypse 19:5-9)
[1] www.traditioninaction.org/religious/b014rpExocrcism.htm
[2] www.vatican.va/…/rc_con_cfaith_d…
[3] «They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring. I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet. They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.» (Ps. XXI:14-18)
This passage from Holy Scripture applies primarily to the Passion of Our Lord, that is to say, to his physical body. But it applies equally, in a spiritual sense, to the Passion of the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ. The concilium malignantium in the Vulgate -the council of the wicked- refers primarily to the Sanhedrin that condemned Our Lord to death, and secondly, to Vatican Council II, which decreed the crucifixion of His Church, now living Her passion. She must follow her Spouse in His Passion, to eventually follow Him also in His Resurrection and in His Glory.
So, just as the physical body of Christ died and resurrected, so also the Church, His Mystical Body, will undergo a mystical death, and then She will resurrect also, at the coming of Her Master in glory and majesty. I cannot help but see a very significant numerical concordance of the number 21: in fact, the Passion of the Church was predicted in Psalm 21, it was triggered by the 21st ecumenical council, and everything leads one to believe that it will be consummated during the 21st century.
I thank Mr. Jean Vaquié for having set me on this exegetical path that seems very enlightening for the times in which we live.
www.a-c-r-f.com/documents/VAQUIE-Concile_…
[4] « Neque enim iam res est, quemadmodum ab initio, cum disputatoribus prodeuntibus in vestimentis ovium, sed cum apertis infensisque inimicis, iisque domesticis, qui facto foedere cum Ecclesiae capitalibus hostibus, propositam habent fidei eversionem. Sunt hi nempe, quorum audacia adversus deductam caelo sapientiam quotidie consurgit, cuius corrigendae sibi ius arrogant, quasi esset corrupta; renovandae, quasi esset senio confecta; augendae aptandaeque saeculi placitis, progressionibus, commodis, quasi eadem, non levitati paucorum, sed bono societatis esset adversa. »
www.vatican.va/…/hf_p-x_motu-pro…
[5] « Dico ergo, certum est hoc regnum fore Christi et Sanctorum: illudque non tantum spirituale, quale fuit in terra, cum ipsi persecutionibus, martyriis et morti obnoxii: sed etiam corporale ac gloriosum, quo scilicet Sancti et corpore et anima beati, cum Christo in coelis gloriose regnabunt in saecula saeculorum. Porro hoc regnum inchoabunt Christus et sancti in terra, mox post necem Antichristi; tunc enim Antichristi regno everso, Ecclesia ubique terrarum regnabit, et fiet tam ex Judaeis quam ex Gentibus unum ovile, et unus pastor: et hoc innuitur hic, cum ait, non ‘‘quae est super’’, sed ‘‘quae est subter omne caelum’’, id est in omni terra, sive in omni plaga caelo subjecta. Deinde paulo post hoc regnum confirmabitur et glorificabitur in coelis per omnem aeternitatem. »
reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/…/bsb10624768.html
[6] www.vatican.va/…/hf_p-xi_enc_192…
I repeat, this crisis is not due solely to Francis, even though it is clear that, since his arrival, the events have accelerated at a dizzying pace. No, this crisis is only the culmination of a long war against the Church by Satan and his earthly minions, for the purpose of infiltrating her, occupying her places and institutions, so as to modify her cult and doctrine, emptying it of all substance, transforming it from within into an abominable aping of the Mystical Body of Christ, into a diabolical counterfeit of the Church, a monstrous parody taking her place in the eyes of the world, which will finally show its true face, that of a satanic counter-Church totally consecrated to the service of the Antichrist.
For those who find my analysis excessive, let me cite Pope Leo XIII in his Supplication to Saint Michael the Archangel, contained in the Exorcism against Satan and the other apostate angels, published in 1890, whose prophetic character applies perfectly to the present situation:
«His most crafty enemies have engulfed the Church, the Spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, with sorrows; they have drenched her with wormwood; on all her desirable things they have laid their wicked hands. Where the See of the Blessed Peter and the Chair of Truth have been set up for the light of the Gentiles, there they have placed the throne of the abomination of their wickedness, so that, the Pastor having been struck, they may also be able to scatter the flock. Therefore, O thou unconquerable Leader, be present with the people of God and against the spiritual wickedness which are bursting in upon them; and bring them the victory.»[1]
This prayer helps us to understand what has happened since the election of John XXIII and the convocation of Vatican II, the subversive assembly directed by the modernist parties infiltrated in the Church since the end of the 19th century and charged with getting her in line with the “modern world.” Saint Pius X explained all this perfectly in his admirable encyclical Pascendi on the errors of modernism, published in 1907. The throne of Peter, the seat of Truth, the holy place of the New Covenant, is occupied by men won to the cause of the liberal, progressive and modernist revolutionary sect, and, since their takeover of power at Vatican II, they are tirelessly dedicated to overturn everything, to defile everything, to demolish everything.
This reading of the crisis is also reinforced by the words of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians, with which he explains to them that the Antichrist will sit in the temple of God: a clear allusion to the Chair of Peter, and stating that, in order for this to happen, it is necessary that the obstacle that impedes its manifestation be removed first; and that obstacle can be none other than the legitimate papacy, the foundation upon which Christ instituted His Church. Once pontifical infallibility had been neutralized by the arrival of the modernist impostors on the Throne of Peter, a devastating tidal wave conveying the modernist errors and the most abominable heresies poured into the Church, sweeping everything away in its wake, and thus, having removed the infallible seat of Truth, the requisite condition has come about to make possible the arrival of the Man of Iniquity.
Here, then, is the key text of Saint Paul to be able to understand the present situation, which, in my eyes, clearly corresponds to the latest crisis of the Church, terminal and apocalyptic in nature, that in which the mysterium iniquitatis will reach its climax, and which Our Lord, repeating the expression used by the prophet Daniel, calls “the abomination of desolation in the holy place” (Mt. 24:15):
«Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way.» (2 Thes. 2:3-7)
I would like to present a passage that is very enlightening for our times, taken from the motu proprio Sacrorum Antistitum, promulgated by Saint Pius X on September 1, 1910, in which is found the antimodernist oath that all clerics had to take before receiving major order and also before receiving a professorship or an ecclesiastical office. This oath was suppressed by Paul VI in 1967[2], because it was obviously incompatible with the aggiornamento undertaken by John XXXIII and with his Concilium Malignantium II (as in Ps. 21:17)[3] whose inspiration arose largely from the modernist movement condemned by Saint Pius X in his encyclical Pascendi and in the decree of the Holy Office Lamentabili.
Here is the citation of the antimodernist motu proprio:
«Now it is a fact that we no longer have to deal with, as in the beginning, the adversaries disguised in sheep's clothing, but with declared and ferocious enemies, within the same house, who, having made a pact with the worst enemies of the Church, they seek to destroy the Faith. These are men whose arrogance against the wisdom that comes from heaven is renewed every day, who claim the right to reform it as if you were corrupting; who want to renew it as if old age had consumed it; who want to give it new impetus and adapt it to the wishes of the world, to progress, to the conveniences of the century, as if she were opposed not to the shallowness of a few, but to the good of society.»[4]
This ephemeral triumph of the powers of evil on the earth and in the Church, this momentary and ignominious universal victory of Satan in the persons of the Antichrist and the False Prophet, will be followed by that of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, as the prophet Daniel foretold:
«And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and shall obey him.» (Daniel 7:27)
The great Jesuit exegete, Cornelius a Lapide, commented on this prophetic passage as follows:
«I say that this reign of Christ and of the Saints is certain and will not be only spiritual, as it always was on earth when the Saints suffered persecution and martyrdom, but it will be corporal and glorious, because they will reign gloriously with Christ forever. However, Christ and the Saints will begin this reign on earth after the death of the Antichrist. Then, once the reign of the Antichrist is destroyed, the Church will reign everywhere and there will be only one shepherd and one flock, composed of Jews and Gentiles, because he does not say “above” but “under heaven”, signifying all the earth, all that exists under heaven. Then, soon after, this reign will be confirmed and glorified for all eternity.” (Commentaria in Danielem Prophetam 7, 27)[5]
To conclude, and for the sake of nourishing our hope and not becoming discouraged during this long and painful wait for that glorious day, here are two passages, one from an encyclical of Pius XI and the other from the Apocalypse, which help us understanding it and desiring it with a renewed love:
«We instituted the Feast of Christ the King of All, to be solemnly celebrated throughout the whole Christian world. Now when we did this, not only did we set in a clear light that supreme sovereignty which Christ holds over the whole universe, over civil and domestic society, and over individual men, but at the same time we anticipated the joys of that most auspicious day, whereon the whole world will gladly and willingly render obedience to the most sweet lordship of Christ the King.» (Encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor of Pius XI, 1928)[6]
«And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our God, all ye his servants; and you that fear him, little and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunders, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord our God the Almighty hath reigned. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath prepared herself. And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications of saints. And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are true.» (Apocalypse 19:5-9)
[1] www.traditioninaction.org/religious/b014rpExocrcism.htm
[2] www.vatican.va/…/rc_con_cfaith_d…
[3] «They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring. I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet. They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.» (Ps. XXI:14-18)
This passage from Holy Scripture applies primarily to the Passion of Our Lord, that is to say, to his physical body. But it applies equally, in a spiritual sense, to the Passion of the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ. The concilium malignantium in the Vulgate -the council of the wicked- refers primarily to the Sanhedrin that condemned Our Lord to death, and secondly, to Vatican Council II, which decreed the crucifixion of His Church, now living Her passion. She must follow her Spouse in His Passion, to eventually follow Him also in His Resurrection and in His Glory.
So, just as the physical body of Christ died and resurrected, so also the Church, His Mystical Body, will undergo a mystical death, and then She will resurrect also, at the coming of Her Master in glory and majesty. I cannot help but see a very significant numerical concordance of the number 21: in fact, the Passion of the Church was predicted in Psalm 21, it was triggered by the 21st ecumenical council, and everything leads one to believe that it will be consummated during the 21st century.
I thank Mr. Jean Vaquié for having set me on this exegetical path that seems very enlightening for the times in which we live.
www.a-c-r-f.com/documents/VAQUIE-Concile_…
[4] « Neque enim iam res est, quemadmodum ab initio, cum disputatoribus prodeuntibus in vestimentis ovium, sed cum apertis infensisque inimicis, iisque domesticis, qui facto foedere cum Ecclesiae capitalibus hostibus, propositam habent fidei eversionem. Sunt hi nempe, quorum audacia adversus deductam caelo sapientiam quotidie consurgit, cuius corrigendae sibi ius arrogant, quasi esset corrupta; renovandae, quasi esset senio confecta; augendae aptandaeque saeculi placitis, progressionibus, commodis, quasi eadem, non levitati paucorum, sed bono societatis esset adversa. »
www.vatican.va/…/hf_p-x_motu-pro…
[5] « Dico ergo, certum est hoc regnum fore Christi et Sanctorum: illudque non tantum spirituale, quale fuit in terra, cum ipsi persecutionibus, martyriis et morti obnoxii: sed etiam corporale ac gloriosum, quo scilicet Sancti et corpore et anima beati, cum Christo in coelis gloriose regnabunt in saecula saeculorum. Porro hoc regnum inchoabunt Christus et sancti in terra, mox post necem Antichristi; tunc enim Antichristi regno everso, Ecclesia ubique terrarum regnabit, et fiet tam ex Judaeis quam ex Gentibus unum ovile, et unus pastor: et hoc innuitur hic, cum ait, non ‘‘quae est super’’, sed ‘‘quae est subter omne caelum’’, id est in omni terra, sive in omni plaga caelo subjecta. Deinde paulo post hoc regnum confirmabitur et glorificabitur in coelis per omnem aeternitatem. »
reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/…/bsb10624768.html
[6] www.vatican.va/…/hf_p-xi_enc_192…
