Monthly Archives: May 2026

Canon Law, Debates, Ecclesiology

Westen interviews Dr. Mazza over Pope Benedict XVI’s theological motivations

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At this late date, 13 years after the Declaratio of Pope Benedict XVI, there is not much that can be said anew, but what is news worthy is that Westen is moving more and more to sustain the thesis that Prevost is an antipope, in the canonical sense. And that is significant, since holds such powerful influence on the news-gates in the English speaking world: for good or ill.

As for Dr. Mazza’s pronunciation of Latin and French, it’s horribly wrong. 

For everything on the Renunciation of Pope Benedict XVI, see our Index for the Renunciation of Pope Benedict XVI.

The fundamental error in Dr. Mazza’s presentation is that he denies that a Roman Pontiff can renounce the ministerium and retain the munus, which is patently false. However, what is true, is that if a Pope do such a thing, he remains the pope and MUST designate a vicar to exercise the ministerium, who, however, will have NO sui generis authority, but only vicarious, and thus lack completely the grace, office, munus and mandate of the Petrine Office.

Asking for Help

Br. Bugnolo’s June 2026 Appeal

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by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

First, I want to thank all my benefactors who have helped me in my apostolate here at Rome since 2020.

Though I no longer live at Rome, since I signed a 12 month rental agreement in November of 2025 — not knowing anything about the future — when I asked to get out of the agreement, I was contractually required to pay the last 6 months. Thus, I owe the landlord for rent and utilities to the end of y contract.

If anyone can help me pay this bill which is over due, please help!

My thanks and prayers for you all, especially those who can help and those who want to help but cannot afford to! God bless you!

Expenses:   $2082 USD

Donated so far: $1350 USD since April 27, 2026.

HOW TO HELP

Instructions on how to use PayPal to make your donation: 

First, click the DONATE button here below. This will send your browser to the PayPal Website, to a special page created just for you, with an interface to begin the process of using PayPal to make your donation.

On that page you will see $0 in large font or perhaps another Currency Symbol for your country followed also by a Zero. Place your cursor in that field and CHANGE the Zero to the amount you want to donate. — Then decide whether you want to make your donation repeat automatically each month, by checking the BOX if you want this to happen, and NOT checking the box if you do NOT want this to be a recurring payment. — Then, press the DONATE WITH PAYPAL button if you already have  PayPal Account. Or, if you do not, then press the DONATE WITH DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD button.

PayPal may require that you create an account which will be linked to your Credit Card or Debit Card, and/or your bank account. If you use a Card, it will ask you the information to authorize a transaction via that card and for your contact information. With this information inputted, you will be sent to another URL at PayPal to begin making your donation.

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Liturgy

Dom Prosper Gueranger: The Life and Feast of Pope St. Gregory VII (Hildebrand)

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Click the Above to read the Life of Saint Gregory VII by Dom Gueranger, which Maria Angelo Grow has published on her Substack Page, “Maria Angela Catholic Devotional“, as Part I.

She will publish the readings from Matins in the Breviary of the Benedictines, in Part II.

From that, FromRome has copied the final Prophetic Prayer written by Dom Prosper. In the mean time, you can read Part II in its entirety on her X account, HERE.

 

May 25 Saint Gregory the Seventh, Pope and Confessor

by Dom Prosper Gueranger

DOM GUERANGER’s PROPHETIC PRARYER
TO SAINT HILDEBRAND

Pray, O Gregory, for this world, which thou didst rescue from barbarism, and which is now striving to relapse into degradation.

The men of this generation are ever talking of Liberty; it is in the name of this pretended Liberty that they have unchristianized Society; and the only means now left for maintaining order is outward violence and force.

Thou didst triumph over brute force, by making the laws of Right acknowledged and loved; thou gavest the world what it had lost—the Liberty of the sons of God, the Liberty of doing one’s duty—and it lasted for ages.

O come, noble-hearted Pontiff! aid this Europe of ours a second time. Beseech our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive the wickedness of them that have driven him from the world, and scoff at his threat of returning on the day of his triumph and his justice.

Yes, pray him to have mercy on the thousands among us who call themselves Christians—and perhaps are so—yet who are led astray by the absurd sophistry of the times, by blind prejudice, by a godless education, by high-sounding and vague words, and who call, by the name of Progress, the system of keeping men as far as possible from the End for which God created them. .

From the abode of peace, where thou art now resting after thy labors, look with an eye of affectionate pity on Holy Church, whose path is beset by countless difficulties. Everything conspires against her—remnants of bygone laws that were made in times of persecution; the frenzy of pride, which chafes at everything that favors subordination of rank or authority; and the determination to secularize Society, by scouting every element of the Supernatural.

In the midst of this storm of irreligion, the Rock on which thou, O Gregory, didst once hold the place of Peter, is furiously beaten by the waves of persecution.

Pray for our Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ. Like thee, he has loved justice and hated iniquity; and it seems as though he too will have to die in exile. Pray that the threatening scourge may be turned from Rome.

The followers of Satan, as St. John prophesies in the Apocalypse are come upon the breadth of the earth, and have encompassed the camp of the Saints, and the beloved City.

This Holy City was thy Spouse, when thou wast Pontiff here on earth; watch over her now. Disconcert the plots that are laid for her ruin. Rouse the zeal of the children of the Church, that, by their courage and generous offerings, they may labor for the noblest cause on earth. . Pray, too, for the Episcopal Order, of which the Apostolic See is the source.

The Anointed of the Lord have never had greater need of thine intercession than now, when they have to contend with a world that has openly divorced itself from the laws of God and his Church. May they be endued with strength from on high; courageous in the confession of Truth; and zealous in warning the Faithful against the errors that are now so rife against Faith and Morals. The power of the Church, in these our days, is confined to the sanctuary of the souls of her devoted children; external support is everywhere denied her.

The Holy Ghost, whose Mission is to maintain the Church of Christ, will indeed assist her even to the consummation of the world; but He does His work by instruments, and these must be men who are detached from the world, men who are not afraid to be unpopular, and men who are resolved, at every risk, to proclaim the teachings of the Sovereign Pontiff.

Great, by the mercy of God, is now the number of Pastors of the Church, who are all that He would have them be, who is the Prince of Pastors, as St. Peter calls him.

Pray for all, that all may, like thee, love justice and hate iniquity—love truth and hate error; and fear neither exile, nor persecution, nor death—for the Disciple is not above the Master! Amen.

Canon Law, Church History

1058 the Year Saint Hildebrand Saved the Catholic Church forever

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For the 941st anniversary of the Glorification of Saint Hildebrand

REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHED ON NOV. 12, 2025 A.D.

A Recounting of History, by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

ITALIAN — FRENCH — ESPANOL

When we speak of history, we often begin our accounts by retelling the stories of a year in which memorable, unique and world-changing events took place.

In the Catholic Church, we often do the same thing, especially since our Holy Religion is based on events of history, which can be precisely associated with specific places and times.

Such dates are March 25, 2 B. C., Nazareth, in the Holy House of Our Lady, on the final day of the Feast of Passover, when the Archangel Gabriel announced to Her God’s plan for salvation, and She said, “Let it be done unto me according to thy word!”.

Or 33 A. D.., on April 3, at 3. P. M., on Mount Golgotha, when Our Lord and Savior atoned for all sin, by offering His life to God the Father on the Wood of the Cross.

Or May 20, 325, in the Imperial Palace at Nicea, Asia Minor (now Turkey), where the Emperor Constantine convoked and convened through his representative, Bishop Hosius of Cartagena in Iberia (now Spain), the First Ecumenical Council with consent of Pope Sylvester I of Rome.

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But one date or year, which Catholics have probably never heard of, which is just as important for the existence of the Catholic Church, is the year of Our Lord 1058.

Just as important, I say, from the point of view of jurisprudence, because just as the identity of an association of persons is from the point of view of right an identity of an institution according to its juridical foundation and continuation, so the identity of the Catholic Church as the true Church of Christ Jesus is founded upon not only the Foundational events of Her History, but those moments in Her history, which were decisive for preserving Her juridical continuity in time.

And the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand and Fifty-Eight, was one such Year!

To understand this Year, I would suggest a refresher, with this new video about the Sutri of Synod in 1046, which launches the Gregorian Reform, which discusses especially the pontificate of Pope Saint Leo IX, who launched St. Hildebrand’s mission, after his faulty support of Pope Gregory VI.

The Crisis of 1058

The importance of 1058 begins with the failing health of Pope Stephen IX, who died on March 29, 1058, at Florence, in the embrace of his fellow Benedictine Monk, Saint Hugh of Cluny. — Forewarned of the disaster looming to break out at Rome, after his death, with the desires of the corrupt Roman Nobility to return to the immorality of previous decades, he imposed by oath upon the Clergy and Nobility of the Eternal City, that they would not convene an Apostolic Assembly to elect his successor, until his Archdeacon Saint Hildebrand returned from the Imperial Court at Goslar, in Thuringia, Germany, to preside over it. So relates Bonzio of Sutri in his history of the epoch.

But as soon as the Nobles of the City learned of the death of Pope Stephen IX, shortly after his arrival at Florence, to meet with Saint Hugo, they rushed on the night of April 4th, into the city with armed troops and forced the election of John Minucius, Bishop of Tusculum (now Velletri), as Pope Benedict X on April 5, 1058, just a week after, as soon as news arrived by horseback.

Stephen IX, in life, was called Frederick, and his brother was Godfrey the Bearded, the Duke of Lorraine (now Belgium-NW France) who was also Margrave of Tuscany. And so at his death, his brother immediately dispatched 500 men-at-arms to secure the City of Rome. They arrived too late to intervene.

John Minucius, was made a Cardinal by Pope Stephen IX in 1050 A. D.. And he was no outlier, since Frederick of Lorraine, the future Pope Stephen IX had nominated him as pope in the Papal Election of 1057, which instead chose the Frankish Cleric instead. It is said he was forced to accept his election as Pope.

Cardinal Peter Damian immediately denounced the illegal election and anathematized the perpetrators. For his personal safety he had to flee the city. Cardinals Humbert and Cardinal Peter of Tusculum fled to Benevento and declared the election irregular.

When Saint Hildebrand returned from Germany he found the City of Rome in the hands of the supporters of Benedict X, and declared the election invalid by reason of the violation of the precept regarding the requirement imposed by Pope Stephen, that Saint Hildebrand,the future Pope Gregory VII, was to be the sine qua non elector whose presence would make the election lawfully convened.

The Solution of 1058

So in May of 1058, Saint Hildebrand Archdeacon and Saint Peter Damian, Cardinal, along with Cardinal Umberto of Selva Candida, convened an Apostolic Assembly at Siena, Italy (about 3 hours by car north of Rome), and elected Gerard of Burgundy, the Bishop of Florence.

Gerard took the name, Nicholas II.

Gerard expected to have the support of Godfrey the Bearded, who was Margrave of Tuscany, and Wilbert of Ravenna (aka Guibert of Parma), the Imperial Chancellor of Italy. So he dispatched Saint Hildebrand as his Legate to them, and to the Imperial Court at Goslar in Germany, to secure his claim to the papacy.

Saint Hildebrand, having achieved this, returned with both Noblemen to Siena, where they proclaimed  Gerard, Pope Nicholas II on December 6, 1058, some six months later.

He then marched on Rome with the armed forces of the Margrave of Tuscany, and stopping at Sutri, convened the Second Provincial Council of Sutri and declared Benedict X deposed as an antipope and usurper.

On January 24, 1059, Nicholas II was enthroned at Rome, as Roman Pontiff, and it is from that date his Pontificate is normally reckoned.

The Legality of the Election of Nicholas II

The supporters of the antipope Benedict X would contest the legality of the election of Nicholas II for the next 130 years in the chronicles of local monasteries.

This contestation was based on the obvious facts that,

  1. The election of Nicholas II was outside of the City of Rome in violation of all precedent
  2. The election of Nicholas II occurred in second place to the election of Benedict X
  3. The election of Nicholas II was by a minority of Cardinals
  4. The election of Nicholas II was not consented to by the whole clergy and people at the time of his elections at Siena in May and December of 1058.

However, the legal claim of Pope Nicholas II to be the true Roman Pontiff was based on an even stronger argument, namely:

  1. That the election of Benedict X was procured by force of arms
  2. That the election of Benedict X was conducted in violation regarding the number of electors, namely, by denying Saint Hildebrand, the Archdeacon, from having the opportunity to be present.

The Legal Principles confirmed by the Infallible Papal Magisterium

For the next 4 centuries and, indeed, until the present day, the Catholic Church and all true Popes have consented to the election of Nicholas II as legitimate, by reason of two juridical principles recognized in Canon Law today:

  1. Since coercion destroys liberty, a coerced vote or election is illegitimate and thus irritus, to be reckoned as never happened (cf. CIC 1983, Canon 125 §1)
  2. Since violation of obligatory procedures produces an illegitimate election, all such voting under such violations lead to an election which is irritus, to be considered as never happened (cf. CIC Canons 42 and 124 §1).

We see these principles affirmed in the present Papal Law, Universi Domini Gregis (UDG), in n. 76, where it reads in the Vatican’s English translation:

76. Should the election take place in a way other than that prescribed in the present Constitution, or should the conditions laid down here not be observed, the election is for this very reason null and void, without any need for a declaration on the matter; consequently, it confers no right on the one elected.

Magisterial Teaching of Pope Nicholas II

The Magisterial Teaching of Pope Nicholas II on this topic was enshrined in his Bull, In Nomine Domini, n. 3, in April of 1059, where it reads:

§ 3. Wherefore, if the perversity of depraved and iniquitous men, so prevail, that a pure, sincere and free election cannot be held in the City, let the Cardinal Bishops with the religious Clerics, and the Catholic laity, though few, obtain the right of power (ius potestatis) to elect the Pontiff of the Apostolic See, where they might judge it to be more fitting. Plainly, after the election has been completed, if there be a bellicose conflict, and/or if the struggle of any kind of men resists by the earnestness of wickedness, such that he, who has been elected, cannot prevail to be enthroned in the Apostolic See according to the custom, nevertheless, let the elect obtain as Pope the authority to rule the Roman Church and to dispose of all Her faculties, which Blessed Gregory, We know, did, before his own consecration.

This teaching is not merely disciplinary but also doctrinal since the Church has ever considered the principal valid as applied to the election of Nicholas II in the year before he was the pope.

Moreover, when the historical circumstances of the election of Nicholas II are understood, in comparison with this his Bull, we see an amazing triple level of fail-safe detailed: that an election whose validity be corrupted by whatsoever means, grants

  1. the right of the original electorate of the whole Roman Church,
  2. to hold the election anywhere and
  3. with any few members representing that Church.

Thus, though this Bull is from a point of view of law no longer in force, its teaching regarding this juridical safe-guard remains in force, in cases in which the current Papal Law makes no provision.

How Saint Hildebrand defended the Church from all future Antipopes

And this is how Saint Hildebrand saved the Catholic Church’s juridical identity as the Church of Christ, forever, for by his decision to oppose Benedict X’s unlawful claim to the papacy, he brought to light the principle of the Natural Law to guide all future generations, which can be summed up in several rules:

  1. An election which violates precepts regarding procedure, renders the election irritus, that is of no legal value, (Cf. CIC 1983, Canon 124 §1)
  2. An election in which coercion occurs, in such wise as to determine the vote to be other than it would be, is illegitimate (Cf. CIC 1983, Canons 125 §1 and 170)
  3. An election without the proper number of electors is invalid (Cf. CIC 1983, Canons 119 §1, 161 §3 and 172 §1)
  4. All who have the right to vote, when voting in an illegitimate election for the Pope, suffer the forfeiture of their right by the act of entering into Schism from Christ by adhering to a man as pope who is NOT the pope. (Cf. CIC 1983, Canons 1364 and 1331 §1)

And these are the very principles which are embodied in the Save Rome Project last year in the year of Our Lord, 2025, since the Cardinals selected Prevost as Leo XIV with 133 of them voting, even though the Papal Law forbids (UDG n. 33) more than 120 electors and forbids (UDG n. 4) the use of dispensations to allow more than 120.

Pope Saint Gregory VII, died in exile at Salerno, Italy, then the Norman Principality of Salerno, on May 25, 1085, saying, “I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile” (from Rome).  He had been Pope for just over 12 years and single-handedly changed the course of world history, causing the German Emperor to kneel in the snow at Canosa, outside of the Castle of Countess Matilda of Tuscany, asking to be absolved from excommunication, and having first called for a Holy War to liberate Jerusalem. He imposed celibacy as a canonical requirement upon all clergy in the Latin Church and vigorously rooted out simony and lay interference in the Church.

Saint Hildebrand, pray for us!

And pray for the Holy Father, that the Lord concede to him a double portion of your spirit!

Action Items, Asking for Help, News

Help the Holy Father open a TLM Center at Rome, Italy

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SEDESAPOSTOLICA.INFO

For the Holy Father’s Official Website, click the above ↑

This is a reprint of the April 27, 2026 Appeal:

Which has raised only $1500 of the estimated $30,000 USD needed to start this project.

Dear Readers of FromRome.Info,

During this Holy Season of Lent, it is the custom of Catholics in many nations to make an offering to assist the Holy Father in his works of charity or apostolate. In some countries this is called, “Peter’s Pence”, from the tradition of the Catholic Anglo Saxon Kings of the 9th century England. In Italy, it is called the Obolum S. Petri.

This Lent, true Catholics have the unique opportunity to assist the Apostolic See fight against the entire Globalist Matrix which has seized the Vatican, by means of helping the true Pope Hildebrand provide pastoral care for the Catholics of Rome.

To facilitate this, I have helped the Holy Father set up a donation page at HIS OWN WEBSITE so that you can make donations from any country using STRIPE (which accepts 125 methods of Payment from ApplePay or GooglePay, to Amazon Pay, and BankWires in certain countries and dozens of mobile payment apps). — Obolum S. Petri ares the LATIN words used for “Peter’s Pence” in Italy.

These new payment methods are also easier from your cellphone, if you already have them enabled, because if you do have them enabled, THEY WILL APPEAR AS PAYMENT OPTIONS AFTER YOU PRESS THE STRIPE BUTTON ABOVE.

On the Obolum Page, if you scross down, you can see a list of Payment Methods from all over the world, which work with STRIPE: there are probably several available in your country, no matter where you live on Earth.

I have begun a search to rent a suitable property at Rome, but will need to raise another thirty to forty thousand to secure the rent, via an escrow account, since otherwise they won’t trust such a property to a Franciscan Brother, without a penny to his name.

So if you can make a generous contribution to this appeal for Pope Hildebrand, you will help me help the Catholics of Rome have a Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) center in communion with Pope Hildebrand, staffed by honest priests, who do not live according to the lies of the globalists or freemasons, but who live according to the truth and want to shepherd the Faithful in the truth to the Truth, Jesus Christ.

Such a parish center, I see as vital, to facilitate the conversion of the Clergy in the Roman Province, since they will be able to come and talk with other clergy, in private, without using social media or email. — Also, such a center will enable the broadcast of Masses in communion with the true Vicar of Christ on Earth, and give an example of Catholic Faith and Truth to all the world, for the restoration of Christendom, which has such a great need of good example today. This TLM Center will show the world that Catholic orthodoxy and faith in communion with a true Pope is the solution to all the problems in the Church.

Finally, I have gladly undertaken this project since, as you know, I already have experience in 2021 in opening a TLM Center at Rome, for the Faithful who opposed the Scamdemic and were denied the Sacraments for more than 3 years for refusing the Covid Lie. — And if the financial support you give is large enough, we will be able to lease a larger building and open up a Seminary for the formation of Priests, Deacons and those in minor orders. What an amazing blessing this will be for the Church of Rome and for the entire Catholic Church world-wide. So please BE GENEROUS!

Sincerely in Saint Francis,

Br. Alexis Bugnolo

Editor of FromRome.info

N.B. I urge you to use the Holy Father’s website to make a donation, since the BuyMeACoffe interface, here at FromRome takes something like an additional 2.5% of your donation as a fee.

Church History, Pope Hildebrand

Deo Gratias! — 6th Month Anniversary of the Election of Pope Hildebrand

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We give thanks to Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who through the combined efforts of the many readers of FromRome and at Rome, saved the Catholic Church from the grasp of Satan and gave the Church a Catholic Pope elect, dedicated to restoring the Church.

If, there is anything lacking yet, it is because Catholics have kept silent about this great work of mercy and blessing from God. Write your Bishops! Talk to priests of good will, who are more loyal to Jesus Christ than to their paycheck, and spread the word to the Catholic laity. 

Forensics, Media Criticism, Pope Hildebrand

The Doctrinal Warfare being waged against Hildebrand

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Editorial Staff’s Note: Here at FromRome.Info, we have always aimed at giving every voice a hearing and presenting them in their authentic originals, whether we agree with them or not. — This article, however, is one of the best written by an Catholic writer in a decade, since it confronts for the first time the criteria upon which we Catholics should be analyzing the news cycle and asks very profound questions about narrative manipulation and psychological perception of reality. And yes, the author does not hold that Hildebrand is the pope, which makes the article all the more worth reading by those who want “objectivity” but don’t know what that means.

For the record, since the above author asks the question, we can confirm that Pope Hildebrand has nothing to do with the persons organizing the “imperfect Council” in Argentina, does not intend or plan to attend, and that no one representing him intends to or plans to attend. — Which should be obvious, since he is the Roman Pontiff, and as such, it is for him to convoke Councils, all of which are perfect and legitimately convoked. Moreover, it is the duty of all Bishops with a valid consecration to submit to the Roman Pontiff, since it is impossible for them to be saved unless they do so.

The discussion above, indeed, is so well founded, that one can apply the same principles to the SSPX and ask, “Why immediately following the publication of Pope Hildebrand’s Christmas Letter did they decide to consecrate more bishops?”

For more information about the Holy Father, see his official website: SedesApostolica.Info.

2013 Conclave, Canon Law, Church History, Debates

Westen interviews Coffin about the invalid Conclaves of 2013 and 2025

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Nearly everything in this 47 minute discussion has been reported years ago here at FromRome.Info. But this presentation takes a different take: it presents facts as certain but laws as doubtful and conclusions as uncertain, which is a very different approach from FromRome.Info.

In fact, it is a grave philosophical error and gaslighting, to present facts and yet insinuate doubt in the human intellect’s capacity to reason from facts to true conclusions. Saint Thomas Aquinas would have never written his Summa Theologica if he had the same uncertainty of mind.

See if you can spot how this presentation moves between what is socially acceptable and what is true. Comment below, if you spot errors, problems, or inconsistencies, since, you, the readers of FromRome.Info are probably better informed than these two men.

But what is really cheeky, is that both these men said that they were persecuted for speaking the truth about these things, when in truth, they were both some of the principle censors of this truth and hid the truth and discussion for nearly 10 years.

FromRome.Info was and is the leading source of news coverage of the invalid Conclave of 2013 and the Conclave of 2025, as well as Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation. Use our search function to find what can be found no where else.

Editorials, Faith

Meditation for the Feast of Pope St. Gregory VII: May 25, 2026 A. D.

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EDITORS NOTE: ChiesaRomana.Info has published a meditation for the occasion of the feast of Saint Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII, May 25, 2026 A. D., in Italian, for the clergy, religious and laity of the Church at Rome. Since the contents of this spiritual message are just as much needed by Catholics round the world, as at Rome, FromRome.Info publishes here an English translation of the article.

This is all the more necessary since the major search engines have so implemented A.I. summaries that most users, being foolish, are reading those rather than even using the search results to find actual information published by human beings. This is resulting with old, inaccurate and outdated information being distributed. In addition, Social Media platforms have begun to use A.I. to gag voices which speak against Globalism, making it all the more important for readers to subscribe by email to websites and read original articles. — For the original, as always, click the image above.

Also, note that here at FromRome.info we have recently discovered problems with email delivery and have changed the method used, to ensure better arrival of post notifications. If you no longer get emails from our website, make sure your current email address is subscribed. Do not reply, however, to our email notifications, but instead report problems by posting a comment to any recent article.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE ITALIAN ORIGINAL

An Editorial by the Editorial Staff of ChiesaRomana.Info

Divine and Catholic Faith is a gift from God, bestowed from all eternity upon the many who are called; for this reason, we should cling to it like a lifeboat, for without it, salvation is absolutely impossible.

This constitutes the first, fundamental *sine qua non*—the indispensable prerequisite—of the life of grace.

Alas, we live in an era of utter falsehood and perversion. And many men within the Church believe they can beat God at His own game, deluding themselves—driven by their lust for power, money, and dishonesty—into thinking they can act as they please, provided they simply choose to ignore the truth.

But God sees everything, and a terrible surprise awaits them.

As for us—who, through Faith, are called to work out our own Salvation—we must conquer that fear which the flesh harbors toward the truth. This fear manifests itself with particular intensity—if we are to be honest and speak with sincerity—in contemporary society; for the corrupt mores of our age teach us never to risk incurring the negative judgment of public opinion, never to utter the truth unless we have first heard it spoken by others, and to conflate silence with courage and prudence.

In recent years, we have witnessed fierce public persecution directed against those men of God who have had the audacity to speak the truth; yet what is even more grave is that those who occupy the highest offices within the Church have surrendered themselves to the spirits of the world, the flesh, and the Devil.

Here in Italy, our small editorial staff has dared to speak the truth regarding the most blatant acts of dishonesty afflicting our Church—right here in Rome. We have done this animated by the firm confidence that Christ Jesus is a just Judge and that He will reward those who live exclusively for Him, fully aware that He sees and hears our every word and every action—from the sanctuaries of our minds to the public squares of our city.

Just as God is Truth—and we, as Catholics, are called to live for the Truth—so too is God the Almighty, and we are called to place our trust in His Name and in His power.

For this reason, it constitutes a form of diabolical cowardice to pretend that Cardinals possess the authority to elect Popes at their own pleasure, in contravention of the norms of that very law—Universi Dominici Gregis—promulgated by the Successor of Saint Peter, John Paul II. And it is even more dishonest to pretend that these same individuals, acting like criminals, can determine the meaning of the law right under the gaze of the living God, compelling Him to accept as His Vicar a creature born of their own corrupt invention.

To be Catholic does not mean following a criminal clique in its public and dishonest claims. Although it is true that in the Masonic and demonic Italian Republic, might makes right and consensus establishes the meaning of all things, in the Church founded by Christ, the will of the living God—Jesus Christ—remains unshakable and immutable.

This decree of Our King and Savior, of Our Lord and Founder, resounds through the centuries and is carved into the Basilica of the Prince of the Apostles, here in Rome: “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.”

An honest Catholic needs neither to be told nor shown that the expression “Cardinals of the Roman Church” does not appear in those declarations. But if you have remained silent in the face of the fraud perpetrated by 133 of these men—who attempted to elect a Roman Pontiff in violation of the norm established by Paragraph 33 of John Paul II’s law—then it becomes necessary to state it.

Let us not pretend that God does not see what we are doing. Let us not pretend that God does not annihilate those who attempt to defile His Face with the filth of their own dishonesty by naming—in every Divine Liturgy, within the Canon of the Mass—that fraud as if he were a validly elected Roman Pontiff.

And let us not pretend that merely feigning indignation, upon hearing these matters set forth truthfully and sincerely, is sufficient to remedy the situation. The truth is that—just as we have done here at ChiesaRomana.Info, by making these events known over the past thirteen months to all the clergy and religious of the Province of Rome—most of you are implicated in a grave sin against God and are condemning yourselves to eternal damnation, together with the faithful who make sacrifices to support you.

We warned you months ago—weeks before this horrible war broke out. But while God punishes the world—especially due to the reluctance of Catholics in Rome to speak and act honestly regarding the election of the Roman Pontiffs—it is we ourselves, who live this lie and consume it as our daily bread, who bear the greatest responsibility for all those innocent lives being killed. And this is not because we drop bombs or press the buttons of human machinery, but because, at every Mass, we defile the Infant Jesus with the filth of our hypocrisy, through our sacrilegious Communions and our fraudulent insistence that Msgr. Prevost is the Pope.

Let us seize this opportunity—on this Feast of Saint Gregory VII, which falls in just a few days—to reflect upon this profound truth: that Christ Jesus is God, that He truly exists, that He founded His Church to be holy, and that He desires Her to remain holy. Throughout the centuries, this Immaculate and Roman Bride has never accepted an antipope as legitimate—even though, time and again, the Catholics of this city have broken faith with Her, insisting for years on end that certain creatures of the Emperors in Germany or Constantinople were something other than what they truly were.

Christ is God, and He will vindicate His cause; yet if we delay in aligning ourselves with His cause, our spiritual lives will crumble, and we shall merit God’s just chastisements—in accordance with that terrible sentence inscribed in the Empyrean Heavens against those who inject falsehoods into the public practices of God’s Church, as recounted by the Prophet Saint Malachy 2:2:

“And now, O priests, this commandment is for you. If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give glory to My Name—says the Lord of Hosts—I will send misery upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I will curse them, because you have not taken them to heart.” Behold, I will cast the dung of your sacrifices upon you, and I will scatter the filth of your solemnities upon your faces, and it shall sweep you away with it. And you shall know that I have sent you this commandment, that My covenant may remain with Levi — says the Lord of hosts.

However, let us not conclude this meditation on curses here, but rather point out the path to salvation.

We exhort each of you to make the firm decision to embark upon a pilgrimage composed of simple acts of honesty.

  1. Publicly acknowledge that the law of John Paul II is confirmed in Heaven by Jesus Christ.
  2. Publicly acknowledge that no one can be elected by 133 Cardinals voting simultaneously.
  3. Publicly acknowledge that Jesus is your King and that you will obey Him, not men.

Once again, many of you fear speaking the truth, for you have no one to come to your aid. For this reason, those among you who already know laymen or laywomen who are safe from the risk of persecution by ecclesiastical authorities must encourage them to support the clergy and religious who are raising their voices. Everything that we, here at our Editorial Office, can do to this end, we will do.

We ask, however, that you keep us informed, so that we may offer whatever assistance lies within our power; please contact us via the email address through which you receive notifications of our publications. There are thousands upon thousands of you who desire to hear the truth. It is for this reason that we continue to send you these essays and news articles. Rest assured of our prayers.