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Trad Inc. admits that Hildebrand is the true Roman Pontiff
But instead resorted to the most shameful insults, diversionary nit picking, fulling the condemnation of Our Lord against the Pharisees: they strain to capture a gnat, while swallowing a camel.
Don’t let these manipulate you. SedesApostolica . Info has all the facts & docs
— Ordo Militaris Catholicus (@Ordo_Militaris) June 10, 2026
FromRome.Info, which has always been dedicated to the truth and to a free combat among claims, to evidence their truth or falsity, challenges the entire Catholic World to publish any logical, rational demonstration of the invalidity of the claims of Hildebrand to be the true Roman Pontiff, and commits to publishing a LINK to each such demonstration from its pages.
Conditions for this offer of free publicity: That the demonstration include citation of Canon Law and Papal Law for papal elections, not opinions, assertions or ad hominems.
Let the days pass into weeks, and the weeks into years … Hildebrand’s claims will prevail. And the whole Church one day accept that as of Nov. 23, 2025, he was the True Roman Pontiff, Christ’s blessed Vicar on Earth.
The challenge is offered: let the honest accept the challenge and attempt otherwise.
Remembering the USS Liberty, viciously attacked by Israel on June 8, 1967
59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.
Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery. pic.twitter.com/DK7WUFnKve
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 8, 2026
Above is the five minute speech by U.S. Representative Thomas Massie, in the House of Congress, in Washington D. C., yesterday. Below is a documentary, giving more information about the same. In the traditional Roman Rite, on Good Friday, Holy Mother Church called on Catholics to pray for the “perfideus Iudaeus”, the covenant breaking Judean, but “perfideous” was often translated as “perfidious” or treacherous in many modern Languages, for good reason. In fact, that book of wickedness, called the Talmud, teaches its readers that they can break agreements with those who do not read it, with moral impunity.
As can be seen in this documentary, President Johnson, who was installed after the assassination of the Catholic President John F. Kennedy, who had wanted all Israeli agents in the USA to register with the U.S. government, so that their activities be monitored, cooperated after the attack in covering up the incident and is perhaps also the person who ordered the U. S. military to NOT defend the U.S.S. Liberty during and after the attack.
The same trick was used during this treacherous war crime, namely, that Israeli authorities claimed they were not going to continue the attack, and then continued the attack, just as we see in the current conflict in the Mid East, where “cease fire” agreements are interpreted by Israeli armed forces as “You cease firing so we can continue firing.”
Finally, a longer more detailed documentary of this horrific war crime:
Two Opposing Catholic Visions of the Future: Which is the true one?
The first half of this 3 hour documentary is heavily documented and follows the principles of Pope Benedict XIV, who, when still a theologian, wrote a definitive tract on how to discern true holiness from fake holiness. The evidence presented in this video is a must consideration for all Catholics, since nearly all of us have heard of both views of the future, but have not been shown the evidence for each.
In its first half of this video, it debunks a great number of false claims about prophecies by employing the proper principles of theological discernment and forensic analysis.
However, in its last part about the Fourth Secret of Fatima — which was perhaps produced beforehand or by another person — it abandons these sound principles, and presents several improbable interpretations, such as Russians involved in switching out Sr. Lucia or murdering Father Malachi Martin. And this last part, is not worth much to be listened to, containing wild interpretations of history, theology, and facts.
Attention: This documentary was produced by a Sedevacantist. But that fact does not seem to influence much the presentation in the first half of the video, other than holding that Pius XII’s consecration of Russia, which was his act without the support of all the Bishops of the world, led to the conversion of Russia! which obviously never happened in the 50’s.
To hear this video in your own language, you must use YouTube’s automatic translation, which is available through subtitles, and through automatic audio translation, if you are logged into YouTube via a gmail account.
The first half of this documentary is very compelling, as its author seems to be a professionally trained historian or lawyer who has gone to great lengths to investigate every claim and the authenticity or not of its sources.
It’s weaknesses begin to appear only when it begins the discussion of the real Sr. Lucia and the Fourth Secret, in that it asserts without proof that the substitution of Sr. Lucia was perpetrated by Communists, when the historical context of Portugal in 1960 would have made that impossible, since it was a right wing government, fully in the orbit of the USA and the UK. He also appears to think the Queen of Heaven, when speaking of “conversion” is speaking of a political change, not a religious one — an assertion which seems incredible and preposterous to all who know of Our Lady’s perfect conformity of mind and heart to the Gospel.
Important but unknown Fatima fact
The one fact that this documentary records, which is unknown to most of the West, is that St. Nuno Álvares Pereira stopped at the Cova di Ira in 1385 to pray, before defeating the forces of the antipope in the form of the armies of Castile and Aragon. So Fatima has a tie to opposing antipopes!
Why did the Holy Father revoke Archbishop Thuc’s Excommunication?
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And exclusive interview by John of Rochester, clarifying the historical, canonical, and pastoral implications for the future of the Church.
Note regarding Online Anti-Thuc Trolls
Recently Ordo Militaris Inc., the Montana security company has taken note of a good number of online accounts run by very toxic personalities who feign on social media to be Sedevacantists or Traditionalists, who habitually or in a particularly vicious and calumnious manner, publish libel, calumny, against the late Archbishop with the sole purpose of ridicule and defamation.
An investigation found that these persons and accounts are being run out of IPs which are associated geographically with Protestant Meeting Halls and Public Schools, in addition to regions of the world where there are concentrations of Foreign Embassies and Consulates. This, perhaps indicates that these persons are not in fact Sedevacantists nor Traditional Catholics, but individuals tasked by the U. S. Department of Defense’s Doctrinal Warfare program and trained at Fort Huachuca to disrupt, attack, and psychologically break down religious groups throughout the world. In one particular case, an “anti-Thuc” account communicated immediately with an associate in Washington, D. C., most likely his FBI handler, due to the nature of the ip used in the D. C. area.
FromRome.Info publishes this note, since it is well known that the CIA had the late Archbishop’s brother, the former President of South Vietnam, assassinated, and was involved in his kidnapping and abduction at the end of his life, when obvious forgeries of his hand writing were produced detailing his “confession” and “repentance” for opposing Vatican II.
The late Archbishop pushed hard against the now, recognized US DoD doctrinal warfare psyop known as Vatican II. So it is no surprise that the investigation by Ordo Militaris Inc. has uncovered such connections.
UPDATE: In a living proof to the truth of this Note, after its publication an apparent employee of the Omaha World Herald, using the name of a Catholic leader who was assassinated by the CIA/Mossad, and apparently a reader or editor at a website which watches news about Sedevacantists, came by and contested the brief summary of events in this Note, regurgitating the CIA fed slop about the Archbishop. This newspaper is owned by Lee Enterprises, which is 71% controlled by insiders, most of whom are Jewish. International Zionists have a long record in attacking anyone who sows doubts in Nostrae Aetate, the Vatican II declaration — without any dogmatic or canonical force — which sanctions Zionist infiltration into Catholic formation programs and institutions.
Our Lady of La Salette did in fact prophesy the election of the Pope restorer
A Meditation on the words of Our Lady at La Salette
Nearly six months ago, John Henry Westen, of Life Site News raised attention once again to the words of the Immaculate Corredemptrix, during Her visit to the two children on the mountain top at La Salette, France, on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, September 19, 1846 A. D., which in that year was transferred.
FromRome.Info reported on John Henry Westen’s interview of the former French intelligence officer, Xavier Ayral, back on November 22, 2025, the day before the Apostolic Election of Hildebrand, with an incisive editorial by Br. Alexis Bugnolo, our founder, entitled, “The Prophecy of Two Popes”. Click the image here, to read it.
Two Worm-Ridden Popes
The words of the ever-Virgin Mother of God, on that momentous day of revelations, which are most crucial, are these: “deux papes vermoulus”, that is, “two worm-ridden popes”.
In the editorial by Br. Bugnolo last year, he focused his attention on the “two” popes.
Here, however, we present a powerful meditation on the other part of the phrase “worm-ridden”.
Worm-Ridden Cheese: What it is and Why it is dangerous
In modern times, we scarcely have occasion to encounter anything which is worm-ridden, that is full of worms. Modern foods, especially fruit and cheeses are nearly always grown or prepared under conditions which make the infestation of larva from flying insects impossible.
To get an idea of worm-ridden cheese, then, one has to resort to images of cheeses which are especially prepared in traditional methods, where the infestation of worms is used to cure the cheese and produce the final tasty product: such as in the traditional Sardinian cheese – now outlawed for commercial distribution – called, Casu Marzu. Here is just one video which shows what this chese looks like.
However, for normal cheese, the infestation of worms is not something desired. Rather, it is considered the worst possible result, destroying all the work and expectations of the cheese maker and the cheese eater, since to eat worm ridden cheese is dangerous to your health and potentially can cause severe and long lasting digestive problems, such as infestation of your gut with parasites and worms.
A worm-ridden cheese, therefore, was something our forefathers warned their children against, and diligent mothers, in the market place, would examine a cheese carefully before purchasing it. They taught these skills to their children who accompanied them and this wisdom was passed down through the generations, until recently.
The Parable given by Our Heavenly Mother
The Mother of Jesus Christ was and is His first perfect disciple. Therefore, it should not surprise us that when She truly and in person descends from Heaven to visit Her adopted children on earth, that She will speak in parables, just as Her divine Son did when He walked this Earth in the Flesh.
Thus, we can understand this phrase, “worm-ridden”, in its proper context, of a mother instructing her children about a future danger to be encountered in the public forum, counseling them to be on their guard about it.
But if we are to be diligent and intelligent children of Our Lady, then, it behooves us to think about what Our Lady has said, and ask why the Holy Mother of God would use such a parable about Roman Pontiffs.
A Queen is a monarch, and She thinks about the Law of Her Son
While there are many attempts by scholars in the last 180 years to interpret these words, if we remember that Our Lady of La Salette appeared to two children, as a Queen wearing a Crown, we can recognize the strong HINT the Mother of Christians is giving us as to the proper interpretation of this phrase, “two worm-ridden popes”.
In the Catholic Church, in the West, “pope” is the default common term for the Bishop of Rome, the Roman Pontiff, the Successor of Saint Peter.
And the Pope is certainly a public figure in the Church.
But to make the analogy or metaphor of cheese or fruit fit this context, we must first of all accept that the phrase must refer to some moment in our lives in which we are going to encounter a pope, in a public way, to whom we must apply the wise warning of our Heavenly Mother, to discern what kind of a pope this is.
And since mothers give this advice in the context of purchasing cheese, or examining it before accepting it to be eaten, then the equivalent parallel regarding popes, in our own lives, is obviously and logically the moment of a papal election, when there is announced to the world that the Catholic Church has a new Pope, and a man is proposed to us as the Vicar of Christ.
Thus, what Our Lady is warning about is first and foremost a legal defect, and not a moral defect. She is warning us about something which appears to be valid and worthy of acceptance, but is not. She is warning us of the cheese-hawker who in the past offered us good cheese, but in the future will offer us bad cheese, which is not only unedible, but dangerous, rotten, and worthy only of being rejected by us into the trash bin of history.
And all this has to do with whether a pope is a true pope, that is a canonically valid pope. That, is whether he was legitimately elected by the Cardinals or not. Here the College of Cardinals is the cheese-hawker in the implicit parable given us by Our Lady.
So what our Lady is warning us about is the bad cheese, or illegitimate claimant to the papacy.
But what She is implicitly warning us to do, is to examine the legal claim of two future popes, to see if they are validly elected.
And this is just what a Queen would advise to Her children, years before the election of such men, especially since, this Queen is the Mother and disciple of the King, the supreme sovereign, of Whom the Pope is the vicar.
The implications of our Lady’s Warning contain the Prophecy of Hildebrand
And thus it is, if we have learned our lesson well, that we should READ and strive to understand well, the Papal LAWS on papal elections, with particular attention to when these laws say an election is valid or invalid.
Unwittingly, FromRome.Info for the last 10 years has been doing exactly what Our Lady of La Salette counseled Her children: examining the legitimacy of the Conclaves of 2013 and 2025.
You can read more about this in the following four articles:
- A Chronology of reports about how Team Bergoglio fixed the Conclave of 2013
- The List of all articles about the invalid renunciation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, which caused the Conclave of 2013 to be entirely invalid in its outcome
- The Canonical Analysis of the invalidity of the Conclave of 2025 according to the law of John Paul II
- The reason why the Conclave of 2025 was invalid according to the law of Pope Paul IV
The Prophecy of Hildebrand
Now since Our Heavenly Mother told us in 1846, that there were going to be at some time in the future, two worm-ridden popes, that is, two illegally elected invalid popes, there is something more She is telling us.
That after the two fake popes, there will be a true pope.
This follows, because She said, “two”. She did not say “many” or “several”.
This is common sense.
Thus, after the two worm-ridden popes, there will come a validly elected, legitimate and truly Catholic pope.
But since Popes, by all the laws about Conclaves in the last 967 years are elected by Cardinals, and Cardinals can only be validly, legally and legitimately appointed by true, valid and legitimate popes, it follows immediately that after two worm ridden popes it would be IMPOSSIBLE that Cardinals elect a true pope, since most or all of them would be illegitimately appointed or in schism from Christ for having supported or created or defended fake popes.
So what our Lady is saying, by saying “two” “worm-ridden” popes, is actually something encouraging, for those who want a true, Catholic and validly elected pope.
Because She is revealing and reminding us that there must be another way for the Catholic pope, after these two fake popes, to be elected.
And the only way to do that is specified in the Bull of Pope Nicholas II, In Nomine Domini, n. 3, which says what the Catholics of Rome have the right to do, when all the Cardinals give the Church a fake, illegal popes, bad cheese, instead of a validly elected Catholic pope, the good cheese of our Church.
And the Catholics of Rome did just that, on November 23, 2025, when they elected Hildebrand.
And since that time our Holy Father, the true Roman Pontiff, has been giving us encouragement and instruction: you can read all about it at SedesApostolica.Info.
Fatima connection to Antipopes
One of the most important criterion to discern the true will of God has to do with the historical context or circumstances which surround the great graces God gives us. This can be seen in numerous cases of persons receiving life long graces similar to the graces given to their patron saints, whether they obtained these patrons by the name given to them in Baptism, or from the Saint patrons of the day on which they were born, were married, ordained, professed vows as a religious, etc..
Fatima has such connections, too, which is an important key to understanding its context.
The first has been reported here at FromRome, namely, that the Cardinal from whom the Freemasons in the Church, and the St. Gallen Mafia in particular, trace their episcopal lineages, was once the Bishop who held jurisdiction over the area of Fatima Portugal: Cardinal Nuno da Cunha de Athaíde,
The second is the historical fact that the Carmelite Saint, Nuno Álvares Pereira, who was in communion with the Italian Pope Urban VI, the true Pope, that of Rome, during the Great Western Schism, stopped to pray to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, at Cova da Ira, in 1385, before engaging the overwhelming forces of Castile and Aragon, who supported the French Clement VII, the Antipope of Avignon! And as a result, Saint Nuno defeated the forces of the antipope decisively!
And if we examine the personal details of the true Pope and the antipope of 1385, we find other stunning parallels to our own day. — The Italian pope, Urban VI was the last Pope elected who was NOT a Cardinal. And Hildebrand was also, never a Cardinal. However, the French antipope, Robert de Geneva, was born in a city on the shores of a great lake, Geneva and bore the same first name as Prevost, who was born in Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan. Also, Robert of Geneva served in the English speaking clergy of the Kingdom of England, and perpetrated a massacre while leading troops in Italy; while Prevost perpetrated a massacre by promoting the DeathVaxx, and is a native speaker of the English language.
Today, too, we have a true Pope, Hildebrand, who is an Italian, and a antipope, Prevost who is of French descent. The parallels could not be more obvious, for those who still have eyes to see.
The message, therefore, to be had from these two facts, confirms that Our Lady at Fatima came to save the Church from two Freemasonic antipopes. And that the victory will be had by those who heed Her message, pray to Her for help, and fight against these antipopes, in communion with the true pope!.
Faith, common sense, logic, the historical context, the legal requirements, the facts of history, and loyalty to Jesus Christ and Our Lady make it all clear, for those who want the truth, and step into the light to embrace the truth.
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CREDITS: The Featured Image is a screen shot of the Article about the Two Worm Ridden Popes, published in summary format by Complicit Clergy in December of 2025. Click here to read that.
Arbitration found Ann Barnhardt liable for $100,000 in fraud complaint in 2009
A REPRINT of our June 29, 2022 Article
What is constructive fraud?
Editor’s Note: It appears that Ann Elizabet Barnhardt, as the name appears in all databases, may have signed a contract with the disputed party under the name, Ann Elizabeth Barnhardt, to help hide reference of any resulting dispute with her real name.
But what I find curious, is that Barnhardt Capital Management is the new name of Hedgersedge OmniMedia, which appears to be the owner of Hedgers Edge LLC, which had an address associated with Barnhardt in some databases, and which appears to be still operating as hedgersedge.com, and even cited by a subsidiary of Reuters (Rothschilds controlled) as an authority on some Cattle Trading data. There is even an Ann with an email at HedgersEdge.com. This all may explain why Barnhardt is no longer a future trader or Hedger agent, since this arbitration ruling may have irreparably burnt her professional reputation in that sector. However, what I do believe is, that Reuters would never, never, never give credence or public approbation of any entity which is not part of the Globalist system of financial control.
Moreover, I find hard to understand her statement:
Finally, I will not, under any circumstance, consider reforming and re-opening Barnhardt Capital Management,
From her famous letter of Nov. 2011, published by her, here: https://www.barnhardt.biz/the-one-about/the-one-about-my-shutting-down-my-brokerage-letter/
Because according to research done by others, Barnhardt Capital Management is still in existence and files papers with the state government where it is incorporated. And that means that it is still doing business or at least has capital on the books, such as ownership interest in other LLCs.
I am sure that the truth will all come out one day. But I now understand better why she accused one person of being the worst pope in history, and another of being a larcenist. I know the first accusation is constructive calumny, and the other is pure libel.
Finally, the cherry on top of this cake is this, that Ann Barnhardt is known to have converted to the Catholic Faith sometime around 2007, two years before this fraud complaint. And yet, 7 years later, she writes this article, which omits mention of keeping the 10 Commandments as a necessary preparation for a valid baptism or conversion:
For all our reports which mention Ann Barnhardt, click HERE.
Westen interviews Dr. Mazza over Pope Benedict XVI’s theological motivations
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.
Br. Bugnolo’s June 2026 Appeal
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!
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Donated so far: $1350 USD since April 27, 2026.
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New Meme to promote the truth of 2025
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Dom Prosper Gueranger: The Life and Feast of Pope St. Gregory VII (Hildebrand)
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.
1058 the Year Saint Hildebrand Saved the Catholic Church forever
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
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,
- The election of Nicholas II was outside of the City of Rome in violation of all precedent
- The election of Nicholas II occurred in second place to the election of Benedict X
- The election of Nicholas II was by a minority of Cardinals
- 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:
- That the election of Benedict X was procured by force of arms
- 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:
- 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)
- 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
- the right of the original electorate of the whole Roman Church,
- to hold the election anywhere and
- 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:
- An election which violates precepts regarding procedure, renders the election irritus, that is of no legal value, (Cf. CIC 1983, Canon 124 §1)
- 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)
- An election without the proper number of electors is invalid (Cf. CIC 1983, Canons 119 §1, 161 §3 and 172 §1)
- 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!
Help the Holy Father open a TLM Center at Rome, Italy
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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.
The Holy Father publishes his Apostolic Letter on Faith in Jesus Christ
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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.
If Jesus sent us a Pope to restore the Church, how would we know it?
The Doctrinal Warfare being waged against Hildebrand
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.
On the Vigil of Pentecost, Hildebrand’s Apostolic Letter addressed to all the Faithful
God curses those who accept the “Blessings” of an Antipope
Westen interviews Coffin about the invalid Conclaves of 2013 and 2025
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.
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