by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
It has now been several days since the fake photograph of Pope Francis in chapel, praying, has been released. The image with the grotesque acquatic appendage looking hand, which was miraculously returned to normal state a day later by means of a Vatican Press release, simply does not convince the public that the truth of Pope Francis’ condition has been told.
Even InfoVaticana’s blog, the Specola, which oozes with concern and respect for a man who has destroyed the Church, admits the photograph was “staged”. But refuses to say what they see, out of “respect” and some twisted form of obeisance to a man, who as “pope”, has not refrained from idolatry, treachery, promotion of perps and numerous lies and frauds, from fingering laypeople so that they could be assassinated in Argentina during the Military Junta, to commanding Catholics in China to be in communion with heretical schismatic CCP controlled agents, posing as Bishops.
The photo is obviously fake for numerous reasons: the hand is not a human appendage, it is disproportionate to the size of the head, there is no explicable way a sheet could be draped over a human body sitting in a wheel chair and have folds of the kind shown in the image; the face is totally obscured, the skin color is unnatural, the stole is improperly placed upside down, the papal zuchetto is missing, etc..
And are we to think, that for the Roman Pontiff, head of the Vatican State, there cannot be found one liturgical tailor in all of Rome, who could design an alb to fit the Roman Pontiff while sitting in a wheel chair? That is simply not credible, if he is still alive. But if dead, it totally makes sense, because a tailor has to measure the living man, before designing the alb.
Moreover, no previous press release by Vatican News, nor subsequent, has even attempted to explain or disclose medical conditions which correspond to the image. We were told for weeks he had to take oxygen daily and mechanical ventilation at night. But since the photograph does not correspond to this, presto magico, we are told in the subsequent press release, that he no longer needs these things! And when Vatican News attempted to defend the withered hand, claiming it was swollen, despite a week long motive therapy, it was cured in 24 hours, at the precise moment Vatican News needed to explain the grotesque disproportionate image in the released photo. Now, that’s a totally amazing medical miracle!
In addition, no names were given as regards who concelebrated with Pope Francis in that chapel. There is evidently no eye witnesses to corroborate the photograph is real.
Yet the Main Stream Media goes merrily along copying and pasting Vatican News reports, which for weeks said the Pope was stable and now chime daily that he is improving slightly.
All the while, while they knew that Pope Francis was admitted to hospital because of cortisone abuse, evidently administered for months and months at his own request, since his last hospitalization in March of 2024, when they told him his lungs were shot and he had to slow down.
When someone tells the truth, he can talk for hours about it, because it corresponds to a reality, existing. But when someone lies, he can only attempt to defend part of the lie, since none of it corresponds to anything which corresponds to reality.
As for the rest of the photo, silence.
What is a plastic cup with a straw doing hiding behind a pair of candles? What is the problem with Pope Francis that they chose to release a fake photo?
It appears Vatican News simply refuses to speak about it further. It has been swept under the rug. But as the days pass and no outsider is allowed to meet with Pope Francis, we can be more and more sure that the photograph never corresponded with reality, just as we know it does not correspond to the descriptions given for a month about his lung problems.
An authentic “proof of life” has been refused and explanations of the photograph refused. Meanwhile, the names of his medical team are refused after 32 days just as the names of his concelebrants which are also refused.
The only sane position, then, is to presume Pope Francis is dead, since the Vatican has failed entirely to demonstrate that he is alive, for now 32 days, and has been caught in numerous fibs, if not lies, like the one disclosed in the above press release, which claims that Pope Francis is now taking solid food, when for weeks it has been said he ate breakfast each morning in a chair.
Presuming he is dead, does not mean he is alive or dead. It means that the disclosing of certain information and the refusal of all other information correspond to him being dead, since they are inconsistent with his being alive.
READERS who wish to file an official complaint with the Vatican Authorities for the way information distribution about Pope Francis’ state of health is being conducted, can file their complaint to the Office of the Auditor General, through this Vatican agency: Segnalazioni Anomalie. Please note, that the original news article about this agency, by National Catholic Reporter, reports the Auditor General’s email as sengalazionianomalie@urg.va, though proper Italian should read segnalazionianomalie@urg.va — so try either and see what works, since it may have been a typographic error to prevent spammers from spamming the office. Though I cannot say which it may be.
Though this office is concerned primarily with financial malfeasance, I believe what we have seen in the last 32 days constitutes financial malfeasance, because a lot of Vatican employees are being paid to conceal and misinform, when it is their job to report the truth. Indeed, it is always cheaper to tell the truth, just as it would have been much cheaper to do a 30 second video of Pope Francis each day, than release highly redacted press releases, which with intricate turns of language conceal the actual health conditions of the Pope, the knowledge of which is essential to the Faithful to be motivated to pray for his recovery, and necessary to the Cardinals and Vatican administration, to know how to conduct themselves.