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A Meditation for Catholics at Rome: August 10, 2026 A. D..

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Translated from the original Italian at ChiesaRomana.info

From the perspective of eternity, the choice between supporting Leo XIV or Hildebrand—and vice versa—must be weighed against the most authoritative testimony of history and the Communion of Saints: indeed, there is not a single Pope, Saint, or Blessed of the Church who supports Leo XIV—who was elected in violation of four rules set forth in Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis.

In contrast, regarding Hildebrand—elected in perfect conformity with the provisions of Pope Nicholas II’s Bull In Nomine Domini, as prescribed for the extraordinary circumstance in which the Roman Church must oppose the dishonest and illegitimate election of an antipope (such as Prevost’s undoubtedly is)—the Church of Rome boasts the testimony and signatures of 77 bishops, 4 popes, 4 saints, and 2 blesseds.

The choice is clear: Christ calls us to choose the Communion of Saints and to strive to be numbered among them. Consequently, we cannot tolerate or endorse Robert Prevost’s claim to be our Bishop and Pontiff, for such a choice leads not to Heaven but to Hell—the most terrible fate of all: excommunication from the Communion of Saints.

Here are the names of the 77 bishops, 4 popes, 4 saints, and 2 blesseds who signed Nicholas II’s Bull at the Lateran Council of April 1059, taken from the critical edition of this Papal Bull, published in Detlev Jasper’s, Das Papstwahldekret von 1059, (Thorbecke, 1986):

I, Nicholas, Bishop of the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, have signed this Decree promulgated by Us, as written above.

I, Bonifacio, by the grace of God, (Cardinal) Bishop of Albano, have undersigned (this).
I, Humbert (de Moyenmoutier, Cardinal Bishop) of the holy Church of Santa Rufina, have undersigned (this).
I, (St.) Pietro (Damiano), (Cardinal Bishop) of the Church of Ostia, have undersigned (this).
I, Pietro, (Cardinal) Bishop of the Church of Tusculum, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni (II, Cardinal) Bishop of the Church of Porto, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni, Cardinal (Priest) of the Title of Saint Mark, have undersigned (this).
I, Leone, Cardinal (Priest) of the Title of Saint (Lawrence in) Damaso, have undersigned (this).
I, Vivo, Cardinal (Priest) of the Title of Santa Maria in Trastevere, have undersigned (this).
I, (Bl.) Desiderio, Cardinal (Priest) of Santa Cecilia (and Abbot of Monte Cassino), have undersigned (this).1
Mancius, (Cardinal) Deacon,
Crescenzio, (Cardinal) Deacon,
Amanzio, (Cardinal) Deacon, have undersigned (this).

(Saint) (Hildebrand, the monk and subdeacon and all the other (clergy) of the Roman Church undersigned this).2

I, Guido (de Velate), Archbishop (of Milan), have undersigned (this).
I, Dominico (IV Marango), Patriarch of Grado, have undersigned (this).
I, Hugues, Bishop of Besançon, have undersigned (this).
I, HIldebrand, Bishop of Capua, have undersigned (this).
I, Ouldarico, Archbishop of Benevento, have undersigned (this).
I, (St.) Alfano, Archbishop of Salerno, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni, Bishop of Sabina, have undersigned (this).3
I, Giovanni, Bishop of Tivoli, have undersigned (this).
I, Rolando, Bishop of Sutri, have undersigned (this).
I, Gerhard, Bishop and Abbot of Saint Paul’s (outside the Walls), have undersigned (this).
I, Leone, Bishop of Gaeta, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni (IV), Bishop  of Terracina, have undersigned (this).
I, Pandolfo, Bishop of Avezzano, have undersigned (this).
I, Attone (Berardi dei Marsi), Bishop of Chieti, have undersigned (this).
I, Domenico O. S. B, Bishop of Sulmonna-Valva (and Abbot of San Clemente di Casauria), have undersigned (this).
I, Palombo O. S. B., Bishop of Sora, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni (II), Bishop of Penne, have undersigned (this).
I, Pietro (I), Bishop of Cività Castellana, have undersigned (this).
I, Ludovico, Bishp of Nocera, have undersigned (this).
I, Ermanno, Bishop of Cività del Castello, have undersigned (this).
I, Enrico, Bishop of Spoleto, have undersigned (this).
I, (Bl.) Mainardo, Bishop of Urbino, have undersigned (this).
I, Goffredo, Bishop of Perugia, have undersigned (this).
I, Aganon, Bishop of Autun (France), have undersigned (this).
I, Uldarico, Bishop of Fermo, have undersigned (this).
(I, Bernardo II, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, have undersigned this).
(I, Ugo I, Bishop of Camerino, have undersigned this)
I, Guglielmo, Bishpo of Numana, have undersigned (this).
I, Trasmondo, Bishop of Fiesole, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni, Bishop of Sovana, have undersigned (this).
I, Arnaldo dei Offredi, Bishop of Arezzo, have undersigned (this).4
I, Marino, Bishop of Fondi, have undersigned (this).
I, Adalberto, Bishop of Narni, have undersigned (this).
I, Bernardo, Bishop of Sant’Agata dei Goti, have undersigned (this).
I, Teuzone, Bishop of Orvieto, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni, Bishop of Chiusi, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni, Bishop of Siena, have undersigned (this).
I, Guido, Bishop of Volterra, have undersigned (this).
(I, Pietro, Bishop of Volturara Appula, have undersigned this).
I, Benedetto, Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, have undersigned (this).
I,  Azzo (degli Atti), Bishop of Foligno, have undersigned (this).
I, Pietro (II), Bishop of Teramo, have undersigned (this).
I, Gerardo, Bishop of Rusellae, have undersigned (this).
I, Anselmo (I), Bishop of Lucca, have undersigned (this).5
I, Pietro (I), Bishop of Pesaro, have undersigned (this).
I, Andolfo, Bishop of Montefeltro, have undersigned (this).
I, (St.) Rodolfo, (O. S. B. Cam.,) Bishop of Gubbio, have undersigned (this).
I, Teodosio, Bishop of Senigallia, have undersigned (this).
I, Arduino, Bishop of Todi, have undersigned (this).
I, Arduino, Bishop of Fano, have undersigned (this).
I, Arnolfo (I), Bishop of Cosenza, have undersigned (this).
I, Stefano (the Norman), Bishop of Troia, have undersigned (this).
I, Benigno (Benedetto), Bishop of Fossombrone, have undersigned (this).
I, Ugo (I), Bishop of Cagli, have undersigned (this).
I, Gerardo, Bishop of Rieti, have undersigned (this).
I, Gisilberto, Bishop of Tuscania, have undersigned (this).
I, Agino, Bishop of Assisi, have undersigned (this).
I, Ingone, Bishop of Bagnoregio, have undersigned (this).
I, Tegrimo, Bishop of Massa Marittima, have undersigned (this).
I, Oberto (Pevere), Bishop of Genoa, have undersigned (this).
I, Adeodato, Bishop of Montecorvino, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni, Bishop of Trevi, have undersigned (this).
I, Giovanni (IV), Bishop of Alatri, have undersigned (this).
I, Placido, Bishop of Veroli, have undersigned (this).
I, Erasmo, Bishop of Segni, have undersigned (this).
I, Arichis, Bishop of Alife, have undersigned (this).
I, Cuniberto, Bishop of Torino, have undersigned (this).
I, Opizo, Bishop of Bobbio, have undersigned (this).
I, Benzone, Bishop of Alba, have undersigned (this).
I, Ottone, Bishop of Novara, have undersigned (this).
I, Enrico, Bishop of Ivrea, have undersigned (this).
I, Guglielmo, Bishop of Asti, have undersigned (this).

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FOONOTES

Source of Latin Text: Das Papstwahldekret von 1059. Echte Fassung, in: Jasper, Detlef. Das Pastwahldekret von 1059: Überlieferung und Textgestalt. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1986, pp. 98-119. — The readings within () have been taken occasionally from the Imperial version.

1  The future, Pope Victor III.
2  The future, Pope Gregory VII.  His signature was recorded in the Imperial version of this Bull, compiled some 30 years afterwards, with the dignity of “subdeacon” rather than “archdeacon” to slight his reputation, for having contested the Emperor’s claim to have authority to invest Bishops.
2  This Giovanni, Bishop of Sabina, was formerly a Cardinal, but having usurpsed the Papacy under Pope Benedict IX, as anti-Pope Sylvester III, he was deposed at the First Council of Sutri in 1046, in the presence of the German King Henry III. That he is not listed among the Cardinals, in the above list, seems to indicate that he was striped of the dignity of the Cardinalate, but allowed to keep his functions as Bishop.
3  This identification is based on reading “Rosphredus … Attestensis” as misreading of the signature for (A)r(naldus) Ospredus .. Arietensis”, confirming this with the lists for the Bishops of Arezzo by this name, who attended this Council, but whose name is not otherwise found in the above lists.
4  The future, Pope Alexander II.

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.