Editor’s Note: Though no longer a member of the Roman Curia, the mere fact that such a high profile Vatican statesman is thinking that a visit by Giorgia Meloni, yesterday, the current Italian Premier visited Pope Francis, means a lot more than both of them are telling, is significant. — As an ex-Minister of Culture at the Vatican Cardinal Ravasi knows well, that it is NOT a duty of the PM to visit a sick pope in hospital, unless he is about to announce something which will greatly impact Italian National Security, such as a resignation. — Cardinal Ravasi was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 and participated in the faux conclave of 2013. He is 83 years of age and can no longer vote in Conclaves, so he is more free to speak than other Cardinals.
In the latest Vatican News release, here, no mention is still being made of either the Pope’s medical team’s components — a thing which would give a more complete picture of what kind of ailments are part of his complex medical condition — nor of any prognosis of how long of a stay in hospital is required to bring his health condition back to normal, if this is even possible.
While the above article is in general about the Vatican intelligence services in the last 500 years, it ends with an important note about the events in 1998, in which 3 persons were found shot to death at the Vatican. This is the case in which the newly appointed Captain of the Swiss Guard, Colonel Alois Estermann, his Venezuelan wife, Gladys Meza Romero, and another Swiss Guard, Cedric Tornay, were found dead at the Vatican on May 4, 1998 A. D..
The details of the 1998 scandal were revealed in 2022 in the book, “Blood in the Vatican”, which is available in Italian through Amazon:
We Catholics have long been brainwashed by criminal clergy to think that such things could never happen. And that is why we react with anger and attack those who reveal such scandals, as has happened with Christine Niles when she uncovered and reported on several horrendous cases of serial pedophilia in groups dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass, or with myself when I myself connected the dots about the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and the Renunciation of Pope Benedict, in Italian, on YouTube, last week (see here).
But sane, stable Catholics realize that criminality and coverup can happen in every earthly institution, and the more that we are aware of such cases in our own Church’s institutions, the more we can be prepared psychologically and attentively to respond now and in the future to prevent them. — That 3 murders were covered up in 1998 is a strong forensic fact to begin doubting the “good intentions” of those Vatican officials who covered up and obstructed since 1983, the investigation into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi: whether they be 3 Popes or numerous underlings who diabolically perverted their loyalty to Christ by doing evil in the service and at the request of any Pope, Cardinal, Archbishop or Bishop, priest or deacon.
The boldness of such bad clergy I know personally, having had a superior who once gave a group of friars a class on the obligations of obedience, and without any shame insisted, that if our superior seemed to be planning and executing a bank robbery, we must nevertheless obey him unless he openly admits to doing this, a thing which we have no right to ask him and he has no obligation to admit! This priest years later renounced the Catholic Faith, joined a protestant sect, and now marries any two men who want to be “married”.
You can read, in English, more about the book by Sgrò, who was given unprecedented access to the original files in the 1998 case, here:
The biggest untold Vatican news story of 2024, is that never before in the history of the Catholic Church in modern times has the personality of one pontiff been the axis of a massive world wide media disinformation campaign aimed against Catholics.
While I have reported on this continually since the foundation of FromRome in the fall of 2013, it becomes necessary to speak of it again, in the first year after Pope Francis signed the manifestly heretical and satanic attack on the Second Commandment of the Decalogue (“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”), when he placed his signature on the document “Fiducia suplicans‘ on Dec. 18, 2023 A. D..
While the public outcry against that act of perfidy was universal in the Catholic Church and took the extraordinary form of Cardinals and Bishops speaking out from the Americans to Africa to Europe and Asia, the Main Stream Media (MSM) plowed ahead with little else than acclaim for the “progressive” move of Pope Francis into “modernity”.
Meanwhile Pope Francis’ popularity is plummeting world wide, as he approaches the end of his mortality, as FromRome.Info has reported, here, here and here.
As Catholics know, the MSM is always decidedly anti-Catholic and hostile to our religion, Church and before Pope Francis, to the Roman Pontiff. But from the day he stepped out on the Loggia of Saint Peter’s, after the pseudo conclave of March, 2013, which dared to elect him pope, even though Pope Benedict XVI had not abdicated the Papal Dignity, the Press has proclaimed him as basically a living Saint, while even certain members of the Clergy who are intensely dedicated to sexual perversions have gone so far as to depict him as the Sacred Heart or call him “God”.
This MSM bias on the topic of Pope Francis is the most certain proof that he is an enemy of God and was installed by the powers who are inimical to Christ.
But the daring, audacity, and preposterous boldness to lie by the MSM has garnered the attention of normal Catholics, who remember with clarity how viciously Pope Benedict XVI was attacked within minutes of the announcement of his own election in April of 2005, A. D..
A prime example of the sustained and infrastructural support of the positive narrative about Pope Francis can be found in all the search engines, and websites of the MSM. So there is no need to cite them. But others claim not to participate in media bias. One such is Ground News.
Ground News
Sifting through news stories and trying to discover what is really happening in the Vatican is thus very difficult for the average Catholic who is a critical reader of the news. But one news site, Ground News, is publicly claiming, that for the critical reader of news, their site is one of the best options for such readers to find the truth.
I visited Ground News today to test their claims on their own websites. Here are two searches I did, and the screen shots of the results. Click each image to expand.
Ground News claims it was founded by a “NASA scientist” who is concerned with persistent bias in the reporting of the news. I think the above screen shots show the full truth of their claims, to the reader who has eyes to see.
Or, Why did Pope Benedict XVI do what he did on Feb. 11, 2013?
by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
Pope Benedict XVI, who has been lauded by many as a brilliant theologian, is in my opinion, a more brilliant chess player, for he has defeated the AntiChurch with the most incredibly subtle and effective manuever which could ever be conceived, and which takes a great deal of study to recognize, if you, like myself, took at face value the hearsay which has been put out for the last six years.
Admittedly, the honor and glory for it belong first of all to God, Who enlightens all men and inspires them at times to do things mere mortals could never conceive of. But also, thanks goes to God for sending Our Lady to Fatima to reveal to Sr. Lucia a secret which has until this day remained hidden, so as to give sound counsel to the true Successor of Saint Peter in the End Times.
How Pope John Paul II strengthened the Bulwark of the Church against the AntiChurch
I believe that with that knowledge, Pope John Paul II did 3 things: first, he chose Joseph Ratzinger to come to Rome and prepared him to succeed him (perhaps because he sensed that Ratzinger had the gift of prophecy); second, in 1983, he added the term munus to canon 332 §2, to constrain all of his successors to the obligation of renouncing the Petrine Munus so as to resign the papacy; and third, in 1996, he promulgated a new law on Papal Elections, which would nullify any attempt of the AntiChurch to usurp the Papacy or elect successors to AntiPopes (by requiring that all valid conclaves meet within 20 days after the death of valid popes).
Pope John Paul II warned the Church of the AntiChurch which was rising. He beatified Ann Catherine Emmerich (on the Vigil of St. Francis of Assisi, in 2004) to give papal approval to her own visions in this regard. It should not be surprising then, that in secret, or I should say, in the bright light of day, in papal acts he prepared the Church against that Evil to come!
By these three acts, Pope John Paul II set the chess board and enabled his chosen successor, Ratzinger to enact a stratagem of deception to defeat the forces of darkness.
The Forces of the AntiChurch struck quickly
No sooner than Pope John Paul II had died that the St Gallen Mafia, which had been meeting in that Swiss town for some years, mobilized to put Bergoglio on the Apostolic Throne in the Conclave of 2005. Bergoglio, as is now known, garnered the most votes after Ratzinger. In his campaign to get elected he promised radical financial reforms in the Vatican, so he could pose as a savior and reformer, though his agenda was that of Cardinal Martini, to make the Church into the Bride of the Anti-Christ.
Recently an Argentine Priest revealed, that Pope Benedict, soon after his election in 2005, had asked Bergoglio to be Secretary of State (see report here). Benedict intended by this offer to diffuse the conflict which arose in the Conclave, and to draw out the real intentions of Bergoglio. Bergoglio’s refusal manifested his deceit, because all the reasons given in the Conclave for his election, which in truth could be done by a Secretary of State, if honest, would have spurred him to accept Benedict’s offer. But without the papal authority, his evil and malign agenda could not be advanced. — By this sign of offering the olive branch of peace, Benedict signaled to his own supporters, that after himself there would come an Anti-pope (cf. Prophecy of St Malachy).
With the threefold knowledge of the future had from the Third Secret, from Pope John Paul II and from his own experience in the CDF, Pope Benedict now knew what he had to do. He knew Bergoglio wanted power and would be blinded by its offer. He took preparations to defend the Church with tradition and as the pressure built from the St Gallen Mafia, he crafted their defeat in secret. At the same time, he openly warned the faithful, that the Message of Fatima was about to be fulfilled (On May 13, 2010, saying “We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete…”).
Benedict knew that removing the Lavender Mafia from the Vatican was key to defending the Church. But as court documents revealed, in the WikiLeaks controversy, as that effort led to the destruction of the careers of many sodomites, they moved against Benedict to have him removed. His Pontificate had removed hundreds perverts from the clergy.
As I have written before, there was in my estimation a formal attempt at a Coup d’etat (see report here). And this was actually put in motion, with the intent to effectively imprison Pope Benedict (see Report here). — The Conclave pact in 2005 among the warring factions of Ratzinger (Church) and Bergoglio (Anti-Church) also prepared the way (see report here). But, with their cause lost at that conclave, the St. Gallen Mafia would have to wait for Benedict to resign, because being old, he revealed that he was inclined to resign in a few years, anyhow. As he lingered on, however, their rage and impatience exploded.
The restoration of the Ancient Mass (July 7, 2007) and the expansion of the permissions for its use (April 30, 2011) caused a general outburst among the wicked clerics. I myself know this took place in the Italian Bishop’s Conference in 2011, because a Bishop who attended told me how Cardinals and Bishops stood up, one after another, and said the most vile things against Benedict. I also know personally, from the testimony of a Sicilian Businessman, who was in Shanghai, that the Cardinal of Palermo had warned that Benedict could die within a year from poor health. The St Gallen Controlled Media expanded this and reported it as if the Cardinal has said that Benedict had a year to live or else. That report was published around Feb. 11, 2012! (note the date)
Benedict’s Master Stroke
Pope Benedict XVI then played his master stroke. In the Summer of 2012 he indicated to Cardinal Bertone that he was going to resign. He discussed the matter with no one but his secretary Ganswein and a few others. I believe that he wrote the text of abdication in the Fall of 2012. I also postulate that he intentionally showed the Latin text (the invalid one) and a faulty German translation (which makes it appear the Latin is a valid formula) to members of the St Gallen Mafia, to obtain their consent to it. By that act he sealed their doom.
Because only one who was fluent in Latin and knowledgeable about Canon Law and who accepted the traditional metaphysics of the Church would be able to see that the resignation by that formula would be invalid. Ratzinger further prepared the ground by emphasizing for years before, that his favorite theologian was Saint Bonaventure. This caused scholars, like myself, to start studying St. Bonanveture’s Scholatic method for textual analysis of the signification of expressions, which is unparalleled among all the Doctors of the Church.
The only thing is, that Benedict began to give signs of the truth, not only for the sake of the Faithful, but to annoy the St Gallen Mafia. He kept wearing the papal cassock, retained the titles of Your Holiness and signed with PP. Benedictus XVI, and continued to give the papal blessing. He did these things to get faithful Catholics to examine the text of resignation and discover it was invalid. — He did this also, because, I believe, he was obeying Our Lady’s word at Fatima, in which She had revealed that there would come a time in which the Catholic world thought there were 2 popes, but only one of which was the true pope. The one who was the true Pope would continue to wear white, the other would usurp the office; and that the Anti-Church would attack the true Pope and the faithful gathered about him.
By an invalid resignation Pope Benedict has canonically invalidated everything Bergoglio has done, can do, and can ever do! Bergoglio is now an AntiPope because of the clever trick Benedict played on him. And Bergoglio is so entangled by this stratagem of Benedict that he cannot admit its existence, because if he does, he must give up his claim to the papacy.
If Benedict should die, then there will be no valid Successor of Saint Peter unless the pre-Bergoglian Cardinals meet in conclave within 20 days. Otherwise, as Pope John Paul II declares in the promulgation of Universi Dominici Gregis, at the end of the text, any action the Cardinal Electors take will be invalid. If they fail to do this, the Church will not be bereft of a pope, because, as Pope John Paul II taught in UDG’s prologue, the institution of the College is “not necessary for a valid election” of the Roman Pontiff: there is still the ancient Apostolic Law regarding the right of the Roman Church to elect the Pope.*
Benedict has defeated “Francis”!
Note: I wish to publicly apologize to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for anything I have said in criticism of him, since it was not until today that I understood what he had did and why he had done it, nor that as Pope he was acting for the good of the Church in the best and only way he could see to do, acting on the basis of the counsels of Our Lady and Pope John Paul II. — Finally, I entertain the possibility that some Cardinals know of this grand stratagem of Benedict and that is why they act so dumb when asked about the question of validity or invalidity of the resignation.
FOOTNOTE:
* The right of election will fall to those Catholics of the Diocese Rome, who recognize that Benedict always was the only true pope, and that Bergoglio was always and is only, and nothing more, an Antipope. See my Disputed Question on Defecting Cardinals, here.
Many Catholics have appealed to the U.S. sitting President, Donald Trump to intervene about all the corruption which is spilling out of the Vatican since February 2013, and to investigate the dubious renunciation of Pope Benedict XVI.
However, I recently discovered why it may be that President Trump has done nothing to investigate or respond to these appeals by thousands of prominent Catholics, among which one such appeal was published by The Remnant.
FromRome.Info can now reveal why this may be.
In an article at Mother Jones, entitled, “Trump has a half a billion in loans coming due etc..” by Russ Choma, published in the July/August 2020 edition of their newsletter, it is reported that Trump has an outstanding loan for $170 Million, due in 2024 from Deutsch Bank:
In 2014, Trump took out a separate floating loan from Deutsche’s private bank to bankroll the development of his luxury hotel in Washington, DC. The balance of this $170 million debt is payable in 2024. That year, Trump will also owe Deutsche between $25 million and $50 million in connection with his Chicago hotel and complex.
And further down the article:
Even before Trump was elected, Deutsche executives soured on the relationship, turning down Trump’s request for a $10 million-plus loan in early 2016, the New York Timesreported. They worried, among other things, how it would look if Trump defaulted and the bank had to pursue the assets of the US president. His most recent financial disclosure no longer lists brokerage and savings accounts at Deutsche’s private bank, suggesting he’s no longer a client.
Just as Donald Trump has failed to take action against BLM and Antifa, groups which are funded by George Soros — who just happens to have $160 million dollar investment in Trump Hotel in Chicago — so perhaps the reason for Trump embracing Bergoglio as the Pope and ignoring Benedict, has everything to do with money and nothing to do with what he thinks of Catholics.
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI returns to Rome at noon. He will depart from the Munich Airport, where before departure, he will be saluted by Markus Söder, the Bavarian head of State, known as the Minister President, an honor accorded to other heads of state.
The German press is being very coy about the announced schedule, as if they do not believe it. In fact after relying upon the official press release of the Diocese of Regensburg, and being accused of fake news, because the Diocese changed its announcement just 18 hours later, the reticence of the German press is understandable.
No one is connecting the dots. While Vaticanista at Rome were of the opinion that Benedict XVI had been driven into exile — Nota Bene: Exile in Roman law is a punishment whereby one is imprisoned or put under house arrest in a distant land with guards, not allowed to go free — Pope Benedict XVI appears to have had greater freedom of action that many suspected, and had arranged the visit on his own, without getting Pope Francis’ approval.
At any rate the German Nuncio was not notified in advance. And after the Diocese announced that Pope Benedict had no definite planned date for a return, he rushed to Regensburg to extract an announcement of an immediate return.
Those with eyes to see, who want to see, can see what is going on. Pope Benedict XVI is being taken back to the Vatican as a prison, after having escaped.
There is just too much risk for Bergoglio’s house of lies, if Benedict walks free. He might talk to someone and explain that he never renounced the Petrine Munus! Indeed, he already began to give such signs.
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UPDATE 8:45 PM Rome Time June 18, 2020: POPE BENEDICT WILL REMAIN IN GERMANY FOR AN UNSPECIFIED LENGTH OF TIME! WILL NOT RETURN TO VATICAN DURING ILLNESS OF BROTHER!
by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
Rome Italy, 2:45 PM, une 18, 2020:CNA German edition is reporting moments ago that Pope Benedict XVI has left the Vatican. The reason for his visit is officially to visit his sick brother Georg, who is said to be in a bad state of health.
According to the report, the Pope visited his brother this morning.
(Update at 6:00 P.M. Rome Time)
The Corriere della Sera, one of the leading Left wing newspapers of Milan, has confirmed the report, writing:
Ratzinger è accompagnato dal segretario particolare, l’arcivescovo Georg Gänswein, e da medico, un infermiere, una delle memores domini — le religiose laiche che ne hanno cura nel monastero vaticano Mater Ecclesiae — e dal vicecomandante della Gendarmeria vaticana.
Which in English is:
Ratzinger is accompanied by his special secretary, Archbishop George Gänswein, and by a doctor, a nurse, one of the Memores Domini — lay religious women who have the care of him in the Vatican Monaster of Mater Ecclesiae — and by the vice-commandant of the Vatican Gendarmeria (Vatican Police).
This detail is ominous. Only prisoners travel with police escort. The Corriera della Sera adds that the Pope landed at 11:45 A.M. in the morning (UTC +2) and is staying at the Seminary of the Diocese of Regensburg as the guest of the Bishop, Rudolf Voderholzer.
(end update at 6 PM Rome time)
In the last seven years since his renunciation of ministry, he has rarely left the Vatican precints, and then only for a visit no further than Castle Gandolfo.
The momentous decision to travel to Germany shows at least the very great love he has for his only surviving sibling.
It is presumed that Pope Benedict XVI is residing in Regensberg in the vicinity of his brother. And, no need to say it, but if the world is still sane, there will be a mob of reporters and photographers descending upon the city as we speak.
It was long suspected that Pope Benedict XVI was motivated to consent to the pressures of the St. Gallen Mafia out of fear for his brother’s safety. If that assertion is correct, we might see the Holy Father begin to say things quite unlike what he was permitted to say or alleged to say from the Vatican.
It cannot be excluded, that Pope Benedict XVI was allowed to leave Rome, precisely because he is now widely recognized to be Peter and the Katechon which is holding back the revolution of Bergoglio. But the mere fact that he is not in Rome does not eliminate his spiritual power. Many popes traveled during their pontificates. Indeed, when opposed by Antipopes in Rome, their traveles led to rallying the forces of Christendom.
The Roman Pontiff is now in Regensburg. All Christendom should rally to him.
Note well, Germany lifted travel restrictions to other EU Nations on June 15.
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It was incredible that in 2018, Bergoglio made a secret agreement to surrender the Church in the Peoples’ Republic of China over to the government, actually commanding Catholics to hold communion with heretics and schismatics and to submit to them!
The shameful, cowardly and dishonest Cardinals and Bishops of the world remained silent and did not convene a Council to declare Bergoglio deposed for an act of horrible schism and sacrilege in such a betrayal.
So now it seems that he is eager to go all the way and give the Vatican to Peking.
And his instrument is the man who is increasingly appearing to be his chosen successor.
Pope Francis has raised Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to the rank of cardinal bishop in a new sign of his esteem for the former Archbishop of Manila.
The Holy See press office said May 1 that the pope had designated the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples as a cardinal bishop, along with Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy.
The elevation caps a rapid rise for Cardinal Tagle, who only took up his new post in Rome this February.
He had previously served as the 32nd Archbishop of Manila from 2011 to 2020. He was a high-profile figure at the 2018 youth synod. A year later Pope Francis named him head of the powerful Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, replacing Cardinal Fernando Filoni.
The implications seem clear.
But the complete silence of the Cardinals and Bishops, excepting Cardinal Zen, and the utter do nothingness of the hierarchy, raises a necessary question: how many Bishops and Cardinals have been bribed by the CCP to go along with the transfer of Church properties and power to Peking?
Father Lombardi, who was the spokesman for Pope Benedict XVI in February of 2013, is shaking in his boots. You can see this in the fact that, after 7 years he is still trying to control the narrative about what happened in that fateful month.
He did so in an interview with La Stampa, a leading daily newspaper, yesterday on the 93rd Birthday of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.
Here is a brief list of the lies, Father Lombardi repeatedly uttered during the interview:
He calls the renunciation, a renunciation of the papacy, when the whole world knows that it was a renunciation of the ministry committed to Pope Benedict XVI by the Cardinals!
He claims that on Feb. 11, 2013, Pope Benedict said he did not have the strength to make decisions, when Pope Benedict said nothing of the kind!
He contradicts himself, saying on the one hand that Pope Benedict XVI does not have the strength to make decisions, and on the other, that he has a brilliant mind which has not weakened with age!
And you can see what Pope Benedict XVI thinks of La Stampa by refusing an interview on the occasion of his birthday. — Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that the newspaper has Batman, the gay icon, flying all over their pages? — When a newspaper has to dig up someone from 7 years ago to pretend to say something informed today about what is going on in the Vatican, you know that they have found a lot of doors shut in their face. And that is significant, but not surprising, on account of the questions that remain and are being asked.
But here is the really juicy part of the interview (my English translation), in the sense of the narrative that Lombardi is urgent to propose for credence, but which has lost all credibility:
From what was born this clamorous renunciation of the papacy?
From a responsible liberty which knows how to look at one’s own duties and to one’s own responsibility before God and the Church. That of the renunciation was an act characteristic of his own conscience. He always showed himself to be fully aware of a vocation received from God and exercised in the call to serve others. It was a gesture totally alien to constrictions.
There is talk of external conditioning…
I have always held as unfounded and unjustified the attempts to interpret the renunciation of Benedict XVI as the consequence of pressures, discomfort or disappointment. Significantly, the renunciation of the Pope to be valid must have one characteristic: it must be free. And the decision of Joseph Ratzinger is attributed exclusively to his capacity to see with great clarity and a profound sense of responsibility the growing disproportion between his own strength and the duties implied by the task of the Pontiff. A choice for liberty and responsibility of which he has never repented
As they say in Italian, you can only be sure something is true, when it is denied in public, especially when it is denied repeatedly for 7 years in public.
If rather what Lombardi said were true, why would he feel the need to constantly repeat himself? Especially, why are you so insistent to repeat the word “responsible” or “responsibility” so many times?
It sounds as if, psychologically, Lombardi is shouting: IT’S NOT MY FAULT! I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!
Perhaps he is being repetitious, because, since it is not true, Father Lombardi, is destined to go to a very dark, dark place, for having been instrumental in robbing the loyalty of 1 Billion Catholics from the true Pope, by giving Giovanna Chirri the go-ahead to tell the world a big, fat lie.
As I have demonstrated in my recent documentary, where I speak expressly about Father Lombardi’s key role in deceiving the world on Feb. 11, 2013 (see Episode 5).
And you can see what La Stampa and Father Lombardi are really worried about in the title of the article: I 93 anni di Benedetto XVI. Padre Lombardi: “Troppo debole fisicamente per fare il Papa”. Which in English means: The 93 years of Benedict XVI. Father Lombardi: “Too weak physically to act as the Pope”.
Notice they still call him by his Papal name? So they recognize that he still holds the papal dignity, which is impossible if he renounced the petrine munus, as Lombardi is attempting to say. Also, the phrase attributed to Father Lombardi (“Too weak physically to act as the Pope”) is not in the past tense, it is in an infinitive construction, applicable to past and present. But why attempt to deny he is took weak to be “the Pope” today, unless you fear his return as the one true Pope?
That says it all. This interview is an excellent piece of misinformation, disinformation and narrative control. It’s sole purpose is to deceive.
But it also reveals great fear on the part of La Stampa, Lombardi and the Vatican authorities which permitted it. A fear directed entirely against the truth of what really happened and the growing awareness of that truth by the faithful.
And some news agencies are aware of that, like the Premium Times and the Daily Post of Nigeria, which have Gänswein say in English, that Pope Benedict is under “house arrest”, as if to tease their readership.
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.
(Saint Paul the Apostle, Letter to the Galatians 6: 7-8)
by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
You reap what you sow. It’s an ancient addage and Saint Paul says it applies to our merit or lack of merit in this life, though it is also valid in all areas of human life: every action has its consequences: good actions, good consequences; evil actions, evil consequences.
While, the Revolutionaries which seized control of the Vatican in March 2013, after the putsch of Feb. 11, 2013, are doing everything they can to deceive Catholics away from the flock of Jesus Christ, nevertheless, try as they may, they cannot escape the consequences of their actions, even if they do not fear the consequences of Divine Justice which are approaching more rapidly every day.
Bergoglio’s embrace of the call of Bill Gates to shut down society so as to create the most panic and control possible, so as to prepare a new world order in which the masses are controlled like livestock, the Catholic Religion is reclassified as unhealthy and severely or totally outlawed, and no one can communicate with anyone except through State controlled or monitored social media, is a socialist dream come true. And since socialists love their dream world more than reality, they have no intention of leaving it.
However, Mammon still rules the real world. And the dearth of financial income is a demon which can bite even the most godless in a way they can feel it.
The Vatican has been bit by such a crisis. Finances are in a death-spiral. The agreement by Bergoglio to shut down the Church in Italy has totally eliminated all revenue for the Catholic Church in Italy and at the Vatican which is derived from the faithful attending Church and going on pilgrimages or visiting ecclesiastical museums.
At the Vatican, in a good year, the Vatican Museums alone bring in 80 million Euro. Since their closure on March 9, by Bergoglio’s order, they have failed to bring in the normally expected 11 million during this time of the year. But even those statistics are probably too kind, since on account of the utter revulsion most devout Catholics have for Bergoglio the number of pilgrims to the Vatican has been declining in recent years.
In response, the Cardinal President of the Governorate of the Vatican has ordered dire restrictions on all expenditures. The entire public calendar of events for religious ceremonies, conferences, exhibitions, meetings, etc., has been cancelled for the whole of 2020 A.D.. All departments of the Curia and offices at the Vatican have been instructed to limit to all extent possible any expenses. Paid vacations and travel are to be cancelled.
The humorous but true incident some weeks ago, of Bergoglio being trapped in an elevator, was a direct result of the cutback on elevator maintenance staff. The anti-pope did not escape until the Vatican Firemen liberated him. Alas it was an occasion for meditation which did not seem to have any spiritual effect.
The requests from the faithful throughout Italy to reopen the Churches has been universal and truly moving. Even at FromRome.Info we are receiving inquiries from Catholics round the nation and some party leaders asking if we know of any priests who celebrate the Mass for the faithful and with the faithful, while maintaining the social-distancing rules of the government.
On Holy Saturday, as the Church remembers Christ in the tomb and descending to the Limbo of the Patriarchs, the Italian Senate passed a motion calling on the government to negotiate with the Italian Bishops’ Conference to reopen the Churches. The request fell on deaf ears, because on the one hand, the government is following the dictates of Bill Gates who controls the World Health Organization, and on the other, the decisions in Italy were dictated from the Vatican, which is also following the new World Dictator from Seattle.
The financial impact on the Vatican will soon have its results. The deficit for 2020 will end up being historic.
But as Saint Paul says, you reap what you sow. Sow disbelief and godlessness and reap deficits. Soon the unwritten rules of the Club, which is the College of Cardinals should kick in and, we might see Bergoglio forced out of power, if for nothing but to save the Club house, which is the Vatican City State, from bankruptcy.
It was reported by Vatican news, on Saturday, that the Coronavirus epidemic has come to the Vatican. Swab tests have been given to 170 individuals, including Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
These massive tests followed the diagnosis that at least two individuals with Coronavirus infection visited the Vatican in recent weeks: a Monsignor from Bergamo, Italy, the epicenter for infection in the Italian Peninsula, and arguably in all of Europe, and a French Bishop, who shook Bergoglio’s hand on an official visit.
Needless to say, Bergoglio himself submitted himself to swab test on a second occasion this last week.
And, in fact, there are now at least 6 confirmed cases of Coronavirus at the Vatican. I say, at least, because, that is what is being admitted. But the infections might even be more prevalent, if one judges by the bizzare Facebook post on the official FB page of the Swiss Guard, which ended by asking Catholics, to avoid infection, not to go to church!
Marco Tosatti, the renowed Vaticanista, discusses in Italian this bizarre post on his website, and provides Spanish and German translations. The final phrase of the post, in English, would be: During this period do not go to church, but invite God into your homes! — The FB page of the Swiss guard was subsequently shut down by someone. Evidently the post caused an uproar in the Vatican. The language of the final exhortation is clearly echoing Bergoglio.
But more importantly, the recent bizarre ceremony at the Vatican on Friday, which was presided over by Bergoglio, all alone, in an entirely vacant Piazza S. Pietro, is a sign of how great a fear of coronavirus is reigning over the Vatican right now. See photo:
Ann Barnhardt wrote a very thought-provoking article about this on her blog (see here).
But more importantly, during the ceremony, Our Lady appeared in the clouds over Rome, in the only part of the sky where TV cameras were pointing that day, since journalists have entirely fled the public places as a result of the Health Decrees requiring everyone to work from home.
I had previously commented on how the Coronavirus might effect Vatican politics and the next conclave, in my editorial, entitled: Trad inc. might soon wake up as Sedevacantists, which at the time I wrote it, was half-jest, but now might even seem prescient.
Oh, and by placing the miraculous Crucifix from the Church of San Marcellino in the rain, it was damaged and now needs restoration, according to Il Messagero, one of the leading daily newspapers of the Eternal City. So Bergoglio sealed his Friday evening ritual with profanation of one of the most sacred relics of Rome. Meanwhile, those burning pots with plants beneath each one, has Social Media abuzz as to the possible Pachamama significance of them.
The Office of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, headed by Archbishop Gänswein still — at least on paper — has announced the ultimate and consummate apostasy of Bergoglio: the celebration of Holy Week Services WITHOUT the faithful. Here is the official statement, in the official English version, original coloring:
The Prefecture of the Pontifical Household announces that, because of the current global public health emergency, all the Liturgical Celebrations of Holy Week will take place without the physical presence of the faithful.
Furthermore, this Prefecture informs that until April 12 the General Audiences and the Angelus presided over by the Holy Father will be available only in live streaming on the official Vatican News website.
That is right, Holy Week for Bergoglio, but not for thee!
The sheep of the smells and bells, the poor of the peripheries of Vatican City: DON’T YOU DARE COUGH ON ME!
This is the latest UNMISTAKABLE SIGN that the man never had the petrine munus, which is first and foremost a CHARISTMATIC GIFT to govern the Church.
Let those who have eyes see!
But this perfidia completa — complete betrayal — something the enemies of the Church have dreamed of, is not just something you outside of Rome can scoff at. As Giuseppe Pellegrino, the English language translator of Antonio Socci’s book, remarks on twitter:
The true contagion is not the Coronavirus 19. The true contagion which needs to be cleansed from the Church is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his false claim to the papacy!
For those of us who know that Pope Benedict XVI is the true pope, we can wryly remark that the faithful are better off not getting anywhere near Bergoglio lest they catch his spirit of heresy and apostasy.
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CREDITS: The Featured Image is a screenshot of the webpage of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, which oversees liturgical celebrations at which the Roman Pontiff presides. You can read the page yourself by clicking the link on Giuseppe Pelligrino’s Tweet.
As reported yesterday, the Head of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni, the Corona Virus has officially arrived at the Vatican.
Bruni confirmed that “there has been temporarily suspended all the walk-in services of the Office for the Direction of Health and Hygene to enable the sterilization of offices. However, there remains in operation the station for Emergency care.”
The Corona Virus arrived, ironically, via the Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Those attending have been informed of possible infection. Patient 0 was a priest from Bergamo, in Northern Italy, who unwittingly arrived infected. Ironically, the Conference was held from Feb. 27 to Feb. 28, marking the 7th anniversary of the departure of Pope Benedict. The news, this Thursday, that the infection was positively identified as the Corona Virus means that the contagion has had 7 days to spread at the Vatican unnoticed.
As a consequence, Vatican authorities ordered the sterilization of the offices of the Secretary of State (the Vatican Foreign Office), the I.O.R. (the Vatican Bank), the Apostolic Archives and the Vatican Bookstore.
This last place is widely visited by many pilgrims to the Vatican.
Those who might be infected have been notified by email, according to the Vatican spokesman. But panic is reigning in the micro-state, as Ambulances were hear running to and fro in the narrow streets of Saint Peter’s Patrimony all day yesterday.
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CREDITS: The Featured Image is of Saint Peter’s Basilica seen from the end of the Via Conciliazione, near the Castel Sant’Angelo. Photo by Br. Bugnolo.
There has been a lot of speculation by Catholics about the next Conclave.
Will Benedict die before Bergoglio, or Bergoglio before Benedict?
If Benedict before Bergoglio, will any Cardinal Elector break with the others and elect a successor to Benedict? — Only 1 is required.
If Bergoglio before Benedict, will the Cardinals proceed to a Conclave, or will the recognize that Benedict was always the pope?
Who would be the next Pope? Someone made a Cardinal by Bergoglio or someone made a Cardinal by Benedict or John Paul II.
But so far, I have not seen any Vaticanista or even blogger approach the question of what role the Corona Virus might play in the next Conclave.
So here goes.
The Corona Virus was reported in one patient at the out-patient clinic at the Vatican yesterday. Today, the entire office of the Secretary of State was sanitized.
Panic is spreading at the Vatican. If they sanitized the Secretary of State offices, then the infection probably has spread to the entire Roman Curia and all of the Vatican, since the Secretary of State is the beehive, as it were, of the entire Vatican apparatus. Numerous officials go in and out on a hourly basis. Numerous officials go from the Secretary of State to all parts of the Vatican. Not to mention the mail, which is processed by the Vatican Post Office in restricted spaces above and below ground.
So we can be certain that the Corona Virus will spread at the Vatican in the next 14 days.
Before the arrival of the Corona Virus at the Vatican it was widely reported that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has the flu. This years flu is very powerful. Those who grew up in the New World, like myself and Bergoglio, won’t have resistance to it.
Thankfully, I already had the flu. I was sick for 10 days, in bed constantly. And for another 10 days, I was so weak I was in bed most of the time. I had a lot of time to think of eternity, and when I was nearly recovered, I decided to start FromRome.Info as a full time apostolate advocating for Pope Benedict.
Those who catch this influence are likely to be harmed particularly severely if they catch the Corona Virus at the same time. Its not polite to speculate about a specific person dying at the Vatican, so I won’t.
But not only Bergoglio but every Cardinal who works in the Roman Curia might fall sick.
Thus, the scenario of a new Conclave this spring is now very likely.
Pope Benedict XVI is under quarantine and I think he will have a better chance of surviving the Corona Virus, since he has lived his whole life in Europe and has much more robust antibody preparation.
The prospect of a new Conclave this spring probably sends chills of terror down the spines of many Cardinals. They would have to come to Italy, and remain in the confined quarters of Santa Marta and the Sistine Chapel for several weeks, making their infection by the Corona Virus highly likely. Others might already have succumbed at the Vatican, changing entirely the political dynamic of the next conclave.
Many probably will decide not to participate.
Others will have a lot of reasons to think of Judgement of God.
Also, who will want to be pope? He will have to live at one of the major epicenters of the Corona Virus?
You can be sure that all those Cardinals who might have weakened immune systems will opt out.
The ones who do have the courage might very well be inclined to act on the kind of proposal which I based my Letter to the Cardinal Dean on, or upon that which my proposal to relect Pope Benedict contained.
Because the consequences of electing another pope, while Benedict XVI lives, is having another antipope. And who wants to risk the Corona Virus to be an antipope or have a dubious claim to the papacy? That would not be a good ending to an ecclesiastical career which aimed for real achievements.
But on account of the epidemic, the College might simply refuse to convene, and leave the Church with Pope Benedict on the one hand, and a sede vacante in the Bergoglio Church on the other. And that would make the crisis in the Church even more confusing.
In any event, God is in control and this corona virus might be the divine intervention that some Bishops and Cardinals — who refuse to look at Canon Law and — prayed for instead, which is sent in reply, but not quite the kind they expected.
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CREDITS: The Featured Image is a photo of the funeral mass of Pope John Paul II, presided over by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in his capacity as Dean of the College of Cardinals, and attended by the entire College of Cardinals. Source and rights, here.
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Editor’s Note: Though no longer a member of the Roman Curia, the mere fact that such a high profile Vatican statesman is thinking that a visit by Giorgia Meloni, yesterday, the current Italian Premier visited Pope Francis, means a lot more than both of them are telling, is significant. — As an ex-Minister of Culture at the Vatican Cardinal Ravasi knows well, that it is NOT a duty of the PM to visit a sick pope in hospital, unless he is about to announce something which will greatly impact Italian National Security, such as a resignation. — Cardinal Ravasi was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 and participated in the faux conclave of 2013. He is 83 years of age and can no longer vote in Conclaves, so he is more free to speak than other Cardinals.
