Tell Old Bergoglio to let my people go!

By Father Celatus

The Book of Exodus records the historical account of the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians by God for having enslaved the Old Covenant faithful and for the obstinate refusal of the Pharaoh to release them so that they could sacrifice to God. Speaking through Moses and Aaron, God commanded this of Pharaoh:

Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go that they may sacrifice to me in the desert." But he answered: "Who is the Lord that I should hear his voice and let Israel go? I know not the Lord and neither will I let Israel go." (5:2-3)

Hey, guess what Pharaoh, "Let my people go" was not a divine suggestion but a divine command! But in his hubris Pharaoh dug in his royal heels and demanded derisively, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice…?"

And so it was that Pharaoh found out the hard way just who the Lord God really is, through a series of ten plagues that culminated in the death of every first born male of the Egyptian households.

We might wonder how any man, including a pharaoh, could remain so defiant when confronted with such compelling evidence of the power of the one true God. At one point even the magicians of Pharaoh recognized that the plagues were by the finger of God and begged him to capitulate to divine demands. But God had hardened the heart of Pharaoh, so that no matter what he suffered he would not submit:

The Lord said to Moses: Behold I have appointed thee the God of Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, And he will not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and will bring forth my army and my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by very great judgments. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel out of the midst of them. (7:1-5)

How are we to understand this hardening of heart? It is not that God actively hardened Pharaoh’s heart but God withdrew whatever grace He may have otherwise offered, as punishment for his malice. Devoid of divine assistance Pharaoh became utterly evil, blind in his thinking and hardened in his heart.

God sometimes permits evil to become unmistakably manifest before he crushes it by divine providence.

I suggest that there are many parallels between this ancient account and our modern crisis in the Church. The Old Covenant faithful suffered under the reign of a pharaoh who knew not Joseph; the New Covenant faithful suffer under the reign of a pontiff who knows not Jesus. The pharaoh was a pagan who sought to weaken and crush true religion; this pope is a modernist who seeks to weaken and crush Catholicism.

It would appear that both figures also manifest an absence of divine assistance and a blindness and hardness that are providential punishments for defiance toward the Lord God. It is hard to imagine that Jorge Bergoglio has any supernatural faith whatsoever, in light of his heretical statements.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, among others, teaches that someone who denies knowingly even one article of the Faith forfeits the supernatural grace of faith, as surely as mortal sins forfeit the grace of charity. One wonders whether Francis possesses this grace as well, given his numerous uncharitable insults directed at devout Catholics.

We see a parallel in the fact that the magician’s warnings to Pharaoh that he was contending against God were of no avail; similarly, a handful of the prelates of the present time have warned that the Bergoglian blitzkrieg against the Faith is misguided, for naught. The four Dubia Prelates are completely ignored and two are now dead, another prelate is in hiding for his life and yet another has already lost his high office.

As for the plagues, we are not suffering from the destruction of crops or an infiltration of frogs but for six long decades we have suffered the destruction of Catholic institutions and an infiltration of homosexuals. Diocese after diocese has gone into bankruptcy because of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy and now lawyers and attorneys general are poised to financially crush many more dioceses for sexual crimes. The faithful and the fallen world are scandalized by the corruption of so many clerics and prelates, such that the institutional Church has lost its pastoral and moral authority and it will soon be completely irrelevant.

And let’s not forget the plague of Islam, which is rapidly replacing Christianity as the dominant religion throughout much of Europe and making inroads in North America—a veritable invasion by immigration.

But God will not be mocked, and as surely as providence brought an end to the reign of Pharaoh and release to the Israelites, some day in some manner God will bring an end to the reign of the Modernists and release to the faithful.

Whether this will be through the final Apocalypse that was foreshadowed by the Exodus or whether by some lesser means, Jorge Bergoglio and Modernism will one day be crushed like the Egyptian armies in the Red Sea and the true religion will once again have been purified and set free.

But lest we pity ourselves as purely innocent victims of Modernist oppressors, it would seem that collectively as Catholics we are suffering a chastisement that we corporately deserve. Not unlike the Israelites who became comfortable over time in their secular surroundings, forgetting the God of their ancestors and worshiping Egyptian idols, so too many Catholics have abandoned the Faith in favor of the world, allowing bad shepherds to mislead the flock and even applauding and excusing their wickedness.

And so The Last Word and remnant of traditional Catholics must suffer along with the rest but we do have a word of warning for Francis of Rome on behalf of the Lord God: "Jorge Bergoglio: Let my people go!" ■

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