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Destroying the Church on Purpose

So, what is happening to the Church of Vatican II? This month, George Cardinal Pell was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor and sentenced to six years in jail.

Regardless of what you think of Pell, his kangaroo-court trial should put fear in the hearts of Catholics everywhere.

A new Reign of Terror seems imminent.

Last week, it was Cardinal Philippe Barbarin who was convicted of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse of minors by a priest in Lyon, France (his conviction is now under appeal, so shaky was the evidence against him).

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano is still in hiding after his attempt to expose the corruption that goes all the way to the top.

The day before the Vatican’s recent sham-summit on clerical sexual abuse, Cardinals Burke and Brandmuller issued an eleventh-hour intervention, begging the Pope and the Bishops to address the fundamental cause of crisis in the priesthood—rampant homosexuality.

They were ignored, exactly as their request for clarification on the errors of Amoris Laetitia was ignored over two years ago.

A sort of ecclesial mafia seems to be running the Vatican just now.

I wonder how much more criminal and immoral behavior must transpire before even Novus Ordo Catholics begin to realize what’s going on here. This is not just the takeover of the Church by wayward Modernists. This is becoming an organized cartel set on accelerating what Pope Paul VI called the "autodemolition of the Catholic Church."

This is Satan at work. The Modernist takeover was never about merely "updating the Church" to fit in with the modern world. It was never about mere "liturgical preferences." It was about silencing the Church, imprisoning her, crucifying her—while convincing good Catholics—the so-called Neo-Catholics—that God wills this, the shepherds ordered this, and the sheep must obey.

Persecution was always inevitable so long as the Catholic Church continued to bow and scrape to the modern world, change her liturgy so as not to upset the Protestants, alter her scriptures so as to accommodate the anti-Christians, and deny creation ex nihilo in order to appear sophisticated to the pagans.

And today, just 54 years after the close of the Second Vatican Council—and 50 years this month since the introduction of the New Mass—the Catholic Church has become a ship lost at sea, a church without a mission, a priest without an altar, and a people without faith.

Some would have us believe that it was always like this, that the Church was always corrupt, that the priesthood was always full of pedophiles. But even the pre-Vatican II Hollywood movie record dispels that black legend. Why turn to infamous Hollywood? Because if any industry in the world would have seized on the "truth" of a pedophiliac priesthood, it would have been the reliably anti-Catholic movie industry.

But what do see instead?

Just a few years before Vatican II landed, powerhouse leading Hollywood actors such as Spencer Tracy were playing Catholic priests saving small armies of little boys.

I’m not a big fan of the movie Boys Town, but the film makes one thing crystal clear: Nobody associated priests with pedophiles back in those days.

Father Flanagan was real, and so was the great Father Nelson Henry Baker — hero Catholic priest who, at the time of his death in 1936, had developed a "city of charity" under the patronage of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York that had rescued thousands of boys—orphans called "Baker’s Boys"— from the streets of America.

Before he’d gone on to his eternal reward, Father Baker had established an infant home, a home for unwed mothers, a boys’ orphanage, a boys’ protectory, a hospital, a nursing home, and a grade and high school, to say nothing of the monumental basilica of Our Lady of Victory. And Pope Francis would have us believe that it was only under this pontificate that the Church finally began to care for the poor and afflicted—something of a laugher since, even statistically, it can be proven that the Catholic Church was the most charitable and non-racist organization in human history. The Church invented the orphanage, the hospital, soup kitchens, the homes for unwed mothers.

Father Baker was a hero, yes, but hardly an anomaly. He was part of a long line of priests such as Bosco, de Paul and de Sales whose lives were like something "right out of the movies" …well, the old movies, anyhow. And so, it’s no wonder that even Hollywood had to sit up and take notice when this was still going on well into the 20th Century.

Boys Town and Angels with Dirty Faces were movies about real-life Catholic heroes who lived and breathed and dedicated their lives to the poor and underprivileged all over the world for a couple of thousand years.

Hollywood had to bow to the mighty Catholic priesthood. The Catholic orphanage. The Catholic School— before Modernism began dismantling it all—brick by brick, priest by priest, school by school. The venerable institution that had built history’s greatest civilization had to be destroyed—the Church that had developed the most advanced system of education on the face of the earth, the greatest cities of the world, played patron to the most celebrated artisans, architects and musicians in history, produced the greatest scientific minds, poets, musicians of all time. Such as?

There are far too many in the mold of Michelangelo, Palestrina, Copernicus and Dante to list here. Let it suffice to say the obvious: The Catholic Church built Western Civilization.

And now look at her—a den of iniquity where children are not safe, her princes cover for child predators and her popes prattle on about climate change and straws in the oceans rather than the Four Last Things.

The Church is living a "mystery of treason," a "mystery of Judas," Curia Cardinal Robert Sarah writes in his new book "Le soir approche et déjà le jour baisse" (Fayard). "The Church is dying because the shepherds are afraid of speaking with truth and clarity."

"We are afraid of the media" and, as a consequence, the Catholics are "confused."

Robert Cardinal Sarah says the Church has become a "den of darkness" and a "cave of thieves."

What happened? Modernism happened.

Vatican II happened. The New Mass happened. And they did it all quite methodically. They did it all on purpose.

They wrecked the old Church in order to make room for the International Brotherhood of Man. That’s why our Mass had to become so vapid and shallow that millions simply walked away. (Do you blame them?) That’s why churches are closing by the hundreds, our priesthood has become a gay profession, our bishops are going to jail, and our pope thinks his job is to save the planet from rising temperatures.

So, what are we going to do about it?

Stop defending it, first of all. Open your eyes and start admitting the truth— Modernists took over our Church, and now they intend to sit back and let the State crush what’s left of it to make room for a New World Order.

But we don’t have to let that happen.

History is full of examples of God offering his people the chance to change the future—whether it’s the ten good men of Sodom, the Consecration of France to the Sacred heart of Jesus, the Rosary and the first Saturdays called for by Our Lady of Fatima, to countless other examples of heaven begging the children of God to come back to the faith before it’s too late. We need to answer that call in our own lives, our own homes, our own parishes. We the laity must do what we can to restore the covenant with God that’s been broken by diabolically disoriented shepherds.

We need to go back to the practice of the old Faith, back to Tradition. We need to leave our modernist parishes. Don’t give them another dime. Go back to the Latin Mass.

Why? Because the gates of hell will absolutely prevail against the Church of Vatican II. It’s happening already.

Why? Because we are Catholic. We were born into this Faith of Jesus Christ and we must resolve now to die with it.

Nothing will change that, please God, nothing.

Message to Pope Francis: We pray for you every night, but until you become Catholic again and defend the Bride of Christ, we will—before God, we must— resist you to your face. ■