Catholic, Apostolic & Roman

May 2019

Destruction Deciphered

THE EDITOR

"What I think is that Pope Francis has inaugurated a period in which it is necessary to see how much of what we are saying has important aspects that we must maintain and to what extent new things are being presented that must be clarified,...."

- Archbishop Castillo
 

"It’s hard for me to think about a Church that seeks after simple things, let’s not fight with anyone, everyone’s going to be saved...We cannot be silent. A Church that wants to adapt to the age of global relativism... that is very disturbing."

- Archbishop Emeritus Cipriani

 

To juxtapose these two irreconcilable attitudes is to convey, once again, the diabolical hallmark and bottom line of the St. Gallen pontificate: schism.

Overt levelling

The giveaway is "Emeritus." As in "decommissioned." As in the ousting of the few bishops still possessed of Catholic conviction and fighting spirit and their replacement with prelates possessed by the zeitgeist; ultra-Modernists who have sold out lock, stock and barrel to the world, the flesh and the devil. 

Archbishop Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio is the latest episcopal quisling in this production line.

Appointed by Pope Francis to replace the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima, Juan Luis Cipriani, Castillo was consecrated on 2 March. Within three weeks he had cancelled Peru's March for Life, held annually — and symbolically — on the Feast of the Annunciation. One of the largest pro-life marches on earth, around 800,000 participated last year, including the strongly pro-life Cardinal Cipriani himself, who also addressed the vast sea of Catholic participants.

So, another beautiful expression of Catholic faith-in-action snuffed out. Cancelled, moreover, with the callous disregard so typical of the post-March 2013 regime; via notification on the archdiocesan website just two days before the event. Or, as they put it in their 23 March notice, "moved" to an unspecified date in August.

In one sulphurous swoop, therefore, they negated the Feast Day celebrating the Word made flesh and its consequent sanctification of all pre-born life, while simultaneously wrecking the plans and testing the faith and loyalty of nearly a million souls.

Overt and brutal, this levelling of the Church in plain sight is the modus operandi we instantly associate with a Pope who, let us never forget, told his inner circle: "It is not to be excluded that I will enter history as the one who split the Catholic Church" [Der Spiegel, 23/12/16]. For this embodiment of "diabolical disorientation," evil lies not in facilitating schism but in those who oppose it.

Who could forget his 2016 Christmas address to the Roman Curia! In a fierce public rebuke clearly aimed at the four dubia cardinals, he railed against "evil forms of resistance" to his agenda that make specious reference to traditions and formalities. In response to which one of the dubia signatories, Cardinal Brandmüller, speaking to Der Spiegel, declared: "Whoever thinks that persistent adultery and the reception of Holy Communion are compatible is a heretic and promotes schism."

We always return to this heretical fracturing; redolent of the Divide & Conquer strategem employed by the globalists to whom Francis defers. In this case we find former Church MilitantCommander Cipriani looking on helplessly as his successor, Appeaser-in-Chief Castillo, creates another Bergoglian DMZ (de-militarised zone) amid a Culture War seeking to eradicate every last vestige of Christian faith and life.

On the one hand, urging his Peruvian flock to "celebrate life," Cipriani said: "Here we used to do that with a great march. This was an initiative that came from various groups and families. It’s very easy to cancel and destroy; to construct is difficult. The right to life of the unborn child is in need of a strong public expression."

On the other, asked about Cipriani’s emphasis on the right to life and opposition to the "right" of abortion and sexual and reproductive "rights," Castillo, equivocated. In an interview last February with Peruvian magazine Caretas, he appeared to oppose the obligation of Catholics to fight pro-abortion legislation, stating: "On the juridical level — I haven’t studied the topic much — it does seem to me to be problematical when someone wishes to make laws and the Church seeks to impede it."

What is truly and hellishly "problematical," of course, is the ongoing appointment of papal clones like Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio; prelates who would not confront the status quo with plain Catholic truths to save their lives. For, as he went on in his weaselly Modernist way: "What is necessary to do is to have a clarifying dialogue, not to make a political struggle out of it, because [the value of] life is an educational issue. I believe that people must reflect on it and decide in freedom. ..."

As babies are murdered and souls lost in untold numbers, feeble placemen like Castillo dialogue, reflect, then throw in the towel. But thanks to Francis their faithless blah blah is countered less and less by the likes of Cipriani. A combative shepherd primed for a "political struggle," he reminded his blathering successor that The Church is here to preach the truth of Christ and to offer the means of salvation.” Full stop.

It boils down to this:

CIPRIANI is a CATHOLIC, for whom the perennial "struggle" to enshrine salvific truths in the laws of all nations is a baptismal obligation and duty; as necessary and natural as breathing.

CASTILLO is a MODERNIST, for whom the call to assert the universal rights of Christ the King and His holy Church is unbearable; the triumphal screech of fingernails on a blackboard.

Right there is the historical "split" Francis has made his own: between the Church of Jesus and the Church of Jorge.

Covert levelling

As we have underlined, removing faithful fighters and promoting faithless cowards is an overt strategy. Like the push for the Pope's favoured synodical model 'of church', it is among the major means to formalise the fracture that will realise the cherished aim: viz., to consign the Faith of our Fathers to oblivion, once and for all. That long-term objective — the very raison d'être of Modernism —has been blithely conceded on several occasions by the Pope's friends and collaborators. In 2014, for instance, the Katholische Austria Press Agency reported:

The reform program, which Pope Francis had decreed was a 100 YEAR PROGRAM, said [Cardinal] Kasper,.... according to Kasper, ...; the success of the Pope [...] therefore depends on whether we will be able to bring the awakening spirit to life in future pontificates.

Ergo, the more Castillos embedded in national episcopates, the more likely the "awakening spirit" of this pontificate (i.e., the worldly spirit of Antichrist at ease with the culture of death)
will endure.

There is, however, another less visible but far more fundamental and sinister part of the plan: the 'democratic centralisation' of the monasteries.

While episcopal culling excites righteous outrage, and scandals of every kind hog the headlines, this devilish development — the key to entrenching the Hundred Year Reich of the St. Gallen papacy — proceeds under the radar. Indeed it may seem of little account, since most religious orders and houses have long surrendered to the zeitgeist. Yet like all revolutionaries who set out to level God's Church because it obstructs their Godless Utopias, the Bergoglianistas understand that until cloistered contemplatives are denied even the possibility of retaining their original charism, structure and other-worldly purpose, they remain a threat to their long-term objective: to make "intrinsic evil" (sodomy, contraception, etc.) not just acceptable but good.

Therefore, to realise the 100-year project — to naturalise the Faith irreversibly — these supernatural engine rooms of the Church must be suppressed or secularised.

The devious means to that end is to effect monastic destruction through papal instruments strewn with elastic criteria, double-speak and Big Brother-restructuring worthy of a politburo.

So low-key that even well informed clergy and faithful are oblivious to it, this epic ploy is comprehensively documented in the superb critique which follows. It is required reading; not least because it underlines the urgency of prayers for a Pauline conversion of this Modernist pontiff, or his rapid replacement by a Catholic one.

In effect, the author deciphers Vatican verbiage to reveal Rome's new Orwellian ways and means of destroying not only cloistered contemplatives but any Religious order or house that stands in Catholic contradiction to the Bergoglian revolution.

To concentrate the reader's mind in that regard, as a sort of prequel to her analysis let us briefly recall the merciless razing of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate by Francis the Merciful (with thanks to  Matthew Cullinan Hoffman for this neat summary):

An order of Franciscans that followed a more traditional pattern of community life and that made free use of the traditional Latin Mass in accordance with the rites prevailing in 1962, the friars were within their legal rights to use the traditional form of the Mass in accordance with the papal motu proprio Summorum pontificum. Yet their order came under attack for such practices by head of the Congregation for Religious, Bishop Braz de Aviz, and others who frowned upon them.

Braz de Aviz brought about the removal of the superiors of the FFI from their positions, and even the founder, Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, was sent into house arrest at the age of 81. Five years later, he remains under house arrest. Other superiors were sent to remote houses of the order.

A commissioner was placed over the order, Fr. Fidenzio Volpi, who seemed implacably hostile to the order’s charism and its works in general. Under his leadership, the FFI’s seminary was completely shut down, as was its book publishing service. A majority of the brothers left and were incardinated in other dioceses, and at least 15 cloisters of the order reportedly have closed their doors. The Traditional Latin Mass was only permitted by special permission from the commissioner.

Moreover, the members of the FFI never were given any specific reason for the imposition of the commissioner, except vague hints that they were too “traditional” for the tastes of the Vatican authorities, including, presumably, Pope Francis, who has refused to accept appeals from the order’s members. Within a few years, a thriving and beloved institute of Franciscans had become a shell of its former self.

As Archbishop Cipriani said: "It’s very easy to destroy; to construct is difficult." And so, like Notre Dame, a beautiful work that took the Friars years of devout toil to build was destroyed in a flash. But unlike Notre Dame, there's no need to speculate about Muslim perpetrators since we know the culprit by sight: an elderly Islamophile sporting papal robes and a permanent scowl, about 5' 9" tall, last seen doing the laps of Vatican City in a Fiat Punto, hurling insults out the window at the ‘rosary-counters’ and brandishing weaponised papal docs at ‘rigid Religious’. A danger to himself, the Church and mankind, if you spot him — approach with caution; deliver the Cipriani dictum above; and remind him of the Four Last Things.

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