October 2025
Early Reckoning : 2
Bernardin’s vision suggested... a path for the Church.... I propose that we again embrace [his] proposal — perhaps now more urgently than ever.
- Robert Cardinal Prevost, May 2023
Bernardin's supporters look at all his accomplishments and call them good.
To do so, they have to overlook many things, including his connections to
some of the most evil men ever to enter the priesthood.
- Stephen Brady
We noted in Part 1 that Leo XIV is enamoured of the ruinous encyclicals and exhortations that defined FrancisChurch — i.e., the globalist counter-church of Modernist dreams that Jorge Bergoglio sought to construct on the ruins of the Catholic Church. Along with the heretical Amoris laetitia, Leo has zealously picked up and run with the impious Laudato si.
Green ritual
A whopping 184-pages of rainforest-gobbling carbon footprint-hypocrisy, we observed at the time of its 2015 publication that Laudato si comprised eco-propaganda and Teilhardian gobbledygook masquerading as spirituality: a pagan mishmash by which Modernist ideology made common cause with Green ideology to present religion as ideology ("Recycling the Revolution", Nov. 2015, available at www.christianorder.com).
A gift to fascistic elites restructuring global financial and economic systems on the back of climate scams, this papal 'recyclical' telegraphed the subversive Bergoglian agenda in neon lights. And yet, such is its mesmeric effect on Pope Leo that he has now embedded the alien outlook of Laudato si in the Roman Missal, signing off on a veritable Green Mass on 8 June.
If the Laudato si connection was not sufficiently alarming, the Cardinal who led the press conference announcing the new liturgy was not only a Jesuit (bad enough) but, predictably, the head of a Marxist-sounding congregation that shouldn't and wouldn't exist in a truly Catholic Vatican: namely, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (Jacques Maritain and Saul Alinsky anyone?). Just as telling, the Archbishop who was seated beside him is renowned for his fierce opposition to the TLM.
Since the signs and portents were all negative it was hardly surprising that bad vibes from the bad spirit of Laudato filled the gardens of Castel Gandolfo on 9 July. There, Leo celebrated the first votive "Mass for the Care of Creation," homilising apocalyptic nonsense about "a world that is burning … from global warming...".
The deafening noise that erupted worldwide the moment Leo mouthed that globalist mantra was the predatory sound of Mark Carney, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, the WEF et. al. smacking their rapacious lips at the arrival of another climate warrior-pontiff: a fresh papal cash cow.
Clearly, the Holy Father needs an urgent briefing on climate reality. Among endless similar expert testimonies, a petition co-signed by more than 31,000 American scientists and engineers (9,000+ holding doctorates) should be drawn to his attention for starters. It sensibly states that CO2 ("carbon") is "harmless" and "beneficial" to the biosphere; that there is no downside to more CO2; that it's still just a very tiny trace gas, as essential to all life on earth as H2O. The petitioners also declare as one that:
there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of... carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.[1]
On the other hand, as duly noted by LifeSiteNews:
"In previous climate related messages, Leo has struck a different tone to Francis, urging a Catholic style of ordered care for creation while shying away from Francis’ often hyperbolic phraseology regarding alleged climate change."
This "different tone" was indeed evident in the message from the Pope delivered to the bishops of the Amazon region gathered in Bogotá from 17-20 August.
Through a telegram signed by Cardinal Parolin, Leo XIV reminded the bishops that "The mission of the Church in the Amazon is not to create new cults, but to bring everything to fulfillment in Christ, in whom all things are recapitulated."
Zenit newsagency viewed the message as "a sober warning about the dangers of confusing Christian stewardship of creation with an ideology that risks turning the natural world into an object of worship." Leo drew a clear line, insisted Zenit: the Church supports ecological responsibility but rejects any form of "eco-spirituality" that risks overshadowing Christ.
So, on the one hand, this clean break with his predecessor's Pachamama idolatry provides vital clarification. On the other, his Green Mass foments needless confusion.
Under the heading, "Vatican announces new formula for the care of creation," Nick Donnelly, England's well known permanent deacon, posted the exasperation of many:
After the Pachamama idolatry scandal, this shouldn't have been touched with a barge pole.
Political ideology should have no place in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
How about instead:
A votive Mass in reparation for promoting an abortion-tainted gene therapy that is killing thousands.
Or:
A votive Mass in reparation for the hundreds of thousands of children and young adults sexually abused by predatory priests and covered up by bishops.
Or:
A votive Mass in reparation for recent heresies that have misled and confused the Faithful, leaving some to in danger of Hell.
On the other side of the pond, American Anthony Stine commented on his Return to Tradition podcast:
With the announcement of the Laudato si votive Mass, we can see how this thinking of focussing on care for our common home, that is weirdly missing the Gospel messages, has infected the Church in its thinking. The Gospel's about salvation of souls, the Four Last Things, getting to Heaven. And for whatever reason, authorities in the Church have replaced it with a vision of making a better world. It's a profound mistake that has very real consequences for all too many people.
It's an elevation of worldly concerns that are often tied to the corporal works of mercy. The Church should absolutely focus on the corporal works of mercy. But traditionally the focus on the corporal works of mercy was to ensure that material deprivation, or the evil deeds of rulers, didn't prevent people from getting to Heaven — they didn't serve as a stumbling block to their salvation. That was the main thing. Jesus told us to help the poor, How we deal with the poor is how we deal with Him, essentially. But He also told us, you will always have the poor with you. [...]
The point is, yes, help the poor, but don't lose sight of right worship. Don't lose sight of Christ, in all of this. And our relationship with Christ has to be right-ordered. And they've supplanted a lot of this with creating a better world for purely material purposes. [My transcription. Original emphases]
Green sacrilege: the Laudato si effect
The point is perfectly illustrated by a 29 June CatholicConclave (CathCon) article. Titled, "Nature allowed to invade Catholic Church in symbol of ecological Modernism destroying the Faith," it reports the transplantation of an actual forest into a historic church in Gdansk. Variously referred to as an "art installation" and a "unique product" centred on, you guessed, "sustainability" (the stamp of all things eco and scammy), this pagan brain explosion even has a New Age name: "LeŚnia". Its Polish marketers coo seductively about its "space",
where you can breathe deeply, listen to the sounds of nature, and immerse yourself in a forest-like atmosphere.
Tailored for spontaneity, LeŚnia is also "enriched with performative and musical elements ... not announced in advance [in order to give] the experience a fleeting personal feel."
All marvellous ... as long as you're popping in to visit Gaia, not Jesus!
Similar accounts of sacrilege inspired/rationalised by Laduato si abound. Indeed the pagan "art" exhibit that desecrated the former cathedral of Leo's new Australian appointee Archbishop Mackinlay, mentioned in Part 1, is a prime example. And now that Leo has picked up the Green baton we should expect more of the same. Along with loads more sky-is-falling eco-scaremongering by the pseudo-Catholic press.
Francis lives!
"What role will Pope Leo XIV play in the future of Laudato si ecological action?" the űber-Modernist National Catholic Reporter recently headlined atop a report glorifying Francis and his recyclical. "In his still-early papacy, Leo has referenced Laudato si on several occasions," they gloated, quoting the Holy Father marking the tenth anniversary of its release thus:
[Laudato si] has had an extraordinary impact, inspiring countless initiatives and teaching everyone to listen to the twofold cry of the Earth and the poor.
They also cite a Rio de Janeiro ecological gathering of 200 Catholic universities and organisations across three continents, at which Leo urged participants:
to be builders of bridges of integration between the Americas and the Iberian Peninsular, working for ecological, social and environmental justice.
What to say before such depressingly familiar papal appeals except ... Francis lives!
For as long as Leo animates his predecessor in this fashion, giving fresh voice to the accursed social gospel we had hoped was buried with Jorge in St. Mary Major's, we should expect episcopates to scale even greater heights of eco-mania.
Typically, a recent press release from the Austrian Bishops' Conference pushed the urgency of "ecological conversion" even as they sidelined the Creator Himself!
Containing one mention of God and zero mention of Jesus, the press release did, however, get one thing right: the subjective foundation of the recyclical from which they take their cue. The "spiritual source" of Laudato si, they enthused, "is the emotion of the beauty of creation, which gives hope and urges action." Voilà! The emoting hierarchy of the teaching Church.
Anthony Stine stressed once more the recurring core problem:
"It's all materialistic, it's all about making a 'better world'. What it isn't about is the Gospel, the salvation of souls, picking up your cross and following Christ: wrestling with those sins that dominate your life, that send you to confession on a regular basis, or even the need to go to confession. None of that was mentioned [in the Austrian Bishops' press release].
He concluded decisively:
How do you square Laudato si with anything Christ said in His ministry? Anything in the Scriptures? I've tried. I've read Laudato si numerous times. I couldn't do it.
Leo, on the other hand, has squared that circle. A colossal worry in itself, this red flag is rendered larger and redder still by the Holy Father's unnerving embrace of the subversive legacy of one Joseph Cardinal Bernadin (1928-1996).
The Bernadin Reboot
In May 2023, Cardinal Robert Prevost accepted an Honorary Doctorate from the Santo Toribio Catholic University of Mogrovejo (northern Peru). During the conferral ceremony he showered both Cardinal Bernadin and his homo-facilitating successor, the exceedingly creepy Blase Cupich, with praise and appreciation.
Before explaining the reality of Bernadin and his tie-in with Laudato, let us first consider Leo's deluded perception of his late hero and the "new way of thinking" he bequeathed to the Church, articulated as Cardinal Prevost in his university address (my bold highlights):
Allow me to share reflections drawn from the discourses and insights of three cardinals—all from Chicago: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who was Archbishop of Chicago in the 1990s; Cardinal Blase Cupich, who is currently the Archbishop; and myself, as you know, born in Chicago....
Forty years ago, in the month of December, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, delivered a speech at Fordham University in New York. This speech was truly historic for the Church, at least in the United States. It established a very significant direction in his ministry, presenting a new way of thinking about how the Church might respond to ethical challenges and problems that arose both at that time and continue to arise today.
These reflections particularly concern issues related to the value of human life. Last week, Cardinal Blase Cupich delivered another address at Fordham University in New York, marking the 40th anniversary of Cardinal Bernardin’s original speech. Cardinal Bernardin, deeply concerned about how abortion and other social justice issues had come to divide certain sectors within the Church, offered an important response rooted firmly in Church doctrine. From this teaching, he proposed looking outward, towards society, within a framework he called a “consistent ethic of life.” Cardinal Bernardin continued developing this idea up until his death.
Bernardin’s vision suggested understanding the Church’s moral teachings as responding holistically to the many challenges affecting human life, as if they were threads woven into a single garment. This perspective outlines a path for the Church, one which remains relevant today. For instance, a Catholic cannot truly claim to be “pro-life” by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favour of the death penalty. Such a position would lack coherence with Catholic social teaching. Our thinking and teaching must manifest coherence, consistently defending the value of human life from its beginning to its natural end.
[...] In a certain sense, I propose that we again embrace Cardinal Bernardin’s proposal—perhaps now more urgently than ever. Building upon Bernardin’s foundation, Cardinal Cupich has recently suggested reclaiming and further developing the concept of the consistent ethic of life, expanding it into what he calls a new, integral ethic of solidarity. By embracing this proposal, the Church can offer a precious gift to the People of God and indeed to all who seek the common good. If the Church takes seriously Pope Francis’s call to embody a synodal Church, we must instill an integral ethic of solidarity into every dimension of our lives.
.... In Cardinal Bernardin’s words, across the spectrum of life—from genetic research, abortion, capital punishment, modern warfare, to the care of the terminally ill—these diverse issues are fundamentally rooted in one essential Catholic principle: the loss of even a single human life is a profoundly significant event.
Seen in this context, abortion, war, poverty, euthanasia, and capital punishment share a common identity: each one is rooted in a denial of the right to life. We could add other contemporary issues to this list, such as the implications of artificial intelligence, human trafficking, and the rights of immigrants, among many others.
[...]
... Cardinal Bernardin emphasised clearly that each issue has its distinct moral character. Any effort to conflate these issues, without properly understanding their relative moral importance, would diverge from Catholic teaching. In other words, the Cardinal did not claim that all life issues were morally equivalent. Rather, he stressed the unique character of each challenge or dilemma—each requiring its own criteria for analysis—while simultaneously underscoring the interconnectedness of all threats to human dignity.
One of our greatest challenges today, particularly within this Catholic university and indeed across all Catholic universities, is to discover the best way to teach and promote precisely this kind of thinking. We must strive to unify efforts within the Church, in politics, and across all sectors of society, working harmoniously to build a society in which the value of every human life is respected and protected.
Catholic universities carry an immense responsibility to deepen this reflection and, following the spirit of synodality,....
Diabolic 'garment'
This, dear reader, is how our new pontiff squares the perfect circle of Catholic teaching and tradition with the worldly kowtowing and pagan spirit of his predecessor's Green recyclical.
For, Laudato si is nothing less than Cardinal Bernadin's "seamless garment" writ large!
Far from a fine-sounding ethical "vision" of "understanding the Church's moral teachings [as] threads woven into a single garment," as perceived by Leo, Bernadin's vaunted "consistent ethic of life" was a fuzzy pseudo-ethic contrived to facilitate a level playing field, as it were.
The ongoing global genocide of unborn children was placed on the "social justice"/"human rights" spectrum alongside poverty, war, migration and a potpourri of 'life issues'; the abortion holocaust thus subsumed in a catch-all eco-ethic of life (the sort of 'ethic' by which life is commodified and economics determines who is and who is not "sustainable").
Thus, emboldened and empowered by the levelling concept of a "seamless garment" woven from a "consistent ethic of life" (as if rescuing the unborn from certain death was on a level with housing the poor), Catholic politicians, bureaucrats and Non-Governmental Organisations largely abandoned the unborn, letting the population-controllers off the hook.
Instead, gaily setting aside Pro-Life Priority #1 — clearly signalled by the AI-estimated 2.5-3.5 billion babies aborted since legalisation less than 60 years ago (vis-à-vis 1-1.5 billion war deaths throughout human history; including combatants, civilian casualties, famine etc.) — they latched their social justice hobby horses to Bernadin's corrosive pseudo-ethic. That is, to his "new way of thinking about ethical challenges," as the gushing Prevost put it, directing Catholic resources and money towards the priorities of 'better world'-socialism.
This includes their centrepiece obsession: ending the death penalty — a Masonic objective that echoes earlier successful Lodge campaigns to mainstream contraception, abortion and cremation.
Thus, Cardinal Prevost's Bernadin-like insistence that "a Catholic cannot truly claim to be 'pro-life' by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favour of the death penalty," is a statement not only false and absurd, but one so at odds with Catholic Tradition that it might have been mouthed by a Master Mason.
On 5 March 2015 he had tweeted the same sentiment:
"It's time to end the death penalty" - Robert Prevost @drprevost.
Had the "seamless garment" not disoriented his Catholic mind he would have said more prudently and accurately: 'It's time to reform and restructure corrupt and cruel criminal justice systems, including sentencing, prison conditions, and how the death penalty is applied.' This seeks justice for all without caving in to Modernist subversion of Catholic doctrine by throwing out the principle of the death penalty. In 2004 then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stated unambiguously that:
"There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about... applying the death penalty." — Catholic World Report ("Why the Church cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment," 7/6/17)
The Bernadin trap
During the Bergoglian era, Catholic ethics Professor Joseph Bessette further clarified the danger of well-meaning anti-death penalty Catholics inadvertently falling into Bernadin's trap:
Sadly and ironically, many pro-life Catholics are defending this teaching by irrationally saying it doesn't contradict irreformable dogma or that it is prudential or it is ambiguous, not realising that they are defending the seamless garment, more abortions and practical atheism.
Francis's Secretary of State Pietro Parolin has let the cat out of the bag by profusely praising the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin signalling more upcoming support of his centerpiece teaching: the seamless garment.
The seamless garment teaches that there is moral equivalence between prudential social issues "where there can be legitimate diversity of opinion" as Ratzinger taught, and abortion which is a grave sin where there can't be diversity of opinion.
One example of this seamless garment teaching would be teaching that the murder of the unborn babies and the push for unrestricted illegal mass immigration which Francis taught in his Dignitas Infinita are morally equivalent.
It is probable that Francis knows the vast majority of the new immigrants vote for the abortion party, the Democrats which leads to more legalised abortion.
Another example of the seamless garment would be to make murder of the unborn babies equivalent to not voting for the death penalty heresy of making capital punishment inadmissible or not allowed.
Disgusted by this devilish turn of events, commentator Liz Yore unloaded both barrels in a righteous rebuke:
As a lifetime Chicago cradle Catholic and clergy sex abuse investigator and child advocate attorney, the address by Cardinal Prevost in May of 2023 at the Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, portends alarming theological and ecclesiastic tribulation for the Catholic Church as the newly elected Pope Leo XIV guides the Catholic Church—I mean the “New Synodal Church.”
Frankly, it’s shocking and inconceivable that a newly elected pontiff would cite as his guiding light the theology of Joseph Bernardin, a known sexual predator and radical collaborator of Marxist and community activist, Saul Alinsky.
Here are a few books for Pope Leo XIV to read in the first months of his pontificate:
1) Malachi Martin’s Windswept House- Special attention should be given to the grotesque and demonic first chapter where a priest assists in the Satanic Enthronement of the Fallen Angel Lucifer Ceremony. That person in the satanic ritual is known as Cardinal Leonardine aka Joseph Bernardin. Malachi Martin described the scene as pure fact, only the names were changed.
2) The Rite of Sodomy-Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church authored by Randy Engel. In gruelling and authoritative detail, Ms Engel lays out the radical progressive agenda of the Catholic clerical homosexuals which not only shaped the “AmChurch” [Church in America] and destroyed the lives of thousands of innocent boys. To learn about your mentor, Joseph Bernardin begin on page 562 where he is described as “a flaming homosexual.”
In 1986, Bernardin paid to send Barack Obama to California to attend an Alinsky community-organising Marxist-training seminar. The radical alignment of the Chicago Catholic Archdiocese under Bernardin and the Alinsky Marxists undermined the American Catholic Church and gave birth to the moral relativism of Bernardin’s seamless garment religion, which is referenced in Prevost’s speech.
.... It is long overdue that American Catholics wake up about the real Joseph Bernardin, not the slick media puff pieces that defined his time in Chicago as Cardinal Archbishop. Pope Leo XIV better brush up on the Chicago Way of catholicism which ruined the American Catholic Church.
Via media papacy?
Sadly, rather than taking urgent heed of such dutiful alerts and warnings we may safely assume that Pope Leo, based on his recent comments, will take yet another leaf out of Jorge's political playbook; projecting his own divisiveness onto his 'divisive' critics instead.
"As a community of believers," he lamented not long before his election, "we frequently find ourselves deeply troubled by divisions. .... For example, within the Church, there are people who harshly criticise the Holy Father or certain bishops, rejecting their teachings, actively fostering division. Merely glancing at blogs or interviews published over the last few months, particularly before and during the concluding month of the Synod on Synodality, one encounters numerous examples of misinformation, distortions, conspiracy theories, and erroneous interpretations about many beautiful experiences we shared during the Synod."
Thus we find a pope "deeply troubled by divisions" yet blind to the prime engine of ecclesial strife-and-division: namely, the synodality he promotes.
Portending Anglican-style splintering-unto-extinction, it was surely this protestant 'process' that informed his predecessor's famous boast that he might very well "enter history as the one who split the Catholic Church." Since "division," abhorred by Leo, does not get more wicked or epochal than that, his regular calls for "peace" and "unity" not only through the Eucharist but also via this same fracturing process, is profoundly perverse.
As for his perception of "misinformation, distortions, conspiracy theories, and erroneous interpretations about many beautiful experiences we shared during the Synod"! This is to smear dutiful critics seeking to foster the very peace and unity he promotes: by opposing all that would divide and harm our holy Faith; to include synodal suicide.
These Francis-like self-contradictions, delusions, and projections hardly inspire confidence in Leo's understanding of the anarchic state of play.
Added to his flow of troubling episcopal appointments, his synodal-fuelled devotion to Jorge Bergoglio and Joseph Bernadin — the former arguably the most evil of the (mercifully few) 'bad popes' who have occupied the papal throne; the latter one of the most wicked episcopal wolves ever to have donned sheep's clothing — betrays an OTOH-OTOH via media papacy trying to be all things to all men; instead of standing shoulder to shoulder, firm and unflinching with faithful Catholics righteously opposed to Modernist wreckers.
Becoming Basil
Local readers appreciate more than most the terminal compromise set in train by this synodal "middle way." For, it is the quintessence of the Anglican disease of relentless doctrinal, moral and liturgical decay with which they are all too familiar.
Over several centuries this steadfast Anglican refusal to take a stand for Absolute Truth showed up their "broad church"/"branch-theory" appeals as the delusional templates they always were: befitting a national church constructed on lechery, betrayal and mass murder. "Neither cold, nor hot" but synodically "lukewarm," the Lord condemned this Anglican mindset as vomitous [Apoc. 3:16]. Ultimately, it emaciated their entire ecclesial body, leaving naught but a "rotting corpse" (as Fr Crane described the Church of England).
Along the way, however, it infected members of the Body of Christ, the Holy Catholic Church, including the greater part of our local hierarchy, eagerly led by Archbishop Worlock and Cardinal Hume.
The latter, like Leo, was beguiled by the spirit of Bernadin.
True, his funeral was not disgraced by the Masonic "guard of honour" that flanked the coffin of Cardinal Bernadin. And despite being a celebrated member the Worshipful Company of Skinners, a charitable group and one of London's "great City Livery Companies that today are dominated by Freemasonry" [The Keys of Peter, Sept/Oct 1986], he eluded the "Masonic Order of Galileo Galilei Award" which Bernadin accepted and posthumously received from the Lodge for building "bridges of understanding and tolerance."
He also avoided descent to quite the same hellish depths to which Cardinal Bernadin lowered himself, his Chicago archdiocese and much of the American Church.
Nonetheless, in keeping with his telling fondness for other perverted individuals and groups (such as the degenerate Archbishop Rembert Weakland and the British homosexual lobby in general - CO passim), Basil Hume remained a great friend and admirer of Joseph Bernadin, whose faustian Common Ground Project (1996) he promoted to his last breath.
Like his 1984 Seamless Garment contrivance, Bernadin's later Project also encapsulated the Masonic pseudo-tolerance that informed Hume's wretched "middle-way." Indeed, one easily discerns in Leo's current synodal trajectory and his associated complaints about papal critics, disturbing similarities with the alien spirit, outlook and approach of Basil Hume, so often documented in these pages.
Consider, for instance, this extract from my analytical essay of his infamous rebuke of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered together in London's Westminster Hall for the May 1996 Faith of Our Fathers Conference:
If the assembled multitude felt an inexplicable yet tangible transformation in proceedings between 2.30-3.00pm, it was that an orthodox Catholic "celebration"-cum-"campaign" momentarily became a Low-Church Anglican gathering addressed by an Anglican prelate masquerading as a Catholic bishop. It suddenly descended, in other words, to the sort of classic posturing in which an Anglican Primate might indulge before one of the multiple factions at an Anglican Synod. And just as there are never real crises in the Anglican world — merely bickering about where next to move the goal posts to accommodate yet another game-plan — so too in the brave new church of Basil Hume there is never a Catholic crisis. Hence his continuing best efforts to dismiss burgeoning talk of crises, maladies and wars at every opportunity.
During an interview on Radio 4, for example, in which the Catholic "civil war" was broached, he replied on cue: "I don't think there is one and if there is one then I like to think of myself as the General of both sides." The Archbishop of Canterbury could not have straddled a fence with more ridiculous aplomb.
The throng of believers before him in the Westminster Hall were not, therefore, champions of truth to be commended for launching a counter-attack against error and the proponents of error who have reduced the Catholic faith in England to doctrinal, moral and liturgical penury. They were simply one faction of opinionated believers among many — part of a new, all-embracing, anglo-Catholic synodal system whose family "discussions" he intends to oversight with as little unpleasantness as possible, treading that seductive but calamitous via media — "middle way" — of Anglican legend, while contributing to world Christianity through a graceful handling of profound disagreements.
[...] If, then, the Cardinal embodied in his performance the very crisis he so vehemently denies, it was not only due to [his] innate weakness.... It is because that weakness is compounded by a subconsciously acquired, essentially equivocal Anglican spirit instinctively hostile to resolute, convinced, orthodox Catholicism.
In the Catholic world, to sit astride the fence — to prefer General Populist to the Grand Old Duke of York — is not a declaration of fair-minded neutrality as the Anglicans suppose. On the contrary, it is ipso facto to choose sides; to oppose the spirit of Christ; to declare oneself a liberal, if only a tawdry, ambivalent one. For, as Pope St. Pius X forcefully declared, there is no middle ground between Modernist error and Catholic truth.
That essay, which ran in the June-July 1996 edition yet might have been penned yesterday, was entitled: "Via Media in a Red Hat: Anglicanism by Osmosis." Since Leo XIV is cheerily treading his synodal path across this same saltless No Man's Land once cravenly occupied by Basil Hume, we should beware of via media in a white hat. No-one, not even the Vicar of Christ up to an infallible point, is immune to the tantalising "wide gate" and "broad way" of Anglican "destruction" [Matt. 7:13].
The synodal transition to this destructive spirit (that is, to the Anglican clown show of 'private opinion dressed up,' which Basil made his own - CO passim) is manifested in the slow, subjective corrosion of Objective Truth and Hierarchy. Over centuries it ground the Church of England to dust. Today, it has compromised Catholic authority and worn away the flat surfaces and hard edges of the one true Faith; 'egalitarian' erosion embodied in the farcical tick-box Catholicism we witnessed at the Synod on Synodality.
There, in the Paul VI Audience Hall, myriad circles of ecclesial comrades lay and clerical, high and low, huddled around small tables smothered in papers and laptops, feigning democratic intent like all the FrancisChurch synods held to rubber stamp pre-determined agendas into Five-Year Plans (see "Applying Democratic Centralism to the Catholic Church," CO, April 2016).
The point here is the entrenchment of this comical communistic process and its dire ramifications.
For, a deceptive via media papacy (as opposed to a flagrantly heretical one) by which Leo becomes not so much Francis 2.0 as Basil 2.0 — channelling Bernadin, posing as the "General of both sides" (OTOH-OTOH) while mediating a middle ground between Modernist error and Catholic truth — is an apocalyptic scenario for the Church, the papacy, and the salvation of souls. Not so much a Synodal Way as an Expressway from the Apostolic Palace to Lambeth Palace. Basil Hume and his successors sped to Lambeth long ago. Unless Leo hits the brakes and executes a massive U-turn, the papacy, synodally reframed to globalist acclaim as primus inter pares ("first among equals"), will also arrive there very soon.
Lavender Elephant
All the while, as the Pope simultaneously fades into the Anglicanised former Archbishop of Westminster, promotes the wicked agenda of his papal predecessor, and rebrands as "renewal" the dark legacy of the former Archbishop of Chicago, the Lavender Mafia continues to cast its ghastly pall over Holy Mother Church. Ever the Elephant In The Room, it is of course the tell-all link between the four: Leo, Jorge, Basil, and Bernadin.
We know that the latter was a psychopathic sodomite (see ensuing article). That Jorge was a homosexual (albeit a closeted one unlike the shameless papal sodomites of yore) was a widely held view for myriad good reasons all pointing to that gruesome reality (see Gomulka herein). We also know that Cardinal Hume favoured the militant homosexual lobby to such a suspicious extent that he was feted as "Godfather to the Gays" (see CO, Feb 1999; also available at www.christianorder.com, "Features/1990s").
As for Leo, we hear ominous rumblings but do not know as yet where he sits on the clerical hetero-homo spectrum. Warning signs are piling up, however. At a great rate.
Signal failures to confront leading homosexual prelates and clerics, turning a blind eye to their scandalous words and activities when not actually appointing/elevating them, does nothing to quell suspicions about his own sexual leanings and shore up confidence in his pontificate. Persistent allegations that he covered-up reports of sexual abuse in Peru, or at very least dealt with the victims' allegations unsatisfactorily (charges he denies), compound the concerns.
As stated in the June/July issue, only time will tell if all this smoke reveals actual fire. In the meantime, a veteran investigator of clerical sex abuse, Msgr Gene Gomulka, draws upon his vast experience to help us distinguish the different levels of perversion at play within the priesthood. As part of this enlightening process he points out the veritable 'abuse factory' that doubled as the highschool seminary attended by one Robert Prevost. This is not idle, titillating speculation. Considering the degenerate state of Holy Mother Church and what is at stake for the world and souls, it is a necessary and reasonable attempt to make sense of the Holy Father's active and passive facilitation of Sons of Sodom.
Alone, Cardinal Robert Prevost's public embrace of Cardinal Bernadin's line of thought (bad enough) without any attempt to distance himself from the depraved mind behind it, is an almighty RED FLAG; one that speaks to the different shades of corrupted hearts and minds explained by Gomulka.
The fact that this huge ensign has been largely ignored and left to flap wildly in the distant background more than justifies our return to Bernadin's history in this edition. Only by revisiting his infernal life can we comprehend the ENORMITY of tethering the papacy to his insidious intellectual agenda.
Moreover, newer and younger subscribers might be totally unfamiliar with the sprawling web of perversion, power and control that he established — extreme filth and evil that also leaves one pondering a fearful fact. Namely, had this creature from the pit of Hell survived to enjoy the last papacy, he would've found papal sanctuary and succour within the confines of Casa Santa Marta.
Meanwhile, among other workaday warning signs the Holy Father recently saw fit to bolster the profile of Jesuit homo activist James Martin, by way of a 30 minute private audience. A high-profile scandalmonger, Martin has blasphemously compared the relationship of a sodomitic pair with adopted children to that of the Holy Trinity. Enough said. As for his ensuing celebratory post, it is hard to say which is more insufferable: his smug tweet, or his smackable face.
Another shocker involves the Vatican’s Jubilee celebrations. LGBTQ activist groups are welcomed to the celebrations and praised while the 8,000-strong SSPX pilgrimage was first listed among the participants, then deleted. Naturally, Modernist prelates called the homo march an "irreversible sign" of inclusion that affirmed "Rainbow Catholics." The ever vigilant Bishop Schneider, however, called on Pope Leo to "repair this act of abomination that has sullied the holiness of the Jubilee Year."
In the same homo-erotic vein, GloriaTV reports that on 6 September Pope Leo XIV appointed Cristiana Perrella as president of the ancient Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts; an ancient institution tasked with the promotion and preservation of the Catholic tradition in the visual arts, architecture, and literature. Perrella’s curatorial record shows a history of engaging with themes of nudity, homoerotica, and nightclub culture.
In February 2025, she was appointed curator of the Vatican's Conciliazione 5 programme for the Jubilee Year. According to an Artuu.it report, Perrella was invited based on her pre-existing relationship with the Dicastery for Culture and Education, which is headed by the pro-homosexual Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça.
In 2019, under Cristiana Perrella’s directorship, the Centro Pecci in Prato hosted the exhibition 'Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960–Today'. The exhibition promoted nightclub culture and featured many disturbing exposés. In an interview with Sleek-Mag.com, Perrella expressed regret that nightclubs are 'increasingly under threat'. She acknowledged the important role of nightclubs in "queer culture," stating that "these were places where people could be themselves and publicly affirm their identity".
In 2020, Perrella curated an exhibition of photographs by the Chinese artist Ren Hang. The exhibition included 90 works, many of which displayed sexual organs and featured homosexual poses. As a measure of the depravity Leo has sanctioned by way of his Perrella appointment: one photograph showed a naked man urinating on a kneeling man with a plastic bag over his head; all of the bodies on display, whether male or female, were slender, pale and androgynous; and the exhibition's description acknowledges that the photographs "refer to sadomasochism and fetishism."
Perrella described the acts depicted on CentroPecci.it as poetic, elegant and melancholic.
A year later, Perrella curated exhibition entitled: "Marialba Russo. Cult Fiction." This exhibition showcased over 60 large-format photographs from Marialba Russo’s series documenting the porn cinema posters that once covered the streets of Naples and Aversa during Italy's red-light theatre boom of the late 1970s. The exhibition focused on "sexual liberation".
Rule by filthy wolves
Elsewhere, it's business as usual for lavender mob bosses. They continue on their unaccountable way with impunity.
Cardinal McElroy of Washington, D.C., and his predecessor Cardinal Gregory (a Bernadin creation), to name just two, are currently seeking to laicise Father Michael Briese, a whistleblower archdiocesan priest, for refusing to take down blog posts detailing allegations that two priests who remain in good standing with the archdiocese had sexually abused seminarians as well as allegations of a cover-up of the allegations by both McElroy and Gregory.
Fr Briese recently told LifeSiteNews (3/9/25) that McElroy did not once refute any of the allegations of abuse by the priests or the cover-up by him, Gregory, and the archdiocese. "[McElroy is] trying to throw everything on me as disobedience. But he never says that I falsely accused (my) archbishop, he doesn’t say it’s a lie. He’s just not holding himself accountable." He added:
"I’ve been obedient for seven years. I have followed the orders by Gregory (and McElroy), but I’m not going to pretend that the homosexual promiscuity in our priesthood today is acceptable."
Fr. Briese also discussed how, during his years-long correspondence with Cardinal Gregory about the allegations, he asked the then-Washington archbishop in a letter if perhaps he was covering for these abusive homosexual priests because he himself was a homosexual. "I asked Gregory a simple yes or no question: Have you ever freely, willingly, knowingly, and deliberately laid down with another consenting homosexual man?" Briese never received a response from the archbishop and later posed the same question to his successor, but again didn’t receive a response.
"While rumours of Gregory’s and McElroy’s supposed homosexuality over the years have never been confirmed," noted LifeSite, "both prelates are notorious for their pro-LGBT heterodoxy."
Briese has sent a copy of his letter to Cardinal Gregory to Pope Leo through U.S. Apostolic Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre, allowing the Vatican to decide whether the allegations were unfounded and if the attempted laicisation was justified. He stressed to LifeSiteNews that he is not optimistic the Vatican will ultimately side with him, but felt it was important that they have a record of his accusations.
What an indictment of Leo's fledgling pontificate: that such priests still find no papal succour in their battles against filthy Sons of Bernadin like Gregory and McElroy. And let us bear in mind that the latter's recent elevation to the Washington see — Sodom Central — was signed off by Leo himself.
Turning to his fellow priests, Briese stressed that they need to have the courage to speak out against bishops whom they know are concealing abuse. "All of us as ordained men need to step back and ask ourselves the same question: Why did I become a Catholic priest? To build up the kingdom of God or to hide behind its walls and carry myself in such ways that are both illegal and immoral?" he asked, adding:
“If your cardinal or bishop is writing to you, threatening to remove you, put his letter to you up on Substack. Don’t sit there quietly, taking your undeserved beating from your bishop and being unjustly removed from priesthood or punched in some way because the public deserves the truth.”
Miraculous transformation
If the laity deserve the truth, Jesus certainly deserves greater fidelity from His current earthly Vicar! On a number of fronts but especially apropos sodomites and their ongoing emasculation of the priesthood; a crisis that is not tackled but fuelled by inviting clerical posterboys for the 'gay' agenda to the Apostolic Palace.
After three generations of homo impunity we are fed up to gills with papal complicity.
All the post-conciliar popes have contributed to this poisonous status quo to a greater or lesser extent.
Our early reckoning reveals that Leo, for reasons which are yet to crystallise, is stuck in the same toxic groove.
Let us pray that Our Lady of the Holy Rosary will awaken her papal son to the impossibility of building synodal bridges between irreconcilable opposites — above all between Catholic purity and Modernist filth — and that she might effect in him a transformative miracle of Catholic understanding and militant resolve, for all our sakes.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The lies, exaggerations, endemic hypocrisy, and corruption that define the Green hoax and rope in the gullible, to include popes, prelates and priests, are set forth in numerous CO articles. Cf.: "Recycling the Revolution" (Nov. 2015); "Inconvenient Truths" (Oct. 2006); "Environmental Evolution: From Darwin to 'Gaia' and Beyond Genocide" (Oct. 2006); "Climate, Carbon & Commonsense" (Aug-Sept 2017); "Eco-Apocalypse Ad Nauseam: A Litany of False Predictions" (Aug-Sept 2019). See also "Data vs Dogma" (Aug-Sept 2017), and "Climate Consensus?" (Oct. 2019).