Leading Others To Hell By Example

 I had another topic ready for this week's post, which I needed to put off so I can give my impression of the Unholy Father's visit to the U.S. Rather than spell out all of what was wrong, I will just let Jorge Bergoglio ("Pope" Francis) do the talking, or rather, show us by his example, that for which he stands.

What Francis Did

• He met the leading Socialist, sodomite-supporter, and baby-killer of the United States, Barak Obama. He then spoke before the U.S. Congress. Frankie's concerns? Immigration and the environment. Here he exalts the Corporal Works of Mercy over the Spiritual Works of Mercy. Humanity's final end is supernatural not natural. "Salus Animarum Est Suprema Lex" (The Salvation of Souls is the Supreme Law) proclaims the Canon Law of the Church.  He did not mention that all must convert to the Catholic Faith to be saved (a thrice defined dogma), nor did he implore all to follow Christ. "He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned." (See St. Mark 16:16). 

• In his address to Congress, he said the following: "“Every life is sacred,” calling for the “global abolition of the death penalty” and the “responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development.” Frankie's apologists will consider this "condemnation of abortion." A few things to remember: The perennial teaching of the Catholic Church is that capital punishment is moral. The State may remove a dangerous person from "the body politic." Abortion and euthanasia are intrinsic evils that may never be permitted. His remark about capital punishment was direct; his reference to abortion and euthanasia were veiled. 

• He did not remind the other so-called "Catholics" who were there (most notably VP Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi) that support of abortion is ipso facto excommunication. He did not tell all politicians who claim to be Catholic that he would order the "bishops" and "priests" of his sect to deny them "communion." 

• He met with NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's concubine, Sandra Lee, to give her a blessing as she is fighting breast cancer. Once more, Francis extols the earthly over the eternal. While I hope Ms. Lee makes a full and complete recovery, I hope she separates from Cuomo and repents of her adultery. Her soul  is at stake. Frankie never told her (as Christ told the adulterer after He saved her from being stoned, "Go, and sin no more." St. John 8:11). Cuomo is a "Catholic" who is divorced without a Vatican II sect "annulment" so that, even by their standards, he is still married to his first wife. He single-handedly  pushed sodomite "marriage" through the NYS Legislature in 2011.

• He allowed an open and practicing sodomite TV personality, Maurice Rocca, to be "lector" at the Novus Bogus "mass" he held in NY. He never denounced the Supreme Court for legalizing sodomite "marriage."

Who Francis Admires And Holds Up For Emulation

• Before Congress, Frankie said, "A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did; when it fosters a culture which enables people to ‘dream’ of full rights for all their brothers and sisters as Martin Luther King sought to do; when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed as Dorothy Day did by her tireless work; the fruit of a faith which becomes dialogue and sows peace in the contemplative style of Thomas Merton" 

• Lincoln and King were not Catholics; he couldn't find examples of virtue in Catholics? King, although he stood against racism, was also a Communist sympathizer and womanizer. He was the cleric of a false religion. Compare: In April 1910, former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt sought an audience with Pope St. Pius X. The Pope agreed to see him, provided Roosevelt would not call on some Methodist missionaries in Rome. The Holy Pontiff did not want to meet with anyone who would honor clerics of a false religion trying to lead souls to Hell. Roosevelt declined to submit to St. Pius X's conditions and the interview did not take place. Francis holds up King, also a false cleric, to be honored. 

• Dorothy Day was the subject of a scathing expose, The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-1980): A Critical Analysis  by Carol Byrne. Ms. Byrne had the following to say, "...based on archival sources not previously available to the public, show that Dorothy Day, after her conversion to Catholicism, did in fact become a member of several Socialist organizations and was actively involved in political groups whose founders and leaders were predominantly members of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA).  The book provides details of how Day shared public platforms with high profile Communists including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a paid official of the CPUSA (and later its first woman Chairman), took an active part in an array of Communist-led strikes during the 1930s and ‘40s and used her newspaper, the Catholic Worker (CW), of which she was editor for almost 50 years, as an organ of propaganda in favor of Communism. All this must be considered against the background of the decree issued by the Holy Office in 1949 pronouncing an anathema on any Catholic who cooperated with Communists in any way. The fact that she was able to flout the papal ban against Communist-aiding Catholics merely conferred on her an added mystique among her supporters. While declaring herself committed to a non-violent revolution, Day nonetheless supported every Socialist regime around the world regardless of its violent beginnings and inhumane consequences. There is documentary evidence that Day supported the policies of hostile foreign powers operating from Moscow, Havana, Peking and Hanoi against her own country, the USA. She also wrote favorably about such Socialist dictators as Lenin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, even though they had all violently persecuted the Church in their respective countries. Is it not ironic that some Catholics who died in Communist purges of the 20th century have been canonized while the Vatican is considering sainthood for a Catholic who spent most of her life collaborating with their executioners?"

• Thomas Merton, the "Monk of Modernism," was a believer in all religions – he created his own syncretistic brand of religion while remaining under the auspices of the Catholic Church. He gave equal attention to the mystical traditions within Catholicism, Zen Buddhism, and Hinduism. He was an equal-opportunity mystic drawn to the "common thread" found in all the world’s false religions, including his own Vatican II sect (he died in 1968, 4 years after the Great Apostasy). He even delved into the mystical branch of Islam and corresponded for many years with a Muslim Sufi cleric by the name of Abdul Aziz. "In his last years Merton became engrossed in the commonplaces of Eastern and Western mysticism. He was one of those for whom ‘ecumenical’ meant ‘worldwide or universal in extent and influence.’ His understanding of the unity of the world, a panentheistic God, and a cosmic Christ prohibited a narrowly defined humanity or limited theater of God’s action. The universality of the human quest for authentic being seemed to hold for him the potential for establishing a transcultural family of man." (See Thomas Merton on Mysticism by Raymond Bailey,1974, Doubleday & Co., Inc, Garden City, NY, p. 15).

 "By their fruits thou shalt know them. Are grapes gathered from thorn-bushes, or figs from thistles?" (St. Matthew 7:16). Our Lord told us that only a bad tree produces bad fruit. Now, we see a man who claims to be "pope," yet he preaches an earthly "gospel," fails to uphold traditional teachings on the murder of the unborn and unnatural vice, never demands that people repent, and cites evil people for admiration. Even the magazine Newsweek asked, "Is The Pope Catholic?" The evidence of his own actions tell us the answer is a resounding "NO." He is neither Catholic nor pope.

Divorce, Bergoglio-Style

 The Institution and Sacrament of Holy Matrimony has come under attack like never before. The U.S. joined a growing number of countries in redefining marriage out of existence with the pro-sodomite ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. The State now considers any "loving union" to be a "marriage" even when the partners are of the same sex. The Vatican II sect has been busy destroying marriage for years with phony "annulments"  that declare valid unions null and void on such specious grounds as "psychological immaturity." This month, "Pope" Francis took blessing divorce and "remarriage" (read: "adultery") to the next level.

 According to the statistics, in 1968 there were a total of 338 annulments in the United States. In 1992 there were no less than 59,030; 175 times as many. The total number of annulments in the Vatican II sect world- wide in 1992 was 76,286, which means that no less than 75% of all annulments were from the U.S. (i.e., from a little over 5% of the world's "Catholic" population). Moreover, not only do one in two Vatican II marriages here in America end up in divorce, but one in five is officially annulled---90% of the demands for annulment being successful. In comes Frankie to exacerbate an already terrible and immoral situation.

First, let's remember what the Catholic Church teaches: "A Christian marriage that has been ratified and consummated cannot be dissolved by any human power nor for any reason, except by the death of one of the parties." (See theologian Henry Davis, Moral and Pastoral Theology, Sheed and Ward, London, Vol. 4:17 (1935)).  An annulment is a declaration that there was something lacking at the time of the marriage, not subsequent to it. For example, if it is discovered that one of the parties (both being very young) lied about their age so they didn't have the canonical capacity to contract the marriage (the boy was 15 not 16), the marriage was null and void from its inception. An annulment would so declare this to be the case, and both parties are free to go contract a valid marriage with another in the Church. After marriage, nothing can dissolve the bond; so if the husband cheats, the wife can separate bed and board, but they remain married and neither is free to marry another.

 Frankie has issued a "Motu Propio" entitled "Mitis et Misericors Iesus" which makes the annulment process easier! He wrote that he did this "for the salvation of souls." This is the same guy who told us atheists go to Heaven, so why worry over marriage? The problems that arise are manifold. It was very well expressed by Vatican II "canon lawyer" Edward Peters:

"Article 14 of the Ratio lists ten or twelve factors that enable an annulment petition (to which the parties agree) to be heard in a fast-track process. Note that the factors listed are simply examples of things enabling an annulment case to be heard quickly. Clearly, it is expected that other factors will also suffice.

The factors listed so far are (my trans): lack of faith that results in simulation of consent or an error that determines the will; brevity of married life; abortion procured to prevent procreation; stubborn persistence in an extramarital affair at the time of or just after the wedding; improper concealment of sterility or of a serious and contagious disease; concealment of children from a previous relationship; concealment of incarceration; entering marriage for reasons completely foreign to married life; unplanned pregnancy of the woman; physical violence inflicted to extort consent; lack of use of reason proved by medical documents; and so on.

Where to begin?

Looking at the examples offered—and setting aside the incoherence of some phrasings such as “abortion procured to prevent procreation”—they confuse several complex aspects of consent law, they seem to treat some fact patterns as if they were quasi-impediments to marriage, and they introduce into consideration some matters that have little (perhaps no) jurisprudence behind them with which to assist bishops assessing their significance in a marriage case. Worse, in my opinion, the enunciation of these factors is going to create crises of conscience among faithful who live with one or more of these conditions in their past.

The most confusing point about this list is that some of these factors, though presented as reasons for hearing a petition quickly, are actually grounds for nullity (e.g., simulation, force or fear); other factors, however, are most emphatically not grounds for annulment (e.g., brevity of married life); and others might, or might not, be suggestive of grounds for nullity (e.g., an extra-marital affair near the time of the wedding might show a grave lack of discretion of judgement or an inability to assume matrimonial rights and duties). Because traditional grounds of nullity have been mixed in among things that could be evidence for other grounds of nullity, and further mixed with things that are not grounds for nullity and often are not even evidence of grounds for nullity, confusion will—and already has, judging from questions I have already received from the faithful—erupt as to whether these factors are not just reasons to hear a case speedily, but are themselves proof of matrimonial nullity. Try to explain to non-canonists why one thing the pope listed (say, simulation) is grounds for an annulment but another thing he listed (say, pregnancy) is not grounds for an annulment.

Worse, many, many married couples have experienced one or more of these events in their lives. Unfortunately—again I say this has already started!—people with any of these factors in their lives are going to wonder, logically and sincerely, whether their marriage might be null. They will worry, for example, whether the fact that she was pregnant at the time of the wedding means their marriage is null. If not, why does it mean that an annulment case could be heard more quickly? Or, if he was not very active in the Faith when they married, did he just pretend for (technically, simulate) his wedding promises? Many of these questions are obviously highly dependent on fact analysis (e.g., what is “improper concealment” of infertility, what counts as “incarceration”?), and so one must ask, how are such cases reliably to be investigated, considered, and decided by a bishop (a man with about a hundred other things to do at any given time) in a matter of a few weeks?" (See https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/a-second-look-at-mitis-especially-at-the-new-fast-track-annulment-process/)

Further, it has been discovered that there is a seven (7) page dossier in the Modernist Curia, whereby senior Vatican II prelates express grave dissatisfaction over Frankie's Motu. Having some inkling of the Faith left, they decry what he has done as amounting to "Catholic (sic) divorce." The Society of St. Pius X notes some key points of dissension in the dossier:

•   despite the gravity of the issue, no discasteries including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as well as bishops conferences, were consulted about the decision";

• "The manner in which Francis released the document goes against the Pope's calls for synodality and collegiality, and resembles an ecclesialized 'Fuhrerprinzip,' ruling from the top down, by decree and without any consultation or without any checks";

• Accusations of "unsettling developments" that claims Francis "circumvented" the regulated process for changing legislation for the universal Church. The dossier alleges that the papal commission enlisted to write the motu proprio had been ordered to keep silent about the document, for fear that others in the Curia, including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, would try to thwart its publication, or at least insist on significant changes to keep the instruction more in line with the traditional process.

• The fear that the new looser process "will lead to a flood of annulments" that will facilitate Catholics exiting their marriages with little difficulty.

• The controversial changes to the annulment process, which were scheduled to be discussed at the Synod (as noted in Sections 114 and 115 of the 2015 Working Document [Instrumentum Laboris—Ed.]), have been thrust into "legislation" by Francis prior to the event, thus preventing any objections from conservative bishops who oppose the new process. (See http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/dispute-in-vatican-over-popes-annulment-changes)

Ironically, the SSPX recognizes Frankie as pope, yet they will not follow his decree. They actually have their own "marriage tribunals" as if they are vested with Magisterial authority to decide nullity of marriages, while the hierarchy of the man they claim to be pope doesn't!

The sad fact is that in a time of near Universal Apostasy, there can be no valid annulments. Marriage is sacred and holy. It is for life, and expresses the love between Christ and His Church. The Supreme Court recognizes the union of perverts, and Francis facilitates adultery. They make a joke of an institution raised by Christ to the dignity of a Sacrament. "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap." (Galatians 6:7). We are reaping the dissolution of society. However, this event does make one fact more clear than ever; Jorge Bergoglio has been himself divorced for quite some time---from the Truth.

Homo-Fascism

 Kim Davis,  the Rowan County Clerk in Kentucky, went to jail earlier this month when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A federal judge jailed her on contempt when she refused to comply with the Supreme Court decision, handed down this past June, which made "same-sex marriage" a "right." Davis made this brave stand due to her Protestant beliefs. If you think she has any support from "Who am I to judge" Bergoglio, and his perverted hierarchy, guess again. Ms. Davis has been derided from the left-wing and anti-Christians with the usual epithets: "hate" (because she does not condone someone's behavior), "intolerant" (ironically, the left won't tolerate those who are intolerant making them hypocrites), and "homophobic" (an invented word implying mental illness if you don't/won't accept the sodomite agenda).

The latest attack on those who stand for traditional Christian morality is "The law is the law." Upon reading THAT one, my mind raced to the defense which Nazi war criminals raised at Nuremberg--- "Befehl ist Befeh" (literally, "an order is an order"). In other words, "It wasn't my fault I killed Jews, I was just obeying the orders of my superior and I would have been imprisoned or killed myself if I didn't comply." Can you imagine sodomite sympathizers intoning "the law is the law" against Rosa Parks when she defied segregation by refusing to sit in the back of the bus? The Nuremberg defense failed (thankfully), however, I was blown away by the similarities between the Nazis and the sodomites. You read that last sentence correctly: The "Homosexual Rights Movement" is like the Nazi Party of 1930s-1940s Germany. I read a book that spun my head entitled The Pink Swastika published in 1995 by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams.

The book is well researched and puts forward an astonishing thesis: The Nazi Party was founded and driven by sodomites. You might be thinking, "Wait a second! Didn't the Nazis persecute homosexuals? Weren't they put in concentration camps with Jews and forced to wear a pink triangle?" Lively and Abrams put forth a vigorous case that while some homosexuals (and those on trumped up charges of homosexuality) suffered under Hitler and his Nazis, The Pink Swastika attempts to show that that there was far more rape, torture, and murder committed by Nazi deviants/homosexuals than there ever was against homosexuals. The book draws heavily on two sources; Samuel Igra's book Germany's National Vice, which documents the homoerotic foundations of German militarism, and The Nazis and the Occult by Dusty Sklar, which documents the occult roots of Nazi ideology. There are many other sources listed as well. It is as fascinating as it is scary to read.

1. The Founding Of The Nazi Party

• Although Hitler was probably not a homosexual or bisexual, he kept company with many sodomites who were his top Lieutenants. He was a coprophile, (a deviant aroused by human feces) and had relationships with at least four women, one of whom was his niece. Due to his perverted and twisted ways all four women involved with Hitler attempted suicide.

• Why would Hitler found a Party made up of deviants? There are several reasons. First, he wanted people--pimps, murders, and homosexuals--who would be willing to go against traditional morality. Second, homosexuals fit in with Hitler's occult beliefs. Pagan "priests" and "priestesses" were often homosexual. The modern pagan religion of Wicca embraces homosexuality and worships nature. The swastika itself comes from non-Christian, pagan religions.    It was used at least 5,000 years before Adolf Hitler designed the Nazi flag. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, "The word swastika comes from the Sanskrit svastika, which means “good fortune” or “well-being." The motif (a hooked cross) appears to have first been used in Neolithic Eurasia, perhaps representing the movement of the sun through the sky. To this day it is a sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Odinism. It is a common sight on temples or houses in India or Indonesia. Swastikas also have an ancient history in Europe, appearing on artifacts from pre-Christian European cultures." Remember the Bible says homosexuality is the result of "worshiping the creation rather than the Creator" (See Romans 1: 18-27). Third, many homosexuals had violent, even murderous inclinations (more on this later in this post). 

• Homosexuals may be divided into those who act effeminately ('fems") and those who disguise their unnatural vice under a veneer of being virile and manly ("butches").  The latter were the ones who wanted to revive the pederastic military cults of the pagan pre-Christian era. Their leaders included top Nazis Adolf Brand and Ernst Roehm. They despised the pacifist and effeminate homosexuals; and these were the ones whom were persecuted! Heterosexuals served the purpose of procreation, but the effeminate didn't procreate or share their militaristic vision. Hence, they were seen as subhuman. 

2. Homosexual Violence

• According to researcher Dr. Brian Clowes, eight of the top ten serial killers in the U.S. were homosexual, and they account for 68% of all mass murders. This is incredible when you consider that homosexuals claim to account for (an inaccurately inflated) 10% of the total population. 

• Gaetan Dugas, is a sodomite who directly and knowingly infected over 1,000 of his fellow homosexuals with the AIDS virus. Even when he was in the final stages, he would have anonymous sex in "gay" bathhouses, and then show his partners his purple Kaposi's Sarcoma blotches saying, "Gay cancer. Maybe you'll get it." He reasoned that he is free to do what he wants with his own body in private. Sound familiar? (See  "The Columbus of AIDS," National Review,11/6/87: 19)

3. A Fourth Reich? 

• The notorious group ACT-UP, would enter Vatican II sect churches, would go up to receive their communion in the hand and then throw the wafer on the floor to step on it. (Thank God their communion service is invalid!).  One of its leaders, Eric Pollard admitted their subversive tactics were largely drawn from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.

•  While the media never let up on the murder of Matthew Sheppard, when 13 year-old Jesse Dirkhising was murdered by two homosexual men who repeatedly raped him for several hours and tied him up causing his death by asphyxiation, it wasn't a major news story until  The Washington Times reported the story one month after his death. Sodomites are to be portrayed as victims, not making others victims.

•  Indiana wanted to pass a "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" which read:"A governmental entity may substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion only if the governmental entity demonstrates that application of the burden to the person: (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest." It was condemned as "anti-LGBT." The threats made to the Republican governor and legislature by the "lavender lobby" to cripple the state's economy was so fierce,they watered the bill down and caved in.

• A bakery in the Portland, Oregon area that declined to make a wedding cake for a gay couple two years ago was ordered to pay $135,000 in damages in July.

• In Washington state, a florist has been fighting a lawsuit filed after she refused to provide services for a gay wedding in 2013.

The sodomites have invaded places of power in government and the Vatican II sect. A "Gay Mafia"controls Modernist Rome. The media and academia have turned those who object to homosexual practice into "bigoted morons" (at best) and "discriminatory criminals" (at worst). The government complies by fining, and now even jailing, people of faith. "Pope" Francis doesn't want to judge them, does nothing to stop their agenda, and even wants to give them the Novus Bogus "communion." Is this the beginning of  more Homo-Fascism?  It's a very real and frightening probability if things keep going as they have--especially in the last 15 years. So remember that the next time you dare to assert that you believe homosexual acts to be immoral, the people who will denigrate you as "bigoted,"  "hateful," "fanatic," and will demand that you accept homosexuality under pain of job loss, fines, and even prison, are against intolerance.

Shedding Some Light On "Three Days Of Darkness"

 In this age of the Great Apostasy, many Traditionalists will (unfortunately) abandon the approved theologians of the Church for private revelations. It is imperative that we learn the Faith, and not what passes for the "Faith" in some quarters. Certain people don't even understand basic terminology. "Public" and "private" revelation do not refer to how many people the revelation was given, but rather whether or not it is part of the Deposit of Faith to which we must assent. The Deposit of Faith, given by Jesus Christ to His One True Church, ended with the death of the last Apostle (St. John) in 100 A.D. That marks the end of public revelation. The Church has authority to make solemn pronouncements on what is contained in this revelation, and the faithful must give assent under pain of mortal sin and expulsion from the Mystical Body by heresy (e.g. It is part of the Deposit of Faith that Christ gave exactly seven (7) sacraments to His Church).

 Private revelation is given by God after the close of public revelation to certain individuals (usually saints or people considered to be such). If a private revelation is approved by the Church, it means that it does not contradict matters of Faith and/or morals. It is worthy of belief, but you can deny it outright and not be a heretic. You also commit no sin of disbelief, provided your lack of faith in a particular approved revelation does not stem from disdain of ecclesiastical authority.  While non-approved revelations should be avoided like the plague, even those which are approved can be misunderstood or have the message corrupted since Church approval does not entail any kind of infallible (or even authoritative) teaching. An example is the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. The late "Fr" Gruner made a business out of peddling dire predictions for the world. I have material of his dating back to the late 1980s claiming "we only have a couple of years left" unless the "pope" (John Paul II) consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. That never happened and more than 25 years have passed without any calamity. Of course this never prevented Mr. Gruner from asking for the largest donation you could give as he shamelessly continued to predict the sky would fall "very shortly."

 According to another prediction of Fatima, "Portugal will never lose the Faith." One need only take a look at the present day European country to see that it has rejected the Faith for Vatican II, and has promulgated many evil "laws" such as murdering babies by abortion. There are no more Traditionalists there (in sheer number or proportionately) than in any other neo-pagan State. I do believe Our Lady appeared in Fatima to three children, but I refuse to try and discern "true" from "false" messages, or listen to all the conspiracy theories involved. Holding on to the Faith will save us, not private revelations--especially ones laced with fearful consequences for those who refuse to propagate those messages.

One of the most fearful private revelations involves what is commonly referred to the "Three Days of Darkness" (hereinafter TDD).  It is used by "mystical" sedevacantists as the answer to the Great Apostasy. God will use these TDD as a world-wide chastisement and then will bring back a true pope. There are so many versions of TDD it's hard to know how to describe it. I will use the version utilized by the "pope in red" website, specifically 3daysofdarkness.com.

The website states: "The Church does not oblige us to believe in any particular prophecy as a matter of faith [de fide], but we are indeed obliged to believe that prophecies may be made even in our own times, for this is in the Gospel [Evangelium]: the Holy Ghost will speak to many in the Latter Days.

Moreover, when an identical prophecy has been made by widely separated people in time and space, when this particular prophecy was accompanied by other predictions which have already come to pass, and when the holiness of the mystics in question has been recognized by the Church, we would be foolish indeed not to believe that the prophecy must come to pass. Such is the case concerning the Three Days of Darkness. How else could we explain that an illiterate peasant woman of Brittany is describing the very thing that another mystic in, say, Germany or Italy is also describing?"

 With the defection of the hierarchy we must be very careful about who speaks for the Holy Ghost. "For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." (See St. Matt. 24:24). We are foolish to believe anything that is illogical, damaging to the Faith, and not approved by the Church--regardless of whomsoever allegedly said something. Many holy people claimed TDD. Especially Padre Pio and Blessed Anna- Maria Taigi. It is not unknown,because there was such a plague sent by God upon the Egyptians through Moses.  Therefore, say TDD proponents, we must accept it as the truth. The website claims:

"After the three days of darkness, St. Peter and St. Paul, having come down from Heaven, will preach in the whole world and designate a new Pope. A great light will flash from their bodies and will settle upon the cardinal who is to become Pope. Christianity, then, will spread throughout the world. He is the Holy Pontiff, chosen by God to withstand the storm. At the end, he will have the gift of miracles, and his name shall be praised over the whole earth. Whole nations will come back to the Church and the face of the earth will be renewed. Russia, England, and China will come into the Church." (Prophecy of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi [1769-1837 A.D.] who was Beatified by Bendedict XV in 1920.) 
This assumes sedeprivationism. How else could there be a material "cardinal"?


There will be "proximate signs":  "Here are the proximate signs in their probable order of occurrence. This, to be sure, is only my own opinion, and I may be wrong for I am no prophet myself; but, after studying a large number of prophecies, this order appears to me to be the most likely:

1. Flouting of church laws, irreverence and immodesty in church, fall in attendance at church. (These trends were observed in the 1950's, before the true Church was criminally usurped at the Oct 26, 1958 papal conclave.-ED)

2. Lack of charity towards others, heartlessness, indifference, divisions, contentions, godlessness, pride in human knowledge.

3. Breakdown of family life: immorality, adultery, perversion of youth via the media (e.g. homosexuals giving lectures in schools), immodest fashions, people concerned only with eating, drinking, dancing and other pleasures.

4. Civil commotions, contempt for authority, downfall of governments, confusion in high places, corruption, coups d'etat, civil war, revolution. (The first four proximate signs have already come to pass, at least partly; for we are yet to see civil war and revolution in the West. But the sequence of events is not strictly chronological; there is room for some overlapping. Thus, the 5th proximate sign seems to have begun also.)

5. Floods and droughts, crop failures, unusual weather, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, famines, epidemics, unknown diseases (e.g. new strains of viruses)."

Do you see the problem here? We have someone interpreting private messages with no Magisterial authority. Why should we believe this interpretations of alleged sayings based on alleged revelations. The beatification of Anna-Maria Taigi in no way guarantees any truth in private messages. The "proximate signs" are so broad as to be seen in any era. Note that # 1 goes back to the 1950s; at least 57 years ago. How is that "proximate"? 

Next comes "The Warning":

 "This will take place between the proximate and the immediate signs. It will be a supernatural occurrence.

During the Warning, many will be scared to their wits end, and many will wish to die, but the Warning itself will be completely harmless.

The Warning must be viewed as the last act of mercy from God, a final appeal to mankind to do penance before the three days of darkness and the destruction of three-quarters of the human race. At a time when the murder of unborn babies and the sin of Sodom and Lesbos have become acceptable and "legal", we should not wonder why God is going to punish mankind.

By that time, war and revolution will have already caused a high death-toll, and Communism will be victorious, but all this will be as nothing compared with the death-toll caused by the Three Days."

I agree that humanity has deserved just punishment, and after the Supreme Court ruling on sodomite "marriage" being a "right," the end may come soon, but not necessarily via TDD.

Next, "The Immediate Sign":
The wind will howl and roar. Lightning and thunderbolts of an unprecedented magnitude will strike the earth. The whole earth will shake, heavenly bodies will be disturbed (this will be the beginning of the Three Days). Every Demon, every evil spirit will be released from hell and allowed to roam the earth. Terrifying apparitions will take place. Many will die from sheer fright. Fire will rain forth from the sky, all large cities will be destroyed, poisonous gases will fill the air, cries and lamentations everywhere. The unbelievers will burn in the open like withered grass. The entire earth will be afflicted; it will look like a huge graveyard.

As soon as you notice (these signs), go indoors, lock all doors and windows, pull down the blinds, stick adhesive paper on vents and around windows and doors. Do not answer calls from outside, do not look at the windows, or you will die on the spot: keep your eyes down to make sure you do not see the windows; the Wrath of God is mighty and no one should attempt to behold it. Light blessed wax candles; nothing else will burn, but the candles will not be extinguished once lit. Nothing will put them out in the houses of the faithful, but they will not burn in the houses of the godless. Sprinkle holy water about the house and especially in the vicinity of doors and windows: the devils fear holy water. Bless yourself with it and anoint your five senses with it: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet, and forehead. Keep on hand a sufficient supply of drinking water and, if possible, food also (but you can live without food for three days.) Kneel down and pray incessantly with outstretched arms, or prostrate on the floor. Make acts of contrition, faith, hope, and charity. Above all say the Rosary and meditate on the Sorrowful mysteries.

Some people, especially children, will be taken up to Heaven beforehand to spare them the horror of these days. People caught outdoors will die instantly. Three-quarters of the human race will be exterminated, more men than women. No one will escape the terror of these days.

And the  aftermath:

But, when all seems lost and hopeless, then, in the twinkling of an eye, the ordeal will be over: the sun will rise and shine again as in springtime over a purified earth.

Some nations will disappear entirely, and the face of the earth will be changed. There will be no more "Big Business" and huge factories which sap men's souls. Craftsmanship will revive, and assembly lines will give way to the working bench.

People will return to the land, but food will be scarce for about three years. Married women will bear many children, for it will be regarded as a disgrace not to have children, no more "career women" addicted to the "pill". Unmarried females, there will be many, will enter the religious orders and form large congregations of Nuns within the reborn Church. Disease will decrease dramatically, and mental illnesses will be rare, for man will have retrieved his natural environment. It will be an age of faith, true brotherhood between neighbors, civil harmony, peace, and prosperity. The land will yield crops as never before. Police will have little work to do: crime will disappear almost entirely. Mutual trust and honesty will be universal. There will be little work for lawyers, either. All the manpower which is currently taken up by the wickedness of the modern world will be released and available for the production of useful commodities. Thus, prosperity will be very great. This wonderful period will probably last 30 years approximately.

As soon as you see the sun rise again at the end of the Three Days, drop to your knees and give thanks to God.

And of course, "believe it or else":

Be warned, SPREAD THE MESSAGE, but do not fear: it would be an offense to God to show lack of confidence in His protection. Those who spread the message will be protected, but the scoffers, the skeptics, and those who dismiss the message because they are frightened, will not escape the chastisement.

Whew! Scary stuff! I will not spread the message, nor worry about TDD,and here's some more reasons  why:

• Why does Catholicism need to spread if everyone who survives is already Catholic and under a newly crowned pope? The number of Traditionalists is quite few; certainly not 25% of the world's population that will survive. 

• Since only blessed candles of wax can be lit, how do you light your candle when the TDD arrive? You would need to keep one lit in your house 24/7 like some ecclesiastical version of militia "preppers." Does God really want us storing food, water and blessed candles? 

• It contradicts Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. The Bible verses used to support TDD have all been understood by the Church as outside the genre of apocalyptic language. There is nothing in Tradition that speaks of TDD. If the Great Apostasy ends this way (and proponents claim we are definitely in the Great Apostasy of the Book of Revelation), that displaces the Antichrist, False Prophet, and Second Coming of Christ; all matters of public revelation.  

• Padre Pio also believed that the book, The Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valorta was good and holy. However, that writing had been placed on the Index of Forbidden Books for heretical statements. Padre Pio was "canonized" by Antipope John Paul II. That's not to say he might not really be a saint, but no saint is infallible about private prophesies and revelations. He might have been mistaken about the book for a number of inculpable reasons, and the same goes for TDD.

Don't be concerned about frightful images in an alleged "Three Days of Darkness." Learn the teachings of the One True Church as expounded by Her approved theologians to really know and love the Faith. Stay close to the Mass and sacraments as best you can and always strive to be in the state of Grace. In this way, darkness will never overcome Christ in your mind, heart and soul-- He is truly The Light of the World.