LEO PROMOTES IDOLATER BISHOP, GIVES SYNODS POWER TO SACK TRADS

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2 weeks after +Lizardo Estrada took part in "a payment to Pachamama" (l) Leo appoints him archbishop

"How long, O Lord? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?"(Ps 12). Under Antipope Leo, King David's anguished cry has become the lament of the Church. Just two weeks after a certain Bishop Lizardo Estrada (yes, really) made a public "payment to Pachamama", Robert 'FtR' Prevost has named  him to the archbishopric of Cuzco, Peru. Estrada's offering, on video, of coca leaves to "Grandmother Fire" was joined by another, from Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF). 

What this means, frankly, is that when Cuzco's Bishop Richard Alarcón retires, an idolater will become chief shepherd to one of the most important dioceses in Peru. The counterfeit Vatican has obviously thrown discretion to the winds. The usurpers no longer care for the reputation of the Mystical Body of Christ or for the spiritual welfare or even the good opinion of her faithful members. 

In France, at the shrine of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Lourdes, pilgrim priests of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) have been banned from celebrating Masses, the sacraments and public prayers. Trad Inc's little cries of "Oh but of course they are, they're excommunicated", simply won't wash. Not after October 2025, when Muslims together with Christians held a four-day pilgrimage there with a prayer service, Mass, torchlight procession, prayer at the Grotto and interreligious meetings.

Also at Lourdes, the local ordinary, +Jean-Marc Micas, is literally drawing a veil over the infamous artworks of the disgraced, defrocked priest Fr Marko Rupnik which have adorned the Basilica's famous facade for years, scandalising faithful Catholics familiar with Rupnik's record of alleged, sacrilegious abuse of women religious. It's taken Bishop Micas two years to cover the images up, and the reason why he does it now is a 'papal' pilgrimage ilater this month. 'Pope Leo XIV' (and the world's cameras) must be spared the sight. No one wants reminding that the secret, canonical, criminal trial of Rupnik is still 'proceeding'. 

In view of the foregoing, one could be forgiven for casting a jaundiced eye on the Apostolic Letter issued by 'Pope Leo XIV' motu proprio two days ago. Leo/Prevost provides the Synods of Bishops of Eastern Catholic Churches the faculty to remove their respective Patriarchs in order “to restore the wounded communion, even by removing [them] from office for grave cause”, in the event their “bond” is “irreparably compromised." 

Leo/Prevost grants the Synod of Bishops the power, through "an orderly procedure," to remove a patriarch from office should their relationship be irreparably compromised for serious reasons." In such an event, the Roman Pontiff must grant assent to the Synod’s judgment." The change addresses a gap in existing Catholic canon law which did not previously specify how a patriarch could be removed by the Church over which he presides. "Leo considered it necessary to establish an orderly procedure for the removal of a Patriarch from office by the Synod of Bishops" .https://advaticanum.com/article/pope-leo-issues-new-motu-proprio-on-eastern-catholic-patriarchs/  

So, more power to the Synod! It looks suspiciously as if the Vatican waited until reaching a critical mass of liberal, modernist bishops before making this move to close a trap on bishops who remain loyal to Christ, to Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church. The motu proprio smacks of the manouevres to rid the Synodal church of recalcitrant, traditional bishops already seen in the Latin Church, with the removal of Joseph Strickland and  Daniel Fernández Torres. Not to mention Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the 'excommunicated' dissident who has published a timely new book, 'The Capital Schism' which addresses the Freemasonic campaign to demolish the Church. 

Subtitled  "When the Pope is the First Enemy of the Papacy" Vigano's essay analyzes the paradox of an ecclesiastical hierarchy that began at the Second Vatican Council to distance itself from Tradition and to embrace modernist, synodal, and globalist drifts. 

(Exsurge Domine) — “The Capital Schism” is an incisive and profound essay by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that addresses the unprecedented crisis currently experienced by the Catholic Church, raising crucial questions concerning the relationship between the divine institution of the Papacy and whoever sits upon the Chair of Peter.

In this fundamental work for contemporary debate, the Author analyzes the paradox of an ecclesiastical hierarchy that, starting from the Second Vatican Council, has dramatically distanced itself from Tradition to embrace modernist, synodal, and globalist drifts.

Key points of the volume:

• The distinction between the Papacy and the Pope: The essay clarifies the fundamental difference between the Papacy as a divine institution and an unshakable rock, and the person of the Pope, who may act as a faithful custodian or, by divine permission, as an obstacle and adversary to that institution.
• The capital schism: It examines the profound separation between the Petrine office and the one who exercises it—a “masterstroke” by which the conciliar and synodal revolution has subverted legitimate authority to serve ends contrary to those willed by Our Lord Jesus Christ.
• The crisis of formation and Modernism: The work denounces the intellectual, philosophical, and theological impoverishment of seminaries and teaching bodies, contaminated at their root by Modernism and incapable of professing the integral Catholic Faith.
• The state of necessity and filial resistance: Through an analysis enlightened by Faith and right reason, the text justifies resistance to illicit commands and defends the position of those—such as the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X—who safeguard the Holy Mass and the traditional Catholic doctrine, even against the Hierarchy itself.
• The eschatological dimension: Recalling Saint Paul’s Second Epistle to the Thessalonians and the concept of the katechon, the Author shows how the betrayal of those who sit upon the Chair of Peter and the apostasy within the Church must be read in an eschatological key.

A heartfelt and courageous appeal addressed to all Catholics in defense of the Papacy against those who illegitimately usurp its functions and authority.

An illuminating text for anyone desiring to understand the deep root of today’s ecclesial crisis and to maintain intact their fidelity to Christ, His Bride and the Papacy.

"How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death: But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea I will sing to the name of the Lord the most high"

 Psalm Twelve.

 

LEO TO SWAP 'ZOMBIE' TRAD MASS FOR N O IN LATIN

 

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By now it's past obvious that the Traditional Latin Mass which fed and fostered the saints for centuries has become a severe embarrassment to the conciliar, counterfeit establishment in Rome. The holy truth of its texts shows up the 'New Mass' for what it is: a liturgy fabricated by a committee in such a hurry it was written in part on a paper napkin, in a cafe. And no one will be surprised to hear that the demise of the TLM is being expedited by a priest of the once-illustrious Society of Jesus (Jesuits). 

Who would ever have supposed that the saints of the Church were "strangers or silent spectators" at Holy Mass, the source and summit of  their Christian life and sanctity? It sounds bizarre and it is, but that is the suggestion made by 'Pope Leo XIV' at his General Audience on Wednesday. Maybe the saints were exceptions to the rule: maybe for centuries most Catholics thought it was enough just to show up on Sunday and be there, thus necessitating the reformed liturgy of the Second Vatican Council -  the Novus Ordo Missae.  

What's curious about Leo's criticism of the Traditional Latin Mass is that it was heralded on the very same day by the notorious modernist Jesuit Fr Thomas Reese, in a column titled "Why I Hate the Latin Mass". Reese - once forced to resign as editor of the Jesuit magazine America by Cardinal Josef Ratzinger - referred to the Latin Mass as "a zombie. We thought it was dead but it keeps coming back." 

Imagine what might have happened to Reese if he'd written a piece titled "Why I Hate the Novus Ordo Missae". At the very least his fellow Jesuits would have disowned him. He could have lost his priestly faculties.

Traditional commentator Hilary White points out that the liturgy is theology embodied. "If a man admits he "hates" the old form of the liturgy, he is saying outright that he "hates" the religion it manifested. He's straight-up admitting the Pauline Rite embodies a different, new, antiCatholic religion."

Fr Reese and friends in high places: https://x.com/CarloMVigano/status/2093267491363459470

Leo and Reese are sailing close to the wind; it sounds very much as though their criticism of the Sacrifice of Calvary, the Mass, is an incentive to impiety ('impiety' meaning an act against the reverence due to God, or to a person or thing referring to God). "Anyone who says that the ceremonies, vestments or outward signs used by the Church in the celebration of Masses are incentives to impiety, let him be anathema"(Council of Trent).  

 “The liturgical reform promoted by the Second Vatican Council is thus firmly rooted in the living tradition of the Church”, Leo pontificated (using that expression loosely, you understand). "Thus"? Pardon me? The accomplished liturgical scholar Dom Alcuin Reid states the obvious: that Leo had advanced no evidence to prove that the reform was any such thing. Reid opines that Leo's text would have been returned by an examiner in any reputable faculty as "unsatisfactory". Ouch. 

Reid excuses Leo on the grounds that it was a supplied text. But in that case any pope worthy of the name would have read it through before solemnly pronouncing it and creating the controversy that it did. But he could have written it himself. It sounds anodyne enough. Dom Reid called it "pedestrian". (Acknowledging Anthony Stine, "Return to Tradition").

No 'pope' - no one at all - may ever abrogate the Latin Mass, "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven". Leo and his conspirators in the Vatican know this, so they must invent reasons (talking points from the '70s trotted out by Leo at his audience) to persuade the Church to accept its substitution by a Latin Mass almost indistinguishable from the Novus Ordo. Discerning Catholics might catch a whiff of the diabolical source of such cunning in its proponents, such as Thomas Reese SJ.

Thomas Reese, SJ on X: 'this Transgender History Month pray to saints who defied gender norms" https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/transgender-history-month-pray-trans-catholic-saints

Fr Reese posted a gender queer pervert’s claim - “Catholics celebrate “transgender month in August” - on the first anniversary of the transgender who killed two Catholic school children and seriously injured 24 others at Annunciation in Minnesota, US.

Guilt by association is a thing, and no one could suppose the scoundrels in the Vatican are implicated in the disobedience to God's perfect ordering of the sexes evidenced by Fr Reese. But that disobedience mirrors the diabolical hatred of the Traditional Latin Mass he shares with Rome. Rome, where they no longer believe in the devil but in psychological constructs, and replace Christ Our Lord with human solutions.

VADE RETRO SATANA!

Leo XIV has once again dashed the (false) hopes of conservatives and semi-trads who allowed their imaginations after the 2025 conclave to convince them that if they just “zipped it” enough on his many erroneous statements he might just reward them with more Traditional Latin Masses (TLM).

 

Leo’s catechesis on Sacrosanctum Concilium Wednesday should be a sobering moment for the reality-denying crowd. Far from suggesting a “liberation” of the TLM, Leo once again pointed in the opposite direction.

 

Doubling down on the Novus Ordo

 

In his remarks, Leo not only defended the legitimacy of the post-conciliar reforms but also presented them as the natural continuation of the Church’s liturgical tradition and, as such, something that should be normative going forward.

 

 

Among other things, Leo described the Council’s revision of the liturgical books as necessary and, citing Sacrosanctum Concilium, explained that Vatican II wanted the rites arranged so that “the Christian people, so far as possible, should be enabled to understand them with ease” in order to participate in them “fully, actively.” 
Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/2092546752624660738

 

After referencing “St. Paul VI,” Leo stated, unequivocally, that, “The liturgical reform promoted by the Second Vatican Council is thus firmly rooted in the living tradition of the Church.”

 

In saying such this just weeks after Cardinal Arthur Roche publicly remarked that he would not do away with Traditiones custodes, Leo has clearly planted his flag on the side of those who are striving to do away with the Latin Mass and integrate it with the Novus Ordo.

Elsewhere in his audience, Leo attempted to lend legitimacy to his conclusion by pointing to Pius XI and the reforms of Pius XII and John XXIII, describing the Council as continuing an existing trajectory of the reforms they put into motion.

 

Leo's official newspaper: "the real devil is misogyny"

 

Of course, the adjustments to the liturgical and prayer life of the Church made by pre-conciliar popes were nowhere near the drastic “reforms” rigidly enforced by Annibale Bugnini and Paul VI in the postconciliar years. Regardless, for Leo, the matter is settled: the Novus Ordo developed organically, and therefore there is no need to return to the TLM, or to make allowances for it.

 

The mere fact that Leo has not only said nothing praiseworthy about the Latin Mass at this stage in his reign but has repeatedly allowed his appointees to continually attack it should indicate to everyone what his true position on the matter is.

 

In brief, for Leo and others, the Traditional Latin Mass is not the pinnacle of authentic liturgical development that occurred over centuries, but rather a blip on the screen that Vatican II legitimately revised and ultimately moved beyond.

 

 

Trad Inc. leaps into action

 

Just hours after Leo’s speech, Vatican reporter Diane Montagna published an essay by Dom Alcuin Reed on her Substack blog. Clearly timed to counter Leo’s remarks, Montagna’s post blamed Leo’s speechwriters for his remarks, instead of him. “Drafters of Pope Leo’s Wednesday catechesis did not serve him well today, accomplished liturgical scholar contends,” she wrote.

 

Influencer Taylor Marshall also released a podcast Wednesday. Instead of drawing attention the more troubling aspects of Leo’s remarks, he papered over them by focusing on the meaning of “active participation.” This failure to tell the truth about Leo’s comments contradicts past remarks Marshall made about Sacrosanctum Concilium under Francis. The discrepancy was noted a video montage by satirist Michael Naaden, who goes by the name Sede Picante on X.

 

 

 

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/2092546752624660738

 

On Thursday, Vatican reporter Nico Spuntoni released an interview with conservative Cardinal Robert Sarah, who rightly denounced Traditionis custodes while maintaining that the Church “cannot wage war against those who devoutly participate in Mass simply because they prefer one form over another.”

 

The goal of the interview, of course, is to shift the narrative so conservatives and traditionalists won’t give up hoping that Leo will one day come around to his senses.

 

 

Jesuit Thomas Reese weighs in

 

Just how deeply — and how resentfully — the TLM is viewed as a relic of the past to which the Church should never again return was underscored by notorious modernist Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest who penned a column one day before Leo’s remarks entitled, “Why I Hate the Old Latin Mass.”

 

Even though Reese, a longtime critic of traditional Catholic positions, presented his argument “humorously,” its vehement hostility toward the Latin liturgy was loud and clear.

 

A Novus Ordo Mass

Despite trying to soften the blow by claiming that he doesn’t hate those who attend the TLM, Reese’s essay is, in fact, deeply hostile to them. Sadly, his comments likely reflect the majority sentiment of the hierarchy and act as the more honest version of Leo’s Wednesday catechesis.

 

One of Reese’s opening claims is that “the old Latin Mass is like a zombie” in that it “keeps coming back.” He then expresses perplexity about the language issue. “We thought it would fade away or people would be satisfied with going to a Latin version of the new liturgy. Not so.”

 

One cannot help but be reminded of Leo XIV’s interview last year with Crux. At the time, Leo revealingly said: “Well, you can say the Latin Mass right now. If it is the rite of Vatican II, the Mass of Paul VI, there is no problem.”

 

Reese then attacked what he calls “the ideologues who say the new Mass is blasphemous and who reject the teachings of the Second Vatican Council on things like ecumenism, social justice and the role of the laity in the church.” This is simply another crude caricature of how Traditional Catholics are viewed by the hierarchy; Reese is just saying it out loud.

 

His caricaturization does little to neutralize the legitimate arguments about the dangers of the Novus Ordo Missae and the deplorable false religion that flowed from Vatican II.

 

 

In a highly ironic moment, considering that the Jesuits have become the poster boys for wayward disobedience, Reese tries to gaslight Traditional Catholics by claiming that during his Jesuit novitiate in 1962, when the Church changed the liturgy, “we saluted and did it without questions” because “obedience was the most important virtue in the old church.” Clearly, obedience is no longer a virtue in the new “church” Reese so enthusiastically defends.

 

Diocese of Mallorca, Assumption Mass

The gaslighting became even more explicit when Reese declared that “If they want to be traditionalists, they should be obedient to the council and the popes who have promoted the liturgy in the vernacular.”

 

This statement serves as a definition of a dead tradition, as it makes the assumption that being a “traditionalist” simply means obeying whatever diabolical garbage the ecclesial squatters in Rome are promoting.

 

There is no need to morbidly dissect Reese’s whole article, though it would make a good, severe penance. Suffice it to say that it is a grittier and more honest reflection of the general sentiment of the synodal hierarchy, albeit in bad taste.

 

Whether wrapped in the sanctimonious language of Leo’s catechesis on Sacrosanctum Concilium, or in Reese’s vulgar expression of hatred disguised as humor, the message remains the same: there is no place for the Mass of the Ages in the Synodal Church.https://integritymagazine.org/2026/08/27/leo-dashes-hopes-of-trad-inc-while-leftist-jesuit-professes-hatred-for-the-latin-m

 

'POPE LEO' & HIS FREEMASONIC ANTI-CHURCH

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Cardinal Rampollo, OTO (an occult arm of Freemasonry) almost elected pope, 1903

To destroy the Catholic Church you must first destroy the papacy. For more than one hundred years that has been the entire raison d'être of Freemasonry, and its parallel religion is fast approaching its goal - which is an antichurch, with all the appearances of the true church to deceive "even the elect" (Mt 24,24), but utterly emptied of supernatural grace. 

The evidence of this week's events stares us in the face. Catholics in Fujian, central China, now live in a “state of emergency” and have secretly consecrated “at least ten” bishops to assure the Church’s survival. Historian Anthony Clark says Catholics fear that bishops increasingly dependent upon the Communist government will eventually surrender the integrity of the Faith. 'Pope Leo XIV' approves candidates selected by the CCP; loyal underground clergy are harassed while the Communist Patriotic Association prelates gain legitimacy. So that episcopal succession itself now must be  hidden. 

'Pope Leo XIV' has welcomed the Norwegian Lutheran Church to Rome. He talked about Catholic-Lutheran cooperation in “our common Baptism and our shared mission in the world.” These Lutheran officials have no Catholic jurisdiction; they have a liturgy for same-sex weddings; they have ordained women for decades; but Leo welcomed them to the Vatican as “bishops” engaged in a “shared mission.” Lutheran reunification is essential to the Freemasonic plan to destroy the papacy.  

The homosexual magazine Them published a perky survey of the latest batch of bishops appointed by 'Pope Leo XIV’: James Checchio in New Orleans, Ramón Bejarano in Monterey, Christian Würtz in Eichstätt, and Thomas Hennen in Baker. All are self-identified LGBTQ sympathisers (at best).

Then, quoting Cardinal Montini (Paul VI) at this Wednesday's Angelus, 'Pope Leo XIV' stated that the faithful could no longer remain “silent and passive”. He suggested that pre-Vatican II Catholics participated in the Latin Mass less "consciously". In comparison with what? With participation in the New Mass, which now may consist of grown men in full-length tutus, dancing? The New Mass, in which 80% of Catholics now have zero participation?

Leo declared the postconciliar reform and its 'New Mass' to be “firmly rooted in the living tradition of the Church”. Tell that to the Marines. 

Finally, there's the Catholic archbishop who this week gave a prominent French politician, Senator François Patriat - publicly identified as Freemason - a Catholic funeral. https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/china-chooses-bishops-lgbt-activists  Canon 1184 stipulates that, unless the person shows some signs of repentance before death, “notorious apostates, heretics and schismatics” (such as Freemasons) must be denied a requiem Mass. 

Catholics with long memories may recall that in 2019 'Pope Francis' stated it was time for a 'new vision' of humanism, of fraternity and solidarity between individuals and peoples. That is the very name of Freemasonry - and lo and behold, now we have 'Pope Leo XIV' advocating for Islam and remigration, which will hasten the Freemasonic objective of a One World Church and a One World Government.

Pope St Pius X

It's but cold comfort to realise that Leo, a publicly self-confessed heretic elected by an invalid conclave (as was Francis), has zero authority in the eyes of God.

In this sustained, satanic, Freemasonic, teutonic attack on the Church, the papacy must first be dissolved into a collegial, synodal, shared ministry. Teutonic, because Lutheran reunification would result in almost doubling the tax revenues to be had in Germany. Despite the loss of 307,117 Catholics in 2025, German dioceses received additional revenue from the Kirchensteuer (Church tax). Revenue rose from 6.628 billion euros ($7.58 billion) in 2024 to 6.751 billion euros ($7.72 billion) in 2025.

The German Cardinal Walter Kasper, who led the Sankt Gallen bid for the Bergoglian papacy, thus assuring the succession of Bergoglio's protege (the manipulative, malleable Cardinal Robert Prevost) is spear-heading the drive for Lutheran reunification and the Freemasonic World Order. As they say, follow the money.

Historically, the Church has condemned both Freemasonry and pagan worship. Under 'Leo XIV' both are tolerated and even celebrated. Traditional practices are restricted, while pagan rituals and Masonic appointments are normalized. The faithful wonder what the Church is becoming and whether those who defend the faith will be the next to be silenced."

Good Catholics who love their Novus Ordo Missae, who love God and try to follow Christ, are now mired in apostasy, acedia and effeminism to such an extent that they may no longer recognise the most basic requirement for membership of the Mystical Body of Christ: that of baptism. They are in mortal danger of following an antipope into an antichurch.

Traditional Catholics who are aware of the terrible reality of the Four Last Things - Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell - must pray, sacrifice and fast for the defeat of Freemasonry, the restoration of the Sovereign Kingship of Christ Jesus Our Lord, and the salvation of souls.

 

From Pax Orbis:

The first significant inroad made by Freemasonry into the heart of the Church was the appointment of the influential Cardinal Rampolla as Secretary of State. Ordained in 1866, Mariano Rampolla was made a bishop by Pope Leo XIII and appointed Apostolic Nuncio of Spain in 1882 for five years. 

 

It was during this time that Pope Leo released his landmark encyclical condemning Freemasonry, Humanum Genus. Released in April of 1884, this was to be his final official condemnation of the Craft. Only six months later, Pope Leo received his famous vision of the devil ‘conversing’ with God and subsequently wrote the prayer to St Michael.

 

The date of that vision is particularly significant: it was October 13th – precisely 33 years before the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. Some time after this, the Pope decreed that the St Michael prayer and the Salve Regina be recited after every Low Mass.

 

In 1887, the Pope promoted Rampolla to Cardinal and in the same year, appointed him as his Secretary of State. (16 years)

 

 It seems strange to think that a Pope who was so opposed to Masonry allowed a character like Rampolla to achieve such prominence. Perhaps Pope Leo’s confidence in Rampolla reflected something of the latter’s character: he has all the hallmarks of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

 

Historian Umberto Longo, 9th-degree Freemason, appointed to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.

Leo XIII died in 1903 and Rampolla became known as the best potential new pope, or  ‘papabile.” This was despite Rampolla’s liberal tendencies already being widely known. 

In an unusual political intervention, the French Foreign Minister urged the French Bishops to vote for Rampolla, in order to maintain the support given to the French by Leo XIII.

 

Some of Rampolla’s other supporters at this time were Bishop Pietro Gasparri, Rampolla’s Under-Secretary of State, Msgr della Chiesa, and his private secretary, Eugenio Pacelli. Another supporter, Bishop Rafael Merry del Val, became Pro-Secretary of the conclave.

 

This followed the sudden death of the original Pro-Secretary, Msgr Volpini. The Pro-Secretary plays an important ceremonial role after the election of a new pontiff and is also automatically elevated to the role of Cardinal at the same time as a former Cardinal is elevated to the papacy.

 

Cardinal Rampolla received the highest tally in the first vote and things appeared to be going his way. Suddenly there was an unheard-of intervention by the Metropolitan of Krakow, Cardinal Puzyna, on behalf of His Imperial Majesty Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary.

 

Franz Josef was invoking a power of veto that had not been used in 400 years to eliminate Rampolla as a candidate. Del Val had tried without success to stop this intervention from taking place.

 

When Rampolla realised that the request was valid, he asked that his supporters transfer their votes to the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto. The final ballot in fact elected Cardinal Sarto and he took the name Pius X.

 

 

Pius X abolished the Imperial Privilege soon after his election, possibly due to the common opinion that the Emperor was motivated by political intentions. The true reason behind the intervention was not known until a decade later.

 

Rampolla was replaced as Secretary of State by Bishop Merry del Val; other progressive prelates, supporters of Rampolla, still held their important posts in the Vatican.  Rampolla became Secretary of the Holy Office in 1908.

 

The truth behind the Emperor’s intervention was not revealed until 1918, after Rampolla’s sudden demise. Amongst the Cardinal’s private papers were documents that indicated he was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis,  or OTO, an occult arm of Freemasonry.

 

https://x.com/Luis61053512/status/2092422089865109861

 

This cult incorporates elements of Gnosticism, Kabala and Eastern mysticism and is the foundation of Aleister Crowley’s ‘sex magick.’

 

Of special interest in our own days is one aspect of the initiation ritual of the eleventh degree of the OTO: sodomy. Msgr Ernest Jouin (21 December 1844 – 27 June 1932), a French Catholic priest and counterrevolutionary writer, believed that Cardinal Rampolla was initiated into the OTO in Switzerland and that he was a Grand Master of the OTO.

 

 

 

 

St Augustine, Confessor, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, pray for us