Has the coup d'é·tat been thwarted & and who really knows?

America's Last Prophet

In reality, Strickland got sacked because he was trying to set up a Catholic Jonestown with Gary-Michael Voris.

The Pope's Latin

First American Pope: How should we react?

The Catholic Meltdown??

“We Are God’s Chosen People”

Edit: did Leo just name them?

El Papa León XIV, hoy, sobre los Cristianos:

“Somos el pueblo elegido de Dios” pic.twitter.com/5xhrU0qzSz

— Gon Sánchez Rey ✟ (@gonsanchezrey1) May 9, 2025

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Sanborn on Leo XIV

Pope Prylest is a Cynical Gambit by Vatican

Too bad it’s not real! 😂 

 

Gushing endorsement by the head sod

Edit: since Bergoglio bankrupted the Vatican by alienating faithful Catholics and cozying up to satanic celebrities and evil politicians like Xi and Biden,  these Cardinals think that hiring an American fruitcake for Pope can fill their coffers again (Let the coke fueled orgies continue, bros! Did they ever stop?) .  Sounds like the Don is on to their gay tricks!

They couldn’t even bring in a decent crowd for the Conclave. It would have helped if they’d been planning on a Catholic.

Prylest watched that satanic film, Conclave, gay confirmed:

Even Barnparts isn’t buying this op.

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American pope takes the name of a pope who opposed Americanism

Habemus Papam — Quem Papam Habemus?

The new Pope is called Leo XIV and comes from the USA

 First thoughts by Giuseppe Nardi

1.4 billion Catholics have been waiting to find out who will be the 267th deputy of Christ on earth.  The waiting was no longer lasted than in 2013. After the fifth ballot, the new Pope of the city of Rome and the globe was presented at the time, and it was the same today.

The waiting was associated with fear for many Catholics worldwide.  Which Pope would lead the church in which direction in the coming years?

The American Augustinian Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected.  As a year in 1955, he represents a generation leap. At the age of 69, he could sit in the Petrine chair for decades.  The cardinal electors wanted to make a long -term course.

Prevost joined the Augustinian Order in 1978, for which he was ordained a priest in 1982.  In 2001 he became general of his order until he was appointed Apostolic Administrator by Chiclayo in Peru in 2014 and at the same time became a titular bishop, in 2015 the diocesan bishop of the diocese mentioned.  In 2020 he was sent by Francis in the same function in the diocese of Callao, always Peru.  In 2023 Prevost's appointment was made to Rome, where Francis promoted him to the prefect of the Dicastry of Bishops and archbishop.  In the same year he also appointed him President of the papal Latin American commission, a body that was of particular importance for Francis.  Since then Prevost has been a papabile.

 In 2024, Francis created him to the cardinal at the last consistory for cardinal selection.

In his first steps, Leo XIV tries to stand out from his predecessor as possible by chosing a papal name of a Pope who died in the distant year of 1903.  He also showed himself in the traditional liturgical robes to offer the blessing to city and the earth.  In 2013, Francis signaled the demonstrative refusal to carry the Mozzetta that he wanted to break.

Leo XIV speaks very good Italian for an American.  In 2013, an American could become a Pope, which is why, at the suggestion of Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, the US cardinals themselves got out of the race.  After twelve years of a Latin American Pope, the path became clear for an American.

Leo XIV emphasized “peace” in his first, short speech.  His first appearance on the blessing loggia of St. Peter's Basilica was surprisingly positive.

From tomorrow there are many questions in the room how the new Pontifex will ask itself on various burning questions.  What about his relationship with US President Donald Trump?  How does he plan to respond to the wars that threaten the world, whether in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East or South Asia?  How will he face the globalist elites and their agenda?

However, the Church issues are more relevant: How does Leo XIV hold with the traditional rite?  How with tradition?  How with the imposing progressive demands?

The astonishingly long address of the new Pope will be searched for keywords to find initial clues.  For example, the fact that Leo XIV spoke of justice, but never of mercy, the word that was so important to his predecessor.  He thanked him, who had raised him to the bishop and cardinal and thus paved the way to the pontificate.  Leo XIV not only spoke of peace frequently, but also made a first commitment to a "synodal Church".  You will see if it was just a courtesy gesture or actually a commitment.

Many questions that answers will take place in the coming days, months and years, but should not be speculated here.  In the first place, the judgment of the Americans is now required.

 What is certain is that Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of Augustin, who was previously known as an order of Augustinians, that order, in addition to many loyal sons of the Holy Church, also belonged to Martin Luther before he broke with the order and Church.

The multilingual new Pontifex gave the apostolic blessing Urbi et Orbi for the first time.

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Popesplainers not getting pink slips any time soon

Edit Tancred: he's a Jadot protege, and he was in charge of the Congregation of Bishops. His choice of regnal name was interesting. Leo XIII was on the Liberal side... . His choices in the Congregation would be a good indication.

   

Is Leo a Covidiot?  

Prevost may have played a role in the sidelining of U.S. Bishop Joseph Strickland, who had become notorious for his resistance to COVID-19 vaccines and sharp criticism of the pope. In 2023, Prevost met with Pope Francis and Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio, or ambassador, to the United States, and speculation was that the conversation centered on the process of asking for the resignation of the bishop.

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Paddy Power Papal Favorites Are Neck and Neck

 

Edit: Say what you want about Vatican press messages. They’re often meant to deceive or conceal rather than inform.  The heretical leftist rice bowl candidate, +++Tagle is moving up neck and neck to 11/4 alongside the past master of sex predator coverup, lip service to the non-negotiables and finkelthink, +++Parolin. Meanwhile the current favorite of the Masonic and Mossad is starting to faint away, quite literally, Vatican denials notwithstanding.  This is not to say that +++Tagle himself isn’t also a coverup artist, but his minority status allows a low level of scrutiny by the gatekeepers and masses. It’s not surprising that the Orient’s DEI papal contender was so close to Francis but then so was Parolin.

Let’s also not assume that the smart money at Paddy Power is infallible, but it’s a much better indicator of truth than the habitually obfuscating Bruni. Something has happened to Parolin and everybody knows it.

Does anybody really believe papal spokesdrones? Evidently, smart money at Paddy Power doesn’t.

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Parolin is Out

JUST IN: According to multiple sources, yesterday afternoon an “alert” was triggered in the Vatican concerning the health of former Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is considered one of the leading papal contenders. The 70-year-old Cardinal reportedly… pic.twitter.com/96QcME6VwI

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) May 1, 2025

https://t.co/GJmS4cF41k "He - concluded Di Bernardo - told me that there was a person in the Vatican who wanted to meet me personally and I found myself in front of the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Pietro Parolin. There was immediate harmony on what to do. I returned there… pic.twitter.com/UmenpX1kdP

— TheRohanian 🇺🇸🇻🇦🐸 (@TRohanian) April 28, 2025

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Some men just aren't interested in a gal who made out with a tackle-box.

Explaining the Catholic Counterrevolution

Is Nick Fuentes right about black people?

Pope Francis Has Been Recalled

Pope Francis, 2013 to 2025. One of the last images from the Vatican Image Service.

A first obituary by Giuseppe Nardi

Almighty God has called Pope Francis to Himself at 7:35 AM. Thus ended the most recent pontificate, which will go down in Church history as one of the most unspeakable, after twelve years, one month, and eight days. Katholisch.info has critically followed this pontificate from the beginning. Our database documents this pontificate, accessible to everyone.

It will now be said that it is "too early" to draw a balance. But that is not so. Attentive and sensitive Catholics already felt the looming trouble for Catholicism on the day of his election, March 13, 2013. And precisely this sense of those whom God allows to recognize more was confirmed with each day of the 266th pontificate.

The titles that characterized the now-ended pontificate have already been written: There was talk of the "dictator pope" and the "lost shepherd." The pope from Argentina did not heed the warning voices until the end. He followed his agenda, which gave faithful Catholics an uneasy feeling from the beginning, confirmed by the harshness of the facts and verifiable at any time.

The pontificate will remain inextricably linked to his distancing from non-negotiable values, with unspeakable documents like Amoris laetitia, the document on the fraternity of all people from Abu Dhabi, with Fiducia supplicans and Traditionis custodes, with the homo-agenda, the Corona pandemic-lie, the pandering to the globalist agenda, the disregard for the sacred liturgy and its rubrics. The pontificate will be recorded in the annals of the Church as that of the pope who did not want to kneel and did not administer communion, who made the Holy Thursday liturgy with the institution of the Sacrament of the Altar and the Sacrament of Holy Orders invisible, and who fled the public veneration of the Holy Eucharist on Corpus Christi. The talk will inevitably be about the false friends with whom Francis surrounded himself, with Emma Bonino, Marco Pannella, and Eugenio Scalfari, to name the church-hostile, Freemason atheists; but also with the false advisors in the Church itself, such as Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo and Victor Manuel "Tucho" Fernández. It was not the false advisors who misled him. Francis himself set the direction and chose the appropriate advisors and friends for it.

Francis will also be remembered as the pope of the McCarrick boys and the absolution for abortion politicians like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Also as the pope of arbitrariness against orthodox bishops, communities, and churchmen.

He will also be recorded as the pope who wanted to radically reshape the constitution of the Church like no other before him through synodality and his bitter and unjust struggle against the clergy, but also through already implemented legal norms or at least the groundwork for them. This hidden revolutionary side will demand much reparation from his successors, in this and many other areas. Not least, consider the neo-absolutism that Francis quietly imposed, and which was "overlooked" by the mainstream so well-disposed to him, up to the strangulation of contemplative women's monasteries and the fact that the rights for religious foundations were taken away from the bishops.

Among the shadows of the past years is also that too many have remained silent. This is based, consciously or unconsciously, on a false understanding of the papacy, whereby the papacy is absolutized in the wrong place, while where it is absolute in the preservation and defense of worship, tradition, and Catholic identity, it was dismantled, not least by Francis himself.

Francis was also the pope, which should not be concealed, who did not cover up the West's complicity in the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, but spoke of the "too loud barking of NATO" at Moscow's door.

The cardinals, that mass of purple-clad men whom Francis himself appointed with great urgency in recent years to make the processes he initiated irreversible, will gather in a few days for Francis's funeral mass in St. Peter's Square and shortly thereafter convene for the general congregations that precede the conclave. What will follow is the conclave, which, in all likelihood, will give the Holy Church of Jesus Christ the 267th pope by mid-May at the latest.

As the 2013 conclave showed, much is done in certain high Church ranks to lock the Holy Spirit out of the Sistine Chapel at the "Extra omnes." However, He works, that is the justified confidence of every Catholic, where and how He wills.

The succession games have long begun, even before Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Clinic in mid-February. The lists of the so-called papabili have been circulating for months. Francis knew at the end, as much as he tried to lay down his papacy, at least how to die like a pope, by not resigning, although it would have been appropriate for him to do so, unlike his predecessor. He died in office, as is fitting for a pope elected for life, and he died in the Vatican, not in any hospital. That may be little, some will find, given the less than pleasant balance of the pontificate, to put it euphemistically, but at least.

The purple-clad men have begun to play election sum games. The numbers are on the table: 135 cardinals are eligible to vote in the upcoming conclave, should Cardinal Becciu's resignation be legally valid, which is to be assumed. If all papal electors appear, at least 90 votes are necessary for the election of the 267th pope to reach the two-thirds majority. That is more than ever before in church history.

Many of the cardinals will see and get to know each other personally for the first time at the general congregations. This is a byproduct of the Bergoglian appointment practice. However, not all were inactive. There are preparations on various sides, because: when a pope dies, a new one is elected.

The faithful, earthly speaking, in the holy Church, which is hierarchically structured by Christ, have no voice in the chapter of the papal election. But they have a powerful means at hand, prayer.

~We have to thank God that the 266th pontificate of history has come to an end.

~We have to ask God for mercy for the late pope. The personal judgment has already passed for Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected in 2013 as the Vicar of Christ on Earth.

~We have to ask God for a holy pope, whom He may give to His Church: for a holy, apostolic, charismatic, and missionary pope, who celebrates the holy liturgy and strengthens His brothers in faith.

Francis has already passed the moment of personal judgment, which occurs immediately at the moment of death. The Lord knows everything, the good and the bad of a long life. May He repay all the good and be merciful.

Lord, grant Francis eternal rest,

and let eternal light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace. Amen.

Image: VaticanMedia (Screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Pray for the Conclave

Pope Francis has passed to his judgment. Whilst he was in the hospital, my Latin Mass community prayed that he would be delivered from sudden and unprovided for death. I hope you did the same.

Pope Francis was an unremarkable product of the post-conciliar church. Like most seminarians approved for ordination in 1969, he got through the process precisely because he wrongly believed that the pre-conciliar rites of holy Church had no remaining value for “modern man,” and that the Church is somehow obliged to alter everything that she is and does to accommodate “modern man.” At no point, do contemporary churchpersons feel the need to explain who modern man is or why s/he deserves accommodation. Like most Jesuits, he had no appreciation for high liturgy.

 

Pope Francis has now been judged. Pray and fast for the Cardinal electors that they may exercise their right to vote wisely.

 

This is our chance; the conciliar church is mostly dead. Pray and fast.

Veronica’s Veil

Is it not the Veil of Veronica in Manoppello, but the Holy Face (the small burial shroud)?

By Roberto de Mattei*

Simon of Cyrene and Veronica are two figures that the tradition of the Church have placed close to the hearts of the faithful because they participate in the Passion of Our Lord during the Way of the Cross.

Of Simon, the Gospel says: "And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross" (Mk 15:21).

Simon of Cyrene, a city in North African Libya where there was a flourishing Jewish community at the time, happened to be passing by and was forced to carry the cross because Jesus no longer had the strength, and the Jews wanted him to go all the way to Golgotha to have him crucified there. The compulsion to which Simon was subjected became an extraordinary privilege for him. It is therefore permissible to imagine that divine providence chose him because his soul was seized with deep compassion in the face of the shameful spectacle.

Veronica, on the other hand, acted on her own initiative, out of that impulse that often makes women more generous and self-sacrificing than men. The reward for her was extraordinary. According to tradition, the image of the Holy Face of Jesus was imprinted on the linen cloth that she had offered the Savior to wipe the blood and sweat from his face.

Little is known about both, but the fact that Mark's Gospel (15:21) mentions Simon's sons suggests that his family may have played an active role in the early Church, and that the Rufus mentioned by Mark is the same one Paul mentions in the Letter to the Romans when he says: "Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well" (Rom 16:13).

Veronica does not appear in the canonical Gospels, but unlike Simon, she is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, which makes her an undisputed historical figure who, thanks to her veil, which has become one of the most precious relics of Christianity, holds great significance in ecclesiastical veneration.

The Veil of Veronica has been kept in St. Peter's Basilica since at least the beginning of the 8th century, when Pope John VII had a special chapel built in St. Peter's dedicated to the relic, which, like many others, may have come from Constantinople. The recognition of its authenticity is also evident in the fact that Pope Innocent III, in the 13th century, approved its public display, and from then on, it was shown to pilgrims from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica on special occasions, attracting a large influx of faithful. This is attested to by Dante Alighieri, who, in a famous passage of the Divine Comedy, compares himself to one of the many pilgrims who came "perhaps from Croatia" to venerate the icon of the Face of Christ in the first Holy Year in the Church's history in 1300:

Like one who perhaps comes from Croatia

to see our Veronica,

who cannot be sated with his ancient longing,

but says in his thought while he gazes:

"My Lord Jesus Christ, true God,

was then your face like this?"

Paradise, XXXI, 103–108

An expression of this veneration is also the large statue of Veronica by the sculptor Francesco Mocchi from 1640, located in a niche of the four pillars of St. Peter's Basilica.

The Jesuit Heinrich Pfeiffer (1939–1921), professor of art history at the Pontifical Gregorian University, argues in his book Il Volto Santo di Manoppello ("The Holy Face of Manoppello," Carsa Edizioni, Pescara 2000) that the precious relic, which was kept in St. Peter's Basilica for centuries, was allegedly stolen and secretly brought to the small Abruzzese town of Manoppello between 1608 and 1618.

Veronika Maria Seifert, lecturer in Church history at the Sant’Apollinare Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, concludes in her meticulously researched book Il sudario della Veronica e il Volto Santo. Storia e devozione ("The Sudarium of Veronica and the Holy Face. History and Devotion," Velar, Bergamo 2024) that the relic removed from St. Peter's Basilica in the 17th century was not the Veil of Veronica, but the Holy Face, that is, the small burial shroud that John saw in the empty tomb (Jn 20:7). The Mother of God, the apostles, and the disciples had carefully collected all the objects that had come into contact with Jesus, explains the author of this study, and the two relics, which were kept in the Church from generation to generation, both came to Rome. The Veil of Veronica is still in the Vatican, while the Holy Face was brought to the Capuchin monastery of Manoppello in the 17th century. There are unfathomable points of contact between the two relics, but also profound differences: from the closed or open eyes to the more or less recognizable "image" imprinted on the cloth.

St. Peter's Basilica has claimed possession of the Veil of Veronica since the Early Middle Ages and last publicly displayed it on April 6, 2025, as on every fifth Sunday of Lent, from the Veronica Loggia. The holy relics considered "Acheiropoieta," that is, images not painted by human hands that show the faithful the image of the suffering, dead, and risen Christ, are therefore three: the Veil of Veronica, the Holy Face of Manoppello, and the Shroud of Turin.

Regardless of the number of these relics and the place where they are kept, the Holy Face of Jesus has always been deeply venerated. Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face was an ardent devotee. She contemplated with immense love the Face of Jesus, which, despite the traces of all the wounds, blows, and humiliations suffered, expressed an impressive mercy, gentleness, and noble features.

The Church is the mystical body of Christ and stands before us like Christ before Veronica. In the Holy Face that Veronica has transmitted to us, we contemplate today the sufferings of the Church, which suffers on its Good Friday but preserves the extraordinary dignity that made the Face of Christ shine in his suffering. The saints of all centuries have wept over the suffering of Christ. May the Mother of God at least moisten our eyes and stir our hardened hearts, uniting us closely with her redeeming compassion during the Holy Triduum.

*Roberto de Mattei, historian, father of five children, professor of Modern History and History of Christianity at the European University of Rome, president of the Lepanto Foundation, author of numerous books, most recently in German translation: Verteidigung der Tradition: Die unüberwindliche Wahrheit Christi, with a foreword by Martin Mosebach, Altötting 2017, and Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil. Eine bislang ungeschriebene Geschichte, 2nd expanded edition, Bobingen 2011.

Books by Prof. Roberto de Mattei in German translation and the books by Martin Mosebach can be obtained from our partner bookstore.

Translation: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Corrispondenza Romana

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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