Remember when the MAGA-jab was bad?

I'll bet they could've easily got Mark Shea to say he wouldn't take it.

 

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Probably Another Muslim Attempts to Murder Priest and Nun in Nice

Edit: just in time for the French election. It seems that French knights fought hard to protect Europe from these animals. Once they were mostly in Algeria (and from North Africa in general), now they’re multiplying in French suburbs.

[RT] An assailant stabbed a priest and a nun inside the Saint-Pierre-d’Arene church in the southern French city of Nice on Sunday, Mayor Christian Estrosi said.

The suspect was quickly detained by police. Estrosi said the victims were being treated for their wounds.

The mayor added that the suspect was a French national born in Frejus, a town near Nice, who was suffering from a mental condition. The head of the Alpes-Maritimes Region, Bernard Gonzalez, said that the suspect had been repeatedly admitted to a hospital for psychiatric treatment in the past. He ruled out that the incident was a terrorist attack.

The attack took place on the day of the presidential election and a week after Catholics celebrated Easter.

France has seen an increase in stabbing attacks after an Islamic radical beheaded schoolteacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb in October 2020. This was followed a week later by an Islamic terrorist stabbing three people to death in a Catholic church in Nice.


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Gonzalo Lira is Still Alive

 Edit: he was detained by the SBU but seems alright, if a bit shaken. He is not permitted to leave Kharkov.

Here’s a long chat on The Duran.

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Vatican Desperately Holds onto Coronascare Measures and Death Vaxx

(Rome) After a serious incident, the Vatican refuses to comment. Cardinal Raymond Burke was barred from Roman Curia dicasteries because his green passport (vaccination certificate) expired in March. The Vatican reacts to media reports in its own way by sticking to the mask and vaccination requirements. Although the pseudo-pandemic has been exposed, the Papal States are pretending to be ignorant. They hear and see nothing because you neither want to hear nor see.

Yesterday the government of the Vatican State and the Holy See decided to retain the FFP2 mask requirement (until recently a mouth and nose protector was sufficient in Italy) and the vaccination certificate (Green Pass) - even in the Vatican Museums.

While green passports and the obligation to wear masks have fallen in most western countries - even in Austria, where a corona-fanatical government made up of blacks and greens has been up to mischief since February 2020 - the Vatican remains in defiant denial of reality. After all, Pope Francis had risen early on to become a global vaccine propagandist, which inevitably presupposes a threat scenario - even if it's just a contrived one.

Switzerland lifted most of the corona measures in March and since April 2nd the mask requirement on public transport. And? What happened? Nothing! The state of Texas had already taken this step on March 21, 2021. And? What happened? Nothing! The state of Florida had already eliminated the corona measures in the summer of 2020. And? What happened? Nothing! Sweden has never introduced such measures. And? What happened? Nothing! Nothing that didn't also happen in the states that took radical to most radical corona measures and that went beyond the normal occurrence of the average flu.

The examples mentioned expose lockdowns, mask requirements, and other forms of discrimination as senseless and also as malicious since they were deliberately arranged. This viciousness is even maintained in some states against children who are obviously intended to be "transformed" on a psychological level. Not to mention the criminal corona madness of the Communist regime in the People's Republic of China, as it is currently being exercised in Shanghai.

Recent decisions approved by Santa Marta

The Vatican's decisions go back to Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin. Although this is not part of the government of the Vatican State, it heads the Roman Curia. In the Church, which is structured in a strictly hierarchical manner, formal and real decision-making functions become blurred, because in cases of doubt the Holy See decides. The Cardinal Secretary of State will not make such a decision without prior approval from Pope Francis.

Despite figures showing the opposite, the Vatican State and Holy See insist that "the current pandemic situation calls for a special, extraordinary and dramatic approach" to combat the coronavirus. This situation is not just surreal now, it was already in the spring of 2020. Since the first corona cases appeared in the West, tested with a useless instrument called a PCR test, it was clear: neither is the SARS-CoV‑2 a “killer virus nor is the human immune system defenseless against it. As a result, the two false premises that formed the basis of an unprecedentedly insane corona policy were already invalidated in February 2020.

The reasons for these exorbitantly misguided government decisions, whose actual consequences in economic, constitutional, civil and criminal law, psychological and health terms are not even remotely foreseeable, are still in the dark today. Governments refuse to say what information they received from whom and when they took their unprecedented actions.

What is being kept secret, what is to be covered up?

In addition to the wearing of masks in all closed areas of the Vatican, the new decrees also continue to prescribe interpersonal distance, hand hygiene and the regular disinfection and ventilation of all public spaces. Both the Vatican State and the Holy See will continue to demand the green passport

invented by the EU Commission, which shows the vaccination status and, as a mercy, is also valid for six months for those who have recovered. For a few hours, visitors and tourists will also accept a negative result of the unspeakable PCR test, the main instrument of the pandemic staging. The Green Pass
is still required for access to the Vatican offices but also to the Vatican Museums, the Vatican Gardens, the Papal Villas and the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, which served as the summer residence of the popes until Francis.

Vaccination with salary suspension and dismissal pressure

For most of the staff of the Vatican State and the Holy See, the "vaccination" with one of the genetically modified Covid preparations is still mandatory. Vaccination is compulsory for all health and safety workers, as well as for all employees who have direct contact with the public or visitors.

The existence-threatening clause was also reaffirmed that unvaccinated persons are not allowed to go to their workplace and at the same time non-appearance at the workplace is considered an unjustified absence, which leads to the suspension of salary payments and can lead to dismissal. This malign linkage has served from the start, ever since Pope Francis made vaccination mandatory in January 2021, to put maximum vaccination pressure on employees and staff. The question of why there is such doggedness to drive the experimental Covid preparations into irreversible range is still unanswered to this day.

Italy arbitrarily made vaccination compulsory for everyone over the age of 50. If you don't follow, you have to pay a fine of 100 euros, which sounds rather harmless. More serious is that unvaccinated people were banned from working. In addition, a precedent has been set that tomorrow will allow governments to interfere with the health of their citizens at will with sanctions. Expanding the catalog of sanctions is then easy.

The Green Passport will also continue to be required from participants in Vatican Congresses and from guests in the Vatican Guesthouse Santa Marta.

The measures in force since January 2020, which were last extended in December 2021, would have expired at the end of April.

Fascination with power

The powerful in state and society obviously like to exercise their power and let their subordinates feel it, which is why the governments are careful to extend the measures in good time. The Church, which from the outset failed to present a corrective alternative to secular power, is no exception. Segregation through vaccine apartheid continues.

With the two decrees, the Holy See and the Vatican State reacted in their own way to the media reports about the scandal that Cardinal Raymond Burke, who refuses the Covid preparations for reasons of conscience, is denied access to Vatican dicasteries. The cardinal, who has recovered from Covid-19, has not had a valid green passport since March, since recovery, the normal state of being human, is only accepted by the Corona fanatics for a period of six months. The reason for this discrimination, one of many Corona discriminations, is obvious: It's not about Corona and not about health, but about driving as many people as possible into the gene-manipulating Covid injection, no matter what. Cui bono?

The fact is that the generated Corona hysteria and the subsequent mask requirement, lockdown and vaccination pressure are intended to make people psychologically docile. The past two years have shown how systematically the mainstream media is trying to control opinions. The responsible citizen, as he was called until yesterday, who is aware of his rights and his position as an equal sovereign, is reduced to the status of a paralyzed, docile subject. So from the beginning, someone thought something about it and that goes far beyond Corona.

Lack of empathy

There has not been a word of regret or even an apology for Cardinal Burke's lockout. That fits into the Corona picture: So far, not a word of consolation or sympathy from the Pope for the countless victims of the Corona measures (not the Corona virus) has been heard. As well as when he enforces even the most radical measures against his own employees.

The corona virus is not a threat to humanity, but the corona measures are.

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Addendum for Corona believers who do not want to believe

With Alemannic thoroughness, the hospitals in the Austrian Ländle provide the comparatively best figures on the Corona situation in the German-speaking area. They show what is kept secret and veiled in other countries. 

Yesterday, April 20, 52 Covid-19 patients were treated as inpatients in the Vorarlberg state hospitals, 42 of whom are “fully immunized”. “Fully immunized” usually means at least twice, but probably three times “vaccinated” with a Covid preparation that is said to be “safe” and guaranteed “effective” according to the federal government.

The information is a remarkable contradiction, because "fully immunized" should not have to be treated in the hospital. However, the misleading Corona newspeak is being retained because the federal and state governments want it that way in their PR pandemic. The absurdity is thus exposed all the more clearly.

“Around 80 percent of Covid 19 patients are currently being treated in hospitals for another disease, with corona disease being the secondary diagnosis.” 

In reality, there are not 52 Covid 19 patients in the hospitals in Vorarlberg, but only ten. The claim that the other 42 had a “Corona disease” is also part of the misleading Corona Newspeak. In reality, the statement only indicates a positive result of the unspeakable PCR test, which all patients are obligated to undergo. This also refutes the "overburdening" of the health system, which governments have cited as the main reason for their extraordinary intervention.

"6 Covid-19 patients currently have to be treated in the intensive care unit, all 6 are fully immunized." 

Apart from the repeated paradox of intensive care despite "full immunization", it does not say how many are in intensive care because of Covid-19. Possibly only the aforementioned fifth, possibly even none.

People only die “in connection with the virus”, which can mean anything or anything. This corresponds to the veiled Corona newspeak “with and on” Corona died, which in 2020 served to create the desired Corona hysteria. Since the Covid preparations have been available since December 2020, the actual and supposed Corona deaths have done their duty and only play a marginal role. Otherwise, people might notice that despite "vaccination" there are the same number or even more corona deaths. What would they get if the citizens knew the truth?

The management report lacks information on vaccination side effects and vaccination deaths. Also in this case, because the governments do not want it. 

If you want to see for yourself, you can view the current “Covid-19 Management Report” every day.

Management report Covid-19 from April 20, 2022: The Ländle provides the best figures in the German-speaking area

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image : Osservatore Romano/landeskrankenhaus.at (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Airline pilot takes the J&J Clot Shot and nearly kills 200 people.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/no_author/my-interview-with-josh-yoder-about-american-pilot-bob-snows-cardiac-arrest-after-landing/

Update from Anonymous foe:  https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/04/killers-media-wide-vaxx-injury-blackout-media-big-tech-cover-up-pilot-cardiac-arrests/

He also asks:   Are all of these jabbed pilots medically disqualified?

It’s Not Over - Monday’s White House Announcement

A is for Fauci (go with it)

Gonzalo Lira Missing in Ukraine and Feared Captured by SBU Thugs

Edit: has journalist Coach Red Pill been arrested or “disappeared?”  After bravely reporting Ukrainian armed forces and Azov Brigade atrocities, he may himself have fallen victim to the SBU, Ukrainian Secret Police.

We enjoin prayers for your safety and salvation.

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The Church is in an existential crisis

https://www.patrickcoffin.media/the-church-is-in-an-existential-crisis/

"Wave...wave...wave"

Quakers and their ongoing role in the Ukrainian Crisis.

Mike Peinovich returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss the situation in Ukraine and the prominent role Jewish power has played in precipitating that crisis. We also discuss the global culture war and why U.S. foreign policy appears to be dedicated to promoting degeneracy and perversion overseas. What is going on 

in Ukraine?

Pope Avoiding Diocese and Going to Prison for Holy Thursday — Visits Benedict XVI

Pope Francis will retire to Civitavecchia prison for the liturgy today, Maundy Thursday.

 (Rome) Pope Francis visited Benedict XVI yesterday to congratulate his predecessor on his approaching 95th birthday.  At the same time, it became known where the head of the Church is withdrawing from today's public celebration of Maundy Thursday, and his pastoral trip to Lebanon was confirmed.

 Visit of Benedict XVI  for the 95th birthday

The Vatican press office published the visit to the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, which Francis used to bring Benedict XVI.  his Easter wishes.

Shortly after 6 p.m., the reigning head of the Church went to the Vatican Gardens.  Benedict XVI  will celebrate his 95th birthday on Holy Saturday.  He was born on April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Upper Bavaria.  From 2005 to 2013 he reigned as the 265th pope.  His tenure was significantly shorter than his life span since his resignation.  Since a pope is elected for life, he is one of only three successors of Peter who have voluntarily resigned their pontificate, he being the only one for reasons of age.

Maundy Thursday in prison

On Maundy Thursday today, as in previous years, Pope Francis is withdrawing from his diocese.  On this first holy day of the Paschal Triduum, the Church commemorates Christ's institution of the priesthood and Eucharist at the Last Supper.  The sacred liturgy in the Lateran Basilica, the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, will be celebrated by Cardinal Vicar Angelo De Donatis on behalf of Francis.

Francis continues to systematically conceal the institution of these sacraments, even though they are constitutive of the Church and the most hostile from the modernist side.  As in previous years since 2013, the place where Francis is going instead will be kept secret until the end.  While the Vatican has yet to comment, local newspaper La Provincia di Civitavecchia reported in yesterday's edition that the Pope will visit the prison there.  The newspaper referred to the head of the Italian prison chaplaincy Don Raffaele Grimaldi.

The port city of Civitavecchia is around 60 kilometers northwest of Rome.  St. Cornelius, who held the Chair of Peter as the 21st Pope from 251 to 253, was imprisoned in it.  Emperor Gallus had him arrested in the course of the persecution of Christians.  Cornelius died in captivity.

In Civitavecchia, a statue of Mary is said to have cried blood fourteen times since 1995. John Paul II obtained detailed information about this and visited the statue of Mary incognito several times.  Such an interest is not known of Pope Francis.

The prison that Francis will visit is seven kilometers north of the city.  It is a new building built in 1992 on an area of ​​two hectares.  It currently holds 465 prisoners.  According to the website of the Ministry of Justice, they have not been allowed to receive personal visits since spring 2020 because of the alleged corona pandemic.  Will Francis stand up for the prisoners?

The prison employs 222 prison police officers and 39 civilian employees.  The old prison in the city is now used as a women's prison.  It is named after Giuseppe Passerini, a prison police officer who was shot dead on duty there in 1974 by an escaping convict serving a life sentence for robbery-murder.  The official was married and the father of two underage children.  The perpetrator, who managed to escape, was killed shortly afterwards in an exchange of fire with the police.

A group of prisoners, officials and employees will attend the liturgy by Francis today.  The Pope will wash the feet of twelve chosen ones.  In the past, he also washed the feet and gave Communion to people of false religions and heretics, especially Muslim immigrants and prisoners.  The relevant information has never been denied by the Vatican.

Pastoral trip to Lebanon confirmed

The visit to Lebanon has since been confirmed.  Yesterday, the Lebanese national news agency NNA reported that Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Richard Paul Gallagher wrote a letter to Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri saying that Pope Francis will visit Lebanon on June 12-13.  Berri is a Shiite and leader of the Amal movement.

It is currently not known whether there will be a meeting with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow, as is being sought behind the scenes.

 Text: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: Google Maps (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Voris is Doxxing Rorate

Edit: it’s a swing and a miss! Speaking of the Fall of Catholic Media! Although Gary Voris and his doxxing friends at Church Militant have revealed someone who is almost undoubtedly a past contributor or commenter at Rorate, they haven’t identified the site’s owner, New Catholic as they suppose.

Chris Paulitz is interesting, though. He looks kosher and is a footsoldier for the synagogue.  I’m sure he shares Rorate’s support for the Gay Disco’s war in Ukraine.  He was the Communications Director of sex predator Republican, Mark Foley for two years. That’s long enough to get to know someone, isn’t it? The only reason the authorities didn’t file charges against Foley was because none of his victims were younger than 16. Interestingly, Foley was himself the victim of a priest who has retired comfortably to the island of Malta.

While it’s certain that Church Militant is every day, more and more an Antifa offshoot, and subject to Voris’s (and now Milo’s) deep rooted character defect, I can’t help but note that Rorate’s editorial slant to support Globohomo agendas and its own effeminacy and snottiness has a certain reek of smug beltway drones and functionaries in the GOP.

Anyway, what would be problematic about Paulitz’s involvement with Rorate? Rorate has been nothing but the most ardent gatekeeper for Jewish power in trad and conservative Catholic circles. I doubt Voris’s doxxing will have much of an effect on his career. And Voris’ pearl clutching about anonymity, won’t do anything about anonymity in the Catholic blogosphere either (some of the most interesting things ever written have no known author.) 

Mundabor has some interesting questions about the anonymity of Voris affective personality disorder, himself. 

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Catholic Media have fallen

Gene Gomulka is a retired military chaplain, ordained to the priesthood and named a Prelate of Honor in 1999 with the honorific title of “Monsignor” by Pope John Paul II. Gomulka is also a pro bono sexual abuse advocate and investigator who assisted in the case background of the Anthony Gorgia lawsuit against the North American College, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, and other defendants.

Gomulka recently penned an open letter to the main Catholic editors in the United States, essentially calling them out for covering up abuse, running interference for the no-longer-trustworthy US bishops. This is an important and somewhat shocking interview with a man devoted to getting the truth about about the pattern of abuse, cover up, and promotion of homosexual predators.

Points Covered in this episode

How and why Gomulka was first retaliated against along with Father Thomas Doyle, OP in 2004 for exposing Archbishop Edwin O’Brien for abuse cover-upsHow extensive the problem is in the current Church in the US.Why he estimates that at least 80% of American bishops are homosexualsEvidence that the establishment Catholic media are complicit in evilWhy the path to renewal must travel by way of justice for victimsReasons to stay in the Church and fight
Why Catholics owe “secular media” outlets a debt of gratitude
Resources mentioned in this episode
Gene Gomulka’s website

Another Gomulka interview with Thug & Gary's buddy Joey:

Pfizer’s Own Documents Show Deathvax After All

9-pages of side effects, 158,893 adverse events, 42,086 case reports, 1,223 fatalities in Pfizer's first three months and a record death rate among American millennials during the second half of 2021.

[Kanekoa’s Newsletter]  Attorney Aaron Siri and a group of scientists and medical professionals called the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT)filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to obtain the documentation used to approve the Pfizer mRNA vaccine in August 2021.

The FDA managed to consider all 329,000 pages of data and grant emergency approval of the Pfizer vaccine within just 108 days but then asked for 75 years to fully release that information to PHMPT and the public.

Siri wrote on his Substack, “So, let’s get this straight. The federal government shields Pfizer from liability. Gives it billions of dollars. Makes Americans take its product. But won’t let you see the data supporting its product’s safety and efficacy. Who does the government work for?”

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Thug’s Blasphemy Boards Adverted by Astroturfed Aleteia Site

 Edit: after having his wife’s book pulled from Tan for being plagiarized from his bro, Thug’s book is sacrilegious boards are being promoted by Soros-backed, astroturfed Aleteia site. 

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The Templars and Their Revival

No order of the Church is more shrouded in mystery than the Templar Order. A large number of very different organizations refer to it. What is fantasy, what is reality?

In 1312, the Poor Knighthood of Christ and the Solomon Temple of Jerusalem, better known as the Templar Order, was abolished by Pope Clement V. At that time, the Pope did not act freely, but under pressure from Philip IV, King of France. A large number of groups from Catholics, Protestants, Gnostics to Freemasons today refer to the Templars and claim to have succeeded them. What is it all about?

The Templar Order was founded in 1118 by Crusaders in the Holy Land to protect the Holy Places, as the Crusade armies returned to Europe after their successful or failed military operations. The monastic knightly orders, including the Order of the Templars, were to support the Crusade armies, but above all to ensure the defense and protection of the Holy Places in their absence. The Knights Templar, which had its focus on French chivalry, became the militarily and economically strongest knightly order. Until 1302, this elite of Western knighthood defended the last base in the Middle East, the island of Arwad off today's Syrian coast.

While the Teutonic Order had found a new task in Prussia and the Baltic States and the Order of Malta (at that time still The Order of St. John) had found a new task in the Aegean, such a task was still missing for the Templars, who retreated to their European enclaves at the beginning of the 14th century. Whether France's king also feared their now idle military power is unclear. It is certain that he considered them obsolete and, due to his financial hardships, wanted to lay hands on the proverbial Templar treasure (better, Templar possessions). The Order had built this up through a large number of foundations over two centuries to finance its very costly presence in the Holy Land (construction and maintenance of castles, maintenance and armament of the brothers). In contrast, Philip IV was on the verge of national bankruptcy.

The biggest judicial scandal in the history of the Church

Pope Clement V, a friend of the French king, had led the papacy into exile in Avignon in 1309 and thus made it a "prisoner" of the French king. Clement V, a weak pope in the See of Peter, conducted a lengthy, confused and opaque show trial against the Templars on behalf of Philip IV, which culminated in the condemnation and violent annulment of the Templar Order. Pope Benedict XVI had the trial files made available in 2007. Since then, there is no longer any doubt that the Templars were victims of a judicial scandal. It is also documented that Clement V [Despite being a French puppet, himself] not convinced of her guilt, was too weak to prevail against Philip IV. Nevertheless, a revival of the Order was refrained from in the late Middle Ages, because the reputation of the Order was considered too damaged by the trial and its destruction.

Most of the Templars surrendered to their fate, disappointed and broken. They had defended themselves as well as possible in the trial against the heinous accusations. They could have taken up arms, but a struggle against the legitimate authority of the Pope and the King was beyond the realm of possibility.

Its twenty-third and last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, had been arrested in 1307, like many other Knights Templar, on the orders of Philip IV. Under severe torture in 1309, he confessed to abominations charged to the Order, but immediately recanted his confession. The proceedings dragged on and the members of the order, since they had nothing to expect from the secular power, placed their hope entirely on the Pope, from whom they saw themselves betrayed in the end.

Still impressive today: The ruins of the Templar castle Krak in Jordan

In order to stifle any resistance in the Order, Philip demonstratively had 54 Knights executed in 1310. The Order, rendered leaderless by the arrests, was paralyzed. In 1314, the king also ordered the execution of the Grand Master, although he had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment. Molay was burned at the stake in Paris, one of many breaches of the law in this sensational smashing of a hitherto so respected and important order, to which so many members of the most distinguished families had belonged in two centuries.

The abolition of the Templars differed from the abolition of other orders in history because of the violence used against them, but otherwise it was comparable. The property was confiscated and mostly passed into secular, less often into spiritual hands. The surviving and non-imprisoned members of the Order had to lookfor a new place to stay, each for themselves. Deprived of leadership, dispossessed and threatened by severe repression, the Order simply dissolved.

Only on the Iberian Peninsula, where the Reconquista against the Muslims was still in progress, were new knightly orders founded by the kings of Aragon and Portugal, to whom templar ownership was transferred in these countries, and thus offered a new home to the Knights Templar there, who were knights and monks, which must not be forgotten.

Did the Order live on in secret?

Claims that the Templars persisted in secret in some areas of Europe lack any historical basis. Such theses only emerged in the 18th century in the context of the Masonic guilds that appeared at that time, which absorbed everything that was "tangible" for them and their intentions in terms of actual and even more supposed pre-Christian and non-Orthodox "knowledge", in historical personalities, organizations and currents. The judicial scandal that had led to the end of the Templars for political reasons was particularly predestined to be co-opted by Freemasons and lovers of the mysterious. Until then, it was not so much the Order, but emblematic for it, that the tragic figure of the last Grand Master had been in the public interest. The apparently instinctively recognized judicial scandal was condensed in the narrative that Grand Master Molay had cursed Pope and King at the stake or at least prophesied their death in the same year – and with the king the end of the Capetians – since both Clement V and Philip IV died in 1314.

It was only in the context of "enlightened" circles of the 18th century that imaginative stories and claims about the Templars really shot into the weeds. Only since then have there been ex novo claims of a secret continued existence of the Templar Order and mysterious symbols and signs by which they would recognize themselves. Centuries later, the spectacular and tragic judicial scandal was accompanied by a gigantic humbug.

Armed Christian militia in Syria with the Templar flag

Since the knightly orders, the Crusades, the Holy Land, the ideals of the Crusaders, their castles, their monastics and knighthood, their military and political power, their defensive spirit and overall, their quarrelsomeness, obviously inspire the imagination and exert a certain attraction to this day, a wide variety of groups around the world, often more bad than good, try to follow in the footsteps of the Templars.

According to the Ecclesiastical understanding, an order can be suppressed, but not abolished. It therefore rests only, because the Order continues to exist in the already deceased members of the Order in heaven and purgatory. The Templar Order could therefore also be revived at any time with ecclesiastical permission. So far, however, the Church has refrained from doing so. It would necessitate the annulment of the 1312 conviction, which was long considered a hardly feasible undertaking due to the time distance, lack of documents and witnesses. Since Benedict XVI opened the Vatican archives, it has been known that the annulment of the judgment is possible and would even be necessary. However, there is no one to be seen who could legitimately demand such a repeal. Above all, however, this would compromise the highest ecclesiastical authority, which at that time could be made the instrument of Philip IV. in the Vatican, this is considered an unnecessary mea-culpa compulsory exercise, since there is no need for a revival of the Order.

A Revival of the Templar Order: Claim and Reality

Thoughts about a possible reactivation did not appear in the ecclesiastical scene until 1847, when the Ottoman Empire – five and a half centuries after the fall of the Crusader states – allowed the re-establishment of an ecclesiastical hierarchy in the Holy Land. However, a revival of the Templar Order contrasted with the understanding of the papacy established by the First Vatican Council at the same time, in 1870. The Church met the now existing need for the preservation of the Holy Places by constituting the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in 1868. This was done without possibly provoking the Ottomans by a reappearance of the Templars and, above all, without "damaging" the papal authority at a delicate moment by admitting that a pope had supported and facilitated a serious judicial scandal in 1312. The "delicate moment" concerned the often misunderstood Dogma of Infallibility of 1870, which caused sufficiently violent conflicts within the Church and even more so hostility from outside. In the Second German Reich, proclaimed shortly thereafter, there was therefore a "culture war" against the public influence of the Catholic Church.

Today, however, the Church recognizes a number of lay associations that were founded after the Second World War and are close to the Templar Order without being able to claim its succession. They follow the ideals of a Christian life and charity, as sought and promoted by the three great ecclesiastically recognized knightly orders, the Maltese, Teutonic Knights and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, for their lay members. In addition, there are also several "connections" in the Catholic field that are not recognized by the Church, which are committed to more or less the same goals. They usually make a valuable contribution to the Church and society, especially for persecuted Christians.

In addition, there is also a large number of would-be Templars outside the Church and mostly without a religious reference. These groups come together for historical, social or sometimes political reasons. Overall, today's "Templar landscape" is characterized by a high fluctuation: groups, sometimes small and smallest, often arise and dissolve again soon.

Since the end of the 19th century, this has also included a myriad of imaginative organizations in the haze of esotericism and gnosis and, of course, groups that belong to the Masonic cosmos and somehow refer to the Templars.

This myriad of very different groups, none of which can claim an actual succession to the Templar heritage, creates a mess and sometimes exposes even church-recognized organizations to suspicion, as the name "Templar" is discredited by dubious, Gnostic and Masonic initiatives. Overall, it has caused no minor damage to the memory of the Templar Order. A precise distinction is therefore needed.

However, this is made more difficult by groups that are close to the Church, but are on the verge of dubious intellectual property. Father Paolo Maria Siano of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, one of the best Catholic connoisseurs of Freemasonry, deals with them. He shows the confusion that seems to prevail in some circles that claim foundations ecclesiastically and are according to their outward appearance. These include the so-called Frederick Templars or Frederician Templars. The self-designation alone mixes the ecclesiastical with the secular and seeks the aura of the mysterious, the resistant and the criticism of the Church.

See the essay by P. Siano on the Friderician Templars (Frederick Templars):

• The Friderician Templars between church and Gnosis?

Historical fresco: depiction of a Templar.

Text: Giuseppe NardiImage
: Wikicommons/MiL