John-Henry Westen srndoeoptSt8afs08r5P1 udt9ttM5cl8e 0323ae37u7h6lil35ayf7a :Y · BREAKING: Pope Leo names Chicago's Cardinal Cupich to Vatican City's governing council. Handpicked by popes for unwavering loyalty & alignment with their vision. Cupich: Rejects Latin Mass Embraces pro-abortion politicians Opposes pro-life movement
No real doubt as to what we’re dealing with now. Chillingly, he’s laying out his stall far more quickly and unambiguously than his predecessor. May Christ help us all.
Still, it’s very hard not to criticise a pope who implicitly supports the recent pervert pilgrimage to St Peter’s and who hints at changing doctrine.
The key point to remember is that Catholic news agencies, for the most part tend toward the liberal mindset, so I believe that the shift toward orthodoxy as far as clergy is concerned is overlooked by many Catholic outlets in their reporting. JoeJerk is messing with objectivity and truth in news reporting, but he cannot but be in panic-mode leading up to full restoration. This implies, however, that persecution of believers and faithful Catholics will probably increase! But the blood of martyrs opens the floodgates of grace. It is a lose-lose scenario for the devil! Though painful for us; may we remain faithful and be prepared!
During the Francis pontificate I eventually decided to switch off from what was happening in the church. I still can attend Holy Mass and receive the sacraments so that's my focus. I have also now reverted to switch off mode. I do pray for the Pope and hierarchy every day. Lately I have even started to light candles for the conversion of our politicians. We walk a thin line and Charity has to be extended to everyone. I do feel very concerned for the children now being put through a godless education system. The shepherds have abandoned their flock. It's very sad. Really though we need to pray more for conversions.
This seeming inability to have any type of discourse about questionable actions taken by the Church hierarchy is likely why some leave the Church altogether. The only Catholics who are marginalized and criticized are the ones who openly question what's going on in the Church . This is very psychologically unhealthy. If this went on in a family, the children would be a hot mess as adults. Why can't we just say, as Father Kramer does, that perhaps we're in the time of "two wormridden popes" as prophesied at La Sallette? Then we can say that God only allows evil to bring about a greater good, which we are hopeful is right around the corner. We can also add that prophecy is given so that we can pray for a different outcome. In this case if there is a bad pope, we must pray that he repents.
I don't like posting this but it is good to follow developments which I would otherwise be unaware of. The Art of Losing Quietly Cupich ascends, Opus Dei collapses, Vienna applauds women’s ordination—and the keepers of the peace keep their mouths shut. Chris Jackson, Oct 16 2025 “Almost there!” The Rebel pilot’s last words before disintegrating over the Death Star could just as easily describe today’s Catholic commentariat. The professional optimists of the post-Francis right keep repeating the same line every time Leo promotes another heretic or dismantles another bastion of orthodoxy: almost there. Just a little more patience. A little more obedience. Don’t criticize. Don’t give Rome a reason to clamp down. Stay on target. But the longer they whisper it, the clearer the target becomes. Rome isn’t leading them back to the Traditional Latin Mass at all; it’s leading them to a Latin Novus Ordo. When Knoxville’s Latin Mass was canceled, the Vatican told the faithful they could have the Novus Ordo in Latin instead. That is the shape of “reconciliation” under Leo. And when he gave that famously clueless interview wondering why anyone would prefer the traditional Mass when “they can have the Novus Ordo in Latin,” he revealed what could possibly be the whole scheme: to replace restoration with imitation, tradition with theater. The Vienna Heretic If reports are true, the next Archbishop of Vienna will be Josef Grünwidl, a man who publicly supports the ordination of women and wants a new council to make it happen. In saner times that would earn him defrocking. In Leo’s Church, it earns promotion. Grünwidl isn’t coy. He has said plainly that mandatory celibacy should end, that women could join the College of Cardinals, and that the Church must enter a “dialogue” on female ordination. Translation: the apostolic faith is outdated and must be re-imagined by the next synod. This is the model bishop now: a smiling reformer who dismantles the priesthood with a tone of prayerful sensitivity. When the hierarchy starts demanding a new council to “clarify” what Christ already defined, we’re watching open rebellion canonized as virtue. Cupich Ascendant Meanwhile, Chicago’s own Blase Cupich has been rewarded with yet another position of power: this time on the commission that governs Vatican City itself. The man who handed an award to pro-abortion senator Dick Durbin now sits on the legislative body of the Vatican State. This is validation. Cupich represents the seamless-garment theology Leo openly admires: politics first, faith optional. The very bishops who once whispered misgivings about his excesses now bow to his influence. For Leo, Cupich isn’t a liability; he’s a prototype. The revolution promotes its own. Trad Inc’s Trench Run Watch the so-called guardians of tradition strain to keep their composure. Every week brings another scandal, another anti-Catholic appointment, another public gesture toward syncretism; and still the pundits insist we’re “almost there.” Keep zipping it, they say. Don’t provoke Rome. Don’t jeopardize your permissions. It’s the theology of perpetual approach: forever nearing the restoration, never arriving. They can’t admit what’s obvious. Instead of preparing to lift restrictions, the Vatican could be preparing to redefine them. If a diocese offers a Latinized Novus Ordo as a substitute for the old rite, will these same voices still call it a victory? Will they hail obedience as the path to freedom while the Faith itself is quietly rewritten behind the veil of prudence. Opus Dei Gutted Even Opus Dei, the most disciplined of Rome’s loyalists, has been gutted. The prelature has been carved into three parts: the priests in one box, diocesan affiliates in another, the laity handed over to their local bishops. The prelate’s authority is gone. The laity are exposed. Rome calls it “clarifying governance.” What it really is, is the final domestication of an organization that still remembered order and hierarchy. Now its lay members will answer to bishops who barely believe the Creed. The fortress hasn’t been stormed. Its gates have simply been removed. A Carpet for the Crescent As all this unfolds, the Vatican proudly offers a prayer room for Muslims inside the Apostolic Library. The same curia that forbids public listings of the Latin Mass now provides a carpet for Islamic prayer. Ecumenism has swallowed evangelization whole. They’ll call it hospitality; it’s really surrender. The one religion that once converted the world now apologizes for its exclusivity. The Pattern of the Age Promote the heretics. Reward the compromisers. Dismantle the strongholds. Appease the unbelievers. That’s the rhythm of this pontificate. Each move is packaged as dialogue or decentralization, but the direction never changes: away from faith, toward accommodation. Almost There, Again Trad Inc still thinks they’re seconds from victory. But every time they say almost there, another Latin Mass disappears, another heretical bishop is installed, another “reform” is baptized as pastoral mercy. The Vatican may yet dangle a Latin-language Novus Ordo as the great concession to the faithful, but that would only prove what the faithful already know: the revolution no longer hides its face. And when the smoke clears from the next diocesan “compromise,” the silent faithful will realize what the talk-show Catholics never will. The pilot muttering almost there isn’t heading for triumph. He’s already on fire.
God will vindicate us when it's time. He always tries His beloved like gold in the fire. And He very often uses His own corrupt Church hierarchy to do it. Look at how many saints it happened to. And look at how they handled it.
One saint said that Apostacy in the Church is the most terrible Chastisement we can ever face. Not only we as a Church but mankind in general for as Jesus said when the yeast itself goes bad what hope is there for the rest of the bread? Matthew 16:6 “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” They say when Pope St John xxiii read the third secret of Fatima he fell over in a faint because it refers to this Apostacy in the highest places. Padre Pio too was said to have talked about it. More and more recently I have been thinking of Our Blessed Lady and what she would do if she were alive today. What would she do? What would she say? How would she act? She did say one time , talking of our own times, 'In the end the only arms that will be left to you is my rosary!' This is so true of our days. The only arms left to us is the Holy Rosary. Pray, pray, pray. I am really, really looking forward to getting away to Fatima the first week in December. It will be the first time I have ever been there. I never knew they do a rosary procession every night! So many wonderful things to look forward to. Especially buying a really good , large Fatima statue. Prayer might not seem like much. But really it is everything.
Looking at the huge rosary processions at Fatima cheers me up. It reminds me how much goodness and good people there still are in the World.
Hopefully God doesn't take His sweet time lol. We should ask for the Saints supernatural strength to persevere. I do wonder how they got thru what they did. God gave them the strength to face so much, even their own death.
That's my main concern always - the children. God's innocent ones being dragged thru the diabolical. That's why I'm confident God will act fast now. I have cried so many tears for the children. It's so unfair to them, but I have to trust God that He knows what He's doing.
You, yourself, are an example of the resilience of The Faith. Your parents’ faith is shaky, but yours is solid as a rock. I hear lots of stories of young people presenting as totally uninterested in the out-dated, ‘trendy’ beliefs of our ageing apostatic prelates. All they want is That which will set them Free-The Truth.
Awww thank you & God bless you. Actually, thru my family's disobedience, rejection of God I became a devout Catholic. I'm a cradle Catholic. As a little girl, I looked around at my family & thought 'This isn't right.' I forgive them because I need to be obedient to God, but do I still get cranky & say things to them? Yes, I do. They're too stubborn. I can't do anything about it as my parents both battle lifetime addictions. My mum gambling, my dad heavy drinking, womanising & hoarding. Their marriage is horrible, but my mum wasn't obedient to God to seek an annulment as they don't have a Holy & Sacramental marriage. Such a mess, honestly, but I surrender them to God, God gave them free will. It just saddens me they both didn't live their life for God, that's something that would kill me personally, the regret. So, God has used my sufferings to go full force with Him lol. My mission in life is to convert everyone lol. My family for sure think I'm annoying, but if what I say gets them into Heaven, all this suffering will be worth it lol. Plus, I don't care anymore if they think I'm some crazy Church lady (my brother & his gf already think I'm super religious) our souls are everything. And at the end of the day, I live a normal life, I just want to reject evil & sin, it's soooooo not worth it. We don't want to be separated from God & we don't want that for others.
in the alleged messages/apparitions that Manuela Strack receives, since September 2023, she has been told repeatedly that the Church is going through the tribulation. Although the tribulation can't be marked as a definitive length of time, we are more than two years into it. All messages stress to attend Mass and go to confession. We may not leave the Church due to the invasion of corruption that we are hearing about. There are a lot of other interesting points from those messages, we are to say the Saint Michael prayer (the best way is to learn to say it in Latin), supposedly the anointing oil is ready for a person of royal lineage in France who doesn't yet realize their role, a false peace that is being advertised by someone, a loudmouth, who is not in favor with God. In the apparition sites where the Virgin Mary has appeared, there will come a sign in the form of a pillar of cloud by day and turning into fire by night...this is to help all of us (like the Israelites exiting Egypt) free ourselves from the bondage of worldly evil, to renew the sanctification of the priesthood, and to firmly adhere to the Ten commandments.
