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Vatican Watch...

The Path to Rome and the Ascendency

of Pope Peter II?

By Hilary White

Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the Knights of Malta

Has Bergoglio reached the end of his usefulness? And if so, what’s next on the agenda?

While most eyes are still lingering on the repellant business in Fatima, and watching the skies for fire from above, the rumour mill is firing up again. There are people around about who want information to come out, and they like to send it to me and to others we know who are doing similar work. I’ve also been having conversations with various folks who have been sharing what they have heard. Then I suppose it is more or less my job to put the pieces of the puzzle together, with one bit from one person, and another bit from another, and see if it makes a picture.

(Nota Bene: all to be taken with the subjunctive and qualifiers... we’re still talking about rumours and speculation, don’t forget): The short version is that at the end of 4 years of Pope Francis Bergoglio, every bit of the power and money of the institutions of the Catholic Church is now in the hands of the completely triumphant post-Conciliar, secularist,

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globalist, neo-modernist Revolution.

And that is why I think that Bergoglio’s reign will not last much longer. His purpose has been accomplished; Maradiaga’s "irreversible renovation" of the Church is done.

Bergoglio himself has been recorded saying that he thought his pontificate would last about 4 years. And here we are. We know that certain people put him in place for certain reasons. He was to accomplish some very particular tasks and I think he has done so. I think overall, his job was to complete the demolition project of the radical revolutionaries of the Vaticantwoist project; that is, the total reconstruction of the Catholic Church along the lines of their vision.

He was to be the wrecking ball applied to the institutional structures, the machine to take down the power of the Curia, who most especially broke the power of the Vatican’s old guard power brokers, like Sodano and Bertone, names we never hear now. He was to align the Church with the secularist globalists of the George Soros kind, and put all or nearly all of the control of the money into the hands of the Germans and their bankers.

He was to wipe out the vestiges of the John Paul II/Benedict appointments in the Curia and in major and strategically important sees around the world (pop quiz: what do the dioceses of Chicago and Tulsa have in common?) appoint the right kind of Nuncios so that the national bishops’ conferences – that had begun to backslide under the last two popes – could be brought back into line. Last of all, he was to ensure the succession by, on the one hand appointing the right kind of man to the College of Cardinals and on the other isolating, terrorizing and demoralizing the remnants of the Ratzingerian "conservatives".

Broadly, he was to sever the connection of the Church’s power structures to her doctrines, most especially the doctrines that the secular world finds most objectionable; that is, on sex and marriage. He was to complete the desacralization of the Church as an institution and remove the last obstacles for a functioning union between Catholicism, "liberal" factions in other Christian confessions and other religions and the globalist, transnationalist elites in Brussels and New York.

All of these things he has accomplished, and the time has come for the Revolution to move on to the next phase. Whatever Francis himself had planned next - and I am still hearing talk of a "Big Thing" in the works – probably isn’t on the agenda. (The shape of which is perhaps starting to be revealed. cf: Marco Tossati’s piece today on the appointment of a "commission" to "rexamine" Humanae Vitae. If this is true, and there’s no reason to doubt it, I’m sure the commission’s work will be encouraged to flourish no matter who’s on the throne.) What I believe is that now that the Wrecking Ball has done his work, we will next have the Surgeon.

What do I mean? The wrecking ball was needed to take down the last of the old large structures, the big old buildings that were dusty and halffalling down. Organizations like the Curial offices that were holding things up and whose resistance has now been effectively neutralized or taken over: the Pontifical Academy for Life and the JPII Institute; the IOR; Divine Worship and Sacraments; CDF; Cor Unum and Caritas under Cardinal Sarah’s attempted reforms; Congregation for Religious and the re-visioning of contemplative religious life for women; the Roman Rota and the new rules for annulment; the "modernization" and "rationalization" of Social Communications.

Indeed, I think Francis has succeeded beyond the hopes of the cabal, in having essentially bypassed the Curia altogether, inventing entirely new governing structures from whole cloth, and simply waving his hand and decreeing that from now on national conferences will take care of themselves. Under Francis there has, effectively, been no "Vatican" at all. Only his personal drinking buddies sitting around the table for the five-hour lunches at Casa Santa Martha. The prelates still turn up for work, but no one’s getting any nods from the boss, who, simply, doesn’t care about them or what they do. But the problem the Revolutionaries have is that there are still people around like us. The little guys out here in the big and little pockets of resistance. People like Matthew Festing and the Professed Knights of Malta, the Franciscans of the Immaculate, the Norcia monks, the Anglican Ordinariates, the London and Toronto Oratories, the parish of St. John Cantius, the Norbertines in California and the Augustinians in Lagrasse, the FSSP, Bon Pasteur, and the ICK. There are certain bishops of the JPII/Benedict "old guard" all over Europe, the Americas and Asia who have influence and who have and continue to attract many "conservative" young vocations.

There’s noisy guys like Cardinal Zen and quiet ones like Bishops Laun, Rey and Jugis.

There are the "new conservative" religious orders of the JPII era, and the holdouts who refused to go along in the first place, like the Rosano nuns in Tuscany - more or less the only women’s monastery in the country who kept the Latin monastic Divine Office and have 60 nuns and flocks of vocations to show for it. There are some like Heiligenkreuz Abbey, who tried the Vaticantwoist proposal for a while and decided it was better to go in reverse.

There are pockets of resistance among the Dominicans. There’s the little startups, new communities in formation, the Benedictine houses like Gower, Missouri and Silverstream in Ireland, and those little independents who were founded locally in hope and who want to adopt habits, common life, even the traditional liturgical forms. There are the Benedictines whom everyone knows are counterrevolutionaries: Fontgombault, Le Barroux, Kergonan and Jouques, Clear Creek and St. Cecelia’s in Ryde. And of course, there’s all those Carmelites and Poor Clares praying and praying without cease.

Going down a few levels there are publishing houses, think tanks and university rectors, liberal arts colleges and postgraduate study centres. There are pro-life organizations, scouting groups and adoration societies, Chesterton Societies, young adult groups and Legion of Mary chapters, all that might be termed the "civic society" of the Church, laity acting in accordance with their state in life.

And then, there’s Summorum Pontificum, that turned out to be a bigger problem than anticipated: sitting there in the bright sun, digging its roots deeper and deeper every day, flourishing and sending out shoots and vines and flowers that are rapidly developing into fruit.

There’s all that to think about. And for that one doesn’t need a wrecking ball.

One requires a Surgeon.

The Revolutionaries were stymied in 2005, and have been in a rage over it since then. It is hardly surprising that in 2013 they ran out of patience – even Kasper, who is second-generation, was getting on. Martini was dead, as was Hume; Danneels and Lehman were coming up to mandatory retirement, and who knew how long they were going to last after that. They had held on all these decades, waiting and planning through the long John Paul II period, and the brief Benedict hiatus – that they worked to make as chaotic as possible – and now have finally been able to put their man in place, the capstone of the Conciliar Pyramid, so to speak. But now that the Revolution is on track again at last, those who knew what he was also knew that there were things that needed to be done that could not be done by Bergoglio.

But even through the Long Pause they accomplished nearly all the preparatory spadework. In five decades, they have taken hold of and strengthened their grip on every other institution in the Church.

They created and then controlled the national bishops’ conferences that have done the lion’s share of destroying the old Faith; they have done everything possible to control the selection process of new bishops by careful selection of nuncios. And through these structures have had a firm grip on Catholic education – crucially the seminaries of course – from the start.

Through the Germans they have for some time had control a good deal of

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