What the USSR and the worldwide communist revolution
were unable to impose by force is being adopted in the West by free association.
How could this be, when millions of soldiers and sailors
gave their lives to prevent such tyranny and violence from spreading to their
homelands?
The answer is that men love darkness and will not come
to the light so that their sins may be reproved (St. John 3,19-20). The engine
of this evil in the modern age is atheistic communism.
The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the three children
in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 prophesying that the Great War (WWI) would soon end
but that a worse war would come if men did not cease offending God. To remedy
this, our Lady prescribed a public act of religion led by the Pope in concert
with all the bishops of the world in which Russia would be consecrated to her
Immaculate Heart. If this were followed, Russia would be converted to the Catholic
faith and peace would follow. If not, Russia would flood the world with her
errors and great devastation would come by wars, persecution of the Church, and
the annihilation of many nations.
Sister Lucia communicated this message in writing to her confessor, Fr. Gonçalves in 1929 after seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary in her chapel requesting this consecration again. According to Sr. Lucia, our Lady had requested this consecration on several occasions, and it occupies a central theme in the Fatima apparitions.
The Russian Orthodox Church was formed after the
Eastern Churches (known today as the Orthodox) had renounced their filial
relationship to the Roman Pontiff (and the depths and concreteness of this submission
is hotly contested by historians from both sides) in 1054 A.D. in what is known
as “the Great Schism.” Aligning with the monarchies of the East, the Orthodox
Churches fractured along political lines and eventually bore the names of their
states (e.g., the Russian Orthodox Church). This separation from Rome and dependence upon the
Eastern states eventually resulted in a Church subordinated to the state which
many accused of aiding the Czars in the oppression of the poor.
Against this
backdrop arose the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 promising the Marxist utopia envisioned
by Lenin and Trotsky. The communist regime that followed was erected upon
atheism and dialectical materialism; early reforms of the government included the destruction
of Churches, systematic arrest and capital punishment of clergy, seizure of all private property by the state, forced collectivism and involuntary population relocations. Abortion on
demand, no-fault divorce and women’s rights legislation were enacted to bolster the work force in support of the
means of production.
Our Lord taught that a house once delivered from the
demon that returns to its demonic domination suffers a seven-fold increase in
wickedness (St. Matthew 12,45). He made it clear he was speaking of generations
and not just individuals. This explains the spiritual origin of the USSR's astonishing evils which
vanquished all public free expressions of Christianity and controlled the [puppet]
Russian Orthodox Church for 70 years. A post-Christian society is much more
evil than a pre-Christian society. Responsible estimates of the human toll of
communist imperialism in the past century are around 100 million lives lost to
communist states and the wars engendered thereby.
It is without doubt that the most opportune time for
the Pope and all the bishops of the world to consecrate Russia to our Lady’s
Immaculate Heart would have been the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)
convened by Pope John XXIII and concluded by Pope Paul VI. Here were more than
2000 bishops gathered with the Roman Pontiff and the act could have easily been
done in a short, deliberate ceremony in response to heaven’s request. In fact,
the opposite happened.
In order to promote ecumenism, one of the council’s
overriding themes, a pact was struck in Metz, France between a Roman envoy and
representatives of the KGB-dominated Russian Orthodox Church in August of 1962. As a condition for
Russian Orthodox observers to attend Vatican II, this
agreement stipulated that the council would not condemn communism.
Communism had been condemned by many Popes culminating
in the encyclical Divini Redemptoris in 1937 promulgated by Pope Pius XI:
The doctrine of modern Communism, which is often concealed under the most seductive trappings, is in substance based on the principles of dialectical and historical materialism previously advocated by Marx, of which the theoricians of bolshevism claim to possess the only genuine interpretation. According to this doctrine there is in the world only one reality, matter, the blind forces of which evolve into plant, animal and man. Even human society is nothing but a phenomenon and form of matter, evolving in the same way. By a law of inexorable necessity and through a perpetual conflict of forces, matter moves towards the final synthesis of a classless society. In such a doctrine, as is evident, there is no room for the idea of God; there is no difference between matter and spirit, between soul and body; there is neither survival of the soul after death nor any hope in a future life. Insisting on the dialectical aspect of their materialism, the Communists claim that the conflict which carries the world towards its final synthesis can be accelerated by man. Hence, they endeavor to sharpen the antagonisms which arise between the various classes of society. Thus, the class struggle with its consequent violent hate and destruction takes on the aspects of a crusade for the progress of humanity. On the other hand, all other forces whatever, as long as they resist such systematic violence, must be annihilated as hostile to the human race.
A traditionalist faction in the council known as Coetus Internationalis
Patrum circulated a petition formally requesting the council’s
condemnation of communism which at the time menaced the Church and threatened
half the globe. Led by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the Coetus Fathers obtained
nearly 500 episcopal signatures for their petition which 'disappeared' under the cunning hand
of ecumenical conspirators. At the Second Vatican Council two Popes not only failed to consecrate
Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, they added to their trespass the
unconscionable dismissal of a condemnation of the 'errors of Russia' that were
then flooding the world.
It was a complete and unprecedented anomaly for Pope John
XXIII to set aside the magisterial duty to condemn errors at Vatican II. What the
Church leaders did not condemn exposed her faithful to become. The ‘errors of
Russia’ cited by our Lady at Fatima have not only filled the world, they have
saturated the human element of the Church.
There are almost no differences in the percentages of
Catholics and non-Catholics today who contracept, procure abortions, divorce
and remarry, and support sodomy and other perversions. Catholics today support
political factions and causes that the Church has long and often condemned. This
has not been forced down the throat of Catholics at the point of a gun as it
was in communist Russia; it has been willingly imbibed by the faithful accepting
with docility the new, conciliar faith of Vatican II that could not condemn
communism or any other errors.
But what of Pope John Paul II, ‘destroyer of communism?’
The image of John Paul II the anticommunist is largely a media fabrication that
began in his native Poland:
While Cardinal Wyszynsky could not get away from his diocese, because the communist government would not grant him permission, Archbishop Wojtyla had full freedom to travel abroad without restriction. This was the common policy of encouraging Wojtyla and destroying the old Cardinal Wyszynski for his anti-communism.
It should be noted that from the start, the figure of John Paul II was built carefully by the press and the media, as opposed to the Primate of Warsaw, the heroic unyielding anti-Communist Cardinal Wyszynski. Therefore, an alleged conflict was exaggerated between the two, Wyszynski as the super-conservative and Wojtyla, instead, as the open intellectual who loved the company of girls, who went about dressed in shorts, a true “liberal” and “progressive.” Indeed, Wojtyla really was a liberal prelate. (Fr. Luigi Villa)
Pope John Paul II styled himself apostle of Vatican
II, the council that would not consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart nor
condemn communism. In his first address as Pope, John Paul II encouraged the adoption
of the ‘spirit of Vatican II’:
However, as the Council is not limited to the documents alone, neither is it completed by the ways applying it which were devised in these post-conciliar years. Therefore, we rightly consider that we are bound by the primary duty of most diligently furthering the implementation of the decrees and directive norms of that same Universal Synod. This indeed we shall do in a way that is at once prudent and stimulating. We shall strive, in particular, that first of all an appropriate mentality may flourish. Namely, it is necessary that, above all, outlooks must be at one with the Council so that in practice those things may be done that were ordered by it, and that those things which lie hidden in it or - as is usually said - are "implicit" may become explicit in the light of the experiments made since then and the demands of changing circumstances. Briefly, it is necessary that the fertile seeds which the Fathers of the Ecumenical Synod, nourished by the word of God, sowed in good ground (cf. Mt 13: 8, 23) - that is, the important teachings and pastoral deliberations should be brought to maturity in that way which is characteristic of movement and life.
What we refer to as communism has its own history. It is the history of protest in the face of injustice, as I recalled in the encyclical Laborem Exercens - a protest on the part of the great world of workers, which then became an ideology. But this protest has also become part of the teaching of the Church. (Crossing the Threshold of Hope, pp 130-131)
The apex of this abominable surrender to communism was
achieved in 2018 when in a secret agreement with the Peoples’ Republic of China
Pope Francis accepted the communist-appointed ‘bishops’ of the Chinese
Patriotic Association as true bishops and betrayed the underground bishops who
had loyally supported Rome and submitted to the Popes for generations under the most
intense duress. Pope Francis ordered the two entities to merge under the head
of the bishops controlled by the communist PRC.
The situation in the US is also untenable. The federal
and state governments fund social welfare programs run by Catholic dioceses
which are primarily instituted by Democratic Party initiatives. This renders most
bishops in the thrall of the Democratic Party and their antichristian platform
which includes open borders; abortion-on-demand until and even after birth; so-called
‘gay marriage’; and now even socialism itself, the ideological forerunner of communism.
How can such bishops speak out against the sins that are sponsored and promoted
by the Democratic Party? Even the few who do are vastly outnumbered by the majority of our own
episcopal soviet, the non-canonical democratic body known as the US Conference of
Catholic Bishops.
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| Bolivian President Evo Morales gave Pope Francis a crucifix atop a hammer and sickle, 9 July 2015. |
Many Catholics are deceived by those who claim the
consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart has been done by John Paul II. If
it had been done, there would be libraries of books chronicling every detail of
the world-wide, public act of religion performed simultaneously by all the
Bishops in the world in union with the Holy Father. There would be furious
outrage from the Russian Orthodox. Man-made ecumenism as we know it would collapse
at once, along with it all the other synthetic institutional fabrications proceeding
from the Second Vatican Council. Mass conversions of Russian Orthodox priests
to Rome would stun the world. The socialism spread by the USSR all over the
world would collapse. There is simply no way the consecration could have taken
place without an impossible-to-miss spiritual, social and political earthquake
taking place in its wake.
The Fatima prophecies tell us the consecration will
occur, only that it will be late and that the scourges unleashed by Russian
errors will ravage the world. We are living amid these ravages now. Its toxins
occupy the very air we breathe, the languages we speak, the activities we
perform daily. The only way out is the consecration.
Until then, we must begin in our own hearts, families,
spheres of influence and Churches to purge ourselves of these diabolical
errors. We must prepare ourselves for that moment when indeed a Roman Pontiff
will obey the Mother of God without conditions or exceptions. The weapon issued
to us by heaven is the daily recitation of the Holy Rosary and reparations for
sin by the Five First Saturdays devotion, but especially the Rosary.
All the novelties, innovations, reforms, and
developments springing forth from the Second Vatican Council are infected with
this virus. What the Church leaders failed to condemn they have doomed us to
become. Yet we must take courage and follow the heroic and pious example of our fellow Catholics
in China who, while betrayed by the Pope, have not been betrayed by our heavenly
Lord or His Immaculate Mother. O Immaculate Heart of Mary, conceived without sin,
pray for us who have recourse to thee!