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The Abomination:
The Desecration of Fatima
Based on a talk given recently by
Father Paul Kramer, B.Ph., S.T.B., M. Div., S.T.L. (Cand.)
The Churchs
liturgy commemorates the dedication of the Lateran Basilica, the cathedral of
the successor of the Apostle St. Peter, and St. Peters Basilica at the
Vatican, where the tomb of St. Peter, the first vicar of Jesus Christ is
located. These monuments are a visible reminder of Our Blessed Lords
promise given personally to St. Peter, that the "gates of hell" will never
prevail against the Church. The Catholic Church therefore is infallible (i.e.
She cannot err), and is therefore also indefectible, i.e. cannot ever depart
from the divinely revealed truths, and be transformed into a false
religion.
Catholic Church will be
Persecuted
As Catholics we
profess our Faith that the Holy Catholic Church will remain faithful until the
end of the world, when Christ will come again to judge the living and the
dead.
The Church,
however, will be driven underground by violent persecution. A bloody
persecution of the Church has been foretold by the Message of Fatima. When this
will have taken place, the one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church will be
forced to revert to the underground catacomb Christianity of the early Church,
as in the time of the ancient Roman persecutions.
The Counterfeit
Church
It will then
falsely appear that the Church has apostatized when the counterfeit church
nominally catholic but in truth a false ecumenical sect of Masonic
inspiration will seem to take the place of the "former" Church.
This is what will
be the most dreadful aspect of the Great Chastisement: the apparent demise of
traditional Catholicism and its replacement by the new ecumenical
"Catholic Church", a pan-religious, pan-Christian monstrosity.
This is the
Great Apostasy foretold in Sacred Scripture and in the Third Secret
of Fatima. It is already in the process of taking shape and coming into being
the "House of God" is being desecrated, violated and profaned by
Christian heresy and pagan idolatry. The desecration of the Church
of God is the great abomination foretold in Sacred Scripture.
Awesome is This
Place
The Consecration
of a church is commemorated in the liturgy with these words, "terribilis est
locus iste", terrible is this place. In the proper sense of the word, the
Temple of the Lord, His Sanctuary, is a tremendous place, awe-inspiring, where
one is induced to understand and experience the fear of the Lord.
November 9 is the
Feast of the dedication of the Lateran Basilica, the church of the Savior,
where for centuries and centuries, it has been the Cathedral Church of the
Roman Pontiff, the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope of the Universal Church.
November 18 is the Feast of the dedication of the Vatican Basilica of St.
Peter. And so, commemorating the dedication of these ancient churches, the
Churchs liturgy invokes those words "terribilis est locus iste",
terrible is this place, because the Church is, as the liturgy tells us, "the
House of God and the Gate of Heaven." The Sacred Liturgy reflects the heavenly
nature and the sanctification of the Holy Place which is the "House of God and
the Gate of Heaven."
Hence, the place
is sacred, set apart, and therefore when a church is dedicated, it is
consecrated to God: set apart from all that is worldly, all that is profane,
all that is pagan, all that is false, heretical or apostate. In ancient times,
during the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the temples that had been
built for the false gods, rather than being destroyed, were remodeled and made
fit places to be the dwelling of God. To be sanctified first by being exorcized
of their demons, dedicated to the service of God, and then sanctified by the
very presence of Jesus Christ Our Lord. He Who is the incarnate God, comes down
in the Blessed Sacrament and confers on the Holy Place the ultimate
sanctification and glorification of God.
The glorification
of God is one of the most prevalent themes of the Old Testament. Because it is
Gods glory to manifest His glory and sanctify His name on Earth, in order
to make the human race participate in His holiness, in His sanctity, and in His
divine life. And so, God manifests His glory, and brings about the
sanctification of all that which is set apart and made sacred, dedicated to the
service of God for the sanctification of men.
All Devils Must
Leave
When God takes
possession of His holy Temple, all the false gods must leave. When the
Spaniards came to Mexico, they destroyed the idols, and the image of the
Blessed Virgin and the Child Jesus was put up in their place. The idols were
all knocked down and destroyed, and seemingly by divine intervention, Cortez
and his men who did this were unharmed against the multitude of enraged pagans
and idolaters.
Gods
manifestation of His power through His human instruments has taken place
throughout the history of the Catholic Church and the Christianization of the
nations. This was the command of Jesus Christ to His Apostles. Just as He was
about to ascend into Heaven, He said "go forth and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost; teaching them all the things that I have instructed you. He who
believes and is baptized will be saved, he who does not believe will be
condemned. And behold I am with you all days, even until the end of the world."
(Mt. 28:19-20; Mk. 16:15-16)
Catholic Church is
Indefectible
With this promise,
Jesus made it clear that His Church would be indefectible. His Church would
remain faithful until the end of the world. God will not permit, He will not
allow, that His Church will be totally subverted and taken over by the devil,
and be transformed into the church of Antichrist, of Satan, the devil and his
angels, the false gods of the pagans.
This is why we
know that the great chastisement that Our Lady of Fatima warned us about, is at
hand. We read in the Scripture, in the Psalms, that God will not permit that
the scepter be kept in the hand of the wicked, lest the just should outstretch
their hands to it. God will not permit that His elect will defect into
faithlessness, and become infidels.
Our Lord says
souls have been given into His hand by His Heavenly Father, and no one can
pluck them out of His hand. (Jn. 10:28-29) So Jesus promises that the elect
will remain faithful, no matter what may be the appearance of the rest of the
Christian world.
Defection of Entire
Nations
The defection of
entire nations is foretold in the Secret of Fatima. The Third Secret, the third
part of that Secret that Our Lady revealed on July 13, 1917, remains hidden
because those who have custody of the Secret are the very ones who are indicted
by the words of Our Lady of Fatima.
We know this to be
the case, that the portion of the Secret that was revealed on June 26, 2000 was
a fraud, intentionally presented as the whole Third Secret, because the text
that was revealed does not contain the words of Our Lady. The Third Secret, as
is well known, properly begins with Our Ladys words, "In Portugal the
dogma of the faith will always be preserved," and then the text of the
Secret continues after the mysterious word, "etc."
Those are the
words of the Secret confided by Our Lady to the children of Fatima, "the words
of Our Lady confided as a Secret," referred to in the Vatican press release of
February 1960, when they announced that perhaps the Secret would never be
revealed, would never be published.
That, of course,
is their wish, that it would never be published, because the words of Our Lady
confided to the three shepherd children, Lucy, Francisco, and Jacinta, are an
indictment of their infidelity. Cardinal Ciappi, who was the Papal Theologian
and therefore knew what was the text of the Third Secret, but bound by oath of
secrecy, could say no more, except that in the Third Secret of Fatima, "it is
foretold, among other things, that the great apostasy in the Church will begin
at the top."
A Field Day for
Heretics
This is something
that we see happening today, before our own eyes. Heretics, for example, are
going around and saying not only that the Blessed Virgin did not remain a
virgin after the birth of Jesus, but that Her divine Son Jesus Christ Our Lord
lived in the state either of matrimony or something less than matrimony.
Something not quite so legitimate as matrimony, as if He had lived in the state
of secret marriage.
This is, of
course, absolutely preposterous, and need not be refuted at this point, because
anyone who has a solid knowledge of Scripture knows very well that such a
proposition is not only false, but absolutely ludicrous.
But the response
of the American Bishops Conference, this is what I find of interest. This is
what should be alarming to anyone, this is a signal that theyve lost
their faith. What was their response? It was something totally noncommittal, if
I may paraphrase what they said very clearly: "There seems to be no evidence
one way or another from Scripture." And thats where they left it.
Uphold the
divinely revealed truth? No way! The North American Bishops are cowards, at
best; and infidels, it would seem to be. If this is not bad enough, let us
recall that were not talking about the very highest of the levels of the
Church when we talk about, after all, the American Bishops. The highest level
is the Pope in Rome and those of the Roman Curia who have been delegated to
participate in the exercise of the Popes supreme authority.
Apostasy of Reprobates to
Start in Vatican
The Secret of
Fatima tells us, Our Lady tells us, the Mother of God reveals that the great
apostasy in the Church will begin from there, from the Vatican. We can
therefore surmise, and it has been prophesied down through the ages by the
saints, that eventually Rome will be taken over by an Anti-pope, who will be
entirely without Catholic faith, entirely heretical,1 unlike the
present occupant of the See of Peter, who in his heart wishes to preserve and
save the Church, but in his intellect, behaves as if he were the Churchs
worst enemy, by promoting the very things which will lead to the destruction of
the Church.
Ecumenism and
religious liberty were proclaimed by the Second Vatican Council to be something
Catholic, something pertaining properly to the Holy Catholic Church. Yet it is
very much these same errors which have been so solemnly condemned by the Church
by the Popes of the previous ages. The errors were proclaimed in a
non-solemn, non-definitive manner, so even if the Pope, Paul VI at the time,
and the bishops of the world attempted to proclaim these errors in the name of
the Catholic faith, they did not speak infallibly in the name of Christ.
And although they
were abusing their office of Magisterium, it was Our Lord Jesus Christ Who
instituted the Churchs teaching Magisterium exclusively to teach the
truth. It can therefore never be said that a bishop, a council or even a Pope,
exercising his Magisterium, which is exercising his teaching office, if he
teaches error, that his pronouncement is somehow belonging to the Magisterium
of the Church. It can be likened to when a person reads the Holy Scripture and
finds a text in the Bible that he understands to mean something, and accepts
that meaning in faith, or so he thinks.
But the very
substance of faith is the revealed truth. And if the person makes an error in
his understanding of the revealed truth, whether it be of Sacred Scripture or
Sacred tradition, a wrong understanding, an erroneous doctrine, is not believed
by the virtue of faith because it is by the theological virtue of faith that we
are united to God as the primary truth. The very substance of faith is the
divine truth, and therefore it is impossible to believe any error in faith. It
is the failure of the human mind, of the human intellect, it is not an act of
faith to profess an error.
Likewise, when a
Pope or bishop exercises his office of Magisterium, if he teaches an error, he
has failed in his attempt at exercising his office of Magisterium. Because his
teaching is not the Churchs Magisterium, his teaching is his own
error.
Present Grievous Errors Taught
from the Top
Such is the case
of the non-infallible teachings, unfortunately, and most deplorably, even of
the Pope today, John Paul II. Two instances stick out in my mind: When the Pope
was giving a catechetical instruction on January 11, 1989 he explained the
article of the Apostles Creed referring to Our Lord Jesus Christ: "He
descended into Hell." His explanation of that article, "He descended into
Hell", is precisely that teaching which was explicitly condemned by Pope Saint
Pius V, in the Catechism of the Council of Trent. That Catechism explains that
the article of faith, "He descended into Hell", does not mean that He was
buried in the earth, as John Paul II erroneously asserted, because the Creed
already professes that He was crucified, died and was buried; and therefore,
the Apostles are not going to repeat the same article twice. What this article
means is that when Jesus Christ Our Lord died on the cross, while His body was
placed in the sepulcher, His soul went to the limbo of the Holy Fathers,
which is designated by the general word "Hell" not the hell of the
damned, but the underworld Hell, which was something separate from Heaven.
Because until Jesus Christ Our Lord opened the gates of Heaven, none of the
souls of the departed could enter Heaven, and they had to be kept in this limbo
which is referred to in the Creed as Hell.
The Catechism of
the Council of Trent explains that so long as the body of Christ Our Lord was
in the sepulcher, His soul was in Hell. On January 11, 1989, Pope John Paul II
taught the heresy that when Our Lord died on the cross, His soul went to
Heaven, straight to Heaven. This is heresy, one cannot profess this, knowing
that it is contrary to the Catholic faith, and still remain a member of the
Church.
The only way such
a one can remain a member of the Church is if one is so utterly ignorant of his
Catholic faith, that he doesnt know that he is teaching heresy. I leave
it to God to judge. But this much we may judge, the Pope does not know his
Catholic doctrine.
Then he professed
the heresy of Peter Abelard, that the souls in limbo were touched by the power
of the grace of Christ. So, Christ descended not in His soul, but in His power,
by the power of His grace. This is the condemned heresy, the anathematized
teaching of Peter Abelard.
The proposition
set forth by John Paul II on January 11, 1989, namely, that the words, "He
descended into Hell" mean that Jesus Christs descent into hell meant that
He was buried in the earth: the Catechism of Pope Saint Pius V declares to be
not only an error, but a wicked teaching. This is the teaching of a Catechism
promulgated by the great Pope Saint Pius V, which declares plainly and
authoritatively that the proposition set forth by John Paul II is not only
false and erroneous, but it is a wicked teaching.
Most Grievous Sins Against
Gods First Commandment
The prayer meeting
that took place in Assisi is something that merited the Divine vengeance even
though God, in His mercy, is still patient. But He manifested His anger in the
form of a destructive earthquake shortly after the Pope gathered with the
pagans to pray together to his God, and for them to pray to their gods.
The First
Commandment says: Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me, yet the
Pope invited the pagans to come in and pray to their idols. And the idol of
Buddha was placed upon the tabernacle, the consecrated altar, in Assisi. The
church was thus desecrated, by this act of pagan worship, in the place that had
been dedicated and consecrated to God for the sacred service, the divine
service, of the eternal Sacrifice of the Holy Mass, which is the only fit act
of worship whereby the divine Victim is offered to the divine Godhead.
The Pope invited
all the practitioners of false religions into the sacred Catholic premises to
practice all the absurdities and abominations of the mystery of Babylon, in the
Holy Place.
The Pope also
declared in 1987, to a Jewish gathering in Mainz, Germany, that the Old
Testament has not been revoked. "Never revoked by God," to use his own words.
Again the Pope spoke heresy. It is the defined teaching of the Catholic Church,
solemnly professed at the Council of Florence, that the Old Covenant ended with
the coming of Jesus Christ, and the New Testament began.
This is the
teaching, after all, of the Apostles, of Saint Paul, who clearly states under
divine inspiration in the Scripture that we profess to be the divinely revealed
truth, that the Old Covenant came to an end. John Paul II says not so, "never
revoked by God."
This is not only
the personal heresy of John Paul II, but it is promoted, although cautiously,
but nevertheless vigorously promoted by the Vatican, what we can truly call
today apostate Rome.
Our Lady of La
Salette said, "Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist."
Catholic nations that were subject to the law of God and in which the Catholic
Church was the legally established Church, have become secularized, due to the
diplomatic pressures of the Vatican. John Paul II proclaims separation of
Church and State, and the Vatican vigorously promotes that abominable
error.2
Pope Saint Pius X,
on the other hand, condemned the Doctrine of Separation of Church and State and
pointed out that the error of separation of Church and State has been
repeatedly condemned by the Popes, in season and out.3
The Desecration of
Fatima
In the name of
religious liberty, Vatican II teaches that all have the right to openly and
publicly profess their religion, according to their conscience, whatever that
religion may be in accordance with these condemned and abominable
teachings, the liberty of conscience, religious liberty, and ecumenism, they
would even desecrate the place where Our Lady came, in Fatima, which the Mother
of God sanctified with Her presence. They will desecrate that holy place with
paganism. The Vatican intends to allow that place to be turned into a
diabolical sanctuary of paganism.
Now they want to
make it a sanctuary or so they call it, its a
contradiction in terms for all religions; where all religions can unite.
This is precisely the thing that Our Lady wants to save the world from.
This, after all, is the great apostasy foretold in the Third Secret of
Fatima. And now the Vatican would allow the transformation of that holy
place into a sanctuary for the apostasy.
Example of Saint
Columbanus
How diametrically
opposed is their program to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The saints went forth
to Christianize the world, and they condemned the idolatry of the pagans. The
Roman Empire was not Christianized through dialogue, but through the bold
preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the fearless denunciation of the
abomination of paganism. And then when the Roman Empire collapsed, and it was
filled with pagan barbarians, again it was the saints who understood the nature
of their priestly calling, and they went forth from the monasteries and
re-Christianized a de-Christianized Europe.
Saint Columbanus
left Ireland and traveled through Europe establishing monasteries, and his
disciples established monasteries. And those places became the great Catholic
centers of Europe. If the monks had not wandered over Europe, brought the
Scriptures with them, the Roman Empire having been overthrown, Christianity,
with it, would have died with that Empire.
But by Divine
Providence, when everything was being destroyed by the barbarians, throughout
the former Empire; all the treasures of Latin culture, Latin literature, and
the sacred learning, were concentrated in Ireland.
And the monks from
Egypt, and many of those faraway places in the near East, fled and took refuge
in Ireland. And from there the monks went forth and re-Christianized Europe,
which had now been overrun with pagan barbarians. They did not dialogue with
the worshipers of Thor, and the other false gods, they preached the Gospel
vigorously and turned the people away from the errors of their idolatry.
The bishops of the
Roman Church stayed in the comfort of their palaces with a few remaining
officials of the former Empire, the nobility of the Empire that existed no
longer in the West. They did not venture out to preach to the pagans, to the
barbarians, they were content to stay home and live in comfort.
The monks
understood that it was their duty as priests of Jesus Christ to baptize the
nations; to rescue them from idolatry. Saint Columbanus founded monasteries, he
and his monks preached all over what is today France, Germany, and Austria, and
they went as far as Kiev. What was the reward he received? He was summoned in
the year 603 to appear before a synod of bishops, because those who called
themselves the legitimate pastors had not authorized him to do this.
Its like he
was not incardinated in one of their dioceses, not authorized by them, the
local bishops, and therefore they considered him to be illegitimate, irregular.
Saint Columbanus understood, however, that the priesthood is a divine calling.
The priest does not merely serve at the pleasure of the bishop he has
been sent by Jesus Christ.
The priest cannot
simply remain silent because the bishop says "I dont want you to preach
anymore." "Why not?" "Because I dont like you."
Error from Anyone Must be
Resisted
If the priest is
teaching some heresy, then the bishop has the authority to stop him. But if
the bishop and the upper hierarchy in Rome are promoting heresy and error and
abominations, then the priest, all the more, has the duty to combat the
error. As Saint Robert Bellarmine says, the Pope, if he is attacking the
faith, must be resisted: and the divinely appointed instrument for resisting
error is the preaching of the Holy Gospel.
It matters not if
the Pope is maliciously trying to destroy the faith, or if in his ignorance
unwittingly is doing that. The Church teaches us that he must be resisted if he
is creating a danger for the faith.
The danger for the
faith at the time of Saint Columbanus was the total failure on the part of
great majority of the hierarchy to obey the divine command: "go forth and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost." (Mt. 28:19) Nearly all the bishops seemed to think
that that command did not apply to them.
But, they were the
successors of the Apostles and they did have that duty, and they were not
carrying it out. It was the Celtic monks who took that command seriously, under
the leadership of saints like Columbanus, and they were going to be punished
for carrying out their duty before God, for obedience to the divine
command.
And so, Saint
Columbanus did not show up for the summons commanded by the authority of the
bishops of the Catholic Church to appear and answer to the charges made against
him. He answered with a letter, as Thomas Cahill relates:
"Columbanus, who
cannot be bothered to take part in such a travesty, sends a letter in his stead
a letter calculated to send the bishops right up their well-plastered
walls:
To the
holy lords and fathers or, better, brothers in Christ, the
bishops, priests, and remaining orders of holy Church, I, Columba the sinner,
send greeting in Christ.
I give
thanks to my God that for my sake so many holy men have gathered together to
treat of the truth of faith and good works, and, as befits such, to judge of
the matters under dispute with a just judgment, through senses sharpened to the
discernment of good and evil. Would that you did so more
often!."4
And, of course, he
ignored the summons and continued the divine work of the evangelization of the
pagans.
Present Day Errors of High
Placed Churchmen
The Conciliar
Church has replaced proselytism with ecumenical dialogue they have
rejected the divine command to "make disciples of all nations." (Mt. 28:19)
The heresy of the
Conciliar Church is to view all religions as good, and therefore as true
religions, but imperfect and professing errors. The Catholic faith admits that
there is only one true Church, one true faith, and one true religion. All other
religions are false. Outside the Church there are only heretics,
infidels and pagans. The apostasy in the Church, as foretold by Our Lady of
Fatima, stands before us in the abomination of the ecumenical mingling of the
sacred religion of Christ with the abomination of paganism. The apostasy is
precisely this: the attempt to unite all religions together in one great
paganized church. This is what Sacred Scripture calls the abomination, the
mystery of Babylon.
This kind of
iniquity is being promoted by the Vatican, and by many of the bishops; they are
going to transform the sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima into a pagan shrine. She
Who is more terrible than an army arrayed for battle; Whose Immaculate Heart
will triumph, will triumph over the paganized iniquity that apostate Rome would
try to erect. It is precisely at the place where She revealed the mystery of
iniquity in our time where they intend to promote the abominations of pagan
iniquity.
They would turn
that holy place into a sanctuary of the devil, of the false gods who, the
Scripture says, are devils; the place where all the false gods will be
worshiped together with Jesus Christ Our Lord. "Thou shalt not have strange
gods before Me." As Catholics, we can only stand up and denounce this as an
heretical abomination, as an act of apostasy. The true religion cannot be
practiced together with false religions.
We Must Actively Resist
Apostasy
Those who promote
or participate in such an abomination have lost all moral right to exercise any
authority against those who still have the Catholic faith; those who will not
join them in apostasy. And those of us who understand it, whether we are
priests or lay people, we have the duty to resist. To resist the pastors, to
resist the bishops, and if its promoted by the Pope, to resist the Pope
himself, because we are commanded by God to hold fast to the Catholic faith,
inviolate and entire: "Integral and inviolate", because the Creed tells us that
unless we preserve our faith, integral and uncontaminated, we will perish for
eternity.
Especially those
who are ministers of the Holy Gospel, it is their duty to denounce the
abomination, to condemn it unconditionally and clearly. Because, as we know
from the Message of Fatima, the apostasy will begin from the top, from the
Vatican. And eventually from an anti-Pope who will openly proclaim the
paganized mystery of Babylon as the counterfeit Catholic Church. It will be
Catholic in name, it will be pagan in its very essence.
Bloody Persecution Just Around
the Corner
We see that
transformation already taking place. And when it crystalizes, takes its form,
then the bloody persecution, the mass extermination of Catholics, will take
place. And Our Ladys words will be fulfilled: "the good will be martyred,
the Holy Father (the true Pope) will have much to suffer." Our Lady of Fatima
says, "In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will
consecrate Russia to Me."
By that act of
consecration, Russia will be transformed from being an instrument of
persecution to an instrument of upholding and saving the Catholic Church and
the Catholic faith from the pagan iniquity that has undermined the Church of
Rome. The Russian Orthodox, even today, unflinchingly refuse any dialogue with
the Roman Church, because they see that the Roman Church is being
paganized.
They will not even
suffer a minor change of wording in the prayers of their liturgy. That for them
is anathema. When they see the protestantization and the paganization of the
Roman Church, they tremble.
When the Pope
consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when Russia becomes
Catholic, then it will be truly Holy Russia, a Catholic Russia, a traditional,
uncompromising, implacable enemy of the errors of Vatican II, that will save us
from the iniquity of paganism that threatens to drown what was once called
Christendom.
Footnotes
1. St. Francis of Assisi:
"There will be an uncanonically elected pope who will cause a great schism,
there will be divers thoughts preached which will cause many, and even those in
different orders to doubt, yea, even agree with those heretics, which will
cause my order to divide, there will be such universal dissensions and
persecutions that if those days were not shortened even the elect will be
lost." Reverend Gerald Culleton, from The Reign of Anti-Christ,
p. 130.
2. Cf. Abbé Daniel le
Roux, Peter Lovest Thou Me; Victoria (Australia), 1989, pp. 20-30.
3. Ibid, p. 28: "...the Roman
Pontiffs have, in season and out, refuted and condemned the doctrine of the
separation of the Church and State..." St. Pius X in Vehementer, Feb.
11, 1906.
4. Thomas Cahill, How the
Irish Saved Civilization, New York, 1995, pp. 188-189.
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