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WHAT PART HAVE POPES PLAYED IN THE MORPHING OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM ?

Yesterday I demonstrated that the Gnostic Church--the church of Eugene Vintras and Jules Doinel--the Eglise Gnostique Apostolique, among the large variety of other names under which it appears--the Ordo Templi Orientis or O.T.O.--encompasses a church that embraces seances and other varities of spirit contact, including some form of Pentecostalism. I provided the line of succession for the Eglise Gnostique Apostolique and for the Latin-American Anglican Church, showing that they are nearly identical. I linked the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac that gives the history of the founding of a church in the diocese by Renee Vilatte, a church which is still an active Episcopal church today, and demonstrated that the Vilatte line of succession so central to the Wandering Bishops is part and parcel of the Gnostic church. I also provided some evidence that homosexuality and other immoralities may have been a factor in the church of Eugene Vintras.

All of this is just an interesting curiosity if it has no bearing on the Roman Catholic Church. Today I will try to demonstrate that it does have some bearing on the RCC.

First look at the website of the U.S. Grand Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis. In that website you will find a list of member organizations. First on the list is The Gnostic Catholic Church. Among the others: The Order of the Knights of the Holy Ghost, The Order of the Illuminati, The Order of the Knights of Malta, The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal, The Rites of Memphis and Mizraim, The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry, The Order of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch, The Swedenborgian Rite of Masonry, The Order of the Sat Bhai,and The Order of the Martinists. These are the groups of which I have written extensively throughout this blog. Some of these--the Scottish Rite, and the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch--are upper degrees of the Masonic blue lodge. The Order of the Knights of Malta may or may not be the Roman Catholic order of wealth and privilege.

There is another list in the Grand Lodge website, a list of "constituent originating assemblies of the O.T.O. [which] included such men as...". Look through the list and you will find Simon Magus, mentioned in Scripture; Dante; Manes, an early promoter of a Catholic heresy; Merlin; Krishna; Mohammed; Roger Bacon; Melchizedek. There are other names which put this organization clearly into the esoteric camp, names such as John Dee and Edward Kelly, Paracelsus, Eliphas Levi, and Papus. This group welcomes spirit contact, known today as channeling. There is one other name on the list of recent members--Cardinal Rampolla.

Next we need to turn to THE RITE OF SODOMY and the investigative work of Randy Engel. Engel quotes a passage from Mary Ball Martinez's book THE UNDERMINING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, a passage she titles "The Visionaries of 'NewChurch'" which I will not reproduce here since it discusses hr belief that the Second Vatican Council was essentially a done deal when it was convened, and the purpose of the sessions of that Council was the obtaining of the signatures of approval of the world's bishops. Following that passage from Martinez Engel writes:

Martinez indicts seven 20th century Italian prelates who embraced a vision of a "Church of the Future." They are Cardinal Mariano Rampolla, Pope Leo XIII's Secretary of State for 16 years; Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the powerful Secretary of State for Pope Benedict XV and Pope Pius XI; Giacomo della Chiesa who served as Rampolla's private secretary at the Nunciature in Madrid and who ascended the papacy as Pope Benedict XV; Eugenio Pacelli, another protege of Rampolla who served under Crdinal Gasparri and who ruled as Pius XII; Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII; and Giovanni Battista Montini who became Pope Paul VI. (Engel, p. 1089)

There you have the Rampolla contingent. The contingent that was influenced by the Grand Master of the O.T.O. The "NewChurch" that has insinuated itself into Roman Catholicism. Engel continues:

The homosexualization of the Catholic clergy and religious is part and parcel of the phenomena of NewChurch. One cannot understand the former without an understanding of the latter. (p. 1090)

From the institution of the Grand Lodge of London in 1717, the following popes have condemned Freemasonry:

Clement XII - 1738
Benedict XIV - 1751
Pius VI
Pius VII - 1821
Leo XII - 1825
Pius VIII - 1829
Gregory XVI - 1832 and 1839
Pius IX - 1846, 1864, 1865, 1873, 1876
Leo XIII - 1884, 1902 (His encyclical,Humanum Generis, is arguably the most important condemnation)
Pius X - 1906
Pius XI - 1937

Encyclicals are infallible documents. They cannot be reversed at the whim of a pope.

Engel provides the history of Cardinal Rampolla's rise through the ranks of the Church hierarchy until he very nearly became pope:

Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro was born in Polizzi, Sicily about 40 miles southeast of Palermo on August 17, 1843. He was ordained in 1866 and educated at the Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici in Rome. On December 19, 1882, Pope Leo XIII made Rampolla a bishop and sent him to Madrid to serve as the Apostolic Nuncio of Spain. The pope recalled Rampolla to Rome in 1887, raised him to the cardinalate on March 14, 1887, and made him Secretary of State, a position he held for 16 years.

While Rampolla was in Madrid, Pope Leo XIII issued one of his most famous encyclicals Humanum Genus, a condemnation of Freemasonry on April 20, 1984. ...

With the death of Pope Leo XIII on July 20, 1903, Cardinal Rampolla, a "Progressivist," who favored a "democratic" as opposed to the "demagogic" Church, became "papabile" - the leading candidate in the upcoming conclave.

By any standard the conclave of 1903 was an extraordinary one.

First, the sudden death of Msgr. Volpini, Pro-Secretary of the conclave, brought Bishop Rafael Merry del Val, a Rampolla supporter, to the forefront as Secretary of the papal election. ...

Prior to their assembly, the French bishops were requested by the French Foreign Minister to back Rampolla, an unusual intervention at the time, but one that reinforced the going political consensus that a vote for Rampolla was a vote for the continued pro-French policies of Pope Leo XIII. ...

Cardinal Rampolla took an early lead with 25 of the 60 possible votes and a mere five votes for the last candidate in line. ...

Outside the closed doors, Rampolla's protege Msgr. della Chiesa, Under-Secretary of State, and Rampolla's private secretary Eugenio Pacelli waited anxiously with Bishop Pietro Gasparri, Secretary of the Roman Curia for the good news that was never to come - that Rampolla was elected pope.

All appeared to [be] going well for Cardinal Rampolla when the unimaginable happened.

Jan Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko, Metropolitan of Krakow rose to speak on behalf of His Imperial Majesty Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary. The Polish primate pronounced a veto on the election of Cardinal Rampolla that by treaty made the intervention legally binding. The Imperial privilege had not been exercised in 400 years. (pp. 1090 to 1091)

Engel goes on to explain the conclusion drawn at the time of the conclave as to why Franz Josef would have done such a thing. All of the conclusions were political. All of the conclusions were wrong. She continues:

Immediately upon hearing the veto, Rampolla rose to his feet to protest the Austrian veto, all the while disclaiming any ecclesiastical ambition, but the deed was done. After recognizing his defeat, Rampolla asked his supporters to cast their vote for Cardinal Sarto. The final vote was cast on August 4, 1903 with the Patriarch of Venice securing 55 votes. The coronation of Guiseppe Cardinal Sarto, who took the name Pius X, took place on August 9, 1903.

One of Pope Pius X's first actions was to issue a motu proprio abolishing the privilege of veto given at different times in history to the Emperors and Kings of Europe. It is possible that Pope Pius X misread the intentions behind the Austrian veto as the reason for it did not become clear until after Cardinal Rampolla's death on December 16, 1913. (p. 1091)

While Pope Pius' efforts to combat modernism in the Church were put into place:

Cardinal Rampolla continued to reside at the Palazzetto Santa Marta behind St. Peter's Basilica, consoled by the knowledge that although he was no longer Secretary of State, his friend Bishop (soon to be Cardinal) Merry del Val had been appointed by Pope Pius X to take over his diplomatic post. Also, all of his "favorites" who shared his "progressivist" views remained in office.

Cardinal Rampolla retained his post as President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission established by Pope Leo XIII in 1902, and on December 30, 1908, Pius X appointed him Secretary of the Holy Office.

It was not until after Rampolla's unexpected death on December 16, 1913, that information on Cardinal Rampolla's secret life emerged and the real reason for the Austrian veto at the 1903 conclave revealed.

The private papers of Rampolla, which were turned over to Pope Pius X for final deposition, documented the cardinal's association in a secret occult, Masonic sect known as the Ordo Templi Orientis. The documents confirmed what had, hereto, been known only to a few, principally through the efforts of Msgr. Ernest Jouin, a French priest and specialist on Masonic sects from St. Augustine's Parish in Paris. ...

According to Mary Ball Martinez, Father Jouin claimed he had irrefutable evidence that Cardinal Rampolla was not only an associate of the Brotherhood, but that he was Grand Master of the Ordo Templi Orientis having been initiated into the rite of Switzerland a few years earlier. When Jouin's efforts to bring this information to the attention of Vatican officials prior to the 1903 conclave were thwarted, he found a sympathetic hearing from Emperor Franz Josef and officials at the Imperial Court, thus, the Austrian veto against Cardinal Rampolla at the 1903 conclave. (p. 1092-1093)

The College of Cardinals was much smaller in 1903 than it is today. Engel reports that

In 1946, the pope raised the overall number of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 36 to 70 and in 1953 he added 24 more cardinals with an eye fixed on breaking the historic dominance by Italians in the Curia. (p. 1098)

She gives the number for 1903 as 60. The influence of one single cardinal was far greater in 1903 than it would be today.

The homosexual component enters the picture via the O.T.O. Engel writes:

Catholic writer, Craig Heimbichner, in "Did a Freemason Almost Become Pope?" notes that the eleventh degree of the OTO is the "initiation" of sodomy. Crowley freely engaged in sodomy with initiates, thus fulfilling the OTO Credo of "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law." (p. 1092)

In Jason Berry's book titled LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION he recounts a scene which took place on June 22, 1989, involving the parents of an abused boy (both of whom were attorneys), Father John O'Connor, and Cardinal Gagnon:

...the Does [the parents of the abused boy] and O'Connor met Gagnon's plane at the Sioux Falls airport. The following account is based on individual interviews with the Does and O'Connor, and detailed correspondence between Gagnon and John Doe, who took notes immediately after the drive.

A balding man who spoke English with a flattened French Canadian accent, Gagnon stepped off the airplane with a yellow straw hat and gold chain across his black shirt. Father O'Connor made the introductions, they put the cardinal's bags in the car and set forth on the seventy-five-minute drive, John [Doe] and Gagnon in the front, Jane [Doe] and O'Connor in the back. Doe discussed his son and said he wanted to meet Pope John Paul II. "There is no need for you to go," said Gagnon. "We already know about the pedophilia problem. It is particularly an American and Canadian problem."

"You mean to tell me you've known about it and haven't done anything about people who entrust their kids to priests?"

Gagnon replied that Rome had received "hundreds of letters. It is beyond the power of the Holy See to control."

"They exercise more control over a McDonald's franchise than you exercise over bishops," John Doe snapped.

"That is unfair," said Gagnon. "The church is in a schism. American bishops will not obey the Holy Father where he has sought to intervene. It only makes matters worse."

Schism means that a group formally breaks away from the authority of Rome. When the word dropped from Gagnon's lips, years of tutelage under nuns made Jane Doe sit forward: "Pardon me, Cardinal, did you say schism?" Yes, replied Gagnon. John said, "If we're in a schism why don't you tell the laity?"

"They have no right to know." (Berry, p. 338)

Returning to Engel:

The OTO is a phallic cult created in the early 20th century that purports to possess the secret occult and magical wisdom and knowledge of the ages gleaned from Gnosticism, the Jewish Kabala and Eastern Mysticism. According to one of its founders, Karl Kellner, the OTO brings "all occult bodies again under one governance," including the Gnostic Church, the Order of the Illuminati, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Rosicrucian Brotherhood and various Masonic Rites including the Rite of Memphis and Rite of Mizraim. (p. 1092)

I would submit that Cardinal Gagnon's schism is none other than Cardinal Rampolla's OTO, introduced to the Church by the influence of Rampolla, and spread through the priesthood like wildfire over the next hundred years. We are indeed in schism, but the dissenting parties have not left the Church. They are in our midst. They are in our headlines when their activities are uncovered. They preach the Gnostic Gospel, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They are the reason we have abused minors in our rectories and debts that are forcing the closure of our churches.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!