We were forewarned of the infiltration of usurpers in the Church when the following was revealed:

Bella Dodd, author of "School of Darkness" a biography of her life, testified in 1953/54 before a Senate Committee and before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Dodd revealed herself to the Committees as a former Communist Party organizer in New York from 1932 to 1948. Her testimony revealed that the CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS INFILTRATED BY COMMUNISTS WHO ENTERED THE PRIESTHOOD BEGINNING IN THE 1930s WITH THE GOAL OF DESTROYING THE CHURCH FROM WITHIN.

Bella had become disenchanted with the Communist Party and sought help. Having been baptized in the Catholic church in her infancy she turned to then Monsignor Fulton Sheen at Catholic University for spiritual guidance and subsequently confessed her misguided life’s involvement in the Communist anti-Catholic mission allowing her to return to the Catholic Church. She was encouraged by Monsignor Sheen to appear before the U.S. Government committees and reveal the goals of Communism within the Catholic Church.

Years later Vatican Council II convened in 1962. Ever since than the Church has never been the same. The Holy Mass was revamped, Mass in the vernacular, girl Altar servers, Altars re-positioned, the Communion Rail disappeared, the Holy Eucharist placed in the Hand at Communion. (Note - the presiding Priest washes his Hands before the Consecration.) Now Pope France is considering the ordination of married men in the Amazon and “reopen” the possibility of female deacons.

The infiltration of un-holy atheist men into the priesthood has brought turmoil - child molestation and homosexuality. And now the latest sacrilege has taken place in the Vatican under our current pope - Pope Francis, when the pagan god of the Amazon people - Pachamama was brought from the Amazon forests and given honor by being displayed inside the Vatican.

Coincidentally, Dodd’s testimony before Congress occurred at the same time that Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) also revealed that the Communist had infiltrated various areas of the Federal Government and in the film industry of Hollywood.

Dodd’s testimony before Congress was collaborated years later when additional evidence of the infiltration was revealed in 1972:

In that year a French Nurse named Marie Carre working in a French Hospital Emergency Room was given a briefcase by her supervisor to ascertain the name of an unidentified individual who was being treated for injuries suffered in an auto accident and subsequently died in the ER. She took the briefcase home and over several evenings read its contents and discovered the details of the Communist infiltration into the priesthood of the Catholic Church. The individual dying in the Emergency Room was such a “priest.” Carre revealed the contents contained in the briefcase by publishing this new found revelation of corruption in the Church in a book titled "AA-1025 The Memoirs of a Communist Infiltration in the Church." AA-1025 was the code name for the individual dying in the ER.

Vatican II (1962-65) brought many changes into the Church. The new orientation of the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council has been, quite literally, the Devil at work. Is it any wonder why all of a sudden we are discovering so many pedophiles among our so-called priests and a corresponding decline in Church attendance as the people began to lose respect of the priesthood and the “changes”. And today, we are witness to a former Archbishop from Argentina - leading our Church in a manner that calls in question his leadership of the Church that Christ established as He commanded Peter and the Apostles to “do this in memory of me.”

It was in in Argentina where “Liberation Theology”** was born. Liberation Theology is a synthesis of Christian theology and socio-economic analyses, often based in far-left politics, particularly Marxism, which emphasizes “social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples” instead of the “salvation of the soul”. Karl Marx's thesis claims that "power" comes from "man alone." thus EXCLUDING the CREATOR.

Hmmmmm.... Jorge Mario Bergoglio i.e.Pope Francis comes from Argentina.

**Liberation Theology is further defined as a social, political, and economic theory which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies. Marxism is the antithesis of capitalism (which is defined as an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit.) Whereas Marxism is the system of governance of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, exchange AND the denial of GOD.

All of Our Lady's Fatima, Akita, LaSalette, Quito prophesies and
The last prophesy of Saint Francis of Assisi about a "future" pope including the
1948 prophesy of venerable Fulton J sheen about a "ape" catholic Church are unfolding before us like a "perfect storm"of prophesies!
Read about them.
I did.

"They have been instructed to remove demeaning, hostile, needlessly combative, racist, Christophobic comments" - perhaps someone on the Remnant Staff will explain to me why my Comment regarding "Bella Dodd's - School of Darkness" revelation is being removed - as it is relevant to Michael's article? My e-mail address is - h******@swbell.net

It wasn’t removed, it was pending. Thanks for your patience.

We were forewarned of the infiltration of usurpers in the Church when the following was revealed:

Bella Dodd, author of "School of Darkness" a biography of her life, testified in 1953/54 before a Senate Committee and before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Dodd revealed herself to the Committees as a former Communist Party organizer in New York from 1932 to 1948. Her testimony revealed that the CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS INFILTRATED BY COMMUNISTS WHO ENTERED THE PRIESTHOOD BEGINNING IN THE 1930s WITH THE GOAL OF DESTROYING THE CHURCH FROM WITHIN.

Bella had become disenchanted with the Communist Party and sought help. Having been baptized in the Catholic church in her infancy she turned to then Monsignor Fulton Sheen at Catholic University for spiritual guidance and subsequently confessed her misguided life’s involvement in the Communist anti-Catholic mission allowing her to return to the Catholic Church. She was encouraged by Monsignor Sheen to appear before the U.S. Government committees and reveal the goals of Communism within the Catholic Church.

Years later Vatican Council II convened in 1962. Ever since than the Church has never been the same. The Holy Mass was revamped, Mass in the vernacular, girl Altar servers, Altars re-positioned, the Communion Rail disappeared, the Holy Eucharist placed in the Hand at Communion. (Note - the presiding Priest washes his Hands before the Consecration.) Now Pope France is considering the ordination of married men in the Amazon and “reopen” the possibility of female deacons.

The infiltration of un-holy atheist men into the priesthood has brought turmoil - child molestation and homosexuality. And now the latest sacrilege has taken place in the Vatican under our current pope - Pope Francis, when the pagan god of the Amazon people - Pachamama was brought from the Amazon forests and given honor by being displayed inside the Vatican.

Coincidentally, Dodd’s testimony before Congress occurred at the same time that Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) also revealed that the Communist had infiltrated various areas of the Federal Government and in the film industry of Hollywood.

Dodd’s testimony before Congress was collaborated years later when additional evidence of the infiltration was revealed in 1972:

In that year a French Nurse named Marie Carre working in a French Hospital Emergency Room was given a briefcase by her supervisor to ascertain the name of an unidentified individual who was being treated for injuries suffered in an auto accident and subsequently died in the ER. She took the briefcase home and over several evenings read its contents and discovered the details of the Communist infiltration into the priesthood of the Catholic Church. The individual dying in the Emergency Room was such a “priest.” Carre revealed the contents contained in the briefcase by publishing this new found revelation of corruption in the Church in a book titled "AA-1025 The Memoirs of a Communist Infiltration in the Church." AA-1025 was the code name for the individual dying in the ER.

Vatican II (1962-65) brought many changes into the Church. The new orientation of the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council has been, quite literally, the Devil at work. Is it any wonder why all of a sudden we are discovering so many pedophiles among our so-called priests and a corresponding decline in Church attendance as the people began to lose respect of the priesthood and the “changes”. And today, we are witness to a former Archbishop from Argentina - leading our Church in a manner that calls in question his leadership of the Church that Christ established as He commanded Peter and the Apostles to “do this in memory of me.”

It was in in Argentina where “Liberation Theology”** was born. Liberation Theology is a synthesis of Christian theology and socio-economic analyses, often based in far-left politics, particularly Marxism, which emphasizes “social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples” instead of the “salvation of the soul”. Karl Marx's thesis claims that "power" comes from "man alone." thus EXCLUDING the CREATOR.

Hmmmmm.... Jorge Mario Bergoglio i.e.Pope Francis comes from Argentina.

**Liberation Theology is further defined as a social, political, and economic theory which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies. Marxism is the antithesis of capitalism (which is defined as an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit.) Whereas Marxism is the system of governance of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, exchange AND the denial of GOD.

Francis was too warm heartedly welcomed by the mainstream media et ilk. Therefore I figured out early on what was to come from his Papacy. They welcomed him and recognized him as the fellow traveler that he has turned out to be: A Globalist and Modernist and Socialist apparently unconcerned with the faith and souls it is his job to protect and guide to salvation.

When I saw the photos of this Nativity, I thought to myself that I could replicate it using old office water coolers and commercial air conditioning ducts from a junkyard and charged much less for it.

I'm unsure why some posters seem to be reading into this that Father is actually agreeing that JPII was Great. In the contexts given, he is referring to 1) Jorge et al throwing their own Saints under a bus, even the one they themselves had given the title 'The Great' and 2) the Neo-Catholics defence of those same 'Saints'. How that translates into Father himself acknowledging and accepting the 'greatness of JPII' is beyond me.

If you ever read his books, you would know he was NOT a modernist and was a great orthodox theologian.

I'm scandalized if it's permissible to be scandalized and not at all surprised or shocked at the same. Way past the latter, sadly. Can't even summon up any kind of reaction really. 'The lunatics are running the asylum' now equates to the 'is the Pope a Catholic' joke. No, Satan is running the world and the Pope is many things far worse than a non-Catholic or even an apostate one. If only he was just a bad Catholic, but I believe he has made a choice and said a very definite 'non serviam'. However, Christ is asleep in the boat and will at some point wake up and still the storm.

Oops.

If promoting McCarrick by JPII was a drama, promoting Bergoglio was a tragedy, but they say nothing about that in the Argentinian's exculpatory report. Everybody, but Bergoglio, can be opportunely chosen as responsible, even Saints, specially the hardest antimarxist JPII.

Disgraceful law legalizing abortion was passed in Argentina after weak, almost non-existent pushback by Bergoglio and local bishops.

Is there a major problem with seminaries, at least in Anglophone countries? In 2018 Father David Marsden wrote an open letter about the gay cliques inside Oscott seminary in Birmingham, England. He specifically named Canon David Oakley, the rector, as a cowardly and compromised man who would not resist the ordination of homosexuals.

https://www.churchmilitant....

The good news is that Canon Oakley is no longer rector of Oscott. The bad news is that he is now Bishop Oakley of Northampton. No great surprise that he takes his inspiration from Pope Francis.

Perhaps we won't have to worry about English seminaries much longer. One of the three survivors, Wonnersh, closes in 2021. Well, when you are down to 17 students.... And Oscott and Allen Hall (aka Alice Hall to the irreverent) are half empty.

Sadly Maynooth in Ireland where at one time the seminary was bursting at the seams with over 300 seminarians is now down to 17 also Mostly homosexual and about to be closed. Catholic Ireland is in free fall totally corrupted by sodomite clergy whose main interest now is enriching the Church with funds from the NWO. However the sodomites are now in control of all that Church property and art work. They can go on for a long time without any faithful Catholics inside, look at the Church of England there has not been an Archbishop of Canterbury who believed in God for a very long time, just a+long list of CEOs who are more comfortable practicing Buddhism .

Points well taken, although I believe we can conclude from the antics of Bergoglio himself, "heal me with your mouth" Fernandez, Paglia of the homoerotic cathedral mural, and our old friends Kasper and Marx, that the seminaries in Spanish and German-speaking countries are similarly problematic.

And have been for many decades.

Father, with great respect and humility, you had me until referring to John Paul II as "the Great". It was he, Paul VI, and the Council who set the table for Francis. This disaterous pontificate has been nearly 60 years in the making.

It was hardly a trajectory, given the many anti-modernist writings of JPII.

Sir, I don't read this essay as in any way endorsing that hastily given and ill-considered appellation. I agree fully with the rest of your comment, and will suggest that the scandal of Bergoglio's occupation of the Holy See has been much more than 60 years in the making. I believe it goes back at least to the time of St. Pius X, who warned the Church what was coming in no uncertain terms.

The first words of this article are “Some forty years ago...”. How anyone can think this is simply a matter of a few bad popes is incomprehensible. This is no more the Catholic Church than it is a PTA.

I’m sorry but I cannot think of John Paul II as “the Great” anymore, and feel a sad disconnect from Catholics who refer to him as such. The recently published Rorate Caeli interview with Fr. Murr shed important light on JPII’s failings. He was so concerned with globetrotting that he ignored the critical need to replace evil men in the Curia. It just wasn’t his concern. He was warned that allowing these men to continue in their roles would cause great harm to the Church and could even cost him his life, and that it would be his own fault. Yet JPII set off for Mexico and nearly every other country on the planet, leaving those evil men to inflict themselves on the Church. So many victims suffered, so many people lost their faith. For that matter, the seminaries were hardly uglier than they were when he was pope, and that’s because he had his priorities all wrong. “It’s all about the human person,” he told then-Bishop Dinardo. Not all about the extreme holiness of God, no. It’s all about the human person. The world just revolves around our sorry selves, exactly as we think we’d like it.

My own defense of JPII used to be that he obviously loved the Eucharist, yet Communion in the hand, distributed by the requisite EMHCs, “flourished” under JPII, and belief in the Real Presence all but disappeared.

What’s so great about him? Can’t we give that up? We don’t owe it to him to keep pretending he was our hero. If you think JPII was heroic, tell it to Maciel’s victims, and tell it to the good men who were driven out of seminaries under JPII. Tell it to those of us whose faith barely survived under the influence of the men who were wanted in the seminaries and were eventually ordained and inflicted on all of us. Great? I hardly think so.

What made him great was his personal sanctity, tireless devotion to reach out to the faithful, he did try to stem modernism and liberation theology and laxity in the pastoral approach of clerics. He did discipline the Jesuit order and intervened in egregious cases of seminary scandals. Clearly he attempted to bring the Church back to orthodoxy with an unbelievably large output of well written papal documents. He was an accomplished philosopher and theologian. He worked 15 hour days for years. Seriously, he did many good things for the Church. He poured his life out!

Sadly, he was not strict enough with those wicked prelates and attentive enough with the administration of the Vatican. If it is true that he knew about McCarrick before he raised him to Cardinal that is an appalling error. (I wonder if he believed what he was told?) Administration was not one of his talents. These are valid criticisms. On the other hand, the pope cannot do everything. He is forced to trust people and delegate tasks to them. Also, he went way too far with the Vatican II ecumenism bandwagon and he promoted the scandalous Assisi meetings and lost sight of the "non salus extra ecclesia" principle which is de-emphasized by ecumenism. The Assisi meetings, at the very least, put people in jeopardy of believing in indifferentism. But we all have the benefit of hindsight.

Sorry Michael. I do acknowledge the personal sanctity which I think is clear to those that would view this fairly. However objectively he failed on so many counts, personal sanctity aside. All bishops, most importantly the Pope are supposed to Teach, Govern and Sanctify. His teaching was at best flawed because he was all in on Vatican II and promoted religious indifferentism and syncratism (Assisi). He clearly did not or could not govern because he apportinted heretical or apostate bishops, and allowed perverts to destroy the lives of others. Perhaps if he spent more time in Rome he may have had more chance in cleaning things. For comparison Benedict had less than 7 years and he had a record number of priests liaised for criminals matters. As for the command to sanctify, how can this be accomplished when he undermined the efforts of those who would uphold the Mass of All Time? I'm referring directly to the "excommunication" he levelled at Archbishop Lefebvre and the other bishops, and accused them of an incorrect notion of tradition. That was a terrible injustice which Ratzinger at least recognised and corrected later.

The harm he did to the Church, to seminarians can never be reconciled with his over dramatic compassion for the world.

Sadly so true. Freud would have a field day with the likes of Weigel, in his still relentless psychological/emotional investment in so irrationally defending JPII's now tattered legacy. I read Witness to Hope. I’ve never been more inspired by a book. But, now, all I can say is that I thank God for Aquinas, who taught us as Catholics that our faith cannot be divested from reason—from our faculties to observe and process empirical evidence and apply inductive logic. The reign of Christ on Earth, through the Catholic Church, is now besieged not just by the corrupt Catholic hierarchy, but by a mainstream Catholic intellectual class who are nothing more than overgrown children, forcibly shutting their eyes to the reality that they wish was not true. This suggests that as Catholics we have no reason to throw out Freud entirely—after all, he described the likes of Weigel aptly: “I can offer them no consolation.” But, of course, we adult Catholics know that Christ is always the consolation to the realities of the fallenness of the human condition. This is where Freud, and Weigel, fall so short. Weigel has the faith of a child. Let us pray for him and for all Catholics whose faith is too fragile to face the realities of where our Church is now in this historical epoch.

I don't have the space to detail my views on this controversy over JPII, whom I believe is absurdly labeled a "modernist." One should read his book "The Acting Person" if you want to read a good repudiation of post Enlightenment fallacies about the human condition. I don't disrespect Weigel's affection for JPII. But I am appalled at his refusal to come out against the profound fool he has to know is sitting in the Chair of Peter today. Weigel is destroying his whole life's work as a scholar by refusing to condemn this corruption.

It has been said that the fall of the Soviet empire was mostly the work of JP2 and Ronald Reagan. If so, the former may deserve to be called "the Great" for his political role, but certainly not because of the consequences of his pontificate for the Church and the faithful. Of course, there have been various "Greats," such as Russia's Peter and Catherine and Prussia's Frederick, who were great in certain respects and utterly reprehensible in others. For whatever it is worth, I find that I can, at the same time, think of JPII as "Great" and, sadly, view him as no saint, or at least as not one worthy of admiration and imitation.

Wow! You cannot view him as a saint! A man who life, accomplishments and deeds are well-known and scrutinized? You have impossibly high standards if you view him as "not worth of admiration and imitation".

His first role is (was) as defender of the Catholic faith. People look more to his political accomplishments rather than his papal ones. He utterly failed as leader of Catholics, no matter how successful a politician he may have been.