In Remembrance of 15 Years

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Today, the great Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, marks the 15th anniversary of marriage to my wonderful wife, Jeanne. Pondering our anniversary I am reminded of some of those great men and women saints whose holy friendships have so profoundly influenced the Church and the world: Augustine and Monica; Benedict and Scholastica; Francis and Clare. God, in His inscrutable providence, often pairs up individuals who will inspire and even incite one another to ever higher degrees of humility, charity, and ultimately sanctity which overflows into love of God and neighbor. I hereby share with you a brief sketch of two of these holy collaborators who lived in very difficult times, not unlike those that we are experiencing in today’s Church and world.

St. Francis de Sales  (1567-1622)

Francis was born to a noble family in Savoy in the southeast corner of France on August 21, 1567, the eldest of six sons. Studying theology in Paris he was came under a spiritual temptation to despair from which he was freed after making a vow of perpetual chastity and consecrating himself to the Blessed Mother Mary. He then went to Padua to take a law degree in 1591, returning to Savoy where a prosperous career awaited him. His father had even arranged an advantageous marriage for him. Instead, under the direction of his Jesuit spiritual director, Francis revealed his intention to enter the priesthood which caused a serious rift with his father. Francis patiently worked to convince his father of his true vocation who finally yielded, but only after the Bishop of Geneva obtained a papal patronage position for the young man. Francis was then allowed to be ordained in 1593.

Geneva was at the very center of Calvinist Protestantism so the Catholic bishopric had relocated to Annecy, some 20 miles away. In the second year of his priesthood Francis volunteered as a missionary to Le Chablais which had succumbed to the Calvinist doctrine. At great risk to his own life Francis began the daunting task of bringing the district back to the Catholic faith, even confounding Calvinist preachers sent out from Geneva. Several attempts against his life failed. By his heroic patience, kindness, and perseverance the young priest slowly began winning the hearts and minds of his listeners. For those who would not hear him he printed little tracts on the truths of the faith which he would slip under the household doors.

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Entitlement Christianity

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One of the ideas that seems to be gaining currency these days, even among high ranking clerics, is the delusional expectation that hell may actually be empty. This is implicit Universalism, the belief that God’s mercy is so expansive that every human soul will be saved in the end. This is not only heresy but a direct contradiction of the words of Christ himself. “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to perdition, and those who enter it are many.” (Mt. 7:13)

Such a view further leads one into the grave sin of presumption upon God’s mercy through a denial of His unerring justice. One of the dilemmas of Christianity has ever been its attempt to square the compassionate God of Mercy with the dread God of Justice. Is God just a giant cuddly stuffed Panda or the vengeful Calvinist judge casting souls into eternal hellfire with bland indifference? Of course, both images are gross exaggerations which have see-sawed back and forth throughout the Church’s long history, under the titles of laxism v. rigorism. Today we are in a period of extreme laxism ~ a loss of spiritual discipline and vision which grew as a counter-reaction to the excessive rigors of Calvinism and Jansenism. The pendulum swings to and fro, and seldom does it rest in the middle.

The danger of the current lax spiritual climate is that the ensuing casual forms of Christianity have left the greater number of Catholics and other Christians with the false impression that what they do doesn’t really matter because they are entitled to salvation. God’s mercy is so overwhelming it will disregard the more sordid details of one’s personal life and habits. God, as many like to boast, “accepts me just as I am.” And perhaps this mentality explains why the practice of sacramental confession has fallen off a cliff since Vatican II. Our secular culture has greatly encouraged the idea of entitlement so that a sort of spiritual welfare state which complements the physical welfare state has taken root in the minds and hearts of many Christians. The underlying theme seems to be that we have some inherent “right” to heaven, regardless of our actions or track record.

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The Eight Daughters of Lust

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Blessed are the Pure of Heart, for they shall see God. (Mt. 5:8) According to our Blessed Mother’s apparition to the children of Fatima, it is the sins of the flesh which are responsible for the majority of people caught into hell. Modern culture has stubbornly rejected her celestial insight, however, arguing in effect that God is not overly concerned with what transpires in the bedroom. Progressive Christians have decided that only an antiquated, frustrated puritan would bother to obsess over such trivialities. What is really important they say is to be “accepting,” “inclusive,” and “non-judgmental.” Sex is a morally agnostic expression of love in their view. But if we are to take Christ’s words in the Beatitudes seriously then can one really hope to see God with an impure heart, the same God who is the very perfection of purity and goodness?

We are living in a society submerged in a putrid deluge of sexual indulgence and pornography which pollutes minds and souls, particularly those of younger people, on a scale unprecedented in human history. Thanks to modern digital technology the filth literally enters your home unsolicited. Pornography’s clear message is that unfettered lust should be considered a private and protected human right. It supposedly doesn’t hurt anyone else so why, in a free country, shouldn’t you be entitled to see whatever you want to view? Of course it’s also highly addictive, and so would a just and loving God really condemn a “good person” eternally for entertaining such a small vice?

Perhaps it’s not so small as many would assume, which might also explain why lust easily made the list of the Seven Capital Sins, a designation referring to it as the root cause of a whole category of sexual transgressions: adultery, fornication, sexual abuse, homosexuality, etc. St.Thomas Aquinas noted that this particular capital sin produces eight consequent effects which he termed the Eight Daughters of Lust. The first four of these effects act upon the intellect, he says, while the last four affect the free will. The will can be thought of as the very center of our being, the thing which combined with our reason makes us uniquely human, and sets us apart from the animal kingdom. So let us examine each of those eight effects of lust, starting with the four that affect the intellect, i.e., our reasoning ability.

1. Lust darkens the intellect, not as in a loss of mental acuity but rather as a certain blindness of the mind in apprehending the good. The greatest good is God, who is all good, and lust places a lesser good, pleasure, ahead of the greater good. Lust thus creates a blind spot impairing our ability to see beyond a lesser good to the greater good. Rev. William Smith referred to what he called a “swiss cheese conscience” which features strategic holes in our mental perceptions of good and evil. It does not mean that one overtly rejects the goodness of God, but rather we subconsciously place Him into a subordinate position. Blinded by lust to His supreme goodness it then becomes easy to rationalize, “God wants me to be happy, and this or that pleasure makes me happy, and so it must be okay.” Under the influence of lustful desire, the intellect can no longer make a clear distinction between my apparent good and what is objectively good. Such cloudy thinking ultimately leads to one justifying any and every sexual aberration: self abuse, fornication, adultery, masochism, and even sodomy. This is why hardened porn addicts will tell you that the content they view increasingly becomes more twisted, depraved, and violent as one goes deeper down the rabbit hole.

2. Lust leads to rash judgment which is the absence of counsel or moderation. The virtues of prudence and temperance get set aside, even in a person who may be punctilious and exacting in other areas of life such as their diet, personal appearance, or finances. Despite knowing the risks involved, such a one is tempted to throw away hard-earned money, a successful career, even a good marriage in the insatiable quest for ever more exciting experiences because, like the junkie, a lustful person’s sexual cravings demand ever more intense levels of dopamine to stimulate the pleasure center in the brain. How many high level politicians and executives have been forced out of their positions due to sexual improprieties? Recall former NY governor Andrew Cuomo just to name one.

3. Thoughtlessness is a daughter of lust, increasing as the mind becomes ever more self-absorbed by bodily pleasures. Other people then become objectified rather than loved or respected for who they truly are. Seeking the good of the other is the true meaning of love, but the thoughtless person is seeking only his/her own good. They have thoughtlessly exchanged the pursuit of real happiness for the pursuit of pleasure, two very different animals. This attitude leads inexorably to the fourth daughter of lust.

4. Inconstancy, which is the inability to remain faithful to another person or to an ideal. Lust causes one to rush from one experience (or person) to another in an endless quest to secure a fuller experience of personal pleasure. The modern divorce treadmill is a telling feature of widespread inconstancy. St. Augustine says that the restless human heart has an insatiable desire for happiness, but only God can fill that desire. Trying to fill the heart’s chasm with earthly things or pleasures leads one on a wild goose chase of always looking for the next person or thing that will finally satisfy one’s deepest longing. But outside of God no such creature exists. Only God can fill that God-sized hole in our heart.

These four daughters of lust which subvert the intellect have another four companions which are far darker and more malevolent, because these four are attached to the will. Whereas the first four primarily affect our temporal thoughts and attitudes which can be changed or corrected, those daughters of lust able to manipulate the will can have eternal consequences. That is because it is the will which ultimately determines our relationship to God, and consequently our eternal destiny. Lust may be the most commonly imbibed capital sin, but its companions are even deadlier in terms of the eternal punishment they will ultimately exact. Think of lust as the gateway vice that surreptitiously leads one into other more deadly arenas of sin. Just as lust perverts the mind, so also it perverts the will with even more catastrophic consequences.

5. Lust imbues one with an inordinate self-love, meaning the vanity of believing that we are entitled to every conceivable pleasure in life. This attitude is not surprising considering what we just discussed above. To love oneself is not evil per se in the sense that we have human dignity and a healthy self-respect for who we are, children of God. But it is the vain love of self to the exclusion of God and others that leads to eternal perdition. Such a self-love yields the most deadly of all sins, pride. Pride is, by definition, inordinate self-love. It is Satan’s most fatal, damning fault. It is the very antithesis of what God exemplified by taking on lowly human flesh, namely humility. Succumbing to the temptations of lust can take one two possible ways. If it produces sufficient shame it can lead the soul to repentance and humility, and God often uses it in this way to humble us. But it can also steer one in the other direction by inflating the very same self-love which activates pride. We now live in a world which preaches that there must be no shame attached to any sexual disorder. Everyone should feel proud of their sexual preferences and orientation. Shout it from the rooftops! Shame is out, pride is in. To revel in one’s shameful disorders is the worst of sins, however, because it is the height of arrogance and pride. It blasphemously mocks God and the divinely ordained natural order.

6. From lust, pride causes one to despise and hate God, precisely because He so perfectly modeled the virtue of humility, the antagonist of pride. This is why Christianity, which teaches the absolute need of repentance and humility, is so attacked and hated by the current woke culture. As Christ forewarned, “they will hate you because they hated me before you.” What we are seeing in real time is the spirit of lust opening people up to the capital sins of envy and anger. They envy innocence and so they angrily try to destroy it. To merely live a virtuous life in this sexually saturated environment becomes an affront to the lustful. One need not speak a word of protest against the perversions, yet you will be vilified as offensive, intolerant, and a danger to society simply for exhibiting innocence and the fear of God. The lustful abandon themselves to every unruly passion and then wrathfully blame God for the unhappiness they inevitably experience as a result.

7. Lust ensnares one in the love of this world. This involves ushering lustful souls into the capital sins of avarice and gluttony. When one cannot deny the body any carnal pleasure then these two added vices cannot be far behind. And as we becomes ever more entangled in the snares of consumerism and food indulgence, (nor is it surprising that within a generation obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed in America) people become ever more infatuated with the world of here and now. What used to be called a “valley of tears” is now marketed as endless luxury cruise vacations, video games, and virtual reality schemes like Zuckerberg’s metaverse. But in all the worldly hype and glitz where is there any time for reflection on the fact that someday we will be faced with the reality of death, not in some glorified Hollywood big screen sense, but as the serious moment of accountability for one’s life and deeds? This leads to the final daughter of lust and its corresponding capital vice.

8. Lust leads one to despair of the future world. The reason we were created in the first place is to one day be joined with God in heaven. But despite the ridiculous “she’s now in heaven” rhetoric typical of many contemporary church funerals, such a celestial destiny is not automatic. It has to be actively sought and worked for in this present life. But the demands of lust prevent one from spending too much time and effort (if any) preparing adequately for eternity and this is the capital sin of sloth.The reason there seem to be so many agnostics in today’s world is that the thought of a future existence, either in heaven or hell (no third option available), is too uncomfortable to reconcile with their “liberated” sex-driven lifestyles. The result is our modern-day indifferentism – eat, drink, and be merry while begging the seminal question of what happens after we die. But if you haven’t prepared for that eventuality, in Our Lord’s phraseology “dressed properly for the wedding feast,” your chances for admittance don’t look too good. In that case you’d better hope to hell that it (hell) doesn’t really exist! Sloth therefore undermines any hope in a future world, leaving only despair to fill the vacuum.

Lust in its various manifestations of pornography, extra-marital sexual activity, perversions, etc.is not some annoying little vice to be taken lightly or shrugged off as an innocent diversion. It is a mortal threat to one’s very salvation, regardless of how many volunteer soup kitchens or other good deeds one engages in. Purity of heart is a lifelong struggle which one must engage in, a battle we must fight against the sirens of this world of the flesh. Purity is a precondition of obtaining the eternal beatific vision. It must be carefully cultivated in order to thrive in our gardens. That means guarding what you watch and hear on media, frequenting the sacraments especially confession, and developing a deep and constant prayer life. We live in the belly of the most sensual beast in human history and so purity of heart is not going to be an easy virtue to live out, even more so for our children. Pray the Rosary daily, with those little ones if possible, so that our Mother of Pure Love and Help of Christians will be standing at your side to help you, even as the battle rages.

O, Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!

Francis J. Pierson +a.m.d.g.

Blessed Are the Pure of Heart

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There is little question among more observant Catholics that the current situation in the Church is critical, especially as one watches the train wreck which the Vatican increasingly resembles. History, fortunately, comes to our rescue, however. I mean that, looking over the past centuries, it becomes apparent that as regards the Western Church we can see a recurring cycle of reform and decay every 500 years. Beginning with the great reforms of St. Benedict and Pope St. Gregory the Great in the latter 6th century we witness how their reforms shaped and gave rise to the Carolignian renaissance. Still, corruption gradually crept in and by the 10th and early 11th centuries a very dark period emerged for both the papacy and Church discipline. Just when it seemed things could get no worse under the infamous papacy of Benedict IX, a new Ecclesial reformation sprang up under the guiding hands of St. Peter Damien, Hildebrand who became Pope St. Gregory VII, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

The following few centuries would see the Medieval Church reach its greatest glory in the 13th century guided by St. Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic, and St. Thomas Aquinas to name just a few luminaries. Once again though, faith and moral discipline began to wane as corruption set in at both the papal and local levels so that by the time of another corrupt Pope, Alexander VI, the stage had been ably set for Martin Luther’s revolt. Again, it was not until the latter half of that 16th century that a genuine Church Counter-reformation began to take effect led by new saints of great stature: St. Charles Borromeo, St. Philip Neri, Sts. Ignatius and Francis Xavier, and Pope St. Pius V who finalized the great reforms of Trent as well as securing the expulsion of the Muslim Turks from Christendom at Lepanto.

500 years from Pope St. Gregory the Great to Hildebrand’s (Pope St. Gregory VII) reforms. 500 more years elapsed from the late 11th century reforms to the late 16th century reforms at Trent under Pope St. Pius V. We are currently standing 500 years out from the revolution of Luther and Calvin and the Church again seems to be at her nadir, especially when viewing the current papacy. This suggests that we are again on the eve of another great reform movement in the Church. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we need to survive the current imminent disaster, trusting that God already has the next Hildebrand or Borromeo lined up to reverse the course of a (Masonic) trajectory which appears to lead towards the Church’s planned demolition. It is a situation similar to what Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher were facing in Henry VIII’s England, again just 500 years ago.

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Fiducia Supplicans, a False Blessing

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I was naive enough to hope that the Vatican had finished inflicting its yearly quota of modernist damage via Pope Francis’ pet Synod on Sin-odality accompanied by the brutish cancellations of Bishop Joseph Strickland and Raymond Cardinal Burke. It appears I was either too hasty or perhaps overly optimistic. As a parting Christmas sock filled with coal delivered to the entire Catholic world, Jorge Bergoglio’s doctrinal strong man, Victor Cardinal Fernandez, released a new Declaration, Fiducia supplicans, one week to the day before the solemn celebration of Christ’s birth. This latest Francis bombshell, released with his full approbation, appears designed not so much to clarify pastoral questions regarding the dispensation of blessings as to intentionally create confusion,chaos, and agitate controversy. Such divisive aims were certainly accomplished cum laude based on the immediate and wildly divergent responses, both pro and con, from various bishops around the world.

These days, the Vatican routinely launders heresy the way organized crime launders money (although the Holy See has engaged in its fair share of that as well) by burying its poison in fine sounding phrases. One example could be where the new document quotes Francis directly, “We are more important to God than all the sins we can commit because he is father, he is mother, he is pure love…(par. 27) Wait a minute, did Bergoglio just go radical feminist and call God our mother or is this just another of his patented shock value statements? In the Declaration, Cardinal Fernandez employs a bucket full of verbose linguistic sophistry to hide and obfuscate his underlying intentions, which seems to be clearing a pathway for persons in irregular marriages and homosexual unions to have those unions somehow recognized, whether in an official or unofficial capacity, by the Church. After all his boss, Jorge Bergoglio, has made no secret of his view that same-sex couples are entitled to civil recognition, and with the latest Declaration he seems to be laying the groundwork to impose some kind of “quasi-legitimate” status on same-sex unions within the Church itself.

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Paralysis in the Ecclesial Spine

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Using the analogy of a body for the Church as St. Paul often did, we naturally refer to Christ as the head. We might just as rightly refer to the saints in heaven, starting with the Blessed Virgin Mary, as the heart of that mystical body. We of course, the Church Militant, represent the various other members ~ hands, feet, etc. So what connects all these various members to the head, Christ, is the spinal chord or backbone. That metaphorical backbone of the Church would be the clergy: priests bishops, cardinals, and the Pope himself. For without the priesthood there simply can be no sacramental life, no true governance, and no Church. These men represent the indispensable neuro-pathway linking the Church’s many members to Christ her head. Sever the spine and the Church will die, cut off from its one true head. But what if that same spine is only damaged? Then, like our bodies, a full or partial paralysis will occur so that the Church, although it may continue to limp along, it will no longer function in a healthy or robust manner. It will become a weakened invalid.

That point at the very top of the spinal column where the spine merges into the actual brain matter would be the Petrine office of the Pope. Christ after all founded his Church on all twelve apostles but he gave a special authority to Peter, calling him the “Rock” who would support, encourage, and at times even correct his brother bishops. Peter was to be the visible sign and cause of unity in the Church. Nevertheless it would take all of the apostles, not just Peter to manage and extend the Church to the ends of the earth. And yes, there were times when even Peter himself needed correction as we know from the Acts of the Apostles.

With Advent we are entering a new liturgical year, so it might be a good time to take the current pulse of Christ’s Church. And yet, what we observe coming out of the Petrine office these days is very disturbing. I am referring of course to the current Bergoglian papacy euphemistically called the “Francis Church.” (What used to be known as the Roman Catholic Church increasingly resembles a strange new body, the Jesuit Catholic Church.) Beginning March 13, 2013 the world’s Catholic faithful have been living in a surreal dream-like state of two popes which, in the past year since the death of Benedict XVI, has increasingly morphed into a frightful nightmare. We have observed the so-called Church of Mercy descend into the Church of petty retributions, vindictiveness, and patent injustice. Saintly bishops are deposed unjustly and without cause, most recently Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas who it seems has now been forbidden to even celebrate Mass in his former diocese among friends he has known for years. It is a demonstration of just how petulant the henchmen of Bergoglio’s brutal authoritarianism have become.

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Pope Caiaphas and the good Bishop

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We sadly witness today something unprecedented in 2,000 years of Church history ~ an assault on the truth by a Bergoglian Papacy which shields predator clerics, formally approves pagan rituals (the new Mayan rite Mass) and promotes sodomy (a la James Martin, S.J.) even as it censures and removes from office holy and faithful prelates simply for adhering to traditional teachings and morality. It would seem that the ‘Pope of Mercy’ has little mercy to spare for those who cross his agenda.

This past March he removed Bishop Daniel Fernandez Torres of Arecibo, Puerto Rico from his lawful See, providing no reason or explanation in what Bishop Torres decried as “a totally unjust action.” It appears that the good bishop had irritated the homo-friendly Archbishop of San Juan and the Vatican Politburo (formerly known as the Curia) by defending conscience objections to the onerous vaccine mandates being pushed onto the Puerto Rican clergy and religious. Apparently the ‘Church of Accompaniment’ quickly morphs into the ‘Bully Church’ when the issue is no longer basic morality but climate change, the environment, or invasive medical interventions.

Last weekend another Bergoglian lightning bolt fell from the sky, landing on the head of another faithful pastor, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas. The bishop was unceremoniously removed from his office by diktat literally the day before the 400th anniversary of the treacherous and brutal martyrdom of St. Josaphat, the Ukrainian bishop killed for his tireless work to heal the schism between Rome and the Greek Orthodox believers. Like St. Josaphat, Bishop Strickland’s offense seems to have been a deep desire to reconcile factions, in this case traditional Latin Mass Catholics with his mainstream flock. As the good bishop explained, “I didn’t implement Traditionis Custodes (Bergoglio’s motu proprio intended to countermand Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum permitting wide use of the TLM) because I can’t starve part of my flock.”

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Ecclesial Freemasonry Today

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In light of recent strange events in the Catholic Church, inquisitive people are considering what role Freemasonry may be playing in Catholic hierarchy. Although unable to prove definitively that overt Masonic infiltrators are at the helm, I offer as exhibit “A” the ongoing Synod on Synodality, an ambiguous and peculiar title seemingly meant to throw one off the track (meaningless wordplay as in a “conference on conferencing”). Add to this murky moniker the now imposed dark veil of secrecy, a virtual gag order placed on all Synod participants regarding any discussions, or even the airing of their own thoughts, relating to the Synod summit. This can only create more distrust and suspicion about what is really going on here. After all, this is not some papal conclave but an ecclesial “listening session,” but one to which ordinary Catholics or uninvited clerics are apparently not permitted to listen. Only those exclusive, pre-screened insiders are to be let in on the secrets. Let’s see, what other organization veils its activities in the dark cloak of secrecy? Oh yes, the Freemasons!

Exhibit “B” could be the latest encyclical hailing from the Bergolian papacy, “Laudate Deum,” a more compact 10 year follow up to its tedious progenitor, “Laudate Si.” This papal exhortation which obsequiously bends the knee to the dubious “threats” of climate change and environmental catastrophe barely finds space in its 73 paragraphs to mention anything remotely connected to eternal salvation, but it has a lot to say about Co2. Church, the Bible, and Christianity each get one mention whereas Jesus himself merits a whopping three references sprinkled into an official 7,500 word Church document. These two samplings, many more could be cited, betoken the increasingly secular temporal sounding Vati-speak regularly oozing out of the Vatican these days. And like many aspects of the Francis papacy, they waft a strong odor of Freemasonry.

I do not mean to imply that Francis or his curial staff are all card carrying Freemasons but I think by now it has become apparent to anyone with a half raised antenna that much of the Catholic world has become drenched in Masonic ideology. To support that claim I refer to two of the more prominent principles of Freemasonry, both of which have all but seamlessly been incorporated into today’s median clerical consciousness. From its inception Freemasonry has championed two axioms, 1: spiritual and moral relativism and 2: the perfectibility of both the human person and society.

The first axiom means that there are no absolute truths or moral standards which apply to all of humanity. Everyone is entitled to determine one’s own truth and reality. Consequently the Church’s 2,000 year old teaching that Jesus Christ is the only pathway to salvation has been hotly contested by Freemasonry from day one. Rather, they claim there are many pathways to salvation (whatever such a term may mean to the Mason) and so all creeds stand on equal footing. Wicca or Buddhism is therefore just as expedient as Christianity in achieving one’s eternal end and sanctification. Apparently that relativist message now resonates with many cardinals and bishops. Consider the recent World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal where the hosting archbishop of Lisbon made it clear that this event was not about evangelization but merely a feel-good cultural exchange. The gospel it seems needs to be re-scripted ( a project already being undertaken by geniuses at the WEF assisted by AI of course) to read “Go ye not and make disciples of all nations, for that would be culturally insensitive and intolerant.” Yet as a reward for his heterodox sentiments the archbishop in question was awarded a red hat in the Francis Church.

The second Masonic axiom referred to above can be summed up in the popular phrase, “doing something to make the world a better place.” Just so, countless foundations, governments, and political activists have been working feverishly and spending trillions for several generations to make the world a better place. Instead it seems to be going hellishly in the other direction at an accelerated pace. This is perhaps because the Masonic premise that human nature can somehow be perfected in this world is a false premise. After all, the gospel isn’t about cleaning up the planet but rather cleaning up our souls. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and all these other things will be given to you besides.”

Subversive Masonic philosophy imposes its own culture of temporalism, an obsession with the here and now, where spiritual and moral cleansing up takes a back seat to making the world a better place. Even so the high sounding utopian ideals of Freemasonry seem to have caught the eyes and ears of many of today’s Catholic hierarchy. You don’t have to be a Mason to think like a Mason, which appears to be a real problem for the Church today. Too many prelates are suffering from severe mission creep syndrome. Thinking that through global initiatives, programs, and collaborations the Church can be part of creating some Masonic vision of “heaven on earth” is a dangerous path to tread. It smacks of base materialism, substituting the temporal for the eternal so that in the end man worships not God but man. This is one reason why Freemasonry is rightly called the anti-Church or the Synagogue of Satan, because it fosters human pride on so many levels. The father of pride is Satan and so to indulge so freely in human pride and accomplishment is ultimately to pay homage to Satan.

It is incumbent to remember that the Church’s true mission has always been saving souls, not social equality or saving rain the forest. Yet humanist Freemasonry for 300 years has belittled the Church’s divine spiritual mandate, all the while chipping away at the ecclesial edifice like water dripping steadily on soft clay-stone even as the dire warnings of too many popes have gone unheeded. In 1989 the Blessed Mother, referring to images in the Book of Revelation, gave several warnings to Fr. Gobbi concerning Freemasonry. She specifically declared, “The aim of Masonry is not to deny God but to blaspheme Him.” She continues, “The task of Masonry is that of fighting in a subtle way… to obstruct the soul… To the seven theological and cardinal virtues, the fruit of living in the grace of God, Freemasonry counters with the diffusion of the seven capital vices, which are the fruit of living habitually in the state of sin. To faith it (Masonry) opposes pride; to hope, lust; to charity, avarice; to prudence, anger; to fortitude, sloth; to justice, envy; to temperance, gluttony.

Again, in her many messages to Fr. Gobbi the Blessed Mother warned specifically about the imminent dangers of ecclesial Freemasonry (#406 June 13, 1989)

“Above all, as Mother, I have wanted to warn you of the grave dangers which threaten the Church today, because of the many diabolical attacks which are being carried out against it to destroy it. To attain this end there comes out of the earth by way of the Black Beast which arises out of the sea, a beast which has two horns like those of a lamb.

“The Black Beast like a leopard indicates Freemasonry. The beast with the two horns indicated Freemasonry infiltrated into the interior of the Church, that is to say ecclesiastical Freemasonry, which has spread especially among the members of the hierarchy... If the task of Masonry is to lead souls to perdition, bringing them to the worship of false divinities, the task of ecclesiastical Masonry is that of destroying Christ and his Church, building up a new idol, namely a false christ and a false church.”

I posit that we have fully arrived at that point of infiltration which the Blessed Mother has time and again warned of for centuries, beginning in Quito, Ecuador in 1620. The present day cultural absorption of Masonic principles has been so complete and ubiquitous that we hardly even notice that it is the air we now breathe. Its revolutionary spirit has infiltrated virtually every institution in our society and corrupted them. Instead of bringing the promised era of equality, peace, and brotherhood the globalist Masonic matrix succeeds only in setting brother against brother, government against its citizens, and nation against nation. For in the absence of God men cannot create heaven on earth but only a hellish existence.

The final battle with the Masonic Black Beast is rapidly approaching, so offer your prayers and penances for those many good priests and prelates, like Bishop Joseph Strickland, who are on the front lines of the fight. Pray especially to St. Michael and the guardian angels every day for they represent our best defense against the subtle wiles of our arch-enemy. In the end, Mary’s Immaculate Heart will undoubtedly triumph, we simply need to make sure that we remain in her camp. So pray the rosary daily without fail and “fear not” as Pope St. John Paul II never tired of reminding us.

Fran Pierson +a.m.d.g. Feast of the Most Holy Rosary

Who Told You that You Were Naked?

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Very few Americans seem to realize just how deeply the occult has penetrated and influenced our society. In my former pamphlets I outlined the role of Masonic Illuminism infiltrating both the state and Church. I showed how Freemasonry is ultimately a Luciferian religion. Today I want to go deeper, right to the very core of this hellish matrix of evil known as Satanism. In a recent Life Site News interview, Charles Fraune, author of “The Rise of the Occult,” touched on the serious nature of the recent Vatican / Pachamama scandal. An exorcist confided in Fraune, “whenever you have a demon of fertility ─ which is what Pachamama is ─ you have a demon of death as well that goes along with it.” This is because death is the very essence of anything demonic. So if such a disturbing sacrilege can occur at the very heart of God’s Church is it surprising that the larger culture increasingly manifests the Satanic?


This culture wide descent into occultism has been driven by two things in particular, the social acceptance of abortion and pornography. But this current dance with the devil has deeper historical roots. Consider our developing of weapons of mass murder, highlighted by the 1940s Manhattan Project, which became a clear moral turning point. One could argue that the atomic bomb opened a veritable Pandora’s box, i.e., the seeking after and unlocking of forbidden knowledge and powers, activities which personify the very heart and soul of Gnostic and occult doctrines.


The worst threat to the human race today however is not war, Co2, hunger, a viral infection, or even the global New World Order. I would argue that the key threat to modern man is pornography and its close ally, abortion, two insidious means of implanting diabolic influence within any society (thereby creating a “culture of death”). Abortion is intrinsically linked to pornography because porn is the engine which in some sense feeds the abortion mill. Pornography and the sex trade is a $150 billion industry. Plain common sense suggests that the production of so much porn generates many thousands of unintended pregnancies. Abortions then just become part of the cost of doing business for the porn industry. But that is only on the physical level. On a spiritual level every abortion becomes a blood sacrifice made to Satan in mockery of the one true and efficacious blood sacrifice made by Jesus Christ on the cross. Abortion isn’t just about some woman’s convenience or self-interest, it intentionally mocks God by throwing His greatest gift, life, back in His face. Nor does it liberate women. As a former Satanist and High Wizard Zachary King explains, “those that abort their children are not avoiding motherhood, they are now the mothers of dead children.”

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Intolerant Tolerance

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Remember those halcyon days when tolerance pretty much meant live and let live? It wasn’t tied to any ideology nor did it imply approval of another’s views or way of life. You could strongly disagree with someone and yet still be tolerant and respectful of their person. Sadly, those common sense parameters no longer seem to apply. Today you’re either all in or all out. You’re either a member of my tribe or a hateful bigot, with no middle ground on which to stand.

Tolerance was one of the cardinal principles underpinning the new American republic which allowed a polyglot melting pot of ethnicities, religious, and political factions to mix and blend itself into a cohesive nation. Subvert the meaning of tolerance and the nationalism which once united and molded diverse peoples into “Americans” begins to break down into petty tribalism. Granted there has always been considerable friction among classes, races, believers, and even the sexes throughout our history so, no, we have never fully lived up to the ideal. Nevertheless, despite our human imperfections and prejudices Americans have long held onto the idea that tolerance is somehow intrinsic to our success and way of life.

All that seems to have changed radically over the past 25 years during which time tolerance has evolved into a very one-way street, essentially becoming a tool of social blackmail wherein certain activists demand, in the name of tolerance, that the rest of us endorse and approve their favored agendas. To resist or to express any opinion to the contrary is to be mercilessly demonized as a “hater,” especially when your own views reflect traditional Christian values. Christianity, precisely because it holds us all accountable to some minimal social and moral standard, is thereby derided as cruel, divisive, inequitable, even hateful. And the benefits of toleration no longer needs be extended to any individual, group, or institution that is already deemed systemically hateful.

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