Ecclesial Freemasonry Today

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?

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

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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1917 and Lies that Kill

“Governments lie for a living. That’s not conspiracy theory: that is how governments operate because they deal in power. They don’t deal in truth.” Those words come from economist Jeffrey Sachs in a recent New York Magazine (March, 2023) interview. Sachs is no conservative pundit. He is one of the global elite: an adviser to the World Economic Forum, the Vatican, and an avowed population control enthusiast. He is not being cynical, rather he is speaking from the insider’s point of view; opening the curtain just a bit to give us a glimpse of what really happens in the control room. We may disagree with his political stance but I think it fair to assume that he knows what he is talking about.

Watching our own government in action over the past three years only verifies what Mr. Sachs is saying. We have witnessed in plain view a dual system of justice in this country, one standard for the elite and privileged insiders and another standard, harsher and more punitive, for everyone else. Case in point: contrast the treatment meted out by the FBI to pro-lifer Mark Houck versus the president’s wayward son, Hunter Biden. Houck’s home was raided by an FBI SWAT team last September who terrorized his entire family (including 7 children) over a minor shoving incident at a Pennsylvania abortuary. Thankfully a jury subsequently acquitted Houck of the felonies he was charged with by the DOJ. Meanwhile the same agency spent nearly four years slow-walking their investigation of the Biden laptop containing tons of potentially incriminating evidence of foreign influence peddling, illegal drug use, unreported income, etc. Hunter has been treated with kid gloves throughout, finally pleading guilty to two insignificant misdemeanors. Compare that to numerous grandmas convicted of felony obstruction charges to the clamorous applause of legacy media simply for being escorted by police into the Capitol on January 6.

According to Jack Maxey who recovered much of the deleted material on the Biden laptop, there has been this quiet but cozy relationship between news reporters and intelligence agencies for a long time now. The watchdogs of democracy have apparently become the paid lapdogs of the very folks in power whom they are supposedly watching. Maxey says, “Much of the media is beholden to U.S. intelligence; I think they always have.” As a result he continues, “now they are reluctant to report on their paymasters.” Assuming him to be correct this means that our mainstream “free press” has been captured to become more of a propaganda arm for government than playing its proper role as an independent investigative institution which holds government accountable.

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Fr. Jackson, Sound of Freedom, & a Road to Purity

I have received many responses to my last post regarding Fr. Jmes Jackson’s guilty plea in a Federal court to receiving CSAM (child pornography). While most comments were sad or hopeful, a few were ugly and bitter. People naturally feel angry and betrayed at such moments and, to be clear, I am neither positively asserting Father’s guilt or innocence. My only purpose was to ponder the pecular circumstances of his case.

I have since obtained newer information which offers more clarity regarding his plea. Even so we may never know the actual degree of Father’s moral culpability. For instance, what are the possible effects of a 20 year old Right Orbitofrontal Brain Tumor on his behavior, or could some early childhood sexual trauma have been a contributing factor? Such questions are admittedly far beyond my pay grade. It now appears that he did knowingly receive and view CSAM although there is no indication of his ever “acting out” or attempting any kind of grooming or predatory action against minors. In fact, it seems that many of the images found in his possession were “virtual” computer generated images, or CGIs. It now seems more probable is that he suffers from some compulsion or addiction to (mostly female) child porn images.

We will never know what early influences or later life situations may have triggered such a compulsion. It is a sobering reminder that each and every human alive is to some extent broken. I myself am no exception. My mother often said, “there but for the grace of God go I.” That is why in our private judgments I believe that it is always best to err on the side of charity. This is not to excuse any deviant behaviors or to hide one’s head in the sand, but neither should we let our emotions or imaginations run wild, especially when we do not have all the relevant facts.

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Fr. James Jackson FSSP ~ Culprit or Patsy?

On Thursday June 8, 2023 Fr. James Jackson FSSP entered a guilty plea to felony receiving of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) in a Rhode Island Federal Court after his initial arrest in Providence, R.I. on Oct. 30, 2021. This “plea bargain” was the outcome of a lengthy legal battle between the United States Attorney (DOJ) and Fr. Jackson’s defense attorney John Calcagni III. During his indictment Fr. Jackson initially pleaded “not guilty” to the charges of the U.S. Attorney. The case was set to go to trial this June 20. As happens in the majority of DOJ cases this one ended in a plea deal under terms of what most fair minded persons would describe as a legal shake down. No surprises here. This is the way our criminal justice system routinely operates. Prosecutors string together a rambling laundry list of intimidating charges in order to get defendants to settle for some lesser violation and punishment. And since it’s extremely costly and time consuming to put together a defense, 95% of the time defendants will simply capitulate and plead guilty to reduced charges.

Because of Fr. Jackson’s position as a traditional Roman Catholic priest in the Latin Rite FSSP, this story generated a lot of interest. Along with much reporting, most of it negative, there came the inevitable avalanche of online chatter which included countless uncharitable comments, some verging on the scurrilous ─ most by self-professing Catholics who aimed their mud-balls at a priest of God! It should sadden any faithful Catholic that there are those of us all to ready and willing to turn on our own priests like dogs fighting over a piece of red meat. Many of those pundits portray Fr. Jackson as some sort of monster vis a vis Theodore McCarrick even though, in this particular case, a better comparison might be the patently unjust conviction meted out to George Cardinal Pell.

Catholics, even traditional ones, seem all too quick to forget their own history. Consider St. Joan of Arc who, if you recall, was condemned and executed for being a sorceress and an unrepentant heretic. During her trial she was utterly abandoned by the armies she had led to victory, betrayed by the King she had restored, and found guilty by an ecclesiastical court. 500 years later the same Church which had condemned Joan declared her a saint. Her case proves just how biased and unreliable contemporary judgments sometimes prove to be. History often judges things through a different lens than the one through which we are currently peering.

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Hiding From the Truth

Being in the process of moving to a new city, I confess to having been remiss in posting any new articles over the past few months. Yet in that short time period the saner elements in our society seem to have been toppled by radical, left-wing wokeism, as evidenced by the absurd stories and lies being passed off as headlines. Consider the wave of crime and violent rampages sweeping through many of our major cities which the mandarins of so-called mainstream news networks attribute to food starved youth (all carrying expensive smart phones), or flash mob vandals who loot and burn businesses with impunity yet are blithely excused as exacting overdue “reparations” to which they, as minorities, are surely entitled. Besides, in a racist world the police who protect that racist system need to go, or at least be hamstrung in enforcing racist laws.

Meanwhile, in Nashville, a resentful trans activist cold-bloodedly murders six innocent children and teachers at a Christian school, but the White House chooses to identify itself not with the murdered nine year olds or their families but with the violent perpetrator of this horrific crime – supposedly a tragic victim of transphobic prejudice! Only a half-senile president would even fathom such an absurd narrative. What we are witnessing alongside the death of reason is the deliberate suppression of any truthful dialogue. The whole point is to support a political myth that white Christianity is a dangerous, toxic, and oppressive burden upon society that must be resisted and ultimately rooted out. Perhaps the real problem is not supposedly hateful Christians beating up on trans people but rather a blanket rejection of Christian morality which has enjoined a culture of violent, narcissistic, drug and sex abusers. What we are witnessing is a moral bankruptcy which the left for decades has been promoting as “progressive values.”

The progressive left has thus created a hive mentality which disproportionately affects those young people who have never acquired any good understanding of history, and so they are easily radicalized. Within these Alinsky styled tribal identity groups founded on shared resentments moral rectitude, self control, and even basic honesty are all equated with an attack on one’s basic freedoms. Evil they call good, and good is evil. And the masterminds of this whole diabolical agenda rely heavily on an essential tactic ~ hiding the truth, while hiding from the truth.

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Pope Benedict XVI ~ A true German Shepherd

Today was celebrated the funeral Mass for Pope Benedict XVI, a loving and gentle father whose concern for the spiritual good of all the faithful was most deeply manifested through his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The Ecclesial career of Fr. and later Cardinal Ratzinger, who would succeed St. John Paul II in the Petrine office as Benedict XVI, showed a commendable willingness to adapt his views from the abstract notions of the young intellectual to the concrete realities and challenges facing the Church. What I mean is that Benedict, like his predecessor, made valiant efforts to reconcile the novel teachings of Vatican II with longstanding Church tradition. History remains to judge whether their attempts to “square the circle” known as Vatican II succeeded or failed.

At this time we can only give both Pontiffs credit for making the effort, an effort which cost Benedict a great deal of opposition, criticism, and mental anguish. Although himself a progressive young periti or theological expert at the Council, time began to reveal that much of the Second Vatican Council was in fact a substantial miscalculation. I mean that instead of healing the rift between the Church and the modern world which the young, idealistic Fr. Ratzinger undoubtedly imagined to be possible, i.e., that the Church would finally convert the world through the means of modern social communications, in fact just the opposite occurred: secular values quickly invaded the Church.

Rather than the Church acting as a leaven in the world, the leaven of the world began to act within the Church through the power of those same means of social communication which flooded both clergy and faihful with its own secular messaging. Within the Church itself “pastoral” became the new catchword for “anything goes” while moral theology became hopelessly confused with sociology. The Council inadvertently opened those floodgates by allowing an admixture of true, long held doctrine to be sprinkled with subtle errors. This occurred when the former clarity in Church pronouncements was replaced by a verbal ambiguity in which, if one carefully reads the documents produced at Vatican II, one can sense the parsing of terms and even internal contradictions throughout many of those same documents. One consequence of the new “pastoral” guidelines being that a whole generation of clerics was trained to believe that the Catholic Church is no longer essential to salvation, therefore one can use means outside the Church to be saved. From this it is but a short step to the belief that all men, at least those of reasonably good will, are to be saved. The problem is that this teaching is not a part of the Apostolic tradition.

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Fear Not!

Christmas is above all a season of hope, a chance to throw off all the media induced fear porn we have been bombarded with over the past eleven months and to renew our faith and hope in the One who alone conquers fear and death. Fear is the enemy of both true faith and hope, as the recent pandemic has so copiously illustrated. I say true faith and hope because today we are presented with a counterfeit version of faith and hope which contradicts, and even opposes, those great theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity whose proper object is the Son of God, of whose birth we are celebrating.

The fear mongers in today’s world are working hard and long to distort and secularize the authentic theological virtues so that they are no longer religious, rather they become transformed into humanist values. Faith thus becomes a misplaced faith in human science and progress, not faith in God and His providence. Our hope is no longer for eternal salvation but only a brighter future here on earth. Charity which is an ardent love for God becomes an exaggerated love and concern for nature and the planet. In order to draw our minds away from contemplating the divine Creator as the proper object of faith, hope, and love, the enemies of God are using fear to heighten anxieties over temporal concerns. Thus they redirect the theological virtues towards purely materialistic ends. And the catalyst they have used over and again to effect this devilish transformation is fear.

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Vigano on the Traditional Mass

The following are excerpts from a recent letter by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano to the Bishop of Novara, Italy. His comments pretty well sums up the deploarble attitude of too many prelates in the current Bergolian church towards those faithful Catholics who yearn for the beauty and reverence of the traditional Sacred Liturgy, which is every Catholic’s rightful patrimony.

“Most Reverend Excellency,

“Your recent decision to suspend the celebration of the Tridentine Liturgy in the church of Vocogno and in the chapel of San Biagio in the Ossola Valleys (Piedmont, Italy) has provoked a great bitterness in the thousands of the faithful and in the priests who are tied to the Traditional Rite (here). After years of application of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, the coldness with which you have executed Traditionis Custodes has aroused deep indignation, despite the fact that the Code of Canon Law gives diocesan Ordinaries faculties that would permit you to derogate from it…

“The “church of mercy” finds itself exercising its power with the force of coercion, which fails when it ought to instead be used to heal situations that are much more serious: theological deviations, moral aberrations, sacrileges and irreverences in the liturgical ambit, The image of the (present day) Hierarchy given to the people of God is summed up in the adage: Strong with the weak; weak with the strong. Which, if you will permit me to say so, is the exact opposite of what you pledged to do as a Bishop.

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