A church in Chiclayo, Peru. Photo by Irvine- from 2009, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0, here
It’s been now over a month since the invalid election of Prevost and very interesting things have been happening in the Church.
Let’s recap: The “conclave” was invalid, because not all participants have been Cardinals, in violation of Universi Dominici Gregis (UDG) 33: “The right to elect the Roman Pontiff belongs exclusively to the Cardinals of Holy Roman Church […] The right of active election by any other ecclesiastical dignitary […] is absolutely excluded.” They were not all Cardinals, because Bergoglio was not the pope and therefore could not validly nominate any Cardinals.
But God gave us another sign: There were 133 participants in the “conclave”. Even if all of them would have been valid Cardinals, the same UDG 33 also states: “The maximum number of Cardinal electors must not exceed one hundred and twenty.”
In his very first public appearance, Antipope Prevost showed his allegiance to the false church: “I want a synodal church.”
What prompted me to write this article was the sermon of Archbishop Carlo Viganò on Pentecost. Viganò was of course the strongest voice in opposition to Antipope Bergoglio. In fact, when the author first heard of Viganò’s statements, at the time regarding McCarrick, the author still considered Bergoglio the pope. He was at first bewildered why Viganò constantly called Bergoglio by his original surname instead of calling him “Pope Francis”. Years later, after first confronted with the idea that Benedict’s resignation might have been invalid, the author realized that he didn’t consider Bergoglio to be pope, which he then later stated more clearly.
In this homily, Viganò prays to the Holy Spirit: “Come and guide Leo in the restoration of the Church and the Papacy, so that he may fully exercise the authority that the Supreme and Eternal Pontiff has conferred on Peter and his legitimate Successors.”
In other words, he acknowledges Prevost as the real pope. Now, that’s very interesting. Before the conclave, he gave interviews suggesting that he regarded the conclave as invalid:
“The Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis that regulates the Conclave, confirmed by the Motu Proprio of Benedict XVI Normas Nonnullas, peremptorily establishes that the number of Cardinal electors must not exceed 120 individuals. But the Cardinal electors who make up the imminent ‘conclave’ are 136 [3 didn’t participate in the end]: we are therefore faced with a very serious violation that alone would be enough to undermine the legitimacy of any supposedly valid Conclave.
Furthermore, a College of Cardinals composed of 108 ‘cardinals’ created by a Jesuit who usurped the Papacy for twelve years cannot validly elect a legitimate pope. At most, the College will be able to designate its own representative, someone who will renew and continue the usurpation of the recently deceased predecessor, and see the ongoing fraud further ratified by a complicit or cowardly episcopate.” (source)
And: “The Conclave is the mirror of the disastrous situation in which the entire Hierarchy finds itself: 108 Cardinals were created by a usurper who was never pope. They will try to perpetuate the Bergoglian usurpation with a ‘pope’ who will take up the baton and complete the destructive action of Jorge Bergoglio […] The fact that they are heretics, and many of them morally perverted, makes them completely alien to the authority they usurp.” (source)
Viganò was one of three bishops who are known to have publicly recognized Bergoglio as an antipope. I refer readers to my previous article with links to their statements.
The second is René Henry Gracida, Bishop emeritus of Corpus Christi in Texas, who is 102 years old and was admitted to hospital a month ago with sepsis.
The third bishop is Jan Paweł Lenga, who regularly uploads videos in Polish to his Youtube channel. He published four videos since the conclave, one of them is about abortion, another about the Polish presidential election and another about a certain Polish individual. The fourth one bears the title “Loże masońskie zadowolone z pontyfikatu Franciszka. Abp Jan Paweł Lenga” (“Masonic lodges pleased with Francis’ pontificate”, Deepl-translated) I don’t speak Polish, but from turning on subtitles, he doesn’t seem to mention Prevost at all.
I cannot fathom what the motivation of Viganò and the others could be, so I won’t speculate.
During the “pandemic”, former Irish Times journalist John Waters has come up with an analogy of journalism at that time: Imagine a medieval city with a city wall and watchtowers. One night, the guardsmen decide that they don’t want to guard the city anymore, so they leave their posts. In order to maintain the illusion that they are still doing their job, they take down their uniform and dress up strawmen. That night, a man gets up because he heard a noise. Looking up at the towers, he sees the silhouette of a guardsman, thinks that everything is alright, so he goes back to sleep. However, invaders attack the city that night.
Abandoning one’s post is bad enough, but maintaining the illusion that one still does one’s job is worse. In the imaginary scenario, the man who got up could have rallied other men in the town to organize a defense. This is the imaginary scenario that came to my mind observing the situation of the Church.
On the surface level, everything seems to be fine, but in reality, the Catholic Church is in the greatest crisis of her existence. If priests and bishops maintain the illusion that somehow everything will be okay if they don’t say anything and pretend nothing is happening, nothing will change and God knows how many souls are encouraged on their way to hell.
Jesus told us that “the truth will make you free” (John 8:32). Only the truth can help the Church, in this case, the truth about the invalid “resignation” of Benedict XVI, the invalid “papacy” of Jorge Bergoglio, Jorge Bergoglio’s heresies and blasphemies and the invalid “conclave” of April 2025.
Pope Saint Pius V, pray for us!