By Tom Horn & Cris Putnam
Last
Sunday, Pope Benedict stood before a crowd of 50-thousand people and announced:
“The time of testing is here.” This oblique reference to the start of great
tribulation reflects our previous work, Petrus
Romanus, in which we carefully detailed a prophecy by Malachy
O’Morgair, or “Saint Malachy” as he is known to Catholics, having to do with
“the last pope.”
The Prophecy
of the Popes, hidden for hundreds of years inside the highly guarded
vaults of the Vatican
library contains a list of Latin verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic
popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, Petrus Romanus or “Peter the Roman,”
whose reign assists the rise of Antichrist and ends in the destruction of Rome.
According to this nine-hundred-year-old prophecy, the pope following Benedict
XVI is this final pontiff. The
last segment of the prophecy reads:
In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church,
there will sit Peter the Roman, who will nourish the sheep in many tribulations;
when they are finished, the City of Seven Hills will be destroyed, and the
dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.[i]
While
investigating this mysterious prophecy, we learned of the long line of other
Roman Catholic leaders who, down through time, also foresaw Rome being destroyed
after becoming an engine of the Antichrist. A remarkable example of this was Dr.
Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, who delivered a series of lectures in 1861 under
the title, “The Present Crises of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy,” in which he
predicted a future crisis in the Roman Catholic Church resulting in apostasy and
the rise of the False Prophet and Antichrist. Of the prophecy in the book of
Revelation (chapter 18) concerning the end-time destruction of Mystery Babylon,
Manning wrote:
We read in the
Book Apocalypse, of the city of Rome, that she said in the pride of her heart,
“I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and sorrow I shall not see. Therefore shall
her plagues come in one day: death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be
burned with fire, because God is strong who shall judge her.” Some of the
greatest writers of the Church tell us that…the great City of Seven Hills…the
city of Rome will probably become apostate…and that Rome will again be punished,
for he will depart from it; and the judgment of God will fall.[ii]
Manning
continued, explaining how Catholicism’s greatest theologians agreed with this
point of view:
The apostasy
of the city of Rome…and its destruction by Antichrist may be thoughts so new to
many Catholics, that I think it well to recite the text of theologians, of
greatest repute. First, Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as
the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Viegas, Suarez, Bellarmine, and Bosius,
that Rome shall apostatize from the faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ, and
return to its ancient paganism. Malvenda’s words are:
But
Rome itself in the last times of the world will return to its ancient idolatry,
power, and imperial greatness. It will cast out its Pontiff, altogether
apostatize from the Christian faith, terribly persecute the Church, shed the
blood of martyrs more cruelly than ever, and will recover its former state of
abundant wealth, or even greater than it had under its first rulers.
Lessius says:
“In the time of Antichrist, Rome shall be destroyed, as we see openly from the
thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse;” and again: “The woman whom thou sawest is
the great city, which hath kingdom over the kings of the earth, in which is
signified Rome in its impiety, such as it was in the time of St. John, and shall
be again at the end of the world.” And Bellarmine: “In the time of Antichrist,
Rome shall be desolated and burnt, as we learn from the sixteenth verse of the
seventeenth chapter of the Apocalypse.” On which words the Jesuit Erbermann
comments as follows: “We all confess with Bellarmine that the Roman people, a
little before the end of the world, will return to paganism, and drive out the
Roman Pontiff.”
Viegas, on the eighteenth chapter of the Apocalypse
says: “Rome, in the last age of the world, after it has apostatized from the
faith, will attain great power and splendor of wealth, and its sway will be
widely spread throughout the world, and flourish greatly. Living in luxury and
the abundance of all things, it will worship idols, and be steeped in all kinds
of superstition, and will pay honor to false gods. And because of the vast
effusion of the blood of martyrs which was shed under the emperors, God will
most severely and justly avenge them, and it shall be utterly destroyed, and
burned by a most terrible and afflicting conflagration.”[iii]
With
the forthcoming election of Petrus Romanus on everybody’s mind and not yet
knowing who the Final Pope that leads Rome into destruction and great
tribulation described by Catholic seers above will actually be, we should remind
readers of the 61-year old codex we uncovered in our book Petrus Romanus
(this book in French and English comes free on the data DVDs that will be given
away with Exo-Vaticana - read more here).
It was written by Jesuit academic Rene Thibaut in 1958 and contains an
intriguing suggestion that the next pope will either be named ‘Pius’ or will
somehow be related to a pope of that name from the past. Commenting on just one of the hidden anagrams he discovered in the
Prophecy of the Popes, he observes, “Note that this way of dividing the words to
sort various meanings is a method dear to the ancient Irish.”[iv]
A simple example of an anagram is seen in the Latin text “Peregrinus
apostolicus”[v] which
was the prophecy for the ninety-sixth pope on the list, Pius VI. The anagram not
only reveals the papal name, it does it twice: PeregIinUS aPostolIcUS. That’s right! The name “Pius”
is rather transparently embedded in the original Latin text twice, which is
rather astounding considering we have a published copy of the Prophecy of the
Popes dated almost two hundred years before Pius VI was elected. Furthermore,
Thibaut argues the encrypted couplet within “Apostolic pilgrim” signifies both
Pius VI and the very next pope Pius VII who were both forced into foreign exile
(i.e., pilgrims). He also suggests that the repetition serves as a poetic
refrain. In other words, “Pius! Pius!” is similar to the excited binary “Mayday,
Mayday!” that sailors cry out in dire circumstances.[vi]
With
this in mind, we pointed readers last year to the electrifying visions of
another pope named Pius—Pope Pius
X who served as pope from 1903 to 1914 and who saw a papal successor carrying
the same name Pius fleeing Rome over
the bodies of dead priests at the onset of the end times. Pius X is widely
reported to have said:
What I have seen is terrifying! Will I be the one, or will it be a
successor? What is certain is that the Pope will leave Rome and, in leaving the
Vatican, he will have to pass over the dead bodies of his priests! Do not tell
anyone this while I am alive.[vii]
In
a second vision during an audience with the Franciscan order in 1909, Pope Pius
X appeared to fall into a trance. After a few moments, he opened his eyes and
rose to his feet, announcing:
I have seen one of my successors, of the same name [a future pope named
Pius], who was fleeing over the dead bodies of his brethren. He will take refuge
in some hiding place; but after a brief respite, he will die a cruel death.
Respect for God has disappeared from human hearts. They wish to efface even
God’s memory. This perversity is nothing less than the beginning of the last
days of the world.[viii]
The
third part of the Secret of Fátima, which was supposedly released in total by
the Vatican June 26, 2000, seems to echo the visions of Pius X. A section of the
material reads:
…before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in
ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he
prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of
the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group
of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died
one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and
various lay people of different ranks and positions.[ix]
The
conceptual framework of these visions and their validity is volatile among many
Catholics who believe Rome is complicit in an intentional cover-up involving the
true Third Secret of Fátima as well
as other suppressed Catholic foresights that are rife with wildly different
predictions concerning the future prophetic role of the Roman Catholic Church.
Marian apparitions, visions by popes, interpretations by cardinals of the
apocalypse, and approved mystical prophecies often stand at odds with recent
Vatican publications. Even the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” approved by
the Church and promulgated by Pope John Paul II (released in English in 1994,
the first catechism in more than four hundred years), which draws on the Bible,
the mass, the sacraments, traditions, teachings, and the lives of the saints,
states under the section The Church’s
Ultimate Trial:
675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final
trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that
accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the mystery of iniquity in the
form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their
problems at the price of apostasy from the Truth. The supreme religious
deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies
himself in the place of God and his Messiah who has come in the
flesh.[x]
Recent
Catholic priests have confirmed these visions of destroyed apostate Rome, some
pointing to the conclave and the inevitable danger of the False Prophet rising
from within the ranks of Catholicism. These were also discussed in the 2012
book, Petrus Romanus as:
Father E. Sylvester Berry, whose book The Apocalypse of Saint John foretold
the usurpation of the papacy by a false prophet; Father Herman Bernard Kramer,
whose work The Book of Destiny
painted a terrifying scenario in which Satan enters the church and assassinates
the true pope (possibly during conclave) in order that his false pope can rise
to rule the world; as well as similar beliefs by priests like Father John F.
O’Connor, Father Alfred Kunz, and Father Malachi Martin.… In a two-hour
presentation (available on DVD), Father O’Connor gave a homily titled “The Reign
of the Antichrist,” in which he described how changes within [the Roman
Catholic] institution were already at work before his death to provide for the
coming of Antichrist. (brackets in original)[xi]
O’Connor’s worst
fears have certainly been realized. An
associate of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI who is considered one of the
most important Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, Hans Urs von
Balthasar, wrote a provocative
essay, “Casta Meretrix,”
(“Chaste Harlot”) that not only identified the Roman Catholic Church as the
Great Harlot, but embraced it:
The figure of
the prostitute [forma meretricis] is so appropriate for the Church…that
it…defines the Church of the New Covenant in her most splendid mystery of
salvation. The fact that the Synagogue left the Holy Land to go and be among the
pagans was an infidelity of Jerusalem, the fact that “she opened her legs in
every road in the world.”
But this same movement, which brings
her to all the peoples, is the mission of the Church. She must unite and merge
herself with every people, and this new apostolic form of union cannot be
avoided.[xii]
While the embrace of whoredom is astonishing, the convicting words of
prophecy, “Come out of her, my people, That ye be not partakers of her sins, And
that ye receive not of her plagues” (Revelation 18:4), seem to forecast such
apostasy. In the next entry we will re-examine what was happening around the
Fatima prophecies and whether Pope Benedict himself—and the man that wants to be
Petrus Romanus—have, all along, held deep secrets concerning the upcoming
conclave toward world-spanning ramifications.
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