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BBC NEWS Europe Paul Marcinkus: Prelate with presence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4738134.stm

The Murder of Pope John Paul I

http://www.crc-internet.org/oct84.htm

The Mysterious Death of Pope John Paul I [A Treatise} by Gregory Christiano

http://www.prose-n-poetry.com/display_work/10583

BBC NEWS Europe Obituary: Archbishop Paul Marcinkus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4737372.stm


IF YOU READ ONLY ONE, MAKE IT THIS ONE
Politics, Religion, Israel and the Seduction of the Catholic Voter Part 2

by Robert A. Sungenis, M.A.

http://www.catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/pastoral/politics2.htm

Brief excerpt:
� the Freemasons, the P2, the Illuminati, and about a dozen other �big money and man-made philosophies control �this world. That�s what the Apostle John tells us in the Apocalypse. This is not, � �conspiracy� theory. Catholics � in the 1970s-80s � many of the prelates they trusted had already succumbed � One � source was a list of Freemasons discovered by Italian police and later sent to Pope John Paul I by Mino Pecorelli, editor of L� Osservatore Politico (who was soon afterward assassinated, mafioso style). Among the names on the short list of Masons were 121 Catholic prelates, including prominent office holders such as: Augustin Cardinal Bea, Secretary of State to John XXIII and Paul VI; Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, creator of the Novus Ordo mass; Agostino Cacciavillan, Secretary of State, and until very recently, Papal Nuncio to America; Agostino Casaroli, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Achille Lienart, Bishop of Lille, France and designated as �Masonic Grand Master� and very active in slanting Vatican II in the liberal direction; Leo Cardinal Suenens (leader of the Charismatic movement) and Jean Cardinal Villot, the Secretary of State. These names came complete with Masonic code names and numbers. Villot�s name was �Jeanni� with number 041/3 and he was enrolled in the Lodge on August 6, 1966. So vast was Villot�s power and influence that when Paul VI had excommunicated Pasquale Macci for heresy, Villot, after the pope�s death, had Macci reinstated and saw to it that he was elevated to Cardinal. Pio Laghi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States is also on the list, � he is a great friend to the Bush family.
Paul Marcinkus, Director of the Vatican Bank � money laundering schemes, was also on the Freemason list. It was John Paul I�s stated quest to Cardinal Villot to remove Marcinkus and his collaborators, such as Cardinal Baggio (also on the Freemason list). But Villot and company silenced the pope before he could act. All this is common knowledge now, thanks to David Yallop�s book �In God�s Name�; Paul Williams� book �The Vatican Exposed,� as well as the work of Richard Hammer, Claire Sterling, Nick Tosches and John Cornwell. What we also know is that, immediately after becoming the new pope, John Paul II closed the door on all the internal investigations initiated by John Paul I, � Instead of ousting Marcinkus the pope elevated him, on the third anniversary of John Paul I�s death, to the position of the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City, which is more or less like being its governor. � misdealings of the Banco Ambrosiano (which was the source for Marcinkus� money laundering schemes as he defrauded its depositors), John Paul II paid off the creditors with $250 million of the Vatican�s money. When appeals came to the Vatican from the Italian government to help prosecute Marcinkus, John Paul II protected Marcinkus by citing the immunity granted by article 11 of the 1929 Lateran Treaty with Mussolini, as he also did in protecting, Bernard Law, the infamous pedophile shuffler.

IF YOU READ ONLY ONE, MAKE IT THIS ONE
Politics, Religion, Israel and the Seduction of the Catholic Voter Part 2
by Robert A. Sungenis, M.A.
http://www.catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/pastoral/politics2.htm
Brief excerpt:
� the Freemasons, the P2, the Illuminati, and about a dozen other �big money and man-made philosophies control �this world. That�s what the Apostle John tells us in the Apocalypse. This is not, � �conspiracy� theory.

I HOPE WE TAKE THIS TO HEART! THESE THREATS TO OUR CHURCH ARE REAL. SOMETHING I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AWARE OF IS THAT WHEN AN OSTRICH STICKS HIS HEAD IN THE SAND IT ONLY MAKES IT EASIER TO CUT THE OSTRICH'S HEAD OFF. LET US NOT HIDE FROM UNPLEASANT REALITIES.

Does Dan Brown claim a masonic affiliation? It might be helpful to know. After all, he wrote the book.

not the conspiracy theories about the Freemasons again??

Yes, again. Some things stay the same, don't they?

They are alive and well under my bed. Just peeked down there and some guy was there with one trouser leg rolled up and half his shirt off swearing some secret oath.

From:
Scripture Scholars, Ancient and Modern
From: �The Plot Against The Pope; Coup d�tat in the Conclave � 1958�

http://www.cardinalsiriandtheplotagainstthepope.com/scripture_scholars.htm

short excerpt:

...1955, Fr. Herman Bernard Kramer � on The Apocalypse of St. John, � The Book of Destiny.


Father Kramer �

� . . . A second �sign� appears in heaven. . . This red dragon . . . brings the Church into great distress at that time. . . No fiercer enemy of God and man has appeared in Christian times than Communism, and strange to say, RED is its emblematic color. Communism may by that time have gained control of the governments of Europe.�

��Judeo-FREEMASONRY� (caps my emphasis) � �Communism,� � Communist flag � red emblem of the Jewish banking House of Rothschild, � �red shield�� governments of Western European � under the tight grip of Freemasonry for many years, �


Father Kramer �

. . . Satan knows how extensively an interregnum in the papacy would favor his success in recovering his ancient lordship over the world. . . As a dragon, Satan through the evil world-powers of that time will enter the Church, interfere with her liberty and perhaps by stealthy suggestions having long before directed the choosing of candidates for the episcopate will now endeavor by threats of force to hinder the election of the worthiest candidate for the papacy . . .�


� Giuseppe Siri,

�. . . The seclusion of the conclave is even more necessary today; with modern means, with modern techniques, without complete seclusion, it would not be possible to gain an election against the pressures from outside powers. Today some superpowers (and even some lesser powers) have too great an interest in owning, for their part, through either compliance or weakness [of church leaders], the greatest moral authority in the world. And they would do everything in their power to accomplish this. The pressures to overturn the substance of the law of the conclave would be driven by the desire to obtain this very result.�

... U.S.S.R. � U.S.A. ... FREEMASONRY (caps my emphasis)�


Father Kramer �

�. . . Some eminent cardinal may be particularly outstanding in his efforts to stem the tide of demoralization of bishops and priests. Satan will know, and the world-powers will know, that he is the likely choice for the papacy, and that if elected, he will . . . exercise his supreme jurisdiction to inaugurate measures of reform. . . . Satan�s intention is to subject the newly elected Pope also to the purposes of the world-powers or to plot his death. He may contrive an assurance of safety and immunity from harm for the Cardinals to convene for the election the more easily to take the Pope-elect prisoner.�

�1958 Conclave� Intimidation � just-elected, and overthrown Pope, � blackmail and all manner of deception � against � old Cardinals, � perpetual silence.


Fr. Kramer � 12th chapter of The Apocalypse:

�The dragon will want to intimidate the new Pope into non-interference - to let affairs run and develop as heretofore. In that way would he �devour the son� absorb the papacy and alone direct and rule the world.�10 �


Note the above: Guiseppe Cardinal Siri, who was the validly elected Pope after John XXIII, who as Fr. Malachi Martin tells us, Siri was threatened at Vatican II into refusing his valid election by a threat against the life of Cardinal Siri�s family.

Freemasonry is a product of Gnosticism.

Very true. I researched Freemasonry some years back and was struck by that very thing. Curiously, all the books I used have disappeared from the public library, including one by a Protestant clergyman demonstrating that freemasonry is not compatible with Christianity. At least if you take both seriously.

Sad to say, the majority (if not all) of the members of your Royal Family is Masonic. I remember Prince Charles saying he was in favor of changing the "Defender of THE Faith" title for the monarch to that of "Defender of Faith".
Even that assertion sounds Masonic. Of course it has been said that every American president (with the lone exception of John F. Kennedy, who was no saint) since George Washington has been a Freemason.

Dn. Robert

Dear Father Deacon Robert,

Actually, Prince Charles is a member of the Royal Family who is NOT a mason and has said that he will never become one.

He wants to change the title, "Defender of the faith" because of the common law implication that title today has with respect to Anglicanism as the established church of England (and Presbyterianism in Scotland).

The principles of the American revolution, including the symbols it adopted, were entirely Masonic (as we can see on the back of American money). And all of the U.S. government monuments in Washington were all dedicated according to Masonic rites at the time of their completion.

In addition, I've come across Catholics who are Masons and who are so with the actual blessing and approval of their bishops - this was also confirmed to me by a Catholic school chaplain-priest who once scolded me for my narrow-mindedness in this respect!

Do you think I'm narrow-minded?

Alex

Dear Friends,

Rather than blame the masons, how about we share a lot of the blame for the fact that Christians today seem to be so disconnected from their faith that a piece of concocted trash like the Da Vinci Code can shake their "faith" to its core.

If anything, Dan Brown has done Christianity a favour (and also Opus Dei, as I understand . . .) by showing how poorly evangelized many Christians themselves are, that we have, in fact, a nominal Christian culture etc.

Alex

No, especially if you agree with me!

Dear Father Deacon,

Well, if you are a monarchist, the only thing I have to say is . . .

I bow to you, sir!

HRH Prince Charles has been visiting Mt Athos, as you say, and some have said he is secretly studying Orthodoxy. I also understand that he admires greatly his Orthodox Russian relatives who are Martyr-Saints.

And I am also informed that he does attend Orthodox Divine Liturgy with his father on Sundays . . . and gets icons written for him by English Orthodox iconographers.

Ciao!

Alex

Fr. Deacon Robert,
Re: "...In reality the Gnostics just as neo-Platonic heathens were ashamed of their corporal nature....." and "...A similar garbling is used by this author when he alleges that Gnostics and their apocrypha asserted the human nature of Christ,...." Quite right and furthermore, the same Gnostics then argued themselves into total immorality and denied the Resurrection of Christ (especially the Docetics, as well as the others) and our own future resurrection -- the general resurrection of all men at Christ's Parousia in order to vainly try to justify their corrupt lives.

Best regards,
Steve