In fact, the other day, I had thoughts of breaking over and treating myself --- my insurer doesn't forbid sporadic tobacco use, just more than once or twice a week --- but I don't want to get something started that I can't stop. It's only four-and-a-half more years.

How did we get to tobacco from the alleged Enthronement of Lucifer in the Vatican?  

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The alleged ceremony was performed in St.Paul's Chapel, not the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

The Chapel of St.Paul is where the Cardinal Electors meet before they gathered in the Sistine Chapel to Elect a Pope.
The Chapel was dedicated to the Pope as the ultimate protector of the Blessed Sacrament.
According to a photo that was published in a Catholic magazine, when the Cardinals meant the Chapel was in a mess. The crucifix above the altar was missing.  The Chapel was restored during the Pontificate of John Paul II.

  I offered a Mass of reparation in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of St. Peter's on 7/1/96 

At this point in time RCF believes the Catholic population may be ready to hear Agnes' story. (Her name, of course, is not Agnes; that is the name given her by Malachi Martin in his fictionalized retelling of her story). She is a real person, and has gone on to live her life as a faithful Catholic.
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Agnes has a family and grown children now. She and her husband live in a southern state. Her husband makes a living in law enforcement. I first heard of Agnes' story from a friend in 1996. This friend of mine had met Agnes a few years earlier when she came to him for advice. He never gave me her name or location but only made reference to her situation because it fit into a conversation we were having regarding the Archdiocese of Chicago.

In 1998, when I first learned who Agnes was, I found that she had been on RCF's mailing list for some time. I also learned that a private investigator, as well as a lawyer from Chicago who had provided RCF with information, had met with Agnes a few years earlier in an attempt to help her find a way to bear witness to what had happened to her. This same investigator and lawyer provided RCF with information they had obtained regarding the alleged sɛҳuąƖ activity of the priest who had abused Agnes many years earlier.

That priest was the young Joseph Bernardin.

Over the past 12 years, in sworn deposition, in accounts to investigators, in affidavits submitted in support of others' cases, in direct statements to Bernardin, in phone calls and letters to Church officials, and in correspondence with Vatican officials (all of which RCF has examined), Agnes has testified to the following story:

In the fall of 1957, in Greenville, S.C., Father Joseph Bernardin raped 11-year-old Agnes as part of a satanic ritual that involved, among others, Bishop John Russell (1897-1993) of Charleston. Brought to the event by an abusive father, Agnes "was able, at first, to resist Bishop Russell physically, out of the knowledge that God had made me good, not bad as I was being told I was" (her words). Bernardin then showed kindness and approval of her resistance, in order to gain her trust and get her to relax, and then he raped her. He followed the rape with a perverted use of a host, in an attempt to make Agnes swallow the guilt of the event.

In the fall of 1992, Agnes passed a polygraph examination regarding these events. She also, in early 1990, told her story to Malachi Martin, who had been recommended to her as someone who could get her information to the Vatican, which Agnes knew had sole and immediate jurisdiction over such a case. Martin wrote a novel, Windswept House, with the premise that Agnes had given him: that the Catholic hierarchy's tolerance of heresy, liturgical abuse, clerical sɛҳuąƖ misconduct, and clerical pedophilia had one overarching explanation at root: a network of satanists whose smoke had ascended high in the Church.

Her story is greatly theatricalized in the novel, but the essential fact of ritual rape is there, as is the spiritual reality of Christ's presence in the victimized child. Thirty-four years later, Agnes went to visit Bishop Russell in a nursing home. In and out of lucidity, he agreed to testify against Bernardin if asked. He died without the opportunity to do so.

"Tall tales" are better suited for things such as deep-sea fishing and hunting in the wilderness for wild boar.

He himself admitted to writing "faction" ... so the line between fact and fiction in his books is extremely blurred.  So, in a way, that makes them useless as a means of getting to the raw facts.  According to the account above by someone who knew Agnes, receiver her testimony, etc., Martin's account was "greatly theatricalized."

He himself admitted to writing "faction" ... so the line between fact and fiction in his books is extremely blurred.  So, in a way, that makes them useless as a means of getting to the raw facts.  According to the account above by someone who knew Agnes, receiver her testimony, etc., Martin's account was "greatly theatricalized."

The duel enthronement of Lucifer was also allegedly done in the Cathedral of Charleston, SC with the Bishop Russell and the Future
Cardinal Joseph Bernardine of Chicago 1982-1996 Father Joseph Bernardine.
The Cathedral has never been re-consecrated.