The Church Is Under Enemy Occupation
Cyril B Andrade, MD
Part 1
Apoc.12:9-12
“And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. ... Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.”
1 Peter 5.8
“Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.”
How many of us remember, how many genuinely believe, that each and every one of us is constantly threatened by a being who is evil–minded and endowed with an intelligence and strength that immeasurably exceeds our own? And who, furthermore, has no other aim than to do us harm? Let loose on earth with all the hosts of Hell. “… it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them.” (Apocalypse 13:7)
And yet it is he, the devil, Satan, the serpent of old, who from the very beginning has tried to drown the emergent Church in a torrent of blood. It is he who throughout the ages has raised up heretics to destroy the Church from within.
Happily, as we read in the book of Job, Satan can pursue his aims only insofar as God permits. Unhappily, we have at the same time been warned by the Fathers of the Church, that whatever the magnitude of persecutions permitted when the Church was in its primitive stage, God has postponed until the last days an even more insidious betrayal which uses persuasion rather than violence.
St. Cyprian, writing in the third century, warned that “… there is an evil even worse and more deadly than persecution: the insidious poisoning of men’s minds.” In the seventeenth century, the French bishop and theologian, Bousuet, wrote: “… there are two sorts of persecutions of the Church: the first kind is the violence used against it during its earliest beginnings under the Roman Empire; the Second is a subtle corruption which will occur during the last days”.
Recalling Our Lord’s words to Peter on the eve of His Passion, “Behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.” (Luke 22:31), Pope Pius XII said, in his address to the clergy and parish priests of the diocese of Rome, delivered 23 Mar 1949, that these were
“… words of the utmost significance for the tines in which we are living. They are applicable not only to the shepherds but also to the flock in its entirety. Faced with the overwhelming religious disputes we are witnessing, we can rely only on those of the faithful who pray and make every effort, even at the price of the greatest sacrifices, to live in conformity with God’s law. All the others on the supernatural plane — and this is the plane of which we speak ¬— are vulnerable, open to every blow struck by the enemy.”
Let such people not forget that they will be swept away.
I. The Nature of the Conspiracy
If the nature of the crisis in which we are living — and its extreme seriousness — is to be fully understood, it is essential for us to bear in mind the many warnings the various popes have not ceased to give since the 18th Century. Two hundred years ago they were acutely aware of a conspiracy against the Church by the Freemasons. And a very real plot it was. Its sole aim was nothing less than the destruction of the Church. But despite all the subtle conniving of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and its adherents, the plotters themselves, through that divine Providence which constantly watches over the Church, revealed their own plans.
At the very heart of the Masonic movement lay a faction, even more secret than the others, which rapidly gained control. These were the Illuminati, formed in 1778 by Adam Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. They were known in France under the name of Martinistes, and elsewhere as Perfectabilists.
In 1785, one of Weishaupt’s close associates, an apostate priest called Lanz, was carrying important instructions from his leader when he was struck dead by lightning. The papers found on his body led to the exposure and trial of the leading conspirators. Details were made public by the Elector of Bavaria whose intention was to warn other Christian powers of the plot against them, for the Masonic sects planned, as a preliminary to their ultimate aim of destroying the Church, the destruction of those states and monarchs which protected Her.
During the 19th Century, the Alta Vendita, the main branch of the Carbonari (the Italian nationalist movement founded in Naples and which had strong links with international Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ), succeeded the Illuminati as overall controllers of those secret societies conspiring against the Church.
Carbonarist docuмents covering the period 1820-1846 came into the possession of Pope Leo XII. They were published by a French writer, Jacques Crétineau-Joly, in his book entitled, The Catholic Church and the Revolution, at the request of Gregory XVI and his successor, Pius IX. In a brief commendation addressed to the author, the latter (25 Feb 1861) gave, as it were, his blessing to the belief that the docuмents were authentic, but at the same time withheld permission to publish the real names of those involved in the conspiracy. We know them only by their Masonic pseudonyms: Nubius, Volpe (“Fox”), Piccolo Tigre (“Tiger-cub”), etc.
Bear in mind that Pius IX’s brief of commendation, established beyond a shadow of a doubt that the docuмents published by Crétineau-Jolt were genuine. The following are taken from these docuмents:
“What we have to work for, seek, expect in the same way that the Jєωs expect the Messiah, is a pope that will fulfill our plans.”
Nubius, the leader of the Alta Vendita, wrote to Volpe on 3 Apr 1844 as follows . . .
“My dear Fox, there has been a very heavy load given to us to bear. We can only achieve our aim by slow and calculated advances, albeit scarcely discernible as yet, towards the victory of revolution achieved by means of a pope.”
The secret orders continued . . .
“This pope, whoever he may be, must never approach the secret societies. On the contrary, it is they who must make the initial approaches to the Church, in order to accomplish the destruction of both Church and pope. The task we are embarking on will not be accomplished in a day, perhaps not even in a hundred years, but while individual soldiers within our ranks may fall, the struggle goes on. We should not count on converting popes to our cause. To think we could is a ludicrous fantasy. Moreover, whatever may happen in the future, should, for instance, cardinals or prelates intentionally or unintentionally learn any of our secrets, it would be a grave mistake to desire that one of their number should be made pope. If that were to happen, all would be lost. For ambition alone would have led him to apostasy: his need to consolidate his own power would compel him to eliminate us.
Let there be no misunderstanding here. None of us should forget that these conspirators’ plans for destroying the Church were dependent upon “a pope that would fulfill their plans.” Not a pope giving cause for scandal, like Alexander VI (Borgia), but a pope susceptible to outside influence.
These instruments of Satan had no doubt about their ultimate success, as witness the following . . .
“We have no doubts about our bringing this venture to a successful conclusion. The question is when and how. The unknown man has not yet been revealed. Nevertheless, nothing must make us deviate from the plan we have contrived. On the contrary, all must pursue this one sole end as if it were to be crowned by success tomorrow, despite its being as yet hardly drafted in outline.”
The Methods to be Used
Let us now examine the evidence revealing the methods devised by the plotters to achieve their aims.
“Thus we must, to make absolutely sure that we have a pope with the requisite set of opinions, ensure first and foremost that he is provided with a generation of subjects worthy of the pontificate on which our hopes are fixed. Abandon all attempts to recruit the old and the middle-aged. Concentrate instead on the young, and especially children wherever possible, for it is youth in the broadest sense that we have to enroll in our ranks, without their becoming aware of what is happening.
“This is a dangerous course of action, but a sure one: it must be followed carefully, step by step and for this two things are absolutely, unquestionably necessary. You must seem as simple as doves, but be as wise as serpents. Never utter one single word in the presence of those you are seeking to influence that could be taken as being irreligious or impure: maxima debentur puero reverentia. Once you have established a reputation in colleges, schools, universities, seminaries; once you have won the trust of teachers and pupils, so contrive it that those who are foremost in zeal among the clergy, come to you for advice …
“A reputation of this kind will enable our doctrines to sink deep into the hearts and minds of the young priests and to become rooted in religious houses everywhere. Within a few years those same young priests will, in the course of time, have taken over the principal functions within the Church: they will be the administrators, governors, judges, counselors to those in the highest authority who will be called upon to elect the pope. And this pope. like the majority of his peers, will of necessity be imbued with the Italian and humanist principles we are about to disseminate in the manner I have Just described … let the clergy march forth beneath your banner, believing that it is still emblazoned with the Keys of Peter. Cast your nets like Simon Bar Jonah, cast them so that they trawl in the very depths of every sacristy, every monastery — and if you are circuмspect, you will be guaranteed a catch more miraculous than his … You will have preached revolution in cope and tiara, marching with cross and banner, a revolution such as will require only the slightest extra impetus to set the four corners of the world on fire.”
Constant Warnings by the Popes
Precisely because they had acquired certain knowledge of the conspiracy and the methods the enemies of Christ intended to use, the popes have never ceased to put Christendom on its guard. Take for example, Pope Leo XIII’s warning against Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ in his encyclical of 1884, Humanum Genus:
“In the present age, those who connive at the dissemination of evil seem combined together in one tremendous endeavor, inspired and abetted by a Society that is both strongly organized and spread far and wide, the Society of Freemasons. It is a fact that they no longer make any attempt to conceal their intentions, and they vie with each other in seeking to demonstrate their audacity in their attack upon the august majesty of God ...
“Faced with such dire peril, confronted with an attack of such cruelty and hostility to the Christian Faith, it is Our duty to give warning of this peril, to denounce our foes and with every means at our disposal to resist their plans and the energy they put into furthering them …”
This danger was denounced for the first time by Clement XII in 1738 and the constitution promulgated by that pope was renewed and confirmed by Benedict XIV. Pius VII followed in their footsteps and Leo XII re–affirmed in his apostolic constitution, Quo Graviora, all the acts and decrees of his predecessors concerning this matter, ratifying and confirming them in perpetuity. Pius VIII, Gregory XIV and Pius IX have on many occasions delivered the same message.
Summary of the First Part
A plot was laid against the Church by her enemies within the shadowy depths of the secret societies. Its aim was to destroy her from within.
God, ever mindful of the Bride of His Son, has willed that the Supreme Heads of the Church should be made aware of this satanic plot, and of the methods devised for it to succeed.
To achieve the destruction of the Church from within by means of “a Pope susceptible to outside influence,” the secret instructions proposed the dissemination of “Italian and humanist principles” i.e., the tenets of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. (It may be said without exaggeration that the principles of democracy and those of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ are identical, and that the former reaffirms and develops, frequently without the supporters of the former being aware of what is happening, all the aims of the latter. Those aims may be summarized as the demolition of the supernatural and its replacement by total naturalism.
This evidence is known to us from a letter written by the head of the main branch of the Carbonari and dated 3 April 1844.
II - Sixty Years Later: The Clergy Contaminated
A. Fogazzaro’s Il Santo
In 1905,. sixty years after Nubius had written giving Volpe his instructions, a novel entitled Il Santo (The Saint) was published. Its author was an Italian Modernist, Antonio Fogazzaro, (1842-1911). Subsequently placed on the Index, the novel reveals two very important facts. They are:
1. The success that had been achieved by the ideas put into circulation sixty years earlier by the secret societies. We learn from Fogazzaro that there had come into existence within the Church what the characters in his novel call “ a Catholic Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ”. And in addition, that this group felt sufficiently confident to bring out into the open opinions and views previously restricted to a close circle of initiates. It was, as Leo XIII had made clear in 1884, quite evident that “Freemasons no longer take the precaution of concealing their intentions ... They are engaged in their efforts to ruin the Church publicly, out in the open.
2. Il Santo also reveals the aims of this “Catholic Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ”, a genuine sectarian movement that had, in St. Pius X’s words, “pierced to the very bowels and veins of the Church.” The ultimate aim was explained as follows by Fogazzaro, at the beginning of his novel . . .
“Here we are, a given number of Catholics in and outside Italy, clergy and laity alike, who wish to see the Church reformed. We have no desire to emerge as open rebels, our wish is to see such a reformation effected by lawful authority within the Church. We seek reforms in religious education, the liturgy, the discipline of the clergy, and in the supreme government of the Church. To achieve this aim we need to form a climate of opinion which will lead to the lawful authorities acting in conformity with our views, whether this means waiting twenty, thirty, even fifty years.”
B. A Selection from other Modernist Writings
Fogazzaro is not the only writer to have provided information about the results obtained by the dissemination of Masonic ideas. Statements made by others show beyond any shadow of doubt that these ideas had made considerable headway, and that there were a great many in the ranks of their supporters who expected that, in a very short time, there would be changes in Catholic doctrine and liturgy which would not only reform the Church, but would prepare it for absorption into a syncretist and universal Super-Church.
St. Yves d’Alveydre (1849-1909):
A supporter of such a world-wide syncretist Church, wrote that “ … the constituents of the Universal Synarchic Church are these . . .
1. the preaching Church with the Gospels which is ruled by bishops, popes and councils;
2. the Church of Moses with the Torah, which is ruled by the Gaon in Jerusalem;
3. the Church of the Vedas, ruled by the Agartha lodge under direct angelic inspiration;
4. the Protestant Church of Luther, Mohammed’s Islam, and the Church of Shakia Muni (Buddha).”
Abbé Jeannin:
“The Catholic Church possesses the truth ... but she imprisons it within an inextricable maze of dogmas ... she clothes it in such a way as to conceal its true form ... (the Church) is truth draped in veils of many different shades. The one and only religion for all time and all places, Catholicism has become confined in forms that suit certain peoples and periods, but not the present age in which we live.”
Jeannin goes on to propose that . . .
“… the Church, unassailable in its teaching which is the truth, must adapt it to meet the requirements of the liberated human spirit. She can and must cast aside the threadbare veil that conceals the soul of her theology, she must repudiate the outworn formulas of the mediaeval Scholastics.”
Ex-Canon Rocca (1830-1884):
An apostate priest. He aspired to
“… a new Christianity, sublime, all-embracing, deep, truly universal in its aims, containing within itself all knowledge. Such a church will, Victor Hugo predicted, be able in the end of creating a heaven wholly on earth, of putting an end to frontiers, to sectarian divisions, to racial, localized, and jealous churches, those prisoners of Caesar, the diseased cells within the mighty social body of Christ. Christianity is not concerned with the building of some heathen temple: it is a universal religion, into which all others will be absorbed.”
So sure was this apostate priest of the forthcoming evolution that he went so far as to prophesy:
“It is my belief that divine worship as evidenced in the liturgy, ceremonies, rituals and doctrines of the Roman Church, will shortly undergo a radical transformation as the result of an Ecuмenical Council. This will simultaneously bring about the restoration of the venerable simplicity of the apostolic golden age, and provide the means for an adjustment that will harmonize with the new developments in modern civilization and human awareness.”
C. Leo XIII’s Encyclical on Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ
A re–reading of Leo XIII’s encyclical , Humanum Genus, shows how widespread were the Masonic dreams that he condemned. Here is a selection.
Leo XIII on ecuмenism . . .
“The major error of the present age consists in the reducing of religion to a level where no distinctions are made, and where all religions are seen as being equal. This principle alone is sufficient to cause the ruination of all religions, and of the Catholic religion in particular, inasmuch as it is the sole true religion and cannot, therefore, without submitting to ultimate injury, tolerate that the other religions should be placed on an equal footing with it.”
Leo XIII on naturalism . . .
“The objective of the Freemasons, towards which all their efforts are directed, is nothing less than the total destruction of that religious and social order born of Christian institutions, and its replacement by a new order molded to their ideology, whose fundamental principles and laws are taken from naturalist philosophy. The naturalists and the Freemasons give no credence to the Revelation we have been vouchsafed by God; they deny that our first parents sinned, and that consequently the movements of man’s free will are, in some degree, weakened or disposed towards evil.”
Leo XIII on “Separation of Church and State” . . .
“And thus, even were it to involve them in a protracted and laborious struggle, the Freemasons intend to reduce the innermost structures of secular society, the authority and Magisterium, of the Church; whence the consequence that they apply themselves to disseminate their ideas, and to fight for them without respite, namely the absolute necessity of separating the Church and State.”
Leo XIII on education . . .
“In the education of children there should be no methodical system of instruction, nor should anything in the way of religious teaching be imposed. It must be left to the child to choose the religion towards which it is most attracted, on reaching an age when it is capable of such a choice. In preparing for participation in secular society a race of citizens of the kind they dream of, they will in no way tolerate, in the education and instruction of children, any intervention by ministers of the Church, whether as teachers or supervisors.”
Leo XIII on the Source of Power (for them) . . .
“ … all power resides in the people liberated from former constraints; those who exercise the powers of government do so only by the mandate or the consent of the people, in such manner that when the will of the people changes, the rulers of the state must be deprived of their power to govern, even though they may be opposed to such deprivation.”
Leo XIII’s encyclical, and all the other works so far quoted, date from the last century. Fogazzaro’s novel of 1905 came a little later and expressed modern (i.e., Masonic) ideas in a more concise form. He concentrated on the changes desired by Catholic Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and how that group hoped to see them realized.
III. Sixty Years Further On: the Church Under Enemy Occupation
It is enough to re-read the express aims of the modernists to realize that they have now all been achieved, and in precisely the way the movement wished.
What was it the movement wanted? A reform of the Church of Rome. now accomplished. Only the willfully blind can fail to realize the truth of this.
How did it hope the reform would be put into effect? Without overt rebellion on their part; put into effect by lawful authority. This is exactly what characterizes the “Paulist” reforms. They have been carried out “without overt rebellion”, by the Second Vatican Council, i.e., “lawful authority”!
What were the changes the movement wanted? They were . . .
1. Reforms in religious education.” We have the new Catechism and new theology.
2. Reforms in the liturgy.” We have the new Mass and the new Sacraments.
3. Reforms in the discipline of the clergy.” Local authorities flout all the laws of the Church, and the central authorities in Rome have a new Code of Canon Law.
4. Reforms in the supreme government of the Church.” These have also been realized in the emphasis on collegiality, the standing bishops’ synod, national episcopal conferences, priests’ associations and the innumerable secretariats for this, that and the other.
Faced with these facts which no honest person can deny, we are forced to draw the only conclusion possible: the Roman Catholic Church is under enemy occupation.
What exactly do we mean when we say the church is under enemy occupation?
Simply that the Church has been infiltrated by her enemies, who have appropriated most of the key positions in her government. And it is a fact that it is only because the most important positions have been seized by the recourse to “overt rebellion by means of lawful authority.”
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Book
In 1962, just before the opening of the Second Vatican Council, a book entitled The Plot Against the Church was published in Italian and a copy placed in the hands of every bishop who attended the first session of the Council.
Although the book was published under the pseudonymous authorship of one Maurice Pinay, nevertheless the opinion predominant in Rome, as also in much of the world press, was that this sensational book was prepared by no less than distinguished elements of the Roman Curia, the supreme government of the Church, auxiliary of His Holiness the Pope.
Since the time it was first published, the book has been published in many other countries and languages.
It is all too evident that the Church is now in the hands of Her enemies.
This present paper has drawn some of its information from that book.
All emphases noted in this paper have been added by its compiler.
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Originally written in about 1990 — scanned into electronic format in 2009
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