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Offline Persto

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Re: The Smoke of the Antichrist
« Reply #15 on: August 13, 2026, 08:17:13 PM »
ONE BISHOP, OUT OF 2500, REFUSES TO SIGN
     The Catholic world was told that all these changes were done according to the wish of the Second Vatican Council.  Which is simply not true.  Vatican II has never - I repeat "never" - ordered a new Mass.  However, the Council was not without fault.  The sin of Vatican II consisted in passing several ambiguous declarations ("time-bombs") which opened the gates to every kind of abuses, sacrileges, immorality, that Paul VI labelled as the "smoke of satan."  It was a great victory for the Antichrist when religious errors (although not claiming infallibility for their "pastoral council") were approved by the very leaders of the Church.  Paul VI rightly said (maybe unwittingly) that "the smoke of Satan has entered the Church."
     Here I want to deal with the often heard plausible defense of Vatican II, which says, that it is impossible that 2500 bishops who signed the declarations would be in error, and only the one or two, who did not sign, would be right.
     This is the often used method which wishes to decide the validity of a dogmatic truth by the number of votes cast for it. In fact, such an argument has never been valid.  At the time of the French Revolution, the French Parliament unanimously voted for the proposition which said: "There is no God!" - Did God then cease to exist? - NO! - In 1973 the Supreme Court of the United States overwhelmingly voted for legalizing abortion.  Did they - by this - cancel the Fifth Commandment of God which says: "Thou shalt not kill"? - NO, the Commandment stays.
     Christ said that those who did not believe all that He had revealed to us, will be condemned.  Christ established His only Church to guard this Divine Revelation.  Now come 2500 bishops of the Council, and under the hypnotizing influence of AGGIORNAMENTO they sign a declaration, which says that other religions are also good for salvation.
     - Did they, by this, cancel the previously revealed divine truth?
     - No! Not at all.  These men might condemn themselves to eternal fire, but they cannot annul the truth of Christ, which says that "outside of the Church there is no salvation".
     Satan does not have the truth.  Therefore, he must have the numbers.  He lined up 2500 bishops and a Pope against the truth of Christ.  With this impressive number he seduced almost all the Church.  This is one of those lying wonders (2 Thess. 2, 9) which Satan is allowed to perform in order to deceive those who do not love the truth.  Very few people could neutralize the brutal force of this number, and keep themselves on the side of truth.  The beast of the Antichrist "was allowed to wage a war with the saints, and overcome them" (Rev. 13, 7).
     Here you might feel a certain degree of despair, and say:
     - If the signatures of 2500 bishops are not enough to establish truth, then how can we know where the truth is, where the error lies?
     We have received from Our Lord two foolproof methods to recognize the truth, but neither of them includes the concept of majority votes.
     When traditional Catholics try to demonstrate the doctrinal and practical errors of the Second Vatican Council which brought forth a new, non-Catholic religion, most of the people trapped in the new religion dismiss the arguments of traditional Catholics with the saying:

     - It is impossible that 2500 bishops and a Pope would sign a docuмent which contains error.  God would never allow 99.9% of His Church to fall into error.
     This is their conviction.  The reality, however, is different.  Certain docuмents of the Council signed by the bishops and Pope Paul VI, do contain religious errors.  (This has nothing to do with the infallibility of the Pope, because it was declared in the beginning that this Council would be only a "pastoral", and not "dogmatic" Council.)
     First I want to show you why majority votes cannot decide religious truth.  Then I will tell you of two foolproof methods which can reveal to you where the truth of God is.
     It is not only possible, but in fact we have Scriptural prophecies telling us of times when the majority of the people will be blind to the truth; instead they will follow false teachers.  St. Paul the Apostle writes to his disciple, Timothy the following: ". . . there will come a time when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, will heap up to themselves teachers according to their own lusts, and they will turn away their hearing from the truth and turn aside rather to fables." (II Tim. 4, 3-4)
     The same Apostle said to the Romans:
     "Do you not know that the Scripture says in the account of Elias, how he lodges complaint with God against Israel? "Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have razed thy altars, and I only am left, and they are seeking my life."
     But what does the divine answer say to him? - "I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed their knees to Baal." (3 Kings 19, 18)
     "Even so, then, at the present time, there is a remnant left, selected out of grace."  (Rom. 11, 2-5)
     St. John the Apostle says in the Apocalypse (13, 7): The beast of the Antichrist "was allowed to wage a war with the saints and overcome them."  "And it leads away the inhabitants of the earth, by reason of signs which it was permitted to do . . ." (13, 14) - And here is the question of Our Lord: "When the Son of Man comes, will he find, do you think, faith on earth?" (Lk. 18, 8)
     In these prophecies the bishops of the Church were not exempted from the possibility of falling into error either.
     Several bishops at the Council got the uneasy feeling that the trend of the Council was a going away from Sacred Tradition of the Church.  Yet they, too, (with one or two exceptions) signed the final docuмents in spite of the ambiguities and errors contained in them.
     How can you explain something like this: Signing a docuмent against your better judgement?  There was no torture or physical threat against them.
     However, at the Council there were at least two compelling forces which heavily influenced the bishops for signing their names to the docuмents.
     One was the apparent left-leaning bias of John XXIII and Paul VI.
     The second element was the psychological influence of the majority which was blinded by the slogan of AGGIORNAMENTO.
     As for the first reason: Pope John XXIII more than once interfered with the free discussions of the Council, whenever his help was needed to rescue certain liberal propositions from defeat by conservative-minded bishops.  Paul VI did the same.  Thus, "Vatican 2, which should have been the anti-Communist Council, as the Council of Trent was anti-Protestant, was taken over by the Liberals and became the instrument for the destruction of all the moral and spiritual barriers against Communism." (Archbishop Lefebvre: I ACCUSE THE COUNCIL, pg. IX.)

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Offline Persto

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Re: The Smoke of the Antichrist
« Reply #16 on: August 13, 2026, 08:17:50 PM »
PROTESTANT OBSERVERS AT THE COUNCIL
     The most significant and enduring help for the Liberals throughout the sessions of the Council was the invitation of Protestant observers by John XXIII.
     - How did this help the Liberals?
     - By putting upon Conservatives an unusual psychological handicap.
     The traditional and official designation of those who deviate from the Catholic Faith is the word "heretic".  But in the presence of those invited heretics, the Fathers of the Council could not use the traditional expression, because they did not want to embarrass the Protestant observers, or the Pope himself who invited those observers.  Thus, instead of the word "heretics", they were compelled to invent a new, equivocal expression which they found in the words "separated brethren."  This was the first of the many ambiguous expressions which have surfaced in the discussions.
     The trend was to prevent any clearcut dogmatic definitions to be passed.  Any attempt to do such a thing was drowned in the muddy waters of long, ambiguous, complicated sentences and paragraphs which often stated something good in the beginning, only to deny it in the other part of the sentence.
     E.g., in the "Decree on Ecuмenism" the Council says (Chapter II, par. 8.) that common worship with members of other religions is generally ruled out, "yet the gaining of needed grace sometimes commends it."
     In the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (par. 36) you can read the first paragraph which says that the use of the Latin language is to be preserved, then, you read the second paragraph which allows, in certain cases, the use of the vernacular.  It is like saying to somebody: This is the rule to be observed, but if you find some good reason to ignore it, you may ignore it, and set your own rules.
     This kind of legislation has continued in the post-Conciliar Church, too.
     When this anti-Church took over the Catholic schools.  the first thing to be thrown out was the Baltimore Catechism.  A false Church cannot stand precise definitions.  It thrives on ambiguities, confusion, and on personal choices.  This has always been characteristic of the Protestant mentality: to pick and choose articles of Christ's revelation that you like, and dismiss the others that you don't like.  This is the "pro-choice policy" that several members of the new Church apply to the practice of artificial birth-control and abortion.
     The left-leaning bias of John XXIII and Paul VI was one of the compelling forces which pressured the bishops into signing the ambiguous declarations of Vatican II.


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« Reply #17 on: August 13, 2026, 08:18:29 PM »
PEER-PRESSURE
     The other element of pressure came from the example of the overwhelming majority of the bishops who were already infected with the magnetizing slogan of AGGIORNAMENTO.
     When you are a member of a great body of a certain community, like the Council was, you are most probably carried away by the main stream of the ongoing ideas, regardless of the fact whether those ideas are good or bad.  In order to resist the force of the stream (when it goes in the wrong direction), you need to have an exceptional intellect and the grace of the Holy Ghost, which would enable you to put the happenings of the present in the perspective of the past and future.  Since only a handful of those bishops demonstrated having this kind of discerning power, - these few exceptions were easily dismissed by the absolute majority.  They were labelled old-fashioned, narrow-minded reactionaries, enemies of progress, enemies of AGGIORNAMENTO.
     One can visualize the pressure falling upon the few intellectual members of the Council who would hesitate to give their signature to docuмents of dubious value.  When more than 2000 bishops signed certain docuмents, those hesitating individuals were swept away by the sheer power of numerical majority.  They did not want to be unpopular by defying the majority.  This was the way Satan achieved triumph over truth, by the blinding influence of sweet popularity.

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« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2026, 08:19:20 PM »
"BY THEIR FRUITS YOU WILL KNOW THEM"
     Seeking popularity is a dangerous thing for the human soul.  It usually leads you into religious error.  That is why St. Paul the Apostle said: "If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ" (Gal. 1, 10).
     In searching for the truth of God, a majority vote is not the way to decide whether a proposition is true or false. However, there are two considerations that you should not dismiss.  One is the SACRED TRADITION of the Church; the other is a particular advice of Our Lord who said: You will know the tree by its fruit (Mt. 7, 16).
     As for TRADITION: Whichever doctrine grows organically from Sacred Tradition, is true; whichever proposition cannot be reconciled with Tradition, is false.  It is error, it is heresy, even if 3000 misguided bishops would vote for it.
     The second measure says: As you recognize the tree by its fruit, you can recognize doctrinal error by its bad consequences.  In our post-conciliar era we have plenty of bad consequences.
     We were told by John XXIII that one of the aims of the Second Vatican Council was to gain back the "separated brethren," i.e., the different Christian, but non-Catholic denominations. Had Vatican II been a good tree, inspired by the Holy Ghost, and the Pope heralded, it certainly would have brought forth good results for the Church and for the immortal souls.
     - What has been the result?
     After twenty or so years of effort and experiments with novelties, we did not gain back any single Protestant group; but the Catholic Church has lost half her church-going people, has lost 15,000 priests, 100,000 nuns, countless schools, convents, church-buildings; and what is more important and most deplorable: the post-Conciliar Church has lost the purity of doctrine, and lost the true Sacrifice of the Mass, which has always been the heart of the Church, the most important means of salvation.
     Nobody can expect me to believe that all these came about under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.  The truth is, that all these came about through the manipulation of Satan, or by his Antichrist, who in our days gained freedom to roam about in the vineyard of the Lord - after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was removed from the Church, and therefore no spiritual force remained for restraining Satan.
     One significant failure of Fr. Vincent Miceli's book The Antichrist was the lack of understanding that a Church which has outlawed, in practice, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and substituted in its place the "assembly of God's people," cannot be the true Church.  It is an anti-Church, the Church of the Antichrist.
     If you have eyes to see, you can recognize that in the wake of Vatican II all the doctrinal and moral safeguards of the Church-teachings were thrown overboard, and consequently the respect for the sacred and holy things disappeared, and an unprecedented flood of ignorance and immorality engulfed the previously religious society of the Church - then you have good reason to suspect that we have already entered the time of the Antichrist, and the last events in the tragedy of mankind are rapidly approaching.

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« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2026, 08:20:00 PM »
ARROGANCE OF SIN
     Sin always existed in our world (except the short duration of innocence in the Garden).  But it had been called sin and not virtue.  It was something to be ashamed of, and not to boast about.  Today, sin demands equal rights, even superior rights, over virtue.  ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs and lesbians are publicly boasting about their "life-style." In some of the Novus Ordo churches they are treated with special dignity.  Their "life-style" is accepted even among some priests and nuns.  In October 1982, Archbishop William D. Borders of Baltimore, during a "Mass" for Catholic ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, told his audience to appreciate "the reality that you are members of the total community of God's people on a pilgrimage" in the world.
     In 1981, the Catholic bishops of the State of California urged Catholic voters to defend the "equal rights" of the avowed gαy people (Maryfaithful, 1982).
     At the same time when it comes to the question of abortion, Christian groups in this country complain that in their endeavor to save the lives of innocent babies, they get little or no help from the hierarchy of the Conciliar Church.
     In our society theft and bribery became a socially accepted way of life: e.g., it was quite natural, even a smart thing to do, for an updated Vatican priest to smuggle into this country stolen art treasures from Italy (News item, March 1982).
     I wonder, if the Prophet Isaiah had, in his vision, seen the sordid affairs of modern banking systems like those of the Ambrosian Bank with close connections to the Vatican Bank - when he said the following:
     "How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice!!  Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.  Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.  Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves.  Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts." (Is. 1, 20-3).
     This is the morality of many in today's society.  Catholics who were educated in the situation ethics of the Conciliar Church are not exceptions, either.
     Since the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, sin has never displayed such arrogance as it does today.  This is another bad fruit of Vatican II.  "The man of sin" is really working behind the scenes (2 Thess. 2, 3).


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