Can't say whether it's good or bad news exactly, but I assure you that many who've known me the most closely have over the years consistently mentioned to me that I have struck them as, to quote one hypercritical film-maker from Hollywood I know who spontaneously blurted out: "you are the most sane person I've ever met in my life!"  Just saying.  Anyhow, definitely no terry cloth or institution.  Too eccentric, yes.  Certifiable, no.

You bring up "big" questions and this is another one.  How to explain?  For example, back when Nixon was in office this Franciscan happened to know several close family and friends of several of the higher men in that administration, such as the Attorney General at the time.  Anyhow, can assure you that once a "friend of Nixon", then always a "friend of Nixon" irregardless of whether Nixon is on this or that side of the grave.  Seriously, those are connections that remain in the proverbial "higher circles".  Just are!

"Ambrose" (or whoever he may be) mentions in one of those recent videos that include him that he was (or, again, more accurately "is") a "friend of Nixon" and then immediately emphasises his Pentagon connections.  Well, however that may seem please rest assured that that is about as clear a red flag as there is that he is trumpeting with megaphone that he is a "Washington Insider" in spades.  Is that only meaningless "Washington Speak"?  No!  He is one of those permanent "friends of Nixon" and is in with the Pentagon bigwigs big time and on steroids, so to speak.  Also Colorado where he resides is among the most popular Pentagon retirement areas.  Therefore:  "Hint, hint".  "Ambrose" may be no more a legitimate or valid bishop of the Church of Rome than you or I, but he is most definitely a "Washington Insider" on as high a level of "clearance" as that gets on this planet.  This writer knows the style, knows the look, can smell it light years away.  In that respect "Ambrose" is genuine, all-too-genuine.

So we have dipped our toes into this morass of evil.  It gets deeper, much deeper.  He repeatedly mentions Cardinal Josyf Slipyj.  He was a wonderful Cardinal so what could possibly be the problem?  Again, red flags and trumpets on megaphones.  Are the U.S. and Russia in a New Cold War over Ukraine for nothing?  Why would "Ambrose" be so important to the Pentagon higher ups to be their Number One Man in the Uniate episcopacy of the Ukraine, ground zero of the currently blazing U.S.-Russia Cold War?  Cardinal Slipyj, that's why.  "Ambrose" has made himself, legally or not, the heir to the good Cardinal's connections and very great power, due to the fact (again here in flashing neon with megaphones blaring) that Cardinal Slipyj was nothing less than the spiritual father to the revered by the Ukrainian people (as in one who definitely walked on water and if one publicly disagrees with that some pious Ukrainian actually is going to shoot one's brains out quick pronto) late Stepan Bandera.

Stephan Bandera.  He is in fact the full equivalent in Ukraine to everything St. Joan of Arc is in France.  Does he walk on water, float above clouds and appear to ecstatic crowds in their hundreds of thousands on mountain tops?  At present that is exactly what he is doing in West Ukraine in and around Lviv, the capital city of West Ukraine.  In truth Mr. Bandera was a great martyr to the faith αssαssιnαtҽd by the K.G.B. in 1959.  He was also Hitler's favourite East European. famed leader of the Ukrainian S.S. and organiser of the heroic uprising against the Red Army in Ukraine that raged on well into the 1960s.

One fears that St. Joan had her close associate the infamous monster Gilles de Rais and Cardinal Slipyj now has his "Ambrose".  Gilles de Rais and "Ambrose" are birds of a feather, demons following in the footsteps of the greatest warrior saints.  At present Obama is obsessed by one thing:  Ukraine.  Therefore Secretary of Defense Carter and the Pentagon are also obsessed by that same one thing:  Ukraine.  Stephan Bandera is the Ukraine.  "Ambrose" is the living representative and heir on earth (legal or not) to Stephen Bandera's chosen priest and spiritual father:  Cardinal Slipyj.

Obama has bet the farm (i.e., the American National Security State) on beating the Russkies in Ukraine.  "Ambrose" is Obama's best bet on using the Ukrainians as cannon fodder in Obama's desperate gamble to shatter the Russian Federation on the blood-drenched battlefields of the Ukraine.

Meanwhile "Ambrose" just happens to show up in Boston?  When pigs fly.  Fr. Pfeiffer is impressive, and otherwise the presence of Fr. Pfeiffer wouldn't have moved "Ambrose" to spend his precious time and effort in little Boston at the back of beyond.  "Ambrose" did not go to Boston to be with Pablo.  "Ambrose" can pick a winner and he knows clear as day that Fr. Pfeiffer has the potential to set the South on fire -- with a little help from his "new friends".  A Southern Neo-Reformation would be the perfect backdrop to the Ukrainian War that could hurl the Ukrainians all the way to the Kremlin and the Pacific Ocean.  Good Hollingsworth, the sons and grandsons of the Ukrainian S.S., now on fire with visions of Stephan Bandera, are fully capable of doing just that.  Not saying that's good or bad.  Just saying.

One should note that the creator of the American National Security State, Andrew Marshall, who is also the mentor of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, W. Bush and Jeb, happens to a rather demented protege of Stephan Bandera and therefore, beyond any shadow of doubt, knows "Ambrose" well.  Since August 1945, when he arrived at the Pentagon in a German military helicopter, Andrew Marshall has been the foremost proponent in the Pentagon of the military doctrine of the late Third Reich.  He is the actual model for the lead character in the famous movie "Dr. Strangelove".  The elderly Andrew Marshall is, in fact, the real-life Dr. Strangelove.

At this point this lowly Franciscan should mention that in recent lowly personal correspondence with the best friend of the previous Secretary of Defense, which source should not be named here because he is currently the actual leader of one of the two main power factions in the Pentagon (the Catholic/Protestant faction wearing the white hats), let this lowly Franciscan know that the reason Obama fired the Secretary of Defense last winter was because the Secretary had recently dared to force Andrew Marshall from his post at the Pentagon.  Thereby we see that "Ambrose" is sufficiently high up in the Pentagon pecking order that when the American Secretary of Defense dares to cross "Ambrose's" best bud in the Pentagon, Andrew Marshall, then it is the American Secretary of Defense who promptly gets the ax a month later.  Not "Ambrose"!  So when "Ambrose" claims to have friends high up in Washington he is not exaggerating.

And as for the truthfulness of what is being typed here by a foolish Franciscan, what can be said?  Who could make this stuff up?  Who could come up with "Ambrose" or Father Pfeiffer or Pablo for that matter?  Not even Shakespeare could spin such strange fiction.  Something this outrageous must be true.  And hence the value of poetic imagination in this sometimes incredible world in which we for a short time happen to reside.    

But when Fr. P and Fr. H do nothing to address the Moran problem, it really makes you wonder if there isn't something preternatural going on.