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Offline Incredulous

Re: Photos of Pope St Pius X
« Reply #10 on: Yesterday at 12:56:07 AM »
Quote from: trento on June 23, 2026, 10:27:52 PM
There is no conclusive historical evidence that Cardinal Mariano Rampolla was a Freemason.  The accusation was primarily a politically motivated rumor used to derail his candidacy for the papacy, though it remains a subject of ongoing debate in traditionalist Catholic circles. During the 1903 conclave, Cardinal Rampolla was the leading favorite to succeed Pope Leo XIII. However, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I issued a formal veto (jus exclusivae) against Rampolla. Emperor Franz Joseph's representatives cited intelligence reports alleging that Rampolla was a Freemason and a sympathizer of liberal policies. Historians generally agree the veto was politically motivated. Rampolla was seen as a "deadly enemy of Austria" due to his pro-French diplomatic leanings and his moderate approach to Church-State relations, which clashed with the interests of the Triple Alliance.

Pius X chose Rafael Merry del Val to succeed Rampolla as Secretary of State. Rampolla remained Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica. Between 1908 and his death in 1913, Rampolla served as Secretary (at the time the effective head) of the Holy Office. In 1912, Pope Pius X appointed Rampolla Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church as well, a position he held until his death.

Catholics can discern that it was Divine Providence that inspired Pope Leo XIII to write the St. Michael prayer, which foretold the infiltration of the Church, most likely starting in his Pontificate.

Here's the key paragraph that denotes that "false throne" that we still suffer today:

“These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered."
 
The long version taken from the 1902 Racolta
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Photos of Pope St Pius X
« Reply #11 on: Yesterday at 07:18:15 AM »
Quote from: Incredulous on Yesterday at 12:56:07 AM
Catholics can discern that it was Divine Providence that inspired Pope Leo XIII to write the St. Michael prayer, which foretold the infiltration of the Church, most likely starting in his Pontificate.

Here's the key paragraph that denotes that "false throne" that we still suffer today:

“These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered."
The long version taken from the 1902 Racolta


Yeah, Father Cekada does another one of his stupid "debunking" jobs, where he pretends he's the smartest guy in the room and there's always this condescending tone of "those stupid Tradtionalists".

While the specific details of the conversation between Our Lord and Satan in Pope Leo's vision cannot be sourced easily, there are multiple credible testimonies regarding the episode of the trance, some vision of Satan attacking Rome, after which he composed the prayers.

Fr. Cekada claims that "the Holy Place" is a reference to the Quirinal Palace, and that the past tense is a reference to where the Italian government took that over.  He bases this on the use of the past tense.  But, even before I read his nonsense, I had quite a different interpretation of the past tense, namely, that, if as credible witnesses (one a top Cardinal) attest, he wrote the prayer immediately after his vision (story was that he went to his desk and wrote it), he was referring to what he had seen in his vision ... since it was that fresh in his mind.  Yet another interpretation is that the Holy Place refers generally to the Church, and that their having set up their counter-throne refers to infiltration of the Church.

It's utterly absurd that taking the Quirinal Palace would lead to a striking of the Shepherd.  There's absolutely NO REFERENCE EVER to the Quirinal Palace as "the Holy Place".  Until it had been taken by the Italy, the popes used it as their Summer getaway, like they did Castel Gandolfo today, and they did some administrative duties there ... just because they were there during the Summer (since Rome was largely unbearable before the days of AC and whatnot).  There are no more references to it as a Holy Place than you can find references to Castel Gandolfo as the Holy Place.  Its only nickname was that of "Horse Mountain" due to two giant pagan statues (of Castor and Pollux on horses) in front of it (hardly evoking holiness).  So there's no more indication that Quirinal Palace was the Holy Place than that if the government seized Castel Gandolfo today that it would receive that title.

But that never stopped Father Cekada from pretending he was always the smartest guy in the room and from denouncing Trads as simpletons compared to his own intellectual genius.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Photos of Pope St Pius X
« Reply #12 on: Yesterday at 07:31:10 AM »
So, Father Cekada, almost like Bergoglio, reveled in causing chaos and confusion, enjoyed yanking people's chains, where one almost got the impression that he was just bored with the daily drudgery of caring for souls.

2 more examples:

At one point, he came up with some genius theological argument that resulted in his dropping the Leonine prayers after Low Mass.  But, as often happens, with these acts of genius, they blow up in his face, and make him look idiot.  So in 1930 Pope Pius XI redirected the prayers after Low Mass to be said for the intention of peace and religious freedom in Russia (probably in lieu of actually making the Consecration that Our Lady had requested at Fatima), and "religious freedom" ... and of course he redirected the prayers from praying against the attacks on the Church, leaving the Church open to increased Satanic attack.

So, regardless, Father Cekada concluded that because the people in Russia had peace and religious freedom (to practice the Catholic faith), since the objectives of the prayer had been met, the Leonine prayers were no longer to be said.  And his argument was that a law ceases to bind once the objectives of the law had been met (always the legalist, the Trad equivalent of a sophistic lawyers) ... of course failing to realize that there was no law PREVENTING the offering of those prayers, and they're very much needed today.

Now, the obvious blunder here is that, well, uhm, they're called the LEONINE prayers for a reason ... and not the PIINE prayers.  Pius XI did not command the offering of those prayers, but redirected their intention.  After that intention had been met, it was only the intention of HIS legislation that had been achieved, and thus only HIS legislation would become obsolete, and the effect would be that it would revert to those of Pope Leo XIII.

Next was the scandalous affair of his justifying the murder of Terri Schiavo because it would, and he literally said this, "cost [him] too much [money]".  I'm sure his share of the entire thing would have been taken care of by settling for the $149.99 bottle of wine instead of the $150 he was accustomed to.  But due to the incredible suffering that would have brought upon him to drink that swill ... let her be starved to death, right, Father?
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