Here is Old News, but New News to Jews

Jews, The Messiah Had to Come Before the Temple Fell
Christ The King | 8 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CChpi16Zvxg

For Catholics Who Think I Commit False Prophecy

Here is what Todd Friel has to say about House of David by Netflix:

This New Show Is REWRITING the Bible… And It’s Worse Than You Think
Wretched / Fortis Institute | 11 March 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OG9o1lsnqQ

I am not totally fond of all Netflix seems to be doing. But neither am I fond of every criticism Todd Friel launches either. However, Todd Friel makes a much broader point than "this was wrong" or "that was a human being you maligned" (And Psalm 50:7 refers to original sin, not to a personal sin in King David's mother, so Todd Friel is right to consider that as an insult to King David's mother). That broader principle is:

And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and deceit, and the seduction of their own heart
[Jeremias (Jeremiah) 14:14]

I would definitely say, this doesn't apply here, since the Netflix series doesn't pretend to be prophecy at all, but entertainment with an educational edge. Just because the matter is biblical doesn't mean only inspired prophets are allowed to handle it. And also doesn't mean anyone and everyone handling it is claiming to be an inspired prophet.

Now, lots of Protestants would, with that broad a brush, be painting me as a false prophet too. I am adding details that are not explicit in the Bible, precisely like the Netflix series, though probably not in the same manner. If I would want to guess on how King David's mother died, I would say, she died after childbirth. This being Eve's punishment in the fullest would have reminded young David of the sin we inherit from Adam and Eve.

Now, the charge is actually in bad faith, since whoever opposes the Catholic Church actually has to add things to the Bible in order to claim a Biblical mandate for this. Note, I said the Catholic Church, not Modernists who deny the Bible in the name of Science. Now, some who are in that position would be more than willing to borrow a charge against me from Protestants who are actually against the Catholic Church too; and some of them would in fact be against Fundamentalists too. You can get "Catholics" who are unsure of Catholic dogma siding with Protestants who don't believe the Bible, and you can get both levying Jeremias 14:14 as an accusation against me. Which is about as intelligent as levying it against the Netflix series or against (more my venue) Biblical archaeology or Creation Science. Or against exegesis.

Now, the guess about death after childbirth is probably wrong.

And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me And he left them under the eyes of the king of Moab, and they abode with him all the days that David was in the hold
[1 Kings (1 Samuel) 22:3-4]

So is arguably the guess about a lion killing King David's mother. The one thing that's pretty certain is, she was righteous.

O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid
[Psalms 85:16]

About as righteous as King David. But this means Mary is about as righteous as Jesus. Something these Protestants don't want to hear and some Modernist "Catholics" don't want to defend. It's easier to lend half an ear to an accusation referencing Jeremias 14:14 and conclude I pretend to be a prophet, when I don't. At least for them. Less so for me. Meanwhile, if you are Catholic, you actually have to agree Our Lady is about as righteous as Our Lord, even if She's not divine. A second Eve, but one preserved from the fall.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sts. Rodrigo and Solomon, Martyrs
13.III.2025

Cordubae, in Hispania, sanctorum Martyrum Ruderici Presbyteri, et Salomonis.

Bible references on King David's mother can be gathered from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzevet

What can end Hamas?

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: The Palestinians Began as Christian Jews, like the Mitsrahis Began as Non-Christian Jews · New blog on the kid: What can end Hamas?

Jonathan Cahn once stated, the word, in the meaning "injustice" actually exists in the Bible. He cited it. He only misspoke and said Ezechiel 46 insted of Ezechiel 45.

Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God
[Ezechiel (Ezeckiel) 45:9]

cease from iniquity and robberies
violence and plundering remove
hamas washod hasiru

Well, sounds like God was accusing "princes of Israel" of violence, of ... hamas. I think old Ahmed Yasin (a better man than his successors, though not perfect) would have agreed. He did not state that suicide bombers were going to Heaven, he said only God could promise such a thing (according to his interview in Borås Tidning), but he said it was self defense. In other words, he said the state of Israel was culpable for what his men were doing.

Aliyah for Palestinians, Christian or Muslim, EXCEPT the men who killed hostages or held hostages cruelly or who killed on October 7.

And equally exile for IDF soldiers who bombed or killed civilians.

That, just possibly COULD end the organism which Ahmed Yassin thought he had to found.

Meanwhile, Gaza seems to have experienced sth like the arrival of Titus.

Et post hebdomades sexaginta duas occidetur Christus : et non erit ejus populus qui eum negaturus est. Et civitatem et sanctuarium dissipabit populus cum duce venturo : et finis ejus vastitas, et post finem belli statuta desolatio.

And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people with their leader that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Both Challoner and Calmet say of this and are cited by Haydock:

Leader. The Romans under Titus. (Challoner; Calmet)

Leader was what word in Latin? "cum duce" ... maybe Ethiopians will think of Il Duce (he wasn't on his best moral high ground in that war, to say the least), but the Italian word also has a feudal meaning. Sorry, that word is actually duca, borrowed from the Greek accusative δοῦκα to δούξ ... but it's the same Latin word.

Its German translation is Herzog. It translates nā·ḡîḏ. However, the word used in Ezechiel for "princes" is the plural of nasiy' ... in Modern Hebrew it seems that "prince" is nasiyk and not nasiy' ... because nasiy' has another meaning. Namely President. Ben-Gurion, Weizmann, Sprinzak, Ben-Zvi, Luz, Shazar, Katzir, Navon, Herzog, Weizmann, Burg, Katsav, Itzik, Peres, Rivlin, Herzog ... or I'll just ask the ones surviving to this day ... have you read Ezechiel 45:9?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Eleutherius of Tournay
20.II.2025

Tornaci, in Galliis, sancti Eleutherii, Episcopi et Confessoris.

Are Some Catholics Testing My Resignation?

Check this clip by Michael Lofton:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IqJlleA4d3w

There are LOTS of disappointments that fellow Catholics, clergy and lay, could have spared me over the last decade.

Michael Lofton certainly knows I am watching, I have reached out to him with comments since October, and he hasn't answered. Including on e-mails.

IF some clergy want to test my resignation, for one reason or another, and IF they would in doing so want to remind me I need to resign to God's will, which seems in line with some things they already did, Michael Lofton would certainly be someone they could use as a mouthpiece, and he doesn't need to mail me because they know and he knows, I am watching him, and won't miss this clip.

Now, on certain types of venture, testing someone's resignation might be an idea.

Bl. Lucy of Narni had stigmata, and she definitely was tested to the utmost as to her resignation.

St. Bridget of Vadstena was certainly a less resigned person, but her patience was tested too. She was a prophetess, and behind papacy returning from Avignon to Rome.

Stigmata and prophecy are supernatural things, charisms, they come from God. And the Devil likes to fake them. And doing one's work for God with such a life may take the whole life, so being resigned up to when one dies is actually not a loss. And one symptom of such things not being from God but faked by the Devil is lack of resignation.

I have not claimed any such strictly supernatural vocation. I am a writer, not a prophet. I want to marry, not be a monk. I want to feed my family from my writing, not just my own person from God's providence providing a bare minimum. I am not denying God has kept me alive. But I feel very sure someone else than God is keeping me back. And it so happens, God keeping me alive in such a case is repairing for me, just part of what certain others are destroying for me.

That destruction would for instance involve:

• clergy pretending I'm heterodox
• when this doesn't work, pretending my writing is prophecy
• and that the prophecy must be tested
• which involves testing my resignation "to God's will"
• which can be done by exposing me to evil men's will. Like their own.

It would also involve clergy pushing this before laymen, like my colleagues in apologetics, like Michael Lofton, like Matt Fradd, like Trent Horn.*

Considering how much Jimmy Akin has spent on attacking a truth of the faith, namely Adam being created directly from the soil, not procreated by non-human parents, and its by now apparent corrolaries of Young Earth Creation, I am not sure I'd consider him a colleague, and the same goes for Karl Keating.

All of above certainly have profited from support from clergy. But none of above are employees of clergy. Some of them have patreon for their videos on youtube as a major income. This means, being an apologist for the Catholic faith does not depend on being promoted by the clergy. It is not a clerical or monastic state. It is in a very real sense private enterprise, and there is no canon law against that.

This means, trying to test me and test my spirituality "before allowing me to become" a Catholic apologist is simply robbing me of the income I could already have as the Catholic apologist and writer that I am. Or at least, it is basically doing that, I am not a prophet and can not answer for whether some of the guys were under some kind of pressure, like Putin telling Bergoglio he would invade Ukraine if I weren't held back (with a fine shade of irony in posing as "the one restraining" and casting me for the role as someone who can only appear when "the one restraining" is out of the way). Wait ... Ukraine already is under a threat of invasion and parts of it are invaded ... no, that isn't it.

It is a very evil habit of certain cults on the Evangelical side, and ma and me went out of one when it began to show signs of it, to try to run the lives of lay members. It's an even more evil thing to do so by intriguing for disappointments and then doing emotional blackmail or even gaslighting against one not satisfied with the results of their actions. If Catholic clergy start doing that kind of thing to people, and it seems they may have done so, that is a sign, among some others (like accepting Evolutionism) that they are not Catholic any more.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Agnes
21.I.2023

Romae passio sanctae Agnetis, Virginis et Martyris; quae, sub Praefecto Urbis Symphronio, ignibus injecta, sed iis per orationem ejus exstinctis, gladio percussa est. De ea beatus Hieronymus haec scribit: "Omnium gentium litteris atque linguis, praecipue in Ecclesiis, Agnetis vita laudata est; quae et aetatem vicit et tyrannum, et titulum castitatis martyrio consecravit."

* Or Anthony Stine, or Kennedy Hall. Not specifically as a youtuber, but as a content provider.

Russian Threat (link, quote, comment)

Putin boasts of new Russian nuclear weapons
mail dot com
https://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/8315478-putin-boasts-russian-nuclear-weapons.html#.1272-stage-hero1-1

Putin said that Russia also tested a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile, called Sarmat, adding that its range allows it to fly over both the North and the South poles to reach any target. He said it carries more nuclear warheads than its Soviet-era predecessor, known in the West as Satan.

S 83 080 3
A 65 140 8
R 82 220 10
M 77 290 17
A 65 350 22
T 84 430 26 456

What is so special with 456?

Well, 456 is upper case. Five of the six letters are lower case, so Sarmat instead of SARMAT means you add 5*32 for the lower case. 456 + 160 = 616.

Then there are issues with his own name ... check out how it looks in Polish in genitive and accusative - WLADIMIRA.

And there was this part of Syria where he seems to have been near approving of an atrocity by Bashir, namely Ghouta.

All of these use only English letters. Use 65 to 90 for A to Z, and since a to z are 97 to 122, you can just add 32 for any lower case.

I think we may have a problem.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
260 Martyrs of Rome
1.III.2018

PS on Ghouta, see this google? Here!

PPS, I find some who claim that Russia and Syria are trying to help civilians - now. (27-28.II?) (FR)

7 Princes of the Church - Axioi

I have been wondering at times if I am on God's rugby team.

What rugby team?

"And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men."
[Micheas (Micah) 5:5]

Last time I checked, 7 and 8 make 15. Last time I checked, rugby teams are raised against each other and are 15 men (don't tell me feminism has introduced female rugby?).

I was actually recalling the verse from another version, some apocalyptic video had been citing King James (I cited Douay Rheims, as I am Catholic).

5:5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Hmmmm ... KJV Micah also has seven sheperds and eight principal men. I recalled it as "seven princes and eight learned men".

Now, this is not quite as bad for my point as I supposed.

A bishop is a prince of the Church, but he is also a shepherd.

In other words, either way the passage could denote "seven bishops" taken at its most literal. I was considering myself as among the eight learned men ...

Now, watch this.*

His adherence to the profession brings the total number of signatories up to seven. On Friday, Cardinal Janis Pujats, Emeritus Archbishop Metropolitan of Riga, Latvia, signed the document. On Thursday, former U.S. apostolic nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and Emeritus Archbishop Luigi Negri joined their names to the profession of “immutable truths about sacramental marriage.”

I

Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan

II

Archbishop Tomash Peta, Metropolitan of Astana

III

Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga of Karaganda, Kazakhstan

IV

Cardinal Janis Pujats, Emeritus Archbishop Metropolitan of Riga, Latvia

V

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

VI

Emeritus Archbishop Luigi Negri

VII

and - here is the news : Bishop Andreas Laun, Emeritus Auxiliary of Salzburg, Austria

Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
Monomah1389 | 20.VII.2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06643umEJZg

'The Hills are Alive' - The Sound of Music
RollerGirlMeli | 2.VI.2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQSAdU4Qb4

Das Gauklermärchen - Lied 12 - Elis Lied
schaumkuss | 24.III.2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IyqNrlGao

And what has the last one to do with Austria and Salzburg? Well, as Monsignor Laun will know, it was on Elisabethbühne in 1986 (I think that was the year), and in the Church nearby, not surprisingly St. Elisabeth Church, I prayed my first Rosary. It was a Friday. I went to Church while waiting for the show.

Now, we do not need to worry there will be only a rugby team.

Look on the Haydock comment for the verse! Or of the latter part:

Seven, &c. The pastors of God's Church, and the defenders of the faith. The number seven, in Scripture; is taken to signify many; and when eight is joined with it, we are to understand that the number will be very great. (Challoner) — See Ecclesiastes xi. 2., and Ruth iv. 16. (Calmet)

Christ always preserves a great number, not withstanding the attacks of persecutors enabling bishops to feed them with a power which the people must revere, Hebrews xiii. (Worthington)

Eight. Eschylus places Artaphanes between Smerdis and Hystaspes, the former of whom was one of the seven magi, and the latter one of the seven conspirators, (Calmet) or rather chief princes, who attacked the usurper. (Haydock)

They always retained great privileges, so that they seemed all to govern. (V. Max. ix. 2.; Herodotus iii. 65.) See 1 Esdras iv. 7., and Esther i. 14., where we find that the kings did nothing of importance without their seven counsellors. (Calmet)

Principal. Septuagint, "bites (Symmachus, Christ's) of men," or people of the old as well as of the new law. (St. Jerome)

MICHEAS - Chapter 5
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859 edition.
http://haydock1859.tripod.com/id591.html

So, whether I am or am not on God's rugby team, they are. Or so it would seem from the context.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Nicanor on Cyprus
10.I.2018

* Austrian bishop signs statement calling Pope’s reading of Amoris Laetitia ‘alien’ to Catholic faith
Catholic ChurchMon Jan 8, 2018 - 11:53 am EST | Diane Montagna
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/austrian-bishop-signs-statement-calling-popes-reading-of-amoris-laetitia-al

Did Euler go Blind on the Right Eye?

Here is a portrait of Ratzinger:



Do you see anything which worries you?

It is obviously photoshopped, it is portraying him with a cigarette with sex pistols t-shirt, that is not so worrying about him.

It maybe says more of the owner of the twitter account:

https://twitter.com/benedict0xvi

And of him it says he doesn't care too much of the fake regalia of Antipope Ratzinger.

No, I mean he looks like a historic person, if you look at the parts which seem an original photo of him.

Euler. Here is an Euler portrait which looks like him:



It is from German wikipedia, and the rights are free.

Now, this is a later Euler portrait, from wikisource, also rights free:



Looks like he was one-eyed, right?

I think he was, at least part of his life:

"In August/September 1766, Euler suffered a serious fever and this combined with a cataract in his one good (left) eye led to near blindness. Undeterred, he diligently pursued his duties and had scientific papers and correspondence read to him by assistants, to whom he dictated responses to be transcribed and forwarded by them. It was also a huge help that his son, Johann, was by then secretary of the Academy. He had this cataract removed in 1771, which briefly restored some sight, until another infection left him nearly completely blind."

Leonhard Euler, Mathematical Genius and Bible-believing Christian
by Russell Grigg, Published: 14 December 2017
https://creation.com/euler

His one good eye was his left eye?

That means his right eye was not at all good. And if a cataract in the "one good eye" led to near blindness, either the other one - the right eye - must have already been totally blind, or it must have been near blind.

I was in German analysing his letters to a Prussian Princess. Specifically letters 58 and 59, from Sept 1760. If you are curious and if you read German, here is the link:

Auf Deutsch (auf Antimodernism und später) : Euler als "Astronom"
http://aufdeutschaufantimodernism.blogspot.com/2017/12/euler-als-astronom.html

I was concluding about it, I was not too surprised he went blind on the right eye. Euler died too early to be one of the two in Apocalypse 19:20. But, he has a lookalike in Ratzinger. Who is still alive.

Also, he was a kind of ufologist, in his letters to Friedericke, he considered that the planets around other stars were "without doubt inhabited" - and here too he resembles Ratzinger. The latter along with his successor are debating whether to baptise extraterrestrials, if they ask for baptism ... and Euler died in St. Petersburg, the city where the Russian revolution was made "in a peaceful manner" - but not leading to peace.

Perhaps Ratzinger abdicated because the similarity to Euler worried him ...

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Nicasius of Rheims
14.XII.2017

Un peu de gématrie pour tout le monde ....

Notez, je dis pour tout le monde, pas juste pour des kabbalistes, s v p!

En plus, ceci étant le cas, les gématries hébreues et grecques ne sont pas le truc ici.

Pour l'alphabet latin en chiffres romaines, c'est pas non plus très intéressant, beaucoup plus connu, mais usage trop limité : on n'y trouve souvent pas des valeurs numériques pour toute lettre dans un mot.

Non, l'alphabet latin-anglais, en code ASCII.

A-Z = 65-90.
a - z = 97 - 122. Ou 32 de plus pour chaque minuscule.

Prenons ZLATAN ...

Z	90	090		430
L	76	160	6	+28	32	32	458
A	65	220	11	458	32	64	160
T	84	300	15		32	96	618
A	65	360	20		32	128
N	78	430	28		32	160

Bon, 1000*0,618=618. Et le nombre d'or s'appelle en Croate zlatni rez. Car Zlatan, c'est mon compatriote Malmeuite, mais pas mon compatriote suédois. Il est Croate et Bosniaque. Ce qui n'est pas mal non plus.

Vous croyez qu'il allait avoir un certain autre chiffre, genre celui donné en Apocalypse 13:18? Non, pas lui.

Il faut davantage qu'un grand égo pour être ça, heureusement pour moi aussi (HGLUNDAHL = 663, HANSGEORG = 670, ouf, je suis soulagé pour les deux!)

Bon, et pourquoi alors "pour tout le monde"? D'abord, il semble y avoir des types de genre maçonnique qui veulent se réserver la lecture de mes blogs dans le mesure du possible. Ensuite, ce même genre de types voudraient aussi se réserver la gématrie, notablement pour l'Apocalypse 13:18. Mais le texte considère comme sagesse "que celui qui a entendement" ou "de l'intelligence". Pas seulement ceux qui ont le genre très spécifique d'intelligence dont se vantent les franc-maçons ou les autres kabbalistes. Pas seulement ceux qui sont considéré comme ayant d'intelligence par ce genre d'ésotériques. Pas seulement ceux qui ont l'intelligence toute entière. Mais ceux qui ont "de l'intelligence", peu importe combien peu, tant que ça suffit pour compter.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Ivry
Lendemain de St Martin
Dimanche
12.XI.2017

On Abortion and on Mark of the Beast

Sunday Law is NOT the Mark of the Beast
thirdeaglebooks · added 12. Nov. 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDClWTLeBg

More on Abortion:

Planned Parenthood Admits It’s Trying to Keep Black Babies from Being Born in a Revealing Tweet
October 31, 2017 by Bristol Palin
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2017/10/planned-parenthood-admits-trying-keep-black-babies-born-revealing-tweet/

School & RFID - Bad Combination

Two quotes of people a bit too caving in to school systems:

The first two issues, and several of the others that privacy advocates have broached, amount to concerns that schools will abuse the information provided by the RFID tags. That's possible, of course, but it's going to be difficult to convince school administrators of that, since it amounts to saying that they and their personnel aren't trustworthy.

Slate : Texas Schools Are Forcing Kids To Wear RFID Chips. Is That a Privacy Invasion?
By Will Oremus
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/11/rfid_tracking_texas_schools_force_kids_to_wear_electronic_chips.html

Gonzalez, the school district's communications director, maintains that students have never had an expectation of privacy on campus. "By virtue of the fact that you are a student at a school, there is no privacy. ... It is our responsibility to know where every single one of those 3,000 students are while they are in our care during the school day." He has a point. A lot of things that would be rights violations if imposed on the population at large are perfectly acceptable in school settings.

RFID Chips Being Used to Track Students
Zoon Politikon with Holly Seeliger, added 12 Oct. 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liVn1kKmiqA

Are they "perfectly acceptable in school settings"?

No.

They would be so if the school represented free parents - a lot of them, but not the RFID chip. Nor leashes. We are men, not beasts, and that is something we have from day one of conception - not something we need to develop to.

So, if security cannot be guaranteed without these things, what about scrapping school compulsion?

Much of the vaunted benefits of having been to school (apart from knowledge which can be got elsewhere) is in fact only a herd mentality.

And as for convincing school boards, I recall something called the Cristeros, South of Rio Grande.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Hedwig of Poland
16.X.2017

If the Quotes are Genuine, I am Glad I did NOT Directly Recommend Trump in Primaries

I can perhaps live with having been wrong on who was worst between him and La Clinton, if it should be the case.

I can not be blamed Hilary's main opponent was Trump : I recommended other Republicans (Santorum and Rubio). I did not know about a certain third party candidate until it was over. And, as I am not a US citizen, I did not cast any ballot for Trump or anyone else.

WARNING: Trump Is The Antichrist! Testimonies From MANY Christians!
Brother James Key | Ajoutée le 18 janv. 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0IVZMPO-Zc

That said, I hope he - James Key - could be wrong about Trump being that bad. I even more hope that there is no RFID chip plan.

Snopes : Chip on Your Shoulder
'Obamacare' health care legislation does not require that anyone be implanted with RFID microchips.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/microchip.asp

But:

Oct 3rd, Mark of the Beast: Antichrist Trump Ordered Bio-ID to Replace SSN ID
Brother James Key | Ajoutée le 4 oct. 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHBvHAB7Zu8

We so far have the words of Trump. Biometric. Could mean photo and finger print./HGL

Prophecy of St Malachy, etc, Part II

Prophecy of St Malachy, Against TektonTV, Part I · Prophecy of St Malachy, etc, Part II

Here are a few more recent Popes - and we start getting to Antipopes as well. While I am at it, the Prophecy of St Malachy has featured undoubted Antipopes of the Middle Ages, like "Barcinonicus corvus" or whether it was "Schisma barcinonicum" - on an Antipope from Bercelona.*

This is probably where some people suggest that editors in 1590 falsified prophecy, since their view of the papacy (as well as mine) involves that Antipope from Barcelona actually being an Antipope, not the real Pope of the time. It is a bit difficult to conceive of a line beginning with an Antipope and continuing after that with real Pope after real Pope grafted onto previous real Popes, before the Antipope, while a man from Barcelona would have been real Pope with no direct connection to his real successors. No doubt it would have been difficult to the editors of 1590 too.

But, if more recent prophecies than 1590 are good - and this is what I am defending previous part and this one - it is more explicable for the prophecies even before to have been genuine, by Malachy of Armagh, than for only the latter to be genuine, and by some fraud of editors in 1590.

Here we continue with identified Popes and Antipopes up to abdication of Bendict XVI - on my view on Antipope, though a fairly good one whom I took for real even after ditching his predecessor John Paul II and without readjusting that ditching.

261 Pius XI (1922-1939) 105 Fides intrepida

(Intrepid faith)

Hist.: This Pope stood up to Fascist and Communist forces lining up against him in the lead up to World War II.

What is the difference between Russian Revolution during Benedict XV as well as biennio rosso or as Mexican Revolution of 1917, or Hungarian Revolution of Bela Kún, and the new depopulations of religion attempted under Pius XI against the Church in Mexico (by enforcing atheistic school teaching with school compulsion) and in Spain, under its Second Republic, the Red Terror of Asturias and elsewhere in Rebellion against Gil Robles, the generalised esclation to a new Red Terror under Azaña?

Well, some faithful were being intrepid in a military sense.

Even if Pius XI had the sad role of asking Cristeros to lay down their arms (after which they were, as to leadership, executed, despite the promises given to Pius XI to obtain this order), he did not commit the same mistake again when it came to the Burgos pronunciamento against Azaña. He endorsed Franco's war against Azaña and Caballero and others as a Crusade. It was victorious a few months after Pope "intrepid faith" died.

The guys who disclaim the Fatima prophecy on account of his dying before "World War II" starts in September this year might be wrong simply because "World War II" was an episode of diversion from real issues in a greater war, starting with Cristeros and not finished until fall of Iron Curtain in 1990 - if it is even finished now.

On the side of doctrine of faith but not soldiering for the faith, Pius XI made (through his nuncio Pacelli) Clemens August von Galen the bishop of Munster, who was later to be the most intrepid critic of certain ills in National Socialism, including Eugenism and Euthanasia.

If we turn to the British Isles, the great intrepid Apologists Hilaire Belloc and even more well known Gilbert Keith Chesterton were active as writers in his day, and he conferred on them the dignity of Knights of St Gregory.

As to the "Hist", we are dealing with Encyclicals, here is a selection:

Iniquis afflictisque			18. November 1926		On persecution of the Church in Mexico
Divini illius Magistr valign="top"i			31. December 1929		On school matters (if he had been heard, Klebold would not have shot Cassie)
Casti connubii			31. December 1930		On marriage, against Eugenics (back before Per Albin and Hitler this was an issue in certain states of US and Canada) and against Malthusianism.
Non abbiamo bisogno	[Italian]		29. Juni 1931		Against certain issues with Italian Fascism, notably breaches against Concordate esp with issues of education
Acerba animi			29. September 1932		On persecution of the Church in Mexico
Dilectissima nobis			3. Juni 1933		On repression of Church in Spain
Mit brennender Sorge	[German]		14. March 1937		Against National Socialism or various aspects of it
Divini redemptoris			19. March 1937		Against Communism
Nos es muy conocida	[Spanish]		28. March 1937		On religious situation in Mexico
Ingravescentibus malis			29. September 1937		On the Rosary as our weapon.

Let us not forget he has also instituted last Sunday of October as Feast of Christ the King - with a clearly political message, not lost on people like Eamonn DeValera or Franco : an earthly ruler is just a delegate of Christ the King.

262 Pius XII (1939-1958) 106 Pastor angelicus

(Angelic Shepherd)

Hist.: This Pope was very mystical, and is believed to have received visions. People would kneel when they received telephone calls from him. His encyclicals add enormously to the understanding of Catholic beliefs (even if they are now overlooked because of focus on the Second Vatican Council, which occurred so soon after his reign).

As he is first on a list of possible Antipopes, but was accepted by nearly all Catholics, a much better consensus than for the most recent one, Bergoglio, and since he is accepted by most sedevacantists, instead of commenting extensively, I'll instead just note one alternative reading.

In Acts, an angels is acting like a "shepherd" for St Peter, by opening the prison doors.

Whatever can be said of Pius XII as a Pope, he was an excellent Schindler. He saved lots of Jews from getting caught.

The following are considered Antipopes by all Sedevacantists except Palmarians who accept "Paul VI".

263 John XXIII (1958-1963) 107 Pastor et Nauta

(pastor and marine - mistranslated, it is really pastor and sailor)

Hist.: prior to his election he was patriarch of Venice, a marine city, home of the gondolas

J. P. Holding argued, he wasn't in Venice all that long.

One could retort, he was also in Istanbul, as Papal Nuntio. Istanbul is also a maritime city.

J. P. Holding fails to note he was considered by his admirers as a very compassionate pastor, and he convoked a council which was, on his terms (not kept by his successor) meant as "a pastoral council" - a council purely of disciplinary measures, without any condemnation of any heresy, without any definite project of ending any schism even (it started one instead!), without any definite amount of disciplinary problems (if one can consider Pius XII as having been a legitimate pastor, he had an intellect as brilliant as an angel for that task).

So, John XXIII is actually famous for having convoked a pastoral council, and among Sedes he is ill famed for that. There is a caricature in which the Devil is seen walking among a lot of people dressed as bishops and cardinals, the door they are walking to is marked "Vatican II" and the devil is commenting "wow, I was never officially invited to a council before!"

That invitation being previsely the convocation of a pastoral council, no task of condemning any heresies and therefore not given the usual divine guidance of infallibility in such condemnations.

So, note, the order of words was not "nauta et pastor", but "pastor et nauta".

There is a Swedish saying to someone who is making a mistake or has no clue - it is actually the equivalent of "you have no clue" - and it goes most often "nu är du ute och cyclar". That means, literally, "now you are out biking".

But I recalled, and I found, an alternative version "nu är du ute och seglar". Now you are out sailing. You are offshore, on deep waters, off the visible coastline = you have no clue any more.

Once Roncalli "John XXIII" was convoking the pastoral council, he was in the Swedish sense of the phrase "out and sailing". Pastor and sailor, well, let's say it is very accurate.

Are you saying he was aware of the prophecy and of the Swedish saying and went clueless deliberately in order to fulfil the prophecy?

264 Paul VI (1963-1978) 108 Flos florum

(flower of flowers)

Hist.: his arms displayed three lilies.

One could also say that his Humanae Vitae was at least received by many as a protection of chastity. A virtue (at least in its higher degree of virginity) symbolised by the lily. Like here, in right use of marriage.

It, correctly, totally banned pill and rubber. But, it also endorsed "for grave reasons" (a condition often forgotten) NFP. Something which already Pius XII (Pacelli) had done, which is one of the reasons against him.

Now, there is another flower than the lily, which symbolises chastity. Or other flowers, shall we say.

Leviticus 18:19. No, Latin has no flowers there. Latin has "quae menstruam patitur". But English has "in her flowers".

Shall we say Antipope Montini or Paul666 (yes, we sometimes do so nickname him, there is both pictographic and numerological aptness to that) was impurity of impurities? Or shall we say he tried to make a lily (matrimonial chastity) out of "flowers" in the sense concerned by Leviticus 18:19?

If he did that precisely to fulfil the prophecy (as of course you could argue about his coat of arms, if chosen post conclave), you must admit this would have been a somewhat cynic way of dealing with it.

Note also, though this is less to the point in the prophecy, he did not stay with the "pastoral council without condemnations" policy, he finished Vatican II (a bit before Humanae Vitae) on a note of all its documents being religiously binding. Which I for one cannot accept for a document as modernist as Gaudium et Spes.

265 John Paul I (1978) 109 De medietate Lunæ

(of the half of the moon)

Hist.: Albino Luciani, born in Canale d'Agardo, diocese of Belluno, (beautiful moon) Elected pope on August

26, his reign lasted about a month, from half a moon to the next half...

J. P. Holding had argued, if he was elected at a half moon, this could have been because one wanted to fulfil prophecy, ok, but if you consider his dying the next half moon was also by men trying to fulfil St Malachy's prophecy, that means you are arguing he was murdered by something very close to Illuminati of the Conspiracy Theorists' common lore.

Which in itself, to a Catholic, would indicate that the world is coming to an end, having such people involved in running the Vatican.

So, was his dying on a half moon, his reigning from a half moon to next half moon, a fortuitous event which just happens to match prophecy? Or was he murdered to fulfil prophecy? Or both?

266 John Paul II (1978-2005) 110 De labore Solis

(of the eclipse of the sun, or from the labour of the sun)

Hist.: Karol Wojtyla was born on May 18, 1920 during a solar eclipse. He also comes from behind the former Iron Curtain (the East, where the Sun rises). He might also be seen to be the fruit of the intercession of the Woman Clothed with the Sun labouring in Revelation 12 (because of his devotion to the Virgin Mary). His Funeral occurred on 8 April, 2005 when there was a solar eclipse visible in the Americas.

J. P. Holding argued, the solar eclipse at his birth occurred over Indian Ocean.

Well, there are Hindoos on both sides of it, aren't there? Now, what has this to do with "John Paul II" or Antipope Wojtyla?

The Catholic Church, by sending priests there, both as a service to the Catholic presence and as missionaries directly to Hindoos, has been shining sunlight on them, on the Indian Ocean.

On three occasions, Wojtyla was an eclipse of this sunlight.

• By endorsing Mother Theresa who was not (at least not officially) doing anything to convert Hindoo patients in her hospitals, this affects Muslims too;
• By receiving a Tilak from a Brahmin (confer when he kissed a Qoran, which affects Muslims);
• By the Assisi Prayer Meeting, at which Hindoo idolaters were invited to do their service in Catholic Churches, as if they had been visiting Catholic priests (whatever can be said about Pius XII, when Wehrmacht held a Lutheran service in Notre Dame, he protested against that!)

So, as he died, he was buried at another solar eclipse, over Americas. I would hardly say he was an excellent pastor for the faithful in the Americas either.

267 Benedict XVI (2005-) 111 Gloria olivæ

The Benedictine order traditionally said this Pope would come from their order, since a branch of the Benedictine order is called the Olivetans. St Benedict is said to have prophesied that before the end of the world, a member of his order would be Pope and would triumphantly lead the Church in its fight against evil. While the Holy Father chose the name "Benedict", this does not seem enough to fulfil the prophecy. Nor is it clear how Benedict XVI (a Bavarian) is "Glory of the Olives". Since he is said to have remarked in the Conclave after saying he would take the name Benedict that it was partly to honour Benedict XV, a pope of peace and reconciliation, perhaps Benedict XVI will be a peacemaker in the Church or in the World, and thus carry the olive branch.

Now, there is one occasion on which even those who consider him an Antipope cannot escape saying he was at least a false peacemaker. No one can say he was not in some sense at least a peacemaker.

On the 7th of July 2007, tens years and a few months ago, he aroused a lot of anger in Modernist quarters, precisely by making some peace efforts in the direction of FSSPX, Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii Decimi.

We can note a few things more. The site is from when Benedict XVI was still, rightly or wrongly, as Pope or as Antipope, ruling. It has for some reason not been updated since he resigned, the identity of Petrus Romanus is left open.

The switch from Benedict to Francis has coincided with a lot of Catholic site and blog deaths.

For a layman exercising a kind of free speech, like in lay apologetics (sth which was endorsed by Pius XI**), Benedict XVI was a golden era, in the internet version, and with "Frankenpope" it seems to be gone or at least considerably curtailed.

I noted the same in Swedish, a few months ago.

På Svenska og på Dansk på Antimodernism : Catholska lekmannabloggar i Norden
http://danskantimodernism.blogspot.com/2017/04/catholska-lekmannabloggar-i-norden.html

Some of the blogs I had searched on a certain blogroll or two were by priests and are still running. But most were by laymen and ceased posting in 2011 - 2013 sometime.

There is another thing with the Popes and Antipopes on this page. They are seven kings. They are the seven priest-kings of Vatican State.

If Dimond brothers and other sedevacantists are correct about new rite of ordination, Bergoglio was never even a priest, validly so ordained***. So he is in a sense after the seven priest kings. On the other hand, Benedict XV was not yet king of Vatican State, since it was founded in 1929, by a treaty between Pius XI and the Italian King represented by Mussolini. Up to 1870, Popes had been kings over a vaster territory, known as Papal States. From 1870 to 1929 gthey were in principle claiming this back, while Italy illegally occupying Papal States was not even giving them sovereignty over Vatican. In 1929, Popes renounced the Papal States and agreed with Italy to found Vatican State. Pius XI, one, Pius XII, two, John XXIII, three, Paul VI, four, John Paul I, five, John Paul II, six, Benedict XVI, seven.

Can one say that "Frankenpope" is "the eighth, and one of the seven"?

He is the eighth king of Vatican City and in certain ways a double of more than one of his predecessors. This has been noted by Dimond brothers. Most notable way of being "one of the seven" is by being kind of a co-ruler with his Emeritus predecessor, who didn't rule the shortest time, but clearly a shorter time than his predecessor and a shorter time than some others of them.

Are there any parallels to the situation? If Charles XVI Gustaf were to get a real reign (so far he has been a figurehead, legally so, with no predecessor in Swedish history at all) he would be the seventh Bernadotte and be ruling for the short time which is left him (after a long non-reign). If he were succeeded by Silvia, she would be him by being one flesh, and therefore one of the seven, but she would be eighth. For Putin, he would be eighth and one of the seven if one counted post-Khrushchev rulers in Russia, but why post-Khrushchev? For Britain, the Hannover Windsors are already too many. For Emperor of India, we would still have to look out for a seventh who will rule a short time. On a lookout for a fulfilment of this Biblical prophecy, Dimond brothers seem close to having clinched it on Bergoglio being "eighth and one of the seven".

No, I cannot endorse J. P. Holdings position that we are dealing with "end times quackery". We'll see what he has to say about more in his newer series on Apocalypse.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Lorenzo Giustiniani
5.IX.2017

* Antipope (no Pope number on the site or otherwise!) "Clement VIII" (1423-1429) 44 (number in prophecy) Schisma Barcinonicum

** Sheed and Ward was a publishing house founded in London in 1926 by Catholic activists Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward. The head office was moved to New York in 1933. 26 - under Pius XI - 33 - still under Pius XI. Francis Joseph "Frank" Sheed (March 20, 1897 in Sydney – November 20, 1982 in Jersey City),[1] an Australian-born lawyer, was a Catholic writer, publisher, and speaker. He and his wife Maisie Ward were famous in their day as the names behind the imprint Sheed & Ward and as forceful public lecturers in the Catholic Evidence Guild. The Catholic Evidence Guild is a loose international association of Roman Catholic lay volunteers which seeks to research and present clear and compelling explanations of the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. The organisation was founded in the Diocese of Westminster, England towards the end of 1918. By 1925 there were 20 to 30 branches throughout England. The Westminster branch has spoken regularly at Speakers' Corner since its inception. Prospective speakers were put through a strict training system by the Guild, with the goal of enabling "the ordinary Catholic to explain the truths of his religion in such a way as to reach the understanding of the crowd."

*** A bit like Catholics generally say even Lutherans and Anglicans ceased to have valid orders around Reformation at that change of rite.

Prophecy of St Malachy, Against TektonTV, Part I

Prophecy of St Malachy, Against TektonTV, Part I · Prophecy of St Malachy, etc, Part II

J. P. Holding, of the protestant self described "ministry" Tekton TV, which is a youtube channel (as a Catholic, I am also an Apologist, but I don't dare describe it as a "ministry"!), is sometimes doing some good stuff. Yesterday, I saw some of his less good stuff, when he considers the alarm about end times in connection with St Malachy's prophecy as "quackery".

He went through ten Popes, I'll go a bit further back. He criticised some descriptions by St Malachy as unfulfilled, as fulfilled no better than next or previous Pope, as vague. Here we will go through an extension of his list:

252 Pius VI (1775-1799) 96 Peregrinus Apostolicus

Apostolic Pilgrim - or Apostolic stranger. As an "Apostle" - i e Pope - he was taken to where he was a stranger, by Napoleon Buonaparte taking him captive.

253 Pius VII (1800-1823) 97 Aquila rapax

Rapacious eagle is a good description of Napoleon. Few would deny he was rapacious, and as he claimed the title Emperor, he carried the Roman Eagle. Pius VII - whom some Catholics have counted as an Antipope - made peace with him, the so called Concordate.

So, his papacy started "under the auspices of" a rapacious eagle, the same which had carried his predecessor into places where he was a peregrinus. Hey, this starts to sound like the inspiration for Gwaihir taking Gandalf in his claws ... Tolkien of course knew this fairly well, at some point. And it can have simmered in his imagination for some time.

Note that while Pius VI could also have been considered as a reasonable fulfilment of Aquila Rapax, obviously, since Pius VII stayed in Rome on good terms with Napoleon (too good terms for the taste of some Catholics) could not have been a fulfilment of the peregrinus part of his predecessor.

No successor of Pius VII could have been considered as fulfilling Aquila rapax up to those confronting Hitler, so far. Lenin was rapax, but in his case Hammer and Sickle replaced Russian Eagle. Savoy was rapax enough, but its ensigns is a Cross, not an eagle.

No predecessor of either for quite a long time back could have fitted Aquila rapax (you might want to consider Sacco di Roma by a German Emperor, Charles V. (The Pope in question also same year suffered Swedish Reformation leading to some more sacking : #221 Clement VII (1523-1534) #65 Flos pilæi ægri, flower of ... sorry, this one is beyond my Latin skills), and I don't know many peregrini either, except if some hade made pilgrimages before papacy, which would have meant they were not yet apostolic while being pilgrims, no longer actively on pilgrimage once apostolic. No successor of Pius VI could have been considered as pilgrim up to recent very travel happy Popes or Antipopes starting with "John Paul II".

254 Leo XII (1823-1829) 98 Canis et coluber

Dog and snake ... His condemnations of Freemasonry (with Carbonarism) and of Protestantism make him a watchdog biting these snakes. I can imagine Tom Horn having some problem with that ...

This would of course fit more than one Pope in the following, up to St Pius X, but he could be seen as initiating the list. He also took this as the theme of his first encyclical, hence its name, Ubi Primum, as soon as. Here are some other words from it:

11. Who can reflect without weeping on the fierce and mighty conflicts which have raged in Our times and continue to rage almost daily against the Catholic religion? Listen to St. Jerome: “It is no small spark, no small spark, l say, which is scarcely seen in being observed; it is not a little leaven which is obviously a small thing. It is rather a flame which attempts to devastate almost the entire world and to burn up walls, cities, broad pastures and districts; and a leaven which mixes with the flour and tries to destroy its whole substance.”[8] With this reason for fear, We would lose all heart for Our apostolic service were it not that the Guardian of Israel does not slumber or sleep, and says to His disciples: “Behold I am with you all days even to the end of the world,” and condescends to be shepherd of shepherds as well as guardian of the sheep.[9]

12. But at what are these remarks aimed? A certain sect, which you surely know, has unjustly arrogated to itself the name of philosophy, and has aroused from the ashes the disorderly ranks of practically every error. Under the gentle appearance of piety and liberality this sect professes what they call tolerance or indifferentism. It preaches that not only in civil affairs, which is not Our concern here, but also in religion, God has given every individual a wide freedom to embrace and adopt without danger to his salvation whatever sect or opinion appeals to him on the basis of his private judgement. The apostle Paul warns us against the impiety of these madmen. “I beseech you, brethren, to behold those who create dissensions and scandals beyond the teaching which you have learned. Keep away from such men. They do not serve Christ Our Lord but their own belly, and by sweet speeches and blessings they seduce the hearts of the innocent.”[10]

Ubi Primum
On His Assuming the Pontificate
Pope Leo XII - May 5, 1824
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo12/l12ubipr.htm

Whether he wanted to show watchdog mentality to fulfil the prophecy or not, he sure has this watchdog mentality and in his book it is the masonic sect which stands for the serpent.

By contrast, Pius VI was more concerned with condemning Catholics who were wayward about Catholic matters, like the Pistoia Synod (in which some have seen a prequel to Vatican II) or the French Oathtaking Clergy, who took oaths on a constitution of the Church very similar to that of Chinese patriotic Catholics - a national constitution incompatible with Catholic teaching. Napoleon had to rescind that in order to get peace with Pius VII - whose early steps as a Pontiff were of course about this Napoleonic Wars thing. Neither of them would have fitted the Canis et coluber as much as he did.

255 Pius VIII (1829-1830) 99 Vir religiosus

This one fits very many Popes. It is a little non-descript. Well, the papacy of Pius VIII is also a little non-descript, because it is very short. He had no time to make a real impact - but since he is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, he is religiously obedient to the example of him. The two encyclicals are reiterating a theme from the Canis et coluber papacy.

If he reflected in the papal motto given by St Malachy, he would have said perhaps he didn't need to do very much to fulfil it - and he didn't do very much, in a way not quite foreseeable.

256 Gregory XVI (1831-1846) 100 De balneis hetruriæ

(bath of Etruria)

Hist.: prior to his election he was member of an order founded by Saint Romuald, at Balneo, in Etruria, present day Toscany.

So, the election of a Camaldulensian to cardinal by some previous pope, and the election of this cardinal at this conclave could have been there to fulfil the prophecy. But it certainly didn't contradict it.

257 Pius IX (1846-1878) 101 Crux de cruce

(Cross of Crosses - mistranslated, no plural!)

Hist.:Pius XI was the last Pope to reign over the Papal States (the middle third of what is today Italy). He ended up being a prisoner of the Vatican, never venturing outside Vatican City. A much heavier burden than his predecessors.

What the history doesn't mention, which clinches it, is that this came from the house of Savoy, who have a cross on their escutcheon, since centuries earlier : so his cross came from a cross, that of Savoy.

258 Leo XIII (1878-1903) 102 Lumen in cælo

(Light in the Heavens)

Hist.: Leo XIII wrote encyclicals on Catholic social teaching that were still being digested 100 years later. He added considerably to theology.

I disagree on last sentence of "Hist."

He didn't add to revelation what wasn't there. I'll be back on that one, but now more on the words, commented on in TektonTV video:

There was the comet during his reign in 1882:

Greatest Comet of the 19th Century: The Great September Comet of 1882
https://www.space.com/24069-greatest-comets-of-past-centuries.html

This comet is perhaps the brightest comet that has ever been seen and was a gigantic member of the Kreutz Sungrazing Group of Comets. First spotted as a bright zero-magnitude object by a group of Italian sailors in the Southern Hemisphere on Sept. 1, this comet brightened dramatically as it approached its rendezvous with the sun.

By Sept. 14, it became visible in broad daylight, and when it arrived at perihelion on Dec. 17, it passed at a distance of only 264,000 miles (4

25,000 km) from the sun's surface. On that day, some observers described the comet's silvery radiance as scarcely fainter than the limb of the Sun, suggesting a magnitude somewhere between -15 and -20 (the latter magnitude would register nearly 1,000 times brighter than the full moon!). The following day, observers in Cordoba, Argentina, described the comet as a "blazing star" near the sun.

The nucleus also broke into at least four separate parts. In the days and weeks that followed, the comet became visible in the morning sky as an immense object sporting a brilliant tail. Today, some comet historians consider it a "Super Comet," far above the run of even great comets. [See Amazing Stargazer Photos of Comets from 2013]

In 1590 it was impossible to foresee that Pope 102 on St Malachy's list would have a brighter comet than the Popes 97 - 101. And actually possibly even than predecessors back to pope 93 Animal rurale (ruling in 1744, during the- whose own theology was not really a comet. He was a humdrum Pope). A list of 9 brightest comets ever lists 1744, 1843 (Gregory XVI) and 1882, which was brighter than that of 1843.

Perhaps these comets show some of the value of the theology of the Popes : Now, Gregory XVI condemned slave hunt, enslaving free men (Catholic bishops in Southron states assured he did not mean to condemn keeping slaves already such), if these men have committed no crimes, for reasons like skin colour or so. Leo XIII condemned the Industrial Capitalism. Saying that the conditions of poor workers were even worse than those of slaves.

He also tried to re-enact Scholastic theology, and arguably failed. Neo-Thomism which sees his reign as a starting point, is simply not the same thing as Thomism. He recommended studying carefully St Thomas Aquinas and not omitting to study St Bonaventura and John Duns Scotus. This came in a century where theology had the habit of proving God by Idealism - a most perfect concept from which no perfection is lacking is of course more really such if not lacking the perfection of actual existence, but the fact that it can be thought doesn't prove it is a concept of sth actually existing - or exhort to accepting God by Pascal's wager (not bad in some pastoral cases, but insufficient as a general proof for studies). St Thomas' first way involved movement, including that of place (the one he actually thought most noble, the one which is also most visible) as visible indicator of a first mover. He meant at least the daily movement of the Heavens - around Earth.

In Providentissimus Deus, he never actually mentions the heliocentric verses geocentric controversy by name. But he gives what is in some ways and for some Bible passages, a kind of back door to taking them as phenomenal language. Only, he gives a quote - already quoted by St Thomas - about the phenomenal language, according to some Church Father, which left out the crystalline spheres of Aristotelic astronomy, and ... well, the leaving out of Aristotelic spheres was of course phenomenally correct, but according to modern astronomers it was also correct as to physical fact behind the appearances. This is the quote in which he says such and such - in the case of leaving out crystalline spheres I think it was Moses in Genesis 1 - describes what appears to the senses, in which there is no falsehood. Well, if heliocentrism is true, there is actually daily falsehood in our sense of seeing, since we are each day seeing the inverse of what actually happens.

This great opportunity has by and large been missed. For Thomas' real positions, Leo XIII was a light in the sky, but as fleeting as the comet.

259 St. Pius X (1903-1914) 103 Ignis ardens

(ardent fire)

Hist.: The Pope had great personal piety and achieved a number of important reforms in the devotional and liturgical life of priests and laypeople.

In other words, he made daily Communion and communion at an early age accessible. Before his time, you usually got confirmed at 12 (perhaps 14 for boys) and went to Communion after that, and if very pious, perhaps once a month. He deemed, if you can already discern Communion from the bread which satisfies the stomach, if you know it is Our Lord, you can go to Communion (if you fulfil the other conditions). Since St Maria Goretti had achieved great holiness from the five Communions she had received before 12 - she was martyred before her 12th birthday - this may have contributed to his decision.

He personally gave communion to a four year old boy whose mother had taken him to the Pope, after he had found the boy knew the difference.

He was also an ardent fire in another way. You condemn a heretical book, in earlier centuries than his, you burn it publically, whether it is a bad translation of the Bible or a book against the Bible. You condemn a heretic who refuses to recant, in some of the centuries prior than his, you burn him.

His condemnation of certain modern errors makes him a great and well remembered proponent of the Canis at Coluber line. Arguably greater than any successor in the line leading up to and in the ensuing line of modern Antipopes.

He is the man who banned Alfred Loisy. Here is some of his history, in wiki:

In 1902, he started to pay attention to Adolf von Harnack's Das Wesen des Christentum. Harnack believed that the essence of Christianity was the relationship between individual and God, making an organized church a largely unnecessary creation. Loisy disagreed with the idea that the organized church was unnecessary, but the nature of his disagreement brought him controversy. From 1901 to 1903 he wrote several works that would be condemned by the Church. These include La Religion d'Israël, Études évangéliques, L'Évangile et L'Église, Autour d'un petit livre, and Le quatrième Évangile. His 1908 Les Évangiles Synoptiques would cause his excommunication. In his works he argued against Harnack, trying to show that it was necessary and inevitable for the Catholic Church to form as it did. He also argued that God intended this and compared his own ideas on this to those of Cardinal Newman. Although L'Évangile et L'Église in particular was condemned by Cardinal Richard, Pope Leo consistently refused to interfere directly.[6] It was his successor, Pope Pius X who would later condemn these works.

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Cardinal Sarto became Pope Pius X on 4 August 1903. On 1 October, Loisy published three new books, Autour d'un petit livre, Le Quatrième Évangile and Le Discours sur la Montagne (a fragment of a proposed enlarged commentary on the Synoptic Gospels). Autour consists of seven letters on different topics addressed to church leaders and friends. On 23 December the pope ordered the publication of a decree of the Index of prohibited books, incorporating a decree of the Inquisition, condemning Loisy's Religion d'Israël, L'Évangile et l'Église, Études évangéliques, Autour d'un petit livre and Le Quatrième Évangile. On 12 January 1904 Loisy wrote to the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Merry del Val, that he received the condemnation with respect, and condemned whatever might be reprehensible in his books, whilst reserving the rights of his conscience and his opinions as an historian. Since the Holy See was not satisfied, Loisy sent three further declarations to Rome; the last, dispatched on 17 March, was addressed to the pope himself, and remained unanswered. At the end of March Loisy gave up his lectureship, as he declared, on his own initiative. In April 1907 he returned to his native Lorraine, to Ceffonds (near Montier-en-Der), and to his relatives there.[6]

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In July 1907 the Holy Office (after Vatican II renamed as Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) issued a decree, signed by Pius X, entitled Lamentabili sane exitu[8] (or "A Lamentable Departure Indeed"), which formally condemned sixty-five modernist or relativist propositions concerning the nature of the Church, revelation, biblical exegesis, the sacraments, and the divinity of Christ. This was followed by the encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis (or "Feeding the Lord's Flock"), which characterized Modernism as the "synthesis of all heresies". The documents made Loisy realise that there was no hope for reconciliation of his views with the official doctrine of the Church.

If Loisy and Pope St Pius X had lived 3 centuries earlier, probably Loisy would have burned under the Pope as Giordano Bruno burned under St Robert Bellarmine, in 1600. I say this with the main sympathy for the inquisitors who were defending the true religion against blasphemy. And had the unenviable task to deal with men unwilling to see and recant their errors.

In that sense too, Pope St Pius X was a burning fire.

260 Benedict XV (1914-1922) 104 Religio depopulata

(Religion laid waste)

Hist.: This Pope reigned during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which store the establishment of Communism.

J. P. Holding has argued against this interpretation, since more Christians were killed later than directly under Benedict XV's time. He has argued that Shoa which happened way later was at least as good an interpretation. Well, how about a comparison with Judaism?

If Judaism had been the right religion (which it is not since when it means rejecting Our Lord), and if a Jewish prophet had prophecied in Latin "religio depopulata", for which year would it have been most appropriate?

For 68 or 70 when Titus destroyed the Temple or for Shoa? Now, some of you might wonder why I am taking up the year 68. The reason is, the latest divergence between Jewish and Christian chronology I know of is that we differ by two years on how many years have passed since that taking of Jerusalem. OK, back to the question : it would have referred to destruction of the Temple.

And arguably, more monasteries and church buildings were destroyed in the time of Lenin and Trotski than later. Supposing that the destruction continued and intensified during the last years of Lenin - I'll check in a moment - at least the process started before Benedict XV died.

Some might argue that certain novelties in his code of canon law (also 1917), like raising minimal marital age from 14/12 to 16/14, like modifying so as to eliminate the banning of taking interest, laid waste religion in another sense, closer home. He also stopped the inquisitorial procedures initiated by his predecessor St Pius X, even while keeping remnants, such as requiring an Oath of Antimodernism (still there up to Vatican II, I presume) of all priests (meaning every Council Father who was a modernist was also an oath breaker).

BBL

Back from a coffee pause, and I just brushed up some of previous. One comment on why the "religio" which is "laid waste" is more like monasteries and churches than about lives of faithful : religion means public worship, basically. Yes, Catholic faith is described as "true religion", comprison both public worship and inner personal faith part, as opposed to "false religions" - which are mainly described as false in their public capacity. OK, if you believe one of them and it is your fault, it is false in capacity of your inner belief too. Some of them who converted obviusly did have a beginning of the right faith while publically showing forth a false religion - since they came to the conclusion they had made a mistake therein. A member of them not yet converted may be converting tomorrow for all you know or the Church on earth knows. So, the Catholic Church especially teaches it is false in the public capacity, having some reticence to judge the inner life of each and every individual member of one of them.

But the more prominent sense of "religion" is not from this distinction, it is more about canonic and monastic lives being such consistent acts of religion as to merit the definition of public worship and as to therefore be described as "religion". A Russian monk may have survived 1922, but his monastery may no longer have been there for him to live a normal monastic life in after that date. Now you may begin to fathom why "religio depopulata" fits Benedict XV better than succeeding papacies or papacy.

I will give a link to the video I am incriminating below my signature, and then go on to part II when I am a bit less exhausted. I woke up first time 4:55 this morning. I will also link to the Catholic site where I have taken descriptions from.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Moses
4.IX.2017

Links:

• End Times Quackery 1C: The Petrus Romanus Prophecies of St. Malachy
  tektontv
  Ajoutée le 10 oct. 2012
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5SpYrvmR0
  
  
• Prophecy of St Malachy
  http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp

ASCII Code or Gematria per nine?

I have been due to publishing gematrias based on straight on ASCII Code, informed that esoterics use gematria per one (in English alphabet A=1 to Z=26) for gematria of whole phrases, but gemetria per nine (similarily A=9 to Z=234*) fr single words, one kind of which are of course names, like a first name or a last name.

But my interest is not in esotericism, but in Biblical prophecy.

Now, in the Bible, 666 appears in different contexts. The last one being the gematria of Antichrist, but the first one being the talents of gold in the temple of Solomon. Which by itself was something good.

It seems both Lucifer and Jesus come to 666 in gematria per nine. I was told, I checked, I did not find it otherwise.

This seems to indicate that gematria per nine will not univocally pick out the Beast for you.

Neither will, as yet, ASCII Code, since there are too many suspects. Also, the addition of ASCII Code does not annul the gematric validity of ordinary letter values of Greek and Hebrew alphabets, like omega = 800, sampi 900, or shin = 300 and tau = 400**, of which there are suspects around too, today.

But if gematria per nine can pin point Jesus and Lucifer, obviously it gives a somewhat too broad scope to 666 to alone give the pinpointing of the beast.

Lucifer is, like 666, equivocal. Isaias speaks of a fallen Lucifer, which is Satan. St Peter speaks of a Rising Lucifer or Morning Star, which is Jesus Christ.

Now, the man who said gemetria per nine was used also told me certain French words are the value 666, including viande and haine. But meat as such is not a bad thing, confer how God told Noah to eat, and hatred is both good and bad.

So, I got around to asking, where is it likelier to get the value 666? ASCII Code or gematria per nine?

Where it is mathematically less likely, it is also more significant.

Well, to get a jackpot value like one single name of nine upper case spelling out 666 in ASCII Code, I have for people so far only found BERGOGLIO.

BENRHODES could also be BEN RHODES - the space adding 32, as would each lower case instead of upper case. Now, BENRHODES is 666, so BEN RHODES is 698. With initial plus dot, space, surname, we get value of initial, plus generally 46 per dot and 32 per space (together 78 like upper case N). But neither Vladimir Putin nor Raúl Castro come out as 666 exactly that way. For V. POUTINE is 712, only missing the dot we get V POUTINE as 666. R. CASTRO is 620, only adding an extra dot we get R.. CASTRO as 666.

And I have been looking out for parallels to this jackpot value for about two years. I did not find it.

I have found one city, close to usual French spelling. BABYLONE = 588, but unconventional (though correctly pronounceable) BABYLONNE = 666, if I recall correctly.

I have found two concepts in my native Swedish, one in older spelling (previous to 1906), and one in dialectal form (a dialect where I was), which add up to this also, once again in upper case only, so to speak "jackpot", except that we are dealing with concepts rather than persons or cities.

B	66 60 6	F	70 70	A	065 60 5
A	65 120 11	R	82 150 2	F	070 130 5
B	66 180 17	A	65 210 7	F	070 200 5
Y	89 260 26	M	77 280 14	Ä	196 390 11
L	76 330 32	S	83 360 17	R	082 470 13
O	79 400 41	T	84 440 21	D	068 530 21
N	78 470 49	E	69 500 30	A	065 590 26
N	78 540 57	G	71 570 31
E	69 600 66	A	65 630 36

BABYLONNE 666, as compared to BABYLONE 588. FRAMSTEGA, dialectal for "(the) progress" (confer French grammar: "le progrès"), 666 as compared to standard Swedish FRAMSTEGET*** = 754. AFFÄRDA = 616 (less suspect value, since in manuscripts alternative to textus receptus), as compared to respelling AVFÄRDA° = 632. The word did not change pronunication in 1906 and means dismiss.

Babylon has a way of cultivating the ideal of progress, and of dismissing anything considered backward - or conspiracy theorist. Babylonian culture was heavily consensus driven and did not encourage critical evaluation of own society and its doings. So, the concepts are actually more suspect than "haine" (hatred in French, even if giving 666 in gematria per nine), and very much more so than "viande" ("meat" being a clearly good word in some contexts of New Testament).

So, what are the mathematical chances of getting 666 in gematria per nine? Well, one clue is, you can't get 665 or 667 in it. Closest neighours in gematria per nine are 657 and 675. So, it is equal to mathematical chances of getting 74 (666:9) in gematria per one. Now, for this you have chances from 3 letters on (3 letters, gematria per 1= 3 to 78), 4 letters (4 - 104), 5 letters (5 - 130) and so on.

But ASCII Code is kind of a loaded gematria per one. It is gematria per one, adding 64 to each upper case (or 96 to each lower case) letter.

9*64=
640
064
584

So, we are for nine letters talking about the chance of getting gematria per one 82.

But we are only dealing with gematria per one 82 from the nine letter possibilities.

There are also 8 letter and 10 letter possibilities, but would be more difficult.

Ten letters added to 640, one would need to get 10 letters getting 26 in gematria per one. A feat, since 10 letters minimum is 10. Much less easy than 82 in a row reaching 9 - 246, where 82 is far more central.

Or eight letters added to 520, one would need 146. Eight letter gematria per one is 8 - 212. Let's check centrality. More central, more different combinations will give it, just as in two dice the combinations 2 and 12 are less probable than combination 7.

212	234	212 66:204 = 33:102 = 11:34
146	082	008 138:204 = 69:102 = 23:34
066 from top	152 from top	204
146	082	234 152:225 > 30:45
008	009	009 73:225 < 15:45
138 from bottom	073 from bottom	225

So, centrality is comparable in either case. But since the spread is less in 8 letters, it would still be less significant than finding it in 9 letters.

Either way, it is way more significant than finding it in gematria per nine, where the value 666 is much more probable. Like 74 is in gematria per one.

Hans Georg Lundahl
St Denis
Wednesday after Laetare Lord's Day
9.III.2016

* Checking 9*26 and 8*26:
260
026
234
026
212

** Checking what numeric values of shin and tau are, without knowing all letters and letter values, shin is 21, tau 22. First nine are 1 to 9, second nine are 10 to 90. So 22 - 18 = 4. ?=100, Resh=200, Shin=300, Tau=400.

*** +ET = 69+84=149+4=153, -A = 153-65=93-5=88. 666+88=754

° + V = 86 - F = 86-70=16.

So, am I a suspect, before I go on citing others?

1) New blog on the kid : King James and Mary Tudor, the cat, the dog, the cog, 2) Some of the Main Suspects, 3) So, am I a suspect, before I go on citing others?, 4) Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : ... on Hebrew Gematria for Harry - retort given and withdrawn · 5) New blog on the kid : The Importance of Relying on One's Geekiness Rather than on Expertise

Let's take ASCII Code first:

H	72	70	2	630		H	72	70	2	620
A	65	130	7	040		G	71	140	3	043
N	78	200	15	670		L	76	210	9	663
S	83	280	18			U	85	290	14
G	71	350	19			N	78	360	22
E	69	410	28			D	68	420	30
O	79	480	37			A	65	480	35
R	82	560	39			H	72	550	37
G	71	630	40			L	76	620	43

670 for HANSGEORG (anything with more space or more lower case adds 32s and gets far off). 663 for HGLUNDAHL (adding dots and spaces after initials adds 78s - 46+32 - after each). Worst news for HANSGEORG is that counting units lands in between on both 18 and 37 (which multiplied give ... you know what or you check), as is also the case with BERGOGLIO. But the sum does not end on that product (unlike with BERGOGLIO). Worst news for both versions is that their mean is 666.5. A good reason to keep my familiar "Hans Georg" side and my formal "H. G. Lundahl" side distinct, not to allow them to even out to a mean. If you see what I mean.

Even if 666.5 is one half away from that value, I wish to stay more on the two versions that are three or four units away from that value. Not on their mean value.

Iohanan Georgios Mikael Elitzur Lun Dal and Iohanan Ie'or Mikael Elitzur Lun Dal have been tried with Hebrew gematria. I think one of them ended on 886, but neither on 13:18 of Apocalypse. That is, on the number value mentioned in it. I might be one who does have understanding (Douay Rheims does not translate "wisdom" as a personal quality of the one adding up, only as an objective quality of the adding up itself).

Greek? Ιωάννης (ο Βαπτιστής/ο Ευαγγελιστής, both are my patrons) contains ω which has the value 800. Phew, too high!

And Γεώργιος (also my patron) does so too.

Straight transliteration of my name is Λουνταλ. Note this is New Greek pronunciation rules, pronouncable either Lundal or Loodal. In ancient Greek it would have been pronounced Luntal, thus not a transliteration. And the Ancient Greek transliteration (at least according to reconstructed pronunciation) would be Λουνδαλ.

What about h in Lundahl? spiritus asper is not written out in interior of words, in Swedish this h also is not an h per se, but marks a is long, a Germanising spelling, and α is same letter for long and short A.

So, what are the values of Lundahl? First modern Greek, then to replace τ with δ minus 300 and plus 4:

Letters	Unit(s)	Tens	Hundreds	Hundreds Σ	Tens Σ	Unit Σ	total Σ	other Σ
Λ		30		400	30	1	700	881
ο		70		300	70	= 1	180	- 300
υ			400	= 700	50		001	= 581
ν		50			30		= 881	+ 4 = 585
τ			300		= 180
α	1
λ		30

But, Itaque qui se existimat stare, videat ne cadat.

While writing above, I had to go through an identity check on the computer again*. I take that with some resentment as someone trying at Nanterre University Library to check if I am coherent while writing this. And since this is not the first time it happens, I take this as a kind of harrassment.

That reminds me of another suspect, but more on that one later. Just - don't take the RFID-chip.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Thursday after
I Lord's day in Lent
18.II.2016

* Le proxy moz-proxy://193.50.139.200:3128 demande un nom d'utilisateur et un mot de passe. Le site indique : « Connexion Internet »

Some of the Main Suspects

1) New blog on the kid : King James and Mary Tudor, the cat, the dog, the cog, 2) Some of the Main Suspects, 3) So, am I a suspect, before I go on citing others?, 4) Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : ... on Hebrew Gematria for Harry - retort given and withdrawn · 5) New blog on the kid : The Importance of Relying on One's Geekiness Rather than on Expertise

mail . com : UK judge: Putin 'probably approved' killing of ex-KGB agent
http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/4088520-uk-judge-putin-probably-approved-killing-ex-kgb-agent.html

mail . com : Lawyer: Litvinenko poison may have harmed Londoners' health
http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/3715816-lawyer-litvinenko-poison-harmed-londoners-health.html

mail . com : Tatars step up resistance to Russian rule over Crimea
http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/4141754-tatars-step-up-resistance-to-russian-rule-crimea.html

Alert: Revelation 18:2 Just Happened
vaticancatholic.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1o4V6gxXpk

mail . com : Russia's stunt-loving Putin rides to bottom of Black Sea
MOSCOW (AP) — Another summer, another trip to the bottom of a sea for Russia's adventure-loving president.
August 18, 2015
http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/3756404-russias-stunt-loving-putin-rides-to-bottom-black-sea.html

Is he trying to show off a fulfilment of Apocalypse 11:7 and 17:8? Or does sea bottom not count as abyss to him?

Declaration of anathema on Francis Bergoglio
Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zpULcK1ZxY

@	01000000	64
A	01000001	65
B	01000010	66
C	01000011	67
Z	01011010	90
a	01100001	97 or 65+32
b	01100010	98 or 66+32
c	01100011	99 or 67+32
z	01111010	122 or 90+32
space	00100000	32
hyphen	00101101	45
full stop	00101110	46
0	00110000	48
1	00110001	49
2	00110010	50
9	00111001	57
Source : http://ascii-code.com/

α	β	γ
δ	ε	ς [digamma -> stigma]
ζ	η	θ
= 1 – 9
ι	κ	λ
μ	ν	ξ
ο	π	ϟ[qoppa]
= 10 – 90
ρ	σ	τ
υ	φ	χ
ψ	ω	ϡ[sampi]
= 100 – 900

β	2				βεεδ		500	B	66	60	6		620
ε	5				16		150	E	69	120	15		046
ν		50					016	R	82	200	17		666
ε	5				νικο		666	G	71	270	18
δ	4				150			O	79	340	27
ι		10						G	71	410	28
κ		20			τσ			L	76	480	34
τ			300		500			I	73	550	37
ο		70						O	79	620	46
σ			200

V	86	80	6		620	R	82	80	2	620
	32	110	8		046	.	46	120	8	046
P	80	190			666	.	46	160	14	666
O	79	260	17				32	190	16
U	85	340	22			C	67	250	23
T	84	420	26			A	65	310	28
I	73	490	29			S	83	390	31
N	78	560	37			T	84	470	35
E	69	620	46			R	82	550	37
						O	79	620	46

Bergoglio and Kirill in the presence of R. Castro ...

5. Notwithstanding this shared Tradition of the first ten centuries, for nearly one thousand years Catholics and Orthodox have been deprived of communion in the Eucharist. We have been divided by wounds caused by old and recent conflicts, by differences inherited from our ancestors, in the understanding and expression of our faith in God, one in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are pained by the loss of unity, the outcome of human weakness and of sin, which has occurred despite the priestly prayer of Christ the Saviour: “So that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you … so that they may be one, as we are one” (Jn 17:21).

So they are pained by "the loss of unity, the outcome of human weakness and of sin, which has occurred despite the priestly prayer of Christ the Saviour: 'So that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you … so that they may be one, as we are one' (Jn 17:21)," are they?

That is blasphemy. The priestly prayer of Christ Our Lord has NOT been inefficacious, and the Church has NOT lost its unity.

A Catholic can say that the unity persists on the Catholic side. An Orthodox can say the unity persists on both sides. An FSSPX-er can talk about "apparent-only schism" and say it persists on both sides (as Bishop Fellay did about Rome and Écône). But no Christian can say that the unity was lost.

12. We bow before the martyrdom of those who, at the cost of their own lives, have given witness to the truth of the Gospel, preferring death to the denial of Christ. We believe that these martyrs of our times, who belong to various Churches but who are united by their shared suffering, are a pledge of the unity of Christians. It is to you who suffer for Christ’s sake that the word of the Apostle is directed: “Beloved … rejoice to the extent that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice exultantly” (1 Pet 4:12–13).

At least possibly erroneous. Qui non est in Ecclesia non potest esse martyr. Those who of their own grave fault remained in illicit Churches are not true martyrs. If a Lutheran cobbler died with Catholic martyrs and was canonised, he was a cobbler and therefore less well read about the matters which make Lutheran theology false. If Cassie Bernall was a true martyr, she only had had a few months between converting to Christianity (of some sort, she had been in vampirism and gothdom before) and dying, and she spent those as a teen would, usually. But this does not mean her parents' congregation is a licit Christian Church.

13. Interreligious dialogue is indispensable in our disturbing times.

If dialogue is taken in normal sense, rather than Church officialese, it is rather in any disturbing time unavoidable.

Differences in the understanding of religious truths must not impede people of different faiths to live in peace and harmony.

But they do, more than anything else.

In our current context, religious leaders have the particular responsibility to educate their faithful in a spirit which is respectful of the convictions of those belonging to other religious traditions.

Here I have a few observations as well:

• 1) guarantee me that "my religious leaders" know better than I how to conjugate respect for those "belonging to other religious traditions" - when due to their human persons, not to their faulty views of God or the divine - with fidelity to truth!
• 2) what does it mean anyway for someone to "belong to" a false religious tradition, one outside the true Church?
• 3) how can we know a leader of a false sect, appreciated by Catholics for doing this, is not at the same time acquiring sufficient knowledge of the truth to have before God a duty to convert, and therefore gaining points of respectability before men agreeing with this declaration, while losing their eternal salvation?
• 4) how can we know a Catholic leader applying this is not overdoing it ... wait, if he's clearly overdoing it, perhaps he is not a Catholic. Does this say sth about Bergoglio? I think it does.

Attempts to justify criminal acts with religious slogans are altogether unacceptable. No crime may be committed in God’s name, “since God is not the God of disorder but of peace” (1 Cor 14:33).

And who "decides"* what is criminal? God. Under God, the Church, the true Church. Under the Church, the state. But on top of there being many Churches (all except one false ones), there are many states. And getting together into "one state" in order to avoid the problem will not avoid it. Who can guarantee that the adhesion of this or that state, for instance a Catholic one, to such a one state is not precisely a crime, to wit a crime of high treason?

Here I have taken four people whose names in one sense or another, with or without a twist, add up to 666. There are other suspects.

If all of these four save their souls, Hell will still get two persons thrown alive into it, one of whom or both of whom has a name or have names adding up to 666, one way or another. St John has shared God's foreknowledge of the event, not an unescapable doom forcing anyone to do the evil deeds of The False Prophet or The Beast. But the fact that whoever is one of these two has this theoretical liberty does not mean he will in fact so escape.

Pirandello wrote a play I have not read about "six characters seeking an author". But here we have "two roles seeking an actor".

My personal opinion is, Bergoglio is one of these two persons. He might be the false prophet and some more purely political figure (grant God it be not me) might be the beast. Or "Benedict XVI" might theoretically be the false prophet, because he ushered in Bergoglio is "politician pope", but I hope this be not the case.

However, Bergoglio and Putin may have hoped to make phoney fulfilments of Apocalypse by that show on the Vatican "Fiat Lux" or by deep sea diving, and they may have a motive which humanly speaking is hopeful and human ... but they would be forgetting that, since St John was a real prophet, such things are very dangerous.

Next question is how they deal with opponents in general, specifically those who think they are trying to light a sham fire, but really are lighting a real one. Putin (Poutine in French*) has shown evil in Syria and in Ukraine. Bergoglio has shown evil with Putin's man Kirill on Cuba, and of course I say this after reading only up to paragraph 13 of the joint declaration, in fact skimming parts which seemed fine or nearly fine.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre University Library
Monday after
First Lord's Day in Lent
15.II.2016

Update: Obviously, (V. POUTINE)=(712) and (R. CASTRO)=(620). It is if Putin "loses a point" or "does something pointless" (as I first thought) and Raúl Castro "gains a point" or "is too pointed" or "does something too pointed", that we get (V POUTINE)=(666), (R.. CASTRO)=(666). These things do depend on human freewill, on what they do, leave off, or others help or hinder them in. In the case of BERGOGLIO, he could change the name (as I suggested to his astronomer Guy Consolmagno S.J.) to BORGOGLIO (676). Bergoglio was an Italian town, from which the family probably comes, but it is now written Borgoglio. A minor change of spelling is usually allowed in divere legislations, Bergoglio is still an Argentinian citizen, he could apply for name change - and admit the very consequential act some three years ago, accepting "papacy" was an invalid act, so as to not keep that ominous name connected to a valid one. Benedict XVI could change his name from that to Joseph Benedict Ratzinger - and his status from "pope emeritus" to "priest". Also admitting invalidity of his original acceptation of "papacy".

* Since original spelling is in Cyrillic, Frnch and Enlish have diverse transcriptions, according to how their spelling correspond to original pronunication.