Was the Latest Subversion of the Catholic Church Led by the Obama Regime?
I wanted to begin today briefly afield a bit, and simply thank a couple of Hayride readers for doing what I so often invite readers both there and on RVIVR to do: engage with the content in a way that provides further material for people to read or peruse. My invitation concerning DOGE and the Obama regime didn’t elicit as much material as I’d hoped, but certainly yesterday’s short piece on Dr Jack Kruse and his claims about the CIA and mind control did. Here is a screenshot. We appreciate it!
I trust leaving the names is okay since you both published your comments in a public forum. To join these two books, both of which I’ve heard of, especially the Annie Jacobsen work, I present one I have not read but on which I have come across prodigious excerpts and videos by the author:
^^^That book involves the Federal Reserve Trump keeps bringing up, which of course is instantly moving it out of the realm of “conspiracy theory” and into safe conversational waters. I put out a story on this back in June:
All of that said…
For today’s focus, I return to a narrative thread that I probably don’t bring in to my work enough. It involves the very apparent intimate relationship between the deep state and the “deep church,” as one Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has long termed it. There are numerous self-caveats I want to first share that both have curtailed a more frequent discussion of this with you and will admittedly allow the already present criticism of Traditional Catholics like myself from both New Order Catholics who live faithfully by the changes induced in the 1960s and 1970s by John XIII and more directly Paul VI, not to mention the beloved John Paul II, and Protestants who either group us all in together or don’t even realize that Traditional Catholicism before the 1960s (and ’50s, and…) even exists.
You even have some Traditional Catholics who believe people like Trump and Viganò are ushering in the False Prophet.
Don’t ever let anyone make you think these divides are as binary-driven, cut and dry, as they make them out to be. I probably have more Protestant friends now since my reversion to Traditional Catholicism than I do people from the New Order Catholicism I unwittingly grew up with.
So the deck is stacked against me, no matter how you turn it. But I write this today anyway, not to cause unnecessary rifts, but to do what I always do: present information and analysis, and perhaps most importantly questions, on information that is likely hidden from many of our readers here in this digital space. I realize I am providing ample ammunition to those folks who make comment on the Facebook post without even reading the actual article, but sometimes the itch to write on something is too great to ignore, especially when you’d decided once again to pass and then promptly received a text about that very article from a friend not long after.
I will say this from extensive, and I do mean extensive, personal testimony: I have had the joy of experiencing many a Protestant come my way having no idea that the version of Catholicism and its Scriptural, psychological, and societal reasoning I was presenting to them was even in the realm of possibility. They had never heard of it presented that way. In fact they had often been presented with something wholly opposite and negative, if not cynical and destructive.
Most of the students I taught at my last school were not Catholic either, and they often had questions for me about my religion.
I don’t know why these people come my way. It is awkward and embarrassing, considering how much my conscience will always remind me of the degenerate sinner I can be and how I continue to work out my salvation bit by bit, with “fear and trembling” as St Paul puts it. But today I press through the mocking voice of the enemy to do, in some small way, what I have tried to do with others.
The article in the spotlight involves not just Archbishop Viganò, but also a child trafficking victim advocate and perhaps most notably for this space in relation to politics and Trump, Trump ally Steve Bannon and his War Room. Recently LifeSite editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen, along with Liz Yore, joined Steve Bannon’s War Room to discuss Viganò’s call for Trump’s CIA to investigate an alleged deep state plot to replace Pope Benedict XVI with Francis, the deep state’s influence on the Catholic Church, how the Church has profited from illegal immigration, and more.
As an aside, I have been reading papal encyclicals from the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s. It is chilling to juxtapose those popes’ clear growing concern about a not-so-phantom menace inside both the Church and state institutions. Pope after pope was talking about infiltration long before it became vogue to do so, and their consistent call was for the faithful to turn more earnestly to prayer and Christ, because man alone would not be strong enough to stunt the oncoming assault on societies. It has been clear in reading encyclical after encyclical that these popes did not enjoy the totalitarian control in politics so many present them to have had. They were fighting the very enemy we fight against when we rail against illegal immigration and witness what disaster has been happening in Europe.
They were even skirting around the actual term of the actual enemy in question. Just like we have to do now in this politically correct world. Hopefully that is changing.
Here is the previous work I’ve done on Viganò, which does not include several other articles that delve into such things as the importance of a nation praying and fasting for God’s kind hand:
I invite you to peruse any of that for which you have time and interest. There’s even a timely connection to the JFK assassination in the June 26 article mere weeks before Trump and Butler, PA.
Here is the highlighted article:
A coup to overthrow Benedict XVI?
Yore opened the segment by suggesting that notorious former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and other world leaders were deeply involved in various color revolutions, including the alleged forced resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and subsequent infiltrated election of Pope Francis because Benedict was a stumbling block to their globalist agenda.
“He was against migration in Europe, he was against climate change, he was against the China deal, he was against the mass UN sustainable development goals, the entire New World Order (NWO) agenda was being stopped by Ratzinger. Francis knew that Obama [and] Biden knew that. Biden and McCarrick are as thick as thieves,” Yore told Bannon. “I believe that the receipts are in the National Archives and Records Administration. I believe we have to get to the bottom of it!”
Viganò’s credibility
Turning to Viganò, Bannon asked Westen about the significance of Viganò’s claims about Benedict’s resignation being forced. Westen said they’re a huge deal, emphasizing that Viganò would have inside information from his role in the Vatican.
“Viganò is the one to know remember before he came to the U.S. as the representative of the Vatican in the United States, he was in charge of overseeing internal operations at the Vatican itself. He was particularly noted there for his rooting out of financial corruption, which got him in trouble, which got him moved,” Westen said.
‘Coincidences’ leading up to Benedict’s resignation
Diving into the specific allegations, Westen underscored the bizarre events preceding Pope Benedict’s resignation.
“Right before Benedict retired, the Swiss banking system shut down. Right after he resigned, ‘Oh, it started working again,’” he said. “We also knew that the Podesta emails happened in 2012 right before [Benedict’s resignation].”
Implications for Francis’ papacy
Westen further highlighted that if it is proven that Pope Benedict was coerced into resigning, that would also invalidate the disastrous Francis pontificate.
“If it could be shown that Benedict was forced to resign under pressure, that would invalidate his resignation and therefore invalidate the Francis papacy. So this whole joke of a papacy, which has so destroyed the Catholic Church in a way that was so unfathomable before, would just be a blip,” he said.
“Otherwise, there’s almost no way to understand this papacy in light of Catholic teaching.”
Additionally, I invite you to read in full this interview from February 16 involving Viganò, which delves into some of the exact issues Americans are embroiled in at this very moment, such as immigration, Ukraine, the low birth rate in Western countries, USAID, the corrupt regime media, and others. Seeing his perspective on the matter, considering his personal history with both the Vatican and the United States–which he frequently says he loves because of his time and work here–could be highly beneficial in developing a more nuanced look at both American politics and the importance of the Catholic Church in our world, regardless of if the trusted reader is Catholic or not. Indeed, Catholic or not, if you are simply a Trump supporter, I invite you to enjoy this unique perspective. Here is a piece of it on immigration:
Aldo Maria Valli: Your Excellency, the Trump Administration’s decision to put a stop to the immigration policies of the woke Left was part of the electoral platform that brought Donald Trump to victory. Along with closing the borders with Mexico, the president has cut the funds that government agencies were allocating to individuals, organizations, and entities in exchange for their action in support of globalism.
To the voices of condemnation for these political decisions – decisions that are completely legitimate – is now added that of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who in his Letter to the Bishops of the United States of America has harshly expressed his condemnation of the “mass deportation” decided on by the U.S. government.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Like everything that comes out of Bergoglio’s mouth, these accusations against the Trump government are false and delusional. There is no “mass deportation” occurring. Rather, there is a precisely focused decision to put an end to the floods of unregulated immigrants that previous administrations had planned, favored, and encouraged.
In fact, deportation occurred in the opposite direction during the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations, excluding a priori targeted international cooperation projects to help populations in need in their respective countries of origin, instead focusing every effort – even when it was against the law – to increase the ethnic substitution plan.
Those who are now tearing their garments do so only because their lucrative business has been put to an end. They have shamefully profited from this forced migration which was made possible by the network of international organizations and organized crime that manage human trafficking.
Bergoglio’s letter is a jumble of falsehoods and deceptions. It betrays the panic of the mercenaries and the anger of their financiers. Bergoglio has gone so far as to invent a new doctrine, imposing as a moral duty “the reception of immigrants,” from whose management he obtains billions in public funding and through which he accredits himself as the main interlocutor of the globalist elite and executor of the woke agenda. He exploits the teaching of Pius XII – decontextualizing and distorting his words – because by quoting a pope not suspected of modernist or conciliar contamination, he hopes to gain the attention and support of those faithful who do not listen to him.
We need to understand Bergoglio’s fraudulent operation: he wants to take the conflict between the immigrationist-woke Deep Church and the Trump administration to the next level, “dogmatizing” the duty to welcome illegal immigrants and thus forcing American Catholics to see Trump as an enemy of the Catholic Church. In short, he is trying, according to his characteristic modus operandi, to turn President Trump into an adversary in order to undermine his support from Catholic voters.
This dishonest operation also serves to put back at the center of the American political and social debate an episcopate that has been widely discredited due to the sexual and financial scandals that have so far seen it totally subservient to the establishment of the Democratic Party. The real clash is between Trump’s political conservatism – MAGA – with which the majority of Americans, including Catholics, identify, and the ultra-progressivism of the Bergoglian Deep Church.
American Catholics, however, have seen through the fraud! While Bergoglio, in obedience to his globalist masters, hurls anathemas against those who “build walls,” President Trump has announced – among other measures that we welcome with deep satisfaction – the return of the United States to the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which defends the right to life for all, reaffirms the importance of the family, and affirms that there is no international “right” to abortion.
Again, or perhaps for the first time directly despite my humble approach to many a reader who may not view faith as I do, I thank you for giving me a chance to present to you my Traditional Catholic faith as it fits in the world of American politics. Let’s find the holy bridges where we can and ride the momentum of the great Trump exposure campaign in considering that maybe we’ve been lied to about a whole range of things. I certainly am vigilant to that even inside the religion I have come to love.
By the way, the St Gallen Mafia might be of particular interest to some of you. Have a great Wednesday, everyone.
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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
Jeff LeJeune is the author of several books, writer for RVIVR and The Hayride, editor, master of English and avid historian, teacher and tutor, podcaster, and creator of LeJeune Said. Visit his website at jefflejeune.com, where you can find a conglomerate of content.
