Leo XIV Appoints a Bishop Who Says Catholicism Is Not Superior, Empowers Bureaucrats to Remove Monastic Superiors, and Becomes the “Moral Compass” of Spain’s Socialists
If the statement, "The belief that salvation comes only through the Catholic Church is treated as a theological mistake of the past." is true then there is no Catholic Church.
These people are all apostates and they should all be stated as such.
We are faced with having to choose between what we know to be true and what we know to be false. Only now truth seems to wear a wry face and falsehood is dressed in holy white.
But we have a guide for this, the words of Our Lord: "Do not judge by appearances, but give just judgment."
I’m probably too old to wait out another papacy but we are assured that the Church will survive. Yet how can I expect my children and grandchildren to remain in a church that effectively says, if a doctrine is misunderstood or often not followed, it has outlived its purpose. Transubstantiation, Immaculate Conception, Heaven and Hell?
You don't have to remain in the counterfeit church. Leave it now while there is still time. You can be a member of the Catholic Church if you choose to. Go to the CMRI which is where the true Catholic faith is believed, taught and practiced.
What is a CMRI? I will not join a schismatic group. Our own beautiful parish offers both a TLM and a deeply reverent Novus Ordo. The problems are at the top. The younger generation of priests is sound. I just won’t live to see many of them made bishops.
Do read Fr James Wathen's book "The Great Sacrilege". Then get back to me on that "reverent" Bogus Ordo. Meanwhile, I do not recommend the CMRI, although they do make a lot of good points. I do recommend reciting the Rosary every day and True Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will most assuredly triumph in the end. Of course, the Vatican has become the Seat of the Antichrist and its days are numbered. But the arm of the Lord God is never shortened that He cannot save.
The Novus Ordo/conciliar/Modernist/Synodal church is the schismatic group as it rejects the true and perennial teachings of the Catholic Church and birthed a new religion compromising the synthesis of heresies, Modernism.
The CMRI are those priests, bishops and laypeople who believe and practice what the Catholic Church has always taught and believed. CMRI is the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen.
I too worry about my children and grandchildren. What kind of world are we leaving to them? What should we have done differently? What can we do each day to foster a return to morality and virtue?
God hears every prayer no matter how small. And what loving Son can refuse His loving Mother’s requests!
We’re blessed with an amazing traditional Oratory. Large families. Beautiful children. And I pray for each one as the current world situation demands prayer.
Even the tiniest of faithful actions merits praise from our Blessed Lord but only because those works are fueled entirely by His own grace.
Holy Mother Church teaches that while humans can never earn salvation or force God into a debt, Jesus has freely chosen to associate humanity with His grace, promising to reward and praise holy actions performed in cooperation with the Holy Spirit.
This insures our rock-solid faith not only survives but thrives!
Our exit-interview from earthly life will gain us that hoped for assurance: "Well done, my good and faithful servant... Come, share your master’s joy."
How can he say that when Rome itself regularly refers to a "new synodal church"? What happened to Taylor? Has he forgotten the phrase "What does it profit a man..."?
In his essay titled "An Essential Distinction: Absolute Obedience and Relative Obedience" published on Kmita's Library, Catholic philosopher and essayist Robert Lazu Kmita argues that God alone possesses absolute authority, meaning that humans owe absolute obedience exclusively to the divine. In contrast, the authority of any human hierarchy—including religious leaders like priests, bishops, and the Pope—is strictly relative.
Yes!!! Satan never sleeps! He has to keep his agenda rolling there in the halls of the Vatican. It’s another reason to be grateful to God for the talent he’s given you and your use of it. God bless you Chris!
I am so grateful to God and Blessed Mother for the Faith! Holy Mother Church is so beautiful and the Faith so everything!!!
How ugly the synodal church is!!! I thought the line in the sand had been drawn between the two churches/teachings years ago. And before that my mother saw the line in the sand and we thought she was off her rocker when in reality she was absolutely right over the target!!! God rest her soul!!! Though I think she would be rather surprised how far crazy it’s actually going and already gone!
We must continue to pray pray pray.
Blessed be Jesus Whose mother is Mary, CoRedemptrix, Mediatrix of All Graces and Queen of all creatures!!!
Regarding evangelization, didn’t Jesus say to “dust off your sandals” and leave the obstinate rather than endless diaglogue, listening,, walking-with, etc gay-speak?
There seems to be only one logical position and that rests on the question, do we have a pope?
If we have a pope then ALL Catholics are bound to follow his formal teaching. We can petition him for clarity but we cannot disobey his religious direction.
That a man recognised by most whether Bergoglio or Prevost as pope can teach such spiritual garbage which turns the previous deposit of Faith upside down cannot be a true position.
Intensifying onslought against the monastic orders it seems. I am reading also about the dissolution of the Marian Franciscans in the U.K. Edward Pentin is citing restrictions from Traditionis Custodes as a main reason. They must bow to the new religion. Appears that the Vatican was concerned that there were too many vocations (of the wrong kind), and one even had the gall to object to the recent dowgrading of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A bridge too far - they had to go.
The dissolution of that order is a tragedy. It’s like they’ve taken Henry the 8th as their example since Vatican 2. Destroy the immemorial Latin Mass, destroy the monastic orders that are powerhouses of prayer. God have mercy.
The Church Will Not Defeat Satan by Negotiating with the World
Every morning I read C.J.'s latest column for two reasons. First, to understand just how serious the crisis within the Church has become. Second, to draw encouragement to continue the fight. It would be easy to become discouraged. It would be easy to conclude that the forces aligned against Christianity are too powerful, too organized, and too deeply entrenched. But surrender is not an option.
The Church of Satan will not stop. The culture of death will not stop. The enemies of Christ will not stop. Why should they? They have spent decades advancing while much of the Church hierarchy has spent the same decades retreating.
The answer is not a new program, a new committee, a new synodal process, or another round of listening sessions. The answer is the same answer that carried the Church through persecutions, plagues, invasions, revolutions, and heresies: a return to Jesus Christ, His teachings, and the timeless truths of His Church.
Two themes repeatedly emerge from C.J.'s writings.
The first is pride.
The second is that weak men make hard times.
The modern crisis of the Church is rooted in both.
Pride convinces men that they are wiser than the saints, more enlightened than their ancestors, and better equipped to interpret reality than two thousand years of Catholic tradition. Pride whispers that doctrines can be softened, teachings reimagined, and the hard edges of the Gospel sanded down so that the world will finally approve of us.
The result has been catastrophic.
For decades, Church leaders have sought dialogue where clarity was needed, accommodation where resistance was required, and approval from the world where fidelity to Christ should have been sufficient. They have behaved as though the primary mission of the Church is to avoid offending modern sensibilities rather than saving souls.
One need only look at the language that increasingly dominates Church discourse. We hear endlessly about accompaniment, dialogue, listening, discernment, and walking together. Yet the obvious question remains: walking where? Accompanying people toward what? Listening for what purpose? A journey without a destination is not a pilgrimage. It is wandering.
As we know, the great missionaries of the Church crossed oceans, endured imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom because they believed that Christ was the answer to mankind's deepest needs. They did not travel the world to facilitate cultural exchanges. They did not suffer and die to become students of paganism. They went because they believed souls were at stake.
Today, many churchmen seem embarrassed by that conviction.
Instead of proclaiming the superiority of truth over error, they often speak as though all traditions possess equal wisdom. Instead of converting the world, they seek to be accepted by it. Instead of challenging the culture, they absorb its assumptions.
This is where weakness enters the picture.
Weak leaders often resent strength because strength exposes their inadequacies. Men who lack conviction are uncomfortable around those who possess it. Men who have accommodated the world instinctively distrust those who resist it. As a result, some of the fiercest opposition to traditional Catholicism now comes not from atheists or secularists, but from within the Church itself.
The irony is painful.
The Church was built by saints, missionaries, martyrs, monks, scholars, and warriors of the spirit. It spread across the world through courage, sacrifice, discipline, and conviction. Yet many of its leaders now seem determined to dismantle the very qualities that made Catholic civilization possible.
And while this has been unfolding, the culture has not stood still.
God was removed from the public square. Moral relativism replaced objective truth. Families weakened. Birth rates collapsed. Governments expanded. Ideologies hostile to Christianity gained influence throughout education, media, and public life. The West did not arrive here overnight. These trends have been building for generations.
A fish rots from the head.
Civilizations decline when leaders lose confidence in the truths that created them. Churches decline when shepherds become more concerned with popularity than fidelity. Institutions collapse when cowardice is disguised as compassion and surrender is rebranded as dialogue.
Yet despair is a luxury Christians cannot afford.
The answer is not anger. The answer is not bitterness. The answer is holiness. It is prayer. It is sacrifice. It is courage. It is recovering the confidence that Christ is Lord, that truth exists, and that the Church possesses something the world desperately needs.
The forces of darkness are organized, determined, and relentless. But they are not victorious.
I am not going to let the bastards beat us.
The Church has survived worse than weak bishops, confused theologians, and fashionable heresies. She has endured emperors, revolutions, schisms, and persecutions. She will survive this as well.
But only if enough Catholics stop looking to the world for permission and start looking once again to Christ.
If Catholicism isn’t superior then why be Catholic? Anyone who doesn’t think their religion is superior needs to do some serious thinking. Talk about weak and effeminate leaders!
Thanks very much, Chris. A "missionary" bishop thinks that Catholicism is not superior? Er....why is he a "missionary"? One attraction is that like other Catholic bishops, but unlike the laity, he has a bombproof job where measurable results are irrelevant.
Even if moribund dioceses close, you can be sure that the redundant bishop is due for a peaceful retirement or transfer to another assignment. Any redundant priests at Bishop's House will transfer to undermanned parishes. Two dioceses merged in Wales in 2024. Three will probably soon merge in England and the Scottish bishops were advised to think about merging dioceses when they recently visited Rome. Seeing that Bishop Thorsen's diocese is geographically big but has only 23 priests....how long will it survive?
At least Bishop Thorsen is being perfectly consistent with the teaching of Pope Francis. In a 2017 article, Sandro Magister records how Francis effectively proclaimed Universal Salvation All Round in two audiences on 23rd August and 11 October 2017. The audiences are still out on the Vatican website.
Er, yes, there are also loads of encyclicals and other documents on the Vatican site which urge the necessity of repentance, conversion and missionary work. But no one mentions those.
You know the meaning of words for the counterfeit church is not the same as for the Catholic Church. Evidently, a missionary in the counterfeit church is someone who dialogues and listens to everyone who isn't Catholic and expects absolutely no result from either. Just continue talking and listening.
Don't worry, these faggots dressed in the garb and burning up all the money aren't the church, they're not Catholics, they're enemies of Christ. But I do see a lot of people posting comments that end in questions. It's time for answers, decisions and demands. Prevost the Communist infiltrator, enemy of the Faith, enemy of Christ, has nothing to do with the Catholic religion outside of being it's attacker.
If the statement, "The belief that salvation comes only through the Catholic Church is treated as a theological mistake of the past." is true then there is no Catholic Church.
These people are all apostates and they should all be stated as such.
A sad but undeniable fact.
It has been treated that way since the 1940’s, if not before.
We are faced with having to choose between what we know to be true and what we know to be false. Only now truth seems to wear a wry face and falsehood is dressed in holy white.
But we have a guide for this, the words of Our Lord: "Do not judge by appearances, but give just judgment."
What will we do?
I’m probably too old to wait out another papacy but we are assured that the Church will survive. Yet how can I expect my children and grandchildren to remain in a church that effectively says, if a doctrine is misunderstood or often not followed, it has outlived its purpose. Transubstantiation, Immaculate Conception, Heaven and Hell?
You don't have to remain in the counterfeit church. Leave it now while there is still time. You can be a member of the Catholic Church if you choose to. Go to the CMRI which is where the true Catholic faith is believed, taught and practiced.
What is a CMRI? I will not join a schismatic group. Our own beautiful parish offers both a TLM and a deeply reverent Novus Ordo. The problems are at the top. The younger generation of priests is sound. I just won’t live to see many of them made bishops.
Do read Fr James Wathen's book "The Great Sacrilege". Then get back to me on that "reverent" Bogus Ordo. Meanwhile, I do not recommend the CMRI, although they do make a lot of good points. I do recommend reciting the Rosary every day and True Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will most assuredly triumph in the end. Of course, the Vatican has become the Seat of the Antichrist and its days are numbered. But the arm of the Lord God is never shortened that He cannot save.
The Novus Ordo/conciliar/Modernist/Synodal church is the schismatic group as it rejects the true and perennial teachings of the Catholic Church and birthed a new religion compromising the synthesis of heresies, Modernism.
The CMRI are those priests, bishops and laypeople who believe and practice what the Catholic Church has always taught and believed. CMRI is the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen.
Amen.
I second your Amen!
I too worry about my children and grandchildren. What kind of world are we leaving to them? What should we have done differently? What can we do each day to foster a return to morality and virtue?
God hears every prayer no matter how small. And what loving Son can refuse His loving Mother’s requests!
We’re blessed with an amazing traditional Oratory. Large families. Beautiful children. And I pray for each one as the current world situation demands prayer.
Brother John--our Rx: "LIVE CATHOLIC!"
In thought, word, and deed.
Even the tiniest of faithful actions merits praise from our Blessed Lord but only because those works are fueled entirely by His own grace.
Holy Mother Church teaches that while humans can never earn salvation or force God into a debt, Jesus has freely chosen to associate humanity with His grace, promising to reward and praise holy actions performed in cooperation with the Holy Spirit.
This insures our rock-solid faith not only survives but thrives!
Our exit-interview from earthly life will gain us that hoped for assurance: "Well done, my good and faithful servant... Come, share your master’s joy."
If the Catholic Church is not "superior", why belong to it? What's the point? There is none.
Millions of people have asked themselves the same question over the past 60 years and walked through the exits.
Every individual who does not believe his own church is superior is a member of the wrong Church.
Hence, I continue to maintain that Framcis was not, and Leo IS NOT, Catholic.
Don’t worry, everyone, Taylor Marshall assures us that this isn’t a new religion.
😂
How can he say that when Rome itself regularly refers to a "new synodal church"? What happened to Taylor? Has he forgotten the phrase "What does it profit a man..."?
Methinks they've forgotten where they left their marbles.......
It would be funny were the subject matter not of such grave import.
He’s THE Tad., Inc. leader.
Such an extraordinary time to be Catholic. And yet ….here we are.
Prayers for the grace to remain at the foot of His cross and for many more souls to join us.
It sometimes seems that prayer is all that’s left to us. But that’s the point! Prayer IS the answer.
What did Christ tell St Paul when Paul complained about the thorn in his side? “My grace is sufficient for you.”
Thanks for this reminder. I often think of that quite…but not for a while.
Thank you! What we all long for Sister Kaylene: "...grace to remain at the foot of His cross and for many more souls to join us."
Perfect! Could not have been said better.
PS A good read here by a Catholic essayist and philosopher:
https://kmitalibrary.substack.com/p/absolute-obedience-and-relative-obedience
In his essay titled "An Essential Distinction: Absolute Obedience and Relative Obedience" published on Kmita's Library, Catholic philosopher and essayist Robert Lazu Kmita argues that God alone possesses absolute authority, meaning that humans owe absolute obedience exclusively to the divine. In contrast, the authority of any human hierarchy—including religious leaders like priests, bishops, and the Pope—is strictly relative.
Indeed “ a good read “it is. . Thank you.
Personal circumstances have certainly led me to that conclusion.
Yes!!! Satan never sleeps! He has to keep his agenda rolling there in the halls of the Vatican. It’s another reason to be grateful to God for the talent he’s given you and your use of it. God bless you Chris!
I am so grateful to God and Blessed Mother for the Faith! Holy Mother Church is so beautiful and the Faith so everything!!!
How ugly the synodal church is!!! I thought the line in the sand had been drawn between the two churches/teachings years ago. And before that my mother saw the line in the sand and we thought she was off her rocker when in reality she was absolutely right over the target!!! God rest her soul!!! Though I think she would be rather surprised how far crazy it’s actually going and already gone!
We must continue to pray pray pray.
Blessed be Jesus Whose mother is Mary, CoRedemptrix, Mediatrix of All Graces and Queen of all creatures!!!
Thank you Mary Beth!
We have the beautiful faith. We have access to sanctifying grace. We have so many reasons to be thankful. We have all we need to become saints.
Dominus Vobiscum.
Moms are always right, Sister Mary Beth!
Earthly Moms and our Heavenly Mother!
Rome feels like a weird mom who wants to “love” you to death.
My mom surely was! Thanks be to God! And we need say no more about Blessed Mother because we would be writing for days!!!
God bless you my friend!!!
Regarding evangelization, didn’t Jesus say to “dust off your sandals” and leave the obstinate rather than endless diaglogue, listening,, walking-with, etc gay-speak?
Right on, Brother Kevin!
Navigating treacherous waters, what did that old steam boat pilot, Sam Clemens say:
"Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
There seems to be only one logical position and that rests on the question, do we have a pope?
If we have a pope then ALL Catholics are bound to follow his formal teaching. We can petition him for clarity but we cannot disobey his religious direction.
That a man recognised by most whether Bergoglio or Prevost as pope can teach such spiritual garbage which turns the previous deposit of Faith upside down cannot be a true position.
We have a papacy, that much I believe.
Welcome to sedevacante!
Intensifying onslought against the monastic orders it seems. I am reading also about the dissolution of the Marian Franciscans in the U.K. Edward Pentin is citing restrictions from Traditionis Custodes as a main reason. They must bow to the new religion. Appears that the Vatican was concerned that there were too many vocations (of the wrong kind), and one even had the gall to object to the recent dowgrading of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A bridge too far - they had to go.
The dissolution of that order is a tragedy. It’s like they’ve taken Henry the 8th as their example since Vatican 2. Destroy the immemorial Latin Mass, destroy the monastic orders that are powerhouses of prayer. God have mercy.
The Church Will Not Defeat Satan by Negotiating with the World
Every morning I read C.J.'s latest column for two reasons. First, to understand just how serious the crisis within the Church has become. Second, to draw encouragement to continue the fight. It would be easy to become discouraged. It would be easy to conclude that the forces aligned against Christianity are too powerful, too organized, and too deeply entrenched. But surrender is not an option.
The Church of Satan will not stop. The culture of death will not stop. The enemies of Christ will not stop. Why should they? They have spent decades advancing while much of the Church hierarchy has spent the same decades retreating.
The answer is not a new program, a new committee, a new synodal process, or another round of listening sessions. The answer is the same answer that carried the Church through persecutions, plagues, invasions, revolutions, and heresies: a return to Jesus Christ, His teachings, and the timeless truths of His Church.
Two themes repeatedly emerge from C.J.'s writings.
The first is pride.
The second is that weak men make hard times.
The modern crisis of the Church is rooted in both.
Pride convinces men that they are wiser than the saints, more enlightened than their ancestors, and better equipped to interpret reality than two thousand years of Catholic tradition. Pride whispers that doctrines can be softened, teachings reimagined, and the hard edges of the Gospel sanded down so that the world will finally approve of us.
The result has been catastrophic.
For decades, Church leaders have sought dialogue where clarity was needed, accommodation where resistance was required, and approval from the world where fidelity to Christ should have been sufficient. They have behaved as though the primary mission of the Church is to avoid offending modern sensibilities rather than saving souls.
One need only look at the language that increasingly dominates Church discourse. We hear endlessly about accompaniment, dialogue, listening, discernment, and walking together. Yet the obvious question remains: walking where? Accompanying people toward what? Listening for what purpose? A journey without a destination is not a pilgrimage. It is wandering.
As we know, the great missionaries of the Church crossed oceans, endured imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom because they believed that Christ was the answer to mankind's deepest needs. They did not travel the world to facilitate cultural exchanges. They did not suffer and die to become students of paganism. They went because they believed souls were at stake.
Today, many churchmen seem embarrassed by that conviction.
Instead of proclaiming the superiority of truth over error, they often speak as though all traditions possess equal wisdom. Instead of converting the world, they seek to be accepted by it. Instead of challenging the culture, they absorb its assumptions.
This is where weakness enters the picture.
Weak leaders often resent strength because strength exposes their inadequacies. Men who lack conviction are uncomfortable around those who possess it. Men who have accommodated the world instinctively distrust those who resist it. As a result, some of the fiercest opposition to traditional Catholicism now comes not from atheists or secularists, but from within the Church itself.
The irony is painful.
The Church was built by saints, missionaries, martyrs, monks, scholars, and warriors of the spirit. It spread across the world through courage, sacrifice, discipline, and conviction. Yet many of its leaders now seem determined to dismantle the very qualities that made Catholic civilization possible.
And while this has been unfolding, the culture has not stood still.
God was removed from the public square. Moral relativism replaced objective truth. Families weakened. Birth rates collapsed. Governments expanded. Ideologies hostile to Christianity gained influence throughout education, media, and public life. The West did not arrive here overnight. These trends have been building for generations.
A fish rots from the head.
Civilizations decline when leaders lose confidence in the truths that created them. Churches decline when shepherds become more concerned with popularity than fidelity. Institutions collapse when cowardice is disguised as compassion and surrender is rebranded as dialogue.
Yet despair is a luxury Christians cannot afford.
The answer is not anger. The answer is not bitterness. The answer is holiness. It is prayer. It is sacrifice. It is courage. It is recovering the confidence that Christ is Lord, that truth exists, and that the Church possesses something the world desperately needs.
The forces of darkness are organized, determined, and relentless. But they are not victorious.
I am not going to let the bastards beat us.
The Church has survived worse than weak bishops, confused theologians, and fashionable heresies. She has endured emperors, revolutions, schisms, and persecutions. She will survive this as well.
But only if enough Catholics stop looking to the world for permission and start looking once again to Christ.
The Church does not need to become more relevant.
The Church needs to become Catholic again.
Pax
Maybe it’s always been “this bad” but today we have the internet publicizing all of it.
If I think back to 33 AD, Christ dying upon the cross? To His disciples it must have seemed like it couldn’t get any worse.
Christ to His apostles in the storm on the Sea of Galilee….”Oh ye men of little faith. Why are you afraid?”
We’re enlisted in Christ’s army at confirmation. We have our weapon, the rosary.
Soldiers fight.
Our greatest danger in these times is to think the battle is lost.
Fight the good fight
If Catholicism isn’t superior then why be Catholic? Anyone who doesn’t think their religion is superior needs to do some serious thinking. Talk about weak and effeminate leaders!
To me it does not look like weakness, but deliberate sabotage and destruction.
"...the world desperately needed: the fullness of divine revelation." How desperate is the need? A question of Heaven or Hell.
Thanks very much, Chris. A "missionary" bishop thinks that Catholicism is not superior? Er....why is he a "missionary"? One attraction is that like other Catholic bishops, but unlike the laity, he has a bombproof job where measurable results are irrelevant.
Even if moribund dioceses close, you can be sure that the redundant bishop is due for a peaceful retirement or transfer to another assignment. Any redundant priests at Bishop's House will transfer to undermanned parishes. Two dioceses merged in Wales in 2024. Three will probably soon merge in England and the Scottish bishops were advised to think about merging dioceses when they recently visited Rome. Seeing that Bishop Thorsen's diocese is geographically big but has only 23 priests....how long will it survive?
https://thepillar.substack.com/p/could-scottish-dioceses-be-merged?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9bqtm
At least Bishop Thorsen is being perfectly consistent with the teaching of Pope Francis. In a 2017 article, Sandro Magister records how Francis effectively proclaimed Universal Salvation All Round in two audiences on 23rd August and 11 October 2017. The audiences are still out on the Vatican website.
https://onepeterfive.com/worlds-end-update-last-things-according-francis/
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20170823_udienza-generale.html
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20171011_udienza-generale.html
So why have missionaries? Or a Pope?
Er, yes, there are also loads of encyclicals and other documents on the Vatican site which urge the necessity of repentance, conversion and missionary work. But no one mentions those.
You know the meaning of words for the counterfeit church is not the same as for the Catholic Church. Evidently, a missionary in the counterfeit church is someone who dialogues and listens to everyone who isn't Catholic and expects absolutely no result from either. Just continue talking and listening.
Don't worry, these faggots dressed in the garb and burning up all the money aren't the church, they're not Catholics, they're enemies of Christ. But I do see a lot of people posting comments that end in questions. It's time for answers, decisions and demands. Prevost the Communist infiltrator, enemy of the Faith, enemy of Christ, has nothing to do with the Catholic religion outside of being it's attacker.
No destiny means no Jerusalem. The Vatican fears monasteries. Socialists and the Vatican have aligned. American monastic orders may be a last refuge.