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“If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” Jn. 15:19 The crowds, feeling like hundreds of thousands of people, who "lined up" last night to pass by Jorge Bergoglio's open casket, were faces without tears. I checked. Was there one person in that ocean of people trying to get into Vatican City, who gave off even the slightest appearance of feeling sorrow in their hearts over the passing of the man whom the world knew as Pope Francis. Maybe mourning is something that has passed from our collective consciousness? But I don't think so. There is always tears, sometimes streams of them, when a person dies, especially when a person dies "before their time." There is also or there should be, a spirit of gravity as friends and family collectively confront the stern realities of life and death, absence and the hole that opens up in one's ...

Rome is crowding up with mobs of people in the days before the funeral of Jorge Bergoglio. The streets are full of the people and Novus Ordo religious, nuns and small streams of Franciscans, who can be seen flowing down all of the main arteries of the city. There is absolutely no sign of mourning . None. What is occurring in peoples' hearts cannot be known by mere sight, but normally the emotions are revealed by external acts. Tears. No such thing is happening in Rome on the day before the funeral of a man currently being lionized by the press and granted a pass by almost all. The world, which includes the "Catholic" world, is treating him like an old grandfather who was nice to people and who was concerned for the poor. I do not sense any love for Francis here amongst the people gathered in Rome. On several occasions, in the last few days, there has been literal dancing in the streets by youth who were rapping, seemingly unaware that the flags of the Second Italian Repub...

If we did not have the promises of Our Lord Jesus Christ that the Church of Christ would survive to the end of the world and that the Roman See is indefectible, we could reasonably view the traditionalist war for the Catholic Religion as a near complete failure. A man who said publicly that Luther was correct with regard to the question of Justification, that there is no Hell, that God wills all religions and does not just tolerate them, that non-believers should not be converted to the Church --- that being a supreme no-no, that sodomitic "unions" could be blessed, and that divorced and remarried people should not worry about taking "a piece of bread and a little wine," should be looked at with horror by the faithful and, even, by a world that appreciates the Catholic Church's role in the world. But he is not, quite the contrary. It is this man who began, if we except Jose Marie Escriva, to canonize all of the pantheon of Novus Ordo "saints." All of t...

  I will keep my blog posts short on account of the terrible internet connection in the place that I am staying in in Rome. There are huge crowds here, crowds the size of which I have never seen before, even though I have been to Rome many times in the past. People are waiting for hours to get into St. Peter's to view the body. In front of St. Mary Major, where Francis has asked to be buried, they are already setting up chairs outside of the church , these are for those who are saying the rosary tonight outside of the church, but I can imagine that they will be still set up for dignitaries, some of whom will be seated outside the church of burial. Such is the situation in Rome on the Wednesday before the funeral. We saw a parade of cardinals, all dressed in bright red cassocks and birettas, almost parading down the street. My pictures of all of these sightings will be put up on X.com. What is strange here is that there really are no signs of mourning here, in th...

He died without revealing the truth about the Imposter Sister Lucy. Sister Lucy Truth will have a daily blog as to what is happening in Rome during this time of funeral and pre-conclave. Pray for us and support us in our goals.