Today is the feast of the Archangel Raphael, who is known as the “angelical physician”, not only for his healing works in the Book of Tobias, but also for his deeds as recounted in John chapter 5, one of the most moving narratives in scripture.  It was St. Raphael the Archangel who would agitate the waters once per year at the Pool of Bethesda which would then heal the first person to touch the waters.  Fun fact: “Bethesda” means “House of Mercy.”

In John 5, even though St. John is sparse in his prose, one can immediately hear the anguish of the man who tells Our Lord that he has tried every year for thirty-eight years to be healed of his infirmity, but because he has no one to help him, he never makes it to the pool in time.  And yet, this man has kept the faith and persevered.

Our Blessed Lord in His Mercy healed the man, and afterward, finding the man at the Temple, Jesus told him, “Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.”

Mercy is inextricably tied to renunciation of sin. The “worse thing” that would come from presuming upon God’s Mercy and NOT ceasing the sinful activity (or at least having a firm, immediate purpose of amendment) is ETERNAL DAMNATION.  Thirty-eight years with a horrific physical infirmity is NOTHING compared to all of eternity in hell in unceasing torment, never, ever to see God, and knowing how being damned was 100% one’s own free choice, and thus completely unnecessary.

None of us need wait for St. Raphael to swoop in as depicted above (wheeeee!), and then win a foot race.  All we have to do is enter The Church and GO TO CONFESSION, wherein the waters of Baptism are perpetually and inexhaustibly available, and the Blood of Christ removes every stain of sin. EVERY STAIN.

Then, we must do what Our Lord commanded the cripple that He healed:

1.  STAND UP – Stop committing the sin.  Do not, after being healed, think you can lie there and continue to wallow in your sin.
2. PICK UP YOUR MAT – Confess and do penance and make satisfaction for your sins.
3. WALK – Advance in the good, always moving towards greater sanctity.

St. Raphael, pray for us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

It’s all real:

 

https://ignatius.com/four-witnesses-fwecp/

This book was HUGE in my reading my way into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and I’m not the one who feels that way.

I mentioned it on the Kokx Podcast last Friday. And I misspoke and scrambled my Ignatius’ with my Irenaeus’ (as one does). The Four Witnesses in Rod Bennett’s book are Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyons.

And I see on the Ignatius Press website that Bennett has a sequel, “Four More Witnesses”.

Here’s the dust jacket blurb for The Four Witnesses:

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What was the early Church like? Contrary to popular belief, Rod Bennett shows there is a reliable way to know. Four ancient Christian writers – four witnesses to early Christianity – left us an extensive body of documentation on this vital subject, and this book brings their fascinating testimony to life for modern believers. With all the power and drama of a gripping novel, this book is a journey of discovery of ancient and beautiful truths through the lives of four great saints of the early Church: Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyons.

“A treasure! The early Church and its teachings come to life in this story. Did the first Christians believe what you believe? Buy this book, read the words of the early Church Herself, and fall in love with the historic Church that Christ Himself founded.”
-David Currie, Author, Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic

“Rod Bennett has immersed himself in the fascinating writings of four early Fathers of the Church and has made the discovery from reading them that sincere and attentive readers of them ought to make. The author’s imaginative account of these four great Church Fathers is not only an excellent introduction to their work; it is a convincing rendering of what the early Church must really have been like. This is an important new contribution to Christian apologetics.”
-Kenneth Whitehead, Author, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic

Everything Maurice says here is 100% spot-on truth.

This man is primed for conversion to Catholicism if someone would just reach out and explain those last few critical points, namely the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and, of course, the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. He knows scripture. He knows that Truth is objective. One good conversation could do it.

St. Maurice, pray for your namesake, Maurice.

This man showed up to an LGBTQ affirming church & stood up in the middle of the service to rebuke them.

What are your thoughts on this? pic.twitter.com/xiR9rK4IV9

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) October 18, 2025

Here’s the citation I mentioned on the Kokx Podcast episode on Friday. The English translation of the text is below. The author refers to Bergoglio as “Pope.” We, of course, know that he was an Antipope from the beginning.

Il rifiuto dei sacramenti di Bergoglio e il conclave: è la fine della falsa chiesa profetizzata da padre Pio?

The rejection of the sacraments by Bergoglio and the conclave: is it the end of the false church prophesied by Padre Pio?

By Cesare Sacchetti

April 23, 2025

In the end, the announcement came in the most unexpected and surprising way, one of those that really makes you think of the intervention of Divine Providence.

After months of uncertainties and ambiguity, and after a long hospital period in which Santa Marta had not even shown an image of Bergoglio, on the day of Easter Monday, the death of Pope Francis is announced.

According to the Vatican bulletin, the pontiff died at 7:35 in the morning following a stroke, a state of coma and finally heart failure, and when the camerlengo cardinal, the Irish Farrell, makes his announcement in a heavy voice, a first contradiction already emerges.

In the statement of the cardinal dean, Giovanni Battista Re, where the college of cardinals is convened the morning after his death, it is written that Francis would have died instead at 7:45, a discrepancy that has obviously not even been highlighted by the media, who in these hours are performing in a flood of celebrations of their favorite pontiff.

Cardinal Parolin near the body of Bergoglio

They are obviously not telling the fact that alone demolishes in one blow the image of the pope “of the last” that the media are trying to sew on Bergoglio.

According to Vatican sources, in the last hours of his earthly life, Francis even refused the sacraments, even denying access to his room to the major penitentiary.

A refusal by Francesco even during his hospitalization at the Gemelli polyclinic, when the pope was already in serious health conditions.

So much was the hatred against God that lodged in the heart of this man, that he even came to commit the most blasphemous of acts.

However, nothing can disturb the flow of lies of the media narrative that in these hours does not seem to be telling the death of the pontiff of Santa Romana Chiesa, as those of a pop icon, seasoned with a whole series of anecdotes about his passion for football and empanadas made by transsexuals.

It is true that we have not reached this point in a day.

From the Second Vatican Council onwards, the pope’s royalty has progressively dissipated since, for example, Paul VI, born Giovanni Montini, stripped himself of the papal tiara in 1964 which was then sold to a merchant of Jewish origin in New York.

Paul VI

Bergoglio, however, represents in this sense the completion of the definitive secularization of the pontificate.

In fact, there is no longer any semblance of the papacy as it has been understood in the past centuries, so much so that the pope with Francis has become more like a show star who stops on the street to stop autographs, who shows himself riding in a Fiat Panda to convey a false pauperistic message, and who organizes in favor of a camera his entrance to an optician in the historic center of Rome always to convey the demagogic image that the pope is a “man of the people”, when in reality he should be first of all a man of God, and Don’t go in search of popular consensus or acclaim, which have been drastically reduced in the last 6-7 years.

Francis, however, certainly did not “come from the end of the world” to ensure that the papacy kept the dogmas of the Catholic faith and to feed the souls towards paradise and save them from hell, whose existence was de facto denied by himself enough to call him “empty” together with his atheist friend, and in a strong smell of Freemasonry, Eugenio Scalfari, founder of the newspaper La Repubblica, house organ of the Italian progressive left.

Bergoglio felt perfectly at ease with such characters. He refused the company of real men of faith, persecuted by him for their will to practice the ancient rite of the Tridentine mass, a liturgical cornerstone of the Church for centuries, and went to the home of abortionists and propalists of the modern world like Emma Bonino, who in these hours mourns his loss after revealing that Francis had asked her to “continue our battles”.

Francesco radiant together with Emma Bonino

It doesn’t take much else to have the clear certainty that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a fifth pillar planted in the bosom of the Church.

In his pontificate there was everything that should not have been on paper.

There were the trans, dear to him, and received with all the honors in the Vatican, there were the pedophiles he had protected since the time of his archbishopric in Argentina, there were the Freemasons, called “dear brothers”, there was the Rotary, the paramasonry of which Francis was a member, there was the Pachamama adored on the Vatican gardens, there was the defense and promotion of the lethal vaccines of pharmaceutical companies, and there were even priests who practiced homosexual coexistence in the light of day.

Ecclesiastical Freemasonry and the preparation of the pontificate of Bergoglio

However, heresy was not built in one day.

It was a pontificate prepared with great care and attention by the various followers of Freemasonry who probably made a careful study on the personality of this man, extremely narcissistic, angry and with a strong aptitude for scare speech, well known to Vatican employees.

Freemasons must have judged these ideal characteristics to place on the papal throne a man with the deliberate intent to definitively destroy the Church of Christ.

However, those who think, as it was said before, that the Bergogliano pontificate was a sort of “oversight” of the recent years of the Church are deluded, since if this man has arrived where he has arrived, it is certainly not because he himself as appointed pontiff, but obviously because in the body of the Church there were those enemies who have patiently infiltrated it over the decades and one could also say of the centuries.

In the writings of the Alta Vendita Freemasonry, one of the most powerful, in fact everything is written there.

The various Freemasons who belonged to this upper level of the lodges made no secret of their will to infiltrate the Catholic Church and to ensure that the pope in the future would be an instrument and no longer an opponent of freemasonry, which since its existence proposes to destroy the Church.

Even further went a former priest, Canon Roca, who then passed through the ranks of Freemasonry, who towards the end of the nineteenth century made a disturbing prophecy and described the coming of a pontiff who would have made his own the false materialistic verb of the Freemason of Jewish origin, Karl Marx, born Mordecai Levy.

Roca described a pope who would have preached the theories of collectivism that were already making their way in the age of enlightenment, and what other purpose they had other than to put an end to private property to establish a society similar to a commune, in which the family as such no longer exists and where there is obviously no longer even the concept of homeland, since the borders have evaporated to give way to this universal republic vaged by the various Freemasons.

What else was Jorge Mario Bergoglio if not the perfect living embodiment of what Canon Roca predicted almost a century and a half ahead?

What else was this man than the result of a long process of apostasy that reduced this bi-thousand-year-old institution to such pitiful conditions?

The apostasy was certainly there because the enemy, as we have seen, with great patience and perseverance has infiltrated among the ranks of the Church to give life to another institution now desacralized and completely similar to any NGO that rather than having as its foundation the truth of Catholicism has adopted the Enlightenment verb of human rights by the various French Freemasons such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu.

The apostasy announced over time

It should be remembered, however, that the Church is not an earthly institution. It doesn’t belong to men even though they went too hard to ruin it.

It was founded by Christ for the salvation of souls, and Jesus’ very promise to his apostles was that it would exist until the end of time.

The test it is going through can only have been “granted” by Providence, which has taken care to make known several times over time of which obscenities and heresies the Church would have become a spokesperson.

One of the first warnings of the coming of apostasy was that which occurred in 1846, when the Madonna appeared to the two French children, Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat, to whom it was announced that the Church would become the seat of the Antichrist.

The two children of La Salette, Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat

The Church at that time was very different from the present one. It was a Church that was not afraid to say that it was the sanhedrin, and certainly not Rome, that killed Jesus, as some Israeli jurists hosted on RAI screens have tried to believe, and it was a Church that on the pages of Civiltà Cattolica talked about the Jewish question, while today on this magazine you can find the Christianization of the illegal immigrant, one of the pins of Bergoglio’s pontificate.

This appearance was approved by the Church, which also in the following years received other signals that a similar scenario would unfortunately occur, when, for example, the great pontiff Leo XIII had in 1884 the well-known vision of the Church fallen into the hands of Satan for 100 years.

There was also no lack of other warnings in the last century, starting from Fatima, even if here the machine of ecclesiastical Freemasonry worked to hide from the faithful the third part of the secret of Fatima, in which there was talk of how the leaders of the Church would become the spokespersons of apostasy.

The Madonna had given explicit instructions. She had ordered the Church to reveal the third part of the secret by 1960, but the pontiff of the time, John XXIII, Angelo Roncalli, who had already started Freemasonry and was elected after Cardinal Siri, threatened, was forced to give up, hid the secret, as Father Malachi Martin revealed who fled to the United States after witnessing this scene.

The vicar of Christ who censors the Madonna. One time one would never have thought of telling such a fact, but this was the evil that had penetrated the Vatican walls and that also led the other pontiffs after Roncalli to hide from the faithful the truth about the infection of the Church.

Padre Pio had already been there to see her, among others. The saint of Pietrelcina had already revealed to his friend, Father Amorth, that this false church would be established that would arrive where Jorge Mario Bergoglio had arrived.

Francis can be considered to all intents and purposes the zenith of such infiltration, and the question that many have been asking themselves for some time now, and whether this ordeal of this institution has finally come to an end, or whether there will be another station of the Via Crucis.

It is impossible to answer this question without trying to lean on the shoulders of those who had those visions and who, like the mother of God, appeared on other occasions after Fatima, such as Garabandal and Akita, to warn humanity about the dangers they incured for their rejection of God and to announce at the same time the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart.

It is not in fact a hypothesis that the Church will be healed, but a certainty because it was the Virgin herself who said it.

Therefore, there cannot be the slightest doubt about the final victory….

Here’s the citation of the piece I referenced in the Kokx Podcast on Friday night. This is definitely worth a bookmark.

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/

And here is the commentary from the VoxDay post:

“The author is entirely correct to be concerned about the consequences for every industry in which women become the majority, because all of those industries will cease to be able to perform their primary functions. We’ve already seen that, for example, in elementary education, where predominantly female teachers working under female principles and female-majority schoolboards cannot teach schoolchildren how to read, write, or do arithmetic.

As we are observing in real time, female-dominated politics are not compatible with civilization because women have different priorities and perspectives than those required for its construction and maintenance. A feminist society, if left unchecked to its own devices, will look very similar to the average African society before European contact. The episode of Survivor in which the two tribes were divided by the sexes is a very vivid example of this.

But the author is confusing the symptom for the disease. Women are more akin to the vector of the disease than the disease itself, as can be observed from the way in which men who are social justice warriors are every bit as incompetent and even more insane than the women are. The disease is ultimately spiritual and eventually ends in either societal collapse, pyramids dedicated to child sacrifice, or both.

The good news is that a) converged societies will inevitably fail, b) women’s commitment to feminism and social justice will vanish as soon as the government funding fails, and c) men stop supporting female influence over them.

This is a unique moment of history, and it is already observably coming to an end.

The lesson, as always, is this: women ruin everything.
—Bill Simmons”

Zoom in to read the article. They were utterly shameless.

Vatican II was validly convoked, and its original agenda and schemae were highly orthodox: the denunciation of Global Communism, and the declaration of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces, and Queen of Heaven AND Earth. However, immediately after opening, the Council was hijacked by modernists, led by Germans and backed up by Americans (of course), and the original agenda and schemae were ripped up and discarded, and the dumpster fire dog’s breakfast of modernism that we now know and see as “the post-Conciliar church” is what emerged.

Vatican II is therefore a FAILED COUNCIL that should be declared null and void with all of its documents, which should be banned from scholarship.

When people today refer to “The Council”, we should immediately reply, “Which Council? Trent? Lateran II? Nicea?” This evil idea that the Church began in ARSH 1965 with the closing of the FAILED Second Vatican Council MUST be fought. We should refuse to speak of Vatican II as if it weren’t a failed council, much less “THE” council which marks the “beginning of the modern Church.”

The Catholic Church began as it emerged from the spear wound in Our Lord’s side as He hung upon the Cross in ARSH 33. Water and Blood. Baptism and Eucharist. Period. And it remains spotless and unchanged to this day, and until the end of the world.

The Catholic Church emerging from the side of Christ Crucified, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead, into the hands of God the Father, the First Person of the Triune Godhead.

https://dioknox.org/office-of-the-bishop

“Bob’s eyes went WIDE open when he saw me wearing my Saturno.”