I think these examples of Diabolical Narcissism in film are very instructive, and make for interesting posts.  Remember, just because I coined the term “Diabolical Narcissism” doesn’t mean the phenomenon is new – it is exactly the opposite.  DN predates the existence of human beings, as it is what Lucifer and the one-third of the angelic beings chose to do when they fell and were cast out of heaven.  That happened BEFORE God created man.  If you have watched my video presentation on DN, you know it basically hinges around 1 Corinthians 13: 1-5, in which St. Paul, inspired by The Holy Ghost, makes the chilling statement that the man who chooses not to love is, in the eyes of God, NOTHING.  Nihil sum.

In this scene (2:30:00) at the end of the VERY GOOD film about St. Bernadette Soubirous and her visitation at Lourdes by The Blessed Virgin which Holy Mother Church celebrated yesterday and every February 11th, the Imperial Prosecutor, Vital Dutour, played by Vincent Price, always in contempt of Bernadette and especially of religion (remember, this is France just a few decades after the satanic French Revolution and the Vendee Genocide), after being diagnosed with terminal throat cancer, goes to the Grotto and makes this confession:

“I am a stranger here.  I am not like these thousands of souls flickering brightly and hopefully in the darkness.  My pride has always stood between them and me.  The pride of being a superior human being. But now I know that we are all a wretched animal species, distinguished from the insects only by nerve centers and false reasoning. A hungry cancer is feeding at my throat.  Tomorrow I’ll crawl back to Langlois, hide in some hole of death and be heard of no more.  I’ll be alone – alone and desolate.  And why not? It’s logical.  I’ll be alone because I have loved no one.  No one and nothing.  Not even myself.  Nothing.  Nothing.

Pray for me, Bernadette….”

This is a succinct description of Diabolical Narcissism.  The otherness, the pathological haughtiness, the self-loathing, the self-pity, and most importantly the lovelessness.  The freely-chosen lovelessness, which only leads, as St. Paul said, to NOTHINGNESS.  Nihil sum.

February 11th is a big day in Church history. Ten years ago today, I woke up jet lagged in Rome after having arrived the evening before, and was shocked to see late-edition newspapers with massive headlines “Benedict announces resignation”. I guess he heard that I was in town and couldn’t take it. This explanation is every bit as plausible as “insomnia” or “jet lag from having to fly to Brazil to World Youth Day”. That morning, while I was snoozing off my jet lag a few hundred yards away, Pope Benedict mentioned almost tangentially towards the end of an address to a consistory of the Cardinals that he was going to resign the ministry of the bishop of Rome for the active governance of the Church. No bizarre qualifications there! Miraculously, the Vatican was re-admitted to the SWIFT banking network the next morning, having been cut-off on January 1, ARSH 2013, some six weeks before.

165 years ago today, the Mother of God appeared to a barely-literate peasant girl who struggled to name the Three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity in her catechism class, growth stunted from impoverished malnutrition, in a garbage dump. Through this girl, the Queen of Heaven confirmed to the world that she was, in fact, The Immaculate Conception, conceived without the stain of Original Sin in order to be the Ark of the New Covenant.

And today, Dr. Mazza appears on the Taylor Marshall show discussing at length the canonical invalidity of Pope Benedict’s catastrophic attempted partial resignation.

St. Bernadette, pray for us.

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and on your Holy Catholic Church outside of which there is no salvation.

If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated Me before you.
Si mundus vos odit, scitote quia me priorem vobis odio habuit.

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.
Si de mundo fuissetis, mundus quod suum erat diligeret : quia vero de mundo non estis, sed ego elegi vos de mundo, propterea odit vos mundus.

Remember My word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you…
Mementote sermonis mei, quem ego dixi vobis : non est servus major domino suo. Si me persecuti sunt, et vos persequentur…

As soon as the news broke that the FBI was going after Catholics who actually hold the Catholic faith, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center, I looked up the hit list “Women Against Islam” that they did in ARSH 2015. Sure enough, it is still up. And I’m the second broad on the list – it’s alphabetical.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/women-against-islam

I’m posting the text and screenshots just to be sure that this never goes away.

Ann Barnhardt, a blogger and former commodities brokerage owner whose house was sold in 2013 to satisfy a federal tax lien, is one of the most extreme Muslim-bashers in the United States. She refers to Muslims as “musloids,” says that Islam is a “seditious system working against every government” in the world that must be “exterminated,” and once burned a Koran with a bacon bookmark for a YouTube video. In 2011, she said “the Muslim population is mentally and developmentally disabled on a mass scale,” describing it in the same essay as the only population that “is mentally and physically devolving.” But Barnhardt’s blind rage isn’t only directed at Muslims. She says that beginning in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected, a “cold putsch” began that she predicts will lead to riots and civil war, the importation of “millions of socialist Latin Abmericans,” and, ultimately, the Chinese Red Army landing in America. She urges people to buy long guns because “THERE WILL BE MASS RAPES when the inner city hip-hop contingent can no longer be contained by standard law enforcement.” And she opposes women’s suffrage, saying that it “effectively castrated” men and wrecked the family. She once described herself as “a buzzsaw crossed with a blowtorch,” and about that, at least, she is surely right.

I love how the SPLC paid an artist to use this photo of me, but make the eyes sad, and eliminate my smile. The artist totally botched my mouth. But, that’s okay. You’d think that they would have done the whole “crazy eyes” treatment on me, since that’s what I’m famous for. A missed opportunity, to be sure. And while I’m flattered by the golden halo the artist gave me, I denounce it stridently. I’m aspiring to the deepest spot in Purgatory, and will weep with gratitude until the heat death of the universe, which I expect to be my tenure. In fact, I’ll probably be the person to run the dust mop, check the restrooms, turn off the lights, and pull the door shut. IF I make it.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for My Name’s sake.

Sed ante haec omnia injicient vobis manus suas, et persequentur tradentes in synagogas et custodia trahentes ad reges et praesides propter nomen meum :

And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends; and some of you they will put to death.

Trademini autem a parentibus, et fratribus, et cognatis, et amicis, et morte afficient ex vobis :

And you shall be hated by all men for My Name’s sake.

et eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum.

Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter justitiam : quoniam ipsorum est regnum caelorum.

Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for My sake:
Beati estis cum maledixerint vobis, et persecuti vos fuerint, et dixerint omne malum adversum vos mentientes, propter me :

Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.
Gaudete, et exsultate, quoniam merces vestra copiosa est in caelis. Sic enim persecuti sunt prophetas, qui fuerunt ante vos.

A doff of the top hat and a clink of the snifter to Mr. Brian Murphy out of California for sending these citations from the now-famous JPII document on Papal Conclaves from ARSH 1996, Universi Dominici Gregis.

UDG has become famous over the past ten years as arguments have been made that the Bergoglian Antipapacy is invalid due to shenanigans at the faux-conclave of March ARSH 2013. This is wrong, because the root of the problem is totally antecedent; namely Pope Benedict’s failed attempt to only partially resign the active governance of the Church while “remaining in a new way within the enclosure of St. Peter” two weeks before the fake conclave even happened.

So, in order for UDG, which specifically pertains to conclaves, to have been germane to the question of shenanigans inside of a conclave, there would have had to have been… you know… a legal, valid conclave in March ARSH 2013 to apply it to. And there wasn’t. It is ontologically and canonically impossible to have a valid conclave while the See is still occupied, which it was by Pope Benedict until he died on December 31, ARSH 2022, thirty-seven days ago as of this writing, whether he liked it or not.

HOWEVER, as Mr. Murphy points out, what UDG explicitly forbids is anything even remotely like the farcical fiasco that Kermit the Hermit, the fake Franciscan friar attempted last week. It had been so long since I had read UDG that the paragraphs about calling conclaves never clicked in my mind with regards to the “Conclave by Marriott” grift – which sadly, a few people have actually fallen for. Not many, but a handful. There were only FIVE lay people that showed up for the idiotic thing, but Kermit the Hermit is still trying to run a new grift off of it, and simple people (“marks” is what law enforcement calls the targeted victims of con artists) are being sucked into it.

Here are the paragraphs of UDG that totally shoot down any notion of laymen calling a conclave.

Paragraph 4: While the See is vacant, NO modifications to law, especially law governing conclaves, may be modified.

4. During the vacancy of the Apostolic See, laws issued by the Roman Pontiffs can in no way be corrected or modified, nor can anything be added or subtracted, nor a dispensation be given even from a part of them, especially with regard to the procedures governing the election of the Supreme Pontiff. Indeed, should anything be done or even attempted against this prescription, by my supreme authority I declare it null and void.

Paragraph 5: Messes have to be handled exclusively by the College of Cardinals.

5. Should doubts arise concerning the prescriptions contained in this Constitution, or concerning the manner of putting them into effect, I decree that all power of issuing a judgment in this regard belongs to the College of Cardinals, to which I grant the faculty of interpreting doubtful or controverted points. I also establish that should it be necessary to discuss these or other similar questions, except the act of election, it suffices that the majority of the Cardinals present should concur in the same opinion.

Paragraph 33: Laity are forbidden to be electors.

33. The right to elect the Roman Pontiff belongs exclusively to the Cardinals of Holy Roman Church, with the exception of those who have reached their eightieth birthday before the day of the Roman Pontiff’s death or the day when the Apostolic See becomes vacant. The maximum number of Cardinal electors must not exceed one hundred and twenty. The right of active election by any other ecclesiastical dignitary or the intervention of any lay power of whatsoever grade or order is absolutely excluded.

Final Paragraphs: All previous laws regarding conclaves are abrogated, and any conclave called in violation of the norms outlined in UDG is totally invalid.

PROMULGATION

Wherefore, after mature reflection and following the example of my Predecessors, I lay down and prescribe these norms and I order that no one shall presume to contest the present Constitution and anything contained herein for any reason whatsoever. This Constitution is to be completely observed by all, notwithstanding any disposition to the contrary, even if worthy of special mention. It is to be fully and integrally implemented and is to serve as a guide for all to whom it refers.

As determined above, I hereby declare abrogated all Constitutions and Orders issued in this regard by the Roman Pontiffs, and at the same time I declare completely null and void anything done by any person, whatever his authority, knowingly or unknowingly, in any way contrary to this Constitution.

Wow. It’s almost as if the Divine Providence in His perfection foresaw this unforeseeable mess, and even foresaw grifter nuts pulling stunts like calling fake conclaves. How truly awesome.

And that is the final word on Kermit the Hermit the Fake Franciscan Friar, and his “Conclave by Marriott” grift.

Deo gratias!