PART 4
By Thomas R. Horn
February 12, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
Cardinal Manning, the Pope, and the Antichrist
Catholic
experts say the title “Peter the Roman” is potent in that
it indicates the last pope may satisfy the desires of Rome and its dominionist
pals in America by reviving an authoritarian Babylonian State Religion.
On this order, the man who in 2002 correctly 
predicted
that the pope succeeding John Paul II would be named Benedict XVI, Ronald
L. Conte Jr., believes the next pope will take the name Pius XIII, and
that “Peter the Roman” implies this pope “will reaffirm
the authority of the Roman Pontiff over the Church” and “will
emphasize the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Faith and the Roman Catholic
Church above all other religions and denominations, and its authority
over all Christians and all peoples of the world.” To this, Conte
adds, “During the reign of Pope Peter the Roman, the great apostasy
begins” and this pope will mark “the first part of the tribulation,
during our generation.”[1]
Conte's eschatology seems to stem all the way back to Dr. Henry Edward Cardinal Manning who was Lord Archbishop of Westminster from 1865–1892. Before conversion to Catholicism he was an influential Anglican cleric but lost faith in the Church of England in 1850, when, “in the so-called Gorham judgment, the Privy Council successfully ordered the Church to institute an Evangelical clergyman who denied that the sacrament of baptism had an objective effect of baptismal regeneration. The denial of the objective effect of the sacraments was to Manning and many others a grave heresy.” This contradicting of tradition within the church by order of a civil, secular court was too much for Manning, who viewed it as evidence the Anglican Church “was merely a man-made creation of the English Parliament.”[2]
After departing the Church of England, Manning converted to Catholicism and entered the seminary. He was ordained a priest June 14, 1851, and by 1865, had risen to Archbishop of Westminster. He was a significant presence in setting the direction of the modern Catholic Church, and achieved particular fame for his doctrine of papal infallibility (the dogma that the pope is preserved from even the possibility of error when he speaks “ex cathedra”), which became dogma during the First Vatican Council of 1870. Manning’s unrelenting emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the pope, including authority over local temporal and spiritual hierarchies such as local bishops, defined ultramontanism in his day—the idea that papal superiority should exist even over councils and kings.
Historians view the nineteenth-century revival of ultramontanism as progressing through three distinct stages:
• 1814. The revival of the Jesuit Order, which was always the mainstay of curial as opposed to local authority.
• 1864. The issuing by Pius IX of the Syllabus, in which Catholicism and any form of liberalism were held to be incompatible.
• 1870. The declaration by the First Vatican Council that the Pope is infallible when he makes, by virtue of his office, a solemn pronouncement on faith or morals. This declaration, though not conceding the claim of administrative infallibility which many Ultramontanes would have wished, marked a substantial triumph for their point of view.[3]
These facts make Manning all the more remarkable given how during the 1800–1900s a series of scholarly opinions were published outlining how events in the Roman Catholic Church combined with long-time anti-papist goals by secret Masonic infiltrators would give rise in the last days to great apostasy in Rome and the advent of Antichrist. Among the strongest proponents of this eschatology was Cardinal Manning himself, who delivered a series of lectures in 1861 under the title “The Present Crises of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy” (later incorporated into a larger study entitled “The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ”) in which Manning foresaw a future crises in the Roman Catholic Church initiated by the type of ecumenism and flexible dogma that many modern conservative Catholics have loathed following the Second Vatican Council (October 1962 through December 1965). Manning believed this change to orthodoxy would undermine the authority of the Church and finally result in a departure of the profession of Catholic faith by the nations together with the displacement of the true pope by a false prophet, thus ushering in the Antichrist and global apostasy. Manning also believed secret societies like the Freemasons were part of this conspiracy. “The secret societies have long ago undermined and honeycombed the Christian society of Europe, and are at this moment struggling onward towards Rome, the center of all Christian order in the world,”[4] he wrote. But when he looked at the prophecy in Revelation 18 concerning the end-time destruction of Mystery Babylon, Manning saw it was the hand of God in judgment of worldwide apostasy emanating from Rome:
We read in the Book Apocalypse, of the city of Rome, that she said in the pride of her heart, “I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and sorrow I shall not see. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day: death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be burned with fire, because God is strong who shall judge her.” Some of the greatest writers of the Church tell us that…the great City of Seven Hills…the city of Rome will probably become apostate…and that Rome will again be punished, for he will depart from it; and the judgment of God will fall…[5]
Thus, just as the Prophecy of the Popes and numerous other Catholic visionary conveyances do, Manning foresaw the destruction of the city of Rome as a result of its partnership with the Antichrist. This doctrine would have been unfamiliar to most Catholics in those days, so Manning explained how Catholicism’s greatest theologians agreed with this point of view:
The apostasy of the city of Rome…and its destruction by Antichrist may be thoughts so new to many Catholics, that I think it well to recite the text of theologians, of greatest repute. First, Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Viegas, Suarez, Bellarmine, and Bosius, that Rome shall apostatize from the faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ, and return to its ancient paganism. Malvenda’s words are:
But Rome itself in the last times of the world will return to its ancient idolatry, power, and imperial greatness. It will cast out its Pontiff, altogether apostatize from the Christian faith, terribly persecute the Church, shed the blood of martyrs more cruelly than ever, and will recover its former state of abundant wealth, or even greater than it had under its first rulers.
Lessius says: “In the time of Antichrist, Rome shall be destroyed, as we see openly from the thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse;” and again: “The woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which hath kingdom over the kings of the earth, in which is signified Rome in its impiety, such as it was in the time of St. John, and shall be again at the end of the world.” And Bellarmine: “In the time of Antichrist, Rome shall be desolated and burnt, as we learn from the sixteenth verse of the seventeenth chapter of the Apocalypse.” On which words the Jesuit Erbermann comments as follows: “We all confess with Bellarmine that the Roman people, a little before the end of the world, will return to paganism, and drive out the Roman Pontiff.”
Viegas, on the eighteenth chapter of the Apocalypse says: “Rome, in the last age of the world, after it has apostatized from the faith, will attain great power and splendor of wealth, and its sway will be widely spread throughout the world, and flourish greatly. Living in luxury and the abundance of all things, it will worship idols, and be steeped in all kinds of superstition, and will pay honor to false gods. And because of the vast effusion of the blood of martyrs which was shed under the emperors, God will most severely and justly avenge them, and it shall be utterly destroyed, and burned by a most terrible and afflicting conflagration.”[6]
Throughout
history including recent times, numerous Catholic priests have built on
the foundation laid by Cardinal Manning and have often been surprisingly
outspoken on their agreement regarding the inevitable danger not only
of apostate Rome but of the False Prophet rising from within the ranks
of Catholicism itself as a result of secret satanic “Illuminati-Masonic”
influences. (The term “Illuminati” as used here is not strictly
a reference to the Bavarian movement founded May 1, 1776, by Jesuit-taught
Adam Weishaupt, but as indicative of a modern multinational power elite,
an occult hierarchy operating behind current supranatural and global political
machinations.) According to Catholic priests such as Father E. 
Sylvester
Berry, whose book The Apocalypse of Saint John foretold the usurpation
of the Papacy by a false prophet; Father Herman Bernard Kramer, whose
work The Book of Destiny painted a terrifying scenario in which Satan
enters the church and assassinates the true pope (possibly during conclave)
in order that his false pope can rise to rule the world; as well as similar
beliefs by priests like Father John F. O’Connor, Father Alfred Kunz,
and Father Malachi Martin, this will happen because secret-society and
sinister false Catholic infiltrators understand the geopolitical influence
of Rome in the world is indispensable for controlling future global elements
in matters of church and state. The Roman Catholic Church represents one-sixth
of the world’s population and over half of all professing Christians,
has its own diplomatic corps of ambassadors posted in industrialized nations
globally, and over one hundred eighty nations of the world send their
ambassadors to the capital city, the Vatican.
In a two-hour presentation (available on DVD), Father O’Connor gave a homily titled “The Reign of the Antichrist,” in which he described how changes within society and in the institution were already at work before his death to provide for the coming of Antichrist. In this sermon and elsewhere, O’Connor outlined the catalyst for this scheme unfolding as a result of “Masonic Conspirators” within the organization whose plan, called “Alta Vendita,” would essentially take control of the papacy and help the False Prophet deceive the world’s faithful (including Catholics) into worshipping Antichrist.
The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita (or simply the Alta Vendita) is a nineteenth-century Italian document, allegedly written by the highest lodge of the Italian Carbonari—a secret revolutionary society associated with Freemasonry—both of which had been publically condemned by Rome. The document clearly maps out a blueprint for infiltrating the Catholic Church in order to slowly turn it into an instrument of propaganda for the society’s principles and goals, ultimately seeking to produce Catholic laity, clergy, and finally a pope who would be warm to the ideas of the Enlightenment—the eighteenth-century philosophical view of man as held by naturalists, atheists, deists, and Freemasons, who sought to reform society by elevating science and intellect over religion.
In the nineteenth century, Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII both asked for the Alta Vendita to be published. In 1859, Jacques Crétineau-Joly did so in his book, L’Église romaine en face de la Révolution, and in 1885 it was published in English by Monsignor George F. Dillon in The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization. Due to its importance to this chapter, the reader may wish to read the full text of the Alta Vendita here:
In the wake of Vatican II, traditionalist Roman Catholic groups see evidence that the Alta Vendita has indeed succeeded “above even the most improbable calculations.” As a result, some have developed a critical attitude toward church hierarchy in the belief that post-Vatican II teachings contradict and infect solemn Catholic dogmas with modernism, ecumenism, collegiality, and religious liberty, which are clearly reminiscent of the secret society’s objectives. Such secessionists point to examples like John Paul II’s 1982 prayer meeting at Assisi with over one hundred religious leaders including pagans, his meetings with the Dalai Lama (who placed a Buddhist statue on the altar in the Church of St. Francis), his receiving the mark of the adorers of the Hindu god Shiva, his meetings with devil worshipping voodoo high-priests (during which he even justified voodoo as possessing “truth and good, seeds of the Word”) and so on, all in accordance with the principles of Vatican II. Radical Catholic groups like the Sedevacantists (Latin: sede vacante, “the seat being vacant”) consider such activity evidence that the popes following Vatican II are illegitimate heretics and that the Holy See of Rome has been technically “vacant” since the death of either Pope Pius XII in 1958 or Pope John XXIII in 1963 (with some classifying John XXIII a Modernist antipope).
Some believe this has even paved the way for a showdown during the next period of vacancy in the papal office that could witness frustrated traditionalists among the College of Cardinals desperate to elect a sitting Bishop of Rome as apostolic successor of Saint Peter (Petrus Romanus) who will institute a vigilant revival and reinstitution of pre-Vatican II authoritarianism. This conflict seems to be boiling under the surface, largely unknown to the public, but seen by such mystics as Father Herman Bernard Kramer (mentioned earlier) in his work, “The Book of Destiny.” During a strange interpretation he made of the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation concerning “the great wonder” mentioned in verse one, Father Kramer writes:
The ‘sign’ in heaven is that of a woman with child crying out in her travail and anguish of delivery. In that travail, she gives birth to some definite ‘person’ who is to RULE the Church with a rod of iron (verse 5). It then points to a conflict waged within the Church to elect one who was to ‘rule all nations’ in the manner clearly stated. In accord with the text this is unmistakably a PAPAL ELECTION, for only Christ and his Vicar have the divine right to rule ALL NATIONS… But at this time the great powers may take a menacing attitude to hinder the election of the logical and expected candidate by threats of a general apostasy, assassination or imprisonment of this candidate if elected.”[8]
| Subscribe to the NewsWithViews Daily News Alerts! |
Although we disagree with Kramer’s interpretation of the book of Revelation, the idea that a specific “person” was born and is now of the appropriate age to fulfill the incarnation of St. Malachy’s Prophecy of the Popes, is without question. Whatever one makes of the Petrus Romanus prediction--and its divine or demonic inspiration--the pope following Benedict XVI is the last on the list. Furthermore, Kramer’s fear that “great powers may take a menacing attitude to hinder the election of the logical and expected candidate” echoes the sentiment of priests mentioned elsewhere in the upcoming book Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope is Here who see a crises for the Church coming, and the Man of Sin rising as a result.
In the next entry, we will begin unveiling -- based on our investigation of criminal and historical records -- who and from whence this specific "person" is. Watch the trailer.
[See the U-Tube clip above: Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here]
Click here for part -----> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
� 2012 Thomas Horn - All Rights Reserved
Footnotes:
1.
Ronald L. Conte Jr., “The Future and the Popes,” Catholic
Planet, November 14, 2004.
2.
“Henry
Edward Manning,” Wikipedia, last modified August 28, 2011
3.
“Ultramontanism” The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church, 3rd ed. rev. ed. F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone
(Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 1667.
4.
Cardinal Manning, The Present Crises of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy,
reprinted in 2007 under the title, “The Pope & the Antichrist”
(Tradibooks, Dainte-Croix du Mont, France), 75.
5.
Ibid., 79-80.
6.
Ibid., 81-82.
7.
“PERMANENT INSTRUCTION OF THE ALTA VENDITA,” PUBLIC DOMAIN,
viewable here: Catholic
Voice, last accessed January 19, 2012,
8.
Rev. Herman Bernard Kramer, The Book of Destiny (Belleville, IL: Buechler
Publishing Company, 1955), 277.
Share
This ArticleSign
Up For Free E-Mail Alerts
E-Mails are used strictly for NWVs alerts, not for sale
Thomas Horn is the CEO of RaidersNewsUpdate.com and SurvivorMall.com.
Over the last decade, he has authored three books, wrote dozens of published editorials, and had several feature magazine articles. In addition to past articles at NewsWithViews.com , his works have been referred to by writers of the LA Times Syndicate, MSNBC, Christianity Today, Coast to Coast, World Net Daily, White House Correspondents and dozens of newsmagazines and press agencies around the globe. Tom's latest book is "The Ahriman Gate," which fictionalizes the use of biotechnology to resurrect Biblical Nephilim.
Thomas is also a well known radio personality who has guest-hosted and appeared on dozens of radio and television shows over the last 30 years, including "The 700 Club" and "Coast to Coast AM." When looking for a spokesperson to promote their film "Deceived" staring Louis Gossett Jr. and Judd Nelson, "Cloud 10 Pictures" selected Thomas as their spokesperson to explain the Christian viewpoint on UFO-related demonology.
Web Site: RaidersNewsUpdate.com
E-Mail: RaidersNewsUpdate@gmail.com
