“In this supreme moment of need of the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent”

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God’s Prophecies For Cardinal Burke…

…who even MET with Ann Barnhardt

“Some preachers will keep silent about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them, not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.”

– from Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis of Assisi, pp. 248-250

A rather broad prophecy. But we get the gist. Some bad things will cascade from the top of the Catholic Church, and the priests will either ignore what’s going on, or they’ll even actively work to destroy Catholicism. They will “keep silent about the truth.” Consequently, there will not be a real pope, but an antipope.

However, we can look to the Americas for a more specific prophecy, directed squarely at the Bergoglian regime. Namely, this prophecy from Quito, Ecuador. I will note in brackets who, particularly, I feel the following prophecy is addressing.

The Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised [ALL OF THIS WAS DONE BY BERGOGLIO], for in this Sacrament, the Church of God and even God Himself is scorned and despised since He is represented in His priests. The Devil will try to persecute the ministers of the Lord in every possible way [CANCELLED PRIESTS]; he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt many of them. These depraved priests [FR. JAMES MARTIN], who will scandalize the Christian people, will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests.

This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous suffering to the good Pastors of the Church, the many good priests, and the Supreme Pastor and Vicar of Christ on earth, who, a prisoner in the Vatican [THIS WAS LIKELY POPE BENEDICT XVI], will shed secret and bitter tears in the presence of his God and Lord, beseeching light, sanctity and perfection for all the clergy of the world, of whom he is King and Father. Further, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which will ensnare the rest into sin and conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women.

In this supreme moment of need of the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent [THIS IS CARDINAL BURKE].

– Our Lady of Good Success to Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres, January 21, 1610

Okay. Perhaps there’s plenty of blame and culpability to go around. There are other players in this drama that I’m intentionally not mentioning here. But certainly, the main characters in this cast are: Bergoglio, James Martin, Pope Benedict, and Cardinal Burke. I would say the role of these men was instrumental in putting us where we are today.

Cardinal Burke Did Nothing

I hope that Cardinal Burke is having a wonderful time wherever he’s at right now. I wonder if his present endeavors are “off limits” for Prevost’s demolition teams.

Before his current retirement job, His Eminence was Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. He was the leading canon lawyer in the Vatican’s highest court. He had a lot of power and ability to prevent enormous destruction in the Catholic Church. And he did nothing.

He was then removed from his Vatican privileges by antipope Bergoglio in 2014, and sidelined into the role of Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Cardinal Burke took it and liked it. And what is he doing these days? He states that he’s devoting himself to a shrine in Wisconsin.

Why come down so hard on Burke? Why express such disappointment in the man? Because we know with certainty that former-canon-lawyer Burke knows precisely what is wrong in the Catholic Church. He knows quite well that Bergoglio was a fake pope, and that now Prevost is likely another antipope. He knows everything that we, laity, know. And he’s done nothing about it. For years.

As a matter of fact, he had the facts clearly laid out for him by none other than Ann Barnhardt.

Yes, Ann Barnhardt met with Cardinal Burke.

After years of being silent about the matter, Ann Barnhardt finally has told the public about her meeting with the cardinal in her latest podcast: Barnhardt Podcast #233: The Surreptitious Social Life of Ann.

Cardinal Burke had a meeting with Barnhardt before the Covid lockdowns. He took copious notes. The way Ann described it, it is as though that was the first time Burke heard of the antipope situation described in this way. He asked Barnhardt what should be done in regards to the evil cardinal appointments by Bergoglio. She had to explain Ecclesia Supplet to the cardinal—the canon lawyer, the illegally deposed Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. This laywoman had to explain to him the idea of supplied jurisdiction, and that it can’t be used to ratify acts of evil or malice.

Cardinal Burke agreed with Barnhardt that a pope can’t just do whatever he wants, regardless of canon law. He agreed with Barnhardt—at that time when Pope Benedict and Bergoglio were still alive—that it was absurd to think that Pope Benedict had some sort of a master plan to fix the Church. Burke did not think Barnhardt was nuts. From her account, he seemed convinced.

In fact, Barnhardt was allowed to meet with Cardinal Burke a second time in 2020, at a time during the Pandemic when everyone was paranoid and masked up. She sat with him for an hour and forty five minutes and discussed the ongoing disaster.

They went over the Miller Dissertation. This is a 1980 paper more properly called The Divine Right of the Papacy in Recent Ecumenical Theology, and it explores the distinction between the Petrine Munus (office) and Ministerium (ministry/function) of the Papacy. This paper lays the groundwork for understanding how Benedict’s resignation from the papacy in 2013 was invalid. Barnhardt went over this with Card. Burke, and he did not disagree with her presentation.

He asked Barnhardt to give her absolutely every note she had on the matter.

Ann flatly essentially told Burke: “This is on your shoulders. You’re basically the highest living churchman right now. Though there are churchmen in the Vatican with higher positions than yours, they aren’t even Catholic.” And she told him that everyone she’s shared this information with agrees that this “Bennyvacantist” explanation—that Bergoglio is an antipope—makes sense and that this is an excellent case; however, these parties can’t “go along with this” until Cardinal Burke gives his approval of this. “I’m waiting for Cardinal Burke to say something.” As Ann recounts saying to the cardinal: “The remnant Church is looking at you, waiting, with bated breath—you—to act on this.”

She added, to his face: “I would solve this before dinner this evening. I would have people come—multiple people come with their phones, with video cameras—and if I were you, I would record a statement saying: ‘Serious canonical irregularities have been identified with regards to the putative resignation proffered by Pope Benedict XVI in February of 2013. Pending further investigation, I hereby declare a state of emergency suspense.”

He did nothing.

Cardinal Burke said to Barnhardt that her argument was extremely logical, extremely well-reasoned, canonically sound. The canonical citations are sound. And “YOU, ANN, ARE NOT CRAZY. AND YOU, ANN, ARE NOT A SCHISMATIC.” The cardinal said this to her.

The Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura has said that Ann Barnhardt’s “Bennyvacantist” stance is neither crazy, nor schismatic. This canon lawyer—the highest in the world—has said that her position is sound.

Yet he did nothing.

And now? The focus of his life is devotion to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

The highest churchman who knows everything we laity have been discussing for years, who knows our plight, our position, our problems—how we’ve been terrorized and abused—this man who should be coming to our rescue…he has done nothing.

Bittersweet Conclusions

It may well be depressing and a huge let down to know that the right men were in the right place at the right time, and they did absolutely nothing for us. But there are some positive takeaways. For one, we can rest assured that the “Bennyvacantist” position is fine and not schismatic at all. We already knew that, but we can now say we’ve heard it from the lips of Cardinal Burke, himself.

Furthermore, while it seems that the Church will not avoid slipping into a dark period of Judases, we are at least assured that Providence knew this would happen, and we are promised that God will triumph in the end, and that these trials only purify the faithful all the more. As for Cardinal Burke and prelates like him who have done nothing to wrest control of the Church from the grip of Antichrist forces, fortune does not smile upon them:

“Within a short time, all the laws of the Church will fall under the blow of a most unjust and culpable violation. When reports of a threatening order reach their ears, many priests will not be last in breaking the laws (of the Church.) I grieve at the laxity of such a number that it makes Me shudder. I grieve at the little faith that abides in them. They are very guilty; not all of them, but many.

“In their [priests’] aberration, they will break their oaths. The Book of Life contains a list of names that ‘rends the heart.’

“Because of the little respect it has for the apostles of God, the flock grows careless and ceases to observe the laws. The priest himself is responsible for the lack of respect because he does not respect enough his holy ministry, and the place which he occupies in his sacred functions. The flock follows in the footsteps of its pastors; this is a great tragedy.

“The clergy will be severely punished on account of their inconceivable fickleness and great cowardice which is incompatible with their functions.

“A terrible chastisement has been provided for those who ascend every morning the steps of the Holy Sacrifice. I have not come on your altars to be tortured. I suffer a hundredfold more from such hearts than any of the others. I absolve you from your great sins, My children, but I cannot grant any pardon to these priests.”

– The Holy Spirit to Marie Julie Jahenny, June 1881

Not typically vindictive, I would not wish eternal punishment on a guy like Cardinal Burke. I say pray for his soul and ask God for mercy in regards to what he failed to do. And do the same for Pope Benedict as well. I don’t think that any of us would want to see these men not come out of this one way or another. It’s just that their inaction was so completely damaging to all of us. Honestly, it’s ultimately in God’s hands. But I’d choose to pray for these men.

As for the satanic cabal who now lord over us and wait to drop the hammer—in regards to them, I say: pray to God for deliverance.

https://theweltgeist.substack.com/p/gods-prophecies-for-cardinal-burke