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The Vatican’s Anonymous
“Higher Authority”
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 In my last
column (“Have They No Shame?”) I discussed how the Vatican Press
Office, within hours of the terrorist attack on America, decided that the
entire Catholic world needed to be informed – at that very moment –
of the latest gratuitous denunciation of Father Nicholas Gruner by certain
Vatican bureaucrats.
“Suspended!,” they say. Suspended for what? Funny, but the
denunciation doesn’t specify any grounds for the “suspension.”
Perhaps that is because the grounds are ridiculous: Father Gruner
“failed” to find another bishop to incardinate him, so he must return
to Avellino. Of course, the same bureaucrats who issued the denunciation fail
to mention that they themselves prevented Father Gruner from being
received by three successive friendly bishops outside Avellino. But what need
does the public have for such little details? No, it is enough to declare that
Father Gruner has been “suspended.” Now the Church is safe from this
menacing priest with his talk of Fatima. No wonder notifying the world of
Father Gruner’s “supension” was so important it couldn’t
wait until the dust had settled over the ruins of the World Trade Center. We
can all rest easy now.
I have said it
before and I say it again here: In a Church teeming with clerical malefactors,
Father Gruner, despite his orthodoxy and moral uprightness, has committed the
one unpardonable offense: He remarks the obvious. It is obvious that Russia
shows no signs of having been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart, some 17
years after a consecration of the world which was done at the Vatican in which
any mention of Russia was studiously avoided. It is obvious that the world has
not been granted the period of peace Our Lady promised if the consecration were
carried out as She specified.
This was obvious
even before those hijacked airliners crashed into the Twin Towers and the
Pentagon. It will be obvious even to the biggest of the Fatima-revisionist
dunderheads once American military forces begin what will be an endless war to
“wipe out terrorism.” We will have about as much chance of victory as
we would in a war to “wipe out Original Sin.” The probable result of
this war “to wipe out terrorism” will be the raising up of a new
generation of even more hate-filled enemies of America, driven on by the
approaching glory of a martyrdom for Allah and the memories of their
bomb-blasted and starving relatives who had nothing to do with terrorism.
But there
seems to be no stopping the apocalyptic forces which are now in motion in this
seventeenth year of “the conversion of Russia.” (Sooner or later, I
believe, the Russian connection to the terrorist attack will emerge, as
interviews with a high-ranking Russian defector published by NewsMax have
already begun to show.)
A curious thing
is that the Vatican’s obscenely ill-timed denunciation of “the Fatima
priest” states that it was issued by a “mandate of Higher
Authority.” Why does this Higher Authority lack a name? After all, if
Father Gruner is going to be denounced to the whole world, shouldn’t the
world be informed of who, precisely, has “mandated” the denunciation?
Or has the Catholic Church become a secret society, like the freemasons,
governed by a man behind a curtain, like the Wizard of Oz?
Whoever ordered
publication of the denunciation would no doubt like us to believe that the
“Higher Authority” is Pope John Paul II. But, of course, if it were
the Pope, they would have said so explicitly. They would hardly have missed the
opportunity to invoke the full weight of papal authority in their campaign
against Father Gruner. In fact, “Higher Authority” is the
Vatican’s customary phrase for the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal
Angelo Sodano. This is the same Cardinal Sodano who credits culture of death
potentate Mikhail Gorbachev with the “triumph of liberty” in Russia
(forget the triumph of the Immaculate Heart!) and who praises the writings of
the arch-heretic Hans Kung, whose latest book suggests that Blessed Pius IX was
a psychopath.
What does it say
about those who have just denounced Father Gruner that they will not even
reveal the name of the man they claim “mandated” the denunciation?
What does it say about that man, who refuses to put his name to his own public
action? And what are we to make of the unprecedented Vatican denunciation
itself: a faithful, orthodox priest is denounced before the whole world in a
document which does not even state a reason why the priest is being
denounced! Not even the worst heretics in living memory have received such
treatment from Vatican officials.
Something is
terribly wrong inside the Vatican bureaucracy. Its obsession with Father Gruner
is but one symptom of raging disease which has brought the Church and the world
to the brink of chaos, even as the Fatima revisionist stooges continue to
insist that all is well.
Our Lady of
Fatima, Pray for Us!
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