Another Third Pornocracy Conclave: Let’s Prepare for the Worst and Hope for the Best

We've been in this corruption since the veto of 1903, perhaps earlier.

Above: Papa Luciani, aka Blessed John Paul I, who was potentially “murdered,” according to second hand witness Fr. Charles Murr.

Tomorrow the Holy Father will be put to rest and his requiem Mass will be performed. Let no Catholic fail to perform his pious duty of praying for the dead man’s soul. I have said that I mourn him, and I meant it. We can all do more to love the man more than we did – myself included. Let’s pray every day for his soul until a new pope is elected.

But I wanted to try to give a little historical perspective on the coming conclave. As I discuss in my book, I think it is helpful and accurate to describe the current period as the “Third Pornocracy.” It’s helpful because it’s accurate, according to the historical data we have, and it’s helpful to remember that the Holy Spirit has brought us through two previous periods like this.

The most infamous episode in the First Pornocracy is definitely the death of John XII, who was probably an apostate and a Satanist, but was definitely an adulterer. Some say he was murdered by his mistress’s husband, others say he was struck dead by God.

Perhaps both are true.

The creation of the conclave was occasioned by the First Pornocracy – it was meant to eliminate the forces which evil created the First Pornocracy.

Of course, the creation of the Conclave did not prevent Charles of Anjou – St. Louis IX’s evil brother – from sending his army to the conclave of 1281 to force them to elect the Frenchman Simon de Brie as Martin IV, who promptly called a false crusade against the (Catholic) city of Constantinople, so that Prince Charles could crown himself emperor of the Greeks.

(At this time, the city of New Rome was divided between Greek Catholics and Greek schismatics, but the deposed Greek Catholic Patriarch John Bekkos (who should be canonised) maintained the union with Rome until his death in 1297. Eastern Orthodox scholar Peter Gilbert has done a great deal to defend Bekkos and the Union of Lyons.)

Needless to say, Martin IV was not a pious Pope, but a pawn of Charles of Anjou, and shortly thereafter God punished western Europe with the Black death, and then the Great Western Schism.

And even then, our forefathers did not repent, but created the Second Pornocracy. Here the conclave system did not prevent corruption, but merely facilitated it.

That period was punished by the Almighty with the greatest spiritual punishment since Islam: the Protestant revolt. But you can read my book for all the details of all these things.

The point with this is that the corruption during a period of Pornocracy is so deep that a conclave, or even a pious Pope, will not change anything.

Above: some suggest Cardinal Rampolla was the origin of the Third Pornocracy, as he was accused of occult membership when he was elected pope in 1903 and then vetoed.

What changed the First and Second Pronocracies, was not a pious Pope, but a mass movement of repentance. That’s the only way that the Almighty Hand of God’s wrath will be changed. If we do not repent as a mass of the faithful, and keep hoping some good Pope will do the repentance for us and fix things, God will only punish us worse than He already has.

For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still (Is. ix. 12).

After these mass movements of repentance from the faithful, in each case God brought renewal to the Church after these dark periods.

Moreover, in our period of the Third Pornocracy, the Vatican bureaucracy is so much more complex than any other time in history that the only thing a good Pope can possibly do to help the utterly corrupt Vatican – according to my aforementioned friend Fr. Charles Murr – is immediately sack every last bureaucrat in the Vatican.

And then rebuild from square one by bringing in his own trusted people.

If the new pope does that, I will have hope that the Third Pornocracy will soon end (perhaps in our lifetime), but only if we all repent. If he doesn’t do that, no matter how holy he is (like St. John Paul II or Benedict XVI were), there’s not going to be a substantial change in the Vatican. And without our mass movement of repentance, we will get the Popes, Bishops, and priests we deserve.

Lucky for us, Catholics don’t need a holy Vatican to save their souls. As St. Augustine remarks: the wicked exercise the Church by punishing her and purifying her – wicked men either help us to bear wrongs patiently, or else help us to conquer them with charity and convert them.[1]

In either case, we can rejoice, with God’s help, at the cross we have to bear in our time, for this is the sacred inheritance of our forefathers: the cross of suffering for His Body.

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church (Col. i. 24).

Let us rejoice but repent, for God is merciful to sinners.

Christ is Risen!

Timothy

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[1] See the readings for Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday.