Charlie Kirk -- And St. Michael The Archangel...

 

Erika Kirk: ‘Charlie loved St. Michael the Archangel’

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The wife of the slain Turning Point USA founder shared that her husband ‘loved St. Michael, so every time he put this on he just felt like it was his armor.’

LifeSiteNews staff Fri Nov 7, 2025 - 7:39 pm EST: Erika Kirk: ‘Charlie loved St. Michael the Archangel’ - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, explained that her husband had a devotion to St. Michael the Archangel, a devotion that was evidenced by the medal he wore along with a cross.  

In a video clip that is again circulating on the internet, Erika recounted how when she began dating Charlie, she asked him “Why don’t you wear a cross? You say you’re a Christian but you don’t wear a cross.” 

Charlie responded, “I’m not a jewelry guy.”

“So for his first birthday present I got him this cross,” Erika said, “and then throughout time I would always add different medals to it.”    

“He loved St. Michael, so every time he put this on he just felt like it was his armor,” said his widowed bride as she showed the camera Charlie’s St. Michael medal and cross.

Charlie started wearing the necklace with the cross and St. Michael medal as “he felt the weight of the world on him,” Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told Fox News. “He never took it off again, until he was assassinated, and the people caring for him ripped it off as they tried to save his life.”

Erika wore Charlie’s cross and St. Michael medal as she spoke before a crowd of 70,000 people gathered at her husband’s memorial service on September 21 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. 

In 1886, Pope Leo XIII composed the Saint Michael the Archangel prayer in response to the threats of evil consuming the world and required it to be recited after the celebration of every Holy Mass.  

The shortened version for use by the laity reads:

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Dom Prosper Gueranger (1805-1875), explained St. Michael’s extraordinary role in his classic work, The Liturgical Year:

The very name of Michael urges us to honor this glorious spirit; it is a cry of enthusiasm and fidelity, for it signifies: “Who is like unto God?” Satan trembles at hearing this name, for it reminds him of the noble protest wherewith the bright archangel answered the call of the rebel angels.

Michael proved his strength and prowess when he fought the great battle in heaven. On that account, he was made the guardian and protector of God’s people – of the Jews first, and afterwards of the Christian Church, for the synagogues forfeited all her honors. Michael now watches over Jesus’ Spouse, our mother; he supports her in her trials, and she wins no triumph in which he has not had some hand.

But we are not to suppose that the holy archangel is so engaged in looking after the general interests of Christ’s kingdom on earth that he cannot attend to the prayers of each individual member of the Church. God has given him a compassionate love for men; and there is a not a single soul that escapes his notice. He wields the sword in defense of the Spouse of Christ; he wars with the dragon, who is ever lying in wait for the woman and her Child; (Apocalypse 12:3) – but at the same time, he is attentive to each one of us; for, after having confessed our sins to Almighty God, and to the Blessed Mary ever virgin, we acknowledge them likewise to Blessed Michael the Archangel and beseech him to pray for us to the Lord our God.

He assists at every death bed, for his special office is to receive the souls of the elect, on their quitting the flesh. He, with loving solicitude and princely bearing, presents them to the light eternal, and introduces them into the House of God’s glory. It is holy Church Herself that tells us, in the words of Her liturgy, of these prerogatives of the great archangel.

She teaches us that he has been set over paradise, and that God has given him the charge of leading to heaven the souls of them that are to be received there. On the last day, when our risen Jesus is to appear on the clouds of heaven to judge mankind, Michael will have to fulfill a ministry of awful import: he, with the rest of the angels, will have to separate the good from the bad, all of whom will then have resumed their bodies in the general resurrection."

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Remember the corroborated story of St. Michael helping a Marine in Korea by slaying the Commies who tried to kill the Marine?   A fascinating -- true -- story!

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

 

Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes...

 This is genocide!

From: Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes – Caitlin Johnstone

"Israel is still blocking humanitarian groups from delivering the aid necessary to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. 

In an article titled “Not enough tents, food reaching Gaza as winter comes, aid agencies say,” Reuters reports that “Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire” due to Israeli restrictions preventing aid trucks from getting to their destinations, and that according to an OSHA report last week “a tenth of children screened in Gaza were still acutely malnourished.”

A report from the UK’s Channel 4 News shows warehouses full of food that aid groups say isn’t being allowed into Gaza nearly as rapidly as needed.

In an article titled “‘Under the Guise of Bureaucracy’ — Israel Blocks Humanitarian Groups From Delivering Essential Aid Despite Calm in Gaza,” Israeli outlet Haaretz reports that “Israel has implemented a new procedure requiring all humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank to reapply for official approval, with many denied, despite the relative calm in Gaza following the cease-fire.”

They’re using bureaucratic red tape and arbitrary restrictions to put as much inertia on the effort to rush aid into Gaza as possible. As Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah put it, Israel has “successfully rebranded its genocide as a ‘ceasefire.’”

Still can’t wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians, and the world just shrugged and moved on.

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It’s so silly when US empire apologists cite “the Monroe Doctrine” to defend US warmongering in Latin America, as though “the entire western hemisphere is our property” is a perfectly legitimate policy to have.

The Monroe Doctrine was just American imperialists telling Europe, “You see all these brown people over here south of our border? These are our brown people. You can do whatever you want to those brown people over there in Africa and Asia, but these brown people over here belong to us. Only we get to dominate and exploit them.”

That’s all it has ever been, and people cite it to justify warmongering toward Venezuela or wherever as though saying “yeah well that’s the Monroe Doctrine” is a complete argument in and of itself. It’s bat shit insane nonsense and it should be rejected in its entirety.

US regime change interventionism is reliably disastrous wherever it happens. It always causes immense suffering and instability, it’s always justified by lies, and it never accomplishes what its proponents claim it will accomplish. No amount of bleating the words “Monroe Doctrine” will ever change that.

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The US empire backs genocidal Gulf state monarchies like the UAE and Saudi Arabia because if those states were democratically governed their people would prioritize their own interests over the agendas of the west. They wouldn’t permit US military bases on their territory, and they never would have tolerated Israel and its abuses in the region. Fossil fuel policy would be set without regard for western interests. The entire region could long ago have united into a superpower bloc which rivaled or outmuscled the western power structure using its critical resources and trade routes.

That’s why you see the US and its allies preaching about the values of Freedom and Democracy to the public while privately telling these tyrannical monarchies they can do whatever they want and receive the backing of the imperial machine. Not until their pet tyrant fails to sufficiently kowtow to the interests of the empire does the west suddenly get interested in advancing Freedom and Democracy in their nation.

This is one of the major dynamics at play in Sudan. The United Arab Emirates has been backing the genocidal atrocities of the RSF and the US empire is placing no pressure on them to stop, because that’s part of the deal. As long as the UAE plays along with the agendas of the empire, the empire will tolerate or actively facilitate its abuses.

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I saw a clip of Joe Rogan telling Elon Musk that AI music is his “favorite music now,” gushing about how soulful and moving it is.

Imagine admitting this about yourself in public. AI art is shallow, vapid sensory stimulation made for shallow, vapid people who don’t have enough depth and dimensionality in their consciousness to be moved by profound arisings from the human spirit. They’re just stimulus-response amoebas.

If you tell me you love AI art I won’t try to convince you, I’ll just side-eye you, because while you may not realize it, you are telling me something very revealing about yourself.

People who think AI art is awesome are the AI art of people. 

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We’ve all known someone like Israel. Someone who lies and manipulates all the time. Someone who’s always stirring up conflict and acting like the victim. Someone who’s obtained everything they have by stepping on top of others.

Healthy people avoid such individuals like the plague. We have labels that we use to warn others to stay clear of them. Drama queen. Narcissist. Compulsive liar. Sociopath. Manipulator.

Under ordinary circumstances such people gradually find themselves socially alienated by all but the most gullible and malleable codependents, because normal people can’t stand being around them.

Israel is like if everyone was being forced to be that person’s friend at gunpoint. Say nice things to the sociopath and pretend to believe their lies or you’re getting your head blown off.

Nations who oppose Israel’s crimes find themselves in the crosshairs of the imperial war machine. Organizations who oppose Israel’s abuses find themselves smeared, targeted, and proscribed as terrorist groups. Individuals who oppose Israel’s atrocities get fired, slandered, marginalized, censored, and silenced.

The healthy impulse we all have in ourselves to pull away from such loathsome entities is being overridden by brute force. All normal people want to turn against Israel and do whatever is necessary to end its tyranny and abuse, but the imperial institutions are doing everything in their power to coerce them to comply.

That’s the only reason Israel has any remaining support at all. Hopefully someday they won’t even have that."

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Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

 6, 2025

Turning Point Spokesman: "No Exit Wound A Miracle"

 Yes, a true "miracle," that is, if the 30.06 was in fact the round that took Charlie's life...

From lewrockwell.com and written by John Leake Courageous Discourse November 5, 2025: Turning Point Spokesman: 'No Exit Wound a Miracle' - LewRockwell

"Yesterday Blaze Media (relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey) reported the following:

Turning Point USA spokesman and executive producer of the “Charlie Kirk Show” Andrew Kolvet revealed new details about the shooting that even doctors are calling a miracle. According to Kolvet, the surgeon who operated on Kirk claimed that the high-velocity bullet was powerful enough to kill multiple large animals — and “should have gone through” his body. But for some reason, Kirk’s body was able to stop it.

“I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of an exit wound with Charlie,” Kolvet wrote in a post on X.

“The fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know,” Kolvet continued, explaining that he had spoken with the surgeon who worked on Charlie in the hospital.

“He said the bullet ‘absolutely should have gone through, which is very very normal for a high powered, high velocity round. I’ve seen wounds from this caliber many times and they always just go through everything. This would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc,’” he recalled.

“But it didn’t go through. Charlie’s body stopped it,” he added.

When he mentioned to the doctor that there were “dozens of staff, students, and special guests standing directly behind Charlie” when he was shot, the doctor reportedly replied, “It was an absolute miracle that someone else didn’t get killed.”

“His bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he’s like the man of steel,” Kolvet recalls the doctor saying.

This is not a credible statement, and it raises a number of concerns.

It strikes me as very perplexing that a “surgeon operated on Kirk,” because in the video of the shooting, Charlie reacted with a decorticate posture—that is, an abnormal body posture characterized by flexion of the upper limbs—caused by severe trauma to the central nervous system. This indicates that the bullet either directly struck his cervical spinal cord, or the shock wave of the supersonic bullet passing near his spinal cord traumatized it.

A 150-grain, .30-06 bullet’s energy at 150 yards from the muzzle varies by ammunition, but a common hunting cartridge has an estimated value of approximately 1,800-2,000 foot-pounds (with the bullet traveling at about 2500 feet per second). In other words, the .30 caliber (.30 inch diameter) metal projectile struck his neck with sufficient kinetic energy to move a 2,000 pound mass a linear distance of one foot.

If the bullet that struck Charlie’s cervical spinal cord was a .30-06 fired from 150 yards away, it would have:

1). Severed his spinal cord, killing him instantly.

2). Passed through his neck.

Note that the cervical vertebrae are supported by strong muscles and have high compressive strength, but are far too delicate to stop a .30-06 bullet traveling at 2,500 feet per second.

If ALL of the kinetic energy of the bullet was absorbed by Charlie’s neck, it would have done spectacular trauma to his neck, as distinct from producing the clean bullet hole visible in the video footage that ruptured his Carotid artery.

Though I appreciate that some may find a supernatural explanation to be consoling, it seems to me that the investigation should not rest on the this explanation.

As I wrote a few weeks ago: If I were investigating the murder, I would consider the hypothesis that Charlie was shot with a weapon equipped with a suppressor and loaded with a subsonic cartridge to further reduce the sound. I have have fired a .308 caliber rifle with this setup, and the shot was amazingly quiet. The effective range of such a weapon is about 100 yards or less, and the shooter must be very skilled.

However, such a setup could fire a subsonic projectile that would penetrate a human neck without passing through it. In this scenario, the actual assassin (firing the suppressed rifle) hypothetically coordinated the timing of his shot with someone else firing a normal (supersonic and loud) rifle cartridge into the air at the same time to create a distraction or red herring.

In a functioning society in which the people trust their authorities—including their medical examiners—it would be easy to discover what happened and to disclose at least a preliminary report that would satisfy most reasonable people. The trouble our Republic is facing now is that so many of us no longer trust our federal and state authorities to tell us the truth.

For example, we have strong grounds for suspecting that medical examiners are not diligently investigating (with the proper analytic methods) unexpected, fatal cardiac arrests in young people to determine if they were caused by vaccine-induced myocarditis."

This article was originally published on Courageous Discourse.

Copyright © Courageous Discourse

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Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

‘The Church Is Not An NGO’: Cardinal Müller Says Bishops, Pope Must Conform To Christ!!

 The true church, that is, but that's not what the world sees as the "true church"...

Remember, the "synodal" hierarchy have said that they will create a "new synodal church," those are the words they have and continue to use.

It is not the Church founded by Our Blessed Lord, but a sad imitation being created by men and devoid of the Holy Ghost and sanctifying grace!

This false church cannot save -- except, in their twisted minds, to further the "climate change" hoax and the push for illegal aliens invading sovereign countries!

Forget about the salvation of souls!

Honestly, when was the last time you ever heard Bergoglio or Prevost mention the reason for the Church in the first place -- the salvation of souls?

And now, Cardinal Muller is beginning to speak up!

The true Church is not an NGO!

Read this article from lifesitenews.com and written by Antonino Cambria 9

Mon Nov 3, 2025 - 7:20 pm EST: ‘The Church is not an NGO’: Cardinal Müller says bishops, pope must conform to Christ - LifeSite

Here are some key excerpts...

"PHILADELPHIA (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, in a homily at a packed Solemn Pontifical High Mass on Sunday, slammed the Church hierarchy for conforming to the world instead of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

In his November 2 homily, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) denounced the bishops’ recent push for synodality and their tendency to submit to the world. Müller reminded the faithful that the Church is not a secular NGO meant to create an earthly paradise but is the one Church established by Christ for our eternal salvation; therefore, the bishops, including the Sovereign Pontiff, must conform to the Church’s teachings.

Müller gave his sermon during a Pontifical High Mass, organized by the International Institute for Culture (IIC), which drew hundreds of faithful from across the Keystone state and beyond, including many young Catholics, a few of whom emphasized the beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) to LifeSiteNews and expressed their desire to see the restrictions on its celebration lifted.

The Church is not an NGO

“The Catholic Church neither is nor may become an NGO, a religious social organization directed to the earthly paradise, which would necessarily fail,” the German cardinal said. “The Church is not there (to make this world better), but for (making us better) for coming to communion with God.”

“The Church is a living organism, not an organization made by man,” he added. “The body of Christ lies near Heaven and is the universal savior of mankind. Man cannot reform the Church or create a new Church, following (his) own desires and ideals.”

READ: Cardinal Müller says ‘progressivism,’ not tradition is splitting the Catholic Church

Müller then underscored that rather than reform or create a new church, it is God’s will that the faithful reform their lives to conform with the teachings of His Church.

“It is a dream of God to reform and renew us, so that we may become Christians, members of the living body, that is to say, the ecclesial body, through the sacraments, especially the sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ,” His Eminence said. “It is not our duty to reform God’s Church, but rather to reform our lives. As St. Paul writes to the Romans, ‘Do not conform yourself to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and easy and perfect.'”

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“Christ is the head, and we, the bishops, priests, deacons, including the Bishop of Rome and Successor of St. Peter, are only His servants, for no one can lay the foundation other than the one that is there, namely Jesus Christ,” he said. “And these divine words should be the maxim, the rule.”

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The standing-room-only Pontifical High Mass was attended by numerous young adults, who shared with LifeSite several aspects of the Tridentine Mass they appreciate, and each wants to see Pope Leo lift the restrictions on its celebration.

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“I absolutely love the traditional Latin Mass, and it’s quite an honor to have a cardinal, especially Cardinal Müller here,” Marc, who traveled from Thomas Aquinas College in Northfield, Massachusetts, told LifeSiteNews. “I loved his homily; it was absolutely beautiful, the choir was beautiful. Everything was awesome about (the Mass).”

Trisha of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, highlighted some of the beautiful and unique aspects of the Pontifical High Mass that she appreciates much more after having attended several previously, such as the bishop’s use of the pontifical throne. This special seat can only be used by a bishop within his own jurisdiction, and Cardinal Müller, as a cardinal, has jurisdiction over the universal Church.

“Knowing all these (facts) impresses upon you the understanding that every Mass is full of the graces of the holy sacrifice, which is our Lord truly present among the Apostles. But what makes the Pontifical Masses different is their connection with the bishops, their connection with the apostles, and ultimately their connection with the pope and St. Peter.”'

End of the article, but not the end of the story!

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

Anti-Christ Heretic, Make-Believe "Cardinal" Cupich Calls The Latin Mass A ‘Spectacle’!

 Sure, in his twisted, anti-Catholic mind he calls the TLM a "spectacle"...

I guess the Saints and Martyrs died in vain not seeing the "reforms" of Vat. II and the new "mass".

If only they knew how awesome the new "mass" was going to be, they would have prayed to see and experience it before they shed their blood, but alas, all those they converted by exposing them to the TLM was just a stupid mistake -- just a spectacle!

Why is Cupich still the failed head of the archdiocese of Chicago?

He hit the mandatory retirement age about two years ago!

Of course, I know the answer to my question: Bergoglio and now Prevost, are using him as a continuing battering-ram to deprive faithful Catholics of the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven -- the TLM, and of course, as a counter to President Trump, as that other heretic, "cardinal" McElroy of D.C. being used for the same purpose.

Political animals all, not the guardians of the flock of Christ!

It is painfully obvious that these "hierarchs" are not Catholic in any sense of the word and are part of the APE of the true Church as Archbishop Sheen quipped many years ago.  

From lifesitenews.com and written by Ray Hilbrich Fri Oct 31, 2025 - 11:42 am EDT: Cardinal Cupich calls the Latin Mass a 'spectacle' - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — In a commentary on Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te, Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich described the Traditional Latin Mass as a “spectacle” and said that the post-Vatican II reforms to the liturgy had a “purifying” effect.

Writing in Vatican News on October 21, Cardinal Cupich reflected on how the exhortation urges the Church to recognize the poor in the same way, he believes, that the Second Vatican Council approached the reform of the liturgy.

“The renewal of our worship was pursued in keeping with the Council Fathers’ desire to present to the world a church defined not by the trappings of world power but marked by sobriety and simplicity … allowing it to take up in a fresh way the mission of proclaiming good news to the poor,” said Cupich.

Cupich later stated that the pre-Vatican II liturgy’s adaptations over time had “transformed the liturgy’s aesthetics and meaning, making the liturgy more of a spectacle rather than the active participation of all the baptized for them to be formed to join in the saving action of Christ crucified.”

“By purifying the liturgy of these adaptations, the aim was to enable the liturgy to sustain the Church’s renewed sense of herself…”

Cupich’s latest remarks on the Traditional Latin Mass come as little surprise to many observers, as he has been a consistent critic of the rite and has imposed significant restrictions on its celebration in the Archdiocese of Chicago while at the same time allowing heterodox parishes to celebrate pro-LGBT Masses.

Just last month, Cardinal Cupich made similar comments on the traditional form of the liturgy when he remarked that, “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.”

“These reforms were a direct response to the centuries of development that erroneously had transformed the Mass from a communal event into a more clerical, complex and dramatic spectacle.”

Cupich’s latest comments came during the same week as Cardinal Burke celebrated a Pontifical Latin Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica for the 14th annual Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage, which hosted a record turnout.

Cupich concluded his article by claiming that the new “sobriety” of the liturgy has renewed the centrality of the Eucharist. However, surveys show that only about 33 percent of U.S. Catholics believe in the Church’s teaching on the Real Presence in the Eucharist."

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Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith!

Pray too for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

 

BREAKING: Pagan Rituals At Vatican? Nostra Aetate’s 60th Sparks OUTRAGE!!

 Dear Catholic faithful, I urge you to listen and watch this short video regarding Nostra Aetate's 60-year-old document from Vat. II -- and its "celebration"...

From lifesitenews.com and presented by John-Henry Westen: BREAKING: Pagan rituals at Vatican? Nostra Aetate’s 60th sparks OUTRAGE

Then decide for yourselves if this has anything to do with the Catholic Faith, or???

Pray for strength and honor -- and for the conversion of the novus ordo, synodal hierarchy back to the Faith of Our Fathers!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

 From a 97-year-old Cardinal: 

Cardinal jailed by communists recites exorcism during Latin Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica

From lifesitenews.com and written by Antonino Cambria Mon Oct 27, 2025 - 6:23 pm EDT: Cardinal jailed by communists recites exorcism during Latin Mass at St. Peter's Basilica - LifeSite

"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Albanian Cardinal Ernest Simoni Troshani, an exorcist who was imprisoned for his Catholic faith under his country’s communist regime, recited an exorcism during a Pontifical High Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica this weekend, where an “LGBT pilgrimage” took place last month and where, just a few years ago, the Pachamama idol was placed on the altar.

The 97-year-old Cardinal Simoni, who courageously endured being jailed for 18 years by the Albanian communist government for his public profession of the faith and forced to work in brutal conditions, offered the “Exorcism against Satan and the apostate angels” prayer to St. Michael composed by Pope Leo XIII during the October 25 Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) celebrated by Cardinal Raymond Burke as part of the 14th annual Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage.

As previously reported by LifeSiteNews, St. Peter’s Basilica has faced multiple desecrations in recent years, such as a bowl of plants “offered” to the pagan Pachamama “goddess” being placed on the basilica’s papal altar and received by Pope Francis during the closing Mass of the 2019 Amazon Synod. More recently, in early September, a Vatican-approved “LGBT pilgrimage” saw more than 1,000 “LGBT pilgrims” process through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s.

Part of the exorcism prayer that Cardinal Simoni recited is as follows:

Beseech the God of Peace to crush Satan under our feet, that he may no more be able to hold men captive and to harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High, so that the mercies of the Lord may quickly come to our aid, that thou mayest seize the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan. We cast you out, every unclean spirit, every satanic power, every onslaught of the infernal adversary, every legion, every diabolical group and sect, in the name and by the power of our Lord Jesus + Christ!

LifeSite editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen noted how heroic it was for the Albanian cardinal to recite an exorcism, given the recent abominations that have been allowed to take place in the ancient basilica.

“So you’re telling me that in Saint Peter’s Basilica, which was profaned by the Pachamama Idol and the LGBT abomination, a heroic cardinal just recited an exorcism?!” he wrote.

In 2019, several Catholic prelates and scholars, such as Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, quickly denounced the idolatrous Pachamama act and called on the faithful to make reparation.

“It is urgent that we rediscover the meaning of prayer, reparation and penance, of fasting, of ‘little sacrifices, of the little flowers, and above all of silent and prolonged adoration before the Blessed Sacrament,” Viganò told LifeSite.

September’s sacrilegious LGBT procession into St. Peter’s was part of the Vatican’s official pilgrimage, organized by “La Tenda di Gionata” (“The Tent of Jonathan”), a pro-LGBT group that has falsely claimed that Scripture does not condemn homosexual relationships, and joined by Father James Martin’s heterodox Outreach group. During the pilgrimage, the group, led by a rainbow cross, many with their homosexual “partners,” dressed in rainbow colors with some waving “LGBT pride” flags, processed through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica. One photo showed an unidentified man wearing a backpack that said “F*** the rules.”

WATCH: Thousands of ‘LGBT Catholics’ process into St. Peter’s Basilica for Jubilee Year pilgrimage

Again, numerous prelates denounced the event and called for reparation to be made by clergy and laity alike.

“(The pilgrimage was) not only tragic, it was a blasphemous event in one of the most holy places of Christianity, which is the Basilica of St. Peter, the tomb of the Apostle St. Peter, and used as a promotion for legitimizing sodomy and other connotations with the tacit consent of the Holy See,” Bishop Athanasius Schneider told LifeSite after leading an act of reparation for the “LGBT pilgrimage” during the 2025 Catholic Identity Conference (CIC) in Pittsburgh.

READ: Bishop Schneider says Catholic must worship Christ, not LGBT ideology or climate agenda

“This is so grievous that it cannot be left without asking God for forgiveness and reparation and expiation,” the bishop added.

The Solemn TLM celebrated by Cardinal Burke from the altar of the chair of St. Peter, with the permission of Pope Leo XIV, drew thousands of pilgrims from across the globe, who filled the basilica.

The record-setting crowd at the first TLM to be held inside St. Peter’s in three years comes as speculation continues to mount over whether Pope Leo will reverse Pope Francis’ 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which reversed the universal permissions for the celebration of the Tridentine Mass granted in Summorum Pontificum."

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Pray for strength and honor...

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla