As more and more "Catholic" bishops reveal themselves to be friendly or, actually members, of the demonic Freemasons, and have "outed" themselves by their words and actions, it is clear to me that this is another sign that the end times may, in fact, be approaching.
Sure, I know that many practicing Catholics, lay and religious, say that those times are far into the future, but are they correct, and is it far into the future, or just around the corner, so to speak?
Remember, Our Lord has told us that the end can come as a thief in the night, unexpectedly and quickly, without notice, and that's when our world will end, but how about the world itself?
With wars and rumors of wars, with Christians being slaughtered on the African continent, with the pre-born also being slaughtered, and rampant homosexuality, etc., and now with communists and body mutilators being "elected" in the recent mid-terms, how far down the abyss will the U.S. of A. sink?
Our Lord also tells us that only the Father knows the end times of the world! In the meantime, we practicing Catholics have to be on guard and fight the good fight as St. Paul teaches; to finish the race and win that eternal crown that does not fade or corrupt, but is with us for all eternity with Christ, Our Lord, His most Blessed Mother and the great St. Joseph!
And now the article from lifesitenews.com and written by Gaetano
"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV elevated a Spanish prelate to the major Archdiocese of Barcelona despite his previously accommodating attitude toward Freemasonry and his public claims that female ordination “could happen.”
On November 11, Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Octavi Vilà Mayo as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Barcelona, accepting the resignation of 80-year-old Cardinal Juan José Omella. Vilà, who previously served as abbot of the Cistercian Monastery of Poblet before being named bishop of Girona in 2024, was promoted to one of Spain’s most prominent archdioceses despite a documented record involving Freemasonry, proposals of liturgical novelties, and the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass.
In an April 2024 interview with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, when explicitly asked whether women could eventually be ordained as Catholic priests, Vilà replied: “It could happen.”
In the same interview, Vilà asserted that the abolition of mandatory priestly celibacy remained a possibility “on the table” under Pope Francis’s Synod on Synodality.
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As bishop of Girona, he actively expanded liturgical roles for laypersons, including “women who will lead the Liturgy of the Word and who will officiate at funeral services,” while stating in an April 2024 Cadena SER interview that the Church was struggling to assimilate modern cultural changes regarding abortion, homosexuality, and female roles.
Beyond his heterodox theological positions, concerns have been raised regarding events that took place during his tenure as abbot of Poblet. According to Spanish language outlet InfoVaticana, from June 9 to 11, 2017, the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Poblet hosted a three-day national gathering organized by the Supreme Council of the 33rd and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for Spain.
The event, titled the “Meeting and Convent of Philosophical Catalan Freemasonry,” brought together high-ranking Masonic leaders, including Óscar de Alfonso Ortega, the grand master of the Grand Lodge of Spain, within the monastic complex for lectures, social debates, and dinners.
While official Masonic and civic records do not specify whether Vilà or the monks attended the sessions, the conference was held inside the monastery grounds managed by the Fundació Populus Alba, a private foundation presided over at the time by Vilà.
Following the Masonic gathering and his controversial public alignment with Catalan political figures during the 2017 independence crisis, Pope Francis appointed Vilà as bishop of Girona on February 29, 2024. According to another report by InfoVaticana, during his two-year tenure in Girona, Vilà drew widespread protest from traditionalist Catholics after his chancery refused to assign a church building to a growing Traditional Latin Mass community, leaving the faithful without a place for sacred worship according to the usus antiquior.
The Catholic Church condemns Freemasonry because it judges its philosophical, gnostic principles to be fundamentally incompatible with the Christian faith. Since the 18th century, the Magisterium of the Church has consistently condemned Masonic naturalism, religious indifferentism, and the idea that divine truth can be reduced to a common denominator shared by all religions.
This judgment was authoritatively reaffirmed in the 1983 “Declaration on Masonic Associations,” signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and approved by Pope John Paul II, which stated that “the Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic associations remains unchanged,” since their principles are “irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church,” and that Catholics who enroll in them “are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.”
More recently, in 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the approval of Pope Francis, expressly reaffirmed the same teaching, declaring once again that active membership in Freemasonry is forbidden because of the “irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry” and calling for renewed catechesis on the reasons for this incompatibility."
End of very disturbing article...
Pray for strength and honor -- and for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith!
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!!
Our Lady Help of Christians, pray for us!!
Gene DeLalla
The Gateway Pundit
