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    The unity which had held the Catholic Church for over 600 years is in a nightmare in terms of unity, the prime of health has been breached, while the passage of time is erasing memories that were known throughout the Catholic Church. Much of what had existed a mere 50-60 years ago, is remote, unknown and passé to most of the young.   It is of great interest to sense an anarchism in that there has to be change before it reaches rock bottom or face something close to extinction. But, can there be changes, without recourse to force? or will society just bow down, pay lip service that we are in an indeterminate age of progress.  A historian deals in the past. However, as time flies by, it will become less known, as the souls who knew those years die out, as new generations sail a world where the meaning of Catholicism and her symbols, her rituals, her traditions, the meaning of saints and novenas, the power of both the most Holy Mother and Jesus Christ her Son, and many heartbeats of a once-vibrant Catholic Church continue concurrently to sink into the latitudes and longitudes of a downward course, down, down….until, when?  Well, for the moment we have something for the creative books Templar Knight chant from an inventive author who created a piece of Medieval war music that will someday border legendary imposing artwork, that evokes the spirit of courage and valor, simply astounding thanks to Knights and Castles.  (On the other hand, maybe it signals a future span of time where the forces of good triumphs over the forces of evil.) 

    The agony that all Catholic Churches face in the 2020s is that there is no reversal to the Catholic Church decline.  The book of life (with the exception of Africa) demonstrates empirical statistics that this has been so for several decades in a row—all manner of decline (despite some accomplishments)—from Sunday Mass attendance to knowledge of who is who among saints, and to those, sadly to report, who form the brackets of genZ who are least likely to know of Fatima.  

     In this author’s opinion, a balance and restoration, will hinge on a consecration of Russia. The timble promise of protection will be the moment when compliance will be done in a complete form as requested, and not a partial consecration. It has to be specific, and it also has to be individual.  When a baby or person is baptized, his or her name is identified individually, not the baby or person and his neighborhood. I see a crossing of time before it is to happen, assuredly as stars come out each night, or birds sing in Spring.  The journey may even involve another Antichrist, but not another antipope.  

     In the histories of Fatima and the Church, there was a Salesian named Fr Umberto Pasquale who asked Sister Lucia if she could clarify the whole Consecration issue, and it was a miracle she escaped the clutches of watchful eyes and hands and responded with a letter that Fr Pasquale received dated April 13, 1980.  From the fingertips of Sister Lucia, when she answered Rev. Pasquale in 1980 she spelled it out—to the consternation of those who may believe ever since the 1960s or 1970s, the Lucia of 1917 had died and what was seen is a double.   She wrote: Reverend Father Umberto, Responding to your question, I will clarify.  Our Lady of Fatima, in Her request, referred only to the Consecration of Russia.  In the letter which I wrote to the Holy Father Pius XII—through the direction of my confessor—I asked for the Consecration of the world with explicit mention of Russia.  Yours all devotedly and in Union of prayers….

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    Post-1965 reflects the aura of a religion that is struggling to survive, if you add up all the decades since.  

    Intermittently, there has occurred opposites to this shrinking zone, such as when Pope John Paul II made his visits to cities, and met gigantic crowds that seemed to go against the reflection of the shrinking montage.  If we browse at past pages of history, few saw him as a Saint who worked miracles, but perhaps all those meetings of the people, including the overcrowded Masses in the stadiums, the fury of the press and media marveling at the swell of the people coming to see this magical Pope—even in inclement weather, like what occurred in Shea Stadium, New York City in 1979 or Boston, Massachusetts also 1979—were like tiny miracles in a globe against a world that was propelled by the axiom, the Catholic Church is shrinking.  There exist those, who like atheists, love to say: that is the destiny of the future.  But, that is not the destiny of the future.  On September 10, 1987, as Pope John Paul II’s aircraft landed at Miami, Florida, the following excerpt from the book POPE JOHN PAUL II VISITS AMERICA, A CELEBRATION IN PICTURES, we read the following captured in words: As he landed, that first afternoon in Miami, one television commentator unexpectedly enthused: “I guess you might say he represents just the best in us all—our yearning for the goodness that is buried in us.”  And, shortly before he left the States, an AIDS victim, his last months graced by John Paul’s brief embrace, admitted that “he has changed my life.”

    “You young people,” he said in his homily at Central Park, Oct. 7, 1995, “will live most of your lives in the next millennium.  You must help the Holy Spirit to shape it’s social, moral and spiritual character….Do not be afraid.  The power of the Holy Spirit is with you.”

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    The Catholic Church and her Vatican is made up of a million details.

    There exists a document that speaks of a reversal, one so petulant that most people do not know of what is inside it.  And, never heard of what this reversal might entail.  It was written by one who you have heard of before, Nostradamus. The master document is found at the link in blue at the end of this paragraph.  The lengthy letter is written as an Epistle to King Henry II, with conflagrations and galleries of blood shedding, atrocities, both natural and man-made, the fall of empires, references to Satan, the rise of a dreaded Antichrist, seductions and tribulations and more; it is fair to say, it is not all in chronologic order.  Always on guard against the Inquisition—he did write to the King he could not fit many events into his epistle, but in order to comprehend certain horrible facts, a few were set forth by his pen.  Epistle to King Henry II.  This is the same king who Nostradamus gave a prophecy to Queen Catherine de Medici that her king will die a violent death in a gold helmet not even three years in the future.

    To keep it brief, he wrote this document when Europe was building some of the most beautiful gothic cathedrals you could ever dream up, covered in majestic art, sculptures, paintings, architectures. [See the accompanying photos—with the exception of the last 3 photos and the first, which is the Convent of the Discalced Carmelites, Salamanca—where St. Teresa of Avila is located—all are from the medieval cathedral of St. Mary of Burgos (Maria in Spanish) a UNESCO heritage site. 2nd to last is Batalha. Last is Lourdes.]  One of these wonders is the Sistine Chapel, which was shown on television to millions around the world during the recent conclave and on May 8, 2025, when a new Pope was elected.  That is where you saw a new Pope from the New World, within a beautiful Sistine Chapel that was built during the period of history known for master artists, like Michelangelo and Bernini, as well as many craftsman—and, also during the time when the Cathedral of Burgos, Spain was built, which rivaled the Sistine, to this day is proclaimed one of the most beautiful churches in the world, if not the most beautiful.  No one dreamed of the dictum in the late 15th Century that the Catholic Church, in a period where one found the glory of the Catholic Church—would be destined to face a hideous decline.  A powerful Novena to St. Therese of the Child Jesus, aka St. Therese of Lisieux (The Little Flower 1873-1897) is near the bottom. Not to be confused with St. Teresa of Avila, the first woman Doctor of the Church, reformer, Carmelite nun (1515-1582.) ​

         Every photograph on this page were taken by the author.