In 1955, there were 46,970 priests in the USA. In 1960 and 1975, there were 53,796 and 58,909 priests, respectively.  In 2000, it dropped to 45,713 even though the population has skyrocketed.  As of 2021, there were 34,923 priests.  In 1965, there were 994 priestly ordinations, 12,271 religious brothers and 58,632 priests. Priestly ordinations fell to 442 in 2000; religious brothers and priests were respectively 5,662 and 45,699 (some say 45,713) in 2000.   The number of priests actively teaching in parochial schools in 1966 stood at 12,500, but in 2016 only 1,200 (an over 70% drop in about 3 generations.)  Since the decade of the sixties, the Roman Catholic Church has lost over 80,000 priests, yet the replacement factor is depressing.  You can not dictate a simple answer that the causes are a factor of modern society, because during the decade of the 1950s, society had no theological declines but an upswing.
    The number of sisters in parochial schools dropped to 75,000 in 2002 with an average age of 68.  In 2016 it fell to 4,000, and by 2018 it got worse: about 2400.  Once upon a time, in the early 1960s, 7000 young women joined an order yearly, but by 2020, about 200 a year join a religious order.  Less than 1% of nuns in America are under 40 while the average age of sisters is 80.  The total number of sisters and priests once was 54,018 and 38,964 in 2012 respectively.  Unless things change, according to the center for Applied Research in the Apostolate there will be fewer than 1,000 nuns left in the United States by 2042.  

    To cite one example of seminarians, the Franciscan Order had 2,251 seminarians in 1965, in 2000, only 60.  Since the sixties, seminaries have fallen to bad times.  Why not say since the nifty fifties?  Because in 1930, there were 16,300 seminaries, 17,000 in 1940, and it climbed to 25,622 in 1950.

    A few more clear examples are in order.  In 1965, there were 3,559 Jesuit seminarians; 2,251 Franciscan seminarians; 1,128 Redemptorist seminarians and 2,434 seminarians of the Christian Brothers.  By the start of a new millennium, the Jesuit, Franciscan, Redemptorist and Christian Brothers dropped to 389; 60; 24; and only 7.  There was a significant boom in almost everything last mid-century, but then ...drop, drop, drop. 

    Baptisms of infants in 1980 were 943,632.   In 2000: 996,199.  In 2010: 806,138.  In 2019: 582,331. In 2022: below 500,000. Catholics who attended Mass every week (survery-based estimate) in 1970, 54.9%; in 1980, 42.2%; in 1990, 32.5%; in 2000, 30.8%; in 2010, 24.2%; in 2015, 23.4%; in 2019, 21.1%.  Some say the national range is now around 17.3%, unverified.  There were 426,309 Catholic marriages in 1969, but in 2018, 137,885 despite the fact the number of Catholics in the United States has grown by 48.5 million to 73.2 million, from 1965 to 2021.  First Communions going back to 1989: 849,919. In 2018 it hit 600,816.
    The Catholic Times of London heralded on March 5, 2000, that the little seed which Pope John XXIII planted under the auspices of the Second Vatican Council has become a “tree which has spread its majestic and mighty branches over the vineyard of the Lord.”     Has the Catholic Church really become that majestic since 1965?  Since the mid 1960s, a few questions to ask, is it a march toward greater empathy about evil, a declining church, a rise in internet and other media disruption, a rise in pornography.  The fault of society covered in hedonism?  None of the above or coincidence?

    The above provides a partial view of the state of the Catholic Church which Alert: For The Times, Book of Secrets describes.  Our ebook provides a reader the opportunity for much more, such as the supernatural and sciences besides "things" religious; it is like wearing a pair of 3-d glasses.  Some items you may be acquainted, like the story of Fatima.  But, you know it through past glasses of former generations.  This ebook brings out the hidden dimensions, the fine detail missing in today's fast-pace world.

    Is Fatima anticipated?  What is the Ballamand Statement?  Do you know what Padre Pio back in the 1960s said about Garabandal?  What secrets and modern wisdom can be related on what Rev. Malachi Martin said to his friend Art Bell?

    As related in the book, Alert: For The Times, Book of Secrets, Rev. Stefano Gobbi had told Wingate in Mexico that he would be instrumental in the Marian Movement of all Roman and Orthodox bishops.   Wingate was ordainied in 1991.  Not to be confused with Reverend Canon Andrew Wingate, former Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, circa 2007.  He is leader of the Marian Movement of Bishops and Oblates of St. Therese of the Holy Child Jesus, which he formed.   Wingate’s first guest appearance on Coast To Coast AM was on January 3, 2003—about twenty years ago.
     He stormed to the front when he made two predictions before March 2004-—one did not involve the Church, but was about a tornado that would appear where it ought not to be.   That tornado spun its ugly winds below the equator.   No tornado had ever dared venture below the equator, at least not in living memory, which hit at Brazil.   But, he had warned people that it was coming, and it was documented on the program Coast To Coast, with George Noory.

     Speaking about tornadoes, now is a ripe time to describe a story that relates to a Minnesota tornado of 1998.  The following and how it related to Reverend Wingate has never been described on any website before. 

 

     First photo is of Comfrey, MN.

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The Story of a monster Tornado vs. Wingate of 26 years ago

      The skies of March had been generally rainy.  The winter had been very warm–the counterplot of an El Niño year–with the month of February bringing temperatures 15 ̊ warmer to southern Minnesota. A sequence of tornado warnings was issued March 27-29, 1998–a bit early for these parts.  However, March 29 would be a day the inhabitants of St. Peter and Comfrey would not forget.

       You can look it up on the internet and read all about it, but here is a tornado story, a story obscure beyond belief that may challenge what you believe in.

       Many times twisters come in the dead of night, but, not today.

       The timing and strength of the situation was unprecedented for the region, yet when it all ended, Metro Skywarn named it the top severe weather event in Minnesota history during the 1990s.  From the Twin Cities to La Crosse, Wisconsin, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, meteorologists had been calling for moderate risk of severe weather for a day or two, as in the mix was a picture of strong bands of warm and cold fronts merging.

       Just after noontime, thunderstorms and hail crossed the state line between South Dakota and Minnesota, outside Brandon. The first twister of the day hit around 3:23 p.m. about two miles north of Lismore, bringing minor damage.  As five other small twisters touched down within the hour, one big one formed 7 miles east of Avoca, Minnesota, and tore through Murray and Cottonwood counties. The storm destroyed a church in Jeffers, damaged or destroyed 150 farmsteads and killed 500 dairy cattle.

       A supercell over 150 miles long then emerged bringing more dark skies.

       At least 14 tornadoes spawned from the supercell. The most vicious was the F4 that remained on the ground, darting and weaving for 67 miles, and headed straight for Comfrey, Minnesota, toward Rev. Wingate.  An F4 packs a wallop of 207-260 miles-an-hour wind.  Witnesses described it as a “mass of blowing dust” and “rolling fog bank.”  It hit Comfrey around 4:30 p.m., swept the center of town and destroyed the town hall, most of the main street business center, the town firehouse and over 50 homes. A school was heavily damaged, but luckily an alert fire chief sounded the sirens before it hit, and no one was killed.  Some 100 people were left homeless.  It is believed the storm hovered between F3 and F4 as it ransacked Comfrey.

      The mighty tempest swept through Brown, Blue Earth and Watonwan counties; at one point it reached about a quarter mile in width.  For Father Wingate, the day had dawned pleasant and sunny, but in the afternoon Wingate and his community did not know that they were in the path of a monster.

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      The destructive power was not allowed to strike Wingate and his community.

      The dimension was nightmarish and wicked enough to ravage all in its path, and crush Wingate into a shadow of the past. Historians will mark certain periods of time in the annals of time as special.  This may represent one of those times.  Allow me to tell the strangest part of the story that is rather obscure.

       The unfolding tempest, such as was never seen in Minnesota history, and which was either an F3 or F4, ravaged the land with great tornado winds and then miraculously changed its path. The account:

As it was approaching Courtland, Minnesota, Wingate was forewarned in a vision that the vicious tornado was coming, not just toward his community–which is called the Community of St. Peter–but, was coming straight for him. In the vision, Father Cermeño appeared to him.  Cermeño was a very holy man, highly revered in Mexico.  Wingate was bluntly told to beware of the storm and that it was coming for him.  He was advised to stand up to it and fight it.  Wingate asked Cermeño if there was time to say a Mass. He was adamantly told, “No.”   It was approaching too fast and there was no time.   Wingate called out to everybody and to start heading inside their earth home for some protection. [The apparition of Cermeño was veiled in sight and sound from everyone except Wingate.  Moreover, Cermeño had passed away months before.  The appearance of the vision of Cermeño was a communication from Heaven, Wingate related to me.]

      What next transpired was no falsehood, not a vision or something out of a Hollywood movie, a gigantic funnel wrecking havoc wih the land was churning and twisting and heading straight in the direction of Wingate’s domicile.  In full view of the swirling wind that rose from the funnel of doom, Rev. Wingate, standing outside with the dark force coming closer and closer, every moment scarier and scarier, said the following prayer:  Prayer Against Storms.

       The text is found on my website, scroll down on this page: https://www.castlesof-themind.com/futurists.

       When he said the prayer, the storm stopped in its own path, and, contrary to the laws of nature, made a surprising 90 ̊ turn. You could hear the howling winds as it turned strong as ever, but miraculously it began to navigate in a different direction.  The force of destruction had changed direction.  However, it did not disappear.  The terrifying tornado churned up the countryside, chewing up trees and more cows.  Was the storm a manifestation of the devil?   Was it the power of God that prevented it from destroying the community of St. Peter?   How strange it is to know that while it missed one St. Peter, another St. Peter did not escape.  At 5:30 p.m. the town of St. Peter was hit–about 20 miles away from where Father Wingate stood.  The town suffered severe damage. Some 500 homes were shattered or destroyed.  St. Peter’s Catholic Church met with destruction.  Gustavus Adolphus College sustained a direct blow; 70% of the windows on the campus were shattered.  A hospital received severe damage.  Broken bricks littered the downtown.  The library lost 25% of its books.  Over 1000 trees were uprooted, and debris from St. Peter was found as far away as Rice Lake, Wisconsin, 136 miles away.

       An additional sixty rural homes and farms outside St. Peter were damaged or destroyed by the St. Peter Twister–estimated by some weather experts as a minimum F3, which means winds between 158-206 miles-per-hour, and it caused $120 million in damage.  Over the next hour, danger continued as the so-called tornadic supercell smashed the rest of southern Minnesota.

Path of the terror.