Spring in Buenos Aires is a season of surprises. One has to leave home dressed for the four seasons, equipped for a sudden rainstorm and such. Paraphrasing Mark Twain: “if you don’t like the weather here, just wait fifteen minutes.” Surprisingly enough, the fourth Saturday of November 2018 turned out to be a lovely day all day long. The two most popular soccer teams in the country were getting ready to play the final game for the Libertadores Cup, soccer’s highest trophy in the Americas. It was … [Read more...]
Apostolic Exhortation or Aggravation?
By David MartinIn an apparent move to rebut conservative allegations that the pope has been denying tenets of the Faith—a crisis that culminated during Holy Week with the pope’s alleged denial of hell and the immortality of the soul—Pope Francis on April 8 issued his newest Apostolic Exhortation "Gaudete et Exsultate" (Rejoice and Be Glad), in which he bewails the "defamation and slander" being spread online by traditional Roman Catholic journalists and bloggers.In this newest document, … [Read more...]
Pope Francis Awards Architect of Safe-Abortion Fund with Pontifical Honor
On January 12, reports began surfacing on Twitter that Lilianne Ploumen, former Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Netherlands, was honored by Pope Francis with the title of Commander in the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great. The Lepanto Institute was able to confirm from a December 22, 2017 Dutch radio broadcast that Ploumen indeed received the honor. In a brief video clip promoting the broadcast, Ploumen displays the medal while saying that she … [Read more...]
“Satan Must Reign in the Vatican. The Pope Will Be His Slave.”
The bold proclamation in the headline of this article was personally witnessed by St. Maximilian Kolbe, who watched Freemasons celebrate their bicentennial in St. Peter’s Square in 1917. St. Maximilian Kolbe saw banners bearing these words amidst the revelry. It’s a jarring and shocking statement, but it is totally in keeping with the aims of Freemasonry and it bears a great deal of significance for us today.Before we go any further, it must be made perfectly clear that the Lepanto Institute … [Read more...]
The Hijacking of Pope Francis’s Visit to America
For anyone paying attention to the Pope's first ever visit to the United States, it's painfully obvious that a concerted effort was in play to hijack the entire thing in order to push a homosexual, anti-Catholic agenda. While Pope Francis or the Vatican likely had very little, if anything, to do with the orchestrated attempts to inject sinister ideologies into the Pope's visit, there can be no doubt that in each case we're about to illustrate, someone knew exactly what they were … [Read more...]
