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Prophecy Hurtling Toward Fulfillment: The Synod, The Warning, and an Important Note on Garabandal Regarding Today’s News

Everywhere we look, the signs of the imminence of the Great Events are multiplying.

[Announcements at bottom of post]

Many will today be hearing news of the Bishop of Santander (the diocese of the Garabandal Apparitions), Manuel Sánchez Monge, stating—regarding the apparitions— “my position, like that of my predecessors, is that Rome’s assessment remains valid: ‘There are no signs of supernaturality.’”

This is not a condemnation of Garabandal.

The Church has three basic responses to alleged apparitions:

1) Constat de supernaturalitate (It is supernatural)

2) Constat de non supernaturalitate (It is not supernatural)

3) Non constat de supernaturalitate (It is not determined to be supernatural)

The single biggest misunderstanding among Catholics regarding the Church’s rulings on apparitions is that many seem to think that a “non constat” (3) is a condemnation. But that notion is absolutely false. Only a “constat de non” (2) is a condemnation.

“Non Constats” merely indicate that the Bishop (and/or the commission report submitted to him), in his own undertaken discernment/investigative efforts (which are known to vary wildly in their diligence from one Bishop to the next), was not able to find find enough objective evidence to give him sufficient moral certitude for a public declaration that the phenomenon in question is indeed Heaven-sent. He, therefore, with a non-constat decree, indicates that he “cannot determine” that it is supernatural in origin. That is all.

In fact, I wager that a “non constat” decision—in some cases, at least—favors the likelihood of the authentically supernatural nature of the apparition in question. For what such a decision shows us is that the Church did indeed undertake an investigation, yet still found no grounds for condemning the apparition. This, despite the fact that we live amid an epidemic of rationalism, skepticism, and atheism (both in the world and in the Church), and many Churchmen wouldn’t know the supernatural if it smacked them in the face. Moreover, as each Bishop knows, apparitions occurring within his diocese would cause him many headaches, therefore there is a great temptation among the episcopacy to find any reason to condemn any alleged apparition. A “non constat” shows us that, despite strenuous attempts to seek out such an excuse, none could be found.

As noted by the prolific theologian Fr. Rene Laurentin—likely the 20th century’s greatest expert on Marian Apparitions, and named by Pope Benedict XVI as a “Prelate of His Holiness” in 2009:

“In today’s climate, not even the apparitions at Lourdes would be approved by the Church”

Therefore, while some will doubtless insist on pretending to be scandalized by my assertions here, I am in good company in this assessment of the present situation.

Do not misunderstand: we must indeed obey legitimate authority in the Church, even if and when this authority’s decrees are ill-advised. If Garabandal (or any other apparition I’ve promoted) were to be given a “constat de non” in a formal and public decree, then I would immediately cease promoting it. But that, of course, is not what we are dealing with here.

Recall that Bishops are extremely adept at making it abundantly clear—superabundantly clear, rather—when exactly it is that they are outright condemning an alleged apparition. See, for example, the decree on Bayside (Veronica Luken).

There is never any cause for a Catholic to play the “more obedient than thou” game here by pretending that condemnations of apparitions exist even when there is no clear “constat de non supernaturalitate” decree. (Hasn’t the current Pontificate taught us just how foolish that game is, anyway?)

Garabandal is far from alone in the array of apparitions which, though in my opinion are authentic, have received “non constats.” Most noteworthy, as this was also recent news, are the apparitions of Our Lady of America. I feel quite confident in asserting that these are indeed from Heaven, yet some Bishops in 2020 proclaimed that they could not be said to be supernatural. (Note: As often happens in these cases, certain media outlets falsely reported on this, claiming it was given a “constat de non” when in fact it was very clearly only a “non constat.”)

Some prophecies have even indicated that Garabandal’s messages would have to be essentially placed in the tomb before the fulfillment of the events foretold therein; which is why this announcement from the Bishop strikes me as yet another indication of the imminence of the events spoken of at Garabandal: above all, the Warning.

The Warning

To my new followers and all others new to this concept: The Warning, or the “Illumination of Conscience” is an imminent worldwide event, foretold by many prophecies, and of such a magnitude that nothing like it has ever been seen in history.

It will be a “mini Judgment Day,” wherein each soul on the planet will, at the same moment, be miraculously shown the state of his soul as it stands before God Himself. It is most likely what is referred to by the Sixth Seal of Revelation, in the Sixth Book of the Apocalypse — wherein we are told of what at first appears to be the End of the World (Judgment Day), with even the “stars in the sky falling to earth,” the sky “divided like a torn scroll” and all men on earth crying out for the very mountains to fall upon them to “hide them from the wrath of the Lamb.”

Yes, this appears to be Judgment Day itself. But it is not. Quite the opposite: it is only the first major event of the Apocalypse.

Most of the events of the Apocalypse (The Reign of the Antichrist, and most importantly the Reign of the Divine Will –– the Era of Peace before the End of Time) follow it. 

For most, The Warning will be the most painful event in their lives. The heinousness of their sins will become manifest. Some may even die of shock. The purpose of the event, however, is not to punish, much less kill, but rather to serve as the greatest act of Divine Mercy in history. It will be given to overwhelm everyone on earth with Divine Grace such that they are given an absolutely undeniable chance to choose the right side and save their souls before the Great Persecution of the Antichrist commences thereafter. 

There will be torrents of souls coming back to God’s Grace after this event–and we must help this by, right now, evangelizing as never before in history leading up to the Warning, and especially in the few weeks immediately after it– but, sadly, most will likely reject even that grace (just as they are already rejecting the many graces God is showering us with), and become even more evil. The line in the sand will have been drawn, and the sides will be chosen. 

There will be surprises. 

The Synod

We can conclude that this event is likely extremely imminent due to a number of signs. I discussed many of them earlier this year, as I speculated that it might be possible that The Warning could even transpire in 2022. While that is still possible, it is now seeming like it may be a bit longer until the Warning happens. As is often the case with prophecy, the gist of the outlined events does indeed transpire, but things sometimes take a bit longer to “brew” than it initially appeared they would need. (I hasten to add, however, that everything could change, quite literally, overnight–particularly if the first nuke flies, or the Pope suddenly goes to Moscow. We shouldn’t yet rule out the possibility of the Warning being this year.)

Along with the situation regarding Russia, World War III, and the use of Nuclear Weapons, the current “Synod on Synodality” is among the clearest signs of the imminence of the Warning. As I’ve posted before:

(The interview itself can be found here)

If there was ever an “important Synod”—”important” in a very bad way—that would be the present “Synod on Synodality.”

I have some lengthier thoughts on this matter, which I feel are important to share, and they are coming soon. I had written most of them months ago but wasn’t sure if I would publish them. Seeing what the Cardinals below have said, however, has convinced me to soon publish them.

For now, I simply want to relay what they — some of the greatest Shepherds in the Church — are warning, regarding what is happening in this Synod. Great detail isn’t needed here, as most of my readers will have likely already seen this, but the prefect emeritus for the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, just gave about the most doctrinally apocalyptic warning one could imagine about this Synod:

The Cardinal said that

“This has nothing to do with Jesus Christ, with the Triune God, and they think doctrine is only like a program of a political party who can change it according to their voters… if they will succeed… that will be the end of the Catholic Church.“

These are precisely the types of warnings that I and others have been giving for many years about the apocalyptic and long-prophesied Great Apostasy. We have been repeatedly mocked and denounced for doing so. Perhaps that mockery will decrease now that these same warnings are being boldly given by the single most qualified person the face of the planet.

Now, obviously, Muller knows the Catholic Church will not end—he knows this is contrary to Christ’s promise in the Gospel. His point is simply that the logical conclusion of the present Synod, as it is being undertaken, is the total destruction of the Faith.

Two facts, then, must be considered:

  1. Cardinal Muller is clearly correct. The Synod’s trajectory is the destruction of the Catholic Church. (And I will explain this more thoroughly in a future post)
  2. The Catholic Church will not be destroyed.

We are then left to ponder:

What will stop the madness?

There is no indication that anyone running the Synod will stop the madness. They are, on the contrary, unanimously cheering it on.

But no one else has the power to stop the madness.

Therefore, God will stop the madness. And I propose that He will do so through the Warning.

Pope Francis has just announced that the conclusion of the Synod has been delayed until 2024. This may have shifted the timetable for the Warning back a bit. We’ll see.

In other fronts as well, everything continues as the prophecies have indicated they would—even if the culmination of these processes is taking slightly longer than it would have initially seemed:

  • The Total Economic Collapse continues gaining momentum; most mainstream economists are admitting that severe recession is either at hand or about to begin. More honest economists are acknowledging that severe depression is at hand. Who could be surprised by this? We created trillions of dollars out of thin air—thus guaranteeing the destruction of the global reserve currency, the US Dollar—and now the feds are pretending they can sneak their way out of the logical result of that by continually raising interest rates. By printing trillions of dollars, they watered down the soup. Inflation results, once the watered-down soup has been consumed and people realize their hunger remains. Now, they are simply restricting access to new soup in hopes of fooling people into thinking that watered down soup is valuable. The analogy may be imperfect, but the result cannot be avoided: global economic collapse. This, too, is part of their plan for “The Great Rest.”
  • The warning signs of imminent global famine continue to surge.
  • International Relations (particularly regarding Russia/Ukraine) continue their steady march towards the increasing likelihood of World War III and/or Nuclear War breaking out. All of the most competent commentators on these matters are admitting that each day of this year has brought us closer to the “previously unthinkable” possibility of nuclear war.
  • The “Infrastructure of the Antichrist” is nearing completion, and there is every warning sign that the way for the Mark of the Beast is being prepared (most alarmingly now, through Central Bank Digital Currencies)
  • Society continues growing more insane by the day through “wokeness,” particularly the continuing domination of the “LGBT” agenda. It is not even possible to imagine a more complete rejection of the Divine and Natural Law than this movement entails, nor is it possible for Divine Justice to continue to allow this situation to persist once it reaches a (doubtless imminent) critical mass.
  • The Next Tyranny (post-Covid-tyranny, that is)—a global “zero carbon” initiative—is promising to completely destroy economic life and much of social life. Humanity is intrinsically tied to carbon emissions — that is how God set things up, we need them, and the notion that we need to be rid of them is nothing but a backdoor for Globalist Dictatorship.
  • The Prophetic Consensus continues warning of the extreme imminence of The Great Events.

It would, therefore, be very wise to:

Prepare To See Him.

Announcements:

All the Devil Wants is a Little Dialogue

To initiate the Fall, the Devil possessed an irrational serpent and used it to dialogue with humanity. Eve’s wrongheaded openness to conversation with that animal is the prototype for the Devil’s current plans to dialogue with all humanity through the modern world’s lies. These are lies which, in a modified relativistic nihilism similar to the serpent’s own, “Did God really say…?” (though bedecked in the scientific verbiage one expects for a news story 6,000 years later), seek to beguile the faithful into supposing they cannot really know various truths just because these truths aren’t explicitly stated dogmas. But acknowledging that certain sci-fi deceptions are either theologically, philosophically, or scientifically impossible is supremely important, so that when these impossible things seem to happen (and the time is soon coming when they will indeed seem to have), we will recognize that something demonic is afoot, and shut the door to dialogue, lest we suffer a fate similar to Eve’s.

I discussed this post with Fr. Dan Reehil on Radio Maria. Video here:

Well, dialogue is not all the Devil wants. Ultimately, he wants your soul damned to hell for all eternity. But for starters, he’s more than content with a little dialogue.

He knows from six thousand years of experience just how successful that approach is; hence, one of the most axiomatic and wise admonitions in spiritual combat is simple: “Never dialogue with the Devil.”

Indeed, The Fall never would have happened in the first place if only Eve refused to so much as dialogue with a speaking serpent.

Have you ever considered that we tend to overlook one of the most noteworthy and in-your-face facts about the Fall? Namely, that it was brought about by a human being talking with an animal.

Ponder how ridiculous it was for Eve to speak to a serpent. She knew full well that she and Adam alone were made in the Image of God – that she and he alone had reason, and that therefore she and he alone could engage in rational communication. Why, then, did she converse with an animal? Adam never did that. Eve should have known—and, doubtless, did know—that something was deeply wrong when an irrational creature started talking.* And she never should have spoken a word to it. She should have immediately left its presence; and if she said anything at all, it should have been just, “Begone Satan!”

Perhaps few will glean this clear lesson from Genesis simply because Christians have long been lied to by modernist “scholars” who insist that the first several Chapters of the Bible’s first book are mere myths. In fact, every page of the Bible—from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22—means what it says. The Serpent was not merely a symbol. It was, quite truly, a serpent—one possessed by the devil, but a serpent no less.

But the first sin; the very sin that caused Mankind’s Fall from Grace, is – in a symmetry which, though breathtaking, should not surprise us – the prototype for some types of sins that will precipitate the Apocalypse itself.

The devil is going to attempt dialogue with humanity as never before; not merely with one woman, but with billions of people across the planet. And if you do not have your feet placed firmly on the foundation of Faith and Reason, you will succumb to his tactics.

I know that some may wonder about my zeal for what might appear to be an eclectic batch of convictions. Not only the non-existence of aliens, but also, for example: the impossibility of time travel [Point XI], the impossibility of technology directly accessing the human mind itself, the impossibility of sentient “AI” [Point XVI], the impossibility of animal-personhood [Point XXII], the impossibility of multiple universes/ ”dimensions”/ creations/ incarnations [Point XIII]

(Henceforth, I will collectively refer to these items I encourage rejecting the possibility of as “Aliens Etc.”)

What do all of these apparently disparate exhortations have in common?

This, I wager: the likelihood that the devil (perhaps operating through the Antichrist) will soon use each item above as a means to dialogue directly with the world, as never before in history.

Aliens Etc. are fictions–fantasies that never have existed and never will exist. But modern man, now several generations deep into the Dictatorship of Relativism, bored by the promises of Christ, tired by the “shackles” of reason, and only capable of being roused by sci-fi delusions, has only grown so insane that, for the first time in history, almost everyone is now open to at least one of these fictions.

That means I’m facing an uphill battle with my argument here!

So, let’s consider a matter uncontroversial among the devout: the evil nature of “Ouija Boards.” Indeed, no one should ever engage in that occult practice of playing Ouija, and most devout souls realize this. Many people have become to some degree demonically possessed due to their use of Ouija boards (or, similarly, Tarot Cards, Seances, Psychic Mediums, Fortune Tellers, and other new age/occult practices.).

But consider the justification one might try to give for using Ouija:

“I don’t know how or why it works. I’m just being humble and open. I put my hands on this piece of plastic, I ask the question I need answered, and it leads me to answers that I need on the board. Why be closed minded here? Why be so dogmatic in opposition to this? It’s not as if there’s any Encyclicals that specifically condemn Ouija!”

Yes, it is possible to be so open minded that one’s brains fall out. Replace “Ouija” with any of the other Aliens Etc. delusions in this article and you open yourself up to similar risks.

So if indeed it is nonsense to assert that a silly piece of cardboard and plastic can give you meaningful answers to questions, then why such zeal in opposing it?

Why not allow this practice to continue unopposed, under the “humble” openness to the “possibility” that cardboard does have some hitherto undiscovered scientific capacity of reason, counsel, wisdom, and understanding? Am I being arrogant by claiming we can be certain that cardboard and plastic lack this capacity?

The answer is clear: although it is nonsense, it is nevertheless a type of nonsense that gives the devil a means of directly communicating with you. By doing Ouija, one has chosen to not only wander outside of the realms of spiritual safety afforded by abiding in Faith and Reason, but further, has chosen to open up a potential channel of communication with demons.

Not good.

And this is the same type of nonsense that exists within belief in Aliens Etc.—each belief opens one up to the communications of demons.

My concerns are not theoretical. There is nothing strictly “academic” about the exhortations I present here.

Demonic oppression has already damaged the souls of many through each item above. For example, “Animal mediums” are becoming increasingly popular. People around the world are getting diabolical directives–orders straight from hell–when they visit these seemingly innocuous “mediums” in order to “learn what their cats are saying.”

But one who realizes that it is absolutely impossible for a cat to employ reason, and therefore impossible for it to have any rational guidance to give, would never be tempted to seek out an “animal medium.”

So-called “alien abductions” are also fairly common; those who relay such experiences sometimes share “insights” they learned from their time with the “aliens”; when, in fact, all they thereby do is give credence to the dictates of demons that they received during some diabolically orchestrated delusion.

My concern, therefore, is that what is already a means of demonic oppression in a relative few will, in the days ahead–once our overlords among the global elite issue a news release claiming that they have made contact with aliens, and soon thereafter proceed to share with us the teachings of these “aliens”–become a means of demonic oppression for the entire world.

They’ve been steadily working their way up to this for years now. It is beginning to reach a fever pitch, what with official US Congressional Hearings on “UFOs,” with even Congressmen using these hearings as an opportunity to subtly foment alien expectation. Over the coming times, the present subtlety will get less and less subtle (in accordance with the proverbial “boil the frog slowly” approach).

As The Hill reported today (August 22nd, 2022):

NASA is also preparing to go full-tilt UFO-centric; and I have no doubt they may be the ones to announce that “we’ve now made First Contact with Extraterrestrials.”

Imagine, if you will, a society wherein there is not merely the (who knows how many) thousands or millions suffering from some degree of Demonic possession/oppression/obsession – but billions.

This is precisely what is enabled when these means of Demonic communication become institutionalized; which is what will happen when (not, sadly, “if”) our elite tell us something along the lines of:

  • That they’ve finally made “contact with an extraterrestrial intelligent life form,” and then proceed to share these “communications” with us.
  • Or when they tell us they’ve “finally unlocked the key to the rational language of dolphins and bonobos and dogs,” and proceed to share these animals’ “great wisdom” with us.
  • Or when they’ve “finally made an AI Robot that is truly sentient, free, and intelligent,” and present its software to us to share its “wisdom for our existential crises.” 
  • Or when they’ve “finally mastered the mystery of time and can now communicate with men from the future” or even “beings from another dimension/string that just intersected with our own”

Each one of these lies (and there will be others like them) will provide the perfect cover for the Devil to directly instruct billions of people on earth in a way that, in all ages past, he could only succeed in with those who most foolishly strayed into his domain through explicitly engaging in the occult.

And what the devil could not achieve through the New Age movement, due to too many of the Faithful being willing to see the evil in it and therefore avoid it, he will accomplish through “Science.”

Pride comes before the Fall, and too many modern believers– terrified above all else of being seen as insufficiently in line with “The Science”™– will at all costs avoid opposing what “The Scientists” say. If “The Scientists” say that there’s aliens, or sentient AI, or inter-temporal communication/travel, or another universe/dimension/reality, or some new technology that can directly access the mind itself, then too many will gobble these claims up readily. (And we’ll have plenty of bureaucrats in the Vatican’s various dicasteries instructing us to do just that.)

To all those Catholic journalists, authors, clergymen, scholars, and apologists out there now promoting belief in Aliens Etc., I admonish: you have no idea what you are getting into. You are playing with hellfire, and you are going to lead many souls to the source of that fire. Come to your senses, before it is too late.****

Of all the issues noted here, however, I focus most on Mankind’s uniqueness in the cosmos—i.e., the nonexistence of aliens/extraterrestrial incarnate intelligent life—because I think that, of all the deceptions I’ve listed in this post, the “alien” one is the most likely to be used most heavily by the Antichrist, the most potentially catastrophic, the most in line with expectations generated in the minds of the masses by decades of Sci-Fi movies, and the most heavily prepared for with a steadily increasing drumbeat of news stories to prime the people.

Moreover, I have long suspected that belief in aliens may be a “gateway drug” of sorts; one that compels its user to steadily succumb to graver and graver errors. Recently, my suspicions were confirmed, as I will explain below.

From being “agnostic” on the question of aliens (as most seem to be), it is easy to become open to aliens. From “openness” to aliens, it is easy to—particularly with increasing media hype about “UFOs”—next become excited about their “possibility” (particularly for those whose youth was saturated in Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel movies, etc.)****. From excitement about them it is easy to become a believer in aliens.

And once one becomes a “true believer” in aliens, the floodgates have opened.

Suddenly everything in the Faith—all those realities which deserve our most wholehearted, overwhelming, and exclusive fundamental-life-devotion—become just “one of many” superlatively, existentially demanding matters.

The alien-believer begins to wonder (at least interiorly, even if he is still – rightly – too ashamed to voice these questions in his Catholic podcast or website or whatever else):

  • “What might these aliens know about God? Maybe there are far more than three persons in the God! Maybe God is thousands of persons! I can’t wait to learn about the 4th Person of the “Quadrinity”, much less the 4,000th!”
  • “What might God’s incarnation look like in other planets, or galaxies, or other dimensions? Perhaps Jesus Christ is just the most minor of God’s many incarnations!”
  • “What if I get all sorts of other chances at life in other parallel realities in other dimensions with all sorts of different fundamental laws, different Divine Revelations, etc.!?”
  • “What if this universe is just one iteration of a whole series of universes? How minor that would make our salvation history!”
  • “Imagine; entire planets full of unfallen rational beings! Perhaps the Virgin Mary isn’t unique after all—imagine trillions of other Immaculate Conceptions! Even if she is the “Queen of the Universe” (though that’s not one of the Marian Dogmas, so maybe she isn’t!), what if there are all sorts of other Universes with even greater Queens than she?!”
  • “Sure, Jesus is the ‘only’ begotten Son of God. But ‘only’, by definition, restricts merely what is referred to in THIS universe. What about all the OTHER dimensions out there?! What about THEIR Divine Incarnations, Revelations, etc.?!”

These types of wild imaginings go on, and on, and on.

Suddenly, the entire Christian Faith – “things into which angels longed to look” (1 Peter 1:12), things which “prophets and kings longed to see but did not see” (Luke 10:24)—starts feeling, to these alien believers, like a boring day job he must deal with so that he can get to his weekend, where the “really interesting and fun things happen.”

God’s Creation, Christ’s Incarnation and Redemption, our journey of Sanctification, and our awaiting of His Second Coming and Eternity–become just “some of many” things of infinite magnitude–instead of the be-all-end-all of our lives, as they must be. 

What a horrible tragedy for a believer to succumb to.

Even while it may seem to these people that they have not expressly rejected a single explicit Dogma (they’ll still nod, though with boredom, to each item in the Creed), it nevertheless remains so that their Supernatural Faith has been castrated, emasculated, withered, and decayed.

The form – the trappings — of the Christian Religion is maintained, but the power of it – the life-devouring-fire that Faith should and must be –has been extinguished, as St. Paul prophesied of the last days – these times (2 Timothy 3).

Does this slippery slope I have described appear far-fetched? Exaggerated?

Unfortunately, it is neither.

I present to you here what was just argued by an extremely popular Catholic Scholar (one who has long been regarded as totally “orthodox minded”). It was just published (June 2022) in a new book he wrote. This new book was published by one of the most popular “strictly orthodox” Catholic publishers. Below is a quote from that book. This quote was recently wholeheartedly and enthusiastically promoted by a certain Catholic journalist on his extremely popular Catholic news aggregator website:

“Ultraterrestrials…interdimensional beings… dimensions intersected with our own … time-traveling humans from the future” ??!!

Do you see how far we have fallen?

Now do you believe what I said last year?:

The scholar who wrote the words above will not be the last to succumb to–and promote–these delusions. Like dominoes, many others will fall; including plenty of individuals whom I myself have promoted in the past–not excepting some who have hitherto been regarded as shining lights, even among the Faithful Remnant.

Therefore, idolize no one. God alone is God. Fallible men will, in the days ahead, manifest their fallibility for all to see

“Put not your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save” Psalm 146

Make no mistake about it, these are the times of which Our Lord said,

“And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.” Matthew 24:22

You will see Christians and Catholics–individuals you thought you could trust to figure it all out for you–nevertheless drop like flies in the coming times–falling for the imminent Diabolical Deceptions like moths to the flame–but you must not allow that sorry sight to shake your own Faith.

For these days are destined to be the “rise and fall of many in Israel,” (Luke 2:34); that is, in the Church.

Read your Bible, read your Catechism, submit to all the contents thereof – strive to become a saint, strive to Live in the Divine Will, and you will remain safe.

I would say “I give you my word,” but that would be silly, as you have something infinitely better: You have God’s Word. Several verses before the verse above, Our Lord taught:

-Matthew 24

The Abomination of Desolation is coming.

It will have much to do with the various tenets of the Diabolical Quantum Leap. Despite how tempting succumbing to its promises will be, I know—because Christ has promised—that he who endures to the end will be saved. To succumb to the Antichrist, you’ll have to consciously choose to do so.

“Aliens” were, previously, not a topic I ever wanted to have to focus much on addressing. But now I see it’s something I’m going to have to address much more moving forward.

I am working on a new piece, and if my post last year  failed to convince you that there are no aliens, then this upcoming one will not fail.

Stay tuned.

In the meantime, I leave you with a simple presentation of Pascal’s Wager, modified for this matter:

Leaving aside the many reasons we have to conclude there are no aliens—what do you stand to gain, or lose, from this belief?

To gain?

Nothing.

You already have everything you need for your salvation in Public Revelation.

You already have everything you need for your highest possible sanctification in 2,000 years of Sacred Tradition (particularly the crown of this tradition, Jesus’ approved revelations to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta – which, by the way, are absolutely undoubtedly authentic, yet make it clear on many different occasions that man is the only rational incarnate creature that exists.)

Salvation and sanctification are all you need, and neither stands to gain anything by believing in aliens.

Moreover, you have no need for the scientific, technological, or other temporally oriented learning that “aliens” would have. Technology doesn’t solve problems; it creates new (and worse) ones.

And what do you have to lose by believing in aliens?

Everything.

An utterly incalculable amount. What I’ve described here today. What I described here. What I described here. You gravely risk your salvation, your sanctification. You risk wandering into heresy. You risk your sanity. You risk a personal existential crisis. You risk succumbing to the Antichrist’s deceptions. You risk entertaining demons. You risk so much.

Under what strange argument are these risks worth it?

Footnotes:

*There are of course a few examples from Scripture and Tradition of animals talking by a miracle. For example, Balaam had to be rebuked through an animal — “he received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.” 2 Peter 2:16. But these cases in no way imply rationality on the part of the animal. They were extraordinary examples of God Himself speaking to someone and deciding to use an animal as the instrument (just as He could equally well use a cloud, or a bush on fire, or anything else.) On the flip side, exorcists have plenty of true stories to tell of what animals have done under demonic influence. In neither case is it the animal’s own volition that causes these phenomena. There are also cases like St. Francis admonishing the wolf, or St. Anthony “preaching” to the birds and the fish. But none of those examples or others like them consisted in a human being actually engaging in attempted rational discourse with an animal. They were each extraordinary cases (which should not be considered paradigmatic of our own approach to things) of a brief one-way communication. Obviously, humans can command animals via voice (ever told a dog to “sit!”?). This does not imply rational discourse either, even if quite a few words are involved. A horse trainer may calm down an unruly horse with a lengthy speech; not because the horse does, or even possibly could, understand the reasoning in the talk, but only because it is easier for the human to speak according to the manner with which he is acquainted when undertaking consoling efforts; it is the tone, the body language, etc., that does the calming.

**Here’s a clue that some theological proposition is way-off: those who proffer it have to spend years of research, mining all of the writings and sayings (alleged or actual) of all the thousands upon thousands of saints to find so much as a few of these sayings that supposedly support their proposition. For what they are thereby revealing–even if the quotes they find are genuine and not merely apocryphal (usually they are not genuine)– is how Sacred Tradition is nearly unanimous in opposition to that very proposition. (Such it is with, for example, aliens. Every saint who has ever lived; minus, perhaps, three or four–took it as an absolutely certain given that man alone, in all physical creation, is rational.)

***Technology can only access the mind through the senses. The devil, on the other hand – although even he cannot directly access the mind itself (i.e., read it perfectly or completely control the mind) – he can suggest things to it without needing to use your senses the normal way, and he can of course subject us to temptations. I have no idea how exactly this works. But technology certainly cannot come remotely close to doing what even the devil struggles to accomplish. When they claim they’ve achieved “mind-accessing tech,” they haven’t done that at all, and any apparent operations of such technology is nothing but a ruse for the initiatives of demons.

**** I don’t wish to be a curmudgeon here – there’s nothing wrong with enjoying certain works of fiction, even if their content is counterfactual! I’m certainly not rebuking anyone merely for doing so. I myself number among those ranks: I loved reading C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, I enjoyed the movie “Signs,” (both of which include aliens), and there are plenty of other examples. The point is merely that we mustn’t allow counterfactual fictional themes to become the lens through which we entertain what is actually possible or plausible in reality. I will say, though, that I dislike all “time travel” fiction, since that theme is not only counterfactual, but logically meaningless. Asserting that objective acts of the past can change [which Aquinas rightly teaches not even God can do] is contrary to the First Principles of Reason, it entails the incoherent assertion that the effect of a cause can itself be the cause of that cause, and from this causality-rejecting-absurdity, no logically meaningful story can be written (yet any good story must at least be logically coherent).

On Being Kicked Out of My PhD Studies for Being Unjabbed (and Resigning from My Faculty Union)

After 4 years of hard work on my PhD in Philosophy at the State University of New York in Albany, the administration has unceremoniously kicked me out since I refused to receive an abortion tainted experimental mRNA injection for a disease I already have (far superior) natural immunity to—by denying my request for a religious exemption.

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Update 3 (6:50pm): It appears I can now access my Twitter account again

Update 2 (2:45pm Eastern US Time, 8/20): Twitter has locked my account:

Update 12:45pm: Twitter is blocking engagement in my posts:

Twitter has now begun censoring me

[Update: Notes/Clarifications regarding this post: 1) Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for the outpouring of support, prayers, and encouragement! Please forgive me if I’m unable to get back to you personally, but know of my eternal gratitude and rest assured of my prayers for you as well!2) To clarify: I teach at a different college than where I had been studying for my PhD. Although I was kicked out of my PhD studies at one university (SUNY Albany/UAlbany) for being unvaccinated, my job as a philosophy professor is at a different college (HVCC) and is entirely unaffected. I did resign from the HVCCFA “Faculty Association” (the Labor Union) where I teach, in protest of its president’s crusade against unvaccinated students, but I am still a faculty member; I’m still an adjunct philosophy professor. 3) Many thanks for the recommendations and advice on next steps I could take! I do plan to continue working towards my PhD (I am not “Dr. O’Connor” yet), but I’m going to put formal university PhD enrollment on pause for the moment as I pray about the specifics.]

After 4 years of hard work on my PhD in Philosophy at the State University of New York in Albany, the administration has unceremoniously kicked me out since I refused to receive an abortion tainted experimental mRNA injection for a disease I already have (far superior) natural immunity to—by denying my request for a religious exemption.

Included above is the correspondence these nameless bureaucrats sent me, lest they dishonestly try to argue that they did not kick me out. Of course they did. Of the “options” presented to me, withdrawal was the only possibility. That is expulsion.

Moreover, this was manifestly not a matter of me merely “failing to adequately demonstrate” anything. I had demonstrated perfectly well to them that my “personal and genuinely held religious beliefs preclude” Covid vaccination. If they truly just regarded my explanation as insufficient, and simply needed more information to that effect, then they would have requested it. Instead, they bluntly declared, “This decision is final.”

I’ll reiterate that I intend no judgment, much less condemnation, of one who did get the jab and insists his conscience was clear doing so. Such a person’s choice is none of my business. (But I would caution such a person to ensure he does not allow that act to become a slippery slope of concessions to tyranny, for make no mistake about it, Covidist Tyranny was a Boot Camp for the Faithful). But my conscience said no (I explained why here.)

Even if my conscience were clear in taking the vaccine on the abortion-tainted issue, I would not take it. Leaving aside, for now, the mountain of reasons we now have to suspect that the vaccines may be ineffective or even harmful, I never trust brand-new categories of injected medical technologies, and I would only consider taking such a thing if there was a high chance I’d be good as dead anyway without it (which isn’t remotely close to being the case with Covid). All the Covid “vaccines” that were available to me are built upon brand new technologies, and most of them are not only new, but of the completely experimental “mRNA” tech variety. But even if I felt comfortable with the technology, I still wouldn’t take the vaccine—because I have absolutely no need for it it—“those who are well do not need a physician,” (Mark 2:17). The jab’s mandate is tyrannical. I will not cooperate with this tyranny just to make my life easier.

And this is tyranny. It has nothing to do with health. Even our national health authorities, including the CDC, (which have been anything but willing to acknowledge the downsides of vaccination or respect the rights of the unvaccinated), no longer differentiate between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in their own official policies. Yet, SUNY—run by thugs, above all my evil-promoting “Catholic” governor, Kathy Hochul—will still gladly discriminate against and persecute unvaccinated students.

Moreover, I can prove its irrelevance to health with one simple fact: if the mandates were about health, then my University would have been equally satisfied with proof of immunity – which I have, and can prove through a blood test —and my immunity is far better than what any vaccine could give. Though I disagree with all vaccine mandates, that is nevertheless how it works with others. For example, I recall that the last time I was filling out University admissions paperwork, I had the option of proving I had been vaccinated for MMR or of submitting proof of immunity. Why is that not permitted here, with Covid?

We all know the answer.

Many of our overlords among the global elite have openly admitted that all these vaccine mandates are merely attempts to pressure people into subservience to their agenda – not sincere attempts, built upon science, to limit viral transmission. If any “science” is involved in these mandates, it is Machiavellian-Psychology, not medical or epidemiological science. What they have not admitted to, but is almost certainly the case, is that the Infrastructure of the Antichrist is being laid down before our eyes.

So, no. I will not comply.

I will resist.

Neither my University’s President, nor my State’s Governor, nor my Country’s President, get to decide what I do or do not inject into my body. Good luck to any such person who tries.

4 years of hard work…

I am not resentful—I know that nothing but God’s Will can happen, therefore I am entirely at peace, and I know He has something much better in store for me now—but I admit that I was surprised. I thought I’d be granted the exemption, as I have heard of plenty other people receiving them. Perhaps whatever anonymous New York bureaucrat behind a desk was processing my request decided to Google my name and stumbled upon this blog, and was thrilled to have an opportunity to expel from the university someone who publicly stands against all the Godless anti-dogmas that the New York elites who employ him stand for.

In case that is so, let me offer a warning to him and to all those who would persecute others from the comfort and security of their anonymity: Judgment Day is coming. If you cannot even look me in the eye–but can only kick me out of my University with an email from a “no reply” administrative account and not so much as a name affixed to it–how do you suppose you’ll be prepared to stand alone and render an account before Almighty God?

But I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised. I have, after all, long warned that persecution is coming. And it will obviously come the soonest for those who have been the most public with the very principles that will be subject to persecution.

Some of the Faithful reading this may be tempted to take it as a cautionary tale whose lesson is to keep one’s views quiet. But I exhort such people to do just the opposite: to shout the Truth from the rooftops.

To be silent when speaking out is called for (and if any times in history have called for that, those times are now) is to make a pact with the Devil. But the Devil does not appear to most as Mephistopheles to Faust; he does so, rather, by suggesting rationalizations:

  1. “What good would it do anyway?”
  2. “But that type of issue just isn’t what I’m about publicly. I can leave that to the experts in that field.”
  3. “So few people will hear or see what I say, why would it matter?”
  4. “But I could suffer consequences.”

Although we must never dialogue with the Devil, that reminder may be of little use to one who has already done so. Therefore, to such a person I say that each rationalization has a very simple answer:

  1. An infinite amount of good. An eternity of good. Even a tiny mustard seed of truth can–in a fruition we will only see at the Judgment–flourish into the greatest of trees. You can be the sower of that seed, if only you are willing.
  2. That’s precisely why it’s important for you to proclaim soul-saving truth. The Bishops, the priests, the theologians, and the full-time evangelists and apologists, are all too easy to ignore for many of the people out there. Justly or unjustly, such people will often be written off by the world as mere “careerists,” whereas you – not numbering among those ranks – cannot be thus dismissed.
  3. How do you know how many people will see or hear it? These days especially, with the internet, it is easy enough for just about anyone to proclaim the truth to an audience more than large enough to justify doing so; far larger, indeed, than the missionaries of ages past sacrificed their lives to reach. Besides, a single soul is an enormous audience – a creature who, in eternity if not before, will one day be a saint of such glory as to astonish, or a monstrosity of such hideousness as to terrify. Finally, we answer not for the size of our audience but for whether we have been faithful in ministering to it, however great or tiny. History’s seemingly greatest missionary, even if he preached to many millions, will lay no greater claim to Heavenly merit than will an ordinary nurse or tutor or grandmother if the latter nevertheless ministered equally faithfully to those whom God’s Will put in their paths.
  4. Read on.

A C.S. Lewis quote I have hanging up next to my office door as an important daily reminder

I was recently talking to a young man who has a very large online following. His public endeavors are not related to the Faith, but a short time ago he took a very bold and public stand for a controversial, but direly urgent, Christian Truth. He immediately received a torrent of the vilest attacks and even threats. Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, he had also been encouraged by some acquaintances to retract what he said in order to mitigate the attacks. But he refused. He stood by it–and stands by it–come what may.

We need an army of such souls today. We need “God’s Seven Thousand” to stand up and be counted. The apocalyptic error, and evil, and perversity, and blindness with which you will inevitably be surrounded in the world today may at times cause you to wonder if you’re the last sane person left on the planet.

You are not. But you must understand that others are similarly tempted. By speaking up, you encourage them.

Ironically, I have just found myself in the midst of yet another SUNY-Covid-vaccine-mandate tumult. This time, it concerns the college at which I teach, HVCC. They recently decided—boldly, courageously, and correctly—to refuse to bar unvaccinated students from campus, despite a SUNY-wide policy (HVCC is under the umbrella of SUNY) requiring precisely this. (Note: I do not know what the future holds regarding my college’s bold and perhaps first-in-nation example of an individual school rejecting a vaccine mandate required by their own University System– SUNY has just “ordered” HVCC to comply)

The leaders of the Faculty Union, however, responded by throwing a fit. They condemned the college, filed a formal legal grievance against it, and fed misleading statements to local media, implying that “the Faculty” of HVCC stood against this new policy—when, in fact the FA Leadership never consulted us, never polled us, and never sought our approval.

After almost 6 years as a dues-paying member, I publicly resigned in protest. I received an outpouring of support and agreement from other faculty members—whose convictions on this matter otherwise would have had little avenue, opportunity, or cause to even being recognized, had not someone stood up to be counted and thus elicit support from others—disproving the implications of the Union Leadership that “The Faculty” stood against the college in its decision to allow unvaccinated students on campus.

Here again I have done something that exposes me to who knows what repercussions. I confess that I spent weeks wrestling with the temptation to simply stay quiet and keep my head down. Whoever is acquainted with the shenanigans of academia is aware of how vindictive certain types of professors can be (particularly certain tenured faculty against lowly adjuncts like myself who dare to speak up in contradiction to them and who teach as many or more classes than they do but get paid less than half as much!). Although most professors agreed with me, not all did. I have no idea what will come my way as a result of my actions. Angering union leadership—as I have just done, likely to a greater extent than any HVCC union member in recent memory—tends to not go over well for those who anger the leaders. So be it. My conscience compelled me.

How easy it is to rationalize ourselves out of taking a stand for the truth. In contradiction to this temptation, I present the following words of Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta:

“The cross is my flowery bed, not because I did not suffer harrowing spasms, but because by means of the cross I delivered many souls to grace …So, in seeing so much good, I held that bed of suffering as my delight, and I delighted in the cross and in suffering.  You too, my daughter – take pains as delights, and delight in being crucified on my cross.  No, no, I do not want you to fear suffering, almost wanting to act like a sluggard.  Up, courage, be brave, and, of your own, expose yourself to suffering.”

May 1, 1900. Nihil Obstat, St. Hannibal di Francia. Imprimatur, Archbishop Joseph Leo.

The great thing about merely exposing ourselves to sufferings is that we are letting God do the directing of the if and the how the suffering itself transpires.

Fasting is good and necessary, but there is the risk that the person who fasts will–out of pride, or vanity, or some other manifestation of the self-will–extend the fasting beyond the degree willed by God for it. All sorts of other mortifications are also good and we should undertake them, but when we are in direct control of their specifics, there is always the risk that they become not exercises in charity and penance, but rather exercises in some form of subtle self-love.

On the other hand, when we simply “expose ourselves” to the real possibility of suffering, by doing what is clearly right and just, by “seeking first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:33), by announcing His Kingdom and all those Truths which His Kingdom entails—and by continuing to boldly do so come what may—we thereby can be sure that whatever sufferings arise as a result participate in the Holy Cross of Our Lord which we may shoulder with Him – and in so doing, aid in the salvation of countless souls, our own sanctification, and the hastening of the Coming of the Kingdom.  

Behold Matthew 5:10-12 — the only one of the Beatitudes that is so very blessed that Christ both repeated it and explained it.

I would, however, leave you with this caution: let your proclamation of the Truth always be done with such genuine and heartfelt charity that there is never any doubt whatsoever as to its inspiration. Whenever in doubt, favor gentleness (a Scripturally and Doctrinally defined Fruit of the Holy Spirit, the absence of which indicates the absence of the Holy Spirit from one’s heart) over severity. Only thus can you be sure that, if persecution follows, that persecution is indeed “for the sake of righteousness,” and not merely because you’ve been a jerk. There are some Faithful today who regard themselves as great martyrs—legends in their own mind—when, in fact, much if not most of the “persecution” they receive is at least partially deserved, on account of their rabid-dog-like behavior even while promoting the tenets of the Faith.

I will soon have much more to say about what is coming upon the world. The Times are here. And you are running out of time to Proclaim Him with both merit and effectiveness.

We have a strange window of opportunity right now. Although some segments of the population are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and still cling to the Covid tyranny of the last 2.5 years, it has largely faded – even mainstream government organizations are beginning to (implicitly) admit that almost everything they’ve done the last two and a half years has been idiotic, pointless, and Draconian. Even where Godless mandates/restrictions remain in place, ordinary people are, finally, largely ignoring them. [For example, last weekend I was using the NYC Subways in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Although there were many announcements and signs reminding us that masks were still absolutely mandatory for all in subways, most (of the thousands of people I saw) rejected this and went maskless.] Travel has mostly opened up. Even inflation seems to be taking a bit of a break from its upwards march towards its (doubtless soon to be achieved) goal of hyper-inflation. 

I do not think this window will last long, so let us ensure we all take full advantage of it. The rumblings of imminent major persecution and major chastisement are growing louder and louder.

Soon, many people will die. Maybe you, maybe me.

Do not go to your death having held anything back. This incredibly short life is the only opportunity we get, for all eternity, to merit.

Let this cry by your life’s motto and mantra; your motivation and your goal:

LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING!

THY KINGDOM COME

THY WILL BE DONE

ON EARTH

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

Announcements

  • I’ll be speaking on the Divine Will in Chicago (Incarnation St. Terrance parish along with Dr. Peter Howard) on Saturday 8/27, in Cape Cod (Corpus Christi Parish) on Friday 9/16 at 7pm, and at the Orlando Divine Will Conference on Columbus Day weekend (definitely on Saturday; I am not sure yet about the other conference days). I am especially looking forward to the release of an upcoming movie on the Warning, from Belladream films, which I was recently in NYC for the filming of.  Other events are also forthcoming—updates on everything will be announced here at DSDOConnor.com later.
  • The Audiobook for Thy Will Be Done is finally well underway, and will be released soon. Same goes for French and Spanish translations of the book. Stay tuned!
  • I was honored to be interviewed by my seminary classmate, Fr. Dan Reehil—director of Radio Maria—on his Battle Ready show.
  • I just discovered that I’ve been making a terrible mistake for the last few years by referring to Fr. Edward O’Connor (author of Listen to My Prophets and Living in the Divine Will) as deceased. He is apparently alive and well and approaching his 100th birthday! Needless to say, I feel like quite an idiot. A few years back, I stumbled upon an obituary for another Fr. Edward O’Connor. Not only was the name the same (I was then unaware of this Fr. O’Connor’s middle initial), but I had even mistaken the picture as being the Fr. O’Connor I had in mind. If you are reading this, Father, please forgive me!
  • Speaking of embarrassing errors, I just noticed a very unfortunate typo in my recent—and, I will reiterate, very important–“Divine Will Orthodoxy” article. I wrote “There has been (and never will be) any new Public Revelation since the death of the Apostle John.” I of course meant “There has NOT been (and never will be) any new Public Revelation since the death of the Apostle John.” I have corrected the error.

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