Chapter 20 THE VIRGIN MARY AND THE SECRETARY OF THE USA NAVY CALL FOR WORLD WAR III: The Vatican's Holocaust by Avro Manhattan from reformed.org
Chapter 20
THE VIRGIN MARY AND THE SECRETARY OF THE USA NAVY CALL FOR WORLD WAR III
Forty
years before the trial of the 86 year old Croatian Minister of the Interior, in
a Zagreb court which pronounced him guilty of war crimes, and had him sentenced
to death, the possible outbreak of a Third World War had been not only
envisaged, it had become also a
certainty.
Indeed, it had been considered a blessing by Artukovic, Ante Pavelic, all their
Ustashi battalions, by Archbishop Stepinac, by Cardinal Mindzenty, and by
certain experts. It had been expected with no less eagerness in certain
quarters of the USA, and by the highest authority at the Vatican, the Pope
himself.
Pope Pius
XII, diplomatic and political arch-intriguer, was a firm believer in its
inevitability. More than that, he conditioned millions of Catholics to accept
it as such. Indeed, to welcome it as an instrument for the propagation of the
power of the Catholic Church.
He justified it on the assumption that the Virgin Mary was his ally. Since in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, she had appeared to three illiterate children in Fatima, a desolate locality in Portugal.
Her apparition had been accompanied by a somewhat strange miracle:
The sun became pale, three times it turned speedily on itself, like a Catherine wheel... At the end of these convulsive revolutions it seemed to jump out of its orbit and come forward towards the people on a zig-zag course, stopped, and returned again to its normal position.
This was seen by a large crowd near the children and "lasted twelve minutes."[1]
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The Fatima Cult derived from the alleged appearance of the Virgin Mary to three sickly children at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Following the appearance of Bolshevik Russia and World Communism between the First and Second World Wars, the Cult was soon transformed into an ideological crusade. The Virgin's prophecy that Bolshevik Russia, unless annihilated, would bring destruction to all nations became a powerful religious and ideological weapon in the armory of the Catholic Church and her political allies; this particularly during the rise of Hitler, who preached exactly the same doctrine. The Fatima Cult, with its anti-Russian message, was magnified by Pope Pius XII, who gave it a new impetus when Russia was attacked by Hitler in 1941. After the War, Pius XII used it in his conduct of the Cold War. Monster pilgrimages, totaling one million people each, were organized to the Fatima Shrine. The Pope used to send his own Papal Legate to give official sanction to the political message of the Virgin Mary. |
The
fact that the other two thousand million human beings in the world never
noticed the sun agitate, rotate and jump out of its orbit did not bother the
Catholic Church in the least.
On the
contrary, the Catholic masses were told to believe that the sun, on the
appearance of the Virgin Mary, had truly moved on "a zig-zag course"
as proof of the authenticity of her presence. And, of course, of "her
messages."
The Virgin's
messages had been to induce the Pope to bring about "the consecration of
the World to her immaculate heart," to be followed by "the
consecration of Russia." "Russia will be converted," she
foretold. "The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me." But, she
warned, should this not be accomplished "her (Russia's) errors will spread
throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions... different nations will
be destroyed..." In the end, however, the Virgin promised, by way of
consolation, that the Catholic Church would triumph, after which "the Holy
Father will consecrate Russia to me." Thereupon "she (Russia) shall
be converted and a period of peace will be granted to the world."
These
quotations are from the authenticated messages of the Virgin Mary herself, as
related to one of the children and fully accepted by the Catholic Church as a
genuine revelation by the Mother of God.[2]
Within a few
years the Cult of Fatima had grown to great proportions. The number of pilgrims
multiplied from sixty on June 13, 1917 to sixty thousand in October of that
same year. From 144,000 in 1923 to 588,000 in 1928. The total for six years:
two million.[3]
The Vatican
took the promises seriously. Mgr. Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, then the
grey eminence behind Pope Pius XI, sponsored a policy supporting Fascism in
Italy and then the Nazis in Germany, to help the prophecy come true. To such an
extent that he was the chief instrument in helping Hitler to get into power.
This he did by urging the German Catholic Party to vote for Hitler at the last
German general election in 1933.[4]
The basic
idea was a simple one. Fascism and Nazism, besides smashing the Communists in
Europe, ultimately would smash Communist Russia. In 1929 Pope Pius XI signed a
Concordat and the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini and called him "the man
sent by Providence." In 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. In 1936
Franco started the Civil War. By 1938 two-thirds of Europe had been Fascistized
and the rumblings of the Second World War were heard more and more ominously
everywhere.
Concurrently,
however, Europe had also been Fatimaized. The Cult of Fatima, with emphasis on
the Virgin's promise of Russia's conversion, having been given immense
prominence by the Vatican.
In 1938 a
Papal Nuncio was sent to Fatima, and almost half a million pilgrims were told
that the Virgin had confided three great secrets to the children. Thereupon, in
June of that year, the only surviving child—advised by her confessor, always in
touch with the Hierarchy and hence with the Vatican—revealed the contents of
two of the three great secrets.
The first
was the vision of Hell. (Something well known to the modern world.)
The second
was more to the point: a reiteration that Soviet Russia would be converted to
the Catholic Church.
The third
was given, sealed in an envelope, and put in the custody of the ecclesiastical
authority, not to be revealed until 1960.
The dramatic
reiteration of the revelation of the second secret about Soviet Russia immediately
assumed a tremendous religious and political significance. The timing of the
"disclosure" could not have been better chosen. The Fascist
Dictatorships were talking the same language: the annihilation of Soviet
Russia.
The
following year, 1939, the Second World War broke out. In 1940 France was
defeated. The whole of Europe had become Fascist. In 1941 Hitler invaded
Russia. The Virgin's prophecy at long last was about to be fulfilled. At the
Vatican there was rejoicing. Since by now Pacelli had become Pope under the
name of Pius XII (1939).
Pius XII
encouraged Catholics to volunteer for the Russian front. Catholics—most of them
devotees of the Virgin of Fatima—joined the Nazi armies from Italy, France,
Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Latin America, the USA and Portugal. Spain sent a
Catholic Blue Division.
In October
1941, while the Nazi armies rolled near Moscow, Pius XII, addressing Portugal,
urged Catholics to pray for a speedy realization of the Lady of Fatima's
promise.
The
following year, 1942, after Hitler had declared that Communist Russia had been
"definitely" defeated, Pius XII, in a Jubilee Message, fulfilled the
first of the Virgin's injunctions and "consecrated the whole World to her
Immaculate Heart.""The apparitions of Fatima open a new era," wrote
Cardinal Cerejeira in that same year. "It is the foreshadowing of what the
Immaculate Heart of Mary is preparing for the whole World." The new era,
in 1942, was a totally Nazified European Continent, with Russia seemingly wiped
off the map, Japan conquering half of Asia, and World Fascism at its zenith
everywhere.
The Fascist
Empire vanished with the collapse of Hitler. In 1945, the Second World War
ended. And Soviet Russia, to the chagrined surprise of Pope Pius XII, emerged
the second greatest power on Earth.
The Cult of
Fatima, which had suffered a devotional recess with the defeat of the Nazi
armies, now, with the suicide of Hitler, was suddenly revived. And in October
1945 the Vatican ordered that monster pilgrimages be organized to the Shrine.
In 1946, our
Lady was solemnly crowned before half a million pilgrims. The Crown, weighing
1,200 grams of gold, had 313 pearls, 1250 precious stones and 1400 diamonds.
Pope Pius XII from the Vatican addressed the pilgrims by radio, saying that our
Lady's promises would be fulfilled. "Be ready!" he warned.
"There can be no neutrals. Never step back. Line up as crusaders"[5]
In 1947 the
Cold War began. Hatred against Communist Russia was promoted, headed by the
Vatican which sent a statue of our Lady of Fatima, with her "message"
on a "pilgrimage" around the world. She was sent from country to
country to arouse anti-Russian odium. Whole Governments welcomed her. Within a
few years, as the Cold War mounted, the statue had gone to Europe, Asia,
Africa, the Americas and Australia and had visited fifty-three nations. The
East-West split continued to widen.
In 1948 the
frightful American-Russian atomic race started. In 1949 Pius XII, to strengthen
the anti-Russian front, excommunicated any voter supporting the Communists. And
soon afterwards American theologians told the USA that it was her duty to use
atom bombs[6]
The
following year, in 1950, the "pilgrim statue" of our Lady of Fatima,
who had started to travel in 1947, the very year of the outbreak of the Cold
War, was sent by airplane, accompanied by Father Arthur Brassard, on the direct
instructions of Pope Pius XII... Where? To Moscow. There, with the warm
approval of Admiral Kirk, the American Ambassador, she was solemnly placed in
the Church of the foreign diplomats. For what specific reason? "To wait
for the imminent liberation of Soviet Russia."
Not content
with this, Our Lady appeared in person fifteen times to a nun in the
Philippines. She repeated her warning against communism. After which a shower
of rose petals fell at the nun's feet. An American Jesuit took the miraculous
petals to the USA, to revive the energy of fanatical Catholics, headed by the
criminal Senator McCarthy and many of his supporters.[7]
American
warmongers, led by prominent Catholics, were meanwhile feverishly preparing for
an atomic showdown with Russia. Top Catholics in the most responsible positions
were talking of nothing else. On August 6th, 1949, Catholic MacGrath, Attorney
General, addressing the Catholic "storm troopers" of the USA—namely
the Knights of Columbus—at their convention in Portland, Oregon, urged
Catholics "to rise up and put on the armour of the Church militant in the
battle to save Christianity." (Christianity, of course, meaning for a
Catholic the Catholic Church.) He further urged "a bold offensive."
In that same
year another Catholic, one of the mast highly placed personages of the U.S.
Government, James Forrestal, the main crusader against communism at home and
abroad, helped Pope Pius XII to win the elections in Italy by sending American
money. Plus money from his own pocket.
James
Forrestal, who was in very frequent contact with the Vatican and with Cardinal
Spellman, knew better than anybody else what was going on in certain Catholic
and American quarters. For one simple reason: he was none other than the American
Secretary for Defense.
One day,
upon hearing a civil aircraft overhead, he dashed along a Washington street
with a most fateful message: "The Russians have invaded us!" he
shouted. Later on, notwithstanding the assurance of Pius XII that the Russians
would be defeated with the help of Our Lady, Catholic James Forrestal, American
Secretary of Defense,
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James Forrestal, USA Secretary of Defense, a loyal and selfless American, was one of the most tragic highly placed victims of the Cold War. Stalin's ruthless intransigence and the West's fear of communism were skillfully exploited by Pope Pius XII, who permeated the mounting Russian-American antagonism with a spiritual and ideological mystique. This he did with the use of religion and the unscrupulous promotion of the Fatima Cult. The Cult's paramount prophecy: Orthodox Russia would become Catholic. The prophecy's fulfillment implied the military invasion and occupation by the West of Russia. J. Forrestal, methodically briefed by the Vatican on the Communist menace, became so convinced of the inevitability of a USA-Russian atomic showdown that be even helped Pius XII to win the elections in 1948-9 by contributing funds from his own salary to the Italian Catholics. One day he dashed along a Washington street, shouting that the Russian armies had landed in the capital. During the night of 21-22 May, 1949, he jumped from a window on the 16th floor of the Bethseda Naval Hospital and was killed instantly. |
jumped
from a window on the 16th floor of a building in the American Capitol, yelling
that the Russians had better be destroyed before it was too late.[8]
The
following year another fanatical Catholic was appointed to another important
post. Mr. Francis Matthews was nominated Secretary of the American Navy. On the
morning he took the oath of of rice (in June 1949) Mr. Matthews, his wife and
all their six children contritely heard Mass and received Holy Communion in the
chapel of the Naval station in Washington.
A few months
afterwards (October 1949) Cardinal Spellman was summoned to Rome by the Pope,
with whom he had repeated and prolonged private sessions. Although giving rise
to sharp speculation, they remained a well guarded secret.
The new
Catholic Secretary of the U.S. Navy, strangely enough, soon afterwards began
unusually active contacts with other prominent American Catholics. Among these,
Father Walsh, Jesuit Vice President of Georgetown University; Cardinal
Spellman; the Head of the American Legion; the leaders of the Catholic War
Veterans. And with Senator McCarthy, the arch-criminal Senator who, upon the
advice of a Catholic priest, was just beginning his infamous campaign which was
to half paralyze the USA for some years to come. The Catholic Press began a
nationwide campaign of psychological warfare. Open hints of a quick atomic war
were given once more.
The
culmination of all these activities was a speech delivered in Boston on the
25th August 1950 by Mr. F. Matthews. The arch-Catholic Secretary of the U.S.
Navy, the spokesman of certain forces in the States and in the Vatican, called
upon the USA to launch an attack upon Soviet Russia in order to make the
American people "the first aggressors for peace." "As the
initiators of a war of aggression," he added, "it would win for us a
proud and popular title: we would become the first aggressors for peace."
The speech
created a sensation, both in the USA and in Europe. France declared that she
"would not take part in any aggressive war... since a preventive war would
liberate nothing but the ruins and the graveyards of our civilization."[9]
Britain sent
an even sharper protest.
While the
people of the World shuddered at the monstrous proposal, George Craig of the
American Legion declared (August 1950) that, yes, the USA should start World
War III "on our own terms" and be ready when the signal could be
given "for our bombers to wing towards Moscow."
The fact
that the advocacy of a "preventive atomic war" was first enunciated
by a Catholic was no mere coincidence. For Mr. Matthews, the head of the most
important branch of the American armed forces, the American Navy, the largest
naval war instrument in the world, had become the mouthpiece of his spiritual
master, Pope Pius XII.
Arch-Catholic
Matthews was not only the frequent ring kisser of the members of the Catholic
Hierarchy in America. He was one of the most active promoters of Catholicism in
action in the USA. In addition to which, this super-Catholic Secretary of the
American Navy was the Chairman of the National Catholic Community Service and,
more sinister still, the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus,[10]
the shock troops of Catholic power in the USA. And, last but not least, a secret
Privy Chamberlain of Pope Pius XII.
The Catholic
Hierarchy, the Catholic Press, the Knights of Columbus all supported Matthews'
advocacy of a preventive atomic war. Jesuit Father Walsh, the foremost Catholic
authority in the USA and a former Vatican Agent in Russia (1925), told the
American people that "President Truman would be morally justified to take
defensive measures proportionate to the danger." Which, of course, meant
the use of the atom bomb.[11]
When the USA
went ahead with the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb, even the Chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, Senator Brian MacMahon, shrank in horror at the
prospect of the sure massacre of fifty million people with such a monster
weapon.[12]
Yet
Catholics approved of its use. Father Connell declared that the use of the
hydrogen bomb by the USA was justified, because "the Communists could utilize
their large armed forces...to weaken the defenders of human rights."
Advocacy of
a preventive atomic war by a Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus—i.e. Mr.
Matthews—assumed horrifying significance when it was remembered that the
Secretary of the US Navy's war speech did not come as a surprise to certain
selected Catholic leaders or, even less, to the Vatican.
How was
that?
Simply that
Mr. Matthews had disclosed the contents of his Boston speech to top Catholics
prior to its delivery. In fact, days before it was delivered. Chief
among these Catholics were top people and the head of the USA Catholic
Hierarchy, Cardinal Spellman.
Now, it must
be remembered that Cardinal Spellman was in continuous personal contact
with Pope Pius XII, whose intimate friend and personal adviser in political
matters he had been since the Second World War. Cardinal Spellman, moreover,
was the counselor and personal friend of most of the influential military
leaders of America. So that whatever of importance was known at the "Little
Vatican" in New York, as Cardinal Spellman's residence was called, was
instantly known at the Vatican in Rome, and vice-versa.
Pope Pius
Xll had been kept well informed about the whole process long before Matthew's
Boston speech. Indeed, the evidence is that he was one of its main tacit
instigators. The continuous visits at this time of top USA military leaders to
the Pope (five in one day), the frequent secret audiences with Spellman, the
unofficial contacts with the Knights of Columbia, all indicated that Pius XII
knew very well what was afoot.[13]
A few years
later, in a hate crusade speech broadcast simultaneously in twenty-seven major
languages by the world's main radio stations, Pius XII reiterated "the
morality... of a defensive war" (that is, of an atom and hydrogen war),
calling for, as the London Times somberly described it, "what
almost amounts to a crusade of Christendom" and what the Manchester
Guardian bluntly called "The Pope's blessing for a preventive
war."[14]
Ante
Pavelic, Archbishop Stepinac (whom Pius had promoted Cardinal) and all the
Ustashi battalions, at such papal war cry, made ready. This time they would not
lose. Since their Protector Pope Pius XII had now allied himself, instead of to
Hitler, to a new supporter and partner: the mightiest nation on earth, the
victorious United States of America.
1.
Description by the Jesuit Father, H.S. De Caires, authorized by the Archbishop
of Dublin, 1946.[Back]
2.
Description by the Jesuit Father, H.S. De Caires, authorized by the Archbishop
of Dublin, 1946. Fatima, Catholic Truth Society of Ireland.[Back]
3. See Fatima,
Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1950.[Back]
4. For more
details of the Papal Nuncio Pacelli's role in helping Hitler to power, see the
author's The Vatican in World Politics, 444 pp., Horizon Press, New
York.[Back]
5. Pius Xll,
in a broadcast to the Pilgrims of Fatima, 13th May, 1946.[Back]
6. Father
Edmund Walsh, Vice President of Georgetown University.[Back]
7. Father
Ray Goggin, Jesuit. See Philippine Press of the period. Also obtuse, The
Universe, April 21st, 1950.[Back]
8. The
Bethesda Naval Hospital, May 1949.[Back]
9. The
Times, London, 28th August, 1951.[Back]
10. Whose
assets in the USA alone in the sixties were assessed at over $200,000,000. See The
Vatican Billions by Manhattan.[Back]
11.
Washington Star, and reprinted in book form by Father Walsh in Total Empire,
Bruce, 1951, Chapter on Atom Bombs and the Christian Conscience. [Back]
12. The
Times, London, 2nd February 1951.[Back]
13. See the
author's Vatican Imperialism in the 20th Century, Lyle Stuart, New York,
1966. Chapter: Papal promotion of Contemporary Religious Supersititions for
political purposes. [Back]
14. See The
Times, London, 24th December 1956. Also New York Times; Manchester
Guardian, 27th December 1956; Time, 7th January 1957.[Back]
Editor's Note
1917 was the 400th anniversary of the blessed Reformation and should have been a great celebration throughout the world. WW I torpedoed all that!
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