Playing Church Destruction Bingo with a mythical Masonic document

Regardless of the source or exact date of origin, a little bit of “reverse engineering” does leave one intrigued by just how many of the “guidelines” to destroy Mother Church have been “achieved” .

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In terms of being opposed, our fight to keep the One True Faith pure and to practice it following Tradition, Scripture, and the Magisterium is difficult enough as it is, and I would hate to diminish the cause's credibility by dabbling in wild conspiracy theories.

That being said, I recently again came across an alleged Masonic document that surfaces occasionally in Traditionalist circles.

The document titled “Official Guidelines to Inaugurate the Golden Age of Blessed Peace from the Office for Antichrist” (admittedly the title does not install great confidence that we are indeed dealing with an official document!) was allegedly issued by the “Masonic P2 Lodge” in Italy.

I tried my best to establish whether the document had any historical legitimacy but failed to do so. This, of course, does not mean that it is not legitimate. Regardless of the source or exact date of origin, a little bit of “reverse engineering” does leave one intrigued by just how many of the “guidelines” to destroy Mother Church have been “achieved” since the dreaded Second Vatican Council.

One could almost use it as a scorecard for playing a game of Church Destruction Bingo, and see how many you can spot in the Post-Conciliar Synodal church.

I publish it verbatim, including the intro with which it is usually circulated:

“Several years ago I came across a shocking report titled “Official Guidelines to Inaugurate the Golden Age of Blessed Peace from the Office for Antichrist!!! It was issued by the infamous Masonic P2 Lodge in Italy just prior to Vatican II. Here is how it reads:

Effective March 1962. (The Aggiormento of Vatican II). All warlocks (officers) shall report on the progress of these critical directives! Pope John XXIII will accept them easily!

1. Remove St. Michael, the protector of the Catholic Church, from every prayer whether inside or outside of the Mass, once and for all. Remove all of his statues. Say that it detracts from Christ.

2. Put a stop to practice of penance during Lent, such as eating no meat on Fridays, or fasting. Halt any acts of self-denial. Replace by acts of joy, happiness and love of neighbor. Say that Christ already won heaven for us, and that the efforts of humans are to no avail.

3. Assign Protestant Ministers to revise and desacredize the Mass. Instigate doubts that the Eucharist is closer to the Protestants belief that it is only bread and symbolic.

4. Stop all Latin in Mass Liturgy, and devotions and songs. It lends a feeling of mystery and respect. Show it up as mumbo jumbo of soothsayers. People will then stop thinking that Priests are of superior intelligence.

5. Encourage the ladies to remove their hats in Church; hair is sexy. And demand to be Acolytes and Priestesses. Base it on the Constitution. Start a women’s liberation.

6. Stop Communicants from kneeling to receive the Host. Tell Nuns to stop the children from folding their hands to and from Communion. Tell them that God loves them as they are, and wants them to be perfectly relaxed.

7. Stop sacred organ music. Bring in Guitars, Jews Harps, Drums, and stomping of the feet. This will prevent any personal prayer or conversation with Jesus. Don’t give Jesus time to call children to religious vocations.

8. Profane hymns to the Mother of God, St. Joseph. Call it idolatry. Replace with Protestant songs. This will imply that the Catholic Church is finally admitting that Protestantism is the true religion, or at least equal to the Catholic Church.

9. Replace all hymns, even to Jesus. This reminds people of their sweet childhood, which will in turn remind them of the peace that came from living a rigorous life of self-denial and penance for God. Bring in only new songs, to convince people that the former rites were somehow wrong. Be sure to have at least one song in each Mass that never mentions Jesus, but only love of humans. The young will be enthusiastic about love of neighbor.

10. Remove all Saints relics from Altars, and then remove the altars themselves. Replace with Pagan, unblessed tables, which will be used to offer live sacrifice at Satan Masses. Repeal the Church law that says that Mass in Churches can only be said on altars containing Saint’s relics.

11. Stop the practice of saying Mass before the Holy Eucharist in the Tabernacle. Do not allow any Tabernacles on the tables used for the Mass. Make the table look like a dinner table. Make it portable, to imply that it is not sacred, but could do double duty for anything, such as a conference table or for playing cards. Later, put at least one chair at this table. Make the Priest sit in this, after Communion to signify that he rests after his meal. Never let the Priest kneel at Mass, nor genuflect people don’t kneel at meals.

12. Remove Saints from the Church calendar, a few at a time. Forbid the Priests the right to talk about Saints, unless mentioned in the Gospel. Say that there might be Protestants in the Church who would not like it.

13. When introducing the Gospels, drop the word Saint, in Gospel according to Saint John, or any other Saint. Simply say, Gospel according to John. This will imply that people should not honor them anymore. Keep rewriting Bibles until identical to Protestants!

14. Remove and destroy all personal prayer books. This will stop Litanies to the Sacred Heart, the Blessed Mother, St. Joseph, and preparation for Communion. It will also effectively reduce thanksgiving after Communion to a sham.

15. Remove all statues and pictures of Angels. Why have statues of our enemies around? Call it a myth or a bedtime story.

16. Eliminate the Minor Order of Exorcist, for expelling Devils. Work hard on this one. Sell the idea that there is not a real Devil. Say it is the Bible’s way of representing evil, and there can’t be a good story without a villain. Then they will not believe in Hell either, and will never be afraid of going there. Say that Hell is nothing more but being away from God, and what is so bad about that?

17. Teach that Jesus was only a human, who had brothers and sisters, and He hated the establishment. Say that He loved the company of prostitutes, especially Mary Magdalene. Say that He had no use for Churches or Synagogues.

18. Remember that you can cause Nuns to quit, by appealing to their vanity, charm and beauty; make them change their Habits, which will automatically make them throw away their Rosaries. Show the world that there is dissention in their Convents, and vocations will dry up.

19. Burn all Catechisms. Tell religion teachers to teach love of God’s people, instead of love of God. Tell them it is mature, to love openly. Make sex a common word in Religion Classes. Make sex a new Religion.

20. Close all Catholic Schools by reducing the number of Nun’s vocations. Say that Nuns are just underpaid social workers, and the Church is getting rich off of them.

21. Destroy the Pope by destroying his Empire of Universities. Separate universities from the Pope by saying that the government would then be glad to give them grants of money. Change the names of religious institutions to profane names, such as Immaculate Conception School to Compton Heights School. Call it Ecumenical.

22. Attack the Pope’s authority, by setting an age limit on his services. Reduce this gradually. Say that you are keeping him from being overworked.

23. Be bold, weaken the Pope by setting up a Bishop’s Synod. The Pope will then be a figurehead, as England is ruled by the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The King takes orders from them. Then weaken the Bishop’s authority by setting up a counterpart at the Priest’s level. Say that the Priests are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Then weaken the Priest’s authority by setting up lay groups to boss the Priests. There will be so much hatred developed, that even Cardinals will leave the Church. Say that the Church is now Democratic. Praise the New Collegiality.

24. Reduce Priest’s vocations by losing the respect of the Laity. One scandal of a Priest in politics will lose thousands of vocations. Praise fallen away Priests, who give up everything for the love of a woman. Call them heroic. Honor laicized Priests, as true martyrs who were being so oppressed that they couldn’t take it any longer.

25. Start closing Churches, because of lack of Priests, call it economizing, and good business practice. Say that God listens to prayers anywhere, so Churches are extravagant.

26. Use Lay Commissions and weak faith Priests to quickly condemn and disapprove of any new apparitions of the Blessed Mother or any alleged miracles, especially of St. Michael, the Archangel. Be absolutely certain that none whatever get approval after Vatican II. Then call it disobedience to authority if anybody follows the messages, or repeats them or EVEN THINKS about them.

27. Pass a law to disband the Curia each time a new Pope comes in. This is certain to insure that the Curia will contain many radicals and modernists.

28. Elect an Anti-Pope. Say that he will bring the Protestants back into the Church, and maybe even the Jews. Anti-Pope can be elected by giving the vote to the Bishops. There will be so many Popes nominated that an Anti-Pope will get in as a compromise Pope.

29. Eliminate Confession before first Holy Communion for 2nd and 3rd Grade children, so that they will not bother about Confession before Communion when they get into 4th or 5th or higher grades either. Confession will then disappear.

30. Get women and laity to give Communion, say that this is the Age of the Laity. Start giving Communion in the hand like the Protestants, instead of on the tongue – say that Christ did it this way. Collect some for Satanic Masses. Then replace individual Communion by a bowl of wafers, to be taken on leaving the Church. Say that they will then carry God’s gift into their daily lives. Install Communion vending machines, call them Tabernacles.

31. After Anti-Pope arrives, disband Synod of Bishops, Priest’s Unions, and lay advisor groups. Forbid any Religious to engage in politics without permission. Say that God loves humility, and hates glory seekers.

32. Give supreme power to Pope, to select his successors. Order the Mark of the Beast on all true lovers of God, under pain of excommunication.

33. Declare all former Church Dogmas false, except the Dogma of Infallibility. State that Jesus Christ was a revolutionary that didn’t make it. Say that the true Christ will soon come.

34. Order all subjects of the Pope, to fight in Holy Crusades to spread the One World Religion. Satan knows where all lost gold is! Ruthlessly conquer the world. This will give to humanity, what they have always yearned for the Golden Age of Peace.”

You decide for yourself.

Traditionally of course the Catholic Church’s opposition to Freemasonry is deeply rooted in the incompatibility between Masonic principles and Catholic doctrine. This opposition has been articulated over centuries by various popes, saints, and theologians, who have viewed Freemasonry as a significant threat to the spiritual and moral fabric of society. The Church’s concern is not only with the secretive and esoteric nature of Freemasonry but also with its philosophical underpinnings, which are seen as antithetical to the Christian faith.

Pope Clement XII was the first pope to issue a formal condemnation of Freemasonry with his apostolic constitution In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula (1738). He expressed grave concerns about the secret oaths and covert nature of the Masonic lodges, stating:

"We have resolved and decreed that these same societies, assemblies, meetings, gatherings, fellowships, or associations, called Freemasons, or by whatever other name they are called, are to be condemned and prohibited... Therefore, we command that they be utterly abolished and forbidden."

Clement XII’s decree marked the beginning of a long line of papal condemnations.

Pope Pius VII, in his apostolic letter Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo (1821), reaffirmed Clement XII’s condemnation, emphasizing the subversive nature of Masonic activities. He described Freemasonry as:

"A dark society with a pernicious influence, scheming to undermine both religion and civil society."

Pope Leo XIII is perhaps the most vocal critic of Freemasonry. In his encyclical Humanum Genus (1884), he described Freemasonry as a part of the "kingdom of Satan" and an enemy of the Church. Leo XIII warned of the dangers posed by the Masonic promotion of naturalism and secularism:

"Freemasonry, the well-spring and support of naturalism, is planning to overthrow religion, undermine Christian teaching, and overthrow the very foundations of social order. It is a sect intent on the destruction of the Church of God."

He further warned against the Masonic principle of religious indifferentism, which suggests that all religions are equally valid:

"What sect of greater craftiness and skill is there, which more strongly draws men from the prescriptions of divine and human law and from the observance of good morals?"

Pope Pius IX also vehemently opposed Freemasonry. In his encyclical Quanta Cura (1864) and the accompanying Syllabus of Errors, Pius IX condemned various liberal ideas associated with Freemasonry, particularly the notion that "every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true."

Saints and theologians have echoed the papal condemnations of Freemasonry. St. Maximilian Kolbe, the 20th-century martyr, was deeply concerned about the influence of Freemasonry on Christian society. He saw Freemasonry as a manifestation of Satan’s war against the Church and founded the Militia Immaculatae specifically to combat the influence of Freemasonry. Kolbe famously stated:

"Freemasonry is the enemy of the Church, and the Church cannot but declare war on it. We must be prepared for a fierce struggle with Freemasonry and with all the forces it directs."

Fr. Denis Fahey, a prominent theologian, critiqued Freemasonry for its secular, godless agenda. He argued that Freemasonry aims to create a society devoid of Christian values, replacing them with a secular humanism that denies the supernatural.

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) brought significant changes to the Church’s approach to the modern world, sparking speculations among traditional Catholics about potential Masonic influence. Critics argue that some of the Council's documents reflect Masonic ideals of religious indifferentism and ecumenism.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a staunch critic of Vatican II, expressed concerns about what he saw as the infiltration of liberal and Masonic ideas into the Church. In his book They Have Uncrowned Him, Lefebvre warned:

"The reforms carried out in the name of the Council are the work of the enemies of the Church, who have infiltrated her ranks. Freemasonry, with its agenda of secularizing society, has found allies within the Church who promote its ideals under the guise of renewal."

The alleged Masonic document known as the Alta Vendita, purportedly written by 19th-century Italian Freemasons, outlines a plan to infiltrate the Church and promote liberal ideologies from within. The document states:

"Our final end is that of Voltaire and of the French Revolution: the complete annihilation of Catholicism and even of the Christian idea. The work which we have undertaken is not the work of a day, nor of a month, nor of a year; it may last for many years, a century, perhaps; but in our ranks the soldier dies, and the struggle goes on."

A significant figure often discussed in the context of alleged Masonic influence on the Catholic Church, particularly during and after the Second Vatican Council, is Archbishop Annibale Bugnini. Bugnini was a key architect of the post-conciliar liturgical reforms, which culminated in the creation of the Novus Ordo Missae, or the Mass of Paul VI, in 1969. His role in the liturgical changes has been a focal point of controversy, with traditional Catholics accusing him of undermining the sacred traditions of the Church and, in some cases, alleging that he was a Freemason actively working to subvert Catholic worship.

Archbishop Bugnini was the Secretary of the Consilium, the commission responsible for implementing the liturgical reforms mandated by Vatican II. The changes introduced by the Consilium were extensive, including the revision of the Mass, which replaced the traditional Latin Mass (Tridentine Mass) with the Novus Ordo. Bugnini justified these reforms as necessary for making the liturgy more accessible and understandable to the faithful, in line with the Council’s pastoral objectives.

However, the reforms went beyond pastoral adaptation and significantly altered the essence of Catholic worship. The new liturgy diminished the sense of the sacred, reduced the focus on the sacrificial nature of the Mass, and introduced Protestant elements into Catholic worship.

The most serious allegations against Bugnini are rooted in claims that he was a Freemason. These allegations are based on documents that allegedly surfaced in the 1970s, suggesting that Bugnini was identified as a Freemason in a dossier presented to Pope Paul VI. The claim is that Bugnini’s Masonic affiliation influenced his approach to the liturgical reforms, with the aim of diluting Catholic distinctiveness and promoting a more ecumenical, universalist form of worship that aligned with Masonic ideals of religious indifferentism.

One of the key sources for these allegations is Fr. Luigi Villa, a traditionalist priest who claimed to have been tasked by Padre Pio to expose Masonic infiltration in the Church. Fr. Villa alleged that Bugnini’s Masonic membership was part of a broader conspiracy to undermine the Church from within.

In 1976, Bugnini was abruptly removed from his position and reassigned as the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iran, a move widely interpreted by traditionalists as an acknowledgment of the credibility of the allegations against him. Although no official Vatican document explicitly confirmed Bugnini’s Masonic affiliation, the abrupt nature of his dismissal fueled speculation.

The liturgical reforms overseen by Bugnini have had a profound impact on the Catholic Church. These reforms have led to a crisis of faith, weakening the Church’s liturgical identity and opening the door to widespread liturgical abuses. The new liturgy, with its emphasis on active participation and vernacular language, is a departure from the traditional understanding of the Mass as a sacred, timeless sacrifice.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was a vocal critic of Bugnini. Lefebvre saw the reforms as part of a broader agenda to align the Church with modern, secular values. He stated:

"The reform of the liturgy is a fundamental attack on the Church’s faith. It diminishes the central role of the priest, obscures the sacrificial nature of the Mass, and promotes a Protestantized theology of worship."

The case of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini exemplifies the concerns of traditional Catholics regarding the potential infiltration of Masonic and secularist ideologies into the Church, particularly during and after Vatican II. While the allegations of Bugnini’s Masonic membership remain unproven, his role in the liturgical reforms is undeniable, and the controversy surrounding his influence reflects broader anxieties about the direction of the Church in the modern era. For many traditional Catholics, the post-conciliar liturgical changes are seen as a rupture with the Church’s sacred tradition, with Bugnini often viewed as a key figure in this perceived departure. The allegations of Masonic influence add a layer of urgency to the call for a return to the timeless traditions of the Catholic faith.

PS: There are some great books dealing with the Masonic infiltration in the Church. These include:

· Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within by Taylor Marshall.

· Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry by Kevin Symonds

· The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita: A Masonic Blueprint for the Subversion of the Catholic Church by John Vennari.

· Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled by Cardinal José María Caro y Rodríguez.

· The Undermining of the Catholic Church by Mary Ball Martinez.

· The Catholic Church and the Secret Societies in the United States by Fergus MacDonald.

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