The chapel of an old Roman family in the Palazzo Massimo. It has the status of a church. The Palazzo is open once a year on the anniversary of a miracle worked by St. Philip Neri: he raised the Prince’s son from the dead. Priests are able to celebrate Mass in the chapel on this day. I have done so many times, though not lately.
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First, check this out…. the “Pachamama” demon garbage that infected the Vatican and St. Peter’s itself at the time of the Amazon “Walking Together” debacle is even worse than most of us knew. We knew it was bad – yes, putting that demonic-idol bowl on the altar over the bones of Peter was a horrid sacrilege – but its really bad, as in human sacrifice bad. HERE
Meanwhile, Holy Sepulcher is closed.
IL SANTO SEPOLCRO È CHIUSO.
IL LUOGO DELLA RESURREZIONE DI CRISTO. CHIUSO!
Dal 28 febbraio 2026.
Mai successo in 2000 anni di storia.
Non durante le Crociate.
Non durante le guerre mondiali.
Non durante la pandemia.
Oggi è chiuso.
La Settimana Santa si avvicina.
Il Golgota è…— Paracleto4 (@paracleto4) March 16, 2026
And…
De ‘verboden Mis’ zoals kardinaal Eijk met een glimlach omschreef. Humor zat er ook de preek. En hartelijk was het samenzijn nadien in de tuin. Mij trof de stille stoet van moeders met kinderen die op het moment van de Communie door de koorgang naderde om de Heer te ontvangen. pic.twitter.com/60NFWgcPYo
— Harm Schilder (@PastoorSchilder) March 15, 2026
Black to move and mate in 4. HERE
Black to move and mate in 4.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
It is unbelievable that the demonic forces of the Pachamama cult were allowed into the Vatican and on the altar of St. Peter no less. Has there been any move to have these likely infestations exorcized? That should be a high priority.
The Pachamama is, indeed, very bad. What’s truly staggering about it, though, is that there’s not universal outrage about it. The cult of “Catholicism is whatever the Pope says it is” is so strong, cardinals, bishops, priests, and laity will swarm either to defend any wrong and terrible thing a pope says or does or choose to ignore the pope’s actions completely if it’s truly indefensible. Out of “respect” and “obedience,” of course. The pope compared the Blessed Virgin Mary with the pagan idol of human sacrificing cannibals. Something like this should bring out the justified anger in every human being with any actual devotion to the Catholic Church, and the name of Jorge Bergoglio should be unanimously agreed upon to be etched forever in the Hall of Shame next to the likes of Alexander VI. Dante would need to add an extra canto to Hell just for sins this outrageous.
That it is otherwise says so much about how truly dark, disturbed, unnatural, and corrupt are the times we are living in. In many ways, I believe we have far surpassed the first Dark Ages in terms of barbarity, stupidity, and cowardice.
But happy St. Patrick’s Day! Proof that the light can shine and share the truth even amongst pagan barbarians. Now I should put on something green before my kids spend the rest of the day pinching me.
While they were burying trinkets in the Vatican gardens on October 4, 2019, what else was buried? This sounds like a Malachi Martin book.
Yes it is unbelievable, and consequently I do not believe that these objects had any association with the cult of demons. [Absurd.]
This is all part of the same hysteria as that the Amazon Synod would lead to the ordination of married men. Some organisation was spreading disinformation.
Disinformation is getting worse quite rapidly, there is at least one website using AI to fabricate sermons by Pope Leo.
Thank you for both the Pachamama link – it is better to know than not to know – though it is dumbfounding to think either that the former Bishop of Chiclayo does not know such things, or has not yet acted publicly in Rome on the basis of his knowledge – and for the cheering Cardinal Archbishop Eijk update!
Motivated by Father Harm Schilder’s X post, I got searching and found a report on the website aartsbisdom[dot]nl with more photos and a link to a pdf of the sermon – though without the sort of handy X translation feature copy-pasting into a translation machine is in order.
Thank you for informing us about the Pachamama horror. It gave me the creeps, but we need to know that such dark and hideous things are going on. Strangely enough, while on my side of the pond the number of faithful is dwindling, miners and tunnel builders still refuse to enter a new mine or tunnel building project without a blessed statue of Saint Barbara present. When construction of a new metro line started in Amsterdam (2010), the blessing of a Saint Barbara statue even made the national news. It is infinitely more wholesome than what was described in the article.