DON’T CONFORM TO THE NEW MODE
"My children, you will pray much for your pastors, your clergy. The Red Hats have fallen and the Purple Hats are being misled. Rome is in darkness. And I say unto you now, conform and you will die on the vine! Conform to the new mode and you shall die on the vine.
"My child, modernism promoted heresy; heresy promotes satan. It is because of the sins of man that this time has come upon your world. You are all now living in the latter days, My children. Many shall carry a heavy cross in the days ahead. The good shall be persecuted. Lovers of evil shall glorify those who dwell in evil.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1977
TEACHINGS OF YOUR FOUNDING FATHERS
"O My children, do not cast aside the teachings of your founding Fathers. They were given to you for reason. And now man, in his arrogance and his searching for a truth that is not of their God, man in his arrogance and pride seeking to reach Heaven without knowledge of the supernatural--whatever shall be his end but destruction. Man of science is ever searching, but never coming to the truth!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1976
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
The Late Pope Francis Made the Roman Catholic Church Take a Massive Left Turn...
PJMedia.com reported on April 31, 2025:
By Robert Spencer
The Bishop of Rome and earthly head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has passed away. He was 88 and has died after a lengthy, lingering illness.
He was the first Jesuit pope and the first pope to have been born in South America (he was born into an Italian family in Argentina). As the Jesuit order and the Roman Catholic Church in South America both tend to lean to the left, so also did the twelve years of his papacy.
Pope Francis’ papacy often sparked controversy, much of which he himself sparked. He received much criticism over one particular comment, which the Vatican later explained was his own personal opinion and not the Church's position. The Catholic Herald reported in September 2024 that Pope Francis had declared that “all religions are a path to God.” He explained: “They are like different languages in order to arrive at God, but God is God for all. Since God is God for all, then we are all children of God. If you start to fight, ‘my religion is more important than yours, mine is true and yours isn’t’, where will that lead us? There’s only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are [Sikh], Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths [to God].”
Francis was apparently contradicting both Jesus’ statement: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me” (John 14:6), as well the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council, which emphasized that it was “the burden of the Church's preaching to proclaim the cross of Christ as the sign of God's all-embracing love and as the fountain from which every grace flows.” (Nostra Aetate 2, 4) The Catholic Herald noted that in making these remarks, the pope had set aside his prepared remarks and was speaking extemporaneously.
Even his official papal statements, however, also included a great deal of material that led people to wonder if the age-old question that was supposed to imply that the answer was obvious—“Is the Pope Catholic?”—actually now admitted of a negative response.
Argentine President Javier Milei derided him as a “Communist” and even as “the representative of the evil one on earth.” In 2023, Pope Francis responded to a series of *dubia (“doubts”) that Cardinals Walter Brandmüller and Raymond Leo Burke, along with the support of three other Cardinals, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Robert Sarah, and Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, had sent him the previous year, asking him to clarify his position on five issues where he had appeared to depart from the actual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican News identified these as “the interpretation of Divine Revelation, the blessing of same-sex unions, synodality as a constitutive dimension of the Church, the priestly ordination of women, and repentance as a necessary condition for sacramental absolution.”
*dubia - Dubia are formal questions posed by high-ranking clergy to the Pope within the Catholic Church seeking clear answers on matters of doctrine or discipline.
The most striking aspect of this incident was neither the questions nor the pope’s answers, but the fact that it had happened at all, and that it had been necessary to question the guardian and anchor of the Roman Catholic faith over his own adherence to that faith. There was no parallel to this in modern times, and it exemplified how much Francis was a very different kind of pope from the great majority of his predecessors.
Francis also followed a leftist line on most of the burning political issues of our day. In 2016, he declared that someone who built a border wall was “not a Christian.” In February 2025, he sent a letter to the U.S. bishops, excoriating Trump for securing America’s southern border. He repeatedly insisted that welcoming any and all migrants was a Christian duty, and rejected "any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality."
The pope worked hard also to build bridges with the international Islamic community, downplaying Islamic jihad terrorism, ignoring the rampant Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Africa, and even obliquely justifying the 2015 murders of cartoonists of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo who had lampooned the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Francis said that “it is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends, if [an aide] says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal. You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others. These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression, there are limits.” This was, in essence, a submission to Islam’s blasphemy laws, which would, if followed, mean the end of free societies.
Before his final illness, Pope Francis had been planning to travel to Nicaea, the site of the first ecumenical council in the year 325, for the 1700th anniversary of this all-important council, and for joint Easter celebrations with the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. "His Holiness Pope Francis wishes for us to jointly celebrate this important anniversary,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew explained, and there had even been talk of the two Churches, which have been in schism with one another since 1054, agreeing to a common date for Easter, or even reuniting. But this was not to be.
What will the Roman Catholic Church do now? Will it continue to follow in the way of Pope Francis, or will it heed the call of millions to return to a more traditional approach to the faith? The world watches and waits.
“AS IT WAS IN THE DAY OF NOE”
"Only a few will be saved. As it was in the day of Noe, so it will be now in your time. The peoples will be eating and drinking and making merry, and marrying and giving in marriage, and divorcing. People shall run to and fro, seeking knowledge and the material. Recognize, My children, the signs of your times. The scrolls have unfolded; the pages are turning fast. All must come to pass.
"I repeat, My children: the world shall not be destroyed. It is the promise of the Eternal Father that never again shall the world be completely destroyed, but gradually all will be evened. The forces of evil shall run their course, as it will be a measure of testing for human mankind. All that is rotten will fall.
"Many are now proceeding as sheep to the slaughter. They travel with their leaders, neither thinking nor caring nor reasoning for the truth. They are truly, My children, like ducks fast going downstream and caught in a whirlpool to their own destruction. It is a game most disastrous of playing follow the leader. And who are your leaders, My children? They are souls that have been taken over by satan, and now are under his rule. Pray for them. Until they leave their human bodies, they still can be recovered. Pray for their conversion.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1976
BEING STRIPPED OF ALL HOLINESS
"My children, as parents you must now protect your children. My Son's House, His Church, is being stripped of all holiness, the destruction of its doctrine, tradition, paving the way for the ultimate goal of those in the power of satan to destroy My Son's Church by creating a church of man. They are rebuilding slowly while awaiting the next conclave. They are preparing the way for the destruction of all mankind, for when the Church and the world become as one, you will know that the end has come for mankind.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, May 30, 1978
DEFEND
"My children, there is a war now going on far worse than any physical war that man can experience, for it is a war of the spirits. Many saints of the latter days shall come forward from this era. My children, do not compromise your Faith but defend it against the forces of evil. Protect with love, with prayer, with sacrifice, the Eternal City of Rome and the papacy."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, December 31, 1976
DOCTRINES
"My child and My children, charity must be exercised at all times, but this charity does not mean that you must compromise the Faith or the doctrines of My Son's Church."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, June 18, 1979
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
Catholic Church Needs a Pro-Life Pope Who Stands Firm on Biblical Truth...
LifeNews.com reported on April 21, 2025:
By Frank Pavone
I join in prayers today for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis. The loss of a pope is always a deeply significant and spiritual moment, especially for Catholics. It reminds us that the papacy is not about any one man, but about the promise of Christ to always be with his Church and build her up on the confession of Faith made by St. Peter: ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!’
I reflect today that we have been spoiled over the last seven decades, because during most of that time, the popes we’ve had are canonized saints: John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II. With the daily guidance of such giants, it’s easy to think, ‘the pope is always right.’
But that’s not Catholic teaching. The pope is right only when the pope teaches and strengthens us in the faith that the Church has always received and has always believed. The pope is the ‘Vicar’ of Christ. That is a referential term. He is responsible to strengthen his fellow believers in the teachings of Christ, which are not his own teachings. Even Jesus said, ‘My teaching is not my own, but comes from him who sent me’ (John 7:16) and speaking of the Holy Spirit, said, ‘He will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears’ (John 16:13).
If that is true of the Second and Third persons of the Holy Trinity, how much more true is it of all of us – popes, bishops, priests and lay believers. The faith is not ours to write or to change or to obscure.
While we commend Pope Francis to the Lord in fraternal charity, it is sad to say the papacy of Francis has been a failed papacy, because it has been a papacy of confusion. Jesus told Peter, Strengthen your brethren’ (Luke 22:32). “The pope is called to make the faith more clear, so that believers may embrace it with more certainty.
Unfortunately, the effects of Pope Francis’ pontificate have been just the opposite. I do not judge his motives; I only observe his fruits. Many were confused about the faith, leading even cardinals of the Church to formally ask the pope to clarify certain fundamental points, like whether there are moral absolutes. They did not ask these questions because of any doubt about the answer. They asked them because of a doubt that the pope was doing his job.
So many things Pope Francis said and did – such as his blessing of gay couples – required pages of nuanced theological explanation to justify them. What we need are teachers of the faith whose teaching brings clarity and certainty, not doubt that requires pages of explanation or extraordinary efforts to reach an understanding of what is being taught.
More recently, some of his statements have confused people about the fundamental teaching that Jesus Christ indeed is the only Savior of the world.
And so many of the other decisions of Pope Francis have wounded the Church, from appointments he has made of people whose loyalty to the faith is questionable, to suppressing legitimate expressions of the Church’s liturgy, to unfairly criticizing those who embrace conservative politics. The pope was apparently unaware that such conservatives are the best friends of the religious liberty the Church needs in order to carry out her mission.
We pray now that the Cardinals of the Church will choose a successor who will teach with resounding clarity what the Church has always taught, will heal the wounds so many believers have suffered, and will ‘strengthen the brethren’ in the unwavering mission of the Church.
PETER AND HIS DESCENDANTS
"You must not compromise your Faith, My children, by bringing in those who have separated themselves from your true Church. This Church was founded by My Son, and He set a leader, a Pope, among you. Peter and his descendants shall rule. There shall not be set up a governing body of hierarchy!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1975
ALL NOVELTY AND EXPERIMENTATION TO STOP
"All manner of novelty and experimentation must be removed from My Church--NOW! You have been given the rule. You have been given the way. Restore My House now, for a House in darkness wears a band of death about it. The doors will close! Souls will be starved for the light. Blood shall flow in the streets. Death shall become commonplace. Is this what you want?"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, November 22, 1975
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
Analysis: The controversial legacy of Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality...
CatholicVote.org reported on April 23, 2025:
The late Pope Francis’ pontificate was marked by profound change and intense debate. Few initiatives encapsulate the spirit and controversy of his papacy more than the Synod on Synodality — a process he once called the “path which God expects of the Church of the third millennium.”
Now extended to a final session slated to take place at the Vatican in 2027, the Synod was first announced in 2020 as a four-year process that would conclude in 2024. That process now outlives its architect, however, and the questions it raised — and left unanswered — will be central to any honest reckoning with Pope Francis’ legacy.
Months after a delayed first session took place in 2023, the Vatican was still presenting the Synod as a journey of “encounter, listening and discernment with the whole People of God.” The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) had similarly expressed hope that it would serve as a means of deepening communion and mission by engaging in broad consultation and including voices often left on the margins of Church discourse.
These ideas were consistent with Pope Francis’ wider pastoral vision of “accompaniment,” applying the concepts of mercy, dialogue, and “encounter” to complex moral situations rather than applying the clear categorizations and judgments favored by traditional moral theology.
The Synod also engaged in novel structural changes when it came to its meetings. As CatholicVote reported in 2023, Synod gatherings from the start employed a new form of “spiritual conversation” rather than allowing for traditional debates. The new approach emphasized concepts such as listening in silence, personal reflection, and communal discernment. In addition, lay men and women were given full voting rights during the Synod’s pivotal meetings — a historical first.
Some praised these innovations as a step toward co-responsibility and increased responsiveness on the part of the Church hierarchy. Critics, on the other hand, expressed concern that the Synod was on track to render doctrinal decision-making obscure and unaccountable while blurring distinctions between ordained and lay roles in the Church.
The cloud of uncertainty over the first Synod session
After months of mounting concern over the perceived lack of clarity in the synodal process, Cardinal George Pell called the Synod a “toxic nightmare” in a piece published in January 2023 by The Spectator just days after his death. He focused his concerns on an initial booklet published ahead of the Synod’s first gathering, which would take place in October of that year.
“The Catholic Synod of Bishops is now busy constructing what they think of as ‘God’s dream’ of synodality,” Pell wrote. “Unfortunately this divine dream has developed into a toxic nightmare despite the bishops’ professed good intentions.”
“They have produced a 45-page booklet which presents its account of the discussions of the first stage of ‘listening and discernment’, held in many parts of the world, and it is one of the most incoherent documents ever sent out from Rome,” Pell argued. “By an enormous margin, regularly worshipping Catholics everywhere do not endorse the present synod findings. Neither is there much enthusiasm at senior Church levels. Continued meetings of this sort deepen divisions and a knowing few can exploit the muddle and good will.”
Pell also expressed concern about what he called the “deepening confusion, the attack on traditional morals and the insertion into the dialogue of neo-Marxist jargon about exclusion, alienation, identity, marginalisation, the voiceless, LGBTQ as well as the displacement of Christian notions of forgiveness, sin, sacrifice, healing, redemption” during the Synod.
“Why the silence on the afterlife of reward or punishment, on the four last things; death and judgement, heaven and hell?” he asked, before concluding: “So far the synodal way has neglected, indeed downgraded the Transcendent, covered up the centrality of Christ with appeals to the Holy Spirit and encouraged resentment, especially among participants.”
Cardinal Pell was not alone.
The “dubia cardinals”
By mid-July of that year, five other prominent cardinals had written a series of “dubia” to Pope Francis asking for clarity with regard to a number of ambiguous statements that had come from the Vatican in the early stages of the Synod process. Dubia are formal questions, literally “doubts,” which cardinals may pose to the Pope when a matter of doctrine is in grave need of clarification from the Church’s highest seat of authority.
The cardinals who sent the dubia were Walter Brandmüller, Raymond Leo Burke, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Robert Sarah, and Joseph Zen Ze-kiun.
Pope Francis responded privately, but the cardinals believed the response itself was unclear enough to warrant yet another set of dubia — a reformulation of the first — which they sent in August.
When they received no answer from Pope Francis, the cardinals finally published their revised dubia in October, just days ahead of the next Synod meeting.
The Vatican responded immediately by publishing Pope Francis’ original response to the cardinals’ July dubia — and by lambasting the cardinals.
“The Pope has already answered the ‘dubia’ of these cardinals,” Prefect of the Dicastery of the Faith Victor Manuel Fernandez told the Spanish daily ABC. “They have not published the answer of the Holy Father, who despite his many occupations took the trouble to answer them. Instead of publishing those answers, they are now making public new questions, as if the Pope were their slave for errands.”
Pope Francis’ answers to the dubia, however, were widely viewed as evasive and unclear.
Cardinal Zen, one of the five who submitted them, made a public statement that the Synod’s managers were engaging in “manipulation” that warranted “deep worry” about the future of the Church.
Cardinal Burke, another of the five, also issued a statement, clarifying that he and other critics of the Synod process were not attacking Pope Francis but trying to safeguard the Church amid growing uncertainty about how the Synod would affect teachings on marriage, sexuality, and ecclesial authority.
Initial concerns left unresolved
Both during and after the 2023 session, observers were generally left with mixed impressions as a lack of clarity continued to prevail in public perception of the Synod. Many lay Catholic theologians and commentators, in fact, expressed concerns similar to those raised by the five dubia cardinals.
The editors of The Catholic Herald warned in October 2023 that the Synod’s ambiguity and procedural shifts risked permanently undermining the Church’s hierarchy and drowning out voices of true authority.
Months later, theologian Larry Chapp wrote in an essay published by the Catholic World Report that critics of the Synod were not reactionary but faithful defenders of clarity in Church teaching.
John Allen of Crux, a noted proponent of Pope Francis’ often controversial pastoral methods, argued that the Pope was approaching the controversies surrounding the Synod in a manner first modeled by Pope Saint Paul VI during the years that followed the Second Vatican Council. Allen conceded, in other words, that Pope Francis was deliberately avoiding definitive resolutions on controversial topics, but also argued that the pontiff was wise to do so.
A conference at the University of Notre Dame that analyzed the session underscored how little clarity emerged from the dialogue-heavy process.
Many delegates left the session wondering what exactly they had participated in and what the Synod was meant to accomplish.
As the next session approached in October 2024, Cardinal Zen likely spoke for many when he reiterated his criticisms and warnings from the previous year. He accused the Synod of entertaining proposals that certainly cannot be approved according to Church teaching and warned that the Synod’s methods could “overthrow the Church hierarchy and implement a democratic system.”
Finally, he called on all participants to work toward bringing the Synod to a swift and “successful ending.”
A final session in the works
Planning for the final session of the Synod on Synodality was already underway at the time of Pope Francis’ passing.
As The Pillar explained in October 2024, the final outcome of the Synod would depend on a synthesis document, which would only carry magisterial authority if the Pope explicitly approved it.
That approval never came during the Francis pontificate.
An October 2024 analysis at the Catholic World Report outlined that the final report was expected to include broad principles for synodal governance but lacked clear doctrinal development.
Some observers believe the Synod’s outputs are becoming merely consultative rather than authoritative.
What now?
Months before his death, Pope Francis approved a further extension of the Synodal process.
A “Final Document” was approved by participants in the 2024 session and ordered to be released by Pope Francis himself. The document emphasized “‘relationships’, a way of being Church; and ‘bonds’, marked by the ‘exchange of gifts’ between the Churches lived dynamically and, therefore, converting processes,” according to a report from Vatican News.
The unclarity of the document left both critics and supporters of the Synod unmoved. Nonetheless, as one commentary from the National Catholic Register suggested, the Synod was likely never a mere method or standalone event of the Francis pontificate’s, but rather its defining vision.
Now, with the architect of the Synod gone, all eyes turn to the next Pope. Will he carry the process forward and conclude it with the scheduled “Ecclesial session” at the Vatican in October 2027? Or, listening to widespread expressions of confusion over the Synod, will he take Cardinal Zen’s recommendation by quickly “ending” the Synod?
There is no question that the Synod on Synodality was the centerpiece of Pope Francis’ efforts at reform. To some, it embodied the Church’s missionary call to listen, walk together, and remain open to the Holy Spirit. To others, it opened the door to confusion and doctrinal instability.
What remains is a deeply divided but attentive Church that is watching to see how Pope Francis’ successors will interpret a Synod that has stirred hearts, opened debates, and left no one indifferent.
NO NOVELTY IN HEAVEN
"My child, you must find a good soul who will continue to print and send out to the world the true prayers of your Faith. Experimentation by your pastors has led to much soul corruption. There is no novelty in Heaven. There is no need to change, for when man becomes discontented he seeks a change, and it is most often not for the better."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, September 27, 1975
BEING STRIPPED OF ALL HOLINESS
"My children, as parents you must now protect your children. My Son's House, His Church, is being stripped of all holiness, the destruction of its doctrine, tradition, paving the way for the ultimate goal of those in the power of satan to destroy My Son's Church by creating a church of man. They are rebuilding slowly while awaiting the next conclave. They are preparing the way for the destruction of all mankind, for when the Church and the world become as one, you will know that the end has come for mankind.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, May 30, 1978
"My children, a conclave shall start, and without prayers you will receive one on the seat of Peter, one with dark spirits, consorting with the devil."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1978
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
The Papal Conclave Is a Battle Not Just For the Catholic Church but For Western Civilization...
TheFederalist.com reported on April 24, 2025:
By John Daniel Davidson
The papal conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will soon be underway in Rome. Cardinals from all over the world, 135 of whom are eligible to cast a vote, are now traveling to the Vatican. There they will meet behind the sealed doors of the Sistine Chapel, cut off from the outside world for as many sessions as it takes to elect a new pope.
Corporate and Catholic media alike are rife with predictions about who that might be. Lists of “papable” cardinals are popping up all over social media, but of course no one really knows what will happen in the coming days and weeks. While it’s true that Pope Francis himself has appointed 80 percent of the cardinal electors, they’re not all liberals cut from the same ideological cloth as Francis. What they’ll do is anyone’s guess.
What’s certain, however, is that the conclave will be a contest between two competing visions of Catholicism. On one side are the aging liberal boomers, who came up in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and whose vision for the church is decidedly modern. They think everything that came before Vatican II is bad and that ripping out the altar rails, selling off the icons, and banning Gregorian chant and polyphony in favor of tambourines and guitars was a great improvement. They believe in erasing the differences between the laity and clergy, ignoring or destroying Sacred Tradition, and deemphasizing or outright denying the reality of sin. Francis was one of them, and there are many others in the College of Cardinals. They have done their work with zeal, and much has been lost.
Such men thought, back in the 1960s and ‘70s, they were forging a new future for the post-conciliar Catholic Church. They believed they were blazing the trail into a bright modernist future for Catholicism. But now they are old men in their 70s and 80s, and their revolution is dying with them. Almost no one in the Catholic Church wants to continue their religious modernization project. When they look behind them to the younger generations in search of Catholics to whom they can pass the baton of their revolution, they find almost no one. In America, theirs is the weak and sclerotic “cultural Catholicism” of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and John Kerry — boomers whose worldview is inherently anti-Catholic and whose politics are an affront to Catholic morality.
On the other side is a cohort of more traditional, theologically orthodox and culturally conservative prelates who reject the liberalism of “the spirit of Vatican II.” They understand that Catholicism is attracting new, increasingly young converts worldwide precisely because it stands against the chaos and confusion of modernity. They know the way forward is the way back, drawing on the rich traditions of the faith to speak light and truth to a weary modern world. These men represent the great majority of faithful practicing Catholics in America and globally. Among them are Cardinals Raymond Burke of America and Robert Sarah of Guinea — titans of the faith who for many years have spoken forcefully and eloquently of the unchanging truth of Catholic doctrine and Sacred Tradition, and warning against the modernism of the West. Theirs is the Catholic faith of adult converts like Vice President J.D. Vance, who was received into the Catholic Church in 2019.
In this sense, as Catholic theologian Chad Pecknold noted, the recent meeting between Vance and Francis the day before Francis died was iconic. “Was it a reconciliation? Or was it a recognition that one world was passing away, and another beginning anew?” wrote Pecknold. “Perhaps it was both of those things, and that both worlds are Catholic. It was most certainly an image of a pope and a ruler — and that is a classic image of western civilizational order.”
It remains to be seen whether the meeting represented a reconciliation. There’s no doubt, however, that the liberalism of Francis is passing away. In almost every way, Francis during his 12-year pontificate became the living representative of post-Vatican II Catholicism. He was decidedly more concerned with globalist liberal priorities like climate change and mass migration than with defending the hard lines of the Catholic faith against a world that would like nothing more than to blur or erase them altogether. Indeed, he himself often blurred those lines with imprecise or reckless comments — about gay marriage, about the moral standing of Catholic politicians who promote abortion, about Catholic tradition and teaching itself. His vehement attacks on the Traditional Latin Mass and the young, conservative-minded Catholics who are drawn to it set Francis against what is obviously the future of the church.
Vance of course represents a rejection of Francis’ liberalism. He and others like him — including myself; I was received into the Catholic Church the year before Vance, in 2018 — are not becoming Catholics because of men like Francis but in spite of them. They seek something solid and unchanging and true amid the uncertainty and falsity of modern life. In America, somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 adults were baptized into the Catholic Church at Easter this year. Record numbers were baptized in France. In England, Catholics now outnumber Anglicans. These converts are coming not because of hazy liberal nostrums about “accompaniment” or “synodality” but because they’re drawn to what they believe is the solid and unchanging truth of the Catholic faith. Many of them were inspired by the Traditional Latin Mass that Francis so despised. They are the future of the Catholic Church.
The conclave, then, is the battleground where this contest between the recent past and the emerging future of the Catholic Church will take place. In some ways, that battle is part of a broader contest playing out in the West, between an aging liberal elite and the younger generations whose civilization they have ruined.
So the conclave in Rome will be both a battle for the future of the Catholic Church and for the future of the West at large. It might prove to be a turning point, after which we return to some kind of fellowship under Christendom or become something else entirely, neopagan and anti-Christian. All eyes now turn to Rome precisely because the fate of the West has always been and will always be bound together with the Vicar of Christ and the Holy See.
"Pray, My children, a constant vigilance of prayer for your priests, cardinals, bishops, your clergy, for a great test, a delusion has been set amongst them to test their valor, to test their holiness, to test their fidelity to My Son's Church!”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, May 23, 1979
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