Gary Giuffre, the Writer
Regarding the timing of the “Eclipse of the Church,”
foretold by Our Lady of La Salette:
It can be determined by Associated Press (AP) wire
photos published by Joseph Breig, and newspapers all over the world, what was
the exact timing of the key events with which we are particularly concerned:
Photo (see below) portrayed the first clouds of
white smoke that billowed out of the Sistine Chapel stovepipe and would
continue uninterrupted for five minutes.
During this interval, Vatican Radio repeatedly
announced to the world that the election of a Pope had taken place. News
reports confirmed that the smoke was first seen at approximately 5.55 P.M.,
from which it can be deduced that the election occurred shortly before that
time. Then, photo #2 shows the first puff of black smoke, after white smoke had
poured out of the stovepipe for five full minutes, clearly indicating that some
anomaly had occurred inside the conclave. The second photo also captured
an image of the clock over the Pauline Chapel on the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica,
which can be seen with its hands at 6 o’clock.
The fact that the new Pope did not emerge onto the
balcony that night, with no official explanation ever emanating from the
Vatican why there were voluminous clouds of white smoke billowing out of the
Sistine Chapel stovepipe, without interruption, and for so long a time, gives
compelling evidence that something most serious must have gone wrong inside the
conclave.
It seems necessary at this point to make note of
some important principles, some examples of primary evidence, some background,
and some testimonies of several people closer to the events of 1958, almost all
of which were brought together for the first time in one place in articles
published by Gary Giuffré circa 1988-1990 through a small circulation
newsletter.
Here are passages from two large circulation
newspapers, the [London] Tablet and the Houston Post, regarding
the white smoke beginning at 5:55 PM during the conclave on October 26, 1958:
“Too few people realize how easy it is to get the
Vatican Radio on the medium waveband (196.2 meters) on any average wireless set
in this country. It used not to be so, but so it has been for a year now, since
the late Pope inaugurated the powerful new transmitters at Santa Maria di
Galeria, and nothing was easier last Sunday than to sit in London listening to
the excited uncertainty of the announcer about the colour of the smoke. At five
o’clock by our time – six o’clock in Rome – he suddenly said, ‘The smoke is
white . . . there is absolutely no doubt. A Pope has been elected. Habemus
papam.’ But then the smoke seemed to turn black, and he said that perhaps one
ought to wait for confirmation of the news; then it was plainly white
again, a great cry of ‘Evviva il Papa’ arose from the crowd in the Piazza, and
the announcer threw caution to the winds; the white smoke, he said, had been
too much, and too steady, to leave room for doubt. Then caution crept back
again and he said that only when the lights went on in the Hall of Benedictions
could they feel certain that a Pope had been elected. But, he insisted, the
slightly dusky colour of the white smoke could only be due to a technical
difficulty of some sort; it was too abundant, there was too much of it, for
anyone to think otherwise. Yet the minutes ticked on and no lights
appeared; it was twenty past five before the announcer really began to think
that a mistake must have been made after all.” ("The Vatican
Radio", The [London] Tablet, 1 November 1958, emphasis added)
Here is a second newspaper account with some phrases again underlined for
emphasis; it covers the initial minutes following the heavy, white smoke that
had started coming out from 5:55 PM and continued for another 5 minutes,
suggesting to all those present, and everyone around the world who was
listening to the radio, that the signal meant what it had always meant -- that
a new Pope had been elected:
“VATCAN CITY (AP) - Cardinals balloted Sunday
without electing a pope. A mix up in smoke signals made it appear for
about half an hour that Pius XII’s successor had been chosen. For a time,
200,000 Romans and tourists in huge Saint Peter’s Square were certain the
church had a new pontiff. Millions of others who listened to radios
throughout Italy and Europe also were certain. They heard the Vatican
radio speaker shout exultantly, ‘A pope is elected.’
“The scene around the Vatican was one of incredible confusion. White smoke from
a little chimney atop the Vatican is the traditional signal announcing the
election of a new pope. Black smoke indicates failure. Twice during the day
smoke billowed from the chimney. At noon the smoke at first came white but it
quickly turned unquestionably black. This was the sign the Cardinals had failed
to elect a pope on the first two ballots. At nightfall white smoke
billowed from the slender chimney for a full five minutes. For all the outside
world knew, a new pontiff had been chosen.
“Clouds of smoke were caught in searchlights trained on the Sistine Chapel
chimney. ‘Bianco! Bianco!’ roared many in the crowd. ‘White, white.’
“The Vatican Radio announced the smoke was white. The announcer declared the
Cardinals at that moment probably were going through the rites of adoration for
a new supreme pontiff. For a long time Vatican Radio stuck to its
insistence the smoke was white.
“Even high Vatican officials were fooled. Callori di Vignale, governor of
the conclave, and Sigismondo Chigi, the conclave marshal, rushed to take up the
positions assigned to them. The Palatine Guard was called from its barracks and
ordered to prepare to go to St. Peter’s Basilica for [the] announcement of the
new Pope’s name. But the guard was ordered back to barracks before it
reached the square. The Swiss Guard was also alerted.
“Chigi, in an interview with the Italian radio, said uncertainty reigned in the
palace. He added that this confusion persisted even after the smoke had
subsided and until assurances were received from within the conclave that black
smoke was intended. He said he had been at three other conclaves and never
before seen smoke as varied in color as Sunday’s. He told newsmen later he
would arrange to have the Cardinals informed of Sunday's smoke confusion in the
hope that something can be done to remedy the situation Monday.
“Priests and others working within the Vatican grounds saw the white smoke.
They started to cheer. They waved kerchiefs enthusiastically, and figures of
conclavists – cardinals’ assistants - in the windows of the apostolic palace
waved back.Possibly they too believed a pope had been elected.
website publisher returns to comment: some of these
phrases appear to have been added later that evening by the AP reporter or
editor in an attempt to try and make sense out of the emerging cover story. For
instance, in the paragraph immediately preceding this comment, the word
'possibly' in the last sentence makes no sense. The "priests and others
working within the Vatican grounds" who "saw the white smoke"
were cheering, obviously, because they concluded the steady, white smoke meant
the new pope was elected. Those "waving
kerchiefs enthusiastically" would not be energized, except for the
same reason. The "figures of conclavists -- cardinals'
assistants - in the windows of the apostolic palace" who "waved
back" would have known that they were forbidden to have any contact with
the outside world or even to signal those outside the conclave under pain of
excommunication until the conclave had concluded with the election of
a new Pope.] Let's continue with this Houston Post article:
“The crowd waited in an agony of suspense. Any pope elected would ordinarily
appear on the balcony within twenty minutes. The crowd waited a full half-hour
now wondering whether the smoke was meant to be black or white. Doubt set in
swiftly. Many in the vast crowd began to drift away. But still there was
confusion. News media had flashed around the world the word that a new
pope had been chosen.
“Telephone calls poured into the Vatican, jamming its exchange. As time wore on
and doubts increased, the callers all asked one question: “Black or white?”
“After a half hour, radios began to clatter excitedly that the answer was still
uncertain. Only well after the time when a new pope should have appeared on the
balcony above St. Peter’s Square was it certain that the voting would have to
resume Monday at 10 a.m. (3 a.m. CST). The crowd now aware of this, dissipated
quickly. Grayish wisps of smoke still spiraled from the chapel chimney . . .”
(“Cardinals Fail To Elect Pope In 4 Ballots; Mix up In Smoke Signals Causes 2
False Reports,” The Houston Post, October 27, 1958, Section 1, pages 1
& 7.)
COMMENT: Notice above that Sigismondo Chigi, the conclave marshal, gave a
press interview after the excitement caused by the white smoke of 5:55 PM on
October 26, 1958 was over. Chigi related that the smoke varied in color more
than he had ever seen in the three conclaves at which he had been present
(presumably the 1922 conclave which elected Pope Pius XI, the 1939 conclave
which elected Pope Pius XII, and this 1958 conclave).
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One may wonder what was made of all this white smoke and how much, if at all,
did these developments perplex and disturb the Italian faithful? For instance,
a number of people have anecdotally told Mr. Giuffre, the author of this
article, as well as others who are supporters of this investigation, that the
"word on the street" after Roncalli emerged as John XXIII was that
"they switched popes on us." In fact, a veteran Italian news reporter
adds her considerable credibility to this popular perception.
In her still unpublished memoirs, Vatican news correspondent, and long time
reporter for the Associated Press wire service, Gabriella Montemayor
(1912-2005), whose career spanned 50 years, summarized the rumors that circulated
among informed journalists in October 1958:
“Siri was alleged to have been elected at the
conclave of 1958, from which, instead, came out Roncalli. The three well-known
smoke signals, white, black, and then, finally, white, had aroused not a little
perplexity and the same comment throughout the whole of the Italian peninsula:
Who had been elected at the first white smoke?
"Everyone in Genoa insisted, even from the first day: ‘It most certainly
was Siri.’ Could he have abdicated? Had he been forced out? Was it politics or
the Holy Ghost? The mystery remains yet today. However, the [new] Vatican which
burst unexpectedly before our eyes was a totally different Vatican from that of
Pius XII, who had condemned Communism, excommunicating whoever had collaborated
in any way with the atheists. The excommunication was surely still legitimate
when the new pontificate opened its arms to the Soviets, even as Roncalli was
hailed, in a shameless manner, as the “good Pope.” (Gabriella
Montemayor, I’ll Tell My Cat, 1993, unpublished manuscript, Rome, chapter
4: “Conclave,” page 28.)
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A second testimony in this regard was obtained by
Mr. Gary Giuffré during an interview conducted in London, England in
July,1993 with Father Jean-Marie Charles-Roux, a former Vatican official and
intelligence officer. The aged priest claimed that Joseph Cardinal Siri of
Genoa had been elected and also accepted the Papal office, but was then
immediately shoved aside, without his actually abdicating. According to Fr.
Charles-Roux, a very serious threat was delivered to Siri and the assembled
Cardinals through Cardinal Tisserant, the Dean of the Sacred College of
Cardinals, shortly after the acceptance of office by the new Pope. Conclave
ministers had already begun to burn the ballots with dry straw in the Sistine
Chapel stove, sending up white smoke to announce the election of the Pope. Even
as the thunderous cheers of the crowd outside could be heard by those inside
the conclave, a group of cardinals in league with Tisserant commanded the
ministers to change the mixture in the stove to wet straw in order to produce
black smoke. When the conclave officials refused the order to send out a false
signal that would indicate no electoral results, a group of Cardinals brushed
the monsignors aside and began to dump wet straw into the stove. Thereafter, a
“shoving match” ensued over control of the stove, and the alternating mixtures
of dry and wet straw that were being put into it, caused the smoke to vary from
white, to black, to white again, and finally to gray, he said.
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It might be of interest that Fr. Charles-Roux first
came to the attention of those spearheading this investigation when Mrs. Deidre
Manifold, author of Fatima and the Great Conspiracy and other books,
mentioned to this webmaster that a certain priest would be able to relate what
had happened within the 1958 conclave. Mrs. Manifold asserted that he was Fr.
Charles-Roux, and that he was actually inside the conclave. (This conversation
took place in the early 1990s during the Saturday evening dinner at a weekend
conference organized by Holy Family Monastery in Berlin, New Jersey; Deidre.
Manifold was an invited speaker, and had traveled all the way from Ireland for
the occasion.) However, while granting interviews about this subject on several
occasions, Fr. Charles-Roux has never confirmed to date that he was, indeed,
inside that conclave.
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Both the late Prince Paul Scortesco and the late
Malachi Martin have stated in writing that outside communications entered the
the 1963 conclave. Martin writes of the "little brutality" of 1963,
leaving some close to this investigation wondering if Malachi had remained
silent on the unmentioned "big brutality" of 1958, the year which
marked the cataclysmic turning point for the Church.
Scortesco's assertions were published in the French periodical Introibo,
No. 61, 1988. The Introibo article was based on letters Scortesco had
written in 1976. These 1976 letters were in turn based on information Scortesco
had received from his cousin, Prince Steno Borghese, a prominent member of the
Vatican's Noble Guard, and “President” of the 1963 Conclave. Scortesco asserted
that the threats were delivered into the 1958 and 1963 conclave by the highest
masonic lodge, the B'nai B'rith.
Malachi Martin referred to threats against Siri in the 1963 conclave in his
1990 book, The Keys of this Blood, on page 607-609. Martin stated
that the outside interference came from "an emissary of an internationally
based organization" and further suggested that the threats against Siri
and the other Cardinals had to do with ". . . grave reasons of state - - -
such as the very existence of the Vatican City State . . ."
What could threaten the very existence of the Vatican City State other than the
nuclear weapons (see article, An Ominous Anniversary, linked below this
article) that were available for the first time in history to the Ruling Elite
behind the intertwined Masonic/Communist/Zionist powers? Informed observers now
know that at that time these Judeo-Masonic forces controlled both the upper
echelons of the executive government in both the Eisenhower administration in
the USA and the Khrushchev regime in the USSR. In 1958, only the USA and the
USSR had nuclear weapons. The Vicar of Christ found himself in a predicament
comparable to what the early Popes experienced during the first centuries A.D.
Within a few years, the Church herself was forced into the catacombs again
where no nation could or would defend her against the dominant powers of the day.
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Canon Law 2390, from the 1917 code (which was in effect and being observed in
1958), as explained by the eminent canonist Fr. P. Charles Augustine O.S.B.,
D.D., deals with the issue of outside threats that are intended to cancel the
results of a completed ecclesiastical election. Once the canonical election has
taken place, any subsequent election of another candidate would be null and
void.
In addition, Canon Law 185 deals with the
resignation of an ecclesiastical office holder, which, if obtained by threats
or grave fear, is invalid.
(Therefore, if, as more than one source claims,
outside threats were brought against Siri and his electors immediately after
his canonical election on October 26, 1958, then any subsequent resignation
forced upon him would have been null and void. Moreover, the attempt to elect
Roncalli two days later would also have been null and void. In this regard, the
recent comments immediately below of Fr. Charles-Roux are most interesting and
relevant.)
* * * * * * *
Fr. Charles-Roux, in addition to having been
interviewed by Gary Giuffré in 1993 as related above, spoke out again in
September 2004 in the periodical Inside the Vatican on page 41. In
this article he stated that, "There were certain irregularities about the
election during that 1958 conclave, as Cardinal Tisserant has himself
acknowledged." He then goes on to assert that, per the impossible, the
first election in 1958 was "annulled" by Tisserant, the camerlengo.
Finally he says, "In any case, I'm quite sure John XXIII chose his name,
the name of an antipope [of the 15th century], quite consciously, to show he
had been irregularly elected." (Inside the Vatican noted that Fr.
Charles-Roux was one of the priests who said Holy Mass on the set of the
film, The Passion of the Christ, during production.) Inside the
Vatican and its editor, Mr. Robert Moynihan, can hardly be classified as
sympathetic to the Siri investigation. The magazine awarded its 2005 "Man
of the Year" to Moynihan's long time friend, Benedict XVI (Joseph
Ratzinger), whom we are asserting here is the fifth in the line of Vatican II
antipopes.
* * * * * * *
In this regard, an astounding prophecy from St. Francis of Assisi is recorded
in the Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis Of Assisi, published by
Washbourne, 1882, pp. 248-250. Part of this prophecy is rendered this way by
Rev. Gerald Culleton in his book, The Reign of Antichrist, 1951, Academy
Duplicating Service, Fresno, California, page 130:
“There will be an uncanonically elected pope who
will cause a great Schism, there will be diverse thoughts preached which will
cause many, even those in the different orders to doubt, yea, even agree with
those heretics which will cause my Order to divide, then will there be such
universal dissension and persecutions that if those days were not shortened
even the elect would be lost.”
* * * * * * *
The above evidence is only a small portion of what this investigation has
uncovered which indicates that Joseph Cardinal Siri was elected Pope, and then illegally
overthrown, two days before antipope John XXIII came out on the balcony in
1958. It is far from the minds of modern Catholics that there have been at
least 44 antipopes throughout Church history -- more than two per century --
and more than once the antipope occupied the Vatican itself while the true Pope
languished in exile. What is beyond question is that an anti-Catholic
revolution against the Church's doctrine, liturgy, sacraments, disciplines, and
social teachings began to be introduced through John XXIII almost immediately
after his appearance on the world stage. The results of this diabolical
revolution have devastated every aspect of Catholic faith, worship and practice
within the structures of the Church during the 50 years (1958 to 2008, as of
this updated commentary) which have followed. All of this "diabolical
disorientation", to use the words of Sister Lucy of Fatima, began to
manifest at the reversal of the white smoke at exactly 6 PM on that most
fateful evening of October 26, 1958.
Mr. Giuffré continues:
Consequently, it is my opinion that “the eclipse of
the Church,” took place precisely at 6 P.M., on 26 October 1958 (Rome time).
Ominously, the Feast of Christ the King was celebrated earlier that day in St.
Peter’s Basilica, just hours before the eclipse took place, and ever since
then, the very concept of the social rights of Christ the King has been
gradually “eclipsed” as well.
However I do not believe that the "Eclipse of the Church" was gradual
– but was TOTAL from 6 P.M., 26 October 1958, to the present day. Why? Because,
from that instant, the government of the Church, which can only be legitimate
if the rightful pontiff is at its head, was hidden from the entire world. This
is crucial to understanding what happened to the Catholic Church. Without the
government of the Church, to which the Catholic faithful are united as one,
there is no Mark of One, and without that mark of unity and “oneness,” the
first of the four indispensable Marks of the Church is lacking, and no institution
that is missing one of the Four Marks can be the Catholic Church. Even though
it retained valid Sacraments for a time, like the schismatic Greek Orthodox
Church, the new institution, born of revolt, that emerged from the conclave two
days later was no longer the true Church. In a short time, its falseness began
to manifest itself even before Vatican II saw the light of day. In complete
disobedience to the decree, “Mediator Dei,” of Pope Pius XII, the changes in
the ordinary of the Mass and the liturgical calendar began on 1 January 1961,
one year, 10 months, and 11 days before the start of Vatican II. But the
removal of the reference to the “perfidious Jews” in Good Friday’s Mass of the
Pre-Sanctified occurred even before then, and was thus indicative of the
ultimate origins of the anti-church that appeared on the scene immediately
after the vitiated ’58 Conclave.
Some believe, as I once did, that the false Church was born at Vatican II.
Rather, the overthrow of the Pope and his replacement by a usurper was the
enabling act for the instantaneous creation of a false church in October 1958,
by which a counterfeit council with counterfeit doctrines would later come
about. The robber council merely put the finishing touches on the anti-church’s
program for the total destruction of the faith of Catholics, which is now plain
to see from the vantage point of hindsight over the 40 years since that wicked
operation of error was concluded. Such could never have been the product of the
Catholic Church, but was only a manifestation of the counter church which had
eclipsed the true Church at 6 P.M., 26 October 1958.
The great Swiss theologian, Monsignor Charles Journet, in 1955, described
exactly how the Church could be instantly eclipsed were its leadership to be replaced
by others without the “uninterrupted succession” which has continued since the
time of St. Peter:
“To maintain that the true Church is apostolic is to
maintain that she depends, as heat on fire, on a spiritual virtue residing in
the Holy Trinity and thence descending by stages, first into the humanity of
Christ, then into the two-fold power, sacramental and jurisdictional, of the
apostolic body, and finally to the Christian people. Where we find this
mediation, this chain of dependence, there we find the true Church … Where this
mediation is lacking there also the true Church is lacking … No link of the
chain can be omitted or even changed. The Godhead is eternal; Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday, today and forever … and to the end of the world He will
assist the apostolic body … An eternal God, an immortal Christ, an indefectible
apostolic body…
“But the apostolic body can be indefectible only in virtue of an uninterrupted
succession. Suppose it had failed, and then been replaced by another
institution to all appearances identical: apparently nothing would have been
altered, but in point of fact everything would have been subverted; and this
would quickly become apparent. Naturally, both God and Christ would remain
untouched; but the institution claiming to take the place of the apostolic body
and separated from it by a break, would be a new institution, and could not be
that indefectible institution set up in the world by Christ. It would
therefore inherit none of the mysterious privileges attached by Him to the true
apostolic body; it would have but a simulacrum [simulation] of the power of order,
a simulacrum [simulation] of the power of jurisdiction, and any appearance
of permanency would be illusory. From this standpoint, the need for an
uninterrupted succession in the apostolic body … is obvious. Without it, the
last link of the chain by which the Church is suspended would be broken, and
the divine apostolicity of the Church would have foundered.” – Charles Journet,
“The Church of the Word Incarnate,” Sheed and Ward, London, 1955, pages 526-27.
Final notes
For added emphasis of the critical point, it is
necessary to point out that Mr. Giuffré makes clear from the above and from his
other writings that the Church itself did not fail on October 26, 1958, but was
merely eclipsed, as Our Lady of La Salette predicted in 1846.
The
True Church was still there, but was in the early stages of being blocked from
the view of almost the entire world by this counterfeit church of
darkness (to use the words of the stigmatic Augustinian nun and
visionary Venerable Anna Katherine Emmerich--pictured left) which had shoved
aside the validly elected Pope on October 26th, 1958 -- and replaced him with
Angelo Roncalli, John XXIII. Roncalli was presented to the world two days
later, on October 28, 1958, on the Papal balcony amidst the wild cheers of the
Judeo-Masonic mass media which resounded around the world then and for many
years thereafter.
The counterfeit church, however, falls under the frightening reality described
by Monsignor Charles Journet as quoted above. It has proven itself to be, in
fact, the counterfeit church of Judeo-Masonry, of John XXIII, of Paul VI, of
Vatican Council II, of John Paul I, of John Paul II, and now of Benedict XVI.
This counterfeit church of darkness lacks jurisdiction, does not qualify as
being in the perpetual and uninterrupted succession of St. Peter. At first
"to all appearances" it seemed to be "identical" to the
true Church, -- which illusion eventually, with an escalating vengeance, became
ominously apparent. It was this intruding counterfeit church which claimed to
take the place of the Apostolic body, but which was separated from it by a
break, and was, in fact, a "new institution," and therefore was not
"that indefectible institution set up in the world by Christ."
And, therefore, it inherited "none of the mysterious privileges attached
by Him to the true Apostolic body," but it only simulates jurisdiction, it
only simulates most of the sacraments. It is the appearance of permanence for
this counterfeit church which is illusory. Many prophecies of holy persons indicate
that when "all seems lost" this monstrous counterfeit church will be
swept away like a vanishing shadow as the triumph of the Church bursts upon
Christ's enemies like lightning.
Mr. Giuffré concludes:
From this reasoning, I am persuaded that the “Eclipse
of the Church” was total at the precise moment of 6 P.M., 26 October 1958 (Rome
time), and that subsequent events, such as the liturgical changes and the
falsification of the Church’s doctrine at Vatican II, did not complete the
eclipse, but were merely manifestations of what had already happened to the
true Church once the headship of its government was overthrown and replaced by
something else that lacked the “uninterrupted (perpetual) succession” promised
to the papacy, as defined by Vatican I in 1870.
This view of the "Eclipse of the Church" leads us to some unanswered
questions which Our Lord will surely resolve for us in His Own good time.
Before that happens, all attempts to defend any shred of legitimacy for John
XXIII, Paul VI, Vatican II or the changes since 1958, John Paul I, John Paul
II, or Benedict XVI, cause those who engage in such mental gymnastics, at least
by implication, to deny the indefectibility and infallibility of the Church
itself. Similarly, those who hold that a legitimate conclave, conducted by the
papal princes of the Church to whom is guaranteed the guidance of the Holy
Ghost in the selection of the rightful Vicar of Christ, somehow elected an
antipope, also deny the indefectibility of the Church. Rejecting both untenable
explanations for the generation-spanning ecclesiastical crisis, a growing
number of the faithful now realize that actors usurped the papal office from
its rightful claimant, have been running the Vatican since 1958, and are in
reality not popes but the leaders of a counterfeit church which is eclipsing
the True Church. Catholics who have come to this awareness and understanding
have preserved themselves from denying any of the doctrines, divinely
instituted prerogatives, or marks of the Church, and thus remain faithful to
Christ and His Church while they await with confidence the unfolding of the
Savior’s Divine Plan for the world in our time.
Presented by Malachy Mary Igwilo, on the feast of St. john the Baptist, 24th June 2016
