Julia Meloni - The St. Gallen Mafia

THE ST. GALLEN
MAFIA

THE ST. GALLEN
MAFIA

Exposing the
Secret Reformist Group
Within the Church

Julia Meloni

TAN Books
Gastonia, North Carolina

The St. Gallen Mafia: Exposing the Secret Reformist Group Within the Church 2021 Julia Meloni

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For my father

For there is not any thing secret that shall not be made
manifest, nor hidden, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Luke 8:17

Contents

F or many Catholics, Pope Franciss election was a surprise. This book urges the faithful Catholic to look again. Look into the background, observe the small or dark spaces: great exertions were clearly spent on the 266th pontificate. Only arduous, midnightly labors could have generated (and did generate) the conditions for its possibility.

Back in 2013, Pope Franciss manufactured doctrinal and disciplinary spontaneity seemed to be the hallmark of the new era. And yet Pope Franciss canting forerunnersbeginning with Cardinal Martini, who called himself the ante-pope, one who is not against the pope but who precedes the popespent years plotting for a like-minded soul to fill the highest position in the Church.

As you are about to read in Ms. Julia Melonis book, Pope Franciss agenda is Cardinal Martinis agenda: the Sankt Gallen agenda. Virtually everything youve been told, or not told, about that agenda was expressed or withheld such as to propagate Pope Franciss views as the pope of surprises. Yet of all 265 popes since Peter, not a single one of them rivals (or comes anywhere close to rivaling) the degree to which Franciss pontificate was ideologically foreordained.

Needless to say, to a Sankt Gallen mafioso in the know, there wasnt a corpuscle of surprise about what happened at the conclave in March 2013. As shocking as the execution of any mafia conspiracy proves to the rest of the world, its conception and implementation prove to be quite the opposite to its conspirators: ruthlessly exacting discipline, pre-memorized lines and looks, and levels of single-mindedness mixed with unclarity. Or, as Ms. Meloni puts it more aptly: the actuating of the Gallen agenda was a simple matter of patience and time.

So precalculated was the Gallen agenda that, even among outsiders to the mafia, its shock and awe could only be described as partial. The shrewdest opponents of the mafia saw the junta that was coming. Indeed, Cardinal Brandmller, a dubia cardinal and a faithful son of Mother Church, cautioned after only two years of the Francis pontificate, Communion for the divorced and remarried [comes] first. Then abolition of priestly celibacy, second. Priesthood for women is the ultimate aim, and lastly unification with the Protestants. Then we will have a national German church, independent from Rome. Finally, together with all the Protestants.

As the shadows of his pontificate grow longer, Pope Francis quickens his pace and squares his posture with respect to the unrealized action items on Brandmllers list (viz., the Gallen list). The execution of the program is the thing! Pope Francis was emplaced to accomplish a short list of goals. This book offers its reader a reasonable basis for firmly believing at least that much. However much damage will be wrought unto the vineyard of the Lord by the time the Gallen agenda is accomplished, at least the reader of this book will see the blows as they come.

The book you prepare to read is, in some sense, a true mafia book. It tells the tale of one donan ante-pope named Cardinal Martinione underboss called Cardinal Silvestrini, a few capos like the man Cardinal Danneels, who revealed the mafias secrets to the world, and a few handfuls of soldiers. It is the tale of the subversion of the veritable Christian virtues of planning, persistence, and patience. It is the sad narrative of the attempted spoliation of pure things and of a darkling essay into the divinization of wicked things. It also insinuates an unfinished tale of two extant popes: one young conciliar liberal who ripened into a canny, apprehensive, postconciliar conservative who did too much and too little at the end of his pontificate and another young conservative whose fascination with the inscrutable and with political Peronism transformed him, under Cardinal Martinis remote tutelage, into a man following the Gallen mafias not so hidden agenda.

While the former toils on in darkness and in doubt, the latter approaches the third act of his big performance. He and a small handful of surviving others know how it will end. But to the rest of us, the third act will be marked by surprises, even if uniquely insightful books such as this one have furnished the faithful with key lines and events to await. Alas, even the play-bill in hand, like all else in our age, has artfully been rendered inscrutable by the low lights of the theater!

Fast and pray for less strange days. As Pope Benedict XVI once said, would that we might be faithful servants in the vineyard of the Lord! Brothers and sisters, Deus Vult! Cross yourselves and march on! Our Lord loves and identifies himself with a suffering servant.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, be with us on the Way!

Timothy Gordon, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA

May 31, 2021

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Edward Pentin, The Rigging of a Vatican Synod: An Investigation into Alleged Manipulation at the Extraordinary Synod on the Family (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2015).

I m deeply grateful to all the colleagues and readers who have supported this project since its inception.

In a special way, Id like to thank Patrick OHearn and all those at TAN Books who brought this book to publication; Timothy Gordon, who championed this project from a very early stage; Dr. Janet Smith, Dr. Maike Hickson, Matt Gaspers, and Timothy Flanders, who read this book in manuscript form and gave invaluable feedback; and John Vella and John-Henry Westen for editing and publishing my prior articles on the St. Gallen mafia.

B efore the 2005 papal election, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini looked distressed, the papers said.

And what does it mean to be children in faith? asked Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the longtime prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in the Masss homily. St. Paul answers: it means being tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine (Eph 4:14).

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking, Ratzinger continued. As he spoke, Martini, the retired archbishop of Milan, looked downward, blinking, as if thinking hard about some insoluble equation. Then he raised his piercing blue eyes and appeared to glare, for just a moment, at Ratzinger. Then he closed his eyes, fiddled with his cane, and clasped it tightly.