Vatican Coup (i.e. Vatican II) formally codified a new religion. The codifiers of said religion then proceeded—as they continue to this day—to magisterially propagate their False New Gospel throughout the whole world. They were, and are, able to accomplish their covert revolution by surreptitiously usurping the veneer of the True Religion, “purple and scarlet” (Apocalypse 17:4).

As a matter of Divine Justice, this betrayal by these Judases has consummated in utter apocalyptic devastation, by way of spiritual desolation; a veritable ecclesial nuclear detonation, the toxic fallout from which continues to reverberate throughout the entire human race.

This particular forum is for documenting, narrating, and discussing the effects that this fallout has manifested, and continues to manifest, in our era; an era popularly referred to as the Post-Conciliar Age, but one which the Faithful Remnant knows only as the ultimate Test of Faith: Trial by Desolation.

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
—St. Matt. 27:46.

“When one is in desolation, he should be mindful that God has left him to his natural powers, to resist the different agitations and temptations of the enemy, in order to try him. He can resist with the help of God, which always remains, though he may not clearly perceive it. For though God has taken from him the abundance of fervor and overflowing love and the intensity of His favors, nevertheless, he has sufficient grace for eternal salvation.”

—St. Ignatius of Loyola, 14 Rules for the Discernment Of Spirits, Seventh Rule.

“The devil has always endeavored to abolish the Mass throughout the world by means of heretics, making them the precursors of Antichrist, who before all things will endeavor to abolish, and in fact will, in punishment of the sins of men, succeed in abolishing the holy sacrifice of the altar, according to the prediction of Daniel: ‘And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins.’ (Daniel 8:12.)”

— St. Alphonsus Liguori, Sacerdos Sanctificatus, or Discourses on the Mass.

“They shall defile the sanctuary, and shall take away the continual sacrifice, and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation.”
—Daniel 11:31.

“The church that is in Babylon [i.e. Rome], elected together with you, saluteth you.”
—1 St. Peter 5:13.

“I saw another angel come down from heaven, and he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit. All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
“Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.
“Alas! That great city is made desolate. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.
“And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments. And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.”
—Apocalypse 18.

“The days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.”
—St. Matthew 9:15.

“The Holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist, and of these prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception—and they are the Fathers both of the East and of the West, the Greek and the Latin Church, all of them unanimously—say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of Antichrist, the holy sacrifice of the altar will cease.
“In the work on the end of the world, ascribed to St. Hippolytus, after a long description of the afflictions of the last days, we read as follows: ‘The Churches shall lament with a great lamentation, for there shall be offered no more oblation, nor incense, nor worship acceptable to God. The sacred buildings of the churches shall be as hovels; and the precious body and blood of Christ shall not be manifest in those days; the Liturgy shall be extinct; the chanting of psalms shall cease; the reading of Holy Scripture shall be heard no more. But there shall be upon men darkness, and mourning upon mourning, and woe upon woe.’
“Then, the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs; for a time it shall be swept, as it were, from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries.
“What is the great flood of infidelity, revolution, and anarchy, which is now sapping the foundations of Christian society, and encompassing Rome, the center and sanctuary of the Catholic Church, but the abomination which desolates the sanctuary, and takes away the continual sacrifice? The secret societies have long ago undermined and honeycombed the Christian society of Europe, and are at this moment struggling onward towards Rome, the center of all Christian order in the world. The fulfillment of the prophecy is yet to come; and that great army of the Church of God will, for a time, be scattered. It will seem, for a while, to be defeated, and the power of the enemies of the faith for a time to prevail. The continual sacrifice will be taken away, and the sanctuary will be cast down. What can be more literally the abomination which makes desolate than the heresy which has removed the presence of the living God from the altar?
“Hostility to the Holy See is the true and governing motive. And thus we come to the casting down of the Prince of Strength, that is, the Divine authority of the Church, and especially of him in whose person it is embodied, the Vicar of Jesus Christ. God has invested him with sovereignty, and given to him a home and a patrimony on earth. The world is in arms to depose him, and to leave him no place to lay his head. Rome and the Roman States are the inheritance of the Incarnation. The world is resolved to drive the Incarnation off the earth. This is the true interpretation of the anti-catholic movement: The dethronement of the Vicar of Christ is the dethronement of the hierarchy of the universal Church, and the public rejection of the Presence and Reign of Jesus.
“Now, if I am obliged to enter somewhat into the future, I shall confine myself to tracing out a very general outline. The direct tendency of all the events we see at this moment is clearly this, to overthrow Catholic worship throughout the world. Already we see that every Government in Europe is excluding religion from its public acts. The civil powers are desecrating themselves: government is without religion; and if government be without religion, education must be without religion. The result of this can be nothing but the re-establishment of mere natural society; that is to say, the governments and the powers of the world, which for a time were subdued by the Church of God to a belief in Christianity, to obedience to the laws of God, and to the unity of the Church, having revolted from it and desecrated themselves, have relapsed into their natural state.
“The Prophet Daniel, in the twelfth chapter, says that in the time of the end ‘many shall be chosen and made white, and shall be tried as fire; and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand,’ that is, many who have known the faith shall abandon it, by apostasy. And how shall this come to pass? Partly by fear, partly by deception, partly by cowardice; partly because they cannot stand for unpopular truth in the face of popular falsehood; partly because the overruling contemptuous public opinion so subdues and frightens Catholics, that they dare not avow their principles, and, at last, dare not hold them. They become admirers and worshipers of the material prosperity of [secular] countries. They see the commerce, the manufactures, the agriculture, the capital, the practical science, the irresistible armies, and the fleets that cover the sea, and they come flocking to adore, and say, ‘Nothing is so great as this great country of [secularism].’ And so, they give up their faith, and become materialists, seeking for the wealth and power of this world, dazzled and overpowered by the greatness of a country which has cast off its fidelity to the Church.”
—The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, by Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, D.D.

“The time is fast approaching in which the devils will have unusual power. Immaculate purity will be so much obscured that there will be very few Christians who will obey the true Roman Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity.
“At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavour to draw many into error and death. Then scandals will be multiplied, and many others will be entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it.
“There will be such diversity of opinions and schisms that, except those days were shortened, according to the words of the Gospel, even the elect would be led into error, were they not specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy of God. Those who are found faithful will receive the crown of life; but woe to those who shall fall into tepidity, for they will not be able to support the temptations permitted for the proving of the elect.
“Those who preserve their fervour and adhere to virtue with love and zeal for the truth, will suffer injuries and persecutions as rebels and schismatics; for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say they are rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent men from the face of the earth.
“But the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted, and will save all who trust in Him. And in order to be like their Head, these, the elect, will act with confidence, and by their death will purchase for themselves eternal life; choosing to obey God rather than man, they will fear nothing, and they will prefer to perish rather than consent to falsehood and perfidy.
“Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.”
“The spirit of prophecy,” says St. Bonaventure, “was so resplendent in St. Francis that he foresaw the future, and penetrated the secrets of hearts, beholding things absent as if they were present.”
—Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis of Assisi, Part V, Some Prophecies of the Holy Father St. Francis, #13. (St. Bonaventure quote taken from a footnote in this section.)

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so … the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit.”
—St. Matthew, 7:15-17.

Artwork: Christ Crowned with Thorns, by Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1620 A.D.