Fr. Villa, writing as a lone voice of fidelity in the wake of the Council, documents what few dared to say aloud: that John XXIII’s pontificate marked the conscious opening of the Church to her ancient enemies: Freemasonry, Communism, and modernism itself. His “virtues,” praised by John Paul II as “ecumenical” and “dialogical,” were not the supernatural graces of the saints, but political categories repackaged as holiness. The Church [or better to say- Bergoglio "canonized"] canonized a man precisely for rejecting the theology of every pope before him.

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The Man Who Opened the Gates: John XXIII and the Birth of the Conciliar Church

The Man Who Opened the Gates: John XXIII and the Birth of the Conciliar Church
On the feast of “Saint” John XXIII, the Church celebrates the architect of its self-destruction.
The modern cult of “Good Pope John” is one of the media’s most effective myths. His cheerful disposition, round face, and sentimental diary entries became the perfect mask for a theological coup. Fr. Luigi Villa’s “John XXIII Beatified?” strips that mask away.
Fr. Villa, writing as a lone voice of fidelity in the wake of the Council, documents what few dared to say aloud: that John XXIII’s pontificate marked the conscious opening of the Church to her ancient enemies: Freemasonry, Communism, and modernism itself. His “virtues,” praised by John Paul II as “ecumenical” and “dialogical,” were not the supernatural graces of the saints, but political categories repackaged as holiness. The Church canonized a man precisely for rejecting the theology of every pope before him.
There is one episode in John XXIII’s …