Ann Barnhardt, Chris Ferrara's reasoning seem rational but their premises and so inferences are wrong

Ann Barnhardt writes that a person could die at the last moment and be saved.Sorry Feeneyite. Move over Fr. Leonard Feeney you are wrong, she said sometime back.
Otherwise she mentions thinking clearly and keeping the premises correct on her blog.
She does not know any one on earth who was on the way to Hell but this person, during the last breath comes back to God and so is saved .Yet she mentions this with reference to the Feeneyite interpretation of the dogma EENS.
The dogma EENS (Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441 etc) says all need to be members of the Catholic Church to avoid the fires of Hell.There were no exceptions for the Church Councils.How can Ann's theoretical case be an exception to the dogma EENS?
Her premise is that this person who came back to Christ at the last breathe and asked for forgiveness was a visible and known person.Then her conclusion is that this invisible case which was visible for her was an exception to Feeneyite EENS.

This is the reasoning of her pope, Benedict XVI. He said last year that EENS was no more like it was for the missionaries in the 16th century. There was a development with Vatican Council II. For him LG 16, LG 8, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to visible cases, like the example given by Ann. These invisible- for- us people are visible exceptions to EENS. Vatican Council II, of course, contradicts EENS for Pope Benedict and Ann Barnhardt. Their premises and inferences are the same.The Council is a development for both of them.
It is not a development for me since LG 16, like the unknown case of the man or woman who converts on his or her death bed and is saved, is unknown for us. It can only be known to God. We can only know about it when we are in Heaven.
The ordinary means of salvation is 'faith and baptism', membership in the Catholic Church.Speculation with good will is not an exception to the dogma EENS.Probabilities and hypothetical cases are not concrete exceptions to EENS in 2017.
This is the irrational reasoning of those who follow Archbishop Lefebvre.Hilary White could never understand how invisible for us BOD, BOB and I.I could not be a visible exception to EENS. This was how she reasoned and interpreted the Council.
Michal Matt announces that if any one says there is an easy interpretation to Vatican Council II and it is different from the one we know reject him.So he does not permit me to discuss this issue. For him it is rational to assume theoretical cases, like the one cited by Ann, are concrete cases.
Based on this irrationality Chris Ferrara wrote his book ,The Great Facade and no one complained.His reasoning seems rational, but like Ann Barnhardt his premises were wrong.-Lionel Andrades

Many traditionalists cannot understand me since they cannot make the switch away from what Archbishop Marcel Lefebre taught them

Many traditionalists cannot understand me since they cannot make the switch away from what Archbishop Marcel Lefebre taught them .

Here are some of the major errors in their thinking.

1.For me the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) refer to invisible and unknown people. So they cannot be explicit execeptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).This is a crucial point. For all of them BOD, BOB and I.I refer to visible cases. This is their inference.

When you talk to them directly of course they will say that there are no visible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I.Yet at the same time they will say that BOD, BOB and I.I are exceptions to EENS, this is magisterial since Pope Pius XII and Archbishop Lefebvre taught this.

Usually this is a dead end.For many of them there is no way they can conceive of BOD, BOB and I.I being invisible and unknown.Usually it is the end of the discussion here.

2.For me since BOD,BOB and I.I are invisible so when Mystici Corporis and the Catechisms of Trent, Baltimore and Pius X mention them it is a reference to INVISIBLE people.This is a tough one for the traditionalists and sedevacantists.

I ask them how can Mystici Corporis contradict the Feeneyite interpretation of the dogma EENS, when BOD, BOB and I.I were invisible and unknown cases during pontificate of Pope Pius XII ?. They do not understand what I am saying.Since it is fixed in their mind that for the magisterium BOD, BOB and I.I were exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.

3.So for me Vatican Council II is not a rupture with the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS.Not for them.-Lionel Andrades

Our Lady of Revelation and the Newly Published Diaries of Bruno Cornacchiola

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Our Lady of Revelation and the Newly Published Diaries of Bruno Cornacchiola

It has only been just over two weeks since the occurrence of the Great American Eclipse at the start of St. Michael's Lent, and we have already experienced a whole plethora of foreboding events. First we had the earthquake at Ischia occurring just nine minutes after the eclipse ended on US soil, which just so happens to be the site of alleged Marian apparitions which foretell the destruction of New York City in conjunction with visions of volcanic eruptions and an entire island sinking into the sea. This earthquake destroyed the Church of St. Michael (known locally as the "Church of Purgatory"), which was right next to the alleged apparition site at Zaro in Ischia. Four days later, we had the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey, which was the most powerful hurricane in a decade to strike the American coast. This was followed in quick succession by North Korea's hydrogen bomb test on Sept 4th, amidst several other provocations, accompanied by a threat of an EMP attack made by its leader Kim Jong-un. Since 2nd Sept, there has been an ongoing earthquake swarm in Idaho centred on Soda Springs - a location immediately adjacent to the path of totality, and just south of the caldera of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The largest earthquake measured here was 5.3 on the Richer scale, and there are concerns of a larger quake to come. Now we have the threat of Hurricane Irma bearing down on the coast of Florida which is currently Category 5, followed by other potential threats from Hurricane Jose and Hurricane Katia.

While all of this has been taking place on the ground, the night skies have been illuminated by another occurrence of the Northern Lights, following a powerful geomagnetic storm on 6th September, 2017. It is a well-known fact that Sr. Lucia had linked the Great Aurora of 1938 with Our Lady's words in the Second Secret, concerning the beginning of World War II:

"When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father."

Scanning through the various reactions on social media, the dramatic uptick of significant events that has already taken place since the eclipse and the start of St. Michael's Lent has not went by unnoticed. In the post The Sign of Jonah and the Unbinding of Satan, we had already noted that it was a chain of catastrophic events centred around the timing of a total solar eclipse over the site of ancient Nineveh that had ripened the inhabitants' receptiveness to the words of the Prophet Jonah, causing them to repent en masse. In light of this combination of recent events, the idea that America has entered into a 40-day period of trial from the date of the eclipse to the feast of Yom Kippur/Michaelmas now no longer seems so far-fetched.


As a result of recent events concerning the timing of the Great American Eclipse and the earthquake at Ischia, I have recently returned to researching the apparition of Our Lady of Revelation to Bruno Cornacchiola in 1947, which figures prominently in the alleged apparitions at Zaro, Ischia. Upon doing so, I have discovered that the private diaries of Bruno Cornacchiola were published for the first time last year in a book called Il Veggente: Il Segreto della Tre Fontane, by the Italian journalist Saverio Gaeta (Salani, 2016). This work has yet to be translated into English, but it has already generated some intense interest in the Italian media. In his review of this book for Vatican Insider here, Andrea Torneilli highlights the following important passage from Bruno's diary - a personal journal which he was apparently instructed to keep by Our Lady herself:

"From the east a strong people, far away from God, will strike a tremendous attack, and break the sacred and sacred things."

Judging from Torneilli's review, it is difficult to determine whether if the above passage from Bruno Cornacchiola's diaries refers to the events of 9/11, or some other future event. While Torneilli notes that Our Lady of Revelation made repeated appearances to Bruno after the initial apparition in 1947, and that the attacks on the World Trade Center were among the events prophesied, it is unclear if it is the above words of Our Lady that have been interpreted as a reference to 9/11 itself, or if it concerns another event yet to happen. Without knowing the full background context, it is tempting to see a possible connection here with the current threat stemming from North Korea.

Although the apparition of Our Lady of Revelation at Tre Fontane has yet to receive full formal approval, it is widely recognized as authentic by several influential figures within the Church, including Pope Pius XII, and Pope St. John Paul II, who renamed the shrine at Tre Fontane "St. Mary of the Third Millennium at the Three Fountains" in 1997. The devotion to Our Lady of Revelation is itself actively encouraged by the Church, and overall, its status is comparable in scope to the apparition of Our Lady of Knock. It is beyond the scope of this article to go into the full details of the events behind the apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Tre Fontane. If anyone needs further details, there is plenty of other literature dealing with this subject elsewhere, such as this detailed article here at the Theotokos website. It should suffice to state that the Blessed Mother appeared to Bruno Cornacchiola in order to prevent him from assassinating Pope Pius XII. The fact that the Blessed Virgin chose the site of Tre Fontane in order to intervene in Bruno's assassination attempt is highly symbolic in itself, as this was the location of the martyrdom of St. Paul, whose death along with that of St. Peter during the Neroian persecution, foreshadows the martyrdom of the Two Witnesses during the final Passover of the Church under the Antichrist.

The diaries contain various other intriguing prophecies made by Our Lady of Revelation, which as we will dissect in more detail in a future post, are incredibly similar to the words of Sr. Lucia concerning the state of the Church during her interview with Fr. Fuentes, which in turn can be compared to the prophecies of St. Hildgard of Bingen. For now, one of the most striking aspects of this previously unpublished portion of the messages given to Bruno Cornacchiola, is the fact that they confirm my hypothesis concerning the current age of the Church being equated with the period of the unbinding of Satan at the end of the Millennium in Rev 20.


"The entire Church will undergo a tremendous trial, to clean up the mass of rotten flesh that has infiltrated into Her ministers, in particular among the Orders of poverty: a moral trial, a spiritual trial. For the time indicated in the heavenly books, priests and faithful will be placed at a perilous turning-point in the world of the lost, which will rush to the assault with whichever means: false ideologies and theologies! Supplication from both parts, the faithful and the unfaithful, will be made according to the trials. I, among you the elect, with Christ as Our Captain, will fight for you […] The wrath of Satan is no longer restrained; the Spirit of God is withdrawn from the earth, the Church will be left a widow, behold the funeral drape, She will be left to the mercy of the world. Children, become saints and sanctify yourselves more, always love each other. […] Marshal yourselves under the banner of Christ. Working in this way, you will see the fruits of victory in the awakening of consciences to the good; despite being in evil, you will see, through your cooperative and efficacious help, sinners converted and the Fold filled up with saved souls."
(The Virgin of the Revelation to Bruno Cornacchiola, the 12th of April at the Tre Fontane. Trans. by Francesca Romana at Rorate Caeli, here. Originally found in Gaeta, S. Il Veggente: Il Segreto della Tre Fontane, pp81-86)


This mention of the wrath of the Devil no longer being restrained, made by Our Lady in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, is further confirmation that the prophetic vision of Pope Leo XIII is indeed related the short time of Satan described in Rev 20.

There are various other interesting bits of information which can be gleaned from Torneilli's review in Vatican Insider. Below is a rough translation of an extract of the book covered by Torneilli:

Several years later, on 26 January 1996, other references to threats against the Vatican: "How many dreams do you have? This night I saw St. Peter's Basilica, go on fire, and I said, 'Why is it being burned? A voice says, 'It is purifying fire to make it understand that it is the only force of life and love and it is not understood; God purifies everything in order to make everyone understand the way of truth for life. " Dear Mother, you were that voice, I recognized it. " On, March 3, 2000, in the Great Jubilee, in one of the last messages (he would die the following year) - Cornacchiola writes: "Today I had a very bad vision that made me cry. I saw a lot of blood flowing in St. Peter's, all out with the staircases and columns around and the two fountains. Well, I saw the blood drain and [shouts of?]: 'Death to the leaders!' I had a bad feeling for the Pope and others."


There is an extraordinary parallel in this vision of an attack on St. Peter's Basilica to one of the most noteworthy of the messages to emanate from the alleged apparitions at Ischia, made some time before the details found in these diaries came to light; or indeed before the current division in the Church became so pronounced.

"Pray a lot for Pope Francis, hard times await him..."

"My daughter, there will be in St. Peter's a serious and tremendous division: see the walls are stained with blood, the blood of the martyrs; there will be an uproar. If you do not pray, all of this will happen very soon.

"The dome of St. Peter's was full of smoke. Peoples in turmoil gathered in St. Peter's, people in riot. There were races that clashed with each other. It was dark, there was no light, many fought and many were lying on the ground lifeless. The dragon passed among the corpses and laughed; He was very happy. People were trying to talk to each other, but they don't understand each other. The earth was shaking, trembling all over."
(Message to Angela, 26th June, 2014)

These words are all the more chilling in light of the recent call to arms against the Vatican issued by ISIS in late August...