text: Andrea Cionci - 01/08/2024
In the book El Sucesor, Bergoglio announces that he has revamped the ceremonial for papal funeral services and therefore, once he passes away, he will be veiled and buried
The allure of the purple always pays off at the box office, and novels and films with a Vatican setting have been flourishing for years.
So, starting from some objective facts, we also decided to propose a script for a fantasy (but-not-too much) religious film, to the cry of: “Catholic forewarned, half saved.”
Factual data on Bergoglio's fake death
Since 2021 it has been reported in the media (with difficulty, because the subject is a taboo) that Benedict XVI's Declaratio is, in fact, an announcement of an impeded See.
On June 6, after a four-year investigation, a petition for the nullity of Benedict XVI's abdication and recognition of the impeded See was filed with the Vatican State Tribunal.
If the tribunal were to find such facts, it would get really bad for Bergoglio: that is to say canon 1375 will be involved, the usurpation of ecclesiastical office.
This would, of course, be a millennial scandal for the Church, and it would be in the interest of many, including several prelates even from the allegedly antagonistic area, who are equally co-responsible, to avoid the worldwide shock by silencing everything.
In the book El Sucesor, (April 2024), Bergoglio announces that he has revamped the ceremonial for papal funeral services and that therefore, once he passes away, he will be veiled and buried, “like any other son of the Church.”
(*See full text at the end). In fact, from what he describes, he will use the ritual for the funeral of ordinary Catholics that was written in 1969 by the bishop - as it happens - in the odor of Freemasonry, Hannibal Bugnini.
This ritual is different from that provided for the Pope, for whom two vigils are traditionally held instead: a private one, with the Pope just dead, with a few dignitaries and the papal family, and a public one in St. Peter's, again with the body exposed.
After the second vigil, the Pope is veiled, locked in the casket, and then the funeral is held in St. Peter's Square.
Bergoglio has decided that only one vigil will be held for him, not two.
That vigil will therefore be only the first one, the restricted one, which would be attended only by the secretary of state, the deputy, the cardinal dean, the ushers, the papal family and a few others.
The veiling of the Pope has always been done at the closing of the coffin after the second vigil, but if Bergoglio states that there will no longer be a coffin-closure ceremony and that “it will all be done in the same ceremony, like any Christian,” it follows that Bergoglio's body will be veiled during the first restricted vigil, and at the end of that, closed in the coffin.
The funeral will take place in St. Peter's, “not on pillows” so perforce, only the already sealed casket will be displayed there.
“When the funeral is over” they will have to take the body to St. Mary Major, where Bergoglio has already had a loculus prepared in the sacristy of the candelabra, next to the chapel of the Salus Publica Populi Romani.
Other facts are that Bergoglio has fired Alessandro Mariotti (Sandrone) the butler who was also Benedict XVI's: only the secretaries (one of the two brought him all the way from Argentina) and the new nurse-butler all chosen by him remain with him.
So trusted staff.Bergoglio, for about a year now, has had a hospital apartment set up right in St. Mary Major equipped with the latest intensive care equipment.
The American film “Conclave,” announced a full six months before its Italian release (Dec. 19, 2024) - not even if it were a remake of Ben Hur - already shows in the trailer, in an obvious and repetitive way, the just-dead Pope who is immediately veiled, and then, enclosed in a sack, briefly exposed to the public.
Wikipedia reports that the film was announced in May 2022, shot in Cinecittà and the Royal Palace of Caserta in January 2023, and certainly completed by November 2023, when it is acquired by Focus Features.”
However, the book El Sucesor, in which the new rules for Bergoglio's funeral are announced, came out on April 3, 2024: how did the filmmaker know this far in advance about the new procedures for papal funeral, with the veiling immediately after death and not after the second vigil?
Why if the film is finished by November 2023, will it be released more than a year later, in December 2024?
Bergoglio confided to Bishop Placa that in 2025 there will no longer be him, but John XXIV, a name that pro-Mason Pannella already hoped for in 2005 along with that of Francis I.
Finally, Blessed Emmerich's prophecy speaks of a worried crowd waiting outside St. Mary Major, and not seeing the Pope.
The screenplay: “Bergoglio's fake death.”
And so, based on these curious contingencies, it comes natural to imagine the plot of a movie, with the knowledge that, today, reality surpasses fantasy.
Under the guise of pauperism and humility, Bergoglio changes the rules of papal funeral services to prepare an excellent escape plan.
In October, the petition is granted by the Tribunal and the trial is publicly opened, the Bergoglian Church makes a show of approaching it with great openness and tranquility, but the first hearing is set for 2025.
Mainstream media finally report on it.
In December, “Pope Francis” falls ill and decides to be taken to his hospital apartment in St. Mary Major: he feels he is dying, and wants to do so in the arms of his beloved Marian icon Salus Publica.
The media spreads the message that it was the “plotters,” Cionci, Don Minutella, magistrates and evil conservative cardinals who had broken his heart, turning the public's hostility against all of them.
A worried crowd gathers in front of St. Mary Major, just as in Emmerick's prophecy: the media insist that Bergoglio is indeed the real Pope of the blessed woman's vision.
In late December, immediately after the screening of the film Conclave, which had already been agreed and prepared for two years with the director, with the audience freshly briefed on the procedure of veiling the Pope's body, Bergoglio's death is simulated in his hospital apartment at St. Mary Major.
A simulacrum of his body had long been made, in wax, or latex, which is immediately covered by butlers with a thick veil, just as seen in the film. After all, this is justified by the new rules, since the veiling of the Pope's body will no longer be done at the closing of the coffin.
The simulacrum made a few years ago for the body of Padre Pio clearly shows what extraordinary heights of verisimilitude can be reached in simulating the corpse of a person. Imagine if this mask were even veiled.
“The Pope is dead": the Secretary of State, the dean, the substitute, and the ushers arrive for the first and only ‘restricted’ vigil, but Bergoglio's simulacrum is covered by the veil.
The cases, at this point, are three: either they are all aware of the charade and perfectly in agreement to avoid an eschatological scandal for the Church, allowing a convenient exit strategy for Bergoglio.
Or officially they don't know but pretend not to understand, for the same purpose, or the trusty butlers barely lift the veil for a moment, keep the visiting cardinals away, deceiving them, and don't have them closely inspect the corpse.
If desired, the simulacrum thus veiled could also be briefly exposed to the faithful pressing the doors of St. Mary Major, as seen in the film “Conclave” so as to lend credibility to Blessed Emmerick's prophecy and to save a minimum of appearances.
In any case, the faithful kept at a distance see very little of the supposed body covered by the veil.
Then, after the first and only vigil, in the same ceremony, the casket is closed and brought to St. Peter's for the funeral. While Bergoglio sits quietly in his apartment in St. Mary Major, the people attend a puppet funeral.
The chest is then brought back to St. Mary Major and buried in the sacristy of the candelabra.
After a few days, with all comforts, Bergoglio leaves Italy to some secluded retreat that he has had arranged for some time.
All the media focus on the new conclave, the trial passes in cavalcade, the promoters of the legal action are ground down by public hatred, “for making good Pope Francis die of heartbreak.”
All cardinals, including those of antipapal appointment hastily elect, in an invalid conclave, the anti-Pope Freemason John XXIV chosen from an establishment cardinal: a moderate, expendable for all seasons.
The Masonic antichiesa with its Gnostic cult continues, supported by the one cum world (Bergoglio's legitimizing traditionalists) breathing a sigh of relief.
At first it slows down, it seems that the new “Pope” wants to reverse course, and then, with more gentleness and more subtlety the work of dismantling the Catholic faith continues.
Butlers collect the prize when the operation is complete, Bergoglio spends his last years of life hidden away in a beautiful Argentine fazenda, isolated in the pampas, protected by his new friend Milei.
*text from El Sucesor:
D. You modified the funeral ritual of the Popes, why?
R. I am revising the ritual with the master of ceremonies so that the Popes are veiled and buried like any other son of the Church.
With dignity, like any Christian, but not on pillows. In my opinion, the current ritual was too overloaded. Having two vigils seemed excessive to me.
Let there be only one and with the Pope already in the coffin, as in all families. I changed several things, in line with the reform already done by Paul VI and John Paul II.
What else has been changed?
There will no longer be a closing ceremony for the casket. It will all be done in the same ceremony, as with any Christian.
Also, in my case they will have to take me to the basilica of St. Mary Major. When the funeral is over, let them take me there.
D. Gosh, what a surprise! I imagined he would choose the Vatican Grottoes in St. Peter's, but actually the Basilica of St. Mary Major is closely linked to his pontificate.
He visited it as soon as he was elected Pope and does so again every time he leaves or returns to Rome.
R. I have a great devotion to St. Mary Major, since before I became Pope, since always.
Everything is ready there. Just past the sculpture of the Queen of Peace there is a small enclosure, a door that leads to a room that was used to store candelabra.
I saw it and thought, “This is the place,” and the burial place is already prepared there.
It has been confirmed to me that it is ready.