May 5, 2007: Counterfeit Catholic Church - Brother Michael Dimond | Global Warming Politics
The second half features Brother Michael Dimond, a traditional Catholic Benedictine monk who argues that the post-Vatican II Church represents a counterfeit version of Catholicism. Brother Dimond explains how changes to the Mass introduced by Pope Paul VI, particularly the alteration of consecration words from "many" to "all," mirror Protestant reforms made by the Church of England centuries earlier. He contends these changes invalidated the sacraments for millions of Catholics worldwide.
Brother Dimond connects these institutional changes to biblical prophecy, citing Daniel and Thessalonians as predictions of apostasy within the Church. He discusses the invalidation of priestly ordinations under the new rites, the Third Secret of Fatima, and Pope Leo XIII's reported vision in which the devil was granted a period of roughly 75 to 100 years to attempt the destruction of the Catholic Church from within.
Key Moments
The last five popes are anti-popes: Brother Dimond claims the last five claimants to the papacy are uncanonically elected anti-popes working for the Antichrist to destroy the Catholic sacraments.
Changing 'many' to 'all' invalidated the Mass: Dimond argues that altering Christ's words of consecration from 'for many' to 'for all' in the post-Vatican II Mass invalidated the Eucharist worldwide, fulfilling Daniel's prophecy of the ceasing sacrifice.
John Paul II in the synagogue, Benedict in the Blue Mosque: Dimond catalogs popes praying with rabbis in Rome and Cologne, John Paul II's prayer for Islam's protection, and Benedict XVI facing Mecca in Istanbul's Blue Mosque as proof of public apostasy.
Art's wife crossing herself, and the question of hell: Art presses Dimond on whether ordinary devout Catholics, like his wife saying grace, are hellbound under his theology; Dimond pivots to religious indifferentism as the disqualifier.
La Salette, Fatima, and Rome as the seat of Antichrist: Dimond cites the 1846 La Salette apparition's prophecy that Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist, tying it to a suppressed Third Secret of Fatima about apostasy starting at the top.