4.4. Are you saying that impostors hijacked the Catholic Church and created a new religion to deceive millions? If so, where did the true Church go?
Yes — that is precisely what happened, and it has strong precedent both in prophecy and Church history.
After the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the Vatican was overtaken by men who publicly abandoned the Catholic Faith. Beginning with John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), they introduced doctrines and practices previously condemned by the Church — such as religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and a new liturgy (the Novus Ordo Missae). These were not minor reforms or organic developments; they constituted a new religion, incompatible with the Catholic Faith.
This counterfeit religion retained the external appearance of the Catholic Church (buildings, titles, rituals), but internally it altered the substance of the Faith. As Pope Pius X warned, the Modernists’ goal was not to abandon the Church, but to infiltrate it and change it from within (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
So where did the Church go?
The Church did not disappear — it was eclipsed, as Our Lady foretold at La Salette. Just as during the Arian crisis of the 4th century, the majority of bishops fell into heresy, while a faithful remnant preserved the true faith. St. Athanasius was excommunicated by a false hierarchy and stood alone — yet he was right, because he held to Tradition.
In the same way, after Vatican II, many faithful priests and bishops — though few in number — refused to go along with the new religion. They continued offering the Traditional Latin Mass, upheld the unchanging Catholic doctrine, and rejected the authority of heretical impostors.
Were they in schism or rebellion?
No. To reject heresy is not schism — it is obedience to Christ and fidelity to the Church. The sin of schism is defined as the refusal to submit to legitimate authority. But the men who introduced and promoted the Vatican II religion had already lost ecclesiastical office by publicly defecting from the faith (see Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio, Pope Paul IV, and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law).
The traditional clergy who separated from this new religion did not found a new Church — they preserved the old one, just as it had always existed. They did not innovate or create new doctrines — they maintained the same Mass, the same catechism, the same sacraments, and the same magisterial teaching that had sanctified saints for 1,900 years.
In summary:
Yes, the visible structures of the Church were hijacked by modernist impostors after Vatican II.
A new, man-made religion was imposed under the guise of Catholicism.
The true Church did not disappear, but continued in the remnant who remained faithful to tradition.
The priests and bishops who resisted were not in schism, but upheld the Church’s indefectibility by rejecting heretics and preserving apostolic doctrine.
As St. Athanasius said:
“Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.”
Further reading:
The Vatican II Crisis - A True Drama of Spiritual Warfare
The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita - A Masonic Blueprint for the subversion of the Catholic Church
A Conspiracy against the Catholic Church? The True Popes Speaks
Former FBI Consultant Claims: U.S. Intel Docs show Cardinal Siri elected Pope Gregory XVII in 1958
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