May 2026
MOAFA vis-à-vis SSPX
Manipulation, confusion and the consequent delusion of Mary’s children are hallmarks of Marian history. The Devil seeks always and everywhere to fracture Mary’s spiritual army and weaken the full force of its unified intercessory power before God.
The worst and most obvious of the many devilish fruits of this divide-and-conquer stratagem is disobedience.
Bishops vested with the spiritual and temporal power to investigate and discern the nature of alleged appearances of Mary are treated with disdain when their negative rulings fall foul of those convinced that the good and pious outcomes of their favoured apparitions could only hail from heaven.
Unable simply to pray and wait in all humility and faith for Our Lady to rectify an episcopal judgment they consider mistaken (despite renowned instances of such heavenly correctives in God's good time), intemperance, pride and self-righteousness become signatures of the disoriented and deluded.
In consequence, their open rebellion against lawful authority—often aided and abetted by ill-informed ecclesiastics and compromised 'Catholic' media—upends the order and tranquillity synonymous with Catholic faith in general, and with devotion to approved apparitions in particular.
This rupture detracts from demonstrably true visitations by the Queen of Heaven and the salvific instruction and associated messages that she dispenses for God.
In honour of Our Blessed Mother, therefore, and in all charity to sorely misled souls, May is always an appropriate month to revisit this perennial scourge of satanic simulacrums in her regard; either to alert readers to sobering reports from the CO archives, or to reacquaint them with such.
In our March 2013 edition, for instance, a renowned authority on the subject provided us with the ensuing synopsis. It speaks not only to the telltale fruits of the longest running Marian fraud in history but, as we have so often stressed, to the roots that betrayed its dark origins from the outset.
To underline the stark contrast between heavenly truth and devilish deceit we juxtapose this Mother of All False Apparitions (MOAFA) with the inestimable gift of true devotions and promises evoked by authentic apparitions.
Not that one would ever guess the abyss between the two based on the outcome of Rome's yearslong investigation into MOAFA. Not only did the farcical Ruini Commission manage to hurdle the clear-cut negative finding of the local bishop (based on the sort of damning facts presented in Mr Waterinckx's summary), it could not even decide which of the original 'apparitions' were worthy of belief! Indeed it set aside every telltale thing, including no miracles (—only 10 of the 487 cases of alleged MOAFA “healings” being deemed worthy of examination by medical experts, who concluded that none of those—zero—were scientifically inexplicable).
In the end, the Pontifical Commission lacked the faith, honesty and guts to denounce the fraud and call out the fraudsters, fearing a rabid response to a definitive thumbs down.
In Processo a Medjugorje (Trial in Medjugorje, 2021, Rubettino editions), a work revealing the secret and unpublished minutes of the Commission, author Davide Murgiah reports the views confided to him by some members of the Commission.
"Imagine the unprecedented scandal that would arise in the Church if the phenomenon of Medjugorje were to prove to be false, artificial, unfounded. It would have deceived a multitude of people,” said one, on condition of anonymity.He might have added: 'So, to avoid the alarming truth that would nonetheless set them free, best to maintain the deceitful status quo, let MOAFA roll on, and leave them fooled, exploited, and their souls imperilled.'
Which brings us to the SSPX controversy.
As related in this edition, A Spanish diocesan priest recently tweeted that “Rome should formally accept the forthcoming episcopal ordinations” and recognise what he described as the “spiritual fruits of the SSPX apostolate.”
Only a Vatican upended, overcome and preternaturally blinded by Modernism could fail to see the hypocrisy and injustice at play here: viz., appealing to "good" fruits and the pastoral care of pilgrims whose flagrant disobedience fuelled and sustained the MOAFA, while simultaneously decrying the arguable disobedience of the SSPX, discounting their "good fruits," and abandoning pastoral care of their adherents. Just saying.