Across the transom from a Barnhardt Benefactor Mass priest:

Ann,

I trust in the Lord that you are well. Keep the Faith.

I am sending this for your quick perusal. The paragraph numbering [46] is from Yves Dupont’s Catholic Prophecy. This section is taken from prophecy of the Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser (Born in the 17th century, in Germany) and concerns what he calls the 5th period of the Church which, he says, began circa 1520 and continues into the present. According to Mr. Dupont the Church would now be in the latter part of this 5th period. I pick it up at 46.4 and draw your attention to the deleterious effect on the Church of ‘Bible Lawyers’ and Canonists in para 46.7, and the failure of the Bishops in para 46.8

46.4 “Are we not to fear, during this period, that the Mo­hammedans will come again, working out their sinister schemes against the Latin Church?

46.5 “During this period, many men will abuse of the freedom of conscience conceded to them. It is of such men that Jude, the Apostle, spoke when he said: ‘These men blas­pheme whatever they do not understand; and they corrupt whatever they know naturally as irrational animals do… They feast together without restraint, feeding themselves, grumbling murmurers, walking according to their lusts; their mouth speaketh proud things, they admire people for the sake of gain; they bring about division, sensual men, having not the Spirit.’

46.6 “During this unhappy period, there will be laxity in divine and human precepts. Discipline will suffer. The Holy Canons will be completely disregarded, and the Clergy will not respect the laws of the Church. Everyone will be carried away and led to believe and to do what he fancies, according to the manner of the flesh.

46.7 “They will ridicule Christian simplicity: they will call it folly and nonsense, but they will have the highest regard for advanced knowledge, and for the skill by which the axioms of the law, the precepts of morality, the Holy Canons and religious dogmas are clouded by senseless questions and elaborate arguments. As a result, no principle at all, however holy, authentic, ancient, and certain it may be, will remain free of censure, criticism, false interpretations, modification and delimitation by man.

46.8 “These are evil times, a century full of dangers and calamities. Heresy is everywhere, and the followers of heresy are in power almost everywhere. Bishops, prelates, and priests say that they are doing their duty, that they are vigilant, and that they live as befits their state in life. In like manner, there­fore, they all seek excuses. But God will permit a great evil against His Church: Heretics and tyrants will come suddenly and unexpectedly; they will break into the Church while bishops, prelates, and priests are asleep. They will enter Italy and lay Rome waste; they will burn down the churches and destroy everything.