Against Catherine Emmerich and Padre Pio By Richard Joseph Michael Ibranyi TABLE OF CONTENTS APOSTATE CATHERINE EMMERICH (1774-1824) ......................................................................................... 1 She denied the Salvation Dogma .............................................................................................................. 2 She denied the dogma that only eight survived the Great Flood .............................................................. 2 She committed idolatry by calling Zoroaster a “Shining Star” .................................................................. 3 She held the error that the devils did not know that Jesus was the Messias and God ............................. 3 She held the error that humans, animals, and plants are on the moon ................................................... 3 APOSTATE PADRE PIO (1887-1968) .............................................................................................................. 3 He denied the Salvation Dogma ............................................................................................................... 4 He did not condemn the Vatican II Church and its apostate prelates ....................................................... 5 He did not condemn the desecration and desecrators of Catholic places ................................................ 6 He was guilty of simony ............................................................................................................................ 6 THEIR DEMONIC STIGMATAS (AKA STINKMATAS) ....................................................................................... 6 Catherine Emmerich’s demonic stigmata ................................................................................................. 8 Padre Pio’s demonic stigmata .................................................................................................................. 8 Giorgio Bongiovanni’s demonic stigmata ................................................................................................. 9 Tiffany Snow’s demonic stigmata ........................................................................................................... 11 Apostate Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations from the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, recorded by Clemens Brentano, 19th century: “Anne Catherine Emmerich was born on September 8th, 1774, at Flamske, near Koesfeld, Westphalia, in West Germany, and became a nun of the Augustinian Order on November 13th, 1803… She died on February 9th, 1824. Although of simple education, she had perfect consciousness of her earliest days and could understand the liturgical Latin from her first time at Mass. During most of her later years she would vomit up even the simplest food or drink, subsisting for long periods almost entirely on water and the Holy Eucharist. She was told in mystic vision that her gift of seeing past, present, and future was greater than that possessed by anyone else in history. From the year 1812 until her death, she bore the stigmata of Our Lord, including a cross over her heart and wounds from the crown of thorns. …During the last five years of her life the day-by-day transcription of her visions and mystical experiences was recorded by Clemens Brentano, poet, literary leader, friend of Goethe and Görres, who, from the time he met her, abandoned his distinguished career and devoted the rest of his life to this work. The immense mass of notes preserved in his journals forms one of the most extensive case histories of a mystic ever kept and provides the source for the material found in this book .”1 The apostate Catherine Emmerich denied the Salvation Dogma, denied the dogma that only eight survived the Great Flood, committed idolatry by calling Zoroaster a “Shining Star,” and held many obvious errors, all of which she said were taught to her by God in her visions. 1 The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations from the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, recorded by Clemens Brentano. Arranged and edited by Rev. Carl E. Schmoger, C.SS.R. Publisher: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1986. Nihil Obstat: Em. De Jaegher, Can. Lib. cens., 1914. Imprimatur: A. C. De Schrevel, Vic. gen., 1914. Vol. 1, pp. ix-x. 1 She denied the Salvation Dogma In one of her visions, she heretically denied the Salvation Dogma. She teaches that pagans are in purgatory and thus saved and that purgatory contains idols: The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Clemens Maria Brentano’s record of Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions, 1833: “I next saw our Lord, with his triumphant procession, enter into a species of Purgatory which was filled with those good pagans who, having had a faint glimmering of the truth, had longed for its fulfillment: this Purgatory was very deep, and contained a few demons, as also some of the idols of the pagans. I saw the demons compelled to confess the deception they had practised with regard to these idols, and the souls of the poor pagans cast themselves at the feet of Jesus, and adored him with inexpressible joy: here, likewise, the demons were bound with chains and dragged away. I saw our Saviour perform many other actions; but I suffered so intensely at the same time, that I cannot recount them as I should have wished.”2 She denied the dogma that only eight survived the Great Flood She contradicted the Holy Bible, the first Pope and holy Apostle St. Peter, and all the Church Fathers who teach that only eight humans survived the Great Flood: “And Noe went in and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. (Gen. 7:7) …In the days of Noe, when the ark was a building, wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. (1 Pt. 3:20)” St. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, 413 AD: “The whole race became of such a character that it was swept away by the deluge, with the exception of one just man, whose name was Noah, and his wife and three sons and three daughters-in- law, which eight persons were alone deemed worthy to escape from that desolating visitation which destroyed all men.”3 But Emmerich and her vision denied this dogma: The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations from the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, recorded by Clemens Brentano, 19th century: “And now the time for the Deluge drew nigh. Noe had already announced it to his family. He took with him into the ark Sem, Cham, and Japhet with their wives and their children. There were in the ark grandsons from fifty to eighty years old with their children small and large. All that had labored at its construction and who were good and free from idolatry, entered with Noe. There were over one hundred people in the ark, and they were necessary to give daily food to the animals and to clean after them. I must say, for I always see it so, that Sem’s, Cham’s, and Japhet’s children all went into the ark. There were many little boys and girls in it, in fact all of Noe’s family that were good. …In 1 Peter 3:20, only eight souls are mentioned as saved in the ark; viz., the four ancestral couples by whom, after the Deluge, the earth was to be peopled. I also saw Hom in the ark. The child was fastened by a skin into a bark cradle formed like a trough.”4 2 The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Clemens Maria Brentano’s record of Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions, 1833. Nihil Obstat: Georgius D. Smith, D.D., Censor Deputatus. Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis, Westmonasterii, May 21, 1928. Publisher: Tan Books, 1983. Chap. 59, par. 4. 3 b. 15, c. 8. 4 v. 1, c. 6, p. 38. 2 She committed idolatry by calling Zoroaster a “Shining Star” The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations from the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, recorded by Clemens Brentano, 19th century: “At last, I saw Noe removing with all his family to the country in which Zoroaster, the Shining Star, subsequently dwelt.”5 She held the error that the devils did not know that Jesus was the Messias and God The Holy Bible teaches that the devils knew who Jesus was, that he was the Messias and the Son of God: “And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was Christ.” (Lk. 4:41) If all the Church Fathers taught this, then Emmerich’s error is also heresy. She and her vision taught that the devils did not know that Jesus was God and the Messias (the Christ): The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations from the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, recorded by Clemens Brentano, 19th century: “Satan did not yet know what to think of Him. He was aware, it is true, of the Prophecies relating to Him and he felt that He exercised power over himself, but he did not yet know that Jesus was God. He did not know even that He was the Messiah whose advent he so dreaded, since he beheld Him fasting, hungering, enduring temptation; since he saw Him so poor, suffering in so many ways; in a word, since he saw Him in all things so like an ordinary man. In this, Satan was as blind as the Pharisees. He looked upon Jesus as a holy man whom temptation might lead to a fall.”6 She held the error that humans, animals, and plants are on the moon Emmerich and her vision held the error that there are humans, animals, and plants on the moon: The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich, by the Very Reverend Carl E. Schmöger, C.SS.R., 1885: “ ‘The moon…Her waters are constantly rising and falling… I see in her many human figures flying from light into darkness as if hiding their shame, as if their conscience were in a bad state. This I see more frequently in the centre of the moon. In other parts are fields and thickets in which animals roam. I never saw any worship of God on the moon. The soil is yellow and stony; the vegetation like pith, fungi, or mushrooms…’ ”7 Apostate Padre Pio (1887-1968) Padre Pio of Pietrelcina was born as Francesco Forgione in Pietrelcina, Italy, in 1887. Around the age of 10, after having caught typhoid fever, he began to report “heavenly visions and ecstasies.” At the age of 15, he joined the Friars Minor Capuchins. When he was 17, he became extremely ill again and it was during this time that inexplicable 5 v. 1, c. 6, p. 34. 6 v. 1, c. 8, p. 13. 7 Imprimatur: + Peter Joseph, Bishop of Limbourg, Sept. 26, 1867. Reprinted by Tan Books in 1976. V. 2, c. 4, p. 208. 3 phenomena allegedly began to occur and his fellow friars claimed to have seen him in ecstasy, levitating above the ground.8 In 1910, after completing his 7-year study for the priesthood, he was ordained and moved to San Giovanni Rotondo. In 1918 he received the stigmata while hearing confession. It was also reported that he had the gifts of healing, bilocation, levitation, prophecy, ability to read hearts, and incredible fragrance from his stigmata wounds. He died in 1968 at the age of 81. He often said, “After my death I will do more. My real mission will begin after my death.”9 That demonic prophecy is being fulfilled down to this day. His real work is to subvert and distract souls by his demonic miracles that justify the heresies he believed and taught. Lurking beneath his false piety and miracles was an evil apostate that was deluded by the devil. He denied the Salvation Dogma The apostate Padre Pio denied the Salvation Dogma. He believed that certain men who died worshipping a false god or believing in a false religion or adhering to a false Church or sect are saved. On one occasion, Padre Pio did not try to convert an obstinate Presbyterian woman, Adelaide Pyle, who became his personal friend through her daughter, Mary Pyle, who was a close friend of Padre Pio. Not only did he not attempt to convert her, but he said that she would be saved even though she believed in a false religion and adhered to a false Church—the Presbyterian religion and Church: “Padre Pio on Salvation Outside the Church,” by apostate Frank M. Rega, S.F.O.: “Mary [Pyle] often tried to convince her mother to convert to Catholicism as she herself had done, but Adelaide reportedly said in Padre Pio’s presence, ‘I would rather allow myself to be burned alive for my religion!’ Padre Pio advised Mary not to push her mother to convert: ‘Let her be! Don’t upset her peace.’10 However, Mary continued to worry because her mother was not a Catholic, and Padre Pio counseled, ‘Let’s not confuse her. She will be saved because she has faith.’11 “In 1936, Adelaide, who had grown older and was nearing death, made one last trip to San Giovanni Rotondo. As she said goodbye to Padre Pio at the end of this visit, the saintly [RJMI: apostate] priest pointed heavenward, saying to the Protestant Adelaide, ‘I hope we will see each other again soon, but if we don’t see each other here, we will see each other up there.’12 She passed away in the fall of 1937 at the age of seventy-seven.13 Her daughter Mary then became pre-occupied about her mother’s salvation. After dreaming that her mother was in Rome standing in front of the Vatican, she poured out her anxiety to Padre Pio. He replied, ‘And who told you that your mother could not be saved?’14” 15 On another occasion, Padre Pio stated that an apostate Jew who died would be saved but it would be necessary to pray much for him: 8 I miracoli di Padre Pio, by Renzo Allegri, 1996, p. 20. 9 Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio, by Dianne Allen, 2012. Publisher: Padre Pio Press, California. Book 1, Preface. 10 Footnote 8: “Massa, Bonaventura, Mary Pyle, She Lived Doing Good to All, San Giovanni Rotondo, Our Lady of Grace Capuchin Friary, 1986, p. 101.” 11 Footnote 9: “Ibid., p. 116.” 12 Footnote 10: “Ibid., p. 108.” 13 Footnote 11: “Ruffin, C. Bernard, Padre Pio: the True Story (Revised and Expanded), Huntington, IN, Our Sunday Visitor, 1991, p. 240.” 14 Footnote 12: “Massa, Mary Pyle, p. 108.” 15 Published in Christian Order, 12/2006 issue. 4 “Padre Pio on Salvation Outside the Church,” by apostate Frank M. Rega, S.F.O.: “Fr. Alessio Parente, O.F.M. Cap., lived and worked alongside Padre Pio for many years in Our Lady of Grace Friary at San Giovanni Rotondo. He wrote numerous books about his confrere, and his works provide reliable source material for the saint. “The following information is from Fr. Alessio’s book The Holy Souls,16 and was related by a ‘very good friend’ of his, Mrs. Florence Fine Ehrman, the daughter of the person in question. “In 1965 her father, Julius Fine, who had practiced the Jewish faith all his life… was stricken with what is commonly called ‘Lou Gehrig’s disease.’ Mrs. Ehrman wrote to Padre Pio beseeching a cure for her father from this fatal illness. A short time later she received the reply that Padre Pio would pray for her father and would take him under his protection. “When her father passed away in February of the next year, she was able to accept his death peacefully. However after some time, she began to worry about whether or not he was saved, even though he had been a very loving and kind husband and father… “On a visit to the friary at San Giovanni Rotondo in the fall of 1967, she was told by a personal friend…to write down whatever she wished to ask Padre Pio, and this friend would present the letter to him. She of course wrote down her concerns about the eternal state of her father’s soul—this good and gentle Jewish man who had never been baptized. The reply from Padre Pio, which she received in writing, was this: ‘Julius Fine is saved, but it is necessary to pray much for him.’ Her mind was put at ease by such a ‘sure and definite’ statement, since she understood that her father was in Purgatory, his salvation guaranteed.” He did not condemn the Vatican II Church and its apostate prelates Instead of condemning the apostate Antipope Paul VI and his sins against the faith, especially those enshrined in the invalid and heretical Second Vatican Council which was promulgated by Paul VI in 1965, the apostate Padre Pio referred to him as a holy pope and praised him: Padre Pio, “Letter to Pope Paul VI,” 9/12/1968: “Availing myself of Your Holiness’ meeting with the Capitular Fathers, I unite myself in spirit with my Brothers, and in a spirit of faith, love and obedience to the greatness of Him whom you represent on earth, offer my respectful homage to Your August Person, humbly kneeling at Your feet. …I know that Your heart suffers much these days on account of the happenings in the Church: for peace in the world, for the great needs of its peoples; but above all, for the lack of obedience of some, even Catholics, to the lofty teachings which You, assisted by the Holy Spirit and in the name of God, have given us. I offer Your Holiness my daily prayers and sufferings, the insignificant but sincere offering of the least of your sons, asking the Lord to comfort you with His grace to continue along the direct yet often burdensome way… In the name of my spiritual sons and of the ‘Praying Groups’ I thank Your Holiness for the clear and decisive words You have spoken in the recent encyclical, ‘Humanae Vitae,’ and I reaffirm my own faith and my unconditional obedience to Your inspired directives. May God grant…health and prosperity to Your Holiness, so that when these disturbing clouds pass over, the Reign of God may triumph in all hearts… Prostrate at Your feet, I beg you to bless me, my Brothers in religion, my spiritual 16 Footnote 14: “Parente, Fr. Alessio, The Holy Souls: “Viva Padre Pio,” San Giovanni Rotondo, Our Lady of Grace Capuchin Friary, 1990, pp. 104-106.” 5 sons, the ‘Praying Groups,’ all the sick—that we may faithfully fulfill the good works done in the name of Jesus and under your protection.”17 In 1947 the apostate Padre Pio prophesied that Karol Wojtyla would become pope. This demonic prophecy led people to believe that John Paul II would be a true pope instead of an apostate antipope: Wikipedia, Padre Pio: “In 1947, Father Karol Józef Wojtyła (later Pope John Paul II), a young Polish priest who was studying in Rome at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, visited Padre Pio, who heard his confession. Austrian Cardinal Alfons Stickler reported that Wojtyła confided to him that during this meeting, Padre Pio told him he would one day ascend to ‘the highest post in the Church.’ 18” Instead of condemning the invalid and heretical Second Vatican Council and John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II and their many sins against the faith, Padre Pio glorified them. He did not condemn the desecration and desecrators of Catholic places The apostate Padre Pio lived in an Italy that was filled with nominal Catholic places that were desecrated with images of devils, idols, false gods, false religions, pagans, heretics, schismatics, vice, grotesque deformity, and immodesty and pornography (which by their very nature glorify immorality and thus are heretical). In spite of all this, Padre Pio never condemned the desecrations nor the desecrators nor those who approved of the desecrations but instead remained in religious communion with them. Hence he was an apostate on this point alone. (See RJMI book The Desecration of Catholic Places and RJMI videos/audios The Desecration of Catholic Places and The Desecration of St. Peter’s Basilica.) He was guilty of simony Like all of the nominal Catholic priests during his day, Padre Pio was guilty of simony for accepting money for the sacraments, stipends for Masses, and stole fees for baptisms and funerals. See RJMI Topic Index: Simony. Their Demonic Stigmatas (aka Stinkmatas) Those who put signs and wonders before the Catholic faith will say, “What about all the miracles attributed to Catherine Emmerich and Padre Pio? What about their stigmatas? Isn’t this more than enough to prove they were saints and thus they could not have been apostates!” Those who put the Catholic faith before signs and wonders will say: “So what! I don’t care how many signs and wonders they may have done or even if they appeared to be angels from heaven. My main concern is that they were heretics and idolaters and thus 17 “A Letter from Padre Pio to Pope Paul VI,” L’Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 10/10/1968, p. 9. Provided by EWTN, Irondale, AL. 18 Footnote 37: “Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II, by Jonathan Kwitny, 1997. Publisher: Henry Holt and Company. P. 768.” 6 were apostates and hence they were anathema, condemned. Therefore they were anti- saints!” Signs and wonders are apparent miracles, exorcisms (the casting out of devils), apparitions, and fulfilled prophecies. Godly signs and wonders are from God. Demonic signs and wonders (aka lying signs and wonders) are from the Devil. St. Paul says that Antichrist’s “coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders.” (2 Thes. 2:9) And Jesus warns Catholics to beware of demonic signs and wonders, especially those done by nominal Catholics and bad Catholics, which hence could even deceive the elect (good Catholics) if possible: “For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.” (Mt. 24:24) In order to deceive the elect, if possible, these sign-and-wonder workers have to be nominal Catholics or bad Catholics because the elect will never be deceived by signs and wonders done by self-professed non-Catholics. Jesus does not mean that the elect will be deceived but only if it were possible because God protects the elect from being deceived. By saying this, Jesus emphasizes the fact that these demonic signs and wonders will be done by nominal Catholics and be very great indeed and thus seem to be godly by mere appearances. Therefore, while miracles and outward piety are necessary conditions to be a true saint, they are not the main conditions. The main conditions to be a saint are orthodoxy and outward and inward morality. Hence a true saint cannot be a formal heretic, a formal schismatic, or immoral. Any so-called saint who is guilty of any one of these mortal sins is not a true saint even if he performed signs and wonders and was outwardly pious—his outward piety in this case did not reflect inward piety. Hence miracles and outward piety are not sure signs of sanctity. The miracles or other signs and wonders attributed to a canonized saint who is actually evil and in hell are either false miracles of the Devil or true miracles that God allowed for the sake of others. That is why Moses and St. Paul tell believers to judge all things (which includes apparent prophets, saints, and good angels and their signs and wonders) by the faith, which is all the Catholic dogmas on faith and morals: “If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, and that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them: Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not. Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.” (Deut. 13:1-4) “But though we or an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.” (Gal. 1:8) “Try your own selves if you be in the faith; prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5) “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” (1 Thes. 5:21) “Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” (1 Jn. 4:1) 7 Therefore we know that the stigmatas of Catherine Emmerich and Padre Pio were demonic and not godly because both of them denied several dogmas. Hence I call their stigmatas “stinkmatas.” (See RJMI video/audio Faith before Signs and Wonders and RJMI Topic Index: Signs and Wonders.) Catherine Emmerich’s demonic stigmata Padre Pio’s demonic stigmata 8 Giorgio Bongiovanni’s demonic stigmata Those who put signs and wonders before the Catholic faith will say that Giorgio Bongiovanni is a saint because he has the stigmata. He was born in 1963 and lives in Italy. He got his first apparition when he visited the site of the demonic apparition of Fatima; and shortly after that, in 1989, he received the stigmata. Giorgio Bongiovanni’s Stigmata Yet Giorgio is an apostate and thus a nominal Catholic:  He is a New Ager.  He believes in aliens.  He believes that the Blessed Virgin Mary is really Myriam, a form of Mother Earth.  He believes that Jesus went to other planets besides earth and that the aliens accepted him as their type of Messias and did not crucify him. 9  He believes that the sun, the galaxies, and the planets are alive, and that they possess an intelligence, the same intelligence that talks to men and helps them along in their evolution.  He believes that the spirit evolves through the process of reincarnation. Giorgio Bongiovanni is an Italian demonic stigmatist who daily experiences unexplained bleeding from his hands, feet, forehead, and chest, mimicking the wounds of the crucified body of Jesus Christ. He was born in Floridia, Sicily, on 9/5/1963. In 1976, at the age of 13, he met Eugenio Siragusa, the notorious alien contactee from Catania, who became his “Spiritual Father.” Giorgio dedicated himself wholeheartedly to the study of the messages that Eugenio Siragusa received from “ancient beings” (devils) that came from what he thought were “different worlds.” They told him they had come in order to help the human race in its evolutionary path. Some of their beliefs include the abominable heresies that the Blessed Virgin Mary (whom they referred to as Myriam) is actually “Mother Earth” and that there is life on other planets. They believe that Jesus Christ also existed on other planets but that the creatures there accepted him, unlike the humans on earth, and now these creatures are “beings of light.” In 1989 Giorgio had a vision of a “being” that referred to itself as Myriam. She informed him that she would be visiting him frequently. His biography relates the following during one of his visions when he was kneeling down: “The Celestial Mother called him. Giorgio, gone in ecstasy, saw once more the Sublime Being that asked him if he was willing to carry part of the anguish of Her Son. Giorgio Bongiovanni agrees…and observed two rays of light departed from her chest, decorated with a white rose, that hit the palms of his hands. Giorgio fell backwards. His friends drew closer to assist him, and saw on the back of his hands a sort of bulge that burst little by little, as if a nail pushed from the inside to the outside, to open up a deep wound that went across the palms fully. The copious daily haemorrhage could even take place more than once a day and were extremely painful. It required a few hours for Giorgio to be able to recover.”19 Giorgio, with the help of his brother, founded the magazine Nonsiamosoli (We Are Not Alone) which brought together the different aspects of Eugenio Siragusa’s heretical messages: “They regarded life in the Universe, the degeneration of human kind affected by the Harbar, which is the plague of brain neurons caused by pollution, able to push people to accomplish foolish acts like being homicidal and suicidal, and the resulting upset of the planet’s equilibrium.”20 The following heretical statements from Giorgio Bongiovanni are from his interview with Share International’s US editor Monte Leach: “Monte Leach [ML]: You have said that spiritual beings of light are creating signs to sensitize humanity to their presence. Who are these beings of light and what are the signs they are giving to humanity to sensitize us to their presence? “Giorgio Bongiovanni [GB]: The evolution of these beings has been much faster than ours and they are much more evolved than us. They are in a different dimension and that’s why they are made of light. They have the capability of manipulating matter because of their evolution. The kind of science they have is 19 “The Story of Giorgio Bongiovanni,” by Anna Alessia Petrozzi. 20 Ibid. 10