In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, Father Martin says this Lefebvre material included documentation of Freemasonic affiliations of various Cardinals, together with sexual scandal, including photos of some Vatican officials with their girl friends and others with their boy friends. Unless I misread him, Father Martin seems to imply that it is a strange coincidence that Pope John Paul I's death followed so quickly upon his receipt of this expose material from Archbishop Lefebvre.Whatever one thinks of that speculation, and the claims about the "murder" of JP-I attributed to unnamed sources in Yallop's In God's Name, there is no doubt that Mino Pecorelli, editor of the expose newspaper L'Osservatore Politico Internazionale, did send JP-I a list of P2 and Grand Loge Alpina members on the the staff of the Vatican Bank just before that Pontiff's sudden demise. What happened to Pecorelli leaves little room for speculation. He was shot dead on a street in Rome, quite definitely by professional assassins.
If you must speculate, Signor Pecorelli was shot through the mouth – 'the sasso in bocca', the traditional Mafia punishment for informers.
It's happening across the West. In recent years, a slow trickle has been turning into a steady stream — and in many countries, a Niagara — of beautiful, historic churches being shuttered.
The grief and frustration from these losses affect entire communities. Worse, most Catholics believe that such losses are inevitable.
The Philippines is known in the Catholic world as the "Pueblo Amante de Maria", a Spanish phrase which literally means "Bayang Sumisinta kay Maria", the People in love with Mary for the Filipino people have a very strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary since the Spanish period and it is proven to be resilient for centuries.
St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. The pulpit from which St. John Capistrano preached a crusade in 1454 to hold back Muslim invasions of Christian Europe.