Long live the Pope: an exposé

Forty years ago, no-one would care to scream blasphemy at the claim there is something rotten about the leadership of the Catholic Church, or, it is because of corrupt priests that people stopped believing in God. Today however, the story goes quite differently. Believers comprise an estimated 89% of humanity, over seven and a half billion souls that is, 90% of whom are Roman Catholics. With its figures well on the rise, the Catholic Church occupies every volume of every space in our society and no-one dares to speak up against the holiness of its leader, the Pope of Rome. And yet, nothing from all that glitters in Peter II’s ‘reign of records’ is gold; certainly not the harsh repression of Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and atheist folk, or the purges of scientists, teachers, artists and even priests on charges of heresy and satanism, let alone yesterday’s twisted, grotesque freakshow. It is therefore manifest duty of the free and the sane of our times, our Organization holds firmly, to keep silent no longer, and finally care to scream blasphemy unlike our parents never did; react to this preposterous perpetration of common sense and innocent sentiment! The time is ripe!

What the world entire witnessed yesterday, was by no means a divine miracle but the tip of an iceberg of evil, the climax of an elaborate hoax pulled-off after decades of preparation, the apex of a parable drafted meticulously in the shadows of history, narrating of a Roman Catholicism able to rise from its ashes, regain, and long surpass any previous secular splendor in less than half a century. Sadly though, not many remember or were ever given to know when, and how all of this started, the sheer size of coincidence, crime and interest that came into play barely a week ago, when an ex-priest was silenced, excommunicated, sued, and disappeared into nothingness after openly saying that, “the greatest blasphemy of this age is that people believe in God because of one corrupt priest, the highest of priests, the Pope” and that, “there was and still is, something deeply unholy” about the Vatican’s relations with pharmaceutical giant Plasys and the ascension of Pedro Ernesto Sensini to the Throne of Saint Peter. A sharp, piercing j’accuse that of Matthijs Janssens, interviewed for Long live the Pope, the banned documentary produced by our Organization that proves beyond doubt the guilt of the Bishop of Rome, the College of Cardinals and the Executive Board of Plasys over simony, conspiracy and fraud. A lone roar in the wilderness nonetheless that of the Dutchman, former assistant and trusted secretary of recently passed Josef Schnellinger, only Cardinal created by Benedict XVII and only ‘rookie’ to take part in the last conclave, forty years ago.

Of course, this is not the first time the Vatican stands at the crossroad of myth and controversy –and won’t be the last, we are sure. Just think of witch hunt in the Middle Ages, of Clement V decimating the Templars and moving the papacy to Avignon, of Leo X’s indulgences, of Boniface VIII put in the Inferno with the pope still alive at the fictional date of Dante’s masterpiece, of Alexander VI who had children and mistresses, of the silence of Pius XII during the Holocaust, of the death of John Paul I after thirty-three days in office, of Roberto Calvi, the ‘banker of God’ found hanging under a London bridge with bricks in his pockets, of Emanuela Orlandi, the child-abuse scandal, or the resignation of Benedict XVI just to name notable instances. Judging by such rich, eventful prehistory, by what may or may not have happened to Janssens, and by the founded hypothesis that his hefty allegations could be solidly proven in court if only brought before one, the reservoir of knowledge of this dark case constituted in our opinion the main reason and pretext for our documentary to be banned, and for our Organization to be summarily declared out of law. Thus, by recounting and exposing what we feel compelled to recount and divulgate at our own risk and peril, we aspire to exhort the reader of this pamphlet to get to know, to remember, to make up their mind and choose sides once and for all!

Not surprisingly, the simple-minded faithful and the majority of contemporary mainstream scholars tend to share the same, obviously biased and blasphemous view on the sensational comeback and monopolization of religion pulled off by Catholicism in recent years. Along their line of thought, this epopee is clearly attributed to one man and one man alone, the longest-serving pontiff in history, the first in over half a millennium to not change his name, the first to turn a hundred in office and oldest man alive, a saint walking the Earth comparable in grace and greatness to the eponymous Apostle, to Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Francis of Assisi, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina and John Paul II. When it comes to Peter II it seems, facts and figures are not allowed to disagree, for during his reign the Church became popular, powerful, almighty again, legend beyond legend. In other words, most were already convinced way before yesterday, or last week for what matters, that the days and works of the Pope are the definitive, uncontestable proof of God’s existence, and of the power of Jesus Christ over life and destiny.

In truth, it is all but the Holy Trinity the prime mover of this obscurantist madness. Plasys, the company credited for the invention of several vaccines that eradicated serious diseases from the face of the planet, had partnered with the Vatican already towards the end of the reign of John Paul III, after winning a contest to supply with knowhow and state-of-the-art equipment the Pontifical Medical University and the Gemelli hospital in Rome. At the time, John Paul III knew he was dying and probably did not have a clue of what Plasys were up to, nor of how many Vatican high officials –20–, diplomats –34– and Cardinals –over two thirds of the College– had been bought one after another to promote and favor under his nose a top-secret, groundbreaking experiment featuring the pinnacle of technology the firm could provide. For both parties there were many a reason to strike that deal. It was what some call a win-win situation –which of course never is– in a time of crisis: on one hand a desperate Vatican, admittedly irrelevant and unpopular, seeking the chance to improve its international image and overall numbers, was given a big say in a huge matter, raising Africa’s embarrassing life-expectancies, earning on top the best possible upgrade of its healthcare facilities; on the other hand, a desperate Plasys whose revenue had been steadily shrinking since the invention of nanoprosthetics would be granted the privilege of a unique, stable and highly controlled, above-the-law research environment. So far so good, one could naively posit; naively like John Paul III, who chose not to resign when he learnt of his terminal condition, but became obsessed with the African project and Plasys’s a priori good faith, an assist his stance for the ambitious firm to dare more, and make extravagant offers to the Cardinals on its payrolls, offers which most of them did not accept, asking in return more than Plasys could ever deliver. Inevitably so, divisions arose in the College and when John Paul III died, the whole thing was halted.

Fresh pontiff-clean start for Plasys with John XXIV, the ‘resolute’ pope. Renowned admirer of John XXIII and last exponent of the Church’s old guard, faced with the winds of prolonged political instability in Europe as well as with a growing wave of anti-clericalism and factions of Cardinals unable to keep their excessive lifestyles private, John XXIV spent most of his papacy battling. And lost. A straightforward explanation for this, and for the particular situation of the pope in question, a hostage on a throne capable only of refuting and choosing to not be seen often in public, was the sudden wish of the new guard of Cardinals to put for sale to private investors considerable extraterritorial properties of the Vatican, a prospect that alarmed the Institute for the Works of Religion revealing the magnitude of the Holy See’s economic debacle. Under the table though, such wholesale was never meant to happen and Plasys, at the verge of breakthrough and recovery, made sure it never happened. They bluffed, backed the old guard on-stage and the new in the backstage, that pushed for liberalizing economic reforms and obtained them. The Vatican had entered the common market now. After this abrupt shift of balance, John XXIV kept repeating no in the mornings and blinking in the evenings; at everything. Poorly advised, suffering from stress, severe diabetes, frequent migraines, and certain that nothing could change the grim course of his reign, the Pope was isolated and isolated himself day by day, until he gave up to pressures and moved permanently to summer residence Castel Gandolfo.

At the dawn of the full-time interregnum that followed the quiet demise of John XXIV away from Rome, Plasys played all-in catching the conclave by surprise, in marketing like in timing. An unexpected success it turned out, ‘panacea’ serum Sangvem was famously launched on the same day Benedict XVII was elected, and by the turn of the century, became an essential of every first-aid kit on the planet. During the ecological crisis in fact, Plasys’s stocks and prestige skyrocketed. As a result, deep in the ensuing economic and social crisis, the Pope and the Vatican found themselves eclipsed. With minimum spiritual power, overreliance on Plasys and no or poor ideas on how to harness the emerging transhumanist political order, Benedict XVII considered convening an Ecumenical Council, but was strongly discouraged and ultimately dissuaded by his Secretary of State, Cardinal Pedro Ernesto Sensini. The following Christmas, when briefed that the-then mayor of Rome, Ladroni, had allowed for churches of Satan to operate within the city, Benedict suffered a fatal heart attack.

There are three relevant issues that need to be noted at this point. First, the problem of low numbers of priests, second, the early decision of Benedict XVII to create only one Cardinal, and third, the pontiff’s strategy of collision with Plasys over the release of ‘age-stopping agent’ Elixir. You see, four decades ago most Seminaries were abandoned as there were no young Catholics who desired to be ordained, the Curia was underqualified, incompetent and reduced to pre-industrial population, whereas nepotism had turned the Vatican’s once efficient diplomatic machine into a heavy, slow and dysfunctional parody of itself. The College of Cardinals was thus allowed by the Pope to elect his successor in its entirety, through the abolition of the loss of vote at the age of eighty, a maneuver which made of every Cardinal a conclave Elector, and therefore, a candidate Pope. Relying on the popularity of this Motu Proprio, Benedict XVII who had grown increasingly diffident of Sensini’s influence over the College, soon proclaimed his intentions to restructure the Seminar and to not create more than one Cardinal during the rest of his reign, justifying the elevation of fellow countryman Josef Schnellinger as “the sole worthy, sufficient and necessary for the sake of the Church”.

In spite and because of his quality of rookie, Cardinal Schnellinger was the key-figure in the conclave that followed, the last to be held to this day. Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith under Benedict XVII and former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salzburg just like the defunct pontiff, the future Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church was regarded by the College as a standard of reference for the features of the new papacy. His preparation, sense of duty, benevolence and moderance made him highly papabile as well as a precious ally for all other candidates. Never on a Plasys bribery-list and eyewitness of Benedict’s final moments, Schnellinger knew practically as much as the Pope of Sensini’s relations with Plasys, of his direct involvement in the release of Elixir, and of the Argentine’s long-time obsession to make the Church great again. And yet, not even an insider like Schnellinger could have imagined what Sensini and Plasys were really plotting. The Austrian found out only behind closed doors, starting from those of his first conclave which he realized early, was “a satanic, blasphemous farce”.

Schnellinger’s posthumous testimony of this and other uncomfortable truths, as well as numerous documented instances of grave misconducts regarding the first twenty-four years of Sensini’s pontificate, were brought to our Organization by Matthijs Janssens in person. It is this eye-goggling material, which we researched and verified to the extent it was possible, that informs the story recounted in the present pamphlet, and drove us to shoot Long live the Pope. Janssens’s gifts indeed, provide us with satisfactory, more than revelatory answers to why Sensini deposed Schnellinger from the Congregation’s Prefecture and of what made Benedict XVII so mistrustful of his Secretary of State, as well as with chilling evidence of the trial of a mysterious drug within the walls of the Vatican.

Aged ninety, Josef Schnellinger passed away in his house in Linz at the end of last month. Officially of acute pulmonary edema. However, “from the moment Benedict XVII died” Janssens was positive, “His Eminence came to fear that his own life would also end prematurely, either by the bullets of hotheads or through Sensini’s invisible methods”. An anguish, Schnellinger’s, certainly not mitigated by the frequent public threats to his person and “the burden of guilt, yet also the sincere remorse for not having helped the Church and the Holy Father before it was too late” Janssens interpreted it. If this account holds true, and our Organization has no reasons to believe it doesn’t, Schnellinger, who out of good faith and devotion to Benedict XVII collaborated with Sensini State Secretary before tolerating him as Pope and boss, was left with no choice but to remain willingly mute until death to protect the life of his protégé, bullied fast-track out of Rome in the spring of Peter II’s papacy.

In Long live the Pope Janssens claimed that his own silence was “not dissimilar” from “poor Schnellinger’s Calvary”. The Dutchman, who was forced to resign from the Vatican and accept a missionary post in Sub-Saharan Africa to be kept away from his mentor, said he was “gutted, unforgivingly angry, and imprudently eager for vengeance” after resigning, and refused to leave Europe. Instead, he unilaterally declared his return to laity with the intent of finding a way to expose what he nevertheless knew “only roughly” about the Pope and Plasys’s workings. But Janssens needed evidence, hard evidence, evidence he did not have; at least, not until Schnellinger died. In the meantime, he became deluded with his former mentor, unable to comprehend the latter’s unchanging, docile apathy, and the two stopped talking to each-other. Unknown to everyone though, Schnellinger was all but docile and apathetic towards the ways of the new pontiff. He exploited his rank at the Vatican Archive to collect solid proofs against Sensini and Plasys for over twenty years, and put together in secret a corpulent testament which he entrusted to the Viennese notary Christoph Gruber. Gruber, who did not know anything on the matter, told us he was ordered to deliver the pack “in the hands of Janssens and Janssens alone” strictly after Schnellinger’s passing, something that eventually happened in Salzburg “the day past Schnellinger’s funeral”. Janssens said he felt “immensely happy, fatherly touched and melting with tenderness” when he received Gruber: “I cried like a child, ready to reconsider everything about everything, and resolved to pray like a saint for the rest of my days, asking forgiveness”.

Josef Schnellinger’s testament, unsealed by the only beneficiary Matthijs Janssens in presence of Christoph Gruber in Vienna, is made up of two volumes in paper, of different sizes, and a small wooden box. The thick volume includes copies of every official document in the Vatican Secret Archive –otherwise classified for at least seventy-five years from now– issued during the first twenty-three years of the current papacy that mentions a Cardinal’s name or bears his signature, the thin volume includes documentation of the same period relative to Plasys’s activities in the Vatican that confirms Janssens’s accusations of simony, conspiracy and fraud against the Pope himself, each and every member of the present College of Cardinals, and each and every member of the Executive Board of Plasys, and last but not least, the box was deposited by Gruber in an unnamed bank upon Janssens’s disposition, to be retrieved in the future only by the Dutchman in person. In it, to Janssens’s “further commotion and outmost surprise” Schnellinger treasured “the hottest of proofs”: two sealed envelopes and a small glass phial.

In Schnellinger’s testament Janssens found the answers and evidence he was waiting for all of his life. Inevitably, important issues arose. What to do next, who to address, how to let the Lord’s flock know as soon as possible? Answers were not straightforward. Legal and political channels were hazardous, mainstream press too supportive of the Vatican and social media way too unreliable, and controlled to risk getting caught red-handed. The last resort was thus our Organization. Janssens came to us accompanied by Gruber thirteen days after Schnellinger’s funeral, showed us the testament and agreed to be thoroughly interviewed by our team. For the record, when we asked if he feared for his safety, he just smiled and shook his head.

But let us focus on proofs, first and foremost on the contents of the wooden box, like Janssens insisted on our first meeting already. Each of the two sealed envelopes was addressed: one ‘To Father Matthijs Janssens’, the other ‘Long live the Pope’. Once unsealed, these contained respectively: four handwritten entries torn out of a diary and a single-sheet letter, both signed by Schnellinger, and a second, smaller sealed envelope that contained a second single-sheet letter, also handwritten yet anonymous. This last, an authentic exhibit according to radiocarbon dating and what stated in the diary entries, was delivered to Schnellinger’s room in Domus Sanctae Marthae the evening before the decisive ballot during the conclave, and the Cardinal “found it under the door after dinner”. Analyzed graphologically, handwriting and calligraphy match those of Sensini. As for the phial, although our experts were not able to identify the exact composition of the amber liquid within it, relying on Schnellinger’s account of how it came in his possession and on the information contained in the volumes, our Organization deduced it is a sample of the substance referred to as Grale, an upgrade of Plasys’s Elixir developed ad-hoc for the Pope.

“The entire Vatican stinks, and not just because of the torrid heat” writes Schnellinger in his diary on July 17 of forty years ago, first day of the conclave. “Father Matthijs guessed it right” he reveals, “it is a farce, a demonic blasphemous farce. It was everything but the Holy Spirit at work in the Sistine Chapel this morning, unless the Holy Spirit is called Sensini. His tactic in the first ballot was to turn the conservatives who confide in Montorsi against me, so that he can win their votes later. He has everything planned, I’m sure. Maybe, he even voted for me.” In the same entry, Schnellinger also recounts of the strict security measures adopted by Plasys. “It is ridiculous” he writes, “that they came to think of themselves as the Church’s mighty protectors. Then again, if it was journalists once, the faithful and a few protesters at most who surrounded the Vatican during a conclave, it is haters, troublemakers and dangerous extremists capable of God knows what, lurking out there today. What is left of the Swiss Guard can by no means keep us safe and Plasys, very keen and efficient to protect their investments within these walls, are not caught unprepared. They installed iris-scanners and close-circuit cameras everywhere. I wonder if the new Pope will keep them, like I wonder if such care and efficiency were ever applied to sustain rather than undermine, the magisterium of our late Holy Father.”

“As Secretary of State” clarified Janssens, “Sensini made sure Benedict XVII would work himself till exhaustion” whereas Pierluigi Montorsi, Dean of the College of Cardinals, “was eager to preserve the Vatican’s mundane status, accepted the harsh situation of the Church as wanted by God, and believed that only some sort of enlightened introversion would save the boat from sinking.” According to many of his colleagues however, Montorsi was too old and impractical to become Pope. “The obvious choice at that conclave was Josef Schnellinger, a man of duty, sobriety and faith” posited Janssens; “that’s why Sensini had him isolated right from the start, and convinced the College that His Eminence was inexperienced, too young and romantic, equally delusional as Montorsi, only in a more extrovert way.”

During that conclave Sensini acted as a master manipulator, an art he had perfected while Apostolic Nuncio in Washington D.C. under John XXIV. Back then, together with local Cardinal Vincent Romano and the help of Plasys and US intelligence, he plotted without the Pope’s ministers suspecting a thing, and succeeded, in forging a humanitarian crisis in his homeland Argentina, thereby toppling the cabinet of Sofia Isoardi and installing a transhumanist junta. From documents available in the thick paper volume indeed, we came to know that Monsignor Sensini, renowned beast of the backstage amidst diplomats, was entrusted by the Pope himself to follow the developments of the political and religious crisis in South America, where the Church was losing believers more than in any other part of the world. The Argentine proved spotless, diligent and precise in this official task, qualities highly valued by John XXIV’s successor which, coupled with his significant experience and expertise on international relations, made of Sensini a trump for the position of Secretary of State to the eyes of freshly elected Benedict XVII.

“We talked a bit after lunch” writes Schnellinger on July 18, day two of the conclave, “I bet he has already chosen his regnal name. He is ruthless, Sensini, and has grown immensely arrogant since the doors closed. He is well-backed and he knows it. He won’t stop at anything, everybody can see that. When I woke up this morning, it was somehow clear to me that there would be no Pope elected today, and even more clear it wouldn’t be me. Tonight though, it is clear that he will be Pope tomorrow. May God help us all…” But, how could Schnellinger be so sure of the conclave’s result? After all, we know from various later accounts that he and Sensini were tied at the fifth ballot, the last to be held that afternoon. “Well, because of the not-so-anonymous letter His Eminence had just received” answered Janssens. “For those who know what kind of man he is, it is evident” he asserted, “that this was another of Sensini’s audacious mind-games, probably the most audacious of all, given the stakes at play for his career.”

An anonymous letter thus, “impudent and satanic” in Schnellinger’s own private words, convinced him that, thanks to and under the auspices of Plasys, “the College has been blatantly instructed to stall Montorsi’s run and show a unified front tomorrow. That is, overwhelmingly vote for Sensini.” Below is the full, uncensored text of that letter, the existence of which Janssens completely ignored up until only last month.

Your Eminence,

Forgive me for coming so straight to the point in this grave time of grief, hardship and duty for everyone in this conclave. It is precisely because of this solemn duty of ours, of yours and mine, meant to be always fulfilled in hardship and grief yet never without the infallible guidance of Saints and the Holy Spirit, that I dare to address your prayers tonight. Our Holy Mother Church is in peril, Your Eminence. Man is in peril, great, vital peril. And the Princes of the Church, successors of the Apostles and humble servants of the Son of Man, need to sacrifice themselves in the name of the God of Love who sacrificed His only son Jesus Christ for the sake of everyone’s sins, and save the world from the death of hope and the nonsense of a time outside grace and salvation. In earnest, that is the most solemn, the most sacred and first of your, of our duties tomorrow.

It is no secret that under Benedict XVII our Holy Mother Church has reached the nadir of its influence. In fact, as the inquiry wanted by the Holy Father himself and carried out by the Ecumenic Committee for the Resurgence of Faith clearly concluded: worldwide, atheists are more than believers; the numbers of baptized Catholics are in persisting, rapid decline, especially in Southern Europe and Latin America, and Islam is losing believers at half the rate of other monotheistic dogmas. Furthermore, the latest report from the Institute for the Works of Religion, issued only a couple of hours before the official proclamation of Holy See Vacancy, predicts that in spite of a decade of stable economic growth in Italy, coinciding with and achieved by the administration of the Union of the Federated Systems, the Vatican will default on its debt by the end of this year. Numbers are alarming Your Eminence, and what is more alarming is that they are not wrong.

Something has to be done. The Church and the Word of Our Lord Jesus Christ cannot, and will not perish. Not on our guard, not as long as me, and you, and the rest of the College protect His Body and His Blood with our lives. We are just forty-seven, but if we do not compensate in faith and in unison of inspiration, we will have abandoned our Father a million times, condemning to oblivion His Mercy, destroying the heritage of His Son just like the Book of Revelation foretells: from within. And Revelation Your Eminence is about this life, the premise for the Kingdom of God from where the souls of all Saints are watching forever over our deeds.

It is Satan’s deceitful temptation to think that by doing close to nothing for ‘mundane’ problems like the ones to which the Church is exposed, the same critical problems that the Holy Father tried to tackle, and illuminate us upon in his enlightened grace, we are playing along the Divine Plan. God’s Plan Your Eminence, is not a mere loop-play of roles, rules and punishment, but human achievement on His behalf of free, unconditional and willful peace, mercy, and care everlasting amongst all creation. Therefore, beware of self-fulfilling deceits my brother in Christ, for Satan feeds on them just like he feasts on the troubled souls of high prelates unable to judge between good and evil, divine and mundane, lie and truth, the souls of those who do nothing thinking they are doing everything, God’s Will included. “Who is to elect the Pope is who will be the Pope” wrote the Holy Father in his first encyclical, “and ought, no matter how atrocious the challenges of his epoch, be a man radiating immense empathy, vision, vigilance, and breadth of mind. It is he who the Holy Spirit shall indicate, he who must, and will reinvent a meaning for God in spirits more devoted than ever to smother religion.”

If we pray, if we are in communion Your Eminence, it must mean we are not, we are never alone; at least not as long as we confide in our Heavenly Father being always there to help us. The Vatican too, the Church entire actually, is never alone. There are not just enemies and stalemates everywhere like the Holy Father insisted, there are also friends in this world, powerful, loyal lovers of Christ who can plan and can help, and the Church needs not to turn its back on them. We have to believe it Your Eminence, our Church and our faith will not die. They will live and live long, long enough to be helped and be healed, to do good, to help and to heal, to shepherd, to follow the example of Jesus and His Apostles and try to save this world for the sake of our Lord’s Final Word. It is to that glorious end, the accomplishment of His omniscient, merciful Plan for the eternal triumph of Christ that we and our friends, together with all those who believe, are profoundly committed. And remember, Your Eminence, “I am always with you until the end of time…”

Amen

After reading the above, Schnellinger realized he was trapped and that it was too late to turn tables around. “I felt profoundly agitated and had to sit down” he writes in his diary, “I spontaneously thought to denounce everything, in the Sistine Chapel before the first ballot already, but then I prayed to the Lord asking for His advice, and He appeased me. He whispered to my heart to let all anger go, to reflect, and confide in His Providence and the infinite wisdom of the Holy Spirit, and so I did. What if the others got one as well I wondered, what if the whole College knows about it and keeps silent? Then again, was I the only one to receive this letter?” As a matter of fact, yes. That evening, Schnellinger writes on the eighteenth and confirms in his following entry, dated July 19, he “walked out in the corridor and checked beneath every door, but found nothing”. Fearing he had been targeted, and positive he held in his hands “a message tailored to put its receiver in more danger than its sender” the Austrian “vowed to not speak a word to anyone. At least, not before the conclave is over.”

“His Eminence was stuck between a rock and a hard place” speculated Janssens, “Either Sensini was truly backed by the College and 100% sure to be elected, in which case His Eminence would only make a fool of himself by showcasing an anonymous letter, or, against all odds, Sensini understood he would lose and tried a desperate move to intimidate his winning rival, in which case the former Secretary of State would have been probably put to trial, found guilty of conspiracy, and excommunicated by the new Pope; most likely, Pope Schnellinger.”

Things did not turn out that way. “My blood froze when applause broke out” writes Schnellinger on the day of Sensini’s election. “My God, I kept thinking as I too had to clap; was I wrong not to speak? They gave him 36 votes at the sixth ballot whereas I got the remaining 11. So, what now? Must I keep my lips sealed for the rest of his days? Is this what the Holy Spirit deliberated? After accepting, he approached me and grinned with complacency. He shoved his hand in my face so that I had to kneel and kiss it, which I obviously did, and then gave his zucchetto to Biskarret. At that point, Montorsi, good friend and relative of the soon-to-be Cardinal, exclaimed: Long live the Pope! Long live His Holiness the Vicar of Peter! What travesty…” The following week, 75-year old Sensini chose to be sumptuously crowned instead of being simply inaugurated, a practice none of his predecessors since John Paul I had opted for, showing the world that although the Church was derided and put on the ropes, Peter II was not just the next failure in line, but a Pope determined to be remembered.

“After twenty-four years, Sensini’s impossible promises are punctually coming true” writes an irritated Schnellinger, relegated to the Vatican Archives on that same very day, March 17, of ten years before. “With the intercession of Plasys, the Church of the Pope as he calls us now befriended transhumanism, and became partners in crime with monopolists, and UFS technocrats. I wonder if this wasn’t their plan from the start: install their puppet-Pope, impose the desert he labels World Peace, ostracize Protestants, Orthodox and every non-Catholic, fool, convert and bewitch peoples in the name of the Holy, Omniscient and Indivisible Trinity, and build upon misery and ashes the greatest empire this world has ever seen, a monster made right here in the Vatican.”

Sensini turned 98 the year Schnellinger was repositioned. By then, the Catholic Church had officially adopted the 53-week calendar of the Union of the Federated Systems, sacraments were reformed, and declarations of faith and allegiance to the Pope had de facto become prerequisites for legal employment. “Looking back beyond knowledge or faith, at how things appeared and were told” commented Janssens, “the Pope’s health and longevity were literally marketed as miraculous, a proof of the existence of Divine Grace and of Peter II’s sanctitude, and incorruptibility, whereas in truth were the most flagrant hallmarks of a Church buzzing with immorality.” Eventually, the godfearing masses not only complied with Sensini’s obsession to resuscitate religion by monopolizing faith, they wholeheartedly adopted it, became infatuated with Roman Catholicism and the centenarian Pope, and venerated him. Plasys and its political arms capitalized without scruples on the success of Peter II.

“Sensini had to live long enough to make his unprecedented spiritual and secular epopee work” writes Schnellinger, who narrates an anecdote in his diary-entry dated sixteen years ago. “When the bells stroke noon” he reveals, “the Pope sent for me, Biskarret and Jankauskas. We were led to an underground in the Governorate, where Plasys has recently completed the most hi-tech of its labs. After a thorough body inspection to make sure we didn’t carry or wear any electronics, we came into the control room. Anthony Ross, CEO of Plasys, was waiting for us along with a small group of scientists. While for me was the first time in such lab, Jankauskas and Biskarret had been there before, and both talked familiar to Ross and joked with the scientists. In fact, as I soon found out the meeting was staged, and the Pope had brought them there to make me an offer. They say he is healthy as a horse, Ross told me, it is good life isn’t it, Eminence? It sure is I replied, and I’m glad the Holy Father is fit and well; everyone is. Do you want to know his secret? Asked Ross. It must be His Holiness’s Grace, I tried to not answer. Yes, that as well he laughed, but what if you too could be as fit and healthy as him? I learn that your medical record is growing long, Your Eminence. In that moment, I sensed he was testing me and felt at his complete mercy, but thankfully the Holy Spirit did not leave me speechless, and put wise words in my mouth. I’m afraid you’re asking something I cannot really answer to, I said, my sinful life is in God’s hands and in the service of Jesus Christ, who will judge each and every one of us someday. Ross frowned. Evidently, this was not what he wanted to hear, so he gestured at Biskarret to join the chat. The latter approached holding a small, glass phial which he placed into my hands. This is a gift he smiled, seeking the approving gaze of Ross. His Holiness recognizes your devotion and complete dedication to His Church, Biskarret went on, therefore he wants to honor Your Eminence with this gift, a gift of life he wrapped his palms around mine. Just like all people, intervened Jankauskas, Cardinals grow old and sick, but the Church needs Her most devoted Princes just like the Lord’s flock needs their Church: fit and healthy. His Holiness too, I dared. Jankauskas gapped his lips as to answer, but Ross couldn’t wait. You were about to say something, weren’t you Eminence? he urged Biskarret, who promptly resumed. Yes actually, he let off my hands and patted Jankauskas on the shoulder, I wanted to let Cardinal Schnellinger know how much me and dear Jankauskas here are grateful for this exciting opportunity given to us by the Holy Father and by you, dear Mr. Ross. If Elixir was Plasys’s piece before masterpiece he bowed, then what I just handed His Eminence is your very masterpiece: Grale, the serum of life… I was astonished, they did not even care to keep up appearances. What do you mean by serum of life, I asked. Jankauskas and I tried it, said readily Biskarret, it works. Okay but what does it do, I insisted. It regenerates tissues, Ross interrupted once more, it heals your whole body and, as long as you keep being eminent, he stared in my eyes, it can make you live forever. Jesus Christ, I gasped and made the sign of the cross. I thought I was brought there because Sensini found out what I do at the Archive, but this, this I could have never imagined…”

This vivid passage sheds light on several hazy details concerning the unfolding of a vibrant conspiracy, otherwise only sketched between the lines of the documents bequeathed to Janssens. As for Cardinal Schnellinger, he never came back to Ross and Biskarret about Grale, but hid the phial in Linz and ceased his secret activities at the Archive, from which he retired ten years later. In the meantime, Biskarret and Jankauskas had died, the former in a car accident and the latter following a stroke during a homely live on TV, whereas Ross got into politics and became Commissioner of the UFS.

This is Schnellinger’s letter addressed ‘to Father Matthijs Janssens’, written by the His Eminence at age 84, and sitting for six and a half years in the safe of Christoph Gruber in Vienna:

Dear Father Matthijs –I know you don’t wish to be called like that anymore, but that’s who you’ll always be to me–

It is sacrosanct duty of every man in this world to be remembered by those who outlive him as a champion of love, goodness and justice. That, I firmly believe you have always been, my precious friend; a model of priesthood and a man of Providence, worthy of our Father’s Kingdom in Heaven. It is to that righteous man, that untiring preacher of love and beloved friend of old date who I’m writing today, at the dusk of my troubled stay with the sinful, asking to be heard and forgiven. As I’m sure Dr. Gruber informed you already, I ordered him to deliver this message in your hands and your hands alone strictly after my earthly demise, together with two conspicuous volumes of important documents which I assembled over the years, these long years of silence the reasons of which, I confide, you will soon comprehend.

The Church and its mores, like the justice and the faith of men are being tested, dear Father. In an age when people fear people more than the wrath of God, His servants have turned into His enemies, and those who were entrusted by Christ to spread His Gospel have come to deceive, and corrupt humanity instead of trying their best to save it. You were right all along my friend, Sensini, the Pope is an evil man. That’s what you said before our paths parted forever. And I believed you. I survived on your words, and kept them safe in my heart so that you too could survive, be safe, and believed when the time would come. The time for words, Father.

It has been thirty-three years since we last spoke, as many as the springs of Jesus, who was crucified for the sake of our sins. Let us follow Him then, truly. Let us be worthy of His call, and be crucified in His name right here and now as He asks us to, fearing not the illusion of power of those who know well what they are doing.

Monstrosities have been committed Father, and I regret to confess to you, that the Pope as well as the entire College of Cardinals are unmistakably guilty of blasphemy, blackmail, simony, remorseless direct instigation to clerical misconduct, conspiracy against the Holy Mother Church and the Throne of St. Peter, and outright fraud at the expense of the whole Christian community.

If you wish to believe me, under the false pretext of saving and restoring Faith, Sensini and Plasys elaborated, pulled off and deliberately sustain to this day, a regime of mass exploitation unlike the world has ever seen. Everything started shortly after the last conclave, a couple of weeks, a month maybe into Sensini’s reign, when Plasys developed the prototype of a potent upgrade of their famous Elixir, a liquid named Grale to be exclusively used by the Pope. Frankly, for over two decades I completely ignored its existence, and although I was finally told about it by Cardinals Biskarret and Jankauskas, I am still unaware of its composition. All I can tell for sure is that it is highly addictive, and dangerous. Over time in fact, I was made more than aware of how it is used. In small oral doses, Grale can be administered to adults and children alike, causing instant euphoria and pronounced, short-term tissue-reinvigoration. In higher dosages though, because the drug was scripted genetically, Grale can be devastatingly harmful, especially for children and when absorbed by the skin, with severe side-effects ranging from spontaneous heart failure to strokes and sepsis. The only individual that seems to benefit from Grale in a chronic high-dosage scheme and at the same time be immune to its harms is the Pope, Peter II, Sensini, who I am sure is still alive and in excellent shape as you read this, despite being over a hundred years old.

You might wonder, how can I know this? Well, Father, ten years ago, Commissioner Ross, at the time the big boss of Plasys, was so arrogant to tell me in person, during a meeting in which he, Jankauskas and Biskarret tried to buy my soul, that this Pope would not die, boasting of how Plasys’s masterpiece empowered Sensini with enviable health and, in theory, an unlimited lifespan. Peter II will live long whether we like it or not Father, and blasphemous as this may sound, life itself constitutes sin in his case, and proof of the ominous coming of Satan.

What is hellacious, criminal and malevolent, unforgivable for anyone who calls himself a true believer of Christ, is that Sensini willingly made of the Pope, the leader of our Catholic Church an accomplice, a pawn, Plasys’s means to a villainous, unholy end. What is hellacious, criminal and malevolent, unforgivable, is that Biskarret and Jankauskas knew yet wanted to keep Grale for themselves, and convinced the College of Cardinals to share their desire. But what is even more hellacious, criminal and malevolent, what will not be forgiven, is that for over three decades, tiny doses of Grale are added in the wine of the Eucharist everywhere in the world, doping and stupefying billions of poor in spirit, addicting them to the only true Church outside of which there is no salvation, the Church of the Pope.

He is popular Peter II, isn’t he Father? The faithful adore him and Catholics thrive, don’t they? Now you realize why, and how. The truth and all the proofs to support it are here, contained in this testament, and they are yours. You know what to do with it, and in case you don’t, you know those who might. Contact them please, for the sake of as all. As for me, I believe I did everything I could, and will be more of use dead than I ever was in a lifetime. But don’t you worry about me Matthijs, I have come to terms with God’s Will. You have as well, haven’t you?

Good luck and farewell my dearest, and may we meet again in the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Brotherly yours,

Josef Schnellinger

As predicted by Schnellinger, Janssens was excommunicated by Pope Sensini and sued by Ross, the board of Plasys as well as the UFS, right upon the release of our documentary last Wednesday. The following day, screening Long live the Pope was prohibited worldwide and the Dutchman disappeared without leaving a trace. What Josef Schnellinger didn’t predict though, and obviously couldn’t, was that merely four days ago, to everyone’s utter dismay Peter II fell in a deep coma, and breathed his last at the venerable age of 115. This, our Organization admits, was our weakest moment of doubt, when the credibility and the risk of our effort seemed to have crumbled to pieces. But then, yesterday morning, “on the third day ”, the moment of truth finally arrived. News of a miracle broke on through the lips, the ears and the screens of the world. Clamorous in the Vatican: the Pope has risen!

May 2019