False Mystics Destroy Faith
and Lives
By Richard Salbato
People
are constantly asking me about this apparition or that one and everyday there
are new ones. It seems to me that
American is becoming an epidemic of crazy people having apparitions. But then I work in the English speaking
world and maybe this is true all over the world. Truthfully I am sick of investigating these things because we are
very close now to a world war and I am seeing the reasons for it and where the
real battle is. I think that these
false mystics (frauds, psychopaths or demonic) are just distractions so that we
do not engage the real enemy.
1.
Another reason I am sick of apparitions and reporting on them is that most of
them are very self evident and anyone with any knowledge of their faith
should see right through them. I was
given four books called "Poem of the Man-God" years ago and
commented that this could not be from God before even reading them. Why?
Because Christ is God made Man and not Man made God. This is very important. However, I did go on to read four volumes of
stupidity and just as I had predicted the books paint Christ as being ignorant
of His Divinity.
The
same was true of Medjugorje when I read the first year's apparitions and
the Gospa said that "all Religions are God's Religions including
Moslems" that was enough for me to know infallibly that this was not Our
Lady. When the lady of Garabandal said
she did not want blessed rosaries or crosses because she would bless them, that
was my proof that this was not of God. Of course there were many more proofs
but this should have been enough for anyone.
2.
Think about "Our Lady of All Nations" or "Jesus, King of All Nations" or anything regarding
Nations. We have been at war with
Nations since before Christ died on the cross and it has never ended. Satan said to Christ, "All these
nations belong to me." Christ did
not contradict him. Only those
countries that recognize that the Church is a greater authority than the state
could we even come close to a nation of
God. Where does that exist in the world
today? Even with Constantine the Great,
there were problems of authority at times.
God's Kingdom, the Catholic Church, is without walls or boundaries
called nations. Our Lady of all mankind, yes, but not of nations which are
divisions and not unity. There are
great Catholics in Timor but the "Nation" has killed a half million
of them since Portugal left as its protector.
Catholic Nations, had they stayed with the teachings of the Church, would
have been called God's but none did.
3.
Now we have Our Lady of the Globe telling people to get rid of their
Miraculous Medal and replace it with the medal of "Our Lady of the
Globe". Now if she was just
saying that we should also have a medal of Our Lady of the Globe, I would look
at this closer but that is not what she is saying. In fact, she is giving a false meaning to the vision of Catherine
Laboure regarding the Globe. Father
Stephen Valenta, Mary Kathryn Johnson's so-called spiritual director, is
telling people to throw away their Miraculous Medal, and he is passing out the
new medal.
"You see, my child, that neither the medal nor
the statue are complete… The medal portrays that I am 'Full of Grace.'
The statue portrays that the world has 'recourse' to me. But to be complete,
the two must be as one. ..."
First
of all, this is not what Our Lady asked of Catherine Laboure. She asked that the vision of the Miraculous
Medal be made into a medal, and it signifies the dispenser of
grace. She also showed the vision of
Our Lady of the Globe to show that all prayers are presented to the Father through
Her hands. What an insult to God
and Our Lady! What a loss to Catholics! More on this later.
4.
Another way that false apparitions work is to take good people away from the
work God called them to do. A good
example of this is Father Robert Fox, who once was The Fatima Priest, and is
now the laughing stock of the Church. I
met his new seer, Little Mary http://littlemary.us/ and she is so silly I do not even want to
talk about her. Simply pscho-pathetic.
5. The Tridentine Latin Rite Church, or Fatima Crusaders, is another way false mystics harm people. Although not claming visions, the leaders claim infallible truths over the Catholic Church and appeal to people's search for traditional holiness. And of course, all the outward signs are there. The Church spoke against it but the people did not listen. After all, they were traditional and the Church was liberal. Why listen to a liberal bishop?
"The Fatima Crusaders or the Tridentine Latin Rite Church cannot be identified as a legitimate expression of the Roman Catholic faith. Their denial of the papacy as incorporated in the lives of the last four popes is a denial of the church itself. How can one believe in the presence of Christ in the church and the power of his Spirit while denying the concrete presence of the office of the Pope? There is no such thing as a legitimate expression of the Catholic tradition that is not in union with the Holy Father. The Fatima Crusaders are therefore not legitimately Catholics. Their celebration of the sacraments is not a legitimate part of the life of the church. Bishop Schuckardt has received no mission from the church universal and does not accept the unity of the apostolic office. Yet these are some of the very elements which make the Church Roman Catholic." Bishop Lawrence Welsh
Any
well educated Catholic would know that no-Pope, no-Church, but look at the harm
done by this group with all the outward signs of holiness. First was the admission by one former member
that he molested an 8-year-old boy. He
began sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy at a home in Sammamish for male
members of the Tridentine Latin Rite Church. Another church member, 20-year-old
Justin Kirkland, is charged with first-degree child rape and first-degree child
molestation, and a third man, Michael W. Muratore, 21, with first-degree child
molestation. Belzak, now 20, pleaded
guilty to two counts of child molestation.
The
victim's mother went to Bellevue police in April 2004 after her son told her he
had been molested while living at the Tridentine Latin Rite Church home in
Sammamish. Her son was two years old.
She said the church was a cult, and she was allowed to visit her son
only twice a year. She spent those years living with her daughters and other
female members of the church at a church home in Bellevue.
``They were raping him and they were telling him
that it was OK, that that's what everybody does,'' she said. ``It's very hard
to admit that these people that I gave my son to, that I trusted, are the very
ones that destroyed his innocence.''
The
men of Tridentine Latin Rite Church have since abandoned the house in
Sammamish, and police don't know where they're living now. At the heart of the mysterious group lies
its founder, Francis Konrad Schuckardt, a charismatic leader who considers
himself to be the true pope, according to members of the group. The group's history, as outlined in the book
``The
Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary
American Catholicism'' by Michael Cuneo is marked by schism, controversy and police raids.
Members
of his church have described a harsh life with hours of prayer each day. Women
and girls must cover their heads and wear long skirts. There have been reports of
malnutrition and severe punishment such as shaving the heads of girls and
forcing some to kneel during meals. Former members say the church uses fear to
discourage its young followers from running away.
In
May 1987, a police SWAT team in California raided a house where the group was
staying. They were searching for six children in two separate parental
abduction cases. They didn't find the children, but they did find a cache of
prescription pain killers, several guns, $75,000 in cash and records of
numerous international bank accounts.
Schuckardt cannot be found.
6.
Then we have the domes day refuge cults like "The Little Pebble"
and now that he is in jail for maybe 15 years for child molestation, (and
facing 11 more charges) many forget him, but the harm continues. I know of large families that have lived in
this cult complex for years and even now as they see the truth, leaving becomes
very hard and few help.
Many
saw the truth about the cult when its priest (suspended in 1989 from a Houston
diocese), Fr.Malcolm Broussard, got himself consecrated a bishop by a
schismatic and then proceeded to ordain and consecrate all and
sundry,(including married men). See http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/
.
Families
are moving out now that Kamm is in jail, but there are STILL some who are
clinging to the hope that Kamm will be "vindicated, God will show us for
sure that he is 'still the one'. God will do something to erase all this
'badness' from our minds and Kamm will 'rise' glorious once more to lead
us."
One
of those leaving was a "seer" who once supported Kamm, then
turned on him telling him to his face that this place is nothing but a cult, he
is NOT a prophet and he WILL NOT be a pope.
Of course many in the group started having visions, or better stated,
imaginations. Two families that are
moving, own mobile homes which they are trying to sell, but Kamm is making it
impossible. There are still some people here who don't see through Kamm and are
willing to buy these homes, but Kamm is stopping them saying "Wait long
enough, and these families will get fed up and leave everything behind and
you'll get a free house".
Besides
that, he keeps writing "groveling" letters to them begging them to
come back. One fellow asked Kamm if he could advertise the homes on the Pebble
website, but Kamm refused pointblank, saying that he didn't want anyone to
know, even in other communities, that there are people leaving. Two men asked
Kamm to sign over the 3 properties to the Marian Work of Atonement, or the
Order of St. Charbel, so that it could be managed by others, but again Kamm
refused saying that even if he goes to jail, he will control all this from
jail.
The
people that are leaving are mentally, emotionally, spiritually and financially
fragile, and they are afraid ... of various things. They are trying to make fresh
starts and Kamm is stopping them and the outside world just don't know
what is going on and how very difficult it is for all these people, and how
Kamm has ripped people off. The ironic thing is that Kamm has said publicly
from the pulpit that if anyone wants to leave, feel free and that the Order
will help them get back onto their feet, but one can see from his actions that
he is lying.......again.
Of
those left, there will be 7 families, including Kamm's 2nd wife, Bettina
and her 6 kids, then there are about 6 older couples, a few singles and about
12 "nuns" left. The ones that are remaining believe that Kamm is true
and that there still is a "mission" that God wants completed.
Kamm
has been exposing himself to young girls for at least the last 10 years and he
abused/assaulted the young daughter of a friend of his, 18 years ago and who
still lives right here in Cambewarra.
Kamm will be charged with at least 10 more cases of sexual abuse, but
people will still cling to him
Cult
Abuse
People
like Kamm have held a cult together for over 25 years and only now is the truth
coming out. People who are not cautious
of these things will just read that "a chastisement is coming and Kamm's "property"
will be the only place to be save from God's anger". However, they were not safe from his sexual
abuse.
Father
Fox, taken in by false mystics to distract him from his calling; people told
that the world is ending and they must go to a refuge to be safe; people
wanting tradition and being sexually abused: people thinking Christ was
ignorant; people throwing away their Miraculous Medals; people believing all
religions are God's religions; all because someone said, "God said"
and they believe it without investigation.
Most
of this could be avoided if people just knew their Catholic Faith and found
holiness in their local Catholic Church, and I blame the Church for this. But God does not judge people by other
people's actions, He judges us by what we do; not by what others do to us or do
not do for us. We are responsible for
our own actions and our own faith.
Even
without a good sound faith, common sense (logic) should show people truth. Remember that all sin is presented as
something good and in the case of false mystics it will be 90% good and
truthful. But that 10% could cost you
your innocence or even your soul.
Rick Salbato
12-23-2005