The National Catholic Register (NCR), mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, reports on the Albanian “Cardinal” Ernest Simoni, a nonagenarian “prelate” elevated to the purple by the usurper “Pope” Francis (Robert Prevost) in 2016. The article recounts Simoni’s 1963 arrest by Albania’s atheist communist regime for offering a Mass for the repose of the soul of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, his subsequent death sentence (commuted to forced labor), and his eventual release in 1991. The piece culminates in the antipope Francis’s designation of Simoni as a “living martyr” and Simoni’s own declaration that “we are required to pray for every enemy… to see them all in heaven.” This hagiographic narrative serves not the glory of God, but the legitimization of the neo-church’s capitulation to the Masonic world order, replacing the Social Kingship of Christ with a vacuous humanitarianism that knows neither the necessity of the Church nor the reality of Hell.
The Fabricated “Cardinalate” of a Conciliar Collaborator
The entire edifice of this report rests upon a canonical nullity: the “elevation” of Simoni by Jorge Bergoglio, the Argentine Modernist who usurped the See of Peter in 2013 and whose line of succession begins with the antipope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). Bergoglio, a public adherent of the heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the evolution of dogma—condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis—possesses zero jurisdiction. His acts of governance, including the creation of “cardinals,” are ipso facto null, void, and of no effect (irritae et inanes), as Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: “his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” Simoni, therefore, is no cardinal of the Catholic Church; he is a functionary of the “abomination of desolation” occupying the Vatican, a “paramasonic structure” masquerading as the Bride of Christ.
The Kennedy Mass: A Liturgical Offering for the Masonic Order
The article presents Simoni’s 1963 Mass for John F. Kennedy as an act of heroic pastoral charity. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, it is a scandalous concession to the religion of “Americanism” and the Masonic infiltration of the temporal order. Kennedy, the first Catholic president of the United States, famously declared before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960: “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.” This is the very error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” It is the error of Proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” To offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the soul of a ruler who publicly subverted the Kingship of Christ over civil society—reducing the Faith to a private opinion—is not martyrdom; it is a liturgical endorsement of the laicism that Pius XI denounced in Quas Primas as “the plague that poisons human society.” Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Kennedy was an architect of that removal. A true Catholic bishop would have called Kennedy to public penance and conversion, not offered a Requiem that implicitly sanctions his naturalistic statecraft.
Linguistic Subversion: “Living Martyr” and the Anthropocentric Gospel
The rhetoric of the NCR piece is saturated with the vocabulary of the “Church of the New Advent.” The antipope Francis calls Simoni a “living martyr.” This is a theological solecism. A martyr (martys, witness) bears witness to the Truth—Jesus Christ, and Him crucified (1 Cor 2:2)—unto death. Simoni suffered under communists, yes, but his subsequent ministry, as described, bears witness to a different gospel (Gal 1:6). The article states he “travels across countries bringing the Gospel to all people.” This is the language of the Missio Dei of Vatican II’s Ad Gentes, stripped of the necessitas medii (necessity of the means): the Church, the Sacraments, and explicit conversion. It is the “democratization of salvation” condemned by Pius XI: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.” There is no happiness, no prosperity, no true peace outside the Reign of Christ. Simoni’s “Gospel” is a humanitarian bromide.
Theological Bankruptcy: Universalism Masquerading as Mercy
The gravest error lies in Simoni’s reported statement: “We are required to pray for every enemy, that God has mercy, to see them all in heaven, because Christ has shed his blood for us all.” This is apokatastasis—the heresy of universal salvation—cloaked in pious sentiment. It denies the dogma defined by the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Florence: “The souls of those who die in mortal sin or with only original sin descend immediately into hell.” It ignores the Athanasian Creed: “They that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire.” It contradicts Our Lord’s own words: “He that believeth not shall be condemned” (Mk 16:16). To pray “to see them all in heaven” while omitting the absolute necessity of baptism of water, blood, or desire (which desire itself requires supernatural faith and charity), and the necessity of the Una Sancta (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), is not charity; it is the cruelest deception. It is the “broad and liberal Protestantism” prophesied in Lamentabili (Prop. 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity.” This is the “cult of man” that has replaced the Cult of God in the conciliar sect.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Neo-Church’s Canonization Factory
This report is a microcosm of the post-conciliar revolution. The conciliar sect creates its own “saints” and “martyrs” to legitimize its rupture with Tradition. Just as the antipope “canonized” the Modernist John Henry Newman (a progenitor of the hermeneutic of evolution), the pseudo-mystic Faustina Kowalska (whose writings were on the Index), and the non-martyr Maximilian Kolbe, so it elevates Simoni—a figure who bridges the “persecution narrative” of the Cold War with the “dialogue narrative” of the New World Order. The article notes Simoni “holds no resentment toward those who persecuted him.” While Christian forgiveness is a virtue, the absence of resentment against the enemies of Christ the King, without a corresponding zeal for their conversion and the restoration of His Rights, is the mark of the laicus, not the sacerdos. St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili against those who “aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption” (Intro). Simoni’s “testimony” is the corruption of the dogma of the Social Kingship of Christ into a vague “witness to human dignity.”
The Silence on the Mass: Propitiatory Sacrifice vs. Communal Meal
The article mentions “Mass” repeatedly but never specifies the rite. In 1963, Simoni likely offered the Tridentine Mass. Today, as a “cardinal” of the neo-church, he offers the Novus Ordo Missae—the “table of assembly” fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini, which Luther himself would have approved. The article’s silence on this liturgical rupture is deafening. Pius XI in Quas Primas linked the feast of Christ the King to the renewal of the consecration to the Sacred Heart and the public veneration of the Kingship. The Novus Ordo, by its very structure (versus populum, vernacular, multiplicity of “Eucharistic Prayers,” suppression of the Offertory’s propitiatory language), denies the Sacrifice and the Kingship. Simoni’s “daily Mass” in prison, if celebrated according to the old rite, was a grace; his current public celebrations in the new rite are, at best, invalid simulations, at worst, idolatry. The NCR’s omission exposes the conciliar sect’s indifference to the lex orandi, lex credendi.
Conclusion: The Counter-Church’s Potemkin Village
The Simoni spectacle is a Potemkin village erected by the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc 2:9) that occupies Rome. It parades a victim of communism to sanctify a sect that has surrendered to the far more insidious modernist apostasy—the “enemies within” warned against by St. Pius X. The Albanian communists persecuted the body of the Church; the conciliar usurpers have destroyed its soul (the Faith). Simoni, whether by simplicity or complicity, has become an icon of this destruction. True Catholics, adhering to the Sede Vacante thesis defended by Bellarmine, Billot, and the Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, recognize no authority in the “cardinals” of the antipope, no validity in the “Mass” of the neo-church, and no salvation in the “gospel” of universalist humanitarianism. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12)—not the name of Kennedy, not the name of Simoni, not the name of Francis, but only Jesus Christ the King. Regnavit a ligno Deus.
Source:
Cardinal Simoni Says Faith Sustained Him Through Death Sentence for Mass Honoring President Kennedy (ncregister.com)
Date: 31.10.2026