By Timothy Fitzpatrick
Sept. 16, 2023 Anno Domini

A couple of months ago, a 79-year-old FBI double agent and American traitor was found dead in his prison cell of 21 years.

Robert Hannsen, a devotee of a powerful pseudo conservative cult inside the Catholic Church known as Opus Dei, had ended up in his daily 23-hour solitary confinement by betraying his country for a bag of silver from the KGB. He betrayed the FBI and also his Catholic wife, not only by leading a double life as a KGB spy but also by allowing his friend to watch him and his wife having sex.[i]

Ironically, the traitor had been known to accuse the Russians of being Godless, though he was serving their interests. Supposedly, this Godlessness is what provoked the Opus Dei to eventually set up shop in the “former” Soviet Union some five years after Hanssen initially was imprisoned. The corrupt KGB-installed Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, agent “Mikhailov”, was more than happy to welcome to new “Catholic” outreach, which set up the Opus Dei Centre in Moscow on June 26, 2007.

“The vice president of the Department of Foreign Ecclesial Affairs of the Patriarchate of Moscow, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, welcomed the personal prelature of Opus Dei, which recently opened a community in Russia, and said its energy and fidelity ‘to Christian ideals are worthy of great respect’… The vicar for Opus Dei in Moscow, Father Jose Antonio Senovilla Garcia, said his community has gone to Russia ‘to encourage the people to be good orthodox believers, to find God in their daily lives and to help others’.”[ii]

If the Moscow Patriarchate is OK with the Dei’s presence in Russia, then so is the Kremlin, then so is the KGB, then so is the Communist International (COMINTERN); meanwhile, authentic Catholic teaching is considered hostile to the Eurasian-oriented crypto Soviet state.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brain” and prophet Aleksandr Dugin, a middle aged occultist managing controlled opposition “conservatives” in Western nations has admitted the real neo-Soviet and fiercely anti-Catholic views of the Kremlin and the Communist International. However, these admissions can only be found on Russian language sites.

“Destroy Catholicism from within, strengthen Freemasonry.[iii] Both they (New World Order) and we (Eurasians) want to deprive you of your Catholicism; Orthodoxy…is much closer to what we call paganism.[iv] I think the best thing in Polish history is the Jewish tradition in small towns in eastern Poland. Actually, I am interested in everything that was anti-Catholic in Poland: Polish freemasons and occultists, Jan Potocki and Hoene-Wroński, Mienżyński and Dzerzhinsky … They all chose the Eurasian path.[v]”

If Dugin’s views on Catholicism are an indication of the Kremlin’s, then we can be certain that the neo-Soviet state’s permission of Catholic churches in its country are for show and are closely monitored for compliance with the state agenda—as it is also with the Russian Orthodox Church and all other religions, especially Islam.

Before Opus Dei officially entered Russia, all the way back in 1991—the year the Soviets successfully fooled the world that Soviet Communism had collapsed, one Father Myron Effing of Evansville, Indiana (E. Michael Jones’ home state) had brought his Catholic mission to the Red Empire but on the opposite end of the country in the geopolitically significant city of Vladivostok. It shares borders with China, Japan, and North Korea. Although Effing’s Vlad mission (Mary Mother of God Mission Society) doesn’t overtly claim affiliation with the cult, Opus Dei made a rather interesting prediction in 2011.

“…but it is for God first of all, who has brought us to that beloved country, Russia, through St Josemaria’s prayers. How much he prayed for your country, how much he prayed for you! In union with his regard, I am sure we will reach from St Petersburgh to Vladivostok, doing a wonderful apostolate which will bring forth not only Numerary Assistants but Numeraries, Associates, and Supernumeraries, lots of them….”[vi]

Why does Opus Dei consider Russia beloved? Most of its authentic Christians were murdered off during the Red Terror.

In a November 1, 2012 newsletter put out by Effing and his Vlad Mission, a reference was made to Opus Dei which may suggest an affiliation. During the mission’s 16^th annual Far Eastern Catholic Youth Conference, Effing describes an activity where participants were to choose a saint to study and promote for a week.

“The ‘green’ group got St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei”.[vii]

Effing joins the modernists in their declaration for both Escriva and Pope John Paul II as saints. This isn’t really surprising when you consider that Effing utilizes the highly popular Protestant “Alpha Course” in his mission. Is he an ecumenist in the spirit of Vatican II or is the Alpha covertly Catholic somehow?

Father Effing happens to have as a member of his Vlad Mission the daughter-in-law of pro-Kremlin author and Culture Wars editor Eugene Michael Jones of South Bend Indiana (an Opus Dei centre). Anna Gafurova Jones was the Mission’s first parish organist and choir director. Her mother, Ludmilla Rakhmanova, is a charter member of the mission’s choir and serves as professor of dramatics at The Far Eastern Art Institute in Vladivostok.

“Ludmilla is the director of all operas produced in Vladivostok, a position in which she has worked at one time or another with most of the classical musicians in the Russian Far East….”

It’s unclear how one of E. Michael Jones’ sons would’ve met a Russka from Russia’s far East. But it seems fitting that such a thing should happen given Jones’ unwavering support for the Kremlin and its neo-Soviet satellites, especially Iran, whom Jones can’t seem to love and promote enough.

Although Russia pretends that it has dropped Communism—something which Father Effing seems to believe or at least echo, it maintains strict control over academia, religion, and especially Western influence. It’s difficult to imagine all Catholic Churches in Russia operating without state approval. “So long as no one ventures off the path we have laid out, you may have a presence here,” it seems. This is how it is in Red China, where the state even appoints its own “Catholic” bishops without consent from the Vatican. Catholic presence in Russia helps create the illusion that it is an open society and has, indeed, parted with its Soviet ways. More importantly, perhaps, is that it allows the neo-Soviets easier access to the Church and a means by which to spread its errors right into the heart of the Church and in Catholic nations.

If Catholic presence in Russia is strictly controlled by the crypto-Soviet regime, then what does that say of Opus Dei’s presence there?

According to a mysterious book called Opus Judei published in Colombia in 2000, Opus Dei is a subversive Judeo-masonic organization bent on destroying the Catholic Church from within.[viii] This incredible book seems to be legitimate, as it provides many details which only an insider would seem to have and comes to logical conclusions (to corroborate its conclusions, see my dossier on Opus Dei). If you haven’t seen my dossier on E. Michael Jones, which suggests that he is chasing the same Judeo-masonic-Bolshevist goals as Opus Dei, please browse through it. While Opus Dei uses the front as a traditional, conservative Catholic organization, Jones uses the front of anti-Judaism. However, when you dissect the Jones character enough, you realize that he is actually only anti-Zionist and doesn’t seem to oppose the Kabbalistic and perennialist elements of the Christ-denying cult. He seems to be using anti-Judaism to appeal to his traditional Catholic audience so that he can then secretly inject his Marxist, Russia-is-the-saviour poison into them. Incidentally, Jones is a favourite among the schismatic Eastern Orthodox, like with Estonian Monk Seraphim. Iranian convert to Eastern Orthodoxy Roosh V (Daryush Valizadeh) credits Jones with his conversion. Strange that a so called traditional Catholic is inspiring others to convert to Eastern Orthodoxy—the dominant church in the “former” Communist countries of Eastern Europe and Russia.

Jones has publicly denied being a member of Opus Dei; however, according to the above mentioned Opus Judei book, members—much like Freemasons—tend to obfuscate their membership in order to deceive the public.

“Lieutenant General Fernando Rodrigo Cifuentes made the following statements when referring to Opus Dei: ‘As a military man, I consider the high commitments that the military man has contracted with the nation to be totally in conflict with any other commitments that are undoubtedly contracted by accepting the regulations of a secret association, since its work of recruitment and action is secret.’ (35) Colonel Antonio Sánchez Cámara said: ‘Many, many members of Opus Dei, if asked directly, deny their membership. Opus Dei is something closed, and I like open spaces.’”[ix]

Jones’ publishing company, Fidelity Press, shares some suspicious characteristics with Opus Dei. As it happens, “fidelity” is a significant word in the Opus Dei cult.

“After proselytism and recruitment, come the VOWS, which at first are taken for one year and renewed for five—the so-called “Oblation”; the next step is the juridical incorporation into the Work, which is called “Fidelity”—the culmination of the process of depersonalization.”[x]

On top of that, Jones has as his logo for his Fidelity Press an encircled cross with what appears to be a rose emerging from behind it. This is exactly the Opus Dei’s main symbol. The Opus Judei author claims the rose and empty cross (as opposed to a proper Catholic crucifix) are Kabbalistic in meaning (perhaps also Rosicrucian in origin?).

“The symbol of the rose is a very important part of the Hebrew Kabbalistic tradition. (99) Already in the psalms and in the Jewish prophetic poems, the red rose and the white rose personify the punished and purified bodies of Israel. But in the Kabbalah it goes even further on the path of meanings. The Tree, sephirotic, divided into three vertical columns, has the central one precisely under the invocation of the rose, which in this way restores and balances the rigorous and severe part of creation -left- with its clement and merciful side -right-.”[xi]

“The members of Opus Dei carry, in their pockets, crosses without the body of Christ. Of the crucified Son of God, the Work accepts and recognizes as its own only an empty wooden cross. The camouflaged reasons given by Escrivá are that the naked bodies of Jesus Christ are usually badly made and repugnant. The crucifix is the symbol of faith. The wood, the Calvary where the Jews exercised their deicide.

It is a custom and compulsory rule that in every center or house of Opus Dei “there is a black cross without Christ, which will be decorated twice a year. (102) These heterodox practices have been censured as well as their secrecy, as their thumb is placed on their lips.

If to the bare cross we add the rose we have the rose-cross. Kabbalistic alchemy could not be more explicit and perfect.”[xii]

(These are just some of Jones’ connections to Opus Judei. See more in Randy Engel’s article All the men behind the Opus Dei curtain.)

One might conclude from Engel’s article that both Michael Voris of Church Militant (also pro-Kremlin) and Eugene Michael Jones of Fidelity Press couldn’t possibly both be Opus Dei members since they are feuding with each other over Jones supposedly breaking the confessional seal by exposing Voris’ homosexual past. Again, we turn to Opus Judei for a possible answer.

“Judas the Iscariot has gone down in history not because of his possible virtues as an apostle of Jesus Christ, but because of the secret denunciation he made of his Master that led to the arrest of the Messiah. In such a compact and hermetic circle as Opus Dei is, everyone wants to be an informer, a public and private accuser, a snitch, a confidant of their own closest brothers and sisters. There are various reasons for this, including the fact that informing on the truth in Opus Dei is a practice and a “virtue” so that the followers always live in an atmosphere of mutual and reciprocal distrust, fear, insecurity and isolation, all of which are extremely important for keeping the sect member in chains, in a permanent manner.

Opus Dei pays careful attention to what it calls constant and persistent spiritual direction, which binds and marks each and every one of its members. This is complemented, on a weekly basis, by what it calls “sharing of confidences”, which helps to configure a rigid hierarchical-spiritual order.

On the other hand, the denunciation of the brother by the brother, the embarrassment and shame of being singled out by one’s nearest neighbor, is a rule and an obligation laid down in the statutes and regulations of the Work itself. It is a common and habitual practice, fomented, encouraged and praised by those in charge of the organization.

…

But if sharing of confidences can be disturbing, no less so is public denouncement, the evidence in which they must also, weekly, leave each other, like Judas, but in this case the reward is not thirty denarii of silver, but holiness and heaven in eternity. Public accusation and repression is an unavoidable and inexcusable duty, as laid down in the very Constitutions of Opus Dei which, in article 270, stipulates that ‘The numerary members and the Oblates will meet every week for the brief circle where defects are corrected, where the means of apostolate are proposed and where everything that can guide our spirit and our specific action is dealt with in a familiar way’. Every member must submit or be called to order.”[xiii]

During his time with the FBI and as an Opus Dei member, traitor Robert Hannsen spent time in Gary, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois—just a stone’s throw from Eugene Michael Jones in South Bend. Because the mid-West is a hotbed of Opus Dei activity, one wonders if these two characters ever crossed paths while shilling for the Kremlin and possibly working for Opus Dei.

Notes:

[i] Leonard, Tom, The sordid truth of FBI mole Robert Hanssen’s private perversions… how the Soviet spy let a friend secretly watch him and his wife having SEX – all while he was betraying his country, Daily Mail, June 7, 2023 – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12170269/How-Soviet-spy-FBI-agent-Robert-Hanssen-invited-friend-watch-wife-having-SEX.html

[ii] Catholic News Agency, Patriarchate of Moscow welcomes Opus Dei presence in Russia, Dec. 18, 2007 – https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/11307/patriarchate-of-moscow-welcomes-opus-dei-presence-in-russia

[iii] Radio Spada, Reflections on some words by A. Dugin, April 19, 2023 – https://www.radiospada.org/2023/04/distruggere-il-cattolicesimo-dallinterno-rafforzare-la-massoneria-riflessioni-su-alcune-parole-di-a-dugin/

[iv] Fronda, Alexander Dugin: I am waiting for Ivan the Terrible, March 1998 – https://www.fronda.pl/a/aleksander-dugin-czekam-na-iwana-groznego,45653.html

[v] ibid

[vi] Echevarria, Javier, “The driving force for the apostolic work”, Opus Dei, Nov. 29, 2011 – https://opusdei.org/en-ca/article/the-driving-force-for-the-apostolic-work/

[vii] Vladivostok Sunrise, Issue Number One Hundred Eight, November 1, 2012, pg. 4

[viii] Opus Judei, 2000, Bogota, Columbia – http://www.reductio.net/OpusJudei-Index.html

[ix] Ibid, Ch. 1, part 3

[x] Ibid, Ch. 1, part 7

[xi] Ibid, Ch. 3, part 4

[xii] Ibid

[xiii] Ibid, Ch. 1, part 14

By Tradition In Action
Letters to the Editor Section
May 13, 2014 Anno Domini

TIA,

When I found a Culture Wars magazine left for people to circulate at a Latin Mass Church, I became concerned about the content of this magazine. It seems that conservative Catholics are being targeted to view certain Russian elements with favor. If this were about the rich traditional Russian culture and her artistic heights, it would worthwhile. It does not seem to be about that.

It is very easy to fool people who have no basic knowledge of the basic forms of governments or about the means of production. The means of production is that slingshot used to catch your chicken dinner. The means of production is that spear used to spear your fish for dinner. Anything used for production to make a product is the means of production. Your own property can produce a product, such as rent money or a vegetable garden. It too can be a means of production. Capital is simply the word that we use for the means of production. In a sense, all governments are capitalist as they all use the means of production. They all use capital.

The communist form of government owns the means of production. There is no private ownership of property under a communist government. It is all owned by the State, as are all businesses.

The socialist form of government controls the means of production. All capital is controlled by the State under a socialist government.

The capitalistic form of government is when private individuals own the means of production. All capital is owned by private individuals.

All the Roman Catholic Popes before Vatican II say that individuals should own their own capital, their own private property and their own business. The prosperity of countries depends upon the actuality of the individual owning his own property, being allowed to follow his traditions and to control his own family. The Church also requires the protection of the State, so naturally, all laws would reflect a Catholic view, which modifies the outright “freedom” (some say license!) to be mean and nasty with capital. This Christian influence of capital is not socialism, but responsibility to the good of society.

Communism wants to own your property, your traditions and your family. Socialism wants to control your property, your traditions and your family. Capitalism wants people to be free to own and control their own property, traditions and family.

Catholicism wants people to be prosperous and charitable, to follow the Ten Commandments and partake of the Sacraments. In a sense, it wants people to be slaves of God and promotes laws under which the Catholic way of life will thrive. The alternative to being a slave of God is to be a slave of man.

If you want to know what is happening in Russia right now, go to Vladistovak Sunrise, the Catholic Mission in Siberia, or ask a person just from Russia. They will both tell you that there is a Great Depression in Russia, that only a few very wealthy people are allowed to be capitalists and that the government is still a communist one. No volunteer from outside Russia is allowed to do any work inside the Catholic churches there. They are only allowed to volunteer in the State-run orphanages and old people’s homes which are in a sorry, poverty-stricken condition. They are not allowed to talk about the Faith, there. In my opinion, they are being used.

Use your common sense! The head of the European Union (EU), the head of Germany and Putin are all “former” KGB! Putin is still the head of the reincarnation of the KBG, the Federal Security Bureau or the FSB! Socialism and Communism are both very close in ideology as they both destroy private and religious lives. The EU, Germany and Russia are either socialist or communist! They never changed when the USSR “fell”! It is almost all propaganda.

The problem with America today is that she has left the ideals of her Founding Fathers and she too, has become very nearly socialist. Obama wants the economy of the US to change from capitalist to socialist so that it will merge the US with Russia and come ever closer to a one world government where a few tyrants own everything and make the rest of us slaves of men! In my opinion, America’s big mistake was to not protect Christianity to begin with, as our Founders all agreed that the American Republic could never thrive without its people being religious.

I never heard of E. Michael Jones before I read this magazine. But I know from reading it that he is trying to fool you into mistaking sin for capitalism!

Capitalism existed in Christendom (Christendom being from either 313 AD – the Edict of Milan or 800 AD-Charlemagne, to 1789 – the French Revolution). Christendom’s form of government was a blend of Monarchy, limited by an Aristocracy responsible to and interacting with the people (merchants and farmers, mostly). The people also limited the monarchs and aristocrats. Only people’s actions were judged, as no one can judge what takes place in the heart of man, unlike today’s brainwashing on the part of tyrants.

In the 1500’s – 1600’s, absolutism started to oppress this healthy state and tyrants took over the monarchy, laying the foundation for the rebellion of the French Revolution, which destroyed all, even its own supporters! Before absolutism, the Catholic Church strongly influenced the entire Era because it was protected by the State. Despite the post-modern bad press, Christendom was the most highly cultured, inventive, religious and civilized Era of all time.

Good books to read are Plinio Correa de Oliveira’s works, Revolution and Counter Revolution and Nobility and Analogous Elites. A good site for learning about our United States Constitution and the advance of world despotism is JBS.org.

The confrontation between Russia and the Ukraine with the U.S. as cheerleader is nothing more than a staged act between two communist nations (Russia and Ukraine) and a half socialist one (the United States) to involve the U.S. and move us further into the dictator’s camp! People die and suffer in the meantime.

The goal is to create a Eurasian-socialist political region, an Asian-South-Pacific socialist political region, a Middle-Eastern socialist political region, a North & South-American political region, and eventually, an African one. They will all be unified by trade agreements, socialist or communist economies and all eventually under a one world United Nations.

E. Michael Jones in his magazine Culture Wars is obviously working very hard to take advantage of Americans who are unhappy with all of the wrong things in our U.S. government and offering the classic communist Utopian way out of our problems, namely, that the “Christian” Putin will solve everything.

Please remember one thing about communists who are materialists and atheists. They always lie. Stalin and Lenin murdered and starved up to 200 million people, mostly Orthodox and Catholic. It is a good idea to also read Michael Davies and Marcel Lefebvre’s books to see how the post Vatican II Catholic Church has also involved itself in this diabolical disorientation.

Satan is hell bent upon leading us all into complete chaos, complete destruction, complete disorientation, complete insanity and total rebellion against God’s harmony, creativity, balance and goodness and our humble obedience to God.

Please use your common sense! Think! Discern the difference between a round peg and a square peg.

The Russian Orthodox Church to which Putin belongs has had all of its religious, priests, bishops and its Archbishop murdered and replaced with communists a long, long time ago, under Stalin and Lenin. Orthodoxy has always placed itself under the State and not required its protection. Its clergy has been appointed by communists ever since. Murders and starvations have continued under most of Russia’s modern history. Putin belongs to a church more corrupt than the post Vatican II Church! Putin does not walk his talk. He never did!

One of the “alarms” that tips one off to Jones’ lies is when he replaces a “former” leader of the KGB, a proven murderer and a liar, with a good man! One may not agree with Fr. Gruener, however, all observation and proof shows us that he is a good man, above reproach in his conduct. Even un-charismatic Pope Benedict XVI, who suppressed about 60 liberal priests and theologians (such as Hans Khun), agrees with Fr. Gruener that the message of Fatima is ongoing. You may look that up.

Jones has a good motive for fearing the message of Fatima and trying to discredit it. Our Lady pointed right to Russia as the main cause of the offenses against God. Is it not curious that she said “Russia”? Did she not know that by 1920 Russia would be known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic? Do you not think that she purposely said Russia, with the foreknowledge that the name would change back to Russia after the 1991 “fall” of the USSR?

Well, I will leave it up to the reader to find more “alarms” inside the magazine Culture Wars. The title alone appears to refer to the classic communist revolutionary tactic of “class warfare.” I would advise extreme caution and a very careful research into the present state of Russia and its leaders before deciding that Putin has suddenly become a good Christian, worthy of our support.

“Be Ye Wise as Serpents and as Gentle as Doves”.

E.H.

By Timothy Fitzpatrick

Author-turned Eurasian guest of honour E. Michael Jones completely failed at trying to dismiss last month the claim that he is a KGB asset aiding the demise of the West.

Jones attempted to dismiss the claim (made by researcher Andy Sloan on this site) using a strawman argument during a live chat on Restoring the Faith, March 6, 2021.

“Someone is now spreading this ridiculous, preposterous claim that I am a KGB agent because I was in a room with Aleksandr Dugin,” Jones declared. He went on, “I am in the unfortunate position of being unable to prove a negative. I cannot prove that I am not a KGB agent, so the burden of proof lies on these people, these character assassinations (sic) who are launching this in the first place. I was at a conference in Tehran with Dugin…he gave a speech about multi-polarity. I offered an objection to that that speech saying we lived in some sense a uni-polar world, even if it’s not the United States of America that’s head of it. That was the extent of our discussion. This Internet breeds character assassination and this is one example of it.”

First off, Sloan’s article in no way based his claim merely on the fact that Jones was in the same room with Dugin (on multiple occasions, by the way). Jones then follows his strawman argument with a challenge of burden of proof, which Sloan did thoroughly provide. Jones addressed none of the many, many pieces of evidence written by Sloan. Did he even read it or is he deceiving his audience about the breadth of evidence?

Jones then claims he offered an objection to Dugin’s speech about multi-polarity. But he didn’t really offer an objection, though. He merely stated what he perceives as the current world geopolitical reality—that it is unipolar. Furthermore, Jones completely fails to discern (deliberately?) Dugin’s meaning of multi-polarity, which is really just jargonous deception to distract from the fact that Dugin wants his Eurasian union to rule the world as a unipolar, neo-Bolshevik empire (world government). To achieve this, the Eurasianists have to break the West’s seemingly unipolar rule using an appeal to the West’s enemies to engage in multi-polarism (divesting from the West) and embracing the East (Eurasianism, Belt and Road initiative). If Jones genuinely can’t understand this, then he is unfit to be a geopolitical analyst, especially as a self-appointed representative of the Catholic Church and the United States of America. Even Glenn Beck’s audience have a better understanding of Dugin’s deceptive language than does Jones, and Beck’s audience could be classified as “normies”.

At worst, Sloan is correct and Jones is a KGB asset wittingly distorting the evidence. Either way, Jones is carrying out the neo-Soviet Eurasianists’ objective of distorting the East’s true intentions as well as blaming the West for what is really Eastern subversion of it. While Jones does seem free, in his apparent KGB mission, to criticize world Jewry, he flat out denies Jewry’s subdivisions: subversion by freemasonry and Soviet communist threat.

“…communism was never a threat, in general.” —Jones

This is in addition to Jones being a race denialist (except when non-whites are he subject), denial of communism as a still-present threat, soft on Vatican II and its “popes”, outright heretical statements concerning Islam, propping up of Putin as an anti-globalist renegade, and associations with numerous Eurasianists and socialists, like Israel Shamir and Dugin—all Soviet-friendly narratives.

Jones has become so blatant with his agenda, I have had to create a dossier just to catalogue it all. The guy smacks of shill. It’s becoming more and more plain.