chance ex nihilo. It was the fruit of a
long process including the Protestant
revolt in 1517 and the foundation of
the first Free Masonic Lodge in 1717.
Both Protestantism and Naturalism
made huge contributions to the birth
of Socialism and Communism. And
they weren’t born in Russia. The West
gave birth to these errors.
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
depended upon the direct support
and planning of some very influential
members of the Western political and
financial elite. Wealthy bankers in
London and New York financed the
Revolution and gave great support and
encouragement to Lenin and Trotsky.
The Bolshevik Revolution was not
Russian, though it exploded there.
With the exception of Lenin, most of
its perpetrators and executive officers
were Jewish. The Russian nation itself
suffered as the first victim of the
Bolshevik terror.
The speaker explained the
‘Heartland Theory’ and summarized
his geostrategic discussion by
concluding, “Who controls Russia,
controls the World” — a nice thought
if you incline towards dominating
the world. After which, he argued
that the Catholic Church has also
embraced many Modernist errors
in our Age; e.g. ecumenism, moral
relativism and indifferentism. He
then submitted many proofs that
modern heresy and error infects
the Vatican today—the Modernism
condemned by Popes Pius IX and
Pius X in the Papal Encyclicals:
Quanta Cura and Pascendi. He told
of the infiltration of Russia’s errors
into the heart of Vatican in our day.
As God in His Providence used Russia
as a means of punishment for the
un-repented sins of the children of the
enlightenment and modernity, He can
also use her as a means of blessing.
Russia will lose nothing of her greatness
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and what’s good and legitimate in her
spiritual and liturgical heritage; she
can only benefit from the act of the
Holy Father consecrating Russia to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary. +++ As editor of this periodic newsletter,
I suggest that Russia has already offered
up to God a most acceptable sacrifice of
love, sorrow, suffering and martyrdom
in this past century. I have found in
my 23 years of annual travels through
Russia, the same humble, generous, long
suffering Russian hearts described by
Maurice Baring in 1922 when he wrote:
“What I saw and all I experienced was
the sense of an overpowering charm
in the country, an indescribable
fascination in the people. The charm
was partly due to the country itself,
partly to the manner of life lived
there, and partly to the nature of the
people. The qualities that did exist,
and whose benefits I experienced,
seemed to me the most precious of all
qualities, the most precious of all virtues,
the glimpses of beauty the rarest in
kind, the songs and the music the most
haunting and most heart-searching,
the poetry nearest to nature and man,
the human charity nearest to God.”
(Vol. XXIV No. 1 of Queen of Apostles
Mission Association Newsletter by
Matt Werner - Edited transcript
of Michal Semin’s talk at 100th
Anniversary of Fatima Conference
in Moscow - Nov. 4, 2017)