Leo XIII's Important Actions

Dear Brothers,

I'm wondering if MHFM might consider doing a video on Leo XIII...

As you've pointed out, Leo XIII foretold the attack on the Catholic Church and the Chair of St. Peter, as proven by his prophetic prayer to St. Michael which he ordered to be recited after Low Masses (and whose prophetic aspect was later removed.) You've also mentioned his... comment that something good would come out of America -- Leo XIII also refers to this in an encyclical - and this despite the fact that, by the time of Leo XIII's reign... the world... was in apostasy and had already begun its descent. When Leo XIII said something good would come from America, he meant something truly Catholic. The Pope knew that the Catholics who emigrated to America (especially the Italians) were targets of the Protestants and were losing the Catholic faith. That's why he asked Mother Cabrini to abandon her lifelong dreams of evangelizing in the east, and to go to America instead.

And Pope Leo XIII seems to have been prophetic in other ways as well.

For one thing, Leo XIII seems to have anticipated Our Lady of Fatima and her call to the Rosary. He is known as 'the Rosary Pope': he stated that he himself was devoted to the Rosary; he wrote 11 encyclicals on the Rosary; and he was the Pope who dedicated the month of October to Our Lady of the Rosary. (Two of his encyclicals are: Magnae Dei Matris (Sept. 8, 1892) and Laetitiae Sanctae (Sept. 16, 1893). The first is a beautiful meditation; the second one is relatively short and explains the specific advantages of praying the Rosary in these times. They are available in English on vatican.va.

Leo XIII, on Dec. 28, 1878, published his encyclical Quod Apostolici Muneris to warn the world of the threat of 'globalism' (even though he didn't use that word), and he said that people who seek domination over others were no longer working in secret, but openly trying to uproot civilization. When we look at a timeline of events, we realize (in retrospect) how correct he was. He described these enemies of God and mankind as those who 'as the sacred text bears witness, defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and blaspheme majesty." And he said this long before Fatima, long before the communist revolt, and long before people had any clue regarding the antichrist program of enslavement and its goal of world domination. 

Today, the leading war-mongers of the times appear to be "Zionists" and "Christian Zionists", and it is feared that that these individuals will bring about WWIII. Can this be a coincidence? Pope Leo XIII (long ago) warned the world that it was hastening to its own destruction and he explained why it was happening: "In fact, Venerable Brethren, you know full well that the atrocious war which, starting from the 16th century, was declared against the Catholic faith by the Reformers, and which was growing amain from day to day in vehemence, aimed at giving free course to the rejection of all revelation, the subversion of the supernatural order, and the enthronement of unaided reason with its vagaries, or rather, ravings. Deriving pretentiously its name from reason, this false doctrine, by flattering and stimulating the eagerness to outstrip others which is interwoven with man's [fallen] nature, and giving the rein to every kind of unlawful desire, has taken willing possession of the minds of great numbers, and has pervaded the whole of civilized society." When people reject the doctrines of Christ as preserved and taught by His Church, they have no choice but to follow the apostate angel...

Anticipating the 'ecumenism' of Vatican II, Leo XIII warned about false principles being promoted - especially that Catholic doctrines should be ignored in evangelization in order to make the Church more attractive to heretics. And he also mentioned the heresy that, while certain doctrines might have been relevant in the past, they were no longer appropriate for the 'advanced' civilization of the day.

And long before the so-called 'evangelical' and 'charismatic' movements arose in society, Leo XIII was calling out the errors regarding the Holy Ghost, especially the claim that the Holy Ghost dealt with people directly (no need for the Church.) He was also calling out the demonic belief that the natural order was superior to the supernatural order. In this regard, it is good to remember that the Vatican II Sect and it's leading 'lights' were all abuzz and writing books about 'the Natural Law' (Ignatius press especially comes to mind.) Pope Leo was also outraged by the prevailing notions that lay associations (with no vows) could be greater than membership in religious orders (and we know what ultimately happened to the religious orders in the Church)...

Leo XIII's encyclicals also prove that the Great Apostasy was well underway by the time of his reign, and especially by his death -- while the rest of the world was clueless as to what was going on. What a wonderful pope he was.

Lee Ann