Catholic during the Great Apostasy

Our Lord Jesus Christ built His Church upon a rock, establishing solid, granite-like foundations, binding them with His own innocent Blood. The glory of this spiritual Temple was later strengthened by the blood of the Apostles and martyrs. The Church is made up of people faithful to Revelation, that is, to the Gospel and Tradition. It is clear that the true Catholic Church exists where there is fidelity to the Unchanging God – from the beginning until the end of the world.

The papacy was entrusted to St. Peter by our Lord after His Resurrection, before His Ascension.

People began to create the administration of the Catholic Church, build temples, and organize its structures. However, just as the two previous Temples were destroyed due to human betrayal, so too was this one. Those who were meant to be shepherds will pay for this with eternal damnation. The structure of the Church was completely demolished at the Second Vatican Council, which departed from the Catholic faith, dethroning God and enthroning man. This was not a reform – it was a rebellion. At that moment, the administration of the Temple was taken over by enemies. The Church as a structure lay in ruins; only the spiritual Church remained – hidden, scattered, persecuted. The Council was like the crucifixion of the Son of God – an act of ultimate betrayal, and thus the destruction of the Temple. Modernists, who considered themselves “renewers” of the Church, betrayed it, causing the Bride to hand the Bridegroom a “divorce letter.” God is Truth – He did not break the covenant, but people did. Does God break promises? No! It was the servants who broke them, and He administers justice. God explained through Jeremiah what a covenant is. If the bride betrays, can God allow her to return to Him? Yet, if she recognizes her error, accepts correction, and humbles herself, in His mercy, He may forgive her. Let us remember, however, that the Second Vatican Council was already the final act of betrayal, a signing of a pact with the devil, though it all began much earlier. Our Lady in Fatima said that people were already offending God too much and foretold punishments if they did not repent. Pius XII constantly struggled with the growing wave of heresy among the Church hierarchy – modernism. The scale of this threat is evidenced by the fact that after the death of Cardinal Maglione in 1944, he did not appoint a new Secretary of State, which was unprecedented. He personally handled all matters – deliberately refusing to let anyone come close, distrusting his inner circle.

The logic is simple: after the crucifixion of the Messiah, the chosen people ceased to be chosen in favor of those who believed. Christians became the new chosen people. The Third Temple is the Catholic Church.

Not everyone must agree with this, but it is worth noting the similarities that emerge in the analysis of events related to God’s Temples.

1. Jeremiah’s Warnings and the Destruction of the First Temple
   Jeremiah began prophesying in 627 BC. 
   The First Temple was destroyed in 587 BC. 
   Difference: 40 years.

2. The Crucifixion of the Messiah and the Destruction of the Second Temple
   The crucifixion of Jesus Christ took place around 30–33 AD (let us assume 30 AD). 
   The Second Temple was destroyed in 70 AD. 
   Difference: 40 years (or 37 years if we assume 33 AD).

3. The Fatima Apparitions and the Fall of the Third Temple
   The apparitions in Fatima began in 1917. 
   Forty-one years later, in 1958, Pope Pius XII died, and the process of destroying the Temple began. We can take 1957 as the practical end of Pius XII’s authority due to his illness. Some sources suggest that his personal physician (Galeazzi-Lisi) and secretary, Fr. Robert Leiber, in the final months of his life, restricted his access to information and people, manipulating his decisions. This also gives us approximately 40 years, though precise chronology is not crucial here – it is about the approximate period.

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In the case of the previous two Temples, there was a short siege lasting a few or several months, which ended in destruction. In the case of the Catholic Church, it was not about a single building but a vast structure, so the process took several years, culminating in the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, when the Temple finally fell.

It is worth noting that Jeremiah was imprisoned before the destruction of the First Temple, and his influence was limited. Similarly, Pius XII, especially from 1954 onward, due to illness, had increasingly less influence on events.

Let us also consider another important issue: 

Fifty years after the destruction of the First Temple, around 537/536 BC, the rebuilding of the Second Temple began by the decree of Cyrus in 538 BC. 
Fifty years after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 AD), Christianity developed dynamically: the writings of the Apostolic Fathers emerged, separation from Judaism occurred, early persecutions and battles against Gnosticism took place. These processes shaped the identity, structure, and doctrine of Christianity, making this period crucial for its development.

The similarities are clear. 
What happened to the chosen people of that time? The Jews rejected the Messiah, killed Him, the Temple lay in ruins, and they were scattered and ceased to be the chosen people. Most of them abandoned tradition, becoming Jews in name only, which led to a dictatorship in the style of Israel and constant accusations of conspiracies.

After the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, the Third Temple also lay in ruins. Most Catholics, like the Jews before them, rejected Revelation, turning toward modernism – the sewer of all heresies. Only a few remained faithful to the true faith, that is, to the Gospel and Tradition. Most are Catholics in name only. Former Christian countries transformed into liberal dictatorships. Is this not a striking similarity? 
After the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews fell victim to persecution. And today? Christianity has become the most persecuted religion in the world.

Rejecting God’s will has consequences, whether one likes it or not.

If the Council ended in 1965, then 50 years later, in 2015, the rebuilding of the Temple in souls began – on the rock of our faith. In 2013, Bergoglio was elected pope, beginning the process of destroying the remnants of Catholic consciousness. Two years were enough to dispel the illusions of even the most naive. The papal style turned into a media show, sin ceased to be a problem, and heresy ceased to be a cause for concern. In 2015, at the Synod on the Family, everything became clear: the institutional Church cut itself off from Tradition, abandoning not only the language of truth but also its foundations. From that moment, no thinking person could pretend it was merely a “crisis.” Every Catholic who still hoped that the official Church remained faithful to Tradition had to face the brutal truth.

The world did not notice, but the rebuilding began in souls – in silence, far from structures. Faithful souls were stripped of illusions so they could rebuild what was destroyed. There is no longer room for compromises. The chosen people rejected the Messiah and, like the Jews before them, ceased to be chosen. 
Instead of the Church – a structure. Instead of Truth – dialogue. Instead of obedience – democratization. 
The fruits? Liberal dictatorships, moral chaos, a Church without faith, a liturgy without the sacred. Only a few remained faithful.

The Temple is being rebuilt in souls – where there is no compromise, no lies, no empty ritual. Those who have no access to true priests have access to God – through spiritual sacraments. 
Souls fully devoted to God will be able to resist the surrounding evil. Unity in God, in Truth, in souls. For those who have no access to priests untainted by modernist heresy, spiritual sacraments remain. All human rituals without the surrender of the soul to God have little value – they are merely empty fulfillments of duty. A Catholic has the right, and even the duty, to reject anything that raises the slightest doubt, because what God transmits is simple and contains not a shred of falsehood.

I realize that great priests today require traveling hundreds of kilometers to meet them, and they wait in their residences. Has anyone seen a shepherd who sits in a cave and waits for the scattered flock to find him? 
Is this a good shepherd? Should he not seek even a single lost sheep?

Where is the Temple of the Living God now? 
Where it has always been. 
Do not seek it in Jerusalem, for where it once stood, only a wall remains. Do not seek it in the Vatican, for where Peter once was, Judas now sits. The Temple is not an institution.

The year 2015. The world noticed nothing. No tower fell, no throne was overthrown. But the Holy Spirit began the rebuilding – from within, from the soul, from the desert, from silence.

I was torn away. Sent to the wilderness. Stripped of everything familiar, comfortable, “mine.” In this emptiness, new life began. After three years in hiding, in silence – conversion; the website niewolnikmaryi.com, thousands of texts. Not to proclaim myself, but to give voice to the One who was cast out of His own Church. 
This is not my work. I am only a witness. In 2015, something new began – still hidden, still small, but unstoppable.

Many of us feel like I do – like dust, looking at the surrounding evil in solitude, but our souls are not abandoned – God dwells in them, and though we think we are unworthy of such grace, let us trust and persevere in true faith.

The Temple is rising in souls. It is mystical but real. This is not philosophy or symbolism. This is our path, which the Blessed Virgin Mary leads straight to her Son. 
Golgotha awaits us. Betrayal, abandonment, death await us. But then – Resurrection. 
There will be one Shepherd and one Flock. Not through ecumenism, but through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not be lukewarm, do not be gray. Do not delude yourself that you can stay where lies mix with truth. Come out of Babylon. Return to God – to a purified soul, to humility, to the cross.

If you hear the Voice – respond. If you feel the call of your soul – do not run away. Time is running out.

The Church has not perished – it has gone into the catacombs. 
Mary has not ceased to be Queen – but Her crown has been trampled. 
Christ has not lost – but His Body is being crucified anew.

Persevere. The Temple – is you. If you are ready to pay the price. 
Silence, quiet, prayer.

Arkadiusz Niewolski