Uncanny! Popes' coats of arms back up prophecy

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Popes' coats of arms back up prophecy Predicted mottos for each papacy reflected in official symbols The 900-year-old prophecy of St. Malachy that predicts Pope Francis, the 112th pontiff in a specific line, will be the last pope applies labels to each Catholic leader, many of which strikingly coordinate with each man's official coat of arms. In the WND Films documentary "The Last Pope?" – based on the book, "Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here" – experts on the ancient prophecy explain how many of these mottoes not only match up with the papal symbols but the men's origins and life experiences as well. Malachy was a Catholic saint who lived in Ireland in the 12th century. His "Prophecy of the Popes," as it has come to be known, forecast that there would be 112 popes from that time until Jesus made His triumphant return to the planet. The sudden and unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was the spark igniting the new wildfire of speculation due to one simple reason: his successor, Pope Francis, is the end of the line. In "The Last Pope?" several papal coats of arms are displayed as Cris Putnam, co-author of "Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here," explains how Malachy's descriptions fit in with specific design features. Says Putnam of Pope Paul VI: "The prophecy for him is 'Flos Florum, Flower of Flowers.' Sounds pretty simple, kind of vague, right? When you look at his coat of arms, it has three fleurs-de-lis. This is a French monarchy symbol that means 'Flower of the Lily,' and that's really the whole coat of arms. "My thinking was 'maybe he saw that coming, and he saw the Malachy prophecy and he picked his coat of arms to match it,' but I did some research. When you become a bishop you have to have your coat of arms in place, and if you look at the time lines of these guys' careers, most of them are bishops 30 years before they're even eligible to be pope. Minimum of 20 or so. So if you think about the sort of guesswork, you'd have to get really lucky to figure out how many popes are between you and your eligibility and when he would die, and it doesn't seem that possible to manipulate that way. Read more about "The Last Pope?" HERE. "[Malachy's] prophecy really stunningly seems to describe [Paul's] coat of arms when it says 'Flower of the Lily.'" Emmet O'Regan is a historical blogger from Northern Ireland featured in the film. He explains that Malachy's motto for Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, was Lumen in Coelo, which means "Light in the Sky." Leo's coat of arms includes a comet in the sky on the left side. Pope Gregory IX served in the 13th century. His Malachy motto was Auis Ostiensis, or Bird of Ostia. Gregory was cardinal bishop of Ostia, and his coat of arms includes an eagle, below. So is Pope Francis indeed the "last pope"? The prophecy's moniker for his papacy is "Petrus Romanus," or "Peter the Roman." In the documentary, Tom Horn, co-author of "Petrus Romanus," says he believes the motto fits just fine. Explains Horn in the film: "We had given interviews [prior to the election of Pope Francis] saying it would be a mistake to try to nail down the last pope having the Christian name Peter, that in fact the only thing that it would take to fulfill the prophecy would be a cardinal of Italian descent. And low and behold Jorge Bergoglio, Italian descent, parents full-blooded Italians, or in the old language 'Romans.' "But he names himself after Francis of Assisi. Now this is a Catholic friar who lived in the late 1100s and the early 1200s, but his name of birth Giovanni Di Pietro Di Bernardone, Peter. He was an Italian, or Roman in the old language, a man whose name can literally be translated as 'Peter the Roman.' So to take that as a namesake, well it was intriguing to say the least." Order your DVD copy of "The Last Pope?" at the WND Superstore. The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller "Red Horizons," Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspiring him to send assassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy chief and kill him. They failed. On Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was executed by his own people at the end of a trial whose accusations came almost word-for-word out of "Red Horizons." After courageously defecting to the United States, which he now proudly calls home, Pacepa became a major asset to the Central Intelligence Agency's efforts to deal with the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. The CIA has praised Pacepa's cooperation for providing "an important and unique contribution to the United States," and President Ronald Reagan (seen below holding Pacepa's "Red Horizons") reportedly referred to it as "my bible for dealing with dictators." Today, still living undercover in the United States, the man credited by the CIA as the only person in the Western world who single-handedly demolished an entire enemy espionage service – the one he himself managed – is now taking aim at an even bigger target: the exotic, widely misunderstood but still astonishingly influential realm of the Russian-born "science" of disinformation. Published by WND Books, the book is titled "Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism." Within its pages, Pacepa, along with his co-author, historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, expose some of the most consequential yet largely unknown disinformation campaigns of our lifetime. In "Disinformation," Pacepa and Rychlak reveal that the Soviet Union's immense intelligence apparatus, unlike other nations' spy establishments, was not primarily focused on spying and gathering intel on other nations. Instead, reveal the authors, the communist bloc intelligence services, including the Russian KGB and the Romanian DIE headed by Pacepa, were much more preoccupied with rewriting history, with manufacturing lies, deception and false documents, with turning one religion against another, with defaming the noblest people and glorifying the worst, and – perhaps most importantly – with planting an endless barrage of false, perverse, anti-American disinformation into the liberal Western news media. Click here to read more about "Disinformation." Here's how former CIA director R. James Woolsey, who wrote the introduction for "Disinformation," summarizes it: "This remarkable book will change the way you look at intelligence, foreign affairs, the press, and much else besides." And best-selling author and Cold War historian, Professor Paul Kengor, says simply: "Here is a work that many of us have been waiting for; a book that – dare I say – history has been waiting for." Crucial puzzle piece While reading this mesmerizing true narrative – from Pacepa's recruitment at a young age into communist Romania's secret police (the Securitate) to his rise to the top of the Soviet bloc intelligence world, complete with insider stories and never-before-revealed facts – the reader will discover answers to many vexing questions of the modern era, such as: Why, during the last two generations, has so much of the Western world turned against its founding faith, Christianity? Why have radical Islam, jihad and terrorism burst aflame after a long period of apparent quiescence? Why is naked Marxism increasingly manifesting in America and its NATO allies? What really happened to Russia after the Berlin Wall came down? Like the solution to a giant jigsaw puzzle lacking one crucial piece, "Disinformation" authoritatively provides the missing dimension that makes the chaos of the modern world finally understandable. By its very nature, a disinformation campaign can work only if the seemingly independent Western press accepts intentionally fabricated lies and presents them to the public as truth. Thus, Pacepa and Rychlak also document how the U.S. "mainstream media's" enduring sympathy for all things liberal-left has made it vulnerable to – indeed, the prime carrier of – civilization-transforming campaigns of lying, defamation and historical revisionism that turn reality on its head. Today, with assassination threats still hanging over his head because of his defection and continuing fight against socialist dictatorship, Pacepa lives in the U.S. under a protective identity. Still vigorous in his 80s, he remains an astute and uniquely insightful writer on current affairs. His co-author, Ronald J. Rychlak, is the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and terrorism and the law. Appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to a committee to revise that state's criminal code, he also served on the Mississippi advisory committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. In "Disinformation," you'll discover: •  How destroying the reputation of good leaders has been developed into a high art and science. •  How Pope Pius XII – a generation ago the world's most high-profile Christian leader, who personally saved countless Jews from Hitler's Holocaust – was transformed, through the magic of disinformation, into a Nazi sympathizer. •  How Christianity and Judaism have been targeted for constant denigration and defamation through an ongoing campaign of disinformation. •  How the Soviet bloc planted 4,000 agents of influence in the Islamic world, armed with hundreds of thousands of copies of the most infamous anti-Semitic book in history, to fan the flames of ancient Arab resentments against the U.S. and Israel and sow the seeds of anti-Semitism that would later bloom in the form of violence and terror toward Jews and Christians. •  How the defamatory attacks on American soldiers John Kerry made before Congress upon his return from Vietnam – charges later discredited and repudiated – were identical to a contemporaneous KGB disinformation campaign concocted to turn Americans against their own leaders. •  How supposedly respectable institutions like the World Council of Churches have long been infiltrated and controlled by Russian intelligence. •  How much of the world came to believe that the U.S. government itself masterminded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. •  How the Soviet Union has been transformed into the first intelligence dictatorship in history. •  How disinformation is still very much alive in the age of Obama, remaining a powerful engine in the ongoing socialist transformation of America. All this and much more is meticulously documented in "Disinformation," with the credibility of an eyewitness who was not only there, but actively involved as a Soviet bloc spy chief – who, thanks to a crisis of conscience, "left the dark side" and came to America to help shine a light on the greatest source of political evil of the modern age. Powerful new film documentary also being released In addition to the blockbuster book "Disinformation" from WND Books, WND Films is simultaneously releasing a brand-new, feature-length (120-minute) companion film titled "Disinformation: The Secret Strategy for Destroying the West," written and directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Stan Moore. Besides dramatically profiling the life and revelations of Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the two-disc DVD documentary features new interviews with many experts, including co-author Ronald Rychlak, former CIA chief James Woolsey, author David Horowitz, Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf, historian Michael Ledeen, journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave, defense analyst Frank Gaffney, Nina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, deputy undersecretary of defense Jed Babbin, assistant secretary of defense Richard Perle, Vladimir Tismaneanu, director, Center for the University of Maryland's Study of Post-Communist Societies, Michael Maloof, former security policy analyst for the U.S. Defense Department, Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, terrorism expert and director of American Center for Democracy, David Kupelian, author and managing editor of WND, Gary Krupp, founder and president of Pave the Way Foundation, Yuri Yarim-Agaev, physicist and Soviet dissident, Wayne Barnes, former FBI agent, Roger L. Simon, novelist and screenwriter, Darnelle Mason, missionary to Romania, Palm Beach Rabbi Leonid Feldman and Romanian-born NASA aerospace scientist Constantin Rauta. The film documentary dramatically depicts how disinformation – the evil "science" of deception that so disastrously shaped our world during the last generation – is still very much alive in the current generation under Barack Obama. The book and film can be purchased separately, or bundled together at a very special reduced price.     Call Toll-Free to Order:  If you prefer to order by phone, you can call our friendly, Midwestern customer service reps toll-free at 1-800-4WND-COM  (1-800-496-3266), Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Central.   If you are unable to see images in the message above, click here. This email was sent to buzzhairs@gmail.com as a subscriber to the Offers from WNDsuperstore.com e-mail list or past customer. 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