{"id":16506,"date":"2014-12-10T00:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T04:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=16506"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:34:45","slug":"pope-francis-elected-after-supernatural-signs-says-cardinal-the-role-his-jesuit-contemplative-ways-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/pope-francis-elected-after-supernatural-signs-says-cardinal-the-role-his-jesuit-contemplative-ways-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Elected After Supernatural “Signs Says Cardinal\u2014The Role His Jesuit Contemplative Ways Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a news article earlier this year in the UK newspaper The Telegraph<\/em>, the “surprise election of Pope Francis came about because of a series of supernatural ‘signs,’ one of the leading Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church has claimed.”\u00a0 The article also stated:<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Christoph Sch\u00f6nborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, who was himself widely tipped as a possible successor to Pope Benedict, said he had personally had two \u201cstrong signs\u201d that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was \u201cthe chosen one\u201d in the run up to vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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He said only divine intervention could explain the speed with which the Argentine Cardinal – who did not feature on any of the main lists of likely candidates compiled by Vatican experts – was elected.1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this is true, that Pope Francis was elected through supernatural means, the question must be posed, from which side did this supernatural, “divine” intervention come? If it is indeed supernatural, it had to be either from God or from Satan (the two opposing forces). Because we know that the Catholic church is a false heretical church that believes salvation is justification through works and not the sole work of Christ on the Cross, that Mary is a co-redeemer who did not sin, and that Jesus Christ is found in the Eucharist and the Catholic Mass, we must conclude that this supernatural intervention that brought Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the station of Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is not from God.<\/p>\n

How is this relevant to the evangelical\/Protestant church today? As Lighthouse Trails and Understand the Times have reported since Pope Francis began his reign as Pope, evangelical leaders are racing to the Pope’s side like never before in the history of the evangelical\/Protestant church. Some of these who are rallying with the Pope are Rick Warren, Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, and James Robison, while other Christian leaders, such as Beth Moore<\/a>, are coming out with statements that are giving strong credibility to the Catholic church.<\/p>\n

It is a known fact that Pope Francis is a Jesuit. And as Lighthouse Trails has reported on a number of occasions, he is also a contemplative advocate. See our article Pope Francis \u2013 Spiritually \u201cFounded\u201d on a Contemplative Tradition.<\/a> As research analyst Ray Yungen<\/a> has documented, the Catholic Church is using contemplative prayer as a means of expanding her borders. Roger Oakland, founder of Understand the Times, has linked the mystical practice of the Eucharist to the Papacy’s New Evangelization program to bring the “lost brethren” back to the “Mother Church.” And as one can see, these efforts are having tremendous results. Ray Yungen states:<\/p>\n

I had always been confused as to the real nature of this advance in the Catholic church. Was this just the work of a few mavericks and renegades, or did the church hierarchy sanction this practice? My concerns were affirmed when I read in an interview that the mystical prayer movement not only had the approval of the highest echelons of Catholicism but also was, in fact, the source of its expansion. (A Time of Departing<\/em>, by Ray Yungen)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For thirteen years, Lighthouse Trails has been warning that when people get involved with contemplative meditation practices, they are putting themselves under demonic influence. In time, the spiritual outlook of contemplatives moves away from the Cross and the Gospel and moves toward panentheism and interspirituality.<\/p>\n

How does all this tie together?\u00a0The cover story in Christianity Today’s<\/em> December 2014 issue proclaims: “Why Everyone is Flocking to Francis.” CT has its own idea of why “everyone” is drawn to the Pope. But if Lighthouse Trails is correct in our conclusions about contemplative spirituality and its outcome, then what is happening here is a “supernatural” occurrence in the lives of millions of people, both Catholic and non-Catholic, who are finding themselves dramatically affected by this Pope.<\/p>\n

While we will not try to speculate what the possible role of this Pope could be in relation to Bible prophecy and the endtimes, we will say this with surety: between the New Age and the Catholic Church, the world is being drawn deeper and deeper into darkness and closer and closer to a false christ whom the Bible says is coming.<\/p>\n

In closing, we’ll leave you with these words from Warren B. Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church today [is] linked to the foundational New Age\/New Spirituality teaching that God is \u201cin\u201d everyone.
\nThe 1994 Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is the official source for all Roman Catholic doctrine today, states:<\/p>\n

“Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians, but Christ himself. Do you understand and grasp, brethren, God\u2019s grace toward us? Marvel and rejoice: we have become Christ.” (#795)<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Son of God became man so that we might become God.\u201d (#460) (cited from “Another Jesus” Calling<\/em> by Warren B. Smith)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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