JIM CONDIT JR.
Jim Condit of Cincinnati, Ohio is a politician of the conservative bent. He runs at least three websites:Also based in Cincinnati is Bishop Daniel Dolan, who was ordained by Lefebvre and consecrated by Mark Pivarunas of the CMRI. There has been no connection demonostrated between Condit and Dolan.He testified recently:In the late summer/fall of 1989, I picked up Fr. Khoat at the Cincinnati airport. He was making his first visit to Cincinnati, Ohio by arrangement with myself and Mr. Gary Giuffre of St. Jude’s Shrine in Houston, Texas. With our fifth child just having been born, we did not have an available guest room in our house anymore, so I was to drop Fr. Khoat at the house of one of our friends, the Burns Family, where he was kindly welcomed to stay for his short visit of several days. He was going to meet several people while in town, and say Mass for those interested. (Fr. Khoat had always remained loyal to saying the traditional Latin Mass.) Fr. Khoat had ended up as one of the “boat people” who fled Vietnam as the Communists overran the southern portion of that country in 1975. He had been the assistant to one of the Bishops of Vietnam in the years preceding the fall of Saigon. He had been in charge of getting out the diocesan newspaper for the Bishop. At the time I was working on getting the first issue of All These Things newspaper/magazine published. Fr. Khoat gave me his advice on how to make periodicals interesting. (All These Things was to be, and has been in the 8 issues we have published since 1990, a newspaper on current events and history based on the Catholic Social teaching of the Kingship of Christ.) Back to my conversation with Fr. Khoat in late 1989
As we arrived at the Burns house at about 1:30 PM in the afternoon, Mrs. Burns invited us in, brought us some ice tea or water or pop, and left Fr. Khoat and I in the living room while she attended to some of her small children. At that point, I knew that Fr. Khoat had been to see Siri, and had seen a picture of the two of them together to prove it. (The picture was shown in the Saturday night slide presentation given by Mr. Gary Giuffre to a group of about 30 Catholics I had pulled together in Cincinnati, Ohio around February, 1989 – about 7 months before Fr. Khoat came to Cincinnati on this trip.) I wanted to hear what Father’s first hand impressions were. Fr. Khoat told me how he was unable to get in to see Siri in Genoa. This mirrored the experience of a number of other people. But during his stay in Genoa, he learned one day in a restaurant owned by friends of Siri that Siri was in Rome, at a convent where he stayed when in the Eternal City. Fr. Khoat quickly took a train to Rome. It turned out that this was in the period where John Paul II was going to “canonize” the Vietnamese martyrs, so many Vietnamese were in Rome. Father gave some money to a few little Vietnamese kids who were playing near the convent where Siri was staying. He asked them to go inside and find out when Mass was the next day. Fr. Khoat showed up at the appointed time, amidst a somewhat tense situation, and obtained a five minute meeting in private with Siri, under the guise of getting something signed. Father told me that once alone he said to Siri: “Are you the Pope?” Siri denied the question several times. At this point, Fr. Khoat told me he blurted out. “If you had done the consecration of Russia as Our Lady requested then my Bishop would not have been killed and my country would not have fallen to the Communists.” According to Fr. Khoat, Siri seemed to tear up. Khoat continued, “You are the Pope, not de facto, but de jure.” (In other words, Siri was not in control of the Vatican [de facto, or in fact], but he was by law [de jure] the rightful and true Pope.) According to Fr. Khoat, Siri responded, “You already know it.” Then Fr. Khoat said, “Come with me right now. I have two tickets to go to America where there are people who will help you.” Siri replied, “That would be impossible. I cannot go. They can kill me at anytime.” Siri told Fr. Khoat to come back at 8 PM that night when his secretary would be gone. Fr. Khoat went back that night and also saw Siri one more time with another *priest he brought from a nearby city. (*Note: this other priest who Fr. Khoat brought with him on his third secret meeting with the Hidden Pope, "Siri", was Monsignor Carlo Taramasso from Santa Marinella, Roma) There is more to this story, some of which I learned a few years later. (All of the above I had already heard, more or less, from Gary Giuffre via phone conversation.) Nevertheless, at this point I asked Fr. Khoat the following key question: “Did Siri know he was Pope from 1963, or did he come to realize in later years that the way he had been knocked off the throne was illegitimate, and that he was in fact the rightfully elected Pope." Without any hesitation, and with a very steady, emphatic voice, Fr. Khoat responded, during the first few words of this response he closed his eyes tightly and shook his head from side to side: “Oh, no, he knew he was Pope from 1958. He was elected. He accepted. And he took the name Gregory XVII. Go look at what happened in 1958 – this is when it all happened.” I then said, “So Siri was checkmated. Was he waiting for the chance to do something?” Fr. Khoat: “Yes, he was waiting for the chance to do something.” I said, “But the chance never came?” Khoat: “The chance never came.” I called Gary Giuffre that night and asked him if he had ever heard from Fr. Khoat that the conclave that mattered was the 1958 Conclave. Gary responded that Fr. Khoat had not told him this. Based on this information, Gary went to the Houston Chronicle archives, and eventually to other sources, and began to piece together the incredible happenings at the 1958 conclave. Indeed, on October 26, 1958 white smoke had billowed out of the Sistine chapel stovepipe as evening fell for a full five minutes. This could only happen if a Pope had been elected, had accepted, and had chosen a name. The Vatican radio announced that there was a new Pope for 30 minutes as several hundred thousand people filled St. Peter’s Square to receive the blessing of the new Pope. The Swiss guards were ordered out of their barracks to take up their positions in anticipation of the Pope’s imminent appearance on the balcony. And on and on. Then suddenly, about thirty minutes after the white smoke, indicating a new Pope had been elected, had turned back to black without explanation, everything was halted. Two days later, on October 28th, Cardinal Roncalli walked out on the balcony and was presented to the world as the newly elected Pope, John XXIII. The world press cheered wildly – and the demolition operation against the Church was underway. The implications of Fr. Khoat’s testimony were staggering. This would mean that a true Pope was elected, shoved aside, and replaced by an anti-pope. This would mean that ALL the strange, disconcerting, and destructive changes that had been imposed on the unsuspecting faithful since 1958 were not the actions of the Church, but the actions of a counter-church, an anti-church, -- the “counterfeit church of darkness” foreseen by the Venerable Anna Catherine Emmerick circa 1821. This would indicate that we are living through the period described circa 1846 by Our Lady of LaSalette when she said, “The Church will be in eclipse.” The Church was still there, but hidden from the view of almost the whole world by the counterfeit church of darkness which has pulled off the false council, Vatican II, replaced the true Mass with the sacrilegious “New Mass”, vitiated the rite of the consecration of bishops in 1969, replaced the sound textbooks in use throughout the Catholic world with heretical and fluff textbooks meant to deprive Catholic children of their birthright to the Faith, and perpetrated so many more works of destruction. But as the Venerable Anna Catherine Emmerick is also quoted as saying to the Catholics trying to remain faithful who would live through this period, “Do not lose heart; victory will be ours.” Jim Condit Jr.
February 2005
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Khoat continued, “You are the Pope, not de facto, but de jure.” (In other words, Siri was not in control of the Vatican [de facto, or in fact], but he was by law [de jure] the rightful and true Pope.) This sounds a lot like the material/formal of Guerard des Lauriers, former professor at Econe and later a Thuc Bishop. Without any hesitation, and with a very steady, emphatic voice, Fr. Khoat responded, during the first few words of this response he closed his eyes tightly and shook his head from side to side: “Oh, no, he knew he was Pope from 1958. He was elected. He accepted. And he took the name Gregory XVII. Go look at what happened in 1958 – this is when it all happened.” Prior to this conversation, Khoat insisted that Siri had said it is a secret, and held to the 1963 election date from 1988 until March of 1989, when he stated he was going to the Lefebvre Position on the Papacy.
Michael Fighting
"Michael…who standeth for…thy people," — Dan. 12:1-12
