The Year Everything Changes

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Fr. Paul Kramer is prescient. I wouldn’t call him a seer, but he has spent 50 years studying private revelation. Such a long period of research has informed and sharpened his sense for the timeliness of present events.

I wanted to get this article a month ago, but couldn’t for one reason or another. And now? Here we have ourselves bogged down in The Epstein War, and the whole world is feeling its effects. It would’ve been more prescient and ominous if I could’ve gotten this out in February, but oh well. What can you do? Here we are. And everything that is “supposed to happen later” is actually happening right now.

About one month ago, Fr. Paul Kramer joined John-Henry Westen on the LifeSite News channel and did an in-depth interview that was absolutely incredible. Today, we will go over the highlights, here at The Weltgeist.

2026 is THE Year.

Fr. Kramer emphasized immediacy in his discussion with John-Henry Westen. Rather than sitting back and comfortably speculating on future events that’ll happen one day in the mysterious unseen future—instead of that, Fr. Kramer insisted we were not dealing in years, but in weeks and months. He pointed to 2026 as a year for chastisement.

Now, Fr. Kramer believes in the moment of an Illumination of Conscience—in which all of the people all over the world are supposed to suddenly be aware of every evil thing they’ve been doing, and they’re given a last chance to repent. This is typically an event that is foretold by the alleged seers of Garabandal (which I don’t really ascribe to).

Fr. Kramer said that:

I can't even give you the year. But my instinct tells me that it's going to be this year. Probably this spring probably. I'm—again—I'm making an educated guess. I'm not making a prophecy. I'm not making a prediction even. I'm just saying it is an educated speculation that I'm making: that I think it is quite possible and quite likely that it that this is the year recent prophecies seem to to pinpoint. This year is the the year that we find the first major events of the Chastisement. That the Great Chastisement will be in full force sometime afterward. Maybe next year or maybe the end of this year. Maybe next year.

But this year? We're going to see some major significant events where the world is going to experience the brunt of the of the Great Chastisement.

Probably this spring, eh? And what’s happened this early spring? Not any kind of an illumination of conscience. But definitely, we’re seeing World War III take firmer shape. I am of course talking about the Iran debacle. Much of the geopolitical world is being destroyed right now, here in the spring of 2026.

Fr. Kramer draws on a wide range of references to support this: the Gospel language about signs in the heavens, the Roman Breviary’s mention of the Cross appearing before the end, and the well-known remark attributed to Malachi Martin about “looking to the sky” in connection with the Third Secret of Fatima. He leaves open what form this sign might take, but he suggests that it’ll be more than symbolic. The tone of his speculation leans toward something dramatic, even potentially destructive.

Destructive. I think we now know what form that destructiveness is now taking.

Fr. Kramer is cautious in how he frames it, but his instinct is clear: He believed these events would occur this year—perhaps even this spring. The year 2026 is to be the beginning of serious, major events. According to him, this is the year in which the first major blows fall. The world will have begun to experience consequences of what was long foretold. He speaks of war, hunger, famine, and persecution, drawing explicitly from the Fatima message and from Scripture.

Famine

There are various bits of extra information that many will be keenly interested in. For example, he spoke of an elderly nun in Ireland who, before her death, described a future in which people would wander the streets searching for food. Fr. Kramer says that this moment approaches rapidly—even in places that currently enjoy abundance.

Those in the know tell us that the recent destruction of Middle Eastern oil and gas production will now lead us into a period of famine and extreme economic decline.

Canada

Another tidbit that I found extremely notable was during a point in the interview when Fr. Kramer related of how Our Lady spoke of nations being annihilated, including the the destruction of a very large North American country.

When Pius XII opened the Third Secret—and according the source in one of the books that I read about it—Fatima: Hope of the World by Joseph Albert Pelletier, page 151, he relates that when Pope Pius the 12th opened the Third Secret and read it, the first words that came out of his mouth were: “Povera Canada!” Poor Canada.

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina spoke of the very large North American country that would be annihilated. Our Lady of Fatima. said several nations will be annihilated. I don't know what year this will take place. I don't know if this is the event that seems to be prophesied for this year of 2026. It could be, but I don't know at this point. I can only speculate it it might be.

But if I had to fathom a guess—again, an educated guess based on 50 years of studying prophecy—I would not want to live in Ottawa or the vicinity of Ottawa, because I think Ottawa will be ground zero for whatever it is that is going to bring about the annihilation of that very large North American country that Padre Pio spoke of.

Speaking for myself, this calls to mind a few Eastern Orthodox prophecies I covered last week (which I do not take with as much dogmatic seriousness, mind you). Prophecies in which: “Half of America will sink—as far as the land of the Native peoples” I have heard this in many other places besides last week’s Eastern Orthodox source.

So, why would Canada be excluded from a North American inundation? They are, after all, attached to the landmass.

Zachary the Jew

The geopolitical dimension becomes more pronounced when he introduces the prophecies attributed to a figure known as Zachary the Jew (who is actually a Catholic convert; his revelations caused his conversion). His work was compiled in the early nineteenth century under the title The Day of Wrath. In that 1807 text, as Fr. Kramer presents it, there is a large-scale conflict between North America and what is called the “Empire of the North.” He interprets this empire as corresponding roughly to the combined territorial mass of Russia and China.

The leaders of the West, in their arrogance, will be driven insane—and we see that now. The Empire of the North will fire its missiles on North America, and North America will fall. And then, to give the line from Zachary’s own words: ‘the whole world will fall under the domination of the Firstborn of Hell.’

This is why Our Lady of Fatima called for the consecration of Russia. As Malachi Martin said, why did Heaven choose Russia? People tend to think that the Western powers—America in particular—will save the world from this kind of communistic domination. But no. The decisive power that will turn the tables on that antichrist empire will be Russia. And that is why Russia must be consecrated to Our Lady.

Hearing this part of the interview, I am reminded of Alois Irlmaier’s visions. He stated that the “Great City” of the United States—New York City, it seems—will be destroyed by Russian rockets, and that the Pacific Coast will be invaded by the Chinese. Irlmaier tells us that the Chinese will be beaten back. Furthermore another seer a century ago, Fr. Don Orione, said that the Northern Hemisphere will be so devastated, that Americans will be flooding into Argentina by the millions, and that they will have a role in restoring Argentina to its former glory.

Full Spectrum Dominance

Of course, running alongside all of this is what Fr. Kramer considers one of the most important elements of the entire discussion: the condition of the Church. Fr. Kramer repeatedly returns to the claim that the Third Secret of Fatima contains a warning about apostasy at the highest levels. He cites a number of figures—cardinals, theologians, and again Malachi Martin—as having indicated that the central issue is not merely external catastrophe, but an internal transformation.

We will see a counterfeit church. This counterfeit church retains the outward appearance of Catholicism, but it operates with different principles. The Vatican’s monomania with “synodality” is a part of this restructuring of authority and doctrine into something fundamentally new.

Ultimately, we will see the suppression and disappearance of the legitimate Mass of the Ages. This has been developing gradually, but at a point in the near future, the separation will become clear, irreversible, and undeniable. After that, Catholics will become very persecuted.

At a certain point, you begin to get the strange sense that you’re no longer studying these things from the outside.

But there’s more.

Our political order is closely linked with Rome’s ecclesiastical transformation. A coming world system is approaching, and the defining characteristic of this system is total control.

In the meantime, we’re going to see in our own days the fulfillment of what was foretold by Pope Pius XII—that mankind will soon undergo such suffering as the world has never experienced before. If you want to understand what that is like, I’ve already explained it. It’s going to be a global Auschwitz, and people from coast to coast in the United States are going to find themselves in a maximum-security prison—full spectrum dominance. The surveillance state is being so totally set up now that, humanly speaking, there’s no escape from it. There’s no escape.

All civil rights are being taken away. People are being arrested on the streets, with absolutely no respect for the rule of law. It used to be that you had a Fourth Amendment—that if officers came to your door and demanded your papers, you could say, “Kindly leave my property. Do you have a warrant? If you don’t have a judicial warrant, you can’t enter my property. Please leave.” Now they’ll break down your door and accuse you of assaulting a federal officer.

So far, since we don’t have martial law, they can’t fully get away with that. They arrest people, but then have to let them go, because when these cases go before a judge, the charges are dismissed—people’s rights are still being recognized as violated. But a precedent has now been established. A terrible precedent.

Despite the severity of this picture, Kramer does not present it as the most absolute final stage of the world.

We’re Living Through the Half-Century of Eclipse Before the Period of the Antichrist

Fr. Kramer in this interview reminds Catholics that Russia will play a decisive role in reversing the trajectory of this global system. This is tied to the long-discussed consecration of Russia, which he believes will occur within our own time. Following this, he allows for the possibility of a period of peace. Yet he does not describe this period as an extended golden age, but rather as a limited span—perhaps a few decades—in which the worst pressures are lifted.

Only after this does he place what might be called the final phase.

But it seems that the reign of Antichrist is still some decades off. So it may be that there is a short period of peace that will last a few decades. This is possible—it could last longer. But according to Sister Jeanne Le Royer, it would take place in the 2080s, roughly around 2086 or thereabouts, about 60 years from now.

People need to be aware that there is misinformation out there. I saw a French-language website presenting a spurious text that is not in the original book. When I did the research for the second volume of To Deceive the Elect, I went back to the 1819 edition—the five-volume work of the revelations to Sister Jeanne Royer. Reading directly from that edition, Our Lord Jesus Christ said that if the end does not come in the 20th century, the following century will not be completed.

Her testimony, her prophecies, are very credible—highly credible.

Hearing about the ultimate coming of the Antichrist should be disturbing enough for everyone. That those times are less than a century off are disheartening. But the most chilling thing that Fr. Kramer says is something he states earlier: that before the Antichrist, there is a period of eclipse in the Church—which we appear to be living through right now at this very moment.

[Sister Jeanne le Royer de la Croix], prophesied in the late 1700s that the Church would undergo about one half century of eclipse, and that this would culminate with the reign of—she didn’t say a pope, it’s very interesting—a man who would be causing such harm to the Church. She didn’t call him a pope; she said “a bad priest,” and that this would be a signal, like a prophetic marker, of the impending reign of Antichrist. And then—we seem to see this being fulfilled in our own time—we will have the consecration of Russia, and the consecration of Russia is going to take place in our own days.

This part is what chills me most of all, as I’ve been living my entire life in this half-century eclipse, having never known what a normal Christendom was ever like. I’ve only ever known of a struggle within this deteriorating structure that we call the Catholic Church. I’ve only known of hold-outs, sieges, discreet chapels, and quiet little talking circles like ours, here at The Weltgeist.

That a saint of the 1700s is able to name this post-Vatican II, post-conciliar eclipse and even give it a rough timing of about a half century—BEFORE the chastisements get started. Well, that spooks me. Because current events and the past fifty years only vindicates Sister Jeanne Royer all the more.

Put it another way, if Sr. Royer was correct about this post-conciliar period, she’ll probably prove correct about what comes next. And I’m not looking forward to it.

Today’s Conclusions

I suppose one takeaway from this interview are three new sources for prophecy that likely speak to our times:

• Fatima: Hope of the World by Joseph Albert Pelletier

• The Day of Wrath. An 1807 compilation of the visions of “Zachary the Jew”

• To Deceive the Elect, Sister Jeanne le Royer de la Croix (1819 edition)

But really, one can’t help but ask: what good is researching this stuff anymore if I know I’m in it?

I feel like I’m young Bastian Balthazar Bux who, upon reading The Neverending Story, suddenly discovers he’s included in it. Only this story is not endless. It is moving somewhere, and it is moving quickly.

And Falcor isn’t coming.

How in the world does one raise kids in a world like this, when we know our fate is already on the pages of a story that’s been written, and we’re only a short way from the end of it?

Personally speaking, that’s what I wrestle with.

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You can hear all of Fr. Kramer’s interview with John-Henry Westen HERE.

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