Father Giuseppe Fortini sat in the reserved seating section beside the Foster family, his hands clasped in prayer as he watched John Foster continue his prophetic address to the packed stadium. The Italian priest had celebrated Mass for over thirty years, but he had never witnessed anything approaching the spiritual authority that emanated from God's chosen messenger as he delivered divine judgment upon the corrupted institutions of the modern world.

The stadium remained in absolute silence, 60,000 souls hanging on every word as John's voice carried with supernatural power through the night air. Father Giuseppe glanced at Marissa Foster beside him, seeing tears streaming down her face as her resurrected husband proclaimed truths that cut through decades of ecclesiastical compromise and deception.

"Hear now the word of the Lord concerning those who claim to speak in His name but serve the powers of darkness," John declared, his voice resonating with the majestic cadences of biblical prophecy. "Behold, there are shepherds who feed themselves but do not feed the sheep. They have made themselves servants of mammon, bowing down before the altars of worldly power and political expediency."

Father Giuseppe felt his heart constrict as the prophet's words seemed to penetrate directly to his soul. He thought of his own struggles within the Church hierarchy, his battles to maintain traditional liturgy and orthodox teaching while surrounded by bishops who embraced every fashionable heresy of the age.

"The leaders of the visible Church have become harlots, selling themselves to the highest bidder among the princes of this world. They speak not the words of Christ but the slogans of those who seek to destroy Christian civilization itself."

John's condemnation grew more specific, his prophetic sight piercing through the veils of institutional respectability to expose the corruption beneath.

"They have made themselves zealous proponents of the great replacement, the deliberate destruction of Christian nations through indiscriminate immigration and the erasure of godly culture. What they call mercy is in truth an instrument of judgment upon the faithful, a sword wielded by enemies of the cross to destroy the inheritance of centuries."

Father Giuseppe remembered his own parish's struggles with diocesan mandates to embrace unlimited immigration, regardless of the strain on resources or the safety of his parishioners. He had been labeled "uncompassionate" for suggesting that charity must be ordered by wisdom and that nations had the right to control their borders.

"Know this," John continued, his voice carrying the weight of divine revelation, "the migratory phenomenon that now overwhelms Western nations is neither spontaneous nor born of natural disaster. It has been planned and orchestrated by those who seek to establish a new world order upon the ruins of Christendom."

The prophet's words confirmed what Father Giuseppe had long suspected but had never heard spoken with such clarity and authority from any pulpit.

"The United Nations itself has published their plans in documents available for all to read—'Replacement Migration' they call it, as if the deliberate erasure of peoples and cultures were a work of mercy rather than an act of war. Yet the leaders of the Church have made themselves willing accomplices in this great deception."

John paused, allowing the weight of his accusation to settle upon the vast crowd before continuing with even greater intensity.

"They present the invaders as victims while the true victims—the Christian families whose neighborhoods are destroyed, whose daughters are violated, whose sons are murdered by those who hate Christ and His followers—are blamed for their own suffering. This is the fruit of shepherds who have abandoned their flocks to feed with wolves."

Father Giuseppe thought of the bishops' conferences throughout Europe and America, their endless statements promoting immigration while remaining silent about the persecution of Christians by the very populations they championed. He had watched Christian communities in the Middle East face genocide while Church leaders focused their attention on welcoming their persecutors into Christian lands.

"The moral authority of the papacy has been prostituted to serve political masters who despise everything the Church once stood for. They equate the protection of innocent life with the execution of murderers, treating the defense of the unborn as equivalent to the control of national borders, blaspheming against the very concept of justice itself."

The prophet's condemnation extended beyond immigration to the broader compromise of Church teaching on fundamental moral issues.

"This collusion with the globalist elite is neither accidental nor born of misguided compassion—it is deliberate, calculated, and profitable. The thirty pieces of silver have been multiplied into billions of dollars, flowing from godless foundations and corrupt governments into the coffers of Catholic institutions that have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage."

Father Giuseppe knew these accusations were not mere rhetoric but documented fact. He had seen the financial reports, the grants from organizations that openly promoted abortion and sexual deviancy, the money that flowed to Church agencies in exchange for their support of anti-Christian policies.

"Even as they promote the invasion of Christian lands, these false shepherds remained silent during the great poisoning that was visited upon the world in recent years. They endorsed the injection of experimental serums into the bodies of the faithful—serums produced from the flesh of murdered children, bearing within themselves the very essence of the abomination they claimed to oppose."

The reference to the COVID vaccines and their connection to aborted fetal tissue lines sent a ripple of recognition through the crowd. Many had been troubled by their Church leaders' enthusiasm for medical interventions that contradicted fundamental Catholic teaching about the sanctity of human life.

"Millions have died and continue to die from these potions, yet the hierarchy that promoted them refuses to acknowledge their guilt or call for repentance. They have become partners in murder, accomplices to genocide, while maintaining their pretense of moral authority."

John's voice rose to prophetic thunder as he pronounced divine judgment upon the corrupted institution.

"Hear the word of the Lord concerning this generation of false shepherds: 'Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.'"

The biblical quotation struck Father Giuseppe like lightning, recognizing the words from Isaiah that pronounced judgment upon corrupted leadership in ancient Israel.

"Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: 'Ah, I will vent my wrath on my enemies, and avenge myself on my foes. I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.'"

The promise of divine purification offered hope even in the midst of judgment, suggesting that God would not abandon His Church entirely but would refine it through tribulation.

"The subservience of the visible Church to the criminal plans of those who seek to establish their kingdom upon earth will not go unpunished. God sees every compromise, every betrayal, every act of treachery committed against His people. The day of reckoning approaches when every hidden thing shall be revealed and every secret work brought to light."

John's prophecy extended beyond temporal judgment to eternal consequences.

"This renegade and apostate hierarchy will answer before the throne of God for every soul led astray by their false teaching, every innocent life lost through their complicity with evil, every faithful believer scandalized by their hypocrisy. The millstone that awaits those who cause little ones to stumble will be as nothing compared to the judgment reserved for shepherds who have devoured the flock entrusted to their care."

Father Giuseppe felt both fear and relief as the prophet's words washed over him. Fear for the institutional Church he had served faithfully for three decades, but relief that finally someone with divine authority was speaking the truth that had been suppressed for so long.

"Yet let the faithful take heart," John concluded this portion of his sermon, his voice softening slightly while losing none of its authority. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church of Jesus Christ. Though the visible institution may fall into apostasy, though its leaders may betray their sacred trust, the remnant of the faithful shall endure. God will raise up new shepherds according to His own heart, who will feed His people with knowledge and understanding."

As the prophet paused to turn to his next theme, Father Giuseppe offered a silent prayer of thanksgiving. At last, the corruption that had poisoned the Church from within was being exposed by divine light. The judgment was terrible but necessary, and from its ashes, perhaps a purified Church would emerge, worthy once again of the name of Christ.

The truth had been spoken with prophetic authority, and no earthly power could silence it or erase its impact upon the hearts of the faithful who had waited so long to hear it proclaimed.