HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 25, 2025 – “Vin Mariani” was a sweet alcoholic medicinal concoction popular in Europe in the mid-to-late 1800s. It’s main claim to fame was the addition of coca to the brew, an ingredient which allegedly cured everything from fatigue to muscle weakness to melancholy. Many famous people swore by the efficacy of this elixir, including the reigning pope at the time. In fact, Leo the 13^th was so enamored with the stuff, he declared it his favorite drink and bestowed upon its inventor the Vatican’s golden seal of approval.

Sadly, Vin Mariani is no longer with us, but its non-alcoholic offspring—Coca-Cola™—very much is. Did you know that Coca-Cola was inspired by Vin Mariani? And guess who swears by Coca-Cola as his all-time favorite drink? Our very own Pope Leo the 14^th, who, by the way, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Pope Leo the 13^th (see pics above). Just look at the noses and the set of the lips! Just look at those eyes!

And did you know that the separated-at-birth Leos the 13^th and 14^th both ascended the papal throne at age 69? Or that #13 holds the record for being the oldest pope ever, reigning until his death at age 93? (Maybe they should have added longevity to Vin Mariani’s list of attributes!) Will our Coca-Cola-fueled #14 give #13 a run for his money and set a new all-time papal age record? We might want to hope so, considering what various prophecies claim is in store for the end of Pope Leo the 14^th’s reign.

Along with being renowned for his tippling of Vin Mariani and his record-setting papal age, Leo the 13^th is also famous for a vision he allegedly had while celebrating mass at the Vatican chapel in 1884. Just as he was about to leave the altar, the heavens opened and the pope was privy to a conversation between God and Satan. No-one else attending the mass could see or hear the conversation, but several eye-witnesses claim that Leo the 13^th fell into a trance-like state and remained motionless for about 10 minutes, his face upturned and ashen. (Sounds like ol’ Leo could have used a swig of Vin Mariani!) When he regained movement, the pope hastily left the chapel and retreated to his office, where he likely did have a swig or two of the Vin (or something stronger), and likely also wrote the vision down.

While a full and official account of what Leo the 13^th saw and heard in the chapel that day was never made public, snippets of the vision’s contents have trickled out over the years via the ecclesiastical rumor mill. From what can be pieced together so far, the alleged conversation between God and Satan concerned the destruction of the church, with Satan requesting the power and a specific amount of time to destroy Catholicism. God granted him both. The specific amount of time was 75 to 100 years.

A few decades later, a Portuguese girl who later became a nun would allegedly be given a similar vision of the destruction of Catholicism and Rome in what has since become known as the the third secret of Fatima. That vision was written down, sealed, and given to the Vatican for safe-keeping until it was unsealed and made public in the year 2000. And we’re all now very much aware (or should be) of Malachy’s prophecy of the final pope—Petrus Romanus—presiding over the destruction of the church and Rome. We’ve also determined that Leo the 14^th, with his Roman (Italian) heritage and his surname of Prevost, which is an anagram of Petrus (Peter), is in fact the prophesied Petrus Romanus, or Peter the Roman, hidden in plain view.

So now we have a Coca-Cola-swigging pope, Leo the 14^th, who’s nearly the spitting image of his immediate predecessor namesake pope, Leo the 13^th, who also happened to swig a drink that was the immediate predecessor of Coca-Cola, with both popes having ascended the papal throne at age 69 and both being directly connected to a series of visions concerning the destruction of Catholicism and Rome. Are these all just coincidences and “woo-woos” that mean nothing? Let’s hope so. Let’s sincerely hope so. As much as I have issues with Catholicism (“issues” being a polite term), the destruction of the worldly church is not good for anyone, including us born-again believers. Yes, our own beloved Church, being safely tucked away in the spiritual realm, will continue strong and undefiled until Jesus comes back in glory to take the last of us Home, but the death of the worldly church will signal the start of a very bad time here on Earth, culminating in the institutionalization of luciferianism as the sole acceptable belief system, or what John in the book of Revelation describes as the reign of the beasts.

The timing, according to all the above-mentioned prophecies, appears to be set and permission granted. Demonic elements within the worldly church are organizing the destruction from within. This is not an attack from without but from within, and a diabolically well-organized one at that. As much as we want to forestall the destruction of the worldly church, especially in consideration of what its end signifies, the forces of evil embedded within it are longing for its annihilation and laboring tirelessly towards that end. And we appear to have a timeframe for the destruction: no later than the end of the reign of Leo the 14^th, a.k.a. Petrus Romanus—Peter the Roman—the current pope, aged 69, who may or may not live past the all-time papal age record of 93. If the prophecies are accurate, we can’t stop what’s coming, but we can make good use of whatever time we have left.

So, be bold, my fellow born-again believers! Be true to your mission! Be brave! Do whatever you can to get God’s Word out while there’s still time. And if you find that your energy is lagging—that your spirit is willing, but your flesh is weak—have a coke.