Who Is Maria Divine Mercy?

After Ron Conte published his blog article revealing the identity of Maria

Divine Mercy, it was a question of time before someone put the information together. 'Saseen', a former follower of MDM published his excellent investigative article Maria Divine Mercy: The Woman Behind The Curtain, where he examines the background of Mary McGovern Carberry, the real person behind 'Maria Divine Mercy' - and her organisation 'Warning Second Coming'. He writes: 

Since Nov. 8, 2010, a woman identifying herself as Maria Divine Mercy, a Catholic messenger from God

Lesson 1: An Instruction Set on How to be a false Prophet (Thanks to Maria Divine Mercy)

Course Introduction:

Going into the doomsaying scam business can be quite lucrative

If you want to embark on a rewarding career as a false prophet of the Catholic religion, you have made a practical demon-inspired choice.  Not only is it very easy to get followers, it can be quite lucrative when you start selling printed and online materials and related paraphernalia to your victims. Just get it sold at Amazon and other online bookstores. Not many have the time to follow your messages every day and will gladly pay a few bucks for a compilation, or even prayer book you made without a nihil obstat or Imprimatur.  You can even get donations from rich patrons.  This can be an ongoing doomsaying business that can last for years until the next false prophet comes along.  By that time, you would have laughed all the way to the bank countless times to ensure you would live in utter luxury in your retirement.  

There are always doomsayers in every generation; many of them are quite successful. and some more successful than others, like Christina Gallagher, with her many mansions in Malahide and elsewhere. An authoritative reference and an excellent specimen on how to be a false prophet can be found at the Warning Second Coming Website of Maria Divine Mercy. But before you do, consider how easy it is if you keep the following instruction in mind:

This is a unique 10-part course on
Deception 101  for those seriously
considering launching a lucrative
business in false prophecy

Lesson 1: The Principles of Deception
Lesson 2: Basic Marketing: Know your market
Lesson 3: Be Anonymous
Lesson 4: No need for church authorities
Lesson 5: Say what your audience wants to hear

Lesson 1: Principles of deception

The golden rule of deception is to manage the perception of another person, or group of persons, so that there is not a hint of deception in the content of your message.

Living with one another creates an unwritten social contract or obligation to be truthful so that people largely trust each other in the conduct of daily routine work. In short, being truthful is often assumed, unless otherwise proven. In addition, as Vincent H. Gaddis writes in his “The Art of Honest Deception”, it is a psychological fact that the primary impulse of people is to believe. Doubting comes secondary and may not even come to the fore unless there is reason to doubt.

This unwritten rule and the natural predisposition of people to believe and trust effectively makes people susceptible, or gullible to untruths, illusions and downright lies.

Lying

Telling a lie to someone or an audience face-to-face is generally difficult because liars can betray their deception through nonverbal cues or body language that some people may easily spot. When lies are made in person, the receiver of the lies can sense a mixed signal that may readily point to an attempt at deception. For instance, you can suspect one when you talk to salesman who claims something too good about a product he is selling but could not maintain eye contact or looks elsewhere.

According to the Interpersonal Deception Theory (IDT) developed and espoused in the late 90s by David B. Buller and Judee K. Burgoon, deliberate or intentional deception requires significant cognitive resources in order to contrive a deceptive message that distorts the truth. In contrast, a truthful message enjoys the element of spontaneity that leaves the message sender free from any real-time contrivance to distort the truth. 

This is why deception using the written word is so much more convenient. There are no non-verbal cues that can betray a lie. Deception is thus, best achieved in written format.  Non-fiction articles are often deceptive for altering facts to suit the author's agenda. And one widely used documentation open to deceptive manipulation are private revelations that have been written down by some alleged seer or prophet.  Unless these writings are verified by the competent Church authority, private revelations are generally not taken seriously by the Catholic church.

Variants and forms of deception

A wolf in sheep's clothing represents 
deception that has an implication 
going beyond the deceptive act itself 
into something that puts the receiver 
of the deception into harm's way,
 or even physical or spiritual death.

Disguising a lie with half truths

A variant of lying is presenting half truths. It may not be an outright lie but because its presentation leaves out other things essential to a total appreciation of the true picture but whose absence serves to support an agenda. The result is that people may be persuaded to do things they would not do if they knew everything.

Obscuring a lie with known truths

Another variant of an outright deliberate lie is to sugarcoat or obscure a lie with a preponderance of known truths. If people can be accustomed to recognizing common truths in your message, putting a lie or two becomes readily associated with the truth to make it acceptable which would not be possible if presented on its own. The economy of this form of lying is such that you only need to work on your lies. It costs nothing to mix the lies with truths since those truths do not come from any effort on your part any way.

The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle or the law of the vital few in causative relationships states that roughly 80% of the results you want to achieve can come from just 20% of the causes or effort you spend. It applies to deceptive communication, so that your message containing just 20% lies or even less, can result in 80% or more of what you want to achieve. Allegorically, it is akin to saying that it only takes a drop of poison to make a wholesome milk fatal. The reality is such that what matters to deceivers is just the 20% getting across to the message receiver. The rest or the 80% act as "decoration" put in as a bait or trap.

AnonymityThis is the most pervasive form of concealment in the internet age. It is the easiest, cheapest and most effective method of protecting the true identity of the deceiver. When you're out to make mischief, it makes no sense to throw your name around.  Most bloggers and forum members and as posters in comment sections hide behind anonymity.  After all, in many cases, it's the content of the message that matters, not do made it.    Pseudonyms or false names and aliases can substitute for outright anonymity.  Apart from distinguishing an anonymous deceiver from the rest of the pack, you can use a name to brand your online and offline presence. Once your false name accumulated brand recognition or what in marketing is referred to as brand equity, your notoriety stays with the brand and your true identity remains unsullied, untouched and Scot-free.   It is important that among the first steps you need to do when marketing your deception is to protect your identity which will be discussed in Lesson 3.

Collaborative or cooperative deception

Another form of deception is to get as many people on your side to lie with you or support your lie. It can be difficult to demystify a lie if there are many people with different perspectives who can defend a lie from those perspectives.  That is why deception can be easily achieved with private revelations. If you have the right message that can ignite a loyal following, followers will defend your messages.  You only need to follow the histories of previous prophecies that have been condemned or are still awaiting church approval that may never come in our lifetime.  Each of these, like Garanbandal, Holy Love, Fr. Gobbi, Vasula Ryden, Two Hears, Two Patricks, among others have hundreds of thousands of devoted followers ready to defend the messages without question.  Even the Little Pebble continues to maintain a following despite its leader William Kamm getting convicted in 2005 for raping a 15-year old. Such is the power of private revelations.

Propaganda

This is a form of deceptive communication that can also be collaborative since there is common agenda (earn money through fraud, or win an election through promises) and purposive lying shared by many who stand to gain by it. Propaganda is meant to influence a certain attitude, direction or action towards achieving an agenda, concealed or otherwise. Generally used in politics, governance and the military, a propaganda such as those exemplified by Goebbels during Hitler’s Third Reich is often a mix of part truth and part falsehoods.

In contrast to an impartial or dispassionate presentation of facts that aims to achieve a rational action or decision, propaganda panders to prejudices in a subjective effort to elicit an emotional response. The desired result is often a change of attitude towards a particular target or subject to further a political, ideological, religious or commercial agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of ideological or commercial warfare.

False prophecy: The ultimate deception

Private revelations have about the same attraction as a fiction novel from Dan Brown, John Le Carrer or Tom Clancy.  And because it has the potential to disrupt religious routines and lead to questions that foment doubt and iconoclastic irreverance to doctrines, private revelations have become powerful communications vehicle if done right. The last one hundred years have seen more than 770 recorded private revelations of which no more than 40 or so have been approved by the church.  It has become a commodity and every generation has at least a dozen doomsayers competing to get your attention i what they claim to be direct messages from divine authority that many fall prey to. 

Going into the doomsaying scam business with private revelations as its product is not for the faint of heart. It will require you to harness all the forms of deception that effectively makes it more insidious, more cunning, and more deleterious than even the notorious but effective propaganda of Goebbels in the 1930s.  The messages from your contrived private revelations provide the product, and the more deceptive they are, the higher the income you can expect from you scam business.  

You need to understand that the content of false prophecy puts you in enmity with the established church order and will require essentially the powers of hell for you to remain in business. There are risks of being exposed for sure,  Anything you say will be an object of contention and even derision by devout Catholics who are well-informed about catechism, scripture or the magisterium. But not to worry, your target audience is not them as we shall see in the next lesson.

The 21st Century Hananiah: Maria Divine Mercy

May this serve as a warning to this false prophet Maria Divine Mercy, for God has no patience with people who take His name in vein, put the words of the devil into His mouth, and plunge His people into mortal sins of heresy and schism.

“To the prophet Hananiah the prophet Jeremiah said: Hear this, Hananiah! The LORD has not sent you, and you have raised false confidence in this people.  For this, says the LORD, I will dispatch you from the face of the earth; this very year you shall die, because you have preached rebellion against the LORD. That same year, in the seventh month, Hananiah the prophet died.

- Jeremiah 28:15-17

  

Anonymity may protect MDM from the direct and personal condemnation of the bishops and laity, or an investigation by local tax authorities on her sources of funds, but such

The Great Warning and its Hilarious Imitation by MDM

Between 1961 and 1965, the Virgin Mary appeared
to four simple rural girls in the town of San Sebastian
de Garabandal of the Diocese of Santander in Portugal.
Aged between 11 and 12, they were Conchita Gonzalez,
Mari Loli Mazon, Jacinta Gonzalez and Mari Cruz Gonzalez.
 While three of them shared the same surnames,
they were not blood-related.

People have known about the prophecy on the Great Warning for decades now.   It all started with the messages given by the Virgin Mary who appeared to four school children in the rural town of Sebastian de Garabandal, Spain between 1961 and 1965. 

The Nature of the Great Warning

THE “MARIA DIVINE MERCY” MESSAGES -- BEWARE!

Fr. Carlos Martins

(His message was lifted from the Mother of God forum dealing with MDM dated 29 April 2013))

There is an abundance of people spreading these messages on the internet. More and more people are sending me emails containing them and asking me to promote, “Maria Divine Mercy”.

Stay away from this absurd and false prophet. “Maria Divine Mercy” is not receiving authentic messages. Many ignorant and gullible people are jumping on her bandwagon, or at least entertaining her absurd messages, to their own harm.

Fr. Carlos Martins is among the Catholic priests

and other defenders of the True Church

who have been maliciously slandered and

maligned by MDMers.  None of them

can defend the indefensible heresies of their cult leader

who knows this and have conveniently instructed

 its followers not to defend them, to make

them look meek, humble and persecuted.

But ofcourse, as sly as the devil, its followers

are discreditng the people trying to correct

and restore them to the right path.

It is clear that the nature of her messages are to place a wedge between the faithful and the Church, specifically between the faithful and the Holy Father, Pope Francis. One of the “revelations” received by this very misguided person is that Pope Benedict will be the last Pope on earth, that he will be ousted from office, and that Pope Francis is a false pope. All three claims are false and individuals who believe them show they do not believe Our Lord's words in Matthew 16:18-19. In questioning Pope Francis, the Vicar of Christ on earth, they are questioning Jesus Christ himself. It is for such people that Hebrews 13:9 was written: "Do not be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings." Furthermore, name for me ONE Saint in the Church's long history that placed a private vision or revelation above the word of the Pope and of the Church? You won’t find any.

“Maria Divine Mercy” states that she has received messages from “the Holy Trinity as well as by the Virgin Mary.” Name for me ONE visionary from the Church's list of approved apparitions that described himself/herself as a "visionary", "prophet", or "seer"? None exist. The seers at Fatima, St. Bernadette, St. Catherine Laboure, etc., all submitted their visions, received messages, and interpretations of both, to the Church. This is not only a recipe for spiritual health, it is also the mark of holiness. “Maria Divine Mercy” lacks both.

The hooded cloak called anonymity protects scam artist and frauds

from the  probing eyes of authorities on their nefarious and/or

fiduciary agenda.  This is the hallmark of the devil who mush hide

from the light the better to ensnare unwary victims.  This anonymity

 is in and of itself enough to betray the deception behind the 

MDM messages. It's very convenient for her to have her 

fake Christ say that his seer must be anonymous to preserve 

her protection for his evil purposes. Only from the devil.  

There are no prophets from God who is anonymous.  

Finally, “Maria Divine Mercy” writes anonymously. No one knows who she is. This, in fact, should be the first thing to set off alarm bells. Name for me ONE prophet that hid himself/herself in secret while slinging out "revelations" without accountability and without subjecting himself/herself to the authority of the Church? There are none.

In giving credence to “Maria Divine Mercy”, devotees are disobeying the laws of the Church, are promoting an evil which is sowing discord among the faithful, and are leading people away from the Church, the same Church for which Christ shed his blood.

Those who subscribe to or spread these messages need to repent, for one day they will come under the judgment of God for doing so.

NOTICE AND WARNING TO ALL CATHOLICS OF NOTE. THERE IS A GROWING CULT BY THE NAME MARIA DIVINE MERCY (MDM).

By Fr. Martin Cross Cmf.
MDM ABSOLUTELY FALSE AND PERVERSE AND EVIDENTLY THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

The massages and utterances of mdm are evidently false , perverse and the work of the Primordial Enemy of the Church, the devil. Be warned and warn others. There are four basic reasons that evidently tell us so convincingly and beyond all reasonable doubt that it is the work of the evil one, these are:

Fr. Martin Cross is a devout Catholic Priest 

based in the African Continent and who have

staunchly defended  the Catholic Church 

against the  heresies from the mouth of

Maria Divine Mercy.

(1). Hiding personal Identity, this person (a woman supposedly) is unknown yet has about 19,000 crowd s all over the globe, nonetheless, through her utterances and those of her followers we know who it is dwelling in them. 

(2). Utterances against St. Peter (Pope Francis ipso facto the Church), which shows christ, speaking against his own Body the Church, which he has powerlessly allowed the Cardinals and the Pope to steal from him if you like.

(3). Contradictions of the truth of faith, the scripture and the Magisterium. 

(4). Lack of evident virtue of humility manifested in holy Obedient.