‘Mad Presbyter of Yuma’ now going dark

For the rap sheet on John William Modler Jr, scroll down to footnote.*

Before we proceed with this blog post it occurs to me that the most instructive thing of all might be simply to mention that “Father (Eric) Ramos” thought it worth bringing up several times during my visit that it isn’t tradition to wear pants under the cassock. And he sows doubt as to the soundness of Thomas à Kempis. Yeah.

This is official website of the group behind Mother of Sorrows Shrine, etc., etc., etc., whose chaotic, depraved, and utterly scandalous inner workings (powered by a just epically dysfunctional family and including grooming the youth) are discussed below, a salutary reminder of the truth of the old maxim that not all that glitters is gold: https://materdolorosashrine.com/

Logia, people!”
This is Eric Ramos with roughly his present “dead Elvis BMI”, and he eats exactly the kind of diet you would expect (featuring Twinkies and lots of Kentucky whiskey daily). This Hannah-Barbera–style figure, once a chant-organist perhaps as driven as any Davy Jones, now styles itself as The Father / El Padre (increasingly Prior?) Eric Ramos, and is, in terms of appearances, this (in a twisted sense almost impressive) combination of pompous/slick/deranged/Sumo-esque, and resides and operates out of 408 South Somerton Avenue (on the Southeast corner of South Somerton Avenue and East Fern Street) in Somerton (near Yuma), Arizona, (as well as operating out of three “missions” 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 south of the border, in which country the Reverend Ramos’s elder sister, a Mrs/Sra Liza Yáñez [officially styled Yanez], who owns the stateside/Somerton compound [which also includes what appears to be a microtel-turned-“apartments” and for which she also receives rent money from her brother], also houses her husband who, she claims, cannot enter the United States due to criminal convictions). At the Arizona commercially zoned property, according to the irregular religious leader himself, he is being staked out (no exaggeration!) by Somerton police on some hot trafficking lead.
(Now objectifying and using people like paper pates and grooming male minors absolutely and emphatically—if one thing on earth is non-controversial it is that the self-proclaimed priest Eric Ramos is a textbook sociopath for whom all religion seems to work as some sort of kinky code (but in his defense what else I asked you is a priest?)—but human trafficking when last this blogger knew is yet to be adequately demonstrated nor much less judicially prosecuted.)

Շhe Legion (Ares) of Christ (to mention an older little army of White supremacist pedophiles operating out of Langley) was dead to begin with—dead in terms of the public trust that is—but, as after many a civil war, a stubborn resistance offered by more discreet copycats still stalks the lay faithful, some of these mixing up their religious song-and-dance with a “Trent-y” liturgical flair! (since apparently, as though from a witch’s curse, Catholics [but even the weird ones?!] can’t have nice things and are quasi-obligatory denied the true spiritual riches such as Divine Liturgies or Hesychasm) and while there remains little doubt that Marcial (Ares) Maciel was a spook working with goons, according to Fr/P. Eric Ramos of Mater Dolorosa (mistranslation given: Mother of Sorrows) Shrine, a “Bishop” Joseph Pfeiffer, rector over at the major “SSPX Résistance”™ 🤭 splinter seminary in Boston (Kentucky) (affiliate site here) is a ringbearing lodgebrother, which, when you look at the Gallicanist/Francophilic hegemony (and 😵‍💫 just 😵‍💫 so 😵‍💫 f*cking 😵‍💫 obligatory 😵‍💫 “Ignatian” 😵‍💫 overtones) within the (F)SSPX, all tracks, and that with a mechanical precision: specially trained uniates or “indult-erers” will have been planted by the Novus Ordo hive of that species of institutional termite (often nicknamed the Lavender Mafia) to try and bring every shade of conservative back under Pope Francis (and therefore under “The United Nations and Faiths Under Theosophy, Inc.”) through controlled-opposition groups that will hatch some combination of self-sabotage and gradual steering of their flock toward Pope Francis. (*Inhales noisily*)

Detail of the manger scene beside the main altar at Mater Dolorosa Shrine from Christmas of A.D. 2024.

Of these two tradition-sabotaging tactics, this (terminally ill?) Fr/P. Eric Ramos appears to be aiming for the former while (rather unabashedly) using his cult-leader status as a pretext for playing jungle with naïve/young men in this sort of Jabba-the-Hutt way that’s totally “not gay but also don’t be such a homophobe”, to use Father Eric’s own (mefancied) telling expressions. To put it bluntly, over my 2½ weeks’ stay at the Mater Dolorosa compound I can trace a gradual uptick in (homo)sexual innuendo coming from the top leadership there, all highly indicative of a “formation” paradigm to which corruption (and blackmail) is not merely endemic but “baked in” or treated as utterly essential. Though morbidly obese (“500 lbs”) and equally again cartoonish or cirquesque with his illiteracy (posing as an “intellectual” yet one who rather cringeworthily has no clue where to place the stress in the second person singular simple past tense in Spanish and pronounces his nephew[+?]’s name EE·frim) this Hispanic/White/? priest/prior/? has apparently memorized and rehearsed Aristotelian-Thomistic theology at a level just high enough to, with the assistance of his all-persevering ecclesial-canonical ambiguity (you can never pin him down as a secular or religious sacerd), get that sweet “youthful ward poontang” in which the vibe is that he is mainly interested in the power dimension of the sexuality in which he seems to deal within the environment in which he frequently overreaches in his assertion of control. (*Inhales noisily*)

This lately bearded (because a fugitive from the law) Aspiring Tertiary John William Modler Jr of nationwide religious flim-flam notoriety* (a quick Google search shows that he actually managed to dig up [and subsequently made the retrospectively grave error of running afoul of] a “homeless ministry” that calls itself “Catholic” yet one might sardonically say miraculously believes in the rapture?) is pictured here with Postulant Efraín Yáñez. (The relationship of either one of these men to Eric Ramos could be best described as clingy in nature—which after all is all a run-of-the-mill cult leader really wants to surround himself with.)
Tuesday 26 April 2022 (uploaded, then ~20 years of age?) photo of Efraín (alt. “Júnior”/EE·frim) Yáñez, who, clearly a child sex abuse victim currently addicted to uppers (sugar is the sound of Father Ramos compulsively running interference), apparently does all manner of “dirty deeds” on his uncle’s behalf in what appears to be a common dynamic between traditionalist priests and their often Dan-Brownesquely terroristic “sacristans”.

On what was to be my last day at the Mater Dolorosa compound, early in the afternoon of Wednesday 29 January 2025, this blogger did witness one of the most played-out suspense-flick gimmicks in Hollywood history: namely the scene where the maladapted character, in one culminating instant of “clarity”, finally transforms into a volatile psychotic. (After watching Eight Crazy Nights [clearly some kind of Jewtonement to make amends for singing “The Chanukah Song” {sic: I sh*t you not that is how it is officially spelled}] I instantly regretted ever having loved Spanglish, but you get the idea.) In what felt like a cheap psychological thriller (in which I’m not proud to report that mine was the cowardly character who just ran like hell for his own survival) I was reluctantly climbing into the back seat of the priest’s mother’s sedan where Father Eric’s 22-year-old nephew Efraín “Junior” Yáñez was driving His Rotundity to administer Last Rites for, he mentioned, the second time since his ordination by some bishop-for-hire in Australia when the Reverend Father declared “all has been revealed to me”. And this coming from a guy who blamed the fact that the schedule was never kept on his sister/landlady, who mind you looks and operates much the same way he does, being somehow “demonically possessed”, based on his constant assertion that she consistently barges in during meditation time, something no one except Father Ramos ever once seems to have noticed. (A guilt complex over trying to gaslight and groom young people is considered likely.) So I immediately recognized in his expressions “a jargon salad turning to pigswill”, and I demanded that they stop the car, which I immediately exited returning to the building now tormented by visions of the eerily like-minded pair (folie à deux?!), now desperate, suddenly swerving into oncoming traffic or down some embankment and into the Colorado River. As punishment for my act of self-preservation, which I explained over supper in the hearing of the whole group (including 😱 a 😱 16-year-old 😱 named 😱 Carlo) I was that evening (yeah, after dark) forced to leave the house under threat of even more violence from allegedly more of Liza Yáñez’s (by now just about undeniably rife with criminal codependency) family. Clocking thereby two-and-a-half weeks at the Mater Dolorosa Shrine, in view of this almost indomitably horrific sequence of events I probably won’t be going back, impressive though I must admit the liturgics were. The morning after I initially arrived, that is early on Sunday 12 January 2025, Father Eric celebrated his last public Mass in person, as of the time of this blog post it’s ten days since his last YouTube upload, and two or three weeks ago his website came down (still unresponsive as of the time I hit “Publish”—excepting that this hyperlink should, at some future time, resume working).

I give Mater Dolorosa Shrine five pitchforks (🔱🔱🔱🔱🔱) for “scandalizing these little ones who believe” in Him (and autistics like me who are living proof that “maturity is optional”).

Gif from Wall-E (2008).

Let us pray. May all predators and their enablers richly reap the rewards of their depraved treatment of actually godly pilgrims and prophets. To the predator either visceral transformation or imminent removal from society. Per Christvm dominvm nostrvm. Amen.

Moral of the story. Anybody who can play the Legion-of-Christ–game too well is usually a sex predator.

This appears to be an old YouTube channel that was literally just renamed from “Eric Ramos” to “silibantatious” (?): https://youtube.com/@silibantatious?si=037NCPcskqO0YVf-

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* THE FACT SHEET BELOW, WHICH CONCERNS A MR JOHN WILLIAM MODLER JR, WAS PUBLISHED ON FACEBOOK ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2019, BY THE OFFBEAT RELIGIOUS GROUP “THE SERVANTS OF THE FATHER OF MERCY” IN VENTURA, CALIF. (In other words, grain of salt! **edited for readability**):

“Important bulletins: read carefully for law enforcement and the vulnerable.

“John [William] Modler Jr.: a curiously efficient ‘solo act’ who unsettles houses of prayer, a chronic urinator, rail-hopper, and ‘jailbreaker’

“Stories listed from latest to oldest.

2023-10-26: A John Modler, introducing himself as a staff member with a church in Chicago, Ill., attempted to hold a meeting with an all-female dance troupe with apparent intent to infiltrate. The troupe questioned Modler’s story, searched his name, and discovered the warrants that were/are active for his arrest in three states and that the FBI is looking for him.

“Danger and Fraud Alert!

“Known aliases: John Modler; Brother John Modler; John Modler Catholic; John Modler Philadelphia; John Modler Chicago; Louisville, KY; Rev. John Modler with Miracle Life Fellowship.

2017-11-??: The Archdiocese of Cincinnati Chancery Office published a fraud alert which stated that an individual presenting himself as John Modler had been impersonating a Catholic brother of a religious order.  Here is the link to the Archdiocese’s fraud alert: Click here. [No hyperlink.]

2021-07-12: at Treyton Oak Towers, a senior living facility in Louisville, Ky., staff members spotted a John Modler who had successfully blended with the community for a period of nearly 24 hours. When asked to leave Modler complied but then apparently sent unsolicited e‑mails to the manager.

2021-07-14: Members of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (a community of Catholic women religious in Indiana) managed to confirm that they had been targeted by a John Modler over a period of about four years. Modler, they report, had been calling, inquiring, scheduling retreats, cancelling and calling again, etc. All of this culminated when one of Modler’s stays in Louisville, Ky., ended suddenly, he called stating his intent to visit their facility in Indiana. By that time however a Midwest association of retreat facilities had put out an alert to all region retreat centers, and so they were able to cancel on him in time. Modler’s e‑mail response read: ‘No problem. I will go to Jim Bakker’s facility: the Protestants are nicer, and they give free beer and food.’

2019-11-21: Police in Lancaster, PA, were able to confirm that they were looking for a John Modler who had been accused of remaining for several days under false pretenses at Willow Valley Communities in a place called Willow Street, Penn., then allegedly leaving without payment for the accommodations and services he had received.

“According to the police: (1) An investigation had revealed a history of fraud and a tendency with this John Modler person to frequent religious establishments. (2) Modler’s last known address was in the Chicago area, but he also has ties to the following areas: Philadelphia; Maryland; and central/southern New Jersey. (3) His primary mode of transportation is by Amtrak (rail).

“Warrants for the arrest of a John Modler have been issued in both Pennsylvania and Louisiana. Anyone who knows Modler’s whereabouts is asked to contact the police department of West Lampeter Township, Pa., at 717-464-2421. Click here to view identifying photos that WGAL-8 (NBC) has uploaded.

2017-04-01: A nondenominational ministry [defunct?] using the name Miracle Valley [led by a Louis Bettencourt] in Hereford, AZ, published an adviso[ry] regarding a John Modler. After his visit there, ministry representatives described Modler as a malcontented and simple-minded person who managed to create counterproductive stress for the ministry team.

????-??-??: Leadership of the (Eastern) Orthodox Church in America have added their own grave concerns stemming from a visit that John Modler paid to their parish in Houston, Texas, so much so that the corresponding metropolitan (primate) has even issued a statement that begins: ‘A person using the name John Modler has again surfaced and is causing trouble in the [OCA] jurisdiction. This was the same person who escalated issues back in October.’

2019-09-04: After a ten-day visit, a John Modler fled a house of the Servants of the Father of Mercy (Archdiocese of Los Angeles) that serve 80,000+ area homeless. During his visit, Modler had shown difficulty completing everyday tasks, tended to speak in high-faluting ways and completed few tasks. Modler spent most of the time in his bedroom, and before departing apparently urinated in a 4×4-ft area on a brand-new guest room pillow-top mattress, informing his driver only ‘I cleaned my room already’ when he was dropped off at the railway station. [Details below.]

“The State of Illinois has a public record from 2008 of criminal mischief in which a John Modler pleaded guilty, paid a $50 fine, and served probation.

“Further information
“John Modler Jr.
“Fraud Alert!

2019-09-04: A John Modler, during his ten-day visit, spent most of the hours on his computer and telephone. He tended to consume a pot of coffee each morning and would pace frequently. Over several weeks Modler kept promising that thousands of dollars in homeless children’s aid was on its way variously from himself, from his uncle, a Monsignor Steffen, and from his brother. Before departing Modler urinated on the top and side of his queen bed mattress. Then he asked for no one to clean his room because he “did it already”, which further delayed cleaning.

“In a routine inspection two days later it was found that Modler had not cleaned the room where he had stayed, but had instead left beer cans strewn throughout and urinated on a new bed in payment for ten days of free room and board.

2020-09-05: For years Modler has left our ministry voice messages punctuated with threats against Christians, the Catholic Church, and the LBGQT communities all groups that he appears to target for grooming and terrorism. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office since September 5, 2020 have flagged the messages as threats of terrorism, opened a file on Mr Modler, cooperating with the FBI by sharing the voice messages and other files for the FBI’s own open investigation into potential federal hate crime charges.

2021-05-03: As recently as May 3, 2021, reports have come in from Chicago, Ill., reporting that a John Modler has continued to enlist e‑mail messages, voice messages and telephone calls in his assortment of hustles that target and manipulate area persons and communities.

“WHAT CAN YOU DO?

“Do not offer John Modler accommodations. Immediately contact your local police department, the FBI, and seriously consider international law enforcement agencies as well. Provide them all with a link to this page.

“John Modler Jr. has variously purported to reside in Philadelphia, Pa., Baltimore, Md., and Chicago, Ill. It appears that he may have family in Kentucky. He uses a San Francisco, Ca., mobile number and ghosts up and down the West Coast and across the United States via Amtrak.

“If you have had any interaction with John Modler please call so we can keep this page current: 310-595-4175.

WARNING: This blogger has learned that in documenting those crimes that local, state, and federal law enforcement seem just with (such as those that disrupt quiet houses of prayer) one can make oneself a target for retaliatory lawfare and the wanton destruction of one’s life by the uniparty mafia. Therefore become personally energized about this at the risk of hot persecution (and not even the kind that will get you celebrated as a martyr in some book). Never underestimate the “moron mafia”!

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