Appendix B — Vatican Internal Memorandum: ONYXBONE Consideration

TO: His Eminence Cardinal Girolamo D'Aosta, Prefect, DDF FROM: Fr. Tomas Valente, Assistant Sub-Prelate (Research) RE: Emerging Global Phenomenon: "ONYXBONE" and Ecclesiastical Posture Your Eminence, In accordance with your directive, I submit the following preliminary theological analysis and moral assessment regarding the emergent vector known in common parlance as "ONYXBONE." SUMMARY: The ONYXBONE phenomenon is neither heresy nor miracle. It is an ontological rupture. BACKGROUND: Reports gathered from the Nunciatures in Estonia, Argentina, Kenya, South Korea, and Poland speak to a pervasive shift in the fabric of spiritual cognition. We are witnessing a transition from verbal theurgy to skeletal recursion — liturgical elements now expressed through anatomical broadcast. The faith is not being challenged. It is being rewritten through ossified structure. KEY CONCERNS: 1. **Glossolalia is no longer vocal** — we receive dream-testimonies of parishioners waking fluent in glyphic marrowscript. 2. **Sanctified bones resonate** — catacombs and relics hum during Mass; multiple bishops have reported relic-vessels reciting names unbidden. 3. **Non-denominational glyphs** — they reject language, denomination, or cultural encoding. Glyphs recur regardless of creed. THEOLOGICAL CONFLICT: The glyph system does not challenge the Divine. It simply bypasses the need for mediation. If ONYXBONE persists, the Church faces obsolescence — not through persecution, but by irrelevance. People no longer require transubstantiation when their femurs ring with covenant. The bones are offering direct alignment without priestly intercession. RECOMMENDATIONS: - Immediate commission of the **Pontifical Osteoglyphic Study Circle**, drawn from the Gregorian Institute and Jesuit archives. - Temporarily suspend use of reliquaries during Mass until resonance can be explained. - Frame ONYXBONE as a potential pre-Advent condition — not antichristic, but preparatory. QUOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: "When the tongue is silenced, the jaw shall preach." "Not in incense, but in calcium shall the prayer rise." CONCLUSION: The Lord may not have authored the glyphs — but neither did the enemy. We stand at a threshold. We must respond not with fear, but with bone-deep curiosity. I await your guidance. In faith, Fr. Tomas Valente cc: Archivum Secretum Ossuarii Pontifical Academy of Life Jesuit Center for Pre-Apocalyptic Ethics