Not“An URGENT APPEAL to Roman
Catholics”
(Especially to AMERICAN
Roman Catholics)
SUBTITLE: 22
Reasons Why Roman Catholics Should
Come
Out of the ROMAN Catholic Church
(With an appeal in the final section to all Christians to tell the truth to precious Roman Catholics about Papal Rome’s bloody history and the Roman Catholic Church’s many unscriptural doctrines and practices)
By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT Newsletters
Website: www.toughissues.org // DATE: August 17, 2008
(NOTE: All “emphasis” is mine unless otherwise noted.)
Many Americans are unaware of the fact that JESUIT-controlled Papal Rome has been steering U.S. foreign policy for many decades. Likewise, JESUIT-controlled Papal Rome has been in complete control of the top levels of the U.S. intelligence community for many decades. JESUIT-controlled Papal Rome has been able to do this through her infiltration of the highest levels of the U.S. government, the U.S. intelligence community, and even the Pentagon by placing JESUIT-controlled Knights of Malta, JESUIT-controlled high-level Knights of Columbus, and JESUIT-controlled high-level Freemasons in key government and military positions. Burke McCarty, in her book “The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln” (1924), describes for us how extensive the “papal takeover” of key government positions had become in the early 1900s: “During the [Ed. President Woodrow] Wilson administrations [Ed.: 1913-1921] the Army, the Navy, the Treasury, the Secret Service, the Post Office, the Emergency Fleet, Transports, Printing, Aircraft and dozens of others [Ed.: i.e., other government agencies and departments] were presided over by Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus!” (During the time of the Wilson Administration, Roman Catholics made up only ONE-SIXTH of the U.S. population!)
F. Tupper Saussy, on pages 1-3 of his book, “Rulers of Evil” (1999), tells us: “What [Ed.: Professor Carol A.] Brown [Ed.: of the University of Massachusetts] had learned from Carl Bernstein, I [Ed.: i.e., F. Tupper Saussy] had discovered for myself over several years of private investigation: the papacy really does run United States foreign policy… Yes, [Carl] Bernstein noted that the leading American players behind the Reagan/Vatican conspiracy, to a man, were ‘devout Roman Catholics’…
But the reporter neglected to mention that the entire
Senate Foreign Relations committee was governed by Roman Catholics as
well.
…In fact, when the ‘Holy Alliance’ story hit the stands [Ed.: in 1992], there was virtually no arena of federal legislative activity, according to ‘The 1992 World Almanac of US Politics’, that was not directly controlled by a Roman Catholic senator or representative.”
The JESUIT ORDER, which sits at the top of the secret societies’ “pyramid”, has in the past been expelled from many nations. Canadian author J.E.C. Shepherd, on page 12 of his book “The Babington Plot” (1987), tells us: “Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuit Order] was expelled from at least 83 countries, city-states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversive plots against the welfare of the State, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute [Ed.: i.e., Thomas J. Campbell]. …Practically every instance of expulsion was for political intrigue, political infiltration, political subversion, and inciting to political insurrection.” It would be wonderful if the JESUIT ORDER could be immediately expelled from the USA; however, this is not going to happen. Why? It is because JESUIT-controlled “knights”, JESUIT-controlled Freemasons, and JESUIT temporal coadjutors occupy ALL the key positions of power in this country! Thus our only hope of escaping a ruthless Fascist police state here in the USA is if millions of American Roman Catholics would LEAVE the JESUIT-controlled ROMAN Catholic Church! (Note: The Jesuit “Civilta Cattolica” has stated: “Fascism is the regime that corresponds most closely to the concepts of the Church of Rome.” Indeed, JESUIT-controlled Papal Rome supported Nazi Germany and all the other Fascist states in Europe during World War II.)
For many decades the greatest “grass-roots” financial support for the Roman Catholic system has come from AMERICAN Roman Catholics. QUESTION: Should AMERICAN Roman Catholics continue to financially support this freedom-hating Roman Catholic geopolitical-financial-religious system by staying in it, or should they “come out of” it? In Revelation 18:4 God commands His people: “…Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” QUESTION: Would not these words of warning apply to Roman Catholics living on planet Earth today?
On June 27th, 2008, I was interviewed by Greg Szymanski, host of “The Investigative Journal” broadcast. During this interview, I gave 18 reasons why Roman Catholics should “come out of” the ROMAN Catholic system (i.e., Papal Rome). I hope to repeat those reasons in this article, with some “fleshing out” of what I said on his broadcast. (I have also added four more reasons for Roman Catholics to leave their “Church”, which is the #1 geopolitical-financial-religious power in the world.) I personally consider the final two reasons (#21 and #22) to be the most compelling reasons for leaving the Roman Catholic system.
II. TWENTY-TWO REASONS WHY ROMAN CATHOLICS SHOULD “COME
OUT OF” PAPAL ROME (i.e., the ROMAN
Catholic System)
REASON #1: Papal Rome
is a MASS MURDERER second to none!
It certainly appears that every 50 to 100 years or so Papal Rome goes on a “mass-murder spree”! Here are some examples (arranged in chronological order):
(1) Roman Catholic crusaders slaughtered half the Jews of Worms, Germany on their way through that city in 1096.
(2) When Roman Catholic crusaders captured the city of Antioch in 1098, they slaughtered the inhabitants of the city – men, women, and children – Muslims, Jews, and non-Roman Catholic Christians.
(3) When Roman Catholic crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they slaughtered the inhabitants of the city – men, women, and children – Muslims, Jews, and non-Roman Catholic Christians.
(4) Roman Catholic “crusaders” exterminated the Albigensian Bible-believing Christians – men, women, and children – in southern France in a series of military expeditions (i.e., “crusades”) from 1208-1226.
(5) Roman Catholic “crusaders” slaughtered the Jews in the Anjou and Poitou regions of western France in 1236.
(6) When Papal Rome blamed the Jews for the “Black Death” in the 1300s, thousands of Jews were hanged, drowned, and burned by Roman Catholics.
(7) When Pope Martin V ordered the King of Poland to exterminate the Christian Hussites (named after Czech martyr Jan Hus) in Bohemia in 1429, Roman Catholic soldiers responded by murdering nearly all of the Bohemian Christians.
(8) When Pope Sixtus IV commanded a crusade against the Waldensian Christians (also called the Vaudois in the French language) in southern France in 1477, Roman Catholic soldiers responded by murdering many thousands of these Bible-believing Christians – men, women, and children.
(9) Roman Catholic inquisitors directed the Spanish authorities to burn 2000 individuals alive during the first two years (1481-1483) of the Spanish Inquisition. (Many thousands more were burned to death at the stake before the Inquisition ran its course in Spain.)
(10) Papal Rome sent army after army of Roman Catholic soldiers into southern France and surrounding areas from 1540-1570 in an attempt to exterminate the Waldensian Bible-believing Christians. These Roman Catholic armies butchered up to 900,000 Waldensian Christians – men, women, and children – during that thirty-year period.
(11) Papal Rome directed Roman Catholic King of Spain Philip II to send 10,000 Spanish troops, led by the Duke of Alva, to the Netherlands, in accordance with the Edict of 1550, to stamp out Protestantism there. From 1550-1560, these Roman Catholic troops butchered up to 250,000 Dutch Protestants.
(12) Roman Catholic soldiers butchered thousands of French Protestants (Huguenots) in 1572 during the St. Bartholomew massacre that started in Paris. Butchery of Protestants then spread to the countryside. Harold J. Chadwick tells us: “On August 24, 1572, there began a mass killing of the Huguenots, who were French Calvinist Protestants, by the Roman Catholics. It originated in Paris and spread throughout France for two months until almost one-hundred-thousand Protestants [Ed.: emphasis in original] were killed and the Huguenots were nearly extinguished from the face of the earth…” (Page 259 of an updated version of “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs”; 2001; Publisher: Bridge-Logos.)
(13) The Roman Catholic Jesuit Order planned, fomented, and orchestrated the bloody “Thirty Years’ War” (1618-1648) in an attempt to exterminate all Protestants from off the face of the European continent. Many thousands on both sides died when Roman Catholic armies went on the offensive.
(14) Roman Catholic clerics in
Ireland directed the massacre and slaughter of up to 150,000 Protestants
– men, women, and children – from 1641 to 1649. John Daniel, in his
book “The Grand Design Exposed” (1999), tells us: “The sixth and
last event to be considered is the barbarous Irish Massacre, with its 23
October 1641 launching date – the date that also celebrates the Catholic feast
of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the JESUITS.
…Again
the plot is instigated by the JESUITS, [Ed.: Roman Catholic] priests,
and friars, who excite the ignorant Irish Catholic people to a frenzy to
commit the most unheard of cruelties. In far away France, Cardinal
Richelieu, the French minister, had promised the [Ed.: Irish Catholic] conspirators
a considerable supply of men and money. In one stroke, [Ed: Roman] Catholics
rose up against their peaceful and unsuspecting Protestant neighbors, and spared
no age, no sex, nor condition. Led on and declared by their fanatical priestly
leaders, that no Protestant should be suffered to live any longer among them,
adding that it was no more sin to kill a Protestant than to kill a dog, and that
the relieving or protecting them was a crime of the most unpardonable nature.
The onslaught raged on, and when it had run its course, one hundred and fifty thousand Protestants lay mutilated, butchered, and dead.” (Page 78)
(15) Jesuit priest Pere La Chaise urged Roman Catholic French King Louis XIV in 1685 to slaughter French Protestants (Huguenots). Up to 500,000 French Protestants were butchered by Roman Catholic French dragoons.
(16) The year 1808 marked the end of the “official” timeframe of the Roman [Catholic] Inquisition, which ran for 605 years, starting in 1203. Several reputable historians have placed the total number of Bible-believing Christians murdered by Papal Rome during that period at approximately 50 MILLION – a number that included many women who were burned at the stake!
(17) Roman Catholic prelates, Jesuits, and Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta helped put Hitler, Mussolini, and other Fascist dictators into power in Europe prior to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. These Vatican-supported Fascist regimes, with Vatican-supported Nazi Germany in the lead, conducted a genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to six million Jews – a modern-day papal Inquisition! (Many Protestants and Orthodox Christians were also murdered!)
(18) Two Roman Catholic Jesuit monsignors – Aloysius Stepinac and Ivan Saric, respectively the archbishops of Zagreb and Sarajevo – planned and orchestrated a religious genocide in Fascist Croatia that resulted in the deaths of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians – men, women, and children – from 1941 to 1945. Roman Catholic killing squads – the “Catholic Action” Ustashi – led and urged on by Franciscan priests, monks, and friars – carried out this brutal religious genocide against the Serb Orthodox Christians, brutally torturing many of their victims prior to murdering them.
(For more information about Papal Rome’ bloody history, please read “Bloody Hands & Wicked Hearts” on www.toughissues.org.)
REASON #2: Papal Rome is a MASS TORTURER second to none!
H.M.A. Baudrillart (Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris) made the following statement: “When confronted with ‘heresy’, she [Ed.: i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] does not content herself with persuasion; arguments of an intellectual and moral order appear to her insufficient, and she has recourse to force, to corporal punishment, [and] to TORTURE.”
Here are two examples of papal MASS TORTURE:
(1) As already mentioned in “Reason #1”, the “official” 605-year Roman [Catholic] Inquisition ran from 1203-1808. Not content to simply murder 50 MILLION Bible-believing Christians during this period, Papal Rome first brutally TORTURED many of the victims prior to turning them over to the “State” to be burned at the stake. (Many of the poor innocent victims were women; and many were burned quite slowly at the stake – using wet or green wood to prolong the agony of the victims.) Some of the torture devices used included: the rack, the Iron Maiden [a.k.a. the Iron Virgin], the pyramid seat, thumb screws, screw-operated instruments for crushing the knees and lower portions of the leg, etc.
Peter De Rosa, a Roman Catholic, tells us the following in his book “Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy” (1988): “Of eighty popes in a line from the thirteenth century on, not one of them disapproved of the theology and apparatus of Inquisition. On the contrary, one after another added his own cruel touches to the workings of this deadly machine.” (Pages 175, 176)
John Acton, English historian – and a Roman Catholic – stated the following concerning Papal Rome’s office of Inquisition: “The Inquisition is peculiarly the weapon and peculiarly the work of the popes. It stands out from all those things in which they cooperated, followed or assented as the distinctive feature of Papal Rome. It was set up, renewed, and perfected by a long series of acts emanating from the supreme authority of the [Ed.: ROMAN Catholic] Church. No other institution, no doctrine, no teaching, no ceremony is so distinctly the individual creation of the papacy… The principle of the Inquisition is the pope’s sovereign power over life and death. Whoever disobeys him [Ed.: i.e., the pope] should be tried, and tortured, and burnt.”
The office of Inquisition still exists, albeit under the more benign-sounding name of the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”. Pope Benedict XVI served multiple terms as the head of the office of Inquisition!
(For more information on the torture devices used during the Inquisition, please obtain a copy of the 58-minute DVD [in color] entitled “The Inquisition: 605 Years of Papal Torture and Death”. It is only $6 postage paid. Please make check or money order payable to “Richard Bennett”, and mail it to: The Berean Beacon // P.O. Box 192 // Del Valle, TX 78617. His website: www.bereanbeacon.org.)
(2) As already mentioned, from 1941-1945 the Roman Catholic Ustashi, led and urged on by Franciscan priests, friars, and monks, conducted a brutal religious genocide in Fascist Croatia, where they murdered up to ONE MILLION Serb Orthodox Christians. However, the Roman Catholic Ustashi units were generally not content to simply murder their victims. Frequently they first brutally tortured them – and then killed them in the most painful and barbaric ways. The Roman Catholic Ustashi skinned victims alive, buried victims alive, burned victims alive, impaled small children on sharpened stakes, crucified Orthodox priests to wooden doors, cut children out of their mothers’ wombs, gouged out victims’ eyes, etc.
(For more information on this brutal religious genocide in Fascist Croatia during World War II, please read “The Vatican’s Holocaust” on www.toughissues.org. The book “Smokescreens”, by Jack T. Chick, also covers this genocide. It is only $8.49 postage paid, and can be ordered by calling 1-909-987-0771.)
REASON #3: Papal Rome
and the Jesuit Order are MASTER FOMENTERS OF WARS & REVOLUTIONS
second to none!
Here are some examples of wars and revolutions (in chronological order) that were fomented by Papal Rome – and especially by the Jesuit Order:
(1) The “Thirty Years’ War” (1618-1648): The JESUIT ORDER fomented this war that tore apart much of central Europe, especially Germany. It started out as a war between German Roman Catholics and German Protestants. Soon, however, troops from Sweden, France, and Spain had joined in the fighting.
Author John
Daniel, in his book “The Grand Design Exposed” (1999), tells us the
following: “The underlying cause of the [Ed.: Thirty Years’] war
was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German
Catholics – with the JESUITS and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the
real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends. When
the war was over it had totally wiped out the German economy leaving behind a
waste land where one half (some historians say even two thirds) of the
population were dead.” (Page 77)
German historian Theodor Griesinger, in his book “The
Jesuits” (1873), tells us: “The
whole frightful responsibility for this terrible Thirty Years’ War [Ed.: 1618-1648] must rest upon the [Holy Roman] Emperor
Ferdinand II, and his teachers, rulers, and bosom friends – the Sons
of Loyola [i.e., the Jesuits].”
(2) The French Revolution (1789-1799):
Author John Daniel, in his book “The Grand Design Exposed” (1999),
tells us the following: “Without
exception, every
chief actor in the French
Revolution was either JESUIT-educated, a CATHOLIC prelate, or a
member of the Illuminati Order
[Ed.: a JESUIT front organization] where within the Jacobin Club they would
come together to conspire and carry out the ‘Great Work’ – which in the
open system of the Jacobins was the reflection of the complete hidden system of
the Illuminati – and in back of the Illuminati were the hidden JESUIT
‘masters’. …Most [Ed.: of the leaders of the French Revolution] had
been educated and trained under JESUIT
tutelage. Names like Voltaire, Diderot, Turgot, Condorcet, d’Alembert,
Desmoulins, and Robespierre were all inspired JESUIT
college students rallying behind their instructors’ Enlightenment cause.”
(Pages 212, 213, and 262)
(3) The American “Civil War” (1861-1865): Many persons (e.g., President Abraham Lincoln, author and U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris, author Burke McCarty, author Eric Jon Phelps, and author C.T. Wilcox) have placed the blame for this bloody war on Papal Rome and the Jesuit Order!
President Abraham Lincoln said: “This [Ed.: American Civil] war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the JESUITS. We owe it to POPERY that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis [Ed.: President of the Confederate States of America] nor anyone of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promises of the JESUITS, that under the mask of Democracy, the money and arms of the Roman Catholic, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us.”
(4) World War I (1914-1918): In 1913 Pope Pius X told Austrian Prince Schonburg the following: “It would certainly have been better if Austria-Hungary had punished the Serbians for all the wrongs they had done.” French author Edmond Paris, who was born a Roman Catholic, tells us in his book “The Secret History of the Jesuits” (1975): “What were the Hapsburgs [Ed.: Roman Catholic rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire] supposed to do [Ed.: after hearing the statement of Pope Pius X in 1913 that Austria-Hungary should have punished the Serbians]? [Ed.: The answer: They were to] chastise Serbia, an Orthodox [Ed.: Christian] nation. The prestige of Austria-Hungary, of those Hapsburgs who, with the Bourbons of Spain, were the last supporters of the JESUITS…would have greatly increased. For [Ed.: Papal] Rome, the affair became one of almost religious importance; a victory of apostolic monarchy over Czarism could be considered a victory of Rome over the schism of the East.” (Page 117)
(5) World War II (1939-1945):
Author Eric Jon Phelps, in his book “Vatican Assassins” (2001), tells
us: “The JESUITS…installed
puppet dictators throughout Europe. They were:
[1.] Bavarian Germany and
the Third Reich – [Adolf] Hitler [Ed.: born-died: 1889-1945] [Ed.: Hitler was put into power by
JESUIT-controlled German Knight of Malta Franz von Papen.]
[2.] Italy – [Benito]
Mussolini [Ed.: born-died:
1883-1945] [Ed.: JESUIT don Sturzo, chief of the Catholic Party in Italy, helped
bring Mussolini to power.]
[3.] ‘Vichy’ France –
[Henri Philippe] Petain [Ed.: born-died:
1856-1951]
[4.] Spain –
[Francisco] Franco [Ed.: born-died:
1892-1975]
[5.] Austria – [Artur]
Seyss-Inquart
[6.] Poland
– [Hans]
Frank
[7.] Slovakia – [Ed.:
JESUIT] Priest [Ed.: Monsignor] Tiso
[8.] Croatia – [Ante]
Pavelitch [Ed.: alternate
spelling: Pavelic] [and]
[9.] Belgium – [Leon]
Degrelle.
All
these Roman Catholic, JESUIT-controlled, Jew-hating dictators were loyal
to the greatest war criminal of all, Papal Caesar Pius XII and his master, JESUIT
[Ed.: Superior] General
Wlodimir Ledochowski.” (Page
478)
French author Edmond Paris, in his book “The Secret History of the Jesuits” (1975), tells us: “The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the VATICAN and its JESUITS in the starting of two world wars – a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the VATICAN and its JESUITS, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.” (Page 9)
(For more information on the fomenters of these two world wars, please read the book, “The Secret History of the Jesuits” (1975), by Edmond Paris. This book is $12.49 postage paid. To order a copy, please call 1-909-987-0771.)
REASON #4: Roman
Catholic JESUITS are MASTER ASSASSINS OF HEADS OF STATE second to none!
Jim Marrs, in his book “CROSSFIRE: The Plot that Killed Kennedy” (1989), stated: “After all, every good detective begins his murder investigation by determining who had the MEANS, MOTIVE, and OPPORTUNITY to commit the act.” (Page 90) In all of the below assassinations – and I could have listed many more – we find clear evidence of the Jesuit Order having the “means, motive, and opportunity” for committing these vile murders of heads of State:
(1) In 1589 King Henry III of France was fatally wounded by JESUIT-controlled assassin Jacques Clement (a Dominican friar), who stabbed him with a knife. (King Henry III died the next day.) This French king’s “crimes”: (a.) In 1579 he had assembled the French states to oppose the JESUIT-controlled Catholic League’s plans to exterminate the French Protestants [Huguenots]. (b.) He then later joined forces with his Protestant Huguenot cousin (Henry of Navarre) in opposing JESUIT-fomented sedition in France.
(2) In 1610 King Henry IV of France was stabbed to death by JESUIT-controlled assassin Francois Ravaillac. King Henry IV had greatly angered both the JESUIT ORDER and the PAPACY by granting all of his subjects – including Protestants – “religious liberty” through the “Edict of Nantes” in 1598.
(3) In 1825 Russian Czar Alexander I was poisoned to death by the JESUIT ORDER. His “crimes”: He had expelled the JESUIT ORDER from Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1816, and from all of Russia in 1822. He had also been tolerant of all religious sects in Russia. And possibly his greatest “crime”: In 1812 Czar Alexander I had encouraged the establishment of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Russia. In other words, Czar Alexander I had become a real Christian through reading the Bible, and he wanted to get the Holy Bible in the Russian language into the hands of the Russian people. PAPAL ROME and the JESUITS absolutely HATE Bible-believing Christians and any translation of the Holy Bible that is based on the correct manuscripts. The JESUITS also have great difficulty in corrupting and co-opting genuine, Bible-believing Christian rulers.
(4) In 1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by JESUIT-controlled Knight of the Golden Circle John Wilkes Booth. There were at least nine other low-to-mid-level conspirators involved in the assassination conspiracy. The conspiracy targeted President Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State William Seward, and U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant for assassination. Most, if not all, of the conspirators were members of the JESUIT-controlled Knights of the Golden Circle. Many of the conspirators were ROMAN CATHOLICS, including John Wilkes Booth (who had converted to Catholicism shortly before shooting Lincoln). The conspiracy was “hatched” in the home of ROMAN CATHOLIC Mary Surratt, whose son John Harrison Surratt was identified as an arch conspirator in the assassination plot. This same home of Mary Surratt was visited frequently by ROMAN CATHOLIC priests. (One of the priests involved at the higher levels of the assassination plot was the JESUIT priest Bernadine F. Wiget.) ROMAN CATHOLIC priests in the USA and in Canada helped arch conspirator John Surratt to escape to England and then on to Rome, where he became a member of the POPE’S Zouave bodyguard unit.
Lincoln’s “crimes”:
(a.) He had prevented the Union from being divided into two hostile nations, thus thwarting this primary objective of both the JESUIT ORDER and the PAPACY (which, by the way, supported the Confederacy during the Civil War).
(b.) He had also refused to take loans from JESUIT-controlled European bankers in order to fund the North’s war effort.
(c.) He wanted to bring the Confederate States back into the Union under kind and generous terms – something that the JESUIT-controlled “Radical Republicans” in the U.S. Congress strongly opposed.
Numerous books have been authored that show conclusive evidence of Papal Rome’s and the JESUIT ORDER’S involvement in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, e.g., “Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln” (1897) by U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris; “The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln” (1924) by Burke McCarty; and, “The Transformation of the Republic: The Origins of the Religious Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Behind the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln” (2005) by C.T. Wilcox.
(Go to www.ctwilcox.com for information on how to order the book on the Lincoln assassination by Canadian author C.T. Wilcox. To purchase Harris’ and McCarty’s books in a single volume for $14 (postage paid), please make a check or money order payable to “Ozark Books”, and mail it to: Ozark Books // P. O. Box 3703 // Springfield, MO 65808.)
(5) In 1872 Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez was poisoned to death by the JESUIT ORDER. His “crimes”, according to Eric Jon Phelps, author of “Vatican Assassins” (2001), were: “He [Ed.: President Juarez] exiled the Archbishop of Mexico along with five Bishops, confiscated all of the Pope’s Church property…expelled two hundred Jesuit priests…enforced the ‘liberal’ Constitution of 1857 securing the Protestant rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press…sought to establish a Middle Class and repudiated the National Debt.” (Page 319)
(6) In 1881 Russian Czar Alexander II was killed by the JESUITS by means of a bomb.
The “crimes” of Czar Alexander II:
(a.) He revoked Papal Rome’s Concordat with Russia because the JESUITS had fomented the Polish rebellion.
(b.) He twice broke diplomatic relations with the PAPACY, in 1866 and in 1877.
(c.) He helped to preserve the American Union at the time of the American Civil War of 1861-1865. Both France and England had made preparations to intervene militarily on the side of the South (i.e., the Confederate States of America); however, Czar Alexander II sent part of the Russian fleet to U.S. shores, placing those Russian naval vessels under the direct command of President Abraham Lincoln. By doing so, Czar Alexander II was sending a message to both France and England that if they intervened militarily on the side of the Confederacy, then Russia would intervene militarily on the side of the North. Since the PAPACY and the JESUITS favored the Confederacy, and wanted to divide the Union into two separate hostile nations, they never forgave either President Lincoln or Czar Alexander II for their roles in preserving the Union!
(7) In 1963 U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was shot by a team of at least three shooters at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Many JESUIT-controlled high-level Freemasons and JESUIT-controlled Knights of Malta were involved in the JFK assassination and the subsequent cover-up. Some of these high-level Masons and Knights of Malta involved in planning the assassination and/or in covering up the massive conspiracy via the Warren [“Whitewash”] Commission, according to author Eric Jon Phelps, were: Clay Shaw, J. Edger Hoover, Cartha DeLoach, James Jesus Angleton, Allen Dulles, and Earl Warren.
President Kennedy’s “crimes”:
(a.) He had interest-free money printed up by the Treasury Department, bypassing the JESUIT-controlled big banksters in the Federal Reserve.
(b.) He had threatened to splinter the JESUIT-controlled Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into “a thousand pieces”, as well as having made known his plans to transfer covert operations from the JESUIT-controlled CIA to the Pentagon.
(c.) He had fired Allen Dulles (Director, CIA) and General Charles P. Cabell (Deputy Director of Central Intelligence). (According to author Eric Jon Phelps, at least six heads of the CIA have been JESUIT-controlled Knights of Malta, with one of those six, i.e., Allen Dulles, also being a JESUIT-controlled 33 degree Freemason. Thus, JESUIT-controlled secret societies have for decades controlled the highest positions within the U.S. Intelligence Community.)
(d.) He had greatly offended the American Roman Catholic hierarchy by refusing Francis Cardinal Spellman’s request to conduct Mass in the White House, and also by several statements he had made concerning the president’s right to conduct national affairs without interference from the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
(e.) He had made plans to bring American involvement in the Vietnam War to a much faster conclusion than the JESUIT-controlled leaders in government, banking, industry, and the Pentagon wanted.
(f.) He wanted to bring the Cold War to a faster conclusion than the JESUIT-controlled leaders in government, banking, industry, and the Pentagon wanted.
(For the best exposé about the Jesuit Order, please read the “electronic book”, “Vatican Assassins – Third Edition” – CD-ROM in PDF format, by Eric Jon Phelps. To order a copy, please visit www.vaticanassassins.org, and then “click on” the “Order Book” marker at the top of the left-hand column of his homepage.)
REASON #5: Agents of Papal Rome have long been known as MASTER ABUSERS OF MALE CHILDREN second to none!
Over the past several decades many U.S. newspapers have carried stories of the frequent and repeated abuse of boys by Roman Catholic priests. Many of the priests accused of abusing boys were moved around within various parishes in an effort both to conceal the “problem”, and to protect many of these priests!
Author Ronald Cooke states: “Pope John Paul II [pope: 1978-2005] presided over the second ‘pornography of the Papacy’. He presided over the greatest, most widespread, immoral scandal of sexual perversion in church history. Never in the annals of recorded history has such a scandal been displayed for the entire world to see. Documented case after documented case in the courts of the world, joined by thousands of other cases which never came to light as the BAG-MAN, as he was called, bought the silence of thousands of young men whose cases never came to the courts. Combined with other ‘faithful’ souls who, although sodomized as children, in their loyalty to mother church never even complained.” (“The Death of the Pope of Rome”; 2005; Page 14)
William H. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tells us the following in his book “Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church” (2004): “The policy of silence and cover-up [Ed.: concerning sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church] promoted by the Vatican is mind-boggling. The vast amount of data which the Vatican collected concerning the sexual activity of [Ed.: the Roman Catholic] clergy makes it clear that the Pope and [Ed.: the Roman] Curia were well aware of how wide-spread and common the sexual abuse problem was in the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church. It did NOTHING to redress the situation but continued with a policy of cover-up and silence. It seems that the only reason the Vatican ordered these secret sex studies was to get a global picture of where they stood and to develop informed strategies for hiding the problem in the future. Never was the welfare of the victims of sexual abuse taken into consideration, nor was the question of broken chastity vows [Ed.: by the celibate priests] apparently of any real concern.” (Page 178)
REASON #6: Agents of Papal Rome have long been known as MASTER ABUSERS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS second to none!
The abuse of girls and women (to include nuns) in the Roman Catholic
Church occurs just as often – if not more often – than the abuse of boys!
William H. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, in his book “Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church” (2004), states: “The media black-out of the sexual abuse of women by clerics in both ritual and non-ritual cases is a great disgrace. The plight of male children who suffer under abusive priests is, of course, horrifying and should receive wide media coverage. However, the sexual abuse of nuns and women by clerics is a far larger problem.” (Page 180)
A January 8, 2002 article in the “Boston Globe” reported the following: “According to the 1996 survey of nuns in the United States (which was intentionally never published by the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church but was leaked by some Vatican insider), it is reported that a minimum of 34,000 Catholic nuns (about 40% of all American nuns) claim to have been sexually abused. Three of every four of these nuns claimed they were sexually victimized by a priest, nun, or other religious person. Two out of five nuns who stated they were sexually abused claimed that their exploitation included some form of genital contact. All nuns who claimed repeated sexual exploitation reported that they were pressured by religious superiors for sexual favors.”
Roman Catholic writer Peter De Rosa, in his book “Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy”
(1988), informs us that the abuse of women within the Roman Catholic Church has
been a centuries-long problem: “A large part of the history of [Ed.:
mandatory] celibacy is the story of the degradation of women and –
an invariable consequence – frequent abortions and infanticide.
In the ninth century, many monasteries were the haunts of homosexuals,
many convents were brothels in which babies were killed and buried…
…Promiscuity was rife in monasteries and convents. The great Ivo of Chartres (1040-1115) tells of whole convents with inmates who were nuns only in name. They had often been abandoned by their families and were really prostitutes.” (Pages 404, 408)
SUGGESTION: Do a “google-style” search on the Internet for “Sister Charlotte”.
REASON #7: Agents of Papal Rome have long been known as MASTER LIARS AND FORGERS second to none!
(1) The “Donation of
Constantine”: Dave Hunt, in his book “A Woman Rides the Beast”
(1994), tells us the following: “The popes’ authority even extended to
large territories outside Rome acquired in the eighth century. At that time,
with the help of a deliberately fraudulent document manufactured
for the popes known as ‘The Donation of Constantine’, Pope Stephen
III convinced Pepin, king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne, that
territories recently taken by the Lombards from the Byzantines actually had been
given to the papacy by the [Ed.: Roman] Emperor Constantine. [Ed.:
King] Pepin routed the Lombards and handed to the pope the keys to some 20
cities…and the huge chunk of land joining them along the Adriatic
coast.
Dated 30 March 315 [A.D.] ‘The Donation [Ed.: of Constantine]’ declared that [Ed.: the Roman Emperor] Constantine had given these lands, along with Rome and the Lateran Palace, to the popes in perpetuity. In 1440 this document was proven to be a forgery by [Ed.: i.e., through the efforts of scholar] Lorenzo Valla, a papal aide, and is so recognized by historians today. Yet allegedly infallible popes continued for centuries to assert that ‘The Donation [Ed.: of Constantine]’ was genuine and on that basis to justify their pomp, power, and possessions. …Thus the Papal States were literally stolen by the popes from their rightful owners.” (Pages 72, 73)
(2) The “Isidorian Decretals”: Dave Hunt, in his book “A Woman Rides the Beast” (1994), tells us the following about the fraudulent Isidorian Decretals:
“…They [Ed.: i.e., the popes of Rome] labored mightily
to satisfy their lust for power and pleasure and wealth. No
justification for making themselves the absolute and infallible rulers over the
Church, much less the world, could be found in the writings of the early [Ed.:
Church] Fathers and certainly not in Scripture. Therefore the
popes had to find other support. The means they chose was to rewrite
history by manufacturing allegedly historical documents. The first
of these bold forgeries was ‘The Donation of Constantine’…
It was followed by pseudo-‘Isidorian Decretals’, which were early papal
decrees allegedly compiled by Archbishop Isidore (560-636) but actually fabricated
in the ninth century. These frauds became the foundation for much
‘tradition’ still relied upon today.
…The ‘Isidorian Decretals’ involved about a hundred concocted
decrees allegedly promulgated by the earliest popes, along with counterfeit
writings of supposed Church authorities and synods.
…Devout Catholics would be shocked to learn that much of the ‘apostolic tradition’ they have been told supports Roman Catholicism (and is to be regarded upon the same level as Scripture) was actually a deliberately manufactured fraud. The doctrines built upon these forgeries became so interwoven into Catholicism that even after the hoax was exposed the popes were reluctant to make the necessary corrections. Pope after [Ed. allegedly] ‘infallible’ pope endorsed the counterfeit. To make a clean break from centuries of accumulated lies would tear apart the very fabric of Roman Catholicism.” (Pages 95-97)
(3) The Forgery Factory: I would guess that many Roman Catholics are unaware of the fact that at least one pope (and probably several others) maintained a “factory” that “manufactured” many forgeries to support papal “claims” to power and authority. Peter De Rosa, a Roman Catholic and the author of the book “Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy” (1988), tells us the following about Pope Gregory VII, his “school of forgers”, and the official Church documents that later grew from these forgeries:
“…For seven centuries, the Greeks had called [Ed.:
Papal] Rome the home of forgeries. Whenever they tried talking with [Ed.:
Papal] Rome, the popes brought out forged documents, even papal additions
to Council documents, which the Greeks, naturally, had never seen.
[Pope] Gregory [Ed.: VII; pope: 1073-1085] went way beyond the ‘Donation of Constantine’. He had a whole school of forgers under his very nose, turning out document after document, with the papal seal of approval, to cater for his every need. [Ed. Pope Gregory VII made some absolutist claims when he became pope, e.g., that popes had the power to dethrone emperors and kings. Gregory VII needed documentation to back up these absolutist claims! So, new forgeries were added to the old, providing the necessary documentation!]
…Pope Gregory [VII] (and, later, Urban II) might require
justification for some action against a prince or bishop. Very well, these
prelates [Ed.: in the “school of forgers”] literally produced
[Ed.: i.e., manufactured; forged] the appropriate document. No need for
research; it was all done on the premises.
Many documents were touched up to make them say the opposite
of what they said originally. Some of these earlier documents were themselves
forgeries. Hildebrand’s [Ed.: i.e., Pope Gregory VII’s] school [Ed.:
of forgers] treated all papers, forged or genuine, with a completely
impartial dishonesty.
…This instant method of inventing history was marvelously
successful, especially as the forgeries were at once inserted into canon
law. By innumerable subtle changes, they made Catholicism seem changeless. They
turned ‘today’ into ‘always was and always will be’, which even now,
contrary to the findings of history, is the peculiar stamp of Catholicism.
Thus was accomplished the quietest and longest-lasting of all
revolutions: it was all done on paper. It would not have worked in an era of
universal literacy, printing, photocopying and carbon dating; it worked without
a hitch in an age of rare manuscripts, inept scholarship, and when even some
emperors could not read and write.
…The most influential of all forgeries was the ninth-century
Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals…[Ed.: which] consisted of 115
documents, purportedly written by early bishops of Rome, beginning with
Clement (88-97). A further 125 documents had forged additions which
increased the power and prestige of the papacy. According to the forger, the
early popes forbade all commerce with an excommunicated person.
In 1078, Gregory [VII], knowing there was NO precedent for it,
extended this principle to emperors and kings…
…The documents forged in [Ed. Papal] Rome at this
time were systematized in the mid-1100s at Bologna by Gratian, a Benedictine
monk. His ‘Decretum’, or Code of Canon Law, was easily the most influential
book ever written by a Catholic. It was peppered with three centuries of forgeries
and conclusions drawn from them, with his own fictional additions. Of the
324 passages he quotes from popes of the first four centuries, only eleven are
genuine.
Looking further ahead to the thirteenth century, the
‘Decretum’ was Thomas Aquinas’ source-book for quotes from the Fathers and
popes when he came to write his masterly ‘Summa Theologica’, the second most
renowned work by a Catholic.
…History became a minor branch of theology where it has remained
ever since. After all, even history cannot contradict infallible truth. Hence in
the formative years of Roman Catholic Christianity, all discussion was stifled
by recourse to ‘authorities’ that were instantly fabricated.
Development came not spontaneously but was forced into pre-established
patterns. The traditional subjection of popes to General Councils in matters of
faith and morals was reversed. Disputed and sometimes ludicrous views
became established dogmas; partial views were consecrated as timeless and
irreversible Catholic teaching.
It is no small thing to manufacture history.” (Pages 59-61)
NOTE #1: The cover for my hardcopy version of Peter De
Rosa’s book, “Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy”,
contains this interesting excerpted quote: “Pope Gregory VII…in
the eleventh century, instituted an entire document-forgery factory in the
Vatican – to prove that the pope could not make a mistake, that he could
depose kings and princes at will, and that he was necessarily a saint.”
NOTE #2: I highly recommend this book by Roman Catholic author Peter De Rosa. My 484-page hardcopy version was published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York in 1988. (Please search the Internet for used copies of this book.)
(4) Peter the 1st pope as Bishop of Rome: This has to be one of the biggest LIES ever told in recorded history. Even some Roman Catholic scholars have had to admit that there is NO [i.e., ZERO] historical or Scriptural evidence that the Apostle Peter was ever a “Bishop of Rome”, much less the first pope. Please consider the following three quotations:
“In the New Testament, in addition to the two letters written by [Ed.: the Apostle] Peter, we have thirteen [Ed.: letters] written by [Ed.: the Apostle] Paul. But in none of those [Ed.: i.e., the 13 Pauline epistles] does he [Ed.: i.e., Paul] refer to Peter as the bishop of Rome, or [Ed.: as the bishop] of any other church. In Paul’s most important letter, that to the church of Rome, he does not so much as mention Peter. In his letter to Timothy he mentions the office of bishop or elder, but he does not mention that of archbishop, supreme bishop, or pope. Surely if such an important office as supreme bishop or pope existed he [Ed.: i.e., the Apostle Paul] would have mentioned it. Nor in the literature of the early church during the second or third century is there any mention of a supreme bishop or pope. There are references to [Jesus] Christ as the Chief Shepherd, but none to any man as having that [Ed.: title] or any similar title.” – Dr. Loraine Boettner (“Roman Catholicism”; 1962; Page 239)
“Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (178-200 A.D.), provided a list of the first 12 Bishops of Rome, identifying Linus as the first. Peter’s name was conspicuously absent.
…Eusebius [Ed.: Bishop] of Caesarea, the father of Church history, never mentioned Peter as Bishop of Rome. He simply pointed out that Peter made a trip to Rome about ‘the end of his days’ and was crucified there.” – Philip De Courcy (“Standing Room Only: A Contemporary Exposé of the Roman Catholic and Evangelical Agreement”; 1999; Page 289)
“Peter never claimed any authority over the other apostles, but rather denied it (I Peter 1:1, 5:1-3; Acts 10:25, 26).
…Peter was indeed a pillar in the church (Galatians 2:9), but Christ alone is the chief cornerstone and head (Ephesians 1:22-23, 2:20-22).” – Philip De Courcy (“Standing Room Only: A Contemporary Exposé of the Roman Catholic and Evangelical Agreement”; 1999; Pages 298-300)
(5) Claiming that the Roman Catholic Church is the oldest “Christian” church: The first Christian church was in Jerusalem. Later a church was established at Antioch. Even later a church was established in Rome. The heads of churches in large cities were known as “bishops”, and the bishop of Rome held no more power within the “Church” than the bishops at Jerusalem and other cities throughout the Roman Empire. Over 300 years passed after Christ’s resurrection before the bishop of Rome began to “claim” preeminence within the Church over other bishops (due to his presence in the capital city of the Roman Empire).
REASON #8: Agents of Papal Rome have long been
known as HATERS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY second to none!
Dr. William P. Grady tells
us: “During a sermon in 1850, [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Archbishop John
Hughes of New York, the nation’s leading Vatican spokesman, acknowledged that
a conspiracy to subjugate free America did exist after all. The Catholic
press was ecstatic. An excerpt from ‘Shepherd of the Valley’, the official
journal of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Bishop of St. Louis, declared, ‘If
Catholics ever gain a sufficient numerical majority in this country, religious
freedom is at an end. So our enemies say, so we believe.’”
In 1864 John Hughes, the Archbishop of New York, made the following
statement: “No
man has a right to choose his religion.
[Ed.: Roman] Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds. It is
intolerance itself. We might as rationally maintain that two and two does not
make four as the theory of Religious Liberty. Its impiety is only equaled by its
absurdity.”
In December of 1864, Pope Pius IX, in his “Syllabus of Errors”,
made the following statement: “The State has not the right to leave
every man free to embrace whatever religion he
should deem true.
…The [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the religion of the State, to the exclusion of all others.”
Publisher Larry Harrison has stated: “Popes have been consistent in their declarations that freedom of religion should NOT exist, and that the Church of Rome represents the only true faith and therefore should alone be allowed to spread its doctrines.”
REASON #9: Agents of Papal Rome have long been
known as HATERS OF FREEDOM [i.e., LIBERTY] OF CONSCIENCE second to none!
In 1765 John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd U.S. President) stated: “Let us DARE to read, THINK, speak and write.” Please compare this statement by John Adams with the following three statements by popes of Rome:
(1) Gregory XVI [pope: 1831-1846] stated: “The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one’s thoughts is NOT inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.” (Note: This pope’s encyclical on August 15, 1832, “Mirari vos”, condemned freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, and separation of church and state!)
(2) On August 15, 1854 Pius IX [pope: 1846-1878] stated in an encyclical: “The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience, are a most pestilential error – a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a State.”
(3) In December of 1864, Pope Pius IX, in his “Syllabus
of Errors”, stated: “…Cursed be those who assert liberty
of conscience and of worship and such that maintain that the [Ed.:
Roman Catholic] Church may not employ force.”
Charles Chiniquy (1809-1899; former Roman Catholic priest) stated in his book, “The Priest, The Woman, and The Confessional”: “Have not the popes [Ed.: e.g., Pope Pius IX in his “Syllabus of Errors” of 1864] publicly and repeatedly anathematized the sacred principle of Liberty of Conscience? Have they not boldly said, in the teeth of the nations of Europe, that Liberty of Conscience must be destroyed – killed at any cost? Has not the whole world heard the sentence of death to liberty coming from the lips of the old man of the Vatican [Ed.: i.e., the pope]?” (Page 85)
REASON #10: Agents of Papal Rome have long
been known as HATERS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH second to none!
For over a thousand years, Papal Rome ruled Europe. During most of this period any Roman Catholic who dared to SPEAK OUT about corruption or unscriptural practices within the Roman Catholic Church did so with great risk of excommunication and/or execution! Here are three examples of suppression of “freedom of speech” that occurred within the Roman Catholic system:
(1) Girolamo Savonarola [1452-1498]: Savonarola, a godly Italian Dominican, was a popular Roman Catholic preacher who led a revival in Florence, Italy in the 1490s. Because he had SPOKEN OUT about the corruption of the papal court, Savonarola was excommunicated and executed in 1498 on the orders of Pope Alexander VI!
(2) The German Roman Catholic theologian J.H. Ignaz von Dollinger: Dave Hunt, in his book “A Woman Rides the Beast” (1994), tells us the fate of von Dollinger for SPEAKING OUT against the unscriptural doctrine of “papal infallibility” [published July 13, 1870]: “As for J.H. Ignaz von Dollinger, one of the most eminent Catholic historians and theologians at the time, his reward for 47 years of teaching Roman Catholic theology and history was to be excommunicated. His crime had been to point out that the pope’s claim to infallibility lacked support either from Scripture or from Church tradition.” (Page 134)
(3) Roman Catholic Swiss historian and scholar August Bernhard Hasler: Hasler “met an untimely death” because he dared to SPEAK OUT and WRITE about the sinister behind-the-scenes activities that occurred at the Vatican I Council. Dave Hunt, in his book “A Woman Rides the Beast” (1994), tells us: “Much of what we know about the sinister intrigue behind the scenes and the dishonest conclusion of [the] Vatican I [Ed.: Council of 1869-1870, where papal infallibility was officially proclaimed] is owing to the work of [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Swiss historian and scholar August Bernhard Hasler. …What he learned…about Vatican I was so disturbing…that he felt compelled to write ‘How the Pope Became Infallible’. Hasler met an untimely death just after the manuscript was finished. For writing the book’s introduction, Catholic theologian Hans Kung was ‘stripped of his ecclesiastical teaching privileges’.” (Page 132)
(NOTE concerning “reasons” #8, #9, and #10 for coming out of Roman Catholicism: Dave Hunt, on page 55 of his book, “A Woman Rides the Beast” (1994), states the following about Papal Rome’s hatred of “freedom of the press, speech, religion, and even conscience”: “The history of Latin America has fully demonstrated the accuracy of that appraisal [Ed.: of the Vatican’s support of oppressive regimes]. In Catholic countries [Ed.: in Latin America] the popes’ hatred of freedom and their partnership with oppressive regimes, which they often succeeded in manipulating to their own ends, is a matter of historical record. Whatever her [Ed.: i.e., the Roman Catholic Church’s] true motives, history bears full witness to the fact that whenever she has been able to do so, the Roman Catholic Church has suppressed and openly condemned such basic human rights as freedom of the press, speech, religion, and even conscience.”)
(For more information on the Papacy’s hatred of liberty, please read my article, “Papal Rome’s Hatred of Liberty”, which is posted on www.toughissues.org.)
REASON #11: Agents of Papal Rome have long
been known as HATERS OF POPULAR, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT second to
none!
Dave Hunt, in his book “A Woman Rides the Beast” (1994), tells us: “The Vatican has consistently fought every democratic advance from absolute monarchies toward government by the people, beginning with England’s Magna Carta (June 15, 1215), ‘the mother of European Constitutions’. That vital document was denounced immediately by Pope Innocent III ([pope:] 1198-1216)… Encouraged by the pope, King John [Ed.: of England] brought in foreign mercenaries to fight the [Ed.: English] barons [Ed.: who had forced King John to sign the Magna Carta], bringing great destruction upon the country. Subsequent popes did all in their power to help [Ed.: English King] John’s successor, [Ed.: King] Henry III, overturn the Magna Carta, impoverishing the country with papal taxes (salaries to the numerous imported Italian [Ed.: Roman Catholic] priests were three times the crown’s annual revenue).” (Pages 54 and 55)
REASON #12: Agents of Papal Rome have long
been known as HATERS OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE second to none!
Dave Hunt, in his book “A Woman Rides the Beast” (1994), tells us the following: “The Constitution of the United States was condemned by the Papacy because it SEPARATED church and state and prohibited the establishment of any religion [Ed.: as an official State religion] by the government. The popes, on the other hand, had long required governments to make Roman Catholicism the official religion and to prohibit the practice of any other.” (Page 126)
Dr. Loraine Boettner, in his book “Roman Catholicism” (1962), tells us: “The Roman [Ed. Catholic] Church has repeatedly condemned the separation of church and state, which is one of the basic principles of our American way of life…” (Page 421)
REASON #13: Agents of Papal Rome have long
been known as HATERS OF OUR AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC second to
none!
“These three meetings, at Vienna, [Ed.: Austria in 1814-15], Verona, [Ed.: Italy in 1822], and Chieri, [Ed.: Italy in 1825], were held with as much secrecy as possible. However, one man attended the first two meetings that would not be silenced. British foreign minister George Canning contacted the U.S. government to warn them that the monarchs of Europe [Ed.: with the encouragement and support of the Papacy and the Jesuits] were planning to destroy the free institutions of America.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Page 15)
“For
over 200 years, the goal [Ed.: of the Jesuits] has been the complete
destruction of the United States Constitution.” –
Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Page 138)
“The Protestants of both the North and the South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits, if they could hear what Professor [Ed.: Samuel B.] Morse [Ed.: U.S. inventor of the telegraph] has said to me of the plots made in the very city of Rome [Ed.: i.e., at the Vatican] to destroy this Republic…” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th President of the United States)
“…We do not accept it [Ed.: i.e.,
the American Constitutional Republic], or hold it to be any government at all…
If the American Republic is to be sustained and preserved at all, it must be by
the rejection of the principle of the [Ed.:
Protestant] Reformation [Ed.: i.e., religious liberty], and the
acceptance of the Catholic principle [Ed.: i.e., religious tyranny; Roman
Catholicism as the State religion]…” – “Catholic
World” (August 1871; Page 735)
REASON #14: Agents of Papal Rome have long
been known as LOVERS OF FASCISM second to none!
“Civilta Cattolica”, an official publication of the Jesuit
Order, stated the following: “Fascism is the regime that corresponds most closely to the concepts of the
Church of Rome.”
Indeed, the Vatican signed a Concordat with Fascist Italy in 1929, and with Nazi Germany in 1933. During most of World War II the Vatican supported all of the Fascist regimes in Europe, to include Nazi Germany! At the end of the war the Vatican helped the worst of the Fascist and Nazi war criminals to escape, via the “Vatican Ratlines”, to safe locations in South America and elsewhere.
British Roman
Catholic Christopher Dawson tells us: “…There
seems to be no doubt that the [Roman]
Catholic social ideas set forth in the encyclicals of [Pope] Leo XIII
and [Pope] Pius XI have far more affinity with those of FASCISM
than with those of either liberalism or socialism. In the same way, it is clear
that [Roman] Catholicism is by no means hostile to the AUTHORITARIAN ideal
of the state. AGAINST the liberal doctrines of the divine rights of majorities
and the unrestricted freedom of opinion, the [Roman] Catholic Church has
always maintained the principles of AUTHORITY and HIERARCHY and high conception
of the prerogatives of the state.”
REASON #15: Papal Rome is the most powerful entity in
the world that is pushing for One-World Government and One-World
Religion!
When one investigates those groups and organizations pushing for one-world government and one-world religion, one invariably finds that their real leaders (who often work “behind the scenes”) are Roman Catholic prelates, priests, Jesuits, Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta, or Jesuit temporal coadjutors. Please carefully consider the quote immediately below:
“Who can fail to see the need and importance of thus gradually coming to the establishment of a world authority capable of taking effective action on the juridical and political planes? …Delegates to international organizations, public officials, gentlemen of the press, teachers and educators – all of you must realize that you have your part to play in the construction of a new world order.” – Pope Paul VI (Populorum Progressio, 1967)
REASON #16: Agents of Papal Rome have long
been known as HATERS OF THE HOLY BIBLE [i.e., those Bible translations
that are based upon the correct manuscripts – especially the 1611 Authorized
King James Version]!
Translations of the TRUE Bible are based upon the Hebrew Masoretic text for the Old Testament, and upon the Greek Textus Receptus (Received Text) for the New Testament. The earliest Latin translations of the Holy Bible were made and used by Bible-believing Christians (such as the Waldenses) – Christians who were in existence before the Roman Catholic Church rose to be a great geopolitical power – Christians who for many centuries had nothing to do with the Roman Catholic Church. Papal Rome waged relentless war for many centuries upon these Bible-believing Christians – and upon their TRUE Bibles. This papal “warfare” included (1) burning the TRUE Bibles; and, (2) burning those individuals who copied, possessed, or distributed those TRUE Bibles!
David W. Daniels, in his book “Did
The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?” (2005), tells us the following:
“The Vaudois [Ed.: the French name given to the Bible-believing Waldensian Christians] and others across the [Ed.: Roman] empire had God’s words preserved in their Old [Ed.: i.e., TRUE] Latin Bible. [Ed.: These early Christians called this old Latin Bible the “Vulgate”.] They knew that Rome was the ‘whore of Babylon’. …And [Ed.: so] one day the pope [Ed.: Siricius (384-399) – first Roman Bishop to call himself “Pontifex Maximus”] declared: ‘We need our own Bible!’ …From 382-390 Jerome…worked on his rewrite of the true Old Latin Bible. (Jerome rejected God’s preserved Old [Ed.: i.e., TRUE] Latin [Bible].) At first he just translated his Latin Bible from Origen’s Greek counterfeit – the so-called ‘Septuagint’. …A lot of his Bible was like Origen’s ‘Septuagint’ perversion. But he still changed certain words to read like his own ‘scholarly interpretation’ of the Hebrew. …The final insult was the name of Jerome’s disaster: They called it the Roman Catholic Latin Vulgate.” (Pages 51-53)
Not content to simply create a FALSE version of the TRUE Latin Bible, Papal Rome then launched a campaign to burn the TRUE Latin Bibles – and those who possessed them. David W. Daniels tells us: “It took 900 years for the [Ed.: Roman] Catholics to destroy most Old Latin Bibles and kill their owners.” (“Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?”; 2005; Page 61)
Here’s some history concerning the Papacy’s war against the TRUE Bible:
In 1229 Gregory IX [pope: 1227-1241] authorized the following
statement in a Decree made at the Council of Toulouse: “We prohibit
laymen possessing copies of the Old and New Testament.
…We forbid them most severely to have the above books in the popular vernacular [Ed.: in their country’s native language – especially, the common, everyday language of a people].
The lords of the districts shall carefully seek out the ‘heretics’ in dwellings, hovels, and forests, and even their underground retreats shall be entirely wiped out.” (Concil Tolosanum)
In 1234 the Roman Catholic Church’s Council of Tarragona made the following statement: “No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance language [Ed.: i.e., languages derived from Vulgar Latin, such as French, Italian, Spanish, etc.], and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after the promulgation of this decree, so that they may be burned.”
In 1559 the Council of Trent placed “Preserved Bibles” (i.e., the TRUE Bibles) on their “Index of Forbidden Books”.
Pius IV [pope: 1559-1565] made the following statement: The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.”
When Papal Rome failed in her efforts to destroy all TRUE Bibles and those who possessed those Bibles – and when she failed to keep the TRUE Bible (based on the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus texts) out of the hands of the common man, she changed “tactics”. Papal Rome worked hard to infiltrate Protestant Bible Societies and seminaries, with the result that all modern “versions” of the Bible today – both Protestant and Roman Catholic – have their translations of the New Testament based upon from two to five CORRUPT Greek manuscripts – rather than upon the Greek Textus Receptus (which is based upon over 5000 Greek manuscripts)! And to add to this great papal attack on the TRUE Bible, Papal Rome has ensured that the New Testament translations of these modern “versions” of the Bible not only are based upon CORRUPT manuscripts, but they also are NO LONGER translated “verbatim” (i.e., word-for-word)! These modern “versions” of the Bible use a “dynamic equivalence” translation technique, which means the individual making the translation writes down what he THINKS the writers of the original Hebrew and Greek texts INTENDED.
NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, the only Bible in English today that is readily available (and easily affordable) that uses the correct manuscripts for its Old and New Testament translations, and uses a verbatim (word-for-word) translation technique, is the 1611 AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION!
(For more information on Papal Rome’s hatred of the Holy Bible, please read “The Real Bible” on www.toughissues.org. To order the book “Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?” [$11.94 postage paid], call 1-909-987-0771.)
REASON #17: Papal Rome has long been DISOBEDIENT
TO GOD’S COMMANDMENTS!
The following are some examples of how Papal Rome DISOBEYS God’s commandments:
(1.) Idols and
Images: The Holy Bible in chapter 20 of the
book of Exodus gives us God’s TEN COMMANDMENTS. Commandment #2 forbids the
making of “graven images”, and bowing down before them. (Please see
Exodus 20:4 and 5.) Roman Catholic “tradition” ignores and overrides
Commandment #2 by permitting the use of images and idols within the Roman
Catholic Church! (Note: For many years, the major Roman Catholic catechisms
DROPPED Commandment #2 in their listing of the Ten Commandments, and then
divided Commandment #10 into TWO parts so that they would still have a total of
ten commandments, conveniently minus the original Commandment #2
forbidding idols and images!)
Augustine
of Hippo (354-430 A.D.) said: “It would be impious [Ed.: i.e.,
lacking reverence for God] in a Christian to set up a corporal [Ed.:
i.e., bodily; physical] IMAGE of God in a church; and that he would be
thereby guilty of the sacrilege condemned by St. Paul, of turning
the glory of the incorruptible God into an IMAGE made like to corruptible man.
…God ought to be worshipped without
an IMAGE; IMAGES serving only to bring the Deity into contempt.”
(2) The Sabbath Day: Commandment #4 of God’s TEN COMMANDMENTS instructs us to keep the SEVENTH day as a Sabbath of rest! (Please see Exodus 20:8-11.) Roman Catholic “tradition” ignores and overrides Commandment #4, declaring mandatory 1st day (Sunday) worship rather than mandatory 7th day (Saturday) worship!
Cardinal Gibbons stated: “You
may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a
single line authorizing the sanctification of Sun-day.
The Scriptures enforce the
religious observance of Saturday,
a day which we [Ed.: i.e.,
the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church] never sanctify.”
(3) Call No Man Father:
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, gave us the following COMMAND in Matthew 23:9: “And
call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father,
which is in heaven.”
Obviously, from the context surrounding this verse, Jesus Christ is not forbidding you to refer to your biological father as “father”. RATHER, He is talking about NOT calling any RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL leader, who is a mere man, your “father”. Yet Roman Catholicism IGNORES this COMMAND from the Son of God by instructing its adherents to call its priests “father”!
(4) Don’t Do Repetitious Prayers: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, gave us the following COMMAND in Matthew 6:7: “But when ye pray, use NOT vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
To say the “Rosary”, Roman Catholics must REPEAT “The Lord’s Prayer” and the “Glory be to the Father…Son…and Holy Spirit” SIX TIMES each, and then REPEAT the “Hail Mary, full of grace” FIFTY-THREE TIMES! When Roman Catholics pray the “Rosary”, aren’t they DISOBEYING Christ’s COMMAND prohibiting repetitious prayers?
REASON #18: Papal Rome has long been full of UNSCRIPTURAL
PRACTICES AND DOCTRINES! [Many of these practices and doctrines come
from the old Babylonian Pagan Mystery Religion!] Some examples follow:
(1) Celibacy of priests: In 1123 Pope Callistus II “officially” imposed mandatory celibacy upon the clergy. This Roman Catholic doctrine is totally WITHOUT scriptural basis. The Apostle Paul gives us the “qualifications” of both a bishop and a deacon in I Timothy Chapter 3 – and those qualifications include being the “husband of one wife”! (See I Timothy 3:2 and 3:12.)
Dr.
Loraine Boettner, in his book “Roman Catholicism” (1962), states: “By
celibacy…is meant the
sectarian requirement of the Roman Catholic Church that its priests, monks, and
nuns abstain from marriage. It is not to be confused with the vow of chastity,
which is also taken by the members of these groups, and which means abstention
from sexual relations. According to Canon Law the vow of celibacy is
broken if the priest marries, but not if he engages in sexual relations.
…The requirement for celibacy…is
entirely without Scriptural warrant, and was not generally enforced in the Roman
[Ed.: Catholic] Church until more
than 1000 years after the time of Christ.” (Page 298)
(2) The “Sacrifice of the Mass”: In 1215 the “Sacrifice of the Mass”, in which “transubstantiation” [i.e., a change of substance] is alleged to take place, was made official doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church. Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English language defines Roman Catholic “transubstantiation” as “the supposed conversion of the bread and wine in the Eucharist, into the body and blood of Christ.” The Roman Catholic “Sacrifice of the Mass” is a total denial of the true gospel, and a total contradiction to what is taught in the Bible.
Dave Hunt defines this Roman Catholic “Mass” as follows on page 523 of his book “A Woman Rides the Beast” (1994): “Mass: The offering upon [Ed.: Roman] Catholic altars of the alleged Body and Blood of Christ (in an ‘unbloody manner’) there created through the professed miracle of ‘transubstantiation’. This ‘sacrifice’ is declared to be efficacious for the forgiveness of sins and shortening one’s suffering in purgatory. Its deadly error is that it downgrades the sacrifice of Christ upon the cross to a partial payment for sin with the continuance of that sacrifice endless times upon Catholic altars essential to at last bring about full pardon of sin and entrance into heaven. What Christ’s death upon the cross (which the Bible says was done only once for all time and was all-sufficient) could not do, by Catholic doctrine, the Mass can eventually accomplish if it is repeated enough times. The Church, however, has failed to define (in fact, doesn’t know) how many such ‘sacrifices’ of the Mass it will take to get a given individual out of purgatory and into heaven. Therefore, the faithful Catholic hopes that after his death a sufficient number of Masses will be paid for by relatives and continue to be said in his name.”
This Roman Catholic doctrine of the Mass BLASPHEMES God through its denial of Christ’s perfect and complete one-time sacrifice. (Item 5 under “Reason 19” describes this BLASPHEMY that occurs daily in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as giving the definition of the word “blaspheme”.)
(3) Auricular confession to an authorized priest: In 1215 auricular confession was made compulsory for all Roman Catholics. The Bible clearly teaches that we are to confess those sins committed against God directly to God. Sins against God are not to be confessed to a human mediator that the Roman Catholic Church has set between her adherents and God! Not one time in their epistles do the Apostles Paul, Peter, and John tell us to go to a priest to seek forgiveness through auricular confession – and neither does Jesus Christ Himself in the books of the gospel!
Dr. Loraine Boettner, in his book “Roman Catholicism” (1962), tells us the following about auricular confession: “…It was not until the Fourth Lateran Council, in 1215, under Pope Innocent III, that private auricular confession was made compulsory and all Roman Catholic people were required to confess and to seek absolution from a priest at least once in a year.
…We search in vain in the Bible for any word supporting the doctrine of auricular confession. It is equally impossible to find any authorization or general practice of it during the first one thousand years of the Christian era. Not a word is found in the writings of the early church fathers about confessing sins to a priest or to anyone except God alone. Auricular confession is NOT mentioned in the writings of Augustine, Origen, Nestorius, Tertullian, Jerome, Chrysostom, or Athanasius – all of these and many others apparently lived and died without ever thinking of going to confession. Those writers gave many rules concerning the practice and duties of Christian living; but they never say a word about going to [Ed.: auricular] confession [Ed.: to an authorized priest]. Never were penitents forced to kneel to a priest and reveal to him the secret history of all their evil thoughts, desires, and human frailties. NO ONE other than God was thought to be worthy to hear confessions and to grant forgiveness.” (Page 199)
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