TACKLING the TOUGH TOPICS

FACING AMERICANS TODAY!

Issue # 73 // December 7, 2005 // Editor: Darryl Eberhart

(Updated through: April 19, 2007)

“Bloody Hands & Wicked Hearts”

(Assassination, Murder, Genocide, Torture, & the Subversion of Nations)

NOTE: All emphasis throughout this newsletter, unless otherwise noted, is by the editor of “Tackling the Tough Topics (TTT)”.

WARNING: This TTT newsletter may seriously “disturb” some folks’ “comfort zones”; however, TRUTH is far more important than any of our “comfort zones”. 

DEDICATION: This TTT issue is dedicated to all those who are fighting against corruption and tyranny – including ecclesiastical tyranny!

DEFINITIONS (hopefully in alphabetical order):

“Croatia” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; 1974): “[A former constituent] republic of [the Federated People’s Republic of] Yugoslavia, in the northwest part: formerly, until 1918, a kingdom.” [Ed. Note: In the 1940s it was an “independent” Fascist State, and an ally of Nazi Germany. It became an independent republic in 1990 with the breakup of Yugoslavia.]

“Crusade” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; first two meanings): “1. Any of the military expeditions which Christians [Ed. Note: to be more precise, Roman Catholics] undertook from the end of the 11^th [century] to the end of the 13^th century to recover the Holy Land from the Moslems.  2. Any church-sanctioned war or expedition like this.”

((Ed Comment to the preceding definition: The Papacy launched “holy” crusades against Bible-believing Christian groups, such as the Albigenses in southern France, and the Waldenses in southeastern France and northwest Italy.))

“Fascism” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition – second meaning): “A system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, belligerent nationalism, racism, and militarism, etc.: first instituted in Italy in 1922.”

“Franciscan” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition): (Adjective: second meaning): “Designating or of the [Roman Catholic] religious order founded by him [i.e., Saint Francis of Assisi] in 1209…” (Noun): “Any member of this order [i.e., the Franciscan Order].”

“Genocide” (per Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary; 1971): “The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.”

“Genocide” (per Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, co-authors of The History and Sociology of GENOCIDE): “A form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority [Ed. Note: such as a RELIGIOUS authority] intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator.” (The History and Sociology of GENOCIDE; 1990; Page 23)

“Genocide” (per Professor R. J. Rummel, author of Death by Government): “Among other things, the killing of people by a government because of their indelible group membership (race, ethnicity, religion, language).” (Death by Government; 1994; Page 31)

“Heretic” (per Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary): (a.) “A dissenter from established church dogma; especially: a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church who disavows a revealed truth”; (b.) “One that dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine of any kind.”

((Ed. Note: Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language adds this important clarification for the term “heretic”: “In strictness, among Christians, a person who holds and avows religious opinions contrary to the doctrines of Scripture, the ONLY rule of faith and practice.”  See below.))

 “Heretic” (per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): “1. A person under any religion, but particularly the Christian, who holds and teaches opinions repugnant to the established faith, or that which is made the standard of orthodoxy.  In strictness, among Christians, a person who holds and avows religious opinions contrary to the doctrines of Scripture, the only rule of faith and practice.  2. Any one who maintains erroneous opinions.”

“Heretic” (per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “As concerns historical Roman Catholic use of this term: A ‘label’ applied by the Papacy to anyone who dared in the past, or who dares today, to question either (1) papal authority, or (2) any of the unscriptural doctrines based solely upon ‘tradition’ that have been promulgated by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, such as ‘transubstantiation’, ‘indulgences’, ‘papal infallibility’, ‘purgatory’, ‘worship of images’, ‘a celibate priesthood’, ‘auricular confession to a priest’,  etc.”

((Ed. Comment to the preceding definitions of “heretic”: It is easy for corrupt church officials to “label” a group of people (even an entire region) as “heretics”, and then to send armies to crush them and loot their property!  This has happened far too frequently in past centuries, and the culprit has been the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church – i.e., Papal Rome.))   

“Inquisition” (per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): (Meaning #4): “In some [Roman] Catholic countries, a court or tribunal established for the examination and punishment of ‘heretics’.  This court was established in the 12^th century by ‘father’ Dominic, who was charged by Pope Innocent III with orders to excite [Roman] Catholic princes [i.e., rulers] and people to extirpate [i.e., destroy completely] ‘heretics’.”

“Jesuit Order” (per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “The Jesuit Order is a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, officially approved by Pope Paul III in 1540. The primary goals of this order are (1) to roll back the Protestant Reformation and the freedoms that it brought to many of the inhabitants of this planet; (2) to enhance the power and prestige of the Papacy; and (3) to rule despotically over the governments of the world through the Papacy.  The head of the Jesuit Order is the Jesuit Superior General – the ‘Black Pope’ – the real power behind the Papal throne. The Jesuit Order is infamous for fomenting revolutions and wars, assassinating heads of State, and subverting nations.”

“Knights of Malta” (per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “A Roman Catholic religious-military order headquartered in Rome with, and under the command of, the Jesuit Superior General.  Much of the wealth of the Knights Templar, when it was disbanded in 1312, was given to the Knights of Malta.  Many Knights of Malta have held top-level positions in various governments, in the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, in international banking, and in the publishing world.  A number of Knights of Malta continue to hold such positions.”

“Mass Murder” (per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “The indiscriminate killing of any person or group of people by either a government, or by a religious institution – or, by a government AND a religious institution working hand-in-hand together to eliminate their perceived enemies.”

“Papal Rome” (per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “The government of the Roman Catholic Church, whose headquarters is presently in Rome, Italy.”

“Ustashi” – “Catholic Actionists” – The Roman Catholic militia (and later army) in the Roman Catholic Fascist State of Croatia during World War II.

“Vatican” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; 1974): “1. The papal palace, consisting of a group of buildings in Vatican City.  2. The papal government or authority.”

IMPORTANT NOTE #1:  I am not a Roman Catholic; I also am not anti-Roman Catholic as far as individual Roman Catholics go.  My dad and 90% of my relatives are Roman Catholic; and the majority of my friends are Roman Catholic. I am, however, against the top levels of secret societies (from the hierarchy of the Jesuit Order to the hierarchy of Freemasonry). This is because these secret societies control the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church (through the Jesuit Order and P2 Masonry), and have often used this hierarchical system for evil purposes, such as “holy” Inquisition, “holy” crusades, “holy” wars, and religious genocide. The hierarchical system of the Roman Catholic Church is used quite effectively by secret societies not only to keep over one billion Roman Catholics “in line”, but also to gather intelligence, and to infiltrate (through its Knights of Malta, Jesuit “temporal coadjutors”, etc.) governments and various Christian denominations. I am also against any religious hierarchy that tries to place itself equal to, or above, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God – or equal to, or above, God’s Holy Word (i.e., the Holy Bible) and His Ten Commandments!

IMPORTANT NOTE #2:  We can no longer afford to REMAIN SILENT on critical issues for fear of offending any particular group – in this case, Roman Catholics.  Please carefully consider this quote by author Dave Hunt: “We are told to love one another as Christ has loved us.  Pop psychology trivializes that command by equating it with a ‘positive’ attitude.  Forgotten is the first duty of love: to speak the truth (Ephesians 4:15).  Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is needed but [rather] points out the error which is blinding and harming the loved one.  Christ said, ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent’ (Revelation 3:19).  Instead, the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth, and seeks unity at any price.  Only disaster can result.” (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 403)

Why Am I Writing More & More About Roman Catholicism?

            This editor of the ETI and TTT newsletters has been writing more on the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy, and especially the Jesuit Order, in recent newsletters because I keep uncovering more and more about the deep hatred that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has for independent Bible-believing Christians, Protestants, Orthodox Christians, and Jews.  We Americans have, for the most part, been largely ignorant of the well-documented history of the Roman Catholic Church in conducting brutal religious genocide (via “holy” Inquisition, “holy” wars, and “holy” crusades) against all the afore-mentioned groups. Sadly, many Americans believe the “ecumenical rhetoric” of Roman Catholic prelates – i.e., that Papal Rome has “changed her ways” and now loves all the “separated brethren”.  However, my study of the Papacy shows me that this is just a RUSE [i.e., a “stratagem” – per Webster’s Dictionary: “any trick or scheme for achieving some purpose”]. The “purpose” is to bring all Christian denominations under the “umbrella” [i.e., the control] of the Papacy!

Yes, the Papacy [i.e., Papal Rome], despite its “ecumenical rhetoric”, has not changed a bit over the many centuries in the following categories:

Power – absolute power – has long been the pursuit of Papal Rome.  History has recorded Papal Rome’s deep hatred for religious liberty and freedom of conscience. The U.S. Constitution, with its “Bill of Rights” guaranteeing such liberties, has long been hated by Papal Rome. (For a good example of this hatred, please read the Syllabus of Errors issued in 1864 by Pope Pius IX.)  I have heard that there is an acronym in use by some Knights of Columbus in America. This acronym is “M.A.C.”: “Make America Catholic”. America is the last “roadblock” in the way of Papal Rome and her globalist rich and power elite lackeys in their quest for one-world government and one-world religion.  Is America scheduled for a religious genocide – an Inquisition – as occurred in the 1940s in Croatia?  I believe the danger is very real and possibly quite imminent – and that is why I have been writing more and more about Papal Rome, her long-held dreams of world domination, her love of Fascist regimes, and her well-documented history of torture and religious genocide!

HERE ARE SOME RELEVANT QUOTATIONS:

            “Disregarding the maxims and the spirit of the Gospel, the papal Church, arming herself with the power of the sword, vexed the [true] Church of God and wasted it for centuries, a period most appropriately termed in history, the ‘dark ages’.  The kings of the earth gave their power to the Beast.”

John Foxe (Elizabethan historian; 1516-1587; Foxe’s Book of Martyrs)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is a must-read book for all Christians. It documents the horrible persecution, torture, and murder of innocent Christians by a power-hungry religious institution determined to exterminate all who opposed its claims to “rule” in all matters – religious and secular!  Please see the last section for information on how to order this book.))

            “The union of the Church with the State renders persecution possible; and hitherto churches have not been slow to avail themselves of the secular arm that they might confound all dissent with arguments which come home to the bone and the flesh [Ed. Note: flogging, torture, and execution].  All churches, when they lose the spirit of Christ, are very prone to persecute; but a horrible pre-eminence must be awarded to the scarlet harlot of the seven hills [Ed. Note: he is referring to Papal Rome], for no church on earth except that of Rome has had a separate institution [i.e., the Office of Inquisition] for hunting out and destroying ‘heretics’.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892; famous English Baptist preacher; “The Inquisition”; 1868)

            “Long pampered by the State, she [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] came to be its lord and tyrant, using fire and sword, prison and rack, to work her accursed will.  The Inquisition was the masterpiece of infernal craft and malice, and its deeds were far more worthy of fiends than men.  If the church of Rome could at this moment change its Ethiopian skin forever, lay aside its leopard’s spots, and become a pure community, ten thousand years of immaculate holiness and self-denying philanthropy could not avail to blot out the remembrance of the enormous crimes with which the Inquisition has loaded it.  There is a deep and indelible sentence of damnation written upon the apostate church by avenging justice for its more than infernal cruelties, and the curse is registered in heaven; nor can any pretences to present liberality reverse the condemnation which outraged humanity has pronounced against it; its infamy is engraven in the rock forever.  Centuries of the most liberal policy would not convince mankind that Popery had become tolerant at heart; she wallowed so greedily in oppression, torture, and murder in her palmy [i.e., flourishing] days, that the foam of human gore hangs around her wolfish fangs, and men will not believe her to be a gentle lamb, let her ‘bleat’ as she may.”

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (“The Inquisition”; 1868)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote:  The above words might seem very strong to some folks; however, when one reads books such as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, those above words are indeed quite appropriate. The history of the Roman Catholic Inquisition, with its brutal torture of human beings over a period of centuries, is a history of the most savage cruelty – cruelty rarely matched by even the most savage of pagan societies.))

            “[Papal] Rome made the worst possible use of the weapon which the State gave her, but the radical evil was the State’s entering into alliance with the Church, and lending its power to fulfill her purposes.  Had true church principles prevailed, the crimes which make us shudder would have been impossible.  Disarm and dis-establish every sect, and leave each religion to its own moral and spiritual power, and no inquisition can be dreamed of; but put forward the doctrine that a state should propagate or maintain religion, and you have uncaged the ‘lion’; no one knows how much he may rend and devour.”

            Charles Haddon Spurgeon (“The Inquisition”; 1868)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: This alliance of State and Church occurred not only in the dark ages hundreds of years ago, but it also occurred in the 1940s when the Fascist State of Croatia combined with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church to carry out savage religious genocide against innocent Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, elderly, and children – torturing and murdering from 600,000 to one million of them in a modern-day Inquisition.))

            “To prevent forever the possibility of Papists [i.e., Roman Catholics] roasting Protestants, Anglicans hanging Romish priests, and Puritans flogging Quakers, let every form of state-churchism be utterly abolished, and the remembrance of the long curse which it has cast upon the world be blotted out forever.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon (“The Inquisition”; 1868)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote:  A number of Roman Catholic priests (to include Jesuits such as Henry Garnett [or, Garnet] – the Jesuit Provincial for the English Province) were hung by the English authorities because they tried either to assassinate an English monarch or to overthrow the country and return it under Roman Catholic rule! The execution of criminal priests CANNOT be compared to the brutal torture and murder of innocent people simply because they disagreed with papal doctrines or practices, or refused to bow to papal authority!))

            “The desire for worldly power began to manifest itself in the [early] Church, on a broad scale, in the 4^th century, when the Roman Empire ceased its persecutions, and made Christianity its State religion. The spirit of Imperial Rome passed into the [Roman Catholic] Church.  The  [Roman Catholic] Church gradually developed itself into the pattern of the Empire it had conquered.

            [Imperial] Rome fell.  But Rome came to life again, as a world power, in the name of the [Roman Catholic] Church.  The popes of Rome were the heirs and successors of the Caesars of Rome. The Vatican is [located] where the Palace of the Caesars was.  The [Roman Catholic] popes have claimed all the authority the Caesars claimed, and more. The Papal Palace, throughout the centuries, has been among the most luxurious in all the world.  Popes have lived in pomp and splendor unsurpassed by earthly kings.  In no place on earth is there more ostentatious pageantry and show of magnificence than at the coronation of a pope.

            …The horrors of the Inquisition, ordered and maintained by the popes, over a period of 500 years, in which unnumbered millions were tortured and burned, constitute the most brutal, beastly and devilish picture in all history.

            …The city of Rome, first pagan, then papal, has been the dominating power of the world for two thousand years (200 B.C. to A.D. 1800).

            …It is inconceivable that any ecclesiastical organization, in its mania for power, could have distorted and desecrated and corrupted, for its own exaltation, the beautiful and holy religion of Jesus [Christ].”

            Dr. Henry H. Halley (Halley’s Bible Handbook)

            “History records the appalling story of suffering and martyrdom endured by untold millions across the centuries at the hand of the PAPAL [Mass-Murdering] MACHINE.”

            Wilson Ewin (You Can Lead Roman Catholics to Christ; 1981; Page 33)

            “For rejecting the doctrine of transubstantiation, Christians were burned at the stake by Roman Catholics by the hundreds of thousands. Church historian R. Tudor Jones writes that ‘the majority of the martyrs were ordinary people, including many women…’

            John Foxe [Elizabethan historian; 1516-1587] was an eyewitness and earnest historian of the fierce persecution in England in his day.  His Book of Martyrs gives detailed accounts of many public trials and executions of those whom the Roman Catholic Church judged to be ‘heretics’ worthy of death.  His descriptions of Christians being burned at the stake tell of their inspiring bravery in the face of such a horrible death and of the determination of Roman Catholicism to exterminate everywhere true Christians who opposed her.

            Similar records have come down of the massacres of Jews at the hands of the Roman Church.” – Dave Hunt (A Cup of Trembling; 1995; Page 160)

((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote: (1) The Roman Catholic Church was predominant in England until the 1520s.  She tried often to regain that primacy, and succeeded for a short time under the rule (1553-1558) of Roman Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary I.  (2) Foxe’s Book of Martyrs documents some of the persecution, torture, and murder of innocent Christians by Papal Rome!))

            “Through relentless torture, starvation, genocide, massacres, burning at the stake, against every conceivable fury of [Papal] Rome, they [i.e., the “seeds of protest”] could not be extinguished.  History estimates that over one hundred million people lost their lives during that time of [Papal] Roman tyranny.  Is it any wonder that God graphically describes this onslaught of [Papal] Rome as her being ‘drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus’ [Revelation 17:6], and calls her the ‘Beast’?”

            John Daniel (The Grand Design Exposed; 1999; Page 27)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: Does history repeat itself? Could a “Holy” Inquisition ever take place here in America?  Religious genocide took place in Fascist Croatia in the 1940s, led by Roman Catholic priests, monks, and friars (mostly Franciscans).  The result: from 600,000 to 1 million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians were brutally tortured and murdered!))

            “The Medieval Inquisition had flourished for centuries when Pope Paul III, in 1542, gave it permanent status as the first of Rome’s Sacred Congregations, the ‘Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Inquisition’.  Known more recently as the ‘Holy Office’, its name was changed in 1967 to the ‘Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’…

            …Therefore it is not surprising that the ‘Office of the Inquisition’ still occupies the Palace of the Inquisition adjacent to the Vatican, though under its new name, the ‘Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’.  Its current Grand Inquisitor, who reports directly to the pope, is the former Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, whom Time [Magazine] has called ‘the world’s most powerful cardinal [and] the Catholic Church’s chief enforcer of dogma…’.”

            Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 261)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The “Office of the Inquisition” still exists. It has undergone several “name changes”. Its current name is the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”.  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the “Office of the Inquisition” for over 20 plus years, became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.  Will he or the next pope soon implement an “Inquisition” in the USA similar to the one that occurred in Fascist Croatia in the 1940s?))

            “What has turned my soul against Roman [Catholic] abuse of power is the way in which it has tortured and burned such saints of God as Joan of Arc, hundreds of the Albigensian martyrs in France in the 12^th century, the Knights Templar, John Huss [Czech Jan Hus], the Dominican Savonarola, the Dominican Giordano Bruno, [and] the Anglican bishops Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer.  The Inquisition has promoted at least two wholesale massacres: [hundreds of] thousands of Protestant Waldensians in northern Italy [and in southeastern France], and thousands of Protestant Huguenots by the massacre of St. Bartholomew in France.  More than 30,000 of the most cultured Protestants of France were put to the sword on the night of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572.  At the news [of this brutal, bloody massacre], the Pope had cannons fired, proclaimed a jubilee, ordered a Te Deum of thanksgiving to be sung, and struck a special medal to commemorate the glorious ‘victory’.”

Charles A. Bolton (Ex-Roman Catholic priest)

            “To wring out confessions from these poor creatures [Ed. Note: during the “holy” Inquisition], the Roman Catholic Church devised ingenious tortures so excruciating and barbarous that one is sickened by their recital.”

Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 80)

((Ed Comment to the preceding quote: How could a “religious” institution that calls itself “Christian” brutally torture human beings?))

            “Inability to discern the paganism of Romanism [i.e., Roman Catholicism] springs undoubtedly from a deep spiritual blindness.  Disturbing enough, this would speak of a fundamental ignorance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ itself on the part of many claiming to be Christians.

            Perhaps for the majority, ignorance of the Vatican constitution merely stems from a simple lack of being informed.  For too many, however, ignorance of popedom comes as the result of a deliberate choice. It grew in preference for acceptability, personal benefit, and the praise of men.

            To have squarely faced the issue of [Roman] Catholicism with frankness and sincerity of heart, the individual would have paid a price. It cost the reformers and other MILLIONS their very lives…”

Wilson Ewin (You Can Lead Roman Catholics to Christ; 1981; Page 25)

((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote:

(1) If you do not believe that Roman Catholicism is riddled with paganism, then please read the book The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop. It is $14.45 postpaid. To order by credit card, call “Chick Publications” at 1-909-987-0771.

(2) Questioning or criticizing Papal Rome’s doctrines, authority, etc., has cost millions of Christians their lives.))

            “…For the unbiased researcher, history reeks of the butchery of Romanism, where whole cities and populations were unmercifully wiped out, just because they worshipped God in a manner that was different from Roman Catholicism.” – John Daniel (The Grand Design Exposed; 1999; Page 78)

            “A king need not fear to command massacres, when those will retain his subjects in obedience…  We order you, in the name of religion, to invade his states, burn his cities, and massacre his people.” – Pope Nicholas I (800? – 867 A.D.; Pope: 858-867) (860 A.D. letter to the King of Bulgaria)

            “If you must have blood, bathe in the blood of infidels.  Soldiers of hell, become soldiers of the living God!” – Pope Urban II (1042? -1099; pope: 1088-1099) (Addressing a crowd in Clermont, France in November 1095 in order to inspire people to join the First Crusade to capture the Holy Land for Papal Rome)

            “Christians [i.e., Roman Catholics] of the twelfth century accused the Jews of kidnapping Christian children either to sacrifice them to Jahveh, or to use their blood as medicine or in the making of unleavened bread for the Passover feast.  Jews were charged with poisoning the wells…and of stealing consecrated wafers to pierce them and draw from them the blood of Christ…[and] of draining the wealth of Christendom into Jewish hands.”

            Will Durant (1885-1981; historian; The Story of Civilization)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: Such hatred by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church for the Jews has led to many massacres of Jews throughout history at the hands of Roman Catholics.))

            “To a Jew, Hitler and [Italian Fascist dictator] Mussolini were Christians.  In fact, they were Roman Catholics from birth, and in spite of their horrendous crimes against humanity they were never excommunicated from their Church.  The same was true of [Nazi SS Chief Heinrich] Himmler and many others in the Nazi hierarchy. Indeed, the Roman Catholic Church has a long history of persecution, expulsion, and slaughter of Jews, to which Hitler referred in justifying the Holocaust.” – Dave Hunt (A Cup of Trembling; 1995; Page 158)

            “…The Roman Inquisition…had been administered since 1542 by the Jesuits.” – F. Tupper Saussy (Rulers of Evil; 1999; Page xviii)

            “…The [Roman Catholic] Church to rule the world; the [“White”] Pope to rule the Church; [and] the Jesuits [Ed. Note: headed by the “Black Pope”, the Jesuit Superior General] to rule the [“White”] Pope – such was and is the program of the Order [i.e., Society] of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuit Order].”

John Daniel (The Grand Design Exposed; 1999; Page 64)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The Jesuit Superior General – the Black Pope – is the power behind the papal throne!)

            “The Jesuits…are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for emperor…that’s their ideal…  It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination – something like a universal serfdom with them [i.e., the Jesuits] as masters – that’s all they stand for.  They don’t even believe in God perhaps.” (1880)

            Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; Russian novelist)

            “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.” – Peter de Rosa (Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy)

            “Pontifex Maximus [i.e., the pope of Rome] has laundered the Inquisition’s name twice. In 1908, Pope Pius X renamed it ‘the Holy Office’, which [Pope] Paul VI transformed into [the] ‘Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’ in 1965.” – F. Tupper Saussy (Rulers of Evil; 1999; Page 304)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The current pope, Benedict XVI [formerly known as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger], pulled five terms as the head of the “Office of the Inquisition” – known since 1965 as the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”. Author Dave Hunt gives the date of the “name change” as 1967.))

            “The fact is that very few Protestants [Ed. Note: or other Christians] have realized how entirely Rome is a political church, and that she always makes her political advancement her first object.” – M. F. Cusack (The Black Pope)

            “Roman Catholicism was born in blood, has wallowed in blood, has quenched its thirst in blood, and it is in letters of blood that its true history is written.” – Baron DePonnat (French statesman; Statement made in 1940)

“Post Vatican II [Ed. Note: the Council; 1962-65] euphoria has bewitched Protestants into thinking that the ‘new Catholicism’ is not the ‘old Catholicism’.  Yet an examination of Vatican II documents makes it clear that there has been a change of ‘image’, but not substance; that there has been no real change in any of the basic doctrines that caused [the Reformer Martin] Luther [1483-1546] to stand against the Roman Catholic denomination.”

Bartholomew F. Brewer (Ex-Roman Catholic priest of the Discalced Carmelite Order)

I. INTRODUCTION

            This is indeed a “tough topic” about which to write.  It is a “tough topic” that will no doubt disturb some folks’ comfort zones.  However, it is a topic that must be “tackled” because history does indeed repeat itself.  The “actors”, places, and times may change; however, the same “scripts” seem to be repeated – over and over again!  If we refuse to learn the “lessons” of history, then we will repeat the “mistakes” of history – as Spanish philosopher Santayana wisely noted.

            Many people make the mistake of thinking that the Roman Catholic Church is solely a religious institution.  The Roman Catholic Church is far more than just a religious institution.  It is the top player on the geopolitical scene, having by far the best intelligence gathering apparatus that the world has ever seen (through its diplomatic relations, its numerous religious orders, and the confessional box)!  If not the richest financial institution in the history of the world, then it certainly ranks near the very top of the heap. (It probably is the richest!)  It also heads the ecumenical drive for one-world religion. And the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order is the most powerful secret society in the world, controlling not only its many Jesuit “foot soldiers”, but also controlling the powerful Knights of Malta, the top levels of Freemasonry, and the Papacy itself!

            The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has a well-documented history of torture, assassination, religious genocide, political intrigue, ecclesiastical tyranny, the fomenting of revolutions and wars, and the subversion of nations.  For centuries this hierarchical system brought the people of Europe the “dark ages” and feudalism.  Kings were crowned and deposed by the Papacy – and kings bowed their knees to power-hungry popes who rivaled the greatest rulers the world has ever seen – in both wealth and power!

            The Papacy ruled Europe for centuries.  The pope had both temporal and spiritual authority over all his subjects.  Though the popes temporarily appeared to lose their “temporal power” over the kings of the earth near the end of the 19^th century, there can be no doubt that the Papacy (the Vatican) still aspires to rule openly over the kings and peoples of the earth once more!

            Let us take a look at but a “small sample” of the Papacy’s long track record of assassination, murder, genocide, torture, and the subversion of nations (hopefully in chronological order):

II. A History of Assassination, Murder, Genocide, Torture, & the Subversion of Nations

Important NOTE: Since the mid-1540s to the present, the Jesuit Order has controlled the Papacy, with the exception of only a few years here and there.  In other words, the “Black Pope” (i.e., the Jesuit Superior General) has controlled the “White Pope” for most of the last four centuries plus. When you read the following “bullet-point” chronological list, please remember that Papal Rome has long hated Jews, Protestants, Bible-believing Christian groups, and Orthodox Christians – and has, whenever and wherever opportunity presented itself, slaughtered all these groups with brutal savagery. The Jesuit Order has, more often than not, been at the forefront of this butchery in the past four centuries.

·        1095 – Pope Urban II proclaims the First Crusade.  Here is what historian Will Durant has written concerning this Papacy-instigated murder spree: “When in 1095, Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade, some Christians [i.e., Roman Catholics] thought it desirable to kill the Jews in Europe before proceeding so far to fight Turks in Jerusalem.  Godfrey of Bouillon, having accepted the leadership of the crusade, announced that he would avenge the blood of Jesus upon the Jews…leaving not one of them alive; and his companions proclaimed their intention to kill all Jews who would not accept Christianity [i.e., Roman Catholicism].”

“[The Albigensian Christians] preached against the immoralities of the [Roman Catholic] priesthood, pilgrimages, worship of saints and idols…opposed the [Ed Note: pompous and pretentious] claims of the Church of Rome; made great use of the Scriptures.

…By 1167 they [i.e., the Albigensian Christians] embraced possibly a majority of the population of South France.

…In 1208 a crusade was ordered by Pope Innocent III; a bloody war of extermination followed, scarcely paralleled in history.  Town after town was put to the sword, and the inhabitants murdered without distinction of age or sex.

…Within a hundred years the Albigenses were utterly rooted out.”

NOTE: Here is what Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn (co-authors of The History and Sociology of GENOCIDE; 1990) have to say about the Albigensian Crusades:

“The Albigensian Crusades slash through the history of France and of the [Roman Catholic] Church like a gaping wound. From 1208 to 1226 the papacy sent army after army to the South of France to crush the Albigensian ‘heretics’ and to punish their supporters.  …They [i.e., the Albigensian Crusades] began with a calculated act of terror, the massacre of [Ed. Note: large numbers of men, women, and children at] Beziers; they ended with the establishment of the Inquisition, one of the most effective means of ‘thought control’ that Europe has ever known. They [the papal armies] were completely successful: The losing faith, the Albigensian ‘Heresy’, was exterminated.

 …Their disappearance as a social group was carefully planned and executed with persistent cruelty.” (Page 115)

NOTE: A similar “extermination plan” was executed over 700 years later (in the 1940s) by Roman Catholic Ustashi military units in Fascist Croatia.

((NOTE:  Both the Albigenses and Waldenses (the Vaudois) were Bible-believing Christians who were simple farmers and peasants.  They did not want any part of the cesspool of corruption that existed within the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and much of its priesthood. They studied Bible verses whenever they could, and they placed the Holy Bible above papal authority.))

NOTE:  Here is what author Ron Hembree wrote about the Spanish Inquisition:

            “One of history’s most malevolent persons died on this day [i.e., September 16] in 1498.  Tomas de Torquemada, as Inquisitor General of Spain, ordered more than 10,000 people to be burned at the stake because they didn’t agree with his religious views. He used the Inquisition for religious and political reasons, believing punishment of [Ed. Note: so-called] ‘heretics’ and non-Christians – chiefly Jews and Muslims – was the only way to achieve political unity in Spain. Greatly feared and hated by millions, he persuaded [Spanish King] Ferdinand and [Queen] Isabella to rid Spain of Jews. More than a million families were driven from Spain during that time. The country never recovered from the resulting decline.” (A Daily Joy; Page 272)

((Ed. Comment concerning the preceding quote: The Inquisition was not only used for “religious and political purposes” – it was also used to loot and plunder the lands and possessions of Jews, Muslims, Bible-believing Christians, and even some wealthy Roman Catholics.  Many Christians were accused of being “heretics” simply because they held the Holy Bible to be of higher authority than the Papacy, or because they would not submit to corrupt Papal authority. For centuries, Bible-believing Christians were targeted by Papal Rome for destruction. Men, women, and children were exterminated like rats as entire villages and regions were targeted.  Papal armies exterminated an entire Christian population group – the Albigenses – in southern France.  Indeed, torture, brutality, and mass murder were the standard “tools” of the so-called “Holy” Inquisition.))

NOTE: The Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy for centuries forbade the common man to own, possess, or even to read the Holy Bible, especially in his native language. Not only did popes frequently forbid the ownership and possession of the Bible, but they also often commanded the State to impose the strict penalties on those caught with a copy of the Holy Bible in their possession. Author David W. Daniels, in his book Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible? (2005), reveals part of the Roman Catholic Church’s “track record” concerning her hatred of Bible possession and ownership by common people:

“THE WORD OF GOD:  Check out this history:

            In fact, here is a statement made by Pope Pius IV (Pope 1559-1565):

            “The [Holy] Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it.  It is a forbidden book.  Bible societies are satanic contrivances.”

      “A similar massacre [Ed. Note: i.e., similar to the St. Bartholomew’s Massacre in France in 1572] occurred in Ireland in 1641. The [Roman Catholic] conspirators picked October 23^rd, the feast of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order. They planned a general uprising for the whole country.  All Protestants would be killed at once. To throw them [i.e., the Protestants] off guard while the plan was being made, extra acts of kindness were shown to the Protestants.  Early in the morning [of October 23, 1641] the conspirators were armed and every Protestant they could find was immediately murdered.  They showed no mercy.  From children to the aged, they were killed. Even invalids were not spared. They were caught by complete surprise. They [i.e., the Protestants] had lived in peace and safety for years and now found no place to run. They were massacred by neighbors, friends, and even relatives.

Death often was the least they had to fear. Women were tied to posts, stripped to the waist, their breasts cut off with shears and left to bleed to death. Others who were pregnant were tied to tree branches, their unborn babies cut out and fed to the dogs while the husbands were forced to watch.” (Smokescreens; 1983; Page 17)

((Note: Author Jack Chick made the following observation in his book Smokescreens (on page 17) about an important similarity between the massacre of Protestant French Huguenots in 1572 and the massacre of Irish Protestants in 1641: “What you’ve just read [about the massacre of Protestants in France in 1572 and in Ireland in 1641] is fully documented and historically factual.  It is found in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.  …Both of these murderous assaults by the Vatican against the [Protestant] Christians in France and in Ireland followed a similar pattern.  Before the attacks, there was a time of healing when the Roman Catholics became friendly and warm, and in both cases the [Protestant] Christians were so relieved that they let their guard down and assumed the Vatican had changed.  This was their fatal mistake and it cost them their lives.”))