“Bloody Hands & Wicked Hearts”

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote:  The above words might seem very strong to some; however, when one reads books such as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, those above words are mild indeed.  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 that has rarely been matched by even the most savage of pagan societies.))

             “Rome [i.e., the Vatican] 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.” (1868, “The Inquisition”)

            Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

((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 Croatian State 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.” (1868, “The Inquisition”)

            Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote:  A number of Roman Catholic priests (to include Jesuits such as Henry Garnett, Jesuit Provincial General 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!  This is not the same as murdering people just because they disagree with papal doctrines or practices, or refuse to bow to papal authority!)) 

            “The desire for worldly power began to manifest itself in the 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 Church.  The 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 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].”

            Henry H. Halley (Author of 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 (Canadian Christian writer & author)

             “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 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 (Author of numerous books; this quote is from A Cup of Trembling)     

((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote: (1) The 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 the persecution, torture, and murder of innocent Christians by a power-hungry religious institution (i.e., the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchical system) bent on exterminating all opposition to its claims of primacy in the Christian world. It is $11 postpaid.  To obtain a copy via credit card, please call “Power of Prophecy” toll-free at 1-800-234-9673.)) 

            “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’, and calls her the ‘Beast’?”

            John Daniel (Author of The Grand Design Exposed) 

((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 Croatia in the 1940s, led by Roman Catholic clergymen.  The result: from 600,000 to 1 million Serb Orthodox Christians (men, women, elderly, and children) 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 (From his book A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994)

 ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The Office of Inquisition STILL exists.  It has undergone several name changes.  Its current name is the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”.))

             “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:  thousands of Protestant Waldensians in northern Italy, 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 various Inquisitions], the Roman Catholic Church devised ingenious tortures so excruciating and barbarous that one is sickened by their recital.” – Dave Hunt 

            “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 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

 ((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote:

(1) Those who do not believe that Roman Catholicism is riddled with paganism need to read the book The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop.  This book is $14.20 postpaid, and can be obtained from Chick Publications via credit card by calling 1-909-987-0771.

(2) Criticizing the doctrine, authority, political intrigues, assassinations, religious genocide, etc., of the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy has cost millions of Christians their lives – through Inquisition, ‘holy’ crusades, and ‘holy’ wars.)) 

            “…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

             “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.” (860 A.D., in a letter to the King of Bulgaria)

            Pope Nicholas I (800? – 867 A.D.; Pope: 858-867) 

            “If you must have blood, bathe in the blood of infidels.  Soldiers of hell, become soldiers of the living God!” (November 1095 address in Clermont, France)

            Pope Urban II (1042? -1099; pope: 1088-1099)

             “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; author of The Story of Civilization)

 ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: Such hatred on the part of the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy 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 (from his book A Cup of Trembling)

            “…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 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 (Author of the book Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy)

            “…The Roman Inquisition…had been administered since 1542 by the Jesuits.”

            F. Tupper Saussy (Author of the book Rulers of Evil)

             “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

 ((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’.))

            “The fact is that very few Protestants [Ed. Note: or other non-Catholic Christians] have realized how entirely Rome is a political church, and that she always makes her political advancement her first object.” – M. F. Cusack (Author of 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.” (1940)

            Baron DePonnat (French statesman)

“Post Vatican II [Ed. Note: the Council] 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 [Martin] Luther 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 indeed a “tough topic” that will no doubt disturb some folks’ comfort zones.  However, it is a topic that must be written about because history does indeed repeat itself.  The “actors”, places, and times may change; however, the same “scripts” seem to be repeated – over and over and over again!  If we refuse to learn from 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 of the Roman Catholic Church – especially of its hierarchy – purely as 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 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 institution in the history of the world, then it certainly ranks near the top of the heap. (It probably is the richest!)  It also heads the ecumenical drive for one-world religion.  And its Jesuit Order is at the top of the secret societies’ list. ((Please see my TTT newsletters on the Jesuits (Parts I through IV) on Internet web site: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net .))

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

             The Vatican for centuries ruled Europe.  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 Vatican still aspires to rule over the kings of the earth once more!

             Let us take a look at but a “small sample” of the Vatican’s “History of Assassination, Murder, Genocide, Torture, & the Subversion of Nations” (hopefully in some resemblance of chronological order):

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

((Important Note: Since the mid-1540s, the Vatican (i.e., the papacy) has been controlled, for the most part and with very rare exceptions, by the Jesuit Order.  That is, the “White Pope” has been, for most of the last four centuries, controlled by the “Black Pope” (i.e., the Jesuit Superior General).  A number of the below-listed heads of State were assassinated because they had expelled the Jesuits from their borders.  Also remember when reading this list that the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy has for many centuries hated Jews, Protestants, Bible-believing Christian groups, and Orthodox Christians – and have, whenever and wherever opportunity presented itself, slaughtered all these groups with brutal savagery.  The Jesuit Order, officially recognized as a Catholic Order in 1540, 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 episode of religious genocide: “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 [Ed. Note: i.e., the Roman Catholic version of it].”

• 1096 – Catholic Crusaders slaughter half the Jews of Worms on their way through that town.

• 1099 – Catholic Crusaders, sent on a holy mission by the pope of Rome, make it to the walls of Jerusalem.  All of the city’s inhabitants – men, women, and children – Jew, Moslem, and Christian – are all butchered by the “Christian” (i.e., Catholic) crusaders!

• 1208-1226 – The Albigensian Crusades take place.  Pope Innocent III orders a crusade to be launched against the Albigensian Christians in southern France, and armies are sent to exterminate them.  At the French city of Beziers over 20,000 men, women, and children are butchered.  The Albigensian Christians are wiped out.  Here is what author Henry H. Halley had to say about the Albigensian Crusades:

 “[The Albigenses] preached against the immoralities of the [Catholic] priesthood, pilgrimages, worship of saints and idols…opposed the claims of the Church of Rome; made great use of the Scriptures.

…By 1167 they [i.e., the Albigenses] 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 book The History and Sociology of GENOCIDE) have to say about the Albigensian Crusades:

             “The Albigensian Crusades slash through the history of France and of the [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.”))

((Comment to the above quote: Wasn’t the exact same “extermination plan” executed over 700 years later (in the 1940s) by Roman Catholic Ustashi soldiers in a country called Croatia?))

• 1236 – Catholic Crusaders slaughter Jews in Anjou and Poitou.  Here is what historian Will Durant has written on this massacre: “[The Crusaders] invaded the Jewish settlements of Anjou and Poitou.  …[The Crusaders] bade all Jews be baptized; when the Jews refused, the Crusaders trampled 3000 of them to death under their horses’ hoofs.”

• 1243 – All Jews in Belitz, Germany (near Berlin) are burned alive by Roman Catholics.  According to historian Will Durant, their alleged crime was that ‘some of them had defiled a consecrated host’.

• 1298 – All Jews in Rottingen are burned to death by Roman Catholics.  According to historian Will Durant, their alleged crime was: ‘desecrating a sacramental wafer’.

• 14^th century (1300s) – The Roman Catholic Church blames the Jews for the “Black Death” (probably the bubonic plague).  Here is what Dave Hunt, author of the book A Woman Rides the Beast, has written concerning this time: “From the time the popes ruled Rome, the Jews’ plight…was far more grievous than it had ever been at the hands of the pagan rulers.  Pagans had blamed every disaster upon Christians.  Now the Roman Catholic Church blamed all on the Jews.  Accused of causing the ‘Black Death’, Jews were rounded up and hanged, burned, and drowned by the thousands in revenge.”

• July 6, 1415 – Jan Hus (English spelling: John Huss), a Czech Catholic priest for years (and Reformer), is martyred by being burned at the stake (not long after having been excommunicated) on orders from the Roman Catholic Church.  He had vigorously opposed auricular confession, papal indulgences and corruption, masses for the dead, etc.   He attended (under guaranteed “safe passage”) the Council of Constance in order to defend his beliefs; however, his safe passage was revoked and he was condemned and executed without getting a fair chance to present a defense of his beliefs.

• 1429 – Pope Martin V orders the King of Poland to exterminate the Christian Hussites (named after Czech martyr Jan Hus) in Bohemia.

• 1477 – Pope Sixtus IV organizes a crusade against the Waldensian Christians (also called the Vaudois in the French language) in southern France.

((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 Vatican and much of its priesthood.  They studied Bible verses whenever they could, and they placed the Holy Bible above papal authority.  If you would like more information on these papal crusades against Bible-believing Christian groups and other Protestants, I recommend that you read my TTT #72 entitled “Death by Government and Death by Church” that is posted on Internet web site: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net .))

• 1481 – Kickoff of the “Spanish Inquisition”.  The Roman Catholic Church hierarchy choreographs an orgy of torture and burning folks alive – called the Inquisition. Though aimed primarily at Jews and Moslems, the Inquisition also targets Christians whose beliefs are not completely in line with the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrines and practices.  In the first two years (1481-1483), at least 2000 individuals are burned alive.  As author Dave Hunt recounts in his book A Woman Rides the Beast: “…In Spain alone the number of condemned exceeded 3 million, with about 300,000 burned at the stake [during the length of the Spanish Inquisition].” (Hunt quoting from R.W. Thompson’s book The Papacy and the Civil Power)

 ((NOTE:  Here is what Ron Hembree, pastor and author, wrote about the Spanish Inquisition:

             “One of history’s most malevolent persons died on this day [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.”

 Ed. Comment concerning the preceding quote: The Inquisition was not only used for “religious and political reasons” – it was also used to loot and plunder land and possessions of non-Catholic Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc.  Many non-Catholic 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. Non-Catholic Christians were targeted for centuries as entire villages and regions (to include men, women, and children) were exterminated like rats. Papal armies exterminated an entire Christian population group – the Albigenses – in South France.  Indeed, torture, brutality, and mass murder were the “hallmarks” of the so-called “Holy” Inquisition.))

• 1498 – The Italian Dominican Savonarola, who preached and pleaded for reform in his Roman Catholic Church, is executed on orders from that same Roman Catholic Church.  His crime: he had denounced Pope Alexander VI and his corrupt papal court.  Savonarola was a godly Roman Catholic clergyman who had led the revival in the city of Florence, Italy.  He was excommunicated shortly before his execution.

• October 6, 1536 – Englishman William Tyndale is strangled and his dead body burnt at the stake in the town of Filford, not far from Brussels.  His crime: he had translated the New Testament into the English language.  Because powerful Roman Catholics in England (such as Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England) opposed publishing the New Testament in English, Tyndale went over to the European continent where he was able to get English-language New Testaments published in Germany.  Roman Catholic Sir Thomas More put a “hit” out on Tyndale, and he was eventually betrayed and imprisoned not far from Brussels.  After 16 months in prison, he was executed as a “heretic”. 

((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 imposed the death penalty on those who were caught with a Bible in their possession.  David W. Daniels, author of the book Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?, reveals the following Catholic ‘record’ concerning Bible possession and ownership: 

“THE WORD OF GOD:  Check out this history:

1229 – Synod of Toulouse forbids reading or owning a Vaudois Bible. (Canon XIV)

1234 – Council of Tarragona: No Bible permitted in one’s native language.  All of them must be burned.

1408 – 3^rd Synod of Oxford: Heresy to have an ‘unauthorized’ (preserved) English Bible.

1559 – Council of Trent: Preserved Bibles are on the ‘Index of Forbidden Books’. (Rule III).”

             In fact, here is a statement 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.”))

• 1540-1570 – The Roman Catholic Church hierarchy sends a number of armies into southern France and surrounding areas that succeed in butchering at least 900,000 Waldensian Christian men, women, elderly, and children during this thirty-year period.

• 1550-1560 – 250,000 Dutch Protestants are exterminated via torture, hanging, and burning when Catholic King of Spain Phillip II sends 10,000 Spanish troops, in accordance with his Edict of 1550, to stamp out Protestantism in the Netherlands.

• 1555 – English scholar Nicholas Ridley and English preacher Hugh Latimer are burned at the stake on the orders of Roman Catholic English Queen Mary I, who with the aid of Roman Catholic Cardinal Pole, tried to return England under the yoke of the papacy.  “Bloody” Mary reigned in England from 1553-1558.  During her evil reign, approximately two hundred men and women were burned at the stake, to include bishops, scholars, and the top leaders of the Protestants in England.  (Queen Mary I was merely following the advice of her Catholic advisers in England, and the policies of the hierarchy of her Roman Catholic Church.)

• 1555 – English Bishop John Hooper is slowly burned alive at the stake on the orders of Roman Catholic English Queen Mary I.  (Again, she was “just following orders”.)

• 1556 – English Archbishop (of Canterbury) Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake on the orders of Roman Catholic English Queen Mary I.  (Again, she was “just following orders”.)

 ((NOTE: The sad stories of a number of these horrible murders – often preceded by imprisonment and sometimes torture – are contained in the excellent book Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.  This book can be ordered via credit card from “Power of Prophecy” by calling their toll-free order line: 1-800-234-9673.)) 

• 1571, 1573, and 1586 – Failed assassination attempts by “Vatican assassins” occur on the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England.  (The Papacy was working overtime to return England to “Catholic rule”.)  Queen Elizabeth I had expelled the Jesuits from her kingdom in 1570, and fortunately the Jesuits’ many attempts at “pay back” failed.

• 1572 – The bloody massacre of Protestant French Huguenots by Roman Catholics occurs in France.  Here is what author Jack Chick wrote about this episode of religious genocide: “On August 22, 1572 [Ed. Note: Several books have the date as August 24^th], the bloody St. Bartholomew massacre began.  This was to be one fatal blow to destroy the Protestant movement in France.  The [Catholic] king of France had cleverly arranged a marriage between his sister and Admiral Coligny, the chief Protestant leader.  There was a great feast with much celebrating.  After four days of feasting, the soldiers were given a signal.  At twelve o’clock midnight, all the houses of the Protestants in the city were forced open at once.  The admiral was killed, his body thrown out of a window into the street where his head was cut off and sent to the pope.  …They also slaughtered many other well-known Protestants.  In the first three days, over ten thousand were killed.  The bodies were thrown into the river and blood ran through the streets into the river until it appeared like a stream of blood.  …From Paris, the destruction spread to all parts of the country.  Over eight thousand more people were killed.  Very few Protestants escaped the fury of the persecutors.” (From his book Smokescreens)

• August 24, 1572 – Admiral Coligny, leader of the French Protestant Huguenots, is assassinated by “Vatican assassins”.  His head is immediately sent as a trophy to the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Lorraine (and then to the pope).

• 1584 – William, Prince of Orange, is assassinated (shot three times) by a “Vatican assassin” named Balthazar Gerard.

• 1588 – The failed invasion by the mighty Spanish Armada takes place in this year.  This mighty armada of Spanish naval vessels carrying thousands of troops was tasked with defeating the British navy and putting troops on shore that would be joined by those loyal to Rome within the English borders.  The goal was to return England to Catholic rule.

• 1589 – King Henry III of France is assassinated (stabbed to death) by a “Vatican assassin” named Jacques Clement.

• November 5, 1605 – The infamous “Gunpowder Plot” is thwarted in England.  Led by Jesuits, this plot involved the placing of 36 barrels of gunpowder under the British Parliament building in an attempt to murder King James I and members of Parliament.

• May 14, 1610 – King Henry IV of France is assassinated (stabbed to death) by a “Vatican assassin” named Ravaillac.  This is Jesuit “pay back” to King Henry IV for having the ‘audacity’ to grant “religious liberty” to all his subjects – both Protestant and Catholic – in his 1598 “Edit of Nantes”.  ((NOTE: Jesuit priest Pere La Chaise, father confessor to King Louis XIV of France, persuaded him to revoke the “Edict of Nantes” in 1685.))

• 1618-1648 – The Thirty Years’ War takes place.  This bloody religious war was planned, orchestrated, and conducted by the Vatican and its surrogates in an attempt to exterminate all Protestants from off the face of the European continent.

• 1641 – The bloody massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics occurs in Ireland.  Approximately 150,000 Protestants were butchered from 1641 through 1649.  Here is what author Jack Chick wrote about this episode of religious genocide:

      “A similar massacre [Ed. Note: i.e., similar to the St. Bartholomew’s Massacre in France in 1572] occurred in Ireland in 1641.  The [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.” (From his book Smokescreens) 

((Note: Author Jack Chick made the following observation 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 Ireland in 1641 and in France in 1572] 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.” (From his book Smokescreens)) 

• 1685 – Catholic French King Louis XIV, at the urging of his father-confessor, Jesuit Pere La Chaise, revokes the “Edict of Nantes” that granted religious liberty to all Frenchmen.  Louis XIV then orders his murderous dragoons to slaughter the French Protestant Huguenots. 500,000 Protestants (men, women, and children) are slaughtered!

• 1769 – Pope Clement XIII is assassinated (poisoned to death) by the Jesuits the day before he was to sign a papal document banning the Jesuit Order.  (Even Roman Catholics have been murdered by their own hierarchical system and the secret societies, like the Jesuit Order and its P2 Masonry, that control the top levels of the Roman Catholic Church!)

• September 1774 – Pope Clement XIV is assassinated (poisoned to death) by the Jesuits approximately 14 months after he had signed a papal document in 1773 banning the Jesuit Order forever.  ((Note: After the official recognition of the Society of Jesus, i.e., the Jesuits, as a Catholic Order in 1540, the Jesuits have totally controlled the Vatican from behind the scenes.  The relatively few popes who tried to curb their power met with the same fate (i.e., assassination) as did Pope Clement XIII and Pope Clement XIV.))

• 1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia is assassinated (poisoned to death) by the Jesuits.  Tsar Alexander I had expelled the Jesuit Order from all of Russia in 1820.

• April 14, 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated (shot to death) by John Wilkes Booth.  A 12-man military commission tries eight of the conspirators in the assassination plot; it hangs four of them.  One of the conspirators, John Harrison Surratt, aided by Roman Catholic priests, flees to Canada and then to Rome, where he becomes a member of the Pope’s Zouaves bodyguard unit.  Returned for civil trial in Washington, D.C., in 1867, he “walks” despite overwhelming evidence against him – this due in large part to Jesuit priests from Georgetown “providing advice” to the predominantly Roman Catholic jury.  The U.S. government finds so much involvement by the Papacy in the assassination of Lincoln that it breaks all diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1867.  If you doubt any of this, please read the two books-in-one volume (The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Burke McCarty and Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by U.S. Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris – who was a member of the previously mentioned 12-man military commission that tried eight of the conspirators).  This book is $14.95 postpaid.  To order it, please make check or money order payable to “Ozark Book Publishers” and mail it to: Ozark Books // P.O. Box 3703 // Springfield, MO 65808.

• 1868 – Emperor Komei of Japan is assassinated.  According to author Eric Jon Phelps, the Jesuits used agents of Ambassador Thomas Glover for the assassination.

• 1872 – Mexican President Benito Juarez is assassinated (poisoned to death) by “Vatican assassins”.  This was “pay back” for his having expelled the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico and five Catholic bishops – along with 200 Jesuit priests.  President Juarez had also enforced the Constitution of 1857 that granted freedom of speech and of the press.

• March 13, 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated (killed by a bomb).  There had been six previous failed attempted assassinations on his life.  Tsar Alexander II of Russia was hated by the Jesuits for at least two reasons: (1) His father, Tsar Alexander I, had expelled the Jesuits from Russia in 1820. (2) He (Tsar Alexander II) had supported Lincoln and the Union during the Civil War, whereas Pope Pius IX supported the Confederacy!  Tsar Alexander II had sent part of his Russian Naval Fleet to U.S. waters to prevent France and England from intervening militarily on the side of the Confederacy.

• 1882 – Leon Michael Gambetta, French leader who had abolished the Jesuit Order in France in 1880, is assassinated (shot to death) – “pay back” courtesy of the Jesuits.

• 1914 – The kickoff for World War I occurs in the Balkans.  Vatican involvement is clearly recognizable (see the following note).

((NOTE: Please consider the following quote by Edmond Paris, author of the book The Secret History of the Jesuits: 

            “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.” 

            In The Secret History of the Jesuits, Edmond Paris goes on to point out that, contrary to Catholic Church propaganda, Pope Pius X actually helped instigate hostilities between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.  Clearly both the Hapsburg dynasty (rulers of Austria-Hungary) and the Vatican saw the growing power of Serbia as a “threat”.  In fact, in late 1913 Prince Schonburg had an audience with Pope Pius X, who told Schonburg: “It would certainly have been better if Austria-Hungary had punished the Serbians for all the wrongs they had done.”   In other words, the Roman Catholic pope was letting this Roman Catholic European power (Austria-Hungary) know that it was past time to “take care of” the Serbian problem!  The vast majority of Serbs are Orthodox Christians, and Orthodox Christians have long been hated by the Vatican!)) 

• 1917 – The Russian Revolution takes place.  The Bolsheviks (Communists) seize power in Russia – funded by wealthy Knights of Malta in the United States.  Later, two Jesuit-trained thugs, Joseph Stalin and Catholic Cardinal Agagianian, oversee the Soviet Gulag system. (Note: Both Stalin and Agagianian had been trained at the Jesuit Seminary in Tiflis, Soviet Georgia.) Millions of Russian Orthodox Christians are butchered at the hands of a totalitarian Police State. (Remember, the Vatican has long hated Orthodox Christians, and has slaughtered them whenever and wherever it could.)

• 1941-1945 – The Jewish holocaust occurs in Nazi-Fascist-controlled Europe. Up to 6 million Jews are murdered and starved to death. Roman Catholic involvement in this holocaust runs very deep.  First, Roman Catholic German Knight of Malta Franz von Papen, along with the Roman Catholic Centrum Party in Bavaria, put Adolph Hitler into power.  Jesuit ‘father’ Himmler (uncle to Heinrich Himmler) is a top officer in the Nazi SS (which is admittedly modeled after the Jesuit Order).  The Vatican signs Concordats with Nazi Germany and with Fascist Italy. (Interesting Note: Neither Hitler or Mussolini, both Roman Catholics, is ever excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.)  Roman Catholics are installed as puppet dictators in occupied and allied countries.  For example, in Slovakia, the Jesuit priest, Monseigneur Tiso, was installed as dictator.  Additionally, Roman Catholic Knights of Malta head up three powerful intelligence agencies during World War II (William Donovan heads the American OSS – which later becomes the CIA; German General Reinhard Gehlen heads Nazi Intelligence on the eastern front; and Russian Anton Turkul heads Soviet Intelligence, and uses Jesuit priests for his couriers).  By using elements within the warring factions, the Vatican is able to ensure the slaughter of large numbers of its favorite targets: Jews, Protestants (in northern Germany and in Prussia), and Orthodox Christians. At the end of the war, the Vatican helps many Fascist war criminals to escape punishment, hiding them at various locations in Europe until they can escape to such locations as the USA, Argentina, etc.

((NOTE: Here a couple quotes that bring home the cooperation that occurred between the Vatican and the Nazi and Fascist dictatorships in Europe during World War II: 

            “I have learnt most of all from the Jesuit Order.  …So far, there has been nothing more imposing on earth than the hierarchical organization of the [Roman] Catholic Church.  A good part of that organization I have transported direct to my own [Nazi] party.  …The Catholic Church must be held up as an example.  …I will tell you a secret.  I am founding an order [Ed. Note: the Nazi SS].  …In [Heinrich] Himmler [who would become head of the Nazi SS] I see our Ignatius de Loyola [Ed. Note: the founder of the Jesuit Order].”

            Adolph Hitler (German Fuehrer during World War II)

            “Fascism is the regime that corresponds most closely to the concepts of the Church of Rome.” – Civilta Cattolica (House organ of the Jesuits) 

            Please take a moment to ponder the significance of those two quotations – especially the first one, as to how they might possibly apply to us in America in the near future.  After all, a massive police and intelligence-gathering State has already been set up here in America!)) 

• 1941-1945 – The “Vatican’s holocaust” occurs in Croatia. Though primarily directed against Serb Orthodox Christians, much smaller numbers of Jews and gypsies are also targeted.  This monstrous, barbaric, and savage religious genocide is planned, orchestrated, and conducted by Roman Catholic clergy – mainly Franciscan monks, friars, and priests, along with several high-ranking Jesuits.  Roman Catholic Croatian Fuehrer Ante Pavelic teams up with high-ranking Catholic prelates, such as Archbishop Stepinac and Bishop Ivan Saric, to use the Roman Catholic Ustashi militia units to torture and butcher from 600,000 to 1 million innocent Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, elderly, and children.  This religious genocide includes the most brutal forms of torture, forced conversions, burning people alive, raping and murdering girls and women, impaling young children alive on stakes, gouging out the eyes of live victims to make necklaces, starving children to death, burying victims alive, crucifying Orthodox priests to wooden doors, and some other atrocities that I do not feel should be written in a newsletter.  Roman Catholic clergy not only frequently lead the Catholic Ustashi units in their murder and mayhem, but also participate in this savagery.  Franciscan monk, ‘father’ Miroslav Filipovic, served as the cruel camp commandant at Jasenovac (one of the worst of the concentration camps).

Here is what Monica Farrell, author of the booklet “Ravening Wolves”, has to say about this savage episode of religious genocide:

 “This [Ed. Note: her booklet “Ravening Wolves”] is the record of torture and murder committed in Europe in 1941-1945 by an army of [Roman] Catholic Actionists known as the Ustashi, led by monks and priests, and even participated in by nuns.  The [innocent Serb Orthodox Christian] victims suffered and died in the cause of liberty and freedom of conscience.  The least we can do is to read the record of their sufferings and keep in mind that it happened, not in the dark ages, but in our ENLIGHTENED [Ed. Note: emphasis in original] generation.  Ustashi is another name for Catholic Action.” 

((NOTE:  A tremendous quote by Avro Manhattan, from his book The Vatican’s Holocaust, sums up well why we all should be concerned about this horrible religious genocide conducted by the most powerful religious-geopolitical institution in the world that happened NOT 1000 years ago, but rather happened less than 70 years ago:

             “…Here [in Croatia in the 1940s] the [Roman] Catholic Church [erected] a State in complete accord with all her tenets.  The result was a monster standing upon the armed might of twin totalitarianisms:  the totalitarianism of a ruthless Fascist State and the totalitarianism of [Roman] Catholicism…

            What gives to such a creature of Vatican diplomacy its peculiar importance is that here we have an example of the Catholic Church’s implementing all her principles, unhampered by opposition, or by fear of world opinion.

            The uniqueness of the Independent Catholic State of Croatia lies precisely in this: that it provided a model, in miniature, of what the Catholic Church, had she the power, would like to see in the West and, indeed, everywhere.  As such it should be carefully scrutinized.  For its significance…is of the greatest import to all the freedom-loving peoples of the world.”)) 

• 1960s – Vietnam: Three Roman Catholic leaders in Vietnam try to set up a Roman Catholic dictatorship in a country where the vast majority of the people are Buddhists.  Here are some excerpts from my TTT newsletter entitled “The Vietnam War”: 

(1)“Editor of TTT doubts if you will find very much information on the ‘Ngo Dinh’ brothers in most U.S. history textbooks.  One brother, Ngo Dinh Diem, became president of the newly formed Republic of Vietnam in 1956.  The second brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu became the head of the secret police.  The third brother, Ngo Dinh Thuc, was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the city of Hue.  Despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Vietnam's population was Buddhist (80%), these three Roman Catholic leaders attempted to set up a Roman Catholic dictatorship.  According to Avro Manhattan, author of the book The Vatican's Holocaust: ‘The trio [the Ngo Dinh brothers] had been inching for years toward veritable religious persecution of the vast majority of the country's [South Vietnam's] population of 15 million, only 1.5 million of whom were Catholic.’” 

(2) “The heavy-handed Roman Catholic religious discrimination against Buddhists led to numerous peaceful protests by Buddhists across South Vietnam.  During several of these protests, Buddhist monks set fire to themselves to draw attention to the religious persecution in South Vietnam.  Avro Manhattan describes the response of President Ngo Dinh Diem:

 ‘The government sent troops and armored cars and fired at the demonstrators, killing nine Buddhists.

…Discrimination against the Buddhists continued unabated.  Arrests of Buddhist monks multiplied.  [Buddhist] Pagodas were declared [off limits], closed, and at times even attacked.

…Buddhist monks, Buddhist nuns, and Buddhist leaders were arrested by the thousands.

…Buddhists were tortured by the police.

…[South] Vietnam was put under martial law.

…The [South Vietnamese] army became openly restive and put up passive resistance…against their own government.  Result: the war against the Communist north was being lost, since the population at large, upon whose support the struggle ultimately rested, refused to cooperate.’” 

(3) “So many people were arrested that special ‘internment camps’ were set up.  Avro Manhattan describes the situation as follows: 

‘The jails were soon bursting with prisoners.  The mass arrests became so numerous that finally it was necessary to o