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EXAMINING
the TOUGH ISSUES FACING
CHRISTIANS TODAY! Issue #22
// December 12, 2005 (Updated: 12-15-2005) // Editor: Darryl Eberhart “POPES
& INFALLIBILITY”
(An Important Topic for Both Catholics and Non-Catholics Concerning Popes, Their Numerous “Crimes against Humanity”, and Their False Claims to “Infallibility”) ((NOTE: All “emphasis” throughout this newsletter, unless otherwise noted, is by the editor of “Examining the Tough Issues (ETI)”. Some issues of my ETI newsletters and my “Tackling the Tough Topics (TTT)” newsletters can be seen on the following Internet web sites: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net , www.calltodecision.com , and www.libertytothecaptives.net . (The last web site has a link to the first web site.)) WARNING: This issue of the ETI newsletter
may seriously “disturb” some folks’ “comfort
zones”.
However, TRUTH
is more important than any of our “comfort zones”. DEDICATION: This issue of ETI is dedicated to all those who expose evil, corruption, and tyranny – and that includes ecclesiastical tyranny. It is also dedicated to those Christians who expose false doctrine. (Please see Ephesians 5:11.) IMPORTANT NOTE: I (the editor of the ETI & TTT newsletters) am not a Roman Catholic; I also am most definitely not anti-Roman Catholic as far as individual Roman Catholics go. My dad and 90% of my relatives are Roman Catholic; my best friend is 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 P-2 Masonry). These secret societies also control the leadership of most of the larger, non-Catholic, 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! 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 its 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 Inquisition, ‘holy’ wars, and ‘holy’ crusades) against all the afore-mentioned groups. (Please see my TTT newsletter entitled “Death by Government and Death by Church” on Internet web site: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net .) Sadly, many Americans believe the “ecumenical rhetoric” of the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy – i.e., that she 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. (Per Webster’s New World Dictionary a “ruse” is: “a stratagem” [which is] “any trick or scheme for achieving some purpose”.) The “purpose” is to bring all non-Catholic Christian denominations under the “umbrella” (i.e., the authoritative and totalitarian rule) of the Papacy! Yes, the Papacy, despite its “ecumenical rhetoric”, has not changed a bit over the many centuries in the following categories:
Indeed, power – absolute power – has long been the Vatican’s “primary objective”. History has recorded the Vatican’s deep hatred for religious liberty and freedom of conscience. The U.S. Constitution, with it “Bill of Rights” guaranteeing such liberties, has long been hated by the Vatican. (For a good example of this hatred of religious liberty and freedom of conscience, read the Syllabus of Errors that was 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 the Vatican and the rest of the globalist rich and power elite in their dreams for one-world government and one-world religion. Is America scheduled for a religious genocide – another Inquisition – as occurred in the 1940s in Croatia? I believe the danger is very real and possibly quite imminent – and that is why I am writing about the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy, its long-held dreams for domination, and its well-document history of religious genocide! HERE ARE SOME RELEVANT QUOTATIONS:
“It
is beyond question that he [i.e., the pope] can err
even in matters touching the faith.
He does this when he teaches heresy by his own judgment or decretal.
In truth, MANY
Roman pontiffs [i.e., popes] were heretics.” Pope
Adrian VI (Statement made in 1523)
“Popes had mistresses of fifteen years of age, were guilty of
incest and sexual perversions of every sort, had innumerable children,
[and] were murdered in the very act of adultery…” – Peter de Rosa (Catholic historian & former
Jesuit; author; from his book Vicars
of Christ – The Dark Side of the Papacy)
“And they
[i.e., the popes of Rome] were some of the worst scoundrels,
miscreants, and murderers who ever cursed the world with their
presence.” Ronald Cooke (Author of The Death of the Pope of Rome)
“How has the papacy conducted itself in the past? It
would require many volumes to recount the crimes, sins, cruelties,
debaucheries, immoralities, perversions, errors, and blasphemies of
the Papal See.” – Ronald Cooke “When one looks at the lives of the popes of Rome he sees a ghastly array of egregious evils, heinous crimes, and glaring sins which cannot be matched by any other group of men in the annals of history. Other men and other organizations have committed great atrocities and evils, but never on such a wide scale, or for such a long time, as the Popes of Rome.
The evils of the Popes are compounded by the fact that while
committing all the evils, atrocities, massacres, inquisitions,
immoralities, and teaching all the false doctrines of Rome, ALL THESE
DEMONIC MONSTERS CLAIMED AT THE SAME TIME TO BE THE VICAR OF CHRIST ON
EARTH. ((Ed. Note: Emphasis is in the original.)) Roman Catholic scholars, such as Malachi Martin, one of the
leading Roman Catholic scholars of the 20th century, describe
in great detail the evils of the Roman Catholic papacy. So if people today do not know of such evils, it is not
because they never happened or have not been publicized, it is because
people are willfully IGNORANT of them.” ((Ed. Note: Emphasis
is in the original except for “willfully”.)) Ronald Cooke
“As for abominations, even Catholic historians admit that among
the popes were some of the most degenerate and unconscionable ogres
in all history. Their numerous
outrageous crimes, many of which are almost beyond belief, have
been recited by many historians from preserved documents that reveal the
depths of papal depravity…” Dave Hunt (Author of the book A Woman Rides the Beast) “The popes filled the place of the vacant emperors at Rome, inheriting their power, prestige, and titles [Ed. Note: such as Pontifex Maximus] from paganism. [Roman Emperor] Constantine [Ed. Note: according to the admittedly FORGED “Donation of Constantine”] left all to the Bishop of Rome [i.e., the Pope]. …The Papacy is but the GHOST of the deceased [Pagan] Roman Empire sitting crowned upon its grave.” Stanley’s History (page 40) “The
high point of Marozia’s (who was little more than a papal prostitute)
career came at the end of her very long life when she was visited in her
Roman prison by an emperor who had just seized possession of the city –
Otto III – successor of [Emperor]
Charlemagne. He had only one
reason for visiting Marozia – to lay eyes on the woman who was the
mother of a pope, whom she had conceived by another pope, and who was the
aunt of a third pope, the grandmother of a fourth pope, and with the help
of her own mother, the creator of nine popes in eight years, of whom two
had been strangled, one suffocated with a cushion, and four deposed of in
circumstances that have not come to public light.” (The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Church) Malachi Martin (Author; Roman Catholic scholar; Jesuit; confidant of popes) “While
heading the Christian church, [Roman Emperor] Constantine continued
to head the pagan priesthood, to officiate at pagan festivities, and to
endow pagan temples even after he began to build Christian churches.
As ‘head of the pagan priesthood’ he was the ‘Pontifex
Maximus’ and needed a similar title as head of the Christian church.
The Christians honored him as ‘Bishop of Bishops’, while
Constantine called himself ‘Vicarius Christi’, (Vicar of Christ). …In the Middle Ages, the bishops of Rome began to claim that they were the ‘sole representatives of Christ upon earth’. Demanding that the entire church worldwide must be subject to their rule, they forbade any other bishops to be called ‘papa’ or pope and took to themselves the three titles of [Roman Emperor] Constantine – ‘Pontifex Maximus’, ‘Vicar of Christ’, and ‘Bishop of Bishops’ – which they retain to this day.” – Dave Hunt “The
popes’ authority even extended to large territories outside Rome
acquired in the eighth century. At
that time, with the help of a deliberately fraudulent
document manufactured for the popes known as ‘The Donation of
Constantine’, Pope Stephen III convinced Pepin, king of the
Franks and father of Charlemagne, that territories recently taken by the
Lombards from the Byzantines actually had been given to the papacy by the
[Roman] Emperor Constantine. [King]
Pepin routed the Lombards and handed to the pope the keys to some 20
cities…and the huge chunk of land joining them along the Adriatic
coast. Dated
30 March 315 [A.D.] ‘The Donation [of Constantine]’
declared that [the Roman Emperor] Constantine had given these
lands, along with Rome and the Lateran Palace, to the popes in perpetuity.
In 1440 this document was proven to be a forgery by
Lorenzo Valla, a papal aide, and is so recognized by historians today.
Yet allegedly infallible popes continued for centuries to assert
that ‘The Donation [of Constantine]’ was genuine and on that
basis to justify their pomp, power, and possessions. …Thus the Papal States were literally stolen by the popes from their rightful owners.” Dave Hunt
“Popes during the Middle Ages were not in any sense men who had
inclinations to set examples for morality.
First and foremost, they all came from enormously wealthy
backgrounds; aristocratic warlords determined through the most
disgusting corruptions, bribery, and bloodshed, to have that ultra coveted
position.
To be pope was to gain absolute power and wealth beyond the scope
of any other means. Extravagant luxuries, pomp, and excesses, even surpassing
that of the emperor’s table, excited the lust and passions of these
aristocratic families to a fever pitch.
Vast riches were paid to rivaling parties to buy them out or to
cast a favorable vote. Unsuccessful
attempts usually led to assassinations.
Orgies, incest, homosexuals, mistresses, rape, murder, plunder,
in some of the most shameful scandals known to man, are all recorded
as the every-day rottenest lifestyle of these so-called
‘saintly’ religious rulers. Rome
was virtually a moral cesspool of corruption; proving graphically
that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Regardless of the opinions of sanctimonious [Roman
Catholic] apologetics,
this is the ‘red, raw meat’ of papal history…” – Peter
De Rosa “The
most ghastly abomination of all was the system of torture.
The accounts of its cold-blooded operations make one shutter at the
capacity of human beings for cruelty.
And it was decreed and regulated by the popes
who ‘claim’ to represent Christ on earth…” William Shaw Kerr (Bishop; Church historian)
“It is a horrible thing to behold the man who styles himself
Christ’s vicegerent, displaying a magnificence that no emperor can equal. Is
this being like the poor
[Lord] Jesus or the humble [Apostle] Peter? He
[i.e., the Pope] is, say they, the lord of the world!
But Christ, whose vicar he boasts of being, said, ‘My kingdom is
not of this world.’ Can the
dominions of a vicar extend beyond those of his superior?” –
Martin Luther ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The gold, silver, precious stones,
and other monetary and property wealth (to include banking interests) of
the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy are so immense that they probably
cannot be properly estimated by anyone who does not have direct access to
their financial books.))
“We still have documents of Byzantine ambassadors reporting on
the four questions ritually put to every priest about to be consecrated as
a bishop of the Roman Church: ‘Have you sodomized a boy?
Have you fornicated with a nun?
Have you sodomized any four-legged animal?
Have you committed adultery?’
These questions accurately reflected the standard required of
would-be bishops. St. Peter Damian wrote a famous book, the ‘Liber
Gomorrhianus’ (book of Gomorrha), graphically describing the veniality,
lechery, bestiality, and homicidal fecklessness of his fellow Roman
clerics.” Malachi Martin (Author; Roman Catholic scholar; Jesuit; confidant of popes)
“It was bitterly cold. King
Henry [IV] stood
barefoot, shivering in the snow, nearly freezing to death.
Together with his wife and baby son, they had crossed the Alps in
the dead of winter, just so he could stand here [i.e., at the pope’s
palace] today, begging forgiveness.
This was no mean
[i.e., poor] man. This was
Henry IV, the King of Germany [1056-1106] and [the] ‘Holy
Roman Emperor’ (1084-1106 AD). So
what could have caused him to do such a crazy thing?
That’s easy. He had dared
to question the authority of the pope!
And now pope Gregory VII showed [King]
Henry who [really] held
the reins of power in Europe. In
1076 he [i.e., Pope
Gregory VII] excommunicated
[King] Henry from the Roman Catholic religion and told his German
subjects they didn’t have to serve him anymore.
…That’s why he [King
Henry IV] stood there, freezing and humiliated in the snow for three
days. He had to prove that he
had learned his lesson. He
had learned the hard way who was the real boss in world affairs:
the Roman Catholic
pope.
…The new pope, Benedict XVI, was recently in Germany for World Youth Day
2005. He urged Europe to
return to its ‘Christian roots’.
What does that mean? It
means a time when kings lived in fear
of the pope.
This new Roman Catholic leader was formerly the Chief
Inquisitor, head of the
‘Holy Office’ of the Inquisition.
Is it any coincidence that this German pope is still referred to by
his colleagues as ‘Der Panzerkardinal’?
…Get
ready, folks, and hang onto your Bibles.
What this new pope really wants is a 21st century
version of the Dark Ages.”
David W. Daniels (Author of the book Did The Catholic Church
Give Us The Bible?; the preceding quotation is a large excerpt
taken from his article “A Return to Our Christian Roots?” as
printed in the Sept./Oct. 2005 issue of the “Battle Cry”
newsletter) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: For much of the past four centuries
(and with few and rare exceptions), the Jesuit Superior General (i.e., the
Black Pope)
has controlled and directed the White
Pope and the papacy and
Roman Curia.)) “[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.” Henry H. Halley (Author of the Pocket Bible Handbook)
“Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may
judge the Pope.” – Pope
Innocent III (1161-1216;
pope: 1198-1216)
“The unrestrained freedom
of thinking and of openly making known one’s thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor
and support.”
Pope Gregory XVI “The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience, are a most pestilential error – a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a State.” Pope Pius IX (Encyclical Letter; August 15, 1854) “The
State has not the right to leave every man free to
embrace whatever religion he should deem true. …The
[Roman Catholic] Church has the right to require that the
Catholic religion shall be the religion of the State, to the exclusion
of all others. …Cursed be those who assert liberty of conscience and of worship and such that maintain that the [Roman Catholic] Church may not employ force.” The Syllabus of Pope Pius IX (December 1864) “These false and perverse opinions [of democracy and individual freedom] are so much the more detestable, by as much as they…hinder and banish that salutary influence which the [Roman] Catholic Church, by the institution and command of her Divine Author, ought freely to exercise, even to the consummation of the world, not only over individual men, but [over] nations, [over] peoples, and [over] sovereigns.” Pope Pius IX (1792-1878; pope: 1846-1878; Quote is taken from Quanta Cura; December 8, 1864; This quotation was taken from page 120 of the book A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The Papacy has long reserved to itself the right to enslave nations, peoples, and sovereigns (rulers) under the worst and most vile of ecclesiastical tyranny, and to use force and torture wherever and whenever she deems appropriate. Her numerous official statements claim her absolute ‘right’ to do so, and history has recorded the results: i.e., numerous instances of ‘Holy’ Inquisition, ‘Holy’ crusades, and religious genocide carried out by this religious institution upon millions and millions of innocent men, women, and children!)) “Have not the popes [e.g., Pope Pius IX in his Syllabus of Errors] publicly and repeatedly anathematized the sacred principle of Liberty of Conscience? Have they not boldly said, in the teeth of the nations of Europe, that Liberty of Conscience must be destroyed – killed at any cost? Has not the whole world heard the sentence of death to liberty coming from the lips of the old man of the Vatican [i.e., the pope]?” – Charles Chiniquy (Author; Ex-Catholic priest)
“It was the Pope of
Rome [i.e., Pope Pius
IX], and he alone, of all the European potentates, that gave his recognition and
his blessing to the Confederate government…” Thomas M. Harris (U.S. Army Brigadier General and author of the book Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln) “As
with any ‘pyramidal’ scheme, whether it is in marketing,
Freemasonry, the Jesuits, or the Roman Catholic Church; it is a hierarchy.
Those at the top level of the ‘pyramid’ leech off the
efforts and revenues of the hundreds of thousands [Ed. Note: or, millions]
under them at the lower levels. Nor
is it intended for those while at the bottom to ever know the purposes and
affairs of those at the top. The
lower levels are intentionally lied to and deceived, so as
to make them to ‘think’ that they know. …At the bottom of the [Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchical] pyramid they are taught Christ; at the top, it’s an occult different matter.” John Daniel (Author of the book The Grand Design Exposed)
“The Canon Law, among other things, declares that the Pope is the
lord of all kings, and all
people; that the [Roman
Catholic] Church can use force
in carrying out her discipline; that her clergy are exempt from the
civil tribunals of the land; that all laws contrary to Canon Law are void; that all education must be under the control of the Bishops; that the Pope can depose ‘heretical’ sovereigns; that he can release from oaths and prisons;
that the priests have power to direct the people in their political
duties; and that ‘heresy’ is to be punished with death.”
Hector Macpherson (Author of the book The Jesuits in History) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: Such power should never be in
the hands of any
man or small group of men. The
Roman Catholic Church’s use of “force” in the past has included numerous examples of the following: ‘Holy’ Inquisition
(including the most horrible forms of torture); ‘Holy’ crusades and
wars against innocent men, women, and children who would not bow to papal
authority; the fomenting of revolutions and wars; and the assassination of
heads of State. The Roman Catholic Church has frequently MISUSED the label
of ‘heretic’, applying it to those who opposed either false doctrines
of the papacy or who opposed papal corruption – or who simply wanted to
possess a Bible in their native language.
Indeed, the Catholic Church has labeled entire population groups
(such as the Albigenses, Waldenses, etc.) as ‘heretics’ in order to
slaughter them and confiscate their property – and to remove any
challenge to its claimed authority to rule over all people.))
“And of all plagues with
which mankind are cursed,
Ecclesiastic tyranny is the worst.” Daniel DeFoe (1660-1731; English writer)
“[The Pope is] the very antichrist,
and ‘son of perdition’, of whom [the Apostle] Paul
speaks.” – John Knox (1505-1572; Scottish Protestant clergyman and
religious reformer)
“The oracles of God foretold the rising of an Antichrist in the Christian Church: and
in the Pope of Rome
all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously
answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a marvelous
blindness upon them.”
Cotton Mather (1663-1728; American clergyman and writer) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding two quotes: I could have listed many more quotes such as these.
If you would care to view more such quotations, please see my ETI
entitled “The Real Antichrist” on Internet web site: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net
.))
“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.” Pope Pius IV (pope: 1559-1565) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The Roman Catholic Church for centuries forbade the common man to read the Holy Bible in his native language (e.g., German, English, French, etc.) In fact, the Roman Catholic Church for centuries hunted down and executed many individuals for the crime of printing, distributing, or even possessing a Bible in their native language – or, during some centuries, Bibles in Latin, Greek (New Testaments) or Hebrew (Old Testaments). For more information on this topic, please see my ETI newsletter #21 entitled “The Real Bible” that is posted on Internet web site: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net .))
“Now we hope that none of you will be slain, but we wish you to
know that the Kingdom of Heaven
will be given as a reward to those who shall be killed in this
war.” Pope Leo IV “We confidently reply that those who shall die in battle fighting bravely against pagans or unbelievers shall receive eternal life.” Pope John VIII ((Ed. Comments to
the preceding two quotes: (1) Almighty
GOD alone decides who will and
will not receive “eternal life”.
No pope or other man can promise men “eternal life” for
deeds done on behalf of a religious institution! (2) These false promises of “eternal life”, forgiveness
of sins, etc., were used by popes to get the most vile criminals
(to include murderers, rapists, etc.) to “sign up” for crusades to
slaughter and butcher innocent Moslems and Jews (men, women, and children)
with a savagery often exceeding that of the most barbaric pagans! Popes also launched crusades against non-Catholic Christians, such as the Albigenses in South France – again, slaughtering and
butchering innocent men, women, and children with the blessings of a
number of popes! (3) The “formula”
for “eternal life” as spelled out in the Holy Bible is this: ·
Truly repenting of one’s
sins. ·
Truly submitting oneself
under the lordship of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. ·
Daily “denying self”,
“taking up one’s cross”, and producing godly “fruit”
through righteous living. ·
Obeying God’s commands as
found in the Holy Bible. ·
Remaining faithful to the
Lord Jesus Christ till the very end of one’s life. (4) Speaking of “the
Kingdom of Heaven”: If
you have not seen Ridley Scott’s film “Kingdom of Heaven”
(2005) that deals with that time in history when Christian crusaders held
Jerusalem, I most highly recommend that you view it.
This movie clearly shows the “ugly side” of organized
religion (especially the hierarchical variety) – and its role in inciting “holy war”.))
((Ed. Comment:
Speaking of movies, “King Arthur – Director’s Cut” (2004)
by Jerry Bruckheimer, also shows the very “ugly side” of
organized hierarchical religion. This
movie shows the use of torture by the Roman Catholic Church on poor
peasants – torture that at times included as its victims both women
and children.)) I.
INTERESTING REVELATIONS ABOUT CERTAIN POPES
(Related through the quotes of various authors with a few editorial
comments) ((Ed.
Note: I will try to list these popes as they appeared
chronologically in history. A
fair number of the below listed quotes came from Ronald Cooke’s book The
Death of the Pope of Rome (available for $8.99 postpaid by calling
1-800-631-8220).))
“At the election of Pope Damascus I
[Ed. Note: pope: 366-384],
in AD 366, thirty-seven corpses littered the Liberian Basilica
after a fracas between the followers of Damascus and his archrival Ursinus.”
(The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Church)
Malachi Martin (Author; Roman Catholic scholar; Jesuit;
confidant of popes) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote:
This is NOT an unusual case. Aristocratic
families battling for the office of pope frequently committed murder
in order to eliminate their rivals and to secure the power and financial
benefits that were to be obtained by sitting at the top of this
hierarchical religious system!)) “Within a year Pope Stephen will have used Duke Desiderius to get Christophorus, Sergius, and Gratiosus imprisoned, first their eyes cut out, and then their lives ended. He will then turn on Desiderius, and by December of AD 771 will encompass his ruin and death.” (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church)
Malachi Martin “For Marozia [Ed. Note: the famous papal prostitute], the reading of Pope John XII’s sins must have provided a paroxysm [i.e., a sudden convulsion or outburst] of personal suffering. Every word is accurate. ‘Your grandson, Pope John XII, perjured himself… He stole the treasury of the popes… He was deposed by a Holy Synod and replaced by Pope Leo VIII… Then the apostate returned to Rome; evicted Pope Leo VIII; cut off the nose, tongue, and two fingers of the Cardinal Deacon; flayed the skin of Bishop Otger; cut off the hands of Notary Azzo; and beheaded sixty-three of Rome’s clergy and nobility… During the night of May 14, 964, while having illicit and filthy relations with a Roman matron, he was surprised in the act of sin by the matron’s angry husband who, in just wrath, smashed his skull with a hammer, and thus liberated his evil soul into the grasp of Satan.’” (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church) – Malachi Martin
“…When Pope John XIX
died under suspicious circumstances, which usually means he was
murdered, in 1033, his relative took his son of 12, had papal clothes made
for him and lifted him bodily onto the papal throne and had him
consecrated pope as Benedict
IX.
…[Pope] Benedict
[IX] sold the papal throne to Gratian, who became Pope Gregory
VI. Benedict continued to
live in the Lateran Palace, [which according to Malachi] Martin,
‘he converted into the best brothel in town’.” Ronald Cooke (Author of The Death of the Pope of Rome)
“…In the eleventh century, the Man of Sin appeared to have attained
the summit of arrogance and blasphemy in the person of [Pope]
Gregory VII.
…He
[i.e., Pope Gregory VII] assumed not only the appellation of
‘Universal Bishop’, but also those of ‘Sovereign Pontiff’,
‘Christ’s Vicar’, ‘Prince of the Apostles’, ‘God on earth’,
‘Lord God the Pope’, ‘His Holiness’, ‘King of kings and Lord of
lords’, ‘Prince over all nations and kingdoms’, ‘The Most Holy and
Most Blessed’, ‘Master of the Universal World’, ‘Father of
Kings’, ‘Light of the World’, ‘Most High and Sovereign Bishop’,
etc., etc.”
David Benedict (Author of General
History of the Baptist Denomination)
“[Pope] Boniface VIII (1217-1303):
This evil deceiver started his rule in the papal chair by
‘pretending
to be God’.
((Ed. Note: That is, he obtained the papal office by pulling off a clever
trick as explained in this next sentence.)) He whispered through a
hidden tube to the ruling pope Celestine
and commanded him to lay down his [papal]
office. Celestine thought he was hearing the [very] voice of
God, and responded to the command by laying down his office.
He [Celestine] was immediately locked up in prison and starved
to death by [Pope] Boniface [VIII], who became both
pope and emperor.
The [new] Pope
then fought with the powerful Colonna family, which led him to destroy the
city of Palestrina, where he killed 6000 citizens in a bloody massacre.
He also issued his famous papal bull – Unam [sic] Sanctum
– in which he claimed
that the Pope of Rome was ruler over both spiritual and temporal powers,
which enabled him to wear the ‘triple tiara’ signifying such powers,
and which all popes ever since have worn, including the late pope.
[This means
that]… he claimed absolute
authority over all matters
terrestrial and celestial.
[Pope] Boniface VIII robbed
and plundered everywhere he could while carrying on immoral affairs
with his mistress and
her daughter. Philip le Bel of France was able to seize him and imprison
him in 1303. However, he was
later liberated by an armed insurrection and returned to Rome.
He became insane and was placed in solitary confinement where he
died.”
Ronald Cooke
“[Pope] John XXII [pope:
1316-1334]: This pope was
another worthless character who took over the papal chair after poisoning
Pope Alexander V.
Being [at that
time] a cardinal, he [i.e., John XXII] had access to the pope [Alexander
V], and to get the papal chair he poisoned the pope who occupied
it. ((Ed. Note: This phenomenon, i.e., of murdering the current
pope so that his successor could obtain the papal chair, seems to have
occurred quite frequently in Church history.))
He [Pope
John XXII] called for an
army to go against Ladislaus, king of Naples, because he had driven him
[the pope] out of Rome. He
also struggled with the General Council he had called to meet at
Constance. Sixty charges were laid against him at this council and he
was deposed.
…The number of charges [against
Pope John XXII] were reduced from 60 to 5: lust, murder, rape,
sodomy, and piracy. He
was found guilty and deposed.”
Ronald Cooke
“[Pope] Alexander VI (1431-1503;
pope: 1492-1503):
This very evil pope committed his first murder at the age of twelve and fathered at least ten illegitimate children.
…He bought the papal chair by giving various Cardinals all kinds of
expensive gifts so they would vote for him.
…He
became pope in 1492 and took the title Alexander VI.
He was the pope who had [the
Dominican] Savonarola, the preacher who cried out publicly against the
crimes and sins of the papacy, executed [in 1498].” ((Ed. Comments to
the preceding quote: (1) Many men bought
the papacy. Many also murdered
their competitors or the reigning pope to obtain the papal chair. (2) The Dominican Savonarola, a godly Roman Catholic who was also a
preacher of reform, led a ‘revival’ in the Italian city of Florence.
Because this godly Roman Catholic had the courage to criticize and
denounce Pope Alexander VI and his corrupt papal court, he was murdered
in 1498 on the orders of his own Church (after his excommunication and
threats against the people of Florence).
Sadly, Savonarola was not the only godly Roman Catholic murdered
by his own Church throughout history for trying to reform a very corrupt
church hierarchy!)) “When [Pope] Pius IX (who had rammed papal infallibility through Vatican [Council] I) died [on February 8, 1878] …and his casket was carried with great pomp through the streets and up to St. Peter’s, mobs of Italians filled the square, throwing stones and shouting: ‘Death to the Pope! Death to the priests! Throw the pig in the river! Throw the beast in the Tiber [River]!’” Dave Hunt
“In Hitler’s Pope, award-winning journalist John
Cornwell shows that Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, was
instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to
unhindered power – and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe. Drawing
upon secret Vatican and Jesuit archives to which he had unprecedented
access, Cornwell tells the full, tragic story of how narcissism,
long-standing personal antipathy for the Jews, and political and
‘spiritual’ ambition combined to make Pius the most dangerous
churchman in history. Not
just a firm and final indictment of Pius XII’s papacy, Hitler’s
Pope is also a searing exploration of its lingering consequences for
the Catholic Church today.” (This
quote was taken from the back cover of the book
Hitler’s Pope: The
Secret History of Pius XII
by John Cornwall.) “[John
Cornwall’s book] Hitler’s Pope reads like a thriller as it
takes us through the high-powered negotiations and international crises
from an unusual perspective…
Given the campaign to beatify Pius XII, this meticulous,
persuasive and impassioned book is disturbing in its presentation of a profoundly
flawed man obsessed with absolute papal authority no matter
what the consequences for others.” – Detroit Free Press “As Cornwell brilliantly demonstrates [in his book Hitler’s Pope], Pius XII brought the authoritarianism and the centralization of his predecessors to their most extreme stage…Nowadays we may not know what a saint should be, but we do know what a saint should not be – a man of narrow spirit and heart, a man who could not find at the very least a ‘candid word’ when millions of human beings from all corners of Europe, some of them from under his own windows, were led to their systematic extermination.” Saul Friedlander (Writer, Los Angeles Times) ((Ed. Note: Cornwell’s excellent book Hitler’s Pope is currently out of print. It would be worth one’s effort to track down a used copy of it to read.))
“It is important to remember that the man [i.e.,
Pope John Paul I],
who was pope before Pope John Paul II, was probably murdered
[in 1978]. Yallup
in his book In God’s Name puts forth a very good case for murder.
((Ed. Note: And
so does Vance Ferrell in his book The Murder of John Paul I.)) It is also interesting to note that the newspapers in Italy
and Spain had headlines claiming that Pope [John Paul I] was murdered.
But in the United States no
newspaper reported anything about the suspicious nature of that
pope’s death. The history
of the papacy certainly shows that time and time again a pope was murdered so that another man could claim the papal throne.
And this suspicion of murder haunts the papal chair even to this day.”
– Ronald Cooke ((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote: (1) Pope John Paul I was poisoned
to death in 1978 – Please
read Vance Ferrell’s book The Murder of John Paul I.
Pope John Paul I was getting ready to “clean house” at the
Vatican (i.e., remove all the high-level P2 Masons from positions of power
within the Vatican). He had
earlier seen in an Italian newspaper a list of high-level Masons currently
holding top positions in the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy in Rome.
Many of these men were Cardinals and other high-level prelates in
the Roman Curia – and these men were P2
Masons! Pope John Paul I did not
get the chance to implement his plans, because he was murdered
within 24 hours of presenting his list of transfers to P2 Mason Cardinal
Jean Villot, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.
Please check out my TTT newsletter #45 entitled “Pope John
Paul I: Why was he
murdered?” on Internet web site: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net
. (2) Vance
Ferrell’s book The Murder of John Paul I is only $6.50
postpaid. To order a copy via credit card, please call Harvestime
Books at 1-931-692-2777. (3) The establishment-controlled mainstream media in the United States did
not report the very suspicious nature of John Paul I’s sudden and
unexpected demise. This is not
at all surprising, since the mainstream media in America is probably the
most tightly CONTROLLED media in the Western World!
If you don’t think so, you need to read the outstanding book Into
the Buzzsaw (edited by Kristina Borjesson). This book gives us the accounts of over a dozen top
journalists who had their stories on certain taboo subjects ‘spiked’
by editors and other powerful people above them.
It is available in hardcover from “Radio Liberty” for
$29.45 postpaid. To order via
credit card, please call their toll-free order line at 1-800-544-8927.))
“Pope John Paul II
[pope: 1978-2005] presided over the second ‘pornography of the
Papacy’. He presided over
the greatest, most widespread, immoral scandal of sexual perversion in
church history. Never in
the annals of recorded history has such a scandal been displayed for the
entire world to see. Documented
case after documented case in the courts of the world, joined by thousands
of other cases which never came to light as the BAG-MAN, as he was called,
bought the silence of thousands of young men whose cases never came to the
courts. Combined with other
‘faithful’ souls who, although sodomized as children, in their loyalty
to mother church never even complained.”
– Ronald Cooke II. INFALLIBILITY Definition of “infallible” according to Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English
Language: “Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely
exempt from liability to mistake; (applied to persons).” Then Webster’s adds the following interesting note: “No
man is infallible; to be infallible is the prerogative of God
only.”
(Emphasis is mine.)
“They [i.e.,
the popes of Rome] have assumed infallibility,
which belongs only to God. They profess to forgive
sin, which belongs only to God.” (Commenting on Daniel 7:25) CLARK’S COMMENTARY
“The Pope has power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to
dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ.
…The
Pope has authority and has often exercised it, to dispense with the
command of Christ.”
– Decretal, de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap.
What follows is a small sample taken from the 27 propositions
of the “Dictates of
Hildebrand” (under the
name of Pope Gregory VII):
((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote: (1) The above quote was taken from the book National Sunday Law
by A. Jan Marcussen. (2) The pope has never been infallible, is not currently infallible, and
never will be infallible. GOD
alone is infallible! (3) GOD
will judge the pope and every other human being! (4) History has recorded that popes, far more often than not, have
absolved Catholics from their allegiance to righteous rulers
and/or rulers who dared to oppose the Vatican or her Jesuits!))
“I wanted to follow the Word of God and, unfortunately, the Pope
who is held up as the leader of Christendom holds onto things [Ed.
Note: e.g., doctrines and rituals] that contradict the Word of
God. It is very important for
everyone to know that the new code of Canon Law number 333 actually says:
‘There is neither appeal or recourse against a decision or decree
of the Roman Pontiff.’ This
is in the new code of Canon Law that came out in 1983.
That means that the Pope has absolute power and absolute
authority as defined in the law books, and everyone is familiar with
the decree of Papal infallibility.” Bob
Bush (Ex-Roman Catholic Jesuit priest)
Papal infallibility, as official Roman Catholic dogma, was
not sanctioned by the Church until 1870,
when Pope Pius IX and his backers orchestrated a massive manipulation of
the Vatican I Council of 1869-1870. Here
are several quotes dealing with the Vatican I Council (the first is by
August Bernhard Hasler; the rest are by author Dave Hunt from his
excellent book A Woman Rides the Beast):
“The whole business [behind
the scenes of the Vatican I Council of 1869-1870] amounted to a clear
manipulation of the Council.”
August Bernhard Hasler (Swiss historian and scholar; author of How
the Pope Became Infallible) ((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote: (1) According to author Dave Hunt, Hasler met an “untimely death”
shortly after finishing his manuscript.
Hasler had served five years in the Vatican Secretariat for
Christian Unity. (2) Pope Pius IX and “his friends” shoved “papal infallibility”
down the collective throats of Roman Catholics through massive
manipulation of the
Vatican I Council.))
“Much of what we know about the sinister intrigue behind
the scenes and the dishonest conclusion of [the] Vatican I [Council of 1869-1870] is owing to the work of
Swiss historian and scholar August Bernhard Hasler. …What he learned…about Vatican I was so disturbing…that
he felt compelled to write How the Pope Became Infallible.
Hasler met an untimely death just after the manuscript was
finished.
…Devout
Catholics today have sincerely believed the deceitful impression
given by their Church that Vatican I’s declaration of [papal] infallibility represented the mind and
will of the attending bishops. On
the contrary, many bishops were strongly opposed to affirming [papal]
infallibility both on scriptural and traditional grounds.
Some left in protest before the final vote was taken, and only
affirmed it later under Vatican threats and for the sake of Church unity.
…Oppressive
rules were imposed which were designed to stifle opposition and
eliminate free discussion.
…In
the main sessions, those who dared to voice any opposition were interrupted…
Sincere Catholics believe papal infallibility was passed down from
Peter to his successors. But
in fact it was foisted upon the Church by a ruthless cadre of Vatican
insiders who conspired
to stifle discussion, rigged elections, and literally intimidated bishops
into voting, out of fear, for a proposition which they opposed.” – Dave Hunt
“[Pope]
Pius IX [at the Vatican I Council of 1869-1870] constantly
applied pressure and threats, engineered behind-the-scenes intrigue,
and denounced in vicious terms any who opposed [papal] infallibility.”
– Dave Hunt
“There is no doubt that the claim of [papal] infallibility further encourages the despotism
which is already so much a part of the papacy.
Despotism
in turn leads to contempt for truth because the despot’s
power over others must be maintained at all cost.” – Dave Hunt
Author Dave Hunt, in his excellent book A Woman Rides the
Beast, asks the important question as to how two “infallible”
individuals (i.e., two different popes) can hold opposite
opinions and both be right! Please
carefully read the following quote by Dave Hunt: “Two
persons [Ed. Note: such as two different popes] holding opposite
opinions can’t both be right.
Yet popes have almost made a business of contradicting
one another on key issues. [Pope]
Agapetus (535-536) [A.D.] burned the anathema which [Pope]
Boniface II (530-532) had solemnly issued against
[Pope] Dioscorus (530). The
latter is shown as an antipope, but Agapetus, who sided with him, is shown
as a true pope. [Pope] Adrian
II (867-872) said civil marriages were valid; [Pope] Pius VII
(1800-1823) declared them invalid. Both
men are shown as legitimate popes. [Pope]
Nicholas V (1447-1455) voided all of [Pope] Eugenius IV’s
(1431-1447) ‘documents, processes, decrees, and censures against the
Council [of Basle]…to be regarded as having never existed’, yet
both remain on the official list of popes today. On
July 21, 1773, Pope Clement XIV issued a decree [Ed. note:
‘forever’] suppressing the Jesuits, only to have it reversed
by a decree restoring them, issued by Pope Pius VII on August 7,
1814. [Pope] Eugenius
IV condemned Joan of Arc (1412-1431) to be burned as a witch and
heretic, but she was beatified by [Pope] Pius X (1903-1914)
in 1909 and canonized by [Pope] Benedict XV (1914-1922) in
1920. …How could an
‘infallible’ pope condemn a saint to death as a witch and heretic?
Yet [Pope] Eugenius IV remains on the list of allegedly
infallible ‘successors of Peter’. History
conclusively denies both apostolic succession and papal
infallibility. And in fact
many popes denied the latter [i.e., papal infallibility] also,
among them Vigilius (537-555), Clement IV (1265-1268), Gregory XI
(1370-1378), Adrian VI (1522-1523), Paul IV (1555-1559), and even Innocent
III (1198-1216), who ruled Europe with an iron hand.
Then why was Pope Pius IX so determined to immortalize this obvious
fraud as official dogma? There was a very special reason: Infallibility was the final desperate prop which Pius IX hoped would support the collapsing structure of the Roman Catholic domination over the governments of the world and their citizens. To establish that dogma once for all, he convened the First Vatican Council [on] December 8, 1869.” – Dave Hunt |