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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_84Ue2QOlI

I'm glad to see that some American Catholics are withholding their donations to the Church because of its financial and otherwise support of the illegal migrant crisis, according to the above video. Not to mention several other pertinent problems.

https://schoolhistory.co.uk/notes/hitler-and-mussolini/

Quote below from link above.

QuoteItaly was Nazi Germany's obvious political and military ally in Europe. Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist, had been governing Italy since 1925 and Hitler acknowledged the role played by Italian fascism in starting Nazi Germany. The relationship between them, however, was bumpy and complex. As a result, the alliance formed was not as firm as many anticipated. Despite being military allies by the late 1930s, Germany and Italy still had their own priorities and national interests and were cautious in supporting the interests or ambitions of the other. This alliance between Nazi Germany and fascist Italy was formed out of convenience and experience.

http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/treaty.htm



    IN the name of the Most Holy Trinity.

    Whereas the Holy See and Italy have recognized the desirability of eliminating every reason for dissension existing between them and arriving at a final settlement of their reciprocal relations which shall be consistent with justice and with the dignity of both High Contracting Parties, and which by permanently assuring to the Holy See a position de facto and de jure which shall guarantee absolute independence for the fulfillment of its exalted mission in the world, permits the Holy See to consider as finally and irrevocably settled the Roman Question which arose in 1870 by the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy, under the Dynasty of the House of Savoy;

    And whereas it was obligatory, for the purpose of assuring the absolute and visible independence of the Holy See, likewise to guarantee its indisputable sovereignty in international matters, it has been found necessary to create under special conditions the Vatican City, recognizing the full ownership, exclusive and absolute dominion and sovereign jurisdiction of the Holy See over that City;

    His Holiness the Supreme Pontiff Pius XI and His Majesty Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy, have agreed to conclude a Treaty, appointing for that purpose two Plenipotentiaries, being on behalf of His Holiness, His Secretary of State, viz. His Most Reverend Eminence the Lord Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, and on behalf of his Majesty, His Excellency the Cav. Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister and Head of the Government; who, having exchanged their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have hereby agreed to the following articles:


    Italy recognizes and reaffirms the principle established in the first Article of the Italian Constitution dated March 4, 1848, according to which the Catholic Apostolic Roman religion is the only State religion.


    Italy recognizes the sovereignty of the Holy See in international matters as an inherent attribute in conformity with its traditions and the requirements of its mission to the world.


    Italy recognizes the full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction of the Holy See over the Vatican as at present constituted, together with all its appurtenances and endowments, thus creating the Vatican City, for the special purposes and under the conditions hereinafter referred to.

    The boundaries of the said City are set forth in the map called Annex I of the present Treaty, of which it is forms an integral part.

    It is furthermore agreed that, although forming part of the Vatican City, St. Peter's Square shall continue to be normally open to the public and shall be subject to supervision by the Italian police authorities, which powers shall cease to operate at the foot of the steps leading to the Basilica, although the latter shall continue to be used for public worship. The said authorities shall, therefore, abstain from mounting the steps and entering the said Basilica, unless and except they are requested to do so by the proper authorities.

    Should the Holy See consider it necessary, for the purpose of special ceremonies, temporarily to prohibit the public from free access to St. Peter's Square, the Italian authorities shall (unless specially requested to do otherwise) withdraw to beyond the outer lines of Bernini's Colonnade and the extension thereof.


    The sovereignty and exclusive jurisdiction over the Vatican City, which Italy recognizes as appertaining to the Holy See, forbid any intervention therein on the part of the Italian Government, or that any authority other than that of the Holy See shall be there acknowledged.


    For the purpose of the execution of the provisions of the preceding Article before the present Treaty comes into force, the Italian Government shall see to it that the territory forming the Vatican City shall remain free from any charge and from possible occupants. The Holy See shall arrange to enclose the access thereto, enclosing such parts thereof as remain open, except St. Peter's Square.

    It is furthermore agreed that, in respect of the buildings there existing and belonging to religious institutions or bodies, the Holy See shall settle relations with the latter direct, the Italian Government having no part in such arrangements.


    Italy shall provide, by means of suitable agreements entered into with the interested parties, that an adequate water supply be fully assured to the Vatican City. Italy shall furthermore provide for connection with the State railways by constructing a railway station within the Vatican City on the spot shown on the annexed map, and by permitting the circulation of railway carriages belonging to the Vatican on the Italian railways. It shall further provide for direct connection with other States by means of telegraph, telephone, wireless, broadcasting, and postal services in the Vatican City. It shall equally also provide for the coordination of all other public services.

    All expenses connected with the arrangements above mentioned shall be defrayed by the Italian State, within the period of one year from the entry into force of the present Treaty.

    The Holy See shall, at its own expense, arrange the existing means of access to the Vatican, and those others which it may consider it necessary to make in the future.

    Agreements shall be subsequently concluded between the Holy See and Italy concerning the circulation, on and over Italian territory, of land vehicles and aircraft belonging to the Vatican City.


    The Italian Government undertakes to prohibit the construction within the territory surrounding the Vatican City, of any new buildings which might overlook the latter, and shall for a like purpose provide for the partial demolition of similar buildings already standing near the Porta Cavalleggeri and along the Via Aurelia and the Viale Vaticano.

    In accordance with the provisions of International Law, it shall be forbidden for aircraft of any kind whatsoever to fly over Vatican territory.

    On the Piazza Rusticucci, and in the areas adjoining the Colonnade, over which the extra-territoriality referred to in Article 15 hereof does not extend, all structural alterations or street construction shall only be effected by mutual assent.


    Considering the person of the Supreme Pontiff to be sacred and inviolable, Italy declares any attempt against His person or any incitement to commit such attempt to be punishable by the same penalties as all similar attempts and incitements to commit the same against the person of the King.

    All offences or public insults committed within Italian territory against the person of the Supreme Pontiff, whether by means of speeches, acts, or writings, shall be punished in the same manner as offences and insults against the person of the King.


    In accordance with the provisions of International Law, all persons having a permanent residence within the Vatican City shall be subject to the sovereignty of the Holy See. Such residence shall not be forfeited by reason of the mere fact of temporary residence elsewhere, unaccompanied by the loss of habitation in the said City or other circumstances proving that such residence has been abandoned.

    On ceasing to be subject to the sovereignty of the Holy See, the persons referred to in the preceding paragraph, who, according to the provisions of Italian law (independently of the de facto circumstances considered above) shall not be regarded as possessing any other citizenship, shall be regarded in Italy as Italian nationals.

    Notwithstanding that all such persons are subject to the sovereignty of the Holy See, the provisions of Italian law shall be applicable to them within the territory of the Kingdom of Italy, even in such matters wherein the personal law must be observed (when they are not covered by the regulations emanating from the Holy See) and, in the case of persons of foreign nationality, the legal provisions of the State to which they belong.


    Such dignitaries of the Church and persons belonging to the Papal Court as shall be indicated in a Schedule to be approved by the High Contracting Parties, shall always and in every case, even when not citizens of the Vatican, be exempt from military service as far as Italy is concerned, jury service, and any other service of a personal nature.

    This provision shall also apply to regular officials whose services are considered indispensable by the Holy See, if permanently employed by the latter and earning a fixed salary, or employed in the Departments or Offices mentioned in Articles 13, 14, 15, and 16 hereof and residing without the Vatican City. The names of such officials shall be set forth in another Schedule to be drawn up and approved as above mentioned, and which shall be brought up to date each year by the Holy See.

    The ecclesiastics whose duty it shall be to participate, without the Vatican City, in the execution of enactments emanating from the Holy See, shall not, on that account, be subject to any hindrance, investigation, or molestation on the part of the Italian authorities.

    All foreigners in official ecclesiastical employment in Rome shall enjoy the personal guarantees appertaining to Italian citizens, in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of Italy.


    All central bodies of the Catholic Church shall be exempt from any interference on the part of the Italian State (save and except as provided by Italian law in regard to the acquisition of property made by corpi morali, [recognized public bodies] and with regard to the conversion of real estate.)


    Italy recognizes the right of the Holy See to passive and active Legation, according to the general rules of International Law. Officials accredited by foreign Governments to the Holy See shall continue to enjoy, within the Kingdom of Italy, all the prerogatives of immunity enjoyed by diplomatic agents under International Law, and their headquarters may continue to be within Italian territory whilst enjoying the immunity due to them under International Law, even in the event of their State not having diplomatic relations with Italy.

    It is understood that Italy undertakes in all cases to allow the freedom of correspondence for all States, including belligerents, to and from the Holy See, as well as free access to the Apostolic See by Bishops from all over the world.

    The High Contracting Parties undertake to establish normal diplomatic relations between each other, by accrediting an Italian Ambassador to the Holy See and a Papal Nuncio to Italy, who shall be the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps, in accordance with the ordinary practice recognized by the Congress of Vienna by the Act of June 9, 1815, in consequence of the sovereignty hereby recognized and without prejudice to the provisions of Article 19 hereof, the diplomats accredited by the Holy See and the diplomatic couriers dispatched in the name of the Supreme Pontiff, shall enjoy within Italian territory, even in time of war, the same treatment as that enjoyed by diplomatic personages and couriers of other foreign Governments, according to the provisions of International Law.


    Italy recognizes the full ownership of the Holy See over the patriarchal Basilicas of St. John Lateran, Sta. Maria Maggiore, and St. Paul, with their annexed buildings.

    The State transfers to the Holy See the free management and administration of the said Basilica of St. Paul and its dependent Monastery, also paying over to the Holy See all monies representing the sums set aside annually for that church in the budget of the Ministry of Education.

    It is also understood that the Holy See shall remain the absolute owner of the edifice of S. Callisto, adjoining Sta. Maria in Trastevere.


    Italy recognizes the full ownership by the Holy See of the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo, together with all endowments, appurtenances, and dependencies thereof, which are now already in the possession of the Holy See, and Italy also undertakes to hand over, within six months after the coming into force of the present Treaty, the Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo, together with all endowments, appurtenances, and dependencies thereof.

    In order to round off the property situated on the northern side of the Janiculum Hill, belonging to the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide and to other ecclesiastical institutions, which property faces the Vatican Palaces, the State undertakes to transfer to the Holy See or other bodies appointed by it for such purpose, all real estate belonging to the State or to third parties existing in that area. The properties belonging to the said Congregation and to other institutions and those to be transferred being marked on the annexed map.

    Finally, Italy shall transfer to the Holy See, as its full and absolute property, the Convent buildings in Rome attached to the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles and to the churches of San Andrea della Valle and S. Carlo ai Catinari, with all annexes and dependencies thereof, and shall hand them over within one year after the entry into force of the present Treaty, free of all occupants.


    The property indicated in Article 13 hereof and in paragraphs (1) and (2) of Article 14, as well as the Palaces of the Dataria, of the Cancelleria, of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide in the Piazza di Spagna of the S. Offizio with its annexes, and those of the Convertendi (now the Congregation of the Eastern Church) in Piazza Scossacavelli, the Vicariato, and all other edifices in which the Holy See shall subsequently desire to establish other offices and departments although such edifices form part of the territory belonging to the Italian State, shall enjoy the immunity granted by International Law to the headquarters of the diplomatic agents of foreign States. Similar immunity shall also apply with regard to any other churches (even if situated outside Rome) during such time as, without such churches being open to the public, the Supreme Pontiff shall take part in religious ceremonies celebrated therein.


    The property mentioned in the three preceding Articles, as also that used as headquarters of the following Papal institutions - the Gregorian University, the Biblical, Oriental, and Archaeological Institutes, the Russian Seminary, the Lombard College, the two Palaces of St. Apollinaris, and the Home of the Retreat of the Clergy dedicated to St. John and St. Paul - shall never be subject to charges or to expropriation for reasons of public utility, save by previous agreement with the Holy See, and shall be exempt from any contribution or tax, whether ordinary or extraordinary and payable to the State or to any other body.

    It shall be permissible for the Holy See to deal with all buildings above mentioned or referred to in the three preceding Articles as it may deem fit, without obtaining the authorization or consent of the Italian governmental, provincial, or communal authority, which authorities may in this regard rely entirely on the high artistic traditions of the Catholic Church.


    As from January 1, 1929, salaries of whatsoever nature payable by the Holy See, or by other central bodies of the Catholic Church and by bodies administered directly by the Holy See whether within or without Rome to dignitaries employed and salaried (whether permanently or not, shall be exempt from any contribution or tax whether payable to the State or to any other body.


    The artistic and scientific treasures existing within the Vatican City and the Lateran Palace shall remain open to scholars and visitors, although the Holy See shall be free to regulate the admission of the public thereto.


    Diplomats and envoys of the Holy See, as well as diplomats and envoys of foreign Governments accredited to the Holy See, and the dignitaries of the Church arriving from abroad and traveling to the Vatican City, provided with passports of the States whence they come duly furnished with the visa of the Papal representative abroad, shall be allowed free access to the Vatican City over Italian territory without formalities.


    Goods arriving from abroad for destinations within the Vatican City, or without it boundaries for institutions or offices of the Holy See, shall invariably be allowed transit over Italian territory (from any part of the Italian boundary as also from any seaport of the Kingdom) free of payment of any customs or octroi dues.


    All Cardinals shall enjoy, in Italy, the honours due to Princes of the Blood. Those Cardinals who may reside in Rome without the Vatican City shall, for all purposes, be considered citizens thereof.

    In the event of the office of the Holy See falling vacant, Italy shall make special arrangements for the free transit and access of Cardinals over Italian territory to the Vatican, and shall provide that their personal liberty is not impeded or limited.

    Italy shall also take all measures, within her territory surrounding the Vatican City, necessary to prevent the commission of any act which may in any way disturb the meetings of the Conclave.

    The same provisions shall apply to Conclave held beyond the boundaries of the Vatican City and to Councils presided over by the Supreme Pontiff or his Legates, and with regard to all Bishops summoned to attend them.


    At the request of the Holy See, or by its delegate who may be appointed in single cases or permanently, Italy shall provide within her for the punishment of offences committed within the Vatican City, save and except when the author of the offence shall have taken refuge in Italian territory, in which event he shall immediately be proceeded against according to the provisions of the Italian laws.

    The Holy See shall hand over to the Italian State all persons who may have taken refuge within the Vatican City, when accused of acts committed within Italian territory which are considered to be criminal by the law of both States.

    The same provisions shall apply in regard to persons accused of offences who may have taken refuge within the buildings enjoying immunity in accordance with the provisions of Article 15 hereof, save and except if the persons having authority within such buildings prefer to request members of the Italian police force to enter and arrest such persons.


    The regulations provided by International Law shall apply for the execution, within the Kingdom of Italy, of sentences pronounced by the Courts of the Vatican City.

    All sentences and measures emanating from ecclesiastical authorities and officially communicated to the civil authorities, in regard to ecclesiastical or religious persons and concerning spiritual or disciplinary matters, shall without other formality have legal effect in Italy even for all civil purposes.


    In regard to the sovereignty appertaining to it also in international matters, the Holy See declares that it desires to take, and shall take, no part in any temporal rivalries between other States, nor in any international congresses called to settle such matters, save and except in the event of such parties making a mutual appeal to the pacific mission of the Holy See, the latter reserving in any event the right of exercising its moral and spiritual power.

    The Vatican City shall, therefore, be invariably and in every event considered as neutral and inviolable territory.


    By a special Convention written below and united to the present Treaty, which constitutes the IV codicil to the same and forms an integral part thereof, provision shall be made for the liquidation of the credit of the Holy See towards Italy. ±


    The Holy See considers that the agreements signed to-day offer an adequate guarantee for assuring to it, together with the requisite liberty and independence, the pastoral administration of the Roman Diocese and the Catholic Church throughout Italy and the entire world, and it declares the Roman Question to be definitely and irrevocably settled and therefore eliminated, and recognizes the Kingdom of Italy under the Dynasty of the House of Savoy, with Rome as the capital of the Italian State.

    Italy, on her part, recognizes the State of the Vatican City under the sovereignty of the Supreme Pontiff.

    The law dated May 13, 1871 (No. 214) and any other dispositions contrary to the present Treaty, are hereby abrogated.


    Within four months after the signature thereof, the present Treaty shall be submitted for ratification by the Supreme Pontiff and the King of Italy, and shall enter into force as soon as ratifications are exchanged.

    Dated in Rome this 11th day of February, 1929.


2. THE FINANCIAL CONVENTION ANNEXED TO THE TREATY ±

   The Holy See and Italy having in consequence of the stipulations of the Treaty which has definitely composed ' the Roman Question ' held it necessary to regulate with a distinct convention, forming an integral part of the same, their financial relations;

   The supreme Pontiff considering on the one hand the immense damage sustained by the Apostolic See through the loss of the patrimony of S. Peter constituted by the ancient Pontifical States, and of the Ecclesiastical property, and on the other side, the ever-increasing needs of the Church in the City of Rome alone, and taking into consideration the present financial condition of the State and the economic condition of the Italian people, especially after the war, has deemed it well to restrict the request for indemnity to the barest necessity; asking for a sum partly in cash and partly in bonds which is much inferior in value to the which the State to-day should disperse towards the Holy See if only in execution of the obligation assumed by the law of May 13, 1871.

   The Italian State appreciating the paternal sentiments of the Supreme Pontiff has felt bound to adhere to the request for the payment of the said sum.

Art. 1.   Italy, on the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty, shall pay to the Holy See the sum of Italian lire 750,000,000 (seven hundred and fifty millions) and a the same time consign Italian 5 per cent bonds (with coupons, June 30) of the nominal value of Italian lire 1,000,000.

Art. 2.   The Holy See declares that it accepts the above as a definite systemization of the financial relations with Italy in consequence of the events of 1870.

Art. 3.   All the acts necessary for the execution of the Treaty with regard to the present Convention and of the Concordat shall be exempt from every form of taxation.

Rome, eleventh February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.


3. THE CONCORDAT ±

   IN the name of the Most Holy Trinity.

   Seeing that from the beginning of the negotiations between the Holy See and Italy for the solution of ' the Roman Question ' the Holy See itself has proposed that the Treaty relating to the said question should be accompanied, as its necessary complement, by a Concordat to regulate the conditions of religion and the Church in Italy.

   Seeing that to-day a Treaty has been concluded and signed for the solution of ' the Roman Question.'

   His Holiness the Supreme Pontiff Pius XI and His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, have resolved to make a Concordat and to that end have nominated the same Plenipotentaries delegated for the stipulation of the Treaty, that is: on the part of His Holiness, His Eminence the Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, his Secretary of State; and on the part of His Majesty, His Excellency Cav. Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister and head of the Government, who having exchanged their full powers and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

  Art. 1. Italy, in the sense of Art. I of the Treaty, assures the Catholic Church of the free exercise of her spiritual power, the free and public exercise of worship, and of jurisdiction in Ecclesiastical matters in conformity with the norm of the present Concordat, and when it occurs, accords to Ecclesiastics for the ads of their spiritual ministry defence on the part of its authority.

   In consideration of the sacred character of the Eternal City, the Episcopal See of the Sovereign Pontiff, centre of the Catholic world and place of pilgrimage, the Italian Government will take care to impede in Rome whatsoever may be in opposition with its said character.

   Art. 2. The Holy See shall communicate and correspond freely with the Bishops and clergy of the whole Catholic world without any interference on the part of the Italian Government.

   Equally in everything that concerns their pastoral ministry the Bishops shall communicate and correspond freely with their clergy and all the faithful. Like the Holy See the Bishops can freely publish and affix within and to the external doors of buildings destined for public worship or for the offices of their ministry, instructions, ordinances, pastoral letters, diocesan bulletins and other ads concerning the spiritual government of the faithful which they see fit to issue in the sphere of their competence.

   Such publications and affixions and in general all the acts and documents relative to the spiritual government of the faithful shall not be subject to any taxation.

   Such publications as regards the Holy See may be made in any language, those of the Bishops in Italian or Latin, but besides the Italian text the Ecclesiastical Authority can adjoin translations into other languages.

   The Ecclesiastical Authorities can, without any interference on the part of the Civil Authorities, make collections within and at the doors of the churches and buildings belonging to them.

  Art. 3. Theological students in the last two years of their theological course devoted to the priesthood, and novices of religious institutions can, at their request, put off from year to year until the twenty-sixth year of their age the fulfilment of the obligation of military service.

   Clerics ordained ' in sacris ' and religious who have made their vows are exempt from military service, saving the case of a general mobilization. In such case the priests pass into the armed forces of the State, but conserve their ecclesiastical habits in order to exercise amongst the troops their sacred ministry under the ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the military ordinary in the sense of Art. 14. The other clerics and religious of preference shall be destined to military service.

   Nevertheless, even in the case of a general mobilization, those priests are dispensed from the call to present themselves who have cure of souls. As such are considered ordinaries, parish priests, vice-parish priests and coadjutors, vicars and priests permanently appointed to rectories and churches open to the public.

    Art. 4. Ecclesiastics and religious are exempt from serving on juries.

  Art. 5. No Ecclesiastic may be employed or remain in the employment of an office of the Italian State or any public entity depending from the same without the nihil obstat of the Diocesan ordinary.

   The revocation of the nihil obstat deprives the Ecclesiastic of the capacity of continuing to exercise the employment or office which he has assumed.

   In any case, apostate priests, or those subject to censure, cannot be appointed or continued as teachers, or hold office or be employed as clerks where they are in immediate contact with the public.

    Art. 6. The stipends and the other assignments which Ecclesiastics enjoy by reason of their office are open to mortgages in the same measure as the stipends and assignments of clerks in the offices of the State.1

1 Stipendiaries of the State are allowed to mortgage one-fifth of their salaries.

  Art. 7. Ecclesiastics cannot be required by magistrates or other authorities to give information concerning persons or matters which have come to their knowledge by reason of their sacred ministry.

  Art. 8. In case of an Ecclesiastic or religious being brought before a magistrate for some crime, the Procurator of the King must immediately inform the ordinary of the diocese in the territory of which he exercises jurisdiction, and ought care- fully to transmit to the office of the same the instructional decrees, and where necessary the definitive sentence of the judgment both in the first grade and also on appeal.

   In case of the arrest of an Ecclesiastic or religious he shall be treated with the regard due to his hierarchical grade.

   In the case of the condemnation of an Ecclesiastic or religious the punishment shall be performed in a place separate from that for lay people, unless the competent ordinary shall have already reduced the condemned person to the lay state.

  Art. 9. Regularly buildings open for public worship shall be exempt from requisitions and occupation.

    If in consequence of a grave public necessity it is necessary to occupy a building open for worship, the authority which proceeds to the occupation should have come to a previous accord with the ordinary, unless the reasons are of such absolute urgency as to prevent it. In such a case the authority should immediately proceed to inform the same (i.e. the ordinary).

   Saving cases of urgent necessity, the public forces shall not in the exercise of their functions enter any building open for worship, without giving previous notice to the Ecclesiastical Authority.

  Art. 10. For no cause whatsoever is it possible to proceed to the demolition of a building open for worship without previous accord with the competent Ecclesiastical Authority.

  Art. 11. The State recognizes the Feast-days established by the Church, which are the following:

   All Sundays.
   The first day of the year.
   The Epiphany (January 6).
   The Feast of S. Joseph (March 19).
   The Ascension.
   The Feast of Corpus Domini.
   The Feast of SS. Peter and Paul (June 29).
   The Assumption of the B.V. Mary (August 15).
   All Saints' Day (November 1).
   The Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8).
   Christmas Day (December 25).

  Art. 12. On Sundays and feasts of precept in churches which have a chapter, the celebrant shall sing at the Conventual Mass according to the norm of the Sacred Liturgy a prayer for the prosperity of the King of Italy and for the Italian State.

   Art. 13. The Italian Government shall give to the Holy See a table of the Ecclesiastics enrolled in the work of spiritual assistance to the military forces of the State as soon as they are approved in the mode of law.

   The designation of the Ecclesiastics to whom is committed the high direction of the service of spiritual assistance (the military ordinary, the Vicar-General and the inspectors) shall be made confidentially by the Holy See to the Italian Government. Whenever the Italian Government has reason to oppose such designation, it shall communicate the fact to the Holy See, which shall proceed to another designation.

   The military ordinary shall have Archiepiscopal rank.

   The nomination of the military chaplains shall be made by the competent authority of the Italian state upon the designation of the military ordinary.

   Art. 14. The Italian troops by land, sea and air shall enjoy in regard to their religious duties the privileges and exemptions sanctioned by Canon Law.

   The military chaplains in regard to the said troops have parochial authority. They shall exercise their sacred ministry under the jurisdiction of the military ordinary assisted by his proper curia.

    The military ordinary has jurisdiction also over the religious, both masculine and feminine, engaged as workers in the military hospitals.

   Art. 15. The military Archiepiscopal ordinary is Provost of the Chapter of the Church of the Pantheon in Rome, constituted by his clergy, to whom is entrusted the religious service of the said Basilica. Such clergy are authorized to provide for all the religious functions, even outside Rome, which in conformity with the Canon Law are required by the State or by the Royal House.

   The Holy See consents to confer on all the canons composing the Chapter of the Pantheon the dignity of Protonotaries ad instar durante munere. Their nomination shall be made by the Cardinal Vicar of Rome after presentation by the King of Italy, a confidential indication being given previous to presentation.

   The Holy See reserves to itself the right to transfer the Diaconia to another church.

  Art. 16. The High Contracting Parties shall proceed to an accord by means of a mixed commission for the revision of the boundaries of the dioceses for the purpose of rendering them more in agreement with those of the provinces of the State.

   Moreover the Holy See shall erect the diocese of Zara, and no part of the territory subject to the Sovereignty of the Kingdom of Italy shall be subject to a bishop whose seat is found in territory subject to the Sovereignty of another State, and no Diocese of the Kingdom shall include territory subject to the Sovereignty of another State.

   The same principle shall be observed for all the existing parishes as for those to be constituted in the territory near the confines of the State.

   The modifications which after the enquiry shall be deemed necessary to arrange the boundaries of the dioceses, shall be disposed by the Holy See in previous accord with the Italian Government, and in observance of the direction expressed above, saving small rectifications of territory required for the good of souls.

  Art. 17. The reduction of dioceses that may result from the application of the preceding Article, shall be brought into force as the said dioceses become vacant.

   The said reduction shall not import the suppression of the titles of the dioceses, nor their Chapters, which shall be conserved when regrouping the dioceses in such a mode that the chief place therein shall correspond with that of the province.

   The said reductions shall leave the economic resources of the dioceses and of the Ecclesiastical entities existing in the same unchanged, including the assignments from the Italian State.

  Art. 18. By disposition of the Ecclesiastical Authority the parishes shall be regrouped provisionally or definitively, entrusting them to one parish priest assisted by one or more curates uniting in one presbytery several priests. The State shall maintain unaltered the economic treatment of the said parishes.

    Art. 19. The choice of Archbishops and Bishops belongs to the Holy See.

   First before proceeding to the nomination of an Archbishop, a Diocesan Bishop or a coadjutor with right of succession, the Holy See shall communicate the name of the person chosen to the italian Government so as to be assured by the same that it has no reason of a political character to offer against the nomination.

   The relative practice shall be performed with the greatest possible care and with every reserve so that the name of the person chosen shall remain secret.

  Art. 20. Bishops before taking possession of their dioceses shall take an oath of fidelity to the head of the State according to the following formula:

   Before God and his Holy Gospels I swear and promise on becoming a Bishop fidelity to the Italian State. I swear and promise to respect and make respected by my clergy the King and the Government established according to the constitutional laws of the State. I swear and promise moreover that I shall not participate in any agreement or any counsel that can damage the Italian State and the public order and I shall not allow to my clergy such participation. I shall concern myself with the well-being and interests of the Italian State and endeavour to avert any danger that can possibly menace it.

  Art. 21. The provision of Ecclesiastical benefices belongs to the Ecclesiastical Authority.

   The nomination of those invested with parochial benefices shall be communicated under reserve by the competent Ecclesiastical Authority to the Italian Government, and cannot have effect until thirty days from the date of the communication.

   Within this period the Italian Government shall where grave reasons are opposed to the nomination manifest them under reserve to the Ecclesiastical Authority, and if the dissent continues shall bring the case before the Holy See.

   When Crave reasons arise which render the continuance of an Ecclesiastic in a determined parochial benefice injurious, the Italian Government shall communicate such reasons to the ordinary who in accord with the Government shall take the appropriate measures within three months thereof.

   In case of divergences between the ordinary and the Government, the Holy See shall entrust the solution of the question to two Ecclesiastics chosen by it, who in accord with two delegates of the Italian Government shall take a definitive decision.

   Art. 22. Ecclesiastics who are not Italian citizens cannot be invested with the existing benefices in Italy. Those in charge of dioceses or parishes must speak the Italian language.

   Where necessary they shall have helpers assigned to them who, besides Italian, understand and speak the language locally in use, for the purpose of giving religious assistance in that language to the faithful according to the rules of the Church.

  Art. 23. The dispositions of Articles 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 22 do not apply to Rome and the suburban dioceses.

   But the Holy See shall proceed to a new arrangement of the said dioceses, the assignments at present being made by the Italian State both of their revenues and of the other Ecclesiastical Institutions shall remain unchanged.

  Art. 24. The exequatur and the Royal placet are abolished, and any Cæsarean or Royal nomination in the matter of the appointment to any Ecclesiastical benefices or offices throughout Italy, saving the exceptions made by Art. 29, letter g.

  Art. 25. The Italian State renounces the sovereign prerogative of the Royal patronage of benefices both major and minor.

   Likewise the regalia1 over major or minor benefices and the terzo pensionabile2 in the provinces of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies is abolished.

   1 Regalia. The right on the part of the Crown to appropriate to itself the income of Ecclesiastical benefices during the period they remain vacant.
   2 Terso pensionabile. The right of the State to apply a third part of the income of a benefice in favour of persons designated by itself.  Such rights were in force in the provinces of the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

   The relative burdens cease to be chargeable to the State and to the dependent administrations.

   Art. 26. The nomination to the possession of the major or manor benefices and of the temporary representative of the vacant See or benefice has the effect of the said Ecclesiastical provision, in which the Government officially participates.

   The administration and enjoyment of the revenues during the vacancy shall be arranged according to the norm of Canon Law.

   In the case of bad management the Italian State in accord with the Ecclesiastical Authority shall proceed to the sequestration of the temporalities of the benefice, devoting the net revenues in favour of the possessor, or in his absence to the advantage of the benefice.

   Art. 27. The Basilicas of the Holy House at Loreto, of S. Francis at Assisi and of S. Antony at Padua, with the buildings and works annexed, except those of a purely lay character, shall be ceded to the Holy See and their administration shall belong to the same. They shall be free from every interference by the State and from the conversion of other entities of whatsoever nature under the management of the Holy See, even the Missionary Colleges. In any case the Italian law regarding the acquisitions of moral corporations remains in force.

   With regard to the property now belonging to the said sanctuaries, a mixed commission shall proceed to deal with their distribution, having regard to the rights of third parties and to the necessary endowment of the said works of a lay character. For the other sanctuaries in which a lay administration exists, these shall be replaced by the management of the Ecclesiastical Authority, saving the case of the distribution of the property according to the norm of the preceding paragraph.

  Art. 28. For the tranquillization of consciences the Holy See accords a full condonation to all those who in consequence of the Italian laws changing the Ecclesiastical patrimony, are found in possession of Ecclesiastical property.

   For such purpose the Holy See shall give the ordinaries the opportune instructions.

  Art. 29. The Italian State shall revise its legislation in so far as it concerns Ecclesiastical matters, reforming and reintegrating them in order to bring them into harmony with the direction which inspires the Treaty with the Holy See and the present Concordat.

   It remains now for the two High Contracting Parties to agree the following :

   (a) The personality of the Ecclesiastical entities already recognised by the Italian law (the Holy See, Dioceses, Chapters, Seminaries, parishes, etc.) shall remain unchanged. Such personality shall be recognized also in churches open to public worship which at present do not enjoy it, composing those that formerly belonged to Ecclesiastical entities now suppressed, with the assignment in regard to these last of the revenue actually destined to each one from the Fund of Public Worship. Saving what is settled in the previous Art. 27, the council of administration wheresoever existing, and even if wholly or in part composed of lay persons, shall not interfere in the service of public worship, and the nomination of those composing the administration shall be made in agreement with the Ecclesiastical Authority.

   (b) The juridical personality of those religious congregations shall be recognized, with or without votes, approved by the Holy See, which have their principal house within the Kingdom, and are there represented juridically and in fad by persons who are of Italian citizenship and are domiciled in Italy.

   The juridical personality shall also be recognized of the Italian religious provinces of those associations having their principal house abroad within the limits of the State and its colonies? when the same conditions concur.

   The Juridical personality of houses, when the particular rules of each order attributes to them the right of acquisition and possession, shall likewise be recognized.

  Finally shall be recognized the houses of the Generals, and the procurators of religious associations, including those abroad. The religious houses and associations which at present enjoy juridical personality shall conserve the same.

  The acts relating to the transfer of the property to which the associations now come into possession from the present owners to the association shall be exempt from any taxation.

   (c) The confraternities exclusively or principally devoted to worship and which are not subject to ulterior transformation as regards their purpose, depend on the Ecclesiastical Authority for what concerns their functioning and administration.

   (d) The foundation of religious worship of any kind is permitted provided that it responds to the needs of the people, and imposes no financial burden on the State. These dispositions apply to such as are already in existence.

   (e) In the civil administration of Ecclesiastical patrimony resulting from the aversive laws half the council of administration shall be composed of members designated by the Ecclesiastical Authority, and likewise for the religious funds of the new provinces.

   (f) The acts computed up to the present by Ecclesiastical or religious entities, without the observance of the civil law, shall be recognized and regularized by the Italian State at the request of the ordinary if presented within three years from the entry into force of this Concordat.

   (g) The Italian State renounces the exemption from Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the palatine clergy in all Italy (saving for those belonging to the Church of the Santa Sindone of Turin di Superga, and of the Sudario of Rome and the chapels annexed to the palaces which are occupied by the Sovereign and the Royal princes) entering all the nominations and provisions of benefices and offices under the norm of the preceding Articles. An appropriate commission shall provide for the assignment to any basilica or palatine Church of a suitable endowment according to the criteria indicated for the property of the sanctuaries in Art. 27.

   (h) The tributary facilities already established by Italian law in forms of Ecclesiastical entities at present existing shall remain in force; the scope of worship and religion is for all tributary effects made equal to the scope of beneficence and education.

   The extraordinary tax of 30 per cent imposed by Art. 18 of the law of August 15, 1867, n. 2848, the quota of concourse of which see Art. 31 of the law of July 7, 1866, n. 3036, and Article 20 of the law of August 15, 1867, n. 3848, are abolished; also the tax on the passage of interest of property constituting the endowment of benefices and other Ecclesiastical entities established by Art. I of the Royal Decree, December 30, 1923, n. 3270, and for the future the institution of any special tribute charged on the property of the Church. Neither shall there be applied to ministers of worship in the exercise of their sacerdotal ministry any professional tax or licensing tax instituted by Royal Decree, November 18, 1923, n. 2538, in place of the suppressed tax of trade and resale, or any other tax of that nature.

   (i) The use of the Ecclesiastical and religious habit on the part of seculars as on the part of Ecclesiastics or religious who have been forbidden to wear it by definitive provision of the competent Ecclesiastical Authority, which should be officially communicated to the Italian Government, is forbidden: and shall be punished with same sanctions and pains with which is forbidden and punished the unlawful use of the military uniform.

  Art. 30. The ordinary and extraordinary administration of property belonging to any Ecclesiastical Institute or religious association shall be under the direction and control of the competent authority of the Church, every intervention on the part of the Italian State being excluded, and without the obligation to submit the conversion of real estate.

   The Italian State recognizes in Ecclesiastical Institutes and religious associations the capacity to acquire property, saving the dispositions of the civil law concerning the acquisition of moral corporations.

   The Italian State by the new accords, unless established otherwise, shall continue to supply the deficiencies in the income of Ecclesiastical benefices with assignments that shall correspond to a measure not inferior to that established by the laws actually in force, in consideration of which the administration of the patrimony of the said benefices as far as it concerns acts and contracts which exceed simple administration shall take place with the intervention of the Italian State, and in the case of a vacancy the assignment of the property shall be made in the presence of a representative of the Government expressed by an appropriate document.                       

   The Episcopal income of the suburban dioceses, and the patrimonies of the chapter and parishes of Rome and the said dioceses, is not subject to the said intervention.

    For the purpose of a congruous supplement, the amount of the said incomes and patrimony corresponding to the benefices shall result from a declaration rendered annually under the proper responsibility of the Bishop for the suburban dioceses and of the Cardinal Vicar for Rome.

  Art. 31. The erection of new Ecclesiastical entities or religion associations shall be made by the Ecclesiastical Authority according to the norm of Canon Law; their recognition as regards civil effects shall be made by the civil authority.

    Art. 32. The recognitions and the authorizations foreseen in the provisions of the present Concordat and of the Treaty shall take place through a norm established by the civil law which shall be put into harmony with the dispositions of the said Concordat and Treaty.

  Art. 33. The disposition of the existing Catacombs in Rome and other parts of the territory of the Kingdom are reserved to the Holy See, with the consequent honour of keeping, maintaining and conserving them. The Holy See can, with the observance of the law of the State and saving the eventual rights of third parties, proceed to future excavations and the transfer of the bodies of the saints.

  Art. 34. The Italian State, wishing to restore to the institution of matrimony, which is the foundation of the family, that dignity which is conformable with the Catholic traditions of its people, recognizes the civil effects of the Sacrament of matrimony regulated by Canon Law.

   The publication of matrimony as above shall be effected in the parish, and also in the communal hall.

   Immediately after the celebration of matrimony, the parish priest shall explain to the newly wedded pair the civil effects of matrimony, reading to them the Articles in the civil code regarding the rights and duties of married persons, and commit the act of matrimony to writing, of which within five days he shall send an exact copy to the Commune, in order that it may be transcribed in the registers of the civil State.

   Causes concerning nullity of matrimony and dispensations from matrimony ratified but not consummated are reserved to the competence of the Ecclesiastical Tribunals and their departments.

   The provisions and the relative sentences when they have become definitive shall be carried to the supreme tribunal of the Segnatura, which shall control them and see that the norm of the Canon Law relative to the competence of the judge, the citations, the legitimate representation and the contumacy of the parties, has been observed.

   The said provisions and definitive sentences with the relative decree of the supreme tribunal of the Segnatura shall be transmitted to the Court of Appeal of the State competent for the territory, which shall, by an order of chamber of Council, render effective the civil effects and order the same to be annotated in the margin of the Act of Matrimony of the civil State.

   As to causes of personal separation the Holy See agrees that these shall be judged by the ordinary civil authority.

   Art. 35. For secondary (scuola media) schools of instruction carried on by Ecclesiastical or religious associations the examination by the State with effective parity of conditions for candidates of the Government schools and candidates of the said schools shall remain in force.

   Art. 36. Italy, considering the teaching of Christian doctrine according to the form received by Catholic tradition as the foundation and the crown of public instruction, agrees that religious instruction imparted in the public elementary schools shall have a further development in the secondary schools according to a programme to be established by an accord between the Holy See and the State.

   Such teaching shall be given by means of masters and professors, priests and religious approved by the Ecclesiastical Authority, and subsidiaries by means of lay masters and professors, who for this end shall be furnished with a certificate of fitness to be issued by the ordinary of the diocese.

   The revocation of the certificate on the part of the ordinary deprives the teachers of the capacity to teach.

   For the said religious teaching there shall only be used in the public schools the text-books approved by the Ecclesiastical Authority.

   Art. 37. The director of the State Association of physical culture for pre-military instruction, of the Avanguardisti and the Balilla, in order to render possible the religious instruction of the youth entrusted to them, shall dispose the hours in such a way as shall not impede on Sundays and days of precept the fulfilment of their religious duties.

   The same applies to the directors of public schools for gatherings of their pupils on the said feast days.

   Art. 38. The nomination of the professors of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the dependent institute of Mary Immaculate are subject to the nihil obstat on the part of the Holy See directed to secure that nothing shall be wanting from the moral and religious point of view.

   Art. 39. The Universities, the greater and lesser Seminaries, diocesan, inter-diocesan or regional, the academies, the colleges and other Catholic Institutes for Ecclesiastical formation and culture shall continue to depend solely from the Holy See without any interference on the part of the scholastic authority of the Kingdom.

  Art. 40. The doctorate in Sacred Theology bestowed by the Faculty approved by the Holy See shall be recognized by the Italian State ; likewise shall be recognized the diplomas which shall be given in the schools of palæography, archives and diplomatic documents erected near the Library and the Archives in the City of the Vatican.

  Art. 41. Italy recognizes the use in the Kingdom and its colonies of the Pontifical honours of knighthood by means of a register of briefs of the nominations through the presentation of the brief by the person interested and the request for its inscription therein.

  Art. 42. Italy shall admit the recognition by a Royal decree of titles of nobility conferred by the Supreme Pontiff, even after 1870, and of those that shall be conferred in the future.

   It shall also be established that the said recognition in Italy shall not be subject to taxation.

   Art. 43. The Italian State recognizes the organizations dependent from the Italian Catholic action in so far as the Holy See has disposed that they carry out their activity outside any political party and under the immediate dependence of the Hierarchy of the Church for the diffusion and exercise of Catholic principles.

   The Holy See takes the occasion of the stipulation of the present Concordat to renew to all Ecclesiastics and religious of Italy the prohibition of belonging to and fighting for any political party whatsoever.

    Art. 44. If any difficulty shall arise in the future concerning the interpretation of the present Concordat, the Holy See and Italy shall proceed by a common examination to a friendly solution.

  Art. 45. The present Concordat shall come into force by exchange of the ratifications at the same time as the Treaty between the two High Parties for the elimination of ' the Roman Question. '

   With the entry into force of the present Concordat, the Concordat with the former Italian States shall cease to be operative. The Austrian law, the laws and decrees of the Italian State actually in force, in so far as they are opposed to the depositions of the present Concordat, shall be abrogated by the entry into force of the same.

   To prepare for the execution of the present Concordat, a commission shall be nominated immediately after the signing thereof, comprised of persons to be designated by the two High Parties.

Rome, eleventh February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.


At the conclusion of the signing, the following official communiqué was released:

    The Holy See considers that with the Agreements signed today it possesses the guarantees necessary to provide due liberty and independence to the spiritual government of the dioceses of Rome and of the Catholic Church in Italy and the whole world. It declares the Roman question definitely and irrevocably settled, and therefore eliminated, and recognizes the Kingdom of Italy under the dynasty of the House of Savoy, with Rome as the capital of the Italian State. Italy, on its side, recognizes the State of the Vatican City under the sovereignty of the Supreme Pontiff.

    The Law of Guarantees and any other Law or Act contrary to the present Treaty is abrogated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wYgt3fKDlc

Many Catholics themselves know of the Vaticans animosity toward the U.S., as the above link to a Church Militant video attests. The Green Deal and Climate Change agenda are just more attempts to rend control from national governments in submission to global government. In the case of our nation and all other nations with representative forms, this is nothing but an attempt to end such and remove power from the citizens of various nations and place it into the hands of power hungry unelected self appointed tyrants. The dumbing down of as many as possible of all nations of course, increases the gullibility of the general populace making them easier prey for such tyrants. Thus also does and is the Vatican pushing for the re-education of the world according to her Climate Change agenda as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7hb1zYqZ-k

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/140087/pope-meets-muslim-leader-rabbi-esau-sending-ishmael-complete-holocaust/

Quoted article below, from link above.

QuotePope Meets With Muslim Leader, Rabbi Says "Esau Sending Ishmael to Complete the Holocaust"
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz November 17, 2019 , 2:15 pm

They have said: "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.' For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant; The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites." Psalms 83:5-7 (The Israel Bible™)

A meeting between the Pope and an Egyptian, solidifying an agreement that sounds like the epitome of peaceful coexistence but which some experts believe hides an end-of-days Ishmael-Esau agenda.

The Meeting Intended to Unify All Religions

Pope Francis received the Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb of Al-Azhar of Egypt at the Vatican on Friday. The meeting was intended as the net step in actualizing the Document on the Human Brotherhood for World Peace and Common Living Together, a joint statement signed by the Pope and the Imam in February in Abu Dhabi intended to promote a "culture of mutual respect."

The agreement between the two religious leaders was criticized for its stance on the diversity of religions.

"The fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected," the document read. "As too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept."

On one hand, this statement could be understood as an attempt to introduce tolerance for other religions into two religions, Islam and Catholicism, which both have supersessionism as a basic tenet. While members of other religions may see this as a praiseworthy effort, Catholics and Muslims have expressed concern that this agreement represents a commitment by the leaders to a process that is unacceptable. This is especially problematic for Islam which punishes apostasy with death.

William Kilpatrick, a professor at Boston College who writes about religious and cultural issues, was skeptical of the agreement.

"it's unlikely that the Muslim parties will stick to their end of the bargain", he wrote upon its signing, noting that the document "seems to have been written almost entirely in Rome."

"[The agreement is] geared to obfuscating the dangerous differences while emphasizing the surface similarities between Christianity and Islam", Kilpatrick wrote. "This is not what Muslim converts want to hear from their pope....That the Pope seems to propose the Quran as a way of salvation, is that not cause for worry?"

Catholic Church Changing

The meeting at the Vatican comes at a time when traditional values in the Catholic Church are changing. Pope Francis has taken on a policy in which homosexuals are welcomed into the church so much so that the American LGBT magazine The Advocate named Pope Francis their Person of the Year for 2013. In 2019, Pope Francis stated that homosexual "tendencies are not a sin. If you have a tendency to anger, it's not a sin. Now, if you are angry and hurt people, the sin is there." He has frequently met with openly homosexual and transgender people.

Some Catholic Churches are taking this agenda even further. Catholic dioceses in the United Kingdom are reportedly hosting homosexual Masses designed to welcome homosexuals into the church and combine "gay pride" with the Eucharist and other Romish sacraments. According to reports, these pro-homosexuality events have received blessings from the local Roman Catholic bishops. It should be noted that these events welcome homosexuals into the Catholic Church while not advocating celibacy.

Pope Francis: Anti-Bible

Pope Francis has come under fire before for connecting the Catholic Church with the children of Ishmael. In 2015, 71 elders of the Sanhedrin tried the Pope in absentia for recognizing a "State of Palestine" with an official treaty. By doing so, the Sanhedrin claimed, the Pope was denying the covenant as described in the Bible in which God gives the land of Israel to the descendants of Jacob.

After the trial, Rabbi Daniel HaKohen Stavsky, an elder on the Sanhedrin, told Breaking Israel News that Israel must learn from the lessons of the Holocaust in order to protect the future of the state and the nation.

"They cannot forget or deny this, so the haters of Israel cannot allow themselves to do this again. Esau is sending Ishmael to kill us in a completion of the Holocaust," he told Breaking Israel News. "They pray to idols and to death. They talk about human rights, which include the right to a homeland. But they don't consider Jews to be humans, so we don't have these rights. It is not just the land, but also the title of the Chosen People that they deny. They are stealing our body and our soul. They are against Israel because they cannot allow us to fulfill the prophecy of returning to the land."

Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander, who was tasked with defending Pope Francis at the trial has modified his opinion of the pontiff since the trial.

"A lot has changed since then," Rabbi Hollander told Breaking Israel news. "This pope is not like previous Popes. He is from South America. He hid it at first but he is a socialist and that is his agenda."

"This meeting between the Pope and the Imam is the Vatican abdicating to Islam. The Vatican has realized that they cannot convert the Muslims so they are announcing that they will no longer try. The Catholic Church would like the Muslims to reciprocate in kind but in truth, the Imam did nothing of the sort."

"The Pope is not an antisemite," Rabbi Hollander said, comparing him to the lamb described by Isaiah.

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard lie down with the kid; The calf, the beast of prey, and the fatling together, With a little boy to herd them. Isaiah 11:6

"The pope sees himself as the prophesied lamb," Rabbi Hollander said. "The Imam sees himself as a wolf but not in the sense of Isaiah."

Rabbi Hillel Weiss, the spokesman for the Sanhedrin, noted that these recent developments illustrate that their conviction four years ago was a true judgment and rather than take the time to repent, the Pope has gone even further away from God.

"With both the Pope and the Imam, the truth is precisely the opposite of what they say," Rabbi Weiss said to Breaking Israel News. "Islam claims to be the religion of peace but they have never had peace or even offered peace to another religion. The Pope claims to be a man of God but he is working precisely against every precept explicitly given in the Bible."

Plotting Against Jerusalem

The Grand Imam of al-Azhar is a prestigious Sunni Islam title and a prominent official title in Egypt. He is considered by some Muslims to be the highest authority in Sunni Islamic thought and Islamic jurisprudence. Appointed by former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He has been accused of being called for stopping the "Judaization of Jerusalem." Contrary to the agreement he signed with Pope Francis, in 2016 el-Tayeb ruled that apostates must rejoin Islam or be killed.

At last week's meeting, the Pope also received along with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ambassador of the Republic of Egypt to the Holy See, Mahmoud Samy and some personalities and representatives of the University of Al-Azhar and the Superior Committee.

Perhaps the only possibility that some semblance of sanctity would enter into the proceedings came from the introduction of Dr. Irina Georgieva Bokova as a member of the initiative. Dr. Bokova was Director-General of UNESCO in 2017 when the organization passed several resolutions denying any connection between Judaism and Jerusalem. Bokova was sharply criticized for comments she made contradicting these resolutions.

Continued from reply #136

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

Entire Encyclical quoted and commented upon below may be viewed at link above.

Excerpts from - ENCYCLICAL LETTER
LAUDATO SI'
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME (All emphasis is mine, my comments in blue)

QuoteVI. WEAK RESPONSES

53. These situations have caused sister earth, along with all the abandoned of our world, to cry out, pleading that we take another course. Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Yet we are called to be instruments of God our Father, so that our planet might be what he desired when he created it and correspond with his plan for peace, beauty and fullness. The problem is that we still lack the culture needed to confront this crisis. We lack leadership capable of striking out on new paths and meeting the needs of the present with concern for all and without prejudice towards coming generations. The establishment of a legal framework which can set clear boundaries and ensure the protection of ecosystems has become indispensable; otherwise, the new power structures based on the techno-economic paradigm may overwhelm not only our politics but also freedom and justice.

Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The present world is and has already been suffering greatly from the fall and sin. It would in fact become uninhabitable eventually without God's intervention, if He has not already intervened in ways we do not even understand to prolong it already. Nevertheless God Himself has predicted the destruction of this world by His own hand, that it might be replaced by the new heaven and new earth. It is the papacies lack of faith in the word of God concerning this earths creation and final end as depicted in the scriptures, which causes her to project the theories in and of this world above scriptural testimony. She joins those of this world in seeking salvation from the coming doom through her own efforts in leading them in the false hopes of self salvation. All such is in fact rebellion against the plain testimony and word of God.

While she should be warning the world of the destruction of this world predicted at Christ's second coming and the salvation provided from such through Christ alone, she instead joins the world in seeking salvation through their own means. This as though the answer lies within the politics of this world, and the cooperation of all within it, regarding their own plans to save the planet. She not only joins them, but positions herself at their head leading the same. She is unquestionably BABYLON THE GREAT, deceiving the world through her false doctrines and fear mongering politics.

Her real problem concerning the last two centuries of unparalleled advancement in many areas, is that it all came about as a direct result of the rejection of her abusive authority, and the freedom of thought and practice which followed. The United States which became a power house of these advancements along with many others, separated church from state for the exact purpose of preventing anything like the Holy Roman Empire and its abusive history occurring again. She has of course been warring against these developments from the moment they were put into place. Thus today she is in bed with countless corporate, government, and religious leaders the world over serving them her intoxicating wine that they might become drunk enough to allow her to mount their backs and ride them where she will. She is and will continue to succeed because God has said it will be so. Woe to all of them though, who worship or serve the global beast which she is and will ever increasingly ride unto destruction.

The global legal framework she seeks to established spoken of above, is simply global government placed back under her authority and thumb. This will lead directly to the same kind of persecution and abuse it lead to the first time kings and queens allowed this satanic institution to ride upon their backs. The deadly wound of the first beast she rode will be healed, which occurred in 1798 when the Pope was dethroned and exiled, and she will have a new global beast to lead where she will. The problems she has had with the last two hundred years after she was knocked off the back of the governments she then rode, will be corrected and placed back under her control unto the destruction of this world and humanity as a whole, accepting those who remain faithful to salvation in Christ Jesus alone. The false salvation she has offered and provided as solution to the problems which she herself helped fabricate and foster, will be the destruction of all who accept her intercession in the place of our only High Priest and Savior Jesus Christ. Who is the WORD OF GOD, and did predict all of the same and reveal it to His servants.

Rev 1:1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0vFkgAVSwc

Good video. Addresses climate change and other political maneuvers of papal politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLSL-WJNaE

Another good one addressing papal Jesuit politics.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/pope_francis_admits_it_he_really_really_hates_americans.html

Article below from link above.

QuoteSeptember 5, 2019

Pope Francis effectively admits it: He really, really hates Americans

Sounding more and more like a politician and less and less like a pope, Pope Francis threw out this one for his American critics who view him as just a bit too political. According to Fox News:

Pope Francis told a reporter on Wednesday it was an "honor" to be the subject of attacks from American religious conservatives and their Catholic allies.

The pope was speaking with French journalist Nicholas Seneze, the author of "How America Wants to Change Popes," when he responded to his American critics while heading to Mozambique for a three-day tour of sub-Saharan Africa.

His stances on climate change, immigration, homosexuality and theology have garnered heavy criticism from politicians and conservative Catholics and commentators. Some critics have demanded his resignation.
"It's an honor that the Americans attack me," the pontiff told Seneze.

Interesting that he characterized his critics as "the Americans" instead of 'the conservatives.' After all, the U.S. Church (and nearly all U.S. religious denominations) actually do have plenty of leftists -- they're actually dominated by them.

Which goes to show just how coldly he views the United States with all its famous freedoms, calling to mind that like the late Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez, he's never spent appreciable time in the U.S. He knows nothing of democracy, other than the Peronist balcony-descamisados kind practiced in Argentina with its famous Argentine economic consequences. The U.S. practice of freely speaking one's mind and questioning authority that's failing unsettles him. He gets mad. If he's the good guy, then someone who criticizes him is the devil, which of course is why it's an 'honor.' The U.S. and all its freedom is a bad place, see, but he'd nevertheless like all the world's illegal migrants he claims to champion to somehow be here.

Which goes to show the depth of his confusion and resentment.

But the big problem is that he's now acting like a politician, not a spiritual leader, not the successor to St. Peter. Politicians love to throw the middle finger and say 'backatcha' to their critics (as the late Nelson Rockefeller once did), or come out swinging at their critics, as President Trump is willing to do. It's effective politically.

But it sure as heck isn't becoming of a religious leader who presumably spends his time in contemplation. Not this guy.

The pope's Vatican handlers are now cleaning up the mess left after that one:

"The pope was speaking in an informal context in which he wanted to say that he always considers criticism an honor, particularly when it comes from authoritative thinkers, in this case, those in an important nation," he said.

In other words, they're saying the pope considers everything an honor, like he's some la-di-da guy out there thinking only noble things. But we heard him the first time. He's angry, he hates Americans, he has a problem with critics, he's sarcastic as heck, and he descends rapidly into the mud of political mudslinging.

What a wretched, sorry, picture. He's down for the count to put himself into the Medieval leagues of battling popes.

Continued from reply #144

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

Entire Encyclical quoted and commented upon below may be viewed at link above.

Excerpts from - ENCYCLICAL LETTER
LAUDATO SI'
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME (All emphasis is mine, my comments in blue)

Quote54. It is remarkable how weak international political responses have been. The failure of global summits on the environment make it plain that our politics are subject to technology and finance. There are too many special interests, and economic interests easily end up trumping the common good and manipulating information so that their own plans will not be affected. The Aparecida Document urges that "the interests of economic groups which irrationally demolish sources of life should not prevail in dealing with natural resources".[32] The alliance between the economy and technology ends up sidelining anything unrelated to its immediate interests. Consequently the most one can expect is superficial rhetoric, sporadic acts of philanthropy and perfunctory expressions of concern for the environment, whereas any genuine attempt by groups within society to introduce change is viewed as a nuisance based on romantic illusions or an obstacle to be circumvented.

What is the common good spoken of above, but that determined by the Pope of Rome to be for the good of everyone. So what is the above call, but a call for the submission of all to the Pope of Rome? The technological and financial plans of every person and nation must submit to the Church of Rome's superior knowledge and agenda regarding all of the same. Nothing new here. Just the same old call for submission to Rome in all things. 

Here is an idea for the Vatican. Take the many billions of dollars you receive from the tax payers of various nations with or without their consent every year, and start clean up and green projects on a global scale. Then ask peoples and governments to contribute time, money, and people to the cause. Which I am sure many gladly will. Stop trying to politically control and dominate the world unto your vision, but rather lead by example and ask for support in your endeavors. You know, kind of like our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did, whom you claim to represent. Then please, point all to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation of their own selves and this entire world, instead of some global political government or cooperation between the governments of this world as its salvation. Then you really could represent the Lord's best wishes for this planet and everyone on it, instead of representing the Babylonian woman of prophetic scripture who seeks to unite all the leaders of the world under her intoxicating influence.

Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-official-praises-china-for-witness-to-catholic-social-teaching-21595

QuoteVatican official praises China for witness to Catholic social teaching

Vatican City, Feb 6, 2018 / 12:45 pm ().- The chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences has said that China is exercising global moral leadership in the principles of Catholic social teaching and defense of human dignity.

Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, an Argentinian, is chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. In an interview with Vatican Insider, he recently said that "at this moment, those who best realize the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese."

Sorondo told Vatican Insider that he had recently visited China, where he says he found that "they [the Chinese] seek the common good, subordinate things to the general good."

"I found an extraordinary China; what people do not know is that the central Chinese principle is 'work, work, work.' ...As Paul said: 'he who does not work, who does not eat.' You do not have shantytowns, you do not have drugs, young people do not have drugs. There is a positive national consciousness, they want to show that they have changed, they already accept private property," he said of his trip.

The bishop said that the People's Republic of China has "defended the dignity of the human person," and, in the area of climate change, is "assuming a moral leadership that others have abandoned."

Sorondo criticized the United States, where, he said, the economy dominates politics. "How is it possible that oil multinationals manage Trump," he asked.

"Liberal thought has liquidated the concept of the common good, they do not even want to take it into account, it affirms that it is an empty idea, without any interest." On the other hand, he said, the Chinese propose work and the common good. 

The bishop said that "China is evolving very well," adding that "you can not think that the China of today is the China [during the pontificate of] John Paul II or the Russia of the Cold War."

In October 2017, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China criticized the country's human rights practices.

The commission condemned "the Chinese government and Communist Party's continued efforts to silence dissent, criminalize activities of human rights lawyers, control civil society, suppress religious activity, and restrict the operations of foreign media outlets, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) over the past 12 months."

"Nothing good happens in the dark," Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) said in an October statement on China. "That is why the Administration should shine a light on the Chinese government's failures to abide by universal standards, shine a light on the cases of tortured and abused political prisoners, shine a light on China's unfair trade practices and still coercive population control policies."

https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/capitol-hill-jesuit-students-deliver-58000-catholic-signatures-support-senate-climate

On Capitol Hill, Jesuit students deliver 58,000 Catholic signatures in support of Senate climate bill

QuoteWASHINGTON — The annual Jesuit student takeover of Capitol Hill this week brought more than the usual fiery spirit for social justice into the halls of Congress, as the teens and young adults hand-delivered a petition on behalf of tens of thousands of Catholics nationwide in support of a Senate bill that would force federal action to address climate change.

The 22nd Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (Nov. 16-18), organized by the Ignatian Solidarity Network, drew more than 2,000 students from Jesuit high schools and colleges to the Washington, D.C., area to pray and work together toward addressing injustice and inequality in their world.

On the final day, many of them flocked to congressional offices, equipped with talking points and proposals on immigration reform and environmental justice for their elected officials. In tow were also copies of a petition signed by more than 58,000 people urging their senators to support a House-passed bill requiring the president to create a plan to meet the U.S. commitment under the Paris Agreement.

The petition effort was a joint initiative by Ignatian Solidarity Network and Catholic Climate Covenant.

The International Climate Accountability Act would give the White House 120 days to submit a plan to Congress to achieve the U.S. goal — reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% under 2005 levels by 2025 — and to annually update the plan. In essence, it would block a president from departing the Paris climate deal, and also prohibits using funds to withdraw from it. The House of Representatives passed its version of the bill in May.

President Donald Trump on Nov. 4 began the formal withdrawal process from the Paris Agreement. It will take effect a year later.

The lone Republican among the bill's 46 co-sponsors is Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

The petition drive was supported by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the Sisters of Mercy, Franciscan Action Network, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and the Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach.

"Climate change is already causing major suffering around the world intensifying floods and droughts and impacting food systems. Sea-levels are rising affecting millions today and future generations will suffer even more. Meanwhile, the federal government is failing to provide global leadership to protect life. This is not morally acceptable," reads sample language of a form letter addressed to senators.

During an environmental policy briefing Nov. 17, Jose Aguto, Catholic Climate Covenant associate director, said that young people represent the solution to ending partisanship in the nation, particularly on climate change.

He said the petition received support from people in all 50 states, and not just predominantly from traditionally blue ones. Florida, for instance, contributed 25,000 signatures, more than any other state. Aguto also pointed out the Catholic Climate Declaration — a separate statement backing the Paris Agreement endorsed by roughly 800 Catholic institutions — collected signatures from bishops in Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi, Wyoming, Texas and Kentucky.

Copies of the Catholic Climate Declaration were also shared with Senate offices.

Pressing for immigration reform, climate action

A delegation of roughly two dozen students from Jesuit schools in California presented the signatures and declaration to staff members for Sen. Kamala Harris during a meeting in the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building.

While they described how wildfires in the state have interrupted their lives in direct and indirect ways, the students spent the bulk of their time pressing for a more humane immigration system.

As Jesuit students, they said, they are taught to speak up for the voiceless, and their Catholic faith holds that all people should be treated with dignity.

One by one, the students talked about their own experiences with immigration. Nearly all said they've been impacted directly or indirectly by inhumane migration policies. They addressed ICE raids across the state and the Trump administration's family separation and Remain in Mexico policies.

Oscar, a student at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose who asked that his full name not be published, came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 4 and received DACA status in 2017. The Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program shields from deportation some immigrants who came into the country illegally as children. But now he fears for himself and his younger sister should the Supreme Court uphold the Trump administration's revoking of the program.

"It's just a fear of going back to a country I don't know," he said.

Taylor Schlicht, a junior at Xavier College Preparatory School in Palm Desert, said hearing from immigrant speakers at the Teach-In ahead of the lobby day was "refreshing," because it showed to her that the policies they want aligned with students' experiences around immigration in Southern California.

"It was nice knowing that we can make our voices heard and be a voice for the voiceless," she told NCR.........................................

https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2019/09/20/global-climate-strike-ignatian-network/

QuoteGLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE MOBILIZES IGNATIAN NETWORK INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

BY ISN STAFF | September 20, 2019
[updated September 23, 2019]

On Friday, September 20, 2019, students around the world stepped out of their classrooms to unite with their global peers demanding action on climate change. The Global Climate Strike's timing strategically comes just days before the world leaders gather for the United Nations climate summit.

In the U.S. and beyond, numerous Jesuit and other Catholic institutions, parishes, and communities joined in the strikes, some utilizing ISN's Ignatian Carbon Challenge Climate Strike resources, designed in collaboration with the Jesuit Conference of Canada and U.S.'s Office of Justice and Ecology to assist network members as they pray, act, and advocate for climate change prioritization.

Two of the core tenets of Jesuit education are the call to help students become women and men for others and to form and educate agents of change in the world. The global climate strikes provide an educational moment within the context of world events. "We believe it is important to mark this day, using Ignatian spirituality and pedagogy as the frame for our participation," shared Brenna Davis, ISN's director of environmental initiatives.

The call to action of the youth-led climate strikes is particularly relevant for Jesuit institutions in light of the recently promulgated Universal Apostolic Preferences, which ask Jesuits and Ignatian ministries to look toward new horizons in the next ten years. Especially relevant to the climate strikes are the preferences that call us to "accompany the young in the creation of a hope-filled future" and "to collaborate in the care of our Common Home." In the UAPs, General Superior Sosa states, "Young people continue opening up to the future with the hope of building a life of dignity in a reconciled world that is in harmony with the environment. It is the young who, from their perspective, can help us to understand better the epochal change that we are living and its hope-filled newness."

Below, the ISN staff has compiled a summary of ways that network institutions and individuals have worked to live out these preferences through Global Climate Strike engagement. This listing is ongoing—tell us about your involvement here to be added to this story.

Boston College student organizations Climate Justice BC and Ecopledge of Boston College united more than 80 students from a host of student groups for a campus demonstration and march to City Hall and the Massachusetts State House, joining with a group from Boston College High School.

Brebeuf Jesuit in Indianapolis, Indianaheld a school climate strike in connection with the Global Climate Strike on their athletic fields. The event was organized by the school's conservation club to show the importance of climate action.

The Canisius College Project Conservation Club and other members of the campus community, including Mike Hayes, director of campus ministry, used public transportation to join the Buffalo Climate Strike. Speakers included a Canisius alum and other local climate activists.

Cheverus High School participated in the Portland, Maine Climate Strike. "There is no longer a debate about climate change, too much is at stake not to take action," said Mary King, campus minister. "Nothing the kids could have learned in school today was as important as putting faith into action with hundreds of other students in southern Maine crying out for universal climate justice and for the health of Maine's ecosystems."

Creighton University..............................

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Milwaukee......................

The list goes on. The Vaticans globalist version of Nazi youth to be employed in making her social justice agenda the law of the land. When these students grow up or graduate from their colleges they will enter into society, politics, or perhaps even the UN forces which are now being considered as enforcers of this Roman Catholic social justice agenda as well.

https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/danish-professor-says-united-nations-use-military-enforce-climate-change-agenda

QuoteDanish Professor Says United Nations Could Use Military To Enforce Climate Change Agenda

A prominent professor of international relations at the University of Copenhagen has suggested the United Nations could use military force to enforce its climate change agenda.

Professor Wæver had an interview with ABC News in Australia and said that nations who are not taking action on climate change could become engaged with the United Nations in armed conflict as it decides to enforce its agenda.

"The United Nations Security Council could, in principle, tomorrow decide that climate change is a threat to international peace and security," the professor said......................

https://www.jesuit.org.uk/more-just-and-sustainable-future

QuoteFOR A MORE JUST AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Scores of Jesuit Missions supporters were among the thousands who took part in yesterday's Climate Coalition rally in Westminster. They were joined by students and staff from Jesuit schools, as well as Jesuits from Britain and overseas. Jesuit Missions is one of 100 organisations that make up the Climate Coalition, which is raising concerns over the threat posed by climate change and highlighting its impact on the world's poorest communities.

Addressing the campaigners in Farm Street Church Hall, Mayfair, before they set off, the British Jesuit Provincial, Fr Dermot Preston SJ said their primary task was to raise awareness among politicians and decision-makers in Westminster. He said it was easy to take the beauty of the natural world for granted, stressing that it was important to recognise not only threats to the environment but also opportunities to improve our relationship with it.

"Yesterday we joined thousands of people on the streets of Westminster to urge our politicians to take urgent and decisive action to tackle climate change," said Paul Chitnis, the Director of Jesuit Missions. "They need to act both here in the UK and at the Paris meeting in December to ensure that climate change is at the forefront of the global political agenda. We owe it to the poorest people, who suffer most from the impact of global warming, and to future generations to do everything we can to build a more just and sustainable future.  We echo Pope Francis' urgent call for a new dialogue about the future of our planet and for action on behalf of the poorest."

Global concerns

Among those who took part in the Climate Coalition rally were students from Wimbledon College, Stonyhurst College (Lancashire) and Heythrop College, University of London. Staff from Donhead Lodge in Wimbledon, as well as the Wimbledon College Chaplain, also joined the rally. They heard George Gelber from Jesuit Missions describe them as 'advocates' – people who wanted to persuade others over to their argument. He reminded the pupils that many of them would be entitled to vote by the time of the next General Election and said that politicians would be impressed by the fact they were concerned about the situation facing people all over the world, not simply on their own doorsteps.

Mr Gelber highlighted three issues that lobbyists needed to raise when they met their Members of Parliament: a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the need to reduce consumption of energy and the need to retain subsidies for a more energy-efficient environment.  The rally took place the day before the publication of Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, and in the context of the meeting of world leaders due to take place in Paris in December, when they will be discussing a global agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.jesuit.ie/news/prayer-and-protest-for-climate-action/

QuotePrayer and protest for climate action

Students of Gonzaga College SJ and Belvedere College SJ united once again in prayer and protest as part of the strike for Global Climate Action in Dublin on 20 September 2019. This included their participation at the Interdenominational Prayer Service at the Famine Memorial beside Custom House Quay and the protest of more than 10,000 people in Merrion Square. They were accompanied by staff of the Jesuit schools and the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. The students gave feedback on the event, claiming that the Climate Strike Movement brings people of all backgrounds together and that it will continue to grow in size and influence.

According to Ms Siobhán McNamara, school librarian of Gonzaga College, the Gonzaga boys who attended the event live out the school's values such as accompaniment and generosity of spirit. She says, "These four Second Year boys [who express their opinions below] volunteered to attend the strike to represent the school. There was a total of eight boys in this representative group and I accompanied them. The group joined the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice at an interfaith service before joining the other secondary school students to march to Leinster House."

Ms McNamara continues: "As a Jesuit school we encourage all members of our community to be 'men and women for and with others'. Our students and staff are protesting not only out of concern for their own futures, but also because climate change disproportionately affects vulnerable and disadvantaged communities worldwide and we want to advocate for them. We were all impressed by the size of the crowd and by how well-organised the event was. The young people taking part had made excellent posters (as from the main photo) and it is clear that they believe passionately that action has to be taken to prevent further climate chaos".

https://www.jesuit.ie/news/joining-young-people-for-climate-action/

QuoteJoining young people for climate action

Ciara Murphy, Environmental Justice Advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, explains why she is joining the Global Climate Strike on Friday, 20 September 2019. The protest is being led by school students who are calling on everyone to make their voice heard and demand action on the climate emergency. Ciara will be attending the Dublin event which starts at Custom House Quay at 12pm before marching to Government Buildings on Merrion Square at 12.30pm.

"I'll be one of the thousands of people marching on Friday 20th September because I want things to change, and I want to contribute to that change. Together, as communities and a country, we need to and can do more for our environment. We need positive change, now. Climate breakdown is affecting us all, although the consequences are not shared equally.

It's easy and understandable to feel helpless and become detached when we see environmental destruction on a scale we can't fully comprehend, such as the recent Amazon fires. At home, the consequences may not seem as dramatic but we still feel the impact of climate chaos with extreme weather events like heatwaves and storms causing flooding and droughts becoming more frequent in recent years.

To combat this, certain individual actions and choices can make a difference but only to a point. What our individual voices are now more important than ever for, is amplifying the collective message. Together we can become a cornucopia of hope and change, demanding that governments become instruments of positive environmental policy. Real change will happen when those in power make it their priority. I'm protesting on Friday 20th to call on them to do that.

Pope Francis, in his 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si' urges us to care for the Earth, 'Our Common Home'. He stresses that "Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or secondary aspect of our Christian experience." He recognises that climate change is an environmental issue but one that does not exist in a vacuum, independent of other environmental and social problems including water shortages, loss of biodiversity, pollution, decline in the quality of the human life and the breakdown of society and global inequality. These issues need to be assessed through an integral ecology lens, examining the impacts of our interaction with the world around us............................................

https://www.slu.edu/news/2018/april/bill-nye-climate-summit.php

QuoteBill Nye, 'the Science Guy,' Joins the Saint Louis Climate Summit Keynote Session

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The Saint Louis Climate Summit , April 22-24, is dedicated to working to fulfill Pope Francis' call to unite in defense of our common home. Saint Louis University is proudly hosting the summit as part of its bicentennial anniversary celebration and to honor Pope Francis' call to unite leaders in defense of the health and well-being of the planet. As one of the most respected Jesuit educational institutions in the world, celebrating its 200-year anniversary in 2018 under the Catholic Church's first-ever Jesuit Pope, there is perhaps no other institution as appropriate to convene a summit aimed at tackling the challenges outlined in Pope Francis's Encyclical three years ago.

Saint Louis University is a Catholic, Jesuit institution that values academic excellence, life-changing research, compassionate health care, and a strong commitment to faith and service. Founded in 1818, the University fosters the intellectual and character development of nearly 13,000 students on two campuses in St. Louis and Madrid, Spain. Building on a legacy of nearly 200 years, Saint Louis University continues to move forward with an unwavering commitment to serve a higher purpose while seeking the greater good.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/02/06/tax-the-rich-pope-francis-calls-for-global-wealth-redistribution/

All emphasis in article quoted below from link above is mine. My comments are in blue.

QuoteTax the Rich: Pope Francis Calls for Global Wealth Redistribution

Tax cuts for the wealthy constitute a "structure of sin," Pope Francis said Wednesday in a passionate address calling for international wealth redistribution.

"Every year hundreds of billions of dollars, which should be paid in taxes to fund health care and education, accumulate in tax haven accounts," the pontiff told participants in a Vatican seminar, "thus impeding the possibility of the dignified and sustained development of all social agents."

"Today's structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development," Francis told the meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences.

During his discourse, the pope repeated his conviction that poverty is on the rise worldwide and "the poor increase around us."

With the passage of time and the advances of civilization the number of poor people increases rather than diminishing, Francis similarly asserted last June, and "the poor are always poorer, and today they are poorer than ever."

As a Brookings Institution report noted in late 2018, however, the world is currently experiencing "the lowest prevalence of extreme poverty ever recorded in human history — less than 8 percent," and that number falls with each passing year.

According to the widely used "international poverty line," people are considered to be in "extreme poverty" if they live on less than $1.90 per day or its equivalent.

In the world today, less than 10 percent of the global population lives in extreme poverty, whereas just 30 years ago (1990), some 37 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty. Two centuries ago, nearly everyone in the world lived in extreme poverty.

While in the year 1800 almost 90 percent of the world's population subsisted on less than $1 a day, that percentage had been constantly falling, dropping below 20 percent in the year 2000 and below 10 percent in the present day.

It is not only "extreme poverty" that is falling, however. The global poverty rate has been falling across every single poverty line, whether the bar is set at $1.90 a day or $10 a day.

In his address Wednesday, the pope lamented that the per capita annual income in the world this year will be $12,000 "according to official reports."

According to data from the World Bank, however, annual per capita income worldwide has been increasing dramatically year by year and in 2018 was $17,948. Furthermore, the World Bank reveals, global per capita income has increased by over 200 percent since 1990 and is now more than three times higher than its 1990 level of $5,498.

This does not suggest that poverty is not a problem or that poverty reduction is not a worthy and important goal. It does mean, however, that global poverty is not increasing but is decreasing rapidly. In free market economies that favor wealth creation such as the United States, "extreme poverty" has virtually been eradicated.

For example, in 2005, 78.3 percent of households living in "poverty" (by U.S. standards) had air conditioning, whereas in 1970, 36.0 percent of all households had air conditioning.

"If extreme poverty exists in the midst of wealth (also extreme) it is because we have allowed the gap to widen to become the largest in history," the pope said. "The world's 50 richest people have $2.2 trillion worth of assets. These fifty people alone could fund the health care and education of every poor child in the world, whether through taxes, philanthropic initiatives, or both."

It must be acknowledged, however, that no such "gap" exists between the wealthy and the poor, since the vast majority of people live somewhere in the middle. There is not a cluster of ridiculously rich people followed by an immense mass of very poor people. The majority of people are neither very rich nor very poor.

The Pope forgot to mention no doubt, the tens if not hundreds of billions his church receives every year from tax payers of various nations without their consent. This by arrangement with politicians of these nations and not the consent of the people they claim to represent. This is besides the countless billions generated by the churches business activities and investments, not to mention the shady side of her handling of very large amounts of money all are aware of. While I certainly do not support illegal or shady tax havens for the rich removing their fare share of the burden of taxes, tax break incentives and such which can create jobs and spread some wealth around are not part of such a category. Let the Pope and Vatican lead by way of example if they wish by surrendering the many billions they receive in tax monies, and the billions they also generate in other ways directly into these government controlled poverty erasing mechanisms they speak of. If they really want everyone else to hand their wealth over for redistribution by unelected and unrepresentative officials, then let them do so first before crying about and demanding everyone else do so. Then we can go from there.

Big global government run by unelected elitist politicians controlling individual, national, and corporate wealth is most certainly not the answer for combatting poverty. The past has proved this point repeatedly when great wealth and power was in the hands of fewer people. The stats in the above article fully support this reality in the revelation of the continual drop in global poverty over the last two centuries. These stats have been concurrent to the rise and development of representative government by and for the people replacing governments based upon elitism, communism, and socialism. Which form of government was directly influenced by the Protestant Reformation in the struggle for religious freedom which by natural result spilled over into political and economic freedoms. The Holy scriptures being given back into the hands of the common people, educated them unto personal conviction, responsibility, and action. By such they broke the chains which elitist religious leaders and politicians working together had bound them with.

This is the true history of the United States of America and other nations who broke free from elitist kings, queens, popes, and bishops who retained all the wealth and power to be had in their dark ages. Since that time the US and other like minded nations have outlasted and performed various communistic and socialistic nations which abused many of their citizens and have failed them repeatedly. Nevertheless, the papacy today leans more heavily towards these political ideologies than representative government and free market society. This is not to mention her full support of such in the past, and even the Nazi party in many respects before it went full on bat poop crazy. So today, after using the United States to help topple the global influence of communist and socialist governments taking over nations filled with her adherents, she now turns on us in support of global elitist, communistic, and socialistic leaning politics. Today she praises much of the same as more in line with her social justice agenda than representative government for and by the people, and free market for the same. Nevertheless, the true results of her lefty progressive politics may be seen in many an American city which has adopted them. A vanishing middle class, and extreme wealth and or poverty. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

She will not be satisfied until all forms of government and peoples submit to her usurped authority in all things. She exists as a foreign political entity within every nation that will tolerate her presents, from within she seeks to supplant their own vision and structures of authority with hers. Within the various nations she hides behind the worlds various political ideologies, using and pitting one against the other until such can be manipulated unto the results she has had in mind all along. The nations fall for her tactics one by one. They will not identify her as the real culprit to be addressed, so they are doomed. Calling each other Nazi's, Communists, Socialists, or evil Capitalists, they destroy each other from within while the papacy waits to pick up and manipulate the pieces unto her own ends. So are the nations made drunk with the wine of her false doctrines, teachings, and politics unto eternal ruin.

QuoteIn America, particularly, is this investigation important. In all the countries over which it has triumphed, Popery, like the anaconda, has wound around its folds of art, of cunning, of superstition and of power, until, enclosing everything in its too friendly embraces, it has, with one tremendous effort, crushed the nation to death. It sends forth its missionaries; it gathers its schools and colleges; it erects its cathedrals and builds its churches; it is patriotic, benevolent, charitable. Its alms and offerings attract the vulgar, its austerities and penances convince the sceptical. It is at first tolerated; then approved; next obeyed! But now come the dread realities of the system, taxation, passive submission, excommunications, interdicts, crusades, the inquisition, destruction. Yes, Popery has well nigh destroyed every country in which it has been predominant. The liberties and national prosperity of a people cannot coexist with such a system.(CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST, by Samuel J. Cassels, PART 2 ANTICHRIST OR THE PAPACY PROVED TO BE THE ANTICHRIST PREDICTED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, Pgs. 125&126)

Thus does the anomalous character of the Papacy prove it to be the antitype of "the little horn." This power is unlike all others; is uncongenial with all others. It is a usurper, a supplanter. We can readily conceive, how a spiritual power, either associated with the state, or entirely independent of the state, may exist without discord or collision. If the church be entirely distinct from the political institutions of a people, there can of course be no disturbance, as there is no contact. And if a church be established by law, as the operations of the religious and the political systems are kept in distinct spheres, there may be but occasional evils growing out of such union. But for a government that claims its existence jure divino, that sets up a universal empire, that arrogates to itself supremacy in all civil, as well as ecclesiastical matters — for a government that considers itself infallible, and which requires absolute submission in all its subjects — for such a government to exist in the midst of other governments; in its very principles trampling upon their rights and privileges; wielding both a temporal and a spiritual sword; punishing offenders both in this world and the next — for such a government to exist in harmony with other governments, is impossible, absolutely impossible. The papal system can harmonize with no other, whether religious or political. To the religious world, it exhibits one supreme pontiff of Christendom, and requires for him universal obedience. To the political world, it presents one great monarch, whose throne is above every throne, and whose will is law throughout the globe. No the Papacy is a unit, and presents the front of positive hostility to every thing that is not consolidated in itself. It may not be able to carry out its principles and wishes, but this is its nature. It is "diverse from all other governments; it is the adversary of all other governments.(Chapter 3, Pgs. 155&156)

The Vatican is a globalist institution, with the intended purpose of being on top of a new world order. The dissolution of existing governments, peoples, and nations is not only compatible with such designs, but beneficial to the same. Such provides excellent opportunity to step in and fill the void of authority in social order created by the same. Nor is she the only one seeking to more firmly establish herself upon the ruin of existing nations and peoples. She rose to power during the dissolution of the Roman Empire as she contributed to the same. Just as she is now rising to power in the same manner contributing to dissolving national and individual sovereignty on a global scale through wealth redistribution, mass migration, fear mongering politics of climate change, and a slew of other political maneuvers. Failing to identify and address this cancer within a nation, can certainly mean its demise. Why should the cost of eradicating poverty globally be personal and national freedom? It should not.

How about it, Amo?  Are you going to tell us that you agree with the SDA statement of Confidence in Ellen White? 

Quote from: current occupant2 on Sat Feb 08, 2020 - 09:45:11
How about it, Amo?  Are you going to tell us that you agree with the SDA statement of Confidence in Ellen White?

If I was going to, or decide to, I will address it in the thread where it is being discussed, not here. There are a whole lot of things to do in life and on these boards other than addressing CO2's constant accusations and questions. Even if CO2 is going to follow people around on other threads to try and get them to respond to the same.

Quote from: Amo on Sat Feb 08, 2020 - 16:10:50
If I was going to, or decide to, I will address it in the thread where it is being discussed, not here. There are a whole lot of things to do in life and on these boards other than addressing CO2's constant accusations and questions. Even if CO2 is going to follow people around on other threads to try and get them to respond to the same.

It would be nice if you would begin contributing to discussions on this forum by actually answering questions that respond to the Seventh-day Adventist beliefs that you claim to espouse.

Are you a woman? I tell you what I often tell my wife, quit tryin to manipilate me.

Quote from: Amo on Sat Feb 08, 2020 - 17:38:56
Are you a woman? I tell you what I often tell my wife, quit tryin to manipilate me.

Ooooooo.  The misogyny of your post.....  - and the veiled ad hominem......

Quote from: current occupant2 on Sat Feb 08, 2020 - 18:48:50
Ooooooo.  The misogyny of your post.....  - and the veiled ad hominem......

Oooooooooo. It is a standing joke between us. As we both understand the manipulative nature of sin and sinners which we are.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-announces-laudato-si-week-to-take-place-in-may-38697

Article below from link above, emphasis mine. My comments in blue.

Pope Francis announces Laudato si' Week to take place in May

Vatican City, Mar 3, 2020 / 09:57 am (CNA).- Pope Francis is calling on Catholics to participate in "Laudato si' Week" in May to encourage care for our common home.

"I renew my urgent call to respond to the ecological crisis. The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor cannot wait anywhere," Pope Francis said in a video message published March 3.

The video shows young protesters yelling, "Climate justice, now" juxtaposed with images of wildlife in Africa and a beached whale.

Laudato si' Week, sponsored by the Dicastery for Integral Human Development will take place May 16-24. The date marks the 5th anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis' encyclical on integral human ecology.

The Global Catholic Climate Movement and Renova + are facilitating the campaign.

The Laudato si' Week website recommends Catholics participate by engaging elected representatives, conducting an energy audit, or divesting in fossil fuels. It also recommends the option to "represent your commitment with a symbolic gesture," such as planting a tree or attending a climate strike.

Laudato si', which means "Praise be to You," was published June 18, 2015, and was dated May 24. Pope Francis took the name for the encyclical from St. Francis of Assisi's medieval Italian prayer "Canticle of the Sun," which praises God through elements of creation such as Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and "our sister Mother Earth."

The encyclical argues that it is not possible to effectively care for the environment without first working to defend human life.

It states that it is "clearly inconsistent" to combat the trafficking of endangered species while remaining indifferent toward the trafficking of persons, to the poor and to the decision of many "to destroy another human being deemed unwanted."

Pope Francis also highlighted that concern for the protection of nature is "incompatible with the justification of abortion."

"How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties?" he asked.

The pope also addressed the highly-debated topic of population control, a proposed solution to problems stemming from poverty and maintaining a sustainable consumption of the earth's resources.

"Instead of resolving the problems of the poor and thinking of how the world can be different, some can only propose a reduction in the birth rate," Francis lamented.

He denounced the fact that developing countries often receive pressure from international organizations who make economic assistance "contingent on certain policies of 'reproductive health.'"

"In the face of the so-called culture of death, the family is the heart of the culture of life," Pope Francis wrote in Laudato si'.

"The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together ... for we know that things can change," he said.

As usual, lies mixed with some truth, unto energizing the globalist political agenda of the unity of all humanity for our common good as defined by Papal Rome itself. Nothing new here. All Papal politics are globalist politics, as the papal system presents one universal religious and political leader over all of humanity. Her unification of humanity will be accomplished through her never ending illicit relations with the kings and rulers of this earth. Thus does she continually call upon all of her billion followers the world over to pressure their elected representatives where she cannot directly bypass citizens in more authoritarian governments. The subversion of all governments toward her own political ends from within or without, is her primary goal in her never ending quest for world domination.

Continued from reply #148

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

Entire Encyclical quoted and commented upon below may be viewed at link above.

Excerpts from - ENCYCLICAL LETTER 
LAUDATO SI'
 OF THE HOLY FATHER 
FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME (All emphasis is mine, my comments in blue)

Quote55. Some countries are gradually making significant progress, developing more effective controls and working to combat corruption. People may well have a growing ecological sensitivity but it has not succeeded in changing their harmful habits of consumption which, rather than decreasing, appear to be growing all the more. A simple example is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning. The markets, which immediately benefit from sales, stimulate ever greater demand. An outsider looking at our world would be amazed at such behaviour, which at times appears self-destructive.

Have the Pope and the rest of the religious and political elites all turned off their air conditioners to lead by way of example for the rest of us? As always, the sacrifice the elites demand is applicable to us, not them. Peasents of course, shouldn't expect the luxuries which elites have a natural right to, and or should sacrifice them if they are available to them. Thus maintaining a clear distinction between themselves and their overlords. Such is the only right and natural course according to the papal vision for humanity. Other voices see things a bit differently.

https://www.ammoland.com/2015/06/pope-francis-battles-evil-air-conditioning/#axzz6HKls0xxs

Holy Hypocrisy and Hot Air, Pope Francis Battles Evil...Air Conditioning

By Michelle Malkin

QuoteLos Angeles, CA -(Ammoland.com)- Unlike Pope Francis, I believe that air-conditioning and the capitalists responsible for the technology are blessings to the world.

Perhaps the head of the Catholic Church, who condemned "the increasing use and power of air-conditioning" last week in a market-bashing encyclical, is unaware of the pioneering private company that has donated its time, energy and innovative heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment to the Vatican's most famous edifice for more than a decade.

That's right. While the pontiff sanctimoniously attacks "those who are obsessed with maximizing profits," Carrier Corporation — a $13 billion for-profit company with 43,000 employees worldwide (now a unit of U.S.-based United Technologies Corp.) — ensures that the air in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel stays clean and cool.
Last fall, Carrier unveiled a groundbreaking HVAC system for the Vatican to help preserve Michelangelo's masterpieces against pollution caused by the estimated six million visitors who descend on the Sistine Chapel every year to see its famous frescoes.

As the company described it, their new solution "uses two Carrier AquaForce(r) 30XWV water-cooled chillers with Greenspeed(r) intelligence, each with 580 kilowatts of capacity. It leverages specially designed software and components, as well as patented, energy-saving technologies to maintain optimal climate conditions for the protection of the paintings within the chapel." State-of-the-art intelligent controls "anticipate visitor levels and adjust its performance intuitively." It also "delivers twice the efficiency and three times the capacity of the former system, which was built and installed by Carrier in the early 1990s."

Here's the lesson about air-conditioning capitalists that Pope Francis fails to appreciate: Carrier's technological know-how and breakthroughs didn't just descend from the clouds. As I recount in my latest book, "Who Built That," every perfectly chilled home, office, movie theater, mall, factory, hospital, lab and museum owes its existence to the profit-seeking pioneers of manufactured weather: Willis Carrier and Irvine Lyle.

These early 20th-century inventive giants brought air-conditioning to the market and to the masses. Willis Carrier was the scientist-tinkerpreneur whose prolific stream of experiments and epiphanies, beginning in 1902, fueled historic technological advances in heating, refrigeration and air-conditioning.

Irvine Lyle was the mechanical engineer-turned-salesman who imagined countless new commercial applications for Carrier's work — and successfully turned those ideas into a multibillion-dollar business through relentless promotion, pitches, networking, advertising and outreach.

The scientists and their core team begged, borrowed and made stock sales to friends and neighbors. Carrier even enlisted his dentist for cash to get Carrier Engineering Corporation up and running in 1915. Carrier, Lyle and five founding engineers together pitched in $32,600 in start-up funds.

The Carrier capitalists risked it all in defiance of an economic depression and amid the tumult of world war. They couldn't afford their own factory and scrounged for made-to-order parts wherever they could find them. They dug into their own pockets to cover salary shortfalls. The wealth wasn't handed to them. Carrier and Lyle, farm boys who both graduated from Cornell, drove their men hard and themselves harder.

The Carrier team sold its products to businesses, large and small, that spanned the spectrum of human needs and wants. The pope should know that in addition to sparing countless lives from death by heat wave, Carrier designed a special system for Jonas Salk that helped maintain constant temperatures in the vats where Salk's poliovirus strains grew. The Salk vaccine saved thousands of lives and spearheaded the vaccine revolution.

From Hollywood to the pharmaceutical industry to textiles to the retail industry to the military to homeowners, there isn't a sector of the American economy that Carrier and Lyle didn't help transform. Their zealous focus on helping businesses provide better products at cheaper costs resulted in the invaluable byproducts of increased health, comfort and happiness.

While the pope blames commercial enterprises and the "global market economy" for causing "environmental degradation," it is a worldwide commercial enterprise made in America that solved the (SET (ITAL) human-caused degradation of, and environmental damage to, the Vatican's most prized art and assets.

If the pontiff truly believes "excessive consumption" of modern conveniences is causing evil "climate change," will he be shutting down and returning the multimillion-dollar system Carrier generously gifted to the Vatican Museums?

If not, I suggest, with all due respect, that Pope Francis do humanity a favor and refrain from blowing any more hot air unless he's willing to stew in his own.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/pope-francis-air-conditioning-climate-change-encyclical/

Pope Francis Is Wrong about Air Conditioning

QuotePope Francis's aversion to air conditioning may be red hot, but he himself is comfortably cool.

In his encyclical Laudato Si', published today, the pope lambasts wasteful consumerism and unchecked human economic activity as a root of climate change, singling out one product in particular for censure: the air conditioner.

"A simple example [of harmful habits of consumption] is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning," Francis writes. "The markets, which immediately benefit from sales, stimulate ever greater demand. An outsider looking at our world would be amazed at such behavior, which at times appears self-destructive."

But ironically, Francis probably penned his disapproval in a well-ventilated corner of his residence, Domus Sanctae Marthae, which has air conditioning.

Two years ago, Francis broke with tradition when he became the first pope since 1903 to forgo the papal apartments for newer, more modest accommodations in Domus Sanctae Marthae, an adjacent building erected in 1996 to house cardinals during papal conclaves. In line with Francis's image as the "people's pope," a Vatican spokesman said the pope wanted a more "simple living arrangement." Simple, yes, but air-conditioned.

The pope isn't just being a tad hypocritical here – he's being short-sighted.

Air conditioning is an exemplar of modern ingenuity, but it's also a mechanical thermoregulatory product that's often put to conservative ends — for instance to preserve important artifacts of the past. In fact, right next to the air-conditioned Domus Sanctae Marthae is the Vatican Secret Archives, which conserves invaluable documents spanning millennia by controlling the microclimate in which they are housed.

And next door to the Archives is the Sistine Chapel, where just a year ago the Vatican installed a new air-conditioning system to preserve the deteriorating, centuries-old frescoes while accommodating existing tourist traffic. Director of Vatican Museums Antonio Paolucci wrote in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that officials had to either limit access to the chapel in order to reduce the amount of dust and carbon dioxide brought in from the outside or find a technological solution. The Vatican's decision to do the latter, according to Paolucci, allowed the Sistine Chapel "to breathe again."


More valuable than a tool to preserve objects, of course, air conditioning is a tool to preserve lives. Two years ago, the National Bureau of Economic Research published a study concluding that air conditioning reduced heat-related deaths in the United States by 80 percent and could save even more lives in hotter, often poorer countries. A/C is an especially promising life-saving technology given the potential effects of climate change, the authors contend. "The typical Indian experiences 33 days annually where the temperature exceeds 90 degrees fahrenheit and this is projected to increase by as much as 100 days by the end of the century."

Air conditioning also increases labor productivity and preserves capital stock, which has crucial implications for developing economies — and sweltering NR interns (@JackFowler). Jokes aside, another study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that labor productivity peaks at 65 degrees fahrenheit and decreases by around 15 percent every time the temperature rises by 10 degrees. Climate-control technology is also needed, the authors argue, to preserve textile threads, paper, and machinery.

Pope Francis's words  carry moral weight. If he'd like to help industrializing populations that benefit the most from air conditioning, he should find a different crusade.

Continued from reply #160

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

Entire Encyclical quoted and commented upon below may be viewed at link above.

Excerpts from - ENCYCLICAL LETTER 
LAUDATO SI'
 OF THE HOLY FATHER 
FRANCIS
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME (All emphasis is mine, my comments in blue)

Quote56. In the meantime, economic powers continue to justify the current global system where priority tends to be given to speculation and the pursuit of financial gain, which fail to take the context into account, let alone the effects on human dignity and the natural environment. Here we see how environmental deterioration and human and ethical degradation are closely linked. Many people will deny doing anything wrong because distractions constantly dull our consciousness of just how limited and finite our world really is. As a result, "whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenceless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule".

There are of course and have been examples of that described above throughout history and at present. Which most certainly should be addressed. The answer however does not lie within a mere transference of power from greedy corporations or individuals, to greedy or power hungry politicians with global designs. This would simply be moving from a deified market, to a deified elitist global government. History has proved the indiscriminate nature of the corrupting influence of power and wealth. To much power and wealth in the hands of to few people, corrupts motives and arouses instinctive defensive measures to protect and maintain such power and wealth. Religious and political leaders whether acting independently or together have historically been the corrupted powers fighting tooth and nail to maintain their wealth and dominant positions. The answer does not include a renewed global political system combining church or religion and state once again.

To the contrary, the answer lies within truly biblical concepts of personal responsibility and accountability to God, not other fallen human beings or institutions of the same. A well educated, responsible, and self disciplined people alone, can maintain personal freedom and proper government at the same time. Nothing can effect such a state of existence, as well as the gospel of Jesus Christ and the moral truths and standards proscribed in the holy scriptures. The history of these United States being a testament to the same, being largely established upon Protestant biblical principles of liberty and justice. Not a perfect society, but one filled with people holding to the high moral standards of the scriptures as their guide. While the nation had many hard lessons to learn in continuing to meet that high standard, it did move forward according to the same. Nevertheless, as that standard has been increasingly abandoned, the nation decays from within.

The answer to this dilemma is most certainly not to step back into the dark ages on a global scale by reuniting the church of the dark ages with the politics of this present world unto global governance. A global government called for by said church to address issues of her own creation or choosing unto extreme power and wealth for her and her minions deliberating and executing the same. Which agenda as anyone who cares to pay attention can see, tends towards the sacrifice of freedoms, rights, wealth, and power of all save these religious and political globalists themselves. Who of course must maintain all of the same in order to run and enforce their own agenda. Thus bringing societies back to the preferred two class systems they ruled in the past. Clergy and Nobles, laymen and peasants.

This is what the false and apostate system of "Christianity" calls for in unity with the other religions and leaders in and of this world, in order to save it. True Christianity preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ unto personal salvation concerning the judgment of God which is coming upon this world at His second coming. All of humanity will choose between the gospel of this world to save itself from the certain destruction God has pronounced upon it, or the gospel of Jesus Christ unto personal salvation from that destruction and death altogether. While it is personally responsible and even Christian to take proper care of this earth which is God's creation, nothing can save it from the fate God has declared concerning it. It will be destroyed and replaced when God determines to end sin and all traces of it. This is why true Christianity will be persecuted once again, it cannot join in the false movement coming to save this world in a manner directly contradicting the testimony of holy scripture. Those who will cling to the lies they have chosen over the word of God, will serve the father of lies in his final efforts to destroy as many as possible through deception.

2 Th 2:1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Links below are to videos or quoted articles with my comments below them. Emphasis in articles is mine, my comments are in blue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZg6xMm4HE

The video above records Gordon Browns meeting with Pope Benedict in support of the papal backed globalist EU authority, and the cooperation of various governments with the same. As the video states, they discussed the avoidance of any nationalistic selfishness or protectionism that might impede their globalist agendas.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/10/gordon-brown-says-no-deal-brexit-would-be-calamity-for-united-kingdom

The above is just one of many relating to Gordon Browns support for the papal globalist and EU vision at variance with the nationalists of Britain and elsewhere. Birds of a feather flock together. The Vatican is a global hot spot for the meeting of religious and political minds unto the globalist end. She entertains ambassadors from most nations of the world, and a continuous flow of religious and political leaders from the world over meet there to discuss the implementation of globalist policy and practice.

https://www.eutimes.net/2020/03/former-uk-prime-minister-calls-for-global-government-to-fight-coronavirus/

QuoteTHE EUROPEAN UNION TIMES

Former UK Prime Minister Calls For GLOBAL GOVERNMENT to Fight Coronavirus

Former Prime Minister of the UK Gordon Brown has called on world leaders to create "a temporary form of global government" to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

Brown wants international organizations like the WHO and the UN to be given executive powers that would supersede national sovereignty as part of a new system overseen by world leaders and health experts.

"This is not something that can be dealt with in one country," he said. "There has to be a coordinated global response."

An international task force would "make sure the efforts of central banks were coordinated," help find a vaccine and prevent profiteering according to Brown, who wants more money and power given to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

"We need some sort of working executive," Brown said. "If I were doing it again, I would make the G20 a broader organisation because in the current circumstances you need to listen to the countries that are most affected, the countries that are making a difference and countries where there is the potential for a massive number of people to be affected – such as those in Africa."

As we have exhaustively documented, it was globalism that helped spread the pandemic in the first place.

Even as the virus was raging through China, the World Health Organization repeatedly insisted that countries should not impose any border controls. When many western countries finally did close their borders weeks later it was too little too late.[/u][/b]

The tie between the Vatican and globalist leaning politicians and religionists is most obvious and blatant for all who care to see it. The Popes and Vatican have been calling upon the formation of global government for quite some time now, using the urgencies of this or that real or created crisis as the basis for this globalist agenda. Whatever can be manipulated into a good cause or need for the same, will be.

I do not mean to suggest from the above, that only radical lefty progressives are subject to the manipulative influence of the Church of Rome, to the contrary, her talents are adaptable to whatever wave of religio-politcal activity becomes the predominant one. In this world one either rides the waves of politics and or societal ills unto a predetermined destination, or short of avoiding them altogether, gets smashed by the same.

True biblical "Christianity" avoids them altogether, and seeks to address the ills of society by the wisdom found in the holy scriptures. Not by way of the politics that be of the powers and principalities of this world, but by the direction given to it from above. The true Church is -

2 Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYKcLd8zvOc&list=PLSkt8CkopCJ4pgbP_S-xdwfD-gi4G2_tq

https://pjmedia.com/trending/pope-says-virus-is-natures-response-to-the-climate-crisis/

QuotePope Says Virus Is Nature's Response to the Climate Crisis

Oh, put a sock in it, Francis.

Pope Francis is certainly not letting a planetary crisis go to waste. He is trying to piggyback the religion of climate change on the back of the coronavirus pandemic.

MSNNews:

"We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?" the Pope said.

"I don't know if these are the revenge of nature, but they are certainly nature's responses," he added.

Huh? What? Have the glaciers all melted? Why didn't you wake me up? That would have been pretty cool to watch.

For the record, you cannot cross the North Pole. Climate scientists are predicting that by 2050, it might be possible to "sail over the North Pole," but not now, or 18 months ago, or 18 months from now.

The Vatican fact-checkers blew that one.

The theory that life systems on the world are all interconnected is a well-established one. But that doesn't mean that a virus, originally found in bats, has anything to do with whatever stress is being placed on life on earth because the climate may be changing.

The coronavirus does not live outside the body. It does not interact with any other life form except the human or animal it's living in. It can survive outside the human body for several days, making it extremely contagious, but it doesn't interact with the air or water in our surroundings. In short, there is no evidence that climate change had anything to do with the creation or transmission of this virus.

I guess the pope thought he'd be laughed off the stage if he said it was "God's response" to climate change, or that God is trying to tell us something about climate. But giving sentience to "nature" is appallingly stupid.

The Hill:

"There is an expression in Spanish: 'God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives,'" the Pope said in an  interview with The Tablet, a Catholic weekly produced in the United Kingdom, that was published on Wednesday.

In addition to climate change, the pope believes we should take the "opportunity" to consume less and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world." Why do liberals always see opportunity in disaster, death, and destruction? Why not just see the tragedy and let "opportunity" take care of itself?

By extension of course then, climate change deniers are responsible for the Coronavirus, according to the Pope.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Reagan+on+unity+against+a+common+enemy&docid=608007900877229773&mid=A43534E19796CCE68D9AA43534E19796CCE68D9A&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Looks like the alien scenario referred to by Reagan has been replaced with a pandemic scenario. Nor is the unity Reagan referred to, the same unity lefty progressive globalists religionists and politicians are pushing for. Nevertheless, the enemy seeks to destroy freedom and liberty through unifying fear unto global authoritarian government.

http://adventmessenger.org/the-coronavirus-crisis-is-paving-the-way-to-restore-christian-unity/

QuoteThe Coronavirus Crisis is Paving the way to Restore Christian Unity

"And power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him [beast], whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth" Revelation 13:7, 8.

These verses describe the consolidation of worship. This ecumenical unity is a matter of Bible prophecy. The great beast power of Revelation will bring the churches together and unite them into one, by any means necessary. Whether through ecumenism, through man-made or natural disasters or by a future Sunday law, Rome wants everyone to be on her side. One thing is certain: this call for unity is being accelerated by the Vatican as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

On April 2, 2020, the Vatican released a news report on a new joint statement signed by the Presidents of the two largest and most influential Catholic and Protestant organizations in Europe. The joint statement signed by the COMECE and the CEC was titled "Let us stay together" and spoke of "renewed commitment" and "solidarity" in the face of the "coronavirus pandemic." [1]

Commission of the Conferences of Catholic Bishops of the European Union (COMECE) – Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich is president of the COMECE. This Roman Catholic organization has 33 different bishops who represent the Vatican's political interest throughout the European Union. [2] President Jean-Claude Hollerich signed on behalf of the COMECE.

Conference of European Churches (CEC) – Christian Krieger is the President of the CEC. This is a community of 114 Orthodox, Evangelical, Protestant and Anglican churches [3], plus 24 National Councils of Churches [4] and 17 Associated Organizations [5] from all the countries in Europe. President Christian Krieger signed on behalf of the CEC members.

Not only did these two Presidents sign a "solidarity" document representing Catholics and Protestants, they also traveled to the Vatican to receive the Pope's blessing. This is a day of mourning for the successors of the Reformation because today's Protestants are embracing serious theological errors. The entire religious and political world is congregating in Rome to coordinate their operations as predicted by prophecy:

"These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast." Revelation 17:13.

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across Europe, churches are rapidly uniting with the Vatican. The response has been to try to change the religious landscape by showing solidarity, love and unity with all religions. This is what Rome wants and it does not matter that the end justifies the means, even if it is through pandemics. Rome never lets a crisis go to waste without capitalizing on it because prophecy tells us that she will become the greatest religious superpower in the last days:

"And his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." Revelation 13:3.

Rome is being restored to all its former glory. Under the reign of the Antichrist, no one will be allowed to overshadow the authority of the Papacy. During this season of unprecedented fear and hysteria, the religious world has joined Rome for peace and unity. This is happening thanks to interfaith fellowship and worship. Ecumenical commitments will continue to increase throughout the world by all the world's religions:

"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" Revelation 13:4.

Many will see this as a wonderful step in the right direction. But inspiration reveals to us that this false unity and hope is being built upon rebellion and transgression to God's moral law and will only lead to more terror and confusion:

"God is permitting the elements of confusion and disorder to bear sway for a season. A power from beneath is working to bring about the last great scenes in the drama ... Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. We who know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise" (Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 28).

We live in dangerous times. Our world is changing rapidly, and the coronavirus has shown us how quickly things can deteriorate in an instant. Those who conspire to implement tyranny would love to keep God's people imprisoned and locked up so that the third angel's message is not shared. The good news is that during this time of crisis, God is still in control! He will work in a supernatural way so that His people can fulfill their divinely appointed work:

"The opposition of the enemies of truth will be restrained that the third angel's message may do its work" (Great Controversy, p. 610).

"The bulwarks of Satan will never triumph. Victory will attend the third angel's message. As the Captain of the Lord's host tore down the walls of Jericho, so will the Lord's commandment-keeping people triumph, and all opposing elements be defeated" (Testimonies to Ministers, 410).

Sources

[1] https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-04/comece-cec-coronavirus-appeal-united-europe.html

[2] http://www.comece.eu/site/en/whoweare

[3] https://www.ceceurope.org/who-we-are/introduction/

[4] https://www.ceceurope.org/national-councils-of-churches/

[5] https://www.ceceurope.org/organisations-in-partnership/

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3869

QuoteGlobalists Look To Exploit Coronavirus In Push For Global Government

Once you understand the globalist mindset, almost everything they do becomes rather robotic and predictable.  It should not be surprising that the World Health Organization (WHO), a branch of the United Nations, has been so aggressive in cheerleading for the Chinese government and its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

After all, China's communist surveillance state model is a beta test for the type of centralization that the UN wants for the entire planet. They certainly aren't going to point out that it was China's totalitarian system that allowed the outbreak to spread from the very beginning.

Even now Xi Jinping is trying to rewrite history, claiming that he had been swift in responding to the crisis more than a month before he actually did.  The lie that the coronavirus mutated naturally in a food and animal market in Wuhan continues to be peddled by the mainstream media even though no evidence supporting this claim exists. 

And China is still releasing rigged death and infection numbers while they have over 600 million people under martial law lockdown and their crematoriums continue pumping out the fumes of the dead 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Brave health workers like Li Wenliang, who was punished by the government for warning about the virus in December, have died in the process of trying to fight against the centralized behemoth just to get vital information to the world, but that never happened, right?

It was actually president Xi and the CPC that saved the day. The WHO and the CPC say so. You'll never hear the UN praise the efforts of Li Wenliang; they want his name to disappear down the memory hole as much as the Chinese government does.

The developing narrative is a familiar one - Local officials "stifled" the response to the outbreak while the centralized national leadership put things back on track with extreme control measures that have turned the Hubei province into a veritable internment camp.

Whatever you do, don't point out that it was the national government's habit of imprisoning health officials that release "false information" that led to the delayed reaction on the coronavirus.

Also, don't point out that ground zero for the outbreak is just down the road from the largest Level 4 Biohazard Lab in Asia, because that would make you a "conspiracy theorist".

The message being pounded into the public consciousness is clear: "Shut up and accept that Centralization works". Even when it fails miserably, it is still the answer to all our problems. All we have to do is "adjust" the historical record a little bit every time the system breaks and then institute even MORE centralization in response.

In other words, if the interdependent and draconian top-down structure of the globalist state leads to crisis, then it is because it was not centralized ENOUGH. Centralization always begets more centralization.

The financial fascist system of central banking and corporate oligarchy leads to the socialist welfare state, and the socialist welfare state leads to the surveillance state, the surveillance state leads to the martial law state, and the martial law state leads to full-on global governance; an endless elitist empire.

The failings of centralization have caused numerous problems long before it led to a potential pandemic. The pandemic simply clarifies the issue. For example, the breakdown in the global supply chain is becoming a bigger threat by the day.  The Baltic Dry Index a measure of shipping rates as well as global demand for goods, has essentially collapsed. 

This should have been the first warning sign that the supply chain was in trouble, but the mainstream doesn't pay attention to the fundamentals, only stock markets.  Enter Apple, one of the largest companies in the world, which has now abandoned its projections for 2020 and finally admitted that the shutdown of Chinese factories may just be a problem.

Some mentally challenged people out there are scoffing sarcastically at this issue, saying "Oh no, whatever will we do without iPhones...?".  They don't grasp the wider implications.  If Apple's production is going down because of the supply chain disruption then this is a signal that multiple companies and most of the economy are also going down because of supply chain disruptions. It's not about iPhones, it's about the bigger picture.

Globalism has led to interdependent economies and nation states that no longer have redundancies in production. We have been forced to rely on production centers on the other side of the world for a vast majority of our goods.

When China shuts down, the US economy loses almost 20% of its supply chain. When Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam shut down from the virus, you can add another 10% to 15% on top of that. Retailers in the US represent around 70% of GDP. Cut off the supply chain in Asia and retailers lose a vast array of goods to sell. The US economy eventually shuts down also, even if the virus never spreads here.

Some people will argue that we don't need all the "cheap plastic crap" from Asia anyway, and this situation is a "good thing". Sorry to break it to you, but America's economy is built on the selling of cheap plastic crap (along with the selling of the fiat dollar as the world reserve currency).

Walmart (Chinamart if you discount agricultural products) is the largest employer in the US and the world, after all. Right or wrong, our economic system is so globalized that the fall of the Chinese dominoes will eventually knock down our own dominoes.

But when this disaster occurs and numerous national economies suffer from enforced globalist integration, guess what will happen next? The globalists will ride to our "rescue" with even greater centralization. This was their agenda all along.

Many people in the liberty movement are now aware of the Event 201 simulation, a war game run by globalists in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum on a "theoretical" coronavirus pandemic that kills 65 million people.

This simulation took place only a couple of months before the real thing exploded in China in December. But hey, maybe that's all just amazing coincidence.

What concerns me even more is the solution that was presented at the end of Event 201 - the creation of a centralized global financial body that would manage the international response to the outbreak.

Isn't it amazing how every major catastrophe caused by globalism seems to lead to more globalism? One might start to wonder if some of these events were triggered by incompetence, or if they were deliberately engineered.

At the very least, crisis events have been allowed to fester unchecked by organizations like the WHO as they continue to write off the coronavirus as a non-issue that is "well under control" by a Chinese government that caused it to spread in the first place.

So here is what is going to happen next:

Best case scenario is that the Western world is mostly unscathed by the virus itself but the economic supply chain suffers major setbacks. The global economy, which was already crashing over the past year due to historic levels of corporate and consumer debt, not to mention faltering exports and freight, is finally tipped over the edge.

The massive Everything Bubble, fueled by a decade of inflationary central bank stimulus, implodes. Governments respond with totalitarian measures in the name of "protecting the public".

Globalist institutions like the IMF step in and suggest that frail national monetary systems come under the management of their Special Drawing Rights basket in order to mitigate the debt crisis. Essentially, this is the first step to global governance.

Worst case scenario, the virus spreads throughout the US and Europe and governments respond the same way China's government has; martial law and full-blown concentration camp culture. This would lead to civil war in the US because we are armed and many people will shoot anyone trying to put us into quarantine camps. Europe is mostly screwed.

The establishment then suggests that paper money be removed from the system because it is a viral spreader. China is already pushing this solution now. Magically, we find ourselves in a cashless society in a matter of a year or two; which is what the globalists have been demanding for years. Everything goes digital, and thus even local economies become completely centralized as private trade dies.

Again, this might be an engineered event, or it might simply be that the globalists are exploiting a natural outbreak. Either way, they are not going to let a good crisis go to waste. Whether or not they succeed is dependent on several factors, but mostly, its dependent on us.

How many people will buy into the notion that centralization is the answer to out problems? How many people will realize that centralization is the CAUSE of all our problems? And how many people will fight to prevent ultimate centralization under a psychopathic globalist cult?

A viral outbreak is a significant danger to us all, but an even greater threat is the supposed cure. Trading our economic and social freedom in the name of stopping the coronavirus?  No matter how deadly the bug, it's just not worth it.

Originally published at Activist Post - reposted with permission.

Pope Benedict called for global government and economic oversight to avoid economic disaster, which globalist lefty progressives support of course. Pope Francis has renewed the call for global governance under the guise of avoiding climate disaster, which globalist lefty progressives loved as well of course. Now Pope Francis and others are calling for religious and political unity toward global government and economy under the guise of saving us from global pandemics. Ronald Reagan who surrounded himself with Roman Catholics in his staff when President, and reestablished diplomatic ties with the Vatican, alluded to the unity of humanity through fear of a common enemy several times. It appears the Vatican and lefty progressives have taken up this poilitical tool as it were,  and reapplied it several times already to differing circumstance posing global threats with globalist solutions in mind or already in place to address these real or created issues. Perhaps they were more involved with this scenario presented by Reagan years ago, than any know. Lord knows Hollywierd has portrayed it many times over in Scifi and or pandemic movies, and Reagan was an actor of course. Between the Vatican, lefty progressive globalists, the media, and Hollyweird, the agenda is ever pushing forward.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-does-pope-francis-want-make-nice-china-111631

Quotes below are from article at link above. Emphasis is mine, my comments in blue.

QuoteWhy Does Pope Francis Want to Make Nice With China?

Pope Francis caused widespread confusion among Catholics when he agreed to recognize bishops appointed by the authoritarian Chinese government in 2018. Over a year later, the pope keeps silent as China continues religious persecution, imprisons priests, and destroys Muslim graveyards.

Catholic authors and theologians provided the Daily Caller News Foundation with a variety of reasons on why Pope Francis keeps silent on Chinese persecution, and why the pope aligned the Catholic Church with the Chinese government in the first place.

"Francis continually denounces Western countries for any efforts at border control, but stays silent on China's genocide against the Uighur Muslims; on its persecution of Christians; on its escalating crackdown on Hong Kong," author John Zmirak, who writes about Catholic-related topics, told the DCNF. "Is this a replay of the Hollywood studios that vetoed anti-Hitler movies, for fear of losing business in Germany? Or is it darker? Is what we're seeing more like the Soviet Union's stifling of anti-fascist rhetoric after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939?"

The above demonstrates the Church of Rome's willingness to completely contradict itself in policy and action in differing nations, in order to establish itself within the same, that it might take over various nations and eventually the world over from within. Mass migrations of Catholics influenced by the Vatican is of course beneficial, so is mass migration of Muslims into secularized nations toward destabilization of the same in favor of more religiously influenced government, as the Church of Rome seeks unity with all religions of the world unto leadership of the same. Where necessary like in China, sacrifice of their own is acceptable, if it gains a foothold for the Vatican to infiltrate and change from within there as well. The political goals and aspirations of the Church of Rome trump all others.

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Francis's agreement with China caused widespread confusion among faithful Catholics and Catholic leaders, many of whom quickly denounced the deal. The former archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, called the agreement "an incredible betrayal," adding that "a church enslaved by the government is no real Catholic Church."

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The Catholic Church has entered into hundreds of concordats throughout its history, Pecknold said. He noted in a December 2019 op-ed that the Church entered into a 1933 concordat with Germany that was "signed to protect the Catholic Church from National Socialism" — a deal the Nazis violated almost immediately. Pope Pius XI would go on to publicly urge German Catholics to resist Germany's "national religion."

Pecknold said the Vatican's agreement with China is similar to the Vatican's concordat with Germany, but as Chinese persecution continues, the Vatican will need to "speak boldly against China's abuses" just as Pope Pius XI once did with Germany.

Other Catholic authors and commentators question whether Francis might have more nefarious motives.

Many disagree with the revisionist history promoted above. The Vatican's concordant with the Nazi party has drawn relentless fire since that time. Which fire the Vatican has been seeking to put out and smother with revisionist history among other tactics ever since. Her support unquestionably aided the advancement of Nazi Germany. Her relations with China and many other nations reveal her true intentions and nature in establishing concordats with them. It is the establishment as herself as the state sponsored and protected religion, free to further influence government in favor of her own political agendas.

QuoteAuthor Henry Sire, a Catholic historian, suggested Francis is playing a "geopolitical role as an enemy of the United States" in order to gain acclaim.

"A good working agreement with China would be a snook cocked at Trump," Sire told the DCNF. "Secondarily, I think he was also attracted by the prospect of solving a problem in which previous popes have failed, and showing how a liberal pope, untrammeled by Vatican convention, could score a success that eluded the hidebound curialists."

But because Pope Francis is "amateurish and incompetent," Sire said the opposite has happened: "He has simply played into the hands of the Chinese dictatorship."

"The boot-licking media are never going to mention this blunder, as they would have done with a fanfare if it had been Benedict XVI, but I hope the realities of what is going on in China will break through to enough people in the hierarchy and show them that this is yet another of Francis's disasters," he said.

Zmirak, who is the author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism," said he worries Francis's Vatican is cultivating the China alliance as part of his struggle against the West, particularly the United States.

"Why else would the highest Vatican authority on economics, Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, take a carefully shepherded tour of China, then return claiming that this Communist dictatorship is the best practitioner of Catholic social teaching," Zmirak told the DCNF. The author, who is also the editor of conservative publication The Stream, was referring to remarks made by Sorondo following a 2018 visit to China.

"Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese," Sorondo told the Vatican Insider, applauding China's efforts to follow the green initiatives spelled out in Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si. Sorondo also accused President Donald Trump of allowing himself to be manipulated by global oil firms and praised China for defending Paris Climate Accord.

"You cannot think that the China of today is the China of [the time of] John Paul II, or Cold War Russia," Sorondo said.

Zmirak argued Francis continually denounces all Western efforts at border control even as he stays silent on the Chinese genocide against Muslims, persecution of Christians, and crackdowns on Hong Kong.

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According to Zen, Pope Francis comes from Argentina where military governments and the rich oppressed the poor together. Communists would "come out to defend the poor," and Zen believes this may have caused Francis to have natural sympathy for these communists. But Zen says that Francis does not know them as the "persecutors they become once in power, like the Communists in China."

Catholic author and commentator Phil Lawler agreed with Zen's assessment. "Dealing with Beijing is dangerous, because they're determined to control the Church," Lawler told the DCNF.

"Cardinal Parolin was given a mandate by the Pope to get a deal done. So he shut out those (like Zen) who voiced reservations that would slow progress toward a deal," the author explained.

"Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to operate freely in China, which will be possible only if the regime allows it. He's willing to sacrifice doctrinal clarity — something that's never been important to him — toward that end. So that's what is happening now. The Catholics who cling to doctrine are being suppressed; the regime is getting what it wants."

Lawler warns that Francis's dealings with China are yet another illustration of how Pope Francis will not tolerate dissidence.

The true intentions and motives of the Vatican are plain and simple for all who care to do so, to see. She is a master manipulator, willing to do whatever it takes to come out on top. Her globalist vision is all consuming as she herself is manipulated by the evil one to continually strive to dominate a world the Lord Jesus Christ came to separate His followers from. The unity of religions which she continually seeks to establish along these lines, has always entailed the sacrifice of denominational doctrines which tend toward division among the same. It is no surprise that her own doctrines should be effected by the same as well. A unity of humanity which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ never called for, is what she seeks to establish, because such being orchestrated by her would entail herself at the top of the same. So be it.

Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-04-16-pope-francis-full-fascist-universal-basic-income-enslavement.html

Article below from link above.

QuotePope Francis goes full fascist, pushes universal basic income, a strategy to enslave the world under government tyranny

(Natural News) On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, didn't celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ the Messiah. Instead, he preached about universal basic income (UBI), encouraging governments of the world to widely adopt it for the "betterment" of humanity.

In a letter he wrote to members of various social activist groups, Francis stressed that a big part of his mission in this world is to advance a hybrid form of communist socialism that will ensure a steady stream of fiat currency to those who have "no steady income."

"I know that you have been excluded from the benefits of globalization," Francis wrote. "You do not enjoy the superficial pleasures that anesthetize so many consciences, yet you always suffer from the harm they produce. The ills that afflict everyone hit you twice as hard."

Francis specifically named "street vendors, recyclers, carnies, small farmers, construction workers, dressmakers," and "different kinds of caregivers" as the types of people he believes deserve a UBI. Giving these people free money would "acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out," he further wrote.

"It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights," Francis ultimately declared.

Because of rapid technological advances in production and other tasks that are making actual human labor obsolete, many are being left behind, is Francis' take on the situation. Thus, the time is ripe to implement a new world order where people are taken care of by their benevolent governments, apparently.

"I hope that this time of danger will free us from operating on automatic pilot, shake our sleepy consciences and allow a humanist and ecological conversion that puts an end to the idolatry of money and places human life and dignity at the center," Francis contends.

"Our civilization – so competitive, so individualistic, with its frenetic rhythms of production and consumption, its extravagant luxuries, its disproportionate profits for just a few – needs to downshift, take stock, and renew itself."

Pope Francis is the communist false prophet of the new world order

You've got to admit that Pope Francis has a way with words. He knows how to inject just the right amount of Christian-sounding verbiage into his lofty diatribes about social justice and doing away with free-market capitalism, which is something he's been pushing for many years now.

Keep in mind that Francis incorporated these same things into his actual Easter message, which complemented this letter he wrote to social justice warriors everywhere who believe that the duty of the state is to take care of them by providing free money for survival.

By all appearances, Francis is the false prophet spoken about in the book of Revelation who's leading his followers astray and herding them straight into the new world order. His promises of a Utopian future built upon free money from the government is the same message coming from the likes of two-time failed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who also opposes free markets.

At some point, all of this is going to converge into a new world religion, which will require worship of the beast, a part of which will be mandatory acceptance of microchip vaccinations and total herd tracking. Such chips will also be necessary in order to buy and sell, or to receive the UBI paychecks that Francis is demanding.

Beware of anything that sounds too good to be true because it probably is. And in this case, it will come with plenty of strings attached, including the requirement that a person sell his soul in exchange for everything being promised in the name of fairness, equality, decency and goodness.

The article quoted below is five years old, no doubt the numbers are much higher now.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/24/catholic-church-collects-16-billion-in-us-contract/

QuoteCatholic Church collects $1.6 billion in U.S. contracts, grants since 2012

Not to be lost in the pomp and circumstance of Pope Francis' first visit to Washington is the reality that the Catholic Church he oversees has become one of the largest recipients of federal largesse in America.

The Church and related Catholic charities and schools have collected more than $1.6 billion since 2012 in U.S. contracts and grants in a far-reaching relationship that spans from school lunches for grammar school students to contracts across the globe to care for the poor and needy at the expense of Uncle Sam, a Washington Times review of federal spending records shows.

Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York once famously noted in 1980 that the government funded 50 percent of Catholic Charities' budget, commenting "private institutions really aren't private anymore." Today, those estimates remain about the same, according to Leslie Lenkowsky, who served as the chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service under George W. Bush.

Catholic Charities USA, the largest charitable organization run by the church, receives about 65 percent of its annual budget from state and federal governments, making it an arm of the federal welfare state, said Brian Anderson, a researcher with the Manhattan Institute.

The federal government came to increasingly rely on the church to help it with Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty," and the charities "imbued with their new faith in the government's potential to solve social problems, eagerly accepted government money," Mr. Anderson wrote in an essay for the Manhattan Institute.

Catholic Charities received nearly a quarter of its funding from government by the end of the 1960s, more than half by the late 1970s and more than 60 percent by the mid-1980s, the level where it has remained ever since, Mr. Anderson said.

Today, Catholic charity work is a large part of this nation's social safety net, according to Mr. Lenkowsky, now a professor of practice in public affairs and philanthropy at Indiana University.

"A lot of the charity is distributing food, running homeless shelters, most things considered charitable," said Mr. Lenkowsky. "So what we're not talking about is federal money being paid for priests and religious activities."

Fifty-seven government agencies are now contracting with the Catholic Church. If the church were a state, its $1.6 billion in funding would rank it about 43rd out of the 50 states in total federal funding, according to analysis by Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks.com. The majority of those funds are dedicated to refugee services and rehabilitation.

"Churches have generally looked to find common cause with secular goals, adapting their activities to the secular philanthropic model, if only to benefit from grants from the U.S. government," Olivier Zunz, a social historian, wrote in his book "Philanthropy in America." "Catholic Relief Services and federated Protestant charities have acted not as missions but as humanitarian institutions combining taxpayer money with their own for carrying out modernizing projects in many theaters around the world."

However, Mr. Anderson argues, because the Catholic Church and its charities are so ingrained in the U.S. government's welfare system, it's hard to reform and better it. For example, in 1996 Catholic Charities lobbied heavily against welfare-reform law and met with then-President Clinton to help derail it. At the time, a Jesuit priest, the Rev. Fred Kammer, who is now the director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, said the welfare-reform law would be "a national social catastrophe. No one will be spared the consequences."

There's also friction between state and church, with Catholic charities taking on such a prominent role in the government's welfare system.

Conservative Christians, unlike Catholics and some other religious charities such as those run by Lutherans, have resisted taking federal money to do charitable work, insisting proselytism and good works go hand in hand and can't be separated from one another — which most federal and state grants require...............................................

Pope Francis may hate Capitalism, but he obviously doesn't have a problem taking tax payers money with or without their consent, from a capitalist nation.

Another article which is four years old but still very revealing concerning the real source of Vatican or Catholic wealth taken from tax payers the world over with or without their consent.

https://cruxnow.com/analysis/2016/07/american-money-flowing-vatican-packs-greater-moral-punch/

QuoteUS dollars lead the Vatican's pack in 'moral accounting'
John L. Allen Jr.Jul 18, 2016

Last week the Italian government released its latest data on the distribution of annual income tax proceeds, covering the year 2012. The results show that the Catholic Church netted a little over $1.3 billion from what's known as the otto per mille ("eight per thousand") system.

Under Italian law, 0.8 percent of everyone's income tax is devoted either to support of one of the organized religions recognized by the state or to a government-run social assistance program. In a country where distrust of government is pervasive, roughly 80 percent of taxpayers who express a preference each year choose a religion, and the lion's share goes to the Catholic Church.

Moreover, the law says that for those taxpayers who fail to designate a choice, their 0.8 percent will be allocated on the basis of the shares created by those who did, meaning that the Church gets the bulk of that money too. That's hugely significant, given that in 2012 almost 55 percent of taxpayers didn't express an option.

The total yearly haul for the Church for some time now has been north of $1 billion. It's often erroneously reported that the money goes to "the Vatican," but that's not the case - it goes to the Italian bishops. They put out a breakdown each year of where it goes, with the largest line items being clergy salaries and pastoral operations.

Italy is not the only country to have some version of a "church tax." Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Austria and Germany all have such a national system, and some cantons in Switzerland also have a local version.

In Germany, the Kirchensteuer is especially consequential, each year bringing in a staggering sum in excess of $6 billion for the Catholic Church. That money allows the German bishops, despite flagging vocations and Mass attendance, to fund a sprawling range of ministries and programs. In fact, the Catholic Church is the country's largest private employer.

Each year when countries that have a church tax release their data, a fresh round of grumbling and complaint always follows.

Many secularists don't like the whole idea of public funding going to support religion. Even those who don't object in principle nevertheless often argue that in practice the system is undemocratic, since, to take Italy as an example, more than half of all taxpayers didn't actually choose to give their share to the Church, but it ended up there anyway.

On the Catholic side, there's long been an undercurrent of doubt in some quarters about the wisdom of dependence on states that have become increasingly secular, and whose agendas aren't always in sync with the Church's.

Other Catholic critics believe it's unhealthy for a local church to be artificially propped up by tax revenue, because it reduces the incentives for pastoral hustle and - in language that is, admittedly, more commercial than spiritual - "customer service."

Politically, Catholics who don't appreciate what they see as the liberal drift of German Catholicism also tend to gnash their teeth at the fact its bishops seem to be swimming in more money than faithful.

For Americans, this is one church/state battle we don't have to worry about fighting, since there's no equivalent of the church tax in the States. (Granted, estimates are that various Catholic entities in the US receive roughly a half-billion each year in public funding for programs ranging from school lunches to contracts to care for the poor, but that's another kettle of fish.)

There is, however, an American angle on the church tax worth a footnote.

The income may not flow directly to the Vatican, but it has an indirect impact because it allows bishops in countries that impose the tax to boost the amount they can offer each year to support Vatican operations.

Canon 1271 of the Code of Canon Law obligates bishops to provide funds to support the Holy See, just as parishes support their diocese: "By reason of their bond of unity and charity, and according to the resources of their dioceses, bishops are to join together to produce those means which the Apostolic See may from time to time need to exercise properly its service of the universal Church."
In terms of its annual budget, the Vatican gets its money each year from three principal sources: investments and financial activity; earnings from real estate holdings; and contributions from dioceses, as well as other groups and individuals. Each year, the biggest contributors in the third category are generally the Americans and the Germans.

Here's the difference: To a large extent, the largesse flowing in from Germany is the result of compulsory tax collections. The money that comes in from the States, on the other hand, reflects what millions of rank-and-file Catholics across the country freely choose to plunk into the collection plate.

(The situation is slightly more complex, because if American bishops had to try to fund all those charities without relying on government support, they'd probably have significantly less to send to the Vatican. Still, the point is that the American church does not get a share of anyone's income tax.)
When the Vatican ponders its income, accountants and overseers naturally evaluate it in strictly financial terms - what's the dollar value of German contributions, American, etc.?

On the premise, however, that voluntary contributions are more impressive than compulsory ones, it may be a small boost to American Catholic pride to know that from the point of view of what we might call "moral accounting," American dollars that end up in the Vatican arguably are worth more.

Taxpayers the world over are forced to support the Roman Catholic Church. Yet another sign that she truly is BABYLON THE GREAT.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/catholic-church-s-massive-wealth-revealed-20180209-p4yzus.html

QuoteCatholic Church's massive wealth revealed

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They also call into question the privileges the church enjoys, including billions of dollars in government funding each year to run services, exemptions from almost all forms of taxation, and minimal public accountability.

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I only quoted the part which reveals again in another country the billions the church of Rome receives from tax payer dollars the world over. The article addresses several other financial resources for the Roman church in Australia.

You might be able to excuse their wealth as other ministries that "preach" God wants all to be wealthy so give, give, give, (You all have heard them)

IF

dioceses all over the US and I am sure world wide were not closing or merging to stay off their own poverty situations.

Especially while the Jesuit sitting on those 7 hills is living in the lap of luxury.

"Under St. Ignatius, the Society of Jesus believed that reform in the Catholic Church began with reform of the individual. The founding members of the Society of Jesus took a vow of poverty, chastity and obedience under Ignatius. Current Jesuits take the same three vows today, along with a vow of obedience to the Pope."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-is-a-jesuit-seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-society-of-jesus

https://tricountysentry.com/Article/Index/6acf02c7-4a35-4ffd-a12a-432fd150bc5f

Article below from link above, emphasis is mine.

All humankind should heed Pope Francis' call

By Marian Wright Edelman

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT EMERITA

During this holy season like no other, on Easter Sunday Pope Francis published a "Letter to Popular Movements and Organizations," encouraging people struggling for justice for poor and low income people around our world calling for universal access to the "three Ts": trabajo (work), techo (housing), and tierra (land and food). He said:

"If the struggle against COVID-19 is a war, then you are truly an invisible army, fighting in the most dangerous trenches; an army whose only weapons are solidarity, hope, and community spirit, all revitalizing at a time when no one can save themselves alone...You are looked upon with suspicion when through community organization you try to move beyond philanthropy or when, instead of resigning and hoping to catch some crumbs that fall from the table of economic power, you claim your rights. You often feel rage and powerlessness at the sight of persistent inequalities and when any excuse at all is sufficient for maintaining those privileges. Nevertheless, you do not resign yourselves to complaining: you roll up your sleeves and keep working for your families, your communities, and the common good. Your resilience helps me, challenges me, and teaches me a great deal.

"I think of all the people, especially women, who multiply loaves of bread in soup kitchens: two onions and a package of rice make up a delicious stew for hundreds of children. I think of the sick, I think of the elderly...How difficult it is to stay at home for those who live in tiny, ramshackle dwellings, or for the homeless! How difficult it is for migrants, those who are deprived of freedom, and those in rehabilitation from an addiction...My hope is that governments understand that technocratic paradigms (whether state-centred or market-driven) are not enough to address this crisis or the other great problems affecting humankind. Now more than ever, persons, communities and peoples must be put at the centre, united to heal, to care and to share."

Pope Francis had a message for all of us and especially for workers who do not have any guaranteed income to sustain them through a crisis: "I know that you have been excluded from the benefits of globalization. You do not enjoy the superficial pleasures that anesthetize so many consciences, yet you always suffer from the harm they produce. The ills that afflict everyone hit you twice as hard...This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out." He added: "I hope that this time of danger will free us from operating on automatic pilot, shake our sleepy consciences and allow a humanist and ecological conversion that puts an end to the idolatry of money and places human life and dignity at the centre. Our civilization — so competitive, so individualistic, with its frenetic rhythms of production and consumption, its extravagant luxuries, its disproportionate profits for just a few — needs to downshift, take stock, and renew itself."

We must heed and act on the Pope's urgent message right now. Each of us must be visible and vocal and persistent in acting upon his message to bring hope during this trying time to millions of our brothers and sisters around the world who are suffering. The Pope's urgent call for bold action, including a universal basic wage to help those caught in the trap of poverty, is both just and common sense. So much of the discussion in the United States right now is about how and when to restart the economy in order to get life back to "normal." But if "normal" includes the same structures, systems, and inequalities that have been deeply enshrined in our nation, we must go far beyond the status quo that preceded the pandemic and disrupt the racism, sexism, and massive inequality built into our capitalist system. It is shameful that one in six children are poor and that children are our poorest age group. It is unjust and morally abnormal to have huge disparities based on race. It should not be normal that our nation imprisons more than a fifth of the world's prisoners. And it should be profoundly abnormal that enough children and teens were killed by guns in America in 2018 to fill more than 165 classrooms.

As our Muslim brothers and sisters prepare for Ramadan, with its emphasis on prayer, fasting, and empathy for the poor and hungry, we can all continue this holy season reflecting on how abnormal our nation is in ways that we can change with a sense of urgency. Let's use this season to stop the pandemics of greed, racism, sexism, and religious intolerance and to help create the world God intended, which is one of brotherhood and sisterhood.[/b]

Every single illegal crossing our boarders with nothing in hand, no job, no home, no mode of transportation, adds more poor people and children to the pot. BABYLON THE GREAT, the master manipulator, creates problems through her own policies and then casts the blame upon others and demands actions to transform existing societies according to her own vision. She leaves poverty and ruin behind her everywhere she goes, and now wishes to bring the entire globe into that ruin. Calling on the peoples of the entire world to give into to communism through universal income, jobs, homes, and food. She used us to overthrow communism when they were a serious threat to her own, and now she turns on us and stabs us in the back calling for communism world wide under one guise after another. Evil is as evil does. The Pope and his minions simply cannot stand the following principles upon which this nation was built.

QuoteWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

The answer to the corruption of a government built upon the above principles is not universal communism. The history of this world, and the Roman Catholic Church itself, have proved the abusive nature of governments and or religions people become dependent upon. Nevertheless, the holy scriptures predict that humanity will allow such an abusive power to reign once again on a global scale. So be it. People who will hand their personal liberties and freedoms purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ, over to the power hungry and greedy of this world through fear, do not deserve either.
Go to, resurrect BABYLON THE GREAT and her political minions. The moment her deadly wound is healed and she rises from the grave as it were, her destruction and the destruction of all who have supported her is sure. As is her habit, her global exaltation will bring global ruin.

Quote from: Rella on Sat Apr 25, 2020 - 07:59:16
You might be able to excuse their wealth as other ministries that "preach" God wants all to be wealthy so give, give, give, (You all have heard them)

IF

dioceses all over the US and I am sure world wide were not closing or merging to stay off their own poverty situations.

Especially while the Jesuit sitting on those 7 hills is living in the lap of luxury.

"Under St. Ignatius, the Society of Jesus believed that reform in the Catholic Church began with reform of the individual. The founding members of the Society of Jesus took a vow of poverty, chastity and obedience under Ignatius. Current Jesuits take the same three vows today, along with a vow of obedience to the Pope."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-is-a-jesuit-seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-society-of-jesus

I should probably start another thread just on the Jesuits. They have a long and very disturbing history, and are right in the middle of so much that is going on now, The Pope himself being one as well.

The following chapter is from the book - FACTS OF FAITH by Christian Edwardson

THE JESUITS

THE "Society of Jesus," commonly called "the Jesuits," is a secret order of the Roman Catholic Church, founded August 15, 1534, by the Spaniard, Ignatius Loyola, and sanctioned by Pope Paul III, September 27, 1540. Loyola had received a military training, and when he later became an extreme religious enthusiast, he conceived the idea of forming a spiritual militia, to be placed at the service of the pope. The Jesuit T. J. Campbell says:

"They are called the Society or Company of Jesus, the latter designation expressing more correctly the military idea of the founder, which was to establish, as it were, a new battalion in the spiritual army of the Catholic Church."-The Encyclopedia Americana, art. "Jesuits."

ORGANIZATION AND RULES OF THE SOCIETY

Loyola organized his Company on the strictest military basis. Its General was always to reside at Rome, supervising from his headquarters every branch scattered over the world. Theodor Griesinger says:

"Its General ruled as absolute monarch in all parts of the world, and the different kingdoms of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America lay at his feet divided into provinces. Over each province was placed a provincial, as lieutenant of the general, and every month it was the duty of this provincial to send in his report to his General .... From these thousands of reports the General was in possession of the most accurate information regarding all that was going on in the world. Moreover, by means of the Father Confessors at the various Courts, he was initiated into all the secrets of these latter. [The officials] had to be careful to report nothing but the exact truth, [for] each one of them was provided with an assistant who was also in direct communication with the General, [who checked the reports of the one against the other.]"-"History of the Jesuits," p. 280. London: 1892.

The Abbate Leone, after personal investigation, writes: "Every day the general receives a number of reports which severally check each other. There are in the central house, at Rome, huge registers, wherein are inscribed the names of all the Jesuits and of all the important persons, friends, or enemies, with whom they have any connection. In those registers are recorded... facts relating to the lives of each individual. It is the most gigantic biographical collection that has ever been formed. The conduct of a light woman, the hidden failings of a statesman, are recounted in these books with cold impartiality. . . When it is required to act in any way upon an individual, they open the book and become immediately acquainted with his life, his character, his qualities, his defects, his projects, his family, his friends, his most secret acquaintances."-" The Secret Plan of the Order," with preface by M. Victor Considerant, p. 33. London: 1848.

Similar registers are also found in the offices of the provincials, and in the "novitiate houses," so that when one Jesuit follows another in office, he has at his finger tips the fullest knowledge of the most secret lives of those for whom he is to labor, whether they are friends or foes. The Abbate Leone says of his secret investigation of this fact:

"The first thing that struck me was some great books in the form of registers, with alphabeted edges.

"I found that they contained numerous observations relative to the character of distinguished individuals, arranged by towns or families. 'Each page was evidently written by several different hands."-Id., p. 31.

Those who enter the Jesuit society spend two years of "noviceship," and then take the "simple vows." After several more years of intensive training, they take the fourth vow, by which they pledge themselves under oath to look to their General and their Superiors as holding "the place of Christ our Lord," and to obey them unconditionally without the least hesitation.

The Jesuits being a secret order, they did not publish their rules. How then can we be absolutely sure about these regulations? Dr. William Robertson says:

"It was a fundamental maxim with the Jesuits, from their first institution, not to publish the rules of their order. These they kept concealed as an impenetrable mystery. They never communicated them to strangers, nor even to the greater part of their own members. They refused to produce them when required by courts of justice." But during a lawsuit at Paris, in 1760, Father Montigny committed the blunder of placing the two volumes of their "Constitutions" (the Prague edition of 1757) in the hands of the French court. "By the aid of these authentic records the principles
of their government may be delineated"-"History of Charles the Fifth," Vol. II, p. 332. (See also "History of the Jesuits," Theodor Griesinger, pp. 435-439, 474-476.)

The author was so fortunate as to have the privilege of carefully reading "The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus." He saw a Latin edition of 1558, and an English translation of it printed in 1838, together with the three Papal Bulls: 1. The Bull of Pope Paul III, given September 27, 1540, sanctioning "The Society of Jesus." 2. The Bull of Clement XIV, abolishing the "Society," July 21, 1773.3. The Bull of Pins VII, restoring it, August 7, 1814. We shall now quote from "The Constitutions," thus presenting first-hand evidence of their Rules:

"It is to be observed that the intention of the Vow wherewith the Society has bound itself in obedience to the supreme Vicar of Christ without any excuse, is that we must go to whatever part of the world he shall determine to send us, among believers or unbelievers"-" Constitutions," pp. 64, 65.

"Displaying this virtue of obedience, first to the Pope, then to the Superiors of the Society... we... attend to his voice, just as if it proceeded from Christ Our Lord;... doing whatever is enjoined us with all celerity, with spiritual joy and perseverance; persuading ourselves that everything is just; suppressing every repugnant thought and judgment of our own in a certain obedience .... Every one.., should permit themselves to be moved and directed under
divine Providence by their Superiors just as if they were a corpse, which allows itself to be moved and handled in any way .... Thus obedient he should execute anything on which the Superior chooses to employ him "-Id., pp. 55, 56.

It is this corpse-like obedience, required of all its members, that has made the Jesuits such a power in the world. Rene Fulop-Miller in his book: "The Power and Secret of the Jesuits," commended by Father Friedrich Muckermann, leading Jesuit writer of Germany, and Father Alfonso Kleinser, S. J., and the Deutsche Zeitung, Berlin's leading Catholic organ, says:

"The Society of Jesus represented a company of soldiers. Where 'duty' in the military sense is concerned, as it is in the Society of Jesus, obedience becomes the highest virtue, as it is in the army. The Jesuit renders his obedience primarily to his superior... and he submits to him as if he were Christ Himself"-" The Power and Secret of the Jesuits," pp. 18, 19.

"So the Jesuits seek to attain to God through 'blind obedience.' "Ignatius requires nothing less than the complete sacrifice of the man's own understanding, 'unlimited obedience even to the very sacrifice of conviction."-Id., pp. 19, 20.

He taught his Jesuit members by a complete "corpse-like obedience" to be governed by the following principle:

"'I must let myself be led and moved as a lump of wax lets itself be kneaded, must order myself as a dead man without will or judgment."-Id, p. 21.

"It was the obedience of the Jesuits that made it possible to oppose to the enemies of the Church a really trained and formidable army"- Id., p. 23.

"For, within a short time after the foundation of the order, the Jesuits were acting as spiritual directors at the courts of Europe, as preachers in the most remote primeval forests, as political conspirators, disguised and in constant danger of death; thus they had a thousand opportunities to employ their talents, their cleverness, their knowledge of the world, and even their cunning"- Id., p. 26.

JESUITS DECIDE ON THEIR MISSION

Loyola first'planned to convert the Mohammedans of Palestine, but finding himself entirely unprepared for that work, and the road blocked by war, and finding, after his return to Paris, that the Protestant Reformation was turning the minds of men from the Roman church to the Bible, he resolved to undertake a propaganda of no less magnitude than the restoration of the Papacy to world dominion, and the destruction of all the enemies of the pope. The Jesuit T. J. Campbell says:

"As the establishment of the Society of Jesus coincided with the Protestant Reformation the efforts of the first Jesuits were naturally directed to combat that movement. Under the guidance of Canisius so much success attended their work in Germany and other northern nations, that, according to Macaulay, Protestantism was effectually checked. In England... the Jesuits stopped at no danger,... and what they did there was repeated in other parts of the world .... The Jesuits were to be found under every disguise, in every country.

"Their history is marked by ceaseless activity in launching new schemes for the spread of the Catholic faith.

"They have been expelled over and over again from almost every Catholic country in Europe, always, however, coming back again to renew their work when the storm had subsided; and this fact has been adduced as a proof that there is something iniquitous in the very nature of the organization"-The Encyclopedia Americana, sixteen-volume edition, Vol. IX, art. "Jesuits." 1904.

Loyola's plan of operation was to have his emissaries enter new fields in a humble way as workers of charity, and then begin to educate the children and youth. After gaining the good will of the higher classes of society, they would, through their influence, secure positions as confessors to the royal families, and advisers of civil rulers. These Jesuit Fathers had been skil-fully trained to take every advantage of such positions to influence civil rulers and direct them in the interest of the Roman church, and to instill in them, that it was their sacred duty to act as worthy sons of the Church by purging their country from heresy. And when war against "heretics" commenced, the Jesuits would not consent to any truce till Protestantism was completely wiped out.

At the time Loyola and his "knights" took the field, the Protestant Reformation had swept over the greater part of Europe, and one country after another was lost to the Papacy. But in a short time the Jesuits had turned the tide. The Netherlands, France, and Germany were swept by fire and sword till the very strongholds of Protestantism were threatened. The Protestant countries were finally forced to combine in the Thirty Years' War to save themselves from being brought back by force under the papal yoke. (See "History of the Jesuits," T. Griesinger, Book II, chap. 2.)

THE ABOLITION OF THE JESUIT ORDER

As long as this war of extermination was waged against Protestantism, the assistance of these daring "knights" was accepted, but when they continued to meddle in politics, and to gather the civil reins in their own hands, the Catholic princes at length became aroused to their danger, and complaints began to pour into the Vatican from various heads of Catholic states. Finally, Pope Clement XIV, after four years of investigation, felt compelled to abolish the Jesuit Order. In his "Bull of Suppression," issued July 21, 1773, he wrote, that repeated warnings had been given to the Society of "the most imminent dangers, if it concerned itself with temporal matters, and which relate to political affairs, and the administration of government." It was "strictly forbidden to all the members of the society, to interfere in any manner whatever in public affairs." Clement then cites eleven popes who "employed without effect all their efforts · . . to restore peace to the Church" by keeping the Jesuits out of "secular affairs, with which the company ought not to have interfered," as they had done "in Europe, Africa, and America." The Pope continues:

"We have seen, in the grief of our heart, that neither these remedies, nor an infinity of others, since employed, have produced their due effect, or silenced the accusations and complaints against the said society .... In vain [were all efforts.]" -"Bull of Clement XIV," in "Constitutions of the Society of Jesus," pp. 116, 117. London: 1838.

"After so many storms, troubles, and divisions... the times became more difficult and tempestuous; complaints and quarrels were multiplied on every side; in some places dangerous seditions arose, tumults, discords, dissensions, scandals, which weakening or entirely breaking the bonds of Christian charity, excited the faithful to all the rage of party hatreds and enmities. Desolation and danger grew to such a height, that... the kings of France, Spain, Portugal,
and Sicily,-found themselves reduced to the necessity of expelling and driving from their states, kingdoms, and provinces, these very companions of Jesus; persuaded that there remained no other remedy to so great evils; and that this step was necessary in order to prevent the Christians from rising one against another, and from massacring each other in the very bosom of our common mother the Holy Church. The said our dear sons in Jesus Christ having
since considered that even this remedy would not be sufficient towards reconciling the whole Christian world, unless the said society was absolutely abolished and suppressed, made known - their demands and wills in this matter to our said predecessor Clement XIII"-Id., p. 118.

"After a mature deliberation, we do, out of our certain knowledge, and the fulness of our apostolical power, suppress and abolish the said company .... We abrogate and annul its statutes, rules, customs, decrees, and constitutions, even though confirmed by oath, and approved by the Holy See .... We declare... the said society to be for ever annulled and extinguished"-Id., pp. I19, 120.

"Our will and meaning is, that the suppression and destruction of the said society, and of all its parts, shall have an immediate and instantaneous effect"-Id., p. I24.

"Our will and pleasure is, that these our letters should for ever and to all eternity be valid, permanent, and efficacious, have and obtain their full force and effect .... Given at Rome, at St. Mary the Greater, under the seal of the Fisherman, the 21st day of July, 1773, in the fifth year of our Pontificate"-" Bull for the Effectual Suppression of the Order of Jesuits." Quoted in "Constitutions of the Society of Jesus," p. 126.

We now respectfully ask: Can any Roman Catholic doubt that the pope is telling the truth about the Jesuits? If he is telling the truth, can we be blamed for feeling that there is a Jesuit danger, after that society has been reinstated and has labored incessantly for more than a century, and is unchanged in principle?

When we reflect upon their past history, and remember that the Jesuits have been expelled from fifty different countries, seven times from England, and nine times from France, and from the Papal States themselves, there must be a reason why civil governments, Catholic as well as Protestant, have found it necessary to take such steps. Only in countries such as the United States, where they are allowed to carry on their work peaceably, we hear little of them. But some day Americans may wake up to find our present generation completely Roman-ized, and our boasted "liberty" a thing of the past. The prophet declares: "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand;... and by peace shall destroy many." Daniel 8:25.. Any one desiring to know the historical facts should read the "History of the Jesuits," by T. Griesinger, and "The Roman Catholic Church," by F. T. Morton, pp. 167, 168.

"The end justifies the means." This maxim is generally attributed to the Jesuits, and while it might not be found in just that many words in their authorized books, yet the identical sentiment is found over and over again in their Latin works.

Dr. Otto Henne an Rhyn quotes many such sentiments from authorized Jesuit sources. We quote from him the following:

"Herman Busembaum, in his 'Medulla Theologiae Moralis' (first published at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1650) gives this as a theorem (p. 320): Cum finis est licitus, etiam media sunt licita (when the end is lawful, the means also are lawful); and p. 504: Cui licitus est finis, etiam licent media (for whom the end is lawful, the means are lawful also). The Jesuit Paul Layman, in his 'Theologia Moralis,' lib. III., p. 20 (Munich, 1625), quoting Sanchez, states the proposition in these words: Cui concessus est finis, concessa etiam sunt media ad finem ordinata (to whom the end is permitted, to him also are permitted the means ordered to the end). Louis Wagemann, Jesuit professor of moral theology, in his 'Synopsis Theologiae Moralis' (Innsbruck and Augsburg, 1762) has: Finis determinat moralitatem actus (the end decides the morality of the act)."-" The Jesuits," pp. 47, 48.New York: 1895.

"But the mischief is that the whole moral teaching of the Jesuits from their early days till now is but a further extension Of this proposition, so redoubtable in its application."-ld., pp. 49, 50.

Rene Fulop-Miller says of the Jesuits:

"In actual fact, the Jesuit casuists deal with two forms of permissible deception: that of 'amphibology' and that of reservatio mentaIis. 'Amphibology' is nothing else than the employment of ambiguous terms calculated to mislead the questioner; 'mental reservation' consists in answering a question, not with a direct lie, but in such a way that the truth is partly suppressed, certain words being formulated mentally but not expressed orally.

"The Jesuits hold that neither intentional ambiguity nor the fact of making a mental reservation can be regarded as lying, since, in both cases, all that happens is that one's neighbor is not actually deceived, but rather his deception is permitted only for a justifiable cause.'''-'' The Power and Secret of the Jesuits," pp. 154, 155.

The Jesuit Gury gives examples of this; among others he says:

"Amand promised, under oath, to Marinus, that he would never reveal a theft committed by the latter .... But... Amand was called as a witness before the judge, and revealed the secret, after interrogation.

"He ought not to have revealed the theft,... but he ought to have answered: 'I do not know anything,' understanding, 'nothing that I am obligated to reveal,' by using a mental restriction .... So Amand has committed a grave sin against religion and justice, by revealing publicly, before the court, a confided secret."-" The Doctrine of the Jesuits," translated by Paul Bert, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Professor at the Faculty of Sciences (in Paris), pp. 168,
169, American edition. Boston: 1880.

Alphonsus de Liguori, the sainted Catholic doctor, says in "Tractatus de Secundo Decalogi Praecepto," on the second [third] precept of the decalogue:

"One who is asked concerning something which it is expedient to conceal, can say, 'I say not,' that is, 'I say the word "not" since the word 'I say' has a double sense; for it signifies 'to pronounce' and 'to affirm': now in our sense 'I say' is the same as 'I pronounce.'

"A prisoner, when lawfully questioned, can deny a crime even with an oath (at least without grievous sin), if as the result of his confession he is threatened with punishment of death, or imprisonment, or perpetual exile, or the loss of all his property, or the galleys, and similar punishments, by secretly understanding that he has not committed any crime of such a degree that he is bound to confess.

"It is permissible to swear to anything which is false by adding in an undertone a true condition, if that low utterance can in any way be perceived by the other party, though its sense is not understood."-The Latin text, and an English translation of the above statements are found in "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome," by Father Chiniquy, chap. XIII, and in "Protestant Magazine," April, 1913, p. 163.

Violations of the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments are justified by many leading Jesuit writers, according to many quotations from their books, cited in "The History of the Jesuits," by Theodor Griesinger, pp. 285-304, 478-488, 508-616, 670, 740; and in Gury's "Doctrines of the Jesuits," translated by Paul Bert; and in "The Jesuits," by Dr. Otto Henne an Rhyn, chap. V.

Theodor Griesinger quotes from eight prominent Jesuit authorities, who advocate that it is permissible to kill a prince or ruler who has been deposed by the pope. Here are a few samples:

"In the 'Opuscula Theologica' of Martin Becan, at page 130, the following passage occurs:

"'Every subject may kill his prince when the latter has taken possession of the throne as a usurper, and history teaches, in fact, that in all nations those who kill such tyrants are treated with the greatest honor. But even when the ruler is not a usurper, but a prince who has by right come to the throne, he may be killed as soon as he oppresses his subjects with improper taxation, sells the judicial offices, and issues ordinances in a tyrannical manner for his
own peculiar benefit'"

"With such principles Father Hermann Buchenbaum entirely agreed, and,in the'Medulla Theologia Moralis,' permission to murder all offenders of mankind and the true faith, as well as enemies of the Society of Jesus, is distinctly laid down. This 'Moral Theology' of Father Buchenbaum is held by all the Society as an unsurpassed and unsurpassable pattern-book, and was on that account introduced, with the approval of their General, into all their colleges.

"Imanuel Sa says, in his aphorisms, under the word ' Clericus': ' The rebellion of an ecclesiastic against a king of the country in which he lives, is no high treason, because an ecclesastic is not the subject of any king.' 'Equally right,' he adds further, 'is the principle that anyone among the people may kill an illegitimate prince; to murder a tyrant, however, is considered, indeed, to be a duty.'

"Adam Tanner, a very well known and highly esteemed Jesuit professor in Germany, uses almost the identical words, and the not less distinguished Father Johannes Mariana, who taught in Rome, Palermo, and Paris, advances this doctrine in his book 'De Rege' (lib. i., p. 54), published with the approbation of the General Aquaviva and of the whole Society, when he says: ' It is a wholesome thought, brought home to all princes, that as soon as they begin to oppress their subjects, and, by their excessive vices, and, more especially, by the unworthiness of their conduct, make themselves unbearable to the latter, in such a case they should be convinced that one has not only a perfect right to kill them, but that to accomplish such a deed is glorious and heroic.'...

"But most precise are the words of the work, so highly prized above all others by the Roman Curie, :Defensio Fidei Catholicce et Apostolicae [Defence of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith]' of the Jesuit Suarez, which appeared in Lisbon in the year 1614, as therein it is stated (lib. vi, cap. iv, Nos. 13 and 14): 'It is an article of faith that the Pope has the right to depose heretical and rebellious kings, and a monarch dethroned by the Pope is no longer a king or legitimate prince. When such an one hesitates to obey the Pope after he is deposed, he then becomes a tyrant, and may be killed by the first comer. Especially when the public weal is assured by the death of the tyrant, it is allowable for anyone to kill the latter.'

"Truly regicide could not be taught by clearer words .... The sons of Loyola... declared that a more learned, or God-fearing book, had never appeared .... Indeed, from this time forth no Jesuit professor whatever wrote on moral theology, or any similar subject, without adopting the teaching of Suarez."-" History of the Jesuits," pp.
508-511.

Can any one doubt that the Jesuits have faithfully carried out this "Article of Faith," wherever they thought it advisable, when he reads of the many attempts upon the life of Queen Elizabeth of England; of the "Gunpowder Plot" to murder James I, and to destroy the "Houses of Parliament" in one blast; of the assassination of William, Prince of Orange; of the attempts upon his son, Maurice, Prince of Orange, and upon Leopold I of Germany, by agents of that Society? We could refer to the "Holy League" of 1576, sponsored by the Jesuits, for the purpose of uniting Catholic Europe to crush Protestantism and the assassination of Henry III and Henry IV of France in the interest of that scheme. "The Jesuits were, indeed, the heart and soul of the Leaguist conspiracy."-Id., p. 210. See also pp. 508-608.

If the political activities of the Jesuits, of which Pope Clement XIV complained so pathetically, are not a serious problem to civil governments, then why were the Jesuits expelled from so many states, Catholic as well as Protestant, as the following table shows? Francis T. Morton, Member of the Massachusetts Bar, gives the following:

Those who feel that the foregoing facts constitute no danger to American civil and religious liberty, would do well to remember that the Jesuits carry on an extensive educational program in this country, and that, according to their textbooks, their principles of civil government are diametrically opposed to the American ideas of separation of church and state. See their "Manual of Christian Doctrine, by a Seminary Professor," pp. 131-
133. Philadelphia: 1915.

The author has stated the foregoing facts, not because of any enmity towards Jesuits as individuals, nor to Catholics in general, but only from a feeling of responsibility to enlighten the American people regarding a public danger. We can truly love the persons, while we warn people against their dangerous tendencies. If we did not sincerely love everybody, we would not be true Christians. (Matthew 5:43-48.) Jesus loves the sinner, while He hates his sins; and we must have the mind of Christ. (Philippians 2:5; 1 Corinthians 2:16.)

To those who wish to study this subject further we recommend the careful reading of the following books, besides those referred to in this chapter:

"History of the Jesuits," by Andrew Steinmetz, London, 1848; "History of the Jesuits," by G. B. Nicolini, London, 1854; "Secret Instructions of the Jesuits," translated from the Latin by W. C. Brownlee, D. D., New York, 1841; "The Footprints of the Jesuits," by R. W. Thompson; "The Jesuit Enigma," by E. Boyd Barrett; "The Programme of the Jesuits," by W. Blair Nearby, London, 1903; "Provincial Letters," by Blaise Pascal, New York, 1853; "History and Fall of the Jesuits," by Count Alexis de Saint-Priest, London, 1861; "Political Life of an Italian," by Francesco Urgos, Battle Creek, Mich., 1876; and "The Jesuit Morals, collected by a Doctor of the College of Sorbonne in Paris," translated into
English, London, 1670.

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Referencing the biblical story of Noah, the pope suggested that, in order to safeguard peace, we too "need to enter together as one family into an ark which can sail the stormy seas of the world." This means acknowledging, "God is at the origin of the one human family." "No violence can be justified in the name of religion," he said.

"Religious behavior," said Pope Francis, "needs continually to be purified from the recurrent temptation to judge others as enemies and adversaries." The "perspective of heaven," he said, "embraces persons without privilege or discrimination."

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If Noah had unified with the rest of the world religions of his day, he and his family would have perished right along with the rest of them. Just as all those who enter the papal designed ark above will perish at Christ's second coming. The bible states nowhere that this worlds salvation lies in the unification of sinful humanity as one. This is the goal of Satan himself to unify sinful rebellious humanity in one against God and His chosen. God prevented humanity from this sin against Him at the tower of Babel. As biblical prophecy foretells though, He will allow fallen humanity outside of Christ to worship and serve the beast while the world reduces God's chosen in Christ to global outcasts. There judgement will be by fire this time, not water. The sooner this papal man of sin finishes his work, the sooner our Lord and Savior returns unto eternal salvation.

Psa 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. 18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. 22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed. 27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. 28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. 34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Trust in and obey God, not Pope's and Kings and the rulers of this earth. God has not called His own to rule this earth or unify with falsehood unto salvation. He has called them unto trustworthy obedience in warning this world of the judgment to come and pointing them to their only hope of salvation in Jesus Christ alone.

Act 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Do not believe the lies concerning the salvation of this world. This world will not be saved, but all within it may be saved in Christ Jesus. The evil one and his minions alone want to save this world of misery and sin. Christ's own look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein righteousness dwells.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.