Roman politics

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http://adventmessenger.org/the-president-of-nicaragua-accuses-the-vatican-of-being-part-of-the-conglomerate-of-fascism-that-wants-to-rule-the-world/

Quoted article below from link above.

The President of Nicaragua Accuses the Vatican of Being Part of the "Conglomerate of Fascism" that Wants to Rule the World

Daniel Ortega, the president-dictator of Nicaragua, accused the Vatican of being a part of the "conglomerate of fascism" on Monday, August 26, 2024, during a summit with heads of state of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a 10-nation confederacy in Central and South America and the Caribbean. He further stated that the Holy See had collaborated with the Nazis in Germany, Italy, and Spain during the last century. President Ortega also expressed that we cannot close our eyes to reality, even as the Vatican is seeking to "dominate the world."

The Nicaraguan president expressed the following during the summit:

"Everything we call fascism—that was the period where a European democratic party in European Democratic practices brought Hitler to the presidency. And then Mussolini and then the Spanish Franco, Franco, Franco. Franco, who destroyed the Spanish people, Franco was linked with who? Another empire. A powerful empire was being formed. The Vatican, the Vatican! The Vatican was an accomplice of the Nazis. It was an accomplice with the Nazis in Italy, in Germany, and Spain. In Spain, there was even an armed confrontation. Catholic Christians manipulated in the defense of democracy. There was a war, a war. Like the war that occurred in Mexico. Madness at war. And we cannot close our eyes to that reality. The Vatican is just another instrument in all these battles that we are fighting. It is another instrument that is part of the conglomerate of fascism that, in new modalities, wants to dominate the world"(See youtube video at link below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0vr0Sgq7N8

Daniel Ortega, who is widely considered to be a dictator by many human rights organizations, has been a central figure in Nicaraguan politics since the 1980s. He is, therefore, someone who knows first-hand what it means to be a tyrant. That is why, when Daniel Ortega accuses the Vatican of being an oppressive and unjust power that is seeking absolute control on a global scale, he is indicating that what he has said is absolutely true, dependable, and certain.

There is no denying that Rome is the primary force influencing political and moral discourse, as well as the epicenter of global influence. World leaders often look to the Vatican for advice on peace negotiations, humanitarian efforts, climate policies, finance, artificial intelligence, and social justice issues because it is a powerful organization with extensive international diplomacy reach. The Pope plays a pivotal role in fostering dialogue among the nations of the world, reflecting the Church's profound impact on both spiritual and secular spheres.

From a prophetic perspective, the papacy embodies the beast power described in Revelation 13, which is responsible for uniting political and religious powers in opposition to God. The papacy is also the Antichrist, a figure prophesied to deceive and lead many away from true biblical teachings. Additionally, the harlot woman of Revelation 17, described as engaging in spiritual adultery with the kings of the earth, is symbolizing Rome's work in leading the world to embrace her doctrines and traditions that are contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Indeed, Daniel Ortega is correct in warning people not to forget about the Vatican's past. God's word reminds us that this power is the chief enemy to both God and man because "in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth" (Revelation 18:24). And yes, this includes the blood that was shed during the Nazi reign of terror.

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http://adventmessenger.org/the-religious-world-unites-with-pope-francis-as-he-declares-that-all-religions-are-a-path-to-reach-god/

Quoted article below from link above.

The Religious World Unites with Pope Francis as He Declares that "All Religions are a Path to Reach God"

Pope Francis is laying the groundwork for a one-world universal religion and a one-world government in which all people and all religions will worship together as one (Revelation 13:3, 4, 12). We must never forget that Bible prophecy tells us that a great apostasy will take place just before Jesus comes, in which the Antichrist, the man of sin, will lead the world into idolatry and false worship (2 Thessalonians 2:1–12).

Pope Francis has just concluded his Apostolic Journey through Asia and Oceania with a statement that contradicts the clear teachings of the Bible. On September 13, 2024, the Pope took part in an interreligious meeting with young people of various religions in Singapore. It was at this event that Pope Francis assured these young people that "all religions are a path to reach God."

Pope Francis expressed the following during this interfaith event:

• "One of the things that struck me most about you young people, about you here, is the capacity for interreligious dialogue. And this is very important, because if you start arguing: 'My religion is more important than yours' ... 'Mine is the true one, yours is not true.' Where does all this lead? Where? Someone answer, where? 'Destruction.' That's how it is. All religions are a path to reach God. They are – I make a comparison – like different languages, different idioms, to get there. But God is God for everyone. And since God is God for everyone, we are all children of God. 'But my God is more important than yours!' Is this true? There is only one God, and we, our religions are languages, paths to reach God. Some are Sikh, some are Muslim, some are Hindu, some are Christian, but they are different paths. Understood? But for interreligious dialogue among young people, courage is needed. Because youth is the age of courage, but you can have this courage to do things that won't help you. Instead you can have the courage to move forward and for dialogue."

The Pope repeated that there is only one God for all and that the various religions that we see today, with all their conflicting teachings, are simply different paths to reach the same God. With these statements, the Pope puts Christianity on the same level as Islam, Hinduism, and even nature worship. This is the embodiment of the modern ecumenical movement. As a result, the uniqueness of the Seventh-day Adventist faith is diminished, as the false notion is promoted that Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Krishna, and even Mother Earth are all equal and valid paths to take us to God.

Rome is creating a great universal fraternity, and Pope Francis is appealing to all religions to join him. One thing is certain: Pope Francis will not preach the true gospel of Jesus Christ, nor will he preach the worship of the true God of heaven. The Vatican follows a multicultural, universalist gospel, which teaches that all religions are different paths to the same God. Regrettably, this ecumenical philosophy is also being adopted by all the other churches.

The ecumenical movement is committed to propagating a false religious system that will never lead to salvation and will instead leave people in their errors. Pope Francis knows what he is doing. This is all part of a deliberately calculated plan to destroy the Three Angels' Message, which runs diametrically opposed to Rome's agenda. Rome is busy uniting the world against the God of heaven, while God is calling people out of this great end-time Babylonian family that has corrupted the world with its false doctrines.

If all belief systems are equal and will take us to the same God, then we no longer have to evangelize, and the gospel commission of a fraud:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Matthew 28:19.

If all faiths are equal, then Jesus was completely wrong, and the Bible is in error:

"He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already." John 3:18.

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6.

It is incredible how Pope Francis openly contradicts the very words of Christ, even though he claims to be the Vicar of Christ. What blasphemy. It is equally troubling that Protestants and many Adventists remain silent even as this power is taking the world by storm. Clearly, we are living in the last days, and the Antichrist is not near; he is already here.

"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." 1 John 2:18.

"Satan determines to unite them in one body, and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of Spiritualism. Papists, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power; and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world, and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium" (Great Controversy, p. 588).

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/pope-francis-trump-harris-abortion/index.html

Quoted article below from link above. My comments in blue.

Pope Francis criticizes Trump and Harris and says voters must choose between 'lesser of two evils'

CNN
 —
Pope Francis on Friday described the choice US voters must make in the presidential election as one between the "lesser of two evils," deeming former President Donald Trump's anti-migrant policies and Vice President Kamala Harris' support of abortion rights as both being "against life."

"One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils? That lady or that gentleman? I don't know," Francis said during a press conference on the papal plane, referring to Harris and Trump. "Everyone with a conscience should think on this and do it."

Francis has been more vocal about politics than his predecessors and has moved to make the Catholic Church more open. While he has consistently and strongly defended the Catholic Church's teaching that abortion is the deliberate destruction of a human life, Francis has also insisted it cannot be isolated from other issues concerning human life, including immigration.

"To send migrants away, to leave them wherever you want, to leave them ... it's something terrible, there is evil there. To send away a child from the womb of the mother is an assassination, because there is life. We must speak about these things clearly," he said.

Francis has previously weighed in on political issues, signaling more progressive stances by allowing priests to forgive abortions, authorizing blessings for same-sex couples and repeatedly warning about climate change.

He has challenged Catholic bishops in the US who have insisted that abortion is the "pre-eminent" issue, arguing that the plight of migrants is also about the defense of life. In 2016, Francis described then-presidential candidate Trump's plan to build a wall to stop migrants from crossing the US-Mexico border as "not Christian."

And when bishops were debating in 2021 whether to deny communion to public figures who support abortion rights, including President Joe Biden, Francis urged them to make their decisions from a "pastoral" viewpoint and not a political one. The pope has said he has never denied communion to anyone.

Francis has criticized couples who choose to have pets rather than children, aligning with views expressed by Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, a converted Catholic who has derided women without kids as "childless cat ladies" and described those in the country's "leadership class" who don't have children as "more sociopathic."

US Catholics also have a range of views. According to Pew Research, 52% of Catholic registered voters describe themselves as being or leaning Republican, while 44% say they are or lean Democrat.

Catholic voters were split in 2020, with 50% voting for Biden and 49% supporting Trump, according to Pew. But a majority of Catholics – 61% – believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

Gee, I wonder which is the greater evil, killing the unborn, or protecting a nations boarders? As though there was really any kind of question regarding the matter. If a person does not know which of these is more evil than the other, they have serious judgment issues regarding ethics. Especially if they profess to be a bible believing Christian.

While there are issues to be considered regarding either, one is straight up ending a human life, while the other is simply considering whether or not to allow this or that person into your nation. There are certainly some very good reasons not to let just anyone into your country. The US has never just wholesale turned migrants away. They have simply and rightly wanted to know who the people wanting into this country actually are and what they represent or intend, and why they want to be here. For the benefit and safety of our own citizens. There is no evil in that at all.

 It is wholly proper and right to consider the citizens of your own nation, their safety and livelihood, in relation to needs, attitudes, and numbers of migrants allowed to enter any nation. To ignore this important decision making information regarding immigration, and especially mass immigration, is totally irresponsible and simply traitorous.

If a wall becomes necessary because masses of migrants intend to bypass a nation's ability to asses who and why people are entering their country, then so be it. This necessity is the direct responsibility of those migrants illegally entering a country, and the religious or political entities which are intentionally facilitating these mass migrations. There is obviously an evil agenda attached to such blatant abuse of any nations generosity, by the people pushing such an unsustainable migrant invasion. Wreaking havoc upon many citizens of the nations being invaded.

The wall is necessary  because of the evil of these unsustainable invasions, not any evil on the part of those who wish to contain unsustainable numbers of migrants, to the obvious ill effect of their own citizens. All of which amounts to unelected officials of international religious and political organizations, bypassing the will of the peoples of various sovereign nations, unto the global hell hole they are rapidly creating. This is pure unadulterated evil. Which Pope Francis and a great many Catholics are directly involved in, among other professed Christian entities, facilitating such at both the religious and political levels. The truth be told.

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http://adventmessenger.org/at-mexicos-presidential-inauguration-the-people-prayed-to-father-sun-as-they-raised-their-hands-in-worship-towards-the-east/comment-page-1/?unapproved=63618&moderation-hash=ae9c0cc95032afca149620ee3a3f8560#comment-63618

Quoted article below from link above.

State-Sponsored Sun Worship At Mexico's Presidential Inauguration

"They worshipped the sun toward the east." Ezekiel 8:16.

"Satan has long been preparing for his final effort to deceive the world ... Little by little he has prepared the way for his masterpiece of deception in the development of spiritualism" (Great Controversy, p. 561).

On October 1, 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum took the oath of office as the first female president of Mexico. One of the ceremonies that took place in the capital's Constitution Plaza included the invocation of the Sun god while the people were asked to raise their hands and look to the east. This is a revival of the worship of the ancient pagan gods that we read about in the Bible. Many ancient cultures, such as Babylon, Rome, Sodom, and the Antediluvians, ceased to exist for participating in these same displays.

The following was stated during the video showing part of the inauguration:

• "We are going to begin our sacred ceremony, and we are going to raise our hands in the direction where the sun rises in the east. We raise our hands. We invoke the Nahuales (supernatural spirits), the deities and the other beings and divine spirits that inhabit this place. We ask for life, illumination, and wisdom for the constitutional president, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. We ask for your divine light to accompany her, to illuminate her in every step she takes, in every decision, to her and her work team. We entrust her to our African ancestors to give her the resistance and strength to govern with love, with commitment, with integrity, and with humility to the people of Mexico. We ask you, Father Sun, that you may inhabit her heart, just as you live in each heart of the girls and women of Mexico."

• "May the air always be with you. May our Mother Earth always bless you with the strength that the indigenous peoples bring."

• "We invoke our ancestors and grandparents that with their wisdom, her knowledge, her experience, and the path of our president, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Parda, that they guide her and illuminate her with the light so that her work can be carried out with the strength of the universe and that together we can pray together, with all our hearts, that she may be enlightened and that the wisdom of our grandparents and ancestors, in all her walks at all times."

• "From the center of the earth, we ask forgiveness to our Mother Earth because we have disrespected her. We have suffered with her all these climate changes."

This is state-sponsored spiritualism. Instead of preparing for the eternal and final home that God is preparing for us (John 14:1-3), the new mission is to shape and mold this present world with nature worship, religious mysticism, and radical environmentalism. Not only are they openly worshipping the Sun, they are invoking demonic spirits to join them. The so-called Nahuales that were called on during this presidential inauguration are "mythical beings" and "supernatural spirits" that "have the ability to transform into animals." According to the Mexican government, these "Nahuales" are protective spiritual guides that accompany people from birth to death.

This was pure witchcraft, divination, spiritualism, and sun worship. They were doing the very things that God forbids in His word. Where was the protest? Where were the Bible-based Protestants who are supposed to be speaking out against such national apostasy? There was no protest. Unfortunately, Protestant churches, including many Seventh-day Adventists, are also too busy engaging with spiritualism in ecumenical unity.

Our generation has become so blind that it cannot distinguish the holy from the profane. People don't know the difference between the worship of God and demonic worship. What we are witnessing is part of the devastating consequences of ecumenism when mixed with spiritualism. All faiths must be celebrated because they are all one. This is part of Rome's message and the reason why Pope Francis is making a universal push to promote spiritualism. Unfortunately, many Christians are ignoring God's word when it comes to paganism and idolatry, which is nothing more than an abandonment of God and His truth.

"Spiritualism is about to take the world captive ... The signs and wonders of spiritualism will become more and more pronounced as the professed Christian world rejects the plainly revealed truth of the Word of God, and refuse to be guided by a plain 'Thus saith the Lord,' accepting instead the doctrines and the commandments of men." (Manuscript, 92, 1894).

"Satan determines to unite them in one body, and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of Spiritualism ... Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world, and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium." (Great Controversy, pp. 588, 589).

How long will God allow this pagan perversion to continue? The Scriptures remind us that there is a limit to God's mercy.

"And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God." Deuteronomy 8:19, 20.

"And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands...And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard." Micah 5:12, 13, 15.

"And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands." Jeremiah 1:16.

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http://adventmessenger.org/a-prominent-catholic-organization-links-hurricanes-helene-and-milton-to-laduato-si-and-calls-for-climate-legislation/

Quoted article below from link above.

A Prominent Catholic Organization Links Hurricanes Helene and Milton to Laduato Si' and Calls for Climate Legislation

It is heartbreaking to see the devastation left behind by hurricanes Helene and Milton. The immense destruction, loss of life, and pain endured by countless families as they lose their homes, loved ones, and sense of security are overwhelming. These calamities serve as stark reminders of the fragility of life and the dangerous times in which we live. Bible prophecy tells us that these increasing disasters are not just random events but signs closely linked to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the hope of Christ's return.

On the other hand, Roman Catholics are using these tragic events to promote Pope Francis' climate encyclical, Laudato Si'. Rome cannot let a good crisis go to waste. The Religious Formation Conference (RFC) is a "national Roman Catholic organization serving women's and men's religious institutes, primarily in the United States and in other countries."
 
On October 9, 2024, the Catholic-run Religious Formation Conference published a warning called "Catastrophic Storms Mean Climate Action More Important than Ever," connecting Laudato Si' to the recent hurricanes and the complete devastation they have caused to our nation. They are also using this tragedy to renew their calls to petition policymakers to pass legislation to protect our environment.

The Religious Formation Conference expressed the following:

* "The world has witnessed the devastating effects of natural disasters on communities near and far. Most recently, Hurricane Helene and a tornado outbreak spawned by Hurricane Milton tore through coastal regions, leaving absolute destruction in their wake. Severe floods, landslides, and other climate-related events have ravaged countries around the globe, claiming lives, displacing families, and destroying homes."

* "Pope Francis' Laudato Si' reminds us that the Earth is our common home, entrusted to us by God. The damage caused by these storms reminds us of our responsibility to protect the planet and live in harmony with nature. Human activities such as pollution, deforestation, and the burning of fossil fuels are key contributors to climate change that are feeding these catastrophic events."

* "In light of the recent destruction, it is more important than ever to continue this work, advocating for sustainable practices.[/u]"

* "[color=redWhat You Can Do to Protect the Planet and Fight Climate Change: Advocate for Change – Support legislation and policies that promote environmental protection and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Engage with local leaders and policymakers.[/color]"
 
* "Join in prayer, asking for God's guidance in caring for the Earth, as we respond to Pope Francis' call to be stewards of creation."

* "We urge you to join us in these efforts. We must face this changing climate together. Whether through prayer, raising awareness, or making lifestyle changes, each of us can contribute to making a positive impact on the planet. Let us not wait for another storm to pass before we take action. Together, we can help protect our world."

What is Rome's answer to the climate crisis? They want to bring the laws of the world into line with Catholic doctrines, traditions, and values. Catholic climate change activists were so eager and couldn't wait to link these recent natural disasters to Laudato Si'. The widespread desolations, the upheaval, and the unrest we are witnessing today—marked by increasing division, moral decay, and the breakdown of societal norms—can be seen as part of a larger, darker pattern preparing the way for the rise of the Antichrist—the Papal power. According to Revelations 13, 17, and 18, the final universal world order will be characterized by chaos, confusion, lawlessness, and a global longing for peace and stability, making it the perfect environment for the man of sin to seize power with the help of the United States.

The rising frequency of natural disasters, the deterioration of our values, the increasing rise of lawlessness, and the spread of fear and uncertainty are conditioning people to accept Rome's radical solutions, even at the cost of their freedoms. In this climate, the Antichrist will emerge as a figure who promises to restore order and unity, but with deceptive and tyrannical control.

God's word clearly warns us that the natural disaster, chaos, and unrest are only precursors to His second coming, signs that the world would be in great turmoil before His return. For those who see the growing intensity and frequency of such disasters, these events are to be perceived as wake-up calls, urging people everywhere to prepare spiritually for the last days of earth's history and the soon coming of the Lord.

"God's message for the inhabitants of earth today is, 'Be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.' Matthew 24:44. The conditions prevailing in society, and especially in the great cities of the nations, proclaim in thunder tones that the hour of God's judgment is come and that the end of all things earthly is at hand. We are standing on the threshold of the crisis of the ages. In quick succession the judgments of God will follow one another—fire, and flood, and earthquake, with war and bloodshed. We are not to be surprised at this time by events both great and decisive; for the angel of mercy cannot remain much longer to shelter the impenitent" (Prophets and Kings, p. 278).

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http://adventmessenger.org/donald-trump-accuses-kamala-harris-of-being-deeply-disrespectful-to-the-great-catholic-community-for-not-physically-attending-the-al-smith-dinner/

Quoted article below from link above.

Donald Trump Accuses Kamala Harris of being Deeply Disrespectful to the "Great Catholic Community" for not Physically Attending the Al Smith Dinner

The Al Smith Dinner is an annual charity gala organized by the Archdiocese of New York, held in honor of Alfred E. Smith, the first Catholic nominee for President of the United States. This event raises money for Catholics, brings together leaders from politics, media, celebrities, and other elites, and is traditionally attended by U.S. presidential candidates. Since 1960, it has been customary for the major-party presidential candidates to attend the dinner in person during election years.

This year, the Al Smith Dinner was held on October 17, 2024. Kamala Harris did not attend in person but rather sent a video recorded message to those in attendance. It was reported that Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan was "upset" that she was not attending. [1] Donald Trump did attend the dinner, which was televised nationwide. In her prerecorded speech, Kamala Harris said that she would never say anything negative against Catholics and praised the charitable work that the Catholic Church does. She urged Catholics and everyone else to put aside their differences, find common ground, work together across the divide, and to build a better future with faith in God.

Donald Trump publicly attacked Kamala Harris for not personally attending the Al Smith Dinner and called it an act of great disrespect to the Catholic community, to which the public applauded. Donald Trump then turned to Roman Catholic Timothy Dolan and told him that he was not going to miss this event. Trump then asked the Catholics present that they had to vote for him and reminded them that he was present and Kamala Harris was not. He also praised the work of the Catholic Church and the Catholic community and expressed how he worked with Cardinal Dolan to send "billions" of US dollars to help Catholic education which was suffering during the Covid pandemic.

In this election season, we are seeing how politicians, in order to gain the favor and approval of powerful religious groups, are submitting and bowing to Rome. At the Al Smith Dinner, both Republican and Democratic politicians used this platform to court the Catholic vote by praising the Catholic Church and its contributions to society. Recognizing the strong sway that religious leaders and communities can have over voters, both Trump and Harris are making statements that demonstrate their willingness to align their message and policies with Rome.

Politicians who appeal to Roman Catholics for their support during elections frequently pay a higher price afterwards, as the church will expect them to toe the Catholic line when calls for Sunday laws are revived once again in America. Whenever we see presidential candidates flirting with the papal power of Bible prophecy, these actions will always result in the worst possible outcome.

"Protestants have tampered with and patronized popery; they have made compromises and concessions which papists themselves are surprised to see, and fail to understand. Men are closing their eyes to the real character of Romanism, and the dangers to be apprehended from her supremacy. The people need to be aroused to resist the advances of this most dangerous foe to civil and religious liberty" (Great Controversy, p, 566),

"The dignitaries of church and State will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance" (Great Controversy, p. 592).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4kXmCFxCw

ANTICHRIST WARNING!

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https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-05/global-experts-and-leaders-convene-for-vatican-climate-summit.html

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Global experts and leaders convene for Vatican climate summit

Scientists, regional and local leaders, and experts from universities around the world meet in the Vatican for a Summit entitled, "From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience," promoted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

By Thaddeus Jones

Experts and leaders from around the world are meeting at the Vatican for a Summit looking at the climate crisis affecting the planet with a special focus on how to effectively manage and deal with it. The Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences are hosting the three-day Summit entitled, "From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience."

Sharing ideas and solutions
The meeting from 15 to 17 May brings together experts in the field of climate change together with city mayors and regional government leaders who are dealing with its effects. They come from the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Researchers from universities around the world are also participating. All are contributing their own presentations in the meeting sessions taking place inside Vatican City.

Promoting climate resilience
The Summit participants acknowledge the seriousness of the climate crisis the world is facing and how it will deepen over the next few decades as global warming rises past the 1.5° Celsius danger threshold by the early 2030s. While the increase is expected to peak by the latter half of the century in response to global efforts to lessen the use of heat-trapping pollutants, other areas must be urgently addressed for 'climate resilience.' This concept looks at how humanity can manage, adapt, and survive the extreme effects of climate change for a safer, healthier, more equitable, and sustainable world.

Acting, adapting, managing
The Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the only supranational academy of its kind in the world, has as its mission "to honour pure science wherever it may be found, ensure its freedom and encourage research for the progress of science." In 2022 it started a new initiative on Climate Resilience bringing together researchers, policymakers, and faith leaders to better understand the scientific and societal challenges of climate change and recommend solutions for resilient people and ecosystems. The climate resilience concept is at the core of the three-day summit's discussions that aim to implement a three-point strategy: mitigation efforts to diminish climate risks; adaptation strategies to cope with inevitable risks; and societal transformation that fosters ongoing mitigation and adaptation measures.

Working in solidarity
The Summit participants will focus on related environmental challenges such as, climate change, biodiversity loss, and global inequality, while discussing and proposing solutions and approaches to manage and mitigate the effects of these realities. The Summit's organizers know this requires a multi-disciplinary approach and partnerships involving researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, scientific experts, community and faith leaders, NGOs, and the wider public.

Adopting a Planetary Climate Resilience protocol
These efforts will culminate at the Summit's conclusion with a Planetary Climate Resilience protocol signed by all the participants. Like the Montreal Protocol, the document will provide guidelines and actions for climate resilience.  The protocol will then be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to be shared with nations worldwide.

Respecting the dignity of human life
In his Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum, Pope Francis, underscored the dangers the world faces due to the impact of climate change, affecting the most vulnerable people especially, as well as the urgent need to work together to address the crisis.

"This is a global social issue and one intimately related to the dignity of human life. The Bishops of the United States have expressed very well this social meaning of our concern about climate change, which goes beyond a merely ecological approach, because 'our care for one another and our care for the earth are intimately bound together.'"

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Couple the above Vatican agenda with the following one as well, and the will of peoples and nations regrading this and other papally inspired issues, will be sacrificed at the alter of Rome. Emphasis in the following quoted Encyclical is mine.

ENCYCLICAL LETTER
CARITAS IN VERITATE
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
BENEDICT XVI
TO THE BISHOPS
PRIESTS AND DEACONS
MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS
THE LAY FAITHFUL
AND ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
ON INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
IN CHARITY AND TRUTH

Lowering the level of protection accorded to the rights of workers, or abandoning mechanisms of wealth redistribution in order to increase the country's international competitiveness, hinder the achievement of lasting development.

But the social doctrine of the Church has unceasingly highlighted the importance of distributive justice and social justice for the market economy, not only because it belongs within a broader social and political context, but also because of the wider network of relations within which it operates.

36. Economic activity cannot solve all social problems through the simple application of commercial logic. This needs to be directed towards the pursuit of the common good, for which the political community in particular must also take responsibility. Therefore, it must be borne in mind that grave imbalances are produced when economic action, conceived merely as an engine for wealth creation, is detached from political action, conceived as a means for pursuing justice through redistribution.

37. The Church's social doctrine has always maintained that justice must be applied to every phase of economic activity, because this is always concerned with man and his needs. Locating resources, financing, production, consumption and all the other phases in the economic cycle inevitably have moral implications. Thus every economic decision has a moral consequence. The social sciences and the direction taken by the contemporary economy point to the same conclusion. Perhaps at one time it was conceivable that first the creation of wealth could be entrusted to the economy, and then the task of distributing it could be assigned to politics.

In the global era, the economy is influenced by competitive models tied to cultures that differ greatly among themselves. The different forms of economic enterprise to which they give rise find their main point of encounter in commutative justice. Economic life undoubtedly requires contracts, in order to regulate relations of exchange between goods of equivalent value. But it also needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed by politics, and what is more, it needs works redolent of the spirit of gift. The economy in the global era seems to privilege the former logic, that of contractual exchange, but directly or indirectly it also demonstrates its need for the other two: political logic, and the logic of the unconditional gift.

In this way he was applying on a global scale the insights and aspirations contained in Rerum Novarum, written when, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the idea was first proposed — somewhat ahead of its time — that the civil order, for its self-regulation, also needed intervention from the State for purposes of redistribution. Not only is this vision threatened today by the way in which markets and societies are opening up, but it is evidently insufficient to satisfy the demands of a fully humane economy. What the Church's social doctrine has always sustained, on the basis of its vision of man and society, is corroborated today by the dynamics of globalization.

The articulation of political authority at the local, national and international levels is one of the best ways of giving direction to the process of economic globalization. It is also the way to ensure that it does not actually undermine the foundations of democracy.

Blind opposition would be a mistaken and prejudiced attitude, incapable of recognizing the positive aspects of the process, with the consequent risk of missing the chance to take advantage of its many opportunities for development. The processes of globalization, suitably understood and directed, open up the unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a world-wide scale; if badly directed, however, they can lead to an increase in poverty and inequality, and could even trigger a global crisis. It is necessary to correct the malfunctions, some of them serious, that cause new divisions between peoples and within peoples, and also to ensure that the redistribution of wealth does not come about through the redistribution or increase of poverty: a real danger if the present situation were to be badly managed.

The world-wide diffusion of forms of prosperity should not therefore be held up by projects that are self-centred, protectionist or at the service of private interests. Indeed the involvement of emerging or developing countries allows us to manage the crisis better today. The transition inherent in the process of globalization presents great difficulties and dangers that can only be overcome if we are able to appropriate the underlying anthropological and ethical spirit that drives globalization towards the humanizing goal of solidarity. Unfortunately this spirit is often overwhelmed or suppressed by ethical and cultural considerations of an individualistic and utilitarian nature. Globalization is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon which must be grasped in the diversity and unity of all its different dimensions, including the theological dimension. In this way it will be possible to experience and to steer the globalization of humanity in relational terms, in terms of communion and the sharing of goods.

What is also needed, though, is a worldwide redistribution of energy resources, so that countries lacking those resources can have access to them.

Globalization certainly requires authority, insofar as it poses the problem of a global common good that needs to be pursued.

67. In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth. One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protectand of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority,

Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums. Without this, despite the great progress accomplished in various sectors, international law would risk being conditioned by the balance of power among the strongest nations.

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http://adventmessenger.org/ave-maria-hail-mary-was-sung-when-donald-trump-returned-to-the-place-of-his-shooting-in-butler-pennsylvania/

Quoted article below from link above.

Ave Maria (Hail Mary) was Sung When Donald Trump Returned to the Place of His Shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania

The song Ave Maria, Latin for Hail Mary, is deeply significant to Roman Catholics because its lyrics are rooted in Catholic tradition, which honors Mary's unique role in salvation and asks for her heavenly intercession. The song, which is often performed in churches, at weddings, and during significant religious ceremonies, has come to symbolize a deep, universal respect for Mary. This was the song Donald Trump played during his triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, for a second rally on October 5, 2024.

Donald Trump asked everyone to observe a moment of silence at 6:11 p.m., the exact moment an assassin tried to kill him. As the song Ave Maria was sung, tens of thousands of people who attended the rally in person stood in silence for three minutes, while millions more watched through livestream. At this rally, the message was that the so-called Blessed Virgin Mary is at work, hearing prayers and interceding on behalf of America.

The song's lyrics in English are as follows:

Hail Mary, full of grace,
Mary, full of grace,
Mary, full of grace,
Hail, Hail, the Lord.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed,
Blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Thy womb, Jesus.
Hail Mary!

Hail Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Pray, pray for us;
Pray, pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death,
The hour of our death
The hour of our death,
The hour of our death
Hail Mary.

Politicians are always trying to win over religious groups during election seasons through a wide range of methods, but venerating the Virgin Mary and turning millions of people to her so-called intercessory work on behalf of God is nothing more than spreading the wine of Babylon. Anyone who participates in any call to invoke the Virgin Mary is opening the door to forces of darkness because they are trying to communicate with the dead. As soon as we begin to invite demonic forces into our political rallies, this is a sign that our nation is rapidly approaching spiritual desolation.

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is going to drive them out before you." Deuteronomy 18:10-12 (NASB version).

Spiritualism is nothing to play with. We must stay away from this and warn others about it. Through spiritualism, our world is preparing for the kingdom of Antichrist. When Protestants and Catholics create a three-fold union with spiritualism, what will follow is the repudiation of our Constitution and the Sunday law crisis:

"When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near" (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 451).

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http://adventmessenger.org/spains-historic-rains-and-flooding-are-being-linked-to-the-popes-climate-encyclicals/

Quoted article below from link above.

Spain's Historic Rains and Flooding are Being Linked to the Pope's Climate Encyclicals

At least 217 people have already lost their lives in one of the deadliest flash floods in Spain's modern history, and many more remain unaccounted for. Rescue workers are searching in homes, apartment buildings, shopping centers, and parking garages for more victims of the floods that came after four consecutive days of torrential rain hit the eastern region of Valencia, Spain.

Catholics were quick to blame the natural disaster on climate change and are urging the European nation to adhere to Pope Francis' climate encyclicals Laudate Deum and Laudato Si'. ARCORES, the International Solidarity Network of the Augustinian Recollect Family and a religious order of the Catholic Church, published the following on October 31, 2024, which connects the recent environmental tragedy to the Pope's climate message:

• "The catastrophic floods that claimed more than 90 lives (now 217 and counting) and left dozens missing in Valencia, Spain, highlight the seriousness of the climate crisis."

• "With each additional increase in global warming, the changes in extremes continue to increase."

• "The climate impacts are already at the doorsteps of European cities. We have been overconfident, thinking that these effects only affect island nations, but we are completely wrong."

• "The extreme consequences of climate change threaten lives and livelihoods everywhere."

• "Despite this, many people are still reluctant and confused when it comes to accepting the reality of the climate crisis."

• "As Pope Francis states, 'despite all attempts to deny, hide, gloss over or relativize the issue, the signs of climate change are here and are ever more evident.' (Laudato Deum, 5)."

• "We encourage communities and institutions to make calls for solidarity and to act in favor of the victims, as Pope Francis reminds us in Laudato Si' with a sense of solidarity that is at the same time an awareness of living in a common home that God has lent us."

• "These community actions, when they express self-giving love, can also become intense spiritual experiences (Laudato Si', 232)."

Here we see how Rome's faith-driven climate agenda is being pushed upon Europe as the solution to the natural calamities taking place in our world. Catholics are actually lobbying political leaders to adopt Laudate Deum and Laudato Si' as the solutions for the environment.

Here is the real problem with the Pope's climate message, which will have a part in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Laduato Si' section 237 reads:

• "On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the "first day" of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord's risen humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality. It also proclaims "man's eternal rest in God" (Laudato Si' #237).

Rome is working tirelessly to spread her wine throughout the world. Their climate agenda is linked to Sunday sacredness, and, when embraced by political and religious leaders, this will aid in bringing Sunday rest to the forefront. With the climate agenda hitting a fever pitch in society and as globalists are making their proposals to save the world from the climate apocalypse at COP29 and the World Economic Forum, the climate crusade is not slowing down but actually aligning all parties together on the Sunday question.

There will be two clear voices being heard as we enter the final crisis. Apostate Christianity's call that Sunday is the solution to saving the planet and the warning message found in the Third Angel's Message against the mark of the beast. God will always have a people who will step up in every crisis to meet the challenge. Praise God!

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/exclusive-archbishop-viganos-reaction-to-the-synod-whore-of-babylon/

Quoted article below from link above.

EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Viganò's reaction to the Synod: 'Wh*re of Babylon'

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has warned that the Synod on Synodality is a vehicle for the 'globalist agenda,' supplanting the Catholic Church with 'the Whore of Babylon that is subservient to the New World Order.'

(LifeSiteNews) — The "Synod on Synodality" that has just concluded is a perfect icon of the duplicitous and fraudulent nature of the conciliar and synodal church.

The usual promotion of the globalist agenda is all too evident. The hierarchical subversion of gender equality is at the origin of the surreal discussion about the "ordination" of women, of which a "pastoral experimentation" has already been approved to begin that will serve in the near future as an alibi for the official modification of doctrine on the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

In the same way, the acceptance of LGBT ideology, which is also a globalist objective, was obsequiously transposed to the synod after the premise was laid in Fiducia Supplicans. The Deep Church acts in total rupture from and in opposition to the ecclesial body, exactly as the Deep State governs against the interests of citizens.

Regardless of the individual articles of faith that the synod tampers with pastorally, it is also evident that the ultimate goal that Bergoglio has set for himself is to destroy the Catholic Church by distorting the nature of the papacy as Our Lord established it. The church of Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a "synodal church," therefore it is neither monarchical nor divine, but democratic and human. Its authority is not vicarious of the sacred power of Christ but rather a false and deceptive expression of a supposed "will of the people," or even worse it is a "sign of the Spirit" that a subversive organization is hiding behind. The people of God are being deceived by false shepherds and mercenaries.

Everything in the words and actions of the synodal church is a lie. Because its purpose is to impose by authority, under the guise of a request from the grass roots, things that no faithful Catholic has ever asked for, because they contradict the teaching of Our Lord. This authority, which has been usurped for the opposite purpose to that for which Jesus Christ established it, is completely illegitimate, and it is now the duty of each and every successor of the apostles to denounce this synodal farce, the final phase of the conciliar revolution, with which the Bride of the Lamb has been replaced by the Whore of Babylon that is subservient to the New World Order.

There are those who believe that the alarm about Bergoglio's subversive intentions is excessive and unfounded, citing as an example of his intermittent orthodoxy his latest "encyclical" on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This document represents a diversion to deceive the faithful, according to the well-tested strategy of deception typical of the Jesuit and Peronist Bergoglio, confirming his duplicity and intellectual dishonesty.

The argument made in Dilexit Nos – treated in an apparently anti-modern key – constitutes a clumsy attempt at fraudulent reappropriation by the Society of Jesus of the cult of the Sacred Heart, of which it has been the historical custodian.

This devotion, which arose to counter the Jansenist heresy, will inevitably be distorted to give the appearance of theological rigor to the opposing heresy, that is, to a form of doctrinal and moral laxity that admits everything as morally permissible because it has supposedly already been healed and forgiven by the infinite Mercy of God. Such false devotion is perfectly consistent with the synod's aim.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Regis

A few hundred years ago, this man would have been labeled a Protestant, Excommunicated, and in danger of being burned at the stake. Luckily for him, thus far today in any case, Excommunication is all he need worry about. As millions of other Protestants already paved the way to the religious freedom we all enjoy, with their very lives.

I wonder if this Archbishop would still consider the papacy as the whore of Babylon, if the UN or New World Order was actually subservient to the them, rather than his own view that it is the other way around? No doubt the truth lies somewhere in between. The church and the state benefit each other, at the expense of the people, and protect each other when necessary from the people. As it was in the dark ages. We have all seen this beast before, though most will not admit of it. 

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http://adventmessenger.org/donald-trump-claims-that-pope-francis-wanted-people-to-vote-for-him-and-that-he-has-a-special-relationship-with-the-catholic-church/

Quoted article below from link above.

Donald Trump Claims that Pope Francis Wanted People to Vote for Him and that He has a "Special Relationship" with the Catholic Church

Bible prophecy warns of a "special relationship" between the two beasts of Revelation 13. The United States, the second beast, will serve as an enabler and promoter of the first beast, Rome, encouraging people to worship it by enforcing the mark of the beast through legal enactments. It is the second beast that will exercise all the same tyrannical power as the first beast, ultimately forcing the world to submit to the papacy. This means that there will be a unique bond between the two beasts, creating a powerful alliance that opposes allegiance to the God of heaven and the keeping of His commandments.

In an interview with Raymond Arroyo, a TV host for the Catholic EWTN channel, at the Al Smith Dinner, a high-profile Roman Catholic charity event, we witness a warm, close, and cozy relationship between the two beasts of Revelation 13. Donald Trump, who just won one of the most historic comeback elections in the history of the United States, claims that Pope Francis wanted Roman Catholics to vote for him. He also expressed that he attended the Catholic dinner to honor the Catholic faith, of which he has long been a supporter. Additionally, Donald Trump spoke of his "special relationship" to the Catholic Church and how he likes Catholicism "a lot."

When you take his words at face value, it almost gives the illusion that Donald Trump and the Catholic Church are working together in a way that benefits both sides. Furthermore, Trump's second term will not be hindered like his first one with ongoing investigations and impeachments. This implies that Trump will be able to accomplish anything he wants to since the House, Senate, and Supreme Court will all be controlled by Republicans when he takes office. Do not imagine for a moment that Rome is unaware of this.

With all the hardships, accusations, investigations, attempts to imprison him for life, civil and criminal cases, attempts to bankrupt him, assassination attempts, and efforts to keep him off the 2024 presidential ballot, Donald Trump maintains the belief that God has preserved his life to save America and make it the most powerful nation on earth. In addition to strengthening our economy and securing the border, Donald Trump has promised to restore Christianity in America with more power than ever before. [1]

Does that imply that the churches will have more power than they did in the 1880s when they controlled state legislatures and greater authority than they had during the colonial era blue laws? Yes, read Revelation 13:15–17. We are headed to "a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation" (Daniel 12:1). The new-found restoration of power clearly includes Roman Catholicism. Put differently, Donald Trump has used nice, flattering words when he talks about restoring the power of the churches, which includes the first beast of Revelation 13, Rome, along with its apostate daughters—Protestant America.

Bible prophecy says that the deadly wound will be healed by the strongest of all nations, the United States. In this context, it is quite disconcerting to hear these warm words, marked by a sense of reverence, being offered by the incoming President of the United States, the second beast, to the representatives of the Papacy, the first beast.

Fellow Seventh-day Adventists, what we witnessed this week was not just another presidential election. Something prophetic is taking shape before our eyes. We must pray for God's mercy that He may restrain the winds of strife and persecution so that we can work to reach people with the final message of warning.

"Especially should we, with unwavering faith, seek God for grace and power to be given to His people now. We do not believe that the time has fully come when He would have our liberties restricted. The prophet saw 'four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.' Another angel, ascending from the east, cried to them, saying: 'Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.' This points out the work we have now to do. A vast responsibility is devolving upon men and women of prayer throughout the land to petition that God will sweep back the cloud of evil and give a few more years of grace in which to work for the Master. Let us cry to God that the angels may hold the four winds until missionaries shall be sent to all parts of the world and shall proclaim the warning against disobeying the law of Jehovah." (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p, 717.2)

Watch the video at the following link, which is also viewable at the linked site of the above article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgRXvz2n3A&t=108s

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http://adventmessenger.org/donald-trump-claims-that-pope-francis-wanted-people-to-vote-for-him-and-that-he-has-a-special-relationship-with-the-catholic-church/

Quoted article below from link above.

Watch the video at the following link, which is also viewable at the linked site of the above article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgRXvz2n3A&t=108s

Hope you did not vote for him.

[Amo]

Hope you did not vote for him.

I came closer than ever. As I do believe either party will bring us to the final stages of developing the final global beast of biblical prophecy. Exactly because of their ever growing relations and in fact dependence upon Roman Catholicism for political success. He had to be elected, to halt the advancement of progressive leftism. Now we will see what the right will do in open profession of their close alliance with Roman Catholicism. That most ancient foe of freedom, liberty, and the once American way.

Trump proved once before that he could resist Rome's influence by pulling out of the Paris Accord and putting America first. Let's hope he can facilitate the same principles this time around, after professing such admiration for Catholicism, and winning because of their vote. When so many of them are influenced and or guided by the globalist supporting, facilitating, and manipulative Vatican. Hopefully I will not have to pray for a near future swing back to the left, to prevent a radical right agenda from accomplishing such a goal. Time will tell.

Nevertheless, all those who will toy with and drink the wine of Babylon, will eventually fall prey to her ever intoxicating influence. As holy scripture has plainly stated.

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.

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http://adventmessenger.org/pope-francis-expresses-his-hope-that-protestants-will-one-day-partake-of-the-same-eucharist/

Quoted article below from link above. My comments in blue.

Pope Francis Expresses His Hope that Protestants Will One Day Partake of the Same Eucharist

"Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power" (Maranatha, p. 216)

In an effort to heal the long-standing divisions between Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants, Pope Francis has been aggressively promoting unity among Christians. His call for all Christians to participate in the Sunday Holy Eucharist celebration is at the heart of this effort. By promoting shared participation in the Roman Catholic sacrament of communion, Pope Francis seeks to highlight the common faith that he believes binds all Christians. The ultimate goal is to heal divisions through a unified Christian world based on Catholic doctrine and traditions.

On November 11, 2024, Pope Francis received a delegation at the Vatican from the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, an Oriental Protestant Christian denomination headquartered in India. In their meeting, Pope Francis emphasized the need to restore unity and bring all believers together to celebrate the same Eucharist. He also stressed the importance of having a shared ecumenical evangelism, which is collaboration among different Christian denominations to spread the message of Christ.

The Vatican Press Office published the following:

• "Your Church, heir to both the Syriac tradition of the Saint Thomas Christians and the Reformed tradition, rightly defines itself as a 'bridge Church' between East and West. As Your Grace pointed out, the Mar Thoma Church has an ecumenical vocation and it is no coincidence that it became involved in the ecumenical movement early on, establishing a number of bilateral contacts with Christians of different traditions."

• "The first meetings with the Church of Rome took place at the time of the Second Vatican Council, in which His Grace Philipose Mar Chrysostom, the future Metropolitan, participated as an Observer. These are the small steps that bring us closer."

• "I rejoice at the beginning of this dialogue, which I entrust to the Holy Spirit and which I hope will hasten the day when we will be able to share the same Eucharist, in fulfilment of the Lord's prophecy: "They shall come from east and west and sit at table (Matt. 8:11)."

• "I am reminded of what the great Zizioulas said about Christian unity. He was a great man, a man of God. He said: 'I know the date when there will be full unity between the Churches.' What is the date? 'The day after the Last Judgement.' He added: 'But, in the meantime we must walk together, pray together and work together. All together'."

• "I am convinced that working together to bear witness to the Risen Christ is the best way for us to draw closer together. For this reason, as our recent Synod proposed, it is my hope that one day we can celebrate an ecumenical Synod on evangelization, everyone together."

In Revelation 17:5, "Babylon the Great" is depicted as the "mother of harlots" and represents a corrupt religious, political, or cultural system that aligns itself with worldly powers in opposition to God. The daughters represent all of the churches that will join the idolatrous system that is seducing people away from true faith. This is describing how in the last days many will be deceived, including religious institutions. Under the leadership of Rome, many churches and religious leaders, seduced by the promise of peace, unity, and security, will join this alliance, uniting under a single world religion that will appear tolerant and inclusive yet will reject Christ's teachings.

Today there is a call for the entire religious world to establish a close and intimate relationship. Pope Francis is trying to unite religious powers in a common vision and mission. Unfortunately, Seventh-day Adventists face an enormous temptation today, a temptation that is becoming increasingly popular. The temptation for God's commandment-keeping people is to join the religious world on the path toward ecumenism, thus making ourselves indistinguishable from the rest of the fallen churches of Babylon. Instead of joining this movement, we have been called to expose it:

"The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the inroads of spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power—all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like these" (Great Controversy, 606).

Seventh-day Adventists were not raised up as a people to grasp the hand of Romanism. We were raised to give a very special warning message to the world. What is that startling message that God has commissioned us to preach? It is the Three Angels' Message found in Revelation 14:6–12. These messages need to be heard in every Adventist pulpit and in every Adventist church around the world more than ever before.

"Most startling messages will be borne by men of God's appointment, messages of a character to warn the people, to arouse them. And while some will be provoked by the warning and led to resist light and evidence, we are to see from this that we are giving the testing message for this time" (Testimonies, Vol. 9, p. 137).

"The third angel is represented as flying in the midst of heaven, symbolizing the work of those who proclaim the first, second, and third angel's messages; all are linked together. The evidences of the abiding, everliving truth of these grand messages that mean so much to us, that have awakened such intense opposition from the religious world, are not extinct. Satan is constantly seeking to cast his hellish shadow about these messages, so that the remnant people of God shall not clearly discern their import—their time and place—but they live, and are to exert their power upon our religious experience while time shall last" (Selected Messages, Vol. 3, p. 405).

To share communion with the church of Rome, by partaking of her Eucharist, is to literally drink the wine of Babylon. The wine she claims to magically transform into the literal blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To submit to this blasphemous false doctrine for the sake of unity, is open unabashed apostasy. Denying one of the most basic and fundamental truths of the Protestant Reformation -

Heb 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us......................
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Through the false doctrine of transubstantiation, sinful humanity has set up a priesthood of and by the fallen, upon which it is said all are dependent for salvation. In that none but the priests of Roman Catholicism are supposedly endowed with the gift of turning the bread and wine into the literal flesh and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This false priesthood and ministration is built once again upon many priests often offering this supposedly un-bloody sacrifice as necessary to salvation. Thereby rejecting our Lord's once and for all perfect sacrifice, in the practice of this most unscriptural and usurping ministration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_the_Catholic_Church

Quote below from link above.

The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ. As defined by the Church at the Council of Trent, in the Mass "the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross, is present and offered in an unbloody manner". The Church describes the Mass as the "source and summit of the Christian life", and teaches that the Mass is a sacrifice, in which the sacramental bread and wine, through consecration by an ordained priest, become the sacrificial body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ as the sacrifice on Calvary made truly present once again on the altar. The Catholic Church permits only baptised members in the state of grace (Catholics who are not in a state of mortal sin) to receive Christ in the Eucharist.

The holy New Testament scriptures, call for no such sacrifice or priesthood to perform any such sacrifice. As already pointed out above with scriptures, which plainly contradict any notion of any kind of another sacrifice of our Lord and Savior. Conclusively stating that our Lord's heavenly and High Priestly sacrifice for our sins, was a one time and complete sacrifice for the sins of humanity. Our Lord Jesus and the Apostle Paul clearly delineate what the spiritual sacrifice of the New Covenant is for believers.

Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Our Lord's sacrifice for humanity was complete and is done. It only remains to be seen, who will pick up their crosses and follow Him. His sinless and perfect life and sacrifice need not be repeated, but remains to be followed and exemplified in and by the faith of the believer. In this is our salvation. Not some unscriptural hocus-pocus re-sacrifice of our Lord and saviors once and for all perfect sacrifice.

Our Lord came to convert sinful breakers of God's law and government, into willfully obedient law keepers and citizens of the heavenly kingdom. Authentic biblical Christianity promotes all according to the same. Debased and apostate Christianity seeks to establish the breaking of God's commandments, practiced and or enforced by legislated laws and traditions of fallen humanity. Such as -

Bowing before man made objects.

Ignoring the fourth commandment of God.

Substituting God's seventh day sabbath with a man made first day sabbath.

Wholesale theft by way of the redistribution of the wealth of entire nations, without the consent of its citizens, and or redistribution by way of mass migration and or other methods.

Seeking divine intercession via communication with the dead.

Seeking and establishing illicit relationships with the kings, false religions, merchants, craftsman, leaders of commerce, entertainers, and wealthy of this world. Unto deceptive and manipulative outcomes. 

Just to mention a few teachings and practices promoted by the man of sin and lawlessness. And what is the result or end game of all her calls for the unity of professed "Christianity", and all of humanity? Is it not global political control of this world under her self promoted and declared leadership? Yes it is.

 So be it as God's word has predicted in accordance with His pure, holy, righteous, and undefiled eternal will.

Isa 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. 5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.

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http://adventmessenger.org/pope-francis-wants-to-influence-climate-change-action-by-utilizing-the-collective-power-of-religion/

Quoted article below from link above. My comments in blue.

Pope Francis wants to Influence Climate Change Action by Utilizing the Collective Power of Religion

Leveraging the power of religion to influence climate change policies is just another way of using the state to impose the doctrines of the church. This is precisely what the Vatican expressed in a news story published on November 22, 2024. According to Vatican News, the United Nations is seeking to work with both Roman Catholics and other religions to deliver climate change policies aimed at saving people's livelihoods and lives. This is a call for political and religious cohesion, designed to influence the behaviors of billions of people worldwide. Of course, Rome will be at the center of this collective action.

Vatican News recently published the following:

• "Pope Francis met on Friday with Celeste Saolo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN agency responsible for the coordination of meteorological, hydrological and related activities. During the conversation they discussed their common concerns on climate change and agreed on the urgency for climate action."

• "Speaking to Vatican News after the audience, Ms. Saulo said the UN agency is looking forward to a closer collaboration with the Holy See and other religions on this crucial issue, one which represents a major challenge for our planet and humanity."

• "Religions' contribution to climate action: According to Ms. Saulo, religions can give an important contribution to climate action and to building hope: 'Action should be informed by science, but moved by faith,' she said. She expressed her hope for a closer collaboration in the future with the Holy See: 'We have a common agenda and can work together to protect people's lives and livelihoods,' she said."

Yes, the Vatican is positioning itself to be in the leading role when it comes to influencing the nations when it comes to adopting environmentally conscious policies and laws. This is the very essence of Laudato Si'. In an attempt to change the world, the Pope calls on everyone to accept climate action as the new moral and social imperative.

There is a powerful force at work, dictating, imposing, and attempting to create global climate measures for all governments. Bible prophecy describes a force that is influencing politicians, the commercial sector, social organizations, religious groups, and ordinary individuals on a grass-roots level. Who is this power? Rome. Only the Vatican, through Pope Francis, is calling for the establishment of a global government with the power to enforce "sanctions" on countries in order to carry out climate change legislation.

Notice the following statements from his encyclical on climate change, Laudato Si:

• "Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions" (Laudato Si' #175).

• "To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority." (Laudato Si' #175).

The Pope is calling for a global political body with the authority to enact global legislation in order to reverse the harmful effects of climate change. This global authority will not stop with just environmentalism. Our economy, business, agriculture, politics, education, healthcare, religion, media, and everything else in our culture will all be affected by this global political body. This is a bold plan to fundamentally alter our global structures and lives.

Laudato Si' calls for global unity and cooperation. It encourages all religious faiths and churches, including Protestantism, to join Rome and work together to solve the world's problems. It advocates for a global political structure with the teeth to impose sanctions. It also mentions Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, three times, calling this day the true day of rest in Laudato Si' #237.

According to Revelation Chapters 13, 17, and 18, a global political and religious authority will be established to advance a particular set of ideologies that will force people to worship Rome instead of allowing them to follow their own conscience. There will be a global authority in these final days to impose laws on nations. The current system of nation-states will be replaced by this global governance, which will result in the loss of freedom, particularly our right to worship God in accordance with our conscience.

"Brethren and sisters, would that I might say something to awaken you to the importance of this time, the significance of the events that are now taking place. I point you to the aggressive movements now being made for the restriction of religious liberty. God's sanctified memorial has been torn down, and in its place a false sabbath, bearing no sanctity, stands before the world. And while the powers of darkness are stirring up the elements from beneath, the Lord God of heaven is sending power from above to meet the emergency by arousing His living agencies to exalt the law of heaven. Now, just now, is our time to work in foreign countries" (Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 18).

The Church of Rome uses different crisis and or created crisis, to call for global government inspired and or guided by her own "wisdom". The following quote is from ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE. A papal encyclical calling for the need of the implementation of papal social justice regarding the unification of humanity, common good, wealth, power, and natural resource redistribution, equity, and so on and so forth. Oh, and of course addressing the evils of Capitalism. Emphasis in the quote is mine.

67. In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth. One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protect and of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority,

Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums. Without this, despite the great progress accomplished in various sectors, international law would risk being conditioned by the balance of power among the strongest nations.

In short the papacy continually calls for the exact form of global and abusive government the prophesies of holy scripture predict will form right before the end of this world. Under her superior moral guidance of course. BABYLON THE GREAT must be about the business of fulfilling the commission holy scripture has allotted her. The unification of all humanity in rebellion against the commandments and or authority of God. All in the name of Jesus of course.

What does the political establishment of papal social justice represent, but the establishment of the breaking of God's commandments. The robbery of wealth, natural resource, and power through redistribution without consent. Condoning amoral sexual behavior and or deviance. Involuntary subjugation to the powers that be of this world as though they were or were of God, above God himself. The increase of all types of crimes due to slack responses of so called justice, if any justice be enforced at all. The literal manipulation of countless millions of lives, through mass immigrations negatively effecting great numbers of both the migrants and those who territories they invade. So on and so forth, and the eventual establishment of Sunday sacredness by law. The abomination of desolation standing in the place of God's holy sabbath. 

Nor is the first time at all, the papacy has inspired and or heavily supported big, authoritative, mandating, and abusive government. To the contrary, it has been her habit to do so.

Quotes from Ecclesiastical Megalomania -

Roman Catholic economic thought, as developed by the popes in their encyclicals and by Roman Church-State councils, has been a contributor to, if not the only source of, several forms of anti-capitalist political and economic organization during the long hegemony of the Roman Church-State. Among these forms are

feudalism and guild socialism in Europe during the Middle ages.

fascism in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, and Latin America in the twentieth century;

Nazism in Germany in the twentieth century;

interventionism and redistributive state in the West, including the United States in the twentieth century;
 
and liberation theology in Latin America and Africa in the twentieth century.
(Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John W. Robbins, Pt. 1, chap. 1, pg. 30)

From these doctrines of the natural community of goods and the moral primacy of need developed all the forms of anti-capitalist social organizations that the Roman Church-State has supported for the thousand years. The Roman Catholic doctrine of private property is echoed in the nineteenth century Communist slogan, "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need." The Roman Catholic doctrine reverberates in the slogan of twentieth century American liberals: "Human rights are more important than property rights." It was the creed of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society:, "We shall take from the haves and give to the have nots, who need it so much." It appears in the literature of fascism, Nazism, liberation theology, interventionism, and socialism. (Ibid., pg. 35)

These Thomistic notions - that private property is merely a construct of human reason and government, and that need gives the needy title to the goods of others - are the reason the Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil in 1998 pronounced that looting is neither sin nor a crime. The needs of the looters gives the looters title to the goods they are taking. According to Roman Catholic doctrine, the looters are, by natural and divine law, the rightful owners of those goods.(Ibid., pgs. 35&36)

The dispensing of riches to the needy is not merely a private moral obligation in Thomisitic thought, as fundamentally important as that is, but a public legal obligation that is properly enforced by the public authorities. That is the position officially adopted by the Roman Church-State shall become abundantly clear. (Ibid., pg. 36)

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https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2024/07/catholic-leader-congratulates-keir-starmer-for-becoming-new-british-prime-minister

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine. My comments in blue.

Catholic leader congratulates Keir Starmer for becoming new British Prime Minister

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – New British Prime Minister Keir Starmers previous comments about wanting a government which works with churches and faith communities have been "most welcome" by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the President of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

Starmer heads the Labour Party, which won a landslide general election victory on July 4, defeating the Conservative Party, which led the country for the past 14 years.

Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accepted his defeat in a speech in Downing Street in London on Friday morning.

"I have heard your anger, disappointment and I take responsibility for this loss," he said.

The leader of the Catholic Church said he hoped to work with Starmer in his new role as Prime Minister.

"On behalf of the Catholic community in England and Wales I should like to congratulate you on your victory in yesterday's general election," Nichols wrote the new prime minister. "I assure you of my good wishes as you take up your new responsibilities in forming and leading a government."

The cardinal told Starmer the Catholic Church has a long record of partnership with the UK government, "not least in the area of education where we run over two thousand schools in conjunction with the state."

"We look forward to this continuing and to working constructively in this and other areas with you, your ministers, and officials. Your previous comments about wanting a government which works with churches and faith communities have been most welcome, and I want you to know that we stand ready to play our part," Nichols said.

Starmer has pledged to help the British nation recover from an economy suffering since it left the European Union and took a battering due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The labour Party plans to overhaul UK employment law, renationalise nearly all passenger rail – one of the most expensive in Europe – and set up a state-owned energy companies.

Yet the new prime minister has acknowledged these plans will be difficult to implement without improving the economy.

Christine Allen, Director of CAFOD – the international aid agency of the English Catholic Church – also congratulated Starmer.

"We welcome our new government who take power at a critical time of growing global inequality and multiple crises, both domestically and internationally," she said in a statement.

"We face a global debt crisis with 3 billion people living in nations where debt payments exceed their spending on education and health. The Labour party has a strong tradition of action on global debt, they answered the call of the Jubilee year in 2000 as we hope they will do for the Jubilee year 2025 by supporting fair debt settlements through UK law," Allen said.

"We hope we can work urgently with the new government to act on Sudan where 750,000 people are on the brink of famine with millions more displaced and in Gaza which is desperate for a just and peaceful solution to the conflict and urgent humanitarian assistance," she continued.

The Gaza conflict has influenced the voting in England, where long-serving Labour Party Member of Parliament Jon Ashworth lost his Leicester South seat to an independent candidate running largely on helping to end the conflict in the Palestinian region.

Allen said leaders should pay head to the words of the leader of the Church.

"Pope Francis has called politics a 'lofty vocation' we look forward to working with the new government and all new Members of Parliament to ensure we heed his call to work for the common good and be 'good Samaritans and not indifferent bystanders'," she said.

In his message to Starmer, Nichols acknowledged the difficulties the new prime minister faces.

"I know that the road ahead is, perhaps, not the easiest one but I wish you well as you embark upon it. I will keep you and your family in my prayers," the cardinal said.

As I have stated before, the Vatican and a great many of the adherents of Roman Catholicism in submission to the Vatican, represent a foreign agent of subversion from within every nation they exist. That subversion becoming ever increasingly interfering and costly, the greater the number of her adherents there are.

The British elected Starmer to effectively address problems within their own nation, but Roman Catholic leadership's global agenda's are what they immediately seek to begin diverting Starmer and government toward. Intending to and so often successfully replacing citizens concerns and agendas, with Rome's global and social justice agenda's. Leaving citizens of nations the world over feeling less and less represented by the leaders they elected for that very purpose.

Redirecting time, resources, money, and great efforts toward Rome's agenda's and goals over and above the concerns of their own citizens. Taxing and or redistributing the wealth of the British people to further the Roman goals of equity and the establishment of a global common good, at the cost of the livelihoods and freedoms of the British people. Who are increasingly silenced and or imprisoned for voicing their opinions or attempting to organize against the enforcement of this personally costly Vatican agenda. Apparently, citizens of nations the world over, are not happy with the redistribution of their wealth without their consent to effect global equity.

That is to say, being made poorer by mandate, to effect a supposed rise in the standard of living for those of other nations. Either in those nations who have not or will not develop government sufficient to caring for their own people, or within their own nations by way of mass migration and government support of them with tax payers money. All of which of course demands higher taxes for citizens of the nation being migrated into. With many a negative and varied effect upon the natural citizens as well. And so on, and so forth.

Mandated equity and the common good, equals elitist government control of the ever increasingly poor citizens of nations all such tends toward. Ending in a dumbed down, subjugated, government dependent people. The dark ages all over again. The exact environment the papacy rose to power and excelled within. Clergy and royalty over the subjugated laity and peasants. The exact evils Protestants and "Rationalists" overcame unto freedom and liberty for us common or ordinary as it is phrased, folk. In this most probably, last repetition of humanities dysfunctional pattern of cyclical histories. So be it as God's word has predicted and therefore determined.

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https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241202-paris-prepares-to-host-world-leaders-catholic-bishops-at-high-security-reopening-of-notre-dame

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Paris prepares to host 50 heads of state at high-security reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral

Invite-only ceremonies Saturday and Sunday will launch the reopening of Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral five years after fire reduced it to a shell. About 50 world leaders are expected on Saturday, while nearly 170 bishops from France and other countries will attend an inaugural mass and consecration of the new altar on Sunday morning.

The reopening of Notre-Dame this coming weekend is going to be a high-security affair, with a repeat of some measures used during the Paris Olympics and the sealing-off to tourists of the cathedral's island location in the heart of the French capital.

After more than five years of reconstruction following the fire that devastated Notre-Dame in 2019, invite-only ceremonies Saturday and Sunday will usher in its rebirth.

Police chief Laurent Nuñez said only people with invitations and the island's residents will have access to the Ile de la Cité in the middle of the River Seine, which includes Notre-Dame and habitually hums with tourists.

He said about 50 heads of state and government are expected and that security arrangements are drawing on the police measures that sealed off large sections of central Paris for the Paris Games' flamboyant opening ceremony.

"A very high level of security will be applied," Nuñez said in an interview published Monday in Le Parisien.

The first celebrations starting Saturday afternoon will blend religious ritual and showbiz. Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich will preside at a reopening service, banging on Notre-Dame's shuttered doors with his staff to reopen them, the cathedral website says.

The archbishop will also symbolically reawaken Notre-Dame's thunderous grand organ. The fire that melted the cathedral's lead roofing coated the huge instrument in toxic dust. Its 8,000 pipes, ranging in size from that of a pen to over 10 meters (33 feet) tall, have been painstakingly disassembled, cleaned, and retuned.

There will also be psalms, prayers and singing. French President Emmanuel Macron will attend and address the VIP guests.

After the service, opera singers Pretty Yende, from South Africa, and Julie Fuchs, from France; Chinese pianist Lang Lang; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; Benin-born singer Angelique Kidjo; Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji and others will perform at a concert Saturday evening for the cathedral and those who took part in the reconstruction, says the show's broadcaster, France Télévisions.

The security cordon sealing off the whole of the Ile de La Cité, plus a stretch of the Seine's southern bank and nine of its bridges, will be in place from early Saturday evening to Sunday night, the police chief said. Only those involved in the ceremonies and residents will be granted access, he said. All shops on the island — many are geared to the tourist trade — as well as boat tours that start and stop there will be closed for the weekend, he added.

The Paris archbishop will also lead an inaugural mass and consecration of the new altar on Sunday morning.

Nearly 170 bishops from France and other countries will join the celebration, as well as priests from all 106 parishes in the Paris diocese, the cathedral website says.

It says the mass will be followed by a "fraternal buffet" for the needy.

Public viewing areas capable of holding 40,000 people will be set up on the Seine's southern bank, so spectators can follow the two days of events on screens, the police chief said.

Donald Trump and many other kings of the earth attending the reopening of Babylon's Notre Dame. Where they will be drinking the wine of Babylon as well. As her ever intoxicating influence leads ever nearer the establishment of the final global beast of biblical prophecy. This is the first trip abroad of Donald Trumps foreign policy, in support of a famous temple of the foreign, Roman, Vatican nation state (BABYLON THE GREAT). 

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.  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. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

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https://gentlereformation.com/2019/04/18/notre_dame/

Quotes below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Encountering God at Notre Dame: Mary, Relics, and the Mass

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But Notre Dame has another context. It's not simply exterior beauty but is a beauty drenched in a religious context. The very name "Notre Dame" betrays its sacredness. In English its name is "Our Lady" and was built as a monument to the Virgin Mary and continues to excite the Marian devotion of the Roman Catholic Church. Jean de Chelles a master mason and sculptor who contributed to the cathederal, captured the great aim in the inscription "for the glory of the Mother of Christ." The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "The Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things" (966). In their teaching she has become "a mother to us in the order of grace" and is "invoked in the Church under titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix" (969).

Notre Dame cathedral is also home to many relics. A relic isn't simply an artifact with historical value but is important to Roman Catholic piety – the promotion of godliness. Again, as their catechism teaches about popular piety: "The religious sense of the Christian people has always found expression in various forms of piety surrounding the Church's sacramental life, such as the veneration of relics, visits to sanctuaries, pilgrimages, processions, the stations of the cross, religious dances, the rosary, medals, etc" (1674).

In their understanding a relic is a physical object associated with Jesus or the saints that gives a spiritual gift of grace. This isn't because of some hocus-pocus magic but they believe God uses relics as a means to communicate his favor and blessing. Thus, the faithful are to "venerate" relics. Veneration is the practice of honoring and, in their teaching, is distinct from worship. Roman Catholics distinguish between the supreme honor that is given to God (latria) and inferior honor that is given to angels and saints (dulia). As Jerome once wrote: "We do not worship relics, we do not adore them, for fear that we should bow down to the creature rather than to the creator. But we venerate the relics of the martyrs." In the mind of many that's a distinction without a difference.

In their understanding a relic is a physical object associated with Jesus or the saints that gives a spiritual gift of grace. This isn't because of some hocus-pocus magic but they believe God uses relics as a means to communicate his favor and blessing. Thus, the faithful are to "venerate" relics. Veneration is the practice of honoring and, in their teaching, is distinct from worship. Roman Catholics distinguish between the supreme honor that is given to God (latria) and inferior honor that is given to angels and saints (dulia). As Jerome once wrote: "We do not worship relics, we do not adore them, for fear that we should bow down to the creature rather than to the creator. But we venerate the relics of the martyrs." In the mind of many that's a distinction without a difference......................

Trump and many other leaders are therefore basically attending the rededication of all the above which Notre Dame represents. Homage to the teachings, doctrines, and wine of BABYLON THE GREAT. This is in fact, a major political statement. A repudiation of the beliefs of the majority of Protestants fathers who founded our nation. Rome-ward bound.

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https://www.jns.org/the-jewish-treasures-of-notre-dame/

Quotes below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

The Jewish treasures of Notre Dame

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Jews were barely tolerated in France at that time. King Philip II expelled the Jews in 1182, but within a few years they began to trickle back into the country, settling in several cities and towns, including Paris. Their activities were severely restricted: the Lateran Council, convened by Pope Innocent III in 1215, banned Jews from all professions in Europe except for pawnbroking and selling old clothes. In addition, Jews were forced to wear special, ridiculous clothing that differentiated them from Christians.....................

At the time this frieze was being carved, Jews were relentlessly persecuted in Paris and elsewhere in Europe. In 1239, Pope Gregory IX sent letters to church leaders, as well as to the kings of England, Spain and Portugal, enumerating dozens of charges against the Talmud. This led to calls to collect and destroy this Jewish holy work. Nowhere was this horrendous instruction carried out with as much zeal as in Paris. On March 3, 1240, church officials burst into synagogues throughout France. It was a Shabbat, and synagogues were full. France's helpless Jews watched as their holy volumes were taken away.

French King Louis IX called for the Talmud to be put on trial. Four rabbis defended the Jewish holy books from a series of accusations; unsurprisingly, the rabbis were found to have lost and the Talmud was condemned to be burned. On June 17, 1242, church officials brought 24 wagons piled high with volumes of the Talmud, about 10,000 books in all—all known copies of the Talmud then in existence in France—to Paris' Place de Grève , next to Notre Dame. There, they were publicly burned.

Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, known as the Maharam, witnessed the burning. He penned a haunting lamentation afterwards, recording that "My tears formed a river that reached to the Sinai desert and to the graves of Moses and Aharon. Is there another Torah to replace the Torah which you have taken from us?"

Two prominent statues on the facade of Notre Dame captured the feelings of Christians and Jews at this time. On the right, one woman stands ragged defeated, her eyes are covered by a snake and her head is bowed. She holds a broken scepter, and tablets of Jewish law are slipping from her grasp. Under her feet lies a crown trodden into the dust: she is "Synagoga," representing the synagogue or Judaism in general.

The Catholic Church wanted those entering Notre Dame to believe that Judaism was finished, downcast and humiliated.

On her left is a finely dressed woman standing upright, carrying a chalice and a staff with a cross at its peak, seemingly triumphant. She is known as "Ecclesia," representing the victorious Catholic Church.

So important were these allegories of Christian dominance and Jewish humiliation that when the originals were destroyed during the French Revolution, they were re-created and replaced in the 1800s.

Above them is yet another depiction of Jews: the Gallery of Kings, featuring 28 kings of ancient Judah and Israel. These, too, were replaced after being smashed during the Revolution.

In 1306, King Philip III of France took a drastic step. He was short of funds and decided to seize the belongings and assets of the Jews in his kingdom. This was not an unprecedented step: Jews in Medieval Europe were, in the Latin phrase of the time, servi camerae mosrae, or servants of the chamber of the king. As property, they were the king's to do with as he saw fit.

On July 22, 1306, the day after Tisha B'Av, 100,000 Jews were arrested throughout France and forced into prison. There, they were told they were sentenced to exile; each Jew was permitted to bring only the clothes they were wearing and the very small sum of 12 sous each. In the ensuing months, King Philip III auctioned off the Jews' property. His order of expulsion was reversed by his son King Louis X, but then reinstated in 1322. Only centuries later was it safe for Jews to once again live in France, as the territory of the expanding French kingdom grew to include areas to which French Jews had fled and established new communities.

As French officials survey the wreckage of Notre Dame, it's becoming clear that the front facade of the cathedral is largely intact. These irreplaceable artistic treasures depicting the history of Jews in France seem to have been saved. They can teach us a great deal about Jewish history and fortitude in France and beyond.

Some of the history being honored by world leaders in attending the rededication of Notre Dame. An edifice of such proud "Christian" teaching and practice throughout history. The world has largely forgotten the dark histories of Roman Catholic rule. As many of our leaders today seek her approval in acts such as those akin to the rededication of Notre Dame. No doubt, we are soon to repeat those dark histories, since we have forgotten or choose not to remember lessons once learned.

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More illustrious "Christian" histories in relation to Notre Dame.

A third time Louis de Berquin was arrested, on application of the officer known as the Promoteur de la foi. His trial was committed to twelve judges selected by parliament, among whom figured not only the first president and the vicar-general of the Bishop of Paris, but, strange to say, even so well-disposed and liberal a jurist as Guillaume Budé, the foremost French scholar of the age for broad and accurate learning. The case advanced too slowly to meet De Berquin's impatience. In the assurance of ultimate success, he is even accused by a contemporary chronicler of having offered the court two hundred crowns to expedite the trial.5 It soon became evident, however, from the withdrawal of the liberties at first accorded, that De Berquin would scarcely escape unless the king again interposed—a contingency less likely to occur in view of the incessant appeals with which Francis was plied, addressed at once to his interest, his conscience, and his pride. But the more desperate the cause of Berquin, and the more uncertain the king's disposition, the more urgent the intercessions of Margaret of Angoulême, whose character is nowhere seen to better advantage than in her repeated letters to her brother about this time.

Berquin sentenced to public penance, branding, and imprisonment

The sentence was rendered on the sixteenth of April, 1529. De Berquin, being found guilty of heresy, was condemned to do public penance in front of Notre Dame, with lighted taper in hand, and crying for mercy to God and the blessed Virgin. Next, on the Place de Grève, he was to be ignominiously exhibited upon a scaffold, while his books were burned before his eyes. Taken thence in a cart to the pillory, and again exposed to popular derision on a revolving stage, he was to have his tongue pierced and his forehead branded with the ineffaceable fleur-de-lis. His public disgrace over, De Berquin was to be imprisoned for life in the episcopal jail.

He appeals, is sentenced to death, and is executed

More than twenty thousand persons—so intense a hatred had been stirred up against the reformers—assembled to witness the execution of a sentence malignantly cruel. But, for that day, their expectation was disappointed. Louis de Berquin gave notice that he appealed to the absent king and to the Pope himself. It was no part of the programme, however, that the thrice-convicted heresiarch should gain a fresh respite and enlist powerful friends in effecting his release. No sooner were the judges satisfied that he persisted in his appeal, in spite of the secret and urgent advice of Budé and others, than they rendered a new and more severe sentence (on the seventeenth of April): he must pay the forfeit of his obstinacy with his life, and that, too, within a few hours.

The cause of this intemperate haste is clearly set forth by a contemporary—doubtless an eye-witness of the execution—all whose sympathies were on the side of the prosecution. It was "lest recourse be had to the king, or to the regent then at Blois;" for the delay of even a few days might have brought from the banks of the Loire another order removing De Berquin's case from the commission to the royal council.

The historian must leave to the professed martyrologist the details of the constant death of Louis de Berquin, as of the deaths of many other less distinguished victims of the intolerant zeal of the Sorbonne. Suffice it to say that although, when he undertook to address the people, his voice was purposely drowned by the din of the attendants, though the very children filled the air with shouts that De Berquin was a heretic, though not a person was found in the vast concourse to encourage him by the name of "Jesus"—an accustomed cry even at the execution of parricides—the brave nobleman of Artois met his fate with such composure as to be likened by a by-stander to a student immersed in his favorite occupations, or a worshipper whose devout mind was engrossed by the contemplation of heavenly things. There were indeed blind rumors, as usual in such cases; to the effect that De Berquin recanted at the last moment; and Merlin, the Penitentiary of Notre Dame, who attended him, is reported to have exclaimed that "perhaps no one for a hundred years had died a better Christian."4 But the "Lutherans" of Paris had good reason to deny the truth of the former statement, and to interpret the latter to the advantage of De Berquin's consistent faith—so great was the rejoicing over the final success attained in crushing the most distinguished, in silencing the boldest and most outspoken advocate of the reformation of the church. For, in the eyes of the theological faculty and of the clergy of France, Louis de Berquin merited to be styled, by way of pre-eminence, a heresiarch.

 Henry M. Baird, History of the Rise of the Huguenots, vol. 1 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1880), 144–147.


Le Coq's evangelical sermon

In striking contrast with the tragedy enacted in the chief city of the south was the favor openly showed to the reformers by the Queen of Navarre, not only in her own city of Bourges, but in Paris itself. The intercessions she had addressed to her brother for the victims of priestly persecution had long since betrayed her secret leaning; and the translation of her "Hours" into French by the Bishop of Senlis, who, by her direction, suppressed all that most directly countenanced superstitious beliefs, was naturally taken as strong confirmation of the prevalent suspicion. But, when she introduced Berthault, Courault, and her own almoner, Roussel, to the pulpits of the capital, and protected them in their evangelical labors, the case ceased to admit of doubt. She even persuaded the king to listen to a sermon in which Le Coq, curate of St. Eustache, argued with force against the bodily presence or Christ in the eucharist, and maintained that the very words, "Sursum corda," in the church service, pointed Him out as to be found at the right hand of God in heaven. Indeed, the eloquent preacher had nearly convinced his royal listener, when the Cardinals of Tournon and Lorraine, by a skilful stratagem, succeeded in destroying the impression he had received, and, it is said, in inducing Le Coq to make a retraction. But the opposition to the public proclamation of the reformed doctrines was too formidable for their advocates to stem. Beda and his colleagues in the Sorbonne left no device untried to silence the preachers: and, although the restless syndic was in the end forced to expiate his seditions words and writings by an amende honorable in front of the church of Notre Dame, and died in prison, Roussel and his fellow-preachers had long before been compelled to exchange their public discourses for private exhortations, and finally to discontinue even these and retreat from Paris.4

 Henry M. Baird, History of the Rise of the Huguenots, vol. 1 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1880), 151.



It does not come within the scope of this history to give an edifying account of the courage displayed by the victims of the frenzy consequent upon the placards. The very names of many are unknown. Among the first to be committed to the flames was a young man, Barthélemi Milon, whom paralysis had deprived of the use of the lower half of his body. His unpardonable offence was that copies of the placard against the mass had been found in his possession. A wealthy draper, Jean du Bourg, had been guilty of the still more heinous crime of having posted some of the bills on the walls. For this he was compelled before execution to go through that solemn mockery of penitence, the amende honorable, in front of the church of Notre Dame, with but a shirt to conceal his nakedness, and holding a lighted taper in his hand; afterward to be conducted to the Fontaine des Innocents, and there have the hand that had done the impious deed cut off at the wrist, in token of the public detestation of his "high treason against God and the king." A printer, a bookseller, a mason, a young man in orders, were subjected to the same cruel death. But these were only the first fruits of the prosecution. However opinions may differ respecting the merits of the cause for which they suffered, there can be but one view taken of their deportment in the trying hour of execution. In the presence of the horrible preparatives for torture, the most clownish displayed a fortitude and a noble consciousness of honest purpose, contrasted with which the pusillanimous dejection, the unworthy concessions, and the premeditated perjury of Francis, during his captivity at Madrid not ten years before, appear in no enviable light. The monarch who bartered away his honor to regain his liberty might have sat at the feet of these, his obscure subjects, to learn the true secret of greatness.

 Henry M. Baird, History of the Rise of the Huguenots, vol. 1 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1880), 172–173.



The Tailor of the Rue St. Antoine Pages 276–278

Blood flowed in every part of the kingdom. Not only the capital but also the provinces furnished their constant witnesses to the truth of the "Lutheran" doctrines. The noted trial and execution of John Brugière revealed to the First President of Parliament the humiliating fact that the Reformation had gained a strong foothold in his native Auvergne. At Paris, one Florence Venot was confined seven weeks in a cell upon the construction of which so much perverted ingenuity had been expended that the prisoner could neither lie down nor stand erect, and the hour of release from weary torture was waited for with ardent longing, even if it led to the stake.2 But the death of a nameless tailor has, by the singularity of its incidents, acquired a celebrity surpassing that of any other martyrdom in the early part of this reign. In the midst of the tourneys and other festivities provided to signalize the occasion of the queen's coronation and his own solemn entry into Paris, the desire seized Henry to see with his own eyes and to interrogate one of the members of the sect to whose account such serious charges were laid. A poor tailor, arrested in his shop in the Rue St. Antoine, a few paces from the royal palace, for the crime of working on a day which the church had declared holy, was brought before him. So contemptible a dialectician could do little, it was presumed, to shake the faith of the Very Christian King. But the result disappointed the expectations of the courtiers and ecclesiastics that were present. The tailor answered with respectful boldness to the questions propounded by Châtellain, Bishop of Macon, a prelate once favorable to the Reformation. Hereupon Diana of Poitiers, an interested opponent, whose coffers were being filled with the goods of condemned heretics, undertook to silence him with the tongue of a witty woman. The tailor, who had patiently borne the ridicule and scorn with which he had hitherto been treated, turned upon the mistress of the king a look of solemn warning as he said: "Madam, let it suffice you to have infected France, without desiring to mingle your poison and filth with so holy and sacred a thing as the true religion of our Lord Jesus Christ." The courtiers were thunderstruck at the turn taken by a discussion to which they had flocked as to a scene of diversion, and the enraged king ordered the tailor's instant trial and punishment. He even desired with his own eyes to see him undergo the extreme penalty of the law. A solemn procession had been ordered to proceed from St. Paul's to Notre Dame. The prayers there offered for the destruction of heresy were followed by an "exemplary demonstration" of the king's pious disposition, in the execution of four "Lutherans" in as many different squares of the city. In order the better to see the punishment inflicted upon the tailor of the Rue St. Antoine, Henry posted himself at a window that commanded the entire spectacle. But it was no coward's death that he beheld. Soon perceiving and recognizing the monarch before whom he had witnessed so good a profession, the tailor fixed his gaze upon him, nor would he avert his face, however much the king ordered that his position should be changed. Even in the midst of the flames he still continued to direct his dying glance toward the king, until the latter, abashed, was compelled to withdraw from the window. For days Henry declared that the spectre haunted his waking hours and drove sleep from his eyes at night; and he affirmed with an oath that never again would he witness so horrible a scene. Happy would it have been for his Memory had he adhered, in the case of Anne du Bourg, to so wise a resolution!

 Henry M. Baird, History of the Rise of the Huguenots, vol. 1 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1880), 276–278.

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http://adventmessenger.org/catholics-tell-protestants-the-reformation-is-over-come-home/

Quoted article below from link above.

Catholics Tell Protestants: "The Reformation is Over, Come Home"

Protestants and Catholics are moving closer to promoting greater Christian unity and healing their long-standing differences. Catholic Culture, an online news website, is celebrating this effort and urging Protestants to come home even though these religious communions differ in their views on the role of Scripture, the Pope, the Virgin Mary, the saints, and a host of other issues.

Nevertheless, Rome is moving quickly to unite all Protestant churches despite these opposing doctrinal positions.  Their aim is to create a shared Eucharistic intercommunion in which all families of different denominations can eat the same bread and drink from the same cup—the cup of Rome (Revelation 17:5).

Catholic Culture published the following on October 18, 2024:

• "For some of my Protestant friends, though, to say the very date "October 31st" out loud, well, them's fightin' words. October 31st is Reformation Day. The date on which they celebrate Martin Luther saving the Gospel from the corrupt institution that hid it away from its deprived members."

• "Now, I fight for a living. But when it comes to Evangelical Protestants, I'm a lover, not a fighter. And what I want to say to my Evangelical friends, whom I love, is this. The Reformation is over. Come home."

• "It was the great Peter Kreeft, an author beloved by Catholics and Evangelicals alike, who said so in his remarkable little book, "Catholics and Protestants: What Can We Learn from Each Other?" Perhaps not coincidentally, Kreeft's book was published in 2017, the 500th anniversary of the Reformation."

• "This is why Kreeft quotes the Protestant writer George Marsden, who first declared 'the Reformation is over'."

• "The secret of true—not false—ecumenical progress, says Kreeft, is that 'we love each other's faith in Christ'."

• "For my part, I hope Evangelicals celebrate this upcoming Reformation Day by declaring, with Peter Kreeft and George Marsden, that the Reformation is over. And that they are coming home to the Catholic Church. Imagine the jolt it would give our culture if we at least moved closer to one another."

After centuries of enmity, the divisions between Protestants and Catholics are finally being healed today. Through ecumenical dialogue, mutual respect, and joint collaboration on social issues such as caring for the poor and disaster relief, Protestants and Catholics have finally reconciled the broken bonds and are moving towards a joint spiritual partnership. This is the fulfillment of the following declaration:

"The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to reestablish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done" (The Great Controversy, 565).

The Counter-Reformation started as soon as the Reformation began in order to respond to the rise of the Protestant Church throughout Europe. The purpose of the Counter-Reformation was to "undo all that Protestantism has done" by stopping the protest and bringing the Protestants back to the fold of Rome. This mission is being accomplished today.

There is hardly any protest any more among the churches that call themselves Protestant. Most Protestants have sold out and are returning en masse to Rome. We are told that the time has come to throw off the old condemnations. The papacy is no longer the antichrist. We are now brothers in Christ, and God wants us to live together in peace and unity—is the popular message today.

The truth is that the Reformation is far from over, as the need to stand against the distortions of truth by an apostate Christianity has become even more urgent in these last days. While the ecumenical movement seeks to unite all Christians, often under the banner of compromise, the reality is that Rome has not changed its core doctrines, which contradict many of the Bible's teachings. Roman Catholics continue to promote traditions and human authority above the Word of God, positioning themselves as the main opponent against divine truth. Therefore, God calls on all faithful Christians to speak boldly, as the Reformers once did, and expose error while pointing people back to the purity of the Gospel.

In these times of increasing spiritual deception, we must uphold the truth of God's Word and remain steadfast in proclaiming His everlasting gospel, untainted by the compromises of false unity.

"The papacy is just what prophecy declared that she would be, the apostasy of the latter times. 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4. It is a part of her policy to assume the character which will best accomplish her purpose; but beneath the variable appearance of the chameleon she conceals the invariable venom of the serpent" (Great Controversy, p. 571).

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http://adventmessenger.org/project-guadalupe-2031-romes-plan-to-increase-devotion-to-mary-and-sunday-eucharistic-masses-in-the-united-states-with-100000-enthronement-sites/

Quoted article below from link above.

Project Guadalupe 2031: Rome's Plan to Increase Devotion to Mary and Sunday Eucharistic Masses in the United States with 100,000 Enthronement Sites

The Catholic Church, under the leadership of Pope Francis, has begun a new initiative called Project Guadalupe 2031, which is a plan that calls for the Catholicization of the United States through the veneration of Mary, communication with the dead, and Sunday Eucharistic Masses. This will lead to an increase in Catholic values within U.S. society, politics, and public life. Rome's plan is to exalt Catholic thought and identity so that the teachings of the Catholic Church can play a more prominent role in shaping institutions, laws, and moral standards.

According to Catholic News Agency, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is promoting a project aimed at increasing devotion to the Lady of Guadalupe (Mary). This plan is in line with Pope Francis' call to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Mary's so-called apparition with prayer, unity Masses, and the installation of 100,000 idols of Mary across the United States.

On December 13, 2024, Catholic News Agency published the following:

• "Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is launching a project to increase devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in response to Pope Francis' call to prepare and pray as the 500th anniversary of the Guadalupe apparition approaches."

• "Cordileone told ... of his goal of 'informing people of this call of Pope Francis,' which he said is 'largely unknown' to English-speaking Catholics."

• "To that end, the archbishop is promoting Project Guadalupe 2031, an initiative to help families enthrone Our Lady of Guadalupe in their homes. Through a new 'Mass of the Americas,' which will be celebrated across the country, he also hopes to encourage a devotion to Our Lady."

• "We want to promote awareness of this and invite people into this novena to instill greater devotion to Our Lady because she's the one who always leads us to the encounter with her son."

• "We all love Our Lady no matter which side of the border we live on, what language we speak, what culture we come from,' the archbishop said. 'So we need to look to Our Lady as the mother who unites us all into one family of God."

• "It's a Mass of unity," Cordileone explained, noting that celebrations of the special Mass will be celebrated in different venues across the U.S."

• "In preparation for the anniversary, the Benedict XVI Institute is inviting families to enthrone an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in their homes. The goal? One hundred thousand home enthronements in the next three years."

• "Celebrations of the special Mass will be celebrated in different venues across the U.S. The culmination of this will be a celebration of the Mass on the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary on Oct. 7, 2025, at the Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe (Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) in Tepeyac outside of Mexico City. The shrine was built at the site of the Blessed Virgin Mary's appearance to St. Juan Diego in 1531, which led to the conversion of several millions of Aztecs."

The plan for Project Guadalupe 2031, obviously, is to lead millions more to convert to the worship of Mary in this generation. They are calling for more idol worship, communication with the dead, and Eucharistic Sunday masses here in the United States. In other words, Rome is still in the business of exalting human traditions above the commandments of God.

The doctrine of Mary is one of the most prominent beliefs in Catholicism. The church defends the immaculate conception of Mary, her ascension into heaven, her role as "Queen of Heaven," and her intercessory work that they claim Mary does on behalf of sinners before God. These four doctrines make Mary another deity worthy to be venerated. This is the central teaching of the Catholic faith.

These Catholic doctrines are deeply set against the clear teachings of scripture. Jesus is the only "mediator" between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus is the only advocate with God whenever we sin (1 John 2:1). Jesus is the only one who is sitting at the "right hand" of God, "interceding" for us (Romans 8:34). It is Christ's death on the cross and His heavenly intercession that is the most important work in the history of our universe, and He alone, not Mary, is to receive honor from the redeemed.

"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." Revelation 5:12, 13.

Mary was not slain for your sins, and she does not intercede for us when we sin. Nowhere in the Bible are we taught this. To ascribe to Mary the offices, titles, and roles that belong to Jesus is to rob Christ of the honor and glory that He alone possesses.

This is in fact a deception, and billions of people are being drawn into a snare by the enemy. The bewitching teachers of spiritualism have deceived the world with their fables, and this work is a fulfillment of prophecy:

"Satan has long been preparing for his final effort to deceive the world. The foundation of his work was laid by the assurance given to Eve in Eden: 'Ye shall not surely die.' 'In the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.' Genesis 3:4, 5. Little by little he has prepared the way for his masterpiece of deception in the development of spiritualism. He has not yet reached the full accomplishment of his designs; but it will be reached in the last remnant of time. Says the prophet: 'I saw three unclean spirits like frogs....They are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.' Revelation 16:13, 14. Except those who are kept by the power of God, through faith in His word, the whole world will be swept into the ranks of this delusion" (Maranatha, 166).

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https://www.ncregister.com/cna/trump-catholic-cabinet-picks

Quotes below from article at link above. Emphasis is mine.

Trump Picks Several Catholics for Cabinet: Kennedy, Rubio, Stefanik, Ratcliffe

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen several Catholics to serve in his Cabinet and other parts of his administration, including environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., three-term Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Elise Stefanik and, in an announcement Monday evening, former Rep. Sean Duffy.

The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president made more than a dozen announcements within 10 days of his electoral victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Many of his Cabinet nominees and other administration official picks have yet to be announced.

Among the Catholics Trump has chosen for his Cabinet are Kennedy, who was nominated to be the secretary of Health and Human Services; Rubio as secretary of state; Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations; John Ratcliffe, nominated as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); and Duffy for secretary of transportation.

These five Cabinet-level positions require Senate confirmation.

Trump also announced he will appoint Tom Homan as the "Border Czar," a position that does not require Senate confirmation. Homan is a Catholic and was previously the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the president-elect's first administration.......................

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/15/conservative-catholics-second-trump-administration-000917

Quotes below from article at link above. Emphasis is mine. My comments in blue.

The Catholics in Trump's administration could take GOP in whole new direction

Joe Biden will leave the White House in January as only the second Catholic to occupy it. But a number of Catholics are expected to soon fill the ranks of Donald Trump's administration.

Trump, who was raised as a Presbyterian but now considers himself non-denominational, has nominated at least a dozen Catholics to top positions in his administration, including his own vice president JD Vance, a Catholic convert, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick for Health and Human Services Secretary. Their faith could play a direct role in shaping public policy, from pro-union policies and new tariffs to expanding the child tax credit and more tightly regulating the food and drug industries — and also help carve a new path forward for the Republican Party.

In interviews, several conservative practicing Catholic leaders said they see a close alignment between many of Trump's second-term policy priorities and a conservative read of Catholic social teaching, which goes far beyond abortion. It's also focused on promoting marriage and having children, giving parents wide discretion on everything from school content to health care and empowering non-governmental institutions like churches and nonprofit organizations for social support.

"No one's walking into the administration ready to mount a crusade or anything," said Rachel Bovard, vice president of programs at the Conservative Partnership Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank. But "there's a very specific sort of Catholic paradigm that you may begin to see."

It comes after decades of influence of a more individualistic evangelical Protestantism on the Republican Party that, among other things, strongly embraced individual liberty and free market capitalism.

"The market is not an end unto itself. The market has a purpose — and that is to create a free and flourishing society. If the family is not doing well, society is not doing well. We need to make sure our public policy is helping family to function," Bovard added.

A spokesperson for the Trump transition did not respond to a request for comment.

In his nearly decade of political prominence, Trump has already dramatically reshaped the GOP, and it's clear that the Republican Party's future likely won't be found in Ronald Reagan's three-legged stool of conservatism, which was fiscally conservative, socially conservative and hawkish.

Where Republicans have long been skeptical of government intervention, some in the party increasingly see the government as a tool to reshape social policy. Republicans who long embraced "pro-life" policies, like restricting abortion access and supporting crisis pregnancy centers, are now leaning into a broader set of what they call pro-family policies that range from tax policies encouraging people to get married and have children to restrictions on kids accessing online porn. They are also now starting to turn a skeptical eye toward big businesses, including Big Pharma, Big Ag and Big Tech.

"I think President Trump has put together a very pro-family platform that wants to return the family to the center of public policy again. Obviously, I think that's very Catholic. I don't think he's trying to be very Catholic," said Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project. "It just so happens to coincide with Catholic principles and Catholic teaching."

This is, of course, not the progressive-leaning Catholicism of Biden, Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats, which has honed in on social justice, climate change and health care access among its top causes. Their definition of Catholicism would bristle at the idea of turning away migrants or curtailing Medicaid access.

Catholics are the largest group of Christians worldwide, and Catholics from both parties have long held prominent positions not only in the White House but across Washington. Six of them sit on the nine-member U.S. Supreme Court; they make up a quarter of Congress, where they are overrepresented compared to the American population; and Biden appointed a similarly sizable number of Catholics to his Cabinet.

But conservative Catholic leaders see in the GOP's embrace of populism a turn toward what they call a common-good conservatism that is less focused on individual rights and more focused on families and the community. It trades a pro-business focus for a "pro-family" one. And it's one they see non-Catholics leaning into. Trump, in a recent interview with TIME Magazine, declared that the GOP has "become the party of common sense."

"What does Catholic social teaching say about these things? Well, it says the aim of politics is the common good," said Brian Burch, president of the conservative Catholic Vote. "And right now we have a huge swath of our population, especially families, that are not flourishing."

Trump's performance with Catholics is only getting better — likely due in part to his dramatic improvement among Latino voters. This year, he won 59 percent of the Catholic vote, a group he carried with 50 percent support in 2016 and that Biden won with 52 percent in 2020, according to CNN exit polling.

Some conservative Catholics are particularly intrigued by Kennedy, whose uncle, John F. Kennedy, was the nation's first Catholic president. While Kennedy comes from a storied Democratic family, and himself was a registered Democrat until 2023, some of them see his concerns that food and drug companies are profiting off of sick people aligning with Catholic social teaching's concerns around human dignity and respect, even as some of them have concerns about his shifting views on abortion.

"Bobby has talked about the commoditization of the human person, whether it's their sickness and their health — it's just another vaccine away from managing. Or Big Food and Big Government and Big Pharma have colluded in a way to manage people as commodities, and they're kind of cogs in a globalist machine that we just need to manage with medicine, technology and science," said Burch, who is close to Kennedy. "And for Catholics, we say, well, wait, no there's something much richer and deeper and more profound about what it means to be human that we need to recapture."

Other Catholics that Trump has nominated to his Cabinet include Marco Rubio as secretary of State, Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor secretary, Sean Duffy as Transportation secretary, Linda McMahon as Education secretary, Elise Stefanik as United Nations ambassador, Kelly Loeffler as SBA administrator and John Ratcliffe as CIA director.

The party's lean toward these parts of Catholicism comes as the country grapples with high rates of income inequality, and two generations confront the reality that middle-class goals like buying a house and having kids feel increasingly out of reach. It also comes amid a growing societal discussion over gender roles, stagnating birth rates and the ubiquity of technology, social media and artificial intelligence in people, and particularly kids', everyday lives.

Leading the charge is Vance, whose conversion as an adult to a postliberal strain of Catholicism underpins his approach to policy making. While the George W. Bush era saw an attempt to marry conservatism to certain kinds of Catholic social teaching — government intervention to meet the needs of the poor, and support for human rights abroad — it fell by the wayside as the Tea Party wave took over the Party.

Now, "in Vance, you have a figure who is trying to apply Catholic social teaching in a deeper, different way than we've seen before," said Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. "It's just a general kind of attempt to reorient Republican economics toward families and a little bit less toward business."

This conservative view of Catholic social teaching lines up in many ways with the party's shifting views on a number of issues, like labor unions and trade policy. Vance, who joined a United Auto Workers picket line last year, has voiced familiarity with Pope Leo XIII's 1901 encyclical on Christian democracy, in which he wrote that "it is only by the labor of working men that States grow rich." Rubio has previously referenced the text in his own argument in support of labor unions, as has Robert Lighthizer, who was Trump's trade chief during the first administration, in his arguments against "the orthodoxies of free trade religion." (Lighthizer is unlikely to return to a Trump administration, but his close aide was chosen to be the U.S. trade representative.)

It also speaks to an increasing interest within the GOP in using the government to incentivize family creation, as countries in Europe, like Italy, Greece, Hungary and Russia, have tried to do, though so far with little success. Trump has said he wants a "significant" expansion of the child tax credit — Vance has suggested increasing it to $5,000 per child — and also promised to make in vitro fertilization available to Americans free of charge. (That policy does, however, conflict with the official Catholic Church's position against IVF, which opposes it.)

It's a push that comes also as there is growing movement within the anti-abortion movement to focus on these and other "pro-family" policies instead of new abortion restrictions, as much of the country remains broadly supportive of some level of abortion access.

"We're going to be talking about [IVF]," Trump recently told NBC News' Kristen Welker. "We'll be submitting in either the first or second package to Congress the extension of the tax cuts. So that might very well be in there, or it'll come sometime after that."

Still, progressive Catholics are skeptical about the extent to which the GOP will actually prioritize these policies, when Trump has promised in his first 100 days to focus on extending tax cuts, taking action on the border, and addressing crime in cities. And it's unlikely big business, long allied with the Republican Party, will roll over easily.

"When you look at what the Republicans are talking about, they're talking a whole lot more about cutting social provision than they are expanding it," said E.J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has focused on Catholic engagement in the political arena. "The dominant strain in the party is still far more pro-business, anti-government, libertarian."

And progressive and some conservative Catholics agree that the administration's hardline approach to immigration is likely to rankle U.S. bishops, who are already wary of Trump's "mass deportation" proposal.

"When you're looking at their first priority," Dionne added, "it's not family policy."

As I have expressed many times over on these boards, the Vatican and Catholic church have been using the large number of their adherents within both parties, to Romanize this nation for a long time now. While the left was in charge I shared one article after another about them being motivated primarily by Roman Catholic social justice and the common good, proving such with statements from Encyclicals, Doctrinal notes, and Catholic articles. Now with this article it is plain to see that for the many Catholics already in the system, and the many more Trump is now installing, the object is the same. The establishment of Roman Catholic social justice from a conservative and or liberal lefty Vatican inspired agenda.

They are intrenched within our nation and government now. It is only a matter of time before this once Protestant nation refutes every Protestant and or biblical principle it was built upon, and once again politically establishes apostate "Christianity", under the ever increasing moral guidance of the Vatican of course. Unto a common good, over and above the individuals good.

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https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2024/12/09/trumps-picks-make-his-cabinet-among-the-most-catholic-ever/

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Trump's picks make his Cabinet among the most Catholic ever

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to appoint Catholics to key Cabinet and senior advisory roles. It's led some to claim that this could be the "most Catholic" Cabinet and administration in the history of U.S. politics. The Biden administration was also noted for appointing a significant number of Catholics to high office. However, Trump's appointments represent a departure from the liberal Catholics of Biden's era to ones with a more conservative, pro-life outlook.

https://catholicherald.co.uk/trumps-cabinet-picks-make-it-one-of-the-most-practicing-catholic-yet/

Trump's Cabinet picks make it one of the most practicing Catholic yet

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to appoint Catholics to several key Cabinet and senior advisory roles. It's led some to claim that as a result this could prove to be the "most Catholic" Cabinet and administration in the history of US politics.

The Biden administration was also noted for appointing a significant number of Catholics to high office. However, Trump's appointments represent a departure from the liberal Catholics of Biden's era to ones with a more conservative, pro-life outlook.

Trump's 2024 nominations also mark a shift from his 2016 appointments, when Protestants were rewarded for their loyalty and dominated the top positions. While a significant proportion of Trump's 2024 appointees remain Protestant, in 2016 the positions of the Vice President, Secretary of State and Secretary of Health and Human Services were all held by Protestants. In 2024, those positions will be filled by practicing Catholics.

Incredible to see 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/jXicV0jMH0

— CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) November 27, 2024
JD Vance, the Vice President-elect, will become only the second Catholic to hold the office and the first Catholic Republican Vice President. Vance has proved a popular choice among Catholics due to his countercultural convictions and his reasoned, St. Augustine-inspired conversion to the Catholic faith.

For many, Vance is representative of a younger, more traditional Catholic who has not inherited his faith by default but has instead witnessed the wreckage of the modern age and concluded that Catholicism is the antidote.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is nominated to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, is a practicing Catholic who has described his faith as "the centrepiece" of his life growing up. He credits his faith as playing a central role in his recovery from drug addiction and helping him remain sober for more than 40 years.

Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic, is nominated to serve as Secretary of State, and the first to come from a Latino background. Despite a previously hostile relationship with the president-elect – Trump famously called him "Little Marco" during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries – a political friendship has since formed, with Rubio supporting many of Trump's policies.

Rubio has had a dynamic relationship with his faith, having twice left the Church and twice returned to it. As a child, his family began attending services at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; however, young Rubio demonstrated a keen interest in Catholicism and is credited with bringing his family back to the Church. He later married in a Catholic church, though his faith lapsed during the early years of his professional success.

In subsequent years, Rubio began to feel a return to his Catholic roots and a strong desire to receive the Eucharist, which he described as the "sacramental point of contact between the Catholic and the liturgy of heaven". He has since been an active member of his parish, the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Florida.

Rubio is a firm advocate of pro-life policies, stating, "I am in favour of laws that protect human life. I do not believe that the dignity and the worth of human life are tied to the circumstances of their conception."

Staunchly pro-Israel Elise Stefanik is set to serve as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is Catholic by descent, though she does not regularly discuss matters of faith. Her stance on social issues has not always aligned with Catholic teachings; for example, she was one of 39 House Republicans who joined Democrats to pass the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified the right to same-sex marriage into federal law.

Her appointment appears to be, at least in part, due to her loyalty to Trump. The president-elect has said: "She was the first member of Congress to endorse me and has always been a staunch advocate." He added that she "led the charge against antisemitism on college campuses" and "she will be an incredible ambassador to the United Nations, delivering peace through strength and America First national security policies".

While the US Ambassador to the United Nations has not always been a Cabinet-level position, Trump has confirmed that it will be in his administration, saying, "I am honoured to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as US ambassador to the United Nations."

Former television personality Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation nominee, is a devout Catholic. He and his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, have nine children, and in 2019 he resigned from Congress to care for their ninth child, who was born with health complications.

Duffy began his political career as the Ashland County District Attorney in 2002 and has been a strong advocate of pro-life policies, notably introducing the Equal Right to Life Act (2019), which proposed extending 14th Amendment protections to unborn children; the bill did not pass.

Other notable non-Cabinet positions have gone to Catholics such as Tom Homan, as the US's so-called Border Czar, and to Karoline Leavitt as White House Press Secretary.

In his 2020 book, Defend the Border and Save Lives, Homan described a devout Catholic upbringing. Leavitt, who will serve as the youngest White House Press Secretary, has credited her Catholic schooling for instilling pro-life values, discipline and the importance of public service.

Trump has also nominated John Ratcliffe, another practicing Catholic, to serve as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2024/12/09/trumps-picks-make-his-cabinet-among-the-most-catholic-ever/

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

https://catholicherald.co.uk/trumps-cabinet-picks-make-it-one-of-the-most-practicing-catholic-yet/

Curiosity begs to know ... but likely wont.... if the Jesuit education Trump received propelled him.

For Trump, his two years at Fordham University, a Jesuit school in the Bronx,

His attendance at Wharton Schoolof Business (U Penn) would or could indicate a push from behind from the Jesuits he studied under.

Not to mention Melania is a practicing Catholic.

Practicing Catholic always makes me laugh as I wonder how long they have to practice before they get it right.

Possibly that influence on whom he should select???

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Maybe he will go the rout of Tony Blair, who converted to Catholicism shortly after leaving office.

https://wherepeteris.com/catholic-celebrity-converts-and-their-political-agendas/

Quoted article below, from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Catholic celebrity converts and their political agendas

This morning, Vanity Fair published a provocative and insightful article by Kathryn Joyce that delves deep into a growing trend among certain factions of American Catholicism: the embrace and celebration of high-profile right-wing converts to the faith. Joyce explores how figures like Candace Owens, JD Vance, and even potentially Jordan Peterson are becoming the face of a radical, politically motivated strain of Catholicism that is increasingly out of step with Catholic social teaching and Pope Francis's vision for the Church.

I have long been concerned about the politicization of our faith. Joyce's article highlights groups like Catholics for Catholics — an organization affiliated with Steve Bannon that promotes a radical political agenda under the guise of Catholic orthodoxy — that elevate these celebrities; not because of their deep commitment to Catholic teaching but because of their ability to draw attention, dollars, and, ultimately, votes.

In many ways this article is a progress report on a resistance movement that began with the election of Pope Francis in March 2013. Joyce, who wrote an article in 2020 on the rise of MAGA and QAnon among US Catholics, shines a light on the evolving alliances between Catholic celebrities and far-right movements within and outside the Church. For instance, Owens's infamous "Christ is King" slogan—popularized by extremist groups, antisemites, and white nationalist figures like Nick Fuentes—has been embraced by a portion of conservative Catholics, even as it draws condemnation for its association with hate. Meanwhile, other prominent converts like Shia LaBeouf bring their own baggage to the table. "Potential" converts like Tim Ballard and Russell Brand have been welcomed into Catholic circles with open arms after public sex scandals tarnished their reputations elsewhere. Such cases, at least from the outside, seem less like seeking redemption through conversion and more like rebranding for the Catholic market.

One of the most disturbing aspects of this phenomenon is how openly these converts reject Pope Francis's leadership. As Joyce points out, many of these converts and their followers are aligning themselves with movements that actively oppose the Pope and his vision for a more inclusive, compassionate, and humble Church. This radical traditionalist faction, already steeped in opposition to the Second Vatican Council and any reforms they view as "modernist," now sees these celebrities as warriors in their battle against what has been called the "deep church."

Groups like Catholics for Catholics and others are promoting a vision of Catholicism that's less about living out the Gospel and more about advancing a rigid, nationalist, and exclusionary political ideology. The prominence of Latin Mass enthusiasts, the embrace of Donald Trump, and even the bizarre fantasies about who might convert next (Elon Musk? Joe Rogan?) show just how far this "conversion industrial complex" has veered from the core tenets of Catholicism.

This is not the Catholicism of Vatican II, nor is it the Catholicism of Pope Francis. It's a dangerous distortion that elevates celebrity, political power, and cultural dominance over the Gospel's call to love, mercy, and service.

I am quoted in the article, as are WPI contributors David Lafferty and Steve Millies.

If there's one takeaway from this excellent piece, it's that we must remain vigilant. The future of the Church in the United States is at stake, and it's crucial that we resist the temptation to tie our faith too closely to any political movement or celebrity figure.

You can read the full Vanity Fair article here.

Let's continue to pray for those who are caught up in these movements and for a unified Church that seeks to serve Christ, not political agendas.

The real problem not addressed in the above article is the political nature of Roman Catholicism itself, right or left leaning. This person is obviously upset that new converts joining or being wooed by the Catholics, are not lefty supporters of pope Francis, who is himself the leader of the most politically active form of "Christianity" there is. The left is guilty of all the same addressed in this article pointed at the right. The church of Rome has always been more of a political machine, than authentic gospel preaching, teaching, and acting Christianity.

Vatican II and all papal Encyclicals and Doctrinal Notes are political instructions for the faithful to seek to establish by political means whenever and wherever possible. As they have been instructed by their leadership, which leadership exemplifies such political activity and goals. The problem is not righty or lefty Catholics, but Catholicism itself. Which does not even really exist, apart from its political agendas. A denomination created by most firmly attaching itself to the Imperial powers of the day in Constantine, winning out over the other apostate forms of "Christianity" vying for the same. Being ever since intricately involved in seeking to convert the rich and powerful of this world, over into her ranks.

By conversion or other wise. Which is why rich, famous, and powerful people the world over visit the Vatican, or are visited by the Pope and or his prelates the world over. Why most of the world's nations have ambassadors to the Vatican, and why so many financial leaders, business leaders, corporate leaders, union leaders, and others meet and plan at the Vatican as well. Not to mention the great number of entertainers, sports stars and or teams, and so on and so forth, who visit the Vatican as well. Oh yes, and of course let's not forget the very many religious leaders of other "Christian" denominations and other religions altogether, which meet there as well.

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. 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. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. 15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

 

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http://www.emperors-clothes.com/vatican/cpix.htm

A little history concerning Vatican politics of the past, and the dictators of the day they aligned the Catholic with.

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http://adventmessenger.org/pope-francis-shows-contempt-for-donald-trumps-immigration-policies-and-calls-them-a-disgrace/

Quoted article below from link above.

Pope Francis Shows Contempt for Donald Trump's Immigration Policies and Calls them a 'Disgrace'

Pope Francis launched a fervent attack on Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. And while one would expect words of compassion or even the offering of prayers for the 47th president of the United States, it seems the Pope had nothing but criticism for Trump. Pope Francis' words seemed designed to spark headlines rather than find the "common ground" he so often preaches about.

What is even more remarkable, or even hypocritical, is that while the Pope attacks Trump's views on the immigration crisis, he lives comfortably behind the impenetrable walls of the Vatican, which make the US border walls pale in comparison. It is all too easy to preach to others, but what about the Vatican's policies on immigration? How many refugees are allowed to sleep in the Vatican gardens? How many immigrants can apply for residency in Vatican City?

The Associated Press published the following on January 20, 2025, regarding the Pope's attack on Donald Trump's solution to the US immigration crisis:

• "Pope Francis said Donald Trump's plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a 'disgrace,' as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president's pledges nearly a decade after calling him 'not Christian' for wanting to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border."

• "Francis made the comments during an appearance at an evening talk show and then followed up Monday with an official telegram of congratulations to Trump on the day of his inauguration. Francis said he prayed that America would live up to its ideals of being a "land of opportunity and welcome for all."

If the Pope really believes that Trump's rules are a disgrace, perhaps he could start by offering to build temporary shelters in St. Peter's Square. Or perhaps he could allow the Vatican's luxurious apartments to be inhabited by needy refugee families. One thing is certain: although Pope Francis and Donald Trump seem to disagree on each other's policies, prophecy will be fulfilled. What we see in the book of Revelation is a very close working relationship between these last two great superpowers of prophecy—the United States and the Vatican. A close relationship between these two powers will increase in the future:

"And he (the second beast, the US) exerciseth all the power of the first beast (Rome) before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast (Rome), whose deadly wound was healed." Revelation 13:12.

The US must be in a position of "power" if it is to cause not just this nation but the whole world to honor the first beast, the Papacy, by enforcing the mark of the beast. A weak nation, both politically and economically, cannot bring this scene to pass. Only a strong, powerful nation can fulfill this prophetic role, and Trump has expressed that this is his ultimate objective—to make America powerful again.

Secondly, the Vatican, the world's most influential religion, will also play a role in the prophecy when it says that "the whole earth and those who dwell on it will worship the first beast (Rome), whose deadly wound was healed" (Revelation 13:12).

We have been seeing this coming true as everyone—including politicians, religious leaders, and business leaders—is rallying around Rome, and this is certainly healing its deadly wound. The only piece of the puzzle that has not yet taken shape is Donald Trump and Pope Francis coming together in a close working relationship for the implementation of a global prophetic agenda.

God help us should these two get together to work on advancing their prophetic roles. As citizens of the United States, we should recognize the significance of moments when the Pope and the U.S. President do not see eye to eye on matters of policy. This divergence can serve as a reassurance that the prophesied union of church and state power, as described in Bible prophecy, has not yet fully materialized.

The hand-in-glove relationship between the US and Rome, foretold to have far-reaching consequences for religious freedom, is something we must be watchful of. Even if this non-alignment is only temporary, it offers us a window of opportunity to cherish and uphold the liberties we hold dear. Let us use this time wisely to spread the everlasting gospel of Revelation 14, proclaiming God's message of truth and warning to the world before the time comes when such freedoms will end. Let us pray for strength and wisdom to fulfill this mission faithfully.

While it seems Trump and the pope are at odds, this scenario plays out well in a Hegelian Dialectic scheme. While the right and freedom lovers are happy to see someone apparently fighting for their conservative views and or convictions, we should not take our eyes off of the globalist agenda being perpetrated by the right as well.

Trump intends to support and invest heavily in crypto currency and AI, for suggested good reasons. Nevertheless both of these are key components of establishing the globalist agendas of a cashless world economy, and mechanisms in place for more precise and accurate control of all peoples. As already being demonstrated in China, whom Trump declares we must overtake in these areas. Both of which lead directly to the total control globalists seek over all of us.

And I say and emphasize again, that the Vatican is the largest, wealthiest, and most influential globalist institution on earth. Who has always played both if not all sides of every isle, in order to take advantage of every situation unto their own agendas. Which as stated many times before, is exactly stated by them many times over to be, a global government and economic system. One with real teeth to enforce its policies, mandates, and own moral views upon all.

It is nothing for these elites of the global mindset to play with the lives of the little people as they see fit, and herd them around the world from nation to nation as they see fit, unto the realization of their political agendas. Or to stage and create crisis or fake divisions unto conflict and resolutions of a predetermined nature. Keeping populations busy in the fight for their side, while accomplishing their own predetermined goals along the way.

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. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_2vvMy81Q

Conrad Vine - Teeth of Iron

Good video about biblical prophecy.

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http://adventmessenger.org/trump-has-ordered-the-us-attorney-general-to-create-a-task-force-to-unite-our-country-again-as-one-nation-under-god/

Quoted article below from link above.

Trump Has Ordered the US Attorney General to Create a Task Force to Unite Our Country Again as "One Nation Under God"

The Office of the Attorney General of the United States, the chief law enforcement agency of the nation, has been given the task to bring our nation back to God. Those were Donald Trump's own words with his new order to target anti-Christian bias. Donald Trump is fulfilling his promises to evangelicals and Catholics by taking decisive action to restore Christianity's influence in America. As part of his commitment, he has established a religious task force dedicated to protecting the rights of Christians in schools, workplaces, hospitals, government offices, and all public spaces.

On February 6, 2025, President Donald Trump expressed the following about bringing our nation back to God:

• "President Donald Trump on Thursday said he's ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to form a task force" to 'eradicate anti-Christian bias' within the United States and prosecute instances of "anti-Christian violence and vandalism."

• "Trump said the task force will be ordered to 'immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government,' including at the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation."

• "In addition, the task force will work to fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society, and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide," said Trump."

• "He told prayer breakfast attendees that his administration would also work to 'protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares' and 'bring our country back together as one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all'."

There has been a push by Evangelicals to bring Christianity back into American public life through political activism, legal efforts, and cultural influence. This work will now be carried out by presidential executive order and the US Attorney General's office. The fight to ensure that Christianity is represented in government, education, the military, and public places has just received the full support of the US federal government. Through these efforts, Evangelicals aim to restore Christianity as a central influence in American culture and governance.

The Evangelical movement's efforts to restore Christianity in America go far beyond reintroducing prayer, Bibles, and the Ten Commandments into public schools. These are just the first steps in a broader transformation aimed at reviving Christian values in every aspect of society. Through legislative measures, workplace policies, and community initiatives, subtle yet powerful changes will take place—gradually leading to the restoration of Sunday as a sacred day of rest and worship.

As Christian influence grows, calls for Sunday laws will also increase as work schedules will be forced to reflect traditional Sunday observance, and public life will increasingly align with apostate Protestant principles. By shaping laws, Evangelicals are committed to reestablishing faith as the moral foundation of the nation, ensuring that their version of Christianity remains at the heart of American identity.

"The time will come when men will not only forbid Sunday work, but they will try to force men to labor on the Sabbath, and to subscribe to Sunday observance or forfeit their freedom and their lives. But the time for this has not yet come, for the truth must be presented more fully before the people as a witness" (Review and Herald, April 6, 1911).

To be sure, the gospel commission has nothing to do at all with government compelled acceptance of biblical Christianity. On the other hand, proper biblically influenced government should definitely defend the rights of Christians. As well as other religions, and even those who choose atheism. Deterring discrimination against any and all of the above as well, and outlawing persecution against any.

Now it remains to be seen, if Christians and or those intending to protect the rights and liberties of them, can maintain balanced views, practices, and policies while they have the power to do so. Or if they will lean toward mandates and or forced acceptance of their own views. As the lefties have and do when they have the power.

The bible predicts that fallen humanity cannot properly handle power, as history has testified as well. This nation endeavored to change that history with common sense and common respect biblically based government. The left has miserably failed in this area, and now we shall see if the right can handle popular support and power within their grasp. Or will they be the one's to bring about the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, in forced religiosity, and the end of this world? Time will tell.

It is probably more likely that compromises between both of these categorized political parties, will lead to the end by popular demand of the increasingly ignorant. The many who have and will choose lies and therefore ignorance over truth, and the countless many more who will simply ignorantly and blindly follow the crowd.

Mat 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
 

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http://adventmessenger.org/100-catholic-priests-will-gather-to-change-our-nation-at-the-catholic-prayer-for-america-event-at-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-headquarters/

Quoted article below from link above.

100 Catholic Priests will Gather to 'Change Our Nation' at the 'Catholic Prayer for America' Event at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Headquarters

Mar-a-Lago, Florida, also known as the Southern White House, holds significant political influence as the personal residence and private club of President Donald Trump, serving as a hub for political power and global influence. Trump uses Mar-a-Lago as his de facto headquarters, hosting key political figures, foreign dignitaries, and influential donors. Mar-a-Lago's importance extends beyond U.S. politics, as it frequently attracts world leaders, business elites, and global power brokers. Mar-a-Lago also serves as a symbolic stronghold of Trump's political brand, reinforcing its role as a crucial epicenter for geo-religio-political landscapes.

It comes as no surprise that, given the increasingly close relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Trump administration, Mar-a-Lago is the venue chosen to host the "Catholic Prayer for America 2025 Gala at Mar-a-Lago" on March 19, 2025, at Donald Trump's private estate. Catholics for Catholics, an organization dedicated to promoting Catholic doctrine, public policy, and legislation, is sponsoring this event and published the following:

• "We are excited to announce our 2nd annual "Catholic Prayer for America" Gala on March 19, 2025, Feast of St. Joseph. The event will take place at the home of President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida."

• "Prayer is at the heart of what makes America great ... While Catholics for Catholics is a movement of passionate activists, we know that without prayer our work is in vain."

• "Sponsoring 100 Catholic priests to join Catholic Prayer for America Gala at Mar-a-Lago!"

• "We're inspiring a new wave of Catholicism and love of country. We are restoring what it means to say "I'm Catholic" in the public square. We are changing the nation and shaping a more holy and moral future for America!"

• "Support our mission to reclaim our country's Christian roots and its guiding documents: The Bible and Constitution."

In President Donald Trump's second administration, there has been a noticeable bridging between politics and religion and Protestants and Catholics. This alliance is particularly evident in the appointments in his administration. Donald Trump not only secured the majority of Catholic votes during the 2024 presidential election, but he has also reciprocated their support by appointing numerous devout Roman Catholics in his administration.

• Vice President JD Vance
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio
• Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy
• Secretary of Education Linda McMahon
• Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer
• White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe
• Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka
• Border Czar Tom Homan
• Department of Justice Anti-trust Czar Fail Slatter
• US Ambassador to the Vatican Brian Bursch
• Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eldridge Colby
• Head Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy Aaron Reitz
• Head of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler
• Head of the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration Henry Mack
• Deputy Assistant at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development John Gibbs

One of Donald Trump's early actions was the establishment of the White House Faith Office—to be "housed in the Domestic Policy Council." This office aims to address concerns of religious communities and ensure that faith-based perspectives are considered in policy-making. Additionally, President Trump signed an executive order mandating a task force to combat anti-Christian bias within federal agencies, appointing Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead this initiative.

These actions underscore the administration's strategic alignment with Catholic and Protestant principles, aiming to influence policies on social issues and economic reforms. The composition of President Trump's cabinet further exemplifies this Catholic-Protestant collaboration. This raises serious questions about the future of church-state relations in the United States. The collaborative efforts aim to reshape public policy in a manner consistent with apostate Christian teachings by removing the historical boundaries between religious institutions and government.

During the time of the image of the beast crisis, as foretold in Revelation 13, Catholics, Protestants, and political leaders will unite to enforce church doctrine by law. This union will use civil power to impose religious teachings on society under the guise of national unity, morality, and security. Protestant America, having abandoned its foundational principles of religious freedom, will form an image of the beast—a replica of the persecuting power of the papacy in the Middle Ages.

With growing calls for religious nationalism, Sunday laws, and enforced worship, this alliance will pressure individuals to conform or face economic and social penalties, fulfilling Bible prophecy. This crisis will ultimately lead to the final test of loyalty between God's commandments and the traditions of apostate Christianity, setting the stage for the mark of the beast.

[Amo]

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From the Hospital Bed, Pope Francis Calls for Global Peace and Urges People to Entrust Themselves to Mary

Even from his hospital bed, frail but determined, Pope Francis continues to push the Jesuit agenda, calling for world peace and unity despite his deteriorating health. His message to world leaders is to embrace peace and work for reconciliation by entrusting their souls to Mary. Even in the face of death, Pope Francis remains committed to the ultimate mission of the Vatican by continuing to spread the wine of Babylon from his so-called deathbed.

The following was published by the Jesuit magazine America while Pope Francis was in the hospital:

• "Pope Francis, in a message from Gemelli Hospital, asked for prayers for peace in the conflict areas of the world."

• "I greet all the pilgrims present in Rome today, the pope said in his message, and, as he does often, he urged them to pray for an end to the conflicts in the world."

• "Thank you for the affection, prayer and closeness with which you are accompanying me in these days,' he said."

• "I would like to thank the doctors and healthcare workers in this hospital for their care: they do such a valuable and tiring job, let us support them with prayer!"

• "He concluded his message by encouraging people to entrust themselves to Our Lady, 'that she may help us be, like her, chorists and creators of the beauty that saves the world'."

Pope Francis, who was basically consigned to the grave, refuses to remain silent. From his hospital bed, where the world watches and waits for news about his condition, he continues to push his message and has not given up. Even as death looms, he is undeterred, using what so many have said are his final moments to continue to spread the lies of spiritualism, calling on people to put their faith in the spirits of the dead—Mary. Sunday sacredness and spiritualism are the two great errors that constitute the Jesuit agenda.

"Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul, and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of Spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome" (Great Controversy, p. 588).

In times of crisis, when death looms and uncertainty grips our hearts, there is only one true hope—Jesus Christ. He alone faced the grave and conquered it, rising again in victory over sin and death. When fear and despair threaten to consume us, we must place our faith in Him, not in Mary or anyone else, because it was Jesus alone who said:

"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." Revelation 1:18.

Those who entrust themselves to the dead, will be answered and lead by the god of the dead. As Saul's final act of rebellion against God and resulting doom, was to seek the council of the dead, so also will this nation increasingly move towards its final doom. As it increasingly joins hands with those who regularly seek the advice and guidance of the dead. So called "Protestants" ever-increasingly joining hands with Rome as well, along the way.

Isa 8:19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Deu 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

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http://adventmessenger.org/from-the-hospital-bed-pope-francis-calls-for-global-peace-and-urges-people-to-entrust-themselves-to-mary/

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Those who entrust themselves to the dead, will be answered and lead by the god of the dead. As Saul's final act of rebellion against God and resulting doom, was to seek the council of the dead, so also will this nation increasingly move towards its final doom. As it increasingly joins hands with those who regularly seek the advice and guidance of the dead. So called "Protestants" ever-increasingly joining hands with Rome as well, along the way.

Isa 8:19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Deu 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

I clicked on this and started to read and almost dropped my coffee in my lap.

His message to world leaders is to embrace peace and work for reconciliation by entrusting their souls to Mary.