Roman politics

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https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/10061/french-minister-of-interior-says-evangelicals-are-a-very-important%20problem

Quoted article below from link above.

French Minister of Interior says "evangelicals are a very important problem"

Evangelical churches increasingly worried about unfair attacks of the government. "They should not throw suspicion on faith groups and believers".

Evangelical Christians in France are expressing unease as they see how the national government inflames the rhetoric against their churches.

The last episode has to do with the words of the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. In an interview with tv broadcaster C News, he said: "Evangelicals are a very important problem", only to add, "obviously not [a problem] of the same nature than the Islamism that makes terrorist attacks and deaths".

One day before, speaking about the controversial anti-separatism law that is expected to be passed soon, he told radio broadcaster France Inter: "We cannot discuss with people who refuse to write on paper that the law of the Republic is superior to the law of God".

Both statements of the head of national security in France have caused consternation among evangelical leaders. "We are eagerly waiting to know what these 'very important problems' are", wrote Tim Kyle, a board member of Youth For Christ in France.

Romain Choisnet, communications director of the National Council of Evangelicals in France (CNEF) also reacted by underlining that "evangelicals are respectful with the law and the Republican authorities". But evangelical churches "cannot be used as an argument to defend the liberticide bill", he protested in reference to proposed law to stop radical Islamism.

The CNEF has often denounced that evangelical Christianity is unfairly blamed for socio-political conflicts that have nothing to do with the beliefs and actions of evangelical churches. "France will win nothing in its fight against Islamic separatism by equating Christianity and Islamism. The first has shaped this nation that the Republic has inherited, the second wants to replace it", the spokesman of the CNEF said.

More Christians being declared a problem which will have to be dealt with. I wonder where the French Minister of Interior got that idea from?

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https://evangelicalfocus.com/vatican-files/10012/pope-francis-the-chaplain-of-the-united-nations

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

Pope Francis, the Chaplain of the United Nations?

With the recent projects, Pope Francis is making it plain what it means for the Roman Catholic Church to be a "sacrament" in the world in the realms of global politics, education and economy, i.e. uniting the whole of humanity around itself.

The pandemic hit hard in 2020. Disruption broke in at all levels. The Vatican, as the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, was no exception. Programs in Rome were canceled or held in a low-key form. Was it then a stand-by or – even worse – a wasted year? Not at all.

2020 was a year of intense activity behind the scenes, especially in the area of expanding the borders of Rome's "catholicity". The catholicity of Roman Catholicism is one of the two pillars of the whole system: while it is "Roman" – i.e. centered on Rome's hierarchical institution, focused on Rome's catechism and canon law, based on its sacramental machinery– it is also "Catholic" – i.e. ever-expanding its synthesis, assimilating trends and movements, aiming at becoming more fully universal through absorbing the world. Outside of the spotlight of media attention, it was the catholicity of Rome that gained a great deal from the COVID year.

While its ordinary events were negatively impacted, the long-term, "catholic" vision of the Roman Church was fueled with impressive consequences. Pope Francis was the architect and proactive director of all these moves. In observing the recent global activities of the pope, the Argentinian philosopher Rubén Peretó Rivas compared them with those of an international organization and asked whether Pope Francis aims at becoming the "Chaplain of the United Nations". His 2020 "universal" initiatives indeed look like those of the United Nations in language, scope and content. Three projects deserve to be mentioned in this respect.

"All Brothers"

It has been rightly called the "political manifesto" of Pope Francis's pontificate. In fact, there is a lot of politics and a lot of sociology in the latest encyclical "All Brothers" (3rd October 2020). In it, Francis wants to plead the cause of universal fraternity and social friendship. To do this, he speaks of borders to be broken down, of waste to be avoided, of human rights that are not sufficiently universal, of unjust globalization, of burdensome pandemics, of migrants to be welcomed, of open societies, of solidarity, of peoples' rights, of local and global exchanges, of the limits of the liberal political vision, of world governance, of political love, of the recognition of the other, of the injustice of any war, of the abolition of the death penalty.

These are all interesting "political" themes which, were it not for some comments on the parable of the Good Samaritan that intersperse the chapters, could have been written by a group of sociologists and humanitarian workers from some international organization. The vision proposed by "All Brothers" is the way in which Rome sees globalization with the eye of a Jesuit and South American pope.

Its basic message is sufficiently clear: we are all brothers as children of the same God. This is Pope Francis' theological truth. When "All Brothers" talks about God, it does so in general terms that can fit Muslim, Hindu, and other religions' accounts of god, as well as the Masonic reference to the Watchmaker. To further confirm this, "All Brothers" ends with a "Prayer to the Creator" that could be used both in a mosque and in a Masonic temple. Having removed the "stumbling block" of Jesus Christ, everyone can turn to an unspecified Divinity to experiment with what it means to be "brothers" – brothers in a Divinity made in the image and likeness of humanity, not brothers and sisters on the basis of the work of Jesus Christ who has died and risen for sinners. "All Brothers" has genetically modified the biblically understood meaning of fraternity by transferring it to common humanity. In doing so, it has lost the biblical boundaries of the word and replaced them with pan-religious traits and contents. The papal document is deist, at best theistic, but not in line with biblical and Trinitarian Christianity.

"All Brothers" shows that the mission that Pope Francis has in mind is not the preaching of the Gospel in words and deeds, but the extension to all of a message of universal fraternity. This is the theological framework of the pope as he stretches the boundaries of the catholicity of his church.

The Global Compact on Education

Soon after releasing "All Brothers", there was another indication of Pope Francis' universalist agenda. In a video message aired on 15th October 2020, he commended the "Global Compact on Education" (GCE), i.e. an ambitious plan in the field of education worldwide to bring about a "change of mentality". The GCE is worked out with Mission 4.7, a U.N.-backed advisory group of civil and political leaders aiming to meet the educational target (numbered 4.7) of the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SDG number 4 strives for "quality education", and within that goal, target 4.7 aims to "ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development".

This is the U.N.'s globalist language, but the Roman Catholic language significantly overlaps with it. GCE speaks of "human fraternity" regardless of and beyond religious beliefs. In the plan, the watchwords are wholly secular. The dominant formula is "new humanism", explained in terms of "common home", "universal solidarity", "fraternity" (as it is defined in "All Brothers"), "convergence", "welcome", overcoming "division and antagonism" ...  The "new humanism" is coupled with the "universal brotherhood" so as to embrace the whole of humanity in a human, common project. In the "new humanism" Rome reads its increased catholicity, the U.N. its globalist agenda.

In the video Francis also praised the U.N.'s role and contribution in offering a "unique opportunity" to create "a new kind of new education", and quoted Paul VI's 1965 message of appreciation of the U.N. in which he lauded the institution for "teaching men peace". Francis is certain that this plan will bring about "the civilization of love, beauty and unity". No explicit Christian reference is made and there is no indication that the root problem is human sin. It seems that as we will have better education opportunities for all, the "new humanism" will come. This is in line with the U.N. vision, but is realistic from a Christian viewpoint?

The Economy of Francesco

If "Brothers All" is the theological framework and GCE is the project in education, a third area that Pope Francis has strongly pushed forward is an initiative in the field of economics. Making reference to Francis of Assisi's reconciled view between humanity and the earth and drawing inspiration from it, the initiative was called the "Economy of Francesco" (EF).

In a video broadcast on 21st November, the pope called young economists, entrepreneurs and business leaders "to take up the challenge of promoting and encouraging models of development, progress and sustainability in which people, especially the excluded (including our sister earth), will no longer be – at most – a merely nominal, technical or functional presence. Instead, they will become protagonists in their own lives and in the entire fabric of society". The goal is to strive towards "a pact to change the current economy" and to "give a new soul to the global economy", and indeed to radically overthrow it in the wake of the "popular movements".

Again, this project is another extension of the catholicity of the Roman Catholic Church, with no explicit reference to a Christian framework, but falling in line with an apparently globalist view of an economic reality marked by the "new humanism".

As Francis promoted EF, he also included as partner in the initiative the "Council for Inclusive Capitalism", meaning the magnates of the Ford Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Mastercard, Bank of America, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the like. The Council is formed by around 500 companies, which together represent 10.5 trillion dollars in assets under management and 200 million workers in over 163 countries. This is to say that simply painting Rome's catholicity as anti-capitalist is wrong. Pope Francis aims at including all parties in his "new humanism". In these relationships with the global companies there are also strategic opportunities for funding the initiatives of the Roman Catholic Church. It's a win-win relationship.

As already mentioned, Francis's activism on the global scene in 2020 prompted someone to label him as "Chaplain of the United Nations" because of the striking convergence between the "new humanism" that he has been advocating in the areas of fraternity, education and the economy and the goals of the U.N. In doing what the pope does, the impression is not to be given that Francis is awkwardly operating outside of Roman Catholic principles and convictions. While there are apparent similarities with the ethos of an international organization such as the U.N., what the pope did in 2020 is an attempt to implement the vision cast at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

In one of its foundational documents on the church, Vatican II argues that the church is a "sacrament". Here is how it explains what thismeans: the church is a "sacrament" because she is "a sign and instrument both of a very closely knit union with God and of the unity of the whole human race" (Lumen Gentium 1). The idea of the global "human fraternity" and the Roman Church being a sign and instrument of it is embedded in the self-understanding of Rome. With these recent projects, Pope Francis is making it plain what it means for the Roman Catholic Church to be a "sacrament" in the world in the realms of global politics, education and economy, i.e. uniting the whole of humanity around itself.

In his 2013 document "Evangelii Gaudium", Francis wrote that "initiating processes rather than possessing spaces" (n. 223) is what he wanted to achieve. "All brothers", GCE and EF are all processes initiated by the expansion of Rome's catholicity. Those who are used to think of Roman Catholicism as a "Roman" system (e.g. dogmatic, rigid, locked-in) and not as a "Catholic" project (e.g. open-ended, absorbing and expanding) may be surprised and even puzzled. But Roman Catholicism demands that its Roman-centered institution be unceasingly fertilized by its evermore Catholic horizon, and vice versa.

Certain scriptures come to mind.

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://adventmessenger.org/pope-francis-gods-wrath-will-bring-another-world-wide-flood-if-we-dont-solve-the-climate-crisis/

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

Pope Francis: God's Wrath will Bring Another World-wide Flood if we don't Solve the Climate Crisis

Speaking to members of the Laudato Si' Community, Pope Francis turned up the rhetoric of climate change by warning of another biblical flood and the arrival of the "wrath of God." This time, according to the Pope, a worldwide flood is coming because of the "increase in temperature and the melting of glaciers" if "we continue on the same path." [1]

These words of Pope Francis are recorded in a book that will be published tomorrow called 'On Virtues and Vices.' The book is based on conversations between Pope Francis and Marco Pozza, a prison chaplain. The interview with Pope Francis "explores how doubts and crises of faith lead us deeper into the mystery of God." [2]

First of all, there will be no new flood because the Lord promised that it would not happen again when He said: "Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." Genesis 9:11.

The second point is the theological error in the Pope's statement. The wrath of God is not awakened by the weather. God's wrath is revealed against sin.

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." Romans 1:18.

The holy displeasure of God falls on the sinfulness of man. We do not avoid judgment by eliminating CO2 (carbon), but by removing unbiblical, anti-family, and anti-God heresies from our lives. We do not avoid divine punishment by changing weather patterns, but by changing our corrupt and sinful hearts. The coming vengeance against sin will not be a flood of water but a rain of fire against transgression, not our ecosystems.

Third, God notified Noah of the coming flood, the cause of the flood and the solution. It was a message based on divine revelation. It was God's warning and His desire to save man. Pope Francis' message about saving Mother Earth from a coming flood did not originate with God. This message came from the United Nations, the globalists of the New World Order and the worshippers of nature. The Pope does not sound like a preacher of righteousness but like a preacher of paranoia. His message has no theological basis. It is more aligned with the Shamans (high priests) of the Amazons.

The fourth point is that we already have a flood sweeping the world, and Pope Francis is partly responsible for the greatest disaster in history. A floodgate of apostasy and iniquity has engulfed the earth. An ungodly spiritual tsunami is sweeping away everything in its path. Abortion, euthanasia, the destruction of biblical marriage, the end of traditional families, feminism, the LGBT+ agenda, is destroying our society. This is the flood that should concern us. This is the real disaster that we must avert:

"Already the doctrine that men are released from obedience to God's requirements has weakened the force of moral obligation, and opened the flood-gates of iniquity upon the world. Lawlessness, dissipation, and corruption are sweeping in upon us like an overwhelming tide ... The infatuation of vice, the wanton taking of life, the terrible increase of intemperance and iniquity of every order and degree, should arouse all who fear God, to inquire what can be done to stay the tide of evil." (Great Controversy, p. 585).

Jud 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

We have only one example of judgment by eternal fire in the scriptures. Now the entire world is accepting and or promoting the exact predominant sin which literally brought eternal fire from God down from heaven in the sight of men. The commandments of God have been forsaken by many a professing "Christian" long ago, the ever increasing effects of which can be seen by all today. Breaking God's commands is ever increasingly being supported and forced upon society by fallen humanities legislative governing bodies. The final abomination (of desolation), that will be forced upon humanity will be the replacement of God's chosen holy day, with the man of sin's chosen holy day. After which the judgments of God will begin to be poured out upon this world ending with its destruction by eternal fire as the scriptures themselves testify.

Mat 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said unto them,He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41  The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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

2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

The Pope, the man of sin, will not point out these biblical truths. Instead, he leans upon fear mongering politics and predicts that exactly which God has promised would never happen again. There is no light in him. As the man of sin, he promotes and supports the very sins which will bring God's judgments down upon this world. Come out, come out of Babylon over which he leads, before the judgments of God are unleashed upon this world for her sins.

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http://adventmessenger.org/the-united-nations-is-preparing-a-list-of-those-who-oppose-the-radical-gender-theory/

The United Nations is Preparing a List of Those who Oppose the Radical Gender Theory

On February 12, 2021, the Center for Family and Human Rights revealed that the United Nations is now collecting the names of those who oppose the modern liberal views of sex, gender and identity. [1] Well, what happened to the human fraternity that was supposed to embrace everyone and all beliefs? Unfortunately, Christians who still believe in what the Bible teaches about sexuality were never going to be included in the new global fraternity. We are seeing a continuation of the "cancel culture" that is targeting Bible-believing churches and conservative voices.

The Center for Family and Human Rights published the following:

"Politicians, religious leaders, and organizations from around the world who defend life and family will likely be put on a blacklist by the UN office for human rights ... 'Who are the main actors who argue that the defenders of human rights of LGBT individuals are furthering a so-called gender ideology?' reads a call for inputs from the UN rights office published last month, primarily addressed to LGBT groups. In the broadly worded prompt, the UN rights office asks for examples of 'public expressions or statements by political and/or religious leaders' who challenge LGBT rights. 'What are their main arguments?' the UN rights office asks." [1]

They want to know who the "major players" are that oppose the radical LGBT+ agenda. They want to know what they are saying and they want examples of their "public expressions." This certainly sounds like they are preparing a list of people to cancel from society just as they are doing with conservatives [2] and pro-life organizations. [3] What happened to equality and tolerance? The United Nations does not care about all human equality, all freedom of speech or all rights. They only care about those who share their views when it comes to the radical gender theory.

The fight against conservative Christian views is about to intensify. This will be the pretext to start persecuting Bible-believing Christians who resist the "new humanity" and the new "solidarity" that will be based on a depraved and corrupt agenda: gender theory, abortion, euthanasia, feminism, ecumenism, environmentalism, Sunday laws and a dictatorship that suppresses any voice that does not embrace its cause.

If you defend life from conception, marriage between a man and a woman, the biblical family and religious freedom to preach God's gospel, you are automatically a threat to their globalist agenda. Our culture is rapidly becoming hostile to the word of God. Soon the political, economic and apostate religious powers will turn completely against us.

But their problem is not really with us, it's with God. They hate what God says in His word. If Jesus were to return to our world in person in this generation, He would be crucified again because it is His word that they hate. So instead, the forces of darkness that control our society are targeting Christ's true and faithful followers who will not compromise the faith, who openly preach the word of God and who denounce the moral and national sins.

Remember, it was God who condemned the radical gender theory:

"And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly" (2 Peter 2:6).

"Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (Jude 1:7).

This is what the world is against. This is what the United Nations hates. Persecution will be inevitable unless we begin to embrace the popular sins that so many compromised churches have already accepted. Unless we obey the United Nations and bow down to ungodly, corrupt, power-hungry men who have a demonic lust to control everything, this "cancel culture" will soon turn to persecution.

The only common ground that the United Nations will accept will be an ecumenical and multicultural religious syncretism that will not speak out against sin and error and one that will not preach the everlasting gospel in its purity. They will prohibit anyone from expressing ideas that go against their unholy order.

The UN globalists and the forces that support them are determined to openly declare war on the family and intimidate the Church to prevent it from declaring what God says about the moral issues of the day. God's people must resist adapting to this world. We cannot call evil good and good evil, and we certainly can't turn a blind eye to what is happening. We must remain faithful to the word of God and oppose the radical and globalist agenda with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The ramifications of the homosexual agenda are much more aggressive than people are willing to admit. Their militant agenda will never rest until every Christian and conservative voice is silenced. The United Nations is the modern day headquarters for Sodom and Gomorrah. This agency has done more to promote the LGBT+ agenda on a global scale than any other organization. In fact, the United Nations has picked up where Sodom left off.

"The forbearance of God has been very great—so great that when we consider the continuous insult to His holy commandments, we marvel. The Omnipotent One has been exerting a restraining power over His own attributes. But He will certainly arise to punish the wicked who so boldly defy the just claims of the Decalogue. God allows men a period of probation; but there is a point beyond which divine patience is exhausted, and the judgments of God are sure to follow. The Lord bears long with men and with cities, mercifully giving warnings to save them from divine wrath; but a time will come when pleadings for mercy will no longer be heard, and the rebellious element that continues to reject the light of truth will be blotted out" (Prophets and Kings, p. 276).

God is not one to play with. He is loving, but also holy and just. Our only peace and safety is in obeying the Word of the Lord. We are living in a time when national corruption has almost reached its limit. Let us fall on our knees and plead for the forgiveness of our sins so that God can then lift us up in purity and holiness:

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." Isaiah 1:18, 19.

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http://adventmessenger.org/pope-francis-promotes-fratelli-tutti-in-iraq-as-the-way-to-avoid-terrorism-and-extremism/

Pope Francis Promotes Fratelli Tutti in Iraq as the Way to Avoid Terrorism and Extremism

On March 6, 2021, on the second day of his historic visit to Iraq, Pope Francis called on Christians, Muslims and Jews to put aside their differences and work together for peace and unity. Francis held an interfaith service with different religious leaders in the ruins of Ur in southern Iraq and promoted the message of "fraternity" from his papal encyclical "Fratelli Tutti."

A "common prayer" was offered for Muslims, Jews, representatives of different Christian churches and other Iraqi religious minorities during the meeting with Pope Francis to celebrate their "common father in faith," Abraham. Pope Francis called on the different monotheistic religions to end their divisions and "row together on the same side" as children of the same God. Here are some highlights from Pope Francis' speech published by the Vatican Press Office:

"We need to move beyond ourselves, because we need one another. The pandemic has made us realize that "no one is saved alone" (Fratelli Tutti, 54). Still, the temptation to withdraw from others is never-ending, yet at the same time we know that "the notion of 'every man for himself' will rapidly degenerate into a free-for-all that would prove worse than any pandemic" (Fratelli Tutti, 36). Amid the tempests we are currently experiencing, such isolation will not save us." [1]

"There will be no peace without sharing and acceptance, without a justice that ensures equity and advancement for all ... There will be no peace unless peoples extend a hand to other peoples. There will be no peace as long as we see others as them and not us. There will be no peace as long as our alliances are against others, for alliances of some against others only increase divisions." [1]

"Heaven thus imparts a message of unity: the Almighty above invites us never to separate ourselves from our neighbors. The otherness of God points us towards others, towards our brothers and sisters. Yet if we want to preserve fraternity, we must not lose sight of heaven. May we – the descendants of Abraham and the representatives of different religions – sense that, above all, we have this role." [1]

"Brothers and sisters of different religions, here we find ourselves at home, and from here, together, we wish to commit ourselves to fulfilling God's dream that the human family may become hospitable and welcoming to all his children." [1]

"As children of Abraham, Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with other believers and all persons of good will, we thank you for having given us Abraham, a distinguished son of this noble and beloved country, to be our common father in faith." [1]

"The way that heaven points out for our journey is another: the way of peace. It demands, especially amid the tempest, that we row together on the same side. It is shameful that, while all of us have suffered from the crisis of the pandemic, especially here, where conflicts have caused so much suffering, anyone should be concerned simply for his own affairs." [1]

Pope Francis constantly spoke of Abraham as "our common father in faith." He stressed that it is this connection to Abraham that unites Christians, Jews, and Muslims. However, Jesus clearly taught that it was not the carnal descendants that counted, or our fleshly connection to Abraham that mattered. What matters to God is whether you are the spiritual seed of Abraham. In fact, Jesus denied that the Jews of His day were the true children of Abraham because they did not live his life or manifest his same character. Read John 8:37-44.

If Pope Francis were a true representative of Jesus on earth, he would have shared the wonderful news that Abraham had accepted Christ, embraced Him and rejoiced to meet Him:

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." John 8:56-58.

In other words, Abraham received Christ. Abraham embraced Christ. Abraham rejoiced to see Christ. So how can Muslims and Jews who reject Christ as God's atonement for sin be the children of Abraham, if Abraham accepted Jesus?

In Galatians 3:29, Paul reiterates this same truth by declaring that those who are in Christ are the true children of Abraham. If the Pope would actually preach the gospel as he is supposed to, he would have included men and women of all nations who do not have a direct lineage to Abraham, but who are in Christ, as the true children of Abraham.

Then Pope Francis made another theological error. The Pope contradicted the words of Jesus when he made the following statement:

"The greatest blasphemy is to profane his name by hating our brothers and sisters. Hostility, extremism and violence are not born of a religious heart: they are betrayals of religion. We believers cannot be silent when terrorism abuses religion; indeed, we are called unambiguously to dispel all misunderstandings." [1]

Once again, Pope Francis is rewriting God's holy word. Jesus explained very clearly what the greatest blasphemy is. Without doubt, hating your brother is a very serious sin, but even this sin can be forgiven. However, Jesus spoke of a blasphemy that will never be forgiven:

"Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." Matthew 12:31-32.

Our concern is Pope Francis' attempts to lessen the need to preach the gospel of Christ to Muslims and Jews and his continuing contradictions of the Holy Word. These and other acts (promoting Mother Earth, embracing pantheism, encouraging Sunday laws) actually constitute blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Pope Francis also said in the above statement that we cannot be "silent" with "terrorism." We must speak out against "hatred," "extremism" and "violence." He said we cannot be "unambiguous" in our rejection of "abuses of religion." So why didn't the Pope say who the blasphemers were? Why didn't he identify the terrorist? Why so much "ambiguity" in his statements?

Who are the terrorists? Is it the Christians, Jews or Muslims? Who is blowing up decapitating the so-called children of Abraham in the Middle East? It's not the Christians or the Jews? Why doesn't Pope Francis have the courage to tell us that it is radical Islamic terrorists who are persecuting Christian minorities in Iraq? Why doesn't he speak up for the persecuted? This is causing confusion by blaming everyone rather than identifying who the real terrorists are.

The reason we think that Pope Francis will not say that radical Islamic terrorists are the problems in the Middle East is because he believes that conservative Christians are equally problematic. In his eyes, those who will not support Laudato Si' or Fratelli Tutti are equally responsible for all the trouble in the world. And those who still believe in biblical truth (divine revelation) above the Pope's humanist philosophies are the greatest terrorists in his eyes.

We live in the days when the following biblical mandate must be followed. We can no longer say that "the time will come." The days described in the following Bible verses are here already:

"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:2-3.

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http://adventmessenger.org/pope-francis-tells-the-united-nations-climate-change-conference-cop26-now-is-the-time-to-act/

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

Pope Francis Tells the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26): 'Now is the Time to Act'

Although the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) is not scheduled to begin until November 1, 2021, Pope Francis has already set the stage for the climate change summit that will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The Pope is calling on political leaders to accelerate their plan to address the climate crisis and to act now.

On February 8, 2021, Pope Francis addressed the members of the Diplomatic Corps. These are the ambassadors who are sent from other nations that have diplomatic relations with the Vatican. In his speech, Pope Francis mentions COP26 by name and asks them to reach an "effective agreement in addressing the consequences of climate change." The Pope declared:

"The pandemic has demonstrated once again that the earth itself is fragile and in need of care ... The impact of climate change, for example, whether direct, such as the extreme weather events of flooding and drought, or indirect, such as malnutrition or respiratory disease, entail consequences that persist for a considerable time. Overcoming these crises demands international cooperation in caring for our common home. It is thus my hope that the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), to take place in Glasgow next November, will lead to effective agreement in addressing the consequences of climate change. Now is the time to act, for we are already feeling the effects of prolonged inaction." [1]

Once again the Pope of Rome, a religious leader, is calling on political leaders to implement a dogma for climate change. The church is dictating to the state to carry out its orders. The ecological message of the Pope has become an obsession. He is the Pope of the coming global dictatorship. And the United Nations and all the other climate change activists have become puppets in the hands of Rome to carry out its wishes.

Politicians, religious leaders, bankers, the big tech companies, business leaders and other climate activists are coming together to solve the so-called climate crisis. They want to heal our sick planet. What disease is ravaging the earth? They tell us it is carbon (CO2). We are taught that CO2, instead of being a fertilizer and plant food and one of the main reasons we are alive, we have been indoctrinated to believe that CO2 is a poison. The radical climate message states that man has become the new virus that is destroying planet earth.

This is the gospel of the globalists, and their radical climate agenda is closely related to abortion and euthanasia. Why is that? They want to reduce the population because everything bad that happens to our world, according to the globalist agenda, is caused by the human race. So they are pushing for a radical climate policy, abortion, euthanasia, open borders, the LGBT+ agenda, feminism and the end of capitalism. Oh, and guess what? Social distancing and mask mandates are not enough. They never were. Everyone needs to get vaccinated.

These are the liberal social dogmas for the New World Order and Pope Francis is playing the leading role. These policies are being embraced and imposed on the people seamlessly, all in accordance with Bible prophecy. Establishing an international political body to promote ecology, wealth redistribution, sexual rights, Sunday laws and death has nothing to do with Christ and His gospel. This has everything to do with Satan's enmity against God, God's moral law and God's faithful people. We are witnessing the establishment of the final rebellion described in the book of Revelation that is preparing the world to worship the beast and his image and to receive the mark:

"The line of distinction between professed Christians and the ungodly is now hardly distinguishable. Church-members love what the world loves, and are ready to join with them; and 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, p. 588, 589).

Climate change has been going on in this world as long as it has existed, and will continue to do so. The Climate Change crisis is a created crisis. Those who created it have, do, and will continue to use it through fear mongering politics unto their desired global agenda. Sickness and viruses and pandemics have been in this world since the fall. The huge crisis created by these same fear mongering religious and political leaders in this latest Covid pandemic is all about the same agenda. It is all diversionary tactical fear mongering politics and misdirection. People should be preparing to meet God face to face as the end approaches. The devil and his minions are busy stirring up a frenzy of fear mongering, calling for a false unity of fallen humanity to battle against satanically inspired and created emergencies which can only be addressed by following their usurped leadership. Which leadership is leading humanity into direct rebellion against God and His commandments unto destruction. Flee from the man of sin who rules Babylon the Great, and his papal political minions the world over. The truth of the following words of scripture are becoming ever increasingly true.

Jas 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Joh 18:36  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Our Saviors kingdom is not of this world. Neither then should we be. The calls, manipulations, and eventual attempts to force all to be part of the false unity which the man of sin and his minions are voicing and enforcing to a greater and greater degree, will have to be refused by authentic Christianity. The lines will only become clearer as the end approaches, and the evil one and his minions will become ever more aggressive against those who choose not to be of this world. So be it.

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?

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https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/decolonizing-faith-and-society/its-time-sustained-mass-civil-disobedience

Can't believe I missed this article from 2019 in the National Catholic Reporter in relation to the BLM riots. Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

It's time for sustained mass civil disobedience

The Trump administration presents an unprecedented, existential threat to U.S. democracy and, indeed, the world. While many are organizing for change in the 2020 election, that may be too late. We the people must address this threat with massive sustained civil disobedience.

While I applaud the rejection of nationalism and violence articulated by Ignatian Network leaders and theologians, we need to put words into action. It is time to embody Barmen Today: A Contemporary Contemplative Declaration, which echoes the historic 1934 declaration rejecting the tyranny and evil of Nazism.

I believe we need to understand this existential threat in a larger historical context that goes to the root of the violent lie of anti-black white supremacy that we perpetuate in ourselves and society. We need to heed the prophetic vision of Nikole Hannah-Jones who conceived of The New York Times' 1619 Project to explore the enduring legacy of slavery.

Upon the 400th anniversary of the arrival of slaves in Virginia, unless we understand how the legacy of slavery endures in this land, we will not realize the true meaning of the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence. Hannah-Jones contends that we will not fulfill the reality that all people are created equal "until we confront our sins and make them right."

It is time to confront our sins of violent white supremacy and make them right through sustained, massive civil disobedience. Our national sins are inextricably linked to, and exacerbated by, the existential threat we face today.

As Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt demonstrate in their comparative analysis of global authoritarianism in How Democracies Die, the warning signs of an existential threat to the republic are all around us.

The Trump administration fulfills all four marks of an authoritarian regime, including rejecting democratic rules and norms, attacking the legitimacy of political opponents, condoning violence against political opponents and people of color, and curtailing civil liberties of opponents and the media.

An ecosystem of deceitful authoritarianism, white Christian nationalism and corruption erode the conditions of the possibility of free and fair elections, government for the common good, creating a green economy, and caring for the most vulnerable among us.

The warnings begin at the rejection of democratic rules and norms, such as the president's welcoming of Russian meddling in the 2016 and 2020 elections, threats to human rights and the International Criminal Court, obstruction of justice detailed in Volume II of the Mueller report and the administration's uniform obstruction of Congress performing its constitutional duties.

Far from being devoted to the rule of law, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reports over 2,300 conflicts of interest in the current presidential administration. The extent of Donald Trump's personal financial gain through the office of the president obliterates any credible sense of upholding the emoluments clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

Second, the president's consistent attacks on the legitimacy of political opponents, including attacks on former President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current congressional members and their constituencies, undermine democratic opposition and erode conditions of the possibility of realizing universal justice and equality.

Third, contrary to the president's delusion that he brings people together, he has consistently condoned violence against political opponents and people of color. A nationwide review by ABC News identified at least 36 criminal cases where Trump "was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence, or allegations of assault."

A litany of threats to basic civil liberties marks the fourth assault on our democracy. These include the Muslim ban, the denial of due process to Americans and newcomers facing deportation, seizing unilateral power to detain people indefinitely, separation of families and child detention, and attacks on freedom of speech by the press and political opponents.

The deeper malaise is not only because these are assaults on democracy abetted by a sycophantic GOP and an obstructionist U.S. Senate majority leader, but also because they are fueled by a new conservatism rooted in white Christian nationalism.

Sadly, not unlike prominent Christian thinkers and faith communities that supported National Socialism in Germany in the 1930s, too many Christian churches remain silent in the face of violent attacks on people of color, Jews, Muslims, students and LGBTQ brothers and sisters.

In the spirit of the prophetic witness of the original signatories of the Barmen Declaration, Barmen Today expresses "a resolute commitment to equality, dignity, and opportunity for each and every living being, no exceptions, offered in love and belief that we humans are capable of more than we've achieved so far."

History is on our side. In their comprehensive comparative study of violent and nonviolent conflict between 1900 and 2006, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan find that "campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts."

People of all faiths and no faith are enacting diverse methods of civil resistance and social change here in the U.S., including a successful campaign in Puerto Rico. These include Catholics Take Action for Immigrant Children, Jews "sounding the alarm that Never Again is now" through the Never Again Action movement, and SOSAmerica2019 whose mission "is to unify all non-violent, non-destructive, and peaceful protests across the nation" who share the goals of impeaching Trump, securing our elections, and procuring permanent protections for immigrants and asylum seekers.

As NCR reports, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, blessed, prayed for and supported a group of Catholics who blocked a crosswalk, arranging themselves in the shape of a cross in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sept. 4. About 400 people participated in the event as Tobin led them in a chant of "stop the inhumanity."

SOSAmerica2019 is leading actions in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9-13 and actions in cities all across the United States Sept. 21-24.

At the end of the opening live program for the 1619 Project, Vy Higginsen's Sing Harlem Choir sang a body and soul-shaking performance of "Go Down Moses" (2:07:00). Do we hear and feel their liberation song crying out from every corner of this land?

We the people have the collective power to match the sustained acts of civil disobedience in Hong Kong, Russia, Algeria, London and Glasgow. It is time to demand dignity, equality and justice for all. We the people must act together now for democracy and human dignity.

[Alex Mikulich is a Catholic social ethicist.]

There you have it, more Catholic inspiration for civil unrest, violence, chaos, and government subversion. Promoting a completely false and one sided revisionist version of history(1619 project), backed up by one false accusation after another, to incite violent resistance and or attack of their political opponents. Which many apparently decided to back up. Yet the other guys are the Nazi's. These people are warped beyond repair it seems. By the way, a whole lot of big bad white Americans, fought and gave their lives to help Europe rid themselves of the Nazi's. Nazi's with whom the Roman Catholic church was the first to recognize and sign an accord. Not to mention the accord they made with Mussolini that other fascist as well, from which they still greatly benefit today.

Before accusing all white Christian American's of the past and present of being racist Nazi's on behalf of Catholic social "justice", this guy might want to look long and hard at the history of his own religio-poliitcal institutions direct involvement with and support of the Nazi's. Not to mention their support of many other abusive authoratative and dictatorial governments throughout its history. As even now, they support and applaud Communism and China.

This country addressed the issue of racism and slavery in a war that took the lives of more than six hundred thousand. The slavery supporters lost. Racism has been being addressed in this country ever since and continues to this day. As it always will have to be addressed in a world filled with sin and woe. Tell your revisionist history lies to someone else. All whites in this country never supported slavery, or were racists at any time, nor are they now but in the minds of those who desire it to be so. Such thoughts and expressions are themsleves completely racist sentiments. Read your bibles, the entire human race is prone to evil and such, not this or that race. Apart from scripture such cannot be overcome, but to the contrary and as the person who wrote this article demonstrates, without God's guidance humanity simply exchanges one form of evil or racism if you will, with another. 

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https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/542387-pope-francis-may-be-joe-bidens-most-important-ally

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Pope Francis may be Joe Biden's most important ally

It is often said that our most important ally is Great Britain, with whom the United States enjoys a "special relationship." Others say it is our NATO allies who make up the backbone of our defense against Russia. Certainly, the leaders of these countries welcomed Joe Biden's election and subsequent message, "We're back," especially after the "America First" policy and slurs directed at their leaders by Donald Trump. Yet, truth be told, President Biden's most important ally today is not these European leaders but Pope Francis.

With his trip to Iraq, Pope Francis advanced vital U.S. interests. In that war-torn country, the pope called for a full expression of religious freedom and greater tolerance, asking religious and regional sects there to remember "what unites us." One young Iraqi psychology student observed that she had never seen the country so united, marveling: "The pope has performed a miracle." A united Iraq aligns with our interests, especially after that nation's territorial integrity was threatened by the U.S. invasion in 2003.

The pope's high standing abroad can help refurbish a battered U.S. image. Since 2000, favorable opinions of the U.S. in the United Kingdom fell from 63 percent to 41 percent. Similar declines occurred among other allies: France, 62 percent to 31 percent; Germany, 78 to 26 percent; Canada, 72 percent to 35 percent; Australia, 59 percent to 33 percent. For people around the world, the pope is more than a symbol of the Catholic Church. In the United States, 35 percent associate the pope with the Catholic Church, but an even greater number — 49 percent — view him as a moral and humanitarian spokesperson for all people.

At home, Pope Francis is also a valuable Biden ally. In 2016, Donald Trump won 50 percent of the Catholic vote to Hillary Clinton's 46 percent. But in 2020, for only the second time in history, Democrats nominated and elected a Roman Catholic president. Biden highlighted his Catholic upbringing and reliance upon the church for comfort in times of sorrow; his Catholic faith was on full display at the Democratic National Convention where Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest, and Sister Simone Campbell offered prayers. On Election Day, Catholics backed Biden, 52 percent to Trump's 47 percent. White Catholics are a particularly important constituency — especially in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — and Biden took all of them by slim margins. Close elections are won or lost at the margins, and that was certainly true in 2020.

Biden's embrace of his Catholic faith was strategic and established a strong contrast with Trump. That contrast was accentuated by Pope Francis's many criticisms, and they were heard by Catholic voters. The pope zeroed in on Trump's harsh immigration and border wall policies, saying: "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." As for Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents (a policy Biden opposed), the pope highlighted a disconnect between Trump's pro-life position on abortion and his child-separation policy: "The president of the United States presents himself as pro-life and if he is a good pro-lifer, he understands that family is the cradle of life and its unity must be protected."

The pope's criticisms resonated with Latinos, the vast majority of whom are Catholic. In 2020, Biden captured 65 percent of the Latino vote to Trump's 32 percent; their votes made a crucial difference in Arizona, where 61 percent of Latinos backed Biden, and Georgia, where 62 percent did.

On Inauguration Day, the pope extended his "cordial good wishes" to the new president, noting that in a time of "grave crises" he prayed that Biden's decisions "will be guided by a concern for building a society marked by authentic justice and freedom, together with unfailing respect for the rights and dignity of every person, especially the poor, the vulnerable and those who have no voice." The pope's emphasis on social justice issues clashed with another Inauguration Day statement issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It noted that "our new President has pledged to pursue certain policies that would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity, most seriously in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender," and adding that abortion remains a "preeminent priority." Some Catholic leaders, notably Chicago's Cardinal Blaise Cupich, called the statement "ill-considered." But other Catholics intensified their criticism. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, chair of the USCCB's pro-life committee, claimed that the weekly mass-attending, rosary-carrying Biden should stop calling himself "devout." George Weigel, a prominent critic of both Biden and Pope Francis, described the president as an "incoherent Catholic" who should not receive communion.

The close alignment between president and pope benefits both. In addition to helping U.S. interests abroad, his commitment to social justice causes and the plight of immigrants, Pope Francis has emphasized the personal responsibility of everyone to take a vaccine to combat COVID-19, the top priority of the Biden administration. In January, the Pope declared, "I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine." When it comes to the environment, another Biden priority, Pope Francis has been an outspoken advocate; in his encyclical, Laudato Sí, the Pope decried the "irresponsible use and abuse of the goods" of Mother Earth and noted that the ecological violence being done is reflected in the "symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air, and in all forms of life."

Pope Francis's standing with American Catholics is quite high. In a recent survey, 77 percent expressed a favorable opinion, including 35 percent who voice a "very favorable" view. Ninety-four percent describe the Holy Father as "compassionate," and 91 percent call him "humble." Any politician, much less a religious leader, would love to receive such high marks.

No wonder that, as you enter the Oval Office and look behind the Resolute Desk, you will find an array of pictures of the Biden family and one very prominent picture of the president and the pope.

John Kenneth White is a professor of politics at The Catholic University of America, Washington. His latest book is "What Happened to the Republican Party?"

How about that, the globalist Pope who hates America and Capitalism, praises Socialism, Communism, open boarders, global wealth redistribution, a global government and economy, common good over and above individual rights and liberties, New green deals, global shutdowns for fear, and no doubt forced vaccines, all backed up by countless laws, rules, and regulations enforced by ever empowered and huge government over and above the people instead of by the people, is now President Biden's  and thus Americas best ally. Poverty, government dependency, abuse, persecution, and the judgments of God are on their way.

The following statements regarding the end of papal success, are about to become global phenomenon. Written long ago, the author did not expect that he papacy would ever truly rise to great power again. He was wrong. We have already been feeling the negative results of such for quite some time now, but the worst still lies ahead.

The times also require this investigation. Throughout Europe, throughout the world, there is a revival of the Papal system. True, this revival is not to be considered as indicative of any very great triumphs. The best days of Popery have been numbered. The notions which men now entertain of popular liberty, and of the rights of conscience, the general intelligence that prevails, the recorded history of Papal oppression, the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, and above all, the word of God, all lead to the belief, that no efforts of the crafty agents of this crafty system, can ever give it the influence it has once exerted. "Tekel" is inscribed upon it; and some Cyrus will, ere long, be raised up, who shall dry up its waters, break down its gates of brass, and let oppressed humanity go free. No; it is not the ultimate triumph of this system we fear; it is the harm it may do in its death-struggle; it is the unnatural energies of its spasmodic dissolution, that we dread.

In America, particularly, is this investigation important. In all the countries over which it has triumphed, Popery, like the anaconda, has wound around its folds of art, of cunning, of superstition and of power, until, enclosing everything in its too friendly embraces, it has, with one tremendous effort, crushed the nation to death. It sends forth its missionaries; it gathers its schools and colleges; it erects its cathedrals and builds its churches; it is patriotic, benevolent, charitable. Its alms and offerings attract the vulgar, its austerities and penances convince the sceptical. It is at first tolerated; then approved; next obeyed! But now come the dread realities of the system, taxation, passive submission, excommunications, interdicts, crusades, the inquisition, destruction. Yes, Popery has well nigh destroyed every country in which it has been predominant. The liberties and national prosperity of a people cannot coexist with such a system.

Let then, Americans — Americans, who have never witnessed a Court of Inquisition, or an Auto-da-fe, on their virgin soil; Americans, whose national liberties are still fragrant with the blood of revolutionary forefathers; Americans, whose proud eminence in the civilized world, gives them more to lose than other nations; let Americans especially examine this subject well. And if, in such an examination, the following pages shall contribute but a mite to the discovery of the truth, the author will feel himself more than compensated for the labor they have cost him. (CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST, by Samuel J. Cassels, PART 2 ANTICHRIST OR THE PAPACY PROVED TO BE THE ANTICHRIST PREDICTED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, Pgs. 125&126)


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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbShi6cQNA

A good video addressing teachers unions keeping schools closed. The hypocrisy of this Roman Catholic union leader is revealed, who holds one standard for his own Catholic child going to Catholic school, and another for everyone else. What is this guy sending his children to private Catholic school, doing as a teachers union President in the first place?

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https://warontherocks.com/2019/06/espionage-and-the-catholic-church-from-the-cold-war-to-the-present/

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis mine, My comments in blue. Examination of the following article with comments, will be split up in the next few posts, to shorten each of the same.

ESPIONAGE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE PRESENT

"How many divisions does the pope have?" This was Stalin's sarcastic response to Churchill's request not to let internal developments in Poland upset relations with the pope. While Stalin's dismissive statement suggested that the Catholic Church was an insignificant power in international affairs, he could not have been farther from the truth. The Holy See has played an important but understudied role in intelligence and diplomacy through its diplomatic service, which is one of the oldest in the world. The extensive presence of the Holy See's diplomats combined with their neutrality provides them access to unique information in the far corners of the globe.

The claim of neutrality from the papacy above is either ignorance, or an intentional gross misrepresentation of the facts. They choose sides which support their own agenda, and can and do change sides when necessary. This is most obvious from their stance against Communism in the recent past, joining forces with and using the United States government to help them topple Russian communism, while their present leadership attacks our democratic Republic and Capitalism in favor of socialism and or Chinese Communism. Both of which they now praise and support. Their ultimate goal is most obviously the reduction of all competing powers of this earth beneath their own. While this article is addressing a specific time frame of more recent history, the church of Rome who is verily Babylon the Great, has been involved with the political intrigues of the kings of this earth throughout her entire history. All authentic Christians have had to deal with her non stop war upon them throughout her history as well.

Formerly top-secret KGB (Soviet security service) documents declassified after the end of the Cold War reveal the Kremlin's obsession with containing the papacy's influence. The Soviet security services devoted substantial resources to penetrating and undermining the Catholic Church for the entirety of the Cold War. And as international threats have become more sophisticated, so too have the Vatican's methods for protecting itself. Today, because the papacy maintains diplomatic relations with 183 countries, the Catholic Church is still an influential power in international affairs. While the papacy does not possess a formal intelligence service, it does field a diplomatic corps that provides valuable information to the diplomatic community in the far reaches of the globe, including war zones in the Middle East and Africa.

While the papacy certainly does not possess a formal intelligence service, there is nothing formal about it, the Jesuits and others have and do perform this exact function with the mindset that the end justifies the means. Historical records and accounts are replete with their despicable actions, and they have been kicked out of and banned from even predominantly Catholic countries many times over for such. In the Jesuits, the Catholic church created a monster it cannot control, and which now once again controls it. 

A Brief History of the Pope's Diplomatic Service

The Holy See's diplomatic service was established over 500 years ago. In addition to his role as the head of the Catholic Church, the pope is the political leader of Vatican City, the smallest sovereign state in the world. Papal ambassadors, called "nuncios," are the official representatives of the pope to sovereign states and to foreign bodies, such as the United Nations. Their diplomatic cables to Rome include information about secular political, economic, and social concerns in addition to notes about the local church community, such as which priests might be candidates for elevation to bishop.

Interesting, the church of Rome claims its diplomatic service started right about the same time as the Jesuit order. The above admits of the political nature of the Vatican, but then suggests it uses all the information it gathers for things such as who to elect as bishops. BALONEY! The Pope regularly writes papal Encyclicals and Doctrinal Notes telling the whole world what to do and how to do it, and how their own members can help bring all such about in the counties in which they live. Bishops also join together often and author letters of petition to present to government officials trying to influence their decisions. The Roman Catholic Church is literally a foreign political entity and influence within every nation its members exist. The more of them there are, the greater that influence, thus open boarders in the USA is a must have scenario for them. They have had many mass migrations of their adherents to our country throughout our history, besides the continuous one at our southern boarder for many decades now. The huge and ever growing number of Catholics within in this nation has not been by way of conversion at all. They have simply transplanted themselves within our nation, and every child born to a Catholic is automatically a Catholic being baptized as such at birth. They now basically run our country, which is why we have been in a continual dive for many decades. Unsustainable debt, non stop losses of personal liberties and individual freedom, and ever increasing division among citizens, have been developments concurrent to their rise in numbers and power within this nation. The following link is regarding the Jesuit Order, which also arose about 500 years ago.

https://www.end-times-prophecy.org/order-of-jesuits.html

Papal diplomats train at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome. Bishops nominate candidates who are then selected by the Secretariat of State headquartered in Vatican City. The Secretariat of State is the central governing bureaucracy of the Catholic Church and is responsible for the Church's political and diplomatic affairs. The Secretary for Relations with States is the equivalent of a foreign minister and the Holy See's most senior diplomatic official.

The course of study for papal diplomats at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy is approximately four years in length; if the entering student already has an advanced degree in canon law, the course is shortened to two years. The curriculum includes diplomatic history, international law, negotiation techniques, economics, canon law, theology, and cultural studies. Students are also expected to become proficient in two languages in addition to their mother tongue. U.S. foreign service officers, by comparison, train for several months up to a year or more, depending on the nature of their first assignment and language requirements. Papal diplomatic training is significantly longer due to the obligation to gain expertise in theology and Church law. In a 2016 interview, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, a former papal nuncio who served in Latin America and Africa, said that as in the U.S. State Department, papal diplomats are moved every few years and often serve in austere locations.

With their extensive training, nuncios serve as an invaluable source of information on political, economic, and social developments in dangerous locations around the globe. Hugh Wilson, who served as U.S. ambassador to Germany before the outbreak of World War II, said that the pope had "the best information service in the world." More recently, the Holy See was credited with using its diplomatic connections in Cuba to assist Washington and Havana's normalization of relations in 2014. Today as in the past, when wars break out and other diplomats begin evacuating, papal nuncios remain in their posts even though the Holy See allows them to leave as violence escalates. In 2003, rebels in Burundi believed to be from the National Liberation Forces assassinated Archbishop Michael Courtney for his role in negotiating a peace accord between the Burundian government and the Hutu opposition. Perhaps the best example of the influence of papal diplomacy in international relations is its role in combatting communism during the Cold War.

How about that, at the time the pope and Vatican had "the best information service in the world", they were still the first ones to acknowledge, sign an accord with, and support the Nazi party of Adolf Hitler. Encouraging all Catholic's in Germany of course, to do the same if not by example alone. The same course of action has been taken by the papacy concerning tyrannical government and or dictators, all throughout its history. Today no doubt, they still have the best information service in the world, and make very good use of it subverting the politics of every nation they are within, unto their own foreign agendas.

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Espionage and the Holy See during the Cold War

Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the founding of the Soviet state, senior leadership in the Holy See recognized the threat that the Soviets posed to organized religion. In 1929, Pope Pius XI established the Pontifical Russian College, the Russicum, to prepare priests for service in territories controlled by the communists. However, the Soviets believed it served as a schoolhouse for spies. The 1972 edition of the KGB's counter-intelligence encyclopedia described the Russicum as a clandestine intelligence organization engaged in active measures and influence operations. It stated that students at the Russicum received political, theological, and language training, "are taught civilian specialties to establish a cover identity," and that "their goal is organizing support for subverting the Soviet Union."

Since such a substantial portion of the population in Soviet-occupied territory was Catholic, the Kremlin was especially concerned with the Holy See using its influence to undermine Soviet authority. KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin stated that the Soviets viewed the Catholic Church as a serious ideological threat and that "the Vatican was a primary target for KGB penetration operations." Owing to Soviet anxiety about ideological subversion after the rebellions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the KGB's operations targeting the Holy See expanded significantly in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Soviets were particularly concerned about subversion in Lithuania, as more than 80 percent of its population was Catholic. A primary objective of the KGB was to prevent the Holy See from contacting any Catholic clergy not under Soviet control. In 1956, the KGB launched Operation Students, designed to penetrate Vatican bureaucracies and undermine the Catholic Church's influence in Lithuania, by sending two KGB agents to study as theology students at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

While these agents did interact with senior members of the Holy See — they even met Pope John XXIII — the operation largely failed. Many of their fellow students, Lithuanian emigres in Rome, and clergy suspected that they were cooperating with Soviet authorities. Certainly, the operation did not result in the degradation of the power and influence of the Church among the Catholic faithful in Lithuania that the Soviets so strongly desired.

In 1962, the Soviets tried again to penetrate the inner sanctum of the Holy See. That same year, the pope officially convened the Second Vatican Council, which considered a broad number of reforms in the Catholic Church. Invitations for participation were sent to the Christian Churches in communist territories. In response, the KGB assembled a delegation of Catholic clerics from Lithuania, among whom were several of its agents. The KGB instructed  these agents to directly participate in and shape the discussions taking place at the council. They were to achieve a private audience with the pope, make inroads with the "reform wing" in the Vatican, and work to convince council participants that accounts of persecution of Catholics behind the Iron Curtain were much exaggerated. Because the KGB was not able to cultivate high-level sources in the Holy See, this operation also proved to be of little utility in the Soviet Union's clandestine war against the Catholic Church.

The Kremlin's concerns about Catholic influence only increased over time. In 1975, the KGB organized a conference in Warsaw with representatives from the security agencies of East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, and Cuba to devise a strategy for more coordinated intelligence operations targeting the Catholic Church. A formerly top-secret KGB document states that the communist security organs should actively attempt to cultivate several influential Catholic officials, such as Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, a senior Holy See diplomatic official, and Cardinal Franz König, the Archbishop of Vienna. Other stated objectives of the conference included penetrating the academy responsible for training Vatican diplomats and gathering intelligence about future papal elections. The objectives of the Soviets at the conference could be characterized as wishful thinking. The KGB did, however, manage to surreptitiously implant a listening device in a statue that was placed in the dining room of Cardinal Casaroli. Since Casaroli regularly had discussions with papal diplomats focused on the Communist bloc at that location, the electronic bug was likely a good source of information on the Holy See's policy of Ostpolitik, i.e., rapprochement with the Communist bloc.

Soviet fears about the Holy See turned into hysteria in October 1978, when the College of Cardinals chose Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla as pope. When Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB at the time, learned of Wojtyla's election, he asked his station chief in Warsaw, "How could you possibly allow the election of someone from a socialist country as pope?" The KGB had been closely following the career of Wojtyla owing to his profound anti-communism before his elevation as Pope John Paul II. A KGB report described him as a dangerous anti-communist. A declassified Central Intelligence Agency report from 1978 presciently stated that a Polish pope would rejuvenate nationalism in Poland and the other Soviet-occupied states, posing a serious challenge to Soviet authority and stability.

The Reagan administration viewed the Catholic Church as a very important ally in the war against communism. Ronald Reagan and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey were both elated by the articulate anti-communism of Pope John Paul II, which led to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Holy See in 1984. Casey traveled to Rome several times to meet personally with the pope and brief him on developments in the communist world. A declassified Central Intelligence Agency report details a January 1986 briefing given by U.S. intelligence representatives to a small number of Holy See officials on Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a highly controversial missile defense system. That U.S. intelligence officials provided a classified briefing to a group of papal advisers underlines the importance that the Reagan Administration attributed to the Holy See in world affairs. Additionally, the Central Intelligence Agency used Catholic clergy to funnel money into Poland to support Solidarity, the anti-communist Polish trade union.

The KGB's fears about the threat to communism posed by the Catholic Church were indeed justified, and the Holy See ranked as one of the top targets of Soviet intelligence services during the Cold War. Nevertheless, the concerted efforts of the Soviet security services to undermine the Catholic Church's influence in the Eastern bloc were a complete failure. Eminent Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis identifies Pope John Paul II as an instrumental figure in setting the course for the Soviet Union's demise. The collapse of communism, however, did not diminish the Holy See's active role in post-Cold War international relations.

The above account of this article is an obvious example of historical narrative being controlled by the victors of the conflict. Which account also reveals the high levels of very real government subversion the papacy performs within all nations, unto her own ends and designs. The Russians were of course correct, in their suspicions concerning the papacy.
While the article tries to downplay just how involved the papacy actually is in subverting governments, they simply cannot hide their cause and effect concerning the same.

The above story also confirms my earlier account of papal flip flopping concerning the persuit of her own goals and agendas above all others. Reagan reestablished diplomatic ties with the Vatican and we helped them overthrow Russian communism whom they then opposed. While this deal with the devil had short term positive effect for Rome and the US, we have now been witnessing the negative, chaotic, destabilizing, and divisive  effects in our country ever since. Strangely similar I might add, to all the same movements or methods if you will, employed by Marxists of the past.
We could get into Catholic and or Jesuit involvement of the same in the past and present, but that is another story altogether.

These Protestant formed Democratic Republic of United States, and their Capitalist economic system, are now public enemy #1 of the present pope, Vatican, and many a lefty progressive Catholic politician or otherwise within our own nation and Capital. Our Catholic President has declared his closeness to the present pope, and desire to politically establish Roman Catholic social doctrine and teaching within this nation, along with other critical issues of seriously government transforming policy. Citizens be damned, this administration serves the pope of Rome over and above its them, because as they see it they simply know better than we do concerning what we want or need. The following -

Increasing government power and mandates

Increased entwinement of religion and government

Loss of freedoms and liberties due to the same

Open boarders to continue national, cultural, and political dilution

Ever increasing taxes

Increased wealth and natural resource redistribution toward globalization

Ever increasing unsustainable debt according to the same

Greater government control of business

Downsizing, disarming, and the feminization of our military

Disarmament of our citizenship

Continued societal feminization

Lockdowns

And a slew of other unconstitutional and dictatorial evils

are all now on the menu for our ever increasingly papal influenced and controlled nation. This direction for our country is not new, but one that has been picking up support and momentum for quite some time now. The following is from the book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John W. Robbins, published in 1999.

Much of the interference by federal, state, and local governments in the affairs of citizens, both Joe Klein and the papacy have told us, is due to Roman Catholic influence in American politics. Corrupt municipal political machines were constructed and operated by Roman Catholics, following the Church-State's support for a policy of effective interference: Tammany Hall, the Daley machine, the Curley machine, and so on. Klein could have mentioned much more. Following Vatican directives, Roman Catholic politicians, legislators, and intellectuals brought us the Progressive movement, the labor union movement, the graduated income tax, the New Deal, and the growth of government in the United States. The growth of government was not only in the United States, of course; perhaps the United States, because it is the nation in which biblical Christianity had the most impact, is also the place where the least growth of government has occurred. In other nations in which Roman Catholic influence was greater, governments became ever more socialist than they did in the United States. In Italy, for example, an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, the Communist Party was once the largest Communist Party in the world outside of the Soviet Union and China. The nationalization, taxation, and regulation of private enterprise and life have progressed much further in other countries than they have in the United States. One of the reasons is that Roman Catholicism theoretically justifies and has historically fostered authoritarian, interventionist -  not to say totalitarian - governments.

The above testimony is now 22 years old. Much has changed since then, and we are far more like the predominantly Catholic nations mentioned in the above, today. Of course open boarders, and therefore the continued mass migration of Roman Catholics from our southern boarder, will only increase no doubt the continued Romanization of our country. Babylon must continue her work, not only here but on the global scale, until all the kings, merchants, tradesman, entertainers, and what have you, of the world have drunk her wine and succumbed to her intoxication. Unto the formation of the final global beast of biblical prophecy. [/color]

Quietly Influencing International Relations: The Holy See after the Cold War

In the post-Cold War world, the Holy See's diplomatic efforts are even more apparent in every corner of the globe. Because the Holy See today maintains diplomatic relations with so many countries, it serves as a valued source of information for Western diplomatic services and remains a target of foreign intelligence organizations. In a 2017 interview, one former U.S. diplomat said that many nuncios have in-depth subject matter expertise on foreign governments with whom Western governments have limited or no contact. Because the pope maintains a policy of political nonalignment, his diplomatic corps obtains unique access to foreign powers, especially in the Middle East.

What an absolute crock and role reversal the above statement is. This article must have been written or at least approved by the Jesuits. It is the Roman Catholic Church and its intelligence and "diplomats" that are in fact the foreign entity within all other nations, infiltrating their governments and subverting and manipulating them unto her own designs. She is exactly aligned to exalt herself above and over every other nation and individual with huge, dominating, liberty destroying, and abusive government. As she has proved herself to do and practice throughout her entire history of spiritual fornication with the kings of this earth. Claiming to be the representative of Jesus Christ on earth, while hopping in bed with all of the deceptive religious and political powers that be of this world, in conjunction with "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience(Eph. 2:2)."  

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The Holy See has proven a very active force in attempting to prevent the escalation of violence in the Middle East. To achieve this aim, papal diplomats worked diligently to cultivate better relations with Iran in particular, opening a diplomatic mission in Tehran and consecrating a bishop to serve Catholics in Iran. The Holy See's efforts to engage with Iran have given it greater access to that country's senior leadership, which now maintains one of the largest diplomatic missions to the Vatican.

Yes, the papacies ever increasing religious and political relations with Islam and Islamic nations, most certainly does give them greater influence among the Muslims of this world. She also has been a great supporter of the open boarders in Europe, helping to facilitate the continued flood of Muslims into many European nations. Which the existing tax paying citizens of these nations must financially support, who also must deal with the cultural differences or sometimes clashes resulting from the same. This against the will of many of the citizens of these European nations, a scenario which should sound familiar to many Americans. This is not to mention the cost to many of these European citizens in the mandatory financial support they already pay to the Vatican every year with or without their consent. This is also something which should sound familiar to Americans today, who also support the papacy to the tune of billions of dollars every year from our government with or without our consent.

While this article praises the papacies increasing influence among Muslims and predominantly Muslim nations, or shall we say increased religious and political cooperation among the two, this writer feels a warning against the threat such could pose to many in this world would be more appropriate. Roman Catholicism and Islam both believe and practice church or religion above the state, not separate from it. They both have long histories of political intrigue, violence, war, and abusive dictatorial government or supportive relations with the same. Often the intrigue, violence, and war were in relation to each other or against each other. They both support big, intrusive, religio-polical government, and have a history of doing whatever it takes to make it so. Increased cooperation between these two is not to be praised, but rather feared by all and any save those among them, or willing to submit to them.

Only agents of Rome itself, those of the same elitist mindset as her who are also willing to submit to her, or the ignorant, would praise the papacies increasing religio-political relations with historically abusive forms of government or peoples again. Make no mistake about it, her increased relations and friendliness with Islamic, Communist, Socialist, and dictatorial governments of this world is an ill omen to all historically informed Bible believing Christians, not praise worthy. Her relations with the governments of this world in the past, resulted in using their power to persecute and kill a great many of the same, not to mention all others who would not submit to her religio-political vision of the world. This is not even to mention the fact that some of these forms of government have also been hostile to biblical Christianity among many others, in their past as separate from the papacies own cruel record concerning the same. Yes, this world is rapidly heading toward its final global form of government which will persecute Christ's own again as scripture has predicted, right before it ends altogether for doing so on a global scale.

The first destruction of this world by flood was due to universal apostasy. God later destroyed the tower of Babel, confused the languages, and dispersed the people in order to prevent such from occurring rapidly again. Today Babylon the Great works feverishly towards the unification of humanity in an apostate mishmash of all the religions, politics, "sciences", philosophies, and what have you's of this world. Biblical Christianity will not fit into this vision, or submit to the ungodly worship and actions such will eventually demand. The conflict between biblical Christianity and this world will reach its climax, and Christ will personally intervene again by putting an end to all earthly authority once and for all by the blessed hope, His second coming.

The following quotes are from the ENCYCLICAL LETTER, CARITAS IN VERITATE.


7. Another important consideration is the common good. To love someone is to desire that person's good and to take effective steps to secure it. Besides the good of the individual, there is a good that is linked to living in society: the common good. It is the good of "all of us", made up of individuals, families and intermediate groups who together constitute society[4]. It is a good that is sought not for its own sake, but for the people who belong to the social community and who can only really and effectively pursue their good within it. To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. To take a stand for the common good is on the one hand to be solicitous for, and on the other hand to avail oneself of, that complex of institutions that give structure to the life of society, juridically, civilly, politically and culturally, making it the pólis, or "city". The more we strive to secure a common good corresponding to the real needs of our neighbours, the more effectively we love them. Every Christian is called to practise this charity, in a manner corresponding to his vocation and according to the degree of influence he wields in the pólis. This is the institutional path — we might also call it the political path — of charity, no less excellent and effective than the kind of charity which encounters the neighbour directly, outside the institutional mediation of the pólis. When animated by charity, commitment to the common good has greater worth than a merely secular and political stand would have. Like all commitment to justice, it has a place within the testimony of divine charity that paves the way for eternity through temporal action. Man's earthly activity, when inspired and sustained by charity, contributes to the building of the universal city of God, which is the goal of the history of the human family. In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it cannot fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations[5], in such a way as to shape the earthly city in unity and peace, rendering it to some degree an anticipation and a prefiguration of the undivided city of God.

13. In addition to its important link with the entirety of the Church's social doctrine, Populorum Progressio is closely connected to the overall magisterium of Paul VI, especially his social magisterium. His was certainly a social teaching of great importance: he underlined the indispensable importance of the Gospel for building a society according to freedom and justice, in the ideal and historical perspective of a civilization animated by love. Paul VI clearly understood that the social question had become worldwide [25] and he grasped the interconnection between the impetus towards the unification of humanity and the Christian ideal of a single family of peoples in solidarity and fraternity. In the notion of development, understood in human and Christian terms, he identified the heart of the Christian social message, and he proposed Christian charity as the principal force at the service of development. Motivated by the wish to make Christ's love fully visible to contemporary men and women, Paul VI addressed important ethical questions robustly, without yielding to the cultural weaknesses of his time.

18. Besides requiring freedom, integral human development as a vocation also demands respect for its truth.[/b The vocation to progress drives us to "do more, know more and have more in order to be more"[41]. But herein lies the problem: what does it mean "to be more"? Paul VI answers the question by indicating the essential quality of "authentic" development: it must be "integral, that is, it has to promote the good of every man and of the whole man"[42]. Amid the various competing anthropological visions put forward in today's society, even more so than in Paul VI's time, the Christian vision has the particular characteristic of asserting and justifying the unconditional value of the human person and the meaning of his growth. The Christian vocation to development helps to promote the advancement of all men and of the whole man. As Paul VI wrote: "What we hold important is man, each man and each group of men, and we even include the whole of humanity"[43]. In promoting development, the Christian faith does not rely on privilege or positions of power, nor even on the merits of Christians (even though these existed and continue to exist alongside their natural limitations)[44], but only on Christ, to whom every authentic vocation to integral human development must be directed. The Gospel is fundamental for development, because in the Gospel, Christ, "in the very revelation of the mystery of the Father and of his love, fully reveals humanity to itself"[45]. Taught by her Lord, the Church examines the signs of the times and interprets them, offering the world "what she possesses as her characteristic attribute: a global vision of man and of the human race"[46]. Precisely because God gives a resounding "yes" to man[47], man cannot fail to open himself to the divine vocation to pursue his own development. The truth of development consists in its completeness: if it does not involve the whole man and every man, it is not true development. This is the central message of Populorum Progressio, valid for today and for all time. Integral human development on the natural plane, as a response to a vocation from God the Creator[48], demands self-fulfilment in a "transcendent humanism which gives [to man] his greatest possible perfection: this is the highest goal of personal development"[49]. The Christian vocation to this development therefore applies to both the natural plane and the supernatural plane; which is why, "when God is eclipsed, our ability to recognize the natural order, purpose and the 'good' begins to wane"[50].

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did not come to earth the first time to establish unity between God, and all of fallen humanities religions, politics, "sciences", philosophies, and what have you, in any way shape or form. He came to form the body of Christ, and unite the members of the same in calling all out of all of these false entities which exist in defiance of the God of heaven and earth. These entities defied our Lord Jesus, persecuted, and crucified Him for pointing out their folly and sin. There is no message from scripture, from our Lord, or from the gospel calling for the unification of humanity by way of compromise with and acceptance of all the deceptive powers and practices in this world. The above call to unity is the call of the evil one's apostle himself, unto destruction upon all who accept it.

Forsaking the truth or the sharing of it, for the sake of unity, can and will only lead to apostasy. The above call for the unification of humanity while allowing for continued beliefs and practices which are in defiance to the teachings of God's word, is just a spiritual rebuilding of the tower of Babel. There is nothing in scripture which supports this, but only that which condemns the same. This being the stated purpose of the papacy, from their own mouths, is sufficient reason to reject their non stop intrusions upon peoples and governments unto this desired unholy persuit.

Nevertheless, in this world of darkness where humanity prefers darkness to the light, God will allow all to decide for themselves. Which in and of itself reveals a major difference between the Prince of Peace and his followers, and the prince of the powers of the air and his followers. As is obvious, the latter are perfectly willing to force the teachings and practices of the evil one upon all. The government of this nation once built upon biblical principles of freedom and individual rights, speaking as a lamb which is a symbol Christ, is now devolving into a nation speaking of a common good defined by the papacy trumping all of the same, in speaking as the dragon. A common good which will eventually allow for anything and everything, save true biblical Christianity, commissioned by God to tell the truth to the world regardless of consequence.

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

The existing and ever growing clash between these two entities is unavoidable. Christ's own must continue to speak the truth and call all out of this world to prepare for the next before the judgments of God are unleashed ending in the complete destruction of it. The papacy and her minions on the other hand, will continue to preach salvation for the world through her own vision of a unified humanity. One capable of handling all problems or threats real or created, through a united humanity under her leadership and direction allowing for direct defiance of the God of scripture in rebellion against the same. All will and must choose between these two self proclaimed authorities, the powers of which will be the more clearly demonstrated as time continues. Choose you this day whom you will serve, the self existing one revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord, or the self proclaiming elitist Pope of Rome and his minions, revealed in the powers of force that be in and of this world. No choice, is a choice. So be it.

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Iran and Russia, among others, have acknowledged the Holy See's weight in international deliberations. In 2013, the Holy See persistently lobbied against military intervention in Syria in response to allegations that Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. Papal diplomats briefed over 70 foreign ambassadors on the pope's position. When the United States chose not to intervene militarily at the time, it provided evidence that the Holy See remained an influential force in international relations among the great powers. Iran "expressed admiration for the way the pope headed off airstrikes in Syria."

As the international threat environment has evolved, so too has the Holy See's approach to security. Given the large number of diplomatic missions accredited to the Holy See, Vatican City remains a center of foreign intelligence activity. Iran maintains a large diplomatic presence in the Vatican. A senior official in Vatican City once said to a journalist, "who knows what other duties they [Iranian diplomats] have," implying that Iranian intelligence is active in "the world's great listening post." Since the Holy See maintains close contact with countries of interest to Tehran, Vatican City is an attractive target for Iran's intelligence services.

Additionally, the Holy See is ever more concerned about foreign powers using electronic eavesdropping technology, especially during the election of a new pope. When a pope dies or resigns, the College of Cardinals gathers in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City to elect the new pope. Prior to their meeting, Italian secret services in conjunction with Vatican security officials thoroughly sweep the Sistine Chapel for electronic bugs. Additionally, they employ jamming equipment to prevent radio frequency signals from either entering or emanating from the area. Cardinals are prohibited from bringing cell phones or other electronic devices into the Sistine Chapel during the selection of a new pope.

The Holy See is also concerned about the physical security of its diplomatic missions and the integrity of its communications networks. A former nuncio said during a 2017 interview on diplomacy that papal embassies use modern and sophisticated methods of encryption when transmitting diplomatic cables to Rome. Because the Holy See is neutral and desires to be welcoming, it institutes minimal physical security measures at its overseas diplomatic facilities. In 2009, the residence of Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the nuncio to Burundi who took over after the assassination of Archbishop Courtney, was hit by National Liberation Forces mortars. While Gallagher survived, the incident demonstrated once again that the Holy See's diplomats are putting their lives on the line in dangerous locations around the world.

The above does not address whether or not Assad actually did use chemical weapons against his own people, only that the papacy was instrumental in preventing retribution for such an act. The rest of the above is of course just more malarkey about the Vatican being neutral, and or trustworthy. This while pretending that her obvious continued efforts to prevent any from spying upon what she is really doing, are only about the election of popes, more malarkey.

As has already been stated, the papacies history is riddled with one sided support of politics, kings, queens, and politicians. Many of whom were terribly abusive tyrants. Recent history reveals that the present pope was without question anti-Trump because he did not go along with the papacies social doctrines and teachings in some areas, or globalist agenda. While revealing that he is very pro-Biden, who is Roman Catholic and intends to fully support Roman Catholic social doctrine and teaching through legislation and Rome's globalist agenda. This article under examination is an article of lies, misinformation, and misdirection concerning the papacies history and present course of actions. Its directive no doubt originated in at the Vatican.

Conclusion

Intelligence studies of the Cold War tend to overlook the historical importance of the Holy See, despite the archival material available from the Soviet security services establishing that the Kremlin viewed the Catholic Church as a significant threat to Soviet authority. The persistent efforts of the KGB and its sister services to penetrate and undermine the Holy See proved to be futile. While the Cold War is over, the prominent role of the Catholic Church in international affairs has only expanded. The extensive footprint of papal diplomats around the world has solidified their place as valuable members of the international affairs community. The pope does not have a large military or vast economic resources. Regardless, the Holy See will remain a prime target for espionage due to its influence and possession of one of the most valuable commodities of the present time: accurate and timely information.

Yes, the extensive footprint of the papacy upon international affairs has and will only continue to expand as the end approaches, as scripture has predicted. The wine of Babylon must be provided and consumed by all the self appointed or interested kings or leaders of this earth. She must finish her deception of the nations, unto forced compliance with worshiping the final beast of biblical prophecy. This is not a good thing, save it will force the issues of choosing whom one serves, God or man upon all, and bring about the end of this world of sin and woe unto the new heaven and new earth where righteousness dwells. I will close the examination of this article with the word of God, concerning the papacy, her deeds, involvement with the lost of this world, and end.

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.

[Amo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDvAWbI4hc

learned something on this short video I hadn't known. As is obvious from my posts on this thread, I've always believed and spoken of the connection between the Vatican and the UN. I had no idea though, that the head of the UN was a Roman Catholic socialist. That is quite a connection. No wonder the Vatican and UN are so very on the same page, they are basically one and the same organizations manifesting themsleves as two.

[Rella]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDvAWbI4hc

learned something on this short video I hadn't known. As is obvious from my posts on this thread, I've always believed and spoken of the connection between the Vatican and the UN. I had no idea though, that the head of the UN was a Roman Catholic socialist. That is quite a connection. No wonder the Vatican and UN are so very on the same page, they are basically one and the same organizations manifesting themsleves as two.

Well, that is not surprising.... just worrisome.

No wonder DT had to be gone.

[Amo]

https://www.fulcrum7.com/blog/2021/4/16/changing-the-political-and-religious-colors-of-the-united-states

I was gong to post and address Tucker Carlson's right on rant about immigration, and add what he of course did not address, the Vaticans involvement and plans regrading the same. Any who have read the posts on these boards knows that I have been ranting about the same for many years now. However, my wife sent me a link to the above link which adequately addresses the same. The following quoted article is from it.

Changing the Political and Religious Colors of The United States

April 16, 2021 Dr. Alberto R. Treiyer

Recently, news commentator Tucker Carlson dared to unmask the immigration policy of the current U.S. government.  He said, literally:

"When you change who votes, you change who wins.  That fact has nothing inherently to do with race or nationality.  It's the nature of democracy." "Demographic change is the key to ... political ambitions.  In order to win and maintain power," the current government "plan to change the population of the country.  They're no longer trying to win you over with their program.  They're obviously not trying to improve your life.  They don't even really care about your vote anymore.  Their goal is to make you irrelevant."   

That policy is not new.  The Assyrian kings took most of the ten tribes of northern Israel captive, and brought peoples from other countries to take their place.  The story is found in 2 Kings 17.  In modern times, Adolf Hitler resorted to the same method when he tried to fill Poland with millions of German immigrants but went further still.  He wanted to empty Poland, Belarus and Ukraine of the millions of nationalist people who lived there, giving their houses and properties to German immigrants. 

When millions of Jews wanted to emigrate from the ethnic cleansing of Nazism in Germany, major countries, including the U.S., refused to give them a mass reception, fearing that in time they would lose their right to govern themselves under Christian principles.  That led the German Führer to the Final Solution, their total extermination. The Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC documents that fact.

A Religious Strategy

The immigration plan of the new U.S. government goes beyond the attempt to perpetuate the actual ruling party.  It seeks to attract millions of illegal immigrants to whom it promises even greater benefits than it gives its own citizens.  Tucker Carlson warned that such immigration policy seeks to change the political color of the states to perennially dominate the population.  But he didn't dare admit the reality that this is only a half-truth.  No one wants to expose the religious intent of a Catholic president who supports Pope Francis' agenda on climate change to gain control of the world. 

Joe Biden is also wanting to change America's image as a Protestant country.  The purpose is to bring about a change in the system of government.  He seeks not only a political dominance more akin with the Marxist left, but also with socialist Catholic morality to impose the supremacy of the papacy.

Behind the veil can be seen the same policy that the papacy exerted to awaken the jealousy of the rulers against Protestant growth in Europe.  Here we will mention two quotes from the Spirit of Prophecy about this policy of Rome.

"Rome was not slow to inflame their jealous fears. Said the pope to the regent of France in 1525: 'This mania [Protestantism] will not only confound and destroy religion, but all principalities, nobility, laws, orders, and ranks besides.' (G. de Felice, History of the Protestants of France, b. 1, ch. 2, par. 8. A few years later a papal nuncio warned the king: 'Sire, be not deceived. The Protestants will upset all civil as well as religious order ... The throne is in as much danger as the altar ... The introduction of a new religion must necessarily introduce a new government' (D'Aubigne, History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, b. 2, ch. 36;" GC 277).

Statistics

Although the polls vary according to the companies investigating the religious representation in America, the most recent ones show a greater deterioration of Protestantism than that of Catholicism, and a growth in atheism.  The easiest way to overcome Protestantism is by attracting millions of immigrants from Catholic countries to a Protestant country. With a change in demographics, political and religious colors are likewise changed.

"Twenty-five years ago, nearly nine in ten (87%) Catholics were white, non-Hispanic, compared to 55% today.  Fewer than four in ten (36%) Catholics under the age of 30 are white, non-Hispanic; 52% are Hispanic." 

Some Key Statements of the Spirit of Prophecy

Let us draw some key points from the statements of the Spirit of Prophecy concerning the role of the USA in the final crisis. 

"When ... 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" (5 T 451 (1885)).

"The people of the United States have been a favored people, but when they restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give countenance to popery, the measure of their guilt will be full, and 'national apostasy' will be registered in the books of heaven" (RH May 2, 1893).

"Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the care and protection of the state. This national apostasy will speedily be followed by national ruin. (RH June 15, 1897).

Methodology

The method that is being used to change the political and religious colors of the U.S. is that of promoting the "woke" culture.  What is the "woke" culture?  It promotes unrest regarding immigration policy, race and gender identity, promoting hatred by the poor against what they consider white supremacy.  Tucker Carlson warned that no one wants to talk about the true purpose of those who promote "woke" hatred.  No one can talk about the moral problems of gender identity changes because they are condemned as homophobic, etc.  In this way, new political and religious principles are imposed over all criticism and opposition, to rule the masses and destroy the true democracy and freedom of this country.

In a news interview with Ben Carson on April 9, the famous black doctor said the divine slogan is, "love your neighbor."  But he added that the wokeism slogan is, "cancel your neighbor."  He also said that the more the government expands, the more individual freedoms are curtailed, because God is discarded in favor of  the government.  It implements hatred against white supremacy that allegedly discriminates against blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and those who deny their biological gender identity.  But do those who raise that hate flag really love those people? You can't love by hating others.

Conclusion

Immigration can be good.  And most countries of the world know it.  In general, it seeks to attract the most capable and industrious people for the aggrandizement of the nation.  But is that what you are looking for today with illegal immigration, regardless of the risks involved?  There will be a lot of good, sincere and hard-working people among these immigrants.  Still, should we not watch to hinder evil people from coming, who will eventually lead this country to ruin?  Let us meditate on the following quotation that is based on the history of the Pilgrim Fathers, and their contribution to the formation of this country.

"As the tidings spread through the countries of Europe, of a land where every man might enjoy the fruit of his own labor and obey the convictions of his own conscience, thousands flocked to the shores of the New World. Colonies rapidly multiplied" (GC 296).

"Republicanism and Protestantism became the fundamental principles of the nation. These principles are the secret of its power and prosperity. The oppressed and downtrodden throughout Christendom have turned to this land with interest and hope. Millions have sought its shores, and the United States has risen to a place among the most powerful nations of the earth" (GC 441).

"But continually increasing numbers were attracted to the shores of America, actuated by motives widely different from those of the first Pilgrims. Though the primitive faith and purity exerted a widespread and molding power, yet its influence became less and less as the numbers increased of those who sought only worldly advantage" (GC 297).

[Amo]

http://adventmessenger.org/dr-fauci-calls-on-clergy-to-promote-covid-19-vaccines-during-a-vatican-conference/

Quoted article below from link above.

Dr. Fauci Calls on 'Clergy' to Promote Covid-19 Vaccines during a Vatican Conference

Dr. Anthony Fauci is the highest authority in the United States on the Covid-19 pandemic. He is the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to the US President. On May 6, 2021, Dr. Fauci was invited to speak at the Fifth International Vatican Conference sponsored in part by Rome. The aim of the conference was "put aside political, religious and ideological differences and focus on improving health care around the globe." [1]

During the Vatican Conference, Dr. Fauci explained that "clergy" play a key role in convincing people, who are reluctant about vaccinations, to get the Covid-19 vaccine. In the video above, Dr. Fauci was asked how to combat vaccine doubts. His response was as follows:

"We combat vaccine hesitancy by making sure that the message of getting the vaccine comes from a trusted messenger. You got to match the message with the messenger. And when you're trying to get to people who are not necessarily connected with all the things that you and I are connected with, maybe getting a clergy, a sports figure or an entertainment figure, someone they trust to convince them to do what's right for themselves and their families and their community..."

The Vatican, with its puppet, Dr. Fauci, wants to use pastors and churches to convince us to take the Covid-19 vaccine to protect ourselves, our families and communities. The message is: "If you don't get vaccinated, you can get the disease and infect someone and kill others." The problem with their message is that even if you get vaccinated, you can still get Covid-19 and still infect other people. So according to Rome and their puppets, even if you get the Covid-19 vaccine, you still have to continue wearing masks, follow social distancing and stay at home because the vaccines don't work anyway.

The truth is that the chances of dying from Covid-19 is around 0.2% (point two percent). This is based on 588,783 Covid-19 deaths in the United States [2] compared to our population of 328,000,000. So it's 0.2%, that is, if the Covid-19 death numbers are even accurate. There is no information about how many of the 588,783 deaths were from Covid-19 or if they had other underlying medical conditions. According to the numbers, China has only had 4,636 Covid-19 deaths with a population of 1.4 billion. [2] So even if the number of Covid-19 deaths is accurate, Covid-19 has a 99% recovery rate, unless you are 90 years old and have other underlying conditions, then your recovery rate drops to around 90%. [3]

-The Vatican and Dr. Fauci are using a scare tactic trying to manipulate people into putting something into their bodies that was created by globalists obsessed with abortion, sterilization and depopulation.
-They want us to put something into our bodies that will not stop the transmission or infection of Covid-19.
-They want us to put something into our bodies that has already killed people.
-They want us to take something that has caused serious side effects in others.
-The same globalists who have been censoring people and other medical professionals who question the current vaccine data are the same ones asking us to put their vaccines in our bodies.
-They want us to get vaccinated against a virus that has already mutated into different variants and continues to mutate. How can current vaccines keep up with all the mutations?
-Dr. Fauci and his business partners want us to take vaccines for which he and his partners own the patents, patents for which government funding has been approved.
-They want us to take experimental vaccinations from companies that are immune from liability.
-And they are using our churches and pastors to do their bidding, trying to convince us to take their vaccines that have not had long-term safety tests.

Unfortunately, many pastors and religious leaders have been very willing to comply. Many of our own churches are doing Rome's bidding. Clergy are supposed to speak of God and preach His gospel – not encourage people to receive vaccines that have cell-lines originating from abortions. We are following in the footsteps of ancient Israel who adopted the cult of death and sacrificed their babies to the gods of the Canaanites. This makes the churches complicit in the culture of death. We live in a generation that loves death. We applaud it and celebrate it and somehow we just can't get enough of it.

"They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land." Jeremiah 5:28-30.

[Amo]

http://adventmessenger.org/the-popes-encyclical-will-be-promoted-during-the-high-level-summit-between-the-united-states-and-the-vatican/

Quoted article below from link above.

The Pope's Encyclical will be Promoted during the High-Level Summit between the United States and the Vatican

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, US Climate Envoy John Kerry, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the finance ministries of the United States, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Mexico and Argentina will meet on Friday, May 14, 2021 to participate in an international conference entitled, 'Dreaming of a Better Restart.' [1]

The conference aims "to build on recent intergovernmental efforts to combat inequality, climate change, and hunger following the COVID crisis." The inspiration for this conference comes from Pope Francis' encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" and will combine "financial solidarity" with an "integral ecology." [1] They will talk about the importance of the United States and the Vatican partnering to build a society that can truly be sustainable and inclusive.

However, what is extremely disturbing is seeing the two great powers of Bible prophecy, the United States and the Vatican, come together to promote Pope Francis' encyclicals. This is an urgent call being made to make plans, lay the groundwork and get things moving. According to Rome, all the world's problems will be solved as soon as the Pope's encyclicals become law.

Brothers and sisters, the writing is on the wall. The Pope's encyclicals are today being agitated and will soon become the guiding policies that globalists will turn to in order to save our planet. We are witnessing the Vatican and the United States (Revelation 13) coming together to promote "Fratelli Tutti" and climate change (Laudato Si') to the world. They are also calling on globalists, world bankers and the various churches to join them.

"The Sunday movement is now making its way in darkness. The leaders are concealing the true issue, and many who unite in the movement do not themselves see whither the undercurrent is tending" (The Review and Herald Extra, December 11, 1888).

Every Seventh-day Adventist should speak out against any measure that would introduce stricter Sunday observance, make Sunday the day of the earth or call for a climate Sunday. In the effort to create climate policies, there is an attempt to link climate change with Sunday rest. This is not just a coincidence; this is by design.

"I do hope that the trumpet will give a certain sound in regard to this Sunday-law movement. I think that it would be best if in our papers the subject of the perpetuity of the law of God were made a specialty.... We should now be doing our very best to defeat this Sunday law." (Last Day Events, p. 128).

Babylon is busy doing her work. Her members in position of leadership the world over are bringing her dogmas to every nation and all the kings of the earth. As well as bringing them to Babylon themselves to be guided directly by the man of sin. So much for separation of church and state under predominantly Catholic rule. The lamb like beast continues its transformation into the beast which speaks like a dragon. The image to the first beast which received its power, and seat, and great authority from the dragon. So be it. Blow the trumpet servants of the most high, sound the alarm, gather all together in the valley of decision.

The First Beast

Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

The Second Beast

Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The Valley of Decision

Joe 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

[Amo]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meeting-to-showcase-pope-francis-close-relations-with-iran-1453753642

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Meeting to Showcase Pope Francis' Close Relations With Iran

Pontiff to host Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, as relationship with Tehran is viewed as possible help to peace efforts for Syria and Iraq.

ROME—A meeting on Tuesday between Pope Francis and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will showcase a long-standing relationship between the Vatican and Iran that has grown closer under the current pontificate and could help support efforts for peace in Syria and Iraq.

Pope Francis and Mr. Rouhani will meet during the second day of the Iranian president's four-day visit to Italy and France, his first overseas trip since the loosening of sanctions earlier this month, following last year's Iranian nuclear deal with six world powers. The two men are likely to discuss efforts for peace in Syria and Iraq.

Having extolled the role of Iran in finding a solution to the conflict in Middle East, the Vatican is apt to soft-pedal criticism of human rights issues in Iran during Tuesday's meeting.

Pope Francis can help promote the "thaw in diplomatic relations between Iran and other countries" in a way similar to his support for a rapprochement between Cuba and the U.S., Father Bernardo Cervellera, editor of the Rome-based Asia News, said. "If we want peace in the Middle East, Iran and Iranian Islam have a vital role to play."

The meeting will be the first between a pope and an Iranian head of state since 1999, when President Mohammad Khatami visited St. John Paul II. Yet diplomatic relations between the two states, which predate the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, have been consistently cordial and have grown more so in the current pontificate.

The close relations are based on religious affinities as well as geopolitical interests. Tehran welcomed Pope Francis' campaign against U.S. plans to launch airstrikes against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, for whom Iran is the primary military and financial backer. The papal campaign culminated in a September 2013 prayer vigil for peace which drew some 100,000 to St. Peter's Square.

In early 2014, Tehran's ambassador to the Holy See praised Pope Francis as a "virtuous figure" whom Iran expected to "resist oppressors and the powerful with divine support."

The Vatican has repeatedly called for a negotiated settlement to Syria's nearly five-year-old civil war and supported Iran's participation in that process, over the objections of Arab and Western states that seek Mr. Assad's ouster.

Last year, the Holy See's representative to the United Nations institutions in Geneva called Iran an "integral part of the dialogue and negotiation" for peace in the Middle East and particularly for a "common, coordinated and reasonable response" to Islamic State in Syria. In October, Iran was invited for the first time to join multilateral talks to end the Syria crisis.

Pope Francis also has singled out Iran's landmark nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers for praise, telling the U.N. General Assembly in September that the agreement was "proof of the potential of political good will and of law" and an important step toward elimination of all nuclear weapons.

The Vatican's close relationship with Iran is also grounded in religion. For the Holy See, Iran's religious leadership is a privileged partner in its dialogue with the Muslim world. That is in part because the Shia branch of Islam that predominates in Iran resembles Catholicism in certain respects, including a formal hierarchy.

Iranian efforts at dialogue with Catholicism have included a Farsi translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Iranian Muslim scholars, a 12-year project presented at the Vatican in early 2015.

The U.N. estimates there are some 300,000 Christians in Iran, but the country's statistical authorities put the number at fewer than 120,000. Most of Iran's Christians are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Roman Catholics are thought to be a small minority, numbering around 20,000.

Christians are a recognized minority in Iran and, as such, are guaranteed freedom of worship and exemptions from certain prohibitions that apply to Muslims. They are allowed to produce and import wine and other alcoholic beverages and to consume non-halal food including pork. Five seats in Iran's parliament are reserved for minorities, with three occupied by Christians.

However, Christians live under significant limitations. Iran forbids conversion from Islam as well as attempts by members of other religions to convert Muslims. The U.S. State Department said in 2014 that Iran continued to persecute religious minorities, designating it a "country of particular concern." Earlier this month, a panel of U.N. human rights experts decried the continuing detention of Christians.

A desire to support Mr. Rouhani's moderate forces within Iran could dissuade Pope Francis from raising human rights dear to the pope. He has spoken strongly in favor of religious freedom for Christians and other minorities in Muslim-majority countries. And in 2014, in his first speech in a Muslim country, the pope told Jordan's King Abdullah II that religious freedom necessarily includes the "freedom to choose the religion which one judges to be true and to manifest one's beliefs in public."

Pope Francis has also followed his predecessors in speaking out against the death penalty, which is practiced widely in Iran.

From what I understand, Iran is the main financial backer of Hamas, who has now launched over 2000 missiles into Israel. Apparently their close relations with the Vatican and Pope Francis could not prevent this. I wonder how those relations are now? This article is a little dated, maybe things have changed since then. Any word from the Pope about what is happening in Israel, concerning Iran's financial backing of Hamas? I guess I will have to do a search.

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https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2021-05/pope-francis-meets-with-us-envoy-for-climate-john-kerry.html

Roman Catholic John Kerry reveals who the real climate Czar is in the above video'd interview from Vatican News. Since the days of JFK when Catholics were few in number within our government, and he had to assure people that he would not look to the Pope of Rome for guidance, to the present when our Catholic leaders and others go directly to Rome for guidance. This is the change brought about in our country by the ever increasing numbers of Catholics brought here by one massive immigration, legal or not, after another throughout our history. Over time as their numbers and power have increased, they increasingly and unabashedly turned more and more toward Rome and the Pope to rule our nation from abroad, just as they planned and preached they would.

Once speaker of the house Catholic John Boehner, revealed that getting the Pope of Rome to speak before Congress and the entire Federal government was a life long goal for him. He certainly did not run for office on this fact which few to none no doubt knew prior to his success. All three branches of our Federal government are now Catholic dominated. Our President and no doubt much of his cabinet are as well, he has publicly expressed his intention to work closely with the Pope of Rome. Kerry is now publicly receiving his marching orders concerning climate change from the largest, wealthiest, globalist, communist loving, religio-politcal organization on earth, the papacy. Separation of church and state is dead. The intent of our founding Fathers to prevent a religion from once again ruling over the populace has been overthrown from within, through Catholic politicians and others who quite obviously lied when they took their oaths to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. So be it as God's word has predicted. Babylon must make the world partake of her wine unto intoxicated delusion, before our Lord returns to execute judgment upon all.

The Roman Church, with all its ramifications throughout the world, forms one vast organization, under the control, and designed to serve the interests, of the papal see. Its millions of communicants, in every country on the globe, are instructed to hold themselves as bound in allegiance to the pope. Whatever their nationality or their government, they are to regard the authority of the church as above all other. Though they may take the oath pledging their loyalty to the State, yet back of this lies the vow of obedience to Rome, absolving them from every pledge inimical to her interests. (The Great Controversy (1888 ed.) Ellen G. White)

John Kerry said that the Pope was above all politics in the video linked above.

Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

The gospel has been and continues to be given to the entire world, and people have been being called back to worship the God of creation by remembering His sabbath set aside by Him for that purpose.

Babylon is fallen and is making all nations drink the wine of her fornication, which is her illicit relations with the kings and politicians of this earth.

All that is left now is the establishment and enforcement of the worship and mark of the beast. This cannot be far off.

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https://dailypost.ng/2020/04/08/covid-19-pope-francis-reveals-reason-for-coronavirus-pandemic/

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

COVID-19: Pope Francis reveals reason for Coronavirus pandemic

Pope Francis has said the COVID-19 pandemic is nature's response to humans ignoring the current ecological crises.

The Pope made this statement at a time where there are debates on social media by pastors over relationship between COVID-19 pandemic, 5G network and the Antichrist.

The Senior pastor of Believers Loveworld, Chris Oyakhilome, in a viral video had linked the Coronavirus and the 5G network to Antichrist.

The Pontiff in an email interview published Wednesday in The Tablet and Commonwealth magazines, said the outbreak is an opportunity for humans to slow down the rate of production and consumption and learn to understand the natural world.

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

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

The pandemic on Sunday made the Pope celebrate Palm Sunday mass in an empty church which was normally packed with tourists.

The 83-year-old Pope, who has a damaged lung from an infection in his 20s, has tested negative for the novel coronavirus.

Pope Francis added that he is praying even more from his residence in this time.

Of course, if it turns out that the outbreak was a leaked virus from a lab where it was created as many suspect, then it certainly was not a reaction or revenge from nature. Accepting of course, natures reaction to a lab created virus released into it.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/20/europe/pope-francis-coronavirus-individualism-intl/index.html

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Pope Francis warns society against reverting to individualism after the pandemic

Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has warned the world against returning to the "illusion of individualism" after the coronavirus pandemic ends.

Francis made a statement from the Vatican on Sunday, praising healthcare workers in Italy's Lombardy region who stood by their patients during the pandemic's "troubled months."

Lombardy was Italy's worst-affected region at the height of the pandemic.

Francis later warned people to "be careful," and not to allow individualism to again become "the guiding principle of society."

Francis used the health care workers as an example to make his point, saying their professionalism was "one of the pillars of [Italy]." The Pope described the medical workers as "angels."

Francis also thanked priests for showing "courage and love to the people."

In April, he said the pandemic could be one of "nature's responses" to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis.

The pandemic radically changed the way the Vatican operates, forcing the Pope to celebrating Palm Sunday mass in an empty church. After months of lockdown, worshippers returned to St. Peter's Square in Vatican City at the end of May.

Sounds like the pope considered the pandemic, or should I say plandemic, served the purpose of destroying the concept of individualism. We are not to go back to such thinking after this plandemic. So was nature and or God on his side, bringing the pandemic upon the world in order to destroy the evils of individualism, and we are now to understand that we should not go back to the same? Or was the whole pandemic planned and the virus released in a Communist country in cahoots with other elitist religious and political leaders who all stand against individualism? That is to say, people who would assert their individual rights to disagree with and not follow the leading of said Communists, or elitist religious and political leaders.

Time will tell. It will all come out in the laundry, when God will judge and expose all evil. In any case, the pope wishes us all to know, that one of the purposes of the pandemic was to cure the blight of individualism apparently.

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In any case, the pope wishes us all to know, that one of the purposes of the pandemic was to cure the blight of individualism apparently.

Sorry Frankie.

I will not play along.

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Many will of course not follow down this path, which no true bible believing Christian can. If they are many enough, the world will avoid this path for a while longer. If they are not, then the final battle for the hearts and souls of humanity will take place, which will end by the personal appearance of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Joe 3:9  Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. 14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. 17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. 19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

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https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/05/25/pope-francis-earth-save-creation-laudato-si-240739

Pope Francis once again calling all to action to save Mother Earth, another new but old god which we must sacrifice too. Everything must be changed according to his plan laid out in Laudato Si', the inspiration for AOC's Green Deal, and now President Biden's Climate Change action team headed up by Kerry. Biden, AOC, and Kerry are all Catholics, responding to and submitting to their Pope of Rome. As are now, a majority of the politicians running all three branches of our federal government. Yet, most people still wonder what is happening to our country, and who is responsible for such drastic change that has been taking place over the last few decades especially. Go figure.

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Pope Francis asks every Catholic to join a new grassroots movement to

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To help lead the world's Catholics along a journey of intensified action in caring for creation, Pope Francis asked everyone to join a new global grassroots movement to create a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world.

The new initiative, the Laudato Si' Action Platform, is "a seven-year journey that will see our communities committed in different ways to becoming totally sustainable, in the spirit of integral ecology," the pope said in a video message released May 25.

"We need a new ecological approach that can transform our way of dwelling in the world, our lifestyles, our relationship with the resources of the Earth and, in general, our way of looking at humanity and of living life," he said.

This can only come about by everyone working together in a coordinated effort, he said. "Only in this way will we be able to create the future we want: a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world."

The pope's message was released on the last day of Laudato Si' Week -- the "crowning event" of a special Laudato Si' Anniversary Year, which closed May 24.

But the end of anniversary celebrations of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," ushered in a new wave of initiatives including a new website in nine languages at laudatosi.va and an action platform at laudatosiplattform.org as part of a "road map" of action for the next decade.

The platform is meant to help those who want to increase their commitment to bringing "Laudato Si'" to life by promising a set of actions over a period of seven years.

Integral ecology requires every member of the wider church to contribute their skills and work together on common goals, which is why the platform specifically invites: families; parishes and dioceses; schools and universities; hospitals and health care centers; workers, businesses and farms; organizations, groups and movements; and religious orders. People can register May 25-Oct. 4 to assess what they are doing now and to see how they can further contribute to the seven Laudato Si' goals.

Those goals are: responding to the cry of the Earth and environmental degradation; responding to the cry of the poor and vulnerable; creating an ecological-sustainable economy; adopting simple lifestyles; supporting ecological education; promoting ecological spirituality; and building community awareness, participation and action.

Choosing the biblical time frame of seven years "enables us to work slowly but surely without being obsessed with immediate results," said Salesian Father Joshtrom Kureethadam, coordinator of the "ecology and creation" desk at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

"We envisage the first year to be dedicated to the three fundamental tasks of community building, resource sharing and drawing up concrete action plans for each of the Laudato Si' goals," followed by five years of solid concrete action and a final year as a sabbatical year "to praise and thank God," he said May 25 at a Vatican news conference, unveiling the new projects.

The strategy, he said, is to create a snowball effect by enrolling increasingly larger numbers of groups each year "to create the critical mass needed" for achieving real change in the world.

"The good news is that the critical mass is not a very big number. Sociologists tell us that if you reach 3.5% of a group" or community, "we have the critical mass. That's what Mahatma Gandhi did, that's what Nelson Mandela did," Father Kureethadam said.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, the dicastery's prefect, said at the news conference that "we must look at the world we are leaving to our children, to future generations."

"We no longer have time to wait or postpone action," he said, underlining the need to listen to and partner with science, young people and the poor.

"Pope Francis has invited all of us to join forces, to dream and prepare the future" by creating economic models for a world built on social equity and ecological sustainability, the cardinal wrote in his prepared remarks.

"It is time to embrace new opportunities. There is no sustainability without fairness, without justice and without involving everyone," he wrote.

"There is hope," the pope said in his video message.

"We can all collaborate, each one with his own culture and experience, each one with her own initiatives and capacities, so that our mother Earth may be restored to her original beauty and creation may once again shine according to God's plan," the pope said.

No big deal, everything must change, and all must submit to the papacies vision for humanity in restoring earth to its original state of creation according to the Pope's vision of God's plan. Which plan apparently has nothing to do with what scripture has determined. Talk about a God complex, which many Pope's have demonstrated throughout history, this one is going to restore the world to its original state as God has stated He would. This by the subjugation of humanity to his God complex visions for us. All we have to do is change everything according to his plan. Just give up our liberties to ever increasing government control of everything, our existing economies and government to those of a far more Communistic style, our life styles, our properties, our modes of transportation, our personal economic freedom to more equity based Communistic universal incomes, and so on and so on. That's all. Now put up and shut up you stinking peasants, or you are a selfish evil imp defying God's chosen leader of the governments and economies of this world. That is all. No big deal.

On the other hand, another source claiming to be Word of God and rule, paints another picture for this world.

1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

2Pe 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Isa 66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. 17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. 18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. 19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. 20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD. 21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD. 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

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

Who are the scientists the Pope wants to join hands with in addressing and restoring our world according to his own plan, but those who reject the creation account of scripture, the flood account as well as Peter addressed, and no doubt many of whom also reject the scriptures testimony of the true condition and fate of this present world. Make no mistake about it, all of humanity is being pushed to the point of choosing.

Jos 24:15  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joe 3:9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

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https://www.ncregister.com/news/under-president-biden-vatican-us-relations-are-poised-to-shift-dramatically

Quoted article below from link above. Emphasis is mine.

Under President Biden, Vatican-US Relations Are Poised to Shift Dramatically

NEWS ANALYSIS: The new US administration is aligned with Pope Francis' Vatican priorities in areas like immigration and environmental policy, but at odds with foundational Church teachings on abortion and gender ideology.

VATICAN CITY — When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated today to become only the second Catholic to hold the highest office in the land, a new set of challenges will face the Holy See in its relations with the United States, ones likely to be greater and more complex than those of the past four years.

On the surface, relations seem to be expected to run more smoothly: Pope Francis and senior Vatican officials had implicitly favored a Biden victory in November over President Donald Trump with whom there were clear differences.

Francis was one of the first leaders to congratulate the new president by phone, before Trump had conceded, and in December the Holy Father adopted a popular slogan also used by the Biden campaign to "build back better" — read as a further endorsement of the result.

Some commentators accuse the political left of being chiefly responsible for fomenting current divisions, yet Vatican officials close to the Pope principally see Biden as a unifier, someone who will "build bridges" in contrast to how they saw his predecessor.

In an interview published soon after the election, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, a close aide to Pope Francis and strong critic of the U.S. conservative-religious right, said he believed Biden has the desire to "hold together" a "strongly polarized" U.S. society and that the diversity of his party will help to achieve "unity and reconciliation."

Biden has invited outgoing Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, among others, to a church service on Wednesday just before the inauguration, although how much these gestures are precursors to concrete efforts to reach across the political aisle remains to be seen. 

Beyond the Vatican's generally favorable perception of Biden, he is a proponent of a number of social policies that this pontificate also supports, the most significant being combating climate change, multilateralism, immigration reform, opposition to capital punishment, welfare for the poor, and a softer approach to China.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Development, told the Register Jan. 20 that he has found Biden "outstanding" on these issues, and believes he was possibly "inspired by the Church's social thought." 

Areas of Alignment

A number of these aligning positions, including a clear disdain for Trump's populist politics, were plainly expressed in Pope Francis' social encyclical Fratelli Tutti ("Brothers All"), published just a month before the Nov. 3 election and to which Biden favorably referred during his campaign.

One of the clearest positions concerns migrant policy. The administration reportedly plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on the first day of office that would propose an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants — a policy closely aligning with the position of Pope Francis, who has often argued for looser immigration policies, including the regularizing of undocumented migrants as well as his frequent castigation of President Trump's border wall. The Pope also called in Fratelli Tutti for "full citizenship" of migrants.

Another policy the Pope and senior Vatican officials applaud is Biden's environmental agenda (he has appointed a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to be director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), and in particular that he pledged on Day One of his administration to rejoin the 2015 Paris climate accords (Father Spadaro called the pledge "important" as it would be "in line" with the Pope's 2015 environmental encyclical, Laudato Si).In a further nod to multilateralism that the Vatican supports, he will have the U.S. rejoin the World Health Organization, which Trump said the U.S. would leave last July.

The decisions to leave both were part of Trump's aggressive approach to China, one which Biden opposed, preferring that the communist country be cajoled to "play by the rules" rather than having sanctions placed upon it. Again, such a line is congruent with the Vatican's accommodating approach to the People's Republic, an approach that, despite China's persecution of Christians and its much-criticized human rights record, prefers controversially to engage the nation rather than isolate it. In Biden, the Holy See sees a more willing partner than Trump to support its agreements with Beijing, although new Secretary of State Antony Blinken has recently expressed a willingness to maintain Trump's approach to trade and human rights in China.

Biden opposes the death penalty but only since June 2019, months after Pope Francis amended the catechism to declare capital punishment "inadmissible." In 1994, then-Sen. Biden had sponsored a bill to expand the death penalty to cover 60 crimes. Now his position configures closely with that of Pope Francis, who said in Fratelli Tutti "there can be no stepping back" from opposition to the death penalty and the wish to abolish it.

Vatican officials are expected to also welcome the appointments of some perceived "moderates" in the administration, such as Jake Sullivan, a Catholic who will become national security adviser, and Secretary of State Blinken, who is Jewish and married to Evan Ryan, an Irish American Catholic, whom Biden has chosen to serve as White House cabinet secretary. 

Areas of Disagreement

But a number of areas are expected to pose significant challenges to Holy See-U.S. relations, particularly regarding life issues.

From defunding Planned Parenthood and expanding the Mexico City Policy to appointing pro-life justices on the Supreme Court and becoming the first sitting president to take part in the March for Life, Trump was regarded by many as the most pro-life president in U.S. history.

By contrast, President-elect Biden, whose campaign was heavily backed by abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood, is viewed as the polar opposite and is expected to rollback several of the Trump administration's policies in this area.

In 2019, Biden suddenly reversed his support for the Hyde Amendment that bans federal funding for most abortion. He is also an unapologetic proponent of LGBT rights (in 2016 as vice president he officiated a "wedding" for a same-sex couple who had worked as longtime White House staffers) and a supporter of gender ideology. On Tuesday it was announced he had tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman to be his assistant secretary of health.

"Despite the common ground between the Holy See and the Biden administration on issues like immigration, climate change, and relations with China, I am not hopeful about relations," said Father John Wauck , a Rome-based priest who once wrote speeches for Democratic and Republican politicians.

Recalling how USCCB president Archbishop Jose Gomez noted last November that Biden's election placed the bishops' in a very complicated position, Father Wauck told the Register that he believed "the same could be said for the Holy See."

He highlighted in particular the Pope's public opposition to abortion, citing a recent interview in which he compared abortionists to hired assassins.

"Now the president of the United States will be a baptized Catholic who not only works to ensure that the work of those assassins — the brutal killing of the most defenseless members of the human family — is legal, but also wants to force all Americans to help pay for those killings, both at home and abroad, with their taxes," Father Wauck said.

Father Wauck also noted that Francis, who has described "gay marriage" as a ploy of the devil to destroy God's plan for the family, will now have to deal with the new U.S. Catholic president "who not only works in favor of that diabolical ploy, but, as vice president, actually performed a 'marriage' of two men."

He added that Biden potentially also threatens religious freedom, pledging, for example, to fight hard to roll back conscience protections for the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers who object to providing contraceptives.

Church leaders in Africa have also expressed concern about the appointment of Samantha Power, an ardent supporter of "LGBT" rights, as the new head of USAID, and believe it will lead to a cultural, ideological and Christian onslaught on the continent.

"On issues such as these, the Biden administration will aggressively promote the world-wide 'ideological colonization' that Pope Francis has frequently criticized, and — in the international forum — that will inevitably put a strain on relations," Father Wauck said.

Biden's Catholicism

But inside sources believe Biden's Catholicism may temper these policies. The senator's faith has been formed through suffering: the deaths of his wife and two of his children, his stuttering disability, and a wayward son.

His political views on key non-negotiable issues clearly depart from the magisterium, and he separates his faith, which is evidently very personal to him, from his politics. The Church teaches that a politician who publicly supports legal protection for abortion and receives Holy Communion places his and other souls in danger, but his supporters insist Biden is unmistakably devout, reputedly attending daily Mass since he lost his first wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972, and wearing a wrist rosary that he prays regularly.

He is particularly close to the Society of Jesus: Jesuit Father Leo O'Donovan, a former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at the inauguration (Biden wrote the foreword to Father O'Donovan's 2018 book, Blessed Are the Refugees: Beatitudes of Immigrant Children) and prominent Jesuits were also publicly supportive of his campaign.

This close alliance, together with his eventual choice to be his ambassador to the Holy See, is likely to influence his dealings with the Church's first Jesuit pontiff and a Holy See where Jesuits take leading roles behind the scenes.

Cardinal Turkson acknowledged the concern over Biden's pro-abortion views, but said he could see Biden, on account of his Catholicism, "not wanting to engage" in pro-abortion politics and believes the Church "can work with him to probably find a middle way." That means the Church "evangelizing the Democratic position," he said, while at the same "recognizing what a lot of people are calling for."

He added that Biden's positions on abortion and other policies contrary to Church teaching are rooted in "not having done our work as a Church." This has allowed "certain tendencies to become main features of our societies" and enabled a leader to emerge who represents them.

He said, "This is the challenge we see happening."

Ah yes, a Catholic President of the USA who is "particularly close to the Society of Jesus(Jesuits)" and therefore their present Pope as well. Who themselves favored and supported his election above Trump's, despite being pro abortion and LBGTQRSV and whatever else ends up being added to it. No conspiracy here, move along. The Pope and his minions are quite obviously alright with the continued sacrifice of countless unborn, to further their globalist political aims of world domination being implemented through their climate change, immigration, and Communism favoring agenda's. Now these United States are one of their best allies in accomplishing the same through their puppet leader Biden, backed up by a majority of Catholics in all three branches of our government. Yes, the beast that was like a lamb is ever increasingly speaking as a dragon, under the ever increasing influence of the dragons church or woman who rides his beasts, BABYLON THE GREAT.

Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

http://aloha.net/~mikesch/666.htm

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http://www.laloyolan.com/social_justice/bidens-america-a-catholic-leader-for-a-new-age/article_819dfff8-5ea5-586a-ba5d-e8ce75c61fa7.html

quoted article below from link above, emphasis is mine.

Biden's America: a Catholic leader for a new age

The church bells of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle rang in the morning of Joe Biden's inauguration. Biden and his family prayed in the space once filled with grief for the funeral of John F. Kennedy, and where, just five years ago, Francis, the first Jesuit Pope, spoke words of justice and faith. It stands to reason that Biden, a proud Catholic and a pursuer of justice and education, would value Jesuit ideology. He has made this abundantly clear as he sprinkled members of the Society of Jesus throughout his inaugural events, starting with morning mass, followed by a Jesuit-led invocation.

Biden has even celebrated his first Sunday mass as president at a Jesuit parish in Georgetown. Joe Biden is not our nation's first Catholic president, and the legacy of Jesuit involvement with politics spans back all the way to the very first inauguration, which was presided over by Father John Carroll, S.J. With the intersection of faith and politics so commonly present in our nation's history, one might ask why the election of Joe Biden is revolutionary for Catholics at all, and in turn, why the election of a Catholic is so revolutionary for our country.

Joe Biden's inauguration was a glimpse into what progressive Catholic leadership can bring to our country. Biden has the task of healing our nation in the midst of a pandemic, a pressing need for racial and economic justice and a ferocious call to unify a nation divided. What our nation is in desperate need of, and has lacked for the last four years, is a balance of compassion, education and self-effacement. Enter the country's second Catholic president.

As a progressive cradle Catholic myself, I believe that pro-social ideals are stitched in our upbringing. From anti-capitalist parables at Sunday school to delayed gratification shown through prayer before a meal, we Catholics strive to know the meaning of justice. Or rather, we should. After seeing a few startling statistics showing that 50% of Catholics supported former President Trump and seeing the ever-paradoxical Trump bumper sticker plastered beside a Jesus fish, I wondered just how Biden's faith will play a role in how Americans view him. I turned to the experts on the matter — the Jesuits themselves: Father Jim McDermott, S.J., and Father Kevin O'Brien, S.J.

McDermott is a screenwriter, correspondent for America Magazine and LMU resident. O'Brien, the president of Santa Clara University, presided over President Biden's pre-inaugural mass and attended the inauguration. Both have absolutely killer Twitter feeds. 

What are the general implications of having a Catholic hold the highest political office in the country? Pope Francis has argued that it is the job of a good Catholic to meddle in politics. One can't meddle much more than being the president, so what parts of the gig aligns with the teachings of the Church? "Catholic social teaching has long held that Catholics have an obligation to be involved in civic life in order to serve the common good and care for the most vulnerable," said O'Brien.

Ultimately, the teaching of Jesus and the job of Catholics is to protect and care for the most vulnerable. In the dichotomy of American politics, the Democratic party is the option that more adamantly aligns with the well-being of the historically marginalized. What is it about a Democratic Catholic that will prove so crucial to this chapter of American history?

The Catholic Social Teachings instill within us necessary respect for all of God's creations. "[Biden] treats people with dignity and respect, and is seeking the common ground where good can be accomplished," said O'Brien.

While this good is lovely in theory, the action behind it, propelled by Vatican II teachings, is what gives us faith-fueled progressive politics.

"The theme of service is emblematic of Biden's entire career," said McDermott. And truly, more so than many faith leaders, it is Biden that has put his faith into action, as only a 70-year-old Irish Catholic from the Midwest can: by riding the Amtrak to work everyday for 30 years, signing dozens of executive orders protecting historically marginalized people, holding a vigil for COVID-19 victims the night before his inauguration. "It comes from a belief system that life is first about service to others, not oneself. And it clearly comes from his faith, as does his idea that we think in terms of community." McDermott reiterated the words of Saint Augustine that Biden spoke in his inaugural address: "A multitude is defined by the common objects of their love."

God made us to think freely, and Jesus asked us to serve one another. Jesus, who was born a homeless immigrant, and was killed by an oppressive government. Jesus, who in our country would have been interned at the border, or in need of a stimulus check. Our country is in need of healing driven by faith and education, something Joe Biden can provide.

 Joe Biden is a man of Catholic faith. That faith has driven him to ride the humble Amtrak, to invest in climate change and to divest from private prisons. In just a week, he has committed himself humbly to a presidency driven by the teachings of Jesus.

As a Catholic, an admirer of faith that does justice and as an American, I am honored to watch our country be guided through uncertainty with an innate care for all people.  Biden will guide us to seek where good can be accomplished. Truth and compassion will always bring justice. I believe we are on the path to a more just America. 

Quite a bit of delusional ranting. Same old silly nonsense about The US needing to become more just, because it apparently has not been in the past. Yet so very many millions of people have been dying to get in and live here throughout its history, including millions and millions of Catholics, and still are today. Imagine that, all those people dying to live in a country with such an abusive history and present as ours. We are better and more just now because our Presidents apparently and especially this Catholic one can sign an ever increasing number of Executive Orders bypassing the entire process of government for the people and by the people. This is of course good because government for the people and by the people is not good, it is part of the everything in our world which simply must change for the sake of papal common good. It is much better for our nation to be controlled from the Vatican over in Italy, than from the people being governed here themselves. Jesuits, jesuits, jesuits, aren't they so great. Of course we should let the Jesuit Pope and his cohorts run our country from afar, because that has ended so very well all the other times it was implemented throughout the past. Not! The following quotes in relation to the Jesuits is what many learned and warned about them.

John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd President of the United States)

"My history of the Jesuits is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities, [and] is very particular and very horrible. Their [the Jesuit Order's] restoration [in 1814 by Pope Pius VII] is indeed a step toward darkness, cruelty, despotism, [and] death. ... I do not like the appearance of the Jesuits. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of [Ignatius de] Loyola."



Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834; French statesman and general. He served in the American Continental Army under the command of General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.)

"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country – the United States of America – are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated MOST of the wars of Europe."



Edmond Paris (Author of the book The Secret History of the Jesuits)

"The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of the two world wars – a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict."



R. W. Thompson (Ex-Secretary, American Navy)

"[The Jesuits] are the deadly enemies of civil and religious liberty."



Napoleon Bonaparte; 1769-1821; emperor of the French

"The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man [i.e., the Black Pope, the Superior General of the Jesuits]. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms [sic] – and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses..."



Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; famous Russian novelist)

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



Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (March 8, 1800 – December 27, 1871) was a politician and Presbyterian minister.

"The Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuit Order] is the enemy of man. The whole human race should unite for its overthrow. ...For there is no alternative between its total extirpation, and the absolute corruption and degradation of
mankind."



James Parton (American historian)

"If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person."



Adolph Hitler (1889-1945; Nazi leader and chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945)

"Above all I have learned from the Jesuits. And so did Lenin too, as far as I recall. The world has never known anything quite so splendid as the hierarchical structure of the [Roman] Catholic Church. There were quite a few things I simply appropriated from the Jesuits for the use of the [Nazi] Party."

...In [Heinrich] Himmler [who would become head of the Nazi SS] I see our Ignatius de Loyola [Ed. Note: the founder of the Jesuit Order].""



Lord Palmerston

"The presence of the Jesuits in any country, Romanist [i.e., Catholic] or Protestant, is likely to breed social disturbance."



http://biblerealities.com/conspiracies/jesuitsilluminatifree-mason/john-adams-the-jesuits/

The following quotes from John Adams are from the above link, where the rest may be examined.

FROM JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON 9 August, 1816
My History of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step towards darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and—! I wish we [226] were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism. May we be "a barrier against the returns of ignorance and barbarism." What a colossus shall we be! But will it not be of brass, iron, and clay? Your taste is judicious in liking better the dreams of the future than the history of the past. Upon this principle I prophesy that you and I shall soon meet better friends than ever. So wishes

FROM JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON 6 May, 1816
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. They have a general now in Russia, in correspondence with the Jesuits in the United States, who are more numerous than everybody knows. Shall we not have swarms of them here, in as many shapes and disguises as ever a king of the gypsies, Bampfylde Moore Carew himself, assumed? In the shape of printers, editors, writers, schoolmasters, etc..? I have lately read Pascal's letters over again, and four volumes of the History of the Jesuits. If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyola (Loyola was the leader of the Jesuits).

THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JOHN ADAMS 1 August, 1816
I dislike, with you, their restoration, because it marks a retrograde step from light towards darkness.

The following are more excerpts from his writtings, some from him and some to him:

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes in twelves, under the title of "Histoire Générale de la Naissance et des Progrès de la Compagnie de Jésus, et l'Analyse de ses Constitutions et ses Priviléges," printed at Amsterdam in 1761. The work is anonymous, because, as I suppose, the author was afraid, as all the monarchs of Europe were, at that time, of Jesuitical assassination. The author, however, supports his facts by authentic records and known authorities which the public may consult..........................

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https://www.newswars.com/pope-francis-declares-that-christian-fundamentalists-are-a-scourge/

Quoted article below from link above.

Pope Francis Declares That Christian Fundamentalists Are "A Scourge"

The Pope considers millions upon millions of American Christians to be a plague that is infecting our planet

Why does it seem like virtually everyone wants to attack Christian fundamentalists these days?

Two weeks ago, Pope Francis made some extremely controversial remarks, but those remarks really didn't get much attention from the mainstream media.  Of course if the Pope had targeted the LGBTQ community or some other favored group, it would have instantly made headlines all over the globe.  But he didn't.  Instead, Pope Francis specifically attacked fundamentalists, and in today's world that is considered to be perfectly okay.  The following comes from the official transcript of the remarks that the Pope made on the 18th of November...

Beware of the fundamentalist groups: everyone has his own. In Argentina too there is a little fundamentalist corner. And let us try, with fraternity, to go forward. Fundamentalism is a scourge and all religions have some kind of fundamentalist first cousin there, which forms a group.

Ostensibly, these remarks apply to fundamentalists from all religions.  But by mentioning Argentina, the Pope made it exceedingly clear who his real target was.

There aren't any "Muslim fundamentalists" or "Hindu fundamentalists" in Argentina.  The fundamentalists that he was referring to are the Christian fundamentalists in Argentina, and in the very next sentence he denounced such people as "a scourge".

Of course "a scourge" is another way of saying "a plague", and what do we try to do to "a plague" when one breaks out?

That is something to think about.

And although the term "fundamentalist" is now sometimes used to refer to other religions, from the very beginning it has always been a Christian term.  The following comes from the Encyclopedia Britannica...

Christian fundamentalism, movement in American Protestantism that arose in the late 19th century in reaction to theological modernism, which aimed to revise traditional Christian beliefs to accommodate new developments in the natural and social sciences, especially the theory of biological evolution. In keeping with traditional Christian doctrines concerning biblical interpretation, the mission of Jesus Christ, and the role of the church in society, fundamentalists affirmed a core of Christian beliefs that included the historical accuracy of the Bible, the imminent and physical Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and Christ's Virgin Birth, Resurrection (see resurrection), and Atonement (see atonement). Fundamentalism became a significant phenomenon in the early 20th century and remained an influential movement in American society into the 21st century.

Well, it is basically someone that believes the Bible is literally true, that believes that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again, and that believes that Jesus is coming back someday.

In other words, the Pope considers millions upon millions of American Christians to be a plague that is infecting our planet.

During those same remarks on the 18th of November, the Pope also once again pushed his "interreligious cooperation" agenda...

As I said during the World Conference of Human Fraternity: "There is no alternative: we will either build the future together or there will not be a future. Religions, in particular, cannot renounce the urgent task of building bridges between peoples and cultures. The time has come when religions should more actively exert themselves, with courage and audacity, and without pretence, to help the human family deepen the capacity for reconciliation, the vision of hope and the concrete paths of peace" (4 February 2019). Our religious traditions are a necessary source of inspiration to foster a culture of encounter. It is fundamental for there to be interreligious cooperation, based on the promotion of sincere and respectful dialogue that goes towards unity without confusion, maintaining identities. But a unity that transcends the mere political pact."

This Pope has become increasingly aggressive in his efforts to foster unity among the various major religions of the world.  Last month, he held a much publicized meeting with Thailand's supreme Buddhist patriarch Somdej Phra Maha Muneewong.  That historic meeting was held at Bangkok's famous Ratchabophit Temple, and the Pope met with the Buddhist patriarch directly in front of a 150-year-old gold statue of Buddha.  The Pope even removed his shoes as a sign of respect for the Buddhist temple.

Pope Francis also brought a gift for the Buddhist patriarch.  It was a copy of a document entitled "Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together" which the Pope and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar both signed in Abu Dhabi last February.  The following is what Vatican News had to say about the exchange of this gift...

Pope Francis presented gifts to the Supreme Buddhist Patriarch, including a copy of the Abu Dhabi Declaration on "Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together". The Pope signed the document together with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, during his visit to the United Arab Emirates in February this year.

According to Cardinal Ayuso, including the Abu Dhabi Declaration among the gifts exchanged, highlighted the importance of spreading its message on Human Fraternity for peace and coexistence beyond the Middle East to Asia.

"Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together" sounds like an innocent title, but it is actually a loose blueprint for uniting the various religions of the world.

For example, at one point in the document it specifically says that the fact that there is such a diversity of religions in the world has been "willed by God in His wisdom"...

"The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept"

In other words, this document is saying that God is pleased with all of the religions of the world and that they exist because it was His will for them to do so.

And the document concludes with an appeal for "reconciliation and fraternity" among the various religions of the world in order that "universal peace" may be achieved...

In conclusion, our aspiration is that:

this Declaration may constitute an invitation to reconciliation and fraternity among all believers, indeed among believers and non-believers, and among all people of good will;

this Declaration may be an appeal to every upright conscience that rejects deplorable violence and blind extremism; an appeal to those who cherish the values of tolerance and fraternity that are promoted and encouraged by religions;

this Declaration may be a witness to the greatness of faith in God that unites divided hearts and elevates the human soul;

this Declaration may be a sign of the closeness between East and West, between North and South, and between all who believe that God has created us to understand one another, cooperate with one another and live as brothers and sisters who love one another.

This is what we hope and seek to achieve with the aim of finding a universal peace that all can enjoy in this life.

On the political front, globalism may have lost some momentum, but in religious circles it is steaming right along.

The push for a one world religion is happening right out in the open, and very few people seem alarmed by it.

Dan 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

1Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

What is the Popes declaration, but that there can be no future for humanity, apart from our submission to his global views and agenda? That unless we unify in rebellion against God as we attempted at the tower of Babel, but now under Papal leadership, we have no future. To the contrary though, God separated us at the tower of Babel exactly to prevent a premature unified humanity in rebellion against God again, unto universal destruction once again by direct judgement from Him. 

No, but this is the peace and safety unto sudden destruction which the scriptures foretell. The Pope of Rome is that "king of fierce countenance, understanding dark sentences", who "by peace shall destroy many". His unification of humanity entails forsaking the truth, "to forsake the truth, for the sake of unity, can only lead to apostasy". His unification of humanity will entail universal apostasy, unto universal destruction. How has the world existed this long without fulfilling the Popes global vision. Why would there be no future for any, unless all submit to his vision. To be sure, he intends to persecute all who will not submit to this vision, as we can see playing out all around us.

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.

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The following speech was given to the Congress of the United States while many Americans were still aware enough of the dangers of the political influence and or dominance of Papal politics upon nations, to do something about it. Today we are increasingly living the results of a people no longer capable of comprehending those dangers. The arguments presented in this speech in 1848, have become to a certain extent, prophetic reality. I will be reposting this article in phases with comments in the near future, and supplying the notes original notes attached as well, as they provide much information backing up the speech itself.

                                                            SPEECH

                                                                OF

                                                 MR. L. C.LEVIN, OF PENN,

                                                                ON

                                           THE PROPOSED MISSION TO ROME,

               Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, March 2, 1848.

The House being in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and having under consideration the bill to supply the deficiency of appropriations for the year ending June 30 1848.

MR. LEVIN said: Mr. Chairman, I have been so often misrepresented by the paid agents of the Jesuits who hang around this Hall, and who swarm over our land, that I have come prepared today. I was surprised to find in the bill now before the committee an appropriation for a charge-ship to Rome, and still more surprised when my friend, the honorable gentleman from Alabama, informed me that he intended to move an amendment, substituting in its stead a minister plenipotentiary. An embassay to Rome I had supposed to be the pet measure of the President of the United States. Sympathy with Pope Pius IX appears to be the hobby-horse of political leaders. O'Connell, the Irish re- former, is dead. The curtain has fallen upon that last act of the national farce, and now the Pope, an Italian reformer, steps upon the stage to conclude what O'Connell left unfinished. The hurrah has gone through the country; public meetings have been held; sympathy for the Pope has grown almost into a fashion: yet, sir, in no legitimate sense can this embassy to Rome be called a national measure, intended for the public benefit. We have no commerce to protect in the Roman States; we have no seamen whose rights may need even the supervision of a Government agent or consul; we have no navy riding in her only harbor; we have no interests that may be exposed to jeopardy for want of an ambassador.

The Papal flag has never been known to wave in an American port. No American vessel has received the visit of a Pope. Dwelling under the shadow of the ruins of antiquity, they have never disturbed us save by the. bulls of Pope, Gregory and the intrigues of his Jesuits. What, then, has produced this sudden revolution in the concerns in the two countries? We are told that Pius the 9th is a reformer. Indeed! In what sense is he a reformer?  Has he divested himself of any of his absolute prerogatives? Has he cast off his claims to infallibility? Has he flung aside his triple crown? Has he diminished aught from his imperial elevation of the tiara? And does he no longer hold in bondage the bodies and souls of his subjects? Has he become a Republican? Does he acknowledge the inherent equality of mankind? Has he abolished tithes? Has he emancipated his people? Has he suppressed the Jesuits? Far from it. Nothing on this has been done. He maintains his own prerogatives as absolute as Gregory the 19th, or any other of his illustrious predecessors. In what, then, does the world give him credit for being a reformer? For building up on a new and firmer foundation his own secular power; for permitting a press to be established in Rome under his own supervision and control; for carrying out measures not to be censured, but certainly giving him no pretensions beyond that of a selfish sagacity, intent on the study of all means calculated to add stability to his spiritual power, and firmness to his temporal throne. But a sagacious monarch does not constitute a liberal reformer, even though he may correct many abuses that disgraced his predecessors, who, by their bigotry and intolerance, had reduced the once boasted power of the Papal See to a mere cipher.

As a free and civilized government, anxious for the continued progress of the popular mind, we had infinitely more reason for applauding Gregory the 19th for pulling down the power of the Roman See, than sending an embassy to Pius the 9th for having revived the drooping giant, and imparted fresh energy to the most despotic power the world has ever seen or ever felt. Why was no ambassador sent to Gregory? Why is an ambassador sent to Pius? Not because the interests of this country require it. And who believes it is because of the lauded liberality of one who seems ambitious of the renown of a man of the age? Who believes it is because Pius encourages railways; for what are Roman railways to us? We have a more rational though less pleasing solution of this wonderful and newly awakened sympathy for Rome in the increase of the Roman Catholic vote, caused by the Irish famine and the difficulty of living in the German states, which send among us such countless legions of foreigners.

And what must be the occupation of the American ambassador when he reaches Rome? Will he devote his attention to the increase of this supply of alien voters. or to the interests of the United States in the cabinets of continental Europe? Having no commercial or political duties to perform, save those connected with the American ballot box, he must keep up the supply of voters, who are to be judiciously located by the legate of the Pope. And who so capable of this great diplomatic duty as the man who has so industriously agitated this sympathy for Rome, to gratify his inordinate and gigantic ambition; who, for years past, has been the dictator, the trader, and the pander of the foreign Roman Catholic vote; who one minute acts the priest and the next day plays the politician; who would have the world to believe that he is greater than the President of the United States, because he is the power behind the throne who moves the President; who would have the world believe that, because he flatters the American people by a sermon from the national forum, that he is the mainspring of the American Congress? Combining the character of priest and politician, allowed to the ministers of no other sect, this ambitious demagogue, taking for his motto that "impudence is power," has dared to display an extent of audacity never before practiced and never before allowed to any other clergyman. This embassy, and all the public turmoil that has led to its suggestion, is the work of an intriguing, restless, grasping, and ambitious priest, who fans in his bosom the nefarious hope that he is himself to be the destined organ between a free republic and an absolute hierarch.

Is it not enough that he should draw us into the vortex of European tyranny, superstition, and corruption, but must he also dream of the vast honor of consummating in his own person this revolting alliance between the crimes of hoary guilt and the purity of youthful innocence? For what, after all, has this popular Pope done, but oiled the chains of his people that they might never have power to break them asunder? What are all his reforms but gilded thraldom, and slavery made eternal by modern rivets forged in the fires of that "progress" which serves equally to gloss the schemes of tyrants and the projects of imbecility; which can be used with as much plausibility by the arch-tyrant, who understands how to enslave men through their passions and imaginations, as the political empire who disguises his own ignorance by prating of the march of mind; whose tongue discourses of benevolence, while his iron hand is armed with the power of oppression?

I ask, has Pius IX abolished tithes? Has he granted universal suffrage, or any suffrage, to his papal subjects? Has he established a representative government? Has he introduced trial by jury? Has he granted the writ of habeas corpus? Has he abolished the college of cardinals? Has he established common schools? Has he struck down the power of the confessional? Has he repealed the demoralizing edict of celibacy? Has he thrown open the gates of the monastery, or unbarred the iron bolts of the convent? Has he separated church power from state authority? Has he abolished that pest-house of intrigue and pernicious propagandism, the society of Jesuits? He has done none of these things. Then what has he done to entitle him to the sympathy of the people and the homage of the government of the United States? Nothing.

He has made no fundamental alteration in the Papal system. The edifice remains entire; it is supported by the same gothic columns of medieval ignorance and superstition. He may polish an architrave-he may repair a broken step leading to the vestibule, or suspend a new wreath around the alter, or add an ivory crucifix, or even lay a railway into the capital of the Caesars, but the Papal system remains entire, unaltered, unimproved-the same stern tyranny, the same inflexible compound of earthly and celestial despotism. Yet the man who is Pope is not a Caeser-Borgia. Pius is not as a man so narrow and contracted as Gregory. Pius understands human nature, and knows how to render the Papal system popular by wreathing chains with rose blossoms. Perhaps the elements mix more gently in his bosom. But all this does not make the Papal system less odiouis.

It was said of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, that he made tyranny so beautiful by his amiable character as to destroy in the Roman people the love of liberty. Pius is now doing more than Augustus, for he is reconciling the world to the concentrated despotism of the most iron-handed hierarchy that ever flourished.

If Rome will not come to America, America  must go to Rome! This is the new doctrine of an age of retrogressive progress. If the Pope will not establish a republic for his Italian subjects, we, the American people, must renounce all the ties of our glorious freedom, and endorse the Papal system as the perfection of human wisdom, by sending an ambassador to Rome to congratulate "His Holiness" on having made-what? The Roman people free? Oh! no; but on having made tyranny amiable; in having sugared the poison cake. And for this, the highest crime against freedom, we are to commission an ambassador to Rome!  Is there an American heart that does not recoil from the utter degradation of the scheme?

When nations profess to assimilate on principles of amity, and to draw closer the ties of good will, it is on the ground of a common cause - equally dear to both - either of freedom or of absolute power. If Rome were a republic, or merely a temporal power, although not republican, the proposal to send an ambassador to preserve principles common to both Governments, and equally dear to the people of both countries, would rest on a different foundation. In that case we should have congenial interests to preserve; in that case we should be co-operating n the common cause of human rights. But now we exhibit to the world the spectacle of a pure antagonism in our system of government to that of Rome - the one maintaining liberty of conscience and the sovereignty of the freely expressed popular will; the other the control of conscience, and the combination of priestly and political supremacy by divine right. Two systems more opposite could not exist. When liberty makes concessions to tyranny, which party gains by it? Not freedom - not the cause of human rights. Despotism thrives by it. We lend encouragement to a system of government at open war with the happiness of mankind; we become the patrons of an absolute monarch; we tell him to "scourge on, scourge on."

We are about to act in a crisis of Papal history pregnant with the most eventful consequences to the world. It is not a common occasion. No ordinary impulse moves the great machinery of Papal power, whose wheels are oiled by the adulation of Jesuit priests on the one hand, and the demagogues on the other. Not only is Rome coming into a new epoch, but the United states is also beginning a new era. Why we have never before had an ambassador at Rome, is answered by the prompt reply that Rome never before had a Pius IX on the Papal throne! We have nothing, then, to justify this projected innovation but to the modern character of a new Pope. Embassies once opened are never closed. We cannot compliment Pius by an embassy, therefore, for even after his death it must be continued. We compliment the Papal system of government by sending an ambassador, having no commercial interests to settle, or political relations to adjust. Nor is it possible to compliment Pius without complimenting his system of government, for he has as a liberal reformer made no fundamental alterations in it. We are therefore to compliment him on his modified manner of administering a system radically at war with the rights of man, pernicious itself, and dangerous in every form it may assume, and under every modification that individual genius may venture to adopt as a covering to its deformity. 

We have sympathized with the independence of Greece, of South  America, and of Mexico, when, casting off the yoke of kings, they established their claims to self government; and the yoke thus cut off was the yoke of political bondage only, and not the thraldom of the supremacy of priestcraft. But how did we sympathize? Not by sending an ambassador, but by passing resolutions in Congress applauding the act of emancipation. Here were cases in which nations achieved their freedom, and yet we sent no ambassadors. If Pius has emancipated the Roman people, bring forward your resolutions, and then we may have opportunity to inquire how far the extent of his reforms will justify even that manifestation of our national applause. The innovation now proposed is against all precedent, is frowned down by all principle, is denounced by facts, and rendered ridiculous by its extravagance. It would indeed be a farce but for the tragic character of its consequences; and these entitle it to our unmitigated abhorrence.

Pass this bill, and you insult the majesty of the people by the desecration of their Constitution, by the violence done to the genius of our Government, by the outrage of free principles involved in the proposition to recognize Papal Rome, an infallible Church power, as the head of the State.

When we talk of the genius of republican government, and allude to the spirit of free institutions, said to be mortally wounded by the Mexican war, let us remember the wrong done to the spirit of freedom by this scheme of an ambassador to the pope, whose spiritual character is the absorbing one of his throne; and who, if he is no Pope, is no sovereign - he holding his right to rule his subjects from a divine, not a human source. In all other monarchies the right divine is abolished. In Rome, it is the essence of secular as well as ecclesiastical power. He cannot give the people the rights they are entitled to, because from that moment he would cease to be Pope, and the people, ceasing to be slaves, would become sovereign. Pius never can do what would entitle him to American approbation. No Pope can ever be worthy of an ambassador from this Republic on grounds such as we now hear maintained.

"Would you have a serpent sting you twice? We have had experience of the evils of monarchy in its best form, and shall we risk the perils of its deadly venom in the worst? When did the Church of Rome, or the Pope, ever receive homage that it did not exact fealty? When did it ever pause in its giant march after universal dominion? When did it ever sleep, if power was to be gained by waking? When did it ever fascinate without the intention to destroy?

The flood of immigration is sweeping its millions of foreign Roman Catholic voters over the land. The past is gloomy enough,  the present awfully portentous; but the future is black "with shadows, clouds, and darkness." This country seems destined to be grand theatre of Roman Catholic power - not American Papistry, but the Papistry of Rome - of the old world - of Austria and the Pope. Shall we grow wise in time, or shall we surrender up our rights without resistance? Shall we make a stand now, on a government proposition to unite this free Republic with absolute Rome; or shall we surrender in anticipation of the day of trial, and ask the Pope, in despair, to fetter our hands before we strike a blow?

Sir, if it be written in the black book of fate that this great republic is yet to become a dependency of the great Court of Rome, let us not  hasten our infamy by any premature weakness, by any act that shall expedite our downfall or accelerate our bondage. We are now asked to become voluntary agents in enslaving ourselves; we are implored to send an ambassador to Rome - to have our manacles forged in the furnace of the imperial city, under the special care of the Holy Father, who acknowledges no human authority in matters of government, but who pleads a divine right to bow down the neck of man in the dust, and yoke him to the iron car of absolute power.

Do Americans, who think favorably of this measure as a stroke of policy to conciliate the foreign Catholic vote, calculate that it must cost the honor if not the freedom of our country, when they propose that we shall despatch a political ambassador to a prince who maintains that all power emanates from a Divine source, and that the people posses in themselves no inherent rights? Has it been ascertained even that the Pontiff will receive and ambassador from a country not only branded with heresy, but outlawed as democratic from the pale of legitimate government? The practice of the Papal Court has always been adverse to receiving missions from powers that did not in some form acknowledge her supremacy. Even England has for ages maintained no diplomatic relations with Rome, owing to her Protestant contumacy.  Are we to bend the knee first, and then to acknowledge the Pope as the source of all power? Must we prove recreant to our glorious Declaration of Independence? Must we renounce popular rights? On what terms is our ambassador to go? Does the proposition come from the Pope or originate from our own cabinet? These are important questions to answer. Has his Holiness turned democrat? And fallen in love with our free institutions? This is not probable; for if he cannot tolerate the idea of a Protestant hierarchy like England, he will not assuredly be able to look with complacency upon a people who maintain the radical equality of the human race as we do.

If the appointment were a mere mercantile arrangement to negotiate a treaty of trade and commerce, it would wear a color more rational - even although the Pope is not bound TO KEEP THE FATIH WITH HERETICS! But alas, the Pontine marshes are the boundaries of the trade and commerce of the Roman Pontiff. He has no trade, no commerce, no exchange of value to offer for our cotton, our tobacco, our rice, or our flour, our hemp. It becomes, then, a pure political embassy; yet, having no political relations with Rome, it becomes reduced to a mere nullity, an empty form, an unmeaning pageant, a ridiculous display, wicked in its conception, disgraceful in its tendency, and prodigal in its expenditure. Is this the time to play with expensive baubles, while  we are borrowing millions upon millions to prosecute the war? Must we add to the burdens of our national debt by taxing tea and coffee, in order that we may send an ambassador to the Roman Pontiff, to acquire the vices or familiarize himself with the frivolities of the Roman Court?

How stands this boasted Italian reformer, as a constitutional monarch? Is he willing to part with any of his boasted prerogatives as an absolute high priest and king? Listen to his own declarations, spoken at the last opening of his Council of State, and mark the holy indignation with which he repels the slightest imputation or suspicion of his despotic character! And yet we, the American people, propose to send a deputation, an embassy, to this confirmed despot! These are his words:

"I thank you for your good intentions; and, as regards the public welfare, I esteem them of value. It was for the public good that, since any elevation to the Pontifical throne, I have, in accordance with the councils inspired by God, accomplished all that I could; and I am still ready, with the assistance of God, to do all for the future, without, however, retrenching in any degree the sovereignty of the Pontificate; and in as much as I received it full and entire from my predecessors, so shall I transmit this sacred deposit to my successor. I have three millions subjects as witnesses, and I have hitherto accomplished much to unite my subjects with me, and to ascertain and provide for their necessities. It was particularly to ascertain those wants, and to provide better for the exigencies of the public service, that I have assembled a permanent council. It was to hear your opinion when necessary, and not to aid me in my sovereign resolutions, in which I shall consult my conscience, and confer on them with the Ministers and the Sacred College. Any body who would take any other view of the functions you are called to fulfill would mistake materially, as well as he that would see in the council of the State I have created the realization of their own Utopias, and the germ of an institution incompatible with the Pontifical sovereignty."

Now what are the facts? The United States can only regard Pius, in his temporal and political character, as a sovereign, the monarch of Rome. And we find that sovereign so jealous of his absolute secular power as to denounce by anticipation any possible surmise of his intention to part with or relax in favor of popular freedom any, nay even the slightest, portion of his absolute pontifical prerogatives. He will not retrench one iota of that power which he has received full and entire from his predecessors, and which he will transmit as a sacred deposit to his successors. And what is this deposit? Such is the language of the reformer, for whom a faction of the United States would express sympathy, and whom they are willing to fraternize!

True, we sen a minister to Russia, who is an absolute monarch; but the autocrat of Russia although the head of the Greek church claims no ecclesiastical supremacy in other states and over other people, and does not direct the terrible energies of his absolutism to the propagation of religious dogmas and the establishment of the temporal power of the Greek Church, in dominions not properly subject to his sway. Besides, most important political and commercial relations between the United States and Russia justify this embassy, as conclusively as similar reasons justify missions to other Powers which hold no republican affinities or tendencies. The empire of Russia extends from Northwestern America to the Baltic, and the black sea - the American flag waves in Russian ports, from Archangel to Odessa, from ST. Petersburgh to Kamschatka, and the honor and interests of the country alike demand the presence of a representative of the United States at the court of St. Petersburgh. But, in the case of Pius, we propose to send a sympathizing embassy, a special political agent, to uphold his political character, and encourage him in his efforts to overthrow American institutions!

Sir, I wage no war against any religious opinions of foreigners or Americans, nor do I conceive Jesuit influence to have any connexion with religion. Roman Catholic countries have in succession denounced, expelled, or proscribed the Jesuits, as the most formidable enemies of government; several Popes have fulminated their bulls against them. It is to trite a part of history to detail, for all know that it was Pope Clement the XIV. who promulgated the memorable edict for their suppression as a pernicious order, whose ambition was incompatible with the government of empires and the purity of the Roman Catholic religion. Their colleges, and their revenues confiscated by Roman Catholic prelates, popes, and kings. The institution of Ingatius Loyola was made to immortalize the ambition of bad men. It laughed with derision at the power of States to extinguish it; it still flourishes more formidable than ever throughout Europe, unseen in its giant power, but more powerful than kings. Following in the path of their victims, they come in droves to the United States, and are now spread thought the length and breadth of the land. With smiling and meek exterior, their purposes are all useful. They wear no terrific front: they carry no weapon to destroy life; but bear sceptre of knowledge in their hands, and under the banner of "education" they instil the insidious doctrines that invest them with almost omnipotent power over the minds of their disciples. Power over the human will is the object of the Jesuit, and the aim of that power is to rule by enslaving him. A community under the influence of the Jesuits must be a community of slaves. Implicit obedience to the behests of a despot is the first law of the order; and will yoiu give fresh vigor to that order by courting a legate of the Pope to be stationed ni this city for the purpose of centralizing its influence? Sir, foreign colonies planted among us, under the influence of such a central power, cannot fail to work out their designs, even to the overthrow of our free institutions.

I tell you, and I tell the nation, (for there is yet time to save it,) that the propagandists of Europe are colonizing this country; that the foreign population is being dexterously located, not only with the view to the holding of the balance of power in certain States, but with reference to the organization of new ones, under the peculiar influence of the Jesuits, who will spread their ample wings over them, go where they may. The Jesuit is not confined to the country; he is at home every where; his web is thrown over all; his power benumbs the soul and fetters the body; his victim is controlled, and moves, and acts, at the will of his master; and it is this master whom you propose to serve by the passage of this bill.

Sir, a Jesuit college or seminary are now familiar things, to be seen in all places, and daily increased, without exciting a sensation or giving birth to a remark. Habit reconciles us to evil, even when most odious and revolting in its features. But a gilded exterior makes evil a welcome object to our senses. We greet the man whose bland smiles cheer us, and whose flatteries gratify our vanity. Courtesy and learning both unite to render the Jesuit insinuating; and , had he no object but a single purpose of improving the intellect of mankind, he should receive the homage of my admiration. But even "education" may be purchased at to high a price. After all, can the knowledge inculcated by the Jesuit be called "education"? It is not, at least , the education of an American or of a free man. A republican, come from what quarter of the globe he may, ought ought to have his whole soul expanded to the utmost bounds of liberality - free, daring, energetic, and boundless in its soaring flight; feeling no throb he feared to utter; burning with no thought he dare not express.
This, sir, is the basis, the only basis, with no master but God, no superior but the laws, conscience for his guide, and reason for his counsellor.

If no other evil resulted to the American people but this system of servile education by the ambitious Jesuit, who seeks to control it, wrapping up the minds of our American youths in the eternal bondage of Egyptian darkness, it would be quite a sufficient inducement to put a curb on the evil, rather than to give loose rein to their designs by the passage of this bill.

Let it not be forgotten that this system of intellectual and moral bondage is only the means to a great ulterior end - and that is, political power and religious authority. Although the Popes have, at various periods in the history of the world, pretended to suppress the order of the Jesuits they have never failed to avail themselves of their aid as missionaries. They might be suppressed at home, but it was only to nerve them for fresh exertion in a distant land. It never was content with spiritual diffusion, but always struggles and pants to gain temporal power for its priestly head. We find no other religion but that of the pope concentrating its votes to accomplish political power. It is peculiar to Popery never to rest content till it incorporates its power with the civil government. We have the voice of history to instruct us in this fact, that a religion founded on the union of spiritual and temporal power will strive naturally to propagate that union, as indispensable to its perfection. Without political power, such religion is not only incomplete, but defective, deformed, and wanting in its natural members. Why is it so? Because the head of the Romish church is a temporal prince, of absolute power and infallible authority. Question his mandate, and excommunication follows. Disobey his behests, and lo! the rod of his vengeance falls on the culprit, both in this world and the future. The fountain of its honors, ministry, and functions, (spread where it may) is at Rome. The Pope, reformer though he be, is the head of all. From him flows the double stream of spiritual and temporal power, which, however it may divide itself for a season by the rugged face of foreign climes, never rests, but boils and bubbles forever, till it reunites, even through the impediments of blood, carnage, revolution, and rebellion. Its impetuous surges of ambition beat against every shore for the admission of its temporal power; and now, amidst the spreading lights of the 19th century, we are asked not only to recognize, but to send a minister plenipotentiary in advance, craving his Holiness to condescend, by creating a religious lie, to take us into his holy keeping. 

Gracious and just Heaven! to what direful ends will the passions and ambition of men hurry them! How inscrutable are the ways of God to test our virtue, and waken in our bosoms the divine emotions which led the noble men of other days to make such immortal sacrifices, when burning at the fiery stake, or dying under the tortures of the inquisition - when Smithfield celebrated her hellish orgies, or the rack tore the bleeding limbs of heroic martyrs at Madrid - or the massacre of the Huguenots deluged the fair fields of France with the best blood of the age!

Will gentlemen who propose to rivet this religious chain think of the future, for it os to the future that we are to look for bonds, fetters, and disfranchisement? That future which, in a few years, will expand our population to an hundred millions; when our wild Indian lands, embracing Oregon and the far West, shall have been settled by foreign Roman Catholics and their children, all under guidance and control of Jesuit leaders, bound to obey their General the Pope's nuncio, whose head quarters are to be the seat of government, and that seat of government the city of Washington!

Let us imagine, for a moment, all this immense expanse of empire, embracing some fifty or sixty States, to be settles by its proportion of the foreign slaves of foreign Jesuits; and, inferring the future from the past, that they have been successful in extending their invasions upon the spiritual and political rights of the American people! What would be the direful consequences of this dreadful overshadowing of the moral and intellectual world? Are the religious wars and relentless persecutions of fire, rack, and other bloody demonstrations of bigotry, with which Popery has deluged Europe for ages, again to be acted over here - on the fair and unstained bosom of our vast and free Republic? Heaven forbid this foul desecration of our equal rights! And yet, what hope of exemption gleams in the future, unless the friends if civil and religious liberty, animated by a sublime devotion to the welfare of their children and the freedom of posterity, now combine to arrest the march of Papal usurpation before it overspreads the land, and plants its "GARRISONS" of power deep in the bosom of our valleys, irresistible, and unresisted?

The combination of despotism - the despotism of Church and State power - must be counteracted by combinations of freemen, under the sacred guaranty of the Constitution, which makes resistance virtue, and stamps the denunciation of this "unholy and revolting alliance" with the sublimest attributes of patriotism and benevolence.

I have already shown you that our minister will have no duties to perform in Rome; and now permit me to inquire what interests of Rome, as a European Power, are to be protected by her minister in this country?

Sir, this constitutes the gist, the very marrow of the question. He is destined to be a vigilant observer of the ruffled waters of political agitation - an active correspondent, advisory and directory, and, so far as the Jesuits in this country are concerned, mandatory - concentrating the combined force of foreign Roman Catholic action, and the foreign Roman Catholic vote, upon such men and such measures as are best calculated to extend the temporal power and political influence of the Romish priesthood!

Shall such a consummation be brought about or hastened by the action of those who claim to be the descendants of the Pilgrims? Sir, I trust not. Does England send a minister to Rome/ No; and yet their international relations, having especial reference to the condition of Ireland, are full of importance. England well knows that what is useful may be attained, and what is fraught with danger may be avoided, by dispensing with reciprocal embassies. England does not forget the teachings of history. Cardinal legates and Papal nuncios have in their day taught her lessons - lessons never to be forgotten, for those lessons were written in blood!

Sir, every step of Pius the IX, in his seeming spirit of reform, is made with a direct reference to the extension of his temporal power over this Republic! He has political sagacity enough to discover that the practical workings out of the principles of freedom, through the medium of universal suffrage, can be adroitly converted into the means of supporting the spirit of superstition as the basis of political power.

While we are engaged in this Mexican war, let us not lose sight of the fact that Europe is invading us.  That her paupers and criminals, under the control of Jesuit leaders, are swarming over the land, spreading disease, physical, moral, political, and religious.

Sir, there has been, and there is, a systematic effort now going on to overthrow American rights and American institutions by the means to which I have alluded. There are those who hear me who know full well that, a few years ago, a distinguished German historian delivered a course of lectures before the Emperor of Austria and the nobility of that country, in which he undertook to show that Europe's thrones would remain insecure so long as this example of free government existed in the United States. His name was Schlegel. In his eighteenth lecture he proceeded to show how to give solidity to the thrones of tyrants: "Send your refuse population," said he, "to the United States, under the control of the Jesuits. They will keep the foreign population separate and distinct from the American. They will prevent amalgamation, and a distinct political organization may be formed. THEIR BALLOT BOXES ARE LEFT OPEN! YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THEM! Do this," said he, "and the work is done".

Immediately the Leopold institution was founded, afterwards the society at Lyons; and while the American people have been sending their thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to christianize and evangelize the Mahommedan world, the Roman Catholic crowned heads of Europe have been erecting their chapels from Canada's border to the Gulf of Mexico, having for their end and aim the subjugation of American rights and the destruction of American institutions.

I remembered then, as I do now, the encyclical letter of Pope Gregory against slavery - not in Spain, Portugal, or Italy, but slavery in the United States! I remembered, too, that it was followed up by Daniel O'Connell's celebrated letter to the Repealers of Cincinnati, in which he told them: "Where you have the electoral franchise, give your votes to none but those  who will assist you in carrying out the pious intentions of his Holiness the Pope?

Sir, I quote him word for word. Here was a double appeal - as subjects of the Pope you must advocate repeal, and as members of his church you must oppose slavery in the United States, although the Popes of Rome had given it their pious countenance and protection for a period of fourteen hundred years.

O'Connell had felt the aid that abolitionism had given him in England; he had over-calculated its power and influence in this country, and yet he was willing to combine Irish Catholic and Abolition vote in the United States in order to hold the balance of power, and bring both in subjection to the dictation of the Pope of Rome!

At this crisis a body of patriotic Americans at the North, viewing Southern rights and Southern institutions as part of American rights and American institutions, planted themselves in self -  defense. They resisted the right of the Pope or his demagogue to interfere with any American institution which existed under the Constitution of their country. They called public meetings to denounce this wanton and gross outrage; and it was under such circumstances that ten American citizens were shot down, in cold blood, by the advice and counsel of the very Jesuit priesthood whom this appropriation proposes to encourage in their murderous assault upon the lives of the native born sons of the soil.

And yet at no period in the history of the world was the human understanding more auspiciously disposed than at this moment to the propagation of every opinion favorable to the growth of the power and the diffusion of the dogmas of Rome. In the fulness of light we seem willing that the torch shall be extinguished, because we feel so secure in our power. In the excess of our toleration and liberality we seem disposed to invite the intolerance of bigotry against ourselves, lest, if we stand by our rights, we should be charged with bigotry! This is the error of an age of overstrained refinement, of scientific liberality, of the universal diffusion of the press. But it is the very error of the moon, the madness of amenity, the liberality which leads the commander of a beleaguered garrison to open its gates to the foe and invite him to partake of a repast, when his avowed object is the subjugation of his citadel.

Sir, the line of demarcation which separates toleration from bigotry and persecution is too boldly and broadly drawn by the rights of man, as defined by the Constitution, and the fundamental principles of religion, as they exist in letters of living light upon the pages of the Bible.

And, here sir, I may be permitted to ask, why is it that the Jesuits have made such strenuous efforts to drive that Bible from our public schools? Why those dark insinuations of the unfitness of Bible truths for the daily duties of life? We claim for the American born child of the foreign Roman Catholic the same glorious privileges our own children enjoy - to read, examine, investigate for themselves, to reject or adopt it as they see fit, unawed by any human power. Shall there be one code of morals for one class, and another for a higher or a lower one? Shall the Jesuit clergy coin a construction of the Bible for the people which the people have no right to test by their own understandings, and thus establish a human tariff for crime, adjusted by mere human authority, in opposition to the commandments of God, and meet with no resistance?

Sir, we have lived to see the Bible driven from our public schools and BURNT IN THE PUBLIC STREETS! That Bible so inseparably interwoven with the genius and spirit of American institutions. The Congress of 1777 distributed thirty thousand copies of that Bible among the American people - that same Bible Mary gave to her little boy George, whose precepts and whose principles led him, at the head of the American troops, to achieve that freedom which we now enjoy. Do what you may, I tell you that the American born citizens of this country, at least the native born Americans, will at all hazards keep that Bible in the hands of their LITTLE GEORGES TOO.

To me, sir, it is a matter of amazement that any member of this House should be willing to advocate such a proposition as that now before the committee, which yields to exorbitant pretensions and bends to the domineering power of the Pope of Rome.

The Native Americans, scorned and abused as they have been because they loved their country better than they did party, have struggled, thus far in vain, to apply a check to the great and growing evil that now overshadows the land. Their object has been conservative.  They wished to apply a preventive. The bill now before the committee proposes to strengthen and fortify and extend Jesuit influence in the United States. Pass it if you will. Send a minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to the Pope of Rome. I tell you that the heart of the nation will be reached, that the American people will awaken from their slumber, and the Native Americanism will be at last understood and properly appreciated. Pass your bill, and from that hour Native Americanism means only the defence of Protestant rights and Protestant freedom against Papal tyranny and Jesuit aggression.

upon that broad platform we stand, and let posterity judge between us. Sir, we do protest against this religious link between our free Republic and that Papal throne - a throne unlike all others, built upon power, spiritual and temporal, political and religious. A throne which makes man a slave, and transforms kings into fiends, priests into tormentors, a people into drones, a country into a desert. A throne which extinguishes the fire on the altar of domestic love, in a form peculiar, fatal, revolting; snatching its votaries away from the homage of nature to the cold convent, the repulsive abbey, the gloomy cell of the anchorite, the horrid dungeon of the inquisition, and the demoralizing edict of celibacy; stirring up sedition, rebellion, and civil war as the only means of extending a power which reason revolts from, at the perIl and under the penalty of cannon's mouth, the edge of the sword, the fire of the faggot, and torments of the stake, and the tortures of the rack!

Sir, in the name of the American people I protest against this innovation, which would make us a bye-word among the nations.

It is almost an obsolete, but still a venerated and solemn custom, appropriate to all great and imminent conjectures of public import, to invoke the special protection of a superior Being; and in the same spirit that animated our sires of 1776, I exclaim, GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC! 

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The following several posts will be reposts of portions of the speech of L.C. Levin to Congress in 1848. They will include the foot notes, which supply additional info. confirming certain facts of the speech, and or expressions of clarity. My comments if any will be in blue.


                                         

                                                  SPEECH

                                                      OF

                                      MR. L. C.LEVIN, OF PENN,

                                                      ON

                               THE PROPOSED MISSION TO ROME,

  Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, March 2, 1848.

The House being in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and having under consideration the bill to supply the deficiency of appropriations for the year ending June 30 1848.

MR. LEVIN said: Mr. Chairman, I have been so often misrepresented by the paid agents of the Jesuits who hang around this Hall, and who swarm over our land, that I have come prepared to-day. I was surprised to find in the bill now before the committee an appropriation for a charge-ship to Rome, and still more surprised when my friend, the honorable gentleman from Alabama, in- formed me that he intended to move an amendment, substituting in its stead a minister plenipotentiary. An embassy to Rome I had supposed to be the pet measure of the President of the United States. Sympathy with Pope Pius IX appears to be the hobby-horse of political leaders. O'Connell, the Irish re-former, is dead. The curtain has fallen upon that last act of the national farce, and now the Pope, an Italian reformer, steps upon the stage to conclude what O'Connell left unfinished. The hurrah has gone through the country ; public meetings have been held; sympathy for the Pope has grown almost into a fashion: yet, sir, in no legitimate sense can this embassy to Rome be called a national measure, intended for the public benefit. We have no commerce to protect in the Roman States ; we have no seamen whose rights may need even the supervision of a Government agent or consul; we have no navy riding in her only harbor; we have no interests that may be exposed to jeopardy for want of an ambassador.

The Papal flag has never been known to wave in an American port. No American vessel has received the visit of a Pope. Dwelling under the shadow of the ruins of antiquity, they have never disturbed us save by the. bulls of Pope Gregory and the intrigues of his Jesuits. What, then, has produced this sudden revolution in the concerns in the two countries? We are told that Pius the 9th is a reformer. Indeed! In what sense is he a reformer?  Has he divested himself of any of his absolute prerogatives? Has he cast off his claims to infallibility? Has he flung aside his triple crown? Has he diminished aught from his imperial elevation of the tiara? And does he no longer hold in bondage the bodies and souls of his subjects? Has he become a Republican? Does he acknowledge the inherent equality of mankind? Has he abolished tithes? Has he emancipated his people? Has he suppressed the Jesuits? Far from it. Nothing on this has been done. He maintains his own prerogatives as absolute as Gregory the 19th, or any other of his illustrious predecessors. In what, then, does the world give him credit for being a reformer? For building up on a new and firmer foundation his own secular power; for permitting a press to be established in Rome under his own supervision and control; for carrying out measures not to be censured, but certainly giving him no pretensions beyond that of a selfish sagacity, intent on the study of all means calculated to add stability to his spiritual power, and firmness to his temporal throne. But a sagacious monarch does not constitute a liberal reformer, even though he may correct many abuses that disgraced his predecessors, who, by their bigotry and intolerance, had reduced the once boasted power of the Papal See to a mere cipher.

As a free and civilized government, anxious for the continued progress of the popular mind, we had infinitely more reason for applauding Gregory the 19th for pulling down the power of the Roman See, than sending an embassy to Pius the 9th for having revived the drooping giant, and imparted fresh energy to the most despotic power the world has ever seen or ever felt. Why was no ambassador sent to Gregory? Why is an ambassador sent to Pius? Not because the interests of this country require it. And who believes it is because of the lauded liberality of one who seems ambitious of the renown of a man of the age? Who believes it is because Pius encourages railways; for what are Roman railways to us? We have a more rational though less pleasing solution of this wonderful and newly awakened sympathy for Rome in the increase of the Roman Catholic vote, caused by the Irish famine and the difficulty of living in the German states, which send among us such countless legions of foreigners.

And what must be the occupation of the American ambassador when he reaches Rome? Will he devote his attention to the increase of this supply of alien voters. or to the interests of the United States in the cabinets of continental Europe? Having no commercial or political duties to perform, save those connected with the American ballot box, he must keep up the supply of voters, who are to be judiciously located by the legate of the Pope. And who so capable of this great diplomatic duty as the man who has so industriously agitated this sympathy for Rome, to gratify his inordinate and gigantic ambition; who, for years past, has been the dictator, the trader, and the pander of the foreign Roman Catholic vote; who one minute acts the priest and the next day plays the politician; who would have the world to believe that he is greater than the President of the United States, because he is the power behind the throne who moves the President; who would have the world believe that, because he flatters the American people by a sermon from the national forum, that he is the mainspring of the American Congress? Combining the character of priest and politician, allowed to the ministers of no other sect, this ambitious demagogue, taking for his motto that "impudence is power," has dared to display an extent of audacity never before practiced and never before allowed to any other clergyman. This embassy, and all the public turmoil that has led to its suggestion, is the work of an intriguing, restless, grasping, and ambitious priest, who fans in his bosom the nefarious hope that he is himself to be the destined organ between a free republic and an absolute hierarch.

Is it not enough that he should draw us into the vortex of European tyranny, superstition, and corruption, but must he also dream of the vast honor of consummating in his own person this revolting alliance between the crimes of hoary guilt and the purity of youthful innocence? For what, after all, has this popular Pope done, but oiled the chains of his people that they might never have power to break them asunder? What are all his reforms but gilded thraldom, and slavery made eternal by modern rivets forged in the fires of that "progress" which serves equally to gloss the schemes of tyrants and the projects of imbecility; which can be used with as much plausibility by the arch-tyrant, who understands how to enslave men through their passions and imaginations, as the political empire who disguises his own ignorance by prating of the march of mind; whose tongue discourses of benevolence, while his iron hand is armed with the power of oppression?



                                                Note

We know many Americans born Catholics who oppose this politico-religious link, and stand ready to resist the aggressions of Papal power. We desire it to be distinctly understood that, when we refer to the machinations of the Jesuits, and the designs of Papal power, we make no allusion to American born Catholics, for whose public and private virtues we entertain high respect.

Mr. Levin's comments at the beginning of the article in reference to Jesuit spread misrepresentation of his views, should be noted, as this misrepresentation doubtlessly continued and even intensified during his life as one actively pointing out their devices. As stated in the notes of the article provided above, not all Catholics do or have willingly supported the ongoing agenda being implemented by the Papacy. Many have even fought against such. Nevertheless, the Papacies political agenda has and does continue to march forward.

As is obvious, we now have and have had an ambassador to Rome for quite some time now. Thanks to Reagan, who preached small government, we have had diplomatic relations with one of the, if not the most politically active globalist huge government proponents of this world for several decades now. The effects of ever increasing governmental power and control have been being felt ever since. While Reagan preached one message, he set the stage for the implementation of the exact opposite upon his retirement.

As is mentioned above concerning the Irish and German immigration to our nation, we have been receiving wave after wave of predominantly Catholic immigrants into our nation for well over a century now. Countless millions with very different religious and often political views than our own. The result has been the transformations we have all been witnessing for that same amount of time now. This is a no brainer, replacing one population with another having completely different religious and political views, transforms said nation into the predominant views of the latter.

Naivety could chalk all such up to circumstance alone, but knowledge of exact stated intent, and less known methodology and practice, speak volumes to the contrary. Mr. Levin accurately foresaw the political and religious effects of this huge influx of Roman Catholics into our Protestant developed government and nation. Which effects we are ever increasingly living today. Our nation is slowly but surely being transformed into just another broke, marginalized, divided, predominantly Catholic system of religious and political hierarchy over and above lay people and peasants. Both ever increasingly dependent upon their religious and political "superiors" for survival.

The rest of the article under examination will continue to point out just how this has been accomplished over the past hundred and a half or so years. Which we will continue to examine in later posts.

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Just a small note. I sent you a PM. If you do not get it let me know.

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Just a small note. I sent you a PM. If you do not get it let me know.

Yes, I got it. Thank you. There are several groups out there, who have some good points about what has happened or transpired concerning the transformation of our government and nation since its inception. Joining one of them however, will not solve the dilemma, or prevent what is coming. Nothing short of Americans revisiting their past and coming to understand the issues involved in the formation of our nation, its declaration of independence, and implementation of Constitutional government for the people and by the people, could reverse the direction we have been headed in for quite some time now. The enemies of truth though, continue to be hard at work preventing the same from occurring.

The formation of our nation and government was a direct result of increased knowledge of the holy scriptures among the people. They received such knowledge illegally against the will of the religious and political powers of their day. Their struggles to know, believe, and practice the truths of holy scripture, created the Protestant Reformation. Correspondingly, those choosing to conform their lives to that of the teachings of scripture over and above the mandates of the existing religion and government of the times, fled in all directions from persecution at the hands of said religion and government.

A great many of those fleeing such, ended up on the shores of that once termed the new world. Here, far away from the reach of the persecuting powers of the religio-political governments they fled from, they ended up forming new government which would allow for people to believe and practice what they wished. Which in many of their cases, meant conforming their lives to the teachings of holy scripture. Our Declaration of Independence therefore, was declared first and foremost, upon the foundation of humanities God given inalienable rights. Our Constitution therefore also seeks to ensure that our government obtains its power from the will of the governed themselves, to enforce such freedoms and whatever laws necessary to their maintenance. Also establishing a healthy separation of church and state to prevent persecutions based upon either a church controlled government, or government controlled church.

The above history is exactly what all enemies of truth and our form of government based upon the same, must distort, malign, and remove from public attention in order to facilitate their own forms of despotic government and rule over the multitudes. Which agenda has been moving forward under the direct supervision of the evil one himself for a long time now. Our population has been artificially manipulated through mass immigration movements unto ever increased numbers of adherents to the "Christian" religion which first united with the state unto compulsion over conversion of faith. While at the same time huge numbers have abandoned the scriptures and God altogether. Such have no interest in the truths of history which empowered our forefathers to form the existing government which itself allows for their freedom to be and do what they are and do. To the contrary, they are the non stop authors of revisionist and manipulated history unto their own ends. Therefore are we headed down the road of disaster.

Nothing can change this, short of real revival and or reformation concerning first and foremost, an increased knowledge of the word of God among the populace again. This, followed by true conversion of belief and action concerning the same. Apart from which, no government such as that originally instituted by these United States, can be developed or maintained. For such government requires first and foremost, honest reflection concerning self and society in relation to holy scripture, and personal responsibility in bringing such about in one's own life, family, community, town, city, state, or nation. Those who do not even really know what true freedom constitutes, will never be able to facilitate the same.

Gal 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

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Continued speech from Lewis Charles Levin to U.S. Congress, with notes from post # 274, and my comments in blue.

I ask, has Pius IX abolished tithes? Has he granted universal suffrage, or any suffrage, to his papal subjects? Has he established a representative government? Has he introduced trial by jury? Has he granted the writ of habeas corpus? Has he abolished the college of cardinals? Has he established common schools? Has he struck down the power of the confessional? Has he repealed the demoralizing edict of celibacy? Has he thrown open the gates of the monastery, or unbarred the iron bolts of the convent? Has he separated church power from state authority? Has he abolished that pest-house of intrigue and pernicious propagandism, the society of Jesuits? He has done none of these things. Then what has he done to entitle him to the sympathy of the people and the homage of the government of the United States? Nothing.

He has made no fundamental alteration in the Papal system. The edifice remains entire; it is supported by the same gothic columns of medieval ignorance and superstition. He may polish an architrave-he may repair a broken step leading to the vestibule, or suspend a new wreath around the alter, or add an ivory crucifix, or even lay a railway into the capital of the Caesars, but the Papal system remains entire, unaltered, unimproved-the same stern tyranny, the same inflexible compound of earthly and celestial despotism. Yet the man who is Pope is not a Caeser-Borgia. Pius is not as a man so narrow and contracted as Gregory. Pius understands human nature, and knows how to render the Papal system popular by wreathing chains with rose blossoms. Perhaps the elements mix more gently in his bosom. But all this does not make the Papal system less odious.

It was said of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, that he made tyranny so beautiful by his amiable character as to destroy in the Roman people the love of liberty. Pius is now doing more than Augustus, for he is reconciling the world to the concentrated despotism of the most iron-handed hierarchy that ever flourished.

If Rome will not come to America, America  must go to Rome! This is the new doctrine of an age of retrogressive progress. If the Pope will not establish a republic for his Italian subjects, we, the American people, must renounce all the ties of our glorious freedom, and endorse the Papal system as the perfection of human wisdom, by sending an ambassador to Rome to congratulate "His Holiness" on having made-what? The Roman people free? Oh! no; but on having made tyranny amiable; in having sugared the poison cake. And for this, the highest crime against freedom, we are to commission an ambassador to Rome!  Is there an American heart that does not recoil from the utter degradation of the scheme?

When nations profess to assimilate on principles of amity, and to draw closer the ties of good will, it is on the ground of a common cause - equally dear to both - either of freedom or of absolute power. If Rome were a republic, or merely a temporal power, although not republican, the proposal to send an ambassador to preserve principles common to both Governments, and equally dear to the people of both countries, would rest on a different foundation. In that case we should have congenial interests to preserve; in that case we should be co-operating in the common cause of human rights. But now we exhibit to the world the spectacle of a pure antagonism in our system of government to that of Rome - the one maintaining liberty of conscience and the sovereignty of the freely expressed popular will; the other the control of conscience, and the combination of priestly and political supremacy by divine right. Two systems more opposite could not exist. When liberty makes concessions to tyranny, which party gains by it? Not freedom - not the cause of human rights. Despotism thrives by it. We lend encouragement to a system of government at open war with the happiness of mankind; we become the patrons of an absolute monarch; we tell him to "scourge on, scourge on."

We are about to act in a crisis of Papal history pregnant with the most eventful consequences to the world. It is not a common occasion. No ordinary impulse moves the great machinery of Papal power, whose wheels are oiled by the adulation of Jesuit priests on the one hand, and the demagogues on the other. Not only is Rome coming into a new epoch, but the United states is also beginning a new era. Why we have never before had an ambassador at Rome, is answered by the prompt reply that Rome never before had a Pius IX on the Papal throne! We have nothing, then, to justify this projected innovation but to the modern character of a new Pope. Embassies once opened are never closed. We cannot compliment Pius by an embassy, therefore, for even after his death it must be continued. We compliment the Papal system of government by sending an ambassador, having no commercial interests to settle, or political relations to adjust. Nor is it possible to compliment Pius without complimenting his system of government, for he has as a liberal reformer made no fundamental alterations in it. We are therefore to compliment him on his modified manner of administering a system radically at war with the rights of man, pernicious itself, and dangerous in every form it may assume, and under every modification that individual genius may venture to adopt as a covering to its deformity. 

We have sympathized with the independence of Greece, of South  America, and of Mexico, when, casting off the yoke of kings, they established their claims to self government; and the yoke thus cut off was the yoke of political bondage only, and not the thraldom of the supremacy of priestcraft. But how did we sympathize? Not by sending an ambassador, but by passing resolutions in Congress applauding the act of emancipation. Here were cases in which nations achieved their freedom, and yet we sent no ambassadors. If Pius has emancipated the Roman people, bring forward your resolutions, and then we may have opportunity to inquire how far the extent of his reforms will justify even that manifestation of our national applause. The innovation now proposed is against all precedent, is frowned down by all principle, is denounced by facts, and rendered ridiculous by its extravagance. It would indeed be a farce but for the tragic character of its consequences; and these entitle it to our unmitigated abhorrence.

Pass this bill, and you insult the majesty of the people by the desecration of their Constitution, by the violence done to the genius of our Government, by the outrage of free principles involved in the proposition to recognize Papal Rome, an infallible Church power, as the head of the State.

When we talk of the genius of republican government, and allude to the spirit of free institutions, said to be mortally wounded by the Mexican war, let us remember the wrong done to the spirit of freedom by this scheme of an ambassador to the pope, whose spiritual character is the absorbing one of his throne; and who, if he is no Pope, is no sovereign - he holding his right to rule his subjects from a divine, not a human source. In all other monarchies the right divine is abolished. In Rome, it is the essence of secular as well as ecclesiastical power. He cannot give the people the rights they are entitled to, because from that moment he would cease to be Pope, and the people, ceasing to be slaves, would become sovereign. Pius never can do what would entitle him to American approbation. No Pope can ever be worthy of an ambassador from this Republic on grounds such as we now hear maintained.

"Would you have a serpent sting you twice? We have had experience of the evils of monarchy in its best form, and shall we risk the perils of its deadly venom in the worst? When did the Church of Rome, or the Pope, ever receive homage that it did not exact fealty? When did it ever pause in its giant march after universal dominion? When did it ever sleep, if power was to be gained by waking? When did it ever fascinate without the intention to destroy?

The flood of immigration is sweeping its millions of foreign Roman Catholic voters over the land. The past is gloomy enough,  the present awfully portentous; but the future is black "with shadows, clouds, and darkness." This country seems destined to be grand theatre of Roman Catholic power - not American Papistry, but the Papistry of Rome - of the old world - of Austria and the Pope. Shall we grow wise in time, or shall we surrender up our rights without resistance? Shall we make a stand now, on a government proposition to unite this free Republic with absolute Rome; or shall we surrender in anticipation of the day of trial, and ask the Pope, in despair, to fetter our hands before we strike a blow?

Sir, if it be written in the black book of fate that this great republic is yet to become a dependency of the great Court of Rome, let us not  hasten our infamy by any premature weakness, by any act that shall expedite our downfall or accelerate our bondage. We are now asked to become voluntary agents in enslaving ourselves; we are implored to send an ambassador to Rome - to have our manacles forged in the furnace of the imperial city, under the special care of the Holy Father, who acknowledges no human authority in matters of government, but who pleads a divine right to bow down the neck of man in the dust, and yoke him to the iron car of absolute power.

Do Americans, who think favorably of this measure as a stroke of policy to conciliate the foreign Catholic vote, calculate that it must cost the honor if not the freedom of our country, when they propose that we shall despatch a political ambassador to a prince who maintains that all power emanates from a Divine source, and that the people posses in themselves no inherent rights? Has it been ascertained even that the Pontiff will receive and ambassador from a country not only branded with heresy, but outlawed as democratic from the pale of legitimate government? The practice of the Papal Court has always been adverse to receiving missions from powers that did not in some form acknowledge her supremacy. Even England has for ages maintained no diplomatic relations with Rome, owing to her Protestant contumacy.  Are we to bend the knee first, and then to acknowledge the Pope as the source of all power? Must we prove recreant to our glorious Declaration of Independence? Must we renounce popular rights? On what terms is our ambassador to go? Does the proposition come from the Pope or originate from our own cabinet? These are important questions to answer. Has his Holiness turned democrat? And fallen in love with our free institutions? This is not probable; for if he cannot tolerate the idea of a Protestant hierarchy like England, he will not assuredly be able to look with complacency upon a people who maintain the radical equality of the human race as we do.


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The Bishop's Oath. - The following is copied from the ordination of Roman Catholic bishops in the United States:

" The rights, honors, privileges, and authority of the holy Roman Church, of our Lord the Pope, and his aforesaid successors, I will endeavor to preserve, defend, increase, and advance. I will not be in any counsel, action, or treaty, in which shall be plotted against our said Lord and the said Roman Church any thing to the hurt or prejudices of their persons, right, honor, state, or power; and, as soon as I can, will signify it to our said lord. The rules of the Holy Fathers, the apostolic decrees, ordinances, or disposals, reservations, provisions, and mandates, I will observe with all my might, and cause to be observed by others. Heretics, Schismatics, and Rebels to our said Lord, or his aforesaid Successors, I will to my power persecute and oppose. I will come to a council when I am called - I will myself personally visit the threshold of the Apostles (at Rome) every three years, and give an account to our Lord and his aforesaid successors, &e., and WILL in like manner humbly RECEIVE and diligently EXECUTE the APOSTOLIC COMMANDS." It is part and parcel of the ecclesiastical law, framed by the priests and sanctioned by the Pope, that all property, whether buildings, lands, or money, appropriated to religious uses, must be invested in the Bishops, who are responsible to the Pope alone.

More as it were, prophetic utterance from Mr. Levin. The above notes of course, pointing out the political nature of all Catholic hierarchy within every nation, who must always be ready to subvert the will of nations and their peoples in line with Papal policy. Which would include aid of course from all adherents of said faith, willing to place church authority above civil authority in their respective spheres of influence.

Many of these being the same people who are first to cry bigotry against Catholics, toward anyone actually addressing this form of treason disguised as "Christianity". If serving the interests of a foreign monarch over and above those of your own country is not treason, then what is. Yet this is exactly what the papacy is within  every nation where it is tolerated. It can be no other way, in a religious institution whose Supreme Pontiff professes both the ecclesiastical and temporal sword of authority. Therefore do the Pope's write one Encyclical after another telling the entire world what to do and how to do it. Simply presuming the authority to do such, and awaiting the actions of their constituents or willing minions to put such into place.

This nature of the papacy has been described by many in the past -

The following is from -

THE PRACTICE OF PRELATES by William Tyndale
Martyred in 1536
Library of The Theological Seminary
PRINCETON  NEW JERSEY
PRESENTED BY
Samuel Agnew, Esq.
1814-1880

March 26, 1851

A proper similitude to describe our holy Father

And to see how our holy father came up, mark the ensample of the ivy tree: first it springeth out of the earth, and then awhile creepeth along by the ground till it find a great tree. Then it joineth itself beneath alow unto the body of the tree, and creepeth up a little and a little, fair and softly. And at the beginning, while it is yet thin and small, that the burden is not perceived, it seemeth glorious to garnish the tree in winter, and to bear off the tempests of the weather. But in the mean season it thrusteth roots into the bark of the tree, to hold fast withal; and ceaseth not to climb up, till it be at the top and above all. And then it sendeth his branches along by the branches of the tree, and overgroweth all, and waxeth great, heavy, and thick; and sucketh the moisture so sore out of the tree and his branches, that it choaketh and stifleth them. And then the foul stinking ivy waxeth mighty in the stump of the tree, and becometh a seat and a nest for all unclean birds, and for blind owls, which hawk in the dark, and dare not come at the light.

Even so the bishop of Rome, now called the pope, at the beginning crope along the earth; and every man trod upon him in this world. But as soon as there came a christian emperor, he joined himself unto his feet and kissed them, and crope up a little with begging now this privilege, now that; now this city, now that; to find poor people withal, and the necessary ministers of God's word. And he entitled the emperor with choosing the popes and other bishops; and promoted in the spiritualty, not whom virtue and learning, but whom the favor of great men commended; to flatter, to get friends, and defenders withal. And the alms of the congregation which was the food and the patrimony of the poor and necessary preachers, that he called St Peter's patrimony, St Peter's rent, St Peter's lands, St Peter's right; to cast a vain fear and a heathenish superstitiousness into the hearts of men, that no man should dare meddle with whatsoever came once into their hands for fear of St Peter, though they ministered it never so evil; and that they which should think it none alms to give them any more (because they had to much already) should yet give St Peter somewhat, (as Nabuchodonesser gave his god Beel) to purchase an advocate and an intercessor of St Peter, and that St Peter should at the first knock let them in. And thus, with flattering and feigning, and vain superstition, under the name of St Peter, he crept up and fastened his roots in the heart of the emperor, and with his sword clamb up above all his fellow bishops, and brought them under his feet. And as he subdued them with the emperors sword, even so by subtilty and help of them (after that they were sworn faithful) he clamb above the emperor, and subdued him also, and made him stoop unto his feet and kiss them another while. Yea, pope Caelestinus crowned the emperor Henry the fifth, holding the crown between his feet: and when he had put the crown on, he smote it off with his feet again, saying, that he had might to make emperors and to put them down again.

And he made a constitution, that no layman should meddle with their matters, nor be in their councils, or whit what they did; and that the pope only should call the council, and the emperor should but defend the pope; provided alway that the council should be in one of the pope's towns, and where the pope's power was greater than the emperor's. Then, under the pretence of condemning some heresy, he called a general council, where he made one patriarch, another cardinal, another legate, another primate, another archbishop, another bishop, another dean, another arch dean, and so forth, as we now see.

And as the pope played with the emperor, so did his branches and his members, the bishops, play in every kingdom, dukedom, and lordship; insomuch that the very hiers of them by whom they came up, hold now their lands of them, and take them for their chief lords. And as the emperor is sworn to the pope, even so every king is sworn to the bishops and prelates of his realm: and they are the chiefest in all parliaments; yea, they and their money, and they that be sworn to them, and come up by them, rule altogether.

And thus the pope, the father of all hypocrites, hath with falsehood and guile perverted the order of the world, and turned the roots of the trees upward, and hath put down the kingdom of Christ, and set up the kingdom of the devil, whose vicar he is; and hath put down the ministers of Christ, and hath set up the ministers of Satan, disguised yet in names and garments like unto the angels of light and ministers of righteousness. For Christ's kingdom is not of the world (John XVIII); and the popes kingdom is all the world.

And Christ is neither judge nor divider in this world (Luke XII): but the pope judgeth and divideth all the world, and taketh the empire and all kingdoms, and giveth them to whom he lusteth.

Christ saith, "Blessed are the poor in spirit:" so that the first step into the kingdom is humbleness, or humility; that thou canst find in thine heart to do service unto all men, and to suffer that all men tread thee.

The pope saith, 'Blessed be the proud and high minded, that can climb and subdue all under them, and maintain their right, and such as will suffer no man:' so that he which was yesterday taken from the dunghill and promoted this day by his prince, shall to-morrow, for the pope's pleasure, curse him, and excommunicate him, and interdict his realm.

Christ saith, "Blessed by the meek," or soft, that be harmless as doves.

The pope blesseth them that can set all the world together by the ears, and fight, and slay manfully for his sake, that he may come hot from blood-shedding to a bishoprick; as our cardinal did, and as St Thomas of Canterbury did, which was made bishop in the field, in complete harness on his horseback, and his spear bloody in his hand.

Christ hath neither holes for foxes, nor nests for birds, nor yet whereon to lay his head, nor promised aught in this world unto his disciples, nor took any to his disciple but him that had forsaken all. The ivy-tree, the pope, hath under his roots throughout all Christendom, in every village, holes for foxes, and nests for unclean birds in all his branches, and promiseth unto his disciples all the promotions of the world.

The nearer unto Christ a man cometh, the lower he must descend, and the poorer he must wax. But the nearer unto the pope ye come, the higher ye must climb, and the more riches ye must gather, whencesoever ye can get them, to pay for your bulls, and to purchase a glorious name, and license to wear a mitre, and a cross, and a pall, and goodly ornaments.

This same process described above is and has been going on again in this world for quite some time now, that is ever since the papacy fell from power in 1798 till the present as it has been busy reestablishing the same. Politics, politicians, and forms of government may have changed since the papacies first establishment, but her process of regaining her lost power is much the same as that described by William Tyndale above. As the papacy destroyed him, and all other truly biblical Christians when she had the power to do so, so she will again in the future when she regains all that she had lost with the help of her confederates. This process is not only well under way, but we are living during the final stages of the papacies resurrection as the woman riding yet another global beast power. The beast that was, and is not, is about to be again. The beast that received a mortal wound to the head, is almost completely healed.

A couple of more quotes from another source -

The times also require this investigation. Throughout Europe, throughout the world, there is a revival of the Papal system. True, this revival is not to be considered as indicative of any very great triumphs. The best days of Popery have been numbered. The notions which men now entertain of popular liberty, and of the rights of conscience, the general intelligence that prevails, the recorded history of Papal oppression, the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, and above all, the word of God, all lead to the belief, that no efforts of the crafty agents of this crafty system, can ever give it the influence it has once exerted. "Tekel" is inscribed upon it; and some Cyrus will, ere long, be raised up, who shall dry up its waters, break down its gates of brass, and let oppressed humanity go free. No; it is not the ultimate triumph of this system we fear; it is the harm it may do in its death-struggle; it is the unnatural energies of its spasmodic dissolution, that we dread.

In America, particularly, is this investigation important. In all the countries over which it has triumphed, Popery, like the anaconda, has wound around its folds of art, of cunning, of superstition and of power, until, enclosing everything in its too friendly embraces, it has, with one tremendous effort, crushed the nation to death. It sends forth its missionaries; it gathers its schools and colleges; it erects its cathedrals and builds its churches; it is patriotic, benevolent, charitable. Its alms and offerings attract the vulgar, its austerities and penances convince the sceptical. It is at first tolerated; then approved; next obeyed! But now come the dread realities of the system, taxation, passive submission, excommunications, interdicts, crusades, the inquisition, destruction. Yes, Popery has well nigh destroyed every country in which it has been predominant. The liberties and national prosperity of a people cannot coexist with such a system.

Let then, Americans — Americans, who have never witnessed a Court of Inquisition, or an Auto-da-fe, on their virgin soil; Americans, whose national liberties are still fragrant with the blood of revolutionary forefathers; Americans, whose proud eminence in the civilized world, gives them more to lose than other nations; let Americans especially examine this subject well. And if, in such an examination, the following pages shall contribute but a mite to the discovery of the truth, the author will feel himself more than compensated for the labor they have cost him.

(CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST, by Samuel J. Cassels, PART 2 ANTICHRIST OR THE PAPACY PROVED TO BE THE ANTICHRIST PREDICTED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, Pgs., 125&126)

The above quoted book was published in 1846, not long before Mr. Levin presented his speech we are examining now. The author apparently did not believe that the papacy would ever again amount to anything like it former glory days of power. He did not apparently understand that the Rev. 13 prophecy regarding the healing of the first beasts mortal wound, was in relation to Papally controlled global politics. He did however understand the malignant nature of the institution, and its ill effects upon society and nations, which he correctly identified and stated. Which effects this nation world are presently living to an ever greater extent, as the second global beast of biblical prophecy spoken of in Rev. 13 comes to fruition through the intoxicating effect of BABYLON'S political influence. We will close this post with the following quote concerning the same, from the same book already quoted above.

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

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Continued speech of Lewis Charles Levin to the U.S. Congress with notes from post # 277, my comments in blue.

If the appointment were a mere mercantile arrangement to negotiate a treaty of trade and commerce, it would wear a color more rational - even although the Pope is not bound TO KEEP THE FATIH WITH HERETICS! But alas, the Pontine marshes are the boundaries of the trade and commerce of the Roman Pontiff. He has no trade, no commerce, no exchange of value to offer for our cotton, our tobacco, our rice, or our flour, our hemp. It becomes, then, a pure political embassy; yet, having no political relations with Rome, it becomes reduced to a mere nullity, an empty form, an unmeaning pageant, a ridiculous display, wicked in its conception, disgraceful in its tendency, and prodigal in its expenditure. Is this the time to play with expensive baubles, while  we are borrowing millions upon millions to prosecute the war? Must we add to the burdens of our national debt by taxing tea and coffee, in order that we may send an ambassador to the Roman Pontiff, to acquire the vices or familiarize himself with the frivolities of the Roman Court?

How stands this boasted Italian reformer, as a constitutional monarch? Is he willing to part with any of his boasted prerogatives as an absolute high priest and king? Listen to his own declarations, spoken at the last opening of his Council of State, and mark the holy indignation with which he repels the slightest imputation or suspicion of his despotic character! And yet we, the American people, propose to send a deputation, an embassy, to this confirmed despot! These are his words:

"I thank you for your good intentions; and, as regards the public welfare, I esteem them of value. It was for the public good that, since any elevation to the Pontifical throne, I have, in accordance with the councils inspired by God, accomplished all that I could; and I am still ready, with the assistance of God, to do all for the future, without, however, retrenching in any degree the sovereignty of the Pontificate; and in as much as I received it full and entire from my predecessors, so shall I transmit this sacred deposit to my successor. I have three millions subjects as witnesses, and I have hitherto accomplished much to unite my subjects with me, and to ascertain and provide for their necessities. It was particularly to ascertain those wants, and to provide better for the exigencies of the public service, that I have assembled a permanent council. It was to hear your opinion when necessary, and not to aid me in my sovereign resolutions, in which I shall consult my conscience, and confer on them with the Ministers and the Sacred College. Any body who would take any other view of the functions you are called to fulfill would mistake materially, as well as he that would see in the council of the State I have created the realization of their own Utopias, and the germ of an institution incompatible with the Pontifical sovereignty."

Now what are the facts? The United States can only regard Pius, in his temporal and political character, as a sovereign, the monarch of Rome. And we find that sovereign so jealous of his absolute secular power as to denounce by anticipation any possible surmise of his intention to part with or relax in favor of popular freedom any, nay even the slightest, portion of his absolute pontifical prerogatives. He will not retrench one iota of that power which he has received full and entire from his predecessors, and which he will transmit as a sacred deposit to his successors. And what is this deposit? Such is the language of the reformer, for whom a faction of the United States would express sympathy, and whom they are willing to fraternize!

True, we sent a minister to Russia, who is an absolute monarch; but the autocrat of Russia although the head of the Greek church claims no ecclesiastical supremacy in other states and over other people, and does not direct the terrible energies of his absolutism to the propagation of religious dogmas and the establishment of the temporal power of the Greek Church, in dominions not properly subject to his sway. Besides, most important political and commercial relations between the United States and Russia justify this embassy, as conclusively as similar reasons justify missions to other Powers which hold no republican affinities or tendencies. The empire of Russia extends from Northwestern America to the Baltic, and the black sea - the American flag waves in Russian ports, from Archangel to Odessa, from ST. Petersburgh to Kamschatka, and the honor and interests of the country alike demand the presence of a representative of the United States at the court of St. Petersburgh. But, in the case of Pius, we propose to send a sympathizing embassy, a special political agent, to uphold his political character, and encourage him in his efforts to overthrow American institutions!

Sir, I wage no war against any religious opinions of foreigners or Americans, nor do I conceive Jesuit influence to have any connexion with religion. Roman Catholic countries have in succession denounced, expelled, or proscribed the Jesuits, as the most formidable enemies of government; several Popes have fulminated their bulls against them. It is to trite a part of history to detail, for all know that it was Pope Clement the XIV. who promulgated the memorable edict for their suppression as a pernicious order, whose ambition was incompatible with the government of empires and the purity of the Roman Catholic religion. Their colleges, and their revenues confiscated by Roman Catholic prelates, popes, and kings. The institution of Ingatius Loyola was made to immortalize the ambition of bad men. It laughed with derision at the power of States to extinguish it; it still flourishes more formidable than ever throughout Europe, unseen in its giant power, but more powerful than kings. Following in the path of their victims, they come in droves to the United States, and are now spread thought the length and breadth of the land. With smiling and meek exterior, their purposes are all useful. They wear no terrific front: they carry no weapon to destroy life; but bear scepter of knowledge in their hands, and under the banner of "education" they instill the insidious doctrines that invest them with almost omnipotent power over the minds of their disciples. Power over the human will is the object of the Jesuit, and the aim of that power is to rule by enslaving him. A community under the influence of the Jesuits must be a community of slaves. Implicit obedience to the behests of a despot is the first law of the order; and will you give fresh vigor to that order by courting a legate of the Pope to be stationed in this city for the purpose of centralizing its influence? Sir, foreign colonies planted among us, under the influence of such a central power, cannot fail to work out their designs, even to the overthrow of our free institutions.


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The Pope's Foreign Jesuits. - A sufficient ground of opposition is found in the character of the agents who are made use of to accomplish the revolution to which I refer. History furnishes evidence, sanctioned by Roman Catholics themselves, that the Jesuits, who are swarming over this country, are men whose principles and practices have been dangerous to the peace and order of all governments. With them all things are right when sanctified by the end. To lie, to assassinate by the steel and the chalice, are with them virtuous deeds, when they promote the interests of Rome. The proof of this is on the pages of Molina, Lessius, Vasquez, Escobar, and the rest quoted by Pascal in his provincial letters. And we refer, for their practical results, to the ecclesiastical and political history of Europe, For the best comment on their enormities.

Their perfect internal discipline, their entire obedience to their leader, the art with which they adapted their instruction to every class of people, the consummate ability, learning, and judgment which they displayed, rendered them the most powerful and opulent of the monastic orders. They became the grand bulwark of Popery. The facility with which they relaxed the moral system of Christianity, and accommodated it to the propensities of mankind, rendered them exceedingly popular. The characteristics of the Jesuits were craft and subtlety; they were perfectly unscrupulous in the use of means for the accomplishment of their ends. This powerful society was ultimately suppressed, first by the French Parliament, then by Spain, Portugal, &c., and finally the order was extinguished by Pope Clement XIV, in 1773. This dangerous order has been revived by Pope Pius VII. It is spreading itself firmly in the United States, and, with its wonted policy, seeming to adapt itself to the institutions of the country, while, by getting the control of education, it prepares to modify and direct those institutions at its will.

In the Jesuit's oath is -
   1. An acknowledgment that Protestant Governments are illegal, without the "sacred confirmation" of the Pope, and may safely be destroyed.
   2. A renunciation of "any allegiance, as due to any heretical" state named Protestant.
   3. A solemn pledge to do their utmost to "destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.

Comment, on the relations which these agents of the Pope sustain to our Protestant Government, is needless. They are found as agents, preachers, editors, orators, and are the originators or promoters of a majority of the mobs and riots that for ten years past have distracted this country; one of their great aims being to bring our Government and institutions and laws into disrepute, that Protestantism may no longer have the credit and the glory of building up this great nation.

They are Jesuits, in the pay and employ of a despotic government; they are foreigners, who have been schooled in foreign seminaries, in the doctrine of passive obedience; they are foreigners, under vows of perpetual celibacy, and having therefore no deep and permanent interest in this country; they are foeigners, bound, by the strong ties of pecuniary interest and ambition, to the service of a foreign despot. Is there no danger to our free institutions from a host commanded by such men, whose numbers are constantly increasing the power arising from the right to refuse absolution to those who do not comply with their commands? And should not the men who posses such powers be jealously watched by all lovers of liberty?

Yet again more prophetic words from Mr. Levin which history has proved correct. We are now living with the results and in the days of rampant anti American rhetoric from our own deceived citizens and politicians. Many of them learning such rubbish and revisionist history in our largely Jesuit controlled educational institutions, which as Mr Levin pointed out, the Jesuits were already seeking to and beginning to control in his day. What Conservative today, does not know and understand the rubbish being taught in our educational institutions today as truth concerning the history of this nation. Which rubbish is now even being introduced to our grade school children. Where do you suppose all of this anti American and anti Protestant rhetoric is really coming from?

The Roman Catholic Church declared war against Protestant peoples, churches, institutions, and nations long ago. They have simply continued this war, while most Protestants have abandoned their protests of the same. Deludedly Heeding Rome's calls for unity and dropping their guards, while she attacks and destroys their biblical foundations and institutions. Identifying all such as evils of history which must be attacked or wiped out of memory altogether. None of this is new. She used to burn those who chronicled her evil histories and false teachings at the steak with their own books regarding the same. Since she lost the power of states to perform these evil deeds for her anymore, she has resorted to more cunning and hidden methodologies to accomplish these same ends. Rewriting and wiping out from public view the truth about her own history, and that of those who have apposed her.

Having been very successful in these endeavors while biblical Protestantism has been asleep at the wheel, she is now poised once again to use the political powers of deluded peoples and governments, to persecute all those who will appose her. Calling for and receiving support from big tech. and government who have all been in bed with her, in enforcing censorship, shaming, fines, and the establishment of laws procuring all of the same against those who defy the will of her and her minions. She writes Encyclicals and documents calling for all such things, and meets privately with politicians, the rich, powerful, big tech CEO's, oil conglomerates, famous entertainers, famous sports stars and teems, heads of huge global corporations, and on and on. Much of which I have personally attempted to record on this very thread and others in this SDA forum. 

Then when these same entities begin to implement her designs, the ignorant and willingly ignorant throw their hands up in the air and ask what is happening, and where this is coming from? It is the elusive left, the liberals, the progressives is the eternal cry of professed Conservative "Christians". All the while ignoring the blatant evidence of who they are really receiving their marching orders from. Which is not only being told to them right now, but as this speech under examination testifies, has been chronicled for them during the history of this nation. If they would just care to listen and search these things out unto true knowledge, rather than being manipulated and controlled by bought and paid for main stream media. So be it.

2 Ti 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 


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Excellent article. Especially the


                   

NOTES

The Pope's Foreign Jesuits. - A sufficient ground of opposition is found in the character of the agents who are made use of to accomplish the revolution to which I refer. History furnishes evidence, sanctioned by Roman Catholics themselves, that the Jesuits, who are swarming over this country, are men whose principles and practices have been dangerous to the peace and order of all governments. With them all things are right when sanctified by the end. To lie, to assassinate by the steel and the chalice, are with them virtuous deeds, when they promote the interests of Rome. The proof of this is on the pages of Molina, Lessius, Vasquez, Escobar, and the rest quoted by Pascal in his provincial letters. And we refer, for their practical results, to the ecclesiastical and political history of Europe, For the best comment on their enormities.

Their perfect internal discipline, their entire obedience to their leader, the art with which they adapted their instruction to every class of people, the consummate ability, learning, and judgment which they displayed, rendered them the most powerful and opulent of the monastic orders. They became the grand bulwark of Popery. The facility with which they relaxed the moral system of Christianity, and accommodated it to the propensities of mankind, rendered them exceedingly popular. The characteristics of the Jesuits were craft and subtlety; they were perfectly unscrupulous in the use of means for the accomplishment of their ends. This powerful society was ultimately suppressed, first by the French Parliament, then by Spain, Portugal, &c., and finally the order was extinguished by Pope Clement XIV, in 1773. This dangerous order has been revived by Pope Pius VII. It is spreading itself firmly in the United States, and, with its wonted policy, seeming to adapt itself to the institutions of the country, while, by getting the control of education, it prepares to modify and direct those institutions at its will.

In the Jesuit's oath is -
   1. An acknowledgment that Protestant Governments are illegal, without the "sacred confirmation" of the Pope, and may safely be destroyed.
   2. A renunciation of "any allegiance, as due to any heretical" state named Protestant.
   3. A solemn pledge to do their utmost to "destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.

Comment, on the relations which these agents of the Pope sustain to our Protestant Government, is needless. They are found as agents, preachers, editors, orators, and are the originators or promoters of a majority of the mobs and riots that for ten years past have distracted this country; one of their great aims being to bring our Government and institutions and laws into disrepute, that Protestantism may no longer have the credit and the glory of building up this great nation.

They are Jesuits, in the pay and employ of a despotic government; they are foreigners, who have been schooled in foreign seminaries, in the doctrine of passive obedience; they are foreigners, under vows of perpetual celibacy, and having therefore no deep and permanent interest in this country; they are foeigners, bound, by the strong ties of pecuniary interest and ambition, to the service of a foreign despot. Is there no danger to our free institutions from a host commanded by such men, whose numbers are constantly increasing the power arising from the right to refuse absolution to those who do not comply with their commands? And should not the men who posses such powers be jealously watched by all lovers of liberty?

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But  readers here, may well just let it slide and hold the belief that these kinds of posts are too one sided to be concerned. THEY are wrong.

There are multitudes of varying sources that certify what is suggested about the Jesuits in this article that is posted.

It is worse then what is suggested above.

The Extreme Oath of the Jesuits:

"1, _ now, in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the saints and sacred hosts of heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in the Pontificate of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb of the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear, that his holiness the Pope is Christ's Vice-regent and is the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Savior, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation and that they may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power I shall and will defend this doctrine of his Holiness' right and custom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatever, especially the Lutheran of Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the now pretended authority and churches of England and Scotland, and branches of the same now established in Ireland and on the Continent of America and elsewhere; and all adherents in regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state named Protestants or Liberals, or obedience to any of the laws, magistrates or officers.

I do further declare that the doctrine of the churches of England and Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and others of the name Protestants or Liberals to be damnable and they themselves damned who will not forsake the same.

I do further declare, that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland or America, or in any other Kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my uttermost to extirpate the heretical Protestants or Liberals' doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.

I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume my religion heretical, for the propaganda of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels from time to time, as they may entrust me and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father, or any of this sacred covenant.

I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ.

That I may go to any part of the world withersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions of the North, the burning sands of the desert of Africa, or the jungles of India, to the centers of civilization of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America, without murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me.

(Pope Francis took this oath!!)

I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.

In confirmation of which, I hereby dedicate my life, my soul and all my corporal powers, and with this dagger which I now receive, I will subscribe my name written in my own blood, in testimony thereof; and should I prove false or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the Militia of the Pope cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat from ear to ear, my belly opened and sulphur burned therein, with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth and my soul be tortured by demons in an eternal hell forever!

All of which, I, _, do swear by the Blessed Trinity and blessed Sacraments, which I am now to receive, to perform and on my part to keep inviolable; and do call all the heavenly and glorious host of heaven to witness the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my name written and with the point of this dagger dipped in my own blood and sealed in the face of this holy covenant."

(He receives the wafer from the Superior and writes his name with the point of his dagger dipped in his own blood taken from over his heart.)

https://www.remnantofgod.org/jes-oth.htm

This oath is taken from the book Subterranean Rome by Carlos Didier, translated from the French and published in New York in 1843. Dr. Alberto Rivera escaped from the Jesuit Order in 1967, and he describes his Jesuit oath in exactly the same way as it appears in this book. Semper idem: always the same.

The Jesuit Oath of Induction is also recorded in the Congressional Record of the U.S. (House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216).

http://www.trustingod.org/jesuits/jesuitoath

The text of the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction is meticulously recorded in the Journals of the 62nd Congress, 3rd Session, of the United States Congressional Record (House Calendar No. 397, Report No. 1523, 15 February, 1913, pp. 3215-3216).

However, without explanation, the text was subsequently torn out of the Congressional Record, but not before it was copied word for word by several researchers, including Ian Paisley for the European Institute of Protestant Studies.

https://rense.com/general70/bloodr.htm

The Jesuit Oath Exposed
"Go ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not accept
him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-Regent on earth, let him be accursed and exterminated."
Professor Arthur Noble

[The following is the text of the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction (complete) as recorded in the Journals of the
62nd Congress, 3rd Session, of the United States Congressional Record (House Calendar No. 397, Report
No. 1523, 15 February, 1913, pp. 3215-3216), from which it was subsequently torn out. The Oath is also
quoted by Charles Didier in his book Subterranean Rome (New York, 1843), translated from the French
original. Dr. Alberto Rivera, who escaped from the Jesuit Order in 1967, confirms that the induction
ceremony and the text of the Jesuit Oath which he took were identical to what we have cited below. –
A. N.]

When a Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the Chapel of the
Convent of the Order, where there are only three others present, the principal or Superior standing in
front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white,
which are the Papal colours, and the other a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull
and crossbones, with the word INRI, and below them the words IUSTUM NECAR REGES IMPIUS. The
meaning of which is: It is just to exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical Kings, Governments, or
Rulers.

Upon the floor is a red cross at which the postulant or candidate kneels. The Superior hands him a
small black crucifix, which he takes in his left hand and presses to his heart, and the Superior at the
same time presents to him a dagger, which he grasps by the blade and holds the point against his
heart, the Superior still holding it by the hilt, and thus addresses the postulant:

(The Superior speaks:)

My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman
Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among
the Reformers, to be a Reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to
be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their confidence,
to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our
Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you
might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier
of the Pope. You have been taught to plant insidiously the seeds of jealousy and hatred between
communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and to incite them to deeds of blood, involving
them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were
independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace;
to take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged
on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the
Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the
end justifies the means. You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and
information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family
circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the
banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the
judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the Pope's sake, whose servants
we are unto death. You have received all your instructions heretofore as a novice, a neophyte, and
have served as co-adjurer, confessor and priest, but you have not yet been invested with all that is
necessary to command in the Army of Loyola in the service of the Pope. You must serve the proper
time as the instrument and executioner as directed by your superiors; for none can command here
who has not consecrated his labours with the blood of the heretic; for "without the shedding of blood
no man can be saved". Therefore, to fit yourself for your work and make your own salvation sure, you
will, in addition to your former oath of obedience to your order and allegiance to the Pope, repeat
after me:

(Text of the Oath:)

I_______________ , now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the
blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, and all the saints,
sacred host of Heaven, and to you, my Ghostly Father, the superior general of the Society
of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the pontification of Paul the Third, and
continued to the present, do by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of
Jesus Christ, declare and swear that His Holiness, the Pope, is Christ's Vice-Regent and is
the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that
by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by my Saviour, Jesus
Christ, he hath power to depose heretical Kings, Princes, States, Commonwealths, and
Governments, and they may be safely destroyed. Therefore to the utmost of my power I
will defend this doctrine and His Holiness's right and custom against all usurpers of the
heretical or Protestant authority whatever, especially the Lutheran Church of Germany,
Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the now pretended authority and Churches of
England and Scotland, and the branches of same now established in Ireland and on the
continent of America and elsewhere and all adherents in regard that they may be usurped
and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now denounce and disown
any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or State, named Protestant or Liberal, or
obedience to any of their laws, magistrates or officers. I do further declare the doctrine of
the Churches of England and Scotland of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and others of the name
of Protestants or Masons to be damnable, and they themselves to be damned who will not
forsake the same. I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of His
Holiness's agents, in any place where I should be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland,
Ireland or America, or in any other kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my utmost
to extirpate the heretical Protestant or Masonic doctrines and to destroy all their
pretended powers, legal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare that,
notwithstanding, I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation
of the Mother Church's interest; to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels from
time to time, as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word,
writing or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that should be proposed, given in
charge, or discovered unto me by you, my Ghostly Father, or any of this sacred order. I do
further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental
reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will
unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the
militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ. That I will go to any part of the world whithersoever
I may be sent, to the frozen regions north, jungles of India, to the centres of civilisation of
Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America without murmuring or
repining, and will be submissive in all things, whatsoever is communicated to me. I do
further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage
relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am
directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare
neither age, sex nor condition, and that will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and
bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and
crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That
when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the
strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honour,
rank, dignity or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either
public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agents of the Pope or
Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus. In confirmation of
which I hereby dedicate my life, soul, and all corporal powers, and with the dagger which I
now receive I will subscribe my name written in my blood in testimony thereof; and should
I prove false, or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the
militia of the Pope cut off my hands and feet and my throat from ear to ear, my belly be
opened and sulphur burned therein with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me
on earth, and my soul shall be tortured by demons in eternal hell forever. That I will in
voting always vote for a Knight of Columbus in preference to a Protestant, especially a
Mason, and that I will leave my party so to do; that if two Catholics are on the ticket I will
satisfy myself which is the better supporter of Mother Church and vote accordingly. That I
will not deal with or employ a Protestant if in my power to deal with or employ a Catholic.
That I will place Catholic girls in Protestant families that a weekly report may be made of
the inner movements of the heretics. That I will provide myself with arms and ammunition
that I may be in readiness when the word is passed, or I am commanded to defend the
Church either as an individual or with the militia of the Pope. All of which
I,_______________, do swear by the blessed Trinity and blessed sacrament which I am
now to receive to perform and on part to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof, I take
this most holy and blessed sacrament of the Eucharist and witness the same further with
my name written with the point of this dagger dipped in my own blood and seal in the face
of this holy sacrament.

(He receives the wafer from the Superior and writes his name with the point of his dagger dipped in his
own blood taken from over his heart.)

(Superior speaks:)

You will now rise to your feet and I will instruct you in the Catechism necessary to make yourself
known to any member of the Society of Jesus belonging to this rank. In the first place, you, as a
Brother Jesuit, will with another mutually make the ordinary sign of the cross as any ordinary Roman
Catholic would; then one crosses his wrists, the palms of his hands open, and the other in answer
crosses his feet, one above the other; the first points with forefinger of the right hand to the centre
of the palm of the left, the other with the forefinger of the left hand points to the centre of the palm
of the right; the first then with his right hand makes a circle around his head, touching it; the other
then with the forefinger of his left hand touches the left side of his body just below his heart; the
first then with his right hand draws it across the throat of the other, and the latter then with a
dagger down the stomach and abdomen of the first. The first then says Iustum; and the other answers
Necar; the first Reges; the other answers Impious. The first will then present a small piece of paper
folded in a peculiar manner, four times, which the other will cut longitudinally and on opening the
name Jesu will be found written upon the head and arms of a cross three times. You will then give
and receive with him the following questions and answers:

From whither do you come? Answer: The Holy faith.

Whom do you serve? Answer: The Holy Father at Rome, the Pope, and the Roman Catholic Church
Universal throughout the world.

Who commands you? Answer: The Successor of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus
or the Soldiers of Jesus Christ.

Who received you? Answer: A venerable man in white hair.

How? Answer: With a naked dagger, I kneeling upon the cross beneath the banners of the Pope and of
our sacred order.

Did you take an oath? Answer: I did, to destroy heretics and their governments and rulers, and to
spare neither age, nor sex, nor condition; to be as a corpse without any opinion or will of my own, but
to implicitly obey my Superiors in all things without hesitation or murmuring.

Will you do that? Answer: I will.

How do you travel? Answer: In the bark of Peter the fisherman.

Whither do you travel? Answer: To the four quarters of the globe.

For what purpose? Answer: To obey the orders of my General and Superiors and execute the will of
the Pope and faithfully fulfil the conditions of my oaths.

Go ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will
not accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-Regent on earth, let him be accursed and
exterminated.

[Note: The following books on (or particularly relevant to) the Jesuits are held by the EIPS Library:


Anon.: The Female Jesuit. London, 1851
Anon.: The Mystery of Jesuitism. London, 1658
Anon.: The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits. London, 1824
Anon.: The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits. London, 1824
Barrett, E.B.: The Jesuit Enigma. London, 1929
Barthel, M: The Jesuits. New York, 1984
Bert, M.P.: Gury's Doctrines of the Jesuits. London, 1947
Blakeney, R.P.: Alphonsus Liguori. London, 1852
Brodrick, J., S.J.: The Origin of the Jesuits. New York, 1960
Bungener, L.L.F.: The Jesuits in France or The Priest and the Huguenot. London, 1859
Coape, H.C.: In a Jesuit Net. London, no date
Dalton, E.: The Jesuits. London, 1843
De Courson, R.: Concerning Jesuits. London, 1902
Gallahue, J.: The Jesuit. New York, 1973
Goodier, A.: The Jesuits. London, 1929
Griesinger, T.: History of the Jesuits. London, 1903
Groves, H.C.: The Doctrines and Practices of the Jesuits. London, 1889
Hanna, S.: Jesuitism: or Catholic Action. Belfast, 1938
Hastings, M.: Jesuit Child. Newton Abbot, 1972
Hillerbrand, H.: The Reformation. A Narrative History related by Contemporary Observers and
Participants. Ann Arbor, 1989
Lathbury, T.: The State of Popery and Jesuitism in England. London, 1838
Lehmann, L.H.: The Secret of Catholic Power. New York, no date
Liguori, A.M.: The Council of Trent. Dublin, 1846
MacPherson, H.: The Jesuits in History. London, 1914
Martin, M.: The Jesuits. New York, 1987
Nicolini, G.B.: History of the Jesuits. London, 1854
Paisley, I.R.K.: The Jesuits. Belfast, no date
Paris, E.: The Secret History of the Jesuits. London, 1975
Ridley, F.A.: The Jesuits: A Study in Counter-Revolution. London, 1938
Roberts, Archbishop, S.J.: Black Popes. London, 1954
Robertson, A.: The Roman Catholic Church in Italy. London, 1903
Seebohm, F.: The Epoch of the Protestant Reformation. London, 1877
Seymour, M.H.: Mornings among the Jesuits at Rome. London, 1850
Steinmetz, A.: History of the Jesuits. London, 1848 (3 Vols.)
Walsh, W.: The Jesuits in Great Britain. New York, 1903
Wild, J.: Canada and the Jesuits. Toronto, 1889
Wylie, J.A.: Jesuitism: Its Rise, Progress and Insidious Workings. London, no date
Ybarra, T.R. (translator): The Kaiser's Memoirs, by Wilhelm II. New York, 1922]

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And the following link merely shows
The Oath of the Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta and Rhodes Scholars is based upon the Oath of the Jesuits

A quick read

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jesuits.htm

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