The Catholic Church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. Ring of Power, 2008
During World War II the Vatican was criticised for supporting Hitler and his Nazi regime. To this day the Vatican is still under investigation for plundering Nazi gold from the Swiss bank accounts of Jewish holocaust victims. Over the past five decades more than one thousand five hundred bishops have been identified in the sexual assault of tens of thousands of boys and girls in their trusting congregations and orphanages. Why is this filthy rich institution preaching spiritual values of poverty and chastity while cardinals, bishops and priests cover up their crimes of sexual abuse? Why has the Church fought and resisted the compensation claims of their sexually, emotionally and spiritually traumatised victims? ibid.
[sings] We will win. We have confidence. In the victory. In Good over Evil [rips picture of Pope]. Fight the real enemy. Sinead O’Connor
Within a few days of Paul VI’s return to Rome the Pope let it be known that Rome was ready to take a new look at secret societies. The stage was now set for full Papal approval of membership in secret societies. On 27th November 1983, Pope John Paul II issued the papal bull which legalised secret society membership for Roman Catholics. Pope VI continued to promote the New World Order until his death. New World Order: The Devil in the Vatican
In the early evening of Saturday, 26th August 1978, hundreds of thousands of people rejoiced to see the white smoke emanating from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Shortly thereafter 7:18 p.m. Pericle Cardinal Felici stepped out on the balcony above the main doors of St Peter’s Basilica and announced Habemus papem [We have a Pope] and announced his name: Cardinal Albino Luciani, who took the name of Pope John Paul I ... He only served thirty-three days. ibid.
With his bright intelligence and naive fearlessness John Paul I penetrated to the heart of this maze of corruption within weeks of his coronation. On the evening of 28th September 1978 he called Cardinal [Jean] Villot, the leader of the powerful Curia, to his private study to discuss certain changes that he proposed to make public the following day. Among those whose resignations would be accepted by the Pontiff the following day were the head of the Vatican Bank and several members of the Curia who were implicated in the activities of Sindona and P2 and Villot himself. When Pope John Paul I retired to his bedroom on the evening of 28th September clutching the paperwork that would expose the Vatican’s financial dealings with the Mafia and purge the Curia of those responsibly, a number of very ruthless individuals had a great interest in seeing to it that he would never awaken to issue these directives. ibid.
Did a plucky German woman of English descent cross-dress to claim the papacy in 854 as many church chronicles describe? Pope Joan? ibid.
In the early 4th century a betting man might have put his money on Christianity becoming a major religion here in the East. But then something completely unexpected happened in the West. A new Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity his own. Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, BBC 2009
At a Great Council of the Church in 1215 Pope Innocent III tried to secure the loyalty of the faithful by spelling out what it meant to be a Catholic. Confession and communion at least once a year. The Council also told people what to believe about the Mass – bread and wine miraculously become the body and blood of Christ. ibid.
By the sixteenth-century all through Europe the Church was selling certificates called Indulgences to show how much time in Purgatory you had avoided. The cash paid for new churches and hospitals. When the Pope wanted to finish the re-building of St Peter’s basilica in Rome he launched an indulgence campaign. Some might think this a worthy cause but it raised big questions in the mind of a German monk ... Martin Luther ... Over the next decade this open defiance of ancient authority was Christened Protestantism. ibid.
She [Mary] adds a femininity to Catholicism which Protestantism rather lacks. You also have the confessional, a brand-new invention of the counter-Reformation. So that you can unburden yourself of sin to a priest. So what the counter-Reformation offered you was a sense of companionship – companionship with holy Mother Church. This was the Counter-Reformation’s answer to Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin. ibid.
In spite of The Enlightenment Revolution the Catholic Church had emerged stronger than ever. ibid.
The gunpowder plot ... The potential for destruction on a 9/11 scale; now these people would be seen as terrorists; they were the Al Qaeda of their day – Catholics. Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, How God Made the English II: A Tolerant People? BBC 2012
For the next three hundred years Catholics would be excluded from all positions of power. ibid.
I confess to almighty God … that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. The Missal, used by Church to 1964: The Ordinary of the Mass
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. ibid.
O King of tremendous majesty, who freely saves those who should be saved, save me, O source of pity! ibid.
313 A.D. Constantine would sign the Edict of Milan granting tolerance and protection to Christians. A Lamp in the Dark – The Untold History of the Bible, 2010
If Constantine were a true believer, how could he turn and persecute other Christians? ibid.
Many Christians saw in this new system an apostate union between the Church and the Powers of the World. ibid.
Dominic along with Pope Innocent III were the two original founders of Rome’s most dreadful engine – terror and destruction. ibid.
Pope Gregory IX would established the Inquisition as official Church doctrine and thus began some six hundred years of bloodshed against Bible believers. ibid.
Wycliffe’s followers suffered greatly and many of them were put to death. ibid.
For centuries Rome had been burning Bibles along with the books written by Wycliffe and others. ibid.
The Popes have not only made claims to be God, but have insisted that salvation itself depends directly upon obedience to them. ibid.
The Jesuits are known for their insidious methods of deception, spying, infiltration, assassination, and revolution. ibid.
Claimed ... that the Jesuits we responsible for the killing of Lincoln. ibid.
Even in modern times Ian Paisley has spoken openly against the Jesuit order ... ‘who the black pope really was – the head of the Jesuits ... the Gestapo of the Roman Catholic Church. The front men who carry out the Pope’s Orders throughout Christendom.’ ibid.
During the Second World War it was the Jesuits who put forth that: ‘The building up of the Third Reich ... unites a national-socialist state to Catholic Christianity.’ ibid. Paris p164
1540 The Counter Reformation ... Jesuit warning: ... ‘And obtaining their confidence, from their pulpits; you have been taught your duty as a spy to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of ... Heretics ... Of every class and character.’ ibid.
This [Jesuit] network would expand by 1749 to 669 colleges, 176 seminaries, 61 houses of study, and 24 universities partly or wholly under Jesuit direction. ibid. citing F Tupper Saussy p65
The Jesuits would not abandon the centuries old practice of prosecuting heretics who did not convert. ibid.
Jesuit blood oath: The initiate swears he will do utmost in his power to destroy opposition to papal authority, and says, I furthermore promise and declare that I will when opportunity presents, make and wage endless 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 earth ... I will secretly use the poisoned cup ... take possession of all lands in the name of the pope. ibid.
I’ll give this a name: I’ll call it Catholic feminism ... Women across the Catholic world claimed that Mary had appeared to them in visions. Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Sex and the Church III: Christianity v The West, BBC 2015
The Cult of Mary confronted the Enlightenment rationalism that had brought such destruction to the Church. ibid.
The darkest days in Church history were always the brightest days for the Church of Jesus Christ. When they were burning the saints of God, thank God, the Gospel burned with mighty fire. Reverend Ian Paisley
Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic Church, died while defending Christianity; it is therefore understandable that words cannot be found to lament over his death when so many were found to exalt his life ... With the palm of the martyr, God gives Hitler the Laurels of Victory. Ian Paisley, citing Secret History of the Jesuits p163
We must rank the Inquisition ... as among the darkest blots on record of mankind. Will Durant, The Story of Civilisation 4:78
Let us at the same time be vigilant that no-one may suspect our designs ... You well know that what we aim at is the empire of the world. Aloysius Fortis, address to 20th Jesuit secret conference at Chieri
They keep back a portion of the Gospel ... having studied in the Devil’s new Jesuit college. Charles Spurgeon, A Solemn Warning For All Churches, sermon 68
The SS Organisation had been constituted ... according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Edmond Paris, The Secret History of the Jesuits p164
Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus was expelled from at least 83 countries, city states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversive plots. J E C Shepherd, The Babbington Plot p13
That the Church of Rome was not the spouse of Christ but the Church of confusion, drunk with the blood of the martyrs. That the Church of Rome was neither good nor holy nor established by Jesus Christ. David W Cloud, Rome and the Bible p9
The crusade of Simon de Montfort so utterly destroyed them that ... Simon stamped out not only a people but a literature. ibid. p65