TACKLING the
TOUGH TOPICS
FACING AMERICANS TODAY!
Issue # 75 // January 20, 2006 // Editor: Darryl Eberhart
(Updated through: April 19, 2007)
NOTE: All emphasis throughout this
newsletter, unless otherwise noted, is by the editor of “Tackling the Tough Topics (TTT)”.
WARNING: This TTT newsletter may
seriously “disturb” some folks’ “comfort zones”; however, TRUTH is far more important than any of our comfort
zones.
DEFINITIONS
(Hopefully listed in alphabetical
order):
“Center Party” (per
Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “[Often seen in various books as ‘Centrum’
or ‘Zentrum’ Party]: The German Roman Catholic Center Party [in German:
Zentrumspartei] was a powerful political party in Germany in the 19th
century and early 20th century (especially in the 1920s and early
1930s). Its main power base was in predominantly Roman Catholic Bavaria [in
southern Germany]. The German Roman Catholic Center Party’s endorsement of, and
unanimous vote for, the Enabling Act of March 1933 was crucial, giving
Adolf Hitler the 2/3s majority he needed to assume dictatorial powers in
Germany.”
“Crusade” (per Webster’s
New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; 1974; first two meanings): “1.
Any of the military expeditions which Christians [Ed. Note: to be more
precise, Roman Catholics] undertook from the end of the 11th
[century] to the end of the 13th century to recover the Holy
Land from the Moslems. 2. Any church-sanctioned
war or expedition like this.”
((Ed
Comment to the preceding definition: The Papacy launched “holy” crusades
against Bible-believing Christian groups, such as the Albigenses in southern
France, and the Waldenses in southeastern France and northwest Italy.))
“Deceitful” (per Webster’s
1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): (Meaning #1): “Tending to mislead,
deceive or ensnare.”
“Editor” (per Webster’s
1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): “[1.] A
publisher; particularly, a person who superintends an impression [i.e., a
single edition] of a book; the person who revises, corrects and prepares
a book for publication… 2. One
who superintends the publication of a newspaper.”
“Fascism” (per Webster’s
New World Dictionary, Second College Edition – second meaning): “A
system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression
of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized governmental
control, belligerent nationalism, racism, and militarism, etc.: first
instituted in Italy in 1922.”
“Front” (per Webster’s
New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; 1974): (Meaning #15): “A
person or group used to cover or obscure the activity or
objectives of another controlling person or group.”
“Genocide” (per Frank
Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, co-authors of The History and Sociology of
GENOCIDE): “A form of one-sided mass killing in which a state
or other authority [Ed. Note: such as a RELIGIOUS
authority] intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership
in it are defined by the perpetrator.” (The History and Sociology of
GENOCIDE; 1990; Page 23)
“Genocide” (per Professor
R. J. Rummel, author of Death by Government): “Among other
things, the killing of people by a government because of their
indelible group membership (race, ethnicity, religion, language).” (Death
by Government; 1994; Page 31)
“Heretic” (per Webster’s
1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): “1. A person under
any religion, but particularly the Christian, who holds and teaches opinions
repugnant to the established faith, or that which is made the standard of
orthodoxy. In strictness, among
Christians, a person who holds and avows religious opinions contrary to the
doctrines of Scripture, the only rule of
faith and practice. 2. Any
one who maintains erroneous opinions.”
“Heretic” (per Darryl
Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “As concerns historical Roman Catholic use
of this term: A ‘label’ applied by the Papacy to anyone who dared in the past,
or who dares today, to question either (1) papal authority, or (2) any of the
unscriptural doctrines based solely upon ‘tradition’ that have been promulgated
by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, such as ‘transubstantiation’,
‘indulgences’, ‘papal infallibility’, ‘purgatory’, ‘worship of images’, ‘a
celibate priesthood’, ‘auricular confession to a priest’, etc.”
“Holocaust” (per Webster’s
Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary; 1971): (a.) “A sacrifice consumed by
fire”; (b.) “A thorough destruction esp. by fire.”
“Inquisition” (per Webster’s
1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): (Meaning #4): “In
some Catholic countries, a court or tribunal established for the examination
and punishment of ‘heretics’. This
court was established in the 12th century by ‘father’ Dominic, who
was charged by Pope Innocent III with orders to excite [Roman]
Catholic princes [i.e., rulers] and people to extirpate [i.e.,
destroy completely] ‘heretics’.”
“Jesuit Order” (per
Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “The Jesuit Order is a religious order of
the Roman Catholic Church, officially approved by Pope Paul III in 1540. The
primary goals of this order are (1) to roll back the Protestant Reformation and
the freedoms that it brought to many of the inhabitants of this planet; (2) to
enhance the power and prestige of the Papacy; and (3) to rule despotically over
the governments of the world through the Papacy. The head of the Jesuit Order is the Jesuit Superior General – the
‘Black Pope’ – the real power behind the Papal throne. The Jesuit Order is
infamous for fomenting revolutions and wars, assassinating heads of State, and
subverting nations.”
“Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor”
(per Eric Jon Phelps, author of Vatican Assassins): “Someone
who performs service or duties for the Jesuit Order, but who is not a
Jesuit priest. This person may be of any
race, religion, or sex.”
“Knights of Malta” (per Darryl
Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “A Roman Catholic religious-military order
headquartered in Rome with, and under the command of, the Jesuit Superior
General. Much of the wealth of the
Knights Templar, when it was disbanded in 1312, was given to the Knights of
Malta. Many Knights of Malta have held
top-level positions in various governments, in the world’s foremost
intelligence agencies, in international banking, and in the publishing world. A number of Knights of Malta continue to
hold such positions.”
“Mass Murder” (per Darryl
Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “The indiscriminate killing of any person or group
of people by either a government, or by a religious institution –
or, by a government AND a religious institution working
hand-in-hand together to eliminate their perceived enemies.”
“Papal Rome” (per Darryl
Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “The government of the Roman Catholic
Church, whose headquarters is presently in Rome, Italy.”
“Red Herring” (per Webster’s
New World Dictionary, Second College Edition): (Meaning #2): “Something
used to divert attention from the basic issue.”
“Revise” (per Webster’s
1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): “1. To review; to
re-examine; to look over with care for correction… 2. To review, alter and amend…”
“Reviser” (per Webster’s
1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): “One that revises or
re-examines for correction.”
“Revisionist” (per Webster’s
New World Dictionary): “A person who revises, or favors the
revision of, some accepted theory, doctrine, etc.”
“Scapegoat” (per Webster’s
New World Dictionary, Second College Edition): (Meaning #2): “A person,
group, or thing upon whom the blame for the mistakes or crimes of
others is thrust.”
“Smoke screen” (per Webster’s
New World Dictionary, Second College Edition): (Meaning #2): “Anything
said or done to conceal or mislead.”
“Ustashi” – “Catholic
Actionists” – The Roman Catholic militia (and later army) in the Roman
Catholic Fascist State of Croatia during World War II.
IMPORTANT
NOTE #1: I (the
editor of the ETI and TTT newsletters) am not a Roman Catholic; I also most
definitely am not anti-Roman Catholic as far as individual
Roman Catholics go. My dad and 90% of my relatives are Roman Catholic; and the
majority of my friends are Roman Catholic. I am, however, against the top
levels of secret societies (from the hierarchy of the Jesuit
Order to the hierarchy of Freemasonry). This is because these secret societies control
the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church (through the Jesuit Order
and P2 Masonry), and have often used this hierarchical system
for evil purposes, such as “holy” Inquisition, “holy”
crusades, “holy” wars, and religious genocide. The hierarchical system
of the Roman Catholic Church is used quite effectively by secret
societies not only to keep over one billion Roman Catholics “in line”, but also
to gather intelligence, and to infiltrate (through its Knights of Malta,
Jesuit “temporal coadjutors”, etc.) governments and various Christian
denominations. I am also against any religious hierarchy that
tries to place itself equal to, or above, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God
– or equal to, or above, God’s Holy Word (i.e., the Holy Bible) and His Ten
Commandments!
IMPORTANT
NOTE #2: We can no longer afford to REMAIN SILENT on these critical
issues for fear of offending any particular group – in this case, Roman
Catholics. Please carefully consider
this quote by author Dave Hunt:
“We are told to love one another as Christ has loved
us. Pop psychology trivializes that
command by equating it with a ‘positive’ attitude. Forgotten is the first duty of love: to speak the truth
(Ephesians 4:15). Real love does not
flatter or soothe when correction is needed but [rather] points out the error which is
blinding and harming the loved one. Christ
said, ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and
repent’ (Revelation 3:19). Instead, the
idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth,
and seeks unity at any price.
Only disaster can result.” (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 403)
This editor of the ETI and TTT
newsletters has been writing more and more about the Roman Catholic Church’s
hierarchy (i.e., Papal Rome), and especially about the Jesuit
Order, in recent newsletters because I keep uncovering more and more about the deep
hatred that Papal Rome has for independent
Bible-believing Christians, Protestants, Orthodox Christians, and Jews. We
Americans have, for the most part, been largely ignorant of the well-documented
history of Papal Rome in conducting brutal religious genocide
(via Inquisition, “holy” wars, and “holy” crusades)
against all the afore-mentioned groups. Sadly, many Americans believe the “ecumenical
rhetoric” of Roman Catholic prelates – i.e., that Papal Rome
has “changed her ways” and now loves all the “separated brethren”. However, my study of the Papacy shows me
that this ecumenical rhetoric is just a RUSE [i.e., a “stratagem”
– per Webster’s Dictionary: “any trick or scheme for achieving some purpose”]. The “purpose” is to bring all
Christian denominations under the control of the Papacy!
Yes, the Papacy [i.e., Papal Rome],
despite its “ecumenical rhetoric”, has not changed a bit
over the many centuries in the following categories:
Power – absolute power – has long been the
pursuit of Papal Rome.
History has recorded Papal Rome’s deep hatred
for religious liberty and freedom of conscience. The U.S. Constitution, with
its “Bill of Rights” guaranteeing such liberties, has long been hated
by Papal Rome. (For a good example of this hatred, please read
the Syllabus of Errors issued in 1864 by Pope Pius IX.) I have heard that there is an acronym in use
by some Knights of Columbus in America. This acronym is “M.A.C.”:
“Make America Catholic”.
America is the last “roadblock” in the way of Papal Rome and her
globalist rich and power elite lackeys in their quest for
one-world government and one-world religion. Is America scheduled for a religious genocide – an Inquisition
– as occurred in the 1940s in Croatia?
I believe the danger is real and possibly quite imminent –
and that is why I have been writing more and more about Papal Rome,
her long-held dreams of world domination, her love of Fascist
regimes, and her well-documented history of torture and religious genocide!
HERE
ARE SOME RELEVANT QUOTATIONS:
“The
conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and
opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism
of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country… It is they who pull the wires which control
the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind
and guide the world…” (1928)
Edward Bernays (Called by some the “Father of Public
Opinion”)
“For 300 years past the Church of
Rome has striven by an unceasing torrent of false histories,
pamphlets, and lectures to conceal from the nation [i.e., Great Britain] and the world the true face
of her terrible history before and during the Reformation.”
Albert Close (Jesuit Plots
from Elizabethan to Modern Times; Page 7)
“Surely some Jesuit hand must
have been at work influencing ‘Lord’ Romilly [Ed. Note: the “Master of the Rolls” (who was in charge of State
Papers) in England] when he appointed [in 1859] a Roman Catholic
[William Barclay Turnbull] to edit the State Papers of the
reigns of [King] Edward VI [king: 1547-53] and [Roman
Catholic Queen] Mary [I; queen: 1553-58], above all others; and later
to appoint the Rev. Joseph Stevenson as successor.”
Albert Close (Jesuit Plots from Elizabethan to
Modern Times; Page 9)
((Ed.
Comment to the preceding quote: Joseph Stevenson later “became” a Jesuit
in 1882. Was it just a “coincidence” that he had earlier been appointed to edit
British history at the office of the “Master of the Rolls”? Has American history similarly been edited
to remove any evidence of Papal and Jesuit wrongdoing in the USA? Yes! American history has been meticulously edited!))
“The greatest danger and damage
to true British history today lies in the almost criminal folly of the [British] Government appointing Roman Catholics
and Anglo-Romanists to edit the Official Calendars of
State Papers from the original Manuscripts of the Reformation times.
By clever maneuvering, Rome
[i.e., the Vatican – the Papacy]
has succeeded in the past in getting Roman Catholic Calendarers on the
Staff of the Master of the Rolls, with the result that Vatican Documents and
other old State Papers have either been suppressed in our
National Calendars of State Papers or edited in favor of the
Church of Rome.”
Albert Close (Jesuit Plots from Elizabethan to
Modern Times; Page 8)
((Ed.
Comment to the preceding quote: I do not know if I would use the word “folly”
in the first sentence of the preceding quotation. Powerful people in the
British government knew exactly what they were doing. Papal Rome
has for centuries instructed her “agents” (e.g., Jesuits, Jesuit “temporal
coadjutors”, Knights of Malta, Knights of Columbus, etc.) to
infiltrate governments, religious denominations, intelligence
agencies, universities and colleges, school board committees, publishing
houses, etc., in a carefully planned and orchestrated effort to “erase”,
as much as possible, Papal Rome’s history of religious genocide
and persecution, of fomenting revolutions and wars, of assassinating heads of
State, and of torture and Inquisition – and also to “rewrite and
revise” history textbooks and encyclopedias. This effort has been immensely successful.))
“There can be no shadow of doubt that the Jesuits
and the Anglo-Romanist party in Britain have gained great influence over
the Cable Services, Press Agencies, B.B.C., and chief newspapers of Great
Britain…”
Albert Close (Jesuit Plots from Elizabethan to
Modern Times; Page 169)
((Ed.
Comment to the preceding quote: The same thing [i.e., a Jesuit
takeover of the press, media, and publishing industry] has also happened here
in the USA!))
“There
is no doubt that the American [Roman] Catholic hierarchy has entered the political arena, and that it is
becoming more and more aggressive in extending the frontiers of [Roman] Catholic authority into the fields
of medicine, education, and foreign policy… As we shall see in this book [Ed. Note: American Freedom and Catholic
Power], the [Roman] Catholic hierarchy in this country [i.e.,
the USA] has great power as a pressure group, and no editor, politician,
publisher, merchant or motion-picture producer can express defiance openly – or
publicize documented facts – without risking his future.”
Paul Blanchard (Journalist
and author) (1949; Quote was taken from his book American Freedom and Catholic
Power.)
((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: This quote was
made in 1949.
The power of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the USA has not diminished
from that time, but rather has grown. Many powerful Knights
of Malta (controlled by the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order) have held key positions
in America’s mainstream media (e.g., Henry Robinson Luce and William Randolph
Hearst), in U.S. intelligence agencies (e.g., CIA Directors William Donovan,
John McCone, William Casey, William Colby, and George Tenet), in U.S. banking,
in the U.S. government, etc. Top-level Knights of Columbus (e.g., Senator Ted
Kennedy) have held, and continue to hold, key positions in the U.S.
government. Many of these men do NOT have the best interests of
the American people at heart – rather, they serve the interests of the Vatican and the Jesuit
Order. These men share the goals of the Vatican and the Jesuit
Order
for one-world government and one-world religion controlled by the Papacy! Of course, the real power
behind the papal throne is the Jesuit Superior General – the Black
Pope!))
“In
March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests [Ed. Note: controlled by the
Rockefellers]…got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to
select the most influential newspapers in the U.S. and [a] sufficient number of
them to CONTROL generally the
policy of the daily press of the United States. These 12 men worked the problem out by
selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process to retain
only those necessary for the purpose of CONTROLLING. They found it was necessary to purchase CONTROL of 25 of the greatest
[news] papers. The 25 [news] papers
were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and
international, of these papers. An
agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by
the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly SUPERVISE and EDIT
information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial
policies, and other things of national and international nature considered
vital to the INTERESTS of the PURCHASERS…
This policy also included the SUPPRESSION
of everything in opposition to the wishes of the INTERESTS SERVED.” – Oscar Callaway (U.S. Congressman) (Statement placed in the Congressional Record in 1917)
“There
is probably no important magazine or newspaper in the country [Ed. Note:
the USA] that is not COMMUNIST-penetrated to some degree.”
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961; American journalist;
ex-member of the Communist Party of the United States)
((Ed.
Comment to the preceding quote: For whom do the Communists work? Author Gary Allen tells us: “The Rockefeller family, through their
Chase Manhattan Bank and other entities, have been great benefactors of the
Soviet Union ever since [the]
Communist Revolution in Russia.”
Which brings us to these questions: For whom do the Rockefellers work?
Do they have any connections to the Rothschilds, who hold the title “Guardians
of the Vatican Treasury”?))
“I questioned Dr. [Alberto] Rivera about the briefings he received
in the Vatican when he was a Jesuit priest. I asked him if he was briefed on how the Vatican
planned to take over the United States. He told me [that] his
indoctrination [i.e., his training as a Jesuit] went back [into
American history] to the time of the Pilgrims. Because of the knowledge of
the Inquisition and the slaughter of Christians by the Roman Catholic system,
the early immigrants in America began passing laws to keep Jesuits out
of this country and to outlaw the mass…to protect themselves from
a Vatican takeover. These were Christian communities deeply
concerned about the ‘whore of Revelation’ [i.e., the “whore” described in
the book of Revelation in the Holy Bible].
Jesuits began arriving in
America as early as the second group of Pilgrims. They used different names
with identifications. They were followed years later when the Vatican
sent multitudes of [Roman] Catholic
families from England, Ireland, and France – posing as Protestants –
into the colonies. These were ‘plants’. They were holding secret masses in defiance
of the laws. In those days, no Roman
Catholic was to hold any position in civil government. The Jesuits made
sure this part of our history was erased and removed.
The next major move by the Jesuits
was to destroy or control all the Christian schools across America. Throughout
the years, Jesuits, working undercover, have gotten into special committees
on school boards to remove the emphasis of the Bible and replace it with
psychology as found in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, the
founder of the Jesuit Society. Later,
Catholic schools and universities sprang up all across the nation under the Jesuits. Today, they probably outnumber all the
Christian schools and colleges put together.
The third stage was to move into the
courts and legislation…to take over as judges and lawyers in
order to manipulate the Constitution in their favor until it could be
changed. Once this was accomplished,
the thrust was into politics to capture the political parties. Then [the Jesuits moved on to] the military and the newspapers. Even back in the time of Lincoln over half
the newspapers in the United States were controlled by the Vatican.”
Jack Chick (Smokescreens; 1983; Pages 75,
76)
((Ed.
Comments to the preceding quote:
(1)
If you have any doubts about the above claims by Jack Chick concerning the
tremendous power and influence of Papal Rome and the Jesuit
Order, then you need to check out the following books: Smokescreens
by Jack Chick, A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt, The
Secret History of the Jesuits by Edmond Paris, 50 Years in the
Church of Rome by Charles Chiniquy, and Is Alberto for Real?
(compiled by Sidney Hunter). These
books can all be ordered via credit card by calling Chick Publications
at 1-909-987-0771.
(2)
If you have any doubts about Papal Rome’s heavy-duty takeover
of much of America’s newspapers, magazines, etc., then please do some research
on William Randolph Hearst and Henry Robinson Luce. Both of these men were Jesuit-controlled Knights of
Malta.
(3) Jack Chick says that Papal Rome controlled half of
the [major] newspapers in the USA back in the time of President Lincoln! What percentage of the U.S.
mainstream media and press does Papal Rome now control?))
“In 1997, wealthy media mogul Rupert Murdoch
received papal knighthood for promoting the [Roman] Catholic Church and the pope’s
interests. …This Roman
Catholic [Bible] version [Ed.
Note: the author is referring to the New International Version] is
Rupert’s bestseller! Let’s face it: Roman Catholic [Bible] versions have
become big business.” – David W. Daniels (Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?; 2005; Page
125)
((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote: (1) Per
author David W. Daniels: “Bibles based on the perverted Alexandrian/Roman
Catholic texts are in reality Roman Catholic Bibles – with or without the
Apocrypha.” (2) As already mentioned, a number of wealthy Knights
of Malta (a Roman Catholic religious-military order that is headquartered with,
and controlled by, the Jesuit Superior General) have been major players in the publishing
business, such as Henry Robinson Luce and William Randolph Hearst.))
I love history – that is, I love TRUE
history. Sadly, a whole lot of
important history – history that should be known by the American people
– has disappeared down a very deep “memory hole”. And even more history is headed for that
deep “memory hole”. This history that
has disappeared – or is in the process of disappearing – is true history
that is very unfavorable to Papal Rome and the Jesuit
Order. It is bloody, ugly, and dark history – history that Papal Rome
and the Jesuit Order are working overtime to destroy forever. It is history that Papal Rome
and the Jesuit Order want the American people to forget – or, in the
case of many Americans, to never learn.
It is the well-documented history of Papal Rome and the
Jesuit Order in the following categories:
Cui bono? That is, “who benefits”
from this disappearing history that we Americans should learn if we
are to have any chance of countering Papal Rome’s efforts to destroy
our liberties and our Constitutional Republic?
Some folks allege that “the Jews”
run America’s publishing houses, its mainstream media, etc. If this were true, then why
would these “Jews” be aiding and abetting Papal Rome
and the Jesuit Order by covering up their numerous crimes
against humanity (e.g., “holy” crusades, “holy” wars, the “holy”
Inquisition, and religious genocide)? After all, the Jews have suffered horribly at the hands of Papal
Rome! Inquiring minds surely
would like to know!
I would like to cover some
historical events here in this issue of TTT that I have covered in previous
newsletters – albeit more briefly here, but with some new data
wherever possible – especially some new quotations. I ask those of you who have read some of my
previous newsletters to “stay with me” as I cover these pieces of “disappearing
history”, even though I will be repeating some information here that has
appeared in earlier newsletters.
History is indeed important. While
the dates, names of the leading players, and locations change, the basic
scenarios of tyranny, oppression, manipulated wars, etc., keep repeating “over
and over again”. We should never
forget these wise words from the Spanish philosopher George Santayana: “Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
In a previous TTT newsletter,
entitled “The Real Controllers of the USA”, I talked about “front
groups”, “red herrings”, and “smoke screens” that the real
powers operating “behind the scenes” [i.e., Papal Rome and
the Jesuit Order] use to mislead us not only about history, but
also about what is really happening today in our American Constitutional Republic. Revising and editing
history – or, flushing parts of it down that deep “memory hole” – is a key
component of their carefully planned strategy of deceit and control. And one of the greatest tools in their hands
is a group of people whom I call “the deceitful revisers
and editors of history”.
These “revisers” and “editors” of history have been very successful in
their dirty work of erasing those segments of true history
that reveal Papal Rome’s bloody and sinister past. These
deceitful agents of Papal Rome can be found on school board
committees, in publishing houses, and in many institutes of higher learning.
They are the editors of many top newspapers and newsmagazines.
They write articles for history textbooks and for encyclopedias. They have infiltrated
every important strata of our society. They have destroyed, and are in
the process of destroying, many important segments of American history,
European history, world history, and “Church” history – history that we
Americans need to know if we are to have any chance of preserving our
liberties!
II.
IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF REVISED HISTORY (segments of history that are rapidly
disappearing down a very deep “memory hole”)
“The [Roman] Catholic
Church has the right and duty to kill heretics because it is by fire and sword
that heresy can be extirpated.”
Marianus de Luce (Jesuit; 1901)
So few Americans are aware of Papal
Rome’s horrible persecution of Christian groups in the 12th
through 16th centuries – much of it occurring long before the term
“Protestants” ever came into being. Various popes ordered Roman Catholic
monarchs to send army after army against the Christian Albigenses in
southern France, and against the Christian Waldenses in France and in
northern Italy – against innocent farmers and peasants who were
peaceful, moral people.
Here are just a few quotes dealing
with Papal Rome’s horrible religious genocide against these innocent
Christian men, women, elderly, and children:
“The Albigensian Crusades slash
through the history of France and of the [Roman Catholic] Church like a
gaping wound. From 1208 to 1226 the
papacy sent army after army to the South of France to crush the Albigensian
‘heretics’ and to punish their supporters.
…They [i.e., the Albigensian Crusades] began with a
calculated act of terror, the massacre of [Ed. Note:
large numbers of innocent men, women, and children at] Beziers; they ended
with the establishment of the Inquisition, one of the most effective means of
‘thought control’ that Europe has ever known. ((Ed. Comment: The papal army
butchered about 20,000 citizens of this French city populated then mainly by
the Albigenses.)) They [the
papal armies] were completely successful: The losing faith, the Albigensian
‘Heresy’, was exterminated.
…Their
disappearance as a social group was carefully planned and executed
with persistent cruelty.” – Frank Chalk and Kurt
Jonassohn (Co-authors of The History and Sociology of GENOCIDE;
1990; Page 115)
((Ed.
Comment: The extermination of the Albigensian Christians by Papal
Rome is a clear example of RELIGIOUS genocide – religicide!))
“[The
Albigensian Christians] preached against the immoralities of the [Roman
Catholic] priesthood, pilgrimages, worship of saints and idols…opposed
the claims of the Church of Rome; made great use of the Scriptures.
…By
1167 they [i.e., the Albigensian
Christians] embraced possibly a majority of the population of South France.
…In
1208 a crusade was ordered by Pope Innocent III; a bloody war of extermination
followed, scarcely paralleled in history. Town after town was put to the sword,
and the inhabitants murdered without distinction of age or sex.
…Within
a hundred years the Albigenses were utterly rooted out.”
Dr. Henry H. Halley (Halley’s Bible Handbook)
“These religious crusades [ordered by Papal Rome] and
[accompanying] genocide (frequently in the form of State-Church genocide)
were often directed at innocent peasants and farmers
(e.g., Albigenses, Waldenses, French Huguenots, etc.) whose only ‘crimes’ were
placing the Bible in higher authority than the pope, and refusing to recognize
papal authority. These innocent people were falsely
called ‘heretics’ [by Papal Rome]. Papal armies were raised (often using
murderers, rapists, etc., who had been released from prisons) and sent to exterminate
entire villages and regions.”
Darryl Eberhart (Editor of “Tackling
the Tough Topics”; July 13, 2005)
The Roman Catholic Church claims to
be “Christian”, yet has tortured and butchered Christians who disagreed
with papal authority and/or doctrine. Mass murder by Papal Rome
didn’t just occur in the 12th through the 16th centuries
– it occurred as recently as the 1940s in Fascist Croatia, where
Roman Catholic Ustashi military units, led by Roman Catholic
clergymen, tortured and murdered from 600,000 to one million
innocent Serb Orthodox Christians.
Why isn’t this history
taught to American schoolchildren? Who
benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who
is so powerful in this country that they have, for the most part, been able to
keep this history from the majority of the American people?
Author David W. Daniels gives us a
brief “history” of the Inquisition in his book Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible? (2005):
“THE INQUISITION: The Horror Begins – With each council the level of
terror increased:
1.
Almost never see your accuser.
2.
Never know why or of what you are accused.
3.
No lawyer. You have to prove your
innocence.
4.
You’re presumed guilty – period.
5.
They promise anything, but kill you anyway!” (Page 86)
If the brutal Inquisition
were something that only existed a thousand years ago, then there would be no
need to discuss it here. However, the
“holy” office of Inquisition STILL exists – it has never
disappeared. Oh yes, because of the
“bad press” that it has received in the past, the Vatican has made two “name
changes”.
F. Tupper Saussy, in his book Rulers
of Evil, points out these two name changes: “Pontifex Maximus has laundered
the Inquisition’s name twice. In 1908, Pope Pius X renamed it ‘the Holy
Office’, which [Pope] Paul VI transformed into [the] ‘Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith’ in 1965.” (1999; Page 304)
The office of Inquisition
was set up in the 12th century.
Initially, the Dominicans were in charge of it. Later, the Jesuit Order would take
the office of Inquisition from the Dominicans.
I will not name the encyclopedia
here, but I did read in it, under the entry entitled “Inquisition”, a
typical whitewash of this sick, barbaric, and inhuman institution
(called the “holy” Inquisition). Whoever wrote the article
for this “entry” in this encyclopedia didn’t consider the “Inquisition”
a very big deal, saying that they didn’t use any worse torture than was used
elsewhere in Europe at that time. The Roman Catholic Church refined
“torture” to a new level, even bringing in medical doctors to ensure
that most torture victims didn’t die while under torture. This was done so that
the victims could be “revived and refreshed”, and thus could face days – weeks
– and even months of more and more torture.
How can the Roman Catholic Church
call herself “Christian” and yet command the most brutal torture of
human beings – even of Christians who simply disagreed with papal doctrine
and/or authority? How is it that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church
never seemed to have any problems finding lots of fiends to perform torture,
and priests [who claim to represent Christ] to oversee that brutal torture
of human beings? Where do we find the Lord Jesus Christ anywhere in this type
of ungodly, sick, and barbarous activity?
Oh, by the way, the Roman Catholic Church has never repudiated
her “right” to use torture and force wherever and whenever
she finds the opportunity to do so!
Here are some more quotes dealing
with torture and “holy” Inquisition:
“To wring out confessions from
these poor creatures [Ed. Note: during the various Inquisitions],
the Roman Catholic Church devised ingenious tortures so excruciating
and barbarous that one is sickened by their recital.”
Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the
Beast; 1994; Page 80)
“It is so very hard today to imagine
how anyone could watch and inflict systematic tortures [as occurred during the “Holy” Inquisition]
designed to bring its victims the most severe and agonizing pain, to the very
point of death, yet denying death, and then start the process all over again –
even on an animal, much less another human being.”
John Daniel (The Grand Design
Exposed; 1999; Page 13)
“The most ghastly abomination of all
was the system of torture. The accounts of its cold-blooded operations
make one shutter at the capacity of human beings for cruelty. And it was decreed and regulated
by the popes who ‘claim’ to represent Christ on earth…” – William Shaw Kerr (Church historian)
“What
has turned my soul against Roman [Catholic] abuse of power is the way in which it has
tortured and burned such saints of God as Joan of Arc, hundreds
of the Albigensian martyrs in France in the 12th century, the
Knights Templar, John Huss [Czech Jan Hus], the Dominican Savonarola, the Dominican Giordano
Bruno, [and] the Anglican bishops Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer. The Inquisition has promoted at least two wholesale
massacres: [hundreds of] thousands of Protestant Waldensians in northern Italy
[and southeastern France], and thousands of Protestant Huguenots by the
massacre of St. Bartholomew in France. More
than 30,000 of the most cultured Protestants of France were put to the sword
on the night of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572. At the news [of this brutal, bloody massacre], the Pope had cannons fired,
proclaimed a jubilee, ordered a Te Deum of thanksgiving to be sung, and struck
a special medal to commemorate the glorious ‘victory’.” – Charles A. Bolton
(Ex-Catholic priest)
“Of
eighty popes in a line from the thirteenth century on, not one of them
disapproved of the theology and apparatus of Inquisition. On the contrary, one
after another added his own cruel touches to the workings of this deadly
machine.” –
Peter de Rosa (Catholic historian & former Jesuit; Vicars of Christ: The Dark
Side of the Papacy)
“When
confronted with ‘heresy’, she [i.e., Papal Rome] does not content herself with
persuasion; arguments of an intellectual and moral order appear to her
insufficient, and she has recourse to force, to corporal
punishment, [and] to torture.” – H.M.A. Baudrillart
(Rector of the Catholic Institute of
Paris)
“[The Inquisition’s]
methods of terror and persecution have been used and abused up
to the present day. These methods
were not only new, but also so successful that they have been copied by
totalitarian regimes ever since. The main features of these methods are:
1. Making the denunciation of
fellow citizens an obligation that takes precedence over ties of
family and kinship;
2. Extracting confessions by imprisonment
and torture;
3. Making the naming of fellow
conspirators an essential part of confessions;
4. Defining the retraction of
extorted confessions as a ‘relapse’ and therefore a proof of guilt; and,
5. In some cases, separating the proof of ‘heresy’ or
opposition from the execution of the penalty.
The Inquisition handed over its convicted ‘heretics’ to the secular arm
for punishment just as, hundreds of years later, during Stalin’s purges of the
Communist party, party members were often deprived of their membership and then
handed over to the NKVD for punishment.”
Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn (Co-authors of The History and
Sociology of GENOCIDE; 1990; Pages 114, 115)
Why isn’t this history
concerning Papal Rome’s fiendish “Inquisitional”
institution of brutal torture (that still exists) taught to
American schoolchildren? Shouldn’t the
American people be warned about this institution of torture, and the
political-religious-financial institution that operates it? Who
benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who
is so powerful in the USA that they have, for the most part, been able to keep
this history from most Americans? Certain elements within the CIA love
torture! The CIA has had a number of Knights of Malta (a Jesuit-controlled
Roman Catholic religious-military order) at its head: William Donovan,
John McCone, William Casey, William Colby, and George Tenet. What agencies in
the U.S. government and military have taught “torture” to their corresponding
elements in Latin American countries?
Could there possibly be any connection between those
torture-loving elements within the CIA and that religious-political-financial
institution (i.e., Papal Rome) that loves to use torture?
Here are two quotes by F. Tupper
Saussy (from his book Rulers of Evil):
“Most
of the eighteen-year lifetime of the Council of Trent [in Italy, 1545-1563] consisted of
two intermissions spanning four and ten years each. At the beginning of the second intermission, Ignatius [of Loyola – founder of
the Jesuit Order] founded a special college in Rome [in 1552] for
German-speaking Jesuits called the Germanicum.
((Ed.
Note: Pope Pius XI would later create the Russian college in Rome, and place it
under the Jesuit Order.)) Three years later [in 1555], the Peace of Augsburg established the
principle of ‘cuius regio, eius religio’, ‘whose [i.e., the ruler’s] the region,
his the religion’. The Peace of
Augsburg was Jesuit ‘pay dirt’. They could now bring whole populations
to Rome simply by winning over a few princes. And so they did. By 1560,
the Society [of
Jesus – i.e., the Jesuit Order] had returned virtually all of South Germany and
Austria to the [Roman Catholic] Church.” (Rulers of Evil; 1999; Page 56)
((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The Jesuits
steered the direction of the Council of Trent.
Indeed, the Jesuit Order was founded primarily to counter, and if
possible, destroy the Protestant Reformation. Much of Europe was starting to “go Protestant”, and the Roman
Catholic Church was losing entire regions and provinces to Protestantism. The “Peace of Augsburg” in 1555 enabled the
Jesuit Order to simply win over some key European princes and thus bring whole
regions and provinces back to Roman Catholicism. But even this was not enough to stem the steady erosion of Roman
Catholic “faithful” leaving mother church, and so religious genocide, “holy” Inquisition, and religious wars (such
as the Thirty Years’ War of 1618-1648) were launched to exterminate as many
Protestants as quickly as possible.))
“The
fruits of the Germanicum [i.e., the special college in Rome for German-speaking Jesuits] were so
successful that when the Council of Trent finally adjourned on December 4,
1563, its decrees and canons conceded nothing to the Protestant
reformers. Indeed, under the spiritual direction of [Jesuit] Superior
General Diego Lainez – Ignatius [of Loyola] had died in 1556 – the Council [of Trent] denied every
Protestant doctrine point by point. Anathematized
(eternally damned) was anyone who believed that salvation is God’s free gift to
His faithful and does not depend upon partaking of Church sacraments. Anathematized was anyone who looked
to the Bible for the ultimate authority on ‘doctrine, reproof, correction, and
instruction in righteousness’ rather than to the teaching Church. Anathematized was anyone who regarded
as unworthy of belief such unscriptural doctrines as (1) the efficacy of
papal indulgences; (2) of confession alone to a priest as necessary for
salvation; (3) of the mass as a true and real sacrifice of the body of Christ
necessary to salvation; (4) the legitimacy of teachings on purgatory; (5) the
celibate priesthood; (6) invoking saints by prayer to intercede with God; (7)
the veneration of relics; and, (8) the use of images and symbols.
The
Council of Trent hurled one hundred twenty-five anathemas –
eternal damnations – against Protestantism.” (Rulers of Evil; 1999;
Pages 56, 57)
((Ed.
Comment to the preceding quote: These vicious, unwarranted anathemas
– eternal damnations – have never been revoked. Subsequent Councils have
reaffirmed the Council of Trent.
The Vatican, despite “ecumenical rhetoric” to the
contrary, has not changed the basic doctrines of the Roman
Catholic Church that sent MILLIONS of innocent men, women,
elderly, and children to their deaths during numerous religious
genocides, long periods of “holy” Inquisition, and actual “holy”
Crusades and wars launched against Christians!))
We can see from the quotes at the
beginning of this newsletter that Papal Rome made mighty efforts
to bring England back under papal authority, especially in the 16th
century.
Here are some more quotes about this “chapter of
history” that is relatively unknown to many Americans:
“Eight years before the attempted [Spanish] Armada invasion [of 1588], Jesuits
were seditiously active plotting the overthrow of the English government. By using different disguises, aliases, and
secret codes, to illegally slip in and out of England, Jesuit Robert
Parson, in 1580, had led and then later organized a mission to bring other Jesuits
into England to engage in a work of subversion. When the [attempted] invasion [by the Spanish Armada] failed,
these masters of intrigue [i.e., the Jesuits] turned to another bizarre
scheme. Known in your encyclopedia under the subject, ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ –
thirteen [Roman] Catholic noblemen and five Jesuits formed
a conspiracy devising a plan to explode 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellar
of the House of Lords and kill King James I, and members of the [House of] Commons
as they assembled for the opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605. Their plan
was to blow up the Parliament building and out of the chaos incite the
people into a full insurrection.
…But before the date it [i.e., the cellar full of explosives] was to be
detonated, the explosives were discovered, leading to the arrest of all those
involved. …Of the five Jesuits
involved, two escaped, one died in prison, and two were convicted and
executed.”
John Daniel (The
Grand Design Exposed; 1999; Pages 76, 77)
((Ed. Comments to the
preceding quote:
(1)
Most of our encyclopedias and history textbooks do NOT tell us that the purpose
of the attempted invasion of England in 1588 by the Spanish Armada was to land
troops in England to be joined by local Roman Catholics in an effort to overthrow
the government and bring England, by force, back under the authority
of Papal Rome! The Roman Catholic King of Spain (Philip II)
wanted financial “compensation” for launching this invasion. And so the Roman
pontiff, Pope Sixtus V, promised King Philip II 200,000 crowns as
soon as the Spanish Armada had set sail for England, and more cash to follow
later. Thus the Papacy was helping
to fund the planned invasion of England!
(2)
What occurred in England, i.e., the numerous political intrigues, attempted
assassinations of heads of State, etc., by the wily Jesuit Order,
occurred all over continental Europe too.
This was the reason why 83 countries, cities, and
city-states had thrown the Jesuits out of their areas by 1931!
Many European monarchs who expelled the Jesuits were Roman Catholics
themselves!))
((Ed.
Note: The following quotation is an excerpt taken from an information sheet I
recently typed up concerning Albert Close’s excellent book Jesuit Plots
from Elizabethan to Modern Times.)):
“Editor of ETI and TTT has come to the following
conclusion after studying the history of the Roman Catholic Church and Europe:
It is virtually impossible to clearly understand European history from the 16th
century to the present time without ‘viewing’ it through the ‘lens’ of
(1) the ‘Reformation-Counter Reformation’, (2) Roman Catholic efforts to
bring England back under papal authority, and (3) the Jesuit Order. The famous
Frenchman, the Marquis de LaFayette, stated: ‘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.’
Many other famous individuals, such as President John Adams, echoed
similar condemnations of this infamous Society of Jesus (a.k.a. the
Jesuit Order)!
Papal
Rome (and especially the Jesuit Order from the mid 1500s) tried to bring
England back under papal authority by force and subversion. A number of popes and European monarchs
conspired to assassinate British monarchs, to foment revolutions in the British
Isles, and to actually land foreign troops on British soil. These attempts to bring England back under
the pope’s authority by force reached their zenith in 1588 when the
130-ship Spanish Armada, carrying 20,000 troops, sailed for the British Isles.
Pope Sixtus V had promised Spanish King Phillip II 200,000 crowns the moment
the armada sailed, and another 100,000 crowns when troops were placed on shore
in England. Researchers have examined
British, French, and Spanish ‘State papers’ – and Vatican documents, for this
era. These State papers and Vatican documents clearly show Papal Rome’s
involvement not only in the planned invasion of England by the Spanish Armada,
but also in numerous attempts to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I.