TACKLING THE TOUGH TOPICS

FACING AMERICANS TODAY!

Issue # 80 // June 14, 2006 // Editor: Darryl Eberhart

(Updated through: April 19, 2007)

“Papal Rome’s Hatred of Liberty”

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”. 

DEDICATION: This issue of the TTT newsletter is dedicated to all those who are exposing evil, corruption, and tyranny wherever and whenever they occur – whether in the government or in the “Church”!  (Please see Ephesians 5:11.)

DEFINITIONS (hopefully in alphabetical order):

“Croatia” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; 1974): “[A former constituent] republic of [the Federated People’s Republic of] Yugoslavia, in the northwest part: formerly, until 1918, a kingdom.” [Ed. Note: In the 1940s it was an “independent” Fascist State, and an ally of Nazi Germany.]

“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.”

“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.”

“Papacy” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; 1974): “1. The position, authority, or rank of the pope.  2. The period of time during which a pope rules. 3. The succession of popes; popes collectively. 4. The government of the Roman Catholic Church, headed by the Pope.”

“Papal Rome” (per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of TTT): “The government of the Roman Catholic Church, whose headquarters is presently in Rome, Italy.”

“Ustashi” – “Catholic Actionists” – The Roman Catholic militia (and later army) in the Roman Catholic Fascist State of Croatia during World War II.

“Vatican” (per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; 1974): “1. The papal palace, consisting of a group of buildings in Vatican City.  2. The papal government or authority.”

IMPORTANT NOTE #1:  I (the editor of the ETI & 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 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)

Why Am I Writing More & More About Roman Catholicism?

            This editor of the ETI and TTT newsletters has been writing more on the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy, and especially the Jesuit Order, in recent newsletters because I keep uncovering more and more about the deep hatred that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church 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 the Roman Catholic Church 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 the Roman Catholic Church has “changed her ways” and now loves all the “separated brethren”.  However, my study of the Papacy shows me that this 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 “umbrella” [i.e., 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 very real and possibly quite imminent – and that is why I have been writing more and more about the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy (i.e., Papal Rome), its long-held dreams of world domination, its love of Fascist regimes, and its well-documented history of torture and religious genocide!

I. INTRODUCTION

            I have touched on Papal Rome’s hatred of liberty in earlier ETI and TTT newsletters; however, I thought it important at this critical juncture in America’s history to do an entire newsletter devoted to this “tough topic”, which is sure to disturb some folks’ “comfort zones”.

            Papal Rome’s deep hatred of liberty – and of all the freedoms we Americans love so dearly – is a well-documented historical fact. Papal Rome especially hates “religious liberty”; however, it also hates popular, representative government and freedoms of press and speech. European monarchs, with Papal Rome’s blessings and support, held two secret meetings (in Vienna, Austria and in Verona, Italy) in the early part of the 19^th century to plan the destruction of the American Republic! A few years later in 1825, top-level Jesuits met at Chieri, Italy to discuss similar plans. One would think that such important historical events would be covered in detail in our American history textbooks and encyclopedias – but they are NOT!

            Yes, this history of Papal Rome’s deep hatred of liberty has been well documented; however, for some “strange reason” a whole bunch of historical facts concerning Papal Rome’s hatred of liberty NEVER made it into American history textbooks and encyclopedias – or, were removed from them!

            Let’s take a look at the historical record of Papal Rome’s hatred of liberty, and then read Papal Rome’s own words that reveal her deep hatred of all the freedoms we Americans hold so dear.  I will be using a lot of quotations from the past to illustrate Papal Rome’s deep hatred of liberty.

II. THE HISTORICAL RECORD

A. Some Good Quotations and Some Historical Examples of the Vatican’s Hatred of Liberty

            Dave Hunt, in his book A Woman Rides the Beast, gives us the following information concerning Papal Rome’s long-running war against freedom:

            “The Vatican has consistently fought every democratic advance from absolute monarchies toward government by the people, beginning with England’s Magna Carta (June 15, 1215), ‘the mother of European Constitutions’.  That vital document was denounced immediately by Pope Innocent III ([pope:] 1198-1216)…  Encouraged by the pope, King John [of England] brought in foreign mercenaries to fight the [English] barons [who had forced King John to sign the Magna Charta], bringing great destruction upon the country.  Subsequent popes did all in their power to help [English King] John’s successor, [King] Henry III, overturn the Magna Carta, impoverishing the country with papal taxes (salaries to the numerous imported Italian [Roman Catholic] priests were three times the crown’s annual revenue).” (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Pages 54, 55)

((NOTE: Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition (1974) tells us the following concerning the Magna Carta (or, Magna Charta): “The great charter that King John of England was forced by the English barons to grant at Runnymede, June 15, 1215, traditionally interpreted as guaranteeing certain civil and political liberties…”))

            Thankfully for mankind, the English barons eventually prevailed, despite all the papal opposition. Because of the barons’ efforts on behalf of liberty, the English common people finally received that healthy dose of “freedom” which had long been denied to most of the other peoples in Papacy-controlled Europe!

            Author Dave Hunt goes on to tell us the following:

            “Pope Leo XII reproved [French King] Louis XVIII for granting the ‘liberal’ French Constitution, while Pope Gregory XVI denounced the Belgian Constitution of 1832.  His outrageous encyclical, ‘Mirari vos’, of August 15, 1832 (which was later confirmed by Pope Pius IX in his 1864 ‘Syllabus Errorum’), condemned freedom of conscience as ‘an insane folly’ and freedom of the press as ‘a pestiferous error, which cannot be sufficiently detested’.  He reasserted the right of the [Roman Catholic] Church to use force, and like countless popes before him demanded that civil authorities promptly imprison any non-Catholics who dared to preach and practice their faith.” (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 55)

            Papal Rome’s war on freedom was not limited to Europe.  Author Dave Hunt tells us the following about Papal Rome’s war on freedom in the Americas:

            “The history of Latin America has fully demonstrated the accuracy of that [earlier mentioned] appraisal [Ed. Note: of Papal support of oppressive regimes].  In Catholic countries [in Latin America] the popes’ hatred of freedom and their partnership with oppressive regimes, which they often succeeded in manipulating to their own ends, is a matter of historical record.  Whatever her [i.e., Papal Rome’s] true motives, history bears full witness to the fact that whenever she has been able to do so, the Roman Catholic Church has suppressed and openly condemned such basic human rights as freedom of the press, speech, religion, and even conscience.” (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 55)

            Courageous Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez granted the Mexican people a large “dose” of freedom by enforcing the Mexican Constitution of 1857 (which granted freedom of speech and press).  For committing this “sin” against Papal Rome (and because he expelled 200 Jesuit priests, an archbishop, and five bishops from Mexico), President Juarez was hated by the Papacy and the Jesuit Order, and they eventually succeeded in poisoning him to death in 1872.  Author Dave Hunt tells us the following about Roman Catholic control of Mexico:

            “Prior to the revolution led by Benito Juarez in 1861, Roman Catholicism had dominated the lives of the Mexican people, and [had] controlled the government for 350 years.  It was the state religion, and no other [denomination or faith] was allowed.” (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 56)

            Dave Hunt also includes the following interesting quote (by author Emmet McLoughlin) on page 56 of Hunt’s book A Woman Rides the Beast:

            “The oppression by Spain and the oppression by the Church of Rome [in Mexico] were so intermeshed as to be indistinguishable by the people. The [Roman Catholic] hierarchy supported the Spanish regime and excommunicated, through its New World Inquisition, anyone resisting the power of the State…  The government in turn enforced [Roman Catholic] Church laws and, as the ‘secular arm’, functioned as disciplinarian, and even as executioner, for the [Roman Catholic] Church.”

            Indeed, this has been the “story” of much of history – in Europe and in the Americas – of Church [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] and State combining to oppress the people – to keep the people poor, ignorant, poorly educated, and docile!  The Roman Catholic Church has succeeded in maintaining her power base in many countries of the world through the following Papal “tools”:

((NOTE: As an aside on the subject of education: The Roman Catholic Church, whenever and wherever possible, tries to remove public education and substitute her parochial school system.  When she cannot immediately remove the public education system, she infiltrates it with her “social-change agents” (e.g., “Jesuit Temporal Coadjutors”), who work overtime to remove any history that reveals the past crimes of Papal Rome. Once this is done, as it has been done in America, one cannot get a proper education in world history, European history, “Church” history, or even the history of one’s nation in either the public school system or the parochial school system! And this is because all that “history” has been “cleansed” of anything negative about the Roman Catholic Church (i.e., Papal Rome), such as her well-documented record of religious genocide!))

B. Papal Rome’s War on Liberty and the American Constitutional Republic (With Some Good Quotes)

            Some of the best examples of Papal Rome’s hatred of liberty can be revealed through a study of the true history of the American Constitutional Republic. The Papacy and the Roman Catholic monarchs in Europe must have been horrified and shocked when they read the first copies of the “Bill of Rights” (the 1^st 10 “Amendments” to the U.S. Constitution) of the brand-new United States REPUBLIC. (They also probably didn’t think very much of the Declaration of Independence.) The “Bill of Rights” was added to our U.S. Constitution because some of the godly men at the Constitutional Convention REFUSED to sign the Constitution unless the “Bill of Rights” was added!

            The “Bill of Rights” provides Constitutional “guarantees of protection” for such GOD-given Rights as “freedom of speech and press, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble peaceably”, the “Right to keep and bear [fire] arms”, the “Right to be safe from unreasonable search and seizure”, etc. The “Bill of Rights” also provides for a “wall of separation” between government (i.e., the State) and religion. (This “wall” is to be a one-way wall:  It is designed to prevent the establishment of a “State religion”, and to prevent government interference in religion.  However, this “one-way wall” is not designed to prevent the churches in America from castigating out-of-control and tyrannical government!  The “Bill of Rights” stands FOR everything that Papal Rome and absolute monarchs HATE.  (That is, Papal Rome and totalitarian regimes HATE freedom, and so they frequently cooperate in the enterprise of maintaining both the Papacy’s power base and the State’s power base.)  Thus, when the “Bill of Rights” was published, Papal Rome and a number of Roman Catholic European monarchs were horrified! They considered this “Bill of Rights” a horrible “virus” – a contagious “disease” of liberty and freedom that just might “spread” to Europe and undermine both the State’s and the Papacy’s oppressive power over the masses!  In fact, they must have considered our wonderful “Bill of Rights” to be a “2^nd English Magna Charta” – the original having been granted in 1215!

            Therefore Papal Rome and a number of European Roman Catholic monarchs made plans to DESTROY this “experiment in freedom” – this American Republic with its Constitutionally-guaranteed GOD-given Rights (as spelled out especially in the “Bill of Rights”).

            These plans to DESTROY the American Republic were made at several secret meetings in Europe in the 19^th century.  European monarchs, with the blessings and support of the Papacy, met in Vienna, Austria (1814-15) and in Verona, Italy (1822) to plan the destruction of our Republic.  The third secret meeting, at Chieri, Italy in 1825, was attended by high-level Jesuits.

            Bill Hughes, author of The Secret Terrorists and The Enemy Unmasked, tells us the following concerning these secret meetings:

            “[American Secretary of the Navy R.W.] Thompson pinpointed exactly who would be the agents used by the monarchs of Europe to destroy the republic of America, namely, the Jesuits of Rome!  Since 1815 there has been a continual assault on America by the Jesuits to try to destroy the constitutional rights of this great nation.

            The famous inventor of the Morse code, Samuel B. Morse, also wrote of this sinister plot [of the Jesuits] against the United States.” (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 7)

            “These three meetings, at Vienna, [Austria in 1814-15], Verona, [Italy in 1822], and Chieri, [Italy in 1825], were held with as much secrecy as possible.  However, one man attended the first two meetings that would not be silenced.  British foreign minister George Canning contacted the U.S. government to warn them that the monarchs of Europe [Ed. Note: with the encouragement and support of the Papacy and the Jesuits] were planning to destroy the free institutions of America.” (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 15)

            “During this Congress [of Verona, Italy in 1822], it was decided that America would be the target of Jesuit emissaries and that America was to be destroyed at all costs.  Every principle of the [U.S.] Constitution was to be dissolved and new Jesuitical principles were to be put into place in order to exalt the Papacy to dominion in America.” (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 14)

            C.T. Wilcox, in his book The Transformation of the Republic, tells us:

            “In 1822 [at the secret meetings at Verona, Italy] the Roman Catholic Monarchies of Europe conspired with the Vatican to destroy the concept of popular government, as found in the experiment of the United States, by means of infiltration, subversion and corruption. The tools used were the Leopold foundation, which was set up by Prince Metternich of Austria, and the Jesuit Order.  The purpose being to use the financial and military arms of the United States to further the interests of the Papacy in its goal of putting all the world under the temporal submission [sic; i.e., power] of the [Roman Catholic] Church.” (Page 13)

            Burke McCarty, author of the book The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, has this to say about the secret Treaty of Verona in 1822, and about the assassination of U.S. presidents:

            “In closing, I [author Burke McCarty] will leave it to my reader to decide whether I have proven my contention in the beginning of this book [i.e., The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln] that the assassination of [President] Abraham Lincoln and four other [U.S.] presidents is but a part of the great conspiracy which was outlined in the secret Treaty of Verona [in Italy in 1822] to destroy this, the most formidable Republic.  [And, that I have proven]:

            American Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, had traveled to Europe, and upon his return he tried to warn his follow Americans about Papal Rome’s plans to destroy our Constitutional Republic. Please consider this quote:

            “While traveling through Italy in 1830 and 1831, Professor [Samuel F. B.] Morse [Ed. Note: American inventor of the telegraph]…encountered several hostile ecclesiastics of the Church of Rome.  One loquacious Cardinal attempted to intimidate [Professor] Morse by informing him that a Vatican conspiracy under the cloak of a ‘religious mission’ was about to be launched against the United States.

            Named the ‘St. Leopold Foundation for the Furtherance of Catholic Missions in America’, the papal plot intended to undermine America’s constitutional form of government by invading her shores with excessive waves of [mainly Roman Catholic] European immigration.  [Ed. Question: And with later waves of mainly Roman Catholic Mexican and other Latin American countries’ immigration?] This was cause for serious alarm given the [well-documented] history of [Papal] Rome’s violent opposition to religious liberty and the inability of her benighted lay people to think beyond a ‘pray, pay, and obey’ mentality.

            Returning to his homeland in the autumn of 1832, Professor Morse attempted to warn his endangered countrymen by authoring two books of his own: Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States and Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States Through Foreign Immigration.” – Dr. William P. Grady

            Papal Rome’s secret war to destroy the American Republic was evidently not moving quickly enough, so in the 1850s Papal agents and Jesuit agents stirred up the slavery issue with the hope of fomenting a bloody civil war to split the American Union.  Jesuit-controlled Freemasonry played an important role in this fomenting of the American Civil War of 1861-1865, with Knights of the Golden Circle being sent from the North to the South to stir up “the rebellion”.  Here are some quotations that reveal Papal and Jesuit involvement in the American Civil War, and in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln:

            “This [American Civil] war [of 1861-1865] would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.  We owe it to popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.  Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis [the President of the Confederacy] nor anyone of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promises of the Jesuits, that under the mask of Democracy, the money and arms of the Roman Catholic, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us.  I pity the priests, the bishops and monks of Rome in the United States, when the people realize that they are, in great part, responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war.  I conceal what I know on that subject from the knowledge of the nation, for if the people knew the whole truth, this war would turn into a religious war, and it would at once take a tenfold more savage and bloody character.  It would become merciless as all religious wars are.  It would become a war of extermination on both sides.  The Protestants of both the North and the South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits, if they could hear what Professor [Samuel B.] Morse [Ed. Note: U.S. inventor of the telegraph] has said to me of the plots made in the very city of Rome [i.e., at the Papacy] to destroy this Republic, and if they could learn how the [Roman Catholic] priests, the nuns, and the monks, which daily land on our shores, under the pretext of preaching their religion, instructing the people in their schools, taking care of the sick in the hospitals, are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope, of Napoleon, and the other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from our Constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16^th President of the United States)

            “The [American] Civil War [of 1861-1865] was not a ‘homespun’ affair.  It was the result of the same upheavals that have changed the face of Europe.  The promises and active help of the European empires and the Church of Rome along with the Jesuit Order had stiffened the resolve and attitude of the Southern leaders, some of whom were quite willing to see the monarchic principle triumph in North America.”

            C.T. Wilcox (The Transformation of the Republic; 2005; Page 8)

            “The Jesuits killed [President] Lincoln and buried the evidence.”

            C.T. Wilcox (The Transformation of the Republic; 2005; Page 12)

            “…The Roman Catholic Church sowed the seed of division between the two great sections of this country, dividing North from South on the burning question of slavery.” – Bill Hughes (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 53)

            “Despite a declared neutrality [during the American Civil War of 1861-65], the ‘Holy See’ [i.e., the Papacy] was secretly aiding and abetting the Confederacy in the hope of dividing Christian America.

            The degree to which the Vatican could affect [President] Lincoln’s war measures was astounding.  [Roman] Catholic citizens in the north aligned with their southern brethren by voting Democratic, dodging or defending slavery and by opposing Lincoln on all fronts.  Irish [Roman Catholic] federals [i.e., federal troops] deserted in droves after learning that their ‘Holy Father’, Pope Pius IX, had dispatched an official communiqué of support to [Confederate President] Jefferson Davis, addressing him as ‘Illustrious and Honorable President of the Confederate States of America’.  When the retreating forces from [Confederate General] Lee’s debacle at Gettysburg [Pennsylvania in July 1863] should have been crushed on the banks of the swollen Potomac [River], Lincoln’s [Roman] Catholic [Union Army] commander, General George Meade, ‘conveniently’ diverted a third of his army to securing New York City during the infamous ‘Draft Riots’, perpetrated by the rampaging parishioners of [Roman Catholic] Archbishop [John] Hughes.” – Dr. William P. Grady

            “It was the Pope of Rome [i.e., Pope Pius IX; pope: 1846-1878], and his faithful lieutenant, Louis Napoleon [a.k.a. Napoleon III], who, taking advantage of our [American] civil war [of 1861-65], undertook to establish a Roman Catholic empire in Mexico, and for this purpose sent Maximilian, a Roman Catholic prince, under the protection of a French army, to usurp dominion, and take possession of the country [of Mexico].  All of this was done in the hope that the Union cause would be lost; and that through the strife that she [i.e., Papal Rome] had fomented, two Roman Catholic empires [Ed. Note: i.e., two nations controlled by Papal Rome] would be established on the [North] American continent, [namely] that of Mexico under [Emperor] Maximilian and that of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis, thus making it possible to make a conquest [for Papal Rome] of the entire continent.  This letter of the Pope [i.e., Pius IX] to [Confederate States President] Jefferson Davis, couched in such courteous and loving terms, and showing so clearly that his sympathy was with the Southern cause, was well understood by his [i.e., the pope’s] loyal and faithful subjects all over the North.  Roman Catholic officers [in the Union Army] began to resign and the [Roman Catholic] rank and file began to desert, from the time of the publication of that letter [of Pope Pius IX to Jefferson Davis] to the close of the [American Civil] war.”

            U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris (Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 1897; Pages 16, 17)

            “It was the Pope of Rome, and he alone, of all the European potentates, that gave his recognition and his blessing to the Confederate government…”

            U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris (Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 1897; Page 16)

            “It would seem that the Jesuits had had it in mind, from the beginning of the war [the American Civil War of 1861-1865], to find an occasion for the taking off [i.e., the assassination] of Mr. [Abraham] Lincoln.”

U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris (Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 1897; Page 41)

            “These facts, as developed on the trial of the conspirators before a military commission, and on the trial of John H. Surratt two years later [in 1867], before a civil court…show conclusively the hand of Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] in this stab at our nation’s life [i.e., the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln].”

            U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris (Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 1897; Page 19)

            “Right after [President] Lincoln’s death [via an assassin’s bullet], John [Harrison] Surratt, who was part of the assassination conspiracy, fled to Montreal [in Canada, where Roman Catholic priests hid him].  From Montreal [Ed. Note: again with the help of Roman Catholic priests] he was taken to Liverpool, England and then to Rome.  When a United States official finally caught up with him, he was found in the Pope’s personal army [i.e., in a pontifical Zouaves military unit].  A conspirator in the assassination of [U.S. President] Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Pope’s personal army!”

            Bill Hughes (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 50)

            “…The methods used in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination will stand preeminent in point of malice and cruelty; and, strange as it may seem, the same diabolical cunning which nerved the hand of the assassin [Ed. Note: John Wilkes Booth] has pursued Lincoln beyond the grave, and has been largely successful in hiding from the public all details of his physical destruction, a crime, in the eyes of the writer, which almost outstrips the first, for by this conspiracy of silence on his [i.e., Lincoln’s] death, the youth of America are being deprived of the knowledge of the details of the greatest tragedy in their country’s history.

            …The death [i.e., murder] of Abraham Lincoln…was instigated by the ‘Black’ pope, the [Superior] General of the Jesuit Order – camouflaged by the ‘White’ pope, Pius IX – aided, abetted and financed by other ‘Divine Righters’ of Europe – and finally consummated by the Roman [Catholic] Hierarchy and their paid agents in this country [i.e., the USA] and French Canada on ‘Good Friday’ night, April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C.”

Burke McCarty (The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln)

C. The Vatican, Europe, and World War II

            Even a cursory study of the history of World War II (from truthful sources) should convince anyone with an open mind that the Vatican was not only involved in fomenting World War II, but also in supporting Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Croatia, Fascist Slovakia, etc., during World War II.  It was Roman Catholic Knight of Malta Franz von Papen who played a key role in putting Adolf Hitler into power!  At the end of the war, the Vatican helped many war criminals to escape Europe for destinations in the USA and in Argentina through the infamous “Vatican Ratlines”.  Here are some quotations dealing with the role played by the Vatican in World War II:

            “The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of 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.”

            Edmond Paris (The Secret History of the Jesuits; 1975; Page 9)

            “The Jesuits, in control of [Adolf] Hitler’s occultic and homosexual Third Reich… installed puppet dictators throughout Europe.  They were:

All these Roman Catholic, Jesuit-controlled, Jew-hating dictators were loyal to the greatest war criminal of all, Papal Caesar Pius XII and his master, Jesuit [Superior] General Wlodimir Ledochowski.”

 Eric Jon Phelps (Vatican Assassins; 2001; Page 478)

“…By a ‘providential’ synchronism, when [Italian dictator] Mussolini seized power in Italy thanks to don Sturzo, [who was a] Jesuit and chief of the Catholic party, [then it was at that same time that] Monseigneur Seipel, a Jesuit, became chancellor of Austria. He held that position until 1929, with an interregnum of two years, and, during those decisive years, he led the Austrian interior politics on to the reactionary and clerical road; his successors followed him on that road which led to the absorption of that country into the German block.  The bloody repression of working-class uprisings earned him [i.e., Jesuit Seipel] the nickname ‘Keine Milde Kardinal’ – the ‘Cardinal without mercy’.”

Edmond Paris (The Secret History of the Jesuits; 1975; Page 139)

            “In the early days of May (1936), [German Knight of Malta Franz] von Papen entered into secret negotiations with Dr. Schussnigg (Austrian Chancellor) working on his weak point [i.e., he was a devout Roman Catholic] and showed him how advantageous a reconciliation with [Nazi leader Adolf] Hitler would be as far as the Vatican’s interests were concerned; the argument may seem odd, but Schussnigg was very devout, and von Papen was the pope’s [German] chamberlain [i.e., a high official in certain royal courts].

            Not surprisingly, it was the [pope’s] secret chamberlain [in Germany – i.e., Knight of Malta Franz von Papen] who led the whole affair, which ended, on the 11^th of March 1938, with the resignation of the pious Schussnigg (pupil of the Jesuits), in favor of Seyss-Inquart, chief of the Austrian Nazis.  The following day [March 12, 1938], the German troops entered Austria and the puppet government of Seyss-Inquart proclaimed the union of the country to the [Nazi German Third] Reich. The event was welcomed by an enthusiastic declaration of Vienna’s archbishop, Cardinal Innitzer (a Jesuit).”

Edmond Paris (The Secret History of the Jesuits; 1975; Page 139)

            “The German author Walter Hagen gives also this discreet information: ‘The Jesuits’ [Superior] General, Count Halke von Ledochowski, was ready to organize, on the common basis of anti-communism, some collaboration between the German Secret Service and the Jesuit Order.’

            As a result, within the SS Central Security Service, an organization was created, and most of its main posts were held by [Roman] Catholic priests wearing the black uniform of the [Nazi] SS.  The Jesuit [priest] ‘father’ Himmler [uncle of Heinrich Himmler] was one of its superior officers.”

Edmond Paris (The Secret History of the Jesuits; 1975; Page 168)

            “…Kurt Heinrich Himmler [was] chief of the Gestapo [i.e., the secret police force of the German Nazi state], which meant he held in his hand the essential reins of power of the [Nazi] regime.  Was it his personal merits which earned him such a high position?  Did Hitler see in him a superior genius when he compared him [i.e., Heinrich Himmler] to the creator of the Jesuit Order [i.e., Ignatius of Loyola]?  It is certainly not what the testimonies of those who knew him imply, as they saw in him nothing more than mediocrity.

            Was that ‘star’ [of Heinrich Himmler] shining with a borrowed ‘brightness’?  Was it really Kurt Heinrich Himmler, the ostensible [i.e., apparent] chief, who actually reigned over the Gestapo and the secret services?  Who was sending millions of people, deported for political reasons, and Jews to their death?  Was it the flat-faced nephew or [was it] the [Jesuit priest] uncle, the former Canon at the Court of Bavaria, one of [Jesuit Superior General] Ledochowski’s favorites, a Jesuit ‘father’ and superior officer of the [Nazi] SS?”

Edmond Paris (The Secret History of the Jesuits; 1975; Page 168)

            “In Hitler’s Pope, award-winning journalist John Cornwell shows that Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, was instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to unhindered power – and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.

            Drawing upon secret Vatican and Jesuit archives to which he had unprecedented access, Cornwell tells the full, tragic story of how narcissism, long-standing personal antipathy for the Jews, and political and ‘spiritual’ ambition combined to make Pius the most dangerous churchman in history.  Not just a firm and final indictment of Pius XII’s papacy, Hitler’s Pope is also a searing exploration of its lingering consequences for the Catholic Church today.”

(Quote was taken from the back cover of the book Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by Roman Catholic journalist John Cornwell)

            “When thousands of German anti-Nazis were tortured to death in Hitler’s concentration camps, when the Polish intelligentsia was slaughtered, when hundreds of thousands of Russians died as the result of being treated as Slavic Untermenschen [subhumans], and when 6,000,000 human beings were murdered for being ‘non-Aryan’, [Roman] Catholic Church officials in Germany bolstered the [Nazi] regime perpetrating these crimes.  The Pope [Pius XII] in Rome, the spiritual head and supreme moral teacher of the Roman Catholic Church, remained silent.

            In the face of these greatest of moral depravities which mankind has been forced to witness in recent centuries, the moral teachings of a Church [allegedly] dedicated to love and charity could be heard in no other form but vague generalities.” – Guenter Lewy (The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany)

            “This concealment [of the truth concerning Roman Catholic Church cooperation with the Nazi regime] has been so bold and successful that in Germany…not a single [Roman Catholic] bishop had to resign his office [for cooperating with the Nazis during World War II].

            Quite the contrary, Bishop Berning, who had served until the downfall of Hitler in Goering’s Prussian State Council, in 1949 was given the honorary title of Archbishop.  Herr [Franz] von Papen [who helped put Hitler into power and who negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and Nazi Germany in 1933] was made Papal Privy Chamberlain in 1959.

            Such rewards for men deeply involved with the Nazi regime represent a mockery of [the true] heroic figures…who died fighting Hitler.”

            Guenter Lewy (The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany)

            “The [Nazi] Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but which puts into practice the high principles of the papacy.”

            Franz von Papen (German Roman Catholic Knight of Malta; Statement was made on January 14, 1934.)

            “The [Roman Catholic] priests and the faithful must unhesitatingly uphold the great German state [i.e., Nazi Germany], and the Fuehrer [i.e., Adolf Hitler] whose struggle to set up [Nazi] Germany’s power, honor and prosperity is in accord with the wishes of Providence [i.e., the Vatican].”

            Innitzer (Roman Catholic Cardinal; Jesuit; Archbishop of Vienna, Austria)

            “The declaration of [Roman Catholic Jesuit] Monseigneur [Ed. Note: French spelling of “Monsignor”] Tiso, chief of the Slovakian state, stating his intention to build up Slovakia according to a Christian [sic] plan, has the full approval of the Holy See [i.e., the Vatican].” – Radio Vatican (June 1940)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: This Jesuit monster (Tiso) was put into power by Hitler’s Nazi Germany, with the blessings of the Vatican.  Tiso, using his “Christian” [i.e., Roman Catholic] plan, brutally persecuted Protestants and Jews in Slovakia, sending them to concentration camps!))

            The Vatican’s war on religious liberty reached horrendous proportions in the Fascist State of Croatia, where Roman Catholic prelates (e.g., two Jesuit archbishops) and lower-level priests, friars, and monks (mostly Franciscans) combined with a Roman Catholic Fascist Police State to slaughter from 600,000 to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, elderly, and children.  This religious genocide included some of the most bestial forms of torture, mass murder, and forced conversions!  Here are some quotes dealing with this religious genocide sanctioned by, and supported by, the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Croatia – and by the Vatican itself:

            “This [Ed. Note: her booklet “Ravening Wolves”] is the record of torture and murder committed in Europe in 1941-1945 by an army of [Roman] Catholic Actionists known as the Ustashi, led by monks and priests, and even participated in by nuns.  The [innocent Serb Orthodox Christian] victims suffered and died in the cause of liberty and freedom of conscience.  The least we can do is to read the record of their sufferings and keep in mind that it happened, not in the dark ages, but in our ENLIGHTENED [Ed. Note: emphasis in original] generation.  Ustashi is another name for Catholic Action.” – Monica Farrell (“Ravening Wolves”)

            “Most of [Fascist] Croatia’s [Roman] Catholic clergy were fanatically behind [Croatian “supreme leader” Ante] Pavelic and his unbelievably evil regime.  Medals were even given by Pavelic to nuns and priests, thus betraying the fact that many of them played active roles alongside the Ustashi military.  Franciscan monks in particular joined Ustashi battalions.”

Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 301)

            “Once [Croatian “supreme leader” Ante] Pavelic took power, [Jesuit] Archbishop [Aloysius] Stepinac issued a Pastoral Letter ordering the Croatian clergy to support the new Ustasha State. The involvement of [Roman] Catholic clergy either in active participation or in blessing the Ustashi-run holocaust is well documented. One Franciscan monk, Miroslav Filipovic, headed the Jasenovac concentration camp for two years, during which time he directed the extermination of no less than 100,000 victims, mostly Serbian Orthodox.  [Jesuit] Archbishop Stepinac headed the committee which was responsible for forcible ‘conversions’ to Roman Catholicism under threat of death – and was also the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army, which effected the slaughter of those who failed to convert [to Roman Catholicism].  [Jesuit Archbishop] Stepinac was known as the ‘father-confessor’ to the Ustashi, and continually bestowed the blessing of Holy Mother Church upon its members and actions.” – Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 302)

            “[Roman] Catholic religious orders gave total and continuous support to the [Roman Catholic] Ustashi [militia – and later the army]. Before the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (1941) their convents were hiding places for the Ustashi terrorists, [where they] concealed Ustashi presses, and were depositories of Ustashi subversive literature and even of hand grenades, guns and dynamite.

            The Ustashi carried out their [pre-World War II terrorist] activities screened by members of [Roman Catholic] religious orders, male and female.  Nuns prepared uniforms, emblems and medical equipment for Ustashi detachments.” – Avro Manhattan (The Vatican’s Holocaust; 1986; Page 99)

            “…Here [in Fascist Croatia in the 1940s] the [Roman] Catholic Church [erected] a State in complete accord with all her tenets.  The result was a monster standing upon the armed might of twin totalitarianisms:  the totalitarianism of a ruthless Fascist State and the totalitarianism of [Roman] Catholicism…

            What gives to such a creature of Vatican diplomacy its peculiar importance is that here we have an example of the [Roman] Catholic Church’s implementing all her principles, unhampered by opposition, or by fear of world opinion.

            The uniqueness of the Independent Catholic State of Croatia lies precisely in this: that it provided a model, in miniature, of what the [Roman] Catholic Church, had she the power, would like to see in the West and, indeed, everywhere.  As such it should be carefully scrutinized.  For its significance…is of the greatest import to all the freedom-loving peoples of the world.”

Avro Manhattan (The Vatican’s Holocaust; 1986; Page 9)

            “Estimates of the number of victims [of the Vatican’s Holocaust in Fascist Croatia in the 1940s] exceed a million. This is probably a realistic figure.  Yugoslavia in its war crimes trials estimated that from 700,000 to 900,000 victims were ‘tortured and put to death…[in] the two dozen concentration camps’ within Croatia, and tens of thousands never reached the camps.  Many were Jews, but most were Serbians of Orthodox faith who were give the choice of conversion to Roman Catholicism or death.

            Both in Yugoslavia and the Ukraine, Roman Catholic priests, bishops, and cardinals, with the full knowledge of the Vatican, participated in and gave their blessing to some of the bloodiest and most barbaric massacres of the war, aimed at giving Roman Catholicism control of these regions.”

Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Pages 303, 304)

III. MORE QUOTATIONS SHOWING THE VATICAN’S HATRED OF LIBERTY

A. Quotes by Roman Catholic Popes, Prelates, Councils, and Periodicals

            “The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one’s thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.” – Pope Gregory XVI (pope: 1831-1846)

            “These false and perverse opinions [of democracy and individual freedom] are so much the more detestable, by as much as they…hinder and banish that salutary influence which the [Roman] Catholic Church, by the institution and command of her Divine Author, ought freely to exercise, even to the consummation of the world, not only over individual men, but [over] nations, [over] peoples, and [over] sovereigns.” (Quanta Cura; December 8, 1864)

            Pope Pius IX (1792-1878; pope: 1846-1878)

            “The State has not the right to leave every man free to embrace whatever religion he should deem true.

            …The [Roman Catholic] Church has the right to require that the [Roman] Catholic religion shall be the religion of the State, to the exclusion of all others.

            …Cursed be those who assert liberty of conscience and of worship and such that maintain that the [Roman Catholic] Church may not employ force.”

            Pope Pius IX (pope: 1846-1878; Syllabus Errorum of December 1864)

“The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience, are a most pestilential error – a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a State.” – Pope Pius IX  (Encyclical Letter; August 15, 1854)

            “No man has a right to choose his religion. [Roman] Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds.  It is intolerance itself.  We might as rationally maintain that two and two does not make four as the theory of Religious Liberty.  Its impiety is only equaled by its absurdity.” (1864)

            John Hughes (Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York)

            “…We do not accept it [i.e., the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America], or hold it to be any government at all… If the American Republic is to be sustained and preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the principle of the [Protestant] Reformation [i.e., religious liberty], and the acceptance of the Catholic principle [i.e., religious tyranny; Roman Catholicism as the State religion]…” – Catholic World (August 1871; page 735)

            “Fascism is the regime that corresponds most closely to the concepts of the Church of Rome.” – Civilta Cattolica (House organ of the Jesuits)

            “The [Holy] Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it.  It is a forbidden book.  Bible societies are satanic contrivances.”

Pope Pius IV (born-died: 1499-1565; pope: 1559-1565)

            “No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance language [Ed. Note: Languages derived from Vulgar Latin, such as French, Italian, Spanish, etc.], and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after the promulgation of this decree, so that they may be burned.”

            Council of Tarragona (Roman Catholic Church Council in 1234)

((Ed. Comment to the preceding two quotes: Papal Rome’s hatred of, and war against, the Holy Bible has a lot to do with freedom and liberty.  This is because our “Bill of Rights” is based upon GOD-given Rights that can be found on the pages of the Holy Bible!))

B. Quotes by Non-Roman Catholics (or, Ex-Roman Catholics) Concerning the Vatican’s Hatred of Liberty

            “Have not the popes [e.g., Pope Pius IX in his Syllabus of Errors of 1864] publicly and repeatedly anathematized the sacred principle of Liberty of Conscience?  Have they not boldly said, in the teeth of the nations of Europe, that Liberty of Conscience must be destroyed – killed at any cost?  Has not the whole world heard the sentence of death to liberty coming from the lips of the old man of the Vatican [i.e., the pope]?” – Charles Chiniquy (1809-1899; Ex-Roman Catholic priest; friend of President Abraham Lincoln)

            “The Constitution of the United States was condemned by the Papacy because it separated church and state and prohibited the establishment of any religion [Ed. Note: as an official State religion] by the government.  The popes, on the other hand, had long required governments to make Roman Catholicism the official religion and to prohibit the practice of any other.”

Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Page 126)

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