“The Vatican – Is It a Topic that Should Be Discussed?”

“Is the Vatican Strictly a ‘Religious’ Organization?” (And)

“Is the Vatican a Torture-Loving, Mass-Murdering Machine?”

By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of “Tackling the Tough Topics”

June 20, 2006 (Updated through: April 19, 2007)

            On June 17, 2006 I had a telephone conversation with a friend of mine who also happens to be a broadcast host in the “alternative media”.  Most people would characterize his broadcast and his organization as “secular” rather than as “religious”, although he has had several people on his broadcast to discuss topics that fall in the realm of “religion”.  So I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when he noted that if we talked about the Vatican “on air” (i.e., on his broadcast), then people would say that we would be entering into a discussion of “religion”.  I think we need to answer the three questions that are asked in the “three-part title” of this article concerning the Vatican.  We will start first with the second question:

“Is the Vatican Strictly a ‘Religious’ Organization?”

            The answer to that question is quite simple, and it is an unequivocal “NO!”  While none of us (who are rational) would deny that there is a Roman Catholic “Church” – a “religious” organization and system that has over one BILLION adherents, we also must recognize that there is a historically documented GEOPOLITICAL entity known as the “Vatican State”, or “Vatican City”.  According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, “Vatican City” is an “independent papal state constituted in 1929 as an enclave in Rome…”  The Vatican State (or “City”) has diplomatic relations with most of the nations of the world!

The Papacy, which has long sat atop the authoritative, hierarchical religious system known as the Roman Catholic Church, has a well-documented geopolitical history of ruling for many centuries over the monarchs of Europe.  In fact, the Papacy [i.e., Papal Rome] in essence was, and still is, the “ghost” that arose out of the “ashes” of the Imperial Pagan Roman Empire.

            For the last four centuries plus, Papal Rome’s Jesuit Order has been one of the most powerful organizations on the GEOPOLITICAL scene. Boyd Barrett, an ex-Jesuit, tells us:

“The Jesuit Order at last reached the pinnacle of its power and prestige in the early eighteenth century [i.e., the early 1700s].  It had become more influential and more wealthy than any other organization in the world.  It held a position in world affairs that no oath-bound group of men has ever held before or since…  ‘Nearly all the Kings and Sovereigns of Europe had only Jesuits as directors of their consciences [i.e., as confessor-priests], so that the whole of Europe appeared to be governed by Jesuits only.’” (1927; using a short quote by Jesuit Cordara)

J. Wayne Laurens, American historian and author of the book The Crisis: Or, the Enemies of America Unmasked, lets us know about the political side of the Vatican and the Jesuit Order – and how they USE “religion” as a “mask” for advancing their political agenda:

“But we recognize in the Roman Catholic priesthood, and the Jesuit brotherhood, two distinct political organizations, united in purpose and using religion as a mask for political purpose, as they always have done in all ages and countries.”

Author Avro Manhattan, in his book Murder in the Vatican (1985), lets us know that the Vatican is a very powerful GEOPOLITICAL “creature”:

            “The Vatican is a superpower – on a par with the USA and Soviet Russia.  Indeed, since at times it can act as a formulator of the policies of both, it can be reckoned as the paramount superpower of our times.

            Its adherents, a massive portion of mankind, nearing a billion [Ed. Note: it’s now over a billion], can be made to operate in every corner of the world.  [There are] sixty million [Roman Catholics] within the USA herself. [Ed. Note: Counting illegal aliens, it’s a lot more than that!]

            …Therefore the Vatican is a superpower in its own right. Indeed, because of its duality as a political and as a religious center, it can outbid the other two [superpowers].” (Page 5)

            The following quote by Hector Macpherson, author of the book The Jesuits in History, lets us know how terrible it was for mankind when the Roman Catholic Church moved into the geopolitical arena (i.e., the “civil sphere”):

“Had the Roman Catholic Church remained a purely religious organization like any other sect, the world would have been spared centuries of evil [Ed. Note: such as Papal Rome’s “holy” Inquisition, “holy” crusades, “holy” wars, and religious genocide]. But in the course of its development the Romish Church, through its Popes, entered the civil sphere and aspired to universal monarchy.

            In the fatal year 800, when Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans by [Pope] Leo III, there was set upon Western Europe the Papacy, a colossal system whose object is despotic rule of man and society in all spheres, sacred and secular. The Papacy claimed not only to possess the ‘Keys of Heaven’, but also to rule the earth.  The pope came to be regarded as the sole representative of Deity on earth, and from him must the empire be held.

            …In its egotistical blindness, and intoxicated with the fumes of sacerdotal conceit, the Papacy set itself in opposition to the spirit of nationality, which in the Middle Ages was beginning to create order out of the disorders caused by the fall of the Roman Empire. Foiled in its endeavors to reign unchecked over rising nationalities the Papacy attempted to rule through monarchs devoted to the [Roman Catholic] Church.” (Pages 108, 109)

            The Jesuit Order (one of the main political arms of Papal Rome) not only controls its Jesuit “soldiers”, but also the Papacy itself, the powerful and wealthy Knights of Malta, higher-level Knights of Columbus, and the highest levels of Freemasonry. The Jesuits, “masters of politics”, have quite a “track record” of infiltrating and subverting governments. Canadian historian J.E.C. Shepherd tells us the following about expulsions of the Jesuits (due to their political intrigues) in his book The Babington Plot: Jesuit Intrigue in Elizabethan England (1987):

            “Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuit Order] was expelled from at least 83 countries, city-states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversive plots against the welfare of the State, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute [i.e., Thomas J. Campbell]. …Practically every instance of expulsion was for political intrigue, political infiltration, political subversion, and inciting to political insurrection.” (1987; Page 12)

            Do the Jesuits have a lot of POLITICAL power in the USA?  Here’s what Jeremiah J. Crowley (Irishman; ex-priest in the Roman Catholic Church; author of the book Romanism: Menace to the Nation) tells us concerning the Jesuit Order:

“Today they [i.e., the Jesuits] are stronger in the United States than they ever were in any of the countries of Europe which expelled them as a menace to the government.” (1912)

            M.F. Cusack (Ex-nun of Kenmore; author of The Black Pope; 1896) tells us about Papal and Jesuit “politics” in the following two quotes from her book:

            “…The Jesuits are the only religious order in the Church of Rome…which has lain under the ban of the [“White”] Pope, or which has been expelled from any country because of its interference in politics.  Hence we may expect to find that to obtain political power forms a main feature in the plans of the Society [of Jesus – i.e., the Jesuit Order].” (The Black Pope; 1896)

            “The fact is that very few Protestants [Ed. Note: or other Christians] have realized how entirely Rome is a political church, and that she always makes her political advancement her first object.” (The Black Pope; 1896)

            The American [Roman] Catholic hierarchy and the Jesuit Order are very active POLITICALLY in the United States of America.  Author and journalist Paul Blanchard tells us the following about Roman Catholic POLITICAL power in the USA in his book American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949):

“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.” (1949)

            F. Tupper Saussy, author of the book Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge About Governing Bodies (1999), tells us the following about Roman Catholic POLITICAL power in modern America:

            “What [Professor Carol A.] Brown [of the University of Massachusetts] had learned from Carl Bernstein, I [i.e., author F. Tupper Saussy] had discovered for myself over several years of private investigation:  the papacy really does run United States foreign policy…  Yes, [Carl] Bernstein noted that the leading American players behind the Reagan/Vatican conspiracy, to a man, were ‘devout Roman Catholics’ – namely,

But the reporter neglected to mention that the entire Senate Foreign Relations committee was governed by Roman Catholics as well.  Specifically, Senators

·        Joseph Biden – Subcommittee on European Affairs;

·        Paul Sarbanes – International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment;

·        Daniel P. Moynihan – Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs;

·        John Kerry – Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications; and,

·        Christopher Dodd – Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs.”

(Rulers of Evil; 1999; Pages 1, 2)

            “In fact, when the ‘Holy Alliance’ story hit the stands [in 1992], there was virtually no arena of federal legislative activity, according to ‘The 1992 World Almanac of US Politics’, that was not directly controlled by a Roman Catholic senator or representative.  The committees and subcommittees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives governing commerce, communications and telecommunications, energy, medicine, health, education and welfare, human services, consumer protection, finance and financial institutions, transportation, labor and unemployment, hazardous materials, taxation, bank regulation, currency and monetary policy, oversight of the Federal Reserve System, commodity prices, rents services, small business administration, urban affairs, European affairs, Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, terrorism / narcotics / international communications, international economic / trade / oceans / environmental policy, insurance, housing, community development, federal loan guarantees, economic stabilization measures (including wage and price controls), gold and precious metals transactions, agriculture, animal and forestry industries, rural issues, nutrition, price supports, Food for Peace, agricultural exports, soil conservation, irrigation, stream channelization, flood control, minority enterprise, environment and pollution, appropriations, defense, foreign operations, vaccines, drug labeling and packaging, drug and alcohol abuse, inspection and certification of fish and processed food, use of vitamins and saccharin, national health insurance proposals, human services, legal services, family relations, the arts and humanities, the handicapped, and aging – in other words, virtually every aspect of secular life in America – came under the chairmanship of one of these Roman Catholic laypersons:

            Frank Annunzio            Edward Kennedy            Daniel Moynihan

            Joseph Biden               John Kerry               John Murtha

            Silvio Conte              John LaFalce                       Mary Rose Oakar

            Kika De la Garza            Patrick Leahy              David Obey

            John Dingell             Charles Luken                        Claiborne Pell

            Christopher Dodd            Edward Madigan            Charles Rangel

            Vic Fazio               Edward Markey            Dan Rostenkowski

            James Florio              Joseph McDade            Edward Roybal

            Henry Gonzalez            Barbara Mikulski

            Thomas Harkin            George Miller

            Vatican Council II’s ‘Constitution on the Church’ (1964) instructs [Roman Catholic] politicians to use their secular offices to advance the cause of Roman Catholicism.” (Rulers of Evil; 1999; Pages 2, 3)

            “An updating of this list will not reflect a significant change in the presence of Roman Catholic laypersons in the higher legislative reaches.  According to the ‘Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities’, in the 106^th Congress there are 40 ‘Jesuit alumni’ who graduated from 17 Jesuit institutions [of higher learning].  There are 5 alumni in the U.S. Senate and 35 alumni in the House of Representatives. Out of these 40 alumni, 23 received graduate or professional degrees from Jesuit universities.  [Jesuit] Georgetown University has the most graduates, boasting 15 alumni in the U.S. Congress.” (Rulers of Evil; 1999; Page 303)

            Of course, we also have a FINANCIAL entity known as the “Vatican Bank”.  The Vatican is into international banking and finance “big time”.  Avro Manhattan, in his book The Vatican Billions (Chick Publications, 1983), tells us (in the following six quotations) about the enormous wealth of Papal Rome:

            “The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank,  [and] with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich.  In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others.  The Vatican has billions in shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines [IBM], T.W.A., etc.  At a conservative estimate, these amount to more than 500 million dollars in the USA alone.” (The Vatican Billions; 1983)

            “In a statement published in connection with a bond prospectus, the Boston archdiocese [of the Roman Catholic Church] listed its assets at Six Hundred and Thirty-five Million ($635,891,004), which is 9.9 times its liabilities.  This leaves a net worth of Five Hundred and Seventy-one Million dollars ($571,704,953).  It is not difficult to discover the truly astonishing wealth of the [Roman Catholic] Church, once we add the riches of the twenty-eight archdioceses and 122 dioceses of the USA, some of which are even wealthier than that of Boston.” (The Vatican Billions; 1983)

            “Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlled by the [Roman] Catholic Church may be gathered by the remark of a member of the New York Catholic Conference, namely ‘that his church probably ranks second only to the United States government in total annual purchase.’  Another statement, made by a nationally syndicated [Roman] Catholic priest, perhaps is even more telling.  ‘The Catholic Church’, he said, ‘must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined.  And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States government.’” (The Vatican Billions; 1983)

            “The [Roman] Catholic Church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. …The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican’s financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.” (The Vatican Billions; 1983)

            “The Vatican’s treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars.  …But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country.  When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the [Roman] Catholic Church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.” (The Vatican Billions; 1983)

            “The [Roman] Catholic Church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence.  She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe.” (The Vatican Billions; 1983)

            Michael de Semlyen, author of the book All Roads Lead to Rome?:  The Ecumenical Movement, tells us the following about Vatican banking scandals:

            “Vatican scandals involving large-scale fraud and corruption and complicity in a cover-up have simply been shrugged off.  Archbishop Marcinkus [Ed. Note: then-head of the Vatican Bank and at that time a bishop], who was at the center of it all, was protected by the Pope [i.e., John Paul II] for more than seven years – and the Italian state authorities [were] somehow rendered helpless…

            Roman Catholic Oxford Professor of Logic, Michael Dummett, accused the Pope [i.e., John Paul II] of complicity in a cover-up to protect [Archbishop] Marcinkus. ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ 15^th March, 1987, reporting from the Catholic Weekly ‘The Tablet’, said that Professor Dummett spoke of ‘the Vatican Bank entangled with complicated practices from which the most pungent stink of corruption arises. These practices involved other banks, the Mafia, and the seamiest type of Freemasonry, culminating in what was possibly the bizarre suicide, but more probably the grotesque murder of an Italian banker in London.’

            …The Milan [Court] verdict has brought blunt accusations of complicity in Calvi’s murder leveled at [Archbishop] Marcinkus by Calvi’s widow, who claims that her husband had told her shortly before his death:  ‘The priests want me dead’.  Marcinkus resigned as head of the Vatican Bank, but [he] remained under the pope’s [i.e., John Paul II’s] protection and enjoyed Vatican immunity.  Attempts by the Italian authorities to put him on trial with the others accused of fraud were brushed aside by the Vatican; the Pope simply refused to hand him over.” (All Roads Lead to Rome?; 1993; Pages 71, 72)

            There is a lot of evidence proving that the Vatican is THE wealthiest organization on planet Earth!  And, a lot of Vatican money is used for controlling and manipulating politicians and governments in many parts of the world in order to advance the Jesuit-controlled Vatican’s New World Order agenda of a one-world government and a one-world religion to be ruled despotically from “behind the scenes” by the Jesuit Superior General – the “Black Pope”!

            Now let’s look at the third question in the “three-part title” of this article:

“Is the Vatican a Torture-Loving, Mass-Murdering Machine?”

            I have covered in some of my previous writings the well-documented history of Papal Rome’s frequent involvement in mass murder – mass murder carried out against innocent men, women, elderly, and children – mass murder carried out not only against Jews, but also against Christians (e.g., Albigensian Christians, Waldensian Christians, Irish Protestants, French Huguenots, and Orthodox Christians).  Papal Rome’s long history of mass murder includes her “holy” crusades, her “holy” wars, and her “holy” Inquisition (all forms of religious genocide which she has inflicted and visited upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants).  Here are just a few quotes to show us how dangerous Papal Rome’s Torture-Loving, Mass-Murdering Machine is:

            “Roman Catholicism was born in blood, has wallowed in blood, has quenched its thirst in blood, and it is in letters of blood that its true history is written.” – Baron DePonnat (French statesman) (1940)

            “Disregarding the maxims and the spirit of the Gospel, the papal Church, arming herself with the power of the sword, vexed the [true] Church of God and wasted it for centuries, a period most appropriately termed in history, the ‘dark ages’.  The kings of the earth gave their power to the Beast.”

John Foxe (or, Fox) (1516-1587; author of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs)

            “Through relentless torture, starvation, genocide, massacres, burning at the stake, against every conceivable fury of [Papal] Rome, they [i.e., the “seeds of protest”] could not be extinguished.  History estimates that over one hundred million people lost their lives during that time of [Papal] Roman tyranny.  Is it any wonder that God graphically describes this onslaught of [Papal] Rome as her being ‘drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus’ [Revelation 17:6], and calls her the ‘Beast’?”

John Daniel (The Grand Design Exposed; 1999; Page 27)

            “For rejecting the doctrine of transubstantiation, Christians were burned at the stake by Roman Catholics by the hundreds of thousands. Church historian R. Tudor Jones writes that ‘the majority of the martyrs were ordinary people, including many women…’

            John Foxe was an eyewitness and earnest historian of the fierce persecution in England in his day.  His Book of Martyrs gives detailed accounts of many public trials and executions of those whom the Roman Catholic Church judged to be ‘heretics’ worthy of death.  His descriptions of Christians being burned at the stake tell of their inspiring bravery in the face of such a horrible death and of the determination of Roman Catholicism to exterminate everywhere true Christians who opposed her.

            Similar records have come down of the massacres of Jews at the hands of the Roman [Catholic] Church.” – Dave Hunt (A Cup of Trembling; Page 160)

            “The desire for worldly power began to manifest itself in the [early] Church, on a broad scale, in the 4^th century, when the [Imperial] Roman Empire ceased its persecutions, and made Christianity its State religion. The spirit of Imperial Rome passed into the Church [i.e., Papal Rome]. The [Roman Catholic] Church gradually developed itself into the pattern of the Empire it had conquered.

            [Imperial] Rome fell.  But Rome came to life again, as a world power, in the name of the [Roman Catholic] Church.  The popes of Rome were the heirs and successors of the Caesars of Rome. The Vatican is [located] where the Palace of the Caesars was.  The popes have claimed all the authority the Caesars claimed, and more.  The Papal Palace, throughout the centuries, has been among the most luxurious in all the world.  Popes have lived in pomp and splendor unsurpassed by earthly kings. In no place on earth is there more ostentatious pageantry and show of magnificence than at the coronation of a pope.

            …The horrors of the Inquisition, ordered and maintained by the popes, over a period of 500 years, in which unnumbered millions were tortured and burned, constitute the most brutal, beastly and devilish picture in all history.

            …The city of Rome, first pagan, then papal, has been the dominating power of the world for two thousand years (200 B.C. to A.D. 1800).

            …It is inconceivable that any ecclesiastical organization, in its mania for power, could have distorted and desecrated and corrupted, for its own exaltation, the beautiful and holy religion of Jesus [Christ].”

Dr. Henry H. Halley (Halley’s Bible Handbook)

            “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 (Bishop; Church historian)

            “In 1198, the church [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] established a commission to persecute and try ‘heretics’.  This later developed into the Holy Inquisition.  In 1483, Tomas Torquemada...was appointed Grand Inquisitor of Castilia and Aragon.  In 1492, he expelled all Jews who refused to become Marranos [Jews who converted to Catholicism].

            Torquemada worked intensively [sic] for 18 years and burned 10,220 people at the stake...Another 6860 victims died under torture…a further 300,000 were sent by Torquemada to the galleys, of whom a third died.  In total, 114,401 families were wiped out.  Torquemada was especially energetic in persecuting philosophers, authors, doctors and scientists.

            This Grand Inquisitor made torture an efficient tool…”

Juri Lina (Under the Sign of the Scorpion: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire; 1998; Page 15)

            “History records the appalling story of suffering and martyrdom endured by untold millions across the centuries at the hand of the PAPAL MACHINE.”

Wilson Ewin (You Can Lead Roman Catholics to Christ; 1981; Page 33)

            “During the Dark Ages, over 150 million Christians were put to death because they would not abide by the universal religion [Ed. Note: Roman Catholicism] at that time.”

Bill Hughes (The Enemy Unmasked; 2004; Page 52)

“Indeed, the Roman Catholic Church has a long history of persecution, expulsion, and slaughter of Jews, to which [Adolf] Hitler referred in justifying the Holocaust.” – Dave Hunt (A Cup of Trembling; 1995; Page 158)

            “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)

            “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)

            When we consider the preceding three quotes – and I could have included more – we see that much of the responsibility for the horrible pain, suffering, and mass murder that occurred during World War II can be laid directly at the doorstep of the Vatican!  Since we have examined the last two questions in this article’s “three-part title”, let’s now try to answer the first question:

“The Vatican – Is It a Topic that Should Be Discussed?”

            Shouldn’t we discuss a geopolitical-financial-religious organization (i.e., the Vatican and the Jesuits) that in the 19^th century, along with the absolute monarchs of Europe, made plans to DESTROY the American Constitutional Republic?  Please consider the following quotations:

            “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.” – Bill Hughes (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.”

Bill Hughes (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 14)

            “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.” – C.T. Wilcox (The Transformation of the Republic; 2005; Page 13)

            Shouldn’t we discuss a geopolitical-financial-religious organization (i.e., the Vatican and the Jesuits) that through Roman Catholic leaders and publications has made vile statements against our religious liberty, freedoms of press and speech, and our American Constitutional Republic?  Please consider the following quotations made by Roman Catholic prelates and publications:

            “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)

“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 (born-died: 1792-1878; pope: 1846-1878; Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854)

            “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)

            “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.”

            Pope Pius IX (pope: 1846-1878; Quanta Cura; December 8, 1864)

            “…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)

            “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)

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

((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: This explains “why” the Vatican signed Concordats with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during World War II.))

            The [Roman Catholic] church has persecuted.  Only a tyro [i.e., novice] in church history will deny that…one hundred and fifty years after [Roman Emperor] Constantine, the Donatists were persecuted and sometimes put to death.  …Protestants were persecuted in France and Spain with the full approval of the [Roman Catholic] church authorities.  …When she [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] thinks it good to use physical force, she will use it.”

            The Western Watchman (A Roman Catholic publication out of St. Louis)

            Please also consider these warnings given to us by ex-Roman Catholics and non-Roman Catholics:

            “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 Carta], 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).”

Dave Hunt (A Woman Rides the Beast; 1994; Pages 54, 55)

            “For over 200 years, the goal [of the Jesuits] has been the complete destruction of the United States Constitution. 

            …In the religious arena, the goal of the Jesuits is to wipe out any trace of Protestantism and other religions, and to restore worldwide domination by the pope.” – Bill Hughes (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 138)

            “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)

            “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 later with waves of mainly Roman Catholic Mexican and other Latin American countries’ immigration?] This was cause for serious alarm given the [well-documented] history of Rome’s violent opposition to religious liberty and the inability of her benighted [i.e., unenlightened] 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

            “The reality of such a conspiracy [Ed. Note: to bring in waves of predominantly Roman Catholic immigrants from the 1830s and thereafter] was subsequently confirmed by a dramatic shift in the nation’s [the USA’s] census statistics. By 1830 there were only 318,000 Roman Catholics in America, compared to a total population of 12,866,020.  [Ed. Comment: If my math is correct, then only approximately 2.5% of the entire population of America in 1830 was Roman Catholic.] Just 15 years later, over 100,000 immigrants were arriving annually.  Within two years time that figure was doubled!  By 1850 the number of foreigners entering the country was up to 300,000 per year, and pressing half a million per annum four years after that.  On the eve of the Civil War [of 1861-65] the total number of American Catholics had ballooned to 3,103,000 – roughly ten per cent of the nation’s entire population.  In just eight more years the figure would exceed five million!  Whereas a mere 200 [Roman] Catholic churches existed in 1830, within three decades [there were] over 2400…

            Overnight the character of American experienced a downward spiral.  Drunkenness, pauperism, immorality and lawlessness became the staples of society.  A host of new words, such as ‘paddy wagon’, ‘racketeering’ and ‘Mafia’ would become part of the nation’s vocabulary.” – Dr. William P. Grady

            “[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.”

Bill Hughes (The Secret Terrorists; 2002; Page 7)

            “During a sermon in 1850, [Roman Catholic] Archbishop John Hughes of New York, the nation’s leading Vatican spokesman, acknowledged that a conspiracy to subjugate free America did exist after all.  The [Roman] Catholic press was ecstatic.  An excerpt from ‘Shepherd of the Valley’, the official journal of the [Roman Catholic] Bishop of St. Louis, declared, ‘If [Roman] Catholics ever gain a sufficient numerical majority in this country, religious freedom is at an end.  So our enemies say, so we believe.’  [Roman Catholic Archbishop] Hughes’ own paper, the ‘New York Freeman’ brazenly announced, ‘No man has a right to choose his religion.’” – Dr. William P. Grady

            “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 [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 Vatican] 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)

            “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 Abraham Lincoln)

            “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 Revelation Chapter 17 of 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 T. Chick (Smokescreens; 1983; Pages 75, 76)

            “The legions of Rome are awesome.  More than one million practicing Catholics make up the ranks of the Knights of Columbus.  They are fraternally pledged to the ideal of bringing America under papal rule.  They are powerful, wealthy,  [and] loyal.” – Jack T. Chick (Smokescreens; 1983; Page 85)

            “Persecution of non-Catholics in [Roman] Catholic-controlled countries should warn Americans as to what will happen here if the pope ever gains full control of this country.  [Papal] Rome never changes.”

Raywood Frazier (March 16, 1960)

            “The presence of the Jesuits in any country, Romanist or Protestant, is likely to breed social disturbance.”

Henry Palmerston (1784-1865; British statesman & prime minister)

            “Popes have been consistent in their declarations that freedom of religion should NOT exist, and that the Church of Rome represents the only true faith and therefore should alone be allowed to spread its doctrines.”

Larry Harrison (Publisher)

            “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.” – Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834; French statesman and general; served in the Continental Army under General George Washington)

“…The Church of Rome, with its sixteen [Ed. Note: now approaching 17] centuries of intrigue, plans fifty or a hundred years ahead.  The ultimate goal of the GREAT SCHEME is to throw the ‘lever of time’ back by restoring the Pope as the ‘universal arbiter’ from whom all the rulers of the earth must receive their authority to rule, as [occurred] during the Dark Ages.”

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

            “Let America again be forewarned as to Rome’s intention ‘to make America [Roman] Catholic’.” – Larry Harrison (Publisher)

            The bottom line is that the Vatican has NOT really changed, despite all of its ecumenical rhetoric and the “liberal, smiley face” that the Vatican II Council put on Roman Catholicism.  Wilson Ewin, on page 14 of his book You Can Lead Roman Catholics to Christ (1981), tells us: “Suddenly, the Vatican II Council of the early sixties took place and radical modifications of the outward appearance of [Roman] Catholicism began to emerge. No change in the fundamental doctrines, teachings or dogmas of the Church ever took place however.”  Despite [false] claims of loving the “separated brethren”, the Romish Church’s hierarchy still hates Jews, Bible-believing Christians, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians. Roman Catholic Fascist States in Europe, with the blessings and support of the Vatican, slaughtered all these groups during World War II (1939-1945). Papal Rome has not hesitated to use FORCE (“holy” Inquisition, “holy” wars, “holy” crusades, and even religious genocide) in the past, and she will not hesitate to do so again in the future!

            And so, should we be discussing the Vatican?

How can we NOT be discussing this GEOPOLITICAL-FINANCIAL-RELIGIOUS organization that hates the American Constitutional Republic, religious liberty, and all the freedoms we Americans love so dearly – especially considering the fact that Papal Rome and European monarchs made plans in the 19^th century to destroy the American Constitutional Republic?

            How can we NOT be discussing this GEOPOLITICAL-FINANCIAL-RELIGIOUS organization that helped to foment the American Civil War of 1861-1865; that provided moral support to the Confederacy; that organized and carried out the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; and that helped one of the conspirators [John H. Surratt] in the assassination of Lincoln to escape to Rome?

            How can we NOT be discussing this GEOPOLITICAL-FINANCIAL-RELIGIOUS organization that put Adolph Hitler into power; that backed Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Croatia, Fascist Slovakia, etc., in World War II; that conducted a brutal religious genocide in Fascist Croatia in the 1940s, murdering from 600,000 to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians; and that helped many Nazi and Fascist war criminals at the end of World War II to escape punishment via the “Vatican Ratlines” (hiding them out in Roman Catholic convents, monasteries, etc. – and even in Rome itself)?

How can we NOT be discussing this GEOPOLITICAL-FINANCIAL-RELIGIOUS organization that created the “holy” office of Inquisition with its many brutal forms of torture; that has never renounced its “Right” to use force whenever and wherever it believes it should; that has never destroyed its detailed records on “how to maximize torture without killing the individual”; and that plans to control the one-world government and one-world religion?

            How can we NOT be discussing this GEOPOLITICAL-FINANCIAL-RELIGIOUS organization that is currently the very top player on the geopolitical and financial scene, and that is the major force pushing the nations of the world into a New World Order (made up of a one-world government and one-world religion) to be ruled from “behind the scenes” by the Jesuit Superior General, operating through the hierarchical system of the Vatican (i.e., Papal Rome)?

            How can we NOT be discussing the “facts” concerning the bloody and sinister history of the Vatican and the Jesuits, since we tend to repeat those hard lessons in history that we fail to learn?

            We had all better start discussing the Vatican and the Jesuits in great depth – and soon – because if we fail to do so, there will be NO freedom for future generations of Americans!

            “Who will rise up for me against the evildoers, or who will stand up for