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In Martin Luther’s time, Pope Leo X was head of the Church. The Pope’s taste for extravagance drained the treasury in only eight years. But St. Peter’s Basilica needed to be rebuilt, so the pope offered indulgences in exchange for funds to rebuild the cathedral. Indulgences were letters of pardon which guaranteed forgiveness of sins.
This was the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation
The Indulgence is predicated on two beliefs. First, in the sacrament of penance it did not suffice to have the guilt (culpa) of sin forgiven through absolution alone; one also needed to undergo temporal punishment (poena, from p[o]enitentia, “penance”) because one had offended Almighty God. Second, indulgences rested on belief in purgatory, a place in the next life where one could continue to cancel the accumulated debt of one’s sins.
After the greatest forgery mill in history, the powers of the Church went on a rampage of murdering millions, burning millions of books, destroying temples, statutes, inscriptions, and any traces of any previous theological culture. This has gone on from the third to the sixth centuries. This created an immense ignorance in the western world. This was done legally with the current governments consent.
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
One of the greatest crimes of history was the burning of the Library at Alexandria by the Christians under Theophilus in 391 C.E. This hid the true origins of Christianity and much of ancient cultures. The portion that survived was transferred to the Temple of Serapis where it was destroyed by the Christian Theophilus on orders of Theodosius. On the very foundation of this Temple was built a Church in honor of the “noble army of martyrs,” who never existed.
Theodosius the First, Theodosius the Great, Flavius Theodosius Roman emperor of the East (379–392) and then sole emperor of both East and West (392–395), who, in vigorous suppression of paganism and Arianism, established the creed of the Council of Nicaea (325) as the universal norm for Christian orthodoxy and directed the convening of the second general council at Constantinople (381) to clarify the formula. The only possible reason for destroying the Temple of Serapis was to erase any last evidences of the origin of Christianity and its heathen roots.
All throughout the Roman world libraries were burned, schools and universities were destroyed under the pretext of defending the Church from paganism. Books from citizens were routinely confiscated. Citizens were framed by the planting of forbidden “magical” books in their homes. After a wrongful book find, all possessions were confiscated as a penalty.
HYPATIA MURDERED
Decades later the Christian patriarch in Alexandria, Cyril, incited crowds to terrorize Jews and to seize the acclaimed Pagan philosopher Hypatia. She was renowned for her wisdom and brilliance. Cyril had her murdered by scraping off her skin with oyster shells. Her death was considered the death of Paganism.
DEATH PENALTY
Wiping out Paganism became the Church’s passion and continued its practices. In the fifth century the Archbishop Chrystostom boasted, “Every trace of the old philosophy and literature of the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.” During this campaign of the elimination of Paganism the death penalty was imposed on anyone reading an unapproved book. An unapproved book was any book that demonstrated in any way that the Christian faith was a sham. This campaign went on from pope to pope until Gregory, Bishop of Constantinople in 604 C.E. Then in the 11th century Pope Gregory, that is “Saint Gregory”, burned the library of Palatine Apollo.
Then in 1563 at the Council of Trent, the policy of eliminating Pagan learning was reaffirmed.
THEY KNEW THEN AND THEY KNOW NOW
The early church fathers, Justin Marrtyr, Tertullian, and Irenaeus were terribly disturbed by the huge similarities between the Catholic religion and the Pagan Religions, particularly of the rites of the Eucharist. They resorted to the desperate logic of saying that the Devil knew of Christ and foresaw what would happen in his life, and thus mimicked the story well in advance of Christ being born and living his life. They claimed this was the reason why the Pagan religions were so similar to the Catholic religion.
Focus on the women …. they are wives, mothers, daughters ….. that will make the people conform ….They divided up their property they ascribed to the witch and her helpers owning …. one third of the total value went to the inquisitor and catholic bishop … One third to the city …… And one third to those who helped capture and convict.
During the First Inquisition, created by religious courts to combat heresy and witchcraft, Pope Gregory IX ordered the witch’s familial animal, the cat, especially black cats, to be burned and killed with the witch. Hundreds of thousands of cats were killed, leading to the rapid proliferation of rodents, particularly a bacterium carried by rats. That bacterium was ultimately the source of the Black Plague.
Institute mental conditioning with punishments by God after death for non compliance here on earth.
Have an enemy to hate (Jews).
Make the people dumb by burning the libraries.
Kill other nations if they don’t believe in the fable (Crusades).
On May 15,1252 Pope Innocent IV issued Bull AD EXTIRPANDA. It became the classic in inquisitorial procedure. It provides:
1. that anyone may seize a heretic and despoil him of his property; 2. that every magistrate shall appoint an inquisitorial commission, whose salaries are to be paid by the State; 3. that no law may be passed interfering with these Inquisitors; 4. that heretics who will not confess their heresy shall be tortured; 5. that the confiscated property of heretics shall be thus divided:
one-third to the Inquisitors and the bishops,
one-third to the city,
and one-third to those who aided in the arrest and conviction.
Pope Innocent gave precise instructions to all Inquisitors to enforce the regulations throughout Europe. Eventually it was made Statute Law. The regular clergy proved reluctant, so the popes turned to the most fanatical, intolerant and narrow-minded section of the Church structure, the sundry monastic orders (monks).
The two which excelled in their infamous task were the Dominicans and the Franciscans. Armed with practically unlimited power from the popes, these Inquisitors swarmed all over Europe like theological hornets, setting up tribunals wherever they appeared.
Soon individuals, communities, nations, and indeed, the very hierarchy trembled at the mere mention of their names. Wherever they came, denunciations, accusation, treachery, perjury, torture, woe, and death resulted.
RUSSIA, GREECE, CHINA, PALESTINE, EGYPT
The hooded Inquisitors did not content themselves with establishing their court in the sundry lands of Europe. Pope Gregory IX appointed a Dominican Grand Inquisitor for the whole of Armenia and Russia. Pope Urban VI ordered the General of the Dominicans to appoint Inquisitors for Armenia, Greece and Tartary (China).
Pope Nicholas IV asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to create Inquisitors from the mendicant friars in his land. Pope Gregory XI granted authority to the Franciscan Provincial in the Holy Land to act as Chief Inquisitor in Syria, Palestine and even Egypt.
When an Inquisitor arrived everybody was commanded, in obedience to the pope and to Mother Church, to disclose the name of anyone suspected of the slightest deviation from the Faith. The Inquisitors issued a compelling threat and a promise. A denouncer would get an indulgence of three years. Those avoiding their duty would be excommunicated.
Some denunciations were factual but many were concocted by vengeance, spite of jealousy. Those denounced, even on the flimsiest accusation or mere suspicion, would be arrested and flung directly into prison.
This usually was a common dungeon. Cold and damp, it lacked light or sanitation, and contained cut-throats, thieves, and the like. Among these the friars would plant spies to induce the accused, by pretended friendship, threats, or other methods, to admit his guilt.
If this first step proved insufficient, the suspected heretic would be chained with heavy irons and left to starve in a dark, foul hole called the durus carcer–“cruel prison.” The accused was then brought before the inquisitorial tribunal composed of friars. If he asked the names of his accusers, he was told that only his judges had the right to know their names. He had no such right.
He was asked to confess to his guilt. If he pleaded innocence, he would be sent back to prison. On a second or third appearance before the Court, if he persisted he was put to torture. The whole purpose of his trial, of course, was to force a confession of heresy.
TORTURE
If, following all the exquisite devices of torture, the heretic refused to recant or to admit his guilt, then the Inquisitors would pass capital sentence of heresy. Having done that, they would hand him over to the “secular arm,” the civil authorities.
THE INNOCENT CHURCH
To complete the macabre farce, the Holy Inquisitors would ask these same temporal powers, in the name of the Church, not to kill the poor accused. This formality was a mere legalistic device to make the Church appear innocent of the blood which was about to be spilled–or rather, burned.
The civil authorities could not heed this hypocritical plea, however, lest the Holy Inquisition fall upon them. Refusal to burn the heretic would have placed the temporal authorities themselves on trial for their lives. For heresy, of course!
Soon no one was safe from potential arrest. The spying, denunciation, and hunting down of heretics reached cleric or lay, men or women, noble or common. No one was immune from the terrorizing omnipresence of the Holy Inquisition.
This reign of Catholic terror lasted for centuries. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and yes, even children were murdered…burned alive at the stake. Simply because they dared to disagree with the Holy Catholic Church or with her popes.
This Catholic terror officially ended less than two hundred years ago. As recently as 1762 a Protestant pastor was condemned to death in France. Why? Simply because he was a Protestant! By whom? By the Catholic Church! Yes, by that same church which now pretends to love her “dear separated brethren (Protestants).”
Indeed, in Europe torture was still enforced by all the Tribunals of the Holy Inquisition until the last century, the pope being forced to abolish it only in recent 1816.
It was Napoleon, who entered Madrid in 1808, who was to abolish the Inquisition. When the Spanish Parliament in 1813 declared it incompatible with the Constitution, the Vatican protested. Super-Catholic Ferdinand VII restored it in 1814, with the full approval of the Church. The Holy Inquisition was finally suppressed by the Liberals in July, 1834.
Yes, just SUPPRESSED. It is still alive! This same spirit still alive in Croatia in 1942 when the Catholic Ustachi mutilated hundreds of thousands of Serbian “heretics.” Also in South Vietnam in 1960 when Catholic President Diem set out to rid that country of Buddhist “heretics?”
ROMAN INQUISITION
An ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX circa 1232 for the suppression of heresy. It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government
SPANISH INQUISITION
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Christian Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.
PORTUGUESE INQUISITION SEAL
The Western world were enriched with the noble practice of judicial torture, expressly employed by Holy Mother Church for the suppression of heresy, later known as Protestantism.
A SAD INQUISITOR
“In our days, there are no more rich heretics, so that princes, not seeing much money in prospect, will not put themselves to any expense; it is a pity that so salutary an institution as ours [in other words, the INQUISITION] should be so uncertain of its future. “‘
“A LOT OF WOMEN ARE WITCHES AND SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH.”
– Catholic Inquisition –
THE WITCH HUNTS BURNED 100,000 TO 120,00 INNOCENT WOMEN.
“THE MOST BLOOD SOAKED BOOK IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY” –>
L0000980 J. Sprenger and H. Institutoris, Malleus maleficarum. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images [email protected] http://wellcomeimages.org Title page. Malleus maleficarum Sprenger, J. and Institor, H. Published: 1669 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
MALLEUS MALEFICARUM (THE WITCHES HAMMER) …
Catholic inquisition published a book that taught the Catholic Clergy how to locate, torture, and kill all free thinking women (and innocent).
In three centuries of witch hunts, somewhere between 60,000 to 100,000 innocent women were captured and burned alive at the stake (some say a million). The numbers estimated of the women killed comes from a survey of scholars specializing in that period of history. And there were thousands of women that escaped death but were severly punished.
More correctly translated as the “Hammer of the woman evildoers.” The book was written by two Dominican monks, and fervent Inquisition members, named Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. The book became extremely popular. It was widely circulated for over 200 years. It went through twenty-nine editions from 1487 to 1669. It was considered the “Handbook for Witch Hunts.” It was revered not only by the Catholics but also the Protestants.
THERE WERE THREE PARTS TO THE BOOK.
The first part — is about the witches and the magic done by them by channeling the power of the Devil.
The second part — describes the various types of witches and the spells they do.
The third part — describes how they should be tried, by the religious churches and by the civil authorities. Most people think that the Inquisition was a religious action but the civil authorities were also deeply guilty.
Torture was inflicted without solid proof of guilt. Two complainers or even one single accuser was sufficient for subjection to the agonies of torture, even if the accused man had, until then, been of unblemished character, pristine honesty and genuine piety.
The methods, kinds and degrees of torture were endless. The three basic ones employed were;
1. hoisting the man to the ceiling by his hands tied behind his back.
2. breaking him on the rack.
3. greasing his feet and thrusting them into the fire.
Judas Cradle
Using ropes, a prisoner would be lowered onto the pyramid-shaped “seat” with the point inserted into the anus or vagina. The torture would be the intense pressure and stretching of the orifice, resulting in permanent damage. The victim would sustain rips in the muscle tissue that would later become infected. Weights would be added to facilitate the torture when death by impalement was desired.
Judas CradleSpanish Donkey
Similar to the Judas cradle where the victim would sit for hours.
Spanish DonkeySaw body in half
Here the victim would be sawed in two longitudinally, starting at the crotch area. It was a torture execution more than a torture. The sawing was sometimes also done across the stomach.
Saw in halfIron Chair
This device was used extensively throughout in the thousand years of medieval torture. It had thousands of iron sharp points sticking up from the chair. The restraints were then tightened thrusting the spikes deep into the flesh. Since none of the spikes would enter vital organs the torture would go on for days. At the end the victim would be executed. Many victims would confess to whatever the inquisition wanted them to say after seeing others in the iron chair.
Iron ChairCoffin TortureCoffin TortureHead Crusher
The torturer would sometimes stop before death. This would leave the victim with broken facial and skull bones, the victim severely disabled.
Expanding Pear of Anguish
This expanding device was mostly used on women inside their virgina. It was used when a women was accused of inducing a miscarriage. It was also used on homosexuals inserted in their anus. When it was used in the mouth it was called a Choke Pear. It was used in the mouth by liars and blasphemers
The device has four metal leaves which expand when the handle is turned. It would tear the skin and organs resulting in permanent damage.
Breast RipperBreast RipperBreast Ripper with Neck TortureNeck TortureKnee SplitterBreaking Wheel
Also known as the Catherine Wheel. Used for public executions. Victims were lashed to the spokes of a wagon wheel. The limbs were beaten with a club or iron cudgel until broken. Limbs would break and give way. The survival time after the limbs were initially broken would be several days.
The victim would be tied down to a table so that his arms and legs could not move. A metal cage would be placed to cover the victims bare stomach. A hungry rat would be placed in the metal cage. The metal cage was heated to make the rat want to escape. The rat would dig into the stomach to make his escape. This digging of an escape tunnel would take several hours and result in the death of the victim.
DOCTRINE IS ALL CHURCH TEACHING IN MATTERS OF FAITH AND MORALS. THIS IS WRITTEN BY THE CATHOLIC CHRUCH BUT THE OTHER CHRISTIANS AGREE WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF THESE CONCEPTS.
DOGMA IS MORE NARROWLY DEFINED AS THAT PART OF DOCTRINE WHICH HAS BEEN DIVINELY REVEALED AND WHICH THE CHURCH HAS FORMALLY DEFINED AND DECLARED TO BE BELIEVED AS REVEALED.
OFFICIAL CATHOLIC DOGMA
There is, then, no place for “pick and choose” in the truths proposed to the Faith of Christians by the Infallible Teaching Church for they are bound in Heaven by God Himself. If something is decreed on earth and is also bound in Heaven, that thing must be the truth. Otherwise, God is no longer the Truth, which is contrary to the Gospel:
Matthew 16:19. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in Heaven.
The Catholic Church is infallible because it is :
1 Tim 3:15. the church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth.
If a baptized person deliberately denies or contradicts a dogma, he or she is guilty of sin of heresy and automatically becomes subject to the punishment of excommunication.
From the work of Dr. Ludwig Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, published by the Mercier Press Ltd., Cork, Ireland, 1955. With Imprimatur of Cornelius, Bishop. Reprinted in U.S.A. by Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford, Illinois, 1974.
I. THE UNITY AND TRINITY OF GOD
God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things.
God’s existence is not merely an object of rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith.
God’s Nature is incomprehensible to men.
The blessed in Heaven possess an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence.
The immediate vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural.
The soul, for the immediate vision of God, requires the light of glory.
God’s Essence is also incomprehensible to the blessed in Heaven.
The divine attributes are really identical among themselves and with the Divine Essence.
God is absolutely perfect.
God is actually infinite in every perfection.
God is absolutely simple.
There is only one God.
The one God is, in the ontological sense, the true God.
God possesses an infinite power of cognition.
God is absolute veracity.
God is absolutely faithful.
God is absolute ontological goodness in Himself and in relation to others.
God is absolute moral goodness or holiness.
God is absolute benignity.
God is absolutely immutable.
God is eternal.
God is immense or absolutely immeasurable.
God is everywhere present in created space.
God’s knowledge is infinite.
God’s knowledge is purely and simply actual.
God’s knowledge is subsistent.
God knows all that is merely possible by the knowledge of simple intelligence.
God knows all real things in the past, the present and the future.
By the knowledge of vision, God also foresees the future free acts of rational creatures with infallible certainty.
God’s Divine Will is infinite.
God loves Himself of necessity, but loves and wills the creation of extra-divine things, on the other hand, with freedom.
God is almighty.
God is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth.
God is infinitely just.
God is infinitely merciful.
In God there are three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Each of the three Persons possesses the one (numerical) Divine Essence.
In God there are two internal divine processions.
The Divine Persons, not the Divine Nature, are the subject of the internal divine processions (in the active and in the passive sense).
The Second Divine Person proceeds from the First Divine Person by generation, and therefore is related to Him as Son to Father.
The Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and from the Son as from a single principle through a single spiration.
The Holy Ghost does not proceed through generation but through spiration.
The relations in God are really identical with the Divine Nature.
The Three Divine Persons are in one another.
All the ad extra activities of God are common to the three Persons.
II. GOD THE CREATOR
All that exists outside God was, in its whole substance, produced out of nothing by God.
God was moved by His goodness to create the world.
The world was created for the glorification of God.
The Three Divine Persons are one single, common principle of creation.
God created the world free from exterior compulsion and inner necessity.
God has created a good world.
The world had a beginning in time.
God alone created the world.
God keeps all created things in existence.
God, through His Providence, protects and guides all that He has created.
The first man was created by God.
Man consists of two essential parts – a material body and a spiritual soul.
The rational soul per se is the essential form of the body.
Every human being possesses an individual soul.
God has conferred on man a supernatural destiny.
Our first parents, before the fall, were endowed with sanctifying grace.
In addition to sanctifying grace, our first parents were endowed with the preternatural gift of bodily immortality.
Our first parents in Paradise sinned grievously through transgression of the Divine probationary commandment.
Through sin our first parents lost sanctifying grace and provoked the anger and the indignation of God.
Our first parents became subject to death and to the dominion of the devil.
Adam’s sin is transmitted to his posterity, not by imitation but by descent.
Original sin is transmitted by natural generation.
In the state of original sin man is deprived of sanctifying grace and all that this implies, as well as of the preternatural gifts of integrity.
Souls who depart this life in the state of original sin are excluded from the Beatific Vision of God.
In the beginning of time God created spiritual essences (angels) out of nothing.
The nature of angels is spiritual.
The evil spirits (demons) were created good by God; they became evil through their own fault.
The secondary task of the good angels is the protection of men and care for their salvation.
The devil possesses a certain dominion over mankind by reason of Adam’s sin.
III. GOD THE REDEEMER
Jesus Christ is true God and true Son of God.
Christ assumed a real body, not an apparent body.
Christ assumed not only a body but also a rational soul.
Christ was truly generated and born of a daughter of Adam, the Virgin Mary.
The Divine and human natures are united hypostatically in Christ, that is, joined to each other in one Person.
In the hypostatic union each of the two natures of Christ continues unimpaired, untransformed, and unmixed with each other.
Each of the two natures in Christ possesses its own natural will and its own natural mode of operation.
The hypostatic union of Christ’s human nature with the Divine Logos took place at the moment of conception.
The hypostatic union was effected by the three Divine Persons acting in common.
Only the second Divine Person became Man.
Not only as God but also as man Jesus Christ is the natural Son of God.
The God-Man Jesus Christ is to be venerated with one single mode of worship, the absolute worship of latria which is due to God alone.
Christ’s Divine and human characteristics and activities are to be predicated of the one Word Incarnate.
Christ was free from all sin, from original sin as well as from all personal sin.
Christ’s human nature was passable.
The Son of God became man in order to redeem men.
Fallen man cannot redeem himself.
The God-man Jesus Christ is a high priest.
Christ offered Himself on the Cross as a true and proper sacrifice.
Christ by His sacrifice on the Cross has ransomed us and reconciled us with God.
Christ, through His passion and death, merited award from God.
After His death, Christ’s Soul, which was separated from His Body, descended into the underworld.
On the third day after His death, Christ rose gloriously from the dead.
Christ ascended body and soul into Heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father.
IV. THE MOTHER OF THE REDEEMER
Mary is truly the Mother of God.
Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin. Mary is the Immaculate Conception.
Mary conceived by the Holy Ghost without the cooperation of man.
Mary bore her Son without any violation of her virginal integrity.
After the birth of Jesus, Mary remained a Virgin.
Mary was assumed body and soul into Heaven.
V. GOD THE SANCTIFIER
There is a supernatural intervention of God in the faculties of the soul, which precedes the free act of the will.
There is a supernatural influence of God in the faculties of the soul which coincides in time with man’s free act of will.
For every salutary act, internal supernatural grace of God (gratia elevans) is absolutely necessary.
Internal supernatural grace is absolutely necessary for the beginning of faith and salvation.
Without the special help of God, the justified cannot persevere to the end in justification.
The justified person is not able for his whole life long to avoid sins, even venial sins, without the special privilege of the grace of God.
Even in the fallen state, man can, by his natural intellectual power, know religious and moral truths.
For the performance of a morally good action, sanctifying grace is not required.
In the state of fallen nature, it is morally impossible for man without supernatural Revelation, to know easily, with absolute certainty, and without admixture of error, all religious and moral truths of the natural order.
Grace cannot be merited by natural works either de condigno or de congruo.
God gives all the just sufficient grace for the observation of the divine commandments.
God, by His eternal resolve of Will, has predetermined certain men to eternal blessedness.
God, by an eternal resolve of His Will, predestines certain men, on account of their foreseen sins, to eternal rejection.
The human will remains free under the influence of efficacious grace, which is not irresistible.
There is grace which is truly sufficient and yet remains inefficacious.
The causes of Justification. (Defined by the Council of Trent) :
The final cause is the honour of God and of Christ and the eternal life of men.
The efficient cause is the mercy of God.
The meritorious cause is Jesus Christ, who as mediator between God and men, has made atonement for us and merited the grace by which we are justified.
The instrumental cause of the first justification is the Sacrament of Baptism. Thus it defines that Faith is a necessary precondition for justification (of adults).
The formal cause is God’s Justice, not by which He Himself is just, but which He makes us just, that is, Sanctifying Grace.
The sinner can and must prepare himself by the help of actual grace for the reception of the grace by which he is justified.
The justification of an adult is not possible without faith.
Besides faith, further acts of disposition must be present.
Sanctifying grace sanctifies the soul.
Sanctifying grace makes the just man a friend of God.
Sanctifying grace makes the just man a child of God and gives him a claim to the inheritance of heaven.
The three Divine or theological virtues of faith, hope and charity are infused with sanctifying grace.
Without special Divine Revelation no one can know with the certainty of faith, if he be in the state of grace.
The degree of justifying grace is not identical in all the just.
Grace can be increased by good works.
The grace by which we are justified may be lost, and is lost by every grievous sin.
By his good works, the justified man really acquires a claim to supernatural reward from God.
A just man merits for himself through each good work an increase of sanctifying grace, eternal life (if death finds him in the state of grace) and an increase in heavenly glory.
VI. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Catholic Church was founded by the God-Man Jesus Christ.
Christ founded the Catholic Church in order to continue His work of redemption for all time.
Christ gave His Church a hierarchical constitution.
The powers bestowed on the Apostles have descended to the Bishops.
Christ appointed the Apostle Peter to be the first of all the Apostles and to be the visible Head of the whole Catholic Church, by appointing him immediately and personally to the primacy of jurisdiction.
According to Christ’s ordinance, Peter is to have successors in his Primacy over the whole Catholic Church and for all time.
The successors of Peter in the Primacy are the Bishops of Rome.
The Pope possesses full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Catholic Church, not merely in matters of faith and morals, but also in Church discipline and in the government of the Church.
The Pope is infallible when he speaks ex cathedra.
By virtue of Divine right, the bishops possess an ordinary power of government over their dioceses.
Christ founded the Catholic Church.
Christ is the Head of the Catholic Church.
In the final decision on doctrines concerning faith and morals, the Catholic Church is infallible.
The primary object of the Infallibility is the formally revealed truths of Christian Doctrine concerning faith and morals.
The totality of the Bishops is infallible, when they, either assembled in general council or scattered over the earth propose a teaching of faith or morals as one to he held by all the faithful.
The Church founded by Christ is unique and one.
The Church founded by Christ is holy.
The Church founded by Christ is catholic.
The Church founded by Christ is apostolic.
Membership of the Catholic Church is necessary for all men for salvation.
VII. THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS
It is permissible and profitable to venerate the Saints in Heaven, and to invoke their intercession.
It is permissible and profitable to venerate the relics of the Saints.
It is permissible and profitable to venerate images of the Saints.
The living faithful can come to the assistance of the souls in Purgatory by their intercessions.
VIII. THE SACRAMENTS
The Sacraments of the New Covenant contain the grace which they signify, and bestow it on those who do not hinder it.
The Sacraments work ex opere operato, that is, the sacraments operate by the power of the completed sacramental rite.
All the Sacraments of the New Covenant confer sanctifying grace on the receivers.
Three Sacraments, Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders, imprint a character, that is an indelible spiritual mark, and, for this reason, cannot be repeated.
The sacramental character is a spiritual mark imprinted on the soul.
The sacramental character continues at least until the death of the bearer.
All Sacraments of the New Covenant were instituted by Jesus Christ.
There are seven Sacraments of the New Law.
The Sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for the salvation of mankind.
The validity and efficacy of the Sacrament is independent of the minister’s orthodoxy and state of grace.
For the valid dispensing of the Sacraments it is necessary that the minister accomplish the Sacramental sign in the proper manner.
The minister must have the intention of at least doing what the Church does.
In the case of adult recipients moral worthiness is necessary for the worthy or fruitful reception of the Sacraments.
IX. BAPTISM
Baptism is a true Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ.
The materia remota of the Sacrament of Baptism is true and natural water.
Baptism confers the grace of justification.
Baptism effects the remission of all punishments of sin, both eternal and temporal.
Even if it be unworthily received, valid Baptism imprints on the soul of the recipient an indelible spiritual mark, the Baptismal Character, and for this reason, the Sacrament cannot be repeated.
Baptism by water (Baptismus fluminis) is, since the promulgation of the Gospel, necessary for all men without exception for salvation.
Baptism can be validly administered by anyone.
Baptism can be received by any person in the wayfaring state who is not already baptised.
The Baptism of young children is valid and licit.
X. CONFIRMATION
Confirmation is a true Sacrament properly so-called.
Confirmation imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark, and for this reason, cannot be repeated.
The ordinary minister of Confirmation is the Bishop alone.
XI. HOLY EUCHARIST
The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ are truly, really, and substantially present in the Eucharist.
Christ becomes present in the Sacrament of the Altar by the transformation of the whole substance of the bread into His Body and of the whole substance of the wine into His Blood.
The accidents of bread and wine continue after the change of the substance.
The Body and Blood of Christ together with His Soul and Divinity and therefore, the whole Christ, are truly present in the Eucharist.
The Whole Christ is present under each of the two Species.
When either consecrated Species is divided, the Whole Christ is present in each part of the Species.
After the Consecration has been completed the Body and Blood are permanently present in the Eucharist.
The Worship of Adoration (latria) must be given to Christ present in the Eucharist.
The Eucharist is a true Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ.
The matter for the consummation of the Eucharist is bread and wine.
For children before the age of reason, the reception of the Eucharist is not necessary for salvation.
Communion under two forms is not necessary for any individual members of the Faithful, either by reason of Divine precept or as a means of salvation.
The power of consecration resides in a validly consecrated priest only .
The Sacrament of the Eucharist can be validly received by every baptised person in the wayfaring state, including young children.
For the worthy reception of the Eucharist, the state of grace as well as the proper and pious disposition are necessary.
The Holy Mass is a true and proper Sacrifice.
In the Sacrifice of the Mass, Christ’s Sacrifice on the Cross is made present, its memory celebrated, and its saving power applied.
In the Sacrifice of the Mass and in the Sacrifice of the Cross the Sacrificial Gift and the Primary Sacrificing Priest are identical; only the nature and the mode of the offering are different.
The Sacrifice of the Mass is not merely a sacrifice of praise and thanks-giving, but also a sacrifice of expiation and impetration.
XII. PENANCE
The Church has received from Christ the power of remitting sins committed after Baptism.
By the Church’s Absolution sins are truly and immediately remitted.
The Church’s power to forgive sins extends to all sin without exception.
The exercise of the Church’s power to forgive sins is a judicial act.
The forgiveness of sins which takes place in the Tribunal of Penance is a true and proper Sacrament, which is distinct from the Sacrament of Baptism.
Extra-sacramental justification is effected by perfect sorrow only when it is associated with the desire for the Sacrament (votum sacramenti).
Contrition springing from the motive of fear is a morally good and supernatural act.
The Sacramental confession of sins is ordained by God and is necessary for salvation.
By virtue of Divine ordinance, all grievous sins according to kind and number, as well as those circumstances which alter their nature, are subject to the obligation of confession.
The confession of venial sins is not necessary but is permitted and is useful.
All temporal punishments for sin are not always remitted by God with the guilt of sin and the eternal punishment.
The priest has the right and duty, according to the nature of the sins and the ability of the penitent, to impose salutary and appropriate works for satisfaction.
Extra-sacramental penitential works, such as the performance of voluntary penitential practices and the patient bearing of trials sent by God, possess satisfactory value.
The form of the Sacrament of Penance consists in the words of Absolution.
Absolution, in association with the acts of the penitent, effects the forgiveness of sins.
The principal effect of the Sacrament of Penance is the reconciliation of the sinner with God.
The Sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation to those who, after Baptism, fall into grievous sin.
The sole possessors of the Church’s Power of Absolution are the bishops and priests.
Absolution given by deacons, clerics or lower rank, and laymen is not Sacramental Absolution.
The Sacrament of Penance can be received by any baptised person who, after Baptism, has committed a grievous or a venial sin.
The Church possesses the power to grant Indulgences.
The use of Indulgences is useful and salutary to the Faithful.
XIII. HOLY ORDERS
Holy Order is a true and proper Sacrament which was instituted by Jesus Christ.
The consecration of priests is a Sacrament.
Bishops are superior to priests.
The Sacrament of Order confers sanctifying grace on the recipient.
The Sacrament of Order imprints a character on the recipient.
The Sacrament of Order confers a permanent spiritual power on the recipient.
The ordinary dispenser of all grades of Order, both the sacramental and the non-sacramental, is the validly consecrated Bishop alone.
XIV. MATRIMONY
Marriage is a true and proper Sacrament instituted by God.
From the sacramental contract of marriage emerges the Bond of Marriage, which binds both marriage partners to a lifelong indivisible community of life.
The Sacrament of Matrimony bestows sanctifying grace on the contracting parties.
XV. ANOINTING OF THE SICK
Extreme Unction or anointing of the sick is a true and proper Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ.
The remote matter of Extreme Unction is oil.
The form consists in the prayer of the priest for the sick person which accomplishes the anointing.
Extreme Unction gives the sick person sanctifying grace in order to arouse and strengthen him.
Extreme Unction effects the remission of grievous sins still remaining and of venial sins.
Extreme Unction sometimes effects the restoration of bodily health, if this be of spiritual advantage.
Only Bishops and priests can validly administer Extreme Unction.
Extreme Unction can be received only by the Faithful who are seriously ill.
XVI. THE LAST THINGS
In the present order of salvation, death is a punishment for sin.
All human beings subject to original sin are subject to the law of death.
The souls of the just which in the moment of death are free from all guilt of sin and punishment for sin, enter into Heaven.
The bliss of Heaven lasts for all eternity.
The degree of perfection of the Beatific Vision granted to the just is proportioned to each one’s merit.
The souls of those who die in the condition of personal grievous sin enter Hell.
The punishment of Hell lasts for all eternity.
The souls of the just which, in the moment of death, are burdened with venial sins or temporal punishment due to sins, enter purgatory.
At the end of the world Christ will come again in glory to pronounce judgement.
All the dead will rise again on the last day with their bodies.
The dead will rise again with the same bodies as they had on earth.
This “statement” was created by Constantine to condition the people. It was intended to unify the beliefs of people into his universal one empire religion or “Catholic” religion.
The original version was adopted at the First Council of Nicaea (325). The revised version was adopted by the First Council of Constantinople (381)
“Our profession of faith begins with God, for God is the First and the Last, the beginning and the end of everything. The Credo begins with God the Father, for the Father is the first divine person of the Most Holy Trinity; our Creed begins with the creation of heaven and earth, for creation is the beginning and the foundation of all God’s works.”
—the Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 198
NICENE CREED
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father [and the Son]; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.
And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
APOSTLE’S CREED
“Peter.—1. I believe in God the Father Almighty;
“John.—2. Maker of heaven and earth;
“James.—3. And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord;
“Andrew.—4. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary;
“Philip.—5. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried;
“Thomas.—6. He descended into hell, the third day he rose again from the dead;
“Bartholomew.—7. He ascended into heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
“Matthew.—8. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead;
“James, the son of Alpheus.—9. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church;
“Simon Zelotes.—10. The communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins;
“Jude the brother of James.—11. The resurrection of the body;
1. The nativity of the Sun, the birth of Tammuz Dec. 25
The nativity of Jesus, or “Christmas” is held on December 25
2. The Midsummer festival of the Pagan was held on June 24 of each year
The Nativity of St. John is held every year on June 24
3. The assumption of Semiramus who became the mother godess of all Pagans
The assumption of Mary, who became the mother of God to all Catholics
4. The mother goddess was given the title, and worshipped as, the Queen of Heaven. Jer. 7:18
The Virgin Mary is given the title, and worshipped as, the Queen of Heaven – by all Catholics.
4.a “Queen of Heaven” is wrath subduer of the Pagan god
Mary, “Queen of Heaven” subdues the wrath of Christ and His Father against sinners.
5. Cakes decorated to the goddess with a “+” drawn on it. Jer. 44:17,19
Hot cross buns are baked for Mary in most Roman Catholic churches
6. 40 days fasting before Easter for Tammuz, Ezek. 8:14
Catholics fast 40 days (Lent) before Easter
7. Sexual festival of Easter. Ezek 8:16
The Roman Catholic church initiated the sexual festival of Easter first in Christiandom
7a. Gathering at sunrise for worship
Catholic church started Easter sunrise services first in Christiandom
8. The resurrection of Tammuz on Easter, and the procession of graven images during Easter holy week
All Roman Catholic churches parade partake in processions of graven images of Jesus, Mary, and Peter, and of the saints during Easter week
9. Veneration of graven images of Baal, Ishtar, Tammuz and lesser gods in the heavens
All Roman Catholic churches venerate graven images of Jesus, Mary, Peter, and of the “lesser” saints in the heavens
10. The belief of the constant immortality of the soul, and burning place of eternal torment
Rome teaches the belief of immortality of the soul and a burning place of eternal torment
11. Pagans believed in the doctrine of purgatory
Rome teaches the doctrine of purgatory
12. The belief of the dead visiting the living on a certain day each year. A feast is then held for all the dead on first day of November. (Called all souls day)
Rome teaches they must hold a festival for the dead on all souls day held Nov. 2, and all saints day held Nov. 1 of each year (Halloween, all hallows eve, is held Sept 31 each year).
13. Burning incense and candles Jer 11:17; Ezek 8:11
Rome, as well as every Satanic church burns incense and candles in their “masses”
14. Chants and repetitive prayers. Beaded prayer chains.
Rome as well as Satanists use chants and the beaded prayer chains. (Rome calls the chant “Gregorian chant” and the beaded chained “Rosary”)
15. Symbol of the cross as symbol of Sun worship. Mesopotamian cylinder seals of old have been found that depicted the “cross in the sky” as a symbol of sun worship. Ancient carvings of an Assyrian kings have also had huge crosses carved on their chest. The oldest pictures in the world from Mesopotamia has text with is explaining the “cross” in the sky as the symbol for the sun. This particular archeological find is on display at the University Museum in Philadelphia PA.
The Roman Catholic church displays a plus sign “+” cross symbol not only on the walls, paintings, windows, and roofs of their churches. Their priests also have these crosses on their clothing. Many other churches also use them and even place them inside a circle as a double symbol of Baal. The crucifix itself is an elongated version of the cross of Baal as well. Pagan Rome of old offered human sacrifices to Baal on these crosses as well.
16. Pagans wear amulets and idols to scare away evil spirits
Roman Catholicism teaches the wearing of crucifixes and medals as a method of protection. The scapular is proof of that fact.
17. The round disk “sun” wafer with the IHS symbol for Isis, Horus & Seb, was eaten as food for the soul and worshipped as Baal incarnate
The Roman Catholic Eucharist / wafer also has the IHS carvings on it for Isis, Horus, and Seb. And it is also given as food for the soul, and is worshipped as god incarnate.
18. Pagan’s would paint the child Tammuz and his mother Semiramus with the glory of the Sun around their heads
Rome paints the child Jesus and his mother Mary with halos of the Sun around their heads
19. Pagan’s performed infant baptism, and the sprinkling of holy water
Rome practices infant baptism, as well as the sprinkling of holy water
20. Pagans taught Necromancy (Talking to the dead)
Rome teaches Mysticism (Novenas/prayers to the dead)
21. The first day of the week kept sacred to honor the Persian sun god Mithra. The name of the day was changed to “SUN”day
Rome admitted they changed the Sabbath from day 7 to day one in honor of “SUN”day
