Monday, March 17, 2014

Some of Roman Catholicisms worst

Atrocities and Abominations of History
As one examines the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the frequency of abominable
practices and events seen leaves little doubt that she is not the fulfillment of Gods salvation
program on the earth. The level of wickedness produced by the system negates the idea that
she is the bride of Christ who offers new birth. Instead, once the evidence is assessed, it
becomes obvious she belongs to the kingdom of darkness. The following are some of the most
evil atrocities, not including the inquisitions, committed by the Roman religion in history:

Pope Urban VI reigned from A. D. 1378-1389. During his reign an antipope rose up stating he
was the real pope, that is, Clement VII. Because Joanna, Queen of Naples, sided with Clement
VII, Pope Urban VI had her deposed and replaced by her cousin Charles of Durazzo. However,
Charles and Pope Urban VI later had a falling out themselves resulting in Charles as well as
some cardinals plotting against him. As a result Urban VI had six of these cardinals brutally
tortured and then murdered (J. N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, [Oxford
University Press, 2010], p. 230; Richard P. McBrien ed., Urban VI, HarperCollins Encyclopedia
of Catholicism, [HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1995], p. 1290). In fact it is stated that while
these cardinals were being tortured, Pope Urban VI complained that their screams were not
loud enough for his satisfaction.

Benedict IX reigned as pope twice. He first reigned from A. D. 1032 to 1044, and then again
from A. D. 1045 to 1047. During his second reign he actually sold his papal office to his
godfather Giovanni Gratiano, archpriest of the venerable church of St. John who then became
Pope Gregory VI. The papacy was sold to him for 1,500 pounds of gold (E. R. Chamberlin, The
Bad Popes, [Dorset Press, 1969], p. 71).

Alexander VI reigned as pope from A. D. 1492 to 1503. Historians note that he amassed
ridiculous amounts of wealth and fathered seven children with different women, two of which
were after he became pope (J. N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, [Oxford
University Press, 2010], p. 255). Historian Williston Walker notes that he was a man of
unbridled immorality . . . His great concern was to advance his bastard children, especially his
daughter, Lucrezia Borgia, by advantageous marriages, and his unscrupulous and murderous
son, Cesare Borgia, by aiding him to carve a principality out of the Papal States (Williston
Walker, A History of the Christian Church, [Scribner, 1985], p. 396). Philip Schaff explains an
unthinkable event near the end of Alexander VIs life: two years before Alexander VIs death,
October 31, 1501, an orgy took place in the Vatican by Caesars appointment whose obscenity
the worst of the imperial revels could hardly have surpassed. 50 courtezans spent the night
dancing, with the servants and others present, first with their clothes on and then nude, the
pope and Lucretia looking on. The women, still naked, and going on their hands and feet,
picked up chestnuts thrown on the ground, and then received prizes of cloaks, caps and other
articles (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 6, [Hendrickson Publishers,
2011], p. 461). E. R. Chamberlin likewise confirms, . . .the Vatican has been the scene of
scandalous enough behaviour; now, the court became actively criminalcuriously,
deliberately, perverted. . . . fifty Roman harlots couples with fifty palace servants for prizes
presented by Alexander (E. R. Chamberlin, The Bad Popes, [Dorset Press, 1969], pp. 197,
198). Its interesting to note that is the pope who canonized, that is made saint, one of Romes

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favourite saints, Anselm of Canterbury (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume
6, [Hendrickson Publishers, 2011], p. 462).

This atrocity concerns forgeries Rome created in order to deceive people to believe in papal
primacy and Roman supremacy. The first is called the Donation of Constantine. This document
was forged in the 8th 9thcentury by Rome. In it the emperor Constantine who reigned during
the papal reign of Pope Silvester I (A.D. 314-345) is represented as conferring on Pope
Silvester I and Rome certain prerogatives and honors which 8th 15th century Roman
Catholicism would point to as evidence for the historicity of her papal doctrine and policy. In
it the emperor gives to Pope Silvester I primacy over the church patriarchs of the world and
dominion over Rome and Western states (J. N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary of Popes,
[Oxford University Press, 2010], p. 25). The document was proven to be false in the 15th
century. It was not a letter from Emperor Constantine; it was created by Rome. This is truly
abominable. Another similar example is known as the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals which were
produced in the 9th century by Catholic scholars. They were a set of documents forged in the
name of the late Isidore of Seville, the 6th and 7th century Archbishop of Seville (Williston
Walker, A History of the Christian Church, [Scribner, 1985], p. 250). These documents,
according to Schaff, gave legal expression to the popular opinion of the papacy, raised and
strengthened its power more than any other agency (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian
Church, Volume 4, [Hendrickson Publishers, 2011], p. 268). In fact on the same page Schaff
explains that the papal teaching within these forged decretals forms to a large extent the
basis of the canon law of the church of Rome (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church,
Volume 4, [Hendrickson Publishers, 2011], p. 268). In other words, Romes canon law which is
still used today is based on these papal forgeries. That Rome would create these forgeries and
use them to deceive people to bow to her doctrines and policies is truly a remarkable fraud
and abomination.

The epidemic of Romes homosexual pedophilia abuse scandals further demonstrate that this
system is reprobate and not of God. It seems that there is always something in the world-wide
news concerning a priest molesting a child, a pope covering up a scandal, a pedophile priest
being moved to a different diocese, or lawsuits and Rome paying off abuse victims etc. There
are countless documentaries on this subject as well as books and essays. It is one of the things
Roman Catholicism is most known for. In regards to only the United States, a 2004 study-
report done by professors from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice revealed that from
1950 to 2002 10,667 individuals came forward in the United States as being sexually abused
by Catholic Church leaders. The dioceses were only willing to substantiate 6,700 cases (which
is nevertheless alarming!). 4,392 American priests were therefore officially recognized as
engaging in sexual abuse. However, the SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priest)
argued these figures, though large, were nevertheless too small based on their findings. One
has to ask: what would cause all of these Catholic leaders to do this? Many have explained
how setting up a sexually repressed celibate order when these men are not given the gift of
celibacy by Christ, will inevitably lead to sexual sin. But why the specific sin of sexually
abusing male children? Romans 1:26-28 explains that when men persevere in rejecting God
and His truth, God hands them over to a reprobate mind as a judgement, to do things which
should not be done, such as homosexuality etc. It states, 26For this reason God gave them up
to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are
contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were
consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving
in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge
God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done (Romans 1:26-28).
Catholic Apologetics International put out: How Many Priests and Bishops are Homosexual?

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Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist and former priest, has studied celibacy and sexuality in the
priesthood for four decades. He has authored three books on the topic. He once estimated that
30% of the priesthood is homosexually oriented. Elsewhere, he is quoted as estimating that
between 25% and 45% of American priests are homosexual in orientation. He told the Boston
Globe: If they were to eliminate all those who were homosexually oriented, the number
would be so staggering that it would be like an atomic bomb; it would do the same damage to
the churchs operation. . . . It would mean the resignation of at least a third of the bishops of
the world. And its very much against the tradition of the church; many saints had a gay
orientation, and many popes had gay orientations
(http://catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/pastoral/homosexual-priests-print.htm).

John XII reigned as pope from A. D. 955 to 964. He was one of the most immoral popes of
history and engaged in things one would expect a Satanist to engage in. Historian Philip Schaff
observes, John XII. disgraced the tiara for eight years . . . He was one of the most immoral and
wicked popes, ranking with Benedict IX., John XXIII., and Alexander VI. He was charged by a
Roman Synod, no one contradicting, with almost every crime of which depraved human
nature is capable, and deposed as a monster of iniquity (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian
Church, Volume 4, [Hendrickson Publishers, 2011], p. 287). Schaff lists the following charges
of the Synod against John XII: appearing constantly with an armed sword, lance helmet, and
breastplate, that he neglected matins and vespers . . . that he had made a boy of ten years a
bishop, and ordained a bishop or deacon in a stable, that he had mutilated a priest, that he had
set houses on fire, like Nero, that he had committed homicide and adultery, had violated
virgins and widows high and low, lived with his fathers mistress, converted the pontifical
palace into a brothel, drank to the health of the devil, and invoked at the gambling-table the
help of Jupiter and Venus and other heathen demons! (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian
Church, Volume 4, [Hendrickson Publishers, 2011], p. 297 n. 1; see also E. R. Chamberlin, The
Bad Popes, [Dorset Press, 1969], pp. 43-44). There are two accounts of his death. One is that
he was killed by the jealous husband of a woman he was committing adultery with (Philip
Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 4, [Hendrickson Publishers, 2011], p. 297 n. 1).
The other is that he had a stroke while committing adultery with a woman (J. N. D. Kelly, M. J.
Walsh, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, [Oxford University Press, 2010], p. 127).

The Reformers protested the veneration of fraud relics which Catholics fervently sought out in
the medieval era. It was affirmed that veneration of such relics would shorten a persons time
in purgatory. Explaining some of these is Eleanor Herman: The body parts of saints were
called first-class relics. Some Italian churches boasted magnificent first-class itemsdrops of
Virgin Marys breast milk, the foreskin of Jesus penis, and his umbilical cord. Other churches
offered second-class relics, articles that had been intimately connected with the holy person
during his or her life. One Roman church exposed Jesus cradle from the manger, and another
the marble pedestal on which Pontius Pilate had had him flogged (Eleanor Herman, Mistress
of the Vatican, [HarperCollins, 2009], p. 241). This outraged regenerated Bible believers such
as Luther and Calvin. In his work The Theology of John Calvin, Charles Partee highlights some
of Calvins recollections of these absurd relics: In a rare reference to his childhood Calvin
expresses the outrage of a small boy observing the poor ignorant women of his parish, unable
to distinguish between the figures of saints, murderers, and demons, adorning all alike with
garlands. . . . As an adult Calvin notes that among the amazing things an account of relics
would reveal is that every apostle had more than four bodies and every saint two or three.
Equally amazing anatomically is the display of the foreskin of Jesus at three (!) churchesone
in Charrox, one in Rome, and a third in Hildesheim. Again, although only one man carried the
cross, if all the pieces were assembled in the same place, one could build a ship. Among the
credulous, goat droppings are taken for the beads of the Virgin Mary. Calvin recognizes that

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since the body of the Virgin Mary is not on earth, no bones can be produced, but the
compensation is her breastmilk. `Had the breasts of the most Holy Virgin yielded a more
copious supply than is given by a cow, or had she continued to nurse during her whole life
time, she scarcely could have furnished the quantity which is exhibited (Charles Partee, The
Theology of John Calvin, [Westminster John Knox Press, 2008], p. 11).

The Pornocracy is the name given to a period of 68 years in the tenth-century which spanned
the reign of fifteen popes. It started with Sergius III who reigned from A. D. 904 to 911 to John
XIII who reigned from A. D. 965 to 972. It was a period where a family of nobility called the
Theophylact family, most notably the women of the family Theodora and her daughter
Marozia, had firm control over the popes and led the papacy into much immorality,
wickedness and corruption (Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church, [Scribner,
1985], pp. 252-253). J. N. D. Kelly and M. J. Walsh note that the papacy itself was effectively
controlled by this powerful, unscrupulous family (J. N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary
of Popes, [Oxford University Press, 2010], p. 120). Pope Sergius III was intimate with and had
a child with Theodoras 15 year old daughter Marozia. Their child would then be installed as
pope by the Theophylact family when he grew up. He would be named Pope John XI (E. R.
Chamberlin, The Bad Popes, [Dorset Press, 1969], p. 34; J. N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford
Dictionary of Popes, [Oxford University Press, 2010], p. 119). The way Pope Sergius III became
pope was that he marched to Rome with an armed force, deposed antipope Christopher and
had him thrown into gaol after which he was executed (J. N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford
Dictionary of Popes, [Oxford University Press, 2010], p. 118). Pope John X (A.D. 914-928) was
at first on good terms with the Theophylact family which was at his time still controlling the
papacy. However, because of certain political actions, Marozia, daughter of Theophylact,
organized a revolt against him. They had his bother murdered and he himself ended up being
deposed of his papal office and suffocated to death (J. N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary
of Popes, [Oxford University Press, 2010], p. 121). This family freely installed popes such as
Leo VI, Stephen VII and others. Marozia married numerous times during this seize of the
papacy. Commenting on this horrible time, Philip Schaff relays, The papacy itself lost all
independence and dignity, and became the prey of avarice, violence, and intrigue, a veritable
synagogue of Satan. It was dragged through the quagmire of the darkest crimes, and would
have perished in utter disgrace had not Providence saved it for better times. Pope followed
pope in rapid succession, and most of them ended their career in deposition, prison, and
murder. . . . These Roman amazons [Theodora and Marozia] combined with the fatal charms of
personal beauty and wealth, a rare capacity for intrigue, and a burning lust for power and
pleasure. . . . They turned the church of St. Peter into a den of robbers, and the residence of his
successors into a harem. And they gloried in their shame. Hence this infamous period is called
the papal Pornocracy or Hataerocracy (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume
4, [Hendrickson Publishers, 2011], p. 284 brackets mine).

Pope Stephen VI reigned as pope from A. D. 896-897. He was consecrated as bishop of Anagni
by previous pope Formosus who reigned from A. D. 891-896. However, Stephen VI turned his
back on Formosus. After Formosus died Stephen VI had his eight month old corpse exhumed,
dressed in full papal vestments, and put on a throne for a mock trial on charges of perjury,
coveting the papacy, and violating the canons prohibiting the translation of bishops. A deacon
stood beside Formosuss dead body and answered for him at the mock trial. Formosus was
declared to be guilty, his fingers cut off, and his body tossed into the Tiber River. This is truly
satanic. However, it gets worse for Rome. Stephen VIs actions did not go unpunished. A few
months later the outraged Catholic supporters of Formosus deposed Stephen, stripped him of
his papal insignia, and threw him into the gaol, where he was shortly afterwards strangled (J.
N. D. Kelly, M. J. Walsh, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, [Oxford University Press, 2010], p. 115).

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This historical abomination concerns indulgences. An indulgence is the remission of temporal
punishments of sin here and in purgatory. It was proclaimed by medieval Rome that these
indulgences could shorten peoples time in the non-existent place called purgatory. Pope
Urban II who reigned from A.D. 1088 to 1099 offered indulgences to crusaders who died
battling Muslims whereby all their temporal punishments for sin were said to be remitted
(Kenan B. Osborne, Indulgences, ed. Richard P. McBrien, The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of
Catholicism, [HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1995], pp. 662-663). Not only is the idea of
indulgences an abomination, but the fact that Roman Catholicism sold indulgences in the
middle ages is unthinkably satanic. On April 18, 1506 Pope Julius II put out a bull promising
indulgence to those who paid money to him. He would use these funds to construct St. Peters
Basilica in Rome (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 6, [Hendrickson
Publishers, 2011], p. 764). Rome commissioned certain preachers like Tetzel to go around
scaring Catholics into giving their money so that they could get loved ones out of purgatory
faster. The logical abuse which came about is that people would sin willfully thinking it was
okay since they would just pay money to get the temporal punishments for sin remitted with
money. This despicable practice was fervently opposed by the reformer Martin Luther.

There are many other atrocities one could highlight (including the inquisitions). Suffice it to
say, this track-record of unspeakable abominations coming out of Romanism era after era
demonstrates very clearly that this system is not the fulfillment of Gods salvation plan on the
earth. Romanism is not the arbiter of Gods kingdom. She is not Gods holy bride, the true seed
of Abraham who is given the role of spreading the gospel to the lost in a Christian manner.
Although no one expects Gods people to always be one-hundred percent perfect all the time,
this constant track-record of abominations and atrocities in Catholic history century after
century prove that this type of thing is commonplace in papalism. This system resembles a
satanic cult more than it does the fulfillment of Gods plan on the earth. It is because Roman
Catholicism, far from representing God and being Gods sanctified bride, is actually Satans
greatest counterfeit, an apostate church which, as a church, had its lampstand removed long
ago.

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