Lee Dunn's List: VATICANIA

• Rich nations must assume environmental duties: pope
• Tue Dec 15, 2009
• By Philip Pullella
• VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the environmental crisis, shed their consumerism and embrace more sober lifestyles, Pope Benedict said on Tuesday.
• The pope's call for more environmental commitments came in his message for the Roman Catholic Church's annual World Day of Peace,
• to be marked on Jan 1 and whose theme is "If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation."
• The message is traditionally sent to heads of state, government and international organizations and its importance this year is more significant because its release coincided with the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen.
• "It is important to acknowledge that among the causes of the present ecological crisis is the historical responsibility of the industrialized countries," he said in the message.
• While saying that developing countries "are not exempt from their own responsibilities with regard to creation," and had a duty to gradually adopt effective environmental measures,
• the bulk of his criticism was aimed at rich nations.
• "This means that technologically advanced societies must be prepared to encourage more sober lifestyles, while reducing their energy consumption and improving its efficiency."
• He said no nation or people can remain indifferent to problems such as climate change, desertification, pollution, the loss of biodiversity, the increase of natural catastrophes and the deforestation of equatorial and tropical regions.
• Environmental concerns too often took a back seat to what he called "myopic economic interests,"
• adding the international community and governments had a moral duty to "send the right signals" to effectively combat misuse of the environment.
• He called on all people to "move beyond a purely consumerist mentality" so that they could "rethink the path which we are traveling together" and adapt "a lifestyle marked by sobriety and solidarity" between the haves and the have nots.
• Environmental issues deserved the attention of the world community because the were human rights issues that could influence the right to life, food, health and development.
• "Sad to say, it is all too evident that large numbers of people in different countries and areas of our planet are experiencing increased hardship because of the negligence or refusal of many others to exercise responsible stewardship over the environment," he said.

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• Pope Benedict XVI Begins The First Step In Canonizing Pope Pius XII, The Pope   Who Stood By His Friend, Adolf Hitler All During World War II!
• Subtitle: Pope Pius XII was dubbed "the silent Pope" because   he never spoke out against Adolf Hitler and his genocide campaign against the   Jews. After the war, numerous European newspapers openly called for War Crimes   charges to be levied against the Pope.
• You will soon see that Pope Pius XII considered Adolf Hitler to be   an important ally and that he aided the German war effort significantly, especially   at the end of the war when the Vatican set up the infamous 'Rat Lines' which   enabled many Nazi leaders to escape capture by the Allies!
• Pope Benedict is going to crown Pius a Saint! An incredible rewriting   of history.
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• One of the recurring nightmares of post-World War II Jewish leadership   is that, one day, the Vatican will attempt to rewrite modern history sufficiently   to where it can make a saint out of Pope Pius XII;
• Jewish historians have long said that, had the   Pope spoken out against these atrocities while they were occurring, he could   have saved several million lives.
• this pope was called the   "Silent Pope" because he was so quiet while the Nazis were systematically   murdering over 6 million Jews!
• His policies and his pronouncements were so pro-Nazi that some   historians have called Pius "Hitler's Pope".
• Now, this fear is about to be realized, as Pope Benedict XVI has   started the process of Canonizing Pope Pius XII.

  • This current Pope is a German National and was a member of the Hitler Youth.
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• Let us examine this recent development first, and then we shall   learn about Pope Pius XII.
• NEWS BRIEF: "Canonization   of the silent pontiff? Pope Pius XII ", The Jerusalem Post,   December 21, 2009
• "Benedict XVI's signature on the document certifying Eugenio   Pacelli's ... 'heroic virtues' over the weekend came as a surprise, and not   only because the pope's decision to move his World War II-era predecessor, Pius   XII, a step nearer sainthood was taken less than a month before the pontiff's   planned visit to Rome's main synagogue.
• The inherent controversy of the move   was underlined by the fact that the wartime pope's name appeared discretely   on a list of 10 new 'venerables' ... While John Paul's case for sainthood has   reached this advanced stage less than five years after his death, Pius XII's   cause has taken nearly 45 awkward years."
• What is a "venerable" in Vatican lexicon?
• "The 'venerable' state is normally followed some time later   by beatification, after a team of doctors and theologians have certified a miracle   attributed directly to the candidate's intervention, and is subsequently completed   by canonization - or sainthood.
• Each step requires the pope's signature.
• A commission   of theologians and Vatican officials had already voted in favour of proclaiming   Pius XII's 'heroic virtues' in May 2007, but Benedict was evidently uncertain,   calling for further research in the secret archives. Until the new list appeared   this weekend, it was not known that Benedict had been persuaded. "
• Why has it taken 45 "awkward years" for the Vatican   to begin the process of sainthood for Pope Pius XII?
• The reason is simple: Pope Pius XII served during World War II,   and was extremely friendly to Adolf Hitler from 1933-1939, when the Nazi dictator   was quietly and efficiently consolidating his power.
• In the DVD, above, "A   Lamp In The Dark", editor Chris Pinto briefly addresses the   pro-Nazi policy of the Roman Catholic Church during this era.
• Not only do we   see Catholic bishops and priests giving the Nazi salute, but we view a Vatican   proclamation which states its satisfaction that, finally, in modern history,   a union is being established between a "National Socialist State"   (Nazi Germany) and "Catholic Christianity"!
• For those who are not aware of the extremely pro-Nazi stance which   the Vatican aggressively pursued under the leadership of Pope Pius XII's leadership,   these pictures and these quotes must come as a huge surprise.
• But, this is true   history, not the re-written history which shall now pour forth from the Vatican   as it attempts to persuade the peoples of the world that Pius was a godly man   worthy of being crowned with Sainthood.
• Now; let us return to our featured story for more details.
• All agree that it is inappropriate for Jews to interfere in the internal   processes of the Catholic Church; all also realize that saints in the Catholic   tradition are exemplars for future generations.
• "Jewish leaders in Israel, Rome and Germany have thus far   reacted with different degrees of disappointment to the weekend's unexpected   news.
• Rabbi David Rosen, interfaith   affairs director for the American Jewish Committee and consultant to Israel's   Chief Rabbinate, stated diplomatically but tellingly, for instance, that 'while   it is not appropriate for us to tell the Catholic Church whom they may or may   not name as saints, if we are partners in interreligious dialogue the Church   must take Jewish sensitivities into account. I hope no further steps to accelerate   Pius XII's cause will be taken before an objective historical analysis becomes   possible by making the secret archives accessible to scholars'."
• "Similarly, a statement issued by the Italian Jewish Community   noted that if the decision implied 'a definitive and unilateral judgment with   regard to Pius XII's record in history, we confirm that our evaluation remains   critical'.
• More bluntly, it added, 'Let us not forget the deportations of the   Jews of Italy and in particular, the train with 1,021 who were deported to Auschwitz   on October 16, 1943, from the Tiburtina Station of Rome amidst the silence of   Pius XII'."
• "Most blunt of all was the general secretary of the Central   Council of Jews in Germany, Stephan Kramer, who declared he was 'sad and furious'   because 'Benedict XVI is rewriting history without having permitted a serious   scientific discussion...' "
• Historical evidence   clearly shows that Pope Pius XII was extremely supportive of Adolf Hitler and   his genocidal campaign against the Jew.
• Cutting Edge believes that these criticisms from Jewish leaders   are too mild to really do justice to this critical situation.
• This feeling of affinity toward Hitler's   holocaust is the real reason Pius was the "Silent Pontiff"; he remained   silent in the face of the most murderous campaign against a specific people   in all of world history.
• The Pontiff knew what Hitler was doing, took no action,   and said nothing, to stop him.
• Let us how review this specific history of Pope Pius XII during   World War II.
• Roman   Catholic Support of Hitler
• "The   Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich who visited Hitler at his mountain retreat in Obersalzburg   confessed: 'Without a doubt the chancellor lives   in faith in God. He recognizes Christianity as the foundation of Western culture'   [Helmreich, p.279]."
• "I   do not remember even a single occasion when Hitler gave any instructions that   ran counter to the true Christian spirit and to humaness. [Wagener, quoted   in "Turner, Jr., Henry Ashby, "Hitler-- Memoirs of a Confidant," Yale University   Press, 1978, p.147]
• "Catholic   and Protestant leaders were convinced of Hitler's belief. As an example, the   Catholic Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich visited Hitler at his mountain retreat   at Obersalzburg in November 1936. Faulhaber observed: 'Without doubt the chancellor   lives in faith in God. He recognizes Christianity as the foundation of Western   culture.' " [quoted from "The German Churches Under Hitler",   p.279]
• "Pope   Pius XII in 1939 instructed Cardinal Bertram to send a birthday message to Hitler:   'warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses   in Germany' which was added, 'fervent prayers which the Catholics of Germany   are sending to heaven on their altars.' These greetings became a tradition and   were sent every April 20th." ["Hitler compared to God/Jesus/Christians",   by Jim Walker]

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  "Adolf Hitler virtually   commenced his crusade as a champion of Christianity. While there are   those who question the sincerity of his Christian (Roman Catholic) religious   convictions, the Roman Catholic Church never saw fit to excommunicate him while   giving him enthusiastic support in Germany and in the Vatican, especially after   the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 ... That the Roman Catholic Church   had no hesitancy to back fascism in the name of the crusade against "godless   atheistic communism" needs no documentation here ..." {"Catholicism   and Fascism", by Robert F. Nordlander, Free Thought Magazine, April, 1990;   Emphasis added]
• Adolf Hitler was raised Catholic and instructed in a Catholic   school run by Jesuits. To his dying day, Hitler considered himself a good Catholic!
• Let us continue examining this Catholic side to Hitler.
• "After the death of Pius XI, the electoral procedure to   elect another pope had begun. The March 1939 election favored Pacelli and four   days later, Pacelli made it clear that he would handle all German affairs personally.

•   He proposed the following affirmation of Hitler:

   

   

  'To the Illustrious Herr Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German   Reich! Here at the beginning of Our Pontificate We wish to assure you that   We remain devoted to the spiritual welfare of the German people entrusted   to your leadership.... During the many years we spent in Germany, We did all   in Our power to establish harmonious relations between Church and State. Now   that the responsibilities of Our pastoral function have increased Our opportunities,   how much more ardently do We pray to reach that goal. May the prosperity of   the German people and their progress in every domain come, with God's help,   to fruition!'
• "Pacelli became a crowned Pope on March 12, 1939 (Pius XII). The following   month on April 20, 1939, at Pacelli's express wish, Archbishop Orsenigo, the   nuncio in Berlin, opened a gala reception for Hitler's fiftieth birthday.
• The   birthday greetings thus initiated by Pacelli immediately became a tradition;   each April 20 during the few years left to Hitler and his Reich, Cardinal Bertram   of Berlin would send "warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the   bishops and the dioceses in Germany," to which he added 'fervent prayers which   the Catholics in Germany are sending to heaven on their altars'." [Cornwell,   John, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, Viking, 1999, p.   209]
• Adolf Hitler died a Catholic in good standing within the Catholic Church, was   never excommunicated, and was supported by the Vatican even after the war! Rome   established and operated an escape route through Italy for former Nazi officials   that has become known as the "Vatican Rat Lines" ["Unholy Trinity",   by Mark Aarons and John Loftus]
• There were individual   priests and nuns who did resist Hitler during the war, at great expense and   peril to themselves; nevertheless, the official policy of Rome supported Hitler.
• The fact of history is that Adolf Hitler could not have carried out neither   his war nor his Holocaust without the active support of Rome.
• This is the reality that Jewish leaders and scholars are facing as Pope Benedict   XVI initiates the process by which Pius XII will be declared a saint.

• But, there is more!

   

  Roman Catholicism would have us   believe that the pope is the "good shepherd" here in Christ's stead, thus the   title: "Vicar of Christ" and "Shepherd of the Universal Church".
• I would like   to look at just what kind of shepherd Rome has been, and if, indeed, she can   make such a claim that she represents Christ.
• While it is true that Pope John   Paul II has apologized for the "silence" of Pope Pius XII during the holocaust,   he has also defended Pius XII as a "great pope" and there was talk of beatification   of Pius XII until Israel's ambassador to the Vatican urged the Pontiff to wait   50 years before moving ahead with any plan to beatify this man.

• Her mission today is to unite all religions   together in her. That's why John Paul II has no problem kissing the Koran, a   book that denies Jesus is the Son of God! Neither did the pope have any problem   taking the mark of Shiva on his forehead. THIS POPE HAS NO ALLEGIANCE TO CHRIST!!!  

   

  
• As always, Rome   is two-faced and cannot be trusted. She will do or say whatever she must to   accomplish her desired mission.
• but instead of preaching the gospel   to the Dalai Llama, he placed a statue of Buddha on a Catholic altar. What allegiance   does he have for Christ? What allegiance does he have for his own Catholic religion?
• Pope John Paul II kissed the Koran,   took the "aarti" mark of Shiva on his forehead and met with the Dalai Llama,   a man who calls himself the "god-king";

• This situation   reminds me of the scripture:

   

  "I am come in my Father's name,   and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive."   (John 5:43)
• Yet, Israel spent millions of dollars   welcoming this so-called "Shepherd of the Universal Church", a man who heads   a system that has persecuted Jews more than Hitler ever dreamed.
• Pope John Paul II, in a touching scene in Jerusalem, stood   before the ashes of death camp victims at the Israeli. s Holocaust memorial,   and said he is "deeply saddened" by "Christian. s persecution" of Jews.
• The Israeli people got a good show   for their money!
• I have   to wonder if he is so saddened by the atrocities committed by his own Roman   Catholic religion that he would be willing to make recompense as well.
• In November   of 1999, survivors of Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian background and their relatives,   as well as organizations representing over 300,000 Holocaust victims, filed   for restitution of the Nazi Croatian Treasury that, according to the US State   Department, was "illicitly transferred to the Vatican and other banks after   the end of the war."
• The named defendants include the Vatican Bank, Franciscan   Order, and the Croatian Liberation Movement.
• These defendants combined to conceal   assets looted by the Croatian Nazis from concentration camp victims -- Serbs,   Jews, Romans --and others between 1941-1945. Sincere repentance would include   retribution, that is, if the pope is truly sincere!!!
• The most explicit witness against   Rome's illegal activities during World War II is the book "Unholy   Trinity" by Mark Aarons and John Loftus.
• We highly recommend this   historically, well documented book for anyone interested in how Pope Pius XII   and his advisor, Giovanni Montini (Pope Paul VI) directed, through the Vatican   Ratlines, the greatest travesty of justice;
• they aided the following   Nazi criminals to escape the judgment of the Allies -- Adolf Eichmann, Franz   Strangl (the commandant of Treblinka), Walter Rauff (inventor of the mobile   gas chambers), Klaus Barbie (the "Butcher of Lyons").
• The Demon   Impersonating The Virgin Mary
• John Paul II, a strong Mary worshipper,   accredits "the lady of Fatima" with saving his life (rather than giving Jesus   the glory), is apologizing for the actions of another pope who admired and worshipped   "Mary" more than any pope before or after.
• The papal declarations of Pope Pius   XII concerning Mary are more numerous that any one article could expound, and   it was this same pope, speaking "ex-cathedra", who declared the doctrine of   the "Assumption" (the taking of Mary's body and soul into heaven to set her   as "queen of heaven") in 1950, a mandatory belief for all Catholics.
• The significance   of Pope John Paul II's "apology" is most crucial, since he is asking for forgiveness   for a man who was led by "Mary" to do the things he did.
• Let's look at Pope Pius XII and   see exactly for which Pope John Paul II must apologize!
• It was also during his reign that 6 million Jews would be slaughtered while   Pius XII sat idly by in silence.
• Pope Pius XII occupied the papal   throne from 1939-1958.
• It was during his reign that the world would battle one   of the world's most infamous dictators and butchers of all time, Adolph Hitler.
• The question that haunts many is "why"? How   could the leader of the richest church in the world, a man who claims to represent   God on earth, deliberately turn his back on the cries of millions of innocent   victims -- men, women, children, babies?
• Were his actions any different than   those of the popes that preceded him?
• Roman Catholicism has a history of hate   on which she has poured out any in the world who differed from her in religion   or opinion.

• Catholic author, Peter De Rosa, in his book, Vicars of Christ: the   Dark Side of the Papacy, states:

   

  "No doctrine was taught more   universally, with less qualification  in Catholic terms, more infallibly   than that  "Jews are cursed for killing God" , a charge still not officially   withdrawn.
• The Inquisition against genuine Christians is probably the most   famous example, but Rome has persecuted the Jews from the moment she assumed   power.
• In the Third and Fourth Councils of the Lateran (1179 and 1215),   the church codified all previous enactments against Jews.
• In England it was saffron, in the presumed shape of the tablets   of Moses. In France and Germany it was yellow and round. In Italy, the badge   was red hat, until a shortsighted Roman prelate mistook a Jew for a cardinal   and the colour was changed to yellow.
• They had to wear a   badge of shame.
• Jews were forbidden all contact with Christians,   barred from administration, deprived of lands, forbidden to own shops, herded   into ghettos that were bolted at night.
• For refusing to deny their ancestral faith and convert to Christianity,   Jews were hounded from one land to another.
• No system of apartheid was more rigorously   enforced.
• A Jew who appeared in public   on Good Friday was virtually committing suicide.
• One pope gave them a month to quit   their homes in Italy.
• During the Crusades, Jews were slaughtered in their thousands,   by the Catholics acting out of 'devotion' to Christ.
• Disastrous theology had prepared   the way for Hitler and his 'final solution' ..
• In spite of Christian cruelty,   which to some degree prepared for the Holocaust, some Catholics still say their   church has never erred." (p.5-6)
• When I read of all the hate Rome   has against the Jews for "killing Jesus", I have to wonder if at any time they   had read scriptures. Didn't they know that Jesus laid down His life willingly   and that no man took it from Him? John 10:18 clearly says, "No man taketh   it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I   have power to take it again."
• How could the following words of   Paul, so dear to Christians, have eluded the popes?
• "For I would not, brethren,   that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own   conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of   the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,   There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness   from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their   sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching   the election, they are beloved for the fathers'   sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in   times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their   unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, THAT THROUGH YOUR MERCY   THEY ALSO MAY OBTAIN MERCY." (Rom.11:25-31;   Emphasis added)
• For this reason, God punished Israel severely for nearly 2,000 years, but then   brought her back to her ancient land so the End of the Age could begin its inevitable   countdown
• The Vatican has never, ever realized that Israel is still beloved by God and   they have been "elected" in eternity past to be His Chosen People.
• (Please read our treatise on how God truly fulfilled all His vows   to Abraham and how He set the stage for the fulfillment of End of the Age Scriptures   when He brought Israel back to her land in a "single day", May 14,   1948. This article is NEWS1010,   entitled, "God's Modern Day Miracle: Israel   A Nation Again".)
• How then did Rome obey the word   of God and show "mercy"?
• When an urgent plea was dispatched to the Vatican by   an American delegation, acting on behalf of the War Refugee Board, requesting   Papal intervention to save the helpless victims (800,000 Jews in Hungary) there   was complete silence.
• By the time the number of Jews decreased to 300,000 (most   shipped off to Auschwitz and murdered), another plea was made to the Vatican.
• Rumors that the Pope might actually help this time and make a radio appeal on   behalf of the Jews were quickly abandoned when the Pope said he could not "because   if he did so he would in fairness to all have to criticize the Russians"
• (This, too, was a complete lie, since Roman Catholicism only funded Nazism and   Fascism in order to defeat Bolshevism, in order to avenge herself of another   concordant gone wrong with Lenin and the loss of 666 million dollars in gold).

• The point has been summarized by Guenter Lewy:

   

  "A public denunciation of the   mass murders by Pius XII, broadcast widely over the Vatican radio and read from   the pulpits by the bishops, would have revealed to Jews and Christians alike   what deportation to the East entailed. The Pope would have been believed, whereas   the broadcasts of the Allies were often shrugged off as war propaganda"   (Hitler's Pope, 286)
• The failure of Pope Pius XII to speak out against these atrocities cannot be   underestimated.
• This belief is entirely true! The Pope was held in high enough esteem throughout   the world by enough people that, if he said the Nazis were systematically annihilating   the Jews, he would have been believed.
• Enormous pressure would have been exerted   against the Allied governments to take military action to stop the holocaust.   Trains and the tracks on which they carried their Jewish victims could have   been bombed. The killing centers themselves, like Auschwitz, could have been   bombed and burned to the ground.
• This Holocaust need not to have occurred to   the degree to which it did.
• Yet, even though Pope Pius XII and the leaders of   America and Great Britain, knew all the details of the Nazi genocide, they took   no action!
• The degree of Illuminati collaboration to annihilate all Jews is one of the   saddest, most tragic, tales in all of recorded history.
• Yet, why should we be   surprised? Prophetic Scripture tells us in Revelation 12 and in Matthew 24 that   Antichrist is going to try to annihilate all the Jews, and only God protection   of the elect will keep Israel from being totally wiped out.
• Since every one   of the Allied leaders is Illuminati, and since Adolf Hitler was Illuminati,   we can understand how they shared the same kind of hatred toward the Jew that   Antichrist is foretold to possess.
• The Jews in Hungary would just have   to become a casualty of war, and never see the "mercy" that the word of God   said Christians should have towards them. How deceitful it is that popes claim   to represent true Christianity.
• Jesus, the Good Shepherd that laid   down His life for His sheep out of love, was rejected by Israel. Zechariah prophesied   the kind of shepherd Israel would accept after rejecting the true Shepherd.
• "And the LORD said unto me, Take   unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. For, lo, I will raise up   a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither   shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth   still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.   Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his   arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right   eye shall be utterly darkened." (Zec.11:15-17)
• Israel cried out and said, "Our   bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts". (Eze.37:11)
• Pope Pius XII, a self-proclaimed "universal shepherd", refused to visit those   that were "cut off" (the Jew), exactly as Zechariah had prophesied. He   is, without a doubt, the "idol shepherd that leaveth the flock".
• The underlying motive for her actions was love of money and   power, and her desire to preserve herself. Rome was watching out for her own   interests.
• Not only did Pope Pius XII turn   a deaf ear to the cries of millions, Roman Catholicism funded Nazism and its   Fascist system.
• "One of the benefits of the   [1933] concordat [with Hitler] was the hundreds of millions of dollars that   would flow to the Roman Catholic Church through the kirchensteuer (church tax)   throughout the entire war. In return, Pius XII would never excommunicate Hitler   from the Catholic Church nor would he raise his voice to protest the slaughter   of 6 million Jews" ("A   Woman Rides the Beast",   Dave Hunt, 220-221).
• Rightly does the word of God speak   of the love of money:
• "For the love of money is the   root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,   and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1Tim.6:10)
• Of course, Rome claims her silence   was her wisdom, for in so doing, she was able to at least protect the Catholic   people from suffering the same fate as the Jew, and after all, she was responsible   for saving thousands of Jews who were married to Catholics.
• I find it interesting   and hypocritical how a system that claims the gates of hell will never prevail   against them would go in league with the satanic Nazi government in order to   preserve herself.
• It's obvious she did not really believe the scripture she   wrested to her own destruction. Why be a coward if you really believe that Jesus   will not let the gates of the enemy prevail against you?
• Rome would have faired   better to claim it was greed and revenge that motivated her actions, for this   kind of sin is prevalent where money and power exists. But to claim that she   had to turn a deaf ear to the outpouring of hearts begging for aid and mercy   in order to protect her own existence (and conceal her interaction with those   very groups that were responsible for the Jewish bloodbath), just goes to show   what a shallow, Godless money-making machine she really is.
• Isaiah well describes   these corrupt Catholic shepherds:
• "His watchmen are blind: they   are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying   down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough,   and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way,   every one for his gain, from his quarter." (Isa.56:10-11)
• Rome had no faith that Jesus would,   indeed, save her while she remained faithful to preach truth. But since Rome   is devoid of the truth, she had no alternative but to resort to her own devices,   as she has done for centuries.
• It would be fair to say that Pope Pius XII (Eugenio   Pacelli), was only following the same racist   anti-Semitism that Roman Catholicism had always harbored toward the Jews, the   same kind of hatred that paved the way for   the Nazi's final solution. Hitler was educated in a Catholic school, and remained   nominal Catholic all his life.
• What kind of a man would follow   that kind of historical hateful bigotry? A man who loved and worshipped the   demon who has always impersonated the Virgin Mary.
• Pacelli, from his earliest childhood,   was led by his mother and father in the worship of Mary.
• "Virginia Pacelli led her children   several times a day to pray before a shrine to the Virgin in their apartment,   and the whole family said the Rosary each evening before supper...On his [Eugenio]   way home from school he regularly visited the picture of the Virgin, known as   Madonna della Strada, close to the tomb of Ignatius Loyola in the Gesu church.   Here sometimes twice daily, he poured out his heart to the Madonna, telling   her everything" ("Hitler's Pope",   John Cornwell, 17-18).
• Pacelli, writing an essay in the third   person at age fifteen, described himself as "blind with vain and erroneous   ideas and doubts".
• Yet for all this worship, did "Mary"   produce a peace and joy in this youth, the same peace that the Lord promises   those who follow Him? The answer is "no".
• He went on to ask, "who will give him wings" to   "rise from this miserable earth to the highest sphere and tear apart this   evil veil that surrounds him always and everywhere?"
• In concluding his self   portrait, he describes himself as "tearing at his hair" and wishing he   had "never been born" (Ibid. 19)
• This "evil veil" that surrounded Pacelli   and "blinded" him, was none other than the demonic spirit of "Mary" he worshipped   all his days.
• 2 Corinthians 4:4 describes this   demonic spirit:
• "In whom the god of this world   hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious   gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
• At the age of 18, Pacelli   was introduced into the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. Loyola designed   these "exercises" as a textbook for all Jesuits.
• He was a fervent follower of the Satanic secret society, the   Jesuits!
• But, incredibly, there is more to the hatred of the Jew which beat in the heart   of Pope Pius XII.

• In the book, Secret History   of the Jesuits, by Edmund Paris, we get a better understanding of just what   type of influence these "exercises" have:

   

  "Ignatius understood more clearly   than any other leader of men who preceded him that the best way to raise a man   to a certain ideal is to become master of his imagination. We  imbue into   him spiritual forces which he would find very difficult   to eliminate later. . Forces more lasting than all the best principles and doctrines;   these forces can come up again to the surface, sometimes after years of not   even mentioning them, and become imperative that the will finds itself unable   to oppose any obstacle, and has to follow their irresistible impulse" (21; Emphasis   added).
• What are these "spiritual forces"   of which they are speaking? The Holy Spirit? Would you ever find occasion to   "eliminate" Him? What force is more lasting than God. s doctrines if God is   the Word (Jn.1:1)?
• After lying dormant for years (does God lay dormant in a   true Christian?) this force can eventually break down the individual. s will   and coerce him to do something he wouldn't not otherwise do.
• THIS IS NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!!   This is demonism, purely and simply.

• Ignatius Loyola was so confident   in these "Exercises", that he boasted he only needed thirty days to "subdue"   a soul:

   

  "Imposing on his disciples actions   which, to him, were spontaneous, he needed just thirty days to break, with this   method, the will and reasoning, in the manner in which a rider breaks his horse.   He only needed thirty days . triginta dies. , to subdue a soul.
• Note that Jesuitism   expanded together with the modern inquisition: while the inquisition dislocated   the body, the spiritual Exercises broke up the thoughts under Loyola. s machine"   (Ibid. 22).
• What were these "Exercises" that   Loyola used to control his young disciples and where did he get them?
• "At the front. it is characteristic   of this Order. we find the Virgin Mary. . Loyola had made the Virgin the most   important thing in his life. The Worship of Mary was the base of his religious   devotions and was handed down by him to his Order.
• This worship developed so   much that it was often said, and with good reason, that it was the Jesuits.   real religion. ...Loyola himself was convinced that he Virgin had inspired him   when he had drawn up his . Exercises. " ("Secret   History of the Jesuits", 599-60).
• The visions and teachings of those indoctrinated into these   spiritual exercises degenerated into licentious and sensual manifestations.
• Just a short study of the men who   partook of these "Exercises" proves that indeed, the spirit they call "the Virgin"   had inspired them.
• Pacelli was guided through the "Spiritual Exercises" on more than one occasion,   and it was after taking part in the Jesuit training that Pacelli told his parents   he wanted to become a priest.
• At age 23, he was ordained and he said his first   Mass at the "altar of the Virgin in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore".   His obsessive worship of Mary became the focal point of his pontificate.
• "Central to Pacelli. s personal   everyday spirituality was his devotion to the Virgin Mary.
• With the advent of   war, he turned in particular to the cult of the Our Lady of Fatima, the credence   given to a series of Marian apparitions to three children in Portugal during   the First World War, along with associated Marian messages and secrets. A central   feature of the messages focused on the requirement that the faithful should   pray to Mary in order to avoid world conflict, the spread of Communism, and   ultimately the destruction of the world in a holocaust of divine punishment.
• Pius XI had endorsed the visions of Fatima, and the dictators of Portugal and   Spain, Salazar and Franco, had celebrated the cult as a rally-rousing emblem   of Fascistic solidarity.
• Pacelli not only gave it credence (as would John Paul   II) but also saw a personal, a mystical link in the circumstance that he had   been raised to the episcopate on May 13, 1917, the date of the first apparition,   and subsequently the cult's feast day"   ( Hitler's Pope, 272).

• John Cornwell, in his book Hitler's Pope,   made an interesting point:

   

  "The significance of the Fatima   cult in Pacelli's thinking is its flavor of gnosticism--the notion of dual realms   of darkness and light beyond the mere "veil of appearances," where reside the   Godhead, the Virgin Mary, Michael, and all the angels and the saints, opposed   by the powers of the Prince of Darkness and his fallen angels, "who wander through   the world for the ruin of souls," as Pope Leo XIII had put it in a prayer to   be said at the end of every Mass.
• As we can see, Mary was the leading   spirit behind Pope Pius XII.
• What happens in this world of ours, according   to such a perspective, depends on Mary's intercession with her Son to so curb   the power of Satan that war and discord will be vanquished.
• Ever since   Pius IX defined, without mention of Episcopal approbation, the dogma of the   Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in I854, there had been a close   link in the minds of modern Popes between Mary and papal authority. In short,   the unfolding of human history depends not on communitarian and societal action   and responsibility but upon miraculous interventions mediated by Mary and endorsed   by the papacy" (273).
• The conditions of   this virtual appeasement operate on the basis of Marian revelations sanctioned   as authentic by the Pope, whose power is thus parallel to Mary's.
• Pope Pius XII waited on the intervention   of Mary while he sat back in silence at the destruction of 6 million Jews. His   teachings during his pontificate reflect the hope that he clung to was Mary.

• In a letter to Cardinal Maglione, April 20, 1939, (the first year of Pacelli's   pontifical reign) we read:

   

  "May fathers and mothers, with   pious custom, accompany their children, even to the tiniest ones, every day   to their shrines of the Blessed Virgin, presenting them to her along with flowers   from their gardens and fields and together with their prayers and those of their   children. His mother took [Pacelli everyday to the shrine] And how could our   heavenly Mother fail to heed so many suppliant voices imploring peace for citizens,   for peoples, for nations? How could she fail to heed them if with the prayers   of the angels of heaven there should be added those of children whom one may   call angels of this earth? Certainly the Virgin Mother of God, moved by such   prayers, will offer her aid and her intercession in this moment of universal   trepidation, and by inviting the favor of her divine Son, offended by so many   sins, will obtain from Him liberation from present anxieties, the peace of hearts   and fraternal concord among peoples" (Papal Teachings: Our Lady,   Selected and Arranged by The Benedictine Monks of Solesmes, 235).

• When Pope Pius consecrated the world   to the "Immaculate Heart of Mary" on the 25th anniversary of Fatima, Oct. 31,   1942, he prayed this prayer, showing in whom he placed his faith:

   

  "...Queen of the most holy Rosary,   Help of Christians, Refuge of Mankind, triumph in all battles for God! We, your   suppliants, prostrate ourselves at your throne, confident that we shall obtain   mercy and receive grace, the needed assistance and protection, during the calamities   of these days, not indeed by our own merits, of which we presume nothing, but   solely through the immense goodness of your maternal heart" (Papal Teachings:   Our Lady, Selected and Arranged by The Benedictine Monks of Solesmes, 250).  
• It is evident that Pope Pius XII   is mocking Hebrews 4:15-16 which clearly shows us whose throne we are to approach   in the hour of our need:
• "For we have not an high priest   which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all   points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly   unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in   time of need."
• He looked to her for peace and safety. He pleaded with   her to intercede in world events.
• The dominant hope of Pope Pius XII   was not Jesus, but Mary.
• My friend, Mary is not omnipresent, omnipotent   nor omniscient. She is not the mediatrix of all graces, for we only have one   Mediator...and that is Jesus Christ,

• as 1 Timothy.2:5 says, "For there is   one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (Compare   Heb.8:6; 9:15; 12:24), and by "one Spirit" we have "access" to this grace.

   

  "Therefore being justified by   faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we   have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of   the glory of God." (Rom.5:1-2)

   

  "For through him we both have   access by one Spirit unto the Father." (Eph.2:18)

   

  "In whom we have boldness and access   with confidence by the faith of him." (Eph.3:12)
• Pope Pius XII did not obey the scriptures,   but followed a demon instead...a demon that demanded more and more honor for   herself, as she brought the man who would obey, more and more dishonor.
• One would have to conclude that the future pope will   have to apologize for the mistakes this pope is making right now.
• Now,   years later, a man led by that same demonic spirit is "apologizing" for his   predecessor. s actions.
• When Pope   John Paul II took the mark of Shiva on his forehead, he was leading the way   for others to take the mark of the beast on their foreheads. Should all Catholics   now kiss the Koran and honor it as their "Universal Shepherd" did?
• What good would it do? Will he then admit that all their man-made   doctrines were nothing but lies forged to keep men spiritual and financial prisoners   to them? Will the Catholic then realize they have followed the wrong shepherd?...   a foolish shepherd?& . the idol shepherd?
• When Jesus comes and takes His church   out of this world, and the Catholic people are left behind, will their pope   apologize?

• If you are Catholic and have been   trusting in Mary and the pope, I invite you to come to the true Shepherd who  

   

  "...did no sin, neither was   guile found in his mouth...Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on   the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose   stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned   unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." (1 Pet.2:22-25

   

  "And when the chief Shepherd   shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." (1   Pet.5:4)
• These tragic events, and the ascension of the Roman Pontiff to the world stage,   is strong proof that the prophesied end of all things is at hand.
• Are you spiritually   ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is   the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing   you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved   ones.
• We hope you have been blessed by this ministry, which seeks  to educate and warn people, so that they can see the coming New World Order --  Kingdom of Antichrist -- in their daily news.
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• Pope: 'Dubious' Environmentalism is 'key to world peace' ?
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• Environmentalism key to world peace, says pope. (2010)
   
   From: IrishTimes.com
• Pope Benedict used his traditional New Year’s Day address yesterday to call on people to change their lifestyles to save the planet, saying environmental responsibility was essential for global peace.
• Recalling that world leaders had gathered in Copenhagen last month for the UN climate conference,
• the pope said action at a personal and community level was just as important to safeguard the environment.

  • SEE: "Communitarianism"
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• “Nevertheless, in this moment, I would like to underline the importance of the choices of individuals, families and local administrations in preserving the environment,” the pope told the thousands of faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square.
• “An objective shared by all, an indispensable condition for peace, is that of overseeing the Earth’s natural resources with justice and wisdom.”
• also said “ecological responsibility” should be taught as part of the education syllabus.
• The pope and his predecessor John Paul have put the Vatican firmly on an environmentalist footing.
• Last month, in a message sent to heads of state and international organisations, the pope called on rich nations to acknowledge responsibility for the environmental crisis and to shed consumerism.

  • "Physcian heal thyself.." This from the head of one of the world's wealthiest institutions..the Roman Catholic Church...
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• From Blackwater to Xe, the Templar Crusade
• Mercenary soldiers and security personnel for the US government.
• by Michael Carmichael
• Global Research, January 10, 2010
• Blackwater is a corporation that provides mercenary soldiers and supporting security personnel to the US government. 
• Erik Prince, the founder and owner of the now infamous US corporation, Blackwater, hails from Holland, Michigan where his family was both powerful and prominent in two institutions - (1) the Republican Party and (2) the evangelical Christian Church. 
• After scandals hit his large and lucrative firm, Prince ordered a curious rebranding that changed its name to Xe.
• X is an archaic form of abbreviation for Christ and/or Christian that was derived from the cross and the Greek Alphabet. 
• X or Chi is the Greek letter that is the initial of "Christos" - X - which at the same time served as a symbol for the cross. 
• Sometimes written Chi-Rho, (Xp) is another abbreviation for Christos and his followers, the Christians.
• From the perspective of medieval Christian symbology, 'Xe' is a combination of the Christic cross and the Greek letter, Epsilon, the first letter in the Greek word, Evangelion, glad tidings or gospel. 
• From the perspective of a modern member of the Knights Templar, Xe is immediately recognizable as it symbolizes Christian Evangelism.
• Prince's background
• Eric Prince's father owned a thriving automotive parts business and sent his son to Holland Christian School - an evangelical establishment that accepts students from Kindergarten through the 12th grade. 
• and may be a member or associate of Opus Dei, a very conservative cult now described as a prelature that is a strong ally of the current pope, Benedict XVI, who - when he was a Cardinal - paved the way for the beatification and canonization of the cult's founder, St. Josemaria Escriva by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.  
• Since then, Prince has converted to Roman Catholicism -
• Here is a brief description of Erik Prince's religious background taken from a website :
• Prince's background as a Western Michigander is not just limited to geography,
• The founder and CEO of Blackwater is Erik Prince, son of Edgar Prince, the now deceased businessman from Holland, Michigan.
• the brother of Betsy DeVos has also embraced the conservative religious beliefs that his family promoted zealously, particularly with their money.
• Erik began his political career working as an intern for Gary Bauer at the Family Research Council and also worked in the Bush I White House, although he thought that this administration was too liberal.
• Prince disapproved of the Bush I administration to the extent that in 1992 he supported Patrick Buchanan for President, something that got him into trouble with his sister Betsy.
• He most likely became Catholic when he married his first wife, who died of cancer shortly after they were married.
• Unlike his family, which is part of the Christian Reformed Church, Erik Prince is a Catholic.
• Interestingly enough, most of the leadership at Blackwater is also Catholic, albeit a conservative wing of the church that is quite reactionary.

  • SEE: the prophecies of Dimutru Duduman of "Hand of Help Ministries" and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the "Last Days."
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• Erik Prince is personally connected to conservative Catholic groups like Catholic Answer, Crisis magazine, and a Grand Rapids-based group, the Acton Institute.
• But Prince has not abandoned his Protestant/Evangelical roots and is a close friend of Watergate criminal turned believer Chuck Colson.
• They have shared the podium on several occasions, even once at Calvin College.
• According to Scahill, Prince is aligning himself with a new Catholic/Evangelical alliance called "Evangelicals and Catholics Together."
• The ECT manifesto states:
• "The century now drawing to a close has been the greatest century of missionary expansion in Christian history. We pray and we believe that this expansion has prepared the way for yet greater missionary endeavor in the first century of the Third Millennium. The two communities in world Christianity that are most evangelistically assertive and most rapidly growing are Evangelicals and Catholics." 
  
  Prince's relationship to what Scahill calls the "Theocon" movement is not marginal. Prince himself writes about this relationship and it's importance, particularly with the mission of Blackwater. Prince says "Everybody carries guns, just like the Prophet Jeremiah rebuilding the temple in Israel - a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other."
• Erik Prince's personal Crusade
• Among his personnel at Xe, Prince is known to be a high-profile Islamophobe who believes his personal mission in life is to bring about the total extinction of the Muslim population of this planet in what he has described as a global campaign of genocide or a, "Crusade."
• Here is an excerpt of an article about Prince that appeared in The Economist:
• In an affidavit lodged with a court in Virginia, one of the witnesses said that Mr Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe." The statement continues
• To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis.
• Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.
• Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. For example, Mr. Prince's executives would openly speak about going over to Iraq to "lay Hajiis out on cardboard." Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game. Mr. Prince's employees openly and consistently used racist and derogatory terms for Iraqis and other Arabs, such as "ragheads" or "hajiis."
• Michael Carmichael is the founder of Planetary.
• Michael Carmichael is a frequent contributor to Global Research.  Global Research Articles by Michael Carmichael

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